Disclaimer-Yea I don't own Avatar or anything. You know the deal.

Also this is my first real fan fic, so don't yell at me .

This story is supposed to take place 20 years after Aang got frozen, and the war is just starting to destroy the world. All of the characters are created by me.

Enjoy the story and btw, there will be lots of battles and even something nobody would have expected an evil water bender who realizes something else he can bend, but I aint gunna spoiler that for you.

Book 1- 20 years

Chapter 1- My past

My name is Ridden. I am 15 years old, and am a water bender. For 20 years, the fire nation has been at war with the world and so far, they were winning. When I was 8 years old my father took on a journey to the earth nation city of Omashu, but on our way there we were ambushed by fire nation troops. I ran and hid in the bushes and my father and several earth benders we were traveling with fight the fire benders, but they were eventually defeated. They stole all of our equipment and all of our food. When they left, I ran over to help my dad, but he was gone. One of the earth benders had a son who was badly hurt. His name was Horu. I helped him up and helped him walk to a nearby lake.

We stood at the lake so several days waiting to see of anyone would come for us, but no one did. Horu was slowly recovering, but still very weak. We stood there for several days eating whatever we could find. After 1 week Horu was recovered, and said they should continue to Omashu. We began our journey, but we got lost. We just picked a road and decided to follow it. We reached a town where they fed us and gave us shelter. After one year of living in the town, we decided that we should learn to become warriors. The town had benders from all of the nations, and me and Horu found teachers to train us in no time.

Training was hard. My teacher Ben-Kai told me that he would only teach me offensive water bending because if the fire nation ever attacks, we have to take them out as fast as possible, without worrying about defending. I knew what he was saying was wrong, but he taught me so many great water bending moves that I had no choice but to keep him as my teacher. One day while he was in the woods he was ambushed by fire benders and killed. I grew to hate the fire nation. Why were they doing this to us?

I found a new teacher named Rei who trained me to defend myself using water bending. I figured I was trained by an offensive waterbender and a defensive water bender, so I was pretty much even. Horu had become such a great earth bender, some people say they saw him actually chop a small mountain in half. I laughed at my friend actually being able to do that. Everything in the town was going great for the next 3 years. On my 12th birthday, that's when everything went wrong. A riot had broken out in the town. Some drunken people had attacked the fire benders, but they weren't going to be attacked without a fight. I would have been able to understand this, but those fire benders were actually drunk also. They shot fireballs in ever direction, burning down every house. The fire benders had ruined my home now. The next morning me and Horu left. We did not know where we were going, but at this point we didn't care about that. For 3 years we traveled, stopping at every village for just a day or 2 then moving on. We taught ourselves new bending moves, trained ourselves how to survive in the wilderness.

At that point, I was ready to travel my entire life until one day. We decided to make a left turn at a road one day, and we actually ended up at Omashu! We entered the city, unaware that there were things in that city that would change out lives forever.