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[breezing]

Heeeeeeey! [ Ah, it's the cheerful voice of one of Luceti's two airbenders. ] Okay, I don't really know what's going on entirely with, um, whatever...

[ The library thing, all she knows is that Loki made it so they can get books again??? And stuff??? And Grandpa and Katara might be mad? ANYWAY WHO CARES ABOUT THAT as long as she can get to the books and take them home to read Ikki's interest in the matter is precisely zero. ]

But I've been practicing something pretty cool! Oh, before that, it's been a while, sooooo...next weekend's one of the art club meetings and I guess I haven't really told people to come in a while, so you should come next time. I want to have the meeting outside and to go to, I dunno, the lake or something to paint pictures of it! Raven, what do you think? But either way, whatever we do, let's go outside. It's almost summer. Summer's the best time of the year, 'cause it's all warm. Katara's birthday is in summer, too. And a lot of other birthdays...actually, almost every July and stuff there's just a bunch of parties, right? I like those, 'cause then I can have cake at each of the parties. More people should have parties...or get married. Well, I've only really been to one wedding.

[ ...Wait, she had a point. Didn't she have a point? ]

Oh! Oh, right. I just wanted to say that I learned to do something cool. Well, I say I, but it's something Soren and I have been working on for EONS. [ By eons she means about ten months. Which is pretty close to eons... ] Anyway. We can do it pretty well now for a while, but I'll just show you a little bit.

[ Though it requires propping her journal up and stepping back. She produces a few odd-looking balls from her vest; "Soren", the Swellow still her care, is nearby. Ikki tosses the balls into the air, and then sends up a breeze, and as the two meet, there are chimes. A second later, Soren gently sends up a slash of air of his own; while technically she should probably have maybe spent ten months training him to like, hit stuff hard, Ikki is at heart an airbender and so she apparently spent around ten months getting her Pokemon pal to control his air attacks to the point they...don't...destroy something? Really, the fact that her entire culture is based on pacifism probably should have made this a forseeable outcome, although this is also more a game than anything else, and one that both the young girl and the bird Pokemon are apparently both fairly invested in.

Yes, that is an excellent use of their time...

The chimes happen again. It appears that the two can make the balls chime and whistle when they toss them on the breezes; depending on how they hit and how strong the air is, the chimes and whistles change as they toss them back and forth, keeping them afloat and trying to get certain tunes and pitches from them.

After a second or two, it becomes clear they're actually playing out a sort of song, albeit in whistles and chimes. Ikki isn't singing, because she's clearly concentrating on getting the pitches right and making sure the chimes and whistles only happen when instruments ought to be playing, and they mess up once or twice with too much or too little length given to their makeshift notes or getting a pitch wrong, but...they mostly get out the tune of a song from home, passing the odd musical balls back and forth on breezes between them. When they reach the end of the short song, Ikki catches the balls one by one, and preforms a silly little bow to the journal, while Soren...does the same. They are giant hams. ]

See??? I got these for my birthday last year, so we've been trying to work on it since then whenever, well. Stuff isn't happening. We haven't learned a lot of songs on them though 'cause it takes forever to figure out how to do it together, and it's more fun to do it together than alone. [ But hey, at least it keeps her out of trouble and gets her working on her control! ...Without anyone explicitly telling her to do it or try it, either, which is a probably a plus. ] Anyway, that was pretty much it, so I'll just go now.

[ Though she can still be found playing with the hollow, musical balls and her Pokemon partner, in the yard of House 56. They're really just messing around for the sake of it while accidentally training in airbending control as a side effect. Mostly they are just messing around because that is what they Do as a rule. ]

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[splashpuppy]

[Hajime is just passing by when he sees the two of them. It doesn't look so different from how he trains his powers some days. The older Knights like to turn it into a game.

And more important than training, it just looks like they're having fun with the musical balls. And he's just started learning about Pokemon, too.]

That's really cool!

lmao i was like YODA?! :D and then ...wait what yoda...

[breezing]

[ Oh what do you know, it's someone actually her age. This is so rare Ikki will actually stop to beam, because...

POTENTIAL FRIEND...? HER AGE...?

