The Fire Nation Academy [Training Grounds]

[ii_Conan-Kun_ii]

Hattori Sato

Hattori would keep calm as his flame didn't go through. He could only blame himself for being a failure. He would close his eyes and would block out all the same around him as he would give it another try.  

[Hiro the Herp]

With another success in the test, Mako smiled. Though he was insanely tired, but he couldn't rest until his students left. Rules from the Firelord. "Congrats. You passed. You can move onto learn the basic set of Fire Boxing or learn the novice set of traditional bending. You can learn both, but its your choice to learn which one you want first."  

[Blackscar_swiss]

☯Alma Mori☯

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Alma was feeling good after the last skill, it just felt right to her. "ahh...that was awesome..."she said to herself but then quickly picked up the notes, she didn't want to waste time to keep the adrenaline going , so she needed to keep up the pace. as her eyes scrolled down the page she read the next skill"...Flame shield...*sigh*"she said it's title sounding a bit disappointed ah, lame a defensive attack...man...well I suppose it'll be useful... she thought to her self then continued to read the skills details(1/3)


Alma completed reading the notes and placed them down as she continued he training regiment, still always starting out by taking a deep breath.inhaling and exhaling to calm her self down as she positioned herself in the same ready posture, by holding her arms out and putting the right hand in front of the other and the right leg in front of the other. (2/3)

after preparing herself alma began to concentrate he chi again,this time focusing her chi toward her arms and hand, as she did this she seem to take a step forward. as she got the chi build up she quickly did a quick spin then held out her right hand and Immediately converted the chi into heat energy and push it out of her hand in a concentrated form causing a flat like surface of fire to appear over the top of her palm "ha,ha!"she said to herself then allowed the shield to dissipate (3/3)

Alma began dusting her hands off..."mhm...well then..."she said to her self then started walking back towards Mako, she seem full of energy but she did started sweating as all the training started to have its tow on her body. "so...what now?"she asked mako



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[ii_Conan-Kun_ii]

Hattori Sato

He could feel the power surging through him as he passed the test. It felt good to be back in the running. The power itself just felt good. Now he had to pick whether to keep learning traditional fire bending or to start learning fire boxing. He could learn both, but it was a matter of which one he wanted to learn first. He would look at the instructor as he gripped his fist." I want you to teach the basics of fire boxing."  

[Hiro the Herp]

When both of them had finished at the same time, Mako rummaged through his rucksack to get the book on Fireboxing. It was the only other thing Alma could learn, and Hattori wanted to skip the novice set of traditional firebending. "Whats next? Fireboxing. This style... is a bit advanced. It was only just developed a few years ago, and there is a lot of work that can be done with it. But it is not the style that will fail the user, it's the other way around."

"Fireboxing is known for having a steady stance. The stance is always the same, though the user will always have complete control. It's mainly used as a defensive style, the only reason any user will drop their guard, is to attack. Stance is key." Hopefully the student could understand just how important it was to listen before they try it. They could hurt someone if this style is not controlled. They could hurt them selves. "There is a reason why mostly all pro-benders use fireboxing. It can be damn near useless to someone who is careless, and it can be the best style you will ever learn. For this basic set, you will have to work on your agility. If you are not quick and nimble, you will most likely be attacked left and right."

(Stage 1:
This fighting style is often seen utilized in pro-bending, known for its steady stance and its defensive style, let up only for quick and powerful punches. This style focuses on shifting your upper body from side to side to dodge attacks like a pendulum, and crossing your arms in front of your chest and face to block attacks. Attacks coming from below are evaded by a quick strafe or quick-step to either side, and attacks are done simply by punching forward. It's a simple style with a simple basis, but it can take a real expert to fully utilize.

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[ii_Conan-Kun_ii]

Hattori Sato

Hattori couldn't help, but be a little excited about learning this style. He would glance over at the other girl before turning his head and pouting. He couldn't stand that the girl was so far ahead of him. He would listen to the words of the teacher as he would tell them the basics of fire boxing. Hattori kinda already knew a stance since he spent alot of time boxing with his older brother, but that was many years ago. He would spread out his feet only a little as he slowly slide his right foot about a inch in front of the left one as he was ready to get started

Post 1/5

He would rise both fist in the air as he would keep his stance and would focus on one point. Before he started to actually begin to fire boxing part. He wanted to practice dodging a little bit. His left leg would sweep behind his right leg before he would bring his right leg behind the left leg twisting his upper body as he did so. He was nothing, but a quick spin. When he finished that he would swing his right shoulder to the left and would repeat the motion with his left shoulder. This was what they called bobing and weaving. He would get the basics of dodging down now he needed to work on blocking.

Post 2/5

It seemed that blocking was very key in this style since it was more so defensive then offensive. He would put his arms and would level is forearms with his face so that they were covering them. He would leave it so that he could only see out of it a little bit. He would walk forward still keeping the same block. He just wanted to get a feel for it when he was moving. Blocking really wasn't that hard as he moved on to the next the step.

