Chapter 2: Explanations

Shadow: Welcome back mortals, but before we continue we need a brief recap so Katara take it away.

Katara: Okay so last time I found Danny and discovered he had amnesia. I then tried to help him find anyone who knew him but that proved futile. I explained the war and the concept of bending before he passed out. In the Fire Nation Aang and Zuko met Jake Long and he showed them his Dragon abilities. Then back in Ba Sing Se, Danny and I were attacked by assassins and Danny took them down before we were attacked by a spirit.

Dani: Cool now we can continue with the story.

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"Okay Danny so spill." Katara said.

"Okay for one I can tell you that my name really is Danny." He said.

"Hm that's a strange name." Katara said.

"How come you're only commenting on that now?" Danny asked.

"You had complete amnesia I though you just heard the word Danny and thought it was your name." Katara said with a shrug. "So tell me about your powers and skills."

"Well as I said earlier it's still blurry but from what I know I'm half ghost… I think. I think it happened because of something my parents did." Danny said. "My skills come from a year of combat experience… I think."

"Did you figure out who Sam and Tucker are?" Katara asked.

"Nope that's all I remember about myself." Danny said.

He then put his hand in his pocket before he pulled out a strange device (I-Phone).

"What's that?" Katara asked.

"A… smartphone… I think." Danny said.

"What on earth is a smartphone?" Katara asked.

"I have no idea." Danny said before he put the phone back into his pocket. "So why are we going to the Earth King again?"

"I need to talk with him about the matter of rogue spirits and powerful enemies and some matters concerning Yu Dao." Katara said.

"Why what's going on in that place." Danny asked.

"Well it used to be a Fire Nation colony during the war but then it became something new. It was the home of Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom… and eventually Water Tribe when members of the Water Tribe began moving there. A new war was almost started when the Fire Nation residents were asked to leave but refused." Katara explained. "But Aang was able to sort that all out and now Yu Dao is starting to act as a new Nation."

"Hm Yu Dao, means New Republic right?" (AU: Not true made up) Danny asked.

Katara stopped dead in her tracks and stared right at Danny.

"How do you know the old language?" she asked.

Danny just shrugged. "You make it seem like not many people know it." Katara said.

"That's because it's a dead language… so to speak. Also it's a powerful language. Teachers only teach that to their best students." Katara said. "I know it, my brother is learning it, Toph learnt it on her own, Aang knows it and Suki knows it. And we are all the best students our teachers ever had. We are all taught the language if we have also been selected to become members of the Order of the White Lotus."

Danny looked at her blankly.

"Okay I need to calm down." Katara said. "We'll talk more about that later but for now we need to talk to the Earth King."

Danny looked forward and saw the large Palace and his jaw dropped.

"Damn, Vlad's house is a shack compared to this place." Danny said.

"Who is Vlad?" Katara asked.

"Not really sure. The only description that comes to mind is a crazy rich fruit loop." Danny said with a shrug.

"Are we talking about this Vlad person or Ozai?" Katara asked.

"Wow." Danny said. "Okay let's get off of the topic and go inside."

Katara then led Danny in and he was shocked how she could just go inside without the guards stopping her or something… even more so he was shocked that none of the guards stopped to ask who he was and he was even more so shocked when Katara greeted a lot of the guards as if they were homies that met in the street.

Katara led the way to the Throne room without hesitation and that made Danny wonder just how many times she had been there.

They walked to the big gold and green doors before they entered.

"Hello Earth King Kuei." Katara said as she did a bow. Danny then repeated the action.

"Hello Katara, I told you that you and your friends didn't have to do that." Kuei said. "Who's your friend?"

"This is Danny, he's a… waterbender." Katara said.

"Oh that's wonderful." Kuei said. "So what brings you to the Palace?"

"I came here to talk to you about a problem we've been facing recently. For some reason a few rogue spirits have started appearing and causing trouble." Katara said. "We don't know why. So you need to remain alert."

"I know why they have gone berserk… but I'm not allowed to tell."

Everyone looked around.

A Dai Li agent then slid down from the walls.

"But I can't tell you why. I can however tell you that the Earth King is a target and I am the one who will take his target." The agent said.

"Translation, you're a bad guy, you're gonna try and fail to take the Earth King and I'm gonna laugh and kick your ass." Danny said.

