Chapter 7 Sound-bending and Departure

"Thank you..." was all Kypher said before turning around and carefully grabbing the book. Then he started running towards the training room as fast as possible. After all... he had a sub-element to bend...

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What is sound?

Well, in simple terms, sound is a pressure wave which is created by a vibrating object. Sound is one of the 5 senses. Although it less useful than sight in everyday use, it is as crucial as instinct in an fight.

Now, what exactly is sound bending?

Many people would answer, the ability to hear things further away. However that is just one of the many uses for it.

So what exactly is sound bending then you might ask?

The ability to change how a person perceives the reality. Many people do not realise the implications of sound bending

Imagine, the ability to manipulate sound from being perceived. A sound-bender might snap his fingers and the opponents ear drums might burst. Or a whistle might turn into horrifyingly disorienting and loud white noise. Or sense everything in a 360° sphere. Or even remove sound from existence. Now take a deep breath and imagine what the air-benders could do if they were not pacifists. Yeah... Thank Michael DiMartino for that.

This was the power Kypher wished for. Wa Shin Tong also understood the implications of giving this tome to him. However the scholar's priorities had changed. He no longer cared if Kypher was learning things that can be used to harm others. The owl wanted his only human friend to be safe and be able to protect himself.

The tome that Wa Shin Tong had given Kypher was just the basics, but these basics where just enough to open the endless possibilities. It took the Gojo Satoru rip-off, exactly 6 months to master the basics of the sub-element and implement them into his sword techniques. And another 6 to memorize most of the miscellanies subjects, with the exception of tea-brewing, which he was mastering to impress a certain uncle.

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Some where in the Mo Ce Sea

*ACHOOO*

It was the first time in a while, that Iroh sneezed so hard.

'I guess someone must be praising my tea-making skills...' He though to himself. Oh how, true he was.

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"Hey OWL..." a young man shouted somewhere below the desert. His voice reverberated through out the library, scaring the life out of most of the red furred denizens. The child had black cloth covering both his eyes.

"I thought I had warned you about screaming in my library..." A chilly voice appeared behind the troublemaker, terrifying him. Although he could not see he could still feel the direction the voice was coming from. He immediately turned around and slammed his head onto the cold, hard ground.

"SOORY. Please don't hurt me." The child pleaded. But the owl did not stop. Slowly and steadily, the owl appeared before the brat. And gave him a hard peck on the head.

"OOWWW" The child cried out, yet the scholar seemed satisfied with the reaction. 'Definitely a sadist' The child thought to himself. A second peck brought him out his imagination.

"WHAT WAS THE SECOND ONE FOR?"

"For cursing me." Was the emotionless response

"But how did you know?..." Kypher asked while still stroking his head

"..." A blank face was enough of a response for Kypher to understand his mistake.

"Damn, anyway, I think its time. I've been here for 3 years now, I want to travel the world for a bit." He said while walking towards the tower he climbed through to enter the library.

"I know..." The owl answered with an impassive face.

"I want you to promise me something." Kypher asked after a long moment of silence. "In a few years, a group of travellers will find this place. One of them would be the avatar. If they do anger you, please don't return to the spirit world" He asked with a pleading tone. "I want to visit you again. So there's no need of leaving" He started stuttering, with tear drops falling from his eyes. "Maybe you can hide under the sand for a few years. But please return. Please?" Kypher finally managed to look into the scholar's eyes."Please?" He whispered the last one.

"Alright. I promise." Wa Shin Tong answered after seeing the eyes of his only true friend. Someone who he spend nearly 3 years with.

And with those words Kypher immediately stopped crying and made a face. "HAH. See you later, alligator!" He said while manipulating the air under his feet. Kypher crouched down, sprung up and...

and..

…faceplanted into the ground.

"GOD DAMN WORLD TRYING TO PISS ME OFF!" he shriek with all his might, earning him another face plant on the floor, and a peck immediately after that. It would seem, the world still had not given up on him, while the owl did it for its own amusement.

"damn world, and owl. both scheming against me trying to kill me..." HE grumbled while propelling himself into the air and through the window.

