A/N: Okay I've had this idea for 3 years and have tried to write it twice and I finally started again and am posting it here.

It has been 12 years since the hundred year war ended and the world is in perfect balance. But a mysterious boy, Azula's escape, and brand new villains threaten to tear this balance apart. A continuation taking place 12 years after the original series. Very light crossover with Naruto, just using a few characters. Please read and review. REUPLODED.

AVATAR

THE LAST AIRBENDER

BOOK 4

LIGHTING

Prologue The Hundred Year War

Water, earth, fire, air. Long ago the 4 nations lived together in harmony. It was the duty of the Avatar, Master of all four elements, to keep balance among the Water Tribes, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, and then Air Nomads. But that all changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar could stop the ruthless Firebenders, but when the world needed him most he vanished. After a hundred years the Fire Nation was nearing victory in the war. Two years before my Father and the men of my tribe journeyed to the Earth Kingdom to help fight the war, leaving my brother and I to look after our tribe. Some people believed that the Avatar wasn't reborn into the Air Nomads and that the cycle was broken, but I never lost hope. I still believed that someday the Avatar would return… and he did.

In the year 99 ASC my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an Airbender named Aang. Even though his Airbending skills were great, he had a lot to learn before he was ready to help anyone. But I believed Aang could save the world. We traveled together for a while and made many new friends. The Kyoshi Warriors, the Freedom Fighters, the greatest Earthbender and the inventor of Metalbending Toph Bi Fong, the Earth King, and even his former enemy Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation. We all worked together to stop the Fire Nation and in the year 100 ASC Aang defeated Fire Lord Ozai, Zuko and I defeated his sister Princess Azula, while my brother, Toph, and the leader of the Kyoshi Warriors Suki defeated the Fire Nation air fleet. Together we brought an end to the Hundred Year War. But that was only the beginning.

After the end of the war there was still the issue of Fire Nation colonies in the Earth Kingdom. Avatar Aang, Earth King Kuei, and Fire Lord Zuko created something called 'The Harmony Restoration Act'. The objective of this act was to remove all Fire Nation citizens from the colonies. For a year it went well, but then we came to the earliest colonies.

A young Earthbender named Kori attempted to assassinate Fire Lord Zuko a year after the 'Harmony Restoration Act' was instated. It turned out that her Father was the mayor of the Fire Nation colony Yu Dao and her Mother was an Earthbender. Yu Dao was the first Fire Nation colony and was over a century old. We soon realized that the oldest colonies couldn't be part of the 'Harmony Restoration Act' cause then we would be splitting up families. At first a war almost began because of it. But instead a peaceful solution was found and those colonies became Republic City, a city that transcended the four nations. In one of the bays of Republic City was a small island called 'Airbender Island', were Aang, I, the preservers of Airbender culture known as Air Acolytes, and Sky Bison live.

And still peace eluded us. a very dangerous orginazation, The Order Of The Black Lotus, appered. they were some the most dangerous people who ever lived, benders and non-benders alike. There motives remained a mystery and the destruction they caused had to end. After 8 years they were all finally apprehended.

It has been 3 years since then and 12 years since the 'Hundred Year War' ended and it has been peaceful ever since.

Aang and I are married. Suki left the Kyoshi Warriors under the command of Ty Lee when she married my brother and went live in Republic City with him. Toph now owns a Metalbending dojo in Republic City. Zuko and Mai married almost immediately and had fraternal twins, Ryu and Akira.

But something was about to happen. Something that threatens the balance of the entire universe, something about an evil born in the era before the Avatar…


A/N: The prologue ladies and gentlemen. I'll try to get the first chapter up soon.