Post 3/5

He would now focus on his punching as he would raise up both hands making them into fists. He wanted his punches to flow smoothly. He didn't want to include any firebending right now he just wanted to focus on punching. He would thrust his left and right hand in a constant motion moving his legs as he did so. He would bring his arms in close as he would take his right hand and would punch it in a diagonal motion and would repeat the same motion with his left. He would then do a couple of quick jabs. He believed he was now ready to include some fire bending.

Post 4/5

He would take a deep breath as he would get back into his stance. He was glad that fire boxing only had one stance it made it much easier for him. He would have his hands balled up and in his face as he would do some quick jabs. He stared at the fire that would shot out of his fists, but he didn't stop. He would begin to do uppercuts, diagonal punches, and sweeps. He could feel the flow he could feel what he felt when he much younger. He was actually enjoying himself, but he knew he had to stop. He would stare at the instuctor as he would grin and begin to speak [b}"What's next?"

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[Hiro the Herp]

(Now that you guys are novices, you will train on your own. I wanted you both to at least get the two posts off the Stage training. But now since you are self teaching, you will add 2 posts. Making the each skill 7 posts to learn. When you are done, your exam will be easy: defeat another Novice in a battle of Agni Kai. Go to the Agni Kai area and follow the rules.)  

[Hiro the Herp]

Mako simply tossed both Alma and Hattori a copy of Fire Boxing. Though, he left his copy of Traditional Firebending just for Hattori. "You are both capable of learning on your own. It may be a bit harder, but you are all benders of the Fire Nation. When you have succeeded in your training, you have two choices. Fight another Novice Firebender in a Agni Kai, or go to a different Nation and face a Novice. If in the case that you do not succeed in winning a match to advance, then you will come see me." When Mako was finished, he simply took a few steps backward before turning around and going to find a place near a nice tree to rest.  

[Missandei]

J H A Q O .

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The man could hardly contain his excitement as he approached the training grounds once more. His skin was slightly damp from the hard, physical labor required at his workplace. His joints ached, his head hurt, his back strained, but he discarded these useless pains as he walked onto the training grounds, eager to begin his training once more. He noted the two from the previous day, still present and training. Children, no less, who certainly had the time to devote to Firebending, unlike himself. A flash of envy surged once more as he laid his satchel against a nearby tree, his eyes scanning the grounds for the familiar face of the Firebending instructor who had taught him yesterday, Mako. His eyes finally rested on a sleeping man, sheltered under a tree. Grimacing, he realized this man was probably much like himself: forced to devote many hours to work with little breaks.

Jhaqo retrieved the Firebending scroll from his satchel. Unfurling it, he tacked it to the tree that he had placed his belongings under. Tacking it onto the bark, he made another small mark next to the Ember technique, signifying his completion of the skill. He was halfway through the scroll now: only two more techniques left before he could progress. The third technique had an extremely similar breathing technique to Ember, except this time routing the heat through the head and the nostrils, breathing out like a dragon or a bull. The stances and form required for this third technique strongly resembled Ember. "Boil," he murmured to himself, scanning the pictures and instructions. "Not a very powerful technique, but could be useful to boil water in the future... save on some bills."

Taking a few steps back, his hands moved in conjunction with the illustrated Firebender depicted on the scroll. Feeling the internal heat in his stomach respond to his breath, he began to practice manipulating the warmth, trying to route it to his nose. It would take a bit of time, but since it was so similar to Ember, he believed that he would be able to learn the skill much quicker.

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Self-Training

Boil: 2 / 3

 

[Missandei]

J H A Q O .

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Beads of sweat rolled down his forehead as he continued working on his breathing. Often he would make the mistake and rout the warmth through his mouth, again producing the Ember tecnique. The ground in front of him was charred and resting under a pile of smoking Embers from all the failed attempts. It was difficult to control the heat, especially once he contained the Firebending warmth into his head, being that the mouth and nose were so close together. A few times he had managed to get the heat to his nose, but before he could exhale it would trail back and he would end up coughing a cloud of steam and embers. But the steam meant that he was getting close, so despite adversity, he continued trying.

The sweat that had accumulated on his brow began to bubble from the heat circulating throughout Jhaqo's body. But he was so close now, he could not stop. He knew this time would be different. Sliding his feet slightly apart, he raised his arms and assumed a similar stance to Ember, placing his hands horizontal and parallel to the ground. With a deep inhale through his nose, he pushed the heat from his stomach to his head, this time trapping it there before it could escape in Ember form through his mouth. Inhaling a bit more with his nose, he managed to pull the heat to his nostrils, tensing them.

Flaring his nostrils, he pushed out and exhaled through the nose. But he did not exhale air. A large cloud of steam spewed from his flared nostrils, clouding his vision in front of him. Some of the steam trailed back and brushed up against his arms. He resisted flinching--but the steam was hot. After he had exhaled all the steam, he tenderly rubbed his forearms where the steam had contacted. They were reddish and irritated. But he did not feel the pain: instead, he only felt a surge of pride as he checked another technique off of the list.

