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"Ah-choo!" Taizen sneezed, holding his nose up to his face. Waterbender's really couldn't get cold's right? Far too much Irony in that. Maybe someone was just talking about him? "Fulgar befriended the stranger, actually." It was sort of embarrasing for Taizen to say it like that. "The stranger, was Kazuki." Niima would remember this name being the one that Taizen had ranted about secretly gettting the two out of the temple about. "Actually, I knew Kazuki before this... And more or less he was my... 'friend.' He said it slowly, he was still angry at Kazuki, but that was because he put Niima and possibly hurt the airbison.

Taizen felt his stomach plunge into a bucket of cold water, there had been a maniacle look in Niima's eyes. And if taizen dared inform her that she'd eaten food made by Kazuki, well, Niima wouldn't be up to worrying about Taizen's health at the moment, therefore Taizen figured he should enjoy it while he could. "Heh, Waterbender's don't catch colds! Don't you know that?" He asked grinning, again he offered his arm. "He's annoying, but he's not a bad person... He just think's he's above the rules."

"Nah, maybe i'm just allergic to Guardian?" He joked, as she held his arm. "If I do push myself, nothing of mal-intention will come of it. If Fulgar's feeling better, we might be able to leave pretty soon, let's check up on him?" It felt like he was sweeping something under the rug, he hadn't said he wouldn't, push himself, and had thusly declined niima's request, but he did it as kindly as he could, he knew he hd to push himself at some time or another, and unfrotunately, Taizen didn't think Niima was worth stopping his ambition, but she was still worth a whole lot.

(s**t. We need to get to fighting, I'm at 80 posts. whee and I believe you guys need to fight, right? Unless Vlad got his fire posts from the tourny...)

(I do but I am not in a 'rush for power' unlike most others. But don't ask me. Ask Niima. You will have to coax her into sparring. I just play the puppet strings lol )

It wasn't so much she released his arm out of spite. In fact she was more moving out of the direct path of following to check where Guardian was. Her brows furrowed a bit when she noticed Guardian wasn't in the room..and as she followed Taizen she noted he also wasn't in the halls.. Wha? She had to stop herself from sighing in worry, instead focusing on walking aside of Taizen, not behind him. Ever so often her fingers would tap his palm, almost threatening to grasp his hand but never doing so.

When they found the two her hands clasped at the small of her back and she would smile warmly to the both of them but for the time..keeping silent. Pff. Who wouldn't take personal offense with that man. Pff. Pff. Pff. Her thoughts didn't reflect on her face but if they had it would be crystal clear she wasn't impressed or happy with the second waterbender she has had met..

[As Fulgar's features darkened, Taizen's lit-up. (They were already lit up, but now it was genuine,) "He's gone, uh-huh, oh yes, he's gone." Inside he was doing a mental rhumba, before he realized Kazuki had dissapeared before Taizen could not, as he had gone over it while Niima slept. 'Humble' him. He clenched his fist in annoyance, before continuing. "Well, I could... If you'd like that is..." Okay, he wasn't about to blow his cover, but from the start, he'd wanted to see what this firebender could do, he was certainly not as strong as Xio had been, but definately up there! When Kazuki had sent a whole blizzard at him, Fulgar had... Well, he'd read about the Avatar state several times, and quite frankly, Fulgar had potential to be it. (knock off a few years of course) He hadn't seen such strength, at least. Not such dangerously uncontrolled strength.

(Xio... why is that name familiar? Is he the guy that makes the fire swords?)

Fulgar grinned again, "if you would do that for us, that would be really great, Taizen, and Niima, it would also help if you could spar and help teach both of us, I've been the Northern water tribe and I've learned their techniques, but never had I the honor of learning from an airbender, especially one as... endowed as you." This time the grin stayed, his mood brightened, he hadnt been this happy in a while, all the concerns about Kurai and him just went away and his worry about Cain also slipped. "Do you guys need to know what exactly I've been teaching her?"

Taizen smiled as Fulgar took him up on his offer, it took Taizen 10 seconds in total- 5 seconds for each pause- to fully comprehend what was happening, it happened as follows:

Fular agreed to spar with the benders, promptly hitting on her. 5 seconds later, Taizen had a sour look on his face, and the urge to spar with Fulgar increasing 2 fold.

5 seconds after Niima blundered, Taizen twitched, before looking away, "My... What a thing to say..." He thought, with his face turning a light shade of red. "Niima's great with bending... She can hit you with a ball of air that'll knock you on you bottom in two seconds!" It sounded like he was boasting, and he sorta was, but maybe subconsciously, Taizen was showing that he had spent enough time with Niima to have 'created' memories. Like, bending accidents. "But, no, you don't have to Flugar, that's like telling me to get ready for a 'trick' move."

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