The bridge between Universes

-AVATAR-/-Avatar last airbender- crossover

(I do not own any of this, they belong to their respective creators James Cameron/ Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. This is a fan fiction only.)

Chapter 18. Day 11

Fluffy clouds dotted the sky and the sun was up, shining as bright as ever. Its rays of light broke through the thick green crowns of Pandora's trees, giving the ground pleasant contrasts of shadow and light. On the ground sat Tarya, wagging her tail while enjoying the scenery around her. Well… to be honest… she tried at least. Filtering out all the noise of tumbling boulders, roaring flames, rising water and shouting winds made it a nightmare to try and enjoy the clam scenery.

But truth be told, it was not the only thing that was on her mind. The memories of two days ago occupied her thoughts. That was the day when Tarya took the deliberate decision to watch over Aang on her very own. What happen that day… didn't go as she had imagined.

The day started of nicely with Aang and Tarya trekking through the jungle. It all went without a hitch. Despite Aang been human and being at a physical disadvantage compared to Tarya, he did not seem to stumble through the nature like most of his kin would do. Instead he moved gently and quietly by using his airbending to augment his agility, which in Tarya's opinion was quite impressive.

So they made their way thought the jungle, but they weren't wandering aimlessly. No, today they had a planed destination, the feeding grounds of the Sturmbeest.

-Now for a another Pandora documentary-

Sturmbeest, Talioang in the native tongue, are 4.5 meters tall and 6 meter long herbivores and is known to be the main source of material and meat. In short, it's the Pandora equivalent of a Buffalo, but way bigger. Unlike buffalos they have three pairs of legs, no fur and their thick leathery skin is a blend between indigo and orange. They also have a big horn sticking out in front of the head. Even though they are a bit mentally slow and a plant eating specie, they will not hesitate to use it against a threat to their herd.

-End of documentary-

And the moment they arrived, Aang wanted to ride one. Tarya, obliviously severely perplexed by the human's suggestion of action, did her best to prevent him from running out on a feeding ground for beast that dwarf the human to a ridicules level.

Believe it or not, she actually managed to convince him that it wasn't such a bright idea and it did bring the avatar to reconsider. But, after losing the sight of him for just a moment, she then found Aang out on the feeding ground, carrying through his not so bright idea.

Later that day, a herd of Sturmbeest's was spotted carving a new path through the wilderness, smashing and crushing about anything that came in their bath. The people were rather perplexed by this sudden outburst of these beasts. Under normal circumstances it is the na'vi that riled up the Sturmbeest's to hunt them. They send them into a stampede such as this and put them down with arrows in there wind pipes. But it was too early for the hunting season, and now word was given from the chief for a hunt.

The confusing was calmed when a hunter saw the cause of the disturbance, or rather, the one fool that were riding at the helm of this mayhem. He said that the he saw a bald skyman, with blue markings on his head and arms, held on to the bull of beasts with his pants tied to its horn, screaming with excitement form the top of his lungs.

Luckily enough it didn't bring any major ramifications. Yes, there were a fallout with the na'vi, accusing the avatar of been a reckless child. But many recognized and accepted the fact that he is new to their world and that he can learn from his mistakes. After all nobody got hurt, except for Aang. Why he used his pants to get a hold of the beast, nobody wanted to know.

So even though a path of the forest has disappeared from existence, Aang got of relatively well, with the obvious ramification of the people being a tad bit more scared of him. But since when do people feel safe around someone who pulled a stunt like that? Answer, not the na'vi that's for sure.

The colonist however, being the radical humans they are, thought it was cool, really crazy, but mostly cool.

"Hey, Tarya!" Tarya snapped out of her thoughts when he heard the human. "Helloo… Pandora to Tarya, you hearing me?"

"Y-yes." She hastily answered. "Yes. I... am here." Even though her English vocabulary isn't up to standards, she still manages to hold her own in communicating with the human, even though she stutter when she talked, and added with her phobia of humans makes it even harder for the girl.

"So. What's today's agenda? I have already done all my training routines for today. " With that he gestured over to the glade behind him, which appeared to have had a nature equivalent of a refurnishing. Despite seeing Tarya's perplexed and slight amassed excretion he continued to speak. "Is there something you have planned for today?"

