Chapter 2

a/n: Hi Peeps! Sorry it took so long. My evil internet was out. Anyway here it is hope you guys like it! Also I don't own Avatar or Harry Potter!

What Zuko saw would have made the average boy pass out. But then again, Zuko was not an average boy, but the sight still shocked him nonetheless. The fire nation prince saw a giant castle with owls flying all around it. There was many strange horses carry carriages up to the castle. It was in the middle of the night, and many people were riding on boats up to the very castle. And on one of the boats was what looked like a man, but this man was at least 7 feet tall.

The horses frightened Zuko the most. They were ghostly and alive but not. They didn't have skin or muscles but they were just walking skeletons. This sent shivers down Zuko's back.

Behind him, Sokka, Katara, and Aang were getting up. Sokka, realizing Zuko was still in the eminent vicinity, jumped up and went into battle mode. Katara and Aang followed. Zuko wasn't really paying attention. He was still focusing on the amazing sight before him.

"Turn around coward," Sokka said threatened.

"Shut up peasant," Zuko hissed.

"What are you talking about?" Aang asked.

"Why don't you come over here a find out?" Zuko sneered.

"Oh no you can't honesty think we're that stupid!" Sokka exclaimed.

"Actually I think you are more stupid, but if you don't want to see where the hell we are…"

"Fine I'll go," Katara volunteered. Stepping forward. With Aang following close behind. Katara looked where Zuko was looking and gasped. It was amazing, more amazing than the Northern Water Tribe. There were wonders she'd never seen. It was amazing. Aang was just as shocked. He'd never seen anything like this except for the temples. But he didn't think it was a temple. Considering he'd been to all of them.

Sokka was getting annoyed. His best friend and his sister were standing next to the guy who'd been trying to kill them since this entire thing started. But he wasn't trying to capture Aang so he decided he would go look at whatever everyone was awwwing at. Sokka walked over and didn't see a thing. Except an old run down house.

"This is what you guys are ooooing and awing about? What the heck is so special about that?" All of the three heads turned to look at him. They looked at Sokka as if he had a three foot wriggling worm on his face.

"Well, it seems I was proven correct," Zuko stated.

"Hey! Watch it!" Sokka yelled.

"Sokka how can you not see what's in front of us?" Aang asked.

"SEE WHAT?"

"Sokka are you insane?" Katara asked him.

"I have been known to be, but still, I don't get what you guys are looking at," Sokka answered. All three of them just stared.

"Well, whatever it is," Zuko said. "I'm seeing what it is." And he walked out of the trees.

"Are you crazy?" Aang whispered "You're going to get killed."

"Let him go Aang if he wants to kill himself, let him go." Sokka told Aang.

"Um Sokka," Katara stammered.

"What is it Katara?" Sokka asked.

"I think we might want to join Zuko,"

"WHAT ARE YOU INSANE?"

"Sokka, I think we should listen to Katara," Aand stammered.

"Peasant, even I'm going to say, you might want to leave," all three of them were looking behind them. Sokka finally noticed this.

"What are you guys looking at…?" Sokka turned around to be face to face with about a hundred spiders. All of them bigger then him and Katara combined. With hair all over and they were all looking at them with their 8 eyes. So Sokka, Aang, Katara, and Zuko had about 800 hungry eyes looking at them. It was rather unsettling.

Sokka, Katara, Aang, and Zuko ran as fast as they could out of the forest. The evil eight legged demons were following them. Zuko wasn't ready to become spider food so he whipped around and started throwing fireballs at the spiders. He had to run backwards while throwing fire. It wasn't an easy task. Some of the spiders were scared off by the fire, but the ones that remained were gaining. Sokka threw his boomerang (which he had picked up before running for his life.) It easily sliced off one of the spiders legs and came back to him.

The fours kids ran up to a huge tree. With out thinking they started climbing. That might have been a mistake. Once they got closer to the castle/old rundown house the spiders left them alone. But once in the tree, they faced a whole new range of problems. It might have started when the branches started moving on their own.

