Avatar: The Journey of Generations

Prologue

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I fell, by some strange power that I could not hold back, I was brought down. Now, the future's only hope rests with my friend.

I opened my mouth to say "You're the only chance Xanid!" however, no words came. I guess… the future refused to change…

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"You're our only chance Xanid!" I yelled across to him "We just need one more point to win!" We were playing a friendly game of Earth Soccer with only seconds left. My friend Xanid shot the ball up, jumped up and fiercely kicked it towards the goal. Only to be blocked off by our opponents to bring it back our way. Xanid quickly retaliated by making an Earth U Curve to curve the ball back and have it rocket towards their goal. Our opponents didn't see what happened, I didn't see what happened! Apparently we just won the game with three seconds to spare!

"How did you do that!" I ran over to him and quickly tackled my longtime friend. "That was amazing!"

"Get off me Galen!" he pleaded, I got off of him and offered him a hand.

"Well…" pestering him to tell me.

"I don't know… I just kind of did it, we've been playing this game for around 10 years you know Galen, and I've gotten kind of good." He reminded me.

"Yeah, I suppose your right." I said punching his upper arm.

This is how a lot of my days went by, not caring, having fun, and just being a 16 year old. Xanid and I have been nearly lifelong friends and we knew we always would be. We live in the small town of Ten Ulen, a nice place in the Eastern Earth Nation.

As for family, I guess you can say I'm part of Xanid's family now. The reason is my mom died nearly after my birth. So, my dad raised me to be strong and brave like him teaching me Earth bending in the process, but when I was 12… he just… left one day. I still to this day have no explanation why, I wonder if I'll ever find him again? Therefore, Xanid's family generously took me in their caring hands.

All is well with the world, each element's nation was colonizing parts of the globe that they would claim for themselves. Surprisingly, not many land disputes ever gotten out of hand, and so far the Avatar hasn't even been announced yet. Man, it's going to be an easy life for him.

By now, Xanid and I are walking back to our home. "Hey, I wonder what this town meeting is for tonight." Xanid wondered aloud. "It's not like we usually have them here unexpected."

"How should I know? It's probably just a bunch of old guys talking about the state of the world." I replied, but it was still a bit unusual.

"You're probably right, hopefully this goes by quickly though," said my moping friend. "Then I could show you that Earth Bending move you wanted to learn!"

"Sweet!" I said happily. "Oh, looks like we're at your house." I pointed out.

"Hey, come on, it's your house to you know." informed Xanid. "My parents think of you as another son to them."

"Yeah, I know…" I said punching his arm again.

"Hey Galen! I'm gonna have a bruise there tomorrow!"

"Come on! Act like your age for once!"

"Yes, yes… just get your better clothes on." He sighed walking through the doorway of his house. It was a quaint standard house with various paintings over the walls with Dragons and mountains and such on them. We went to our separate rooms and changed. We then walked to the central plaza of Ten Ulen.

The plaza was bustling. It seemed that everyone from town was present! The 4 way intersection was filled with scattered tables and well over 150 people all talking about the short notice assembly. I barley had any time to ask around before the Mayor of Ten Ulen walked up on a podium.

He attempted to speak trying to cut through the voices of his citizens, "Excuse me." the citizens did nothing, the mayor cleared his throat and almost yelled, "Excuse me! We need to get this started!" the community looked forward towards him and quickly sat down to one of the tables, myself and Xanid included. "Now that I have your attention, I have an incredibly important announcement for our humble town." He then made eye contact with me but then quickly turned away.

Our mayor turned around and nodded to four men behind him, dressed in the colors of the different nations for each. They walked forward simultaneously in front of the mayor's podium.

Xanid whispered to me, "Hey Galen, you were right! It is just a bunch of old people!"

"Lucky guess…" I whispered back to him, I couldn't help but think it something more important than that though.

The one clad in red robes symbolizing the Fire Nation spoke to our wondering village, "Today, the next Avatar shall be revealed." The town gasped, side conversations started but soon stopped once the Air Nomad started speaking.

"It is a man who has recently become of the age of 16 and is now eligible to know his destiny." he stated.

Xanid looked at me, "You don't think?..."

"There's no way. It's got to be someone else, I'm not cut out for this sort of thing." I quickly responded to my friend.

The Water Nation robed man looked up and continued on from the others, "From this humble village, he will go off to learn the other elements with the counsel of us, the sages."

I was looking dead at the next sage, the Earth Nation Sage, in his Green clothing. He stepped forward and said the words that changed my life, and countless others, "We are honored to serve you, Avatar Galen." He bowed down followed by the other sages, and soon the entire village was bowing before me, including Xanid.

This isn't real… I stood up from my chair and looked about, there was nowhere to go. My thoughts raced, why me? Where will I go? How hard will this be? What is my real destiny? My life will never be the same now that I am the Avatar.

Author's Note: Very well then, I believe this is shaping out to be quite good. Note that this is just a prologue and offers a little back story for our characters. Once we get into the story it will definitely get interesting. The Earth Nation and Water Nation are nations because the world isn't entirely developed yet, therefore their society isn't developed completely yet so I made them nations. Please review, it's a good motivator.