Chapter 2: The Southern Air Temple

Shadow: Okay Humans here is Chapter 2 of Phantom Benders. Danielle, please may you do a brief recap?

Dani: It would be my pleasure. Okay Danny, Katara and Sokka found Aang and took him back to the Southern Tribe. Aang then showed everyone he was an airbender but then he messed up and the Fire Nation Prince showed up. Tip for those of you who forgot Danny and Jazz are Zuko and Azula's cousins and Jack is Ozai and Iroh's half Brother. Zuko took Aang then Katara, Sokka, Danny and Jazz saved him.

Shadow: Great now we can continue. But first I have to say something. The Zuko moments will be very limited. The first time he appears is just to let you know where he is.

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A few days after the team had left the South Pole they had left the Fenton Parents on a small deserted island where they began working on their inventions. The Fentons had already created small earrings that could communicate to each other via some kind of signals and they had made 20 pairs for each teen.

Now the team was on the beach of the island were the Southern Air Temple was.

"Wait till you see it guys. The Air Temple is one of the most beautiful places in the world." Aang said.

"Aang I know you're excited but it's been a hundred years since you've been hope." Katara said cautiously.

"That's why I'm excited." Aang said happily.

"It's just that… a lot can change in that time." Katara said.

"I know but I have to see it for myself." Said the ever cheerful avatar.

Danny knew what Katara was implying and he was actually grateful that Aang wasn't catching on. Danny himself also hoped that airbenders still lived because he didn't want to witness another tragedy like when Katara and Sokka lost their mother in the Fire Nation raid a few years ago.

Danny then walked over to Sokka to wake him up.

"Hey Sokka wake up, it's time to go to the air temple." Danny said.

"Uh. Sleep now, temple later." Sokka said.

Jazz then walked up to her brother who was desperately trying to get the warrior to wake up.

"I got this little brother." Jazz said quietly as she picked up a long stick. "Sokka get up! There is a prickle snake in your sleeping bag!" Jazz exclaimed.

Sokka shot up with his sleeping bag still cocooning him. "Ahh, get it off get it off!" Sokka yelled before he tripped and fell back onto the ground."

"Good you're awake. Let's go." Aang said.

Everyone piled onto Appa before shooting into the air.

~00000~

Off in one of the Fire Nation Colony Docks where a large amount of ships. Zuko was fuming over the destruction of his ship.

"Uncle I want the repairs made as soon as possible. I don't want to stay too long and risk losing his trail." Zuko said angrily.

"You mean the Avatar." Iroh said tiredly as he had only awoken a few moments ago.

Zuko turned around quickly to face his uncle. "Don't mention that name here." He snapped. "Once word gets out that he is alive, every firebender will be out looking for him, and I don't want any one getting in the way."

"Getting in the way of what?" a voice said. Zuko and Iroh then slowly turned and faced the man. "Prince Zuko." He said.

"Captain Zhao." Zuko said darkly.

"It's Commander Zhao now…" then he looked to Iroh and did a small respective bow. "…and General Iroh." He said.

"Retired General." He said as he bowed as well.

"The Fire Lord's son and brother are welcome anytime. What brings you to my Harbour?" Zhao asked while pretending to care.

"Our Ship is being repaired." Iroh said as he pointed towards the ship.

"That is quite a bit Damage." Zhao said.

"Yes." Zuko said nervously "You won't believe what happened. Uncle! Tell him what happened."

Iroh then felt the pressure and quickly and nervously came up with a story. Zhao raised an eyebrow at the story before he smirked.

He obviously knew that they were lying so he invited them to tea so that they could talk.

~00000~

Sokka's stomach grumbled for the fifth time as he searched around Appa for his food.

"Hey stomach? Be quiet alright? I'm trying to find us some food." Sokka said to his stomach.

He continued to look around before he came to a conclusion.

"Okay who ate my blubbered seal jerky?" Sokka asked accusingly.

"Oh that was food." Aang said in a shocked tone. "Jazz and I used it to start the campfire last night. Sorry."

"You What?" Sokka exclaimed. "No wonder the flames smelled so good."

Danny couldn't hold it in any longer and he burst out laughing. When he did that he turned intangible and fell through Appa.

A few moments later Danny Phantom flew back up and landed on Appa before he changed back to Fenton.

"You new." Sokka said.

"Yeah." Danny said.

"And you didn't stop them as they burned meet." Sokka said dryly.

"Yeah Sorry about that." Danny said while nervously rubbing the back of his neck.

They all then noticed the mountain ranges that started popping out of nowhere. Aang started to get excited and informed everyone that they were close to the temple. Katara tried to explain to Aang that there might be a chance that the Fire Nation had turned all the Air Benders into ghosts.

