Chapter 19: Don't Let Me Down

Ah-ha. Chapter 19. A good chapter. Well, I'm the writer so I think they're all good. Anyway, don't take my word for it; you're supposed to read it. Enjoy.

Azula sat comfortably in a tree at the edge of the jungle. She was watching Jet on the beach. He was doing something. She just couldn't figure out what exactly. She lazily plucked a lead from the branch she was sitting on. She heated her finger tips and burned small designs into the leaf. Yay, how exciting. She was starting to feel like Mai.

She let the leaf fall to the ground and glanced over at Jet again. He was digging something. But what?

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"There!" Crin said, pointing towards a small island. They could just make out the white lump that was Appa and a few figures milling about the vicinity.

"Yes! We found them!"

Crin directed Kemos (again I mention that that's her bison) to land. As they spiraled closer, Sokka could make out two extra green figures on the beach. He wondered who they could be.

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Jet wiped some sweat off his brow. The pit was finished. Too bad he wasn't and earthbender. It would have saved a lot of work. But it would be worth it, just to see the look on her face.

He smiled over at the tree where he knew she was watching. She was curious. What else did she have to do anyway?

Jet dusted off some of the sand and set about his next task. He needed some driftwood. He wanted to be done by sundown.

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"Sokka?" Katara asked amidst heartfelt greetings. "What are you guys doing here?"

"Yeah," said Aang. "I thought you were staying on the island."

"Something came—Hey! What are they doing here?" he demanded, pointing at Mai and Ty Lee.

"They are looking for Azula as well and I am allowing them to accompany us," Ursa said. Her stern look silenced all of Sokka's questions and protests.

"So what happened?" Aang pressed.

"The reason Azula is shipwrecked is because she launched an invasion on Konashi," Sokka said. "We got a message from them and went to go help, but Haru said they had sunk Azula's ship and the invasion was scattered."

Aang kept a thoughtful silence.

"There's something else," Sokka continued. "The Konashis received assistance from the Freedom Fighters."

"Jet-"

"No, he didn't show, but he supposedly tried to sneak onto Azula's ship himself and went missing after it sank."

It took barely a moment for them to understand.

"So the rebel she's stuck with is…"

"Jet."

Zuko frowned. Jet. Freedom Fighters. It all sounded so familiar, but he couldn't place the names.

There you go, two chapters probably equal to what a decent chapter should be. I'm working on the shortness problem for my future stories. Anyway, give me feedback, about the chapters, about my fate idea, which at this point I'm thinking of scratching anyways, oh and any feedback concerning a trilogy would be nice, whether you want one, ideas, that sort of thing. And this story really is almost done. Just three more chapters, and possibly the epilogue. Anyway. Salvete onmes. Yeah, still feeling like a Latin dork.