this story is what might turn out to being a fully fledged multi chapter thing. this would be like a preface or something. i'm not really sure where this came from... i just started writing and the result is plane to see. i do really like how this turned out. but just so you know, it's not really specific. there is no particular narrator and no point of view, this is just a story. i apologize if it's a little rough, i didn't spend to much time on this. R+R please!!!!

PS: I DO NOT OWN ANYONE... I DO OWN THINGS... BUT NO PEOPLE. (STILL NO JOHNNY DEPP, GET WITH THE PROGRAM HERE PEOPLE)

rating: K+

warnings: some abstract ideas, may be a little hard to follow

style: legend

Rules were made to be broken. This is a commonly accepted fact. Rules were created for the sole purpose of finding exceptions to them, for tweaking them, for bending them. Laws, however, were made to be followed. Laws are final, laws are absolute, laws are set in stone. The laws of the state, the laws of life, and perhaps most especially, the Laws of Nature. Gravity separates the heavy from the light, heavy and dense always sinks, stone is solid. The laws of nature and physics cannot be broken; fish swim, birds fly, water cannot be set on fire.

But Spirits made the laws.

And the Spirits made a loophole.

The Avatar. The Four Elements, violently different and opposing in nature contained in perfect harmony in one human. The Avatar is the exception to every rule and law in the universe. But this leaves us with a paradox. Laws cannot be broken, and yet the Avatar does so simply by existing. And along with this paradox comes another. The Avatar, who was meant to bring balance to the world of men, became a threat to the natural world because by existing he or she broke the Laws threw the entire world out of balance. And so, Legend tells us, the Spirits gave us their last gift. In the days when the Spirits still walked among the leaves and creatures of the physical world they spoke of a new law, a law that broke all the others. A law that was the ultimate balance. A law that had no loopholes because it itself was a loophole; the big loophole, a loophole carved into every law that there was. This one law broke all the others and in doing so, made them unbreakable. Pain turned to beauty, anger turned to joy, sadness became happiness, and hate became love, and all with one simple, short, easy, iron bound law: OPPOSITES ATTRACT.

Over time the Spirits left the physical world for their own plane, leaving us their teachings and rules and laws. As the millennia passed the iron bound law of Opposites dwindled from law to rule to belief to saying until it was little more than a legend. But in that legend was a prophecy that would one day alter the course of history.

It spoke of the sky aflame over raging armies of all races. It spoke of tyranny and oppression. It spoke of pain and suffering and endurance. It spoke of a master and a prince. It spoke of love and hate. It spoke of family and allies. It spoke of treachery and lies. It spoke of burning water and icy fire. It spoke of the end of all laws and the dawning of a new age.

And, although no one would realize it until years after they were dead and buried, it spoke of Katara and Zuko.

hey, look, she updated and it didn't take forever and a half! what a concept!! please tell me what you think. do you think i did a good job? would you like to see this become a full story? do you think i would be able to focus on a full story when i can barely keep up with my pathetic little drabbles collection? lol! i LOVE reviews! they are like small pieces of sunshine scattered upon the raw sewage that is my existance. XD

ciao - - - Raven Heart