Tarya however haven't planned for something this day, she actually didn't want to guide him on her own again, not for a while at least. But Neytiri's stubbornness managed to change her mind. And there she was, sitting on the ground with a nature bending human by her side; obviously way to excited for his own good to explore the world around him, and Tarya had no idea of what to do, and not knowing what to do in the presence of a human, kick-started her phobia.

Tarya tried to form the proper words to tell Aang that she actually had no plan for today, but mere sound that resembled word came from her lips.

"I-Ia… Te-u… omum…"

"What?" He asked while giving Tarya a confused look. "What are you saying?" Again she tried to speak, and again only a mumble of word came. And it dint help that Aang began to lean closer to her to try and distinguish her words.

"Wa-ato … cloud…"

Then out of the blue. "You want to look at the cloud?" The avatar said resuming standing upright.

Tarya frowned. (Clouds? I said nothing about cloud.) But before she had time to correct herself, Aang smiled and said.

"That's a great idea!"

(It is?)

"We've been spending so much time on lessons about the world, looking at everything in so close and confined perspectives, so why not sit back and see it as a whole picture. Tarya, you're the best teacher ever."

(I am? Of course I am… but clouds?)

The Aang hastily added. "Okay maybe not as good a Katara, Toph or Zuko… But you are defiantly I the top five." With that Aang gave her another bright smile and a thumb up. Tarya didn't understand the gesture, or what he had said, but she didn't really care. Now they had something to do for the next few hours.

"Hmm… We should have thought this through more carefully." Aang muttered to himself as he looked upwards. And what he said was indeed true. Above him there were big and cotton fluffy clouds slowly drifting across the blue sky, a tad bit windy but otherwise calm. That however was impossible to be seen because of the big roof of green tree leafs that covered the heavens. Sure, there was a few holes here and there to let sunlight in, but did not allow the human and the na'vi to see the sky as a whole, which is what they actually wanted.

So the duo concluded on the ingenuous, and most obvious, solution to find a spot where the trees open up to the blue sky. That however had yet to be found.

"Hmmm…" He said to his blue companion. "This complicates things a bit." Tarya gave a curt nod at the airbender's statement. "Any suggestion on what we should do now?" Out of suggestions Tarya said the first thing that came to mind.

"We can walk… further." She suggested.

"We can do that… but." Aang groaned quite loudly. "Waking is so boring!"

"Walk bore you?" She asked surprised.

"Well kind of. I have nothing against walking. But it's… its just so sloooow." He dragged out the last word with a sulk, making Tarya even more confused.

"Run then." She suggested.

"Yeah but... " Aang looked at the na'vi with a cheap grin. "Not trying to brag or anything, but I'll probably out run you by a mile or so."

That sudden statement took her by surprise. "I run fast!" She retorted, feeling bit les tense.

"Not as fast as me."

"I have long leg than you."

"That didn't help you when we ran up the hometree."

"You have…cheat… start."

"Okay, I may have jumped ahead, a little, but I still got up top first." Tarya huffed at the statement. Somehow she suddenly got a bit competitive.

She huffed. "I climb fast than you."

"No you don't." Aang had a bit of smugness in his voice.

"Yes I do." She retorted.

"Nope. Not a chance."

"Yes. I. Do!" Tarya was now looking down on the avatar, with a competitive glint in her eyes.

"All right." He said standing up on his feet's, the pointed at the massive tree they were resting under. "First one up this tree wins." At that the na'vi stood up, accepting the challenge.

As the two got into position for the climb, neither of them noticed a flicker in the air that was at the edge of tree line, watching them in silence.

"Ready." Aang said with a self assured smile behind his mask. The na'vi guide standing right beside him.

"Get set." Tarya's muscles tensed, her ears raised and her breath became deep, waiting for the signal to come.

"GO!" She sprang in to action. Her hand grabbed the bark with slender dexterity, and then began to rapidly ascend, leaving the human on the ground. She could not refuse to smile to herself when she looked back to see the skyman just standing there, doing noting while she was taking the lead. That however didn't last long. Right when she was about to grab the first branch, a powerful wind hit her eyes.

