AS ALWAYS I DON'T OWN PJO OR AVATAR THE LAST AIR BENDER


Percy's POV

I don't often dream, I've never known why but I have never actually had a dream since I left the southern water tribe yet tonight just seemed to be an exception as I found myself in a dark forest that I didn't recognise. I was standing in the dark for minutes upon minutes and a light appeared in front of me, in the light was a large panda bear. It seemed to radiate the light that I had seen coming from the direction the panda came from, the bear was probably 4 metres high and another 2 and a bit metres wide. It's hulking form was paired with a sense of calm and peace that was sending my instincts haywire between running and staying, the way it stared at me intently was not making the decision any easier as it's cold hard stare was transfixed on me as if daring me to make any sort of movement. "I don't want to seem rude but firstly I know this is some weird dream so can you speak? It seems like something my mind would come up with right now if the last place I was at was anything to go by." If anything the bear seemed to look even angrier before it looked away and motioned for me to follow which from a bear looked extremely weird. The large bear took me further into the dark forest, we walked for what felt like hours until he abruptly stopped and because of his large form and the narrow area we had I couldn't peer around him to see why it is that we stopped. Whilst I was trying to find some way to loom around him a loud bang came from in front of us and the sound of scraping stone was heard, then we started moving again. I found the reason we stopped though, we were in a large cave and the scraping was the large door being moved out of the way. The large cave had at least 8 badger moles in the cave which spoke volumes about how large the cave was if it could fit 8 of those large animals in with plenty of space, with each of them being 20 metres high and the same in length. The Panda continued to walk through the cave and every time we passed one of the Badger moles they seemed to stop and stare, hell I swear I heard some of them making quiet sounds to each other as if they were whispering. To make it even more intimidating and confusing there was what looked like a group of trees wearing armour at the door guarding it from anyone who was going to trespass. Although I doubted anyone would be able to get passed that large entrance door.

When we reached the end of the large cave the giant Panda stood on it's hind legs and raised it's arms as if motioning for me to walk in the direction the rock wall was, noticing my confusion the bear reached to the wall and surprisingly put it's hand right through it the only effect of this on the surrounding wall was a slight ripple in the wall as if it was water. I quickly followed it's directions and walked through the fake wall and inside the hidden room I found a large room with thrones 20ft high and wide, each throne contained someone except from one inside it each of them radiating a sense of power and authority. There was a total of 8 thrones however one of the thrones looked like it was rotting away whilst another looked like it was almost draining that throne and was looking better and better every passing second. The two thrones had a small blue line between them that seemed to contain the energy that was being transferred. Then the panda from behind me grew taller and gained two extra arms, he then walked over to the empty throne and one of his arms gave an indication towards me for the other large beings in the room. I then felt myself being picked up and carried off to the center of the room to have all eyes on me. Now was the first time that I truly got to have a proper look at the beings and I have to say that each one is impressive in their own way. One of them for example a girl slightly older than me that seemed to glow an ethereal white light, she was also one of the two people that was on the thrones that were connected by the blue link. The man on the other chair in the link was tall and powerful looking but like his throne he looked to be getting visibly weaker every second and looked almost pained when he looked at me. I looked at each and every one of them, some of them scary looking with one of them having a large creepy smile on their face and the other just giving off an ominous feeling that was the complete opposite to the women next to him who seemed to be the very definition of pure and good. Then the man that had the rotting throne stood up from his throne and started to walk towards me, with every step he took he shrunk in size until he was the same size of me when he was only a metre or so away from me. "I'm glad you can make it. I hope that Hei Bai here didn't give you too much of a fright, guess it's a good thing we didn't send Koh or Vaatu to get you I doubt you would of gone very far if they were taking you here. However, I can hope that with the more enjoyable entrance that you will be able to be more ready into what is to com e and the truth about yourself."

"What do you mean what is to come this is just some dream it's not like I'm going to take what has happened in this dream and pretend it's real, that would just be stupid and make me look insane." The look on the mans face was one of disappointment and sorrow for some reason he looked like he expected my answer to be something different which is a bit of a weird detail for my subconscious to add in a dream.

