Sorry for taking so long to update a new chapter, but I'm here now and ready to begin.
Chirp. Chirp. Goes two little birds singing in the trees, the late after noon sun felt so warm and peaceful. All was quiet.
*BOOM!*
The sound of a huge boulder crashing into another boulder broke the silence fallowed by "Do it again, Twinkle toes!"
Down in a lower canyon of mountains a small group of young preteens and two weird looking animals. One of the girls was teaching the younger but surprisingly older boy in the group how to be an earthbenders. While the older girl was getting breakfast ready and the other boy was looking over the maps on were to go next.
Aang slammed the first rock, then the second rock and the third at the wall in good synchronization. "Not bad, Twinkle toes. That will be all for today's training." said Toph, as she and Aang walks back to their camp.
Karata looks over her shoulders and called out "breakfast's ready." just when they were about to eat a bright light, like a ray of a sun or moon shining through the clouds, went off in the distance behind them. "What was that?" Said Sokka
"What's what?" says Toph looking from side to side, as Sokka gave her a look and said "How can you not miss it? There's a huge blue light over there!" "Gee, I wonder why? Maybe it's because I only see nothing?" Toph sarcastically says and pounders in thought.
"Ooh right." Now realizing his mistake, Aang got up and start heading towards it. Katara ask "Aang, where are you going?" He turns and said "I wanna see what happened. Who knows, maybe someone is need of help."
"Can't argue with that." Said Katara as she and Toph quickly fallows their Avatar friend, leaving Sokka behind "Hey, what about breakfast?" He didn't receive any replying answer back. "Okay, fine. Ignore the poor morning hungry guy, and fallow the glowing light. Love the plan." Sokka sarcastically says picking up his pace with everyone.
With Duncan & Courtney
Two teenagers lay together in each other's embrace feeling the warm sun on their skin causing the bad boy to open his eyes "Wha- how did?" Duncan felt a weight on his right arm, after adjusting to the light of the sun Duncan sees that it was Courtney resting up against him in a lock arm hug embrace, and so was he in his position.
If this is a dream, Duncan hopes he'll never wakes up. To bad it didn't last, for the girl in his arms starts to stir. "mmm, Duncan?" "Morning princess."
Courtney jolted awake and pushes herself away from the Juvenile, only to fall back down clenching her left ankle in pain. "Ah!" "What is it?" Duncan ask, worried for her well being. "My ankle, I must have sprained it."
"Let me see." Removing her hands, the two teens can see a rouge purple wound forming a bigger swelling by the minute. "We need to get you a medic." with that said, Duncan reach under Courtney and lift her up bridle style causing the formal C.I.T. to blush and protest.
Before she could even yell at him, the two teens quickly realize of their surroundings. "Where... are we?"
They were surrounded by dry rocky hills and cliffs with little bit of green trees and plant life around. "How did we get here?" It's either a miracle or just impossible. There was no way they could have survive that fall, unless...
'Did... did we die.' Courtney and Duncan thought until a call broke out, "Hello over there." they turn to where the voice came from, a young bald boy in a orange yellow monk like outfit with light blue arrow tattoos on his hands and forehead stood on a small hill behind them along with three other kids a older boy and girl dressed in different colors of blue and white and a young girl clad in dark and light green clothes and is the only one in the group walking barefoot.
'Or maybe not.' the two thought as the four kids walk over to them when the girl in the blue Asian dress let out a small gasp "Oh no, you're hurt! Here, let me help you."
The boy in blue with an odd pony tail hairstyle put his arm in front of the girl, "Katara, wait. We don't know that it could be a trick!"
"Sokka! They're wounded, how can it be a trick?" The girl, Katara, scolded at Sokka. "They could be faking it and made those injuries themselves." "That's ridiculous."
As the two siblings bicker, Aang and Toph went up to Duncan and Courtney. "Sorry about my friends, we've ran into some people wanting to attack us." Duncan set Courtney down on a mid flat size boulder "Who would want to attack you guys?" Courtney ask.
