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[Action] .009

[Due to Sokka's unexpected bout of sheer win, Katara has been given the gift of free time and she plans on making the most of it... after she was shooed back to bed due to threats from Sokka that made no sense at all.

First, she wants to check in on Sanji at the Strawhat's House. Then she wants to stop by the school and see if she can register to go once things are back to 'normal.' And... she has an idea that is going to lead her to the weapons shop. Finally, she'll go grocery shopping because they're running low on easy-to-cook things. Maybe she'll even get a chance to stand by the bridge and practice with real waterbending! ...although saving her strength to keep healing Zuko is probably a better idea. She'll probably just stare at the water wistfully and talk to Sona.

If you're around any of these places today, feel free to say 'Hey!' or give her hand, since she's not exactly sure how to do what she wants to do at the smithy or the school.]

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I didn't think so either. And I refused. I challenged him to fight me instead.

[This face forever, Katara]

Really? Did you beat him?

[Katara laughs. You win points for your confidence in her, chibi!Sanji.] No. And I knew that going in - he was a waterbending master, Sanji - and I'd never even been trained.

[She shakes her head.] But that didn't matter. I needed him to take me seriously -- to prove that I was good enough for him to train, that I deserved to learn how to fight.

...and I did prove that. He thought he could knock me down. [Small smile.] He couldn't.

[He supposes she's right... still would've been awesome if she had won, though]

So after he decided to train you? Once you'd proved yourself?

No. After all that - he still wouldn't train me. [Her hand goes up to her necklace.] But he'd knocked my necklace off - and when he picked it up... he recognized it.

He'd made it for my Gran-Gran. He'd wanted to marry her... but she ran away. And something about that... changed his mind.

[She shrugs.] But at the end, he agreed to train me. And when he was done? [She grins and lowers her voice a little.] I could beat everyone else he'd taught.

Edited 2010-03-21 02:32 (UTC)

[Sanji's face scrunches in confusion at the odd plot twist - a necklace of all things? - but he's not gonna question it.

The last part in particular earns a huge smirk]

Could you even beat Aang?

In waterbending? ...maybe. He's very good too. We've never fought to find a winner, and I've been training him the whole time we traveled.

But Aang is the Avatar. He's going to be able to bend all four elements. It's a lot to master.

Does it take a long time. [takes a sip, and then:]

Ginko said it's gonna take a while before I can learn stuff from the spirits, like Tsinku. Maybe it's the same thing.

Hmm. I don't know, Sanji. I've been speaking with Sona, but it doesn't seem to be the same as bending. With bending you have to learn forms. You have to get the movements just right, or else it won't work. With the spirits, it seems like they just need to agree to help, and then they teach you to work with them.

Sona's the water spirit, right?

[he's considering the rest of her words.]

What types of things are you learning with her, then?

A lot of the things that Sona can show you how to do are like waterbending, so it's strange to try to see them without the forms. What I want to do is learn how to use water with Sona's help and combine it with my bending. Maybe that way I'll get back some of the power I've lost here.

Why did you lose your powers? [he doesn't mean to be playing twenty questions with her - all this information has been lost to him]

[Katara shrugs] I don't know. It's something about this place - everyone who's in Luceti has had their power cut down to about half. So in one way, it's okay because at least we're all even... and in another it's really, really frustrating to know that you can do more and just not be able to do it. That's why I keep practicing - maybe I'll be able to build up some strength that way.

Oh... so that means me too. [he glances down at his legs, and swings them absent-mindedly]

I'm sure you'll get stronger, Katara. You already do pretty cool stuff. And the spirits are nice. Sona will help.

[And Katara will not quite blush, but she will smile at Sanji.] Thanks, Sanji.

What kind of powers do you have?

[Seeing as she only saw him get stuck in Aku...]

I don't have any like you do.

But Zeff's teaching me how to fight with my feet!

Oh, well - if it's a skill, then maybe that's not something you'll lose? Like, I don't think that people who have trained in fighting with their hands have lost any power, so I don't see why it shouldn't be the same thing with feet.

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