Door of twilight

chapter 12

Serpent's pass

Again if I owned this, it would be on a game/TV.

(This chapter is based off of the Serpent's pass episode form Avatar. I have changed some things around, but it will still help if you've seen that episode.)

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"So you guys want to come with us through the Serpent's Pass?" Aang asked. It had been about an hour since the two groups had met, and they had gone through a lot of explaining. The landing group had leaned that Aang was the Avatar, and the last airbender. That he, along with Sokka, Toph, and Katara, were all going to Ba Sing Se. And a good friend of theirs, Suki, was going with them for now.

Of course Riku and the others couldn't just tell them the truth, so they made up a story that they were going to Ba Sing Se because there home had been destroyed. Aang seemed to buy it, but Riku couldn't help be feel like Toph kept staring at him with a look of disapproval. Which was impossible since she was blind. She had said that she can see through earthbending, feeling vibrations in the ground. But still it looked like she kept looking at him.

Of course they couldn't tell Aang, or any one else that they could bend. Mainly for two reasons. One, Sora, Yuffie, Tifa, Aerith, and Leon didn't know how to bend. And two, If anyone found out that Riku was a firebender, they would kill him on spot. But as long as they didn't say they were benders, everything should be fine. As for Aang's question, it was Aerith that answered. "We'd love to."

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After Cloud was finally able to make it back to the Gummi ship, the team had wasted no time taking off. Not being discouraged the lest bit by not finding any Heartless, the team set a course for the next world. Cloud wasn't sure why but he had a feeling that something bad was about to happen.

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"You know, for a place called the Serpents pass, I was kind of expecting a path that was more winding, you know like a snake. Guess they missed named it." Sokka said as the group came to the Serpents pass. It was a long, narrow stripe of land. It had a lot of hills, and wasn't the most fun place to cross. Of course the only other way of getting a crossed was by bout, and you needed passports to get on. An item most of the people here didn't have.

They group had to walk a crossed a thin pathway on the side of the pass. So naturally they walked single file. Riku noticed off in the distance a metal steam boat was patrolling the water. "The Fire Nation controllers the west side of the lake. Rumors say their up to something big, but no one knows what." Suki said when she saw several people looking at the boat. Again no one saw a slight smile creep over Riku's mouth.

(For the recored, I have no idea what the names of the people traveling with Aang and the others are.)

The man travailing with the group was so focused on the boat he didn't realized that the ground under him was starting to crack. Now he realized eventually, once the ground had given away. It was quick thinking by Toph that kept him from falling all the was down. She quickly used her earthbending to form a ledge to catch him on. She then brought the ledge up to the same leave as the rest of the pass.

While this saved the man's life, it created a large amount of dust, enough to attracted the attention of the boat patrolling. The boat quickly launched a few fire balls at the group. Aang jumped up a blasted on fire ball with a powerful air blast, sending it back to hit the ship. The other blast hit the higher side of the pass, causing some smaller rocks to fall from the top.

Some of thous rocks went falling right towards Suki. Sokka dove in front of her, knocking her out of the way. Of course Toph then had to save Him from the rock slide. Once Sokka was up, he went straight to Suki to see if she was okay, completely forgetting to thank Toph. "Hey thanks for saving my life Toph. No problem." Toph muttered to her self as she kept going, not wanting to have the ship get a clear shot at them.

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Once it had gotten dark the group had found a large, flat area of land to set up camp. After it was set up, most people went there different ways. Sora, Yuffie, Leon, Aerith, and Tifa, had stayed with the family. While Aang and Katara, went one way, Sokka and Suki went another way, and Riku went in another way. Toph had stayed at camp for a little while before going off herself.

As it turns out, Toph had gone in the same direction Riku had. Riku had simply gone out to clear his head by looking at the moon, so he was sitting at the edge of the pass, legs dangling off the side. Toph came up behind him, and after a slight silence started talking. "I can feel your heart beat you know. I could tell that you were lying about being a bender."

"I had reasons for lying."

"Like what?"

"If you found out that I could naturally Firebend, you would have attacked me on site. I wasn't borne in the Fire Nation, and I'm not part of their army. But everyone thinks that if your a firebender your evil. Get what I'm saying?"

Toph pondered this for a few minutes before replying. "I guess I get what your saying. I'm naturally good at earthbending, but that doesn't mean I'm part of the Earth Kingdoms army. So you can naturally firebend, but that doesn't make you a Fire Nation goon."

"Yeah, thats about what I'm saying. Just because you were borne some were, or can do a certain skill doesn't mean that your on a certain side." Riku said with a smile. He then stood up. "Come on, it's getting late. We'll most likely need to get started early tomorrow." With that Riku and Toph started walking back to camp.

