Everything collapsed.

Taza became cold and distant, constantly watching the mortal world. No one could make her change her mind about the Fire Nation.

Agni only hung on to his people until they started hunting dragons. After that, the Fire Nation had no one.

Luru and Teni sadly watched their dying people, and watched the once-great city of Ba Sing Se crumble from the inside.

Twi and La watched helplessly as the Fire nation raided the Southern Water Tribe and took all of the waterbenders. They watched as the gentle Hama became slowly mad, and learned to bloodbend.

Niu watched the Avatar, willing, hoping for something to break the ice. Gui followed the airbenders, and then the children of the airbenders, then their children, waiting for them to return to the Temples.

The world seemed to grow steadily darker.

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"Why?" asked Teni, watching the sadistic Ozai be crowned Fire Lord. "Why couldn't it have been the other one?"

They knew of Ozai's older brother, Iroh. He had even visited the Spirit World, for a short time. He had gone to lengths to protect the last dragons. He, along with the former Fire Lady, Ursa, were the first Fire Nation royalty that they held in their esteem for a long while.

Ozai disgusted them. He had twisted his daughter beyond repair, and soon after he was crowned Fire Lord, he burned and exiled his own son.

The others said nothing in reply to Teni.

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One of the women of the Northern Water Tribe had refused to marry, a long time ago, and had fled to the Southern Tribe, where she dwelled still.

Twi gave life to a child, a little, ill girl born near the full moon.

In the Southern Tribe, two children were born, one a boy, the other a girl who had been born a year later.

The girl was a waterbender.

The boy was a warrior.

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The Dai Lee controlled the crumbling city of Ba Sing Se, where any talk of the war was forbidden, even when the Dragon of the West broke through the wall, though he quickly left the city.

The Fire Nation took control of many towns and villages, and Ba Sing Se was becoming crowded.

To the wealthy Bei Fongs, it was as if they were cursed.

Their first child died soon after he was born.

Their second was blind.

Teni could see great promise in the blind one.

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The warrior men of the Southern Water Tribe left to fight in the war, leaving only about twenty people in the village.

The warrior got older.

The waterbender got older.

The Avatar stayed the same.

The blind earthbender stole away from her house to fight other earthbenders.

The Fire Princess learned to use lightning.

The Fire Prince searched for the Avatar.

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It was the fury of the waterbender that did it. She called up waved by accident, and brought the Avatar to the surface. She cracked the ice.

And the Spirit World could feel it.

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That was...odd...I knda liked it, though. The next chapter's going to cover the first season.