Living with the Avatar was a different life than any he had experienced so far. Instead of treating him like an insect or a toy, the Avatar treated him like a human being again. He received small daily meals during his training with her, and although she never answered any more of his questions about his own life, she often reassured him that his cause was one that maintained the balance of all universes. She would train him daily to harness the abilities he had unlocked through his cycle of reincarnation.

"You'll get more abilities the longer you exist. Your energy manipulation is only the tip of the iceberg." Kyoshi said before taking a bite of an apple, sitting beneath a large tree in the middle of the forest. She had her boots on, her fans tucked nicely into the wraps around her waist.

"Is there much more than you can teach me now?" Mathew replied, sitting cross-legged on a small leaf. He had a small berry on his lap covering his arousal, it was half-eaten at this point. He was covered in Kyoshi's sweat, his hair matted to the side of his body... It was all he could smell.

"You're as advanced as you're going to get at your current state." She replied, looking down to him as she chewed on her apple, "We still have a very long way to go before we get to Ba Sing Se. We have mountains to cross... I'm impressed that you've been able to stay beneath my toes so well every time I've worn you..."

"Honestly, I am too..." Mat said with a shy smile, setting the berry aside. "It's been two days already in the trip..."

"You've come quite a long way since we met, Transient... I can feel you absorbing the toxins from my body even as I walk. It's fairly soothing." Kyoshi replied, finishing off the last bite of her apple before she set it aside. The fruit leftovers would become food for the insects or animals in the area. She leaned forward in her seated position, pulling her right boot free and flexing her enormous toes. "Good luck."

Mathew chuckled as he stood up, his arousal covered in red berry juice. With a flick of Kyoshi's wrist, a small tornado of air appeared around Mat's legs and lifted him into the air. The little one was taken gently over to the mouth of her boot and lowered in slowly. He felt the temperature change from a moderate climate to a musky sauna as the wind gently took his naked little body deep into the cavernous footwear toward the toe section.

The light disappeared quickly as Kyoshi's bare foot slide into the boot after him. Her toes slid over his front, slipping his body faithfully into the crevasse beneath them. The Avatar flexed her digits, feeling Mat's little arousal find it's way between them. She didn't have to bend to torture him further, all she had to do was walk...

One foot in front of the other. Every time her foot would lift, Mat felt her slimy toes slide up his shaft... When it came down, the force came down once more pinning him deep into her flesh. Normally their sessions weren't this intense - She'd allow him to massage her foot, only bending water around his arousal until he started to lose control of his body before allowing him to rest and recuperate. He fed off of the toxins of people's body though, the negative energies he absorbed only made his body stronger and intensified the amount of soothing energy he could return to the torturer.

Step after step she took. Hours passed... Her sweat squished around Mat's ears as he tried his best not to slip beneath her footfalls - she was clear to him when he agreed to this training, that if he were to be beneath her, she wouldn't hesitate to crush him. Especially after he had learned all he did...

She wandered throughout the day down the path toward the tree-covered mountains, walking with purpose and shoulders held high. She was well aware of how he functioned, she was also well aware that she would have to kill him soon in order for his cycle to continue. After a few more hours of walking the sun began to slowly set over the horizon... Then, they appeared.

A man stepped into her path. He was just above half her height as she stood towering over him... He didn't appear to be very threatening to her, though he was bald - with the marking of a third eye on his forehead.

"May I help you?" Kyoshi said, stopping with her hands at her sides.

He didn't say a word. She could hear movement behind her as well, another man fitting his description stepped behind her and looked to her along the path. They were silent, and to a normal person they would both be imposing figures - but nobody was the same height as Kyoshi.

The man before her took a deep breath in, leaning forward and focusing. The man behind her began to do the same thing and her eyes widened. Quickly, she rolled to the right as the sound of superheated air ripping through the sky could be heard. Almost like a missile, the two combustionbenders blasted their shots directly at each other. When the beams of telekinetic energy met, it produced a large explosion. In her roll she grabbed her fans, extending both metal fans into their attack position as she sent a blast of air toward the man that was in front of her.

He jumped as the one behind her ran directly to her. The two faced off, trading blow for blow though the bald man could not land a single strike. Kyoshi was quick, deflecting every punch and kick easily before she landed her right foot directly into his chest. Mathew slipped from her toes in the kick, landing beneath the ball of her foot as soon as it connected to the man's sternum. The air was crushed form his lungs as her skin smashed into his body, forcing his head to the side and breaking several bones. She used a blast of airbending to send him flying back into a tree with the kick...