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It had been pretty good travailing the next day. It was good weather, and they had been making good time. Of course this all changed when they got to a part of the pass that the ground had collapsed. Meaning that there was no land for about one hundred yards. Sure Aang could use his glider, and Sora and Riku could swim that like it was nothing, but not everyone would be able to get a crossed.

Katara steeped to the front of the group and started to use her waterbending. She was able to push the water away for the group as they started to walk down to the bottom of the sea floor. It was a rather incredible site. Water was being forced around the group as they walked. The one down side is the water was starting to come from the back. So Aang started to use waterbending to.

The end result was a large bubble being formed by the two benders. The group had walked about half way to the other side when something bumped against the bubble. That caused the bubble to pop, leaving everyone under water. Once again it was Toph that came to the rescue, lifting up a small chunk of land to the surface, like a small island.

Out of the water came a huge blue sea snake. It was about a hundred feet high, and probably twice that long. "I think I just found out why they call it the Serpents pass!" Sokka yelled at the sight of the large snake. He then quickly turned to Suki. "Quick you live by see monsters, how do we stop this one!?"

"Just because I live by them, doesn't mean I know how to control them!"

Sokka, not missing a beat, quickly garbed Momo. "Oh, great see snake, I offer you this offering, if you let us pass!" Sokka was quickly hit over the head by Katara. The group was in a tight spot. They couldn't swim for the land. And Toph couldn't make a land bridge, because she had to be touching the ground to be able to bend it.

"Katara get everyone to safety, I'm going to hold this thing off." Aang said as he brought his staff up, ready to airbend. Katara quickly formed a ice bridge with her waterbending, before running back to help Aang. That left the rest of the group to get a crossed. You would think they could do that with no problem right?

Once the group was almost to the other side the noticed that someone was missing. Toph was still standing on her little rock island. Sokka turned to her and started yelling. "Come one Toph hurry up and cross!" Toph put her foot down on the ice, before pulling it back up.

"No thanks, I'll just stay on my island were I can see!" She yelled back. She, however had no choice but to start moving when the snake's tail landed just behind her. " Okay, okay I'm coming.!" She said as she started to cross the bridge vary carefully. Sokka wanting to help out started to talk to her.

"That good, just come towards the sound of my voice!"

"It kind of hard to ignore!" She yelled back. She was about half way there when the snake ran through the ice bridge, making her fall in the water. "Help! I can't swim!" Toph yelled as she splashed around in the water.

It was Riku who acted first. He dropped his Keyblade on the ground before jumping off the side. Instead of swimming, he jumped off a piece of ice to the largest piece of ice he could find. He then used that piece as a surf board until he was almost there. He then jumped off and dove into the water. Riku was able to grab Toph before she lost continuous, and began pulling her back to the surface.

While Riku was swimming Toph back to land, Katara and Aang were fighting the snake. Aang was using airbending to move around over the water. At the same time Katara was surfing, by use of waterbending. They began to cirque the snake vary quickly. They started going so fast that a whirlpool was formed right under the snake. While the snake wasn't pulled down, it was thrown into the pass so hard that it was knocked out.

Once Aang and Katara got back to land, Sokka spoke up. "Well at lest that's over, and nothing else can go wrong." Of course as soon as thesis words came out of his mouth, the pregnant woman yelled something about having the babe. Katara took control, telling Sokka to get some water, Toph to bend the earth into a tent, and Aerith and Suki to help her deliver the babe. She also told everyone else to wait outside.

Three hours later

"It's a girl!" Katara yelled as she came out of the tent, huge smile on her face. The next several minuets became a blur of people saying things like "she's so cute" or "look how sweet she is." As it turned out the parents had picked the name Hope for her. The parents and aunt had said they were going to go ahead of the group to Ba Sing Sa, and they hoped that everyone would meet up there.

As the group was packing everything up some unexpected things happened. First a smoke bomb was thrown into the camp. Next, when the smoke cleared everyone was in handcuffs. Finally, standing around them were about three hundred Fire Nation soldiers. What looked like the commander steeped up to the group and started to talk. "Congratulations, you have been captured by the Fire Nation, soon to be brought before Princess Azula."

As they were being lead away, no one notices Riku smiling, again!

End chapter

Yeah, I made my own ending for the episode. But I'm going to tell you know, it's needed for the plot. Also as much as I like my new favorite crack pairing of Riku x Azula, this is not going to be one of thous story's. I might make my next one a Riku x Azula story. Who knows, I still have a long way's to go before I finish this one. And I only wright one story at a time. I might wright one-shots here and there, but I only have one main story at a time.

Anyway this is the last chapter you can vote on who is paired with who. The votes so far are:

Yuna 4

Rikku 2

Tifa 1

Aerith 1

Rinoa 4

You'll find out who wins next chapter, and who Cloud's going to be paired with.