When she opened her eyes she saw the skyman effortlessly jumping up the massive tree trunk, leaving her in second place.

"Are you coming Tarya?" She heard his voice from green canopy above her. Immediately she muscles tensed, not wanting lose sight of him a second time, she picked up her pace.

"Me and my stupid mouth." Tarya muttered under her breath as she grabbed the next strongest branch. "Climb the tree, yes climb the tree. What was I thinking! Stupid." And she continued on as she assented up the tree.

As Tarya climbed up the massive tree she gave her best effort to keep the avatar in her line of sight. And to her credit she gave a decent try at that, but when it came down to it, the avatar ascended up the tree with a literally 'breeze', making Tarya twist and turn her head so fast that she almost became dizzy. But even if she was so far behind, she did not show any sign of slowing down, in fact she was picking up speed.

Climbing higher became harder on the na'vi. The braches became thinner and thinner by each climb. But Tarya continued on, her mind set on reaching the green canopy as fast as possible. Then, worst possible thing that could occur to a na'vi, happened at that very moment.

Tarya panted deep as sweet ran down her blue neck. She jumped to get to the next set of branches, the moment her weight pushed down on the wood under her feet's, a sickening crack sounded in the air.

In split second notice Tarya felt that her right foot stepped on nothing but splinters and air. Her eyes widened and every muscle in her body tensed that exact moment. Fast as her instinct and reflexes allowed, she reached out and grabbed the closes solid object. Her arms reached out, but they grabbed noting rigid enough to hold her. It didn't matter though, for whatever she grabbed slipped out of her hands when she fell.

Leafs, twigs and small braches hit her hard as she tumbled down, flailing her arms and legs to try and slow down her fall. The only thing she could do was too scream as she descended to her death.

Then in her dire moment, luck decided to give her a little help.

A thick and sturdy tree branch slammed into her upper torso, and with long arms, quick reflexes, and some strong determination she managed to grab a hold of the life saving wood, with the unfortunate price of every bone and muscle in her upper body been consumed by utter pain.

Biting back a painful scream as best she could, Tarya was now hanging from a tree, and there was still a long way down. Determination still in her heart she tried to claw her way up into a safer position on the branch. And she managed to do so.

Panting from lifting up her body, she finally lay down on the tree branch as her entire upper torso ached in pain, lazily looking up at the tangle of branches and leaf above her to see a few rays of sunlight shining through the green roof. A shadow suddenly loomed over her head.

"Are you all right?" Aang asked crouching over Tarya, looking conserved.

She dint answer right way. "…I fine."

"I heard you scream a moment ago, are you sure you are all right?" Tarya said noting and continued to lie still. "Did you fall or something?"

"…No." For some reason the prideful part of her mind seemed to be reluctant to show weakness, so she continued hold back the truth. "I… I… tired. You climb… I rest." She closed her eyes to avoid looking up at the skyman, and to emphasize on her wish to "rest", hoping that he would leave her alone.

"You sure you don't need any help?" Aang asked.

"Yes… Go." Tarya voice had a hint of irritation. "Go…climb up" Aang hesitated to say another word, but he just turned around. Tarya sighed in relief when she heard him slowly walk away from her.

Aang however stopped after a few steps and turned around, then sat down crossing his legs in front of her.

"Tarya." He began. "I know you fell down, and I'm not going to think any less of you that you tripped and fell." Tarya opened her eyes look up at a calm and serious face behind the mask. "But I'm not going to allow a silly race to stop me from helping you."

His words slowly sank in for Tarya, and after a moment of silence between the two, she asked. "Why?"

A smile appeared on the avatars face, "Because that's what friends do. They look after each other." To say that Tarya was stunned, would be correct assumption. She was indeed really shocked for the sky man to actually say that, but also how he had said it. When Aang had spoken he didn't pun any emphases on any word or sentences, he just said it as if it was the most obvious thing to say. As if he really meant it. But the fact still remained that Aang, a person wish she just had met two weeks ago, and who is from a race that she still terrified of, and that possesses very dangerous abilities, had just called her a friend.

