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 Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:40 pm
Zorin turned the corner and came out to the main street, the entrance of the Dojo to his side. He walked over and was next to the main entrance when he felt a slight vibration in the ground. His left leg stopped in step and hung suspended in the air as Zorin tried to figure out what had just happened. However, before he could get anywhere, there was a series of more vibrations, this time closer together. Perplexed, Zorin put his head down and looked through the entrance of the dojo to see his new teacher fighting with a water bender. He paused. Gears and levers crashed around in his brain as he assessed the situation calmly and with as much sense as he could manage.
Situation: his teacher was being attacked by a person who was just talking friendly with him.
Assessment: it seemed that this group was prone to fighting and betrayal.
Solution: get in there and help with the kicking of the arse.
Zorin took in a deep breath and prepared to run in, but a thought suddenly surfaced in his head. Not really a thought, more of a memory.
“Think things through before you act; you might not like the result if you do the wrong thing.”
Zorin put his foot down and thought things over. This time, he came to a drastically different conclusion.
Situation: his teacher was being attacked by a person who was just talking friendly with him.
Assessment: he didn't really seem to need the help, so Zorin would probably just be in the way. Also, Zorin recalled hearing something about 'sparring' earlier.
Solution: just sit against the wall in a way where he could easily get out of the way of incoming attacks and... 'assist' if things got out of hand.
Zorin nodded to himself. Using his mind was something he was not used to, but it was getting easier. Zorin slipped into the dojo as quietly as he could and picked a place on the wall to sit down at. He then put his hands on his lap and watched intently at the fight.
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Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 3:15 pm
"Hmmm. I wonder what the others are doing? Think I'll go back and see what their up to."
Jin walked the same path he took to get from the area he was in right now. Heading towards the dojo, Jin still saw that his ex-friends were still sparring. He was wondering how long they could spar? Jin turned his head and continued through his pathway towards the dojo. Moments later, Jin reached the dojo. He still saw the same people doing the same thing. He sighed and swooped down. He closed his eyes and rest for a bit.
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Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 4:43 pm
((Man, I haven't posted in a while))
Kami sat on a small rock, meditating. She heard a gentle hum, and opened her eyes to see a dragon fly. She pinched it between her fingers, and felt the heat rise, as the dragonfly was incenerated, "how odd," she said, sighing.
*7*
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Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 4:56 pm
((New Earth Bender here! Yamura Kinzo!))
Kinzo had made his trip to Omashu into a long one, taking almost a qurter of the day every day to train his earth bending skills. Today, he had decided that he would set that aside just to get all the way to Omashu. Little did he know, he would get caught up again.
A girl who looked the same age as Kinzo was sitting on a rock, seemingly peaceful. He couldn't tell whether she was a bender or not, but he never saw any hurt in asking. "Maybe she's from Omashu and an earth bender like me! If not, I guess I could keep on moving, but I'm having this crazy urge to spar with someone. I mean, I haven't spoken to someone other than myself in about a month."
As Kinzo got a closer look, he spotted red eyes, which was unmistakably rare in the Earth Kingdom. "Maybe she's a fire bender! How great would that be? I could spar against a different element!" Kinzo didn't hesitate to tap on the teenager's shoulder and ask a questio neven before she had turned around.
"Excuse me, miss, the name's Kinzo, Yamura Kinzo. Might you be a fire bender? I'm pretty bored and I've been dying for a good healthy spar for a while now." Kinzo smiled, bringing his two hands behind his head as a sort of prop to keep them up. "Whaddya say? Are you up to it?"
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:04 am
Xaio was tired after bending the giant boulder. "I really need to remember that you need to crawl before you can run," Xaio thought as he wiped the sweat from his forhead. Taking a break Xaio began to explore a bit more of the dojo he was lucky enough to find. Browsing through the cabniets Xaio knew he would find some Earthbending Scrolls that would help him out some, and wasn't surprised when he found a good deal of them.
Taking about 3-4 under each arm Xaio walked outside into the large court yard that had some vases he assumed were filled with sand, stone, and dirt. Sitting down on the porch that ran around the dojo Xaio opened the first scroll he grabbed and began to read the contents, every now and then looking up to see how Jonah was doing in his spar agianst the waterbender.