Aang, Toph and the two Water Tribe siblings, stop their argument, were shock at her question "Who do you think? the Fire Nation. Where were you two, sleeping under a rock for the past one hundred years?" said Toph.
'What?' Duncan thought, while Courtney thought 'There's no country called Fire Nation, these kids might be the ones that need help more than we do.'
"Look, we don't know how we got here or where we are. So can you help us, or not?" Duncan demanded, having enough of this nonsense.
Katara, Aang and Toph nodded their heads in understanding while Sokka was still skeptical about them. Katara bent down onto her knees and bends the water out from her water skin pouch, and hovers the water onto Courtney's sprain ankle creating a glowing light from the water. When the pain was completely gone, Katara remove the water back into her water skin pouch. "There, all done."
Needless to say Duncan and Courtney were shock at this phenomenon.
Courtney flexed her foot feeling no pain at all. "H-how did you do that?!" she said in a mix of fright and awe. Katara replies "It's called Watterbending. It's a part of a bender to controlling one out of the four elements."
"But that's impossible." said Duncan, "Oh yeah, well it impossible to appear out of a glowing bright blue light." Sokka snap back at Duncan, "What?" Said Courtney and Duncan.
Aang explain, "Well, we did see a bright blue light. And when we fallow where it came from, we ran into you guys."
The two TDI contestants have their eyes widen in shock, "That doesn't make any sense. We were on an island for a camp contest when a storm and an earthquake struck the high cliff side of the island where we and other campers were at, we fell into the lake and black out." "And when we woke up, we somehow ended up here and separated from our group." both Duncan and Courtney explain.
"Right, like we're gonna believe that." said Sokka in a disbelieving tone, but Toph stepped in "Actually they're not lying." All eyes were on Toph, "How can you tell?" Katara ask Toph, who then replies "When people lie, their breathing and heartbeat changes quicker then normal. They're telling the truth."
Everyone was astound at Toph's ability, but then realize they were getting off track. "Ok, so what they were saying is true. But it doesn't explain how did they get here in the first place, or the glowing light?" said Sokka.
Aang thought for a moment before saying "Maybe it's because they're from a different world."
All heads turn to the kid with the blue arrow tattoos. "Okay, now you're just making things up." Said Courtney, but Aang shook his head in disagreement. "No, I'm not. The monks uses to tell me that the there are other worlds connected to ours that spreads throughout the stars, like a along and wide spider's web."
"It does make a little sense." Katara said thoughtfully, no matter how much Courtney or Duncan wants to deny it, it is the truth. As the two teens fell down to their knees in distraught, "A different world..." said Duncan, fallowed by Courtney "I can't believe it."
Aang lower his head sadden at the two different world travelers, "I'm sorry that this has happen to you, but if you would like, I will like to help find a way back to you would." he offers his hand to them.
Duncan and Courtney look at each other for a moment until Duncan shrugged his shoulders "Ah what the heck, it beats wondering around aimlessly." "Plus there could be a chance that the rest of us are here as well." Courtney added.
Katara smiled at the agreement "Then it's settled, my name is Katara." "What's up? My name's Toph." said the blind earthbenders, "I'm Aang." the airbender said happily.
"Its very nice to meet you, I'm Courtney." "Duncan." The TDI contestants introduced themselves, everything seems to be going all right.
But only the older water tribe boy in the group who didn't introduce himself to their new members was still not too sure about them. "Hey Snoozles, get over here and introduce yourself." Duncan back out a laugh at the nickname "Snoozles?" Courtney had to cover her mouth to try hold in her laughter, but it only came out in giggles.
"Toph!" Sokka comedically whines "Ugh, fine. I'm Sokka, and now that's done time to get some meat in my belly." he walks back to their campsite only to get his foot caught on something, and falls down. "Gah!"
