Thanksgiving break is finally here! :D I'm so thrilled! :D Anyways, enjoy!
Chapter Seven
Danny wasn't sure if he wanted to be thrilled or nervous. He was happy that Aang was here—possibly—but he was also nervous about his surrounding and the idea that he might be stuck here for a while. The teen took a step back and looked at the left; there were people walking, shops were open, cars… Cars. There were cars here. Danny didn't remember seeing any cars when he was stuck in Aang's world.
That's what made him nervous. Something was off.
He started to walk down on the side of the road, passing by people who gave the teen curious glances, but went back to their business. The halfa found himself looking at the island in the middle of the lake—ocean?—it kept bugging him and he didn't know why. Danny had the urge to go and check it out; nothing would go wrong, right? He was almost tempted to go and find out, but finally convinced himself that it was probably nothing and that he should try to get back home.
Danny continued to walk deeper in the city (soon found out that it was called Republic City), hoping that he would, somehow, find Aang, but had a feeling that he wasn't going to. He was lost in his thoughts and accidently bumped into someone.
"Watch it!" The person cried out, irritated. "Can't you watch where you're going?"
Danny spun around to see a young man, possibly in his early twenties. "Uh, sorry 'bout that." He apologized.
"Yeah, whatever." The man dismissed with a wave and went back to his shop.
The teen continued to walk around, asking for directions, but most of them were no help and the rest were just annoyed by him. So, he finally gave up and decided to see if he could find out for himself.
He came to a corner, but found out shortly that it was a small alley at the end of the road. Danny was about to turn back around when he saw two guys in the dim alley, talking. The halfa could hear them, but he couldn't make out the words. A bad feel washed over Danny and he decided to stay there to see what would happen.
Then suddenly, a guy threw a punch, hitting the other guy square on the face. The guy stumbled back, gaining his balance and threw a punch of his own to the other guy. The raven-haired teen almost ran in there to stop the fight, but he needed to wait a little bit longer to see if anything would change between the two.
"We had a deal!" One guy roared. His hands lit up into flames and shot them towards the guy in front of him.
Danny's eyes widened at the sight of the flames.
The other guy acted quickly by jumping out of the way and landed on his hands and knees. The firebender grabbed the collar of the guy's shirt and lifted him up to his feet. The guy let out a small whimper.
The firebender lifted his fist in the air, ready to strike. "Now, you're going to pay."
"Wait!" Danny shouted, standing at the end of the alley.
Both of them looked to see who the speaker was. The firebender dropped the guy and made his way towards the teen. "What are you doing here, kid?" He snarled.
"To stop an idiot like you." Danny shot back.
"Oh really?" The firebender sneered. "With what?"
The halfa stood there, running through his brain for a weapon he could use, but nothing seemed to come to mind. His mind screamed to him to use his ghost powers and Danny was very close to using them.
The firebender seemed to notice the pause. "You can't bend, huh?" He pointed out, almost in a mocking tone. "Well, this just got easier." The man shot a blast of fire towards the teen, but Danny dodged it and sent a punch towards the guy.
The man stumbled back, caught off guard. He shook his head and growled, sending another blast towards the halfa. Again, Danny dodged the incoming fire ball and sent a kick at the firebender. The man flew back, landing in the streets. Some people glanced towards his direction, suddenly aware about the fight.
"You know some fighting skills," He pointed out again, growling softly. He got back up and was about to attack again, but a thick string of metal grabbed his wrist, yanking him back.
Danny stepped back; aware that someone was here to stop the firebender. The teen turned around and ran to the injured man on the ground. The guy was slowly getting up to his feet; Danny helped him up once he got there.
"Are you okay?" The halfa asked.
"Yeah, I'll manage," The man smiled, then groaned softly. "Thanks to you."
"What was going on between you two?" The teen asked again.
"Nothing, I just trusted the wrong guy." The man replied. "I was a fool."
Danny heard a tapping sound at the end of the tunnel. He turned to see what it was and saw a few people, all dressed in similar uniforms and they were made out of… metal? The teen did a double take, and came to a conclusion that they were dressed in metal.
"Don't do any funny business." One guy ordered.
The guy beside Danny seemed to relax a little and put his hands in the air. The teen followed his suit and waited for anything dangerous to come.
"Step out of the alley." The guy in the metal suit demanded in a strict tone.
Both did what they were told.
"What are they doing?" Danny couldn't help but to ask the guy by him.
"They're metal benders," The man replied, "With the right information; they won't do anything to you. That's why we should approach slowly and calmly."
"Enough talking."
They both were now just a few yards away from the metal benders, now officially out of the alley.
"You're both under arrest." The metal bender informed, walking towards them.
"What?" Danny asked in shock. "But we didn't do anything wrong!"
The man didn't reply, but approached with cautious now. The teen glowered at the group of metal benders; the man grabbed the teen and when he did, Danny jerked backwards, sending a punch at the bender.
Danny held back a small yelp. The metal hurt. It hurt badly. Especially when he was in his human form. The metal benders were now in action, sending wires of metal at the teen, but Danny acted quickly and dodged them all. Then he took off running down the streets.
"Man, I feel like I'm running away from Spider-Man." Danny mumbled. He turned a corner and continued to run, dodging people and cars.
The metal benders were right behind him, some above him in a ship—blimp?—of some sort. All of them kept missing Danny with the wires of theirs. He crossed a bridge and entered a park, with people talking while they sat on benches, others walking around. Most were startled by the loud commotion from the metal benders and yelps from the halfa.
