Avatar; The Royal Firebender.

Jet

A few days had passed since the run in with the pirates and with Zhao again and our team avatar has been on the move ever since. Continuing their journey to the north pole having journeyed 200 miles east and north of the fishing village where they had encountered the pirates. In no rush today the gang finds themselves slowly going about their early morning routine, Zuko brews a pot of tea while Katara prepares some of the salted and smoked meat. Sokka goes about checking the snares and field dressing any game he caught from the night before while Aang goes about grooming Appa and feeding the large bison. The rambunctious lemur is bounding about the trees hunting for bugs and for fruits that might be growing from the massive thousand foot tall redwoods that shade them. The leaves of the canopy is a beautiful hue of reds, yellows and oranges.

Pouncing on a yellow leaf bug, Momo barely misses the insect and takes off chasing after it. Circling around the tree upwards then down towards the ground. As Momo pounces on the dirt, the insect escapes him leaving the poor lemur hungry. Luckily for him though a pile of lychee nuts is stacked neatly a few paces away. The airbender's pet scurries over to the nuts and picks up the first one bringing it to his mouth. Suddenly a spring trap is set off trapping Momo in a spherical cage made of brass. The sudden activation of the trap causes the lemur to screech in fright as the lychee nuts fall to the forest floor below. Hearing his lemur call out Aang perks up hearing Momo before running off in the direction of where Momo had gone. "Momo! Where'd you go?!" He calls running into the woods.

Coming to a clearing, Aang spots Momo a few dozen feet in the air in the brass trap. The lemur trying to reach for the ropes holding the trap up. Around him two baboons are also caught up in the trap hanging and bellowing for someone to release them. Wasting no time, Aang spins upwards towards the trap that is holding Momo, bouncing off the trees to gain more height. Getting to the brass sphere Aang wrenches it open allowing Momo to escape it before dropping to the ground below. Seeing that the bald boy freed the lemur, the baboons start calling towards him to get his attention. "Alright you too." Aang says as Sokka makes it to the clearing.

"That's gonna take way too long." He says to Aang before throwing his boomerang upwards towards the ropes holding the baboons' cages. The boomerang cuts through both ropes sending the cages to the ground. After freeing the imprisoned creatures from the traps, Sokka inspects the metal design of the cages. "These are firenation traps. You can tell by the metal work."

"We're in the west of the earth kingdom, we're pretty close to where the colonies are." Zuko comments upon seeing other laid traps around the clearing. "We should get going theres bound to be patrols coming through here." He suggests looking around for any other signs of the soldiers.

"Well let's go get on Appa then." Katara turns and heads back towards the flying bison but is stopped by her brother placing his hand on her shoulder.

"Wait. I don't think that's a good idea there's firenation patrols in the area and Appa isn't exactly conspicuous when flying." Appa groans loudly at Sokka's comment.

"What do you mean by that?" Aang ponders.

"He's a ten ton fluffy flying monster the size of a house. He isn't exactly easy to hide, especially in the air." Sokka retorts gesturing wildly at the bison. "Look just for today I think we should travel on foot. At least until we're out of the forest, call it my instincts but my gut is telling me that if we fly out of here something bad is gonna happen."

"Eh it can't be that bad, who knows? Walking could be fun." Aang says in his typical positive manner.

A Few Minutes later.

"Walking Sucks!" Aang yells as his feet ache from the few miles they had trekked. "I hate walking. How do people get around without a flying bison?" He questions trudging his feet along on the forest floor.