"Anybody??!?!"

[Heio Koko]

((First thread in Ba-Sing-Sae *dances*))

Heio easily dispatched another opponent with ease. 'God this is annoying, theres no one to fight... anyone who isnt easy to beat anyway...' Heio thought as he came apart from his battle stance. He hadn't even broke a sweat with these fools the arena called, 'Top Competitors'. Horasi walked calmy back towards him, having scared the other men away. "You have any fun?" Heio asked his friend. The lion just snorted in anwser and layed down. "Can anyone pose a challenge!?!?! Anybody?!?!"

He was in an arena with boulders everywhere, favoring earthbenders, and had a small pond on the north side of it.

[Lord Tyrone]

Tyrone appraoched the young man, and presented a bow. Dressed in commoner attire, Tyrone blended in perfectly, and looked as though he was just another lower class citizen of Ba Sing Sei. The cheiftan removed his coat and stepped back several feet, and as the wind began to blow, he took a deep breath and absorbed it's water molecules.

"I shall be your next opponent, show me what you've got." Tyrone said. He moved his feet slghtly apart, then raised his arms in an aggressive stance above his head, showing he was ready for battle.

[Heio Koko]

Heio gazed at the man who approached him, he was in commoners close but walked with a dignified state that showed he had some royal experience. 'Chances are he isn't some pushover, like the rest of them.' Heio thought, and when he saw how the man expertly pulled the moisture out of the air he smirked. 'THis is going to be fun!'

"I will." Heio stepped forward and punched two boulders towards his oppent that appeared from the ground. While his oppenent was dealing with the boulders, he put rock armour on Horasi, his 5'5 Armadillo lion.

[Lord Tyrone]

Tyrone flung his arms forward, which at first glance looked rather reckless. But as a large gust of ice-like wind shot out and blasted toward the rocks, it soon became clear to any onlookers that Tyrone was no slouch.
When the ice met rock, the merged together and continued heading toward Tyrone with alarming speed. Tyrone remained unfazed, simply raising his fists over his face and carelessly stood waiting for them to make contact.

"You will see my friend, it takes more than mere boulders to take me out!" Tyrone said.
The boulders of ice and rock met with Tyrone, and seemed to shatter before they even touched him. It appeared that Tyrone's ice was cold enough to make even the hardest rock brittle, and Heio would have to take the fight to the next level for any chance at a successful attack.

[Hori Kesa]

Heio waited for the man to react to his boulders, and saw that the man shot ice at them, which looked like it did nothing. 'He's a waterbender... but what did he think that was going to ......' Bewilderment was shown on Heio's face as his boulders exploded when they hit the so called 'commoner', after a moment of thing he knew what this man did, he froze his rocks so called that they would break on impact with anything.

"THat just makes it even better!" Heio yelled as he started to rush towards his opponent, and pulled out his trademark rock senbon needles. They weren't as sharp as metal ones, but he could guide them with his bending, surprising many of his opponents. He threw five of them and guided them slowly, so he could not see his control over tham at his torso. Asfe took a few more steps he pushed off on the ground making a pillar come under his opponent and threw another bundle of needles at the man.

[Lord Tyrone]

Tyrone smiled, and made a veil of ice, much like the walls of ba sing sei. Sturdy, thick and near impenetrable. The needles met with devastating force, hitting the wall, and sending outward forces of air and ice in all directions.

"Heh!" Tyrone chuckled, even such a formiddable attack such as that wasn't sufficient. But so far so good. Heio had proven he was a great bender, the question was, how long could he keep it up.

Tyrone seperated the wall of ice with the parting of his hands. It turned into water and dropped to the ground forming a puddle. Then raising one foot upward, he stomped the puddle, sending the puddle splashing toward Heio. As the attack began to draw closer, it froze into shotgun-like shards of ice, scattered nearly 3 feet wide.

Although, it did not contain the power to kill or greatly harm the airbender. Tyrone did not want to do any real damage, just test, admire and toy with the guy's bending.

[Hori Kesa]

Heio flew through the air and saw his needles break the man's shield, but be shattered also. 'This made is obviously atleast a advanced bender, probably a master. Heio pulled out all the needles he had from his pockets and created a small rounded shield about 1.5 feet across as man shot ice in a spread formation at him. Heio blasted the shield at the icicles- deflecting a third of them and started pulling up a boulder from under him to block the rest. As he and the needles grew nearer Heio started to sweat, 'Is it coming fast enough?' He thought as the icicles were only a few feet away. The icicles were only inches away from him when the boulder came under it and knocked them away.
Gravity started taking Heio down from his jump and he landed only a few feet away from his opponent. When he landed he built a pillar of rock in front of him and punchend it at Tyrone,

[Lord Tyrone]

Tyrone stood with confidence, with the pillar of rock only inches away. It seemed to be a formidable attack, far too powerful to counter the same way he had countered the last attack, especially with such little time to do so. Instead, in a graceful stance, he flung his arms apart, and pulled fourth from the air all the water he could muster in such a short amount of time. Then, with the water ready to be used, and less than a second left before contact with the rock would be certain, Tyrone Launched himself into the air, with a water spout, typhoon-like technique.

"Hahaha very impressive. I wasn't really sure if I'd make it out of that one!" He said, now hovering 9-10 feet off the ground. The pillar of rock made a thunderous crash, obviously colliding with something in the background.

[Hori Kesa]

Heio smirked at the man's comment. " That's good to know!" Heio crouched down quickly and punched the ground, grabbing a handful of earth in the process. He pulled his hand up and crushed ball of rock, making alot of small stones. He threw them up in the air and levitated them close together. THen he punched foward sending the ball at his opponent, with the rocks spreading out. All of those small stones could punch a a hole threw a man, making it very deadly.

"Try to dodge this one then!"