The bridge between Universes
-AVATAR-/-Avatar last airbender- crossover
(I do not own any of this, they belong to their respective creators James Cameron/ Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. This is a fan fiction only.)
AN- First of all I will say that I'm sorry for the late update. There were a ton of crap that came up with the family and with my study's. But I'm back!-AN
Chapter 13. Day 1 part 2
"YOU MEET GRACE!" Max shouted in full disbelieve. "She is dead."
"She isn't dead!" Jake protested.
"Then what is she?" The blue avatar paused his protest to think of an answer.
"I don't know." But he came short. "I have absolutely no idée."
It has been about half an hour since Aang fell unconscious. The na'vi had secured the antidote and was able treat his body against the toxin. Not only that, a small medical team was sent from N.L to tend to the boy. He wasn't injured or no longer poisoned. But they just wanted to be on the safe side of things. They moved the unconscious kid and the chieftain to the open what once was a link shack located in a clearing by the home tree. The group consisted of Max, Ariel and a few others. Ariel was now watching the boys vital through a portable tech pad, Max was tending to Jake, inspecting for any damage done to the chieftain. Luckily he was fine, but the migraine said otherwise.
"But… what happened? One second he grabbed your braid, the other you fell on your knees screaming in pain" Norm said as he continued to study the boy, who was lying on a stretcher. "Just how was he able to connect to your mind by the Tsaheylu in the first place?" Jake fondled his braid careful, trying to wrap his head around of what just occurred.
"I don't know Norm. And stop asking me all the questions, you're the scientist."
"No, I'm an expert, a very good one at that, but not a scientist."
"It does not matter what you are." Neytiri interrupted when Jake sighed in pain. "Right now Jake has been harmed. We need to be calm to not hurt his mind even more."
His wife stayed close to him to try and ease her husband's severe discomfort. Because of his head-splitting headache Jake cringe in pain from every loud noise. At least he had Ariel's sympathy.
Looking around once again he saw Ariel doing an iris examination on Aang, Max typed something on his tech pad and Norm was pacing around. Neytiri continued to stay close to her beloved, as if she expects someone to take him away. Beside his mate and norm there wasn't a single na'vi around. Tarya had suddenly disappeared as soon as the group of humans had arrived. Apparently her tolerance to humans had only grown by one.
"Jake. May I ask you something?" Neytiri leaned closely to her mate. "What more did you see?" Jake closed his eyes to try and remember. After a moment of deep thinking, as far as deep thinking goes for him, then he spoke.
"First I saw some strange guy in red, saying something about having all the power in the world, he also happened to breathed fire." Every one now listed to the chieftain." Then the images just shifted from the guy. I saw a group of kids, about as old as Aang. One was a boy, dressed in blue and had a bad temper. Then there was a short girl, dressed in green and mocked the guy. There was another girl dressed in blue and also quite cute." Neytiri gave her husband a nasty stare. "Not as cute as you honey." That excuse with that weak smile didn't do any effect. Luckily Max interrupted.
"What happened then?"
"Well. I came face to face with scar-face. And he said that I have to stop some guy to save the world." Max quirked an eyebrow at that description.
"You meet Al Pachino?"
"Na, it was some teenager with half his face burned."
"Twoface?" Norm interjected curiously.
"What? No. It was a teenager with a large burn by his left eye. A bit emo looking."
"Okay… did you see anything else?" Jake scratched his chin trying to remember, the he spoke with a smile.
"I was suddenly in cave with yellow ooze hanging from the walls. The boy from before, not scar-face kid, said something about cactus juice and ate some ooze of the wall."
Max frowned. "Why would he do that?"
"I don't know, but he compared it to rotten penguin meat for some reason. Don't ask me why."
Max sighed lightly. "What else did you see?"
"I saw a twelve year old girl headbutting a bolder, and it was the rock that shattered." Now everyone starred at the chieftain as if he suddenly grew an extra head. "I swear that's what I saw."
"Is there more?" Jake was thinking for a bit. Then he spoke in a serious tone.
"After that I met Grace. She said something about an agreement and something about chance surviving. And there was someone else with her."
"Who did you see?" Norn got more intrigued.
"The guy I saw was… really weird. He had long black hair and he was pale and skinny, as if he hasn't eaten a proper meal in ages. He wore what looked like a read rug with golden trimming of sort, it was torn like crazy, as if a flock of hungry wiper wolfs had tried to eat him. And he held some seriously out of place objects." Norm stopped his pacing.
"What were those objects?"
"The first one was bottle made out of pure gold." Norm's eyebrows reached over his forehead. "And the other ting was a… Norm, do you know who Cesar is?" Now the second avatar driver was severely taken back by the question.
"Cesar? Julius Cesar? As in the ancient Roman emperor? Why would you ask about him?"
