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"Just 500ft, kurai" he said it with confidence, but knew from experience, 500 ft. with 30 pound rocks in each hand up a mountain was a long and grueling part of the training. The pair had begun up the mountain, Kurai was jittering all over the place, she'd be completely worn out by the time they would get to the top. The training had just begun, the morning was barely peaking over the mountain, she was gonna hate him for this, but it had to be done.

"Kurai, Fulgar!"(did i say that in the wrong order?)

Fulgar turned round a few seconds after kurai, Zhin was walking right up behind them. He was sweating like crazy must have been some effort climbing this mountain the hard way that he had come, Fulgar and Kurai had climbed it but they were weaving around rather than scale it straight up, Fulgar knew because he was an Earthbender he'd come straight up. "Zhin!" Fulgar yelled "hey, man, what's up? we're taking these rocks up to the 500 ft. mark" Fulgar motioned with his head and grinned at Kurai's comment. "I'd shake your hand, but" Fulgar lifted the rocks showing his hands were full "ah, screw it" Fulgar put the other rock in his left arm freeing up the right and stuck it out to shake. Kurai offered him water, he had to agree with her, he looked like he needed it. "Zhin, you wanna travel with us to the temple?" Fulgar offered the friend from Omashu.

(15/95)

"Now to finish this move up!" He thought, as he held his arms out, and imagined his Chi flowing out of his hands, and attaching itself to the slashes of frozen water on the ground there were several, so it took him a few seconds to attach itself to all of the suaves of ice. So he looked like he was doing nothing but holding his arms out. He felt a cold sweat run down his spine, this was a difficult movement, which involved entombing yourself in ice.

((almost done with post bbASAP))

(Dime's deathday anniversary was today 12/8/06)

Fulgar laughed "and what if we are trying to earthbend? I am a firm believer that earthbenders and the avatar shouldnt be the only ones to be able to bend earth." Fulgar stuck out his tongue and laughed. "Zhin, I was wondering if you could do me a favor, i was gonna ask Jonah to do it for me but he took off before i had my chance, I was wondering if you could craft me a pair of stone gloves, open on the palms." Fulgar was really hopeful that Zhin could do this for him, the rock would prove to be good armor for his hands it would definetely be able to take a beating.

Fulgar waited for the answer of the favor he asked of Zhin then said "alright, we better get going up this mountain if we wanna get there." Fulgar began walking with a pair of rocks in his hands weighing his whole body down. The muscles in his legs contracted then loosened with the strain of carrying his bulk up the mountain. He wasnt going to talk till he got to the 500 feet he had to get to, talking would wear out his lungs making it harder to intake in breath and harder to keep control. By now the sun was peaking above the horizon, when they got their Fulgar had to explain to Kurai about Ka the energy of fire, there was alot of information to be explained, this would take a bit but it was essential to understand to be a good firebender. You mustnt take for granted the gift of bending.

(16/95)

(Fulgar didnt say anything yet.
He wasnt going to talk till he got to the 500 feet he had to get to, talking would wear out his lungs making it harder to intake in breath and harder to keep control.

and this he is thinking:
hen they got their Fulgar had to explain to Kurai about Ka the energy of fire, there was alot of information to be explained, this would take a bit but it was essential to understand to be a good firebender. You mustnt take for granted the gift of bending. whee )

A few of the monks that had been surprised by Taizen's reappearance into the living world huffed as they returned to the crowd, it must have been pretty embarrasing to have fallen for the trick, but Taizen had to say: 'Taikai sure did put a bit of work into it, it even looked like he had bended some water onto his face from a hidden flask in his sleeve. Taizen didn't even know he carried water around with him! But a waterbender isn't anything without water to bend, so, since Taikai wanted to be safe, he had brought some water with him on the start of the journey. "Thank you for being here to watch the exhibition, if you would be so kind as to allow me to finish the last of my performance, I would be very appreciative." He kneeled and bowed to the audience, with his head low, and his arms out, as he bowed, he closed his eyes and concentrated on his Chi, the flasks hidden in the area's hidden to the crowd shuddered as the wate rbegan to swish around. He was already continuing with the exhibition, speaking to them was just a ploy to surprise the, and quieting them down couldn't hurt his performance. Taikai had already shuffled off the stage with a big grin on hsi face, as if to say: 'I got you!' Which seemed to amuse some of the people. Taikai met Niima's eyes, he shrugged as Niima glared dissapprovingly, but smiled all the more when Niima began to smile again.

