Disclaimer:I do not own Avatar: The last Air bender, but I do own Cho.


Chapter 4: Spies

"Was it just me or is this ground harder?" Sokka asked, stretching a bit and popping his back.

"It was probably just you." said Aang from atop Appa.

"How would you know, you slept on Appa!" Sokka replied angrily.

"Just because you had a bad night doesn't mean you have to take it out on Aang." Katara chimed in, glaring at her brother. "But yeah, it did seem a bit harder."

"Because nothing is alive on island." Cho said.

"What does that mean?" Sokka asked.

"She's referring to the sand worms." Aang said. "They suck all nutrition from any living being that is somehow connected to the ground, including the water from the soil."

"Oh…" Sokka stood up and began rolling up his sleeping bag. Soon after he finished and placed his on Appa's back Katara did the same. They all climbed on Appa aside from Aang who had slept on him.

Aang started Appa on his trip toward their next destination, Shinoja Island, where the giant pigeons usually slept right before migrating. "Where are we going this time?" Sokka asked as Aang climbed back with the trio.

"Shinoja Island." Aang replied. "It used to be a favorite for Air benders my age, it even has about two air ball fields if they weren't destroyed. But my favorite part are the giant pigeons! They are awesome to ride and easy to catch."

"Oh great…Were going to an island inhabited with giant chickens…" Sokka said, placing his hands behind his head and looking up at the sky.

"They are pigeons!" Aang replied, looking at Sokka.

"Pigeons, chickens, same thing." Sokka said, looking back at Aang.

"No they aren't!"

"Yes they are!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

Katara sighed and looked at Cho while they continued arguing. "You might be able to take your stitches out soon." She said, trying to start some form of conversation. "I need to check them though."

"Ok." she said, looking back at Katara as she rolled up her sleeve.

"Yeah, it's healing really great." she said, rubbing her hand over it slightly. "I'm done now." She watched as Cho let her sleeve fall back over her arm.

Katara figured that Aang and Sokka would have quit arguing but they hadn't so she decided to speed it up a little. "Will you please just be quiet…" Katara said, looking at them.

"Uhh….ok…" they said in unison, looking at Katara.

"Thank you." Katara said. "Does Shinoja have a place to bathe?"

"Yeah, I think there are a few hot springs on the island." Aang said.

"That's good." Katara replied. "I think we could all use a bath."

"Sounds nice." Cho said and smiled slightly.

"I'll try to teach you air ball if you want." Aang said excitedly as he looked at Cho.

"Just watch out, he tried to teach me and I got hit in the face." Sokka commented as Cho laughed a little. "It wasn't funny…"

"Would like to try myself." Cho replied to Aang.

The flight was faster than Aang would have imagined, or at least it was to him. It seemed they had reached the island in less than an hour of their departure. "We need to get more flying done before dark, I bet the fire nation is closing in on us every day." Sokka commented, getting off of Appa.

"But I have to ride at least one pigeon before we have to go." Aang said, looking at Sokka with wide eyes. "Please."

"Fine, just quit looking at me, it's really scary." Sokka replied. "And we can re-stock our supplies."

"Yeah, there are lots of fruit trees and berry bushes around here." Aang said and watched as Sokka almost started drooling.

"Come on Cho, lets go take a bath now." Katara said, getting a few bathing supplies before looking at Aang. "Where are the hot springs at?"

"Umm…There is a path that way that leads to three different hot springs, just choose one." Aang replied, pointing off to the left.

"And while you two take you baths, Aang and I will set up camp and gather some supplies." Sokka said, climbing back up on Appa to throw down their sleeping bags.

"Ok." Katara said and began to walk down the path with Cho following closely behind.

When they reached the hot springs they took their clothes off and got in the water. "This is refreshing." Katara said with a contented sigh.

"Very." Cho said then took a deep breath and dunked underwater. She came back up and wiped the water out of her eyes before looking down at the stitches on her arm which were almost ready to take out.

"Here." Katara said and handed her a bar of soap while her herself washed off.

Cho washed off quickly and dunked underwater again, making sure to get all the soap off of her body and out of her hair before coming up and wiping the soap out of her eyes. She almost jumped out of the water when she heard something in the bushes. She dunked underwater enough to where only her head was visible.

"Show yourself." Katara said, copying what Cho did. She heard a bit more rustling then a few voices before turning red in the face from anger and embarrassment. "Aang! Sokka! Get out of the bushes and leave now!"

"Sorry!" You could tell that was Aang that had said that.

"Shut up…she's already mad…" Sokka said, dragging Aang off.

Cho turned bright red and waited for a moment to make sure they were gone before getting out, drying off, and putting her clothes on, soon followed by Katara. They walked back to the camp in silence but that was soon broken when Katara saw Sokka and Aang.

"What did you two think you were doing spying on us!" Katara yelled and watched as they coward.

"We weren't trying to spy, we were gathering firewood." Aang said. "Sorry again."

"I swear, we didn't know you two were there…" Sokka said.

Katara sighed angrily and pushed the bathing supplies into Sokka's arms. "You two need to take a bath, you're minds aren't the only things that are dirty."

Sokka and Aang walked off to the path and to one of the hot springs and quickly took their own baths before walking back to the camp. To their surprise only Katara was there. "Where's Cho?" Aang asked, being the first to notice.

"She went to go ride on of the giant pigeons, she said she would be back soon." Katara said, not looking at them but having a voice that sounds all too sweet.

Just then there were many bird sounds and a laugh. Just then about three pigeons flew overhead and dangling from one of their feet was Cho.

"Is she riding it right?" Sokka asked, looking up.

"Yeah, don't tell me you thought you rode on their backs." Aang replied, looking at Sokka.

"Well then, I won't tell you." Sokka said, looking away as Aang laughed some.

"I'm going to go join her." Aang said as he took off in the direction the pigeons came from and pretty soon you could see Aang flying overhead with another flock of Pigeons.

"I wonder how you get off of…" He was cut off by a loud splash in the water. "…them." He watched as Cho crawled out of the water and walked back over to them, sitting down beside Katara in front of the fire, with the same all too sweet smile on. "And now I know."

Soon Aang followed suit and another splash was heard along with another soaking wet body coming to rest in front of the fire. "So, I take it from you two smiling, your not mad anymore?" Aang asked, looking at Cho and Katara.

They both laughed before looking at each other. "Not mad." Cho said.

"Yeah, we're fine now, I mean after all it was an accident." Katara said, shrugging.

"Well, ok then." Aang said, still a little freaked out by their smiles.

A bit later after they had all eaten and rested a bit Aang took them to the Air ball field. He helped Cho get up on the opposite side of the field before getting the ball and throwing it at the side in which she inhabited.

Cho caught the ball with some difficulty and followed Aang's instructions as to how to throw it. The only problem was when she actually got ready to throw the ball, it ricochet back and hit her in the face, knocking her back off the pole.

"Hey, are you ok?" Sokka asked, looking her way before looking very befuddled when she started laughing her head off.

"Was fun." she said, getting up and dusting off.

"It's getting dark, I think we should go back to camp." Katara said as they all started back. They reached the camp and everyone got their beds ready, Cho's being made out of leaf but she was used to it.

Everyone went to sleep aside from Cho and Katara who began to put their plan into action.


Sorry it took so long to update, I have major writers block. I won't be posting the next chapter until I get a few suggestions, so if you have something you would like me to add, just tell me in a review. Thanks for reading and thanks for reviewing.