Chapter Four: Tree Houses
"How did you learn how to do that?" Jet asked Li as they walked down the road. Li had a ball of light resting on her hand lick a flash light or candle. Jet was still baffled by what Li was able to do. Li on the other hand was swelling with pride about her bending.
"I learned." Li replied like it was the easiest question known to man-kind.
"Yeah, but how do you do it?" Jet asked her. He was a bit annoyed at her attitude but he didn't have the right to point it out. She had beaten him in combat after all.
"Shape shifting is dark bending. Making this light is light bending. And that gust of wind was air bending. I'm a three bender package." She said with a laugh at the last sentence. "Where are we going, anyway?"
"Somewhere." He said, returning her easiest question attitude.
"Hardy har har." Li said sarcastically. If she could she'd cross her arms, but if she did she'd burn her arm.
Jet stopped. Li looked around, flashing the light every where as she tried to figure out why they'd stopped.
"Okay, why did we stop?" she said, admitting defeat.
Jet reached into the air and grabbed something that Li hadn't noticed. "Grab hold" Li warily grabbed what he was holding. He gave it a tug and they shot upwards. Li almost dropped her glider as they zipped upward. A few times she bounced off of his chest. That brought a red tinge to her cheeks but he didn't notice it.
The zip line stopped and hung in the air. Jet jumped off it and onto something. Li lit a small light ad jumped onto what seemed to be a porch. She made the light bigger and gasped. Hundreds of bridges and zip lines and houses were everywhere. And what else was that half of the bridges had somebody on them.
"It must be at least eleven at night…" Li said quietly.
"Nobody ever sleeps around here. Not with all the fire nation troops nearby." Jet replied to her. He started to walk off and she quickly followed. She was astounded by what was here. She was given many stares and glances from the others.
What Li noticed was that everybody that she saw was a child. She couldn't see a single adult anywhere. "Aren't there adults here?" Li asked.
Jet stopped and turned to face her. She bumped into him, not expecting it. "Adults? We're not going to be run by any adults." He said through a glare into space.
"Alright. Where do you get enough supplies to feed everybody?" she asked him when he started walking again,
"We steal it from the fire nation troops that dare come here. If they'll steal from our people then we'll steal from theirs." Jet replied.
"So, um, where am I going to sleep?" Li asked him. She figured that she was sleeping here since he'd brought her here. Why else would he?
Jet stopped at a small house that seemed uninhabited. "Here." He said, opening the door. It was small so you had to lean down to get through.
Li stepped inside and looked around. "Roomy. Very roomy." She said, noticing that there wasn't a single piece of furniture in the room.
"We can't get furniture. We use anything we can find. That's why we have log stumps as tables." Jet explained.
"Fine with me." Li said like it was no big deal. She opened her sack and pulled out her sleeping bag and rolled it out on the floor. She sat down on it. "Good night."
"Good night." Jet closed the door and locked it. He made a smirk and ran off. "That was too easy. Girls…"
Li was unaware of the fact that she'd been tricked. She had curled up on the sleeping bag and had transformed into a cat once again. The fur kept her warm and the sleeping bag kept her comfortable. She would not find out she was deceived until the next morning.
And next chappie! Hah!
Yes, a longer chapter!
