Prologue

"Love is whatever you can still betray ... Betrayal can only happen if you love." -John LeCarre

Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar.

There was a time once when I would have laughed in disbelief if someone had told me what one day they would no longer be friends.

I would have laughed.

I cannot do that now for it was from one's forgiveness and another's betrayal that a war began. One man who could forgive for everything and another whom held his burning scars in his heart.

I was dead before that betrayal even happened.

Dead before all the hundreds of lives that would follow me because of one man's greed and pain. Dead before the forgiving friend would join me by the betrayer's hand.

Once I had loved them both.

Once I had known them well.

Once…Once was a long time ago…

I have not seen him yet here.

The other is here.

When will he come? He left the living world years and years ago.

Is he wandering still…here in the spirit world…?

Do not look at me with such questioning eyes! I do not know myself!

….Yes, Yes, I know who you are. My great-nephew, is it not? I never knew my brother….No; I have not met him here.

Why? Do not ask me. Perhaps it is because neither of us was important to each other…so why is it that you have sought me out? You want to know? Know the truth? He is the responsible one for the war, not the forgiving friend.

You blame the war for your death? And that of your little prince?

Well, know this than, great-nephew…I was one of the pieces of Pai Sho that ended in the final result of him. The war probably would have begun without my playing. I was not even truly a player, but a mere spectator. Yes, you know how that is, do you not?

Only a silent shadow. A bodyguard to a Royal. The Crown Prince, you say? Yes, I left my charge behind too…

I only regret that…No, never mind, you want to know my little story? Fine. We have all the time in the world anyways. The story of a bodyguard who protected a Fire Lord. The Fire Lord that began a hundred-year war….

A/N: Alright, I do not like to change the canon of the show or enter onto Mary-Sue's. This story is kind of prequel/companion to my previous OC stories, but you do not need to read them at all in order to understand this one! So, thanks for reading and please review on my very short prologue...