Post by Teяa253 on May 11, 2008 10:30:03 GMT 1
The 11th installment of my series.
This is a flashback to part 1 of Kai II's waterbending training.
RELEVANT MEMORIES (I)
That night, as I slept, I was revisited with a dream. I remembered it vividly, and would always remember the event which it was based off of. I dreamed I was back with my mother in the Northern Water Tribe, and she was teaching me waterbending. My mother had never told me, but her style was very unique and unusual. Incidentally, I would later learn that all of my teachers had unusually and unique styles, but for now, I was just getting the hang of waterbending. We were alone, in a somewhat secluded place out of the way—just like us. We were always out of the way, but were there to help when a tribesperson needed us. One thing we were always looked strangely on for was the way we dressed. No matter where we were, we always had on the same sleeveless shirt and baggy pants—and we were always barefoot—even on ice. My mother had said that a master waterbender was completely immune to cold. This legend had spread, and soon we were no longer questioned. Everyone knew my mother as the greatest waterbender in the world. Kai Serenes I had told me, her daughter, that I was destined to be a master waterbender too, for she dressed me the same as her since I was a child, and I never recall being cold.
Anyways, we were alone. I already knew the concept of bloodbending, but today, my mother was going to teach me her secret techniques that she had created herself. I was also going to learn about how to use bloodbending regardless of the time of month. This worried me, because I figured she would make me do it on her. I was not sure I had the heart to do that, nonetheless, I listened to my mother.
“Waterbending,” she said, “is a smooth and defensive art. A waterbender generally does not make the first move. Naturally, it is the opposite of firebending—it is slower, defensive, and cunning rather than fast, offensive and impetuous. However, being learned, I know how to operate it either way. Therefore, I am going to come at you, and I want you to defend yourself from my attacks. At your ready...”
My mother took a fighting position, and I was slightly nervous. She attacked with a swift, yet cunning move that knocked me down.
“Kai,” she said calmly; I had completely disobeyed her and yet she was still calm, “you are too tense. In order to truly waterbend, you must relax. Just close your eyes and breathe deep.”
I listened to her council, and she began massaging my shoulders. She had such a smooth touch, and her water was doing something to me that I enjoyed. I stood up, embraced my mother, and got into position.
“I’ll try not to mess up again,” I said,
“Kai Serenes II,” my mother said quietly, “the only way you can mess up is if you refuse to try, and make mistakes. Making a mistake is part of the process. Now, we must continue.”
She came at me, and I resisted her attacks, using the defensive maneuvers she had shown me. She had shown me one, called “counter”, which I used against her on her most powerful attack. I ended up launching a devastating blow upon her, and she was sent sprawling.
“Very good, Kai,” she said, and she was not getting up,
“And now our next lesson—revival. I redirected your counter attack into my vital areas, and now I am dying. I have taught you how to revive someone. I will be dying now. If you do not know what to do...”
My mother did not even finish. I stopped everything, felt for signs of life, but there were none.
I did everything in my power to keep from screaming at the top of my lungs in agony. I knew that I would not be able to live without my mother, so I did everything in my power to try and restore her. It seemed that as I was waterbending through her body, that I was almost directed to the areas I needed to repair. A few minutes later, my mother’s eyes opened. I heaved a huge sigh of relief, picked her up and embraced her.
“Please don’t ever do that again,” I begged—I was crying. “That was the scariest moment of my life. I could not live without you.”
“Congratulations,” my mother said calmly, “you have now mastered the art of revival, Kai. Oh, and I’m sorry I made you scared. It was how I learned the technique though; I knew you needed as much motivation as you could get, and I wanted you to be very careful. I want you to be that careful with anyone who you might happen to desire to revive in your life. Anyway, you made no mistakes. I’m very proud of you.” My mother got up. She told me to go back to where I was standing.
“My next lesson is bloodbending again,” she said, “when you control me, you do not have to make me do anything—making my move my arm or take a step is bloodbending. If you do it right, you’ll know. So, just concentrate. It is very simple.” She paused, and then blindfolded me.
“Feel for the presence of water,” she said, feel for it in my body and try to bend it like normal water. If you succeed, you will be able to tell.