"Why do thing keep on tripping me?" Sokka yells in frustration. Looking down at what he tripped over was some kind of strange bag to him, and a heavy one too. "What the heck is this thing?"
As everyone gathered over to what Sokka was holding, Duncan's and Courtney's eyes widen "No way, is that!" said Courtney "It's one of the cameras the crew staff left behind!" said Duncan
Four heads turn to them "I take it that whatever-this-thing-is, is from your world?" Katara ask confusingly. Duncan arched his eyebrow "What? You never seen a camera before?"
Aang ask "What's a camera?"
"You're kidding, right?" Courtney said in disbelief. Just how far are they behind of technology?!
"So, what's this 'Camera' thing do anyway?" Said Toph, wondering what the huge fuss is all about that thing.
"It's a device to take an image of anyone or anything, like a drawing only a lot faster. Sometimes it can also record an event or an action." Courtney explain to them carefully, while Duncan was looking through the bag to see if there's anything else in it. Only a charging cord and a few extra blank film disk to install into the camera.
Once Sokka laid eyes on the advance object, he was head over heels for it. "This is such a beautiful invention." He said emotionally, as small tears form in his eyes.
"Is he okay?" Duncan ask as he scooted away, with the camera bag, from the watery eyed weird ponytail guy.
"You'll have to forgive him, my brother tends to be an idiot sometimes." Katara explains and apologies for her brother's actions.
With that said, the team and it's new members gather themselves up and start walking back to the campsite until Courtney notice a large black puffs of smoke fire.
"Uh guys, I think we should leave. There's a forest fire over that direction." She said pointing to where the smoke was coming from.
Everyone, minus Toph, turns to where she was looking with wide eyes. "That's not a forest fire, Courtney. That's a Fire Nation attack." Katara Corrected her.
A sudden thought came to Sokka's mind "Wasn't there a village not too far from here?" The realization hits the team like a bolt of lightning.
Without any hesitation, Aang blows into his bison whistle and with in the next few seconds. A giant white and brown-furry-six-legged-two-horn-beaver-tailed creature monster landed in front of Aang, fallowed by a white and brown lemur with bat wings under it's arms flying around the young airbender.
Duncan and Courtney back away from the giant beast before them, "Wha-what is that thing!?"
"This is Appa, my flying bison and my best buddy. Right boy?" said Aang, as his big companion gave him his affections in a form of a lick kiss. Causing the Airbender to laugh playfully.
Courtney reeled back in disgust while Duncan was a little gross out but understands how deeply the bond they have.
Aang notice this and said "Don't worry, Appa is only a big cuddly giant. He's not dangerous."
Courtney was hesitant at first, not wanting to be riding on a big furry monster, but Duncan reassures her "Think of it as a challenge only without doing any extreme stunts." No matter how much she doesn't want to get on the bison, Courtney knew that there was no other choice. She reluctantly climb up into the saddle with Duncan and sat next to him.
Once everyone is secured, Aang calls out to their new members "All right first time flyers, hold on tight! Appa, yip-yip!"
With a mighty roar, Appa slammed his tail down and took off into the skies as the two TDI contestants scream at the top of their lungs in a mixture of fright and excitement.
"Fist time flying?" Toph ask the two, "It's quite a thrill." said Courtney while Toph replies "Yeah, I hate it too."
Duncan said with a grin on his face "Are you kidding? This is amazing!"
Courtney wont say it, but she have to agree with him. This is amazing, and the height of this landscaping view is astoundingly breath taking.
But that change when she saw the smoke in the village being burn to the ground, along with the people who lives there. Army soldiers dress in red and small metal tanks without a barrel, set everything in their path on fire even if some of the residents weren't able to fighting back.
This isn't a battle...
It's an all out war.
Without warning, Aang jump off of Appa in mid-air, glide down on his glider to the soldiers and blow them away. Literally.
"Is he crazy!? He can't take them all by himself!" said Courtney, but Katara reassures Duncan and Courtney "Aang's not alone, he's got us."
