Book One: The Avatar's Guardian/Winter

Prologue

I was born at the end of spring as the days grew longer and the darkness of night only lasted for an hour. As if that was not enough of an omen, I came into this world at dusk when for a brief moment both the sun and the moon were in the sky. It was a long and difficult birth and my mother would have died if not for the skilled waterbender healers in our tribe. As skilled as they were, they were not skilled enough to heal me. I didn't cry or scream when I was born and was barely breathing. My grandfather begged for the aid of his old friend Avatar Roku in hopes that his power would be enough.

Roku took me to the Spirit Oasis where he stood in the center of the oasis with Tui and La until midnight, healing me with a mix of airbending, waterbending, and a bending that I never knew about until after the war. Somehow in that process, Roku unknowingly bound my very life essence into the cycle of the Avatar. By saving my life, he had set me upon a path of hardship and loss, anger and hatred, sorrow and regret, and also of great happiness and love.

This is my story, but it is all the story of Roku's successor and the friends we met along our journey. It is also the story of the man I love, the bravest and most honorable man I have ever met. Of course, when I first met him, he was barely into adulthood and was - at the time - my greatest enemy.

Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall

I present to you the prologue of the reboot of The Guardian Spirit Trilogy - - TGST for short. This reboot will contain more creativity and originality than the old version while continuing to follow the general plot of Avatar: The Last Airbender. When I first started this series it was because I had read a lot of OC/Zuko stories and wanted to try my hand at one. However, that was nearly three and a half years ago when I was fourteen and when my writing . . . well, reflected that age. This story has come to mean a lot to me - especially since I actually managed to finish two out of three of the stories in this trilogy - and it deserves a better storytelling. Now that I am an adult and have already published my first book, I know I can finally do this story justice.

So, to my old readers, I say thank you for taking the time to read my old stories and I hope you will stick around for the new spin on this tale. I also ask that you please be careful not to leave too many spoilers from my old works in your reviews.

And to my new readers, I hope you enjoy this adventure and follow it to the end. That being said, you can read my old works if you wish as I will not be taking them down, but I do not suggest it.

-Avatar Wolfheart

P.S. If you choose to read my original novel, I actually suggest you wait as I plan to do some heavy editing and expanding on that story as it reflects the time constraints I was under to finish it. If you choose to read it anyway, 1) Bless your hearts and 2) I apologize for the quality and shortness of the story.

Edit as of 11/2/17- Rewrote the entire prologue and cleaned up A/N just a bit. Beta'd/edited by a friend IRL who you can call Lily.