Here is The Boy on The Ground. Take two!

Disclaimer: I don't own Percy Jackson, Avatar: The Last Airbender

Chapter 11

Percy led the way back to camp, body tense and hands constantly twirling Riptide in pen form. His body language blatantly showed them he wasn't comfortable with what was about to happen.

"What are you going to show us exactly?" Aang asked, his eyes trained on the shadowy figure before him.

The reply was short and gruff. "You'll see."

Aang and Katara exchanged worried glances. A million different situations went through Aang's head, but none of them seemed like something Percy would do.

Without realizing it, they had all arrived back at camp and Percy was standing in front of the cooking pot.

He chewed on the inside of his lip and looked up at the others, eyes training onto the surrounding group.

"I need to make a rainbow, does anybody have a diamond or something I could borrow?"

"A rainbow?" Sokka asked. "What, are we going to dance around in it like a bunch of lightning bugs?" He waved his hands melodramatically and Percy rolled his eyes.

"What, are we going to make you shut up?" Toph mimicked as she punched his arm. She circled her foot in the earth and a large diamond burst from the hard rock. She caught it in her hands as if feeling it before passing the sparkling diamond to Percy.

"Uh, thanks." Percy looked a little bit surprised that she was that quick.

Percy copied her movements, creating a small pedestal from the earth. He placed the jewel on top of it and began adjusting it.

It was almost like deje-vu for Aang, the scene was so much alike the one from last night that he had to blink.

"Hey Aang, you okay?" Katara whispered to him.

Percy made the fresh, clear water in the pot float up, making a wall of mist stand in front of him. A few moments later, a rainbow was glimmering into existence.

"Oh Iris, goddess of the rainbow, please accept my offering." Percy's voice rang out clear in the still night, echoing through their minds as the voice of a warrior.

He dug in his clothes and brought out the bag of money from the folds of the cloth and picked up a large, round, gold coins.

Aang saw Sokka and Zuko exchange a quick glace out of the corner of his eye but he made himself look away. Percy was throwing the coin into the mist again and Aang winced, he didn't want to see Percy get torn down again.

The coin entered the rainbow mist and disappeared.

Aang sucked in his breath and he felt Katara tense next to him. He glanced over at her and she was staring intently at Percy, her eyes searching for some kind of humor to show it was a joke.

She didn't see it.

"Annabeth Chase, Camp Half-Blood." Percy said, the relief apparent in his strong voice.

The mist started churning, swirling and changing as the colours morphed into each other.

"What's happening?" Toph asked, "I can't see and I can only tell that you guys are really freaked out."

Percy ignored her.

"Come on, come on!" He coaxed the mist under his breath. He was leaning into it, peering excitedly in the mess as if he expected to see something.

Katara's whole body trembled as the all the colours settled and showed a picture of a young woman, sitting in a poorly lit room with more paper than Aang had ever seen spread out on a table in front of her.

She absentmindedly reached a hand up her face and brushed a few yellow curls from her face. It was the same girl from Aang's visions, the girl who had been with Percy. With the second glance, Aang saw she wasn't as old as he thought; she was only sixteen or seventeen at most.

The girl's strange clothes were rumpled and hung strange, as if she had been sleeping in them. Her grey eyes, outlined with dark circles, were bloodshot and scanning the pages rather frantically. The majority of her yellow hair was pulled into a ponytail, but a few tangles and curls kept sliding in her eyes.

She was beautiful.

Aang remembered that he hadn't breathed in a while and let the air out in a gush.

The girl's head snapped up and her slender hand grabbed a large knife that Aang hadn't noticed before from underneath her paper.

"Hey, Annabeth." Percy greeted gently.

"Percy…"

The simple word she uttered held so much weight Aang could see it push down on Percy's shoulders.

Sokka quickly whispered what was happening to Toph so she wouldn't interrupt.

"Are you gonna cry?" Percy teased gently. His voice was very quiet and the others had to strain to hear it.

"'Course not!" Annabeth defended herself, she rubbed at her tired eyes. "I'm… I'm just glad you're alive, Seaweed Brain." She said.

Toph rolled her eyes. She wasn't completely sold on the Annabeth girl Percy praised.

Percy looked touched. "Really?"

"Yeah…" Annabeth gripped her knife. "Now I can have the pleasure of killing you myself!" She stabbed at the table and her knife sunk halfway in the table and her eyes blazed. "Do you have any idea what you've put me through?" She demanded.

Percy took a step back and glanced behind him at the gang helplessly.

"Uh, yes?" He asked meekly.

"I swear on the River of Styx, Percy! If you were in this world I would have my hands wrapped around your neck quicker than Hermes could say, 'go'."

"Hey, I didn't choose to come here." Percy tried stand his ground but shrank back another step.

"Oh, of course not!" Annabeth threw up her hands. "You just got sucked in, didn't you?"

Toph chuckled quietly at Percy's fear. Maybe this girl was alright.

"Who are they?" Annabeth snapped, nodding towards the others who were standing behind Percy as if he could protect them from her wrath.

