The Legend
Prologue
A/N: This is my first Avatar fan fiction. Please review. The plot will form itself.
Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender. I only own my copies of the DVDs of the first book.
Thousands of years ago, near the beginning of time, the humans, gods, and spirits convened to establish a system of rules and leaders. It was decided that one of each race would be chosen to represent one of the four elements: water, fire, earth, and air. These chosen few would form a council-like Senate under the power of the current Avatar, the one being who could control all four elements. Although it was not stated, there was also a mental, unanimous decision that members of the Water Tribe and members of the Fire Nation were not to marry. Likewise was a decision that members of the Earth Kingdom and Air Nomads were not to marry. After the establishment of these rules and systems, each nation chose an area of the world to occupy. Each chose an area close to their element. The Water Tribes chose to occupy the icy poles. The Earth Kingdom chose the large desert belts, pockmarked by canyons and mountains. The Fire Nation established cities along the volcano-covered equator. The Air Nomads, having nowhere else to go and feeling more at home with their element, created four temples, all in the air in some way or another, each named for one of the directions of the wind: the Northern Air Temple, the Southern Air Temple, and so forth.
All was well, until, a mere millenium after the first Senate meeting, the Fire Nation declared war on the other three nations. The current Avatar, a Fire Nation citizen named Roku, called an emergency Senate meeting, feeling hurt and confused, as well as outraged, at the actions of his old friend, Fire Lord and Godly Senator for the Fire Nation Sozin. The negotiations weren't going well, but Avatar Roku argued fiercely against his former friend. All seemed to be going well. Then a miraculous event occured, tipping the scales completely on the side of Sozin: a brightly blazing comet had appeared in the sky, arcing close to the planet. The Fire Nation's benders had quickly discovered that they could harness the power of the comet to boost their bending. The Senate had no chance. All of the Senators survived by choice of Sozin's wife, but Avatar Roku was killed, leaving behind a wife and child. The world seemed to be in trouble.
A new Avatar was born moments later, a male Air Nomad. Although it was good that a new Avatar was born, it would take many years for him to train enough to stop the Fire Nation. The world despaired. They waited for more than twenty-five years, into the beginning of the rule of Fire Lord Azulon, before the Fire Nation wiped out the Air Nomads, leaving no hope of the Avatar surviving. The world turned to the Water Tribe, following the Avatar Cycle, but no new Avatar was found. The people of the Earth Kingdom and Water Tribes fell into a state of despair.