Akashi was currently training.
Not really.
He was just in an isolated district that should be inhabited the next week.
He was having a mental break.
People had started calling him 'Monster Cock.'
It left him overthinking, forcing him to do two trainings in one, and clap his hands to generate sound.
At the same time, he was drinking.
[Poison Resistance up to level 4]
'If I sing, they wouldn't think I'm a monster. And my hands hurt so bad from clapping that I'm losing HP…. That's it. I can beat-box to copy the clapping sound…'
Akashi stood on the top of the highest building in this district.
Little did he know, that not only his screaming annoyed sleeping people, but it had also overshadowed the claps that sounded like bombs to people.
"BOOM! BANG! BLING BLAO!"
As Akashi kept grinding, he stopped in the middle of singing.
Shiny lights were coming from a distance.
Firebenders had fire above their hands. Non-benders were holding torches.
"THIS IS THE ELECTRICITY STATIONS WORKER! WE'RE GOING TO HUNT DOWN THE MONSTER COCK!"
"GET HIM."
"HE IS THERE!"
Akashi, thanks to his airbending being on a higher level, was more sensitive to air and the waves it carried, and he could hear these people from a distance.
Upon a closer look, they were holding weapons in their hands.
A bunch of them took their stances, charging lightning, apparently having found his location.
To have such a shameful title, Akashi decided to reply.
He yelled, with wave bending, "FUCK YOU!"
And with that, echoed a sound that was way louder than any speaker could hold.
The next second, Akashi jumped slightly, creating an air-sphere under his feet. He picked up his drinks. He removed the air resistance around him, turned, and turned into a blur that teleported.
In his original spot, lightning bolts descended, but there was no one to hit any longer.
He managed to escape.
'Even from there, I could be heard. Man. I should just get my days off and go to the mountains.' Akashi thought as he traveled through the air.
-x-X-x-
Tenzin stood in front of the training yard, looking at his kids and at the Avatar.
It has been a week since Korra had arrived.
And today, she was doing her training at the temple.
Korra was dodging inside an artifact that was made of many spinning doors.
The purpose of this training was to teach her how to go along the flow, go with the wind, and train her mind.
On the first day, she seemed to be so frustrated that she could almost break it after failing a couple of times. He noticed that in other forms of training.
Korra had a quite stubborn mindset and short-lived patience compared to Akashi, who seemed to never take most things seriously, and was easy-going with the kids and all. If Korra had been taunted the same way Akashi had been taunted by the kids, she may have lost her mind. Luckily, the kids knew her long ago and didn't cross the line.
More than that, she couldn't even make the air move.
At first, it seemed that she'd take forever for her to even create a small wind.
'But she's improving, nonetheless.'
Over the week, with each visit with Akashi, she seemed to get better. She even meditated in her free time.
Tenzin had asked her what she was doing, and she said something about mental training.
Tenzin had heard about mental training, but she was too young to even engage in it, and she would need a lot of time to even master meditation. Even he, the son of Aang, had yet to master that.
Korra got out of the artifact, closed her eyes, and spun.
The winds moved along, making the door spin.
Korra opened her eyes, seeming to realize what had happened.
"Finally, I did it!" she jumped happily, her face was lively with excitement.
Contrary to Tenzin's initial guesses, she had managed to bend the air way faster than he had predicted.
As she jumped happily, Tenzin approached her.
As she jumped, a paper dropped from her pants.
Curious, Tenzin bent the air to get the paper flying to him.
"Stop."
Korra suddenly blushed, and she pointed her hand at Tenzin, trying to get that paper back.
Tenzin quickly unfolded it.
"I'm the leaf… I'm calm. I flow like air…"
Tenzin raised his gaze from the paper and looked at Korra.
"What's this?" he asked.
This, without doubt, was literature worse than what his kids do… and he was thinking about the three-year-old Meelo.
"It's just a part of my training." She said, snatching the paper back. "Akashi said that this is the fastest way to do my mental training, something about what the old ancestors did to all be benders."
Tenzin was taken aback.
As a number one fan of the Airbending culture, he had never heard of such a thing.
"And what do you do with that paper during your mental training?" he asked.
"I… read it…"
"I can't hear you."
"I read it at every possible chance!" she yelled, full of embarrassment.
"You know, Korra. By mental training, the old airbenders used to go to a cave, face a wall, and meditate for a whole day. Some did it for weeks to reach enlightenment." Tenzin explained.
"Isn't that too much," Korra replied, "Akashi said doing it for 5 minutes, twice a day, is enough."
Tenzin was taken aback.
What Korra described was going against everything in the book.
"That's…"
Korra shrugged. "If it's working, it works."
Tenzin looked at her.
"Seems like you are improving." Tenzin found it hard to admit it. But he couldn't be stubborn. As an airbender, he had to accept the flow.
He sighed.
Never in the thousands of years of airbending did anyone think of what Akashi had thought.
Repeating words that align with the identity of airbenders seemed to prove its worth as mental training.
Well, it's not the first time Akashi had done something familiar. He, for once, stood on the spinning sphere. For a second, because he had been aware of the air resistance from physiques, he managed to perfect the technique that boosts the speed of airbenders, allowing him to travel so fast. Until now, Tenzin was trying to develop this technique and use modern science. Instead of moving the air around him to push him, he had been trying to push the air away from him while pushing himself at the same time. The results were quite shocking.
"Yeah. But that's mostly because I'm the Avatar." She said, hitting her chest proudly.
"Seems he forgot to add, 'I'm humble.'" Tenzin commented.
Korra frowned.
"Anyways, he seems to know what he's doing." Tenzin added, "You can continue that training anyway. Just make sure that you don't consume it too much so it doesn't yield backward results."
"You kidding. I'm not planning to do this my whole life. I've already had a sense of airbending. Just a few other days, and I'm fine." Korra nodded.
"Yes, that what I was going to say. Get a hang of airbending. And then, we'll start teaching you airbending techniques." Replied Tenzin.
"By the way, I was meant to ask you something." Korra looked at Tenzin with sparkling eyes.
"Yes."
"Can I go to the pro-bending arena with Akashi tonight?"
"Excuse me." Tenzin blinked twice.
"I want to watch them."
"There's no way, Korra. That place is trivializing the true ways of bending. A pit for gamblers and sinners. And I won't allow you to watch that nonsense."
"It was Akashi's idea. He said it'd be good for me to watch how the other benders are doing. It's good to adapt." Korra said, half lying.
It was quite Akashi's idea after all.
He was the one who said that she was a teenager and should rebel, and that watching sport is better than listening to them.
That, and she had heard about Tenzin grumbling about the arena before, and she had already made up excuses to let her go.
"Hm… did he though." Tenzin looked at her suspiciously.
"He said it's very good idea." Korra nodded.