"These are my friends." Percy said, spreading his arms out so she could see. "They've decided that they don't mind risking their lives to help me out. And guess what, Annabeth!" Percy grinning and dropping his voice to a loud whisper as he stepped closer again. "They have chicken squirrels here, half chicken half squirrel, isn't that gross?"

"Disgusting." Annabeth said absent mindedly, folding her arms and studied each of the gang members in turn. Aang felt like she could see everything about him with her cold, grey eyes.

"Anyways, I'm really sorry I left, Annabeth." Percy continued, his voice normal again. He didn't look scared of her now the worst of her anger was out. "And I'm sorry I didn't IM before, it wouldn't go through at all. The fact that it's working now isn't good news."

"I know…" Annabeth said. "But seriously, who are you guys?"

Katara stepped up and closer to the light. "My name is Katara and this is Aang." She waved her hand at him. "He's the Avatar… but I guess you don't know what that is, do you?"

"Avatar?" Annabeth studied Aang again. "You mean like Jinora and Melku?"

In the very back of Aang's mind, something small poked his memory.

"Who?" Percy asked.

"Oh, I think they were my past lives." Aang said. "But from a long time ago, they must have been thousands of years ago."

Percy turned his incredulous face from Aang and looked back at Annabeth. "How did you know about Avatars anyways? I thought I finally had something over you."

"I went to Olympus after you… left." Annabeth tried not to wince at her own words. "Zeus was aware of the problem but apparently he didn't care very much."

Percy snorted. "Figures." He said bitterly. "Not like I saved their lives a few months ago or anything."

"Percy," Annabeth's voice turned urgent. "The wall between our worlds are breaking. You have to fix them."

"Yeah, yeah." Percy waved her words away. "I already know that. Do you think you could tell me where the walls are? Or maybe how I'm supposed to fix them?"

"Working on it." Annabeth gestured to all the papers, scrolls and books on the table. "So far I-"

She froze and her eyes locked on the door the gang could only just see through the IM.

Annabeth swore under her breath. "Chiron and Mr. D don't exactly know I'm using the Big House as my head-courters." She explained in a whispers.

"They do now!" Percy said gleefully. "Finally it won't be me getting my head chewed off. It's about time you had a turn."

"Oh, shut up already." She hissed at him.

The door swung open to reveal a scrawny boy, about thirteen or fourteen. His clothes, eyes, hair and everything was black, even the shadows seemed to cling to him making him look dark and foreboding.

He casually swung a black, dangerous looking blade at his side and peered out from under his long black hair.

"Hey, Annabeth, have-" He stopped. "Percy?" He looked surprised and not angry. Percy was relieved, their relationship was still slightly tight and awkward.

"S'up Nico." Percy nodded at him. "How's it going?"

"Will someone tell me what's going on?" Toph yelled in frustration. She had been standing relatively silent throughout the entire exchange but now there was another voice she didn't recognize and she hated to be left out of the loop because of her blindness.

Annabeth tried to look closer at her. "Are you… blind?" She asked, squinting at the darkened shadows.

Toph folded her arms and jutted out her chin. "Yeah… What's it to you?" She silently dared anyone to challenge her. The thought of this Annabeth thinking she was useless bugged her for some reason and she didn't like being useless.

"Nico," Percy yelled in a whisper to break the awkward silence that had fallen over everyone. "They have chicken squirrels here."

"Would you get over that already?" Katara asked.

"Does anyone want to tell me what's going on, too?" Nico asked, raising his eyebrows.

Annabeth brushed her golden hair out of her eyes and sighed. "Percy had the audacity to IM me, can you believe him?" She shook her head and smiled tiredly at her boyfriend. "But's he's already found the Avatar and convinced him to help us out, so that's good."

Nico's eyes traveled over the gang and rested on Aang, taking in his tattoos and bald head. The young avatar didn't like the way he studied him either. All of these kids had really bright, shocking eyes.

"You're the avatar, right?" He asked. "How old are you?"

"Well, technically, I'm a hundred and thirteen, but I really I'm only thirteen."

Nico looked pleased. "Hey! I have that problem too! I should be like, eighty something but in reality I'm just fourteen."

"How did that happen?" Aang asked. It was nice finding someone with the same weird problem he had.

"I was stuck in a building that makes time stop for everyone in it."

"Oh..." Aang looked surprised. That wasn't the answer he was expecting. "That's… cool, I guess."

The IM flickered and disappeared for a second. Percy swore loudly, he should have known better then to let everyone talk about all that useless stuff when they could have been discussing a plan of action. He dug in his bag to get another coin but then the picture came back, but the quality was considerably lower.

Annabeth look relieved. "Okay, connection isn't great so we're going to need to keep the chit-chat to a minimum." She clapped her hand together. "So here's the run down, an extremely long time ago, our worlds mixed but Avatar Jinora dealt with it and it hasn't happened since. I found some stuff in the very bowels of Olympus that I thought might be maps of your world," She held up an old piece of paper for the gang to see. "Is it a map for your world?"

"Yeah, it is." Zuko said. "Awfully outdated but yeah, it's still us."

"Oh, good." Annaabeth grinned. "I've been studying it forever."