Then Sokka says "You guys stay here while we help Aang."
When Appa land, the Water Tribe siblings jump off and starts fighting off the soldiers. Before Toph gets off of the saddle, she turns to them and says with a grin on her face "Maybe you could play with that camera thing of yours while we fight."
Just when Duncan was going to argue about how he wants to be in the action, a random stream of fire shot nearly at his head. Missing only by a few inches away from his mohawk.
Yeah, they should just stay here where it's safe... maybe.
"It's the Avatar and his friends!" one soldier cries out, as three young ladies look up at the bison and the Avatar. One girl with two small buns on the back of her head with long ends coming down to her lower back, clothed in dark red long sleeves and pants like dress, the other girl in long braided brown hair in pink and bright red short shirt, yoga pants and Asian red shoes. And the one standing in front of the two girls was the one in charge of this massacre attack.
A young teenager in red armor and boots almost like the soldiers her hair style is a high tide bun leaving to strands on each side of her face and resting on her bun a golden fire blaze symbol hairpiece. And if her appearance isn't menacing enough her golden cold eyes and wicked satisfying grin is strong to send even the most toughest of people into fright.
"Well, if it isn't my lucky day." Azula's lips curl into a smiling smirk. As she sent a blast of blue fire strait at Aang, who blocked it off with a twirl from his staff.
Katara bends the water out from her skin pouch and whips the water at Mai, who dodges the attack and shot out her arrow knives at Katara who then brought the water up in defense and freeze it into ice, making the arrow knives to bounce off. "Why don't you just give up, you're already losing." said Mai as she flung her star blades at her pinning Katara's arms at the walls of an abandon house, cutting her off from using her bending.
Sokka was dealing with Ty Lee who was jumping around and trying to land a punch on him, though Sokka tries his best to avoid her deadly paralyzing punches. "Hee Hee, it's like we're dancing cutie." Ty Lee flirts with him. It didn't last long until she hits Sokka's pressure points, causing his arms to go limp. "Not again." The poor water tribe teen boy whine or moan(it's hard to tell).
Toph was managing to pin the war machines into one big tight walled earth slab space and crush them making it useless. Now she's chucking boulders at all of the fire nations near her, everything seems to be going well until Ty Lee drops from the trees and ambushes her. Cutting Toph off from her bending and her sight. "Grrr! Do get cocky I can still wipe that ugly off your face!" Toph yelled at Ty Lee who replies back snooty "You're just jealous that you can't smile pretty as I can."
They were losing badly, these girls are not only strong, they're also deadly. Especial the one shooting out blue fire at Aang. "I can't take it anymore." said Duncan as he gets off from the saddle with his knife in his hand. "Where do you think you're going?" Courtney called out to him, only to see him knocking the girl with the throwing daggers away and trying to get a slash at her. "Really? You're going to fight me with only a knife?" Mai says in a bored tone, while Duncan replies with confidence "You'll be amaze to see how much damage you can do with just a dagger knife." as he rushes the blade at the gloomy teen while knocking away her arrows.
Duncan's fighting style really surprised the Formal CIT, for a delinquent he sure knows how to hold his ground. But then she saw the pink acrobat jumping towards him from behind, "Ah What the heck." with that being said, Courtney jumps off of Appa and delivers a kick to Ty Lee's arm knocking away a few feet. "Not bad." Ty Lee complemented "Not bad yourself." Courtney complemented back, as she continues to block and fight back Ty Lee's chi blocking attacks. As they fight and block each other's attack, Ty Lee pushes Courtney to the edge of the river by kicks her in the ribs, but when Courtney swiftly dodges the kick and brought her first up to punch her, a body of water came up out of the stream and hits Ty Lee sending her back and knocking her into Mai.
Courtney looks down at her hands in shock, "I... I can bend water?!" She wasn't the only one shock, both Katara, Sokka and Aang were astound at Courtney's display, but no one was even more shock than Duncan. And at that moment it felt like time had stop and then quickly started back up again, with soldiers running towards at the newly waterbender "Take her down!" they yelled, Only to be whipped away by a mid size wave.
