Prologue

This story is a crossover between, Avatar: The Last Airbender and The 39 Clues, but mostly The 39 Clues. Here are the nations and bending abilities for the 39 Clues competitors.
In this story, the Starlings and Irina Spasky will be alive and okay. Jonah Wizards doesn't fit in the story so he's kicked out.

For the people who didn't watch Avatar: The Last Airbender:
-Not everyone is born a bender, even though his or her siblings are.
-Most people live in the Earth Kingdom because it's the biggest nation and most fugitives have nowhere else to go but there.
-The Fire Nation started war 100 years ago.
-The Fire Nation wiped out every single Air Nomad except one, the Avatar.

Have fun reading as much as will have fun writing!

Fire Nation:
Natalie Kabra – Firebender
Ian Kabra – Firebender
Irina Spasky – Firebender

Earth Kingdom:
Eisenhower Holt – Earthbender
Mary-Todd Holt – Non-Bender
Hamilton Holt – Earthbender
Reagan Holt – Earthbender
Madison Holt – Earthbender

Water Tribe:
Alistair Oh – Waterbender
Sinead Starling – Waterbender
Ned Starling –Non-Bender
Ted Starling – Waterbender

Chapter One -
Art is a Blast

Dan was watching the fish in the tank swim around the coral and the seaweed like it wasn't even there. He wondered how they could actually have fun in there. After a few moments, Dan thought it was time to feed the fish, he grabbed some food from the container and raised a hand over the fish tank. He dropped the fish food into the water and the fish swam to the surface and started eating the small brown, cylinder like food. Dan watched for a bit longer and then ran back to the game of cards his friends were playing.

The classroom was extremely loud and everyone was waiting for the teacher. Some people quietly sat in their chair while others were as noisy as a snoring flying bison. Hamilton Holt was flexing his muscles, while Madison was bugging Reagan to earthbend with her. Sinead Starling was leaning in her chair, while her twin brothers were discussing a plan. Natalie was trying to separate the Yin and Yang to create lightning but she didn't quite get the hang of it yet, and Ian was just watching everyone in the room, a certain Holt earthbending caught his eye. Dan was sitting on his desk playing cards with 5 people and last was Amy Cahill.

She was reading her favourite book from the library. Everything around her seemed very calm, or as she thought. She hadn't noticed the Holt children earthbending small rocks behind her, and just when she got to the good part one hit her on the back of her head.

"Ow." Amy said calmly but still with a lot of emotion evident in her voice. She rubbed the back of her head and then turned to see Madison make the wrong earthbending move. Reagan, Madison, and Hamilton laughed a bit and walked away, only Reagan turning around to say "Sorry."

Ned opened his water bottle and eyed the room, making sure nobody was paying attention. He nodded at his brother, and Ted lifted a hand, water following him as he did so. Ted looked around the room just to make sure and quickly moved his hand towards Natalie, water following right after. Natalie saw it coming and with a flick of a finger, fire came out in its direction turning the water into steam. Natalie smirked, while Ned and Ted growled and decided to attack a weaker opponent. Ted lifted his hand again and, this time, brought his hand towards Amy's direction. Of course, Amy did not see this coming and didn't have her own self defense, so the water just splashed her. Amy gasped and the twins high fived each other in victory. It was just a normal day at Element Bending Academy.

The door opened and professor Alistair walked into the room. Everyone noticed this and quickly ran back to his or her seat putting away their items on the way there.

"Today class, everyone will be writing about how they think their bending ability is special to them." Professor Alistair announced. "If you do not have any bending ability, write about your nation or city."

"Here we go again." Dan muttered. Almost every assignment they get it will be about bending. That's why this school is named Element Bending Academy, it's really easy to get into this school if you're a bender but completely the opposite if you're a non-bender. That's why usually only benders come here and are barely any non-benders. For Amy and Dan, they don't even know if they have bending abilities.

