Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Chapter 1
As Zal step from the portal, he found himself in a different world. The man returned to his shrunken snake form, his original size was too big to be useful anymore, not unless he wanted to swallow entire houses whole.
As he slithered on the ground he took a careful look at his surroundings.
He had appeared directly on top of an mountain cliff, overlooking a small valley below that had some sort of town. From his enhanced eyes he could tell that the people in this world were primitive in technology, their town was made up of stone and dirt houses. The few people he saw walking around were barefoot and dressed in matching green clothing.
'Odd,' he thought, but then he sensed something slowly make its way behind him.
He was honestly shocked when he saw a huge bear with a ducks bill and a beaver's tail come waddling up to him.
Pointing his tail at the strange creature he aimed a spell, "Avada Kedavra." Not knowing better, the mindless beast didn't bother to dodge the green light, and therefore dropped dead a second later.
'Huh. A duck/beaver/bear thing, a platypus bear maybe. I've only ever heard of two places having them. Australia after that one power-plant exploded near that magical animal sanctuary and Avatar: The Last Airbender." Just as he finished that thought, a small letter magically appeared in front of him.
[Ding. Ding. Ding. You guessed it. Alright, you know the drill, find a bad guy and help them, shouldn't be too hard. This time however you have free reign in how you decided to achieve your goal.
PS: You have about three days before the Fire Nation starts to slaughter the airbenders. Might want to pick a side now, hahaha.]
"Pick a side huh. Well obviously the avatar is out, so who should I pick. ... Hmmm, oh well questions for later. First things first is making a base."
Transforming himself back to his human form, that he modeled after Cross Marian from D. Gray-man ( mask and all), he waved his hand, transfiguring the large mountain ledge into a mansion. The rocks flowed like water, transforming into basic walls, then they gained more details, before they finally began to transform into different types of wood, stone, and metal. Back in the Harry Potter world, Zal had a number of extravagant houses, hotels, and mansions, many of which had been gifts from Tom and his family.
It was three stories tall, 150 ft long and 70 ft wide, and was made of mostly marble, something that you would expect of a fairy-tale. Walking close to it he began to weave enchantments onto the mansion and the surrounding area, making sure to give it more durability and strength, as well as a anti-muggle ward so that no one would come near, and finally topping it off with an illusion of the normal mountain ledge.
Inspecting his temporary home, he nodded to himself, "This should do for now."
Walking inside he began to summon furniture and other necessities from his hammer space. Everything was either red, gold, or sapphire, he had made sure to pack everything he had ever owned or needed (stolen) when he new that it was time for him to make the 'jump'.
"There. If I remember correctly, the people hear are seriously lacking in technology, so I should avoid bringing anything to advanced out in the world. Shame though, mankind really started making some great things by the year 2100, not to mention that wizards were finally able to solve the whole issue of using magic near electrical appliances. Oh well," Zal momentarily lamented the lack of science in his new world, since when he had left Earth, the people were finally starting to make some amazing breakthroughs, like space travel, planetary colonization, and human engineering.
However just because he was stuck in a world without electricity didn't mean that 'he' had to suffer to. He spat out a round object in his hand, it surface was completely encased in unbreakable glass, in the inside was what looked like a miniature golden sun with gears constantly moving. What the snakeman had in his hand was a miniature space engine that had been developed by lead scientist to power small spaceships to travel to other planets.
Zal was lucky enough to acquire one (stole), since they were very heavily guarded, a small one like the one he had in his hand could potentially power all of Europe for the next thousand years, and he would be using it to power his t.v. and microwave.
Installing all of the wiring and lights had only taken the better part of the afternoon. Sure he could have done it fast with magic, but he had learned a long time ago that there was a certain satisfaction of doing things the old way, otherwise what was the point of doing anything at all.
Flicking a switch, he smiled to himself as the giant crystal chandelier in the dinning room lit up like a Christmas tree, "That should do it. I guess I'll eat and then scout out the 'locals'."
After cooking something fast he decided to take a closer at the small village he had seen before. Transforming into his snake form again, ( a red and yellow African Bush Viper) he slithered his way down the mountain instead of just flying since he still needed to map out his surroundings.
As he began to make his way closer to the village he had to dodge quickly as a large boulder was hurled at him. He managed to dodge it with ease and then turned invisible before hiding behind the previously thrown boulder..
"Hey! Did you get it!" Voice one said.
"Yeah, I think so. What do you think it is?" Voice two replied.
"Don't really know, never seen one of them before," Voice one was the one how answered this time. Getting out of his cover, he remained invisible and looked at his aggressors.
'An earthbender huh, looks like twins, mid thirties, probably patrolling to make sure nothing dangerous wander into the village. Shame they have to die now,' he silently made his way towards both of them, making sure to turn his invisibility off to catch them off guard.
