Avatar: A Harry Potter Story

Broken Bridges

Book One: Air

"An earth and water bender killed the Fire Lord's family?!"

I nodded, whipping my sweaty palms against my slightly sandy jeans. I had woken up on the beach we had set up camp in, in shock this morning. The dream I'd had of the Fire Lord and the day his family died felt so real. As if I were there when it happened, watching everything play out like a scene from a movie. I felt his pain. The emotional stab at his heart the minute he realized what had happened to his husband, Cedric. The anger he felt when he charged the earth bender. The helplessness that overwhelmed him when his son was drowned...

I had felt it all. And I was terrified. This would count as the second dream I've dreamt of Fire Lord Riddle. Will it ever stop? What do these dreams mean? If I have any more dreams, what part of Riddle's life would I see next?

"Harry?"

I blinked and I blushed. Both Hermione and Ron stared at me with concern as we walked. I gave them a reassuring smile and kept trudging through the field of wheat we'd entered. In the far distance, a gleaming city looked like a dollhouse before us. Diagon City, or the Capital, as I had recently been told. Yet I still didn't know what it was the capital of.

"Harry, these dreams may be creepy but you can't dwell on them. We need to find you an airbending teacher first before we even think about Lord Riddle." Hermione stated and I nodded, sighing. I knew she was right but I had an itching feeling these dreams weren't a coincidence. I shook my head and tried to focus on something else. My feet ached and the hot sun beat down on the three of us like a heatwave. The wheat we through got in my pants and my legs were beginning to itch.

So, to make a long story short. Ron, Hermione and I weren't exactly having the time of our lives.

"Why didn't we just fly to the city?" Ron groaned, wiping sweat off his forehead. Hermione rolled her eyes at the ginger irritably, as if she'd explained the reason to him a hundred times before. "An enormous, flying, extinct  tiger would raise suspicion, Ron. We had to leave him at the beach." She said and I frowned, a troubling thought suddenly coming to me. "What if Blaise decides he doesn't want to stay and flies away?" I asked and Hermione stopped in her tracks. Ron smirked at her defeat, she hit his arm and we continued walking. "Let's just get to the city, find an inn and get some rest." She said. With my eyes struggling to stay open, I yawned in agreement and trudged on.

By the time we'd gotten anywhere close to the city, the sun was beginning to set. Even Hermione began regretting leaving our newly acquired friend at the beach. We'd reached a hooded forest on the the outskirts of the Capital. The lights of the skyline shimmering up ahead. Everything ached and I wanted to sit down and sleep, but we'd already taken multiple breaks and Hermione and Ron seemed intent on making it to the confines of the city before dark.

We'd been walking in such silence that I was afraid my own mind and the thoughts running around it would drive me insane. So as a last resort to hopefully making our journey shorter, I began talking.

"Why do you guys think the President was at a camp miles away and not in the city?" I asked randomly, thinking back to my time spent as a hostage in the President of Diagon City's camp full of intimidating women. Ron sniffed, sighing. "The President can't only just be the President," he stated, spreading his hands out in front of him. I stared at him, confused. He rolled his eyes. "It's like school teachers. A sex Ed teacher is never just a sex Ed teacher. They'll always have another job like PE coach or something," he said off handedly and I laughed, surprised at how lively it sounded given how tired I was. Hermione spoke up. "Every president of every country  in the Other World has had their own version of what I guess you'd call the 'secret service'. We just happened to stumble into their territory with the Avatar. Whome the Fire Lord had set a bounty on-" she said as if this was an everyday occurrence. The questions that had been forming in my brain finally began pouring out and before I could stop it, I couldn't keep my mouth shut.

"What about the prophecy? What are we supposed to make of that. What if she was lying, trying to confuse us with it. I can definitely assure her she'd done it well because I am mighty confused. Also, these dreams I've been having. Will they ever stop? And-and who's supposedly going to teach me air bending? Who do we know who we can trust? How will we know that someone won't find the apparent bounty on my head and use our desperation for a teacher to their advantage-"

Hermione put her hand on my shoulder gently, stopping the three of us in our tracks. She was about to answer me when Ron cut in.

"We'll cross those bridges when we get there!" He said enthusiastically, as if it solved all of our problems. The answer was so stupid and random that Hermione and I couldn't help but laugh. Hermione calmed down and sighed, her hand falling off my shoulder. "If anything, Harry. Ron's right. We'll cross those bridges when we get closer to- AHHHHH!"

"HERMIONE!"

Dust rose in the air and my heart beat rapidly, my eyes wide. Hermione had just fallen through the earth. Some type of sink hole remained where she had been standing. Ron's blue eyes were wide with terror and his breath was ragged. Suddenly, the hole cracked and a fissure branched out from it like a branch. Two more appeared in the ground, stretching towards us both and Ron looked up at me. An unspoken agreement being shared between the two of us.

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