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It's finally here! The first chapter of The Keepers: Rise is finally here! Ok technically it's the prologue, but it is a chapter. I can assure you it is not 50 to 100 words this time. Okay, warning time: THIS CHAPTER IS AN INTRODUCTION! ZUKO AND THE REST ARE NOT IN IT YET… Yeah… sorry… but I did want to give more of a background to show you the roots of the main villain and the main 'Sith' of sorts. Also If you can tell me the statement written in bold, I do a zutara fic commission if you like. Just tell me what you want it about. (note: no lemons or 'M' rate stuff pls? I don't and can't write that stuff.) Okay, without much ado, (get it? Much ado about nothing? Shakespeare? Okay, okay…Shutting up.) The story.

Whispered lore fades to memory. Shameful tales kept to thyself. Tales buried deep within ones soul. Tales that no one but you know. But some stories embed themselves in your heart. Some stories leap from mouth to ear to mouth to ear. Some stories are just mean to be told.

The Keepers: Rise

Prolouge: And The Story Starts

The island country of Libramen. A land lined with cool waves, white beaches and lush forests. Some of which were evergreen and some of which were tropical. There were small towns and large cities. And the city of Pacis. The capital of Libramen, glowed with a warm heart. The city throbbed with love and kindness.

Yet even the best of cities have their dark side, for cities often act like the people living in them. Each person is like a cell of the city's body, and if one cell turns bad, it slowly spreads like an infection, unless the 'antibodies' ( the law-enforcers) stamp it out. But we know all too well sometimes the antibodies can become corrupted and they leave their true duty to slowly bring a city to stagnant death.

There was one city that still seemed safe at the time. Unitas, the city of unity. But all is not what it seems. For the city of Unity was the head quarters of what would be known as one as the most terrifying organisations in the world of Terre. Accida.

No one knew how exactly how Accida started, only that it was a psychopath's dream come true. But they knew how to identify those in Accida or the crimes that they did from this one sign, a comet on fire, with a stylized 's' in the middle.

Many are lured into joining this group. Those who are rich join for greed. Those who are poor enter to gain the wealth. Those who are strong join for the thrill. Those who are weak enter for the promise of healing.

Accida is infamous for it's crimes. But that isn't the real danger of Accida, the real danger is much more secret, much more violent. The danger of Accida is genetical experiments that they do on those who have 'the spark'.

Sozin Ignis was one of these. But unlike the hundreds of other experiments he had offered up his body willingly. The pain of the transformation was unbearable, but somehow, he survived. Somehow, no real changes happened to him. Accida considered him both a success and a failure. A success, for none had survived the procedure before. A failure, for nothing seemed to happen. That was where they were wrong. Sozin became more charismatic to the public. It was said that he was able to talk his way out of any situation, any troubles. And that's when IngnisCorps® grew and worked its way to the number one spot as the wealthiest company in the whole of Terre.

Despite all of this, no one could see the madness slowly gripping him. And when the time came, the madness would consume his decedents. And push them onto the blade's edge, where they would either fall into the light, or, more often that not, throw them into evil.

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Eastonia