It happened fast. Katara was on the highest up branch. It started swinging back and fourth as if trying to buck her off. Then the branches that the boys were on started swinging. The branched started entangling themselves with each other, trying to get the intruders off its braches. They held on as long as they could, but Katara fell off onto the ground.

"AAAHH!" She screamed as she fell into the grass.

"Katara!" Sokka and Aang yelled. She got to her feet and for the first time, got a decent look at what was attacking them. The tree was moving on its own. How did it do that? Trees aren't supposed to be able to move on their own. Katara didn't have much time to ponder this because a huge branch came around and hit her in the stomach knocking her down.

"KATARA!" Aang yelled again jumping down from the tree. He tried to use air bending to keep the tree at bay with little use. Katara was on the ground a good five feet away from Aang with branches thrashing around her, her breathing was shallow. Sokka quickly followed Aang down. He tried to get to his sister with little success. A boomerang really can't do much to defeat a humongous 20 foot tall willow tree.

Aang got hit in the side and screeched in pain as he fell down. Zuko, who was still in the tree, saw that the peasants and the Avatar were having trouble with the tree. He jumped down from the insane tree next to Katara. Picking her up, he fired a fireball at the tree before it could break any of his ribs. One of the branches caught on fire but with it moving so fast, it was quickly put out. Sokka gave Zuko a rather dirty look despite the circumstances.

"KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF MY SISTER!" He yelled picking up Aang from the ground.

"OH SO YOU WANT ME TO JUST DROP HER HERE TO BE SMASHED BY THE DEMON TREE!" Zuko yelled back the sarcasm was undeniable. Sokka continued the dirty look through dodging the branches. Zuko smirked, he new it would piss off the water tribe boy soooo much if he touched this girl's breasts, but he wouldn't because despite he father's parenting ideas, Zuko respected women. Even if the particular woman was a water tribe peasant that he really couldn't stand.

Seeing as it was a bad time to try to get into a fight Sokka, with Aang on his back ran out of the destructive path of the evil tree. Zuko followed, with Katara lying limply in his arms. They sprinted to the wall of the castle/run down house. Zuko laid Katara on the ground panting. He looked behind him and saw the tree of evilness still whipping its branched around looking for anyone else on the "too good to sit on tree." He then turned his attention to the situation at hand. He looked down at the two injured teens and sighed. Sokka eyed him evilly. Zuko gave him the same eye back. It was a staring contest for a good few minutes until Sokka remembered his sister and best friend were on the ground gasping for air. Sokka first turned his attention to Katara.

"Katara? Can you hear me? It's Sokka," Sokka said enunciating each syllable. Katara groaned. There was a slight raise under her clothes. It hit Sokka hard. Katara had broken her ribs, and one had punctured thru her skin. Blood was already seeping thru the wound onto her clothes. Katara needed help. But before he went to get some, Sokka looked to see what damage Aang had. "Aang? Are you awake?" Aang slightly opened his eyes. Sokka's eyes lit up. At least Aang wasn't hurt too badly.

"Sokka?" Aang managed before coughing up blood. Sokka's hopes of Aang being okay were quickly shattered. "Is Katara okay?" Aang asked, deep red blood bordering his lips, and around his face.

"Don't talk Aang, you'll only make it worse. Katara's going to be fine." Sokka said reassuringly. I hope. Sokka bit his lip. They needed to get help but he didn't want to ask Zuko for help. He was probably still trying to capture Aang and he didn't know where to get help. They were in the middle of nowhere next to an old run down house.

"They need help," Zuko announced, getting up. "There's got to be someone in this big house who can help us."

"US! WHAT US? I DON"T RECALL EVER ASKING FOR YOUR HELP!" Zuko was trying to keep tap on his temper but that wasn't an easy task.

"FINE! LET YOUR SISTER AND THE ONLY HOPE FOR THE WORLD DIE BECAUSE YOU WERE BEING STUBORN!" Zuko yelled. He was doing a good job. On most days Sokka would be a crispy piece of Sokka bacon.

The words hit hard at Sokka. He knew he was being stubborn but he hated Zuko's guts. He also hated the guts Zuko spondred from. He would have to deal with Zuko for a little bit. He couldn't carry Katara and Aang.

