I put on my helmet as we were moving towards the arena, everyone was cheering and we were waving to the audience, I didn't know if I should be excited or nervous, Brett was showing off his muscles, as usual, while Kai was glaring at the opposing team, but then he pulled himself together and started to enjoy the praise of our fans, and I did the same. We were rookies, people said we weren't cut out for the tournament, but we always tried our best, kept our heads in the game, and always made the most of the small time we had in the gym. I was the earthbender, Brett was the firebender, and Kai was the waterbender, we usually thought of him as our team leader, he was the most experienced and , the referee started to talk, "The rookies that came out of nowhere, the diamonds in the ruff, here they are folks, The Dragon-Hawks!" the fans started to scream even louder, "and the competitors, The Tiger-Dillos!" and the crowd cheered more, we got into our places, then we heard the ring. I stayed light on my feet like I had seen other professional earthbenders do, then, I struck, nailing the opponents waterbender right in the stomach. She fell back followed quickly by her two teammates, "And the Dragon-Hawks strike, and get the green light to advance in only the first thirty seconds!" The crowd went crazy and we advanced into the Tiger-Dillo's territory. This all happened so quickly I couldn't believe it, but I snapped out of it when I saw a stretch of water slicing through the air coming right for me, I ducked under it and a barrage of water came, rushing all around me. I was dodging every element that came at me, then at the perfect moment, I stomped my foot and an earthbender disc came up. Then, I nailed the opposing teams firebender right in the gut and he fell back to zone three, then the buzzer went off, "And the Dragon-Hawks take round one!" The crowd went nuts and we all returned to zone one, then the buzzer. "Great entrance from the Dragon-Hawks! But, the Tiger-Dillos seem to be struggling." I started off strong, telling myself that we had to win this match, the Tiger-Dillos earthbender was knocked back a space from Brett's barrage of fire, I hit their waterbender in the side and she went flying into her teammate, and they were in the pool."Wow folks two in the pool and one to go! its all up to Chang now!" announced the referee, Kai soaked the last player in water and he went flying backwards, "And he's in the pool! The Dragon-Hawks win the opening match of the tournament!" We all group hugged as our fans cheered us on. Then we waved to the crowd as we left the arena.