The Dai Li agent then smirked before a whole bunch of Dai Li agents appeared and also a bunch of ninjas.

The ninjas took out glowing blades.

"Our new Employer warned us about you and your abilities. Now we can take you down." One of the Ninjas said.

"Well that's just wonderful." Danny said sarcastically. "Still gonna kick your ass though."

"Why do you want the Earth King?" Katara asked.

The first Dai Li agent looked as if he were pondering telling them.

"The era of separation is over, the world must become united and for that to happen the kings must die so that one may rule." He said.

The Ninjas then rushed the Heroes and the king.

Katara then brought out her water to attack while Danny dodged their attacks.

"Danny go ghost." Katara ordered.

Danny continued evading attacks while trying to protect the king.

"Uh yeah there's a bit of a problem with that. I kinda don't know how." Danny yelled.

"What?" Katara exclaimed as she froze one of the ninjas. "But you did it before."

"Yeah but I was acting on instinct I don't know how to control my powers or how they work." Danny said as he knocked out a member of the Dai Li with a punch to the head.

"Try and remember what I told you about bending." Katara yelled. "Call your power to you and control your emotions."

Danny then nodded. "Okay… I'm Goin Ghost."

The twin white halos then appeared on his waist changing his regular attire into his Phantom combat armour. (Check chapter 1 if you've forgotten the new look).

"Yeah." Danny yelled as he pumped his fist. "Now I just have to remember how to use my powers."

"Seriously." Katara called as she dodged a rock fist. "What part of 'Try and remember what I told you about bending' didn't you understand?"

"Hey what you said confused me and I got knocked out after that." Danny said as he delivered a spinning kick to the head of a Dai Li agent.

"Okay Danny I hate to say this but channel all the emotions that you had ever since you awoke in my care and get rid of them." Katara yelled as she froze a ninja in ice.

Danny could tell that she was weary of telling to use his powers that way and he figured it was because if he used emotions he would be a bit uncontrollable but since it was his only asset at the moment he did so.

Danny then focused on his emotions that he had been feeling since he awoke the day before. Confusion, anger, cockiness, joy, sadness, shock and love.

His hands then lit with ecto energy.

Danny then flew into the air before he began shooting ecto blasts all over the place.

The enemies all knew that this had just become a lot harder so they began focusing on their main objective. They went for the Earth King who was just staring… more like cowering behind his thrown and bear.

One of the Dai Li Agents saw this and smirked he then allowed an ecto blast to hit him and when he landed he faked being unconscious before he went underground.

He then reappeared behind the Earth King and took him and made a silent get away… but not silent enough.

Danny heard the escape and he knew the Earth King had been taken.

"Katara we gotta go." Danny yelled he then flew over to her grabbed her and flew through the wall and thus out of the castle.

Danny then looked around before he spotted the Dai Li agent holding the Earth King and entering a War Balloon.

"Whoa cool zeppelin." Danny said before he noticed something on the blimp. There was some kind of large silver mechanism with three large metal cylinders pointing towards the back of the Zeppelin on each side of the zeppelin. But the thing that scared Danny was the word on the mechanism, though he didn't know why this one word frightened him a bit. The word was DALV.

"Danny what's wrong and what's a zeppelin." Katara asked.

Before Danny could answer fire shot out of the metal cylinders and the air ship moved very quickly away from them.

~00000~

Zuko was walking and talking with his royal adviser about the problem with the rogue spirits.

"In truth I don't know what to do with all these rogue spirits. We've had 3 attacks to the Palace and 2 in other cities close to the capital." Zuko said. "And now we also have this new bender Jake Long who has a sacred name and can turn into a dragon. I'm not sure whether to trust him. What do you think about this Vlad?"

He looked to his royal adviser, the man with stark white hair and midnight blue eyes. He was in black and red fire nation robes of high authority.

"Hm in truth I don't know what you should do but I do know that you should defiantly talk to this Jake Long. And figure out about him and his strange bending." Vlad said. "But I suggest you don't take him lightly. He could very well be a threat to you and your thrown. I will send the guards to watch him and make sure he doesn't do anything."

"Thank you Masters." Zuko said.

"It is my pleasure Fire Lord Zuko." Vlad said with a bow.

