The Fire Nation Academy [Training Grounds]

[The Town Taunts Hadou]

Here is where the warriors of the Fire Nation come to train and become stronger with their fellow warriors. Located on the same island as the Royal Palace, and therefor within it's natural defenses, it is a large grounds, spacious so as not to have students accidentally burning each other, and has staff on standby at all times to help put out flames in time of emergency, or perform medical care. It is set a few blocks from the actual academy.

 

[Poetic Writer]

Ayane Ao Lin

Princess of the Fire Nation

Ayane sighed softly as she had arrived at the training grounds. She wasn’t quite sure what she was going to learn but she knew her training was going to take longer than others. The reason for this was simple in all honesty.
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It was because she was going to have to watch other people’s techniques. Then have to try to mimic them as best as possible. However pointless that may seem to others.
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She honestly couldn’t care less. She needed to do this. She needed to teach herself how to fight.
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Because that master that calls himself a father wasn’t going to. More than likely he was just going to abandon her soon. Like everyone else had.
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It wouldn’t surprise her in all honesty. Her eyes glanced over to a couple of pro benders. They were using a new style called fire boxing.
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Her eyes widened slightly as she honestly wouldn’t mind that style. In all actuality she would prefer to learn that style.
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She watched their movements intensely. Then she began to mimic their movements. Not graceful by any means, none the less she was doing it.
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She continued to mimic their movements. Holding her arms up as her left leg was behind her body. She was throwing in quick punches as she was watching the pro benders.
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After a while she noticed one thing that the pro benders had compared to normal benders. All of them had bracers or arm guards. She bit her lip thinking about how she could get a pair.
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A pro bender saw her watching them and chuckled as he went over to her. He handed her a pair of metal arm guards and said she could keep them. As the metal ones were illegal in pro bending.
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She made her way into the far end of the training grounds where no one else was. She wanted to be alone while she trained herself as all the techniques were still at the top of her head. Her eyes narrowed as she began her training.
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She began to slowly get into the stance making sure everything was right. Her arms were up protecting her chest and could easily be brought up to protect her face. Her legs were positioned right as she began to think of a good way to train.
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Her thoughts went onto the fact that this stance had to become instinct for her rather than her having to correct it every once in a while. A thought came to her as she stood up straight and then hopped back down into the stance. She growled as she didn’t quite have it right.
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She stood upright and dropped down into the stance a second time. She didn’t quite get it right this time either. She closed her eyes and concentrated thinking about it.
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Dropping down into the stance the third time she waited a second. She opened her eyes to see that she had gotten it right. She tried it again and success again.
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She began to recall a second technique that they were using against each other. Not in an offensive way but in a strictly defensive way. To null their opponents attack.
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She recalled a water bender there had launched an attack at their partner. The pro bender quickly infused fire into his bracers. What happened was the fire dulled the damage of the water so that the bracers could take the hit.
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She honestly found it very useful and began to slowly try it. Fire began to engulf her gauntlets in a low ember. Due to this technique she found this style to have the edge on traditional fire bending.
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She continued to slowly build fire within the bracers that were given to her. The thing of it was the ember was only growing slowly. Something that was kind of annoying her in all honesty.
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Once it reached into full flames she released it. Infusing fire into her arm guards she smiled she had it down now. She released the flames once more and then moved onto the next technique.
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The next technique was going to be a little bit of fun in all honesty. It was known as the star fist and was highly used by pro benders. This technique was similar to one in traditional fire bending.
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The difference between this technique and the one of traditional fire bending was simple. Fire boxing’s version was smaller and weaker. However it could be used rapidly which made it devastating.
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If a person had enough strength they could easily use it as a quickly rapid attack. Meaning they wouldn’t give their enemy a single chance to counter. Which could be more than useful.
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Thinking of this technique she began to focus fire within her arm guard once more. This attack required it much like the last technique. Sighing softly she continued to concentrate.
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Launching her fist forward a fire ball came forth from her hand and she smiled. Launching her other fist forward the same thing occurred. She giggled as she was a quick learner.
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The last portion of Ayane’s training was going to be the most fun in her eyes. In all honesty she was a kicker when it came to fighting. She was going to slaughter with this next move.
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Without a doubt she was going to fully enjoy this. She began to bend her legs testing out her flexibility. After all this did require her to be flexible in a way.
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The only drawback of this technique was the fact that it couldn’t be used quickly like star fist could. However if one were to time it right it would be more than dangerous. Which Ayane would more than likely time it right.
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Especially with combos which she was going to use star fist with a lot. Taking it from a rarely used technique to an often used one. She would be devastating in a fight.
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She raised her knee in the air slightly then quickly fully extended her leg. A wave of fire was flung from her leg in the direction that she kicked at. She lowered her leg glad she completed the training that she wanted.
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She left the training grounds with a new item. The gauntlets... Little did she know that the gauntlets had a name and a special power. She sat upon the ground catching her breath.