He jumped off the tower and looked behind him for a moment then turn away and started walking towards the port village.

A few minutes in his jog. He felt the sand move underneath his feet. It wasn't the first time this happened but he surely wished it was the last time. Large amount of people appeared from the sand and surrounded him

Sand benders

The most pesky benders in the world. They were like cockroaches. Kypher had beat them multiple times, yet every time, some would escape and come back with larger numbers. This time it seemed like they brought more that 15 benders. 'This might be a dangerous.' Kypher thought to himself.

"Blind Master Gojo..." hissed one of the roaches. This was the name he had used when he started wearing his black outfit. It was an sudden idea, that came to him one day. Why not have multiple identities. If so he could use his fire-bending with one martial arts with another, and have his real identity a secret from all except those close to him.

It was an amazing idea, yet somehow it backfired. The Blind Master Gojo was his martial art identity. He chose to use this one first to practise his sword and dagger techniques, He still used some abilities but more discreetly.

"Uhh..." He sighed and prepared for a long a gruelling fight. "What do you want this time..."

"To avenge our fallen comrades" was the nonsensical response. It would seem as if they were ready to fight to the death this time.

"Wasn't it you guys who attacked me firs-" He was cut midway by a sand wave coming his way. He dashed to the right, only for the wave to turn towards him.

Kypher looked around and found his first ideal target, A young sand bender maybe a bit older than him, but still a kid. The weak link. Kypher pulled out a dagger and chucked it at one of the sand bender, opposite him, hitting him on the thigh, which made him fall over wailing in pain..

Immediately after, he ducked, with a sandstone rock flying brushing past his head, He ran towards the weakest bender and slammed his fist, into the kid's stomach knocking him out cold. Without hesitation he changed his target to the bender next to him slamming down his sword, with the sheath, onto the guy's neck, felling him to the ground.

After zig-zaging around and dodging a few close sand traps, he managed to take out a third of them without harming them permanently. Although the people with daggers sticking out of were the exceptions.

"How many times do we have to do this. You guys keep attacking, me losing all your troops, the attacking again. JUST STOP" He screamed out, obviously annoyed by the situation He understood their plight but still this level of stubbornness is not needed just for some food. They are preparing themselves to die, instead of trying to survive.

Yet, he stopping midway for a second, with another projectile passing in front of him, before continuing on his rampage. By the time, the remaining roaches started running away, he had knocked out nearly 2 thirds of them.

Deciding against running after the remaining ones as that would just be pointless, he went around collecting his daggers before leaving for the village.

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"Hey, MARY. OPEN UP." Kypher banged on the door, while yelling. The door was opened, after a few seconds of continuous banging, and the old innkeeper popped her head out.

"Heya, kid. Ya here for the food?" She asked with a smile on her face. Who wouldn't smile if their largest customer was banging on the door. She opened the door wide open and invited the kid in.

"Yeah, but its the last time in a while..." He said with a sad smile. After some time, he had started to enjoy his conversations with the old woman, Mary, and would miss her.

"Ya leaving, huh..." She said with a huff. "Ya know where ya plannin' on heading?"

"Not really, maybe somewhere south." Kypher answered. He wasn't lying completely when he said that. He knew he could trust her. After all she was one of the people who knew his Gojo identity. Yet he felt like there was not point in telling the exact location.

"Ya wanna hear something interesting?" she asked with a slight grin out her face.

"Sure" Kypher was interested of course, it wasn't an every day occurrence for the innkeeper to grin like that.

"The Beifongs are looking for ya..."

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Hey guys, thank you for reading up to this point, If there are things you do not understand please do not hesitate and ask, I will try my best to answer all your questions. Also I am looking for a Fire Nation name, I'll pick one from the comments .

Special thanks to

Shadow1609, ChikenTortoise, LucyAzomonia, Wynter_01, Leonardo_Porto, Nightwolf2728, No_Name_8410, Haider_Alkefaji, Splingo_Splongo...

Thank you for the power stones

Cya, tomorrow...

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