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Seth had to do something so Yoko could keep bending and not worry on dodging. Seth Used a little bit of the water Yoko was bending and he froze the ground under him. He then froze his feet and his ankles so Yoko wouldn't fall off. He Consentrated, using all of his chi to keep the platform solid. When the Stalagmites finally reaches the platform of ice it launched it into the air instead of breaking it due from the great amount of chi used. Seth could now focus more on using it to pilot Yoko around so he could attack. Seth had to use his left hand, his better bendning hand. He was weak from attacks from the others, but Seth hoped that Yoko would keep them busy.

Seth moved around as much as he could while looking at Yoko, Milo, and Kina. Seth piloted Yoko toward the others trying not to mess up and crash Yoko into the ground. This took much chi out of him and attacks that he would have to shield himself would not be strong enough to protect him.

Fulgar ascended the steps quickly the muscles in his legs burned red hot but he didnt want to stop now. He was really excited about the "dare devil" stunt. He finally reached the top of the steps his legs ached and he bent over to catch his breath breathing hard he hoisted his torso up from it's bent position and put both hands behind his head doing this let his lungs expand allowing more air to pass through his body. He shut his eyes for a moment and sat there breathing hard.

"Wow! Lot of steps..." Fulgar finally said to his teacher who was sitting there twirling around a couple of bricks for god knows what reason. Fulgar lifted his hands and stretched them and let out a big yawn. He winked a couple of tired tears from his watery eyes they were crocodile tears probably there to keep him awake. He felt like sleeping but was a bit too excited about what he had to do to really pay attention to that. He lifted his hand up to his chin rough hairs were finding refuge along is face the whiskers felt odd against the palms of his hands. He itched his chin then put down his arm. Moving his neck side to side the muscles in his neck put pressure on his bones and his neck cracked with a abrupt *pop* noise. He began stretching mainly his arms but stretched his legs some too, they felt wierd to move from the strain of walking so quickly up those steps.

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Seth nodded at Yoko when he said to conserve his chi but when Kina sent the wind at Yoko, Seth had to do something. Seth used the water Yoko was bending because that was the only water he could use that was closest to him. He made a ice wall between Kina and Yoko and the wind went right around the wall. After the wind passed, Seth collapsed the wall and made the water rush toward Kina. Seth nodded to Yoko to use his chi now to attack so Seth could defend Yoko longer.

Following the two determined men with great ease up the stairs. Kurai was doing delivery for quite awhile so her legs were use to runing up, down, left, or right around Omashu. She looked at Jonahs legs as he jogged up the stairs, blinking in surprise. 'wow hes got more muscles in his legs than most men I've seen! And those veins..---' Blinking squinting her eyes, 'wait did that vein just wink at me..!?' Her left eye twitched freaking out about Jonah's legs. Staying abit ahead of Fulgar to look back at him rubbing his face, after he poped his neck Kurai stopped squggiling in disconfort. He walked past her as she did her dance of disgust, she just didn't like it when people poped their neck it always made a sound that disturbed her. She shook her head catching up with the men, Jonah fiddling with bricks or rocks and Fulgar paying close attention to Jonah. She was excited but not as much as Fulgar, but she had to admitt what was this 'dare devil' move that Jonah was going to make Fulgar do? She reached the top awaiting for Jonah to speak of this 'dare devil' act.

((Lost_Comet_Girl, if you've read Jonah's profile, his legs aren't exposed. They're covered by black hakama pants and his feet are protected by armored boots. The thought of that is just creepy.))

Jonah stopped fiddling with the bricks once Fulgar and Kurai got to where he was, putting them back in their respective place in the ground. He then put his block back in the ground, standing up to feel refreshed.

"Bout time you got here, although I expected so..."

Jonah waved one of his hands around, earthbending a stone basket over towards one of the slides, just stopping it at the base. This was the base of his test, and Jonah would be following just behind him. Fulgar was to slide down the slide in one of the baskets, using his jets to either increase speed or slow it down, just to see how well he could control his jets of flame.

"You need to slide down the slide in one of those baskets, using your jets to increase or decrease speed. I'll follow just behind you, just to keep you from injury."

Jonah brought another basket over to the original one, the one he would be riding in. He moved over to his basket, waiting for Fulgar to get in his. This would show Jonah two things: one, he would learn how well Fulgar would control his jets of flame; and two, he wanted to see what kind of extremes Fulgar would go to enjoy fun. Jonah saw the slides as a challenge of fun, but others might not think that way.

(I agree I shuddered when I read LCG's description of Jonah's legs... creepy is a good word for it)

Fulgar did listen but could barely hear over the sounds of his own thoughts speeding through his brain. His mouth was open his eyes stared wide at the carts. Then listening to Jonah's final words a big mischevious grin passed over Fulgar's face. His grin was filled with the perversity that one gets from breaking the rules. This was gonna be fun and Fulgar knew it. He was about 5 years older than both of his companions but he wasnt going to let something as begnign as age get in his way of this. On many occasions he acted just like he was a 14 year old he constantly had a wide grin spread over his face and also enjoyed excessively sweet things. Fulgar was still staring at the carts getting ready to hop right in. A breeze blew by the trio Fulgar's oilskin coat billowed to his side just before he ran to the side of the cart and hopped over the side.

Once secure in the cart Fulgar began rocking it backwards and forwards with his bodey weight. The stone edge began to moan and crack on the stress the firebender was putting it through with one final crack the edge broke and let the cart fall freely down the steep slide. When it went off Fulgar yelled "wwwhhhooo!!!" he was haing fun and this was only the beggining he clenched his fists and shot fire to the back of him he slowly increased speed but it wasnt very much. He sat there in the cart thinking of what he was doing wrong, then it hit him, he sat up and directed fire to the corners of the slide to give it a more physical boost.

His flames hit the stone slide and cut sharp holes into the sides of the slide. The cart's speed increased drastically. The air whipped past him so quickly and his brain was freaking out from the ammounts of oxygen being pumped into his lungs. Tears began to drizzle from his eyes. He kept his head low and didnt dare open his mouth. He was surprised he didnt simply fly away his coat was catching air so heavily it was poofed up like a parachute. Fulgar ducked into the cart forcing any excess air out of his coat and buttoned it up he popped up once more. He decided he was going just a wee little too fast. He didnt know what to do though, if he tried the same thing to slow himself down that he had done to speed himself up it would cut into the stone and his cart would get caught in the deep gouges that the flame left. The air was really getting to him blood slowly dripped from his nose from the rapid amount of air that was going through the soft skin in his nostrils had torn. He breathed a deep hot breath from his nose drying the tiny incision. He began thinking again, he was going really fast. Then it hit him he didnt have to dig into the slide he could directed enough thermal energy directly infront of him to push himself backward. Putting both hands together he let out some flames to softly kiss the direct center of the slide. He began to slow again. He was getting a little tired of this now, it was fun at the beggining cause he was going the right speed then he got going too fast. Now he was going too slow.

He starting thinking again. He finally hopped out of his moving cart holding onto the very back side of the cart he angled his boots down at a 45 degree angle and let fire burn he began moving forward quicker doing as he had done on the flat ground of Omashu he increased the speed.

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