I paused, and felt for it. My new lack of eyesight with the blindfold actually made me sense my mother better. I swung my fingers in the bloodbending manner, and I heard her do what I wanted her to. I made her cross her legs, sit down, and twirl water of her own between her hands. I lifted up my blindfold with one hand and kept her under control with my other. I noticed she seemed to be trying to get up, yet my power was over her. I released her immediately and handed her the blindfold.
“You are a swift learner,” she told me, “and you now know that eyesight is often a distraction. If you have ever seen me bloodbend, you will notice that my eyes are always closed. Remember this when you waterbend. Many people try to deceive with looks and illusions. A girl named Sanaki Li Chan taught me about that a few years ago when she was but a child. Kai, you may be young, but you are insightful as well. The way you revived me showed it. You’re a swift learner.”
I had some sort of feeling that my mother was planning something. She had slowed down and was circling me. This usually meant that she was going to try and unexpectedly attack me to see how well my reflexes were. Sure enough, she came at me. We fought back and forth, sending water and ice everywhere. We both glided along the icy ground, and my ice spikes turned into her water bullets, which turned into my tidal wave which turned into her hailstorm. My mother may have been old, but she was just as agile as a young man in his prime. She was very swift—almost as swift as the Sanaki Li Chan she had mentioned earlier. I blasted her off her feet with one of my attacks. However, as she was spiraling through the air sideways, she managed to turn it into a flip and landed swiftly on her feet, where she blasted a wave of ice at me. The move was reminiscent of an earthbender. I figured since this was ice we were standing on, a style like that would be worth a try. I stomped my foot, disrupting my mother’s wave, and I kicked a huge chunk of ice towards her. As it was flying towards her, she kicked it and it shattered. I had been expecting this, so right when it did, I made it melt and reform, and this time it hit her. She recovered almost instantly, which did not surprise me. She sent a low wave of water at my feet, which she immediately froze, pinning my feet to the ground. As she did, she aimed a swift kick of water at my face, sending my skyward. She then blasted herself upward and began smacking me with huge bolts of water time and again, as if like a sword. After a few more strikes, she knocked me back to the ground and came plunging down towards me for her finishing blow...
~Kai~
This is a flashback to part 1 of Kai II's waterbending training.
RELEVANT MEMORIES (I)
That night, as I slept, I was revisited with a dream. I remembered it vividly, and would always remember the event which it was based off of. I dreamed I was back with my mother in the Northern Water Tribe, and she was teaching me waterbending. My mother had never told me, but her style was very unique and unusual. Incidentally, I would later learn that all of my teachers had unusually and unique styles, but for now, I was just getting the hang of waterbending. We were alone, in a somewhat secluded place out of the way—just like us. We were always out of the way, but were there to help when a tribesperson needed us. One thing we were always looked strangely on for was the way we dressed. No matter where we were, we always had on the same sleeveless shirt and baggy pants—and we were always barefoot—even on ice. My mother had said that a master waterbender was completely immune to cold. This legend had spread, and soon we were no longer questioned. Everyone knew my mother as the greatest waterbender in the world. Kai Serenes I had told me, her daughter, that I was destined to be a master waterbender too, for she dressed me the same as her since I was a child, and I never recall being cold.
Anyways, we were alone. I already knew the concept of bloodbending, but today, my mother was going to teach me her secret techniques that she had created herself. I was also going to learn about how to use bloodbending regardless of the time of month. This worried me, because I figured she would make me do it on her. I was not sure I had the heart to do that, nonetheless, I listened to my mother.
“Waterbending,” she said, “is a smooth and defensive art. A waterbender generally does not make the first move. Naturally, it is the opposite of firebending—it is slower, defensive, and cunning rather than fast, offensive and impetuous. However, being learned, I know how to operate it either way. Therefore, I am going to come at you, and I want you to defend yourself from my attacks. At your ready...”
My mother took a fighting position, and I was slightly nervous. She attacked with a swift, yet cunning move that knocked me down.
“Kai,” she said calmly; I had completely disobeyed her and yet she was still calm, “you are too tense. In order to truly waterbend, you must relax. Just close your eyes and breathe deep.”
