Psycho Demon-Witch: Thank you for the reviews. They were much appreciated. This took a lot longer than I wanted to update, because of the internet connection. I am not pleased. Well, anyway, I would like it if you would start voting for which houses the Avatar and the others are going to be in. Please do not vote for them all to be in the same one, it would get rather boring. Obviously most of them will be in different years… I wonder how it actually turns out… anyway, on with the story.
Chapter Two
"Maybe there's someone who lives near here. This land seems to be well taken care of" Katara said. "What do you think Toph? Can you feel anything?" Toph stood still for a moment and concentrated.
"Yes, there's a hut not too far from here. There is someone living there. I'll lead you to it" she said, and took off in a direction leading a short way off from the eerie forest they had landed next to.
Sure enough, after just a few moments a large hut came into view. They all walked up to it. Katara stepped forward and knocked on the door. A large clutter was heard, as though the person inside had dropped something rather big. The door suddenly opened. "Who the bloody hell are you?" the man asked. The Avatar and the others looked up at the man in shock. Even men in the Earth Kingdom never got this big. He was about eight feet tall, with a long black, rather messy beard and long hair in the same condition. Aang came to his sense first.
"Umm… I'm Aang, and we kind of somehow landed here. We were wondering if there was anyone who could help us get back to our own world" he said with his traditional grin in place. The tall man looked baffled.
"You look harmless enough, but how do I know you aren't spies of You Know Who?" he asked. The kids in front of him looked confused.
"No, we don't know who. He was being serious. There was a bright light, then all of a sudden, we were here" Katara said. The man put a hand to his head.
"Alrigh', I know someone who migh' be able to help yeh. Names Hagrid, by the way, Rubeus Hagrid, Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts" he said. The kids looked confused again, but didn't ask. They were grateful enough to hear that someone may be able to help them. "Now, you wait here. I'm gonna go up to the castle to get the man yeh'll need". And with that, the man left. They were surprised to see a castle in the direction he had headed. None of them had noticed it before.
"Well, that was easier than I thought it would be" Aang said.
"Looks like you won't be safe for long, Avatar" Azula said with a sadistic smile.
"You won't ever capture him you know. Zuko failed and so will you" Katara said confidently. Azula laughed.
"My dear brother has always been a failure. He will never be anything more, he's a disgrace to the Fire Nation" she said scathingly, looking at Zuko spitefully as she said it. Zuko's face turned angry, and fire started to envelope him. It died when he heard another voice.
"And you're a disgrace to humanity, you and the Fire Lord" Aang shot at her. Azula glared at him.
"Says the one who has hidden away from the world for a hundred years" she said.
"And you think that my disappearance gave you the right to take over the world? You think that gave you the right to wipe out the other Nations?" Aang said angrily, memories of the empty Air Bender temples and the skeleton of Giatsu (sp?) flooding his mind.
"Fire is superior to all the other elements. It is much more powerful than anything else" Azula said.
"No it isn't. Fire needs the other elements on order to preserve the balance. If you destroy the other nations, the balance will fail and you too will be destroyed" Aang said, trying to make her listen.
"You sound like my nutty uncle" Azula said. Aang sighed. It looked like she wouldn't listen. Her head was too full of what her father had taught her.
"As interesting as this is, that guy is coming back down here, with a rather freaky looking guy wearing a dress" Sokka said. Sure enough, as they looked to where Sokka was pointing Hagrid came back followed by another tall man, though nowhere near as tall as Hagrid, with a long silver beard that seemed to shine in the moonlight. Indeed, the man was wearing what appeared to be a long, purple dress.
As they came near, the tall man with the silver hair spoke. "Hagrid tells me you said you came from another world. Would you care to explain this?" he said.
"We're not really sure how to explain it. We're not that sure ourselves. We were in a cave…" Aang began.
"Trying to escape from some nutcase Fire Nation girls trying to kill us" Sokka cut in. Azula snorted.
"We're trying to kill you, not the Avatar. If he dies he'll just reincarnate and the Fire Nation's stupid search begins all over again" she said in a carefree tone. The silver haired man frowned at this mention of such a young girl actually trying to kill people with no remorse. "And the Fire Lord wants the traitor and the failure back alive" she added as an afterthought. The two tall men looked even more confused now. Avatar? Fire Lord? Fire Nation? They had never heard of these things before, but from the way the girl in front of them spoke, they were rather important.
