Arcus, Viona, and Finna quickly picked up the pace from a trudge to a heavy run as the sand shark was gaining on them and fast. "Mother of the Avatar!" Arcus quickly turned around and began to sandbend the surrounding sand when all of a sudden the Sand Shark's fin pierced Arcus' rib cage and causing a splatter of blood to run across the sand. Arcus coughed up blood and fell to the ground as he managed to finally trap the Sand Shark. "Arcus!" Finna ran over to Arcus and began to heal his wound." "Oh no this is bad." "What is it!?" "Arcus was poisoned and is having trouble breathing; I can extract the poison but I don't know how long he's going to be able to survive without proper treatment." "What ingridents do I need?" "I don't know if you're going to be able to find it in the desert but I'm going to need cactus juice, the moon shade flower and grains of iron sand from the east nile river." "I'll go searching right now. You better keep my brother alive that's all I know!" "You know I'll take care of him." Arcus coughed again and quickly Finna turned him to his side easing his pain just a little bit. "If you want your brother to survive, go now!" Viona quickly ran to find the indgridents. "Huff, Huff! Damn this takes alot out of me." As Viona reached a high point, she could see a Moon Shade flower under a rock formation. She slid down the sandy hill and picked the Moon Shade and put it in her bag. That's when she was suddenly attacked by a mysterious figure black flames landed near her. She quickly dodges the flames and looked around, she saw a figure wrapped in sand bender armor/clothing their face was fully covered. Viona quickly shot fire back in their direction. The mysterious black firebender quickly surrounded themselves in a vortex of black flames. (Damn it, where did he go?) Viona looked around frantically then she thought back to her training.
3 months earlier...
"Viona, when it comes to tatics and combat you're well versed but you rush in head first and you make mistakes and your bending forms get sloppy. Now I know you're used to your brother seeing enemies you can't see with your own eyes. But I'm going to teach you a technique..." "A technique for what?" Interrupted Viona. "A technique using the advanced fogotten forms of firebending. This technique will allow you to see and sense the heat signatures of an opponent when they have escaped your field of view." "That sounds badass!" "Yes it is pretty badass but it takes concentration and until you master it to a point where you don't need to concentrate but are able to do it on command you are to do it under no circumstances unless you have your brother there to protect you..."
Back into the present...
"Forgive me Arcus, but if I don't do this now I cannot save you." Viona closed her eyes and began to breathe in and out slowly taking in the heat from the sun, the surrounding heat around her and inside her body concentrating on the image of the mysterious black firebender's black flame heat and she opened her eyes just as the black firebender reappeared behind her and she quickly reacted taking the sweat from her body and used it as a whip stopping them in their tracks and they quickly jetted away mid attack.
(This girl isn't half bad but, she hasn't seen nothing yet.) The black firebender quickly skidded in the nearby sand and causing it to heat up and turn into glass they shot shards of glass and engulfed them in a white hot fire. "Shit this is bad." Viona quickly raised a small water shield trying to stop the shards but one made it through as it cut her cheek she winced in pain as the seering hot pain engulfed her body. (Now it's time to end this.) The black firebender began to close the palm of his hand into fist and Viona yelled out in pain as she felt her body intensely burn and she crumbled to the ground writhing in agony and screaming in pain.
"Forgive me for what I'm about to do. But you are trespassing on my territory and I haven't heard from Ichi in awhile." (Wait a second was that sand shark that attacked us...Was that his pet?") That's when a giant spirit knocked the black firebender off the rock formation sending him flying. "VIONA!" Finna quickly slid down the sandy slope to Viona's side and began to treat her wounds and extract some of the glass particles from her body.
"Wha-what are you doing here you're supposed to be taking care of Arcus." "Arcus is fine now that sand shark we came across wasn't trying to hurt us but it was..." "Protecting it's home and it's bestfriend." "Yeah how did you know?" "The black firebender told me." "It's a rare albino sand shark that's body is filled with poison luckily it's mother's spirit came and told me how to cure Arcus." "So you're saying what I was doing wasn't going to help?" "It would've stopped the poison but not completely eradicate it from Arcus system it's not a complete antidote without the saliva of the sand shark blood line." "So the mother gave you her spirit saliva." "Yeah." "Gross." Viona said weakly chuckling. "Try not to move or laugh you're too weak right now." "Just let me handle the rest from here." Finna whistled and the oasis spirit came to her aide.
"You summoned me child? What is it that you want?" "I need you to look after Viona for me while I handle the black firebender." "A simple and mediocre task. I'll do it but you know I signed a contract with you to do healing not baby sit." "That's why you're my bestfriend Queen of the Nile." Finna said giving her a wide grin. The Queen of the Nile blushed slightly out of embarrassment and quickly turned to helping Viona. "Just be careful young princess." (Princess..?) "Aren't I always Cleo?" The black firebender stood back up and looked down at Finna and growled in annoyance as that was a cheap shot. "YOU THERE, GIRL! WHO ARE YOU?" "My NAME IS FINNA, PRINCESS OF THE SPIRIT WORLD!" "WELL PRINCESS I GUESS IT'S TIME I INTRODUCED MYSELF PROPERLY ASWELL!" "MY NAME IS SHIROI HONO! I AM THE WHITE FLAME SAGE HIDDEN IN DARKNESS!"