Xiao was finsihed reading the scroll in only a couple of minutes though. Not wanting to disturb the match Xaio grabbed the scrolls and headed back to the insided practice area that Fulgar and Kurai were training in. Dropping all the scrolls, except for the first one, Xaio carefully began to read the instructions again.
The first scroll he picked up was a beginer's guide to the proper stances and some other begining stances. Placing the scroll on the ground right infont of him Xaio slid his left foot across the ground into the proper position for the horse stance, brining clentched fists up to his side. "Okay, so I've been doing it a bit wrong before. My stance was to shallow." Xaio muttered to himself.
Looking down Xiao read the next stance. Sliding his left foot back to him, Xaio shifted it into the next stance with out stopping. His left foot slid out infront of him until it was about the same distance as the horse stance, the forward power stance. Swinging his right arm in a wide arc from the cocked position, his arm started pointing down, then swinging in a cirlce from front to back and back up. When his arm rose the second time his fingers where together in a knife hand with hsi thumb tucked in. The floor along the path of his swing up the second time jutted up as a ramp of sorts arose from the stone floor. "Now that was cool," Xaio muttered to himself. [Training 2/2]
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:26 am
Kami looked up at the boy, "I commend you," she said, "I have never met an earth bender from Omashu of whom doesn't know me. You should know that I live here, Yamura. Your name, however, doesn't sound familiar," she stood, and turned her back to him," I will spar you," she turned quickly, shooting a fire ball at him.
*8*
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:37 am
Kinzo barely had time to react to Kami's fireball. "She doesn't wait, does she?" As quick as Kinzo could manage, the earth erupted from the ground and a boulder caught the fireball a yard before it could hit Kinzo. "I'm not from around here." Kinzo quickly adopted the horse stance and swung his hands in the direction of the hovering boulder, shooting it right at Kami.
[Training post 1/10 for LB-5]
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:40 am
Kami hit the ground, in a pushup possestion, as the boulder flew over her head. She stood, and created a fire ball, this time brecking it into bits and pieces. She flung them at him, as each targeted a different spot.
*9*
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:57 am
Kinzo had some time to react to the follow-up attack. The fireball was created, but it wasn't yet going towards Kinzo. Instead Kami split the fireball into smaller pieces. He looked around to find two good size boulders on opposite sides of him . "This will take some focus." Kinzo used one arm for each boulder, raising them up before Kami was finished splitting up the fireball. The boulders smashed together as Kinzo clapped his fists together. As soon as they made contact they separated into other smaller boulders. He took the little time he had to examine where the fireballs were coming from and used his bending to move the smaller boulders in the direction of each fireball, blocking the fireballs from any position possible.
Kinzo took a deep breath and focused, waiting for another attack by Kami, keeping his boulders in the same position, and keeping his feet firmly on the ground as he awaited another attack.
[Training post 2/10 for LB-5]
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:55 pm
Kami rolled her eyes, "You have to have a good offense as well as a defense. You have to eventually attack," she raised one hand in front of her, small flames flickering within it. She held the other behind her back, creating a flame long and thin as a defense.
*10*
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 3:45 pm
Kinzo knew that Kami's words were true, and all the pressure of maintaining the bending was going to prove troublesome. In another second, Kinzo responded by sending 2 of the 6 small boulders at Kami. After they had just barely started moving, Kinzo flung another two right behind it. Instead of sending the last two, he dropped them to the ground next to him and kept his horse stance as he awaited another attack. "I wonder if there is any sand around that I could bend. I've been meaning to try and make some offensive techniques with sand, and now would be a better time than ever, since boulders are going to prove too predictable." He scanned the area, and he saw that the dirt itself was more sand than dirt, and he found himself a backup plan. "But if you can't block anything, what are you to do if your target keeps dodging your attacks?"
[Training 3/10 for LB-5]
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:07 pm
Kami pulled the thin section of fire from behind her back, smashing the rocks, flipping the pieces behind her. She saw him look and the dirt, and shoved the fire in the ground. Not only did it set the grass on fire, but she then stood on the dirt, pointing the staff at him, the fire quickly spreading, "You don't know fire benders."