Thoughts of surprise, paranoia, shock and a whole slew of other feelings whirled around in Tarya's mind. And she had no clue witch one to pick. Her paranoia screamed to her that it was a ploy to trick her to lower her guard. Reason told her that he could have done that a long time ago. Fear then took hold and told her that with his powers he could really hurt her. Memory then reminded her of the first day they meet, how she would have fallen to his dead if not for the intervention of the skyman.

She knew from experience that the sky men were dangerous. She knew very well the harm they have caused, and by that, she never imagined it to be possible to be friends with one. But at the same time… she was willing to take the chance.

"You see me as friend?" She finally asked after a moment of calm.

"Of course I do." Aang said.

"Why?"

"Well… why not?" With that statement Tarya looked up even more perplexed at the avatar. "I mean, you're the only one who volunteered to help me fit in here. That's really nice of you. And you go out of your way help me out with a ton of things to, and I'm really grateful of that."

"But I-"

"I know you sometimes freak out a bit when I do some crazy thing, and well…" he chuckled light to himself. "…I can't really blame you since I tend to do all kinds of crazy things where I come from. But the thing is… you are willing to stick around with me, despite everything I do. Even though I do something stupid you are still there... So… yes, I see you as a friend. No! I see you as a good friend. And I couldn't wish for any more than that."

Tarya stared, out of sheer astonishment she stared at the avatar. Never had she imaged a human to say something like this. To be so opened and sincere about it all, yet to smile at the legitimate care in is words.

Tarya sighed deeply before she lifted her body from the tree trunk, then, when they were at the eye level.

"Thank you." She said with a smile. Aang then noticed her subtle effort to try and rub her eyes.

"Were you crying?"

"No… dirt in eye." The avatar smirked, knowing that it wasn't the entire truth.

Tarya Returned on her feet's and is ready to go.

"All right, now let's get you up top." Turned, rather dramatically, to Tarya and said. "Tarya, grab my hand!"

For a moment she hesitated, not knowing what was running through the unpredictable mind of the avatar. She finally decide to grab grabbed it and go along with whatever that came next, what came next she never would have foreseen in a million years.

Aang pulled her of the branch.

The moment her mind had registered that she once again was falling. Aang had managed to wrap her cloth covered arms around him.

"Whatever you do, don't freak out and let go!" He shouted. The 'not letting him go' part she understood fully, but the later… not so much, with is why she screamed as they tumbled down.

Then it happened. Right before they were going to become a red splatter on the ground. They have stopped falling. Instead they began to slowly rise. She was flying, there was no familiar bond with her ikran, no tough hide under heels and no rein by her arms, and yet she felt her hair been blown back by the wind.

The wind.

It was then that she took notes of the sphere of air in the avatars pawns.

Aang gritted his teeth, focusing all his willpower on holding his air scoter in its spherical form. He had done this thing several times before back home, carrying his friends on his back as he rode the air scoter, mostly with Katara, and it wasn't so hard. He had to compensate for the higher center of gravity and the extra weight, but all of them were humans. Tarya wasn't.

A bead of sweet rolled back from his forehead, hands held firm to maintain the shape and speed of the scoter. It was working. The two were slowly going up above the branches. But the strain on the avatar to maintain the scoter grew the higher up they came. And soon he would not be able to fold them both in the air. Aang was forced to make a desertion. Otherwise they both were going to fall again.

A flash was all there was and all that he needed.

Tarya could have sworn that for a mere moment the human's tattoos turned form vibrant blue to bright white, right before the sphere of air grew twice in size and sent them rocketing upwards with a great burst of speed. She had to bury her face in the avatars back to avoid all of the leaf and twigs that hit them both when they blasted through the enormous green canopy. When she no longer felt any more hitting her body, she lifted her head to the sky, only to close her eyes by the sudden light.

Aang shouted joyfully in the bright rays of the sun while Tarya were satisfied by hanging on to something sturdy and firm, which of course wasn't the skyman. When they broke through the green Tarya bolted to the closest tree limb that was strong enough to hold her. Hands secured firmly she then focused on the avatar. Who now was jumping between trees, sending all critters flying when he jumped on the neighboring trees.