The raven-haired teen found himself in the city again; he turned back to see how far they were and to his disappointment, they were right on his tail. Danny looked forward and his eyes widened at the sight of a crate of cabbages right in front of him.
Without a warning, the teen crashed into the cabbages.
"No! Not my cabbages!" A guy cried out in horror.
The metal benders from above grabbed Danny on the wrist, ankles, and around his body, with their wires, lifting him up in the air. The halfa struggled to break free, but it was pointless. He was now too high in the air to go intangible and survive a drop like that in front of public.
He would get out later.
…
Danny was literally dragged into a metal box, with a desk and hand cuffs on the table. They put him on a chair and put his wrist in the slots of the handcuffs. One guy by him closed the handcuffs with the wave of his wrist. The ghost hybrid jerked on it, but could barely move his wrists.
"Wait," Danny said, "You're just going to leave me here?"
They all left the room, without answering Danny, and bend the wall, so that it closed up, leaving the halfa alone.
"Great," The teen muttered in annoyance. "Annoying police officers."
About ten minutes went by, but it seemed like hours to Danny, the wall opened and older lady walked in. The wall closed up behind her. She seemed to be in her late forties and by the look of it; Danny could tell she was a leader of something.
"Couldn't leave me in here any longer?" The teen joked.
The lady took a seat in front of him. "This is no joking matter." She replied firmly.
"Oh, I see," Danny said slowly, "You take everything serious."
Ignoring the teen's comment, she continued. "We just settled down from a battle, we don't need you and other people going out and stirring up the place again."
"Oh, you settled down from some sort of… battle, right?" Danny said.
"That's right," The women replied, still in her strict, firm voice. "I assume you weren't around during the battle. You're not from around here, are you?"
"How did you know?
"Your clothing is different." She said without a hesitation.
"You were going to say weird, weren't you?" He asked, smirking a bit, "I was going to say the same with you."
She sighed tiredly, as if she went through the same conversation a hundred times. "You will be held for a month."
"A month?" Danny cried out. "You can't do this. I want to talk to whoever is in charge here!"
"You're speaking to her." She said. "I'm Chief Beifong."
A feeling came across Danny, telling him that he should know this person. "Do I know you?" He asked curiously.
"I don't think so. Now," She said, changing the subject, "We're going to—"
"No wait!" He said loudly, "You don't understand, there were two guys. They were fighting and I—"
"Yes, I know, I heard the story from the other guy." She interrupted.
"But I'm still going to be held for a month?"
"Yes, you were still part of it." The Chief replied.
"I was trying to help!"
"I know, that's why it's going to be a month instead a few months."
"Why a month, huh?" Danny asked, now irritated. "Why can't it be a "thank you"?"
"I already told you," She said, "Do I need someone else to tell you the same story?" She took a quick look at the teen. "But I could see if someone knows you and will be held responsible for you."
"What makes you say that?"
She stood up and opened the wall with a wave of her hand, walked out of the metal box and closed it.
"Why isn't there any luck on my side?" Danny whined softly.
…
The halfa nearly fell asleep while he was waiting for someone to return. He could've escaped when he had the chance, but he was worried if they would have someone watching him somehow. So he stayed put.
The Chief returned and had a baled guy following after her. His first though was "it's Aang!" but he knew that it really wasn't him. It looked like Aang, but older. Maybe it was Aang, but he was just older. Maybe he'll recognize him and bust him out of here. At the same time, he wished that was true, because he knew that—that guy was not Aang.
The Chief pointed towards the guy by him. "This is Tenzin; he lives at the Air Temple Island."
"You mean the island in the middle of the ocean?" Danny asked.
"Yes."
"Okay, so how will his help me?" He asked. "I don't know him."
Chief Beifong glanced at Tenzin. "Do you recognize him?"
The man studied him, but shook his head. "No."
"Do you think that Korra will know him?"
"What makes you think that Korra will know him?" The man asked.
The Chief gestured towards Danny's pants. "I just was wondering."
Seeing where this was going, he nodded. "I see. I'll grab Korra." He left the room shortly after this.
"Don't you think it would be a lot nicer if you just took me to whoever Korra is?" The ghost hybrid asked.
Chief Beifong glanced at Danny. "Hmph, nice try."
"Wha-? No! It's not like that! I was just saying…"
"I'm going to be staying in here with you until Tenzin comes back with Korra." The Chief said.
"We going to play game while we wait?" He joked.
Instead of answering his question, she asked, "Where are you from?"
"Uh, I'm from a town." The halfa replied.
"Oh, you're not going to specific aren't you?" She asked. "That's fine. You can ask me questions if you like."
"Why do you want to talk to me if you don't like me?" He questioned.
Chief Beifong folded her arms. "When did I say that I didn't like you?"
"I can just tell." He smirked. "But I'll go on anyways." He thought for a second, now noticing that she can bend metal. He remembered when he was in a cell with Aang and his friends, when they broke out, Toph helped attacked by bending some metal. "Do you… know Toph?"
Startled for a second, hesitating, the Chief nodded. "Yes, she was my mother."
Danny blinked. "Wait, what?"
"She was my mother." She repeated, but more slowly this time. "Why do you ask?"
Danny paused and shifted uncomfortably in his seat. "Well, it's just that… I knew her…"
….
Gah, finally got this done. xD I didn't know where to end it. xD lol
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