(Rewrite) Transdimensional Troubles

Chapter 8: Talks and too little fights

The blasts hit the column behind, cracking it. Phantom unnoticeably hissed. Imagine what would happen if he actually hit the target. Sometimes his blasts were more powerful than he wanted. It had never happened before his arrival to that world. And a while afterwards. Luckily no one had been caught in it during the accidental surges of power.

Azula dodged the hits, sending torrents of fire forward. The avatar got separated by Zuko, and got quite busy. That left only...Danny looked around rapidly. The others were gone. Now that got his attention. But before he was able to do anything, Phantom heard a grunt coming from where the princess was. Surprisingly, Katara managed to actually grab Azula within the spurts of water. The question of how that was physically possible was put aside. Danny's eyes and hands glowed with ice blue color, before he fired a beam. The binds froze solid, and became impossible to wield, as they were an extension of Katara's hands.

Another swipe of the hand and the ice shattered in pieces. Azula flashed Phantom a smirk, before Danny saw Zuko behind her. The half ghost charged a blast, but the princess easily guessed his reaction. Once the blast escaped Phantom's fingertips, Azula apprehended the shot by the gust of fire, before shaking her head. Danny understood the thing, although he was deeply confused. But Katara needed to be taken care of. Becoming intangible and reappearing near her in a brief moment made it seem like teleportation. Danny had her neck in his hand. No need to be harsh, he thought, before tossing her aside without much force. It was still enough for her to lie on the ground in exhaustion after hitting the crystals with her back.

He then heard a booming sound. Turning to the side, everyone saw that Aang was rushing to help his friend on a giant boulder. The ghost was calm. Such things are simple to disrupt.

"Shall I do as thou ask?" Danny asked theatrically.

"Do it," Was Azula's brief order.

Phantom yawned and moved his hand. Massive ice spikes disrupted the trajectory of the movement, sending the avatar flying forward out of inertia. The boulder stuck once hitting the improvised wall.

"Not very original," the princess commented.

"Says the one who only uses fire and lighting," responded Phantom reasonably.

Avatar was about to get up, when the Dai Li agents came out of nowhere.

"Just what happened with Long Feng?" Danny inquired.

"I'll tell you later."

It seemed that the avatar realized that they were being outmatched. There were no odds of them winning this. Unexpectedly, Aang brought up the crystals from beneath the ground and hid inside the cover. Danny blinked.

"Why would he need this?" He asked.

"To meditate," Zuko suddenly guessed.

Azula obviously understood what was going on. No one noticed her stepping away.

The crystals started glowing. With the loud cracking sound the avatar emerged. His eyes and tattoos were emitting the blinding light as he was floating high above the ground. Something was supposed to happen, but the light show was interrupted by a powerful lighting strike from the princess, her fingers still had sparks, as shiny as her smirk and a triumphant glint in her golden eyes. The avatar's limp and unconscious body plummeted down.

From nowhere came a tsunami as tall as half way to the ceiling. It mercilessly flushed through the entire hall, washing away everyone in sight. Phantom remained intangible, untouched. He almost felt bad for being so superior to her magic. Katara used the distraction to get to Aang. Danny sighed, letting the crying girl do that. Let them have their moments while they still could. Hopefully he wasn't dead.

The others got back to him. The princess kept grinning, about to launch fire at the defenseless teens. Shockingly for everyone, Danny put his hand on hers, making Azula's head snap to him.

"What are you doing?!" She exclaimed.

"I think it wouldn't do any good. Isn't it better to demonstrate his corpse to everyone? To crush their spirit completely? The body scorched to the unrecognizable piece won't be of any use."

The princess seemed to brighten at the idea. "Good thinking," she complimented, the fire subduing. "Seize..."

She didn't have time to finish as the firestorm sifted out the most of the present people. Iroh stood between them and the avatar.

"Run! I'll hold them off!"

Katara immediately took her leave, despite the many efforts. Iroh kept swinging fire everywhere, his purpose indeed was not to let anyone approach. Even Danny was forced to mostly hold an energy shield. And honestly, he wasn't trying much. Everything was going just as he wanted them to. Once the waterbending girl escaped through the waterfall, Iroh simply...surrendered. Phantom caught how he looked at Zuko. It was a glare of disappointment. He refused to even look at the one he had tried so hard to protect during the last encounter with the half ghost.

"Despite this most unfortunate escapade," Azula started. "Everyone did a wonderful job. Especially you, Zuko. Come talk to me later please, I still have to sort some things out."

The scarred prince was happy to oblige. Happy to go away from his uncle. Danny, meanwhile, stayed with Azula. She smiled at him as the Dai Li carried the old man away.

"I think father will be most pleased as well."

"I hope so, princess," Danny crossed his hands. "It was a sole and simple condition. I've done more than enough."

"Sure, sure. Don't worry about the report, I assure you it will be most complimentary."

With that she went away. Phantom was left with very mixed feelings. He was incredibly happy that he was going to return to the Fire Nation and thus begin the construction. On the other hand, a dreadful feeling rose in his stomach. Everything was a mess of intrigues and deception. It was unclear what to think of what had happened, and what was to come. A mixture of unreasonable actions and those which had been given too much thought. But overall, nothing stopped a boy from dreaming.

A.N. Sorry for the rush in the end. And the entire chapter looks disgusting to me. But I'm tired of changing so many things here, and you are probably tired of waiting for the new chapter. The next should be much more interesting.