Water Tribe Market

@[W] Yixing Hansol waved his hands in a gesture as if to say 'It's alright,' he chuckled lightly, "Nah, it's fine. I probably frightened you anyway." Absorbing the question that the other had asked, he bit his lower lips lightly, Hmm... In fact, he did know a place... Before he could even question himself, words spurt out from his mouth, "Of course, we could maybe go to the mountain side. I know an empty temple where we can practice in peace." he offers, before silently cursing to himself. That had always been his secret hiding spot, his sanctuary that he escapes to for a moment of peace to forget all of his worries. And now giving it away seemed almost like releasing a dark secret.

He sighed softly, before his head snaps up realizing that the other had asked him about something else. "Uh... wait... what?" he smiles sheepishly while scratching the back of his neck, his eyes turning up in crescents, "I'm sorry. What were you saying?"

@[W] Hansol "Yeah... well I couldn't exactly ask anyone to teach me." Yixing laughed gently, playing with his fingers. "I'm sorry I froze you over too by the way." He gave a soft chuckle, watching the water the other was manipulating quietly. "Yeah that sounds like a good idea... do you know anywhere?" Yixing but his lip. "Out here behind the glacier was the best I could think of."

"Mmm..." Smiling shyly at the other, Yixing rubbed his hands together, eliminating the frost off his knuckles before shuffling himself over to the other. "So Hansol... it's been awhile... what have you been up to?"

@[W] Yixing Just realizing the words that had just popped out of his mouth, he was just about ready to smack himself in the face. "I er...." he hesitated a bit before continuing, "J-just don't tell anyone please." he speaks at a hushed tone, hoping the other would just eventually forget what he had just said. "Oh, you taught yourself? That's quite impressive." he smiles lightly, "Definitely! Maybe..." he quickly glances around at his surroundings, "At a safer... private place though?"

Hansol nods along as the other continues to explain his 'type' of waterbending, "Well that's quite impressive." he nods again, melting the column with the smooth swipe of his hand. "Liquid is still my forte." he grins, swirling the liquid in circular movements.

@[W] Hansol "I-I..." Yixing flushed, playing with his fingers. He didn't like to admit it, it made him embarassed....and scared. He had so much power, he was worried he'd misuse it one day...Or someone would make him do so. "I suppose it makes it all the more important...to keep it a secret." He murmured, kicking his boot through the snow. "I'd rather be executed if someone found out...but I'm too strong for someone to do that."

"You were taught by your father?" Yixing tilted his head, curious now. That meant that Hansol's father new of his bending ability...and possibly then, was a bender himself. "That explains our different methods then.... I thought myself... S-some from a scroll I found, most just.... making it up. Mainly the ice.." He smiled a little sheepishly, glancing up at the other again. "Sure I'd like to trade techniques! If you trust mine that is... I just... made it up. My ajhumma, used to tell me about the earth benders, when I was youngers. They stomp a lot, and have really harsh movements. S-so I thought..." he flushed a little, still shy on explaining this all to someone, he wasn't used to talking about his bending. "If I made my bending movements, still in the water ships, but a bit harsher. It would help, because ice is a solid....." he smiled a little, before giving an example by drawing up a column of ice. "it at least works for me..."

@[W] Yixing "Don't lie to me." A slight smirk came upon Hansol's lips as he tilted his head to the side. He could practically feel the energy that the other was pouring into his bending, it definitely was strong, the strength of his power surprising him how he had managed to carefully conceal and be able to control the ability so well. He grinned once again, chuckling as he walked closer to the other, "But our methods are different."

After a moment of watching the other demonstrate his skills, another smile spread on his face, which was now enlightened with awe, "I can tell." He adds with a short nod, "As for me, I'm stronger with liquid form." He chuckles lightly as he encircles his plan with the liquid sphere, "But then again, I was taught by my father." He turns to focus on the ice columns that the other had formed, "Maybe you could help me with ice and we could trade techniques like that?" He offered, yet another smile on his lips.

@[W] Hansol Yixing's shifting methods were a little different to Hansol's, he remained aware, eyes focused and solid and instead he would roll his muscles through the traditional bending movements, year long almost dance like moved which controlled the foll of his bending to perfection. He'd found an old waterbending scroll when he was younger, and it had definitely become his most prized posession. "I'm n-not /that/ strong" Yixing stuttered shyly, ruffling his hair in a nervous manner. He'd never bended with anyone watching before, he hoped he could survive under the pressure.

And so, at the other's request, Yixing turned, deciding just to take up his practiced sequence of movements to show the other the basics of what he could do. Water to ice, ice to water, up down, in shapes and whips. Huge columns of water swirling around, and Yixing smiled. He loved connecting to the water in this way. However it did become evident, that although he was good at shifting water, it was ice where his talent really lay.

He smiled shyly, an orb of the cold substance rolling around his hand to keep him amused. "I-I'm better with ice... I don't know why, that usually favours the northern tribe.... or so I've heard."

@[W] Yixing "Of course I-" he cuts himself of before continuing, "Yeah, I thought I was the only one too..." he admits, tugging on his edge of his sleeve anxiously. He truthfully didn't know how to react, the fact that they had been hiding the same secret ability, and yet he didn't know until now. A faint smile appears on his face, "Yeah, do it again."