Aang however stayed optimistic and believed that his people hadn't hit the bucket.

After a few minutes they saw the temple ahead of them.

"There it is the Southern Air Temple." Aang said.

"Whoa." Danny said.

"Aang, it's amazing." Katara said.

"It's beautiful." Jazz said.

"It better have some meat there." Sokka said.

Danny, Katara and Jazz turned and looked at him with a raised eyebrow each.

"What?" Sokka asked.

"Were home, buddy. Were home." Aang said with a warm smile on his face.

In a few moments they were on the ground exploring the air temple.

"So where do I get something to eat?" Sokka asked.

"You are lucky to be one of the first outsiders to visit an airbender temple and all you think about is food." Katara said in an irritated tone.

"I'm just a simple guy with simple needs." Sokka said.

Aang was pointing out a lot of things as they continued to walk through the temple.

"So that's where my friends and I would play air ball, and over there is where the bison would sleep, and…" Aang said in an excited tone before he became depressed and sighed.

"What's wrong?" Jazz asked.

"This place used to be full of monks and lemurs and bison. Now there's a bunch of weeds. I can't believe how much things have changed." Aang said.

Danny who caught onto Aang's pain quickly found something to pull him out of depression.

"So how do you play air ball?" Danny asked.

Aang then perked up and then in a few minutes they were standing on the large air ball polls.

Aang had explained the rules. Danny figured he could try using his ecto energy to play but before he could do anything before the ball hit into his stomach and sent him into the goal and into a pile of snow.

"Aang 7, Danny 0, Game set and match." Aang said.

Danny then got up from the snow he landed in. "Making him feel better is putting me in a world of hurt." Danny said then he noticed something in the snow. "Guys check this out."

Katara and Jazz gasped. "Fire Nation." They both said.

"Should we tell him?" Sokka asked

"Aang, there's something you need to see." Katara yelled to the young Air Nomad.

"Okay." Aang yelled cheerfully.

As Katara saw the cheerful look on his face she immediately came to a conclusion then she focused her bending abilities on the snow above Sokka and Danny then she let it fall down onto them.

"What is it?" Aang asked.

"Uh just a new waterbending move I learned." She said.

"Nice one!" Aang said. "But enough practising, we have a whole temple to see."

Danny and Sokka then crawled out of the snow.

"Okay this marks the 50th time Katara's used waterbending on me." Danny said.

"Does she do it to you often?" Aang asked.

"Yeah it's her way of showing that she loves Danny." Sokka said with a smirk. Blushes then hit both of their faces. "Yup these guys are lovebirds and they show love by using their water and ghost magic on each other."

"We are not lovebirds." They yelled.

"Okay so let's continue." Aang said with a big grin on his face. He and Sokka were defiantly going to continue this until they actually proved that they were not lovebirds.

"Hey guys I'd like you to meet someone." Aang called.

The Watertribe teens then looked shocked and then went to the Avatar. They saw him standing in front of a statue of someone.

"Who's that?" Jazz asked.

"Monk Gyatso, the greatest airbender in the world. He taught me everything I know." Aang said before he bowed to the statue.

"You must miss him." Katara said sympathetically.

"Yeah." Aang said as he walked away.

"Where are you going?" Katara asked curiously.

"To the Air Temple Sanctuary. There is someone I am ready to meet." Aang said.

The others followed but then s blue mist escaped from Danny's mouth. Danny turned around and saw that arrows on Monk Gyatso's statue glow ecto green.

"Danny? Aren't you coming?" Katara asked.

"You guys go ahead there is something that I kinda want to see." Danny said. "There is a high spiritual connection here and something is drawing me to it."

The others shrugged before they continued going. Danny then noticed the wind pick up around the statue then he saw the wind travel in another direction. Danny then turned into Phantom and flew after the wind. Danny then landed in front a big door with Airbender symbols. But he also noticed symbols that were for the Fire Nation, the Earth Kingdom, the Water Tribes and his DP symbol.

Danny then phased through the door and picked up a scroll.

"The First Avatar, the First Waterbender from the Southern Tribe, the Warrior from the Southern Tribe, the Ghost who controlled time who lived in the Southern Tribe, the firebender that was born in the Southern Tribe, the Ghost who could control plants who lived on a small island, the non bender warrior leader who lived on a small island. The rest will be revealed at a later stage." Danny read. "Okay that's random but kinda familiar."

Danny then saw the eyes of the statue in the room glow white and then that blue mist escaped Danny's mouth again just very strong.

"Aang." Danny whispered.

He then folded up the scroll and flew out of the room and where the blue mist was leading him.

~00000~

Katara was looking at the Statues and she saw all the eyes glow white and she saw Jazz who had been knocked out jolt awake.

