Avatar

The Next Generation

Jet and the Freedom Fighters

Chapter Two

Hateful Glares and an Innocent Daughter

Story summary: 18 years have passed since the end of the war. The Avatar was able to defeat Fire Lord Ozai, but Fire Lady Azula refuses to give up. There is now a second war, but the Fire Nation struck the first blow; by capturing the Avatar. Now a young teenager must travel across the world to save her parents. On her way she meets up with a group called the Freedom Fighters. Can Jet be trusted? Or is he still up to his old tricks? The first installment of the 'Next Generation' series.

Author's note: Sort of an AU. Jet never died. Heck, he never left to go to Ba Sing Se. He stayed in the forest to continue bugging the Fire Nation.

Another Author's Note: For those of you who read my story on the first night it was out, the first chapter has been recently updated.

Me: Pleeeeeeease…can I own Avatar?

Nickelodeon: For the twelfth time, NO!

Me: MEANIE! runs away crying

The next day…

Abi awoke to the sounds of birds chirping above her. She rolled over, and landed with a THUD! on a hard wooden floor. Opening her eyes, she groaned. "Wha…"

"Finally, you wake up." Abi looked up to see a girl with dark hair and tan skin staring down at her.

That's right. She was sharing a room with Daiyu, daughter of Jet, the leader of the Freedom Fighters. Abi must've fallen asleep as soon as she had gotten there, because she didn't remember much of the past night.

Abi sat up, rubbing her now sore back. Before she could say anything, though, her stomach growled.

Daiyu laughed. "You must be hungry. You fell asleep before dinner." She said. Then she pointed to the table in the back. "Come on, they remembered to give us enough breakfast for two."

Abi stood up immediately and almost ran over to the food. Greedily, she grabbed a bowl of…whatever it was and stuffed her mouth full, before she noticed Daiyu was heading the opposite direction, out of the tent. "Were aw you gowing?" Abi asked without swallowing first.

"Me and Dad are going out to do some…information collecting at the Fire Nation camp near here." Daiyu said. "You don't have to come. I'll be back later."

Abi shrugged and continued stuffing her face, as Daiyu closed the wood door behind her.

It wasn't long before Abi had wolfed down her entire breakfast. Whatever the Freedom Fighters had cooked certainly gave her energy, because for the first time since she had left the temple, Abi felt like taking a morning run.

Abi stood up, stretched her arms out wide, then slowly walked out of the tent-hut combination. Crouching down low, she was surprised to find the area almost empty, when just last night it had been bustling with people.

But that was unimportant right now. Abi took off at a quick, crouched run, until she reached the end of the tree houses, where nothing but branches separated her from hitting the ground. But that couldn't stop this young kunoichi.

Without stopping, or even slowing down, Abi jumped off of the wooden boards onto a branch, then continued onward, feeling the wind lifting her up, almost as if flying.

Soon Abi stopped, panting heavily, though with a huge smile on her face. Three months ago, she would have thought anyone who jumped branch-to-branch for fun was crazy. Then again, three months ago, Abi hadn't been a ninja. That intense training had pretty much changed her entire outlook on life.

Voices interrupted her train of thought. Glad that the remaining leaves hid her from all but direct sight, Abi spied down below her at six figures, one of them oddly familiar.

Jet was down there, with four other Freedom Fighters (she could tell by the rag-tag clothing), and one normal civilian, most likely from the nearby town. From what she could tell, he was Fire Nation. Abi could just barely make out what the group was saying.

"P-please, I was just passing through." The civilian pleaded.

"Search him, he's Fire Nation!" Jet ordered the other Freedom fighters. The one closest to Jet pushed the civilian to the ground, as the three others began to search his clothing.

Abi's breath caught in her throat. Jet was nothing but a…thief? And where was Daiyu? Did she even know all this was going on?

The civilian ran away when the Freedom Fighters were done. Daiyu came running up, followed by two of the younger Fighters. "Dad, no one in the southern part." Daiyu reported. "I think the soldiers are starting to learn that they should stay away. How was the north area?"

Jet shrugged. "Nothing interesting."

Well, that answered her questions. Daiyu had no idea who her father really was.

The crowd of nine began to disperse, all except Jet. He was staring up at something with an almost hateful glare.

Abi went pale as she realized something…he was staring directly at her!

"Dad, you coming?" Daiyu asked running back and tugging at Jet's sleeve.

He tore his attention away from Abi towards Daiyu. "Yeah, I'm coming." He turned and began to walk away with the others.

That glare…it scared the crap out of Abi. She didn't know why, but what she did know was that she had to get back to Daiyu's tent before they returned. With almost unnatural speed, Abi jumped, going from branch to branch again, but this time it wasn't for fun. Son, she reached the wooden floor of their hideout, and ran into Daiyu's 'tent', collapsing onto the hammock and wiping the sweat off her face with the blankets.

She forced herself to look calm and normal as Daiyu walked in and said, "Hey, Abi. Whaddja do while we were gone?"

Sorry for the long wait on the update. It's really hard to write a fan fiction about Jet when you know in reality he's really dead. sniff I'm getting to a more interesting part in the story, so maybe I'll be able to concentrate and update more. I'll try to do so at least once a week, since I have unlimited computer time on days when I don't have school.