He guides with the smooth movement of his hand, causing the liquid to glide towards the other, "I only just got here." he explains quickly, the sparkle in his eyes filled with wonder, "Show me what else you can do." he grins lightly, letting his hands hang down to his sides, as he guides half of the liquid away, towards himself. Bringing up his hands to receive the sphere of water, he concentrates, bringing his energy together as he closes his eyes. The world turns black, his personal sanctuary of peace where he could finally focus on himself and the liquid itself. This was his way to waterbending, blocking out everything else until there was only him and the familiar element. That way he could sense and see the water's movement.

Once he opens his eyes again, he offers the other a shy smile, "And I didn't know that you were /that/ strong."

@[W] Hansol Yixing was utterly terrified that this intruder would spill his secret, get him sent to the fire nation to avoid them rampaging their city. Stealing their food. But when he glanced up from under his bangs again, his hands fell a little, surprise caking over his facial features. "H-hansol?" He asked doubtfully, hardly believing out of all people it was him who was there.

Yixing let out a short squeak after, panicking cause the water was moving without him controlling it and that was when his eyes widened even furthering, boring into Hansol because he thought he was the only one. "Y-You can bend too... I-I....." he stuttered involuntarily, watching the water swirl around thanks to hand which was once wasn't his own. He lowered his hands then, hanging them by his sides, because he knew that he was now, just as much of a threat to Hansol, as Hansol was to him. "I thought I was the only one..."

After all these years, all the years of playing together, and they'd both been hiding the same secret, fearful of what the other would do when really, they were both in the same boat. Yixing burst into laughter, pressing his hands into his cheeks. "By the great gods, when? Since.... practically as long as I can remember. Since when we used to play together. "Do it again?" Yixing asks quietly between his chuckles. "Do what again? How long have you been standing there?" Yixing flushed a little after that, surprise turning to amusement turning to embarrassment in all of fifteen seconds. "H-How much did you see?"

@[W] Yixing Hansol only stood there in utter shock. Of course, he had been good friends with Yixing since when they were little, but as they grew older they sort of drifted apart. Once he had caught sight of the other in the village, he had mustered up enough courage to finally speak to his old friend. But just as he approached the other, the male dashed off. Argh, terrible timing, he mumbled to himself, his steps picking up as he trailed after the other.

The had nearly lost the dark-haired one in the crowd, until he had managed to dodge under a new venders and follow the other in a blinded chase. But what he hadn't expected was when the other began to waterbend. Instantly, his breath had gotten stuck in his throat, his eyes widening and jaw dropped wide open. Of course, his initial reaction was in awe by the other's surprisingly strong skills, but only the fact that he didn't know that the other could even waterbend in the first place was quite surprising. Without knowing, he had accidentally stepped on a small stick, and before it knew it he was frozen in ice.

It took him a moment to process the events, as with his frozen body, his mind seemed to be frozen as well. He blinked rapidly, before releasing himself from the icy cage, using his own skills to melt the ice and form a long water serpent. "O-of course not." he stuttered, his hands fluttering together as he controls the swirling liquid to calm his nerves. "I-I just thought that you couldn't... weren't able to... but." he lets out a deep breath, "I promise not to tell anyone Yixing. But since when...." his voice trails off as he gawks at the hovering liquid off to his side, "Do it again."

Yixing was on edge as he flitted about the marketplace, for hours he had been trying to focus his mind on the groceries and other supplies at hand. There were all kinds of winter vegetable and dried meats, all looking enticing and in good condition for tonights dinner, but everytime Yixing reached out to examine one he had to draw his hand back quickly, glancing around to ake sure no one had seen the layer of frost that had swept out from his palm.

He'd been holding it in for days, but the healer's bending energy was building up and if he didn't let some of it out soon, he knew he was going to unleash a tidal wave on everyone. So with another fearful glance around, Yixing ditched his shopping experiences in favour of running out the marketplace, down and around until he was out of sight and surounded by ice. There Yixing could practice freely.

Bending was a talent no longer desirable by the water tribe, no that it was considered bad, just that if you were discovered to have bending abilities, the fire nation would snatch you up before you even get any good. That wasn't the case with Yixing.

Ever since he had accidentally caught the water he tipped out his glass one morning, he'd been insanely careful to keep his talent hidden. No one knew of his abilities, not his mother, not his grandmother, not the other healer or any of his friends. It was a secret Yixing was willing to die with, because he was too strong. The fire nation wouldn't kill him if they discovered his talent. He would be placed into an army, and being a healer that was entirely against everything Yixing pledged for.

The dark haired boy let out a soft sigh as he cleared his mind, feet burried in snow and eyes coated in reams of black strands. Slowly, as the concentration came, he began to move, following through the movements that channeled his ability. Slowly ice began to form, jutting upwards, striking forwards, doing what it was told with extreme precision and incredible force, ice through water through to ice. Swirling, attacking like a whip, making blocks, and cubes, spheres. Calling up huge collums of whater and then making it snow down in intricate snowflakes....

Suddenly, the crunch of a branch made Yixing spin around, hands outstretched as he coated the intruderin ice, leaving them free from only the neck up. His worst nightmare had happened, and from their outstretched state Yixing's hands began to shake. Everyone from the market place knew he couldn't hurt a fly, so threatening him was useless...... So Yixing just merely closed his eyes, holding the ice in place.

"P-Please don't tell anyone.."