Taikai's brow lifted in interest, responding in an equally hushed voice, or perhaps more so as the crowd quieted down. "Is it about the exhibition? I tried to get him to do a more tame routine, but he seems to enjoy keeping the crowd on edge. What is it you want to speak of, if that is not the case?" Taikai suspected that it was more than a complaint that Niima wanted to talk about, if she wanted to keep the conversation private.
AS the crowd quieted, Taizen rose to one knee and began to wave his arms around him wildly, above, around, over, everywhich way his hands could move, he was creating a race track in his mind, where several of his Chi's were moving, his eyes were closed to enhance the details of his invisible circuit.

The water in each of jumped out, simultaneouslythe water had been stewing in different dryed herbs, some with different combinations of roots, stems, leaves, and petals, by the process of diffusion, each of the flasks' water ahd been stained a different color, one was a vivid see through pink, the other a dark blue that seemed very thick; like syrup, the other was a dark green, that carried with it some remnants of the herbs inside it. There was a another whip of water that was a pale yellow, it hadn't completely been staned yellow, but Taizen was glad that had not happened, other wise it would have been reminiscent of bending urine.

Taizen moved his hands furiously, not once stopping. A second too late, and the colored whip would fall off it's invisible circuit, and crash into another. The circuit it was intricate, a whip would make a circular motion up, then trickled down, before making a wide arc around the circuit, pass an inch near by the circular rising whip mentioned previously. Taizen's hands were moving furiously, and everyso often a whip would clash with another, and Taizen would begin a whole new circuit-similar, but not the same as the one before. This level of bending was hard for Taizen, the octopus form was difficult, but compared to creating a channel for the water to move through infinitely, made the octopus form seem relaxing.

Taikai looked surprised, he glanced over to Taizen, morely to stare in amazement. But the amazement was not for the bending.

Taizen kept on creating the circuit every time he made a mistake, the audience didn't seem to notice the continual mistakes Taizen made, awed by the colors, the speed, and the different colored flashes created when the firelight reflected in the water. When Taizen's arms were beginning to tire, and he was sweating profusely, Taizen stood up to his full height, throwing his arms into the air above him, the whips flew upward, regardless of the position they were in. Taizen opened his eyes, and brought his hands out, making his hands circle eachother, the whips made a circle of different colored water, where the water touched each other, the hues became blurred, and created different ones, the yellow and blue to green, the pink and blue to purple, the pink and green to what looked like a muddy red.

Taikai sighed heavily before looking back at Niima. "In truth, Taizen does not know the true reason I am training him." Taikai decided to divulge the information now, so that Niima would understand everything perfectly. His voice went even lower than before. "The war... Is not a rumor, in the northern tribes, I found evidence of this... I was informed that there would be a war. Between whom the northern tribe chieftan did not inform me. But he did inform me nonetheless, that if there was a war, the northern tribes would be well defended. But the southern tribe still hasn't recovered from it's last war. I am going to train the southern benders, heading inconspicuosly to the public eyes as simply a bender and his student heading home. The less people know, the better. Which is why I have not yet told Taizen. I am telling you, because Taizen trusts you, enough to want you to travel with us."

He glanced up as the Audience 'ooed' again. "But if the war drags the people of air to battle, as would be the worst case scenario in my mind." Taikai said this because the air nomads were even more thinly spread than the water tribes. "I would not want to take away, another bender, or another person from they're people." He paused to allow his words to sink in, he saw lean back a bit, either to get away from the waterbender, or from the effect of his words, it didn't matter. "Your companion can come with us, but if you decide not to come with us, I need your vow of silence!"

Each of Taikai's words were barely above a whisper, the only word that could be heard completely, and clearly, was 'silence!' His face looked very stern, and he seemed to hate himself for telling Niima this information, but Taizen would surely have argued with him about leaving without her, and probably not stop trying to convince Niima to come with them. So, the only way to stop Taizen for sure, was to have the both of them convince Taizen. And if Niima came with them, and she became a casualty of war, he would not be able to forgive himself for allowing it to happen. Niima had to pick one of the two. This was cruel to force Niima to pick between ultimatums."It is your choice..." Telling Niima this was dangerous, this could possibly affect the fate of the southern water tribe. If the air nomads fought in the war, then they would have a bit of information that could entirely wipe out the southern tribe.

(( biggrin Stirring up teh pot. This will make the coming war way more fun. ^.^ ))