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Rave smirked to himself, continuing to lean against the dojo wall. "You must be very talented, being able to feel my intension and all. However, yes I would like it if we were to spar. I'm afraid that if I don't fight an actual person, my water bending skills would dull. As you know, if a war were to start, that wouldn't be good in my part, hehehehe." Rave crossed his hands and watched Jonah. Intuition told him that the session should be great. Rave felt invigorated having someone to spar with. "But of course, I'll wait until after we eat." He added this because truthfully, Rave was hungry too. However, he wasn't as hungry as yesterday or the day before. The sandwiches the children gave him earlier revitalized the water bender and perhaps now, he would be able to fight with full strength.

Zorin walked as softly as he could around the building, trying to make as little noise as possible. Suddenly, he brought his foot down on a small pebble, throwing his center of gravity off for a split second. He caught himself, but he had to make a step louder than was comfortable.

"This is futile." he mumbled. "I need to be a little more quiet..."

He stopped moving and thought for a second. He looked at the hard stone ground, concentrating of how to make it softer. Suddenly, an Idea struck him. His years in the desert were about to pay off. Shifting into a deep stance, he readied for his technique. His legs were spread out at least twice as long as shoulder length, his knees bent to a ninety degree angle, and his feet pointing straight forward, and parallel to each other. He readied his arms in front of him, hands opened and palms facing outward. Taking in a deep breath, he made a circular motion with his right hand, then with his left. The ground trembled slightly as the rock under his feet ground itself into sand. More sweat started to pour from his forehead, some of it dripping into his eye. Maintaining a steady breath rate, he made a wide sweeping motion with both hands, brought them to his sides as closed fists. He took in a deep breath, and upon letting it out, thrust both hands forward in a double punch. The ground in front of him silently ground together, eroding itself into a path of sand. Zorin flinched for a second. There had been some minor vibrations, but he hoped that nobody noticed them. Leaving his stance, he walked quietly to a circular window with a green stone trim. He peeked in at the group, who were apparently setting down to eat. However, one caught his eye. It was a bender, standing in a deep bending stance with his arms in a V form of some kind. Zorin remained quiet and closely observed.

(Training: 2 *2*)

The ground started to shake! Jin could feel it rumbling even though he's not an Earthbender. Without thinking, (Jin never thinks. HE'S 12 YEARS OLD!!!) he jumped in the dojo. Jin noticed the trail of footsteps on the soft sand. He followed it and ended up seeing another person spying on the group. Jin just shrugged his shoulders and approached the spy quietly. He tapped his shoulders and said,

"Whatcha doing?"

[thank Beserk biggrin I like posting doodles of my charcters expression! biggrin )

She blinked, "You mean your not suppose to eat all at them at once..!?" Her body hung in embrassment, muffling something under her breath. Noticing that Jonah gave Fulgar some money and they headed off. After buying some food they headed back, she carried some items to help out. They all started to head to the dojo, "Wow we got so much and sooo cheap! We could feed the entire earth kingdom army!" She grinned examing all the food. "I'll make the tea ok guys!" She smiled holding the bag of tea up with out dropping the other items.


[Sorry I won't post for awhile ^^; because our school is giving benchmark test this week and the following 'till our vaction, and since I haven't been getting up early they're going to restrict my internet time crying So I'll try, TRY, to get on this weekend and see whats going on. I hope I don't have to read five pages! biggrin lol ]

The spies were beginning to take their toll on Jonah's patience. People who didn't want to make themselves known often had no reason to make themselves hide. If someone wanted something, all they had to do was ask or fight outright, not lie in wait for the right moment to strike. Jonah found that dishonorable, as well as anyone would.

Having himself at the ready, Jonah stomped one of his boots down on the ground towards his side, shifting both of his arms sideways in a hard thrust towards the wall. The result was a section of the wall coming out and smashing whatever was in front of it against the wall of the other building. If it was an earthbender or an airbender spying on them, they would stand a better chance of evading the wall rather than a firebender or a waterbender.

"Stop spying on us! You have no right to hide yourself! If you need something, just ask for the sake of karma!" Jonah's outburst had shown that he was not in the mood to be toyed with, and his anger was beginning to make his bending reflect in a violent manner. With an angry glare on his face, he wanted the spy to show himself.

[[I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. I can be on most of the time whenever I want, and all I have to do is print out the pages I've posted on for a creative writing class.]]



[Training post 1/2]

Zorin stopped dead in his tracks. Slowly, he turned around to see another person, a man, standing behind him, tapping his shoulder. Zorin's eye twitched. How could he have not heard him getting closer? He wasn't to greatest with using the ground, but he should have at least felt something as he was approached. Then, he looked down and realized how stupid he had been. It had to have been the sand. He looked back up to the person.

"Uh..." he smartly said. The person had said something, but Zorin didn't catch it and was stuck for what to do next. "I'm just passing through town..." he said, hoping the lie would work.”And... I like the feel of sand on my feet?" He smiled and hoped it would help out. In his mind, he cursed himself for never developing social skills.

Suddenly, something caught Zorin's attention. The wall him was next to simply moving towards them (at an alarming rate, Zorin noticed). Without even time for his expected cursing, Zorin adapted a deep stance and violently struck the piece of the wall with his right hand. It was barely enough, and Zorin some pain in his fist as he stopped the wall. With all of his effort, he raised his left hand, placed it on the wall piece, and lowered it to the ground. With a deep sigh, he suddenly pushed it to his right so it would be out of the way. Zorin then pulled both of his hands to his side and held them into fists. He wasn't keen on fighting somebody, especially a superior bender, but he would if he had to.

"Please stop this!" he called out. "I wasn't intending you harm. Can we not settle this over a discussion of some kind?"

(Training: 3*3*)