Kyoshi stepped back, not noticing the crunch she felt beneath her foot as she heard the sound of a blast beginning to rip through the air. She crouched quickly, bringing her fans up from the ground to launch the section of earth she stood upon into the air in the form of a pillar. The blast hit the pillar, immediately erupting into an explosion on contact. However, it only served to launch Kyoshi further into the sky. The moment the rock she was on began to fall, she brought her feet off of it and cocked her right fist back. With a mighty blow through the air, utilizing her earthbending she sent the rock directly toward the enemy that had fallen against the tree.

He dodged at the last second, rolling to the right. Kyoshi saw one of the combustionbenders begin to blast where she was to land... In order to avoid the blast, she pushed her fans down to create a tornado-like gust to propel her back into the air behind the one that dodged her air strike.

Mathew was still alive, his body broken beneath the ball of Kyoshi's foot as he felt her sweat mixing into his body. He gasped, screaming slightly ~ A year without pain or torment like this made him softer to it. His lungs filled with musky air as he choked down sweat, one of his eyes had already been crushed from it's socket. As she landed, he felt his body explode beneath her full weight... He flattened out into a small pelt nearly instantly, the enormous Avatar landing with all of her force on the ball of her foot with only airbending to slow her fall.

"Enough!" Kyoshi growled as she slammed her right foot into the ground, further smashing Mathew's body into her skin. She sent a pulse through the earth, sensing a large vein of lava beneath her position as the two men who attacked her ran to get into a good position to begin using their specialized bending skills against her once more.

Kyoshi slid her left foot back, bringing her fans up into a combat position as she entered the Avatar State. Shortly after she did so, energy began to swirl around her body from her boots all the way up to her chest. Both of her attackers began to bend at her once more, taking in a deep breath. She waited for a moment, sensing the blasts as they were coming and at the last moment she leapt into the air once more with the aid of the air.

The explosion ripped through the ground where she stood, though it was cleared by the time she landed. When she did though, she shoved her right fan deep into the ground to reach the vein of magma far beneath. She braced herself in a horse stance with both fans in her hand, using her might to bring the lava up from the ground before her. Her attackers ran at her, not knowing what was about to occur.

Lava sprung from the crack she had formed in the ground. It slid around her as though she were waterbending the substance, and as soon as she had it pulled from the ground she went up on her right foot. Her heel was lifted, Mat's body now the sole point of contact between the enormous Avatar in her combat state and the ground as she took a new stance.

He should have been dead... But he wasn't. He still felt everything... Every bead of sweat mixing with his crushed body, and every ounce of pressure applied by the Avatar.

"Leave in peace, or suffer..." Kyoshi growled, her two fans in a defensive position as the lava flowed around her. "I will not hold back. This is your only warning... If you do not retreat, You will perish."

They stopped in shock... She was lavabending, a very rare and advanced form of earthbending that not many could achieve. Kyoshi stood, one fan covering half of her face while the other was around her chest while the Lava spun around her. Rocks began to form around her as well, creating a helix of the two mixed elements as she stood waiting for the combustionbenders next move.

After a long stalemate between the two, they both returned to the shadows. Kyoshi sent pulses through the ground to watch them as they left, making sure that they were actually leaving. She hadn't forgotten about Mathew, she simply didn't feel him anymore. The little one had crushed beyond recognition during her fight, his body flattened beneath the point of highest pressure in her current stance.

"A wise decision..." She said softly, stepping back down. The lava around her slid back into the crack she had formed, and with a wave of her fan the path to the lava chamber below her was sealed once more. She sighed out gently as she closed her fans, sliding them into her kimono as she began to walk toward Ba Sing Se.

She noticed Mat's absence between her toes immediately after the Avatar State lifted. She let out a gentle sigh, stopping in her tracks for a moment only to lift the heel of her right foot and press the ball down into the ground. She felt Mat's blood squelch out more, using her earthbending sight she could see he was no longer alive.

"I will see you again, Transient." She said, not bothering to remove him from her boot as she walked down the path. "For now, I have business to take care of..."

The Avatar was aware of his spiritual presence still. She could feel him lingering beneath her sole, it wasn't until she made it to the gates of Ba Sing Se that his body had become a true carcass. He was no more by that point, the enormous Avatar's weight with every step further ground him into a black smudge on the insole of her boot.

By the time she removed her foot from her footwear in the city, there was no trace of him...