"Well… held something that looked like the green thing he use to have on his head."
Max couldn't resist frowning. "What, like a olive garland?"
"Ye one of those, except this one was also made out of pure gold." Now even Ariel joined the conversation.
"Why would someone have one of those?"
"Maybe he is royal?" Jake suggested.
"And what exactly would Grace do associated with a 'royal'? That just does not make sense. Norm what do you think?" Max turned to see that Norm was in deep thought. "Norm?" The hybrid snapped back to reality.
"Jake, tell me, that girl that smashed her head into the rock. Did she happen to be named Toph?" Jake tried to remember that little girl's name, and then he lightened up.
"Yes. How do you know?"
"Because Aang told us that his earthbending teacher was named Toph. And that boy with the scar, did he happen to be named Zuko?" And again that name came to mind for Jake.
"Yes, his name was-" The something clicked into place in the former soldier's mind. "Wait a minute, wait a minute. Are you saying that what I saw was Aang's memories?" By this discovery everyone turned to Norm for an answer.
"I think so." The driver was still in doubt by his own words.
"Then that means… Aang met grace." Jake said with wide eyes.
"Yes, but Aang did not know who Grace was. He himself asked me about her." Norm said pondering over the facts. "Aang have no memory of who Grace is and have also do not recall of coming here to Pandora. This is a stretch but I think that the meeting and the 'transferee' had happened about the same time."
"Okay that is a bit of a stretch, but if that was a part of his memory which he himself can't get, how come I saw it?"
"Maybe you were able to access that specific part of his mind by your Tsaheylu. Similar to how we use Tsaheylu on animals, except for the whole sharing memory part."
"So he can read our minds?"
"Well, you did see a part of his mind." Jake sunk down in his spot by those words.
"Great, add one more superpower to the list."
"Well keep the pen warm cuss I think I have found one more." Ariel had, for some unknown reason, removed Aang's black shirt. "What do you see?" Jake frowned looking at the doctor and the bare chested boy.
"That he got an impressive looking six-pack for his age?" The doctor just sighed in response, chieftain or not, he was still a smartas.
"What ELSE do you see?" Jake looked back at the kid and shrugged his shoulder.
"Nothing else."
"That is the problem." Everyone now looked confused at the doctor.
"Come again?"
"Jake, didn't he get shot in the shoulder like two days ago?" Now he saw what the doctor pointed out, and she was right. There was not a single trace of scaring from where the bullet that have hit him, only smooth skin.
"The same goes with the leg." She said covering the boy's torso with a green jacket.
"Well… "Max frowned looking under the jacket." isn't that the miracle of modern medicine?"
"Are you kidding me? Those kinds of wounds he got would leave a mark for a month, and even after a month time of healing there would still be scars. Unless he got topnotch plastic surgery, which I seriously doubt he got, I would call it rapid cellular regeneration."
"But you checked him yesterday when we got back. I saw the scars when you changed his bandage." The doctor saw Norm now standing over the boy.
"Apparently it took a while before it-" The doctor was suddenly cut short.
"Wait a minute. Are you telling me that he now have super healing?" Ariel hesitated to even answer that question, but with every one staring at her, she sighed and simply said.
"Yes." A lot of things happened by that word. Max shook his head in disbelief, Jake sunk down even lower on the spot where he sat, and so did Neytiri, and Norm took a deep breath while also sitting down on the nearest rock.
They all sat down and stared ether at the mystery kid or each other. Leaf rustled in the wind, and the wildlife beneath the greenery went by. But none of them said a word. Jake was the first to break the silence.
"This kid can fly and create wind, throw giant boulders with ease, control water as with his body and create fire as if he was a walking flame thrower." Everyone around him paid deep attention. "Now we know that his body can unnaturally heal and that he can jack into our minds." He paused to stand up from his seat, Neytiri followed. "He is dangerous, there is no doubt about that."
"But he didn't intentionally grab your braid." Ariel said looking up. "He wasn't himself."
"True. But is his skill that makes him dangerous." Neytiri said holding her mates hand. "A sky man that can to use Tsaheylu."
"In a very painful way." Jake added by rubbing his forehead.
"So what do we do when he wakes up?" Norm asked. The chieftain looked down on the unconscious kid. Thoughts raging in his mind to what the best course of action.
Aang is dangerous, not only to him but to everyone. If he were to go berserk a lot of people are going to die, and Jake didn't know if they were able to stop him. If they were to muscle in and size him, he would panic and people will get hurt. But if they isolated or flat out ignored him, he would feel lonely and go into deep depletion. He is a kid long way from home, lost and confused without a shred of something familiar to relate to. Aang needs them, but having him around will cause trouble, trouble that can and will escalate to something worse. It's good that the colonist have accepted him, but almost every one of his people see him as a problem or a threat that needs to be taken care of. They aren't as familiar to the concept of 'superpowers' like his former race.