*Hisss*
"Look out!" one of them said as it noticed that they had not killed the snake.
"Damn, I was sure that I got it," the one who had thrown the rock returned to his bending stance ready to send another attack, but he didn't get far since the next thing he knew was that he was hit by a green light from the snake right on his chest, then he dropped lifeless to the ground.
"Lee! What happened," the other twin panicked as he saw his brother drop to the ground when the weird snake spat out a green light from its mouth. He crouched next to the body of his brother cradling it and looking for a pulse but before he got any further, he dropped to the ground too as he was hit by the same green light from the side.
"God, I love the Avada Kedavra. It just solves so many problems in life. Have an annoying dog that keeps you up at night, Avada Kedavra. How about pesky door to door salesman, Avada Kedavra, problem solved. You have an whinny mother-in-law, a simple Avada Kedavra and a solid alibi can fix that," Zal continued to slither closer to the brothers, he opened his mouth as big as he could and activated his most useful ability. Like a wormhole, a powerful wind began to pick up the bodies and pull them into his mouth, while shrinking them to fit.
Slowly the snake felt knowledge begin to form in his mind, and just like that he knew how to earthbend as well as the current state of world from the two young men. He gathered some of his internal energy and channeled it through his limbs, trying to imitate some earthbending moves. A small wiggle of his tail was enough for him to bring forth a pillar of earth underneath him.
"An earthbending snake, never thought that would be a thing. I wonder if I can gather all of the other elements too?" Zal asked as he began to make his way towards the town uninterrupted.
(Time Skip)
Zal was currently overlooking the battle below as he stood perched on top of a flag pole. In the short time since his arrival he had managed to consume more benders, allowing him the ability to use all of the elements, although only the basic ones since he would need a lot of practice for anything complex like metal or blood bending.
He watched as an air-nomad sent a gale of wind into a charging fire-nation soldier, sending him screaming off the edge of the temple and down the mountain side.
"Damn, for peaceful monks they sure can fight," he whistled as he saw another nomad send a razor sharp wave of compressed air. "Hahahaha, I have to give it to you bald arrowheads, you sure know how to fight."
As he watched he could see that for every airbender that fell they took three Fire Nation soldiers with them. However it was clear that they would soon be overrun.
"Aww what the hell," the small colorful snake said before taking off into the sky. Once he was at a high enough altitude he cast a spell into the air. Slowly dark clouds began to gather around him, effectively blocking the sun for all below, and thunder and lighting began to flash. "Well then, time to make an entrance," he finished as he began to transform into his 160 ft form, in the back of his mind he congratulated himself in the fact that he had effectively pulled a 'Shenron'.
Zang POV
I ducked as another blast of air headed over me, knocking down the rest of my unit. Sensing another attack I managed to roll away just as a wave of sharp air hit my previous location, cracking the stone ground.
"Damn it, who knew that for peaceful monks they could fight so well," a fellow fire nation soldier yelled, Lee, Lin, or something. I also briefly wondered that too, I had watched them cut, crush, and suck the very air from the lungs of their opponents.
"Surrender peacefully, or suffer the wrath of my peaceful attacks... peacefully," one of those arrowheads declared from a mound of rumble, a fire blast was enough to deal with him.
I could see some of the airbenders start to go to the sky, but it was then that I noticed something strange, the ground began to turn a dark shade, almost as if someone had taken a giant brush and painted over it.
*Boom*
'What the-. I thought they said that it was supposed to be clear all day?' I thought to myself before looking up into the sky, and saw something that would forever be engraved in my mind.
"Dear Spirits," a Fire Nation soldier muttered under his breath as he dropped to his knees. Many others, both airbender and firebenders, were also frozen in fear.
A giant red and golden snake emerged from the dark clouds, its long body slithered into and from view, I couldn't tell how big it was since the clouds did a good job of hiding its size, and the constant moving mad it difficult to see where it ended. It looked like a mixture of a snake and a dragon. Then it did something even more shocking, it talked.
"YOU HUMANS! YOU INSIGNIFICANT WORMS HAVE DISTURBED MY PEACEFUL SLUMBER, ON THIS MOST HOLY DAY, YOU CHOSE TO SHED YOUR WORTHLESS BLOOD ON ONE OF MY SACRED TREASURES," the giant serpent shouted, and even from so far away I could feel the vibrations go through me. It was then that I noticed a small crack begin to form on the ground only a few feet away, then it erupted like a volcano, sending shrapnel all around. I had made sure to cover my face, but I felt a sharp pain in my abdomen, looking down I saw a rock had hit me and I was bleeding out.