"I'm sorry but this isn't a dream really, while you may be sleeping right now in the physical world but we are no longer in the physical world. This is the spirit world, welcome to it, not many mortals get to view it but I guess you are special aren't you huh. First bender to gain the control of another element through their own element, potentially the only person in existence to have the potential for dual bending. Do you know why you haver this potential? Do you know why you are so strong?" This confused me I had always believed that I was considerably stronger than anyone that I had ever met excluding the avatar himself was because I had worked hard for it, because I had allowed myself to view my abilities in a different light to what they were so that I could control more than I should be able to. Yet here was this man questioning my effort and training that I had put myself through at such a young age just so that I could gain the power I needed to fight back against those that wished to treat me poorly again.

"I have always and will always believe that the reason for my great power and control over my element is because I was willing to work for it and also my different way of thinking that allowed me to control more than one element. I doubt that anything that you could say could encourage any amount of self doubt on how hard I have worked for what I have so please if you have pulled me here as you say to insult me then you are wasting your time and effort." The man looked shocked for a second then him and a the woman to sitting on the throne next to his started muttering loudly to themselves both of them looking angry for a second. Both of them started to glow a slight colour and I backed up slightly in fear that I had talked badly of them that they would attack me as I knew even if I didn't like if they were insulting me even I could tell they were more powerful than I was no matter how good at water bending I believed myself to be.

Quickly noticing my fear both of them relax and their glow ceases to exist and the both of them stop muttering to themselves "Whilst all of that is both true and has helped you to complete these feats, however as much as that is true without the reasons that we will be telling you about you would never have reached the power requirements needed to complete theses feats that you have achieved especially not at such an age as you have done. The truth is my boy is that you are a once in a millennia child, you are the son of a spirit or more specifically you are my child with slight help from La over there." He turned and indicated to the woman that had also been muttering angrily to herself, the woman in question waved her hand shyly at me and seemed to be scared of what I thought of her which seemed almost ridiculous to me that an obviously powerful being was scared of what I thought. Then I remembered what he had just said, this man here had just claimed that him and this women were my parents in away yet they both let me live the life that I did with my parents. Whilst yes the life I have lived has had it's merits namely the fact that I met Toph and found the greatest friend possible in her but still I wouldn't of been so desperate tp find a friend if I had a family that had cared for me like a family should. Yet again I stepped away from the pair except this time it wasn't in fear instead in anger and betrayal at the news that the family that I had lived with or the first family to betray me. Noticing my anger the woman shrunk down to our size and appeared next to the man, her sea green eyes were exactly like mine and not like either my old mother or fathers . My hair was the same colour as his hair with the jet black colour with the one silver streak to the right side the only difference between our hair was the fact that I hid my silver streak whilst he seemed to show it proudly. In fact now that I looked at it I shared very little with my supposed family, the only one that I showed any physical similarities to was the traitor of a mother as I shared the cheek bones and nose however everything else about us was completely different. Also with Hakoda I share no obvious physical similarities with even his body shape being the more bulky muscle whilst I was a more lean body more developed for a fighting style that consisted of constant movement to avoid damage.

"Wait... You and you are my true parents? You are the people that gave me up first? Great just great so not only was I given up by my adopted family but guess what I was given up by my own parents. Thank you so much you are really making my life so much better if you were really my parents you should of just stayed the hell away from me as all you've done is make me feel useless with my powers and like a nobody with two pairs of parents leaving. But hey you have achieved one thing you wanted to do, you convinced me that none of this is a dream as I doubt even my screwed up mind could create something this self-deprecating so good job you made me feel like absolute shit can I leave now?" The look on both of their faces was one of complete and utter mortification and regret of what I had said, however I didn't care, they could feel any amount of guilt and regret that they want and it isn't going to make any of this better no matter what they think they can do to make it better.

"Percy please we are truly sorry that we couldn't be there for you but our bodies have been trapped in fish by the northern water tribe and it takes all the energy we have to be able to bring you here. We can only thank everyone else in this room for helping us in this process as otherwise your father would be dead already as you see when the avatar was in the northern water tribe a couple weeks ago there was a large attack that ended with your father here dying and the only reason he is still here is the fact that Yue over there." With this La indicated to the beautiful girl that glowed the ethereal white that I had looked at earlier. "This alerted all of the spirits to what was happening as the spirits don't often get to see what is happening in each other domains unless there is a large catastrophe such as our mortal bodies being damaged. This alert finally allowed us to contact the spirits to ask for their help in freeing us so we came up with this plan in the hopes that you will do your part."

"Wait if you couldn't form a body without the help of other spirits then how am I your child as I'm twelve years old not a couple months old. How is that possible to happen through your logic?" This caused her to form a sad smile on her lips before she gave a small motion for the man that was still yet to be named to answer this one.