It could happen...unless he's under some de-age experiment which is horribly common. And which she only minds because she finds people she thinks are friends her age and then a week or so later they're suddenly adults. :c ]

Thanks!!! I've been working on my airbending for - well, ever since I was born! I'm Ikki, by the way.

It was a pretty spectacularly wrong journal

[splashpuppy]

[Hajime's always excited to make new friends. Especially with other kids. There aren't nearly enough of those here.]

I'm Hajime. It's good to meet you! I've been learning about water just as long.

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[savedtheworld]

[Aang has been a little stressed lately, with the whole library situation. Loki and Wan Shi Tong are both so dangerous, after all. But being around Ikki helps him to feel so much more peaceful and calm. It's too easy to smile around her.

While she made her journal presentation, he was watching from the porch. And then he steps towards her while clapping his hands.]

Good job, Ikki! I'm very proud of you.

[With what she accomplished with Soren, how couldn't he? Any fears he had of the potential violence that could come from having a Pokemon were reversed by the way Ikki had trained him.

He looks towards Soren with a giggle.]

And you too, Soren! You both did great.

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[breezing]

[ Ikki's barely been keeping track of the library situation lately. Now that the books are in the school she considers the matter Done. Which is, of course, only something she can really do because she's still a child, even if she's grown up a little.

For now, she grins, twirling to face Aang. ]

Thanks! Maybe if we practice lots more we can make it into a really pretty show! And then I can do it at the world sharing fair, if we have one again.

[ Really, the fears of violence had been shared by Katara, too, hadn't they? And some of the people from the Pokemon world had been worried about her peace - or Masaomi had been.

Soren and Ikki seem to be doing their own thing, however, something not quite training for battle and not quite training for peace but...just having fun together in the way best friends probably do. There's no doubt Soren is competitive, and he certainly doesn't mind battles and would leap to his trainer's defense in an instant, but he's also sort of mellowed in a household full of peaceful people and animals with a trainer who enjoys playing with him in her downtime more than anything else.

...Of course, he is also still a giant ham who believes himself to be AWESOME, so praise goes a long way and he preens smugly. ]

Maybe we can even do it in the air next time!

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[savedtheworld]

You have lots of good ideas, Ikki.

[Whatever Ikki and Soren are doing, it's Them and they're having fun so that's what matters. As he approaches, he'll pull her into a hug, then pull back while leaving a hand on her shoulder.]

That would look really near in the air, wouldn't it? Just make sure you got it practiced well enough first, okay? [He wants to make sure she says safe. He feels like he's taken enough airbending accidents for the whole family.]

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[takesyoubytheheart]

[Have some applause!]

Wow! That was amazin'!

I'm so sorry, my drive tanked right after this post, I'M BACK NOW

[breezing]

[ IT'S...A MOUSE...He kind of reminds her of Oswald. It's a good thing Ikki is more than used to odd folk in Luceti, because she barely blinks. ]

Thanks! It was airbending.

awww, it's okay

[takesyoubytheheart]

Airbendin'? You conquered that air! I could watch ya do those stunts forever and ever!

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[generalflirt]

Soren's got that much control...? [ Did she do it at the sacrifice of power...? No, probably not, because Soren's previous trainer had been Chien-kun, and Chien would have worked the bird as hard as he possibly could. He'd also made sure ti put Ikki through his paces in the early days of her career, but then he hadn't- basically, he ends up wondering if Soren might be at risk of the problems Linda has had because of his ego, but that's too much to ask of someone as young as her. So despite just being awed a little over the book... ]

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[generalflirt]

[ Well, he recognizes the scenery, so he'll just call Linda to his side (though she makes some protest for them to be visiting the bird but at least it isn't Skarmy) and make to head out there so he can witness the training and the show in person. Honestly, as he walks the long ass way down the south of town, he concludes that he was worrying too much. The air wasn't something you generate from inside of yourself (probably), it's something you control from without (probably). And even if Soren was weaker now, if he was okay with it then you know that's for the best. Masaomi's nature was to worry though, so. Hey.

