𝑾𝑨𝑽𝑬𝑺 || 𝑨𝒂𝒏𝒈 (𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌 1) *Revamping

Jet*

Jade could honestly say that she loved traveling with her new friends. More often than not, she had fun with them. She just had to exclude all the times they nearly died, all the times she was more than ten feet above solid ground, and...well, times like right now.

At the start of their travels, Aang, Katara, and Sokka were polite enough not to laugh when she lost any semblance of coordination. Now, all politeness was out the window. When Jade slipped on uneven terrain, all three of them burst into laughter. To be fair, they made sure she was okay first. But still, her face burned with embarrassment.

As they calmed down from their laughter, Aang glanced around. He blinked. "Where's Momo?"

Brushing dirt from her green shirt, Jade scanned the trees. "He ran off a little while ago, I think..."

Then came a screech, which seemed to echo throughout the forest. The four of them followed the desperate cries down the forest path. As the cries got louder, Jade looked up. Hanging above them were several animal cages, trapping defenseless creatures at least thirty feet above the ground. Jade couldn't imagine how scared they must have been.

(Though their fear probably had more to do with being in cages than it did with the height.)

Regardless, she frowned. "Poor things..."

"Hang on, Momo!" With the help of his bending, Aang leaped from tree to tree until he reached the branch suspending Momo's cage. He hung upside down, lowering the trap to the ground, where Katara and Sokka opened it to let Momo out.

Jade expected the little guy to be shaken, so she opened her arms for him to jump into. Momo did just that, but instead of cowering, he curled up in her arms and dug into the lychee nuts that must've lured him to the trap. Jade sighed, Katara frowned, and Sokka groaned in annoyance.

Aang landed back on the ground. The hog monkeys in the other trap voiced their distress, clearly whining for freedom, too. So Aang jumped right back up like he'd done before. "Alright, you, too."

As he started to jump between branches, Sokka pulled out his boomerang. "This is gonna take forever."

He launched it, with such perfect aim that Jade couldn't help being impressed. The boomerang curved, cutting the cage ropes and dropping the traps.

"That works."

Jade scratched Momo's head, watching her friends free the hog monkeys. Aang landed next to her again as the critters scurried back off into the trees. She waved after them. "Be safe!"

Sokka kneeled down to examine the traps more closely. "These are Fire Nation traps. You can tell from the metalwork. We better pack up camp and get moving."

She hadn't admitted it out loud yet, but Jade wasn't sure what they would do without Sokka. For every silly thing he said, he would eventually say something smart, too. He was certainly the only one of them who knew that much about metal.

They returned to their camp to pack up their things. It didn't take long, since they didn't have many things as a whole. Their food from the last town was running low, but it would last them a few more days. They rolled up their sleeping bags, loading them onto Appa, when,

"Uh-uh." Sokka stopped them. "No flying this time."

Sitting back on her heels, Jade blinked. "Why not? We always fly."

(Which, she knows, was ironic coming from her.)

Sokka took the sleeping bag from Aang. "Think about it; somehow Prince Zuko and the Fire Nation keep finding us. It's because they spot Appa -- he's just too noticeable."