(AN: Hey ya'll. This is my first ever crossover fanfic! Wish me luck! I would appreciate any reviews, criticism, and opinions from all of you)
Chapter 1: Ascendio!
The hottest day of the summer was at its peak in the forest, and it seemed that almost nothing could withstand it. Birds, who were usually out chirping and singing, had seemed to vanish into their nests. Deer, who usually pranced around grazing on the sweet grass, seemed to have disappeared. Even mosquitos weren't buzzing around. The trees seemed to have withdrawn into themselves, dropping sickly yellow leaves onto the badly kept dirt path, and the sun blazed sickeningly bright, frying the only living being stupid enough to be out and about: a teenage girl, a witch.
She was a skinny, tawny-haired, gray-eyed girl, whose limbs were long and limber for her relatively short physique. Her jean shorts were old and frayed, and her T-shirt, advertising the Thunderbirds Quidditch team, was a faded navy blue. Though with heavily sunburnt cheeks, she was unfazed by the foul weather and jogged down the path, a huge white-toothed smile plastered on her face.
"Bobbi. Barbs, would you hold up a sec?" a voice shouted from behind her.
The sixteen-year-old stopped and waited for her twin brother as he jogged down the hill that lead up to their family's house. In contrast to his short, skinny, sister, he was stocky and tall with the same tawny hair as his sister but with bright blue eyes. Unlike her, he seemed to be greatly affected by the heat wave.
"Why what's wrong, Bodie?" Bobbi teased her brother, making a baby face at him. "You getting tired?"
"No, just slightly annoyed," Bodaway muttered under his breath. "Why are we doing this again?"
"Exercise," Bobbi replied. "Out of season Quidditch training."
"Bobbi, I'm a Keeper; I don't need to run."
"You'll be thanking me for all this running when you finally get a girlfriend, Bodaway," Bobbi said. She enjoyed the annoyed look that flashed across his face at the use of his full name.
"Oh shut up… Barbara," he retorted.
The siblings jogged in synchronization, jabbing elbows and throwing insults, until they reached a wide creek with the remnants of a bridge partially submerged in the muddy puddle that was once a creek.
"Well, shit," Bobbi said, biting her lip, checking her No-Maj pedometer for the distance she had run: one mile out of the four. "That must've happened during the storm last night."
"Language," Bodie chided his sister.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," she pulled out her wand. "Reparo."
The broken bits of wood assembled itself into a bridge-like structure that looked halfway sturdy.
Bodie raised an eyebrow at his sister, took out his wand, and performed the same spell, once again: "Reparo."
The structure morphed into a footbridge, as good as new. Bodie walked across it, purposefully jumping up in down on the bridge to test his wandwork.
"Show off," Bobbi said, her eyebrows narrowed into a slightly jealous look. Though she knew loads of charms, she struggled in keeping consistency when casting them. Her brother, on the other hand, was adept at finding the perfect way to cast a spell.
"Half-wit," he replied to her insult.
"Troll face," she retorted.
"Dragon-dung."
"Asshat."
"Language, and Mandrake-face."
Bobbi's attention was pulled away from her brother's insult-contest as she noticed something glowing through the trees maybe a hundred feet away from them. She blinked twice, making sure it wasn't her imagination, but sure enough the strange glowing essence still dwindled amongst the leaves.
Maybe it was a Wendigo?
"Hey, Barbs, are you even listening to me?" Bodie was saying.
Bobbi frowned at the light once again. Her brother would steer her clear away from anything that looked remotely dangerous in the forest, so taking him with her would not be a good idea. She needed an excuse:
"Bodie, I'm going to-empty my bladder so why don't you continue on, and I'll just catch up with you later," she said quickly.
Her brother looked at her once last time, an eyebrow raised, but then rolled his eyes as continued up the hill. "Since you got all distracted with your 'bladder', I win that fight!" he yelled over his shoulder.
"In your dreams!" she shouted with a grin.
Now to business!
The forest seemed to grow darker as Bobbi stepped into its depths, making the strange blue light even more enticing to look at. Wind rustled the leaves around her, and she felt as if she was drawn to the glow, like some sort of insect.
She stopped when she was only three feet away from it.
At closer inspection, Bobbi could see that the blue light was not a mischievous Wendigo at all but a strange ball of energy, swirling around. It was maybe a foot in diameter, and hovered about three feet above the ground. It didn't seem to react much to Bobbi's presence as she walked a full circle around it.
"I wonder what you are," she murmured to it.
The urge to reach out and touch the glowing ball was powerful; Bobbi was curious by nature. It looks harmless enough, she convinced herself. Besides you're a witch, not some defenseless commonplace No-Maj. You can protect yourself.
Her fingers swiftly inserted themselves into the glowing ball, and Bobbi was yanked in by some invisible force. The light shined brightly in her face, causing her to close her eyes. She felt her balance leave her, and she expected to hit the forest floor but nothing came. She kept falling.
