Fly Appa, Fly!
Aang watched the ship as Fire Nation soldiers came out and headed inward towards the forest. Most likely they had already found Katara and Sokka, but Aang just hoped they didn't catch them. So with Momo curled on his neck and his glider in his left hand, he flew off in search of his friends.
They couldn't have gotten that far away from our camp...
Aang thought as he circled the campsite looking for any signs of his friends.
"Hurrrrrrooo?" Momo flew off of Aang's shoulder and onto a boulder near the campsite.
"Don't worry Momo, if Appa's right here, than they must still be on the island. We'll find them." The airbender reassured his pet lemur.
As Aang landed he jumped on Appa's back to cover more ground.
"Come on Appa, we have to search for Katara and Sokka," But he was still sleeping.
"Aarrrgghhhhh," The bison moaned lazily.
"Fine, we'll go. But if Katara and Sokka come back, come and find me and Momo ok?"
So the airbender and his lemur were off again.
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"Sokka, I'm not sure if we should be out looking for Aang. What if he comes back and we're not there?" Katara looked at Sokka then kept on walking.
By now they had pains from running and were panting heavily. On top of that, they hadn't eaten since earlier yesterday so they had a hard time trying to look for him.
"What if something happens to him or if they find him? If we stayed at the camp and they got away with him they would be miles away before we even leave the camp." Sokka told his younger sister.
"I guess so," Katara said looking at him with an annoyed expression.
As they walked through the forest, being careful not to step on anything that might emit sound, they heard a voice from not a far off distance.
"Did you hear that?" Katara asked her brother.
"Shhhhhhhh, be quiet. If we stay unseen, we might be able to get a closer look on who it is." He whispered back to her.
The two of them hid behind a large tree to listen to the voices.
"Lieutenant, search the west side of the island. If you find him bring him to the ship and inform my uncle." The Prince said and turned away to search the opposite side of the island.
"Zuko's heading this way, we need to move before he spots us!" The frightened waterbender whispered then looked back behind the tree.
"There's nowhere to go without exposing us. We'll have to attack." Sokka took out his boomerang ready to throw it.
"I knew it was a bad idea to leave the campsite. We should have took Appa and searched for Aang," She said quietly but just enough that Sokka could hear.
Ignoring what she said, Sokka came from behind the tree and threw his boomerang at Prince Zuko.
Almost missing the boomerang shot out and hit Zuko in the head.
"Where is he?" The Prince sounded furious.
"We'd never tell you!" Katara yelled as she came from behind the tree ready for attack.
We can't anyway, we don't even know…
Katara thought to herself.
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"Where are they?" Aang asked as they flew over the treetops.
Sighing, he got ready to land on a boulder he could see just a tiny bit through the trees that jutted out of the forest floor.
Before he started to descend from the sky, he could see a blast of fire coming from the forest close by.
"Looks like trouble, I hope Katara and Sokka aren't in this!" Aang said to himself as they started heading to the explosion of fire.
For a minute he couldn't see anything for the fire caused smoke to surround him.
"Katara! Sokka!" He yelled into the smoke.
"Aang? Is that you?" Aang could hear Sokka's voice somewhere around him.
As the airbender started walking into the middle of it, someone grabbed his arm.
"Caught you!" He heard as the smokescreen faded.
"Zuko!" The surprised airbender looked up at the firebender.
"Let go of him!" Katara yelled. She had barely any water left in her water bottle but just enough to do the water whip.
The water whip flung towards the Prince causing him to break his hold on Aang.
"You'll regret attacking me!" He said and unleashed a fire blast straight for the waterbender.
Before it could reach her, Aang took his glider and spun it making a miniature twister that he flung towards him.
"Aaaarrrggghhhhh!" They heard from the trees above them.
"Appa!" Aang looked up to see his old friend coming over to pick them up.
By now Prince Zuko's guards were trying to surround them. The only hope of getting away was if Appa could come in and land directly in the middle of the battle.
But it was too late for Appa to try to save them. Zuko's guards already had Sokka and Katara.
As Aang tried not to get caught, he grabbed his glider from the ground and flew up to Appa before the guards had a chance to catch him.
It was nearly sundown and a cool breeze from the north started setting in which made it hard for Aang to fly up to Appa.
By the time he made it there, they were already heading back to the ship.
"Appa! We need to hurry if we're going to make it in time to save Sokka and Katara!" Aang yelled to the fluffy bison.
"Yip yip!"
