The Cove of Kyoshi Island

It was hot.

Unbelievably hot.

Danny opened his eyes and looked around. He was back on Roku's island!

He did it! He couldn't remember how, but somehow he had gotten back to the time he wanted to be in.

But something wasn't right.

Danny looked down at the ground he was standing on. Instead of the soft, dirt pathway that went through the village, there was asphalt. It was a road from his time; yellow stripe and all. Going right through the village. It looked so out of place next to the small huts.

The other thing that bugged him was the heat. While it was normally fairly hot on the tropical Fire Nation island, this was ridiculous. He could feel the hot pavement below him, slowly baking his feet.

Danny looked up the mountain, and saw that smoke was billowing out the top.

He had to get out of here.

Danny tried to lift his feet, but they wouldn't budge.

"What?" He bent down and tugged at feet.

His sneakers seemed to have melted into the asphalt.

When Danny looked up, he was met with a ghastly sight.

The Nasty Burger.

At the end of the road of this Fire Nation village was the half-destroyed Nasty Burger.

His father, mother, Jazz, Sam, Tucker, and Mr. Lancer were all attached to the large tank of at the center of it all.

"No…"Danny struggled to move, to try and save them. "No!"

"You just have to airbend."

Danny spun his torso around.

Ming was standing behind him.

"All you have to do to save them is airbend. Cool the coil down."

"Ming…" Danny reached for her, but she shifted backwards. "But I–I can't! I tried, but I can't" He looked back to the Nasty Burger wreckage, and now two new bodies where attached to the tank.

Roku and Gyatso.

The ground beneath him began to rumble.

Danny thrust his palm forwards to try and conjure something.

"Ming, help me! I can't—"

"Just airbend, Danny." A deeper voice commanded. Danny looked back to where Ming once was, and where Clockwork now floated.

"Clockwork, I can't! You even told me, I can't do it!" He turned back to his family and friends.

Ming now joined them.

Danny looked up to the volcano. Lava spurted upwards, and a cloud of smoke and ash began descending down the slope.

"Please, Clockwork, just help me! Stop time, do something! You have to—"

"You can't do it, Danny." The voice that haunted all his nightmares echoed throughout the island.

A mixture of fear and anger welled up inside him as Danny turned around.

Clockwork was gone.

In the distance, he saw a figure floating over the ocean.

It flew closer, and closer, and it didn't slow down.

Danny cried out as the ghost slammed right into his torso at full speed, knocking him out of his sneakers.

He yelped as the asphalt burnt and scrapped his palms while he skidded to a stop.

"You can't airbend." Dan Phantom, his future evil self, stood over him. "You can't airbend, and you can't save them."

Danny staggered to his feet, and began running towards the Nasty Burger.

The deadly ash cloud was almost upon them.

Dan's hand wrapped itself around Danny's leg, and he was flipped over his head, and slammed him onto his back into the ground behind him.

Danny groaned in pain, and started to push himself up, but Dan put his foot on Danny's chest.

"You're too week."

Danny looked at the desperate faces of his family and friends.

"You can't airbend. You can't save them." The ash cloud covered the Nasty Burger.

"No…" Danny wheezed has he reached out.

The ash cloud was almost to the two of them now.

"And you can't stop yourself from becoming me!" Dan's foot melded into Danny's chest, and soon the rest of his body followed.

As the ash came to bury him, the last thing Danny saw was Dan's grinning face coming to meet his.

"No!" Danny screamed as he was surrounded by darkness.

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Aang, Sokka, and Katara were awake, and getting ready to leave the island. Sokka threw the sleeping bags into Appa's saddle while Aang fed the sky bison. Katara went over to wake Danny up, and change his bandages.

It had been two days since they had taken the injured traveler into their group, and though he was strange, he seemed nice enough.

He was quiet, and kept to himself. Although, whenever someone tried to ask him a question about his past, or strike up a conversation with him, he changed the subject, or asked questions of his own.

