HIIIIII! SOOOOO SOOORRRRRYYYY about the LAATTTEEEE update. I got a beta-reader person! Okay, I'll try to have the next one posted ASAP to make up for it. Just… you're gonna have to hold on to your socks for this.
"I see you like to play with fire," Sam smirked. "Well guess what?" As if it's an everyday occurrence, white flame bursts from within her palm. Her eyes glistened at everyone's shocked faces, especially Danny's.
"So do I!" Sam swiftly swung out her hand. A bright white flame shot out and hit one of the sages, knocking him back a few feet.
"Okay!" Sam shouted out, taking a few step forward. "Whoever the Avatar is…"
"GET YOUR LAZY BUTT IN THERE ASAP!" Sam roared, and a startled Aang quickly sprinted into the room, jumping from Danny's hold.
The huge door closed behind him with a bang.
Satisfied, Sam sighed in relief. That one job done, now for these pathetic excuse of a man.
"Well boys, what would it be? Would you like these," she raised her ignited fist, "…or these?" she gestured to her boots, smirking all the while.
Three concentrated fire blasts answered her. She just stepped aside, letting the flames miss her.
"None of the above? Well then, I'll give you BOTH!" With a battle scream, she rushed forward, hitting one of the sages with a graceful spinning fire double wheel kick.
With a quick nod to each other, both halfa joined in, picking the nearest victim to them. Danny slid down one sage and pulled his hood down making him slam headfirst to the ground, before jumping up to deliver a nice view of the bottom of his boot to another unfortunate sage face. Dani, well… she rushed forward, jumped and accidentally choked two sages at both side of her arms, "Oops." She did not intend to do that, she actually wanted to plow through them. The two men rolled around coughing and spluttering unintelligible words and Dani burst into a giggle at the scene in front of her, being hit at the neck are extremely painful and she was supposed to be sorry but the scene in front of her is just so funny!
Katara and Sokka stood dumbfounded for a second. A fire blast almost hit Sokka and if it wasn't for Katara noticing the incoming blast and shielded with a barrier or water the boy would've been a fried mummy by then. The young woman glared at her brother, he smiled guiltily, and the both of them swiftly turned their back to back to each other as they do a combo attack. Katara whipped and shielded against any that comes near them, while Sokka took chances to throw, slam, slap, and poke an enemy with his boomerang.
It looks like one uncoordinated attack with all the shouting by the children, but the head sage noticed that the team actually followed the young woman in black in a silent command. At her eye twitch, the white-haired male came in front of her tackling whoever was there, and at a small gesture with her fingers, the ponytailed female came barreling in.
The only one that seems disconnected from the coordination was the two water tribe children.
Thus, he assumed that the female in black was their incognito leader.
"Who are you?" He growled, his hand which was alight with angry red fire blasted toward her. Sam dodged away with a cartwheel, and his blast hit one of his men.
"Silly me, I haven't introduced myself." She sent a nice back kick with her boot at one that got blasted by one of her friends, smirking at the pained squeak following after.
"Name's Sam. And it seems you're the only one left, bottle head."
"Bottle..!" He fingered his helmet frantically, feeling the distinct feature of a bottle on his head. At the children giggles, the man composed himself and glared at them, "SILENCE YOU WRETCHED CHILDREN!"
But they couldn't stop laughing.
Angered, the irate man shot out a fireball, on which Sam caught without much effort. The head sage and the water children gasped, while the halfa's stared at her in admiration.
"It's quite pretty, you know. Fire?" She rolled the sphere of flame on her palm, enjoying the soft tickle of fire licking her skin, "Never thought I'd actually able to hold something so destructive. The bringer of destruction… the symbol of chaos and war."
The head sage stepped a few steps back, intimidated at the strange ability possessed by the young child. How could someone so young be able to do something that many had struggled for years to master?
"And here I am. Controlling it. And it seems I'm able to control yours too." She sent the fireball back to the sage, with twice as much force.
"It'd disrespectful to speak ill of your elders." the sage snapped as he ducked the ball. He stood with a low stance, putting in both of his palm together and pulled back, the flame pulsed as it collected more energy from its creator.
"So you're admitting you're old." Sam commented, the flame in the sage hand burst into a bigger flame.
"YOU NEED TO BE PUNISHED FOR DISRESPECT!" He was about to release the collected flame so it could flew towards her in a huge violent stream and destroyed the insolent child once and for all.
But Sam was faster, and she shot a small but sharp and perfectly aimed blast towards the man.
POOF! The huge ball of flame poofed out of existence as Sam's shot hit him at his pressure point. The man froze for a moment, before falling on his back to the floor unconscious.