"Tui I think that you should answer this one as it is your story to tell. Come on husband dear tell the poor boy what he wants to know." Her voice was a mix between sarcastic and angry however I could tell that she had gotten over whatever anger that she had felt about this problem.

The man looked up at me and answered my question. "Well you see when the Northern water tribe trapped my essence in a fish with their ritual they only trapped my water related side however my much weaker fire side was left alone thus before I was badly damaged in the attack on the water tribe I could control my fire based self and at great difficulty I could bring parts of my water side to join me so that I could achieve certain things that I needed to do. However in this side of me I ventured into the southern water tribe and met your mother, yes La here isn't really your mother but on the night that you were going to be born it was a full moon when I was most powerful so I was able to bring both all of my water based side and most of La and together we gave you as much of our power as we could in hope that it would serve you well in the life you will live. You see son this means that you are the first dual bender able to control the elements of fire and water you and the avatar must lead the humans with both of you being so closely connected to the spirit world."

"Wait who is actually my true parents her I'm so confused you say that La is one of my parents then say she isn't I'm so confused and secondly how do you have any power over fire you are the moon how do you control any sort of fire element." Both La and Tui looked at each other unsure of something that I had no idea what it was.

"I think that you should have the whole story how is that Percy, will it help you to understand everything?" I looked at them weirdly as if expecting them to be joking in some way, how did they expect anything but the whole story is going to clear things up for me in what is happening with me and why the two spirits supposedly couldn't look after me.

"Yes of course I want the whole story why the hell wouldn't I want it? Is there something that you're not proud of in this story or something as why else would you want to keep this from me?" Both of them seemed to shrink into themselves at my question but in the end they looked back up at me and had a quiet conversation between themselves that ended in Tui being pushed forward by a slightly teary La.

Tui walked over to me putting his arm around my shoulders when he got close enough, he did this so that he could lead me into the corner of the large room where a pair of seats were that looked as if they had just been created as it was so new. He motioned his arm for me to sit down on the chair to the left, he then went to go sit at the chair next to it but seemed to hesitate before he got to it giving me time to look back over at the rest of the spirits and found them talking quietly to each other whilst peering over at us every so often, which was freaking me out to have them watching us in a conversation that probably should be private. "Right Percy before we begin I just want to say that I am sorry that both me and La couldn't be here for you in the way that you wanted or expected of a parent however I want to say that we did watch over you and give you advice when you needed it. Do you remember when you had just escaped the fire nation ship? The voice that told you not to go back the same voice that led you to Gaoling, that was me with the help of La sending you that message sending you to the person that we knew would be one of the best people possible for you to be friends with. We were also the voice that told your friend Toph to go to the place that you met. This isn't the only time that we led potential friends to you and in time you will come to understand who I am talking about but for now just know that I have been watching your life the whole time."

This surprised me they had been the ones that had helped my life better by taking me to Toph and had apparently tried the same thing again, I didn't know who else I could count as a friend so maybe it didn't work but still it was nice to know that he was at least trying something that I had never had from a parental figure before. "Thanks for that, I have no idea how bad my life would of been if I hadn't found a friend after I had left the south pole, without Toph I doubt I would have been able to achieve half of what I have already, she's like a sister to me so thank you for that it means a lot. " This caused a large smile to appear on his face and he seemed to slightly relax in the chair. "However can you please tell me everything I still need to know who I am if all this is the truth and I'm not having some elaborate dream."

"Ok then I guess I will first start with how you will be able to bend fire, you know how the moon is closely connected to the water because the moon causes the waves in the ocean. However what you don't know is that the moon is very loosely connected to fire because of it's relationship to the sun. This is because the moon doesn't create it's own light the light of the moon is a reflection of the sun and uses that light to light up the sky at night, this means that the moon itself is a direct fire bender able to use the suns power to create flames, this in turn makes me the physical embodiment of the moon to be able to control fire to some degree. This power though is greatly lower than that of my power of water, this means that whilst you can do fire bending you will be only as powerful as a powerful fire nation royal, with the royals always being more powerful than other fire benders because of their direct descendant from Agni the first fire bender to learn from the dragons whilst other fire benders have a less direct line of descent than the royals do. This means that you should be as powerful as that fire bender girl from earlier however because of the nature of your powers you won't be able to ever get to the power levels that the current fire lord has reached or any of the previous fire lords for that matter. However you will have one advantage over them, with fire benders being more powerful during day, you will be the opposite and be more powerful in the night when the moon is most visible like you have always been with your water bending the only difference is that the moon effect will be amplified for you because of the fact that you are my son."