Mainly about the war. He was surprisingly ignorant about the subject, and asked questions like when the war began and why it was started.

"Because the Fire Nation is a bunch of evil jerks." Sokka told Danny. Danny winced and gave him a funny look.

"That really can't be it. Wars are usually fought over land or… well, usually just land disputes. Did another Nation do something to tick them off? No one just starts a war because they are inherently evil."

"No, nobody did anything. They're just evil." Sokka raised his eyebrow. "What makes you the expert on war, anyways?"

Danny opened his mouth to give him an example of when a war was started over property, but realized he couldn't give any from this world. He put his hands up in defeat.

"Whatever." Danny said as he crossed his arms. Under his breathe, he muttered, "That can't be right…"

The night before, when they stopped at this island, Danny waited until Aang was asleep before approaching Katara.

"Katara?" Danny whispered.

"Yeah Danny?"

"I've been meaning to ask, what happened to the Air Nomads?"

Katara frowned.

"You don't know?"

"No." Danny said. "Since my family were, uh, nomads, we were fairly disconnected from the rest of the world. I didn't know the Southern Air Temple was deserted until I arrived there a few days before you found me."

Katara looked away and sighed.

"The Fire Nation attacked the Air Nation early in the war, and wiped them all out. As far as we know, Aang is the last airbender."

Danny looked over at the sleeping Aang, and shook his head.

"Why did they do that?"

"I don't know." Katara said. "They probably saw the airbenders as a threat. Or they were looking to take out the next Avatar, who they knew was going to be an air nomad. They're hunting Aang now, too; the Fire Lord's son, Zuko, tried to take Aang back at the Southern Water Tribe."

Danny frowned and continued to look at Aang. They soon bid each other good night, and drifted off to sleep.

And now currently, Katara crouched next to Danny, who slept on top of a blanket since they didn't have a fourth sleeping bag.

"No, no." Danny muttered in his sleep. Katara shook him.

"Danny—"

"No!" Danny yelled as he sat up, awake and panting. He pressed his hand over the medallion fused to his chest.

"Danny!"

"Wha– I–" Danny stuttered and mumbled.

"Are you alright?" Katara asked. Aang and Sokka peered over at them.

"Yeah," Danny laid back down. "It was just a dream. A really bad dream."

"Alright," Katara said, "we're getting ready to leave. We need to change your bandages."

"Right. Bandages." Danny said, sitting up again as Katara pulled out some cloth from her bag while Danny started unwrapping the last set.

Another strange thing Katara noticed about Danny was how fast his head wound was heeling. When she first unwrapped the Air Nomad belt from Danny's head, she was sure that she would have to put stitches in the gaping wound; but it was much better than she remembered seeing when they first met. It didn't look like it needed stitches, but she would definitely still need to bandage it to stop infection.

The next day, when she helped Danny change bandages for the second time, the wound was already beginning to scab. Katara was beginning to wonder if the wound was ever as bad as she remembered; the pace that this wound was healing was—

"Woah…" Katara said.

"What?" Danny asked, reaching up to touch the wound. "Is something wrong?"

"Well, no. The opposite actually." Katara said while she looked at the fading scab on Danny's head. Some of the tissue was already growing back. This looked like something Katara would see a few weeks after a wound like this was inflicted, not a couple of days! "I don't think you need bandages anymore. You barely have a mark on you!"

"Yeah," Danny said while he rubbed the back of his head. "I heal pretty fast." Another advantage of his ghost powers was his incredibly fast healing factor.

Sokka walked over to the two.

"What's going on?" He asked.

"Danny's head wound has already healed!" Katara said, reaching up to touch where the gash used to be.

"Good." Sokka said. "So we can drop you off in the next village."

Katara glared at Sokka.

"What?" He asked, putting his hands up. "The less weight on Appa, the faster we go!"

"Danny still probably has a concussion! You remember when you slid head first into that glacier, you weren't feeling right for two weeks!"

