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Toph and Kero were out in her favorite training area right outside of town. The plan for today was going over some times that they could not back at the house. After all things were somewhat difficult to do as Toph's parnets were still on high alert after her 'fall' thus according to her were even more overprotective then usual. However also like she said eventually they stopped and went back to just being overprotective when she was within view. Once when they did Toph was free to do as she wanted thus could slip away like this.
"Okay so you are telling me that the reason I been able to 'see' more lately. As it seem I am able detect magical things now" she asked.
"Apparently so as it seems your latent magical ability has mix with your seismic sense thus the reason you see the magical circles I made. However seen your magic has just awaken the range of this new layer to your sight might be limited" Kero explained.
"If it connected to my normal 'sight' then why can not I simply use it the same way" she inquired.
"That cause you did not start out being able to see as far you can now right. Its something that you train yourself to do right" the Clow guardian told.
"Fine, So what about this card here" Toph said holding up clow card got her into this mess.
"That is called the Earthy card. Strangely enough it most powerful clow cards out the entire set" Kero told her.
"Sweet! Not only am I best earthbender but even in magic I rock" Toph stated pleased with herself and her latent magical abilities.
"I rather you not get too cocky at the moment as bending and magic are two different things. You might have managed to excel at one but that does not mean that you would at the other. Magic can be far more chaotic and harder to control" the guardian said.
"Fine just watch me I summon this clow card right here and now" Toph said glaring at him.
'Crap! I should have asked how to summon them in the first place' the blind bender thought not really knowing how to do at the moment.
Going other what she already knew about the cards in her mind. She had these bracelets that could be transformed into gauntlets with the proper phrase. The cards which she was suppose to catch using them in gauntlet form.
'That's it' she thought as an idea came to her mind and smirk appeared on her head.
Summoning her gauntlets she toss the card up front of her and drove her fist into the card.
"Come out, Earthy" Toph yelled as the card began to and then disappeared into thin air.
"That strange you seem to have managed to use a clow card but nothing…wait use your earth bending" Kero said.
"Why? What so magical about that?" Toph asked.
"Do not take any stance or anything just think about move that rock over there with just your hand" he told her
"Fine I still do not….woah" she said
What amazed her was not simply moving the rock, as this was not anything special. She was an earthbender levitating a rock was amongst the basic of her bending moves. What was amazing her here was that she just held out her hand and rock about fifty feet away was move according to her will. An earthbender had a range that their bending worked within. Things not within their range could not be affect by them directly no matter how hard they tried. The range of effectiveness for earthbender varied for everyone of them. However even though Toph had her seismic sense allowing her to see everything around for miles when she really focused. She never really thought about what her own personal range was but to test out this was effect of the earthy card and not her own bending. She tired without using the card first and found she could not do it.
Interested in just how much she could do with this card she spent the rest of the day just messing around using earthy. Though he really did not say anything there was something he noticed about earthy that seem different then before. Maybe it was because she already had this card under her control but it did not seem a as powerful as it should be. He was at first wondering if allow to use the card at all was good idea just playing around with it could cause her harm. Then realized she could not draw out the full power of the card at her current level thus the reason it seem so weak in comparison to Earthy's full power.
Looking over to Toph he noticed she was starting to breath hard and sweat was dripping for her face. Kero then rushed over stop her from doing anything else.
"What!?" Toph asked annoyed.
"Stop your getting tired as this is not a clow card you be using when low on magic. It could be harmful to your health" he told her.
"Fine" she told him decide that it was time to call a day anyway. She had fell that it was getting late and need to get back. Also need time to clean herself up as she could not change her clothes and expect no one to notice the smell of outside she must have at the moment. Not the flowerily one she sometime gets from spending too much time in the garden.