Doesn't mean he doesn't want to see it. ]

I'm so sorry, my drive tanked right after this post, I'M BACK NOW

[breezing]

[ Sacrificing power isn't a requirement for control - and Soren's the one who notices the visitors first, and who reacts with a trilled complaint (not his favorite Pokemon, he prefers Kyle and barely ever sees Skarmy). Ikki lets the whistle-chime balls drop back into her hands as her partner stops focusing, glancing back over her shoulder to see what got him riled up. ]

Oh, hey!

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[pokeboy]

[ It takes some listening for Red to understand what's going on. He hears the sounds, the different notes, but he doesn't know it's meant to be a kind of music until some chimes in. But when he gets it? Wow. ]

That was really cool, Ikki! I've never heard of anyone doing anything like that back home! Did you think up that all on your own?

I'm so sorry, my drive tanked right after this post, I'M BACK NOW

[breezing]

Yeah! Well, I mean, Loki gave me these all the way last year to play with, and I just thought we could definitely make music from them, right? It just took a lot of time to, like, figure out how to do it.

[ They kinda sucked at it at first... ]

np!

[pokeboy]

Are you gonna learn to do more? It'll take ages, but it's worth it if you both like it, right?

[Video; 1/2]

[dunkinchili]

BURNING, HOT SUMMER!! The sun! The beach! Cool drinks! Loooots of thirsty customers! Swimsuit season.

Gotta love summer!

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[dunkinchili]

... huh, that bell thing was really soft and sweet.

Who knew you could use Pokemon attacks that way?

Hey, which region're you from? [Assuming she's from his world, when his Pansear hops onto his shoulder for a closer look.]

[audio, camera obscured]

[readytobe]

[A-awww, this might be Mewtwo's favorite post ever. It's touching, to him, to see a trainer and her Pokemon working together so well on something that isn't fighting. Seriously he is kind of maybe thinking about tearing up a little. Maybe sort of. Probably not, but he did think about it. You get the idea.

He keeps the camera on the journal blacked out, but does turn the audio on to applaud her.</ small>]

I'm so sorry, my drive tanked right after this post, I'M BACK NOW

[breezing]

Thanks!

[ She has no idea who this is but HEY she'll never turn down applause...

Nor will Soren. They are both the sort of people (and Pokemon) who like to preen. ]

haha thats ok sadkf I'LL BACKDATE FOREVER

[readytobe]

[Oh, Q T...now we are writing, still no picture. We're shy. But not shy enough to clap and run, at least.]

You are welcome. Thank you for sharing your performance with us.

You must be related to the child with the arrow tattoos. [Yeah, never actually got Aang's name. But Mewtwo thinks he's an ok dude.] Are you his granddaughter?

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[cilantro]

[You'll have some modest applause from Cilan as well after the demonstration.]

That was wonderful--truly, this is an impressive taste of your skills~! [For both of them, he means. It takes dedication to learn how to control the degree of power that your Pokemon have when it comes to using certain moves even though, oftentimes, the goal is to make their attacks as strong as possible. However, it's important to know how to hold back rather than going all out, too.]

I'm so sorry, my drive tanked right after this post, I'M BACK NOW

[breezing]

[ OH, SOMEONE SHE RECOGNIZES...And Cilan is talking like they're food again. He's silly. ]

Thanks, Cilan! We've been working on it for ageeeeeeees. Ever since last year, y'know? We were pretty bad at first, but we've gotten lots better!

it's okay I understand!

[cilantro]

[It's not silly, there is totally a logical reason to talk like that!]

Mm, I can tell. After all, it takes a good amount of practice and dedication in order to learn how to do something like that, so I'm glad to see that you and your partner have been working so well together!

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[risingwinds]

[Ven's mouth slowly slides open as he watches the feed. He had initially planned on commenting on the art club, but the musical chimes wipe such thoughts from his mind entirely, leaving him entranced by Ikki and Soren's act.

By the time they finish, Ven applauds, grinning to boot.]

Whoa, I didn't know you could use the air to do something like that! How long did it take you to figure out?

I'm so sorry, my drive tanked right after this post, I'M BACK NOW

[breezing]

Well, Loki made the balls up for me special, I think. They've always made the chimes and whistles, but I thought, well - why not make music from them? That was pretty fast, but back home there are lots of instruments you can play by bending air. I know how to do a few of them.