Jeong Jeong's camp

Jeong Jeong's camp was a minor settlement in the northwestern Earth Kingdom, hidden in the woodlands outside the Fire Days Festival town. It was the hideout of legendary Fire Nation military deserter, Jeong Jeong. The camp also housed many of his followers, amongst which was Chey, the second person to successfully abandon the Fire Nation military following his master, Jeong Jeong.

History
The region of the camp had long been inhabited by primitive tribal peoples, although their origin is unknown and they may or may not have established the camp. Sometime shortly after 90 ASC, Jeong Jeong arrived at the campsite, having just fled the Fire Nation military. Soon afterwards, he began to attract the attention of a local tribe, who declared Jeong Jeong a living god and allowed him to reside amongst them. Jeong Jeong also became the leader of a secret cult following here, which led Chey to this camp after he too deserted the Fire Nation.

Team Avatar, rescued by Chey and guided by Lin Yee, arrived at the campsite during the winter of 100 ASC. Aang went to see Jeong Jeong inside his hut, saying he wanted to learn firebending from him. Jeong Jeong was angered by the Avatar's presense, and at once ordered him to leave because he was not ready, but his words were halted by a startling vision of Avatar Roku, who urged him to teach Aang nonetheless. Jeong Jeong did not attempt to resist him, and began teaching Aang.

Progress was slow for Aang, who was often impatient with his master. Jeong Jeong told Aang to keep calm, focus on breathing, and feel the sun's heat - the source of firebending. However, Aang wanted to try something more ambitious. Eventually, he was allowed to start controlling real fire, much to his delight. Aang was told to control the flame burning on a leaf, though he felt slightly restricted by this and decided to take it further by generating his own fire. He started small, but slowly began to do more and more as he moved on. At the end, he was able to generate a huge ring of fire around himself. Catastrophically, Aang extended the ring too far out by accident and subsequently burned Katara's hands. She ran away crying as Sokka and Jeong Jeong chased after her.

Jeong Jeong found Katara by a river. She was able to heal her burns with waterbending, a newly discovered ability for her. Alone, Jeong Jeong told Katara he would love to be a waterbender, because instead of only being able to destroy by fire, he could instead heal like her. Shortly thereafter, the two were notified that Zhao and his army was approaching the camp on boats. He was in search of the Avatar. Katara ran back to to the campsite to find Aang, who was sulking inside Jeong Jeong's hut. Ashamed of his actions, he said sorry to Katara and admitted he would never firebend again, though was cheered up a bit by the fact that Katara was able to heal herself. He left the camp to fight Zhao by the river.

Jeong Jeong briefly fought Zhao's soldiers, but managed to escape into the forest before they could capture him. As the soldiers chased him, Aang fought Zhao while he was alone. He tricked him into using his firebending excessively, which caused him to destroy his own boats, the only way back to the colony. Aang fled the scene with little time and injuries, which were later healed by Katara.

Shortly before the battle, all of Jeong Jeong's followers left the camp. When Chey came back sometime afterwards, he was confused to see the site abandoned. At first, he thought it was a joke of some sort.

Description


Jeong Jeong's camp was located deep within a forest outside the Fire Days Festival town. It was centered around a small, hilly clearing on the shores of a shallow pond. Fish could be found here, as Sokka was once seen fishing at this pond while atop a rock.

The camp was only sparsely populated, as there were just four buildings. Each building was connected to the other buildings via unpaved pathways, between which there was yellow grass. Three pathways culminated at small beach on the pond shoreline. A tiny, wooden bridge connected the beach to an island just offshore. The island was almost entirely concealed by a hut, it's only feature. Like all the other buildings, the hut was shaped like a half-cylinder tipped to it's flat side. The roof was metallic and at the front, there was a single, half-circle shaped entrance that connected to the bridge. The interior of the building contained no furniture and had a dirt floor.

No huts were located at the center of the clearing; all were off to the sides. The largest hut was the one on the island. Aside from grass and a few shrubs and bushes, there was very little vegetation in the clearing. Most of the camp pathways were straight and did not curve.

Notable figures

 * Jeong Jeong
 * Chey
 * Lin Yee