A/N: Sorry this took a little long, guys. I just needed to write some other fics for some birthdays we have coming up, and I will post those for you guys to see, too. So, I'm looking on my summary, and thinking it needs some improving. Anyone have any ideas?
So, here it is! Danger Zone 6! Woot!
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It felt so much that they were leading themselves into huge circles, and they didn't know what to do.
"Does anyone else get the feeling we've seen this tree three to many times?" Sokka said, out of breath and exhausted. Katara weakly raised her hand. It was almost dark!
"Yeah. Any ideas?" she said.
"Not really. The only thing we could do is go back to Yi-Lo, and that's not happening," Aang said. Sokka and Katara shook their heads in agreement. What else could they do, though?
Katara looked around. There was only one flowing river in this forest, and it was made up of mud.
"If we can find that river that was ankle-deep, Aang could bend the earth out and I could get us the water," Katara suggested. Sokka nodded heavily.
"But how do we know where it is?" Aang asked.
"Well, I remember it being on a down-hill, so maybe we should just trudge downhill. Straight this time, no loops." The boys nodded, and followed Katara. Their hopes were high, but hopefully, just hopefully, they'd find water or at least someone would come to get them.
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It was almost an hour later when they finally reached the river. It was lower than before, and the mud looked so thick there could be no water in it at all. Aang bent the mud out with earthbending, and Katara bent all the water she could squeeze out into her small canteen. It was almost halfway full, and she knew Zuko had predicted rain for tonight.
"If-and I mean if-we're stuck here tonight, it's supposed to rain, so we could get a lot of water from that. The only problem would be where to sleep," she explained. Aang nodded. Sokka was too busy examining a strange plant in the distance.
"Sokka! Quit it. We don't need to relive the cactus juice situation," Katara said, her hand on her hip. He glared at her, but turned and faced them.
"No offense, but I know we're not getting out of here tonight. So why don't we just set up camp and sleep?" Sokka said.
"Sleep does sound good right about now. Katara?" She simply nodded, looking around for a decent spot to set 'camp' up.
Katara made the base layer of their camp. It was made of large mosses and humongous leaves that grew from the brown ground.
Sokka made the middle layer. That one was made up of some smaller leaves all placed like puzzle pieces to fit together perfectly. He also made some more moss spots everywhere to soften it out.
Aang made the top layer. He made the grass lay perfectly at peace on top, squishy and comfy.
They saved some bigger and cleaner leaves for blankets, and the pillows? Well, they just used some thicker moss.
"Goodnight, I guess," Aang said, not knowing what else there was to say.
"Should we make shifts waiting for the rain?" Katara asked.
"Nah, I think it'll wake us up, anyway," Sokka said, getting comfortable and closing his eyes.
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And he was right! The rain, now steadily drumming down, woke them up abruptly. Katara started bending hard, pouring the amounts into Sokka, Aang, and then her mouths.
"Mmm," Sokka said, licking his lips.
"Agreed, Sokka!" Aang said. Katara filled her canteen, and poured some more into the river quickly. She knew the higher it got, it wouldn't evaporate and they could use that. Then, she returned to bending into their mouths.
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The rain ended swiftly, ending with the crack of thunder. Which was weird, since nothing else happened. Aang was helping her bend toward the middle, so they were both a bit tired out.
"It's barely dawn. Maybe we can catch a few more hours of Z's," Sokka requested. They nodded, and laid down for a few more hours of sweet, lovely, relaxing, sleep.
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It turned out, it was a bit more than just a 'few' hours of sleep. More like five. So, in all they only had a total of seven hours of sleep. That was a plentiful amount, more than enough that they could focus on. They trudged on down hill, knowing that whenever you're lost, you must come to something down hill.
What they thought they would come to-in their deepest hopes-was their house.
But what they came to, they definitely weren't expecting.
A/N: Sorry, another cliff hanger. Okay, so I just want you all to know, I do NOT side with Yi-Lo's perspective on the war. I just needed something for him to differentiate with the gaang. Heh.
Well, thanks for reading!
I promise, I'll update sooner than last time!
Thanks again!
3Regan
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