In the beginning, there was Darkness; all around there was darkness. Until one day, Light made itself present through a stroke of the One. The One banished the Dark from the Earth for being evil. The Dark did not leave the Earth. The Light and the Dark battled for many, many hours until the One called it enough. The One said that the Light would rein power over half a day, and the Dark over the other half. The One, however, wanted some light during the night to punish the Dark for its treacherous behavior. The moon and stars were formed.
Dark and Light lived in harmony for quite sometime. The Dark created a being called Water whom ruled on the Earth. The Light created its own habitat, the Land. The Light created another being called Fire, from which all is nourished.
Light and Dark emerged in another battle. They used their creations at each other. When Fire and Water collided, it created a white-like figure called Air. Air provided strength to both teams. Light also used the land against the Dark, but the Water simply ate each boulder. After nearly destroying the Earth, the One called their petty argument to a halt once more. Through this second confrontation, the four Elements were formed: Earth, Fire, Air, and Water.
Dark and Light formed creatures to inhabit the Earth. The One created beings in His image and set them in a central place. With their own curiosity, given to them by the Dark, they left the area and spread out. Living in different areas, they learned different Arts (later known to be bending) and gained different appearances. Those from the Norte and the Sur had dark skin and bright blue eyes. They learned from Mother Ocean the art of waterbending. Those from the small provinces in the Upper Oeste, they learned from Air because it was closest. They had lighter skin than the waterbenders and had equally wide eyes. They learned airbending. The lower Oeste learned from the Light: Fire. Their skin had a yellow-tinge to it and bright golden eyes behind a slant. The last continent was ruled by Fire's counterpart, Earth. These people were dark eyed, dark skinned, and dark haired.
Light, wanting to be different than its opposer, the Dark, gave these people a different language and tongue. Thus, Light and Fire were no longer referred to as Incindio, by the One's language, but as Agni—in the language of Fire—Fiage (fee-ajsh). Other languages branched from the One's shortly after.
Naturally, the hotheaded original gods, Dark and Light began another feud about the seasons. The battled for one year about it. At first, Dark used her Water to freeze the Earth. Light slowly melted it, temperatures rising until it reached its peak. The Dark was shunned out and Light gained more than 12 hours of the day. However, this increased strength made the Light weak. The Dark saw this and struck the Earth again: weakening it until it was a desolate tundra and Dark gained more hours than 12. The One stepped in, tired and exasperated that the Dark and Light would go through something like this. The One deemed that every year would then go as followed: winter, spring, summer, autumn, just as their battle had been. 12 months, four seasons, three months each. The dispute between the two would be over at last…or so the One thought.
The Dark and Light continued to clash through whichever means possible: through natural disasters, through horrible raids upon each other, the list continued for miles of the treacheries they did to each other. However, there were two beings that were not involved: the Fire and Water.
Actually, the Fire and Water became quite attracted towards each other. They would sneak around when darkness covered the Earth. The Moon and Sun, other creations of the Dark and Light would help the children seek each other. Their affair lasted for over three months. As the leaves began to fall from the trees, suspicion of their affair rose. The Fire and Water eventually stopped seeing each other, but not before the Water held the Fire's child within her. This child would be key to ending the feud between Dark and Light. The child's name was Ia. However, she was born still. The One quickly rebounded and created a new being called the Avatar. This would solve the problems of Dark and Light. Water, completely distraught turned to the One and asked to see her lover once more. However, the One needed a place to hide the two lovers. He made their spirits Nuevos Spiritos, or reincarnates. They would meet up again sometime—their love delayed. However, they were out of the warring gods way, and that was all that mattered.
Their souls traveled for centuries, never meeting each other until the Age of Fire was upon the Earth.
That, my friends, my dear readers, is where our story must begin.
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Aye Carumba! This was almost too long. Just a quick verification, the first language that I used, the One's language is Spanish. Only did that because I'm too much of a prick to look up other languages online and I can't understand Japanese. I'm in Spanish II, so at least I knew how to say the directions. Here're your translations. I don't know what language "Agni" is in, so I made up the language. The other lands break off to different languages, so I'm going to say that Fire is Chinese, Water is Inuit (or German, it depends on which one I can find online), Earth is Afrikaans, and Air is English. Yeah. Basically, the love story is going to follow as a Romeo and Juliet-esq thing, but trust me, there's more to the story that that. I suck at writing from Zuko's POV, so expect most of this to be from Katara's POV or Aang's. Whichever one I like the most.Sur South
Norte North
Este East
Osete West
Nuevos Spiritos New Spirits, I'm pretty sure…either that or I said Nine Spirits.
Ok, I've drabbled enough, let me hear your reviews, and I'll be sure to get another chapter up…if you're lucky. Three reviews new chapter in the next week!