"Fine" he hissed. "But this changes nothing," Zuko almost laughed. With everything changing recently it was hard to believe that someone was telling him something would not change.

"Fine," he simply said, picking up Katara. Sokka wasn't happy at all with Zuko carrying his sister but he carried Aang, he would run off with him and the fire nation would win. Sokka picked up Aang. "There's got to be someone in this house who's a healer maybe we can get them to help." The boys started to walk around the castle/run down old house.

"You must be insane. There is no castle! Just an old house,"

"You must be blind. How can you not see the castle?" Zuko answered.

"You must be an idiot."

"You must be a moron."

"You must be…" Sokka couldn't think of an insult.

"Ah so the clever peasant can't think of a decent insult. How truly becoming," Zuko said smiling. Sokka opened his mouth again. This time something came out.

"No one loves you!"

"At least I have a full head of hair!"

"At least I'm not a snobby prince!"

"Well at least I'm not a peasant!" And that was how it went. Each spitting out insults at each other. None of them really went that deep. When they got to the door, Zuko tried to open it, only to have a horrible pain go thru his body. Letting go, Zuko gasped.

"What? Are you going to try to tell me at the magical house keeps it from intruders?" Zuko's face was all the answered Sokka needed. He'd come this far, and his friend and sister needed help. After putting Aang down Sokka put all common sense behind him (which he didn't have much of) Sokka charged. He hit the door hard with a thud. It is going to take awhile.

Inside the great hall Harry, Ginny, Ron, and Hermione were looking at all the empty tables. Even the Slytherin table was abnormally empty. The sorting ceremony didn't take long. There was all of 10 new students. The Sorting hat came out as it did every year. And like every year the new students face showed nothing but puzzlement. Harry slightly smiled. He still remembered how nervous he was when he was a first year.

After that thought the hat started its song. Its song was about the same as it was for the past few years. It sung about all of the houses and how dark times were coming. It sent little shivers down Harry's back. After that Hagrid stood and started listing the names. Head Mistress McGonagallhad moved up from saying names. She was sitting at the head spot watching the ceremony.

"Adams, Hanna," A scared blonde haired girl walked up and sat down on the stool. Hagrid gently put the hat on the young girl's head. The hat took a few moments.

"Ravenclaw!" There was clapping as the girl ran over to the table to sit with her fellow smart people.

"Clad, Andrew," A boy with auburn hair walked up to the hat and sat down. He looked nervous but excited. Hagrid didn't even really need to put the hat on the young boy.

"Gryffindor!" Harry clapped the loudest as the happy looking boy walked over and sat down. After that Harry more or less zoned out. None of the rest were Griffindoor anyway.

"RAVENCLAW!"

"SLYTHREN!"

"HUFFLEPUFF!" And so on. After the ceremony was done, and the hat was put away McGonagallstood to make the traditional head Master/Mistress speech. Before she could start there was a thump. It was rather faint but there. It was enough to halt the speech. After a few seconds it was there again. It kept happening for a good minute or so. After a while Hagrid went to the main doors, because that seemed to be were it was coming from, to see what the mysterious noise was.

Sokka and Zuko's bodies were getting tired. They had been ramming into the door for at least a minute. It didn't look like Katara or Aang had too much longer. Sokka was at his wits end. Each time they ran into the door pain seared through his body. He had it in him for one more time.

He and Zuko had eye contact. They both were in pretty bad shape. They were going to try it one more time. And if that didn't work, they didn't know what they'd do. They prepped them selves. Then ran at the doors as fast and as hard as they could. Before they got to the door, it opened. In the doorway was one of the biggest men Sokka or Zuko had seen. It was probably the man on the boat but the boys really didn't have time to think that. Considering they ran head on into the giant man's chest.

They staggered back. Dazed and Confused. The giant man looked down at them with little gleaming eyes.

"What are you young'ns doing here?"

"Help," Sokka pleaded thru gasps of breath. He pointed to the two wounded before passing out in front of the large man.

A/N: WOW! This is the longest chapter I've ever written on anything. Without even trying! I usually don't write chapters this long. I hope this is good. It sounded pretty reasonable at the time. But then again I wrote it. Reviews make me happy!