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[The Town Taunts Hadou]

thefire158

Quaylan

Sergeant Bloodhound

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Jay walked into the Training Grounds with his hands in his pockets, awaiting for his "students".

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[Sergeant Bloodhound]

Kai arrived soon after, not finding an opportune moment to escape, mainly the fault of the constant guards and having to follow, or at least feeling the need to follow, near behind the Fire Lord. Stopping as they reached the grounds, he wondered about the others that had come to the palace. They, apparently, actually wanted to come and weren't captured like him and being punished. He could have attempted to escape with at least a 50:50 chance of success a few times now, however, he liked his nuts in place, so he decided the risk too high for the job. For now, he waited. He didn't know where, but his neutrality was considered a strategy by some armies. Well, that was a side note.  

[Poetic Writer]

Ayane Ao Lin

Princess of the Fire Nation

A pro bender came by and helped Ayane up. She giggled softly which was highly unlike her. However this pro bender gave her a gift. She copied his movements as he showed he was interested in sparring. She took a boxing stance and was about to start sparring with the pro bender.

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[Quaylan]

Kuzon

Ooc; he has a crush on you lol x)

Kuzon arrived at the training grounds seeing the one guy from earlier, the firelord, and a beatiful girl he hasn't seen before. His heart started pumping he was really nervious because he never felt this way before; plus he started blush a little bit. However, he couldn't work up the guts to say anything to her. His pet fire ferret leaped off of him and Kuzon got to eye level with him and whispered in his ear, "go over by that tree I don't want you to get hurt" he whispered this as he pointed at a nearrby tree. Bao nodded and ran up the tree and sat on one of the branches. Kuzon then walked by the firelord, "which style are you going to teach? Id like to learn the boxing style if that's okay with you?" he then waited for a response.

 

[Poetic Writer]

Ayane Ao Lin

Princess of the Fire Nation

The pro bender started to chuckle as he made the first move launching a fire ball at Ayane. Ayane dodged to the side of the fire ball and began to run in a semi circle around the pro bender as he continued to shoot fire balls at her. Dodging every single one of them she was showing her true speed. She didn't even realize that the fire lord was there otherwise she wouldn't have hung around there. She approached the half point of the circle and that's when Ayane jumped into the air and came down with a belt kick. The blue fire swung from her leg and nearly consumed the pro bender. The pro bender was barely able to dodged when he was shocked her fire was blue. She replied not knowing why it was blue but honestly liked it.

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[thefire158]

㊋ Sun Bei Tian ㊋

"I'm packing a lot of heat..."

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Sun had finally arrived, albeit a little late compared to the others. He noted the girl and her...blue fire. That was strange, but he was sure there was a logical explanation. He noted Kuzon's request for the boxing style of firebending. And here Sun thought he was unique. "I would also like to learn such a style, but have no complaints if you wish to start us on the traditional path."

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"...and I really...really...don't want to use it."

Firebender ☩ Trainee

Chi: 350/350

 

[Sergeant Bloodhound]

"Hm? Ah, no, I'd rather not do something like boxing, it's too painful for frail little me," Kai said without a second thought, his depressing words not showing on his smiling face. In truth, he wasn't really good with hand-to-hand things like boxing, since his idea of winning is to lose less then the other person. Both would lose something, not much gain, but however lost more was the loser. That was how he fought; safe, sneaky, and rather unfairly. It was more fun that way, to see how others would try to fight against something beyond or below what they were expecting, to see their hope and chances be crushed by his randomness and cowardly tactics.  

[The Town Taunts Hadou]

thefire158

Quaylan

Sergeant Bloodhound

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"Fire is the element of power, people of the Fire Nation have desire and will and they have the energy and drive to achieve what they want," said Jay as he circled the three, "you shall be doing Traditional Firebending first, its essential and not having it is like riding waves on a kayak without a damned paddle." Jay breathed in and out as the flames around the area rose and then fell, continuously without fail, "in the first stage, the key is that of breathing and movement, simple as that, when you've finished the stage and its skills, it should work something like this." Jay finished breathing in and out, he threw multiple punches to the air and sent small flames upward as he did so, then outwards towards the group, close to give a scare but not close enough to harm them. He released a large cloud of smoke from his nose and then inhaled it back in. Jay then exhaled bright flames from his mouth to the sky itself, it was a light cloud of embers though. Finally, Jay's fingertips, or rather, the index and middle finger began to brighten to that of a reddish glow, he then stabbed his fingers into the ground itself as the area around his fingers slowly melted. He pulled his fingers out of the ground and clenched that hand into a fist.

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[thefire158]

㊋ Sun Bei Tian ㊋

"I'm packing a lot of heat..."