"That was fun!" Aang shouted, jumping over and landing right beside Tarya, hands raised to the sky. "And look, clouds! Big fluffy and…" His words were stuck in his throat the moment he looked up at what he was gesturing at.

Polyphemus is a gas giant which is 2/3 the size of Jupiter which has tree moons orbiting it, Pandora is one of them. Of course Aang did not know this, because all he saw was a giant blue striped planet floating in the sky with a pair of smaller ones to.

It has been a lot of rain these past few weeks. And with a lot of rain follows a lot of clouds. Because of that Aang has not been able to see the gas giant. He had heard about it from the colonists. But since he however comes from a society where the level of astronomy and stargazing is considered ancient by the colonists, he just became confused when they did try to explain.

Only now has he actually seen it. And it totally blew his mind.

"Wow." He finally said after spacing out. "So this is what the whole moon ting was about?"

After soaking the spectacle, Aang winded down a bit and decided to do what they were supposed to do, look at the clouds. Tarya and Aang lay back on the most securers spot on the tree and enjoyed the view. Enjoying the wind as it ruffled leafs and sent the white fluffy entities lazily drifting across the blue sky, giving both the human and na'vi a feeling of calm.

Although Tarya could not help but to think of the glow she saw before. Questions continued to pop up in her mind about the sudden phenomenon. She knew very well that sky men weren't capable to glow, nether during day or night.

(How can this one differ from the others?) She thought to herself.

…

(Of course he differs from the others, have you forgotten about his abilities!) She realized with a mental curs. After a sigh she returned to her thoughts. (But why does his marking glow?) And she continued like that, lost in her thoughts trying to understand it all. Then when she has given up trying to come to a conclusion, she decided to ask him.

She turned her head to face the airbender. However she turned back whenever she was about to say something. Still her fear to speak with a skyman lingered, or was it just her been nervous, maybe both. But, when she did get a look at Aang, she couldn't help but to notice a sad expression on his face. As if he was longing for something, or maybe someone.

Finally after she managed to work up enough courage, she said. "Are… you…sad?" The question broke the silent atmosphere around them. Though Aang seemed to not have heard the question, for he just lay there and continued to look at the clouds above. Nervously licking her lips, she prepared to ask aging. That wasn't needed.

"I miss my home." He said with a sad tone. "My home… my friends." The last word seemed to carry more weight in his sentence."And I want to return back… But don't really know how to do it." That sentence more than confused Tarya.

"Why not return… back to sky? Sky men come from sky." And it was true, to the understanding of a na'vi. There are those na'vi who actually do not know of the human home world just believe that humans came from the sky itself, not from what was beyond it.

"Their home is not my home." Aang sat up, looking towards the horizon. "I know it sounds weird but… Norm and the others have showed me pictures and… "vids" , I think he called them, of what their home looks like. And it looks amazing, I mean really! They have stuff there I could never dream of, tons of incredible things, like-like buildings that pierce the sky, flying machines, something called toothbrushes, don't know that they are but they look cool, light bulbs, tech-tablets robots, holograma-jig, popsicles and lollipops!"Aang had the biggest grin on his face right now. Then, that grin slowly washed, and he returned to his gloomy tone. "But…None of it exists where I come from. They don't have benders. And mi friends does not exist there."

A long silence came between them by the end of Aang's sentence. Tarya was quite because she dint want to Aang to become sadder for been home sick. Aang was the one to break the salience this time.

"You know. The clouds here actually remind me of one of my friends." With that Taryas ears twitched in mild curiosity.

"Who?" she asked.

"Appa."

"Who is Abba?"

"No, no, it's Appppppa." He said stretching out the 'p'. This caused the na'vi to give a little chuckle, bringing a faint smile to her face.

"Appa is my flying bison." Aang continued. "He and I have been together through thick and thin."

"What is bison?" Tarya asked.

" … How do I explain this?" He paused for a moment to think. Then an imaginary candle went up in his head. "I know, Imagine him been like an ikran, loyal to a rider."

