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Chapter Seven

When Danny woke up, he wished he hadn't. Pain raced through his head—he knew that would leave a mark. His arms were in an uncomfortable position and his legs felt heavy.

A small groan escaped from his lips as he tried to open his eyes. Everything was blurry and the room spun; immediately he closed his eyes and decided to try and figure out where he was by ear.

The halfa felt that his arms were above his head and he could feel something cold and hard wrapped around his wrist. He figured it was metal to hold him up. This didn't feel modern; it felt like what someone would do back then.

He heard some hushed whispers beside him and soon realized that it was Katara trying to... Wake her friends up?

What happened?

Then the memories came flooding back to him; he remembered the firebenders and his friends being defeated. How were they able to find them? How were they defeated so easily? And WHAT knocked him out?

Just thinking about that thought made him wince.

"Sokka?" The halfa heard Katara whispered. There was a soft moan after that; Danny assumed it was Sokka slowly waking up.

"Wha..?" Sokka mumbled sleepily, and then he groaned. "What hit me?"

"We were captured by firebenders," The waterbender reminded him in a soft tone, "Do you think they found out about Aang?"

There was a pause before Sokka replied, still coming to his senses, "Well his headband it still on, so they shouldn't know yet... Unless they were spying on us when he took it off."

"Toph would've told us."

"Would she be able to tell us if they were in the ... Air?"

Katara hesitated. "We would've seen them though." She finally said.

"What if they-?"

"Shush!" She whispered harshly. "I think someone's coming!"

Sure enough there were footsteps growing louder with every step. Then they stopped and a loud squeak rang through the room, making Danny flinch because of his sensitive hearing. The footsteps began again, coming towards them.

The footsteps and squeak must've woken Toph and Aang up because he heard some more moans somewhere beside him. The teen continued to keep his eyes shut until he thought it would be appropriate to open them. So he continued to listen to the noises around him; also pretending to still be knocked out.

The footsteps suddenly stopped and the halfa could tell the person was just a few feet away from them.

"You're awake." A voice said, sounding a bit amused. "That's good."

Danny moved just slightly to the right; he knew that voice... It sounded familiar... Of course it was the commander...

"Did you actually believe you could escape from us?" The man said, and Danny could hear that he started to walk towards the right then slowly walked back to the left-pacing.

He stopped for a minute. "I admit, you're good at cleaning up your tracks." The man continued once again. "I don't know how you got here so fast, but I guess we'll find out soon, huh?"

"What do you want?" The teen heard Aang say in an almost threating tone.

"What do I want?" The man sneered. "I just simply want to help the Firelord win this war. But we can't find the Avatar, but..." Danny heard the footsteps coming towards him. "He could be useful."

There was some laughing in the room; the halfa realized it belonged to Sokka. "Danny? You have to be kidding me right? He's not even a bender. It's not like he is going to help you anyways. How could he possibly help you?"

Danny felt a little offended, but he was also thankful for that as well. Maybe that the kids would be able to convince that he couldn't do anything to fight, that he would be useless to him.

The man walked back towards Sokka. "You seriously don't know, huh? I'm not surprised; I mean everyone keeps secrets, right?" He sighed. "I mean I'm not exactly sure what I saw, but it was enough to convince me that this boy could be useful to the Firelord."

"His name is Danny," Aang defended angrily, "And you can't do this to him or us!"

He seemed to ignore Aang's angry remark. "I'm just borrowing him," The man said in a mocking tone, "I'll return him sometime." He chuckled.

The man walked backwards and stopped there for a minute. Danny heard Sokka whispering-glow it up?-to Aang and he just kept telling Sokka that he couldn't.

"He's going use our friend!" Sokka said in a hushed tone. "Wouldn't you fight back for your friends?"

"Yes," Aang agreed. "But don't you know what happened before... That happened?"

There was a long pause before Sokka replied, "Right. I forgot."

The man walked back up to the group. "I've decided that we should kill you guys. That way you can't do anything about it once we have...Danny."

The halfa's eyes shot open. "Leave them alone!" He growled.

"I knew that would get you to wake up," The man said, smiling. "But of course you were awake the whole time..."

The halfa glared at the man, but didn't say anything.

The guy had slick brown hair and brown eyes to go with it. He was still in his uniform-not that it was surprising or anything.

Danny noticed that they were in a small room. He was in a cell with bars around him and a brick wall behind him. The halfa saw that the kids were in a different cell next to him. They were all chained to the brick wall as he was. Except that the metal covered their hands and their feet as well-besides Sokka, he was in the same position as Danny was.

The raven-haired teen assumed that they covered their hands and feet
so they could bend in anyway.

The teen looked over to see Katara, Aang, and Sokka all angry and shouting at the guy. Toph looked perfectly calm.

That really confused the ghost hybrid; how could she be so calm?

The man cleared his throat as if he was about to give them a long speech. "Come in guys." He said calmly.

