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Jin turned back at the bender. He bowed down to him, showing great respect.

"Thank you. I'll remember this day, untill my dying breath.

Jin stood back up to the bender. Then, a tear drop fell down his cheek.

When the drop fell down off Jin's face, it turned to solid ice.

"Yes. There is a rumor that he amongst us. He has to be a firebender though. People are also saying that he can turn traitor on us at any given moment."

Jin shifted his eyes around. He then wispered in the bender's ear,

"I've only met 1 firebender. He's good but I doubt he's the Avatar."

Jin points to Kade.

When the rock exploded, Jonah reacted in a defensive rushing stance, using his forearms as an X shield to cover his head. With his chi concentrated on his forearms, he managed to stop the fragments of rock from cutting him up. The ones that stayed in the air, held there with Jonah's bending skill, fell to the ground once he had broken his concentration on his defense. After he made a brief evaluation of what he saw, he made the conclusion that she was indeed a firebender.

"An earthbender can move stone without making it explode. You can't be a standard earthbender with something like that, much less earthbending at all. It seems you have unusual firebending techniques, erratic from what I see; but since I'm an earthbender I can't make the decision of training you in your own element. You need to find a firebending teacher, one who has experience in the bending discipline of fire."

Jonah stomped one of his feet on the stone ground, making all the fragments of stone jump off of the ground and reform the shattered boulder. With a small bit of concentration, Jonah reformed the boulder, then returned it to its original place in the ground.

"You can come along and observe me if you want, maybe learn a thing or two about earthbending. But my decision is this: I can't train someone to bend fire, much less a beginner like yourself possessing unusual techniques. Come along if you like, but I would urge you to find a teacher versed in firebending."

Jonah started to walk off towards a staircase heading up to the peak of the mail slides. He was ready to give Fulgar the dare devil test, plus he had to be there in order to stop Fulgar from seriously injuring himself in case something went wrong.

Jin stared at the bender. He then said,

"I don't know. But my foster parents said that the fire nation were at war with everyone else. They even said that the fire nation attacked both the Nothern and Southern Water Tribe."

Jin looked at the wandering bender. He waved goodbye, and smiled.

"We shall meet again. For now, we go seperate ways. Farewell."

Jin turned back to Kade.

"What should I do with you?"

Rave just recently left a young man and his problems. Rave was a little bit insulted being asked to attack a group out of no where. For one, it was wrong, and two, it did not fit the lifestyle Rave is living now. Perhaps if he were his old self, undiciplined, unknowing, naive; perhaps then he would impulsively joined. No, his master taught him better than that, and Rave knows it. Now the problem right now is to find a quieter place to relax and practice his water bending.

Rave walked from street to street, but to no avail, he had not found another place with a fountain that he could train peacefully on. Looking as hard as he could, Rave's left hand shaded his eyes as he believed he found a place. There were merely children there, playing no doubt, but it was the best Rave could do for the moment. Rave tightened his grip on his bag and walked on to where the children were.

As he approached, Rave could not believe how big the fountain was at this site. Three huge basins of water were the items he had focused on. In awe, he walked up to it and dropped his bags. The children that were playing around looked at Rave with confused faces. "Hey, come on!" A little boy said snapping the others back to their game. Meanwhil Rave snapped out of it and placed the bag next to the fountain's bottom edge.

Rave was now warmed up and ready to go. He stood with his feet together, his arms were back at their sides, relaxed, as they faced his thighs. Rave shifted his weight onto his right foot and moved his left foot a shoulder length apart. He turned his hands backwards, and as he breathed in and his arms rose to shoulder length, water came out of the well and was now suspended in the air. As Rave breathed out, he bent his knees and allowed his elebows and arms to drop until waist height and the water went the opposite way; coming up to shoulder height.

Rave shifted his weight to his left foot next and turned his body to the right, pivoting his right heel. At the same time, he rose his right hand as his left hand dropped down until it was underneath his right hand and faced each other, while the stream of water he bent, enlongated itself. Rave transferred his weight to his right foot next and brought his left next to his right, althewhile keeping all his weight on his right foot The water then shaped itself, forming into a medium size orb.

The kids that were playing around the fountain stopped what they were doing and watched in curiosity what Rave was doing. They were amazed seeing water come out of the fountain and how Rave was manipulating it. Sure, they knew about water bending, but they hadn't seen it in action at all.

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