"Actually, I'm feeling fine." Danny said. While it took normal people weeks to recover from a concussion, it only took a few days for Danny.

"Are you sure?" Katara asked, worried.

"Yeah. But as long as it's not too far out of your way, could you guys give me a lift to my destination?" Danny asked, going off a hunch.

"Sure!" Aang said. "As long as it's on the way to the Northern Water Tribe."

Bingo.

"Hey, what do ya' know," Danny said, putting on a lackluster smile. "I'm heading there too!"

"That's amazing! It's a good thing you bumped into us!" Aang said, ever the optimist, and he jumped on top of Appa. Sokka, the pessimist, raised an eyebrow and crossed his arms.

"Yeah, good thing. Why do you want to go to the Northern Water Tribe?" He asked skeptically.

"Uh," Danny rubbed the back of his neck nervously. "I, uh, think I have an Aunt who lives there. My Aunt Alicia. She's my only living relative left, and I'd like to try and get back in touch with her."

Sokka's expression instantly softened, and Katara put her hand on Danny's shoulder.

"We'll make sure you find her. Sokka and I know what it's like, wanting to reunite with family." She and Sokka climbed into Appa's saddle with Danny following them up.

As he sat down and Appa took off, Danny mentally slapped himself.

How was he going to explain himself once they get to the Northern Water Tribe, and they find there was no Aunt Alicia? Well there is an Aunt Alicia, but she wasn't in this world.

He'd just have to wait and tackle that problem when they got there.

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"You do know where you're going, right?" Danny asked as he stared at the ocean below them. They had been over water for hours, and he wasn't sure if they even had a compass. Sokka had a map, but Aang hadn't looked at it since they took off.

"Well, I know it's near water." Aang said, sounding unsure of his navigation skills.

"I guess we're getting close then." Sokka said sarcastically as he continued to analyze the map.

Aang glanced back at Katara, who was sewing a hole in Sokka's pants.

"Momo," He whispered to the lemur on his shoulder, "Marbles please." Momo dove into Aang's shirt, and emerged with a couple of grey spheres.

"Hey Katara! Check out this airbending trick!" Aang held his arms out, one hand in front of the other, and made the marbles spin in a circular motion as he grinned. While Danny was slightly amused, it failed to catch Katara's attention.

"That's great, Aang." Katara said as she continued to sew. Aang's spirits instantly fell.

"You weren't even looking!" He complained. Katara looked up, as if to show he had her attention.

"That's great."

"But I'm not doing it now." His face drooped and he plopped back down.

"Stop bugging her, airhead," Sokka said, placing the map down. "You need to give girls space when they do their sewing."

Katara stopped sewing, and looking at Sokka with an annoyed face.

"What does me being a girl have anything to do with sewing?" She asked. Danny took his eyes off the ocean, and fixed them on the two siblings. He could feel a fight coming on.

Sokka put his hands behind his head, and rested back.

"Simple." He said fairly nonchalantly. "Girls are betting at fixing pants than guys, and guys are better at hunting and fighting and stuff like that. It's just the natural order of things."

Danny was fairly taken aback by the sexism, but wasn't that surprised. This seemed like an ancient time; cultural norms were different.

In response to Sokka's statement, Katara put on a false smile.

"All done with your pants!" She said sarcastically as she held up and displayed the ripped area of the cloth. "And look at what a great job I did!" She threw the pants onto Sokka's face.

"Wait, Katara!" Sokka shouted desperately as he struggled to get the pants untangled from his head. "I was only joking! Please, I can't wear this!"

Danny started to laugh, and both Katara and Sokka looked at the boy funny, though both for different reason. Aang even turned around to try and catch sight of the first bought of laughter they had heard from the teen.

Katara was glad that Danny was laughing, but Sokka was angry.

"What's so funny?"

"Nothing, nothing." Danny said, still smiling and waving him away. "It's just that you guys remind me of my friends, Sam and Tucker." The smile on Danny's face instantly disappeared at the mention of their names.

