[Earth Kingdom.]
"Now I tell you now! This Jasmine tea is the very best I have ever had the luck to drink in my whole life! Young man, this is a different kind of tea, something that you can't recreate by mere tries or making tea in a pot! It's something that someone put their whole life's work into, their love, and their passions!"
"...." Zuko looked at the elderly man in front of him, taking small sips of tea from his cup. Iroh laughed, chatting with the tea enthusiast while Zuko turned to walk behind the bar.
Ever since Azula had lost Omashu, Zuko and Iroh decided to stay in Omashu and open a tea shop after coming back from the Sun Warriors. Thanks to Iroh's decades of experience, they actually managed to do it.
Zuko looked at his chest, where a black apron with green highlights was. His expression turned slightly better. For once in his life, Zuko feels at peace with himself.
"Is this what uncle feels like every day?... It's... Peaceful," Zuko mutters to himself, and he leans down behind the counter to place his palm under a pot full of Jasmine leaves and water.
Using true firebending that he learned from the dragons, Zuko created a flame under the pot, and it quickly started to simmer and boil, with the water absorbing the flavour of the Jasmine.
The entire shop was bustling, with almost twenty people already inside, drinking and chatting away. Thanks to Iroh's charm, the shop is already attracting attention.
Just a few days after opening the shop, it gained attention on the first day, particularly from older patrons with whom Iroh conversed. They continued to return for more.
"Or is it because they want to keep talking with Uncle?" Zuko asked himself with a chuckle before shaking his head and going back to brewing tea.
Unbeknownst to him, because he used firebending to brew the tea, it was actually better in taste and everything.
[Sun warriors' ancient city.]
Crack!
"Where are they! I have been waiting for days, and they still haven't arrived?!" Azula said with a bewildered expression. Anger in her tone as she sat on her throne inside her airship, her grip cracking the stone.
Azula had received intelligence from spies about Norrak and the group, and she knew that Iroh had given a map to Norrak. So she was waiting here until they arrived.
Mai, who stood beside Azula with her arms crossed, also thought about Ty Lee and Norrak. Though she was more concerned about their safety than anything else.
"Well, hey. Think of the good side, you had a few more days of training with plasmabending," Mai spoke with a neutral face. Azula hummed in thought as a ball of pure plasma blue in colour appeared floating above her palm.
Plasmabending is a superheated gas with its electrons stripped away. Azula managed ot acheve it because he flames are already much hotter than anyone else.
And because she used lightningbending to strip the electrons away from the fire, creating plasma in the process. Azula can't calculate the temperature of her flames, but she does know it's much stronger than before.
With its new plasmabending, its temperature increased massively from her previous fire, which was already more than half as hot as the surface of the sun.
Her plasma is now much hotter than her flames. Reaching a temperature of 20,000 degrees Celsius. If that kind of temperature managed to hit someone, they would be cleaved in half, like it was a lightsaber.
"Ugh! And what are those sun warriors doing? Are they trying to do anything against my commands?" Azula asked with irritation. When she arrived, they refused to teach her, but it quickly changed when she threatened to level their city.
"No, they are not doing anything. The dragons have talked to them, and they said there is nothing they need to do. It seems they realised that they would be killed if they did anything," Mai replied, and Azula smirked at her words.
"Good,"
[Norrak and gang.]
MOOOOOO!
Appa whined in anger as he flew through the sky. His tummy rumbled in hunger, and Norrak smiled apologetically as he rubbed his head to try to calm Appa down.
"I know, I'm sorry, buddy. I promise we will land and allow you to fill yourself up, as soon as we see any vegetation," Norrak said in a reassuring tone, and Appa huffed.
It has been a day since they left the Desert, and they had already reached a place where vegetation was starting to show. It won't take long before they can land.
Turning around, Norrak looked at Katara sitting a few inches above Appa, floating in the air without her wings. She had become better at airbending, and she was almost a master.
Ty Lee was on her stomach, resting her chin on her hands while her legs kicked in the air lazily as she watched the ground under Appa pass. Toph, on the other hand, was snoring in her sleep.
"Well, if they are training, then i should train as well. Especially with spacebending," Norrak muttered as he sat cross-legged. Bringing his palms in front of each other, Norrak used his Chi.
A sound akin to glass breaking echoed from between his palms, and Norrak watched as a ball of blue orb appeared in between his hands, sucking air into it like a blackhole.
What Norrak did just now was erase space in a radius, and the surrounding space immediately tried to fill that void, thus acting like a blackhole.
"Wow, that looks pretty. What does it do?" Ty Lee asked with curiosity as she watched the blue ball between Norrak's palms. Norrak smiled, and the ball expanded in size.
BOOM!
A Blue the size of a basketball appeared, and the air trembled as it was swallowed by the ball. Katara shook and then fell onto Appa as she opened her eyes.
"Norrak, I told you I can't practice with that thing around. It keeps disturbing the air," Katara said with a whining tone as she sighed. Norrak chuckled as it vanished from his palms.
"Sorry, sorry~ You can go back to training, I want to try something else anyway," Norrak said, and Katara huffed before closing her eyes. Norrak got back to training, and his Six Eyes glowed.
"Okay, just think about adding space..." Norrak mutters, and suddenly a red pulsing dot of light appears on his fingertip. It was barely the size of a nail, but it was emanating with destructive energy.
"Now that's something crazy! I can feel the destructive energy from over here!" Toph, who already woke up a few seconds ago, said with a grin on her face.
Her body trembled as she felt the energy emanating from whatever that thing was. She instinctively knew she would be torn apart in an instant if she even barely touched it.
"Red!" Norrak said before shooting it down towards the ground. A streak of light shot out towards the ground in a curve, and it fell onto the barren land like a meteor.
BOOM!!!
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Say hello to Limitless!
It was expected that Norrak would gain the ability to manipulate space. I wanted to give Norrak something special beyond simply bending the elements.
By the way, Norrak did not give away his free will to gain spacebending. It's a contract; Norrak helps Inane with some anomalies, and he can refuse. It's not a slave deal. Kind of how the avatar has to help bring peace to the world since Raava is the spirit of peace and light.
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