First Flame 15

"I could probably smash my way through with my Fire Fist," I mused after a moment of thought, the pure force behind it couldn't be underestimated, "But, I'll probably destroy what's in there if I do, so I'll just do this." I held my hand out and summoned one of my normal dao to my hands.

"Oh!" Ty Lee blinked, "You're gonna reflect the light coming out of the sun stone with your sword, smart!" she realised and caught on quickly.

And this is just an idea I'm stealing from Zuko. I don't know if I'd have come up with it myself. I might really have resorted to the brute force option, I'm such a barbarian man.

"That's right." I nodded, walking over to where the light was shining down onto the ground on the dial and crouching over it, placing the blade of my dao over it to catch the shining red dot of light and angling it to where I wanted it to go.

It took a minute or two to get the angle right, but finally I reflected the light onto the sun stone atop the door and the doors rumbled as they began to slide open.

"Hey, it worked!" Ty Lee beamed and bounced over to pat me on the shoulder in congratulations, "What a smart boyfriend I have!" she pecked me on the cheek.

Yeah…smart, heh. Sure, let's go with that.

The room inside the stone building was dark, but easy to see into thanks to the light from the open doorway and a moonlight on the ceiling.

Inside, there was a circular platform filled with statues in many different poses.

"What's with these statues?" Ty Lee hummed as we entered inside and looked around, "Oh! Look, there's a plaque here! The Dancing Dragon?"

"It's the fire bending form made from studying dragons," I told her, eyeing them appreciatively, memorising each and every position and form, "And there's something else to." I added.

"What's that?" Ty Lee asked.

I walked over to the statue on the opposite side of the one she was in front of and stood on the panel in front of it, "It needs two people to do this, we need to go through the forms to the end, stepping on the platforms, think you can manage it?" I asked.

If not, I can always just find their village and have them direct me to Ran and Shaw, but doing things this way will bring them to me without having to make the effort of finding them.

Ty Lee grinned at my words, "Just this? Easy peasy, you should be wondering if you can manage it yourself instead of me."

"That sounds like a challenge." I grinned back at her.

"Sure, you can take it that way if you want." she shrugged back casually, confidently.

"And what do I get if I win and can 'keep up'?" I asked, grin widening, and not able to stop myself from eyeing he curvaceous figure appreciatively.

Ty Lee saw where I was staring and her cheeks tinged a bit red, but, she didn't back down, "Hmm, how about, if you can't, you have to massage my feet," she tapped her chin, before her grin widened to reflect mine, "And if you can keep up, you win and you can play with my boobs."

See, I was just planning on training while waiting for the Sun Warriors to show up, but, I'll take this over that any day, "Bring it on then." I challenged, slipping into the first form of the Dancing Dragon.

"On the count of three then? And you only get one chance." Ty Lee stuck her tongue out at me before sliding into her same stance as me on the opposite side.

I agreed, and she began counting. As soon as she hit three, we both moved as one and flowed together through the forms of the Dancing Dragon. I would definitely have lost this initially, but with my prodigal ability? It was easy to do.

And a few moments later, we both came to a stop at the end, both of our fists thrust out towards each other.

"Ah, looks like you w-" Ty Lee giggled and began accepting my win like a good sport, but got cut off.

By a small pillar emerging from the middle of the room, and atop it, a golden gem-like egg.

"Eh, the heck is that?" her attention was drawn to it.

"It's how the Sun Warriors will know to come," I replied, then pointed to the exit, "Stand outside babe."

"Mm, okay!" Ty Lee nodded, accepting my order and happily skipped back outside, while I walked over the pillar, or rather podium that the golden egg sat on.

As I got near it, I swear I could feel a pulsing heat come from it, almost like a heartbeat.

I made my way around to stand at the side with my back to the door while Ty Lee looked on curiously from outside.

Then, I took a deep breath and reached out with one hand and lifted the egg, a jolt ran through my system, and I could literally feel the life inside it, but I didn't let that feeling stun me, I knew what was coming.

The building gave an ominous rumbling noise and began to shake like an earthquake was set off beneath it, but just as it did, I jumped back and thrust my hand out, unleashing a wave of flame to propel me back through the air.

Just in time, because the doors slid shut a moment later and just before they closed fully, I saw a mass of dark green slime like substance erupt like a tsunami from everywhere in sight within the building.