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There was a time to get sick. There was a time to bemoan the things that seemed like empty spots in her head. and there was time to sleep and dream of times that were better (or have nightmares of worse times too). But when these times passed, and eventually that was the case, there was nothing left to do but go back to what you were best at, and refine it to make it your own. Going to the podpop had been a start, and Katara capitalized on it the next day. A visit to the Sensorium and the scenery changed: she was at the desert lands they'd been left to brave after the library sunk and Appa had been captured. There was no gang here though, just miles and miles of sand and heat bearing down on her. To Toph and Aang, she was sure these circumstances were unpleasant, but to her and Sokka specifically, it had been alien and frustrating (it had helped Sokka that he was strung out on Cactus juice and she was fixated on keeping the group together at the time). She had also made sure there would be no water nearby, and so her pouch was also gone.

The morning was spent in quiet meditation on the sands. Her mind was full of questions and brimming with thoughts, but she momentarily displaced them from her mind. She was uncomfortable, sweaty and hot, but stayed in deep meditation, moving from time to time so she wouldn't cramp up. Once she'd seen the sun position itself to indicate noontime, Katara rose, and her attire was that of her firebending disguise: she would need it.

The exercising in the Weirding way, however, required targets, so the desert was now strewn with several dummies. Here Katara incorporated her Bene Gesserit martial art with that of the training she'd practiced in Will's gym: she catapulted herself upward, struck with deadly precision and then rolled into a new defensive stance, ready for the next attack. It had been awhile since Katara incorporated her waterbending flexibility with the Weirding way, and truthfully it was seldom Katara practiced the art, fully aware (thanks to deadly robots) how damaging it could be. She bent her legs a bit and brought her arms up again, using her force against the dummy and knocking it backward with what looked like minimal effort. She knew it would be awhile before she was an expert in the Weirding Way, but that was more than reason to practice, with all they had encountered.

When she had worked up a definite sweat, she went back to the flexibility part: she flipped, jumped, turned several times in the air and, on her back, curled her legs upward and leapt back to position. She was stinky and definitely perspiring, but that was easily taken care of if she decided to turn the Sensorium into a spa, not that she was in a big hurry to do so.

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It WAS a lot like Nanoha and Fate, but the smaller girl was replaced by one that looked older, and in a new outfit no less. It was one thing to fight: Katara had seen plenty of strong people in battle. Seeing someone become older before your eyes was fairly new to her, and she couldn't help but gawk a little.

"Um, sure!" Katara said, still stunned.

Part of her was hesitant to turn and start sparring with Katara - she didn't look ready, especially with what she saw. Instead, she went for the dummies Katara had set up and began her attack. What resulted was a barrage of punches and kicks, slightly increased by her own magic. Since there was no one to really attack her, she didn't care for defensive measures at this point.

She finished her routine by sending one of the dummies flying with the 'Rainbow Kick' attack she developed during the Nightmare King incident.

"Hee... well... how's that?" Vivio asked, grinning a bit.

Katara nodded, clapping happily. "That was great!" She said happily. "I'm sorry I looked so surprised: I'm still getting used to the way you guys transform. To be honest, I never saw your mother's do it: I just walked in and saw them fighting. But you really are strong! I'd love to see your strength in action!"

She smiled. 'It can be arranged, actually...I'm sure I can cook up something if you want! That way we can both show our strength and get some practice."

"Really?" Vivio asked, tilting her head slightly. "How could we do that?"

In her mind, though, Vivio was curious to see Katara in action again. Who knew? Perhaps the two of them could spar...

"Well, it IS the Sensoriums, right?" Katara said. "Give me a moment, I'll see what I can come up with." She closed her eyes. She didn't want to start off with something too strenuous that Fate and Nanoha would want to kill her later form, but she was also not going to insult Vivio.

A minute later, the scenery changed. They were in the swamp now, and though it was quiet, Katara would change that momentarily. She WAS planning to have Vivio spar against Huu and his swamp monster, but noticed the look on the girl's face.

"Oh, I'm sorry! Did you have someone in mind that you wanted to fight?"

"Huh? Oh, no! I'm fine with what you had in mind!" Vivio said. "Though... is this a swamp? What would we fight here?"

She... probably didn't know what she was getting into.

Before she could answer, a huge viney hand came toward them, and Katara leapt out of the way, sure that Vivio would follow suit. Although she knew who had originally maneuvered the monster, for safety sake Katara removed Huu from the reins so it was just the swamp monster (http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/File:Hue-003.jpg) they were dealing with. Katara looked over at Vivio, giving her a thumbs up.

"Think we can handle this guy?"

As the hand approached them, Vivio followed suit, leaping out its way. The girl couldn't help but blink at what she was seeing - this came from Katara's world?!

When she heard Katara's question, she turned back, smiled and returned the thumbs up.

"You bet!"

And with that, Vivio raced towards the creature, delivering a powerful punch to its face.

The vine monster growled and shot its hands out, attempting to knock Vivio's advancing punch and bat her away. The annoying thing was, while the monster actually had a face, hitting it would do nothing. The damage to the monster would mostly come from tearing at it limb to leaves, and that was why Katara was not choosing her BG martial arts to fight it.

Instead, she took a deep breath and brought a wave from the water, surfing toward it and using the water as a whip, going at one of its enormous arms. It roared and shot out a massive arm to attack her, leaving him vulnerable for an attack by Vivio.

Vivio let out a yelp as her initial attack was stopped and she was knocked aside. This was going to be the Trash Knight all over again, that's for sure.

As Katara distracted the beast, Vivio used the opportunity to strike back again, using the other form of the Rainbow Kick to unleash a wave of magical energy at the beast.

The beast roared at the attack, choosing to turn and go toward Vivio now, throwing one of its heavy, viney arms toward her. Katara was moving too fast for him, but that didn't mean that he wasn't going to attack her too. It sunk the other into the water, and now seaweed burst from the water, knocking Katara off her feet.

"Woah...!" Vivio shouted, twisting and contorting her body as she moved to evade the beast's attack. As she did, she watched as Katara was knocked off her feet. Pushing off, the mage-in-training flew towards the waterbender, moving to catch her before she hit the water.

"I gotcha!" Vivio shouted, reaching out to catch her.

Katara was grateful for the save, and bounded back on her feet, her teeth gritted and determined. "You take one side, I'll take the other!" Katara said. She was sure that Vivio would have noticed that while the swamp monster was very big and very powerful, it was also slow and easily confused. It was something that they could use to their advantage.

Katara zipped toward the swamp monster on one side, throwing some water up gradually until she thundered down on him with a powerful whip. the beat roared and started coming at her, completely unaware it was leaving itself wide open.

With Katara distracting it, Vivio used the time to set up another spell, this time more familiar with Nanoha than one of her own. Allowing magic to form in her hands, she thrust them out at the beast, shouting "Divine... BUSTER!"

The massive burst of magical energy would probably tear a good chunk out of the swamp monster...

Katara smiled when she heard the spell: she was sure she'd heard Nanoha use it before, and it was no less impressive when Vivio unleashed the attack. The monster, not used to this sort of attack, shrieked in pain, parts of it still smoldering as Katara jumped in the air, water in her hand, to deliver a devastating forward water slice to its midsection, cutting it in half. With no Huu actually controlling the monster, it fell to the water, beaten.

It was a move Katara would never use on a human if she could help it. She looked over at Vivio. "You know, you're as good as your mothers! You;re pretty powerful!"

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