Professor Alistair handed paper to everyone and gave out paintbrushes and ink to the people who needed it, including Amy and Dan. Everyone took their rectangular board and swiped it across the paper, pulling the paper so the wrinkles would disappear and turn smooth. Amy pulled her sleeves up, she knew if she made the wrong stroke it would take long to erase it. She gently dipped the paintbrush in the ink and lightly pressed it on the paper moving it in different directions. The room was calm, it took quite a lot of concentration to write calligraphy.

Just as she was finished, the bell rang and she placed the paper on professor Alistair's desk. She grabbed her books and headed for her locker. Just as she left the class, Dan caught up with her obviously very irritated.

"Do we really have to attend an almost all bender school?" Dan asked bitterly.

"It was really hard for Grace to get us into this school, so stop complaining." Amy reminded him.

"Then why did she choose this school? Couldn't she have worked hard for another school that wasn't a bending school? I mean we get left out of all the fun stuff, are we even benders anyways?" Dan complained.

"She chose this school because it's one of the best. And Grace always said we were benders, but always would avoid or finish the conversation right after. I haven't realized that before." Amy said. Dan shrugged and left for his locker, while Amy approached her locker. What they both hadn't noticed was that Ian Kabra heard everything they said when he was walking to his locker. He took a moment to think and then decided to bring his books with him to art.

When Dan and Amy entered the class, they sat at different tables in the far end of the class. Dan really liked art; it would be as amusing and easy for both the benders and him. That is, only he collaborated up with a bender. The non-benders usually collaborate with one of their friends that are benders, which is what Amy and Dan do.

People were chatting about their next project and how excited they were, most non-benders weren't that anxious. Mrs. Nguyen entered and greeted the class, as usual, and began to explain the next project.

"I want everyone to create something that would express your feelings in the most accurate way with the elements. I also want it to be natural, I mean things that are made by nature not by humans." She paused to check if the class understood, everyone had a clueless look on his or her face. She sighed and continued, "Let's say you're element was water, if you were extremely angry, the water in your container would be a tsunami. Yes, you could have partners if you wanted to."

At this, the room was filled with comments. Mostly 'Oh' and 'why didn't you say that so'. There were some people already choosing partners, thinking of creative ideas, and/or starting their art project.

Amelia Stevenson sat next to Amy. She was a waterbender and usually collaborated with Amy. She thought Amy was a great and calm person to collaborate with.

"Ready to start?" The waterbender asked anxiously.

Dan walked up to Carter and gave him high five. Carter was also a waterbender, a very fierce one at that.

"How are you feeling dude?"Carter asked.

Soon the whole class started their project. Everyone was having fun, laughing, and messing around a few times, which got Mrs. Nguyen pretty angry. And about 30 minutes of working, the whole class was done and had to present their project. Mrs. Nguyen chose Natalie first, which made her scowl.

In front of her was a forest. Natalie flicked her wrist and a small flame crackled to life as it made contact with a tree. The tree caught the fire and was spreading across the whole project very quickly.

"Natalie is this part of your project?" The teacher asked, staring cautiously at the spreading fire.

"It's Forest fire." Natalie snapped. "I'm getting angrier by the minute."

"How come?" Mrs. Nguyen asked.

"Because I hate gym and that's my next period. Plus, you keep asking me questions!" Natalie stated, obviously very irritated.

Mrs. Nguyen sighed, "At least it has some creativity." She walked off to Hamilton Holt, who had a really round and smooth rock at his presence. She noticed that there was a small doll made of rock lying under his project.

"How are you feeling Hamilton?" She asked.

"I'm happy that I get to hurt some people at gym today."

"How does this show that you're happy?"

"The rock is smooth which shows I'm calm, instead of it being a rough rock." Hamilton smiled. "Plus, the rock looks like a dodge ball and a boulder."

"You could have left it without the doll."

Hamilton shrugged. The teacher sighed and then continued with the next class member, it was Amy and Amelia. In front of them was a thin layer of ice created on top of a deep pool of water, all being held in a large container.