"Well, do your friends happen to have some pants I could borrow?" Sokka grumbled.

"Don't worry, Sokka!" Aang shouted from in front of the saddle. "Where we're going we won't need pants!" Sokka looked curious but worried by this prospect.

"So," Katara asked, trying to get more from Danny than just a laugh and a mention of people from his past. "Are your friends up at the North Pole too?"

Danny looked away from her, back to the ocean.

"No. They're gone." He said quietly.

"I'm sorry." Katara put her hand over her mother's necklace. "Was it the Fire Nation? Your family and friends?"

Danny remained silent. He continued to stare at the ocean rushing below them. For a while, Katara thought he wasn't going to answer.

"I don't want to talk about it." He said finally. Katara closed her eyes.

"I understand."

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"So what're we doing here again?" Danny asked, sounding as impatient as Sokka usually was.

"Yeah, didn't we just stop last night?" Sokka said. "Shouldn't we get a little flying done before we camp out again?"

"They're right, Aang." Katara chimed in. "At this rate, we won't even get to the North Pole by spring."

"But Appa's really tired. Aren't you boy?" Aang told them, patting Appa, who gave an unconvincing grunt. Danny crossed his arms, and raised his eyebrow.

"I said: aren't you, boy?" Aang asked his sky bison again. Appa gave a larger grunt, and a half-hearted yawn. Aang smiled over to his skeptical friends.

"Yeah," Sokka said sarcastically, "that was really convincing. Still, hard to argue with a ten ton monster."

Danny shrugged, agreeing with him.

"Look!" Aang yelled as he pointed to the water. Danny's jaw dropped in awe. The largest fish that he had ever seen just emerged. The giant, red, koi fish only spent a few moments in the air, before it dove back into the ocean.

"Woah…" Danny whispered. He knew this world had strange animals; Roku had told him about many of them, and he had seen a few on both Roku's island and the Southern Air Temple; but seeing these animals for the first time never ceased to amaze him.

"That's why we're here!" Aang said enthusiastically as he started to strip. Danny only hoped that he had a pair of trunks on under those robes. "Elephant Koi. I'm going to ride one! Katara, you have to watch me!" He started to run to the water.

"Wait, you're going to ride that thing?" Danny asked Aang. He turned to Sokka and Katara, who looked just as bewildered as him. "Is he really going to—"

"COLD!" Aang yelled as he emerged from the water. He began rapidly swimming towards the Elephant Koi. He dove under the water, and soon erupted back to the surface on top of an Elephant Koi.

Sokka seemed unimpressed, but Katara and Danny both gave an impressed smile. Danny couldn't help but laugh while he watched the young Monk thread in and out of the ocean on the back of the Elephant Koi.

"He's doing it!" Danny said. "He really is crazy, isn't he?"

"Oh, yeah." Sokka said, crossing his arms.

"Whooh! Yeah Aang!" Katara shouted while waving at Aang. Even Momo was excited, jumping up and down as he watched Aang.

Two more Koi emerged from the water behind Aang.

"He looks pretty good out there." Katara said to Sokka.

"Are you kidding?" Sokka said, pointing out to Aang. "The fish is doing all the work!"

There was a rustling behind them, and Danny looked back. Appa seemed to be eating something out of the bushes.

"Uh, guys," Danny said, and the siblings looked over to him, and he pointed to Appa. "Should Appa be…"

Katara gasped and started running over to Appa, Danny following after her to help.

"Appa!" Katara shouted. "Don't eat that!" They both rand over, and tugged at Appa's reigns, and they were slowly able to pull the resistant bison away from the bush.

"Something's in the water!" Danny heard Sokka yell from the beach. Danny and Katara looked at each other then ran back to the beach.

"What's happening?" Danny asked.

"What's wrong?" Katara said.

"Aang's in trouble!" Sokka said as he pointed to the water. One of the Koi fish was dragged underwater by a shadow in the lagoon.

