this is going to be a real story. multiple chapters, a developing plot, the works. i do not promise miracles. i am making this up as i go along, and i have no idea where i'm going to find the time or the paitence to do this, but i promise you, i will try. this first chapter is the preface, and yes, it is EXCACTLY the same as a drabble i posted a day or two ago. judging by this, it is going to have to be a pretty elaborate story, and allot of chapters, and allot of work. i make no promises other than to try. that being said, i really hope you enjoy it!! comments, concerns, questions, and sujestions are more than welcome. and even if you don't have any of those, comment any way!! i love those things:D

PS: I DO NOT OWN AVATAR OR ANY OTHER TV SHOW. IF I DID I WOULD BE MAKING MONEY AND WOULD NOT HAVE TO WRITE CRAPPY FAN FICTION.

warnings: author may become rabid and bite you if you don't review.

Rules were made to be broken. This is a commonly accepted fact. Rules were created for the sole purpose of finding exceptions to them, for tweaking them, for bending them. Laws, however, were made to be followed. Laws are final, laws are absolute, laws are set in stone. The laws of the state, the laws of life, and perhaps most especially, the Laws of Nature. Gravity separates the heavy from the light, heavy and dense always sinks, stone is solid. The laws of nature and physics cannot be broken; fish swim, birds fly, water cannot be set on fire.

But Spirits made the laws.

And the Spirits made a loophole.

The Avatar. The Four Elements, violently different and opposing in nature contained in perfect harmony in one human. The Avatar is the exception to every rule and law in the universe. But this leaves us with a paradox. Laws cannot be broken, and yet the Avatar does so simply by existing. And along with this paradox comes another. The Avatar, who was meant to bring balance to the world of men, became a threat to the natural world because by existing he or she broke the Laws threw the entire world out of balance. And so, Legend tells us, the Spirits gave us their last gift. In the days when the Spirits still walked among the leaves and creatures of the physical world they spoke of a new law, a law that broke all the others. A law that was the ultimate balance. A law that had no loopholes because it itself was a loophole; the big loophole, a loophole carved into every law that there was. This one law broke all the others and in doing so, made them unbreakable. Pain turned to beauty, anger turned to joy, sadness became happiness, and hate became love, and all with one simple, short, easy, iron bound law: OPPOSITES ATTRACT.

Over time the Spirits left the physical world for their own plane, leaving us their teachings and rules and laws. As the millennia passed the iron bound law of Opposites dwindled from law to rule to belief to saying until it was little more than a legend. But in that legend was a prophecy that would one day alter the course of history.

It spoke of the sky aflame over raging armies of all races. It spoke of tyranny and oppression. It spoke of pain and suffering and endurance. It spoke of a master and a prince. It spoke of love and hate. It spoke of family and allies. It spoke of treachery and lies. It spoke of burning water and icy fire. It spoke of the end of all laws and the dawning of a new age.

And, although no one would realize it until years after they were dead and buried, it spoke of Katara and Zuko.

nothing really to add... except more chapters. wish me luck!!

Ciao - - - Raven Heart