"As I was saying" Aang started rather loudly, trying to get back on the subject. "We were in a cave getting shelter for the night. When those three" Aang pointed at the three girls dressed in red (or more pink in Ty Lee's case) "came in, the cave sealed itself. Then there was this bright light and here we are" he finished.
"How do you know you are in a different world though? Couldn't it be that you're just in a different place?" the silver haired man asked. Aang shook his head.
"It feels different here. There's just something here that isn't in our world, and an absence of something that is. I don't know how to explain it" he said.
"How can you feel differences between worlds?" the silver haired man asked.
"Aang is the Avatar; he is the bridge between our world and the spirit world. Obviously…" Katara began.
"That's what's missing in this world. I can't feel anything of the spirit world" Aang said suddenly.
"Why don't we go up to my office to finish this discussion? Although it's summer, there is a bit of a chill tonight" the silver haired man said.
Once in the man's office, he summoned a bunch of chairs with a wave of his wand. He motioned for them to sit down. The kids stared at him. "How did you do that? Where did those chairs come from? What is that stick? What is this place? What are you?" Sokka began asking in a rush. The silver haired man put up a hand to silence him.
"I am Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I assume you have no idea what I am talking about, or what magic is, but moving on. I am also assuming you have nowhere to go?"
"No, we don't. I get the feeling that this world is much more different from our own" Toph said. She had been feeling unusual vibrations in the distance since they had arrived.
"Why don't you tell me a bit about your world? Starting with this 'Fire Nation'" Dumbledore said.
"Our world is divided up into four Nations: the Air Nomads, the Earth Kingdom, the Water Tribe and the Fire Nation…" Aang began.
"Who are a bunch of flame throwing nutcases bent on world domination" Sokka butted in. Aang gave Sokka a look that said 'shut up, this is important if we want them to help'.
"As I was saying. Each of these nations has control over their own element. Each one has to exist to maintain the balance of our world" Aang said.
"Until the Fire Nation came along and wiped out all the Air Benders" Sokka said. "Sorry Aang" he added when he saw the look on Aang's face.
"We didn't wipe all of them out" Azula said. The others stared at her. "Think about it. The Fire Nation may have advanced technology now, but we didn't have it a hundred years ago" she said.
"And this means… what exactly?" Sokka asked her. Azula slapped a hand to her forehead.
"How else did Fire Nation soldiers manage to get into the Air Bender temples? There was a traitor amongst you, and we're not exactly going to kill someone who helped us now, are we" she said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. As Dumbledore watched this exchange, he wondered if it was a good idea to help them.
"I wouldn't put it past you. I bet you'd kill your friends if it meant winning this stupid war" Sokka said. Ty Lee had a look of disbelief on her face.
"Azula wouldn't do that! We're her best friends, she'd never hurt us" she protested.
"Don't say I didn't warn you when the time comes she has to kill you" Sokka said.
"What is this talk about killing? It doesn't suit people as young as you" Dumbledore said.
"Our world is in the middle of a war, a war the Fire Nation started a hundred years ago. They wiped out the Air Benders, hunted down the Water Tribe almost to extinction, and now they're trying to wipe out the Earth Kingdom. The Avatar, Aang, is the only one who will be able to stop this from happening" Katara said
"I understand that all too well. We are also at war, with an evil wizard by the name of Voldemort" Dumbledore said. He ignored the shudder Hagrid gave at the name. "We also have a young boy who is the only one capable of defeating this man" he continued. "What I want to know is: can I trust those from this Fire Nation not to harm anyone while they are here?" he asked.
"Of course we won't, it's not in our interests is it? After all, we need you to get back, and if we harm anyone here that's not going to happen is it?" Azula said. Dumbledore sighed. Talking with her was like trying to convince the wizarding world to say Voldemort's name.
"Fine. The students will be coming back in a couple of weeks. Maybe you would like to take this opportunity to learn more about the Wizarding world and join the other students in their classes?" Dumbledore asked. Some of them opened their mouths to protest, until Katara stepped in.
"We would be honoured to learn from this school" she said, giving a traditional bow of respect. She then shot Sokka a look that said 'agree with me or else'. He didn't dare protest, lest he take a visit to a very wet place.
"Good, good. We will provide you with what you need. I doubt you will be able to use magic, so I will inform your teachers when the time comes. Hagrid will show you to your rooms for the time being, until then good night" Dumbledore said, a twinkle in his eyes.
Psycho Demon-Witch: ugh, writing crossovers can be so hard to begin with, what with all the damn explaining the characters have to do. Still, I do enjoy crossovers, so the end result is worth it. Pretty please leave a review!!!