"Aang! Get out of there!" Katara shouted.

"Aang!" They all began to shout, waving their hands in the air and repeating his name. They saw Aang look over to them, and wave.

He thought they were waving him on.

The shadow was getting closer.

"Aang!" Katara shouted again, as loud as her lungs would allow.

The shadow was almost upon him.

"Get back here!" Sokka yelled, and there was a yelp as Aang was suddenly thrown off the Elephant Koi as the fish was dragged underwater.

"Oh, boy." Danny muttered, backing up. An enormous, webbed dorsal fin shot out of the water.

He was getting ready to go ghost in order to help Aang.

'Well, it been nice to have a secret identity.'

Danny wondered if they would still accept him; continue to let them travel with them. If not, he'd just follow them, invisible in the air. It would be exhausting, but as long as—

Wait.

Danny may not have to intervene after all.

Aang was using his airbending to run at lightning speed over the water, away from the creature, which was in hot pursuit of the boy.

The airbender finally escaped to the shore, running right into Sokka. They both tumbled to the ground, and into the trees. Danny and Katara ran over to their fallen friends.

"Jesus Christ… Did you see the size of that?" Danny said in awe as he pulled Aang up and looked back to where the beast had disappeared.

"Who?" Katara asked as she helped her brother up.

"Never mind." Danny said, as he dragged his hand over his face and waved his other hand at her. "That was too close."

Katara looked back to the water as Aang got dressed.

"What was that thing?" She asked.

"I don't know." Aang answered, pulling on her pants.

"Well, let's not hang around to find out." Sokka said, rubbing the sand off his hands. "Time to hit the road."

"I couldn't agree more." Danny said. The sooner they got away from that thing—

The attack came suddenly, from above. Someone grabbed Danny 's arms from behind and put a blindfold over his face. Reacting as quickly as he had been attacked, Danny instinctively phased through his opponents grip, and ripped the cloth off his eyes.

Danny spun around and saw a girl in green armor, and elaborate face paint. He jumped back as the teen swiped at him with a fan.

"Jeez, what's your problem?" He said, dodging a kick. He looked at the warrior's face for an answer, but instead saw her eyes twitch over Danny's shoulder. He recognized this cognition immediately,– from months of fighting groups of ghosts at once– and shot himself backwards to the ground; narrowly missing the kick of a girl who had snuck up behind him.

Danny kicked the legs of the girl in front of him, knocking her down. He slid away from the two girls; now facing the back of the new attack-e.

While Danny couldn't go ghost, in fear of blowing his secret-identity, he could siphon his powers into human form. So, he just had to access a bit of his super-strength, and…

The girl spun around just as Danny kicked her in the stomach, sending her flying into a nearby tree. She slumped down into unconsciousness.

The group of warriors where stunned by this display long enough for Danny to look around those who surrounded him. Including the girl knocked out under the tree, there were five teenage warriors surrounding him; all girls, and all in the same green armor and white and red war paint.

"What do you want?" Danny asked as he dodged a punch, and ducked under another girl's kick. Next to the Air Bending Gates, this was easy.

Instead of answering, the warriors continued to send attacks his way. While Danny jumped back from a side-kick, he received quite a heavy blow from the back, knocking him forward into the fist of one of the girls. The wind knocked out of him, Danny froze for a second to catch his breath.

A second was too long.

He felt a sharp pain in the back of his head before blacking out.

A/N: First of all, I do not own Danny Phantom or Avatar the Last Airbender. I should start doing disclaimers more often.

Next: Sorry about the long delay; life, amiright?

Anyways, there was originally more to this chapter, which I transferred over to the next. It was just getting too long; I was on page eleven, and I was still only on introductions to Kyoshi Island. No idea when the next update will be, still pretty busy with school, commissions, and I was recently cast in a local TV show (and now I'm writing for it too) So that's going to take up a lot of my time. But, I'll try and get to this when I can.

Exciting things coming up… exciting things.

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