"Forever?" Nico asked, "You got it three days ago."

She ignored him. "Can you tell me where you are?" She asked Zuko.

"Here," Sokka pulled his map out from his pockets. "This map is a little bit more up-to-date."

He unfolded the map and held it up for Annabeth to see. She quickly started sketching bits and pieces of it on a scrap of paper.

Zuko stood beside Sokka and pointed. "This is where we are right now." He said. "We're traveling north because Percy had some prophecy or something and we're… oh!" He suddenly looked excited. "Could it be in a volcano? Mount Atzel, not far from here, the oldest volcano in the Fire Nation. They say that it's where the first dragons came when they lived peacefully with the people."

"Hhm," Annabeth studied her map. "It could be…I'm not positive though, it'll take me a while to be sure about this…" She was quiet for a minute. "Why don't you guys go to this volcano and scope it out and see what you can find and I'll get back to you as soon as I can?"

"Annabeth," Nico interrupted. "I have something to say, too."

"Oh, yeah!" Annabeth gestured Nico over her side. "What did you find out? Anything from our side?"

"Yeah, I'm not a hundred percent sure, but it looks like to me as if out worlds are on top of each other."

"What do you mean?" Percy asked.

"It's like this, here." Nico took a pencil and a piece of paper from Annabeth and drew two circles, one on top of the other. "See?" He held it up. "Like a snowman." He pointed to the bottom one. "This one is our planet and this one," he pointed to the one on top. "is theirs."

Toph let out a large sigh. "This is just crazy… How am I supposed to believe any of this? I never thought that… well, that there was such a thing as other worlds."

"I know it's hard to believe." Katara soothed. "But we don't really have much choice, do we?"

Zuko put a hand on her shoulder. "I have doubts too, but not believing it would be worse…"

"That's the spirit!" Nico said. "As long as you accept your impending doom, you'll be fine."

Everybody turned to look at him.

"What?"

Annabeth slapped him on the head. "You're scaring them!" She scolded.

The IM flickered dangerously.

Annabeth looked around desperately. "We have to go…" She said. "Promise me you'll call if you find anything out, okay? I'll return the favour."

She raised her eyes and locked them on Percy.

The two of them passed an understanding that only they had together.

"I love you, Wise Girl." Percy said softly.

Nico snorted. "Love you, too, Perce."

Toph stifled a laugh.

"I love you, too, Seaweed Brain." Annabeth answered. "Don't get yourself killed and come home safe."

Percy nodded and then swiped his hand through the wall of mist. The water droplets fell to the ground and he looked at them sadly for a minutes.

Then he turned around and faced the group.

"So… can I go back to bed now?" He asked.

Katara sighed and rubbed her eyes. Everyone suddenly remembered how tired they all were.

"Sure," She said. "Just try to stay there this time."

She walked off towards her tent and Zuko watched her go, shaking his head.

"I'm off, too." He said. He nodded towards Aang. "We're up early tomorrow to train, we can't afford to slack off."

Aang made a face but didn't protest. The world depended on him; he could sacrifice a few hours of precious sleep.

"Well, you won't have an audience." Sokka told him. "Night, guys."

Everyone turned away to go to their respective beds. Toph, however, sat down right where she was and pulled her earth ten up on the sides.

"I said: goodnight, Toph." Sokka said teasingly.

She scoffed haughtily but didn't finished her tent either.

"Toph…"

"If I say goodnight, will you shut up?" She asked.

"Sure." Sokka grinned at her back.

"Fine. Goodnight, Sokka." Then she finished her tent and tried to ignore the clenching of her stomach.

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Aang opened his eyes up and looked around.

He was standing on a long strip of cosmic energy, floating along in space.

Aang started to run because the path behind him was falling apart and if he didn't run fast enough it would let him fall. The giant silhouette of Aang and all his power loomed up in front of him, but it didn't get any closer.

Sweat dripped off Aang's forehead and his lungs screamed for air, his head pounding, but he still ran.

Suddenly, he noticed something he hadn't seen before.

All the light from the millions and millions of stars that were behind the silhouette Aang was pouring into his back, lighting him up and keeping him aglow.

The light went from the stars, to Aang's back, to a giant wall of energy. There was a dim bit of red light that kept appearing but the blue light was keeping it at bay.

Then the worst part of the dream happened. Aang dreaded it and lived in fear of it. His moment of failure.

It felt like he was being stabbed in the back, except the pain jolted his entire body and left his blood sizzling.

The cosmic energy around failed all at once and let him fall. The giant silhouette of Aang also fell to its knees and disappeared, taking the blue light with it.

Without the blue light coming through, the redness seeped all over was started eating away at the wall.

Seconds before Aang was plunged into darkness, a white light, brighter than all the other ones, burst forth with the strong smell of salt water and the roar of the ocean.

Just like the sea.

Hey guys! I feel like I haven't talked to any of you in a long time (: Here's an update on my life!

I found out how much I love Fall Out Boy. Like, holy crap everything they've come out with is amazing and I just love them a lot.

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FINALLY watched Frozen, too, and now I understand all the things! Anyone wanna build a snowman?

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