I tried to stop the bleeding by cauterizing it with fire, and then I saw 'it'. It was a giant urn made of gold and silver with three crystal snakes coiled around it with the heads pointing at each other on the very edge of the opening, yet what was more amazing was the blue flame that floated right in the middle of the snake heads. Even from where I was standing I could feel no heat yet it continued to burn and sometimes I could see other colors inside.
"FOR YOUR IMPUDENCE, YOU SHALL SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES," it said before it opened it's mouth and roared, which I thought was impossible, but then again I thought a talking snake was also impossible a few moments ago.
Without warning it fired a green light from its eyes, it hit an air-nomad that had been sneaking up on him, and without warning he fell in a bone-less heap.
"What the-?" I muttered as I stumbled besides the monk, removing a glove I checked his pulse and found that he was dead, "How is this possible, he doesn't even look hurt?"
It was then that I took notice of all that was happening, getting up it was as if everyone was moving in slow-motion and then stolen all the sound in the world. All around me I could see others being hit by those same light beams. Airbenders, firebenders, sky bison, it mattered not, for they all fell the same. As I looked at the cold face of the angered spirit, because what else could it be, I knew that I was going to die.
I closed my eyes for what was to come.
I didn't know how long it must have been but after what had felt like hours I noticed the utter silence. Taking a deep breath I opened my eyes and saw that all around me were lifeless bodies, glancing at the sky I saw that the spirit was also staring back at me, yet it did nothing.
With one last glance it glowed like the sun before disappearing into the clouds.
"Why?" I whispered. I couldn't understand what had happened, I couldn't understand why it had left me alone.
Slowly I began to limp around, one hand on my wound, trying to find any more survivors, both air-nomads- or fire nation, yet it proved fruitless.
The only thing that was left that proved that the spirit even existed and it wasn't just some delirious illusion was the snake urn that even now was burning with blue flames. I stayed there kneeling, just looking into the flames. I ignored everything, so lost in the flames, even when more soldiers came, and I was being questioned.
Normal POV
"Hahahaha, that was great," Zal laughed back in his miniature snake form, as he watched that one soldier he spared, begin to pray and explain to the others about some wrathful spirit taking vengeance on them for spilling blood on the 'sacred treasure'. It was actually just a normal urn that he had received from one of Tom's grand-kids, he had just used a spell to make it give off an eternal flame.
"Well this was a productive day, and at least I was able to eat some of those airbenders. Still now I don't have anything to do for the next 99 years. I guess I could just explore or something, maybe I can meet one of those so called spirits ... I wonder what one would taste like?" he thought as he used his tail to rub his chin a thoughtful gesture.
(Time skip) 85 AG
In a barren darkly lit room, laid a lone cradle sheltering what one day would be one of the greatest fire-benders that the world would ever know, but for right now was a small newborn baby girl.
Azula, the current princess of the Fire Nation, slept peaceful, completely unaware of the fact that the shadows covering the room were beginning to move. Slowly they began to extend their reach, concentrating into a single point in front of the cradle until a black circle was formed.
Then a shadow-like figure began to emerge, in only a few second they were fully out. "Wow, that is not as fun as I thought it would be. Oh well, I'm here now," it said as it began to stretch, the dark shadows that had been clinging to them like water began to slowly recede back into the portal, the imposing figure of Zal was all that was left.
"My my my, what have we here," he said as he grew closer to the cradle. He saw an innocent looking baby inside wrapped upped in a red blanket, nothing like the insane pyromaniac that she would have been in the original world.
He went to pick up the bundle, he made sure to gather her securely in his arms. Azula however took this time to decided that it was a good idea to wake up, and opened her eyes. Zal gently began to rock her side to side, "Did you know little princess, that I've waited for 85 long years just for this moment, to meet 'you' to be exact."
The window was the only thing that illuminated the room, its soft silver blue shine painting the room. As he walked closer to the window he held little Azula against the light to take a better look. "You my little Azula will be one of my greatest masterpieces. You shall be my apprentice. It would be such a waste to let all of this talent simply crumble apart, I shall nurture your talent, feed your ambitions, raise you to the pinnacle of perfection, and in turn you shall provide me the greatest entertainment."
Without a single gesture, he wandless-ly summoned an old wooden rocking chair by the window and sat down with the baby still in his arms. Taking out a hand he pressed a single finger to the wrist of the infant and sent a pulse of magic, and watched in satisfaction as a moving tattoo in the shape of his snake form began to coil around her arm, before disappearing completely.
A/N: As you can see I have decided to add another world for Zal to conquer. I have decided to write this one in a couple of chapter instead of a one-shot since I felt that it could be better explained if I had some feed back.
So again Zal is in a new world, his appearance is still the same as before, Cross Marian from D. Gray-man in his exorcist uniform. He will appear before Azula when she is a little older and begin to teach her in secret.
