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Good news everyone! Amy () has a problem with my Avatar/Tales of Symphonia crossover! For some reason, she (?) wants the crosover to be in a place where only diehard fans of fanfiction look: the Crossover Section! So, she'll probably flag the stories. Oh, well, I can start this.
All my stories will be completed one day. They'll be completed faster when (if) I get a personal computer I can use all day. Until then, it's on the weekends.
This is an Avatar The Last Airbender Modern Day (ish) High School AU. With Bending. I'll have a lot of events from the show directly transposed, including the introduction, but it'll be all out of order. Instead of boring everyone by having a narrator explain everything, they'll be described by characters in the plot. This chapter will be very dry, but it's the introduction and history lesson.
For future warning: there will be a LOT of pairings. If two people break up, they may or may not end up together a the end. I plan to keep everyone guessing.
Instead of talking about it, here it is:
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Water.
Earth.
Fire.
Air.
…
…
…
Energy.
Sand, Lightning, Metal, Blood…
…
Tear, Sludge, Perfume, glue…
…
Healing?
'No, Katara, just the first four. Like the show!'
X X X
A long time ago, the two cities lived together in harmony:
Avatar City and Republic City. Separated only by land, they coexisted peacefully. The Avatar was the person to keep the balance between them. That was where Avatar City got it's name. Republic City would be run by people the Avatar appoints, as a republic, hence the name.
This system worked great, and worked for thousands of years, without a hitch.
Then, everything changed, when the Comet first arrived.
One day, from out of nowhere, a comet streaked past the sky. The comet lets off some kind of radiation, and those who could firebend would find their gift quickly became a curse. The radiation caused a chemical imbalance in the brain, caused by skin contact, and the firebenders lost control of themselves.
It was a great tragedy, and Avatar Kuruk's wife Ummi died during the attack.
Avatar Kuruk was devastated by his loss, and so tried to find a way to keep the firebenders under control. Fifteen years later, the comet came again. But Avatar Kuruk had prepared everyone for that to happen again, and the Firebenders didn't cause as much of a tragedy.
Every fifteen years, Avatar Kuruk put all the firebenders under house arrest, so they wouldn't be affected by the Comet. But one firebender, Chin, disagreed with the way things went, and assassinated Avatar Kuruk with the help of Koh the Face Stealer... In exchange for his face after he dies.
Oma, an Earthbender from Avatar City, and Shu, an Earthbender from Republic City, made a secret tunnel system between the two Cities, so the non-firebenders could hide during the next Comet.
Twenty-eight years later, Avatar Kyoshi defeated Chin, now with 'The Conqueror' in his title, and she managed to get control of the Cities again. Avatar Kyoshi found a new way to protect Firebenders from the Comet, using a special fabric.
Almost two-hundred years had passed, Avatar Kyoshi tragically died in her sleep.
The new Avatar, Roku, was born, six years before the next Comet.
Roku met another boy, named Sozin. They became fast friends, and grew up together in Avatar City. The Comet went by without a hitch.
Ten years later, Roku and Sozin celebrated one of several things they had in common: their birthdays. That was when Roku found out he was the Avatar.
Two years later, Sozin married Azulon, a girl from Republic City. The next year, Roku married Ta Min, a girl from Avatar City. And one year after that, Sozin and Azulon had a baby, a boy they named Iroh.
Only Iroh and a few others know the truth about what happened in the past 50 years.
My brother and I live close to a tea shop Iroh owns: the Jasmine Dragon. Iroh told me and my brother everything that really happened since the Sun District covered everything up.
The Avatar and the Republic City council had almost lost control of the Firebenders the year after Iroh was born. Avatar Kyoshi came to Roku in a dream, and told him he needed to master the elements before the next Comet came in 15 years.
Roku left Sozin in charge of Avatar City while he left to learn Airbending, then Waterbending, then Earthbending. But that was the worst mistake Roku could have possibly made.
Sozin was mentally ill, and the onset came when Sozin turned 21. Sozin then separated Avatar City by the Bending Elements: The Sun District, on the Eastern Coast, where the Sun rises earliest. The North and South Moon Districts, on the Northern and Southern Coastlines, the Earth District, by the Mountains and Desert, and the four Sky Districts, on the four highest elevations.
My grandmother, Kanna, was born soon after the separation. Roku was unaware any changes happened, as he and Ta Min had no contact so Roku could complete his training faster.
Years passed, until finally, Roku had mastered Earthbending, with only a few months to spare until the Comet. When Roku returned, he was furious with Sozin.
Roku gave Sozin an ultimatum: reunify the Districts, or maintain control of them by himself.
Roku expected Sozin to give up right then and there. But Sozin's thinking skills were severely impacted by his disease. However, he had a very good idea for dealing with the comet: he got the approval of all the Firebenders, and they went into the Omashu caves.
Even Roku had to admit it was a good idea, but he still wouldn't take his place back to control Avatar City, or even to control Republic City.
One year later, Iroh met Ilah in a tea shop looking for a job. Another year later, Iroh and Ilah got engaged, and married soon after that.