Vlad then walked away as Zuko walked away and when he was alone he was stopped by a voice.

"Plasmius." A girl's voice said.

Vlad then stopped dead in his tracks as shadows formed into the shape of a young girl.

"I have news. Earth King Kuei has been captured. You need to hurry up and capture Fire Lord Zuko." The girl said.

"I'm working on that." Vlad said calmly before he continued walking.

"Don't walk away from me." The girl said before Vlad began to feel a constricting feeling on his heart as he fell to his knees. "Listen here and listen good, the only reason you are still alive is to serve your master, my king. He wants Zuko and he will have Zuko. Send whatever pawns you need to but get the job done. And while you do that make sure no one rescues Zuko. I already have to deal with the rats that are going after Kuei. Am I understood?"

"Yes." Vlad said.

The force on his heart then subsided and he was once again alone.

Jake was sitting with Aang chatting while they waited for the fire lord. When Zuko walked in they began their chat on Jake.

"So how were you able to turn into a Dragon?" Zuko asked.

He didn't know why but this Jake Long made him nervous for some reason. Was it because of his abilities, the way he spoke, the fact that his surname was Long… the surnames of long dead family relatives? He didn't know but he hoped Jake was on the good side of life.

"Oh it's a natural ability from my mom's side of the Family. Generations and Generations of family history as dragons though it skipped my mom's generation for some funny reason and made me twice as powerful as I should have been." Jake said. "So I go by the American Dragon yo."

"Where are you from?" Zuko asked.

Jake then scratched his head nervously.

"Yeah I'm not allowed to answer that unless he allows me to." Jake said as he pointed at Aang.

Zuko looked at Aang questionably while Aang shrugged.

"Okay not you but the older dude." Jake said. "Fire Bender several hundred or thousand years old."

"Roku?" Zuko asked.

"No, older. Uh Long, Kai Long." Jake said.

"Kai Long?" Aang asked. "He was the Avatar over 1000 years ago."

"He was a former Fire Lord as well." Zuko said. "That was also around the same time all the members of the Long Family and Tribe died."

Aang then looked uncomfortable.

"Aang what's wrong?" Zuko asked.

"I… I can't say. It's about the old language." Aang said.

"The old language?" Zuko asked. "During the time of Energy Bending? You know it?"

"Yes I was the star pupil of Monk Gyatso so I learned the language." Aang said. "But you weren't the star pupil of your uncle Iroh so you didn't learn.

"But you're the fire lord. Who else did your uncle train? Who was the star pupil?" Jake asked.

Zuko then growled.

"My uncle taught three people…"

~00000~

In a prison cell sat a girl who was in meditation position.

"…but there was one who showed exceptional skill."

She was in red prison clothes. She had jet black hair and amber eyes.

"She out classed so many firebenders that it was insane but so was she."

She took a deep breath in before breathing out a puff of blue fire.

"She was one of the only firebenders with the abilities of making fire so hot that it was blue."

She continued to breath in and out and the fire started to form into a shape.

"She was his star pupil and learned his secrets before she was corrupted by our father."

Her eyes then snapped opened as she breathed out and this time the fire made the shape of a dragon.

"She was Azula my little sister."

Azula then smirked.

"Jake Long is here." She muttered. "Welcome home cousin."

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Shadow: Wow.

Dani: Double wow.

Katara: That girl isn't Azula right?

Shadow: I can say without a doubt that that girl isn't Azula. She's someone entirely worse.

Dani: Worse?

Katara: Well that's going to get interesting.

Dani: Well at least we know that Azula has a role in this since she does know the old language or whatever.

Shadow: Hell yeah she does.

Katara: I'm honestly waiting in anticipation for the next chapter.

Dani: Who isn't?

Katara: I don't know.

Dani: So what will happen next? What secrets do Aang and Jake have to tell Zuko? Will Danny and Katara save Earth King Kuei? What Does Vlad have planned? Why is Vlad working for this Master? Who is the girl in the Shadows? What did Azula's message mean? Will Danny and Katara Kiss?

Shadow: WOULD YOU JUST STOP WITH THE QUESTIONS NO ONE HAS THE ANSWER'S TO AND JUST GET TO THE MAIN POINT?

Dani: Fine. Read, Review, Favourite and Follow to find out.