Quixin awoke the next day amongst the bugs native to Kyoshi Island. Suki lay next to him. He quickly realized that they must've fallen asleep last night whilst stargazing. This was not an unusual occurrence, every so often Quixin would forget any worries and drift off to sleep while in deep thought. No matter where he was at. Suki still lay asleep, she was more tired than usual, from putting forth so much effort to the Kyoshi warriors and Quixin. But she wouldn't allow it to show to anyone. She looked serene, at peace with the world.

He stood up and dusted himself of any debris from the night before. The sun was up, not midday, but close. He stretched trying to rid himself of the dopey eyes still plastered amongst his face. Suki awoke, looking a bit alarmed of her whereabouts. Then smirked, yawned and stood up. She greeted him whole heartedly, and did he own variety of stretches. He walked her back to her house, and they agreed to meet up after lunch. At the beach, He could see the almost sadness in her eyes as they parted, even though it wasn't for very long. He went back to his house, and promptly explained to his parents of what had happened last night, only he excluded Suki. They seemed concerned. But accepted his story. He then ate a nice portion of rice, with a bit of gravy on top. And a cup of luke-warm tea.

He preceded to the beach, the elephant koi were calm. He was then surprised by a visitor, well, a group of visitors. The Kyoshi Warriors. With Suki leading the group. She waved happily and explained that it looked and felt so nice today, that the group insisted training on the beach. He was happy to see his friends, and Suki. The warriors then started training. They organized themselves and sparred. Quixin just laid on the rock and sunbathed.

Then he heard a horrible sound. The sound of the Unagi. The Unagi was a wretched beast, a long eel-like creature with vicious fangs and the capability to spew a flood of water almost instantly. They mainly fed on, what else, but elephant koi.

It was almost instantly, he had an elephant koi in his mouth. A slow, older one. Quixin couldn't hold back. He had to help. As soon as he saw the koi in peril he leaped into action. He ran. He ran towards the water, in the heat of the moment, he gathered enough speed to run on top of the water. When he reached the Unagi, he pulled a fan out of his belt and shot a huge gust of air at him, giving him little knock back.

Quixin couldn't loss momentum. He gathered as much air surrounding him as possible. When he finally gathered enough, he shot a cannon-like river of air straight into the Unagi's mouth. Causing him to drop the koi from his daunting fangs.

The koi was free. Only one issue. Quixin wasn't. The Unagi's piercing green eyes focused on the sixteen year old air bender, and struck. Quickly. Quixin did his best to evade. He slide across the water, twirling his hands shooting air slices at the enormous beast. The Unagi struck. Luckily, he missed Quixin. Unluckily he broke one of his fans swiftly in two. Quixin dropped that fan, and spun repeatedly in circles try to create a small tornado-like funnel. No luck. But instead, he created a barrage of air slices, enough to drive the Unagi away. He won. He then saw the koi once more, wounded. With fang marks on his sides. He jumped on the koi's back, and created an air gust to accelerate them to shore.

Quixin forgot one thing. The Kyoshi warriors watched awestruck. Suki thought on her feet, she nearly barked an order for the fastest of foot to sprint to the training centre to get all the first aid kits.

When Quixin and the fish arrived back to shore, he was exhausted. He nearly fell out on the beach. That much running and air bending was almost more than he could handle.

Where he was tired, the warriors were inspired. The jumped into action, mending the elephant koi's wound. He was losing blood, quickly. The elephant koi would need to remain on land so the bandages would stay dry, this wasn't an issue because the elephant koi could remain without water for a week, thanks to his size.

This elephant koi was old, he looked bruised from even before the Unagi. He was large, he had scratch marks on some of his scales. Some were discolored, his eyes were weary, his whiskers long. He had a look of intelligence among his expression, especially for a fish.

After he was bandaged he remained on the beach, calm. But the warriors were everything but. The shot a barrage of questions similar to how Suki did when he first found out. He silenced them, and explained his new gift. He also stated a plea bargain, he asked them to remain silent about his abilities. They nodded in agreement.

After the other warriors left, he and Suki remained. Even though it was to take further care of the koi, she would've stayed anyway. They moved the koi to a move secluded location. And decided to name him. After a long debate they settled on Popo. They laughed after Quixin briefly and smugly stated that he "just had a Popo expression on his face."

So there they lay, similar to the night before. Except they lay next to a new companion. And Quixin would not fall asleep easily. He worried about the other warriors finding out about his gift. He was unsure that the ladies could hold his secret securely.

Quixin did go home last night. Restless. And it was for the best for Suki, so she wouldn't get into trouble with her parents. When the sun rose, so did Quixin. He went and fed Popo, then decided to do his training a bit differently today.

He stood upon a rock. He stood firmly. This was for the effect of more air surrounding his body. Then, he breathed. In and out. Slowly, feeling the flow going through his entire body. In and out. As he kept breathing he took in longer breaths, and took longer to let the air out. He went into a trance like state. In this state he could feel the air pushing and pulling throughout his body. As he inhaled he could feel the oxygen inflating his lungs and pressing up on his stomach.

He exhaled. He could feel the air leaving his body. He could feel the air entering the surrounding atmosphere. The air currents flowing around his body, swirling and swirling. This feeling was invigorating. This was the feeling he felt yesterday whilst battling the Unagi. He went into this state instantly, he was fleet of foot and sound of mind. He knew he couldn't replicate this state of being, but he could use this feeling to better his bending.

Quixin opened his palms. And closed them, then he snapped them open, and the wind flew off his fingers. He bent his knees and jumped off the boulder, he floated down at a very much reduced speed.

Keeping this calm, he tried to run like he did the previous day. He ran, he sliced through the air in front of him and ran as quickly as a mongoose-dragon in the summertime. He leaped with the capability of hurdling a small hut. Once he stopped running, he could feeling his muscles throbbing, the air pumping his adolescent body. But he was excited, he gleamed. Using air bending he had figure out how to increase his speed and height of jumping.

From that moment on Quixin tried to remain in contact with his surrounding air.

Suki had walked to her usual place of warrior training, but she was worried. She heard whispers. Whispers of a secret. She knew that once a secret was let out on such a small island that it wouldn't be long until the whole island, if not the world, knew.