"We feel calm and quiet, but Amy has a lack of confidence and I have a lack of trust. That's why we created this thin layer of ice, it's very quiet and calm, but if you step on it, it will brake and fall apart. So, you wouldn't be very confident to walk on it nor trust it." Amelia explained.

"That's a very nice explanation, Amelia. Though the creativity could use a bit of work." Mrs. Nguyen commented.

Amelia's smile faded at that, "Could we have a retry?"

"No, Ms. Stevenson."

Amy, on the other hand, was okay on having a B on art. She wasn't much of an art type of person; it was Dan that was more creative.

Amelia's head dropped to the desk, and started to mutter under her breath. Dan rolled his eyes, but Amy knew she wasn't going to give up; Amelia had loads of self-confidence and never brakes down. That's why Amy always loves having her as a partner. She fights till the end. But at times, Amelia's confidence takes over and could be very scary. For example, at dodge ball. She will try to win, and at those times, Amy likes to keep a distance from her.

Soon Mrs. Nguyen was walking around the room asking people to explain their projects, and show her how it connects between their emotions. Most of them were very creative, while others not so much. It was hard to think of something creative with elements and natural disasters.

The teacher stopped in front of Dan and Carter. They were the last to present.

"So what have you two boys been up to?" She said, expecting something creative. The two boys smiled, and gestured to their project. It was ice growing in the middle of the desert (in this case, sand), each of them looking like very pointy teeth.

"These are icebergs in the middle of the desert. It looks like they don't belong, and that's exactly how Dan feels right now." Carter explained

"We kind of just chose my emotion… is that okay?" Dan asked.

"It won't affect your grade," The two boys sighed in relief, "But, what will affect your grade is the fact if that's natural or not. Is it?"

"Yes it is. You see, in Bolivia, South America, these pointy white teeth are actually snowdrifts. You could read all about that in 'Incredible Earth'" Dan said.

Amy's eyes widened, where did Dan get that? Amy wondered.

"I'm sorry Mr. Cahill but I don't know what or where is South America." Mrs. Nguyen stated.

"Now this is where the awesomeness comes in, I found it in the library in the AU private section."

"How did you get permission to go in there?" The teacher asked, a bit suspicious.

"I didn't…" Dan hesitated for bit and mumbled, "I knew that if that place was private, there would be something cool in there and I found this Incredible Earth book. You should check it out, though I'm not sure what AU stands for."

Carter nudged Dan and put a fake smile on his face. "What are you doing?" He said through clenched teeth.

"Sorry, I can't afford to fail now." Dan whispered.

"Well until I find that book you two get a B."

Carter shrugged and Dan just crossed his arms. One of his favourite periods, turned into a disaster. Just when he was feeling bad enough. The teacher walked back to her desk and everyone started putting away his or her items, except for Amelia, who ran up to the teacher and started debating. Almost immediately after, the bell rang and the class left for their next period. Dan stomped out of the classroom to go outside, a lot of people were staring at him, but he didn't care at the moment. When he was outside he sat aside on the bench, alone, and waited for the gym teacher.

A big bulky man walked in front of Dan, shading him from the sun.

"You're in the way." Dan grumbled.

"You're early." Said the man. Dan looked up to his surprise, that wasn't his gym teacher. Suddenly all his anger turned into fear.

AUTHOR'S NOTE

Hope you liked my first crossover!
And for you Avatard and 39 Clues fans, hope you enjoyed this chapter. Well to me, I'm not sure if I did. Promise the next chapter will be better, well at least I think it is. This is just an introduction to the crossover. I was just dying... DYING, to write this. I started off a long time ago but just had writers block for the other chapters, so finally I just said I'll worry about the other chapters later, because right now it's first chapter time. I also kept messing up, and started drifting to the real world. That would explain 'South America'. I had a huge writers block for that and when I finally thought of something, oops modern world. And yes, 'Incredible Earth' is a real book. You should check it out, the photos and short info are amazing. I just have a thing for landscapes.

Anyways, could anyone guess what AU stands for?

Don't the Holts and the Kabras fit their bending ability very well?
Ian reminds me of Zuko
Natalie reminds me of Azula