HIT 3000 views!!!!!! Thank you all so much!!!
Seriously. You guys are the best. Sorry I keep saying this but it’s true.
-Ellie
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
“I swear, if you don’t stop pacing, you won’t have legs to pace on by the time I’m through,” Sokka growled in Aang’s direction.
“It’s been 2 days, Sokka,” Aang hissed back. “What the hell is taking them so long?”
Since the Freedom Fighters had found them (ironically only about 250m from the vines), Aang and Sokka had spent hours cooped up in the trees, waiting for Jet’s answer. For some reason, he’d said that he needed to ‘confer’ with the rest of his group before joining them to find Katara. But that was 48 hours ago and the boys were growing restless.
“Look, if we don’t have an answer by tonight, we’ll have to find another way of getting Katara,” Sokka said in a calming voice.
Aang reluctantly nodded and sat down heavily on one of the thick tree vines that protruded into the tree house.
***
Hours later, when the boys were considering just getting up and leaving, Sokka’s blade began to vibrate in the tree trunk behind him.
The Avatar’s head snapped up just as Jet, Pipsqueak and Smellerbee entered. Without any warning, he stalked towards the Freedom Fighters.
“About time,” Aang spat.
His hands raised in a surrendering gesture, Jet chuckled.
“Calm it, friend,” he said. “We’ve decided to help you.”
“Took you long enough,” Sokka remarked coldly. He might not be as forward as Aang, but he wasn’t too happy about the wasted time either.
“Yeah, sorry about that,” Jet replied.
“Some of us weren’t as… easily convinced as others,” Smellerbee chimed in vaguely. Pipsqueak grunted in agreement.
Sokka and Aang shared a confused look before deciding that now wasn’t the time for arguing. Katara had already been gone for 3 days – who knows what could have happened to her. Neither of them wanted to think too hard about it.
“Right then,” Jet said, turning towards the door. “You coming? I know exactly where to start.”
And with that, he turned and disappeared into the canopy of leaves, leaving Aang and Sokka behind.
The Avatar turned to the two remaining Freedom Fighters. “What about you?” He asked. “Are you not coming as well?” It seemed weird that after all that debate, Jet’s followers wouldn’t join them after all.
“We are,” Pipsqueak said. “But we’ve just got to sort something out.”
“We’ll be right behind you,” Smellerbee enforced.
So Aang and Sokka followed Jet back to solid ground, Aang floating down lithely; Sokka about as graceful as a platypus-bear.
Neither of them expected what awaited them on the ground.