I listened to her council, and she began massaging my shoulders. She had such a smooth touch, and her water was doing something to me that I enjoyed. I stood up, embraced my mother, and got into position.
“I’ll try not to mess up again,” I said,
“Kai Serenes II,” my mother said quietly, “the only way you can mess up is if you refuse to try, and make mistakes. Making a mistake is part of the process. Now, we must continue.”
She came at me, and I resisted her attacks, using the defensive maneuvers she had shown me. She had shown me one, called “counter”, which I used against her on her most powerful attack. I ended up launching a devastating blow upon her, and she was sent sprawling.
“Very good, Kai,” she said, and she was not getting up,
“And now our next lesson—revival. I redirected your counter attack into my vital areas, and now I am dying. I have taught you how to revive someone. I will be dying now. If you do not know what to do...”
My mother did not even finish. I stopped everything, felt for signs of life, but there were none.
I did everything in my power to keep from screaming at the top of my lungs in agony. I knew that I would not be able to live without my mother, so I did everything in my power to try and restore her. It seemed that as I was waterbending through her body, that I was almost directed to the areas I needed to repair. A few minutes later, my mother’s eyes opened. I heaved a huge sigh of relief, picked her up and embraced her.
“Please don’t ever do that again,” I begged—I was crying. “That was the scariest moment of my life. I could not live without you.”
“Congratulations,” my mother said calmly, “you have now mastered the art of revival, Kai. Oh, and I’m sorry I made you scared. It was how I learned the technique though; I knew you needed as much motivation as you could get, and I wanted you to be very careful. I want you to be that careful with anyone who you might happen to desire to revive in your life. Anyway, you made no mistakes. I’m very proud of you.” My mother got up. She told me to go back to where I was standing.
“My next lesson is bloodbending again,” she said, “when you control me, you do not have to make me do anything—making my move my arm or take a step is bloodbending. If you do it right, you’ll know. So, just concentrate. It is very simple.” She paused, and then blindfolded me.
“Feel for the presence of water,” she said, feel for it in my body and try to bend it like normal water. If you succeed, you will be able to tell.
I paused, and felt for it. My new lack of eyesight with the blindfold actually made me sense my mother better. I swung my fingers in the bloodbending manner, and I heard her do what I wanted her to. I made her cross her legs, sit down, and twirl water of her own between her hands. I lifted up my blindfold with one hand and kept her under control with my other. I noticed she seemed to be trying to get up, yet my power was over her. I released her immediately and handed her the blindfold.
“You are a swift learner,” she told me, “and you now know that eyesight is often a distraction. If you have ever seen me bloodbend, you will notice that my eyes are always closed. Remember this when you waterbend. Many people try to deceive with looks and illusions. A girl named Sanaki Li Chan taught me about that a few years ago when she was but a child. Kai, you may be young, but you are insightful as well. The way you revived me showed it. You’re a swift learner.”
I had some sort of feeling that my mother was planning something. She had slowed down and was circling me. This usually meant that she was going to try and unexpectedly attack me to see how well my reflexes were. Sure enough, she came at me. We fought back and forth, sending water and ice everywhere. We both glided along the icy ground, and my ice spikes turned into her water bullets, which turned into my tidal wave which turned into her hailstorm. My mother may have been old, but she was just as agile as a young man in his prime. She was very swift—almost as swift as the Sanaki Li Chan she had mentioned earlier. I blasted her off her feet with one of my attacks. However, as she was spiraling through the air sideways, she managed to turn it into a flip and landed swiftly on her feet, where she blasted a wave of ice at me. The move was reminiscent of an earthbender. I figured since this was ice we were standing on, a style like that would be worth a try. I stomped my foot, disrupting my mother’s wave, and I kicked a huge chunk of ice towards her. As it was flying towards her, she kicked it and it shattered. I had been expecting this, so right when it did, I made it melt and reform, and this time it hit her. She recovered almost instantly, which did not surprise me. She sent a low wave of water at my feet, which she immediately froze, pinning my feet to the ground. As she did, she aimed a swift kick of water at my face, sending my skyward. She then blasted herself upward and began smacking me with huge bolts of water time and again, as if like a sword. After a few more strikes, she knocked me back to the ground and came plunging down towards me for her finishing blow...
~Kai~
