"Why is it attacking you?" Sokka questioned as he scratched his chin.

"We do not know, but each of the last three nights he has abducted one of our own." The chief turned his head towards the sky, which had turned an orange and purple color, because of the setting sun. "We are especially fearful because the Winter Solstice draws near."

"What happens then?" Katara asked curiously.

"As the solstice approaches, the Natural World and the Spirit World grow closer and closer until the line between them is blurred completely." The old man explained.

"Hei-Bai is already causing devastation and destruction," the chief explained as he turned toward the villagers that were inside the main house, looking at one another with fear in their eyes. "Once the solstice is here there is no telling what will happen."

"So, what do you want me to do exactly?" Aang asked not understanding what this had to do with him.

"Who better to resolve a crisis between our world and the Spirit World than the Avatar himself?" The old man said confidently. "You are the great bridge between man and spirits!"

"Right," Aang said unconvinced, but pretended to play along "that's me."

"Hey, great bridge guy," Katara said in a hushed whisper "can I talk to you over here for a second?" She motioned all of us to a small corner of the room so we could talk about some things in a more private matter. "Aang, you seem a little unsure about all this," Katara said worried.

"Yeah, that might be because I don't know anything at all about the Spirit World," he told us, getting right to the point. The siblings looked at one another surprised then back at Aang. "What? It's not like there's someone to teach me this stuff!" Aang said frustrated.

"So, can you help these people?" Katara asked.

"I have to try, don't I?" Aang said looking down at the floor. "Maybe whatever I have to do will just come to me," he said being hopeful.

"I think you can do it, Aang" Katara told him confidently.

"Yeah, we're all gonna get eaten by a spirit monster" Sokka said having given up all hope. Brianna karate chopped Sokka's head while I punched him in his side making him fall to the ground, holding onto both wounds.

"Don't listen to this idiot, Aang! You can do it, no problem" Brianna encouraged him.

"Besides it's not like you're alone here. I'm sure fate will agree with me when I say that we'll be with you when you need help. After all, that was the whole purpose we were sent here for," I told in hopes to put him at ease. Aang looked back first at Brianna then me as he gave a slight sigh of relief, happy that he isn't alone in a situation like this.

"Thanks," he said to us with a small smile. Suddenly Brianna went and hugged Aang in her deadly cobra wrap and started squeezing his soul out. "Rebecca, help me" Aang managed to choke out. I shook my head in frustration and managed to force Brianna's arms off of the poor boy. I clasped his arm allowing him to use my body as support. "What was that for?" Aang asked Brianna when he could breathe normally.

"You were just too cute!" Brianna exclaimed out. Aang looked at me and waited for some kind of explanation as to why she was acting the way she was.

"She's very affectionate and enjoys hugging people…a lot," I explained as I avoided eye contact with every one. "This is something I can't really get into detail with, but to sum it up, it's just how Brianna is and always will be, sadly for us" I said. I looked out the door and saw the sun was slowly reaching the horizon. I had an uneasy feeling that wouldn't stop bothering me. I didn't know why I felt so paranoid but my pride wouldn't allow anyone to see it, so I hid it behind a poker face. "Aang, we should get ready for Hei-Bai, before he can get another victim."

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"You ready Aang?" I asked as he, Brianna, and I walked towards the door.

"Yeah, I'm ready" Aang said but I knew he was feeling uneasy about this whole thing as much as I was. We all walked out of the main house and into the streets of the town path as we looked for any sign of Hei-Bai. The sun was almost completely set, leaving only a small portion of sunlight left for us. "Hello? Spirit, can you hear me? This is the Avatar speaking. I'm here to try to help stuff." We stopped at the path entrance, as Brianna and I waited for Hei-Bai to appear. By this time our surroundings had been completely covered in darkness. "The sun has set. Where are you, Hei-Bai?" Aang shouted out into the sky. "Well, spirit, uh, I hereby ask you to please leave this village in peace!" Aang commanded the invisible threat and spun his staff over his head then slammed it to the ground, not knowing what else to do.

"Nothing's happening," I told Aang and felt a bit embarrassed with what my 'master' had done. Brianna let out a giggle knowing perfectly well how I felt, but was enjoying it all too much.

