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Jade stood in the vast desert. She looked surprising small againist the miles of sandy barreness. The young bender sighed and layed down in the sand. She closed her eyes and tried to remember what she had been told by an old earthbender.
'Every side element is a Purification of the main element. Take ice for instance, It's just frozen water. And lightning. It's just sky fire. There is one exception, though. Sand. Earthbenders can't bend sand and Sandbenders can't Bend earth. It just works that way.'
Jade shifted in the sand. She got up and started towards her camp.

Naru hated this dustbowl desert. He twiddled his thumbs, laying back-down towards the cloudless blue sky. He'd been stuck in the desert for three months, and it was starting to piss him off. After all, he was only a confused adolescent, wandering around a large heat trap composed of fine grained rock. Of course, to avoid any possibility of dieing, he lived in a small village surrounding a desert geyser. Knowing staring at the sky would get him absolutely nowhere, he picked himself up, dragging himself over to the nearest person to ask for directions out of the hellish place. Well, hellish in his opinion.

"Wait!" Naru cried, panting heavily as he dashed towards the girl. He put his hand on his knees, panting as he reached her. 'Great... now I've probably freaked her out...' He stood up, formalizing himself. Naru cleared his throat, beginning to speak what he had meant to say. "I noticed you're leaving the desert..." He began, articulating his speech by moving his left hand. "Is there any chance you'll let a weary traveler come with you?" He put his hand on the left side of his face, wearily finishing his speech. "I haven't been able to get out of this desert for quite some time, primarily because I lack the necessary supplies...." Naru spoke with shame. "Please let me come with you. I'm actually quite useful."

"Suuuure, let's go visit some desert ruins! What better way to escape your mother's crazy plants!' Kou complained, her voice oozing with sarcasm as she kicked the sand. She had been lost for hours, after leaving what seemed to be the ruins of an old temple. She got to the runis with the help of some sand benders whom she paid to guide her, but they left after they brought her to her destination, ate some of her food and stole some of her money. She did have some reserve coins hidden inside her shirt, but money was of no use when you're lost in the desert.

She looked inside her bag to see if she had something useful. There were various knick knacks from her past journeys, like dolls, figurines, scrolls, cloth. She also had some scrolls with her and a map, but maps are useless when you have no idea where the nearest landmark is. It did not help that she was running out of water. She screamed, followed by a stream of curse words.

Lee had entered the desert and began skating across the dry soil. As he sped across the desert he noticed a figure in the distance. And once he was closer he notice that it was indeed a person and not the desert heat playing tricks on his eyes. It only took him a few minutes to actually reach her but one he did he stopped and stood about ten feet in front of her. "Hello there. Are you lost?" Lee spoke in a sincere voice.

Lee was kind of like, what the hell when she started slapping him. But once she explained herself he didn't really seem to care. He then introduced himself. "My name is Lee Fong and it is a pleasure to meet you Kou Li. And its not really a good idea to be drinking that cactus juice. But what are you doing all the way out her?" Lee asked.

"No thank you but I'll tell you what. If you help me train I show the way out of this desert." Lee replied. He was hoping she would agree because he was tired of training alone.