"This is a lot of information for me to take in you do realise that? Anyway top start off with am I going to have a teacher whilst learning fire bending or do you expect me to learn it like I learned water bending? Or do you have some secret teacher lined up to try and teach me how to fire bend?" I hoped that I would have some teacher to be able to learn fire bending from as it would allow me to add even more to the already large list of good things that have come out of this meeting. Such as the fact that because of this whole meeting I have learned that my real father had never wanted to leave me and had used all his power to try and show me to my step-mother which was the only reason that I hadn't seen or spoken to him in my life except from the small little voices in my head that he produced to take me top something to make my life better such as Taking me to Toph. Another good thing is the fact that I learned that I had access to more power that I could use to protect myself and my friends such as Toph from people who wish to harm or take us such as those that we fought earlier.

"I will tell you about that later but first I will tell you about why it is that your real mother acted the way that she did when you were younger. She was like this as she was faced with regret to what she done as she felt that you were the offspring of a mistake in her marriage to your step-father, this caused her to subconsciously push you aside and blame you for things that you couldn't control so that she can rationally keep her hatred for you going as the reason for her affair with me. For that my son I am very sorry, I am sorry that I allowed such treatment because of the fact that my freedom allowed me to be careless and fall in love with someone that I wasn't supposed to. In a way I am directly to blame for all the family problems that you faced as a child and even now and for that I hope that you can forgive me. Do you think that you can do that?"

I slowly walked over to him and pulled him into a large hug which I could feel eased his tension about the situation, not only did it ease his tension but I could see his whole mood lift as he started to smile and join the hug holding me tight so that I could barely breath. "S... Stop." He quickly let go of me and sheepishly rubbed his neck whilst looking down slightly embarrassed with what he had done.

"Sorry about that I got a bit carried away there, I didn't mean to hug you quite as hard as I did. So does this mean you forgive me or what." I knew that he knew the answer the from his smile being so mischievous that it just gave it away.

"I think you know the answer to that and your not getting another hug not after what happened last time." This earned a small chuckle from him and a small clap on the back. For such a small gesture for some reason the knowledge that my father was doing it just made it feel so much better than I thought such a gesture could. "Anyway is there anything else you want to tell me before you say who my teacher is going to be for fire bending?"

"I wouldn't call him a teacher per say more like a fellow student of fire bending. Secondly what I am about to say ties in nicely with who your teacher is going to be so I guess I will tell you them both at once. I want you to travel with the avatar, you and him together will finally end this war and balance the scales of power so that I will be able to come out more often than I have in the last century. Also whilst you are with the avatar I want you to come to the North pole, my mortal body in the fish is dying and only you and the Katara girl can save me so please come save me and if I tell you to break both La and I out of that cave so that we can properly go back to our spirit forms like us spirits are supposed to not like some locked up animal in a cage. Lastly the teacher that I with is Avatar himself as I believe that the both of you together can properly teach yourselves fire bending better than either of you alone. Thus I ask you to travel with him and help him on his journey to defeat the fire lord and his allies." I was fine with this and in the end understood why it was that I had to travel with him and my siblings but the last comment confused me.

"What do you mean father what allies does the fire lord have? Are there any that I don't know about?" This caused a sad smile to be on the faces of everyone in the room, each of them looking sadly in the distance except from my father who only looked at me gravely as if he expected me to drop dead any second now.

"I am sorry to say that in your world there are far greater threats as I have been told by my fellow spirits. You see the group of spirits you see before you are not all the spirits that have a domain of some kind, no we are the spirits that are willing to give our support to you in the hopes that you can end the war. Others that are out there don't have the same willingness to support you have decided not to attend this meeting and help us make contact with you. However not all of them are willing to harm you either as the only reason some of the aren't here is because either they also are trapped on your realm whilst others just don't want to help you as they feel that they benefit more from the continuation from the war. That second category is the one that you need to watch out for as they are the most likely to attack you and help the Fire lord. Sadly they are not your only enemies, there are a group of strong benders that have lived in the shadows using the soul of a trapped spirit to give them immortality so that they can forever influence the world to suit their needs. They are very interested in the war and it's outcome, many of them are supporting the fire lord in his fight and they would be a powerful enemy for you to fight with them being possibly above your power level thus I hope that you will never have to fight them. However I know that in the end you probably will so the only advice I have to give you is that you spend just as much time training your martial arts as it is your greatest strength over them which will allow you to win against the. Lastly the name of their group is 'The Olympians' So if you ever hear anyone mention them near you, run for the hills and hide avatar with you or not I want you to find safety and not attack them."