"Okay well, I guess that's settled then," Aang said a little relieved but confused and turned away from the entrance. I felt a shiver run up my spine as I realized that Hei-Bai was coming. I saw a strange looking creature with a black and white pattern come though the clearing. It had the body of a gorilla, a head of a snake, and a smaller extra set of arms. He slowly became more and more visible until he looked completely solid.

"A...Aang," Brianna stuttered as she noticed the large monstrous spirit. I had to admit that it was much more terrifying and bigger in person. Looking at the creature stand before me I could feel my whole body's temperature drop, making my blood feel like it was frozen.

"You must be the Hei-Bai spirit." Aang said after realizing the spirit had finally shown itself. "My name is…." He didn't finish his sentence because the beast roared into his face releasing a spiritual ray, that made Aang drop his glider. Hei-Bai continued making his way through the village toward the main house, completely ignoring our presence. "My name is Aang! I'm the Avatar and I would like to help!" he shouted out but was still being ignored.

"Aang shouldn't we take the thing down?" I asked, remembering that Sokka would be captured by the enormous beast.

"No, I don't want to hurt it. Hey, wait up!" Aang called out to Hei-Bai. Hei-Bai walked right past him and began destroying more of the building. When he finished demolishing that building, he teleported himself to another building destroying it as well. Aang tried following the monster, guessing where he would appear next. "Please, would you stop destroying things and listen?" he pleaded with it, but realized it was useless because it wasn't listening. Aang jumped up on the roof of a nearby building and began shouting at the beast trying to get its attention. "I'm just trying to do my job as Spirit Bridge. Excuse me, would you please turn around?" Brianna and I jumped up next to Aang while Hei-Bai continued to ignore our presence and still bent on destroying the town. Aang then got frustrated and screamed out at the spirit. "I command you to turn around now!" Surprisingly the creature obeyed, but only so he could slap Aang across the town.

"Shit," I muttered under my breath as I dashed towards Aang, catching him just as he was about to hit a roof top. "You okay?" I asked him as I lowered him to the ground.

"Yeah I'm okay," Aang said as he got to his feet.

"Good, cause it looks like Brianna could use our help" I said as I pointed to Brianna with my eyes. We saw that she was standing on the battle field debating on whether to strike or to flee. Aang nodded his head in agreement and we both ran back to where Hei-Bai was causing more destruction. I suddenly heard someone sneaking up behind Hei-Bai.

"Hei-Bai, over here!" Sokka had shouted out as he threw his boomerang at the creature's butt, doing no damage whatsoever. Brianna and I shook our heads at the pathetic attempt of an attack as Sokka ran to our sides.

"Sokka, go back!" Aang advised his friend.

"We'll fight him together, Aang." Sokka said as he looked back to where Hei-Bai was.

"I don't wanna fight him unless I…." Aang didn't complete his sentence because Sokka was suddenly captured by Hei-Bai.

"Aang, it's got Sokka!" Brianna shouted as she pointed to the black and white figure running running away from the village. Aang opened up his glider as he flew to rescue Sokka, while Brianna and I summoned Gin and Nyoko. We both got on our partners and flew after Aang and Hei-Bai, hoping we could catch up to them.

"Guys over here, help!" Sokka yelled out as he saw us. The three of us struggled to get through the thick trees and finally decided to go up in the air until we got to the clearing.

"Hang on, Sokka!" Aang exclaimed as he went down and tried to grab Sokka's hand. Brianna and I flew close behind, hoping Aang could get Sokka in time but unfortunately for us that didn't happen. Sokka and Hei-Bai both disappeared just as Aang got hold of Sokka's hand, causing Aang to spin out of control and land on the ground in front of a Hei-Bai statue in it's panda form. From the look of Aang's glowing body, he had already gone into his spirit form. Gin and Nyoko landed beside Aang's body as we searched for any signs of Hei-Bai, Sokka or Aang's spirit form.

"What do we do now?" Brianna asked me as she looked down at Aang's motionless body. I let out a small sigh as I scratched the back of my head.

"I guess the only thing we can do is figure out how we can get into our spirit forms." I turned to my left and looked at Gin. "So do you have any idea how?" I asked him.