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Sun gave a nod. "Well, when you put it like that...guess we'll start out with all the philosophy whatnots." He said, somewhat jokingly. Traditional was good, but times changed quickly. How long would it take to become completely inferior? While the moves displayed by Jay were impressive, he would always be a little skeptical.

Sun began his breathing exercises. They seemed simple enough...for breathing. He sat down and shut his eyes and simply concentrated on taking deep breaths and being steady about inhaling and exhaling, creating a rhythm. [1/6]

He slowly started to changed the flow and pacing of his breaths. This would prepare his lungs for rapid changes in combat and speed. He realized this wasn't at all spiritual or philosophical, it was simply conditioning the lungs for the intense heat and exertion in battle. He continued this until he felt comfortable with it [2/6]

Next, he would speed the breathing up dramatically, increasing his heartrate. He decided that this would be so his lungs could take the air in quickly and as needed while in high pressure situations. His breaths were shallow and rapid. [3/6]

Sun would now work down from that, slowing his breaths to being very infrequent and deep. Shutting his eyes while he sat down, he breathed in slowly, every so often. Everything seemed to block out and he could almost feel his heart stop after such an exertion from before. [4/6]

Next was incorporating them into the movements. He stood up, and got into a Firebending stance that he observed from Jay. It was a little different, in the fact that it was a little looser and dull-looking...not as theatric. Sun moved through the movements, feeling almost nothing at all in terms of fatigue due to breathing. [5/6]

Finally, he picked up the movements. He was mimicking a Firebender to the exact movement, and even quicker too. He even added some of his own personal flare in there to customize it. Utilizing the breathing exercises from earlier, he was able to continue this for a long time before beginning to slightly pant. [6/6]

Once satisfied, Sun sat down and took a quick break. "Well...I enjoyed that. Sort of." he told Jay and looked to the others to observe their progress. He would get back in the training soon...he just needed a bit of a rest.

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"...and I really...really...don't want to use it."

Firebender ☩ Trainee

Chi: 350/350

 

[Quaylan]

Kuzon

As the girl that Kuzon started to watch utlized blue fire he started to wonder how the hell she got her fire blue, but it was whatever at this point. The firelord began to preach the element of fire which was all well and fine, but once he said he was going to teach them traditional firebending first. Kuzon's heart dropped; he then thought of the promise he made to his father about making it to probending and living his dream. Kuzon waited until the firelord was finished with his demostration. After Jay finished Kuzon had something to say, "I don't want to say ungrateful, but I want to learn the boxing form" he said this and then paused for a breif moment. "You said the the people of the fire nation have will and desire to achieve there goals I need to fulfill a promise I made to someone however if you don't want to tach me it and rather me learn the traiditonal style then its fine," Kuzon was the type of guy who says te do something then they do it.

 

[The Town Taunts Hadou]

thefire158

Quaylan

Sergeant Bloodhound

[XXBXLXAXCXKXFXIXRXEXXXPXAXNXTXHXEXRXX]

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"The both of you aren't seeming to understand how firebending is, you can't use the new age fire boxing without going through the traditional first, it just doesn't seem natural, you can learn the fireboxinig style after the traditional," he said with his arms crossed, "its true that I said that the fire nation people have the will and desire to achieve their goals BUT it cannot be achieved if all you have underneath your belt is just fireboxing."

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[Poetic Writer]

Ayane Ao Lin

Princess of the Fire Nation

Ayane went back down into a fighting stance and charged at the pro bender. This time it was her turn to dish out aggression. With every attack she kept the bender on his toes giving him a hard time even though he was a professional. After the spar was over he was laughing and shook her hand. He claimed she was more than a natural at fire bending and wished her luck wherever she went. She laid down on the ground satisfied she taught herself the first stage of fire bending. She began to hum as she laid upon the ground not really caring who was around to see her hum to herself.

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[Sergeant Bloodhound]

"With just boxing, one would just kill you before you got close enough to punch them, like bringing a knife to a bomb fight," Kai commented, deciding to give up on escaping, not because he wasn't confident, but more so that he didn't care about that, this current situation seemed more interesting. Not that he was an expert or studied in pyrology, but he was a rationalist and had a good imagination, so he could visualize the idea of "Fire" more than most. It wasn't a simple element, since it's power didn't come from any mass like the other elements, so it was harder to "hold" and control. He wasn't foolish as to trick himself into thinking that he was a god of fire and couldn't be hurt by it(1/9). Not that he was trying to be more friendly, he simply felt like talking about it. It was interesting, to say the least, the concept of bending, the Avatar, and chi had always fascinated Kai to an extent, but not enough before that he would go out of his way to learn some fire tricks, but now that he was in this situation, he figured he might as well use this as an opportunity to think about it some more.