With enemies closing in it was getting harder to defend herself, Azula saw that the new girl was having some trouble to be put down, so she send the Avatar into a crumbling wall knocking him out instantly."It's time to get rid of these little distractions." Said Azula, as she got into her powerful bending stances and starts to bend Lightning onto her finger tips.
Everything was happening so fast that no one saw what was happening, Only Duncan saw it. He saw the crazy girl with the blue flames making lightning with her finger tips and saw who she was aiming for, without any hesitation. Duncan ran to Courtney's defense, he didn't know how he was going to stop the attack, but he'll be damned if he didn't save her. "No!" He cried out as he punches Azula in the face. When Duncan's fist collided a streaming of flames burst out from his fist hitting the princess of the Fire Nation on her right side of her face.
Azula screams in pain and agony as the flames burn the surface of her beautiful skin. Her cries froze every one of her enemies, soldiers and comrades in there place. To see the princess wounded before their eyes was the most unexpected thing to ever happen! No one could even get close or touch the Princess and live to see another day! And yet this young man did the impossible.
"You, how dare you! You traitor, you dare attack your princess?!" Azula yells at Duncan in burning rage, While still amaze at his now ability Duncan replies with such anger in his voice "You are no princess of mine, you made a big mistake for attacking the one girl I truly care about, and she's more of a real princess than you." Duncan then throws another fire blast, striking at the raging fire princess Azula, "You're just a bitch." It was clear to Everyone, that Bad Boy Duncan is pissed off.
Hearing the Bad Boy's speach, made Courtney's cheeks and heart heat up with red. "I didn't know he care so much for me." she mutters to herself, as she hits one of the soldiers pressure points and joints.
Mai and Ty Lee were so distracted at watching Azula and Duncan's fight, neither of them notice that Katara has manage to get free herself and Toph from the wall. Taking the water out of the river and bending it into a mid size tsunami wave, knocking all of the Fire nation soldiers into the river, freezing them to the water's surface. While Toph slam the girls into the war machine carriage knocking them out in the process. And with Azula distracted with trying to burn the Bad Boy to a crisp, Aang sends a powerful air slash whip at Azula knocking her off her feet.
With all of the villagers gone and safe from the fire nation's rampage, Aang, Katara, Sokka and Toph started to head back on Appa with Courtney and Duncan in tow. "Okay we win, they lost, the villagers are safe and now let's get out of here." Said Sokka as he climb up on the bison's tail.
Appa pushes off from the ground and flies away from the crazy dangerous ladies, not wanting to give up, Azula shoots out her most powerful fire blast at them. Seeing themselves in a awful situation, Aang hops over his friends and swings his staff like a baseball bat with his airbending making the fire ball redirect back at Azula's war machine. Leaving the Fire Nation's princess and her fallowers stranded.
Time Skip
After packing everything up from their camp, the Gaang continues to head to who knows where and away from the battle. Everyone was silent until Sokka couldn't take it any more. "Alright, I'm just gonna say it. When were either of you can water or fire bend?"
Neither of them spoke for a moment, until One of them did "I- we didn't know. It just happened." It was Duncan who answered and then Courtney ask "But what about those girls and the army. What made them drive to attack those people?"
At first they were a bit hesitant but they answered anyway, "It's because our world has been at war for over a hundred years."
The two TDI contestants with them had their eyes widen in surprise. Sure, they had wars in their world some lasted to four to six years. But a hundred, that's insane!
Courtney couldn't help but to ask "How did it happen?"
They explain everything: about the Four Nations, Bending and how the Fire Nation wipe out the entire Air Nomads.
Duncan felt a twinge of pity for Aang, all of his kind are gone and he's the last one alive. "If you're the last airbender, then how did you escape the attack?" he asked.
