Teaching the Avatar to sand bend.

Miku was crisscrossed on the stone floor of the temple, her large jar of sandstrapped across her back. It seemed she was meditating, but she was, in fast, deep in thought.'It's amazing here.. I've never been in an air temple before..' Miku looked around, it was different from the earthy brown and green style they had back home. It was quiet, too. In the shrine, currently, there was bits of sand so small only a true sandbender could sense it. Miku began to dig into her memories for simple entertainment.

Trira was coming out of one of the rooms the that had been given to her. She had arrived at the air temple the day before and did not plan to stay for long. She had never been really long on one place, only if she had to learn. But it was not time for travelling when she walked through the temples. It was time to think and also to think about nothing. Suddenly she saw a girl sitting on the floor. Normally she would have just passed and would not even noticed her. But she soon found out that this was an earth bender. It was not normal for earth benders to be in the air temples. Trira walked over to her. She was most of the time silent. When she sat down right in front of the stranger, only her white clothes made some noise. You could see the interest in her grey eyes. She waited if the earth bender would do anything.

Miku examined the Avatar."You are the avatar? Hm..." She stood up slowly. "You are here to learn sand bending, one of the many uses of earthbending." She took of her jar and poured the sand on the floor. Miku scooped up some sand, and it began to dance like a flame in her hand.

Trira stood up too. "Yes, I am the avatar. And who are you?", she asked the stranger. She had no idea what she should think about the `Hm´ the stranger had said. But she seemed to know that Trira needed to learn sand bending. And as it seemed she wanted to teach her without being asked. That was a little bit strange for the avatar, but she was also glad about that. Then she looked what the stranger did. It seemed a little bit funny and Trira had no real problems to remember everything the stranger had done. After a while she tried it herself. Trira was glad that she was so good at earth bending, because she was sure that would help her for learning sand bending. And after a short while some of the sand she bended did the same as the sand of the stranger.

Miku smiled. "Good. Now, try to make the sand into a solid form, and then back." She clenched her fist, and the sand hardened. Miku threw a rock on the floor, and the sand engulfed it, and crushed it. "This is usefull for defense. Try."

Trira followed everything with her eyes that the stranger made. It seemed really easy, but Trira knew that every type of earth bending was not easy. And to make sand harden would be even more difficult. But she tried it and after the second time she managed to do it. She trew the hardened sand a little bit and then she made this solid sand to sand again.

Miku smiled. "Now, I will test how much you have learned. You will fight me with only sand or earth. Try to use the technique I showed you." She entered a fighting stance, and began to pump slight chi into the sand.

Trira closed her eyes. She had done it really often when she used earth bending so that she could concentrate better. But suddenly she opened her eyes again. A smile appeared on her face. She knew that the stranger was better than she was, but she had no idea how good Trira was. So she began easy with a big stone flying toward the stranger from behind Trira.

Miku put one hand behind her back, She raised her right arm, her fist clenched. Sand flew upward, and it stopped the boulder entirely. In a snaking hand movement, the sand shot forward, very sharp."You are very strong. Do not hesitate, Avatar. Do not hold back."

Trira looked at the sand. She decided that it would be really better to close her eyes again. She liked it to fight like that. She could concentrate better. Trira `saw´ the sand coming nearer and nearer. Fast she made a wall of earth in front of herself before the sand reached her. After that she used the sand to put it around a stone. Then she shot the whole thing to her teacher. She planned to let sand and stone part again just seconds before it reaches the stranger.