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Self-Training

Boil: 3 / 3 - Learned

 

[Divinity Luciano]

Ｒｏｇｕｅ Ｘｉａｏ-Ｐｉｎｇ. . .Ｌｏａｄｉｎｇ. . .

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Rogue inhaled quietly, curious to who would help her with her training, yet at the same she was quite nervous. It was like freshman year all over again. Shaking her head, Rogue told herself to get a grip; even going as far as to slapping herself. Rogue immediately regretted that when she found she'd left a red mark on her cheek. 'Go away slap mark!' she yelled in her head as she rubbed her cheek with the palm of her soft hands. Eventually, Rogue found that it'd go away by it'self. Walking around the training grounds, she peered upon the others who were here, their training was going extremely well from what she could tell. Long coal black hair fell over her eyes, Rogue pushed them back behind her ears, her high piggy-tails swinging in the air as she shook her head.

The warm breeze felt nice against her skin. Rogue stopped short when she had remebered why she was there in the first place. "I need training.." she told herself. Rogue had no idea what she was getting herself into, more or less, she didn't even know who was supposedly supposed to teach her. "Oh Teacher with such great wisdom!" she called out, half silently, and half sarcastically. "Yeah like they're going to come to me just because I called out to them.." Rogue said to herself with a small chuckle. A smile quickly spread on her lips as she continued to walk, looking up at the clouds as her slender arms rested on her chess; crossed. Rogue wasn't one to pay attention.. unless she was actually forced to, and that was rarely. She had did well in school even with her attitude, and because she was smart, her teachers couldn't do anything about it.

The memories of the time when she was at her school; a small smile spread on her lips, so sad, yet somewhat happy as well. Then, Rogue halted, coming to a complete stop. Rogue still had no idea what she was doing, she was getting so sidetracked lately, exhaling deeply, more of a sigh than a need to release her carbon dioxide. Rogue rolled her tired neck as she swivelled around, she was just about to leave, but the sight of someone caught her attention, a male teacher and a student. Walking closer to them, she peered over the male teacher's shoulder. "What are you teaching?" she questioned.

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Sorry, I for posting early, I was testing what my post layout looked like and yeah.. sorry if you have to change it.


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[Hiro the Herp]

Mako Dao-Lin

The arrival or Rogue shortened Mako's resting time, but he was the one that volunteered to teach the new trainee's. But he was new, he had just been ranked up to Adept and thought it would be fun. No wonder he had such a hard time looking for a firebending master while growing up. Everyone hated this job. Though, he stood up and walked directly up to Rogue. "Training, eh? I can help with that, my name is Mako Dao-Lin. I'm the teacher here. Here is what gonna happen. I'm gonna teach you the basic set of traditional firebending, then you take my test to move on. Okay?"  

[Divinity Luciano]

Hiro_Uzaki

Ｒｏｇｕｅ Ｘｉａｏ-Ｐｉｎｇ. . .Ｌｏａｄｉｎｇ. . .

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Rogue jumped at the arrival of Mako, whether it was good or bad she didn't know, however now that she'd been distracted from the other person she walked more towards him. Listening to him speak she felt somewhat glad that she finally found him. "Sounds simple, but the simplest of things are still hard hn..? Okay, I'm game," Rogue said with a smile. Rogue held her hands behind her back and tilted her head awaiting instruction from him. "Ah! right, I have no focus by the way, so you'll need to catch it somehow, meaning I probably won't pay attention most of the time," she stated with a small smirk. 'This might actually turn out to be a little fun hehe..' Rogue thought to herself.

Already, Rogue was looking off at a different direction other than at Mako, it was clear that she had no sense of focus. The thing that was distracting this young, slender female was none other than a butterfly fluttering in the air until it finally brushed past her and flew the different direction. 'S**t, I was supposed to be paying attention!' Rogue thought to herself as she quickly looked back at Mako with a cheeky smile. "Did you say something?" she asked nervously, biting her bottom lip. Rogue twirled a strand of her coal black hair on her index finger as she waited for him to answer her..

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Gotta go to sleep I will post the reply tomorrow!


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[Hiro the Herp]

Mako Dao-Lin

(OoC: It's fine. lol. I need time to train with my Waterbender anyways. lol)

The girl's lack of respect and short attention span irked him, yet all he would do is let the girl off with a warning. He simply took a short breath then exhaled a weak puff of fire, though rather large in size. It was blown so close to her face that, had Mako had no control of it, could have ignited her pretty coal hair. "My bad, I forgot you were that close." He grinned, "Thats how it works, sweetheart. You wanna learn fire, but if you play with it, you can get burned. So, are you ready to learn, or should we take that pretty hair of yours away? Permanently."  

[The Town Taunts Hadou]

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[FIREBENDER] ⊡ [FIRELORD] ⊡ [FIRENATION] ⊡ [ADEPT]

["To perish within the flame...

Jay Ao Lin sat himself down, looking to Seth and then back over to Mako and a young new firebender as well. He would only sit and watch of the progress forming.

...is only given to unjust and the wicked."]