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Prologue

Eastern Fire Nation

It was just another day in the life of the children of the Fire Nation.

These particular children were from the far east of the Fire Nation playing hide and explode in the evening without a care in the world.

The game of hide and explode was simple, everyone would hide whilst one person would count to a designated number, once they counted to said number they would start to look for the others. The aim was to find the other people without getting so close that they explode and singe you.

The children had already been playing for a few hours since school had finished for the week. The sun was just setting, and night was about to fall as they played the last round of the day.

"Quick they're coming." On ji said with a giggle

On ji was twelve years old she had brown hair and brown eyes, she was an easy-going girl who's parents whilst weren't as strict as some of the other parents had visions of her going to university in the capitol, she had one brother one year old named Guri. Her mother had worked in a small shop before he was born whilst her farther was an engineer for the Fire Nation army over in the earth kingdom.

Whilst her hair was brown which was unusual for Fire Nation citizens it was also normally pristine, in a ponytail with her bangs framing her face, but at this moment the ponytail was loose, and she was covered in soot from playing all afternoon.

She and the other children were running across the plains atop of the cliffs that ran along the south side of the island overlooking the ocean.

"Where're we going?" Shoji shouted back as they all ran and laughed.

Shoji was nearly thirteen. He also had brown hair but fashioned in a traditional Fire Nation knot. He had no siblings and his parents built and sold furniture on the island. Shoji was quite a timid person and did his best to fit in but once you got to know him his confidence would grow quickly.

The children all ran laughing as they split up hiding in bushes, behind large boulders and in caves as they waited for the unfortunate person who had to come find them.

Fortunately, or unfortunately depending how you looked at it the person who's turn it was to be 'it' was Hide. He seemed to think that On ji was his girlfriend no matter what she seemed to think on the matter. Most of the time she just rolled her eyes and ignored what he was doing anyway. Hopefully he wouldn't find them as On ji wasn't sure what he wold do if he found her and Shoji hiding together.

Whilst everyone else hid at the top of the cliffs On ji and Shoji ran out and down to the bottom of the cliffs to hide hoping to find better hiding places where there were fewer people to hide around them.

As they got down to the shore Shoji had to stop and regain his breath. He had his hands on his knees looking at the floor.

"Come on slowcoach, they'll catch us if you don't hurry." On ji laughed as she skipped ahead.

"yeah, yeah I'm Coming now." He said still winded

When he looked out he was surprised to see an iceberg floating towards the shore.

"what the…?" Shoji exclaimed

On ji turned to see what Shoji had seen.

"is that an iceberg?" she asked

"Do you think it's the water tribes attacking?" Shoji asked taking a few steps backwards and looking around wildly.

But before On ji could answer the top of the iceberg exploded shards of ice, water and snow going everywhere and a blinding blue beam of light shot into the evening sky, cutting through the clouds and lighting it up as far as the eye could see.

They both shielded their eyes from both the brightness of the light in the twilight sky and the shockwave of wind and sand that assaulted them.

There was a loud sound, a kind of hum that could only be described as pure power and energy that rang throughout the quiet evening.

Both children watched wide eyed as the remaining half of the iceberg beached itself in front of them.

Looking at it they could tell it was melting fast in the warm climate of the volcanic mountain ranges that the Fire Nation was built upon.

"What, in the name if fire, was that?" Shoji asked eyes wide, unbelieving at what he had just witnessed.

"I have no idea." On ji breathed, her eyes wide as she stared at the remains of the iceberg.

Both children watch jaws slack as a figure seemed to fall out of the sky and slide down the side of what was left of the iceberg coming to a complete stop at the bottom.

They were surprised when the figure turned out to be a boy around their age except that he was dressed weirdly in orange robes and had no hair. He also had a giant blue arrow tattoo on his head and appeared to also have them on his hands.

The kid just grinned at them.

"Hi"

Hi all,

No I'm not dead and I know its been a while since I wrote anything but I've been traveling and haven't had time to write and have lost inspiration for the stories I had planned back then I may hopefully go back and finish 'Never Mind The Paradox' but I have lost all the work I did for it so probably not.

This is my first avatar fanfiction as I recently re watched the series and part of an idea got stuck in my head and evolved, changed and I just felt I had to write it.

If anyone would like to beta please drop me a message because a beta is always useful.

and as always reviews both large and small are appreciated.

thanks

P.S. if any can think of a good name for this story then please shout out because I'm stuck on that thanks.

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