Azulon and Ilah had both gotten pregnant, and their sons were born on the same day: Azulon and Sozin had their second son, Ozai. Iroh and Ilah had Lu Ten. Sozin passed on the gene for his disease, but because of Azulon's health, Ozai didn't have the disease, he was just a carrier. However, if Ozai ever used his X Chromosome and had a daughter, she would have the sickness, and it would onset at an early age.
(Pause for dramatic irony)
In the next three years, my Father Hakoda, my Mother Kya, and Roku and Ta Min's daughter Ursa were born.
During the next Comet, while everyone was under the caves, there was a massive earthquake, and the Firebenders tried to escape. Sozin was in no way prepared for this, and the Firebenders got out. It wasn't that big of a tragedy, but several people died, and people began to doubt Sozin's effectiveness a a ruler.
Roku just sat back and watched Sozin's loss of control. But Roku didn't realize things were about to get worse.
To keep control, Sozin declared himself Fire Lord, and put everyone on the Republic City council in prison for supicion of treason. Before Roku could stop Sozin, Sozin became dictator of both Cities.
Roku decided enough was enough, and took action. Roku disguised himself, and, not having any other options to try to get up near Sozin's political level of power, had his 16-year-old daughter Ursa marry Ozai, who was in his 20's.
Neither Roku, Ta Min, nor Ursa had expected Ozai to be a perfect gentleman, and neither Ursa, Roku, Ta Min, Ozai, or Azulon had expected Ursa and Ozai to fall in love.
I remember that year differently in my heart, because my parents married eachother.
Two years later, which was 16 years ago, the Chief of the North Moon District had her daughter, Yue, with Arnook, a man with high authority in that District. My brother Sokka was also born, and Ozai and Ursa had their first child: a son, Zuko.
The year after that, Ozai and Ursa had their second child: a daughter, Azula, named after Azulon herself. Oh, yeah, I was born too.
The next year, the Comet was supposed to come, but… Sozin did nothing about it. His top advisor tried his hardest to get him to do something, to sign the sheet needed to legally force the Firebenders underground. But Sozin knew who the advisor was: Roku.
Roku decided to take matters into his own hands: he made sure Iroh would watch Ilah, Azulon, Ta Min, and Ursa. Iroh was in his 40's, but Lu Ten and Ozai were younger, so Roku, Lu Ten, and Ozai used the fabrics Kyoshi had used long ago, and tried to evacuate the Sun District. Unfortunately, Firebenders were in all the Districts. The Moon, Earth, and Sky Districts easily outnumbered the Firebenders, so losses weren't as bad… but my mother was killed.
Roku and Lu Ten were also killed. There was much grief and sorrow: Lu Ten was supposed to be Sozin's successor as Fire Lord. Lu Ten was supposed to fix what Sozin and Roku had broken. But now, he was gone.
Iroh had revoked his birthright, and Ozai received it in his stead.
Sozin was celebrated as a hero, and blamed Roku for the order not being passed to send everyone underground. The accident would be called the Sun Riots.
After Ilah died from shock, Iroh was relieved of his governmental duties. At least Sozin cared about his family.
When Sozin died, Ozai came into power. Everyone hoped he would fix everything. But they were wrong.
Ozai didn't change anything at all. In fact, things got even worse. After suspicions of treason, Ozai banished everyone in all of the Sky Districts to Republic City, and converted Republic City into a huge Prison City. Anyone who openly spoke out against Ozai would be silenced by the secret police he organized: the Dai Li.
Also, Ozai changed the education system: instead of having small schools scattered through the city, he made one big one in the center: Avatar High School.
There were issues in the royal family, and Ursa took Zuko and left for the Earth District. They live with Iroh now.
The Comet comes next year. My father and several others from the Earth and Moon Districts are trying to find legal loopholes in Ozai's complicated law books so they can overthrow him and try to get the new Avatar to rule before the Sun Riots can happen again.
But the New Avatar might be in the Republic City prison, or dead, because he or she would have been in the Sky Districts. If that's so, they'd have been reincarnated in the next Moon District Waterbender pregnancy… but there haven't been many.
But I believe the New Avatar is somewhere out there.
X X X
My name is Gyatso. I am one of the last two airbenders in Avatar City, the other of which is my son, Aang.
You see… Aang is the next Avatar.
My connections all know, and they can all be trusted. In fact, Aang will meet them very soon.
But he doesn't know. I want Aang to grow up normally, so he can be better-equipped to be part of modern society. I'm sending him to Avatar High School for his last year of school. He's been homeschooled for most of his life, because we've had to hide from the Sun District and the Dai Li.
Before Ozai banished the Sky Districts, my brother Pathik had heard the rumors and warned me, Pasang, and Iio. I took Aang and managed to escape before it happened, and now, we're living in the Kyoshi District, between the School and the Southern Moon District.
Before I tell Aang everything, I hear from Pathik that there are plans to overthrow Ozai before the Comet comes. He needs a healthy learning environment, and only when it's safe will I burden Aang with the knowledge that he is the Avatar.
I only hope this is the right decision.
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This is supposed to be like the show's first episode's introduction.
A long time ago, the 4/2 Nations/Ities lived together in harmony, then everything changed when…
All that stuff.
Also, this is only the introduction, hopefully the next chapter will be published in an hour or so.
You don't have to review this chapter, because it's just a narrative history lesson. Next chapter is just character profiles from Katara's POV and an overview of the present.
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