"Aang." they both said worriedly.

They then ran in the direction Aang and Sokka had run to.

~00000~

In various parts of the world the eyes of statues of previous Avatars were glowing white. Some people jumped for joy while Fire Benders who saw the light felt a big fear.

~00000~

"Come on Aang. Snap out of it." Sokka yelled as he tried to hold on. But then the whirlwind of air that Aang created around himself then blasted Sokka back but then he was caught by Danny.

"What happened?" Danny asked just as Katara and Jazz arrived.

"He found out Fire Benders killed Gyatso!" Sokka yelled.

"Oh no. It's his Avatar State. He must have triggered it." Jazz yelled.

"I'm going to go try calm him down." Katara yelled.

"Well do in before he blows us off this mountain." Sokka yelled.

She then tried to move forward through the wind. It was hard but she eventually got close enough to the enraged avatar.

"Aang! I know you're upset and I know how hard it is to lose the people you love. I went through the same thing when I lost my mom." She yelled to him. "Monk Gyatso and the other airbenders may be gone but you still have a family. Sokka, Danny, Jazz and I! We're your family now!"

Aang then descended slowly and landed on the floor as the wind died. Sokka, Danny and Jazz then ran to the Avatar and the Water Bender.

"We aren't going to let anything happen to you. Promise." Jazz said.

Aang's tattoos then stopped glowing and he collapsed into Danny's arms.

"I'm Sorry." Aang said quietly.

"It's Okay it wasn't your fault." Katara said.

"But you were right, if firebenders found this temple that means they found the other ones two." Aang said. "I really am the last Airbender."

"Well Katara is the last waterbender in the Southern tribe, Jazz is the only good firebender, Danny is probably the only ectobender and we are the only teenagers in the South Pole. All isolated but still one big family." Sokka said.

Aang then gave a weak smile. "You're right we're a pack full of odd kids."

~00000~

"Everything's packed. You ready to go?" Katara asked as Aang continued to stare at Roku's Statue.

"How is Roku supposed to help me if I can't talk to him?" Aang asked.

"Maybe you'll find a way." Katara said they then turned around and saw the winged lemur it then flew to Sokka and gave him some fruit.

"Looks like you made a new friend." Danny said.

"Can't talk must eat." Sokka said.

They then started to walk out then Aang asked.

"Hey Jazz when you collapsed earlier, what happened." He asked.

"Wait what?" Danny asked shocked.

The vision she received quickly flashed through her mind.

"In the era before the Avatar, we bent not the elements but the energy within ourselves." A deep voice said.

An airbender named Avatar was in a meditating form focusing on the energy inside him. Airbending like all the other elements had only been developed a few years ago and everyone was losing their ability to energybend. He was probably the last human energybenders left.

He focused hard and then his eyes then began to glow white. His arrows also started glowing white. The earth walls around him then broke open and he floated out in an air bubble. Everyone there was shocked except Clockwork.

He then breathed in and then fire flowed out of his hands and surrounded him in a ring shape. Then parts of the ground shot up and turned into small rocks that then made a ring around him. Then the water in the pools flowed up and circled around him in a ring shape.

Aqua who was the First Waterbender that existed and the first in the Southern Water Tribe felt her energy pick up and her bending become a lot more powerful. Her lover, Ky who was the Chief of the Southern Water Tribe and their greatest lover found his machete turning into a very strong and unique sword.

Clockwork felt his Ice Core grow more powerful and then it turned into a Clock and Clockwork was instantly mentally hit with all the events of time instead of the ability to see 5 days into the future. Clockwork now knew everything.

The firebender who grew up in the South Pole instead of the Fire Nation whose name was Agni Kai. She felt her power increase to the point where she could create a comet that would give all firebenders power and return every hundred years or so.

Undergrowth felt his body get wrapped up in vines and change. He now didn't look like a human with green skin, hair and eyes now he looked like a plant creature.

And the Non Bender Saya then felt her skill increase to that of a great Warrior. Her weapons then changed to fans and blades.

They all then charged the evil spirits who were bent on destroying humanity.

Jazz then shrugged. "I guess I was overwhelmed by all statues in here." she said.

"Guys say hello to the newest member of our family." Aang said.

"So what are you going to call him?" Danny asked.

"Momo." Aang said.

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Shadow: Okay and there is Chapter 2.

Danny: I'm confused what does the first Avatar have to do with us.

Shadow: Clueless. You are just clueless.

Dani: I kinda understand but since I am Danny's Clone I'm just as confused as he is.

Shadow: Will these two ever stop being clueless. What does the scroll Danny found have to do with anything, Why is Jazz's vision relevant. What will happen next? Read and review to find out.