Authors Note: Well, i was meaning to post this chapter forever and a month ago but then my internet connection decided it would be funny to stop working. Anyhow I hope you enjoi!
Tyro winced as a drop of rain fell directly into his forehead. He had woken up about 12 minutes ago and decided to wash his face which had dirt smeared across it from sleeping on the ground. Now back at the small clearing he was watching the clouds roll in. It had been 4 days sense Yasuke joined the group and they had to sleep outside for the last 3 days.
The sun probably would have been up by now if it weren't for the oncoming storm. He glanced over to Chima who was out like a rock with Mist curled up on his back. Should he wake him? Nah, he probably won't even notice if he gets poured on. He could smell the rain start to come, he loved water, which reminded him. Where was Yasuke anyways? He was asleep first when they all decided to stop yesterday, but now it looked like as if Yasuke was never here.
He lightly pushed himself off of the ground, quietly, he wasn't sure why though, it wasn't like he'd actually be able to wake up the sleeping firebending platypusbear anyways. As he tiptoed around the poorly made campsite he flinched as more drops began to fall, and looked back at Chima. He'd get sick if he sleeps out in the rain. Why didn't they ever use tents anyways? Tyro thought for a bit and then just shrugged off the idea of waking Chima, he was a wild kid, probably had dealt with nature constantly when he was traveling alone or with that Naul guy.
"Yasuke? What are you doing up there?" Tyro's voice must of stunned the tall waterbender because he flailed a bit and wrapped his arms around the branch he was seated on when Tyro spoke up.
"Oh. Hello Tyro." He looked down at him from the tree he was high up in.
It took a while just to find Yasuke in the first place, he was a couple minutes away from the camp and all the way in a tree on top of that, overlooking a small lake. "What are you doing?" he repeated.
"Practicing my bending. I have a hard time sleeping when I am cold." He then flicked his hand at the lake, lifting a little bit of water, but it soon struggled as Yasuke tried to separate it.
On this observation Tyro wondered if this really was the same bender that attacked him and Chima a couple weeks ago. "What was that about?"
"I have a hard time focusing. It's hard for me, to um." He narrowed his eyes and looked at the branch trying to regain his thought. "It's hard to be gentle, and to keep my mind on one thing at a time."
"That looked pretty gentle to me." Tyro leaned his back against the tree. He wasn't the one to talk about bending to, even if Chima and the air temple monks thought he was the Avatar, he still barely even used firebending.
Yasuke lifted his hands again, more aggravated, pulling the water up and freezing it into sharp spikes of ice. "That's because I was trying really hard!" he threw his hand melting the ice and throwing it against a tree, causing the old plant to shake, some of the dead branches fell. "I destroy everything around me!" fed up grabbed a leaf from the branch he was seated on and shredded it.
"Ya! You do." Chima's voice joined the group, he looked funny due to the rain pressing his long nappy hair to his skin. He shot a quick glare at Tyro as if he were thanking him for waking him up when it started raining. "I remember when you attacked us, you destroyed some ancient trees with your loosely controlled bending." He sneered at him in disgust. Did Chima not like Yasuke?
Yasuke took his offensive comment in and slapped Chima in the side of the face with some of the rain water collected. "Sorry, I lack control."
Tyro watch Chima stand up and rubbed his swelling cheek. He must of really hit Chima hard. "Guys lets not fight over bending. That's just stupid." He awkwardly spoke up, wanting to defuse the situation before it got worse.
"You don't even bend!" yasuke continued on ranting to Chima. "So don't start with me!" He wrapped his arms around the trees trunk and slip down.
Chima lit his hands, "I do too bend! You better be sorry for hitting me!" He stepped a foot forward using his old intimidation trick that Tyro was now use to.
"Or what!? You're gonna light a campfire? Because last time I checked you refuse to use your bending for fighting!" He splashed water over Chima's hands, making his flames disappear. "besides. Fire is a weak element." The rain stopped and the sun broke through the clouds, Yasuke walked away leaving Chima and Tyro alone at the Lake.
Maybe it Yasuke that didn't like Chima. Either way it was clear the two didn't get along with each other. Tyro looked over at Chima who was touching his face, desperate to lighten up the mood Tyro Smiled. "Uh. Maybe Yasuke is just the type who would rather confront his faults alone."
"Yeah. He was right though, fire really is the weakest of the four elements. " Chima adverted his eyes In discomfort.
"Awww… Nah…. Don't say that.." Tyro also adverted his eyes, he wasn't good at confronting matters of confidence. "I'm a Firebender too." Must have been the wrong thing to say when Chima gave him a horrified look.
"uh. Thanks Tyro….. but you suck at Firebending."
"Then teach me! Help me become better! I'm sure if you and me practice bending together we will get stronger."
"But the Monks said-"
"FORGET THE MONKS CHIMA! We're already doing half of the stuff they told us not to do anyways." Tyro being the manipulative teenager he was, made a small flame in his hand, something he hadn't done for a while.
"Fine!" He lit his hand. "Do you know how to make the flame in your hand bigger?"
"Not really. Don't you just flex or something?" Tyros smile dropped when Chima raised an eyebrow in disbelief. Was he really that much of an idiot?
"Ahem" He cleared his throat. "I guess you don't even know the basics to firebending. But then again how could you if you've never been around other firebenders. Some! Of it, is by force of your muscle, no actually its less than some. It is very little. Fire cannot be made without Oxygen. You need air in order to have fire. You must be aware of your breathing and the air around you."
Tyro grimaced, "Maybe I should Learn airbending first." He dropped his hands to his side.
"Stick with things you decide to do!" Chima hissed at him, "besides…. Airbending is a dumb element." He focused his attention to the flames in his hands.
"What!? No its not! Its pretty cool if you ask me! And when we were back in the eastern air temple all of those pretty girl airbenders…" Tyro trailed off at the end of his sentence in awe at the memory.
"I don't like airbenders and I especially don't like female airbenders." He tightened his eyebrows.
"Why? That's such a weird type of person to hate. What did an airbender ever do to you?"
"Nothing! Or something. Whatever! I don't want to talk about it. I'm gonna go deal with that savage waterbender that tags along with us." Chima started to walk away but Tyro run in front of him.
"But I want to know! That's just really weird." He Scooted in front of Chima every time he tried to get around him.
"Damnit Tyro let me through, I don't want to talk about it!" Chima shoved Tyro back but he caught his arm.
"Tell me." he didn't want to give up so easily, Chima closed himself up whenever Tyro asked about his past. "I want to know."
Chima pulled his arm away from him but didn't move after that, finally after a few tense minutes of them glaring at each other Chima gave in. "Have you ever heard of Air scoffing?"
"Um. No I can't say I have. Why? What is it?"
"Air Scoffing is an advanced forbidden Airbending technique that only the best Airbenders can do. It's when an Airbender suffocates someone by bending away the oxygen around them, or using the air pressure to crush someone."
"that sounds Harsh. "
"That's how you died. And my mentor too. By a lady named Chizu." He looked away, "I only met her once, Naul though she had probably died but we were both surprised by her. She wasn't too happy with Naul knowing her secret about Sonno. That was the First time I had ever seen her and the Last time Naul was alive."
(TBC)
Anything you wanna say? Go for it! I'm lonely D:
