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About five minutes later, Sorin landed evenly. Bowing, he took a deep, deep breath, and then spoke cheerfully:
"Well, that's all!"
Silence drifted through the camp. A couple burning trees fell behind him. "THAT'S ALL?! HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT'S ALL!! HAVE YOU BEEN COMPLETELY GONE FOR THE PAST FIVE MINUTES!!!!????" Sokka roared.
"That was amazing!" Katara praised with an awed look on her face. Toph merely nodded. Aang stared with a twitchy smile on his face.
Katara couldn't help thinking that this would be a good time to stare at Aang, with everyone else to busy (except maybe Toph) to care. She quickly chased the thought from her mind, blushing ferociously.
This went unnoticed, of course, to everyone except Toph, who snickered. That's what she thought, anyway. In reality, Sorin had caught it too. As soon as Toph realized that what Sorin was staring so intently at was Katara, she turned to him. As soon as Sorin caught Toph eye, he grinned widely.
This could get fun… They both thought.
"Uhhhhh….Don't you think you should do something about the fire?" Sokka asked uncertainly, pointing at the raging but small forest fire.
"The fire?" Sorin asked, looking confused. Suddenly, a look of recognition crossed his face. Leaping to his feet, he turned to face the mini inferno. "oops…" he mumbled.
"No problem, I've got it." Katara sighed. This meant she would have to refill her bending water later. But, too her surprise, before she could even begin her bending, Sorin leapt into the air, lading softly and swishing his arm in a watery motion.
Slowly, the fire began to die down, and with another wave of his arms, disappeared completely.
"Wow! What happened?" Aang asked, a lost look on his face. "I thought you were a firebender?"
"I am! You said you got a few firebending lessons from Joeng Joeng, right? Well than, I don't suppose he taught you anything about self control or manipulating fire, but you must at least have heard about it."
"Oh yeah! I remember! He said too many people are only interested in firebending for it's destructive properties, and no one wants to learn self control or discipline. Deos that mean you can bend fire like I bend water?" Aang replied, a look of recognition on his face.
"It's true, not many firebenders can manipulate fire like that. Even many of the masters can only shoot it. But Joeng Joeng insisted I not turn into one of those. He taught me how to control my fire before he taught me how to actually bend it! But no, I can't bend it like water. I can put it out, and I can block the fire of opponents. Also, I can do things like create a wall of fire that others can't do because they have no self control." Sorrin replied.
"Well, I have a question. Earlier, you shot something out of you're fingers that definetly wasn't fire. It was blue." Sokka asked curiously.
"Oh, that? That was lightning. Some of the most advanced firebenders can shoot lightning by a complicated process of splitting the electrical positive and negative forces, but it's nearly impossible to control and very dangerous to both the bender and to the target. Besides, it takes a lot of concentration and peace of mind and soul to do. Actually, it's twice as easy if you have the actual self control and discipline that many firebenders don't have." Sorin yawned.
"I'm exhausted!" Katara moaned, rolling onto her back. Poor Aang was doing his best not to steal glances at her.
"Let's go to bed then. I'm tired too." Sokka added. "Yeah."
Nodding lightly in the direction of the fire, Sorin's eyes glowed faintly and the flames flared, changing briefly from bright red to light blue. Within the next second, the fire burned out, and everybody bid each other good night.
There was a brief commotion when the group realized that Sorin had neither a tent nor a sleeping bag, but it was quickly resolved when Toph volunteered to share her tent. Everyone assumed it was simply that Toph was annoyed at being woken up and wanted to get back to sleep as soon as possible, but the truth was she wanted to talk (plot) with Sorin about setting up Aang and Katara.
Boy, did they Talk!
Ex-v: well, there you go!! Hope you enjoyed it, and cross you're fingers (and review) for chappie four!!
BTW, does anyone want to see Sorin fight against Azula in the later chapters? What about seeing Toph and Sorin accidentally end up setting themselves up with all their plots and plans to set up Aang and Katara? Nothing too major of course, but I think you guys are seriously gonna get a kick out of some of their ideas!