A sudden whip of cold air rushed against her face, forcing her to open her eyes. Below her was not the forest she was expecting, but a vast freezing ocean, littered with icebergs, small and large. There was a ship below her too, a gray metal ship with red sails, and it only got larger and larger as she continued her descent.
Counting down the time it took her to hit the water, Bobbi did in improvised "safe landing" she had developed in Quidditch practice, performing a crooked flip in the air so that she landed feet-first. Of course, the ocean was not a Quidditch field, and instead of landing safely, and unmoving, the extra momentum Bobbi had thrust into her fall caused her to sink a good ten feet underwater.
Letting out an involuntary scream as she stopped sinking, Bobbi chocked on the water entering her airways. With a last burst of energy, she felt her pocket for her wand. "Ascendio!"
Water rushed through her ears around her body as Bobbi ascended to the surface, gasping for air. Her fingers felt numb, freezing, as she struggled to grip her wand and stay afloat at the same time.
Above Bobbi, the massive ship came closer, men dressed in strange red armor stood, yelling at her, throwing ropes off the side. Though she couldn't hear their exact words, she understood what they meant. After securing her wand into the waistband of her shorts, Bobbi grabbed one of the ropes and allowed herself to by hauled onto the deck.
oooOOOooo
A bright blue light shot into the Antarctic sky, visible to everything within the surrounding five kilometers, including Zuko, the banished Prince of the Fire Nation.
He stared up at the light, his golden eyes holding a mixture of grim determination and awe. His face, though graced with handsomely pleasant features, was malformed by a scar on the left side. His hairstyle, a short ponytail surrounded by a cleanly shaven head, did nothing to help with his appearance.
"Uncle! Look!" he exclaimed his Uncle Iroh behind him. "It must be the Avatar."
"Or it could just be the celestial lights," the portly old man suggested.
Zuko wanted to argue back, but it was in that moment that a high pitched scream pierced his ears. He turned around, just in time to see a human figure fall out of the sky, hitting the water with a splash. He ran to the starboard side of the ship, just in time to see a girl quickly surface to the top, arms up in a strange position. Was it just his imagination, or was the girl holding a stick in her left hand?
"Drop some ropes!" Zuko ordered his men. "Help her onboard the ship. This girl might be able to help us find the Avatar."
His soldiers did as they were told, and after a few minutes of heaving and hauling, the girl knelt down, shivering, lips blue. She wore some of the strangest clothes Zuko had ever seen: a dark blue shirt with short sleeves, pale blue pants cut at the upper thighs, and shoes that were laced up with thick white string. Her hair was a strange color: halfway between brown and gold.
"Who are you?" Zuko asked her. "Where is the Avatar?"
The girl's gray eyes stared out, unfocused. He grabbed her arm, hauling her to her feet. This seemed to snap her out of her stupor.
"Sh-shouldn't I be asking you the same th-thing?" she retorted, still shivering. "A-and w-what's the A-avatar?"
She was stalling. Most definitely.
"Answer my questions!" Zuko raised his voice. "You're just wasting my time."
"M-my name is Bobbi. And a-again: I don't know what the A-avatar is," her gaze, though muted with exhaustion and pain was strangely determined. "There was just th-that l-light and I t-touched it and I-"
Eyes drooping closed, the girl collapsed like a dead weight in Zuko's arms. Uncle Iroh helped him prop her unconscious form back up. "What do you intend on doing with her?" he asked his nephew.
"You can take her," Zuko replied, waving for a soldier to help his uncle support the girl. "Just make sure she doesn't get in my way."
He watched as his uncle and the soldier carried the girl into the lower levels of the ship, the metal door banging noisily closed behind them.
oooOOOooo
Bodaway Callaghan felt his sister's absence from the world like a knife through the heart. The twins had always possessed a powerful connection. She was still alive, he knew, but somewhere else. Another world maybe. Another time. Another dimension…
As he stood on the hill overlooking the forest, wand clenched in his right hand. He had to find her; he knew that. And he had to tell Mom and Dad.
They were going to kill him when they found out.
End.
Hey guys :) Thanks for reading this. I'll be posting an update soon! I'm apologize for the shortness of this chapter, I intend on making them longer in the near future. Here's just some fun O. C. information about my characters.
The name Barbara means "foreigner" in Greek. St. Barbara was also a protector from lightning and fire.
The name Bodaway means maker of fire in Cherokee. The twins names were both intended to be involved with fire (a naming seer was involved in their christening)
Bobbi and Bodie both go to Ilvermony in the U. S. of A. Bobbi's house is Thunderbird, and Bodie's house is Horned Serpent. (Check out Pottermore for more information)
Bobbi's wand is redwood 10 ½ inches, Jackalope horn core, with unyielding flexibility
Bodie's wand is rowan 11 ¾ inches, Pacific Sea Serpent Spine core, with bendy flexibility