"You both can go back and forth between forms by your own will, but since you're still in the early stage you should take the easier path," Gin explained as looked back at the Hei-Bai statue before he continued. "Just like how we entered your human forms you can enter your spirit forms by going through Roku's statue. In order for that to work again you must go through a statue representing people or creatures that are part of the Spirit World."

"Easy enough, but, will our bodies come with us is the question," I muttered under my breath. Nyoko looked down at me as she jumped over to my side.

"Don't worry, it's only when you choose to leave your body behind will that ever happen," Nyoko answered happily.

"Why would we want to do that?" Brianna asked.

"Perhaps if you were captured and wanted to find an escape route, by you leaving your body behind, you can fool the enemy into thinking that you are asleep as your spirit form explores a means to escape. Was my thinking somewhat close, Gin?" I asked my white furred partner.

"Yes, that would be a situation where it would be better if you left your body behind, but be careful when choosing the time and place. If anything were to happen to your body while you were gone you may not be able to return back."

"So to sum it up, don't let anyone destroy our bodies or we'll end up as spirits permanently," I let out a small sigh as I scratched the back of my head. "No pressure right?"

"I don't think I'm going to do that unless I really have to," Brianna said as she was holding onto her own body.

"We better get going," I said as I positioned myself in front of the statue. "You guys ready?" I asked them without actually looking back at them.

"You know it!" Nyoko exclaimed as I heard the three position themselves next to me.

"Okay well I'm not going to waste any time," I told them as I got into a sprinting position. "See you on the other side," I told Brianna and Nyoko as Gin and I dashed towards the panda statue. I placed my hands over my head, hoping I wouldn't collide into the statue, but instead easily went through the stone structure. When going through I felt as if I have all the heat from my body taken out of me, making me feel cold and lifeless. I stopped myself in my tracks and I realized that I was already through the statue. I looked down at my hands and noticed the familiar structure I was in when Brianna and I first entered the Avatar series. A solid looking body with normal colors but the faint spiritual aura around me. I looked over at Gin, who didn't seem to have any change in him either except for the white aura that surrounded him.

"Ha, made it!" I heard Brianna exclaim as she came though the statue with Nyoko beside her. Her condition was the same as mine, but Nyoko had a black aura around her instead of a white one like Gin. "Is it just me or is it really cold all of a sudden?" she asked as she rubbed her arms trying to keep warm.

"Umm we'll talk about that later, but right now we better get back to where Aang's body is before he wakes up and has a panic attack" I said as I started walking around the statue and back to where Aang's body was. "Hmm weird, shouldn't he be waking up now?" Just then I saw Aang's spirit float up from his body as he opened his eyes and sat beside himself.

"Sokka," he called out as his eyes shot open. He looked around for any sign of his friend but found none. "I failed," he muttered under his breath. "Wait, where are Brianna and Rebecca?" Aang said frantically as he searched for us with his eyes. He eventually turned around and saw us then let out a sigh of relief, afraid he might have lost us to Hei-Bai too.

"Good to see you awake" I said to him as I walked toward his side. "You okay?"

"Yeah I'm fine. What about you guys?" Aang said as he got to his feet.

"We're okay," Brianna said. "So what do we do now?"

"I don't know," Aang said. "I guess we should just go back and try again," he told us as he started walking towards the town.

"Very well," I responded as I walked close behind him with Brianna, Nyoko, and Gin by my side. We walked in silence the whole time until I saw the town in the clearing. "I don't think he's noticed us in our spiritual form. Which is weird since you can see right through us." I whispered to Brianna as I lifted my right hand up showing that I had a ghost structure. "The only thing is that we still are the same color unlike Aang over there."

"Yeah I know, it's kind of cool." I slowly turned my head to Brianna, who was staring down at her see-through body in complete awe. I forced my attention back onto Aang, who was already in front of the gates of the town still not realizing our current conditions.


Disclaimer: When editing the scene when we all go through the statue, Queen of All Things Groovy thought I had based that off of Harry Potter when they go on the train station to platform 9 3/4. I didn't even realize it until she mentioned it, so it didn't intend it but I based that part on the Harry Potter books.