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The Last Windbender
Book 1: Equality
Chapter 3: Life on Air Temple Island
"Talking"
"Thinking"
"Spirit talking"
"Spirit thinking"
The present:
It was a bright morning for Republic City. The birds were singing. The sun was shining. In Air Temple Island, people were sleeping a little later than usual. Suddenly, the peace was shattered from a large blast. Everyone came outside. "What is going on here?" asked Tenzin. The answer became apparent as he stepped out into the courtyard. Caelum and Korra was sparring with each other. Korra blasted fire from her fists and Caleum used the speed granted to airbenders to dodge all of the blasts. He then retaliated with a violent gust of wind. Korra fell down, then sent a column of earth straight at him. Caelum was unlucky this time, and was flung into the air after the earth column smashed into his chin. He flipped in the air, landed on his feet, and spat out bit of blood. "Not bad. You actually hit me, unlike yesterday." he drawled. "Heh, that was just a warm up." retaliated Korra. "Actually, I'm holding back." retorted Caelum. They ran at each other again. Korra bent some water from a nearby pool and trapped Caelum inside of it. Caelum struggled for a bit, then blasted the water away from him with a sphere of wind. He immediately ran towards Korra and kicked her in the guts, blasting her further away with air bending for a good measure. Korra stood up, though she was a bit winded. "That last one really hurt." complained Korra. "It's supposed to." quipped Caelum. As they stood up for another bout: "Korra! Caelum! Breakfast will be done after 10 minutes. After that, come to the training field. We'll be meditating and training Korra." ordered Tenzin.
"Understood sir." said Caelum. After a few more minutes of sparring, Caelum decided to call it a day and headed to the men's shower area. After a nice shower, he dried himself with airbending, got dressed, and headed off towards the dining room. Along the way, he spotted Jinora. "Hey, Jinora. How are you doing?" he asked. "Oh! I-er- I am doing fine." stuttered Jinora. "What's wrong with me?" thought Jinora, blushing. Caelum then seemed to smirk, his occasional childish nature surfacing. "Hey, race you to the dining room." he said. "Oh, no way are you beating me!" replied Jinora with a grin. The two raced towards the dining room, blowing past air acolytes and the items they were carrying. Suddenly, Jinora tripped into Caelum and the two crashed onto the floor. "Ow. You okay?" said Caelum, worried. "Yeah, I'm fine." replied Jinora. It was then they were conscious about their position. Jinora was under Caelum, who had his arms wrapped around her to protect her form the fall. Their faces were mere inches away from each other. "EEEK!" squeaked out Jinora. "AAAAH!" yelled out Caelum. The two immediately separated. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry..." exclaimed a frantic Caelum. "No, i-it's fine... I guess it was my fault in the first place." said Jinora. Just then, they heard an ominous chuckle. "Oooh, we have some love birds here~." cooed Ikki and Meelo. "You morons/brats!" yelled out Jinora and Caelum as they chased the troublesome pair.
The Dining Room:
Tenzin was waiting for four other people, namely Caelum, Jinora, Ikki, and Meelo, to arrive. Pema too was getting a bit impatient. "Where are they?" she asked to herself. All of a sudden: BANG! A loud crash was heard outside of the door. Everyone opened the door and saw Jinora lying on top of Caelum. "Mommy! Daddy! Guess what!" exclaimed Ikki and Meelo, who entered the room. "No! Don't you two dare!" shouted out the unfortunate pair on the floor. They were ignored. "Caelum and Jinora like each other!"
Tenzin, Pema, and Korra were rendered speechless. Then Pema smirked mischievously. "So, I guess you're at that age, hmm Jinora?" teased Pema. "Mom/Ma'am! That's not it!" yelled out the pair as they jumped to there feet. Tenzin was feeling slighlty protective. "This better not be true." he thought ominously. Korra on the other hand... "Oh my gosh! You two love each other? When's the first date? Are you two planning to marry each other? Please tell me, pleeease!" said Korra, who took over Ikki's role of rapid-firing questions. "WE DON'T LIKE EACH OTHER THAT WAY!" roared out the duo. "Can't we go back to breakfast?" pleaded Jinora. "Fine." Pema sighed. "Lets eat."
After breakfast (and a lot of teasing), Tenzin, Korra, Caelum, Jinora, Ikki, and Meelo walked over to the Meditation Pavilion and crouched down in a meditative position. Of the five students, Caelum, Jinora, and Ikki were actually meditating. Meelo was asleep while Korra was getting too distracted. "I think I'm doing it wrong." said Korra after a few minutes. "There's nothing to do. Let your mind and your spirit be free, for air is the element of freedom." replied Tenzin. "And yet, you wouldn't let me listen to pro-bending over on the radio the other day." grumbled Korra. "Please, Korra, look at Caelum. He's doing it well." said Tenzin. "Only because I usually meditate instead of sleeping." replied Caelum. "You don't sleep?" asked Jinora, opening her eyes. "No. my victims' faces always appear in my dreams." said Caelum. "Oh. I'm sorry." said Jinora in a small voice. "Don't worry about it." said Caelum. Tenzin sighed. "Korra, if you do as I say, eventuay it'll click. Trust me." said the airbending master. "Korra got backnto meditation for 2 seconds, then gave a long groan. "I'm taking break and getting myself some lychee juice." she said as she stomped off."Korra, the exercise isn't done yet!" Tenzin yelled, but he was ignored. "Can I have a lychee juice as well, Dad?" asked Ikki. Tenzin gave a deadpan look. "No."
After an hour, the students were allowed to spend the rest of the day to relax. "Hey, Caelum, want to play air scooter racing?" Ikki asked. "Air scooter racing? How do you play?" replied Caelum, curious. "You form an air scooter, which is a ball of spinning air, and race on it. Whoever passes first through a torri gate we chose wins. And this time, the winner gets to choose what penalty last place will get." explains Ikki. "Do you make the ball like this?" asked Caelum as he concentrated. Soon, a sphere of air slowly materialized around Caelum, with him in the center with the palms together and his feet crossed. "Woah! That's an Avatar level technique!" cried out Jinora in awe, which left Caelum blushing. Meelo then demostrated the air scooter, which was balancing on a ball of air, crossing the feet, and putting the knuckles together. After Caelum got it down, the contestants took off with Meelo on the lead. Pretty soon, Ikki was in the lead. They flashed by Pema, ruffling her hair and startling her. "Be careful, kids!" she called out. After a while, Ikki passed through the torri gate, with Jinora being second, Meelo being third, and Caelum being last. "Right, then. What is my punishment?" asked Caelum. Suddenly, he felt a chill down his spine as Ikki and Meelo grined evilly at him. "Your punishment..." paused Ikki. "...is to take Jinora out on a date!"
There was a long pause. Then all hell broke loose. "WWHHAAAAAATTTT?!" screamed Caelum and Jinora. "You heard me." said Ikki, grinning. Caelum and Jinora blushed and turned away from each other. After a moment, Caelum gathered his courage and turned to Jinora. "J-Jinora." he stuttered. "W-would you... would you like to go out on a date with me?"
Chapter 3 End
I'm going to include Rasengan from Naruto later on because I rather like that move. No Rasenshuriken, unfortunately, it's not realistic enough.
The reason why Caelum can use Aang's air sphere is because windbending involves using spheres of wind as weapons as well, though it's not mentioned.