"You have ikran?"

"No. I have a bison. Instead of having giant lizard wings, a bison have six legs, two horns, a massive tail and lots and lots of fur. And he also has an arrow on his forehead, just like me." He said pointing at his tattooed arrow.

"…Fur?" Tarya asked looking perplexed.

"Yes fur."

"What is fur?"

"Its hair but shorter, and it covers the entire body." The weirdest and most disturbing image of an ikran appeared in Tarya's mind, and it has been burned into her memories. Forever.

"So yea, Appa and I have been friends since we both were young. I have taken care of him, he have taken care of me to." A deep sigh sight escaped his lips. "And the fun we used to have flying together." Tarya ears twitched.

"Flying."

"Yea. He and I have flown across the whole wide world together with all our friends." A nostalgic smile appeared on his lips. "All before I became older and my responsibilities as the Avatar increased, I haven't flown for fun in a long time." He returned to lie back and look at the cloud, his mind going through memories from when he was much younger.

There was a different story with Tarya thought. For now she knew what to do the rest of the day.

"This… is… AWSOME!" Aang shouted from the top of his lungs as he held on Tarya. And it was a wise choice since they both were on the same airborne ikran. High above the forest of Pandora, Aang and Tarya were soaring across the sky on her mountain banshee. The banshee made some squeals of annoyance, since he wasn't used to an extra passenger.

"I thought Neytiri said that only a na'vi can ride these." Aang shouted through the wind.

"Yes, I ride the ikran, you are follower." She said as she told the banshee, drought her Tsaheylu, to tilt a bit upwards.

"Work's fine for me!" Aang said giving another joy filled shout when flying creature made a sharp turn.

And from that moment forward to the rest of the day, together they flew together across the blue heavens. They made twirls and turns in the air, they flew both high and low, sometimes they calmly glided across the clouds. Once in a while Aang would jump of the banshee, more than once, to free fall down to earth. This scared Tarya of at first, but she then came to accept it, since the avatar had his airbending to rely on, so he wasn't in any danger, and she managed to catch him every time. He also did rearrange the clouds into different forms with his water bending. The results were… amusing to say the least, even Tarya couldn't help but to chuckle at the avatars creativity.

Then came the time where Aang had to return to the colony. When the sun was about to reach the horizon, Tarya and Aang made their way to New London across the orange sky. With a graceful glide and landing, they stooped a few passes from the big glass dome. Aang and Tarya jumped of the banshee. The avatar stretched his legs while the na'vi tended to her mount. Her hands slowly ran across the green banshee's neck, making it purr in delight, at the same time she kept her eyes on the human.

"Wow. That was amazing!" Aang said finessing the last of his stretches.

"We should do this more often from now on. If you're friend don't mind it hat is." The banshee made a soft hiss. "Don't know what that means but I'm going to take it as a maybe. Well se you around." He turned around towards the colony.

"Aang." The avatar stopped and turned back around. " I… like to… thank… you." She said looking down on the avatar, still stuttering with her English.

"Thank me? I was the one in the backseat. You're the one who flew the ikran. And that was a ton of fun!" He said with a big grin on his face. "I am the one who should that you." Tarya smiled but shock her head.

"No I… thank you for…for calling me…" Her words got stuck in her throat. She knew the translation, but for some reason she just could not say it. Her hands griped her cloth covered arms.

Aang chucked. "You don't have to thank someone for been their friend." He walked over to up hand on her shoulder, but decide to scrap that idea since she was twice his length.

"Just know that I am you friend, and that I will always value you as one. Because that's what friends are for." His time when he looked up into those amber yellow eyes, and now he saw a pair of different eyes, much different from how they were from the first day he saw them, a pair of eyes without fear. With that he turned and walked to the colony. "See you tomorrow Tarya!" He said waving goodbye.

Tarya felt good, really good, actually she felt great. She mounted her ikran once more. The beast felt its master's joy as it spread its wings, wondering why the little hairless creature made her so happy, then it decided to abandon that thought and focus on flying. But neither of the beast nor the na'vi noticed a flicker in the air.