For a long minute or two, Jake ran by as many ideas as his head could process, but all woud end up in disaster. Then something hit him. 'Don't be too reckless, but don't be too cautious ether, just be ever vigilant'. He had no idea where those words came from, but it sounded good in this moment. And he is all out of ideas.
"Jake?" Norm asked seeing his friend snapping out of his thought.
"We let things go as it was planed from the begging. Tarya continues to guide him, and Neytiri tag a long for a while. Tell the people, both the na'vi and the colonists, that they are not to harm him, just keep an extra eye on him."
"What are we going to tell him when he wakes up?" Norm asked jerking his head to his direction. That question got Jake thinking for a moment. The venom produced by the Arachnoids is the equivalent of a concentrated dozen of LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide). And sometimes overdoses tend to leave memory gaps one the individual comes to it. Jake hoped that it was true in this case.
"I don't rely know. Hopefully that shot by the bug will leave him with a cloudy memory. It had happened before right Neytiri?"
"Yes. Few times when na'vi ends the dream hunt they don't remember everything."
"Right. He will probably wake up thinking he took a nap, or something."
"And if he starts asking questions?" Max asked skeptically.
"Well… improvise."
Aang had a headache, he did not know how but it felt as if someone had driven a nail through his forehead. It was anything but pleasant. Then he realized that he was lying down, that confused him severely. With a lazy movement of his arm he rubbed his forehead, only to find his hand torching his exo-mask.
"Back from the world of dreams." He heard someone say somewhere above him.
"Whut?" Aang said very sluggish as he opened his eyes. He was met with the face of Jake, Norm and… Ariel? (What's she doing here?) He thought.
"How are you feeling?" The blond smile behind her mask.
"Not great. My head hurts like crazy."
"I'm sorry… What did you say?" Ariel suddenly sounded a bit confused.
"I said my head hurts like crazy." The airbender got up to a sitting position.
"Oh. Okay. Anything else?"
"Yes, what happened? One moment I was walking along side Neytiri, the next…" He paused realizing that that was as far as his memory went. Then he got into some strange dream sequence of some kind, images of people he didn't know in places that he had never seen, but it felt like he had seen it all somewhere at some time, but not with his eyes. With a shrug the feeling was goon and he returned to reality.
"Something wrong?" Norm sounded rather concerned.
"No I'm fine, just a bad headache. Where was I?"
"Something about not knowing what happened."
"Yes, thanks, I don't rely remember anything else." He looked around to see the face of Neytiri and Max. "Does any one of you know what happened to me?" By those words Max hesitated to answer. But then he said.
"You were stung by insect known as an Arachnoid. Its poison is known to be quite powerful, and… you blacked out." This jogged a part of Aang's memory back to life.
"I remember now. I was stung by the crack bug." For some unknown reason to Aang Norm and Jake jolted and stared at him very strangely.
"What? Did I say something stupid?" Again with that stare, (what's with these people?). But before anyone had chance to say anything, a very loud noise came from Aang's lower torso. It was the growl of a hungry stomach. A second or two ticked by before a reaction was made.
"What's for lunch?"
After an awkward lunch with the clan, they stared even more at him this time for some reason. Aang found his guide Tarya hanging out by the clearing they met earlier this day. Luckily Neytiri tagged along once aging so that the young na'vi felt a bit calmer in his pecans. Then they went on by expelling the traditions of greeting amongst the na'vi. While this went on, Jake and Norm sat back in the shadows, watching his progress. And disusing of the next course of action.
"Back then. He spoke a few words in na'vi. I'm sure of it." Norm said studding Aang's attempt of the basic greeting. "And his behavior during the meal. It wasn't anything like this back at N.L. it was more… na'vi."
"Apparently his ''Tsaheylu goes both ways." Jake said leaning back. "That explains his sudden upgrade in dictionary."
"You sure about this? Letting this continue?"
"I don't see any other option. If we throw him in a cell he will just escape. And dropping him of somewhere alone in the jungle is also a bad idea." The chieftain gave a deep sigh. "Even if he is a absolute power house. He's still just a kid, a kid who's far from home."
"True. Let's hope that he's not holding any more surprises."
AN- HOLD IT! Aang does NOT have super healing! No he does not have super healing. BUT I had the most absurd and flat-out insane and also awesome idea a few weeks ago. I promise you, my fellow reader, when the truth comes out, you will say "What just happen?" And what it does happened, you will be amassed, if not the suspense literally kill you. Once again, sorry for the delay, had things to take care of. But, if this is for any comfort, this was originally the first part of one chapter, but I spited it up because it would take ages to the be finished with it. And once more, I'm back! Have fun waiting for the next chapter.-AN