*11*
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:38 pm
She was so excited to be able to just walk around for once without delivery mail. Smilling to Fulgars response, "Well FU-SAN.."She giggled seeing an image of a bunny hopping in her head. "Lets go to the shopping district!" She smiled. "I need some new clothing for me before I he-" She stopped changing the word quickly so he wouldn't notice. "head for a new job! They won't hire me with my tearing clothes!" Her clothes was getting weary, but then again she had the same clothes for 3 years. "I like my clothes...but it won't help if it gets shreded in a fight!" She walked with a little hop in her step, She couldn't stop smiling. "And maybe we can find a vender and get some horse eel tentacals on a stick!" Her mouth watered at the thought of food. "Oi Fu-san!" She jumped turning around now walking backwards looking up at him. "Sooo do you think you could teach me how to heal.." She said averting her eyes from him looking down at her feet.
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:56 pm
"Maybe not, but you don't know me!" Kinzo responded to the enormous fire headed his way by focusing his ability on the sand in the dirt, instead of the fire. Soon enough, all the sand around him, in a circle with about a four foot radius had pushed any grass away from him, leaving him unharmed by the amazing fire. He had no weapon with him, seeing as he had never trained with one. Instead, he used the sand to form a swirling vortex, that was rising.
He flung all the sand at Kami, dissipating the fire around her, and leaving Kinzo with dry dirt, incapable of being burnt. As he made the flying sand out to be an attack, he quickly laid the sand around her, and twirling his arms in circles, the sand following blindly. "Quite good, if I do say so myself. I had never thought of such a useful technique." With all of Kinzo's focus, not even feeling the heat of the fire, he created a fast moving pool of quicksand, hopefully something that would suck her in and bring her to a slow.
[Training Post 4/10 for LB-5]
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:38 pm
Royoka Seeing the icicles come at him, Jonah reacted like he usually did. He stomped his foot down in front of him, raising a slab of stone in front of him to intercept the icicles. One by one, the icicles collided with the stone, either shattering or falling to the floor to be useless. Then came his counter. Jonah pivoted foreward, sweeping his leg to kick the wall he had raised. Upon contact, it shot foreward right at Rave. Jonah then raised two boulders out of the ground, kicking them in another pivot kick. When he was finished, he had sent one wall slab and two boulders at Rave. He was hoping that his earthbending skills didn't rust, since Rave seemed to be pretty good at waterbending. [Fight: 2/15] Training: 8/40] Upon seeing the boulders coming right at him, Rave punched forward with his left hand while moving his left leg to shoulder length, his weight still on his right. The orb of water transformed itself in a thick rectangular slab that was now resting full length atop Rave's forearm. With quick movements, Rave made his heels touch each other before his left foot step forward, his body from far away looking thin. Putting most of his weight onto his left arm, Rave swung a wide arc, crushing the boulder into dust. Quickly, Rave stepped the same way with his right leg while alternating where the thick slab of ice to his right forearm. Again, with a wide arc swing, Rave was able to make the other boulder go away. Eying the wall that was speedily coming towards him, Rave stepped back with his right leg while placing his right arm with the ice slab forward; his left hand hovering only inches above it. Winding back as if he was going to throw a punch, his left palm ran over the thick rectangular slab, bending it into something else, something that was pointy. Swiftly and with a lot of power, Rave thrust out his right arm, his right leg following suit as it moved forward. The slab of ice was turned into some kind of drill which made it possible for Rave to tore through the boulder wall. This counterattack happened within a minute, and already Rave broke a sweat. He was using too much power for a mere sparring session. Although, his reasoning was that his most powerful attacks should still remain powerful, rather than not going all out even if the opponent was a friend. Still, Rave paused for a moment, take a breath in as his ice drill turned back to it's liquid form. Catching his breath, Rave charged at the earthbender. He spread out his arms as if he was flying, his water spread out before him as well, though it looked as if he was going to use it as a net. Stopping abruptly within ten feet from the earthbender, Rave let his right leg slide before him as his torso leaned to the left, the net looking water, now turned back into its sphere shape. The next thing anyone would know was that Rave launched the now medium size looking ball towards the earthbender. [Um, I'm planning to do something with the ball of water, so if you could not make it seem that the waterball hit your counter, that'll be great sweatdrop ] [This fight: 3/15 Overall: 21/95]
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