The close to invisible flicker moved silently through the jungle. Twilight rays of light passed trough it, as if there was nothing there. But yet there was a flicker something had to be there. It moved with incredible nimbleness and agility thought the thick forest, trying to avoid any attention, and it went unseen and unheard. Then it suddenly stopped.

Leafs and twigs swept aside from a small hiding hole under a tree, revealing a metallic container the size of a large suitcase. Then the device began to float in the air, as if a hand was lifting it up. Then, the flicker began to give of a small with blue glow. Now instead of a flicker, there stood a man.

He was a bit tall, above medium height. He had ink black hair that went to his neck, but some of it was tided into a small pony tail. He wore ebony black grey armor that covered everything but his head. There however was something very strange about his armor. It wasn't made out of bulky ceramic plates or hardened vest that is often seen amongst the humans. Not it appeared to be made out of something more plastic. And the arms and legs, they appeared not to be actual flesh and blood, but synthetic, moving in a very unnatural manner. What stood out the most was his face. His skin was a bit pale. Though that did not really mater since it was his eyes that stood out the most. Were his eyes are. There is a… mask of sort, only covering his eyes and the edge of his cheeks and jaw, and the mask seemed to be fused with the wearer. And finally where his actual eyes are, there are two white glowing slit. And finally on his back there was a sheathed sword.

The devise in his hands opened up and lights began to flicker on and off rapidly, it appeared to respond to an orange glow that had formed around the man's right arm. A moment passed by before a synthetic voice came from the device.

"Identification required. Failure to do so will result in termination of this unit. " The man then spoke in a husky voice.

"Identification, field operative numerous 56439032345 dash 123247." An orange screen flared up.

"Identification recognized. Mission directive?"

"Direct link to HQ. Mission code: "Reality walker". Mark urgent." He said without pause.

"Affirmative." Said the emotionless voice. And he waited, be it a moment he waited. Looking over his shoulders, keeping an watchful eye on any wild creatures, indigene populous, or worse the avatar.

A new screen faired up, revealing another man sitting back in a chair. He was bit older that the first one. His hair brown was fined combed and well kept. Instead of dark armor, he wore a black expensive cut suit with fine white trims at the edges of his collar. The man held a fine glass of bourbon with ice in his right hand. His face was a bit elderly, not wrinkled, but clearly old enough to have lived through a lot of experience. His eyes stood out the most. They were sharp, almost analyzing, displaying an intelligent and sophisticated mind behind those eyes. The irises appeared to glow on the screen.

"Yes?" The older man said in a cam tone.

"Sir. I have located the Avatar." The man on the screen allowed a smile to pas his firm excretion.

"Excellent work. What is the current status of the boy?"

"He is alive and well, allthough he appears to have befriended the native species and this world's human populous." The man on the screen took a sip of his alcohol.

"What of the gene-seed?" He asked after the glass left his lips.

"I have confirmed its existents, and it is already growing. I can safely confirm that our sources were correct."

"Good. Now we know that we have one more accurate source. What else?"

"There has been no more entries here than me, sir."

"Then the deity managed to seal his entry, that's more good news." The smile on the man in the suit grew.

"Shall I kill him?" He with the armor asked.

"No." The man in the suit said flatly, his smile gone.

"Sir?"

"In this stage, the death of the avatar would be more damaging than beneficial. The original plan must come through first."

"And what if it does not, what if Ozai fails to do what he promised?"

"Then see if there is something to salvage from the situation. Otherwise, terminate Aang with extreme prodigious. The avatar is not allowed to become a threat to our organization."

"Understood sir." The man in the armor said with a curt nod.

"Now return to forward base and await further orders Kai Leng." With that, the elite Cerberus operative closed the device and vanished.

AN-I'm BACK! Noting more to say than I am so horribly sorry for the unnecessary long delay, But promise you, my loyal readers, that I will print out many more chapters much quicker during the summer.

And yes, for those who recognize that name, that is indeed lieutenant "bastard" Kai Leng, and if you knew that name, you can probably figure out who the other man was. And I have many more great plans in mind for other people who have an "interest" in the Avatar. And have fun waiting for the next chapter. -AN