We could not make a compromise between us. It must be good but I had to make a change since it was given to me. I hardly think even Iroh knows fully what is going to happen even more so since he has not made his trip to the spirit world. At least I think he has not.

When I arrived at the coast, I saw that boat was ready for leaving.

I made my final goodbyes and left the south pole. To our surprise serpent back in the air temple was waiting for us to pass. I think all animals can see us coming since the snow turns black when we are close. At least fire nation can not make surprise attacks during their sailing trips. That is one of the largest reasons why Zhao got promoted. What he did was considered as impossible. Sadly, we know it was staged.

Our first fire nation colony gave us sudden news. It seems during our tribe fire nation army attacked the Ba Sing Se. They managed to take over one part of the outer ring. This causes large famine back there but they were repelled. It seems like Lu Ten managed to survive since he was criticized for retreating too quickly. There are in fact many proves of it but they do not know about the Dai Li. He must have been cautious of earthbenders since he had met me. The outer ring is made from commoner benders without training so the power difference inside the walls must be large. He must have felt concerned about slow-fighting talent going toward him.

I am glad he survived.

(I think I will leave you behind. I am going home. I will go back my thing and go.) I went without telling anyone since I think they had to bring me back. For that reason, I wrote these words on paper.

I took serpent and flying lemur with me or more likely they just followed me. Is there a reason why animals follow humans? I can understand lemur but why would serpent follow?

I seriously should name them. I think something like Levi from leviathan since Jörmungandr does not make any sense.

(Do you like the name, Levi?) I clearly liked it. Seriously do they understand our words. Who is claiming we are the most intelligent animal if we can be considered as one? Back on earth dolphins were considered more intelligent by some. Well, we might no be since there is many being who can talk in this world.

Let´s just forget that part. What should I call the lemur? I got nothing. Momo was called Momo since it means apple. I do not remember what language it was. In any case, I do not know what any name means here. It was a lot of work to find what my name means. There is no internet here which I could use to find out.

I should make the name to hold.

I cannot since he is waiting for my answer. I should not have named Levi.

Something. Anything. Hurry. Seriously. Nothing. I cannot name him titiuu since Moomin did so. Hurry up and say something that is not “something”.

(Bolin.) I am a bad person. I am simply horrible. And he likes it. This could not be any worse.

Good thing no rain hit us.

By the next day, I managed to arrive at Gaoling.

Earth rumble arena is having a fight.

That came as surprise. I remember the first earth rumble was about to start when I left this place. I do not think there has been a year yet. Well. It does make sense since fighters could not gain their full salary by one fighting day per year. There must be many fights year by year.

Notice even tells that this is the fourth time this event was made.

Should I fight there? I might meet Toph or Yu since one of them might be a contestant and the other is a sponsor.

No. Fu might become angry if I become part of it. I might better visit him first if I want to do so.

Three days later during the earth rumble.

(Welcome to earth rumble. Today we are going to make this special. As a celebration, we are going to celebrate the fire lord´s death. For this happy news, we are giving a reward of a hundred gold to the winner. I hope this will motivate everyone to try beating our raining champion. This is going to be or nothing challenge. Everyone can enter for small payment until only one is in the ring. Every volunteer should know you will not get your money back if you do not manage to stay inside the ring or you did not manage to enter inside soon enough. No hard feeling after the fight. As for during the fight, all hard feelings are allowed. Everyone ready for this come to that corner for paying your part.) Fu

It is going to be interesting if nothing else.

During the show, the arena was hardly even a few are. Know thanks to my help ring is closer to one hectare. It hardly can manage with a dozen contestants but it will give one hell of a show. No matter what, I am not going to go. I will stay watching for now. I doubt Fu will just let one lucky person take money no matter how bad his reputation comes to be.

To no surprise it was madness. Everyone's throwout was full of teeth marks and bruises. It is strange that I enjoy watching this. It must be because I have experienced life and death battles during the desert trip. That was over a year ago. I am surprised I have no PTSD signs. It might be because I have not seen anyone dying.

It was a surprise Azulon died. Not really but this shows he died naturally since Iroh became the next Fire lord. I seriously should concentrate to fight.

There is a clear difference between the two groups. Those who are in the center and those who are close to the border. Everyone's week was centered in the middle to avoid being thrown out. As for the strong. They were confident to survive no matter where they were. That is a very earthbender way of thinking.

I could finally see Toph and Yu. Toph was a contestant and Yu was in the betting hut. It seems like he knows her skills but keeps it a secret. Smart.

I chose to go to my uncle.

(Who are you betting on?) Shamo

Yu turned around to see me. I think he could not recognize my voice. Although he recognizes me immediately when he saw me.

(We can talk later. Let´s just watch. I have not seen anyone earthbending in close to a year. This is a welcome surprise to me.) Shamo

(No. We can not put this later. When did you arrive?) Yu

(One young girl was thrown out.) Shamo

(What!?) Yu

It was not Toph naturally. My uncle was looking at me angrily but I had the feeling he had missed this.

The fight continued until there was only Toph left. Naturally. Fu would not let the thing go easily. It will not cause harm since Toph wants to fight rather than the money.

(You have the final chance to fight the blind bandit.) Fu

(I will.) Shamo

Naturally, I wanted to meet her especially.

She did not recognize me since I had boots made from wood. It sure makes my bending more difficult but I wanted to do it this way.

I choose to make our fight identical to Toph versus Fu. In other words, I sent multiple rocks by kicks. She did return my attacks with the counterattack with half of her dome. I jumped sideways and pushed my hand to the earth and sent rock toward her. She easily dodged and sent a counter. She was confident of her victory. Sadly, I had a plan.

I made a dome half-circle us while I was in the air. She could not have noticed this since it was her attack and bending was done in the air.

It blocked the attack and went directly toward her. She notices this sudden difference and managed to dodge underground.

I do not know where she is. I have no answers to seismic sense. I could not feel any vibrations. I had to kick my boots away.

I could feel she knew who I was. I think I made her even more serious.

I think I need to end this with the next attack.

Toph´s hands came out directly under me and buried me to my neck. Normally I would have turned ground around me to armor but that will not work against her.

I choose to put all my power into my legs and I jumped out. She will attack me a moment I land which will not give me chance to counter-attack but it does give me a chance.

Like I said. I used all my power toward my legs which causes them to be useless. I doubt I could even stand. For that reason, I am going to use Toph´s future advice. I am going to face it head-on. Literally. My attack caused the ring to break into four halves. Since I was in the middle of it, I could manage to stay inside it. Fortunately, Toph did not manage to do the same.

(Great to see you again.) Shamo