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When the sun was rising everyone was waking up stretching their arms and legs and getting ready for the day which woke up Aang with determination to learn his new element.
"Hey Tao wake up, come on I want to start training" said Aang almost demanding.
"Five more minutes, I don't even like your breakfast grandpa" said Tao bringing up and old routine he used to go to.
"C'mon wake up I want to start as soon as possible" bothered Aang.
"Aang who are you talking?" asked Katara.
"Tao, he joined the group at night when you guys were asleep" explained Aang.
"You mean that fire nation kid from last night?" said Sokka making sure.
"Hey don't call me a kid alright I'm mature enough to be an adult!" said Tao with a struck of energy to sit up and fight for his dignity.
"Hey your awake finally lets get some training done" said Aang.
"Is he always this cheerful?" asked Tao facing everyone else.
"Yup" said Sokka while on the side Aang got a little angry and pulled Tao's shirt to lead him somewhere where he can't hurt anyone with his fire bending training.
Somewhere not so far from camp Aang and Tao was just about to get ready to start in a place where they were near a river and stone floors.
"Okay first take your stance" questioned Tao.
Aang widened his legs from previous experience.
"Good now take in deep breathes through the nose then exhale from the mouth and feel the heat from the sun, the key of fire bending is the breath inhale then exhale deeply for power" said Tao.
"Feel your lung's muscles going back and forth, feel the heat of your body pouring out and combine it with the atmosphere" said Tao showing an example, Aang is following suit.
Aang suddenly blew fire from the mouth then blew it in the air, Aang was feeling excited over the power of fire to much he started throwing it around but then had a bad memory about fooling around with fire he stopped to think that without control fire can hurt people then Aang started to put bad examples of his theory in his head and with that he remembered the fight he had with Azula and Zuko, Aang became real angry and started to blow fire everywhere and just when he was about slap the floor with fire Tao stopped him by grabbing his hand.
"Whoa hold it man you're getting all little to out of control there" said Tao a little concerned.
"Don't try and stop me, now teach me the next step" demanded Aang.
"Well the next step is control and you need a lot of it right now" back sassed Tao.
Aang stepped forward in front of Tao angry and said "I have to finish this war and the war was started by the fire nation and the saying goes, fight fire with fire.
Tao burst into laughter when Aang finished, he thought the saying was hilarious.
"Alright Aang I'll teach you fire's true potential but you know what they say, play with fire to much and you'll get burned" said Tao, Aang understood what he meant but was interrupted by Tao's laughter.
"Or can't stand the heat then stay out of the kitchen" Tao said laughing having a ball, Aang was serious but thought it was a little funny and laughed a little.
The sun was setting and everyone was packed they decided they should leave to the North pole for support, everyone was ready to leave and was waiting for Aang and Tao to return to depart and just when they were about to search for them they came through the food full of suit on their clothes and sweat, they must've been doing a lot of training.
"Are you guys alright you look hurt" said Katara.
"Tired but not hurt, me and Aang were working a lot out there and let me tell you this kid burn something" said Tao a little worn out, Aang felt disappointed.
"What wrong Aang? Did something happen when you guys were practicing?" asked Katara a little concerned from noticing Aang's expression.
"Sorry Katara was it? But Aang doesn't want to talk about it" said Tao.
Katara felt a little hurt being left out but respected Aang's privacy.
"Hey lets get moving I don't want the sun to go down again then I won't be able to sleep"
Complained Sokka.
"The way you snore barely anyone can sleep" said Toph.
With everything going back to normal Aang and Tao hopped on top of Appa's head and with a yip yip Appa soared through the sky towards their next destination.
"Wow this is amazing we're actually flying" said Tao excited.
"Yes its thrilling isn't it being able to soar through the sky" said the earth king.
"You aired heads are having fun aren't yah" said Toph.
"Who the heck are you with hair all over your face, are you trying to cover your shame?" said Tao defending his dignity.
"What'd you say you monkey voiced loser" said Toph angry.
"My voice is that the best you can come up with" Tao said taunting her.
"She blind" said Sokka bluntly.
Tao suddenly felt wrong for insulting Toph which made him blush, Katara thought it was funny and turned to talk to Aang about where they were going but was stopped to see Aang was serious, she wanted to know what but was shocked to see what happened to the forest. Katara saw so many burnt trees that the area was big enough for a town.
"Wonder what happened here probably fire nation" said Katara, everyone looked down to see the burnt forest except for Toph and Aang who looked straight ahead.
"The fire nation didn't do this, I did" said Aang bluntly which shocked Katara.
"Aang" said Tao concerned.
"It's okay I'm not going to lie anymore and hide my shame" said Aang with no emotion, Tao slumped in depression.
"What could've happened between them" whispered Katara in concern.