An Avatar:The Last Airbender Story

A Tale of Two Nations

The Clash Between Fire and Earth

Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar: The Last Airbender. That awesome show is copyright to its creators.

But my characters are (c) to me.

Prologue

It is the inevitable truth that there will always be forces that will oppose each other. In equally true matters, there will always be a supposed "good" side and a supposed "bad" side. However, what kind of motivation would be necessary for one nation's people to die fighting another nation? To do so, a nation must warp the view of their citizens' outlook on the other nation that they are in conflict with. Raise your people in such an influential environment would mold them into the type of followers that you would want them to be. Such an act would be grimly all too necessary to do if the world were to plunge into war. Then you would proceed to convince your people that battling the "enemy" is the right thing to do.

Eventually the two sides in war have such contorted beliefs, opinions, and views of each other that the lies almost become reality. Amongst the massive tangled web of deception, it soon becomes strenuous to separate fact from fiction, rumor from record, and truth from tale.

Now this one tale is one of the Fire Nation and the world as its wrath threatens to take over the world. With the lack of an avatar, master of the four bending elements, an arduous war has followed suit and continued for a hundred years. Now, more than ever, the Fire Nation seems to have almost conquered much of the world, but the Earth Kingdom tries to remain strong and hold on as long as they can. Some in the Water Tribes have gone out to aid the Earth Kingdom in the war, and they try to keep their communities secluded from the war. The Avatar has returned in the form of a twelve-year-old airbender named Aang, the last of his kind. But the Fire Nation and the Earth Kingdom have a special kind of hatred between them, and they are both guilty in following the practice of manipulating their people's minds. They are strongly filled with a bitterness for each other, believing that the other were savages who killed for the fun of it. In general, this was far from actuality at first, but soon…people became the savages they were thought to be.

Because the war had initiated long ago, it was so long ago that no one was really old enough to remember what life was like before the grueling war. There are only scattered records, and even these records have often been destroyed or altered so that no one could ever really recall a time of peace between these two nations. Everyone in the Fire Nation has been taught by their schools, communities, and leaders that the Earth Kingdom is nothing but pure malevolent evil. Nothing but demons. And vice versa.

Now what separates the Fire Nation and the Earth Kingdom? Their bending maybe, one is the element of fire, the other earth. Different colors and different leaders perhaps. But, deep down the people of these nations are still both human. And they still have the same basic needs and inalienable rights. They all want the same happiness. As different as they may seem, the Fire Nation and the Earth Kingdom weren't all as different as they seemed.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Comments and crit , as always, are appreciated.