¤ 37 - Fireball

[honorinflames]

Control of fire comes from within, so... you must master your breath, the energy inside yourself, before you can control flame. So, let's try a breathing exercise. A slow breath in like this--[the appropriate pause here]--aaand, breathe out...

Chaaaaarrr...

That's good!

[there is some firebending training going on in the park. Though, one of the firebenders can't actually firebend right now, and the other one is a chubby orange lizard. So there's that.]

Okay, let's go through the routine I was showing you yesterday.

Char char!! [and, with that, the lizard excitedly flails around in its own version of what looks vaguely kung-fu... throwing erratic bits of flame around, and accidentally slapping a nearby bush with its fiery tail... which kind of catches the shrub on fire]

Hey, stop! Don't-- ...Uh-oh.


((ooc: Zuko is still on his dumb happyface loss. Open for the small fire in the park, or just watching a kid try to teach firebending moves to a pokemon))

Comments

[sexyhitchhiker]

It usually is, when you're not setting fire to things.

[man, this doesn't look good. He still sounds kinda happy.]

[honorinflames]

I guess I keep forgetting that I can't bend here.

[he glances back to his Charmander, who is looking pretty self-conscious by this point]

Don't worry, though. Next time we'll just remember to bring a bucket of water.

[...yep. still happy.]

[sexyhitchhiker]

[j-just roll with it. She suppresses a twitch and kneels to hold a hand up to the Charmander to sniff.]

Who's this little guy? [...Eevee glares daggers at the Charmander.]

[honorinflames]

[Charmander cautiously sniffs Natsuki's hand... but then when it catches that look from the Eevee, it automatically falls into what seems suspiciously like something that is supposed to be a defensive martial arts stance]

I think he's a baby dragon.

[sexyhitchhiker]

[she blinks, recognizing the intent of that sorta stance, but when she glances at the Eevee, all she finds is a happy Eevee chirruping at her.

...Well then. She digs out the Pokedex, holding it up to the Charmander.]

Charmander: The fire on the tip of its tail is a measure of its life. If healthy, its tail burns intensely.

[honorinflames]

[ha, he pets the Charmander's head] See? I told you the fire comes from inside you. That's why controlling that energy is so important. Get it?

Char...

[and then back to Natsuki] What is that thing?

[sexyhitchhiker]

[man, he's so nice to the Charmander. Maybe it's a good thing he's not normal at the moment. He'd probably be yelling at the baby pokemon.]

She's an Eevee. I haven't figured out a name for her yet, though.

Eevee! [and she daintily licks a paw]

[honorinflames]

[yep. yelling at, or leaving it with someone else to take care of]

Oh... [looking back at the Charmander] I haven't named him either.

[sexyhitchhiker]

I figured calling her Eevee would be like naming my dog 'Dog.'

[honorinflames]

Oh... I guess so.

[derp. looking at the charmander.]

What would you name something like this, though?