It is a late morning, but an early afternoon. I feel like I've done nothing productive since the invasion, and I'm afraid my waterbending has gotten rusty so I guess I'll go and practice by the fountain. Where is Aang? It's better to have a practice with two people instead of one, I'm beginning to walk over to where I last saw him when I hear a loud thump and run towards the direction of the commotion.

"Come on Twinkletoes! Is that all you got!?" Toph shot another boulder at a blind folded Aang. Well I guess he's not available for waterbending right now.

"Toph! You're going to fast!" Aang's now ducking from five different rocks coming at different speeds and directions. I see that Haru is also helping with the training and The Duke is gathering some boulders for them to throw. That's smart, this temple is already so beat up, better not mess it up by digging more earth and stone from beneath it.

"Visualize Twinkletoes! Visualize!" Toph is shouting even louder now throwing punches in the air to direct the rocks to Aang. I guess she is going too fast because the next thing I see is Aang flying through the air because a rock hit him in the stomach. And of course that is followed by Sokka's laughter.

"Aha! Good one Toph! Man I love watching these practices." He's laughing on the floor and holding his sides, it really isn't that funny. Well there's nothing left for me to see here, just a bunch of earthbenders chucking rocks at each other.

I make my way back to our base where the fountain is. The perfect amount of water for me. "Practice for one." I murmur quietly. Bending the water from the fountain I try the move that was hardest for me to get when I first started waterbending, the waterwhip. It's so simple now. "Just shift you're way through the stances." I remember the words Aang told me when he so easily mastered this move. I carelessly bend the water now, doing what I please. At one point I just freeze the water on my hand and change the temperature of the water. It goes from frozen, to liquid again, then I cause it to bubble on my hand but that kind of hurts so I stop. I continue with the waterwhip and move it around my head and body.

"Having fun?"

I drop the water over my head and turn to the familiar voice. Evaporating the water that was spilt on to my tunic I stare him down. "How long have you been standing there?" He wears a smirk on his face. Like he's pleased that he interrupted my practice.

"A while. Don't mind me I'm just watching." He walks closer and sits down, off to the side of the fountain.

"Why?"

Zuko stands up again. "Just seeing how you move." I guess I made some kind of face which gave away what I was thinking. Watching the way I move? He caught on and quickly explained what he meant. "No! I meant.. Ugh waterbenders in general. My uncle, he learned how to redirect lighting by studying the waterbenders. I just wanted to see how he could have understood the concept of another element and make up his own technique just by watching."

I'm quiet for a moment. It's interesting. Learning a new style of your bending by watching another bender bend their element. Maybe I can learn something from watching Toph, or Aang, maybe even Zuko?

"Have you done it?"

"What? Redirect lightning? Once."

"When?"

"On the Eclipse, when I faced my father and told him I would be joining you guys. He shot lighting at me, I would have been a dead right now if my uncle hadn't taught me it." Zuko's closing his eyes like he's trying to get rid of a bad memory, then he looks to me again like he's waiting for another question.

Strangely, I do want to know more. "What was it like?"

He takes a moment to find the words to describe it. "Exhilarating, but also terrifying. You're holding that much power, one wrong move and it's over."

I nod my head. "I wonder if I could learn how to do that?" It comes out as a whisper, It shouldn't even had come out at all, that was meant to stay in my head but escaped out onto my lips.

"Last time I checked, you're not a firebender, or the avatar." He teases.

Rolling my eyes I begin to speak. "No, I mean learn a new bending form or style by watching a different type bender bend their element." He takes the time to consider this.

"It's possible. I'll be you're first bender."

I laugh. "Yeah, that's a good one."

"What?"

"I don't like you. Why would I let you help me?"

He shakes his head with annoyance. "You don't have to like me, but you do have to get used to me." I'm taken back, shocked with how true that actually was even though I didn't want to accept it.

"I'll take it into consideration."

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