fandomhigh | How to Blow Things Up: Class 6 Period 2

As ~~handwavily~~ advised, the class met in the Danger Shop. Aly was waiting for them there, tossing a clay ball from hand to hand.

"Morning everybody," she said with a grin as the class assembled. "Today we're talking about magical explosives. I have a few here and then a few of your classmates have agreed to demonstrate their abilities."

"First, however, I want to let you know that together with Deadpool's Mercenary class and Yondaime's Ninhaing class, we're going to go on a camp out over the weekend to play with what we've all learned and generally have a good time. I'll have more information for you later today or tomorrow, but it's something I hope everyone will have fun with."

She held up the clay globe she'd been tossing around. "This is blazebalm. It's a magical explosive from my world. Upon contact with air or water, it'll immediately explode. Thus the clay protection. It's a fairly strong explosive, not quite on the category of, say, C4, but stronger than your typical grenade." Aly turned and tossed it into a wooden trunk. About a second later, the box exploded in a fireball of trunk. "You can also trigger the blazebalm with magic if you have the Gift. We blew up a city's ports with it once." She grinned. "Good stuff."

Aly moved over to another shelf, this one filled with clay pots. "Over here, we have a slightly different type of explosive. This one's referred to as sorcerer's fire. It's a bit similar to this world's napalm only made with magic and much, much more volatile. These pots are spelling to keep it from igniting, but any bit that comes out of the pot - or spills - or leaks through a crack will automatically catch on fire and set anything it touches on fire as well. Clothes, skin, stone, wood, anything. Which, as you can imagine makes it a very dangerous if deadly weapon."

"And finally a few of your classmates have volunteered to show a few different ways they've learned to create explosions and - ah - chaos. But I'm going to let them speak for themselves on that one. You can all try these two out, continue to be careful with them. We're in the Danger Shop, but these are still weapons. After that, find a partner or two and see what you think about the magical explosives. Better? Worse? Completely unfair?"

[OOC: My abject apologies for getting this up so late. I was unexpectedly away for a bit of the morning and then my brain wouldn't cooperate. 'Sorcercer's fire' is 'wizardfire' from Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. ~~Please wait for the~~ OCD is up. Thank you SO MUCH to Zuko, Rikku, and Ronan for volunteering to demonstrate! *squishes all three of you*]

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"I don't," Zuko growled right away. "And I don't want to settle. I'm not building a life here!"

So that was it. "Having a friend - or someone who's more than a friend doesn't mean you're building a life," she said softly, stroking her necklace. "You're not pledging to anything."

"It is," Zuko argued straight away. "My uncle might think it will distract me, but he's wrong."

"If it's not going to distract you, where's the harm in it?" Aly asked.

Stupid logic. He scowled at Aly. "There's no point. She doesn't... I haven't... It doesn't work like that!"

It was tempting to ask 'why not' but knowing Zuko, it seemed like a bad idea to give him the opening to rage.

"You haven't what?"

Zuko wasn't blushing. Why would he? "Doesn't matter!"

And the blush more than gave the point away. It wasn't actually the point she'd expected him to be worrying about, but she was so not pushing it.

"Ah." She was a bit lost for words as she tried to escape being inappropriate and still give him some advice. "It can really work any way you want it to."

"I don't want it to work!" Zuko shot back automatically. "There's nothing to work. She thinks I'm a jerk anyway!"

Aly didn't believe any of what Zuko was telling her.

"I see," she said, watching him carefully. "Thus the insanity."

"She doesn't need me to be insane!" Zuko argued. Yes, he was flailing.

She stared at him for a second, trying to follow his 'logic.'

"No, I can't see why she'd need that."

Zuko wasn't really following anymore either. "Girls are crazy," he repeated.

"So you tell me," she said with a smile. "Anything in particular bring this up?"

Zuko was wondering which part of the conversation she missed. Yes, he thought his explanation had been crystal clear.

"Mel."

"I assumed Mel," Aly replied. "That's why I asked thing not one."

"She's pissed because I refuse to settle," Zuko grumbled.

"Ahhhh," Aly didn't quite believe that that was the way of it. "Perhaps it's not the wisest thing to tell a girl that you think she represents 'settling.'"

"She was too busy storming out of the room to say anything!" Zuko objected.

"Sometimes you have to go after someone," she said gently.

"Why?"

Yes, he did just ask that.

"Because you didn't get a chance to clarify? Because there was a misunderstanding? Because you don't actually want her thinking you're a jerk?" Aly offered, leaving off the possibility that you'd go after someone because you cared about them.

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