This was yet again more surprising news which was quickly becoming a theme in this meeting of ours. "I think I understand dad I will try and avoid such a group but first what sort of power do they have if they are as strong as you say they are?" This was a big question not only as it would be important to know information such as that but also because I was just generally curious of what sort of power could make him say that even the avatar and me together can't take one of them.

"We do not know much about many of them as they have found a way to stop spirits from viewing their hiding spot thus we don't often get to see them however, there is one of them that is more open than the rest with his powers. He is an air bender named Kronos who has learned to use the air to control you're movement so that you will move in slow motion almost. We also fear that the reason he is so open with the power he hold is because he is the least powerful of them all and thus 'The Olympians' do not view it as a threat if we can see what he can do. Let us hope that isn't true and power such as that is not the weakest of them all." Ok what was it with this night overall I had been faced with more and more information and then just when I think everything is done something big happens and I have to be ready for another round of it all. However before I could be ready for some another big fact that could get me killed if I didn't listen I was told that I had to leave as I was waking up.

~~~Out of dream~~~~~~~

Once I had woken up from the dream I found myself exactly where I had left off in my large ice tent that by now had slightly melted to the point that the top was just a large gaping hole. "Hey Perce how'd ya sleep?" A groan escaped my lips, of course Toph had to be awake right now, just when I wanted some time alone to think about my confusing and long night that I'd just experienced. Undoubtedly, dad did this on purpose as a way to force me to 'share' this information. Not that I wouldn't of eventually but right now I'm not really sure how I'm supposed to be able to explain about how I have a spirit father and that I'm a duel bender of water and fire. Worst of all how on Earth was I supposed to explain about how there was a more powerful group than the fire nation out there that was backing the fire nations war.

"Hey Perce what's wrong with you? You don't seem all that great." I winced at how easily she could read me after 6 long years, while they may have been the best times of my life it doesn't mean that they haven't come with their own struggles. I knew I couldn't lie to her, not only would she be able to tell if I was but I knew physically I wouldn't be able to tell her a lie without hurting myself, after everything that we'd been through it would be a betrayal of trust to not warn her of the higher powers that I would have to face as well as her if she continued with me. On the other hand I feared the idea of telling her everything and losing the one true friend that I had, the one person that I had always relied on to stick with me through thick and thin, yet here was a perfect opportunity for her to run for the hills and never look back at me.

"I-I mean I guess there's something but it was only a dream nothing for you to be worried about." I knew it was wrong but I hoped that the slightest bit of truth in that sentence would make it less likely for her to detect the lie. Unfortunately, though from the look on his face I could tell that this was a fruitless hope, every inch of her face screamed 'Is it really'. "Fine! Fine, I'll tell you about it when the others are awake so for now could you leave me be I have things I want to think about.

Toph only shrugged and walked off not needing to say anything for me to know that she wasn't happy about that. I knew that she wouldn't she always loves getting to know things before anyone else. It gave her a sense of importance that her home life never gave her because of her families poor relationship- if that's how you want to describe it. Toph's disappearance left me in the silence that I had so desperately craved yet as soon as I had achieved it I wished that I hadn't, ideas of what I would have to face and do plaguing my thoughts and making me fear for Toph. Also weirdly enough my thoughts kept going back to a certain opponent from yesterday, flashes of brown and pink entering my memory leaving behind strange feelings that I had never felt until now, what is this and why can't I get the damn ideas out of my head.

Just as I was about to change my train of thoughts I heard a soft groan coming from behind me, my head whipped around to find Aang slowly rising from his Earthen bed.


Thanks for reading and sorry for the extremely long wait, I'd had most of this chapter done for ages the only problem had been me wanting to do other projects and not being sure whether I was going the right approach with this story to make it worth continuing. I can gladly say that I have found a direction of sorts that I want to take this and thus can hope for more updates. However, I don't think it'll be anywhere near what it used to be.

Hope that you enjoy and if you have any questions I'll answer them if I can

~SonOfRiptide~