Chapter 10
It was the weekend, which meant no school, tea, Small Beak had a two-hour practice. Half an hour was dedicated to Zuko explaining the rules of the sport. The rest of practice was focused on bending and fitness. Shu was was finding it easy as she was nearly a master of the element, Zuko was finding it easy because of his experience, but Lahna was finding it difficult because the pro-bending style was different from the Northern Water Tribe style. The Northern Water Tribe style is more defense minded whereas the pro-bending style of water bending is nothing but attack. Once practice was over the three came together to discuss what to improve on. "The first thing we have to address is Lahna's need to improve her attack, but we'll give it time." Zuko said.
Lahna smilled a little knowing that she will get it eventually. "The last thing we need to do is talk about tactics."
"Should there be a chalkboard for this?" Shu asked.
"No." Zuko said. "We ran out of time in the gym?"
Just then the doors to the gym opened to reveal another pro-bending team in their league. The Small Beaks decided to leave, change, and go to a noodle shop to have lunch and talk tactics. After about an hour of eating noodles talking about tactics, the three plus Small Beak decided to hang out at the park. "So when's our first match?" Lahna asked.
"Not until the start of next month." Zuko replied.
"So not for a while." Shu said.
"Yep." Zuko said with a pop at the end.
"Hey that just means practices for the whole month." Lahna said sheepishly.
2 days later
At history class, Zuko was asleep on his desk while Shu was paying attention diligently to the class. "Now class can anyone tell me how the 100 year war between the Fire Nation and the rest of the world started?" The teacher asked the class.
The teacher looked around the class until he noticed Zuko was not paying attention. A tick mark appeared on the teachers head and quickly Shu used her pinky to earthbend enough earth under Zuko's foot to wake him up. Zuko's head went straight up. "Good you're awake, now can you answer the question I had asked?"
"Fire Lord Sozin wanted to spread the properity of the Fire Nation to the rest of the world; however, his good intentions became devastation when the Fire Nation attacked the air temples resulting in their near extinction." Zuko responded.
The teacher blincked, but still had the tick mark on his head. "Nicely explained." He said, as she continued the class.
At the end of class, Zuko's head was on the desk fast asleep, until Shu shook him by the shoulders. "Class is over you can wake up now." Shu stated.
"Uh , I'm up already." He says yawning and stretching.
"Yeah you had me so convinced that you were up, with your face on the desk and your light snoring."
Zuko just glares at Shu. Shu just smiles at Zuko. "See you at lunch." Shu says as she leaves.