The fire war renaissance

Chapter 20: Dolly tracking

Yay! The site let me update on time this week!

A major plot line for this story finally rears its head, after twenty chapters of build up. Katara and Sokka are back home, Toph is back at her house with her new butler boyfriend, and everyone else is about to embark on a journey…so here we go.

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Chapter Twenty: Dolly Tracking

There were nine of them.

Avatar Aang. Fire Lord Zuko and his wife Lady Mai. Then there were the six Kyoshi Warriors: their leader Suki, second in command Ren, then Anci, Jiao, Lin-Lin, and Ty Lee.

They had abandoned the air ship at the landing reserve almost two weeks ago. They had been traveling and tracking down the rebellion for that long. The northern tip of the fire nation housed no rebellion anymore. They were so far up everyone could feel the chill from the North Pole coming their way.

"We should stop here for the night." Zuko suggested, stopping and dropping his bag to assemble him and Mai's tent.

"We're going to run out of land to walk on soon," Mai added, helping Zuko along with the endeavor. "How much of the tip can this rebellion be on if there's only another day or two walking range left?

"I'm think Mai has a point," Ty Lee said. "Maybe they moved and we missed them."

"Moved were?" Zuko asked. "If they moved they had to have passed us, someone on the air ship would've seen them, or they would've passed us when we were walking."

"I don't know, Zuko, The lower parts of the northern tip were a lot broader, maybe they were further east or west?" Aang contributed, shrugging. "Either way, we're not going to find them tonight, so let's get some rest." Everyone followed his lead after that, thoroughly exhausted from having traveled almost two weeks—only a few days away from having no more land to walk on—and still having found nothing.

Aang sat down once his tent was put up and he took his dinner into his tent, writing a letter to Katara once again.

Dear Katara,

We're only a couple days away from the tip of the North and we still haven't found anything. Some of us are wondering if the rebellion is even together anymore, and some believe that they passed us somehow. I hope that we can resolve this quickly and I can get back to you as soon as possible...

As he decided what to write next Aang pondered on how writing to Katara was becoming harder and harder. Without the air ships convenient supply of messenger hawks he wasn't able to send any of the letters he had written since they left the air ship. He looked over at the pile of letters, one for almost every day, wishing there was some way he could get them to her. They had been away for at least a good three weeks, the longest they had been away from each other to count and the separation was killing him. He was hoping by now that he'd be on his way to the Southern Tribe at that moment and that the rebellion would've been taken care of the previous week.

Now, he had a time limit. He had promised her he'd be there for his birthday so they could celebrate it together, but his birthday was only a little over a week away.

He was beginning to think he wouldn't make it.

Suki, on the other hand, was having a completely different problem. She was beginning to feel very odd over the course of the two weeks they were traveling on foot. At first she thought it was just because she wasn't used to traveling after six months of being lazy, but after the first week she was thinking she was coming down with something.