Southern Air Temple

Clockwork returned once Danny had packed all he thought he needed. He met Danny in the Fenton's kitchen. Danny only had a small duffle-bag, which held a few clothes, ghost fighting weapons, his old empty backpack, and a few pictures of his family and friends.

He put his hand on Danny's shoulder and clicked the clock top of his scepter. Their surroundings were gone in a swirl, and they were immediately transported into Clockwork's clock-tower. Clockwork floated over to his cabinet of medallions.

"Take off your shirt." He took a medallion out, and went back over to Danny.

"You'll need this. Not only will it keep you in their time, but it will translate their language. Everything you hear will sound like English to you, and everything you say will sound like their language to them." He put it around Danny's neck. "But it will need to be attached to you, otherwise we risk it falling off or being stolen." Clockwork pointed his scepter at Danny like a spear, and pressed the tip against the medallion.

It became paper thin as it pressed onto Danny's skin. Danny yelled in pain and surprise when it melded with his skin, sparking as it attached itself.

"What the hell!" Danny yelled at Clockwork when he took the scepter away. Danny rubbed his palm over the medallion, now pressed into his skin. He noticed that the medallion curved with his chest, rather than being flat and ridged. It looked almost like a tattoo. A really shiny tattoo.

"It had to be attached." Clockwork told him.

"Why couldn't you have just phased it into me?" He asked, still rubbing area the medallion had attached itself as he remembered back to when Dan had put the medallion into his body. That was painless.

"Doing that long term could damage whatever internal organs the medallion is touching." He informed Danny. "This is the safest, most effective, way to connect you to a medallion. Like this, it is flexible, so it won't hinder your movements. The only downside is that you'll have to explain it off as a birthmark or tattoo if anyone sees it." Danny doubted anyone would believe something like this was a birthmark.

"And now, we must go." Clockwork led Danny to a round window that showed him a platform overlooking mountains. On the platform stood an old man with a long, white beard, and in red robes. They both went into the portal, and were transported behind the man. Time was still frozen.

"Before I leave you with this man, you need a brief explanation of what will be different in this world." Clockwork told Danny as he set down his duffle. "Here, there is a greater connection to the spirits. This means that as time goes on, you will gain a greater connection to the spirit of the Avatar, Raava. You must try and control yourself, for now, if you lose control of your emotions, you could go into the Avatar state. The Avatar state is a defense mechanism, and normally, in this world, it would connect you with all of your past lives, and allow their spiritual energy to flow through you; giving you superhuman strength and extraordinary bending. While you are in this state, you could lose control and harm those around you…"

"Oh great…" Danny muttered.

"Although, considering you have a greater connection to the spirit world with your ghost half, I don't know how well you'll be able to control it.

"Due to the fact that there hasn't been a skilled Avatar for thousands of years, it is also unpredictable how powerful you will be in the Avatar state. It's very likely that it will be considerably less powerful than this world's Avatar."

"Mhm." Danny said, half listening half taking in his surroundings. The platform that they had seen in the window was actually connected to a set of towering buildings built on top of the mountain. He could see some in orange and yellow coming out of the buildings, and kids playing in courtyards, all frozen in time. They looked similar to some of the pictures of Tibetan monks he saw in class.

Clockwork looked at Danny, considering telling him another possibility about what could be, but might not. If Danny knew, he might not be able to perform as well.

"Alright, so where are we?" Danny asked Clockwork.

"The Southern Air Temple, home of the Air Nomads.

"I'm betting they can control the air around them." Danny asked

"How very perceptive." Clockwork said sarcastically. "You are here to meet your mentor. Only two people know of your situation. That," Clockwork pointed to the old man in red robes. "is one of them: Avatar Roku, the Avatar of this current time. He will be your temporary mentor." Clockwork turned around and turned pointed to one of the monks who was looking towards Roku. He had a wooden necklace around his neck, with three spirals on the main pendant. "And that is Monk Gyatsu. They will help you in your journey.

