The fuel is the sand itself, which burns only by blessings of the priest, this boy's father.
I bow down to you creativity. If you wrote this without thinking...damn. There's the risk that this could be taken from a writer for free as a plagiarism, as good as it is.
In this ancient martial art temple, the freewrite hombu-dojo, the great soke @mariannewest put me, her sempai, in charge of communicating the powerful moves on which we will train for becoming BBB (bananafish-black-belt):
Martial art technique n. 1, single prompt option
Martial art technique n. 2, three parts freewrite: 1 2 3
Feel free to build upon it, and we shall weave an epic fantasy together!
I'm strongly tempted!