"That was anticlimactic… I was hoping for a huge boom." Dani commented.
Sam swirled around towards the two spirits, "And why aren't you helping me with that one?" she asked. Danny was sitting on a stack of guys, all tied up and bottle hats drawn on with some kind of green liquid. While Dani was just casually checking her nails as she floated beside her cousin.
"He was the boss, and we both know not to get between your boots and the boss." The young girl explained, Danny nodding frantically beside her.
"Are we all done?" Katara asked.
"Not quite." A voice said.
The children whirled around towards the source of the voice to see a bald pony-tailed young man with a scary scar on his face. Behind him, an army of guard stood at his command.
"Guards, take them down! And make sure they're still alive." Zuko ordered his men's.
The teen shifted to a fighting stance, the three hands alight with energy, Danny and Dani with pulsing bright green and Sam's sparking white.
"You'll have a hard time doing that. My girlfriend's here and she won't give a damn about you, Coconut Scarface." Danny growled towards Zuko. What's with the bald ponytail?
Dani chuckled, "Aww… it that jealousy I'm hearing." Danny and Sam blushed bright red in the face.
Sokka's and Katara's eyes widened. Danny… had a girlfriend? They then just realized they knew nothing about the Ghost Boy.
Zuko was fuming inside, but he ignored the insult. He turned to face his guards, which hadn't moved at the sight of the teen's brave approach. "Well? I said to take them down! What are you waiting for?"
The guards marched towards the teen's, ready. But then, something strange happened which caused all the guards quickly jerk back in fear.
Dani's form is dissolving into the air. "D-Danny?" she stumbled, "A-am I destabilizing again?"
Silence fell upon the room, except for one panicked halfa, "Danielle!" He yelled as he reached out to hold onto her. But, when he did, her image flickered out of sight.
Sam, realizing what was happening, sighed and approached the pair. "Danny, I think Danielle's going home." her tone full with sorrow.
Zuko was getting impatient, and prolonging this will pose more problem than necessary to them. He did what he usually won't do if it wasn't for his damn pride.
He blasted at the white-haired boy, hitting him square on his back.
"Cheater!" Sam roared, lunging towards him. But she only could take a few steps before they're incapacitated by the guards. Zuko smirked.
"I take that as a compliment. Men, await the Avatar return!"
Ten minutes passed with Danny unconscious. But to him, it felt like years.
He's back. How'd he'd gotten there, Danny had no idea. But, somehow, he is back in the past. And this one is in a different place, different setting.
There's a huge mountain, with smoke billowing from the crater of its top. It's a volcano, ready to erupt. Alarmed, Danny quickly began rushing the townspeople to get themselves to a safer place away from the volcano.
But the townspeople just smiled at him and assured that the volcano won't do them any harm as the great oracle predicted that they would be protected.
"What?" Danny was dumbfounded, there is a huge volcano just minutes, or even seconds away to erupt, and these people believe more in oracle that might have been making a false prediction than what's really happening in front of them?
The ground started to shake, and the townspeople were getting nervous, but still held by their faith.
"Go! Hurry!" he urged the people who at least listen to him and started to bring their children away from the center town.
"Kita akan mati! Selamatkan diri! Kita akan mati! MATI! Jangan percaya tahyul! Jangan percaya ahli Nujum!" *
Danny didn't know what the group was shouting about, and he covered his ears at their intense screeching. "Shut up and calm down!" He shouted to them, "I'm going to get you out of here!"
But, just as he spoke those words, the volcano erupted. It wasn't a normal eruption, either. This is one of the most deadly kinds. A pyroclastic flow, that will destroy anything in their path. They will knock down, shatter, bury or carry away nearly all objects or structure in their way for miles and miles. The burning dust and ash came flying at all of them at hundreds of miles an hour.
The half-ghost almost didn't have enough time to react. Almost. Danny instantly formed a shield, protecting as much as he can of the area of the town as the people under hugged themselves nearer as they panicked.
The shield crackled with blue and green energy, and it somehow absorbing all the heat and intensity of the eruption coming at him.
But the collected heat went straight to the halfa body, making it cringe with agony. His ice core tried to repel back the heat as much as it could. But somehow it wasn't enough. Feeling his body starting to collapse, unable to take it anymore, Danny fell back into his instinct.
He called upon his electrical powers.
Then, all the pain just… left. Glancing up, he saw his shield had changed color into a green and orange crackle. It had doubled in size and now covered the whole town. There's a separate dome containing the volcano.
Still, he felt off. He felt different. His core wasn't in pain. Instead, it felt so much warmer. Unknown to this fact just yet, his core had adsorbed enough of the energy from the heat until it was able to coexist with it.
