First Flame 14

"So this is the Sun Warrior ruins huh?" Ty Lee hummed in interest, hopping out of the hot air balloon as soon as we landed and looking around curiously.

"Yep, this seems to be the place." I nodded, waving my hand and storing the war balloon inside my inventory.

"I thought it would be bigger, y'know?" Ty Lee shrugged, gesturing out over to the 'city' we were standing on the edge of.

And I couldn't blame her. Size wise, it would be lucky to qualify for a village. It was honestly just a square shaped settlement settled into a small indent in the land with natural walls surrounding it, and within it, a few hundred stone houses and other buildings that had seen better days leading up to a much larger building, that looked almost like a pyramid, built just like one, the only difference being it was missing the pointy tip and it just eased out into a small building structure at the top.

It was some weird ass design for sure. And our destination if the large pillar with what looked like a shining red gem in the middle was anything to go by.

"Yeah, it's not exactly all that impressive looking." I agreed.

"Not impressive for sure, especially considering this is where the first human fire benders were supposed to have settled, what a disappointment!" Ty Lee pouted, "The palace back in the Fire Nation capital is bigger than this place!"

Huh, it was that big? I mean, I know it was fucking huge considering the scope of Azula and Zuko's Agni Kai, but still, that was interesting. I mean, I still don't really have any interest in being Fire Lord, but it would make a decent pad to crash in, right?

"So where to then?" Ty Lee shrugged off her disappointment and asked with a wide smile.

I pointed up at the top of the pyramid-like structure, "Up there for now, though, you need to be careful going through here, there's a ton of booby traps." I warned.

"Well, we can just fly over it right? You have those fire jet things, and well, thanks to you, I can do this!" Ty Lee replied, smile turning beaming and holding her hand out, a moment later, a familiar little sphere appeared in her hand, "Come on out Buzzy!" my ever perky girlfriend cheered and the sphere glowed brightly, before turning into energy and forming into the familiar form of a large buzzard-wasp.

Which Ty Lee wasted no time on leaping up onto the back of and settling comfortably on it, despite how ugly the thing was, "Let's go Buzzy!" Ty Lee directed the half bird half insect to fly her through the air towards our destination.

On the way here, I'd given control of all my tamed beasts to her, to go along with the sparrowkeet. It wasn't really a big deal considering I could still summon them whenever I pleased as well, as long as she didn't already have them out and it gave her a lot more options if needed.

I mean, I don't need them at all, I'm just that badass strong. I more wanted to collect them for the novelty of having an army of monsters under my beck and call. Plus, each one raised my stats on taming.

Once I tame a Sea Serpent and a Badger Mole for Ty Lee to use, she'll be quite a force to reckon with I bet. Maybe I'll even tame the Unagi and then have her ride it into the capital and spank Ozai?

That could be fun too. So many ways own Ozai, but only one could win in the end, such a hard choice to make.

With a chuckle at the thought, I raced after my girlfriend, jumping into the air and blasting fire from my feet and hands to propel my rapidly into and through the sky towards my destination.

As it turned out, Buzzard Wasp's, are surprisingly fast in the air. Buzzy even more so considering the boost it got from my skill after being tamed.

It only took me like thirty seconds or so to reach the place, but by time I got there, Ty Lee was already on the ground, waiting for me.

Yet, even with such a little time and distance, I'd used up almost a quarter of my total chi. It would fully restore in a few minutes, but still. What a crazy draining technique, no wonder only Ozai was seen using it to its full potential, and only during Sozin's Comet.

I totally need more chi man.

"Who's a good boy, you are, yes you are!" Ty Lee was once again praising buzzy by stroking his buzzard-bug-eyed head, and the thing was leaning happily into her touch. She glanced at me as I landed, before patting the tamed beast one more time, "Right, time for a little rest Buzzy, thanks again!" she said, before with a thought, Buzzy turned into light once more and shot into her chest, disappearing inside her.

"So what do we do now?" she asked me, gesturing at the building we had landed in front of, the great big stone doors were wedged shut, "It's got a sun calendar, they only open up on the solstice when sunlight shines through the sun stone at just the right angle." she explained, pointing to a big red gem above the door, then to a dial system on the ground and then to the pillar I saw that had another red gem in it.

"You know quite a lot huh?" I pointed out.

"Heh," Ty Lee scratched her cheek, blushing slightly, "Like I said before, I'm flighty, not stupid. Besides, I did study at the Fire Nation Academy for Girls remember? That's only for nobles and it's a top tier education, well, beyond the classes that were just about praising how great the Fire Nation is."

She did say that before didn't she? And she took classes with Azula even. I've got a lot to say about that girl, but stupid isn't one of them, ignorance very much so, stupid, no.

Hell, I've got no doubts she's smarter than me, to bad she's too far up her fathers ass to put that intelligence to better use.