Aang look at him sadly and said "I ran away, the monks were going to send me away from everyone I knew and loved. Me and Appa got caught in a storm, it pushed us into the sea and I manage to freeze ourselves. Trapping us into an iceberg."
Courtney and Duncan were taken back at this information, "Just how did you even survive!? No one could have survive that!"
Aang didn't answered so Katara took over, "It's because Aang tapped into the Avatar state which is how he survive for over a hundred years." "Avatar state?" Duncan raised an eyebrow in confusion.
"The Avatar is the master of all four elements and is the bridge between the physical world and the spirit world. The Avatar keeps peace and balance to the world, and when the Avatar dies he or she is reincarnated into the next element in the cycle." Katara informed them.
Then Sokka added "And right now, Aang needs to master all four elements before the end of this summer." Courtney turns to him asking "Why is that?" Toph answers her in her own way of 'seeing' their situation. "Oh, something about a comet giving the firebenders more power in their firebending and to use it to finish the war for good."
"What?!" "Are you serious?!" the two TDI contestants exclaimed. Duncan and Courtney turns towards Aang in awe for a young boy to have that much power and ability, it's a bit overwhelming. And now their smacked in a middle of warzone, literally.
Aang notices how their new friends are unsettled at this, "I'm sorry, for getting you caught into this war. But I made an Avatar vow, that'll help you and your friends get back to your world."
Duncan just shrugged "Hey what happens, happens. And sense we're here and gain new abilities, it just makes this summer more interesting." "I'm surprise I'm saying this, but I agree with you, Duncan." said Courtney.
Happy with their honest answer, Aang, Katara, Sokka and Toph smiled at them "Thank you, for both understanding our situation and for helping us in that battle." As soon as those words left Katara's mouth, Duncan recall a certain someone doing incredible acrobat skills against the pink perky girl "That reminds me, how were you able to do all of those flips, princess?"
Courtney slightly blush in embarrassment before answering, "I've done gymnastics for six years strait."
'Impressive.' Duncan thought, then Toph said "I may not know what this 'gymnastics' thing is, but great job on handling off Jumpy Girl's chi blocking technique." Courtney raise an eyebrow "'Jumpy Girl'?"
"She means Ty Lee, and awesome work on deflecting the knives back there." Sokka complementing Duncan's skills with a knife.
With everyone chatting with their new team members and learning how to be a bender to their element, the Gaang heads farther out west in the Earth Kingdom to find another training ground, make plans to take down the Fire Lord and to find Courtney and Duncan's friends that came with them in this new and strange world.
With Azula
"I'm sorry, Princess." said the trembling royal healer "But I'm afraid that your burn will forever be a scar."
The Princess of the Fire Nation now has half of her hair on the right side cut away and white bandages covering half of her face and her right eye.
"Leave me." Azula demanded, as the healer quickly walks out of the Princess's chamber. "So the Avatar has some new friends? and a traitor decided to scar my face like Zuzu's." She gets up from her bed and walks towards her mirror and glares into it with the promise of revenge "Fine then, I'll be sure to repay him with the same treatment Father gave to Zuzu."
There done. It took longer then I thought it would be, but I got it done even with some setbacks and writer's block.
*The moment when Duncan Firebends at Azula it's like the scene in the legend of Korra when Korra finally unlocks her airbending ability and saving the Mako from losing his bending. I really enjoy watching that scene int the Legend of Korra.
*Zuko has his left side of his face scarred, so it's fitting for Azula to have the other half scarred.
What do you think about Owen and Izzy meeting them at the misty ponds oasis? or join with Zuko and Iroh on their travels? I was thinking that Zuko and Iroh would have meet Gwen and Trent, or Geoff and Bridgette. Or maybe the gaang will meet one of the other TDI victims at Full moon bay? But now I'm thinking that Gwen and Trent would meet them at full moon bay.
If you guys have any thoughts on where the TDI characters should meet up with each other, let me know in the comments section down below.
See ya later.