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Okay Raziel, to start bending, you must first properly breath. Take a deep breath in, and then exhale. You must relax, but you must also be sturdy. Then, follow the hand motions with me. Take your right leg, and kick the ground with your heel. Then, if you do it right, you can feel the earth kick up with leg by bending. Then you punch it with the same side palm and as you do it, you must force the earth away. Like I said earlier, you must be in control. Be strong and sturdy, and make it so that you can beat the earth into doing what you command it to do. Now follow my motions.

::Ryukusen kick downward with his heel bringing up a chunk of earth with, then steps forward and pushes away with a blast from his palm. It flies away and travels all the way into the ravine wall, before hitting it and crubbling away.::

::Even in pain, Raziel didn't give up. He took another deep breath, then kicked a rock up, before hitting it and sending it several feet away.::

Augh! What am I doing wrong?

Thanks teach, I guess I do have more ta learn.

::Raziel got back to his training, but this time he took a few more breaths of air, and calmed down a bit before continuing his training. He kicked the ground and shot up a rock and puched it away 5 or 6 feet. Next he did it again, but it shot off at an angle, but went about 20 feet.::

Did you see that? It went really far off!

After practiceing on his own for a little while, Daniel took a break. He got back in his horse stance, but instead of actually bending to get the real affect he wanted to perfect his new move first. It had come to him while he was sleeping, he slid his right foot back, extending his right arm as if to punch. He then slid his right foot back to it's origonal position, were he shifted his body wiehgt to his right leg doing a slow round house kik with his left. He spun a full 360 degrees and stoped slaming his foot to the ground and punching straight forward with his left fist, getting back into his horse stance as he did it balanceing his weight out evenly on the ground.

Slideing his foot back would cause a shelf of earth to come up behind person that would trip them, while the punch would make a piece of earth slide forward infront of the person hitting them in the gut witch would help to knock them over if they were not already triped by the inclined plane of earth behind them. Shifting his body weight to his right leg would make a chunk of earth rise up out of the ground wich would hit a person while they were falling, then the rock would circle back around and stop just abouve the person. While slaming his foot on the ground would bring the rock down with a devistateing blow. While getting back in his horse stance the left punch would would drag the rock with the human body underneath it for about 3 meters. If done in quick succession this move would be a 1 hit K.O. for anyone who couldn't react fast enough to dodge or counter it. For his size Daniel could move pretty fast and was usualy the first one to draw when it came to earth bending.

Kami stood up, and used her fire bending to walk across the water, as if on a raft. It didn't work. She fell through, and smiled, laughing. She used her fire bending to get back to land, by making a very bad rope. She sat on the edge, and dried her self off with a fire ball, "I now have a goal: to use fire bending to walk on water. Whoa, that's gonna be hard," she said.

The ______ family boat floated down the Uyz river, elegantly gliding down it as it headed towards the bank. Yoko could be seen on the deck of the ship leaning on the side rail peering out at the shore, his hair flowing elegantly behind him. His blue eyes surveying the beautiful landscape.

Pointing to a clear spot on the bank of the river signaling the captain where to dock ship. Floating over to the bank the boat slid slowly into the sand as the boat now became docked.

Out stretching his left arm Yoko began to bend the water from the river building a bridge of ice to the bank. Walking across the bridge, onto the encampment Yoko began to head into the forest looking for any one he find.

Daneil was thinking he was ready for the tournament, plus the fact that it would help him hone his earthbending techniques. he now eagerly awaited the torunament just hoping that they wouldn't have to fight in sand. he would still be able to hear and smell the person but he would be harder to pinpiont their exact location. plus his vision by now was completly gone and he would not be able to rely on it to save him. in the past he had used what was left of his bad yet lifesaveing vision to counter act a suprise attack, but this time he wouldn't be able to do that.