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Nema and Ashiou walks around the market street to get some stuff for the house and food. Ashiou held his fiance's hand and Nema holding a basket on the other hand and held his hand also. They stopped at a fruit stand and Nema started to pick out some food. Nema wears a water tribe collar to show that she is engaged then Nema said,"Ashiou, want some of apples too?" then Ashiou looks at her and smiles,"sure.." then she picks out a few, pays the man then they both walk away.

Leaving the Fumi Pottery shop, Sage now faced the rest of his day with a growing optimism. He'd avoided being turned into yet another unhappy example of pedestrian ignorance, avoiding death by one of the many vehicles of the city, and had found the time to assist a young girl with a rather large issue.
Work was done for the day, he'd already avoided his near death experience, and had managed to work in a good deed involving one of the youth of the city... All that was left in his day was the rigorous physical training that he put himself through each day... And, if he planned everything out properly, he would get home in time to catch Aaron and put his own techniques against the boy's Earth-bending again.
All of this he thought of as he made his way through the market, taking the fastest route towards the apartments where he stayed. However, once again he was jarred from his thoughts by yet another dangerous occurrence this city was all too famous for. He'd arrived at the scene of a common shake down of one of the local merchants by members of the local tri-bending gang. Now, he could have let it go.. He could just walk away and let it run its course...
Now, if only that was how Sage worked...
"Leave that man alone!" Sage said, his face calm despite his exclamation as he made his way through the crowd towards the trio, pulling his hands from their usual resting place in his pockets as he did. He flexed his hands a bit, steam rising from them as he stopped behind the three, waiting for them to turn their full attention on him.

As expected, the Triad members did not back down from the simple demand of just another member of the crowd.. Or so Sage figured he looked to them. They were probably used to the hero antics of the occasional under trained citizen or the odd non-bender that they could easily suppress with their bending. They may have even taken on a decently trained combatant or two in their time in the Triad, though Sage doubted this. The men reeked of over-inflated ego's that had never been put to a true test.. Well, the water and earth benders did anyway... The other man, most likely a fire-bender like himself, had kept himself calm and quiet throughout this exchange, and gave off very few signals...
"If you will not leave in peace, I will take you down." He said in response to the two benders' goading. He then too a ready stance, raising both of his arms up, holding them firm before him, his forearms guarding his face and his palms facing outward.

First came the boulder. Naturally the earth-bender had attacked first. His bending required less time to prepare, and the resources were all too abundant. The mass he had thrown was rather sizable, and the strength with which he threw it was commendable... but neither matched the ability of the kid back at the Embassy.
The boulder was easily dodged, all Sage had to do was duck and weave out of the way, allowing the mass to fly past and hope that the spectators knew how to move. The water-bender had taken no time in launching his attack and Sage was forced to dodge the water whip by taking a quick jump to the side, just narrowly dodging the rather well aimed shot. The second his feet touched the ground, Sage rushed forward closing the distance as fast as he could and, arriving at the earth-bender first, launched a hard knee strike at the man's abdomen.

The Earth-bender fell to the ground gasping for breath, having taken the full impact of Sage's knee strike, much to Sage's surprise. He hadn't intended to put so much force into the strike.. Not enough to cause the man to collapse in the first hit, at least. Perhaps he was out of practice? No, there was no time to think now. The water-bender had recovered from his moment of cowardice and was now taking Sage seriously after seeing what had happened to his buddy. This time, instead of using a single point attack on him, he had opted to fire a deluge of razor sharp icicles Sage. Finding this attack impossible to just dodge, Sage turned and kicked upwards, launching a wide, powerful wave of blue fire at the icicles that melted them upon contact. He brought his leg down in a powerful sweep that launched an identical wave towards the water-bender.

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((Exit))

Nema stumbles when the ground shook from the earth benders earthquake, she kneels to the ground then part of the ceiling of a building breaks and about to land on her. She screams as she saw it come down. Ashiou sees then he runs toward her, kicks the boulder away from Nema with a force of fire. The rock rolls away from them. Nema opens her eyes then she looks at Ashiou and said,"Thanks," Ashiou helps her up and said,"We need to leave," then Nema nods her head and runs away from the scene.