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Action - First Arena

Who: Aang and YOU
Broadcast: None
Action: Red Fish and Planet
When: Right as Aang arrives

Red Fish

[Well, this is definitely not the arena Aang just left. Did they keep him dead and bring him back for another arena?

He's not sure, but he's going to wait until he actually can ask someone he recognizes. In the meantime, this arena seems to have powers, so he's going to take advantage of it.

He grabs a bag--possibly stealing it from someone's room, though it doesn't occur to him that people are really living in individual, undefended rooms--and stuffs it full of any food he recognizes in the kitchen, then any medical supplies that he recognizes in the medical bay, which... is way more than he remembers being able to recognize before.

It takes him a bit before he feels the space behind his ear, discovering a brand new implant in his head.]

Oh come on!

[That's the third time they stuck something in his body without asking!]

Planetside

[Aang doesn't spend much time in the town. He loads up on food and proper desert clothing before heading out into the desert.

He wants to make his own shelter and not depend on what the Capitol has provided. Chances are, something terrible is going to happen to those houses. Once he feels comfortably far away from the town, he drops his bag on the ground and stretches his legs and arms, warming up.

Then he takes a deep breath, centering himself, and then starts blasting the ground with fire.

The sand begins to glow red. Aang manages the heat carefully, keeping it contained or shooting upwards, careful of hurting himself or any animals that may be lurking nearby. As the fire keeps burning, the sand starts melting, and Aang begins bending it with one hand, making it rise and twist into something resembling a cave.

And then he shuts off the fire, a glowing red rough glass shelter left behind. He wipes sweat from his brow and drops into the right posture to start bending the sand to mostly bury the glass, where it will be protected from the sun and camouflaged from other tributes.]

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[Velvet finds the newbie a little late, and raises an eyebrow at the bag he’s holding. Clearly she needs to keep more of an ear out for the welcoming fanfare.]

What are you doing?

Edited 2018-03-31 19:51 (UTC)

[Everything about this place is just awful, and the more he's learned about it, the more Sokka just wants to LEAVE. Still, he'll always look for more clues, loathe to leave this place without knowing for sure every shred of information has been picked up.

The sand being bent is a big clue that something WEIRD is happening, when he gets closer, his eyes widen. When did he get here? He grins, moving into a run. He doesn't stop to think the shelter thing is weird, all he cares about is his friend is HERE. ]

Aang! Hey, Aang!

_{[A certain king is in the town and notices Aang leaving to the desert wastes. Noctis is in a great mood lately. His wife returned to the fleet. He's over the moon as it were but that boy... At first Noctis thought he was a member of whatever community inhabited this place but soon he thinks maybe not. He wonders if this kid is new. He... well he was watching Aang from the window of a house he's living in for the time being. But he saw Umbra and Pryna out on the street following the boy. Those little doofuses... he has to follow them now. Even when he calls them the dogs are happily trotting behind Aang.

Noct tries to catch up to them but by the time he does there is sand blasting everywhere. Is it a tornado!? Is the kid in there!? He rushes over but... by the time he can get to Aang it's over]}

Hey. Kid. Are you alright? Are you hurt?

[ Wanting to be stocked up isn't an unfamiliar feeling. Carl was the same when he and Maggie first arrived, keeping everything close and ready to go in case something happened. The survival instinct still sits in the back of his mind, but since Alexandria back home and having been in the Fleet for almost two years, it's become less of a knee-jerk reaction. Old habits can still be heard to break, though.

Especially with the planet below them being ripe for the picking. Still, he almost bumps into Aang on his way into the medical bay. It's not someone he's seen before, but he did hear the fanfare earlier, so.. ]

Just get here?

[Rose is observant enough to tell when somebody has been in her room. She also keeps track of her belongings enough to know when something goes missing, even if it's just a bag.]

[Admittedly, she doesn't care much about the bag. She does, however, care for her personal space, and doesn't like people invading it. Thankfully, the Red Fish is small, and it doesn't take her long to find the culprit.]

Has anybody ever told you how rude it is to take something without asking? Or were you raised without manners?

Edited 2018-04-01 13:30 (UTC)

[Kitty was out in the dessert, taking a walk in the desert to clear her mind. It doesn't exactly work as the thoughts continue to gather, but she at least she's alone for her brooding this time. Or...

Or there's a spiral of fire and sand ahead. So, that's something. And like any reasonable person she moves toward it to investigate. Naturally. Getting closer doesn't help her recognize the person at the center of it all though. But he also doesn't look like any of the aliens they tend to run across, not to mention they haven't seen anyone else here—anyone else alive anyway, so probably one of theirs. She calls out once she gets closer.]

Did the sand do something to you?

[A little after meeting in the supermarket, Katara did load up with some more food, but she was primarily concerned with water. She followed Aang into the desert, and now was giving him enough space to sandbend a shelter. She didn't want them to go too far away from the ships, or the town, but they were well out of sight by the time Aang stopped.

She watches him begin to melt the sand and turn it into glass with something a little like awe - she'd never heard of anything like this, though it made sense. Mostly, though, she was still...

What had happened to him?]

That's pretty amazing, Aang. I've never seen anyone turn sand into glass like that before. Is it sturdy?

Edited 2018-04-02 03:12 (UTC)

[It's just not as much fun running around a planet without his skateboard. He can see so many railings that needed grinding, curbs that could be jumped, no adults to call the cops. It was like a paradise of cool stuff that he couldn't take advantage of because coming into space (which was also cool) took away his main mode of transport. It was totally unfair!

But this? He saw the glow in the distance and thought maybe someone was in trouble. The last thing he expected was to come upon a kid barely his age moving sand like magic. Beat is standing off to the side, staring, a bottle of water forgotten in his hands, as he watches the stranger work.]

...Whoa.

[He's been wandering about to get to know the planet better when he sees the young man perform something quite amazing. When he feels it is safe to approach, he steps closer, not seeming to mind the hot sands under his bare feet.]

That was an impressive show. Is this a shelter?

[Delicately, he leans forward to look closer at the structure that has been built, long nails lightly touching his painted lips.]

[The empty city is unnerving, and Alucard is still not entirely used to spending his time in the ships, hanging up in the sky.

The combination of these two things leaves the desert. Not for a long-term stay, but for outings. Besides, Alucard is curious. There must be something happening here.

And as it turns out, there is something, during one of his expeditions. Not what he expected, but definitely SOMETHING. He sees fire and sand and the melding of the two. Glass, fire-hot. As Aang begins to bend the structure into place, Alucard gets closer. Watching.

He stops a reasonable distance away, and doesn't interrupt while the glass cave is being shaped. That would be rude. But when Aang drops down, begins to move the sand, he clears his throat.]

Impressive control.

[He thinks he could certainly do that, if only he had fire rather than water or air as one of his elements.

...The fascinating thing is that Aang's aura isn't quite what he'd expect. Power, yes. But not the same as his own, or like any magician from his own world.]

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