Zuko breezes through the written portion of the test, he had lived through adolescence twice, once as a Royal turned Crown Prince turned Firelord and Again as the son of the number two hero with access to a world of advanced information.
"Please follow the blue line to the changing rooms to prepare for the practical portion of the practical exam," A tired voice says from the intercom and Zuko stand heading to the door finding the blue line on the floor and heading towards the changing room, quickly changing into his fire nation armor.
"Head through the double doors when you are ready." the voice says and Zuko pushes through the door ready for whatever comes next. He sees a white-haired woman with red eyes and large white bunny ears in a low stretch, her leg out to the side.
"We're going to spar a little bit kid, they brought me in because my speed should put your skill to the test. I'm going to come at you the second that bell rings with the intention to put you through the street."
Zuko stares at her. "If that's you Toph you need to tell me," he says and the bell rings and Miriko moves towards him with enough speed that if he hadn't been fighting his entire life he wouldn't have been able to dodge, he responds with a flaming kick to put a little distance between them seeing her grin as she does responding with a kick of her own.
Zuko brings up his arm feeling something in his arm crack under her foot, he hisses in pain jumping back and sending a massive blast of flame at her watching as she jumps over it Zuko sends forwards a few quick flaming jabs keeping his fractured arm close to his side as she swats flames out of the air, a very familiar scent hitting Zuko's nose. Burning flesh.
He rushes forward jumping high and bringing a flaming ick down at Miriko cracking the street when she dodges, planting his arms spinning his feet above his head sending an arch of multicolor flames towards her seeing her dodge back.
She plants her feet and Zuko can see her legs flex as she disappears a gust of wind behind him, the only warning he has to spin around trying to dodge taking a foot to the stomach and sending him flying through a wall into a building.
"Ow." Zuko groans pushing through the rubble and looking into the dark building an idea forming in his mind.
Miriko follows Zuko into the building after a moment finding a pile of rubel but no Zuko.
"Where did you go." her ears twitch as she listens for him, only hearing the faintest thud of a shoe and a quiet controlled heartbeat.
"Quiet bastard ain't ya?" she says beginning towards the noises. hearing them get louder the deeper into the building Miriko picking up her pace, this had been fun so far and She was curious about what else the boy would be able to do.
A roar echoes through the building, so loud her ears fall against her head and she smells smoke.
"What the hell?!" she snarls launching forward towards where the noise was, her ears perking back up, the crackle of open flames noticeable until she hears another roar slamming her palms to try and block out the far closer noise, she turns a corner into a flaming hallway jumping through a wall of flames hearing feet hitting the ground as someone drops down behind her.
'Be precise.' Zuko remembers a lesson he had received from ty-lee. Throwing quick jabs into her left arm, watching as it falls numb.
He dodges a spin kick, roaring like a tigerdillo again, filling the room with flame watching her flinch dropping and jabbing her in the exposed thigh, her body pitching to the side before she snarls planting her partially numb leg and bringing her good knee up into her abdomen lifting him off of the ground, Zuko ignoring the pain and bringing his fists together and bringing both down on her head.
"That's enough!" a voice echoes over the intercom, And Miriko plops down onto her butt, Zuko bouncing off of the floor and groaning holding his chest.
"That was fun, we should spar sometime," miriko says rubbing at her leg, her arm limp at her side.
"No" Zuko mutters forcing himself to sit up and Rumi laughs.
"So why did whatever you did to my arm work less on my leg?"
"Hit muscle didn't hit the nerve hard enough," Zuko says standing offering Rumi his hand, and pulling her to her feet when she takes it.
"Tough break, you might have won if you did. Or if you used those flames of youse to their full effect on me."
"It would have taken dangerous amounts of heat to have any real effect on you, I saw you ignore the blisters on your hands."
"Got all that in a few short exchanges, I think you've passed. Just keep in mind you may need to hurt a few criminals, they can be healed."
"I'll take that into account," he says as medical teams reach the two forcing them to sit as they begin to look them over.
"No breaks but a few fractures." One says prodding Zuko's ribs."Second-degree burns on palms" "We should check her ears." one reaches for part of Zuko's face and his eyes widen as he grabs her arm.
"Sorry," he says seeing her wide eyes as he lets go, letting them get back to checking over their injuries.
"Well take you two to medical and get you bandaged up." four robots Carrying two stretchers roll over and the two are transferred onto them as per procedure and wheeling them towards a large opening with a red cross above it.
Zuko sits at a silver table across from a tired-looking blonde.
"Even though this has been modified it is still just a provisional license, you can stop crime when you see it, and you can assist Pro heroes in their patrols if their willing to take on the liability of a but you can not perform your own investigations. You can not search out crime or interfere with a police investigation."
"I understand," Zuko says and the man looks into his eyes before nodding, sliding him a license with his picture and name printed on it along with a stack of paperwork.
"Fill this out, and then you can be on your way."