The door swung wide open with about seven firebenders walking in. The commander backed away, behind the group of firebenders and grinned. "Go ahead." He finally said.

One firebender's hand lit up in flames and threw it towards Sokka. But before the fire even reached towards its target, one of the metal bars seemed to come to life and blocked the flame. Then it shot towards the fire dude, throwing him against the brick wall.

Startled, the commander looked to see what had caused it. Toph was completely free from her bands and used another metal bar to attack with on the leader.

He saw the bar coming towards him like a baseball bat hitting the ball. The man used firebending to try and defend himself, but only to see that it was completely useless against the metal and fell flat on his stomach. The bar missed him by a few inches above him.

"Hold her down!" He shouted, pointing at the blind girl who was bending another metal bar to use.

The troops didn't hesitate and rushed towards the girl. Aang and Katara tried to break free from their bands, but failed each time. Danny wanted to do something, but if he revealed his powers, they fire dudes would do anything to get a hold of him. Also he wouldn't know how his friends would react.

Toph managed to hold most of them off for a while, but each time she defended herself or attacked, she grew tired. Eventually, one of them jumped on her while she was attacking two others. She tried to get him off of her, but by the time she did, another attacked her.

Soon three firebenders had to hold her in midair so she couldn't bend. Toph struggled, but gave up helplessly.

The leader brushed himself off and sighed angrily. "Finish them." He commanded.

Each troop standing lit their hands and shot it towards the group of kids; each one closing their eyes and waited for the impact to come.

But it never came.

They opened their eyes to see that the firebenders we're startled. Danny had phased through his chains and thrown a shield to protect his friends from the incoming blasts. His eyes glowed neon green, making
the troops jump back in fright.

The raven-haired teen dropped his green shield and rushed up, throwing a hard punch towards a firebender. The guy flew back, crashing into the brick wall behind.

"I knew it," The teen heard the leader growl.

Another guy jumped in the air, lighting up a flame at the same time, but Danny heard him from behind and grabbed the collar of his suit and tossed him in front of him. The firebender slammed into the wall, instantly falling towards the ground.

Sokka's jaw dropped at the sight of the halfa fighting these firebenders without breaking a sweat. Aang and Katara's eyes widened in surprise as they watched him defeat these men.

The fire dudes that were holding Toph let go and ran to help fight against the ghost hybrid. The blind girl got to her feet, feeling the scene happening in front of her.

She felt the metal bars around her and bended one of them to grab a couple of soldiers and wrapped the bar around them. They struggled against the bar, but they didn't accomplish anything.

She did it again and wrapped the rest of them, setting them next the other group tied up; also leaving Danny and the angry leader standing in front of each other.

"I knew you would come to your senses," The guy sneered. "You couldn't resist it, couldn't you?"

The halfa took a step forward. "You seriously need some help," He folded his arms and grinned. "I have an arch-enemy that has a similar problem; may I suggest you get a cat? Or an animal that's similar to one?"

The leader blinked. "Wha-what is the meaning of this?" He snarled.

"I'm just throwing out suggestions, it's called 'helping'," He replied, "You should look it up; it could save your life someday."

The commander scoffed. "Fine I'll deal with you myself." He got ready to attack.

Danny smiled; little did guy know that the halfa was standing in front of the cell he was in, with the key in his pocket...

When one of the firebenders attacked him, he saw the key on the side of his belt and grabbed it without him noticing. Then when Toph jumped in he quickly unlocked his cell and went back to fighting afterwards.

"Gimmie your best shot," The raven-haired teen muttered under his breath.

The guy lit both of his hands in fire and charged towards the ghost hybrid. Danny couldn't resist to fold his arms and yawn. Oblivious to his actions, the commander growled in rage and drew closer towards the teen.

Danny kicked the cell door open and turned intangible, letting the guy go right through him and into the cell. The halfa turned tangible and quickly locked the door before he could get up.

Stunned, the leader sat on the floor, trying to process what just happened.

The raven-haired teen let out a relief sigh.

First off, he didn't have to go ghost during that time and he managed to keep everyone away from him. So why were they defeated so easily earlier?

Then he knew why. They defeated them so easily the first time; they didn't think they had to do any better this time. Because they didn't do their hardest, they were defeated.

Danny turned to go get his friends out of the chains, but to see Toph a step ahead of him. She was bending the metal off of their wrists and ankles, allowing them to be free. The four kids stood in front of the hybrid, none saying a word.

Katara was still surprised and Aang studied Danny suspiciously. Sokka's jaw was still dropped open and Toph folded her arms as if she was waiting for an explanation.

He knew that they all wanted an explanation.

How were they going to take this now?

Hehe, I hope this was an okay chapter! So they still don't know that he's the spirit, but they just found out some about his powers. Next chapter will be out soon! :D (Probably Monday) Tell me how I did on this chapter! :)

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