"I must also warn you of two important things. One, do not speak of the war to come." Danny's distracted gaze snapped over to Clockwork.

"Wait, what? The war to come? I thought you brought me here to help the Avatar end a war already happening!" He exclaimed while pointing at Roku. Clockwork shook his head.

"No. Not yet. I brought you here to be trained by the Avatar that was here before the war. The Avatar during the time of the war will not be able to teach you the way Roku could."

"And wait, wait, wait. If we're here, before the war, why don't we just prevent it before it happens?"

"Time doesn't work that way. You see Danny, some points of time can be…" Clockwork stopped to try and thing of the right words. "…Rewritten. Changed. These points are malleable, while others are fixed points. Set in stone… If those points were changed, it would be catastrophic to the fabric of space and time. Understand?"

"Not really, but I get your point; some things can be changed, some can't because… reasons." Danny summarized.

"My next warning is not to become a ghost unless absolutely necessary. They are not used to your world's type of spirit."

"I wasn't even thinking of it." Danny grumbled. Clockwork frowned, knowing that he hadn't turned into his alter ghostly ego since the accident at the Nasty Burger. Becoming Danny Phantom reminded him of his future, all ghost self. He didn't want to think of that. Part of him even felt as though going ghost helped him along the road of becoming him.

"Good luck, Danny." He pressed the button on his scepter, and said, "Time in!" As energy flowed around him and formed a portal, into which he disappeared. Once he was gone, time began to flow again.

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Avatar Roku looked around at the surrounding mountains as he waited for the spirit Clockwork to arrive with the Avatar from an alternate world.

"Roku, my old friend!" He looked back towards the towers and saw Monk Gyatsu exit from the center building. "When they told me you arrived, I came down right away! Has the boy arrived yet?" Roku waved to his friend, and then turned around to look back to the cliff side, scanning the landscape for the spirit.

"Not yet Gyatsu." He heard a gasp behind him.

"Well, it looks like he has arrived." Gyatsu said with astonishment.

"Where?" Roku asked, scanning the skies before looking back to Gyatsu, jumping in surprise to see that a raven-haired teen had somehow appeared directly behind him with a bag by his side. Judging by his strange clothes, it was likely that this was the child he was looking for.

"Danny?" He asked the boy.

"Yeah, and you're Roku, right?" He asked, extending his hand. Roku was surprised at this sort of greeting, seeing it only once while training at the northern water tribe as a sign of trust among its warriors. Roku clasped Danny's forearm.

Danny looked surprised when Roku did this, but did the same and grabbed Roku's forearm and awkwardly shook it up and down. Monk Gyatsu walked up to Danny and Roku introduced him.

"Danny, this is Monk Gyatsu."

"Nice to meet you, Danny." Gyatsu told him, bowing. Danny bowed back.

"Nice to meet you too." They all stood for a moment in silence before Danny broke it. "So… What do we do now?"

"Well, Danny." Roku said putting his hand on his back, indicating that they were moving. Danny picked up his bag and moved with him. "We will begin our journey by learning what your core element is."

"My core element?"

"Yes. What bending style you would have initially known had you have been born in our world." Roku put his arm up and palm out, creating a flame in his hand. Danny watched in amazement. "For example, I am from the fire nation. Had I not have been the Avatar, I would be a fire nation. It is the first element I learned." He looked down to Danny. "In order to master the other elements, you must first master your core element."

They came to a stop at a circular platform with intricately designed boards, mounted onto posts stuck into the platform.

"We will start by testing for airbending abilities." Roku said and nodded to Monk Gyastu, who sent a blast of air through the boards, causing the airbending gates all to spin. He let a leaf go into the current. The leaf blew threw the gates, twisting and turning through before emerging from the other side.

A/N: And so ends chapter 2.

While at first (years ago) I thought of making Danny a full fledged Avatar.

But now that I think of it, that is way too much power.

I'm gonna handicap him a little.

Please review and tell me what you think! It makes me write faster!