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Nikko laughed nervously and shrugged before shrugging his head. "Kind of. He gave me a few lessons, but stopped teaching me because he thought I couldn't be taught the proper style." He looked down at the water. "My mom had to go out and find scrolls of an old style, and she learned from the scrolls and taught me. That's why I have the weird style where my arms are way out when I fight." He explained to her. Paku had said some harsh words to him the last time they had met, and he doubted that the master of the the Nothern, now Southern Tribe would remember someone like him from so many years ago.

The style he always used was an old style, one that his mother found from a merchant. He was lucky it existed, as he would have not been able to waterbend properly if he hadn't.

He then nodded at Jaya. "Yeah. It shouldn't he hard at all to find warm clothes."

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Nikko continued to smile at Jaya's remark, and nodded in agreement. The earth kingdom really did have it easy. Yeah, they had the desert, but it was mostly uninhabited, with the exception of an oasis he heard about. Their entire civilization didn't exist in the roughest part of the country like the other Nation's mainly did. He looked over at Senge to see him huff, and laughed along with Jaya. He then looked at his friend and shook his head. "I haven't." He told her. "I've never been this far south. When I was with the nomads, we kinda went all over the place, slowly making our way south, but it was only recently that I've actually been heading south. Nobody I knew went down to my sister tribe, other than Mater Paku. I've spoken with him a few times, but I doubt that he'd remember me. The Northern tribe is a big place, and with all of the traveling, and moving down here, he's bound to have forgotten a few people here and there."

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Nikko laughed at her comment. People that lived in the earth kingdom had it rather easy. They didn't live on mountains like the Air Nomads did, they didn't live near or in some cases right next to volcanoes like the Fire Nation did, and they didn't live in the arctic like he once did. mountains, volcanoes, and high points, but still unlike the other nations. "Some people think we're nuts living in a place where snowstorms are common." He said with a smile, looking out into the waters as well. "You should be alright, so don't worry about it too much"

He looked out to the front of the boat, and just barely, he was able to see the large walls of snow that were protecting what he assumed to be the Southern Water Tribe. The designs on the walls looked like the ones that were on the North walls, but he knew that some people from the north, including Master Paku, traveled south to help the sister tribe. "We're just about there." He said happily.

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There had been a few times where Nikko forgot that Jaya had never been near the North or South pole, and had never seen things like Tiger Seals and even icebergs. He had seen those things all his life, but she hadn't He had looked at her like she was crazy, but then remember that this was all new territory for her. He smiled and laugh a little at her joke. "You'll get used to the cold in a little while, don't worry." He assured her.

He began to zone out, thinking about all of the things that he should show her once they hit land. It wasn't until only a moment after she spoke that he snapped back to reality. "Huh? Yeah, of course I miss it." He told her, looking off into the sky. "I mean, yeah, I didn't like how the chief did things, but I still had people back there. I had things that I liked to do, and it was home. I'm sure that you feel the same way about the Fire Nation."

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Nikko nodded. He had played some games with the Nomads every now and then, but they were nonsensical, and didn't really flow with logic. Personally, he believed that they group might have been mixing their water with cactus juice, considering their attitudes all the time, and since Nikko always got his own water and purified it, he wasn't as loopy as they were.

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Nikko was back in his arctic gear as he sat next to Senge. He felt almost at home with the cold weather and the warm clothes, and he was curious to see how his sister tribe was holding up. The North and South hadn't talking much at all during the war before Aang came along, and added with the fact that they didn't have any of their own waterbenders anymore, he believed that the tribe itself wouldn't be all that astonishing.

The young waterbender took a look at Jaya and smiled slightly. They had yet to tell anyone on the ship about where she came from. There was obvious worry about being thrown overboard, but Nikko was a waterbender, and he could simply make them a platform of ice and steer them to the Southern Tribe. Of course, it could take much more time since Senge would no doubt walk around, making it hard to balance, and he would have to stop every once and a while to take a break. There was also comfort, which they wouldn't have on a slab of ice traveling south at the pace of a slug.

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Nikko sat down in front of Jaya and took the cards that she dealt out to him. He wondered what game she had in mind, and sat quietly, collecting the cards given to him. He inspected them and held them in front of him. Whever game they were playing, he knew that it wasn't a good idea to show the other players your cards. "So." he said. "What game are we playing?"

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After Jaya hopped onto Senge, Nikko did the same and looked around as they made their way to where the ship. The North was closer to the Earth Kingdom than the South was, so he was sure that the ride there would be longer than the one that he took to get to the Earth Kingdom. Once they were on the ship, Nikko hopped off of Senge and took a look at the waters. He was used to the cold, but he still needed warmer clothes like everyone else.

Hearing Jaya, Nikko turned to look at her, and shrugged. "Not really. I slept most of the way to the Earth Kingdom. Then I ate, and slept a little more. It was a fairly short ride. but the one to the South will be longer, I'm sure."

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Nikko reached down to pull out some money for the clothes before Jaya stopped him, and was about to say something before niciting that she had more than enough money for what she was buying. He didn't understand why she was giving him money. Now she had even less than before. It didn't make sense to him, and he tried to argue and give the money back to her, but she told him not to, so he sighed and complied, putting the money in his pouch. He then followed Jaya outside, where Senge was still where they had left him. He weighed the options as he stood there. "I say we just head to the Southern Tribe" He said to Jaya. In truth, he wanted to head to the South so wee how much different it was, much more so than wanting to reveal Jaya's identity to the village. If things went bad, then they might not be able to get a boat ride. "But it's your decision as well, so what do you thing?

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"I guess so." Nikko shrugged. She could keep herself warm with her bending, but if it was anything like Water bending, then it would take a fair bit out of her to constantly bend fire, especially in the arctic cold. He then nodded to her. She could just bundle up whatever she had at the moment, and whatever she wanted to buy for now, and then get proper gear once they got to the south pole. He did have a passing thought about boiling water around them to keep them at least somewhat warm, but he knew that it wouldn't work. While Water Benders with a certain level of skill can freeze and boil water, it was nearly impossible to boil water in freezing conditions, and vise versa.

Nikko walked over to the counter and turned to look at Jaya. "Are you ready?"

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Nikko smiled at seeing Jaya tying up Senge in front of the shop that seemed to have some clothes for sale. Hopefully the hybrid wouldn't cause too much trouble if left alone for a few minutes, and without Nikko to keep him from doing anything he shouldn't. He looked down at Jaya and nodded, hopping off of Senge to join her on the ground. "Yeah. And If we don't find much here, there's bound to be stuff at the Southern tribe that we can get to keep you warm."

He followed Jaya into the store and looked around as he waited fort someone to point them in the right direction of the winter gear. It was a nice little shop, and Nikko turned to face the old man as he appeared. He then looked over at the corner where the small selection of winter gear was. Nikko walked to the corner and began to look at what they had. It was all mostly grey and brown, and not the traditional Water Tribe blue he was hoping to see. moving the thought aside, what they had seemed to be warm, but he wasn't really all that sure if it would hold up if they were to get caught in a snowstorm.