His core had adapted itself, and turned into an electric core.
He held the shields for what seemed like forever until the shaking finally subsided. He flew up high, releasing the energy over the town, and maintained the one over the volcano. With all the strength he could muster, and as its he had done this for years, he brought up the collected energy of the volcano the air before flung it all the way into the ocean, where the ash and rock harmlessly into the bottom.
Returning to the solid rock of the Earth, Danny fell onto his knee, shifting back into human. All of the townspeople began to crowd around him.
"Who are you?" a female adult bravely stepped out and asked the entity in front of her. Danny staggered to his feet.
"Roh... Danny Roh," he spoke faintly, exhausted. The crowd looked at each other in amazement.
A spirit had just saved them, spirits, whom they had known all their lives are secluded and prideful. Moreover, this boy is a hantu, and he did not mean them any harm, instead, he saved their lives.
The type of hantu that they had known from the stories wouldn't bother to even do anything to save them, they would watch from somewhere hidden, laughing at their distress.
"You... saved us..." They muttered.
Danny held his side with a slight wince. "Yeah... I guess I did."
A small young girl tackled him in a tight hug, "You saved me, Roh. I love you." Her hair knotted in a small braid, and she looked... injured?
There were whip marks scars across her arm and one on her left cheek. "Who did this to you?" He asked the girl.
She looked up, "Did what?" confused at what he was referring to.
Danny traced the scar on her cheek, "This... this scar... What happened?"
The girl shrugged, avoiding his eyes in shame, "I was bad, and this is my punishment."
Danny sat down and pulled her onto his lap. "Why? No one had the right to hurt you like this."
The girl cocked her head, "But girls are bad and useless. We aren't as good as the boys. And we aren't supposed to talk if they don't want us to."
At that Danny recoiled, What kind of judgement is this? How could they hurt a child just because she is a female? He glanced around, and he saw that all of the females had marks and bruises visible on their skin.
Danny lifted the girl off his lap and rose up to his feet. "What were you doing to them..."
One man stepped forward. "What good were the females if not for serving and working for us? They are only here because it was necessary. Useless ones will be thrown out and killed."
Danny bristled, the aura surrounding him thick with anger. "Listen here." he spoke, making the man step back in fear. "If my girlfriend heard you say that, you will never see the light of the sun ever again. My friend once looked down on girls, probably thinking along the same line of thought with yours. And he got kicked around by a female. That, and he got a sister who's actually smarter than him. There are no difference between a man or a female, they're both humans, and they both have their own rights!"
The townspeople gaped at his declaration, all man and women's are equals? Preposterous!
"Who do you think you are, you accursed hantu?" The man from before spat out.
"I'm a halfa. I have powers beyond your imagination, and from what I see you're mistreating the ones that you're supposed to value the most. I will help those who're in need with the best of my ability. And right now, it seems that the women's here are in dire need of some serious help."
"We should throw him off the edge of the Earth!" One of the younger man shouted, his hand holding a stone, wanting to throw it at the spirit.
"Edge of the Earth? What, did you think the Earth is flat or something?" Danny scoffed, these people are close-minded.
"It is!" ...and that made Danny laugh.
"Are you really that stupid? The Earth isn't flat! It's a sphere! And if you have the patience to sail through the ocean you could arrive back to your destination if you keep sailing in the opposite direction of where you came from. What, is all you did was lounge around doing nothing as the girls do your job for you? If you ask me, those are what I call failures that needed to be weeded out."
The men gave him incredulous looks. Then, suddenly all the girls cheered. Danny returned back to his ghost form and looked at the girl that had resumed hugging him. Danny patted her head, "What's your name?" He asked her.
"Arianna!" She said happily, burying her face into his thighs.
Then the unwanted tug began to pull on Danny again. "Her Arianna, you're gotta let me go okay? I need to go back home. But I'm sure I'll return."
Arianna looked up to him, her eyes sad, "Why can't you stay? Where are you going?"
"I'm needed back home. But I promise I'll be back." He swayed on his feet, and fainted.
But to the townspeople, they saw the spirit disappearing into a red haze and disappeared from their sight.
Danny awoke back on Appa's saddle.
Translation: "We're gonna die! Save yourselves! We're all gonna die! Don't trust the spirits! Don't trust the oracles!"
HOW IS IT? Did it make you think I'm fruitloopy? Did it capture you like the Fenton Thermos? AM I A NUTCASE? All those will be answered in time, my friends. In time…
I will try to have the next one posted later today or tomorrow for you guys! And, to make up for it, um… I don't know. …
Clocky: You're very late
Me: You forgot to F**KIN' remind me!
Clocky: Is it my job?
Me…