the before final draft

[Isabel]

this is only for the FINAL DRAFT of the before so any comments or 'disclaimers' should go in 'the before' topic. if you want to add to the history you should put in the first before topic first and get it checked by me. (I get to check it because it was my idea to make a before file and a rough draft.)if you think I should change something put it in 'the before'.

in other words don't post in here without getting it checked by me first!

[Isabel]

i have to transfer everything over:

Intro:

[Isabel]

This is the story of the time Before the four elements and how they came about in the Great Becoming.

Before the elements there were spirits with no limitations, no boundaries, and most of all, no reason for deceit.

The Earth was a barren waste land like Mars.

But as all things come, changes are made, and people are different. But I will get to that. This is the beginning. These spirits could not lie , they didn't know how, they could not deceive, they had no motivation. They lived in a world of ignorant bliss, all except four.

These beings needed no landscape because they floated in each other conscious. They were knowledge and spirit. Not solid liquid or gas, and not earth, air, water, or fire.

One day, 2 beings were startled by the sensation of something slithering across their skin. It waved and rippled and made beautiful sounds. They found breath.

There bodies took on shape,when their curiosities took on distinction. They still felt and smelled; five senses and such.

They awoke alone, and they were scared because for once they didnt have any connection with the thoughts, so they started to speak, to communicat ina a more raw form, but it was more powerful, you see, because in thought they can only express feeling. It was vauge. but in there speech they could use words, communicate more than just emotion.

Then, the same day, they found a flowing substance that made rushing noises and felt cold on their SKIN. They found drink.

Another time that day, they discovered a warm temptation, too bright to touch and too beautiful to look at. They found warmth.

They conversed of this elixer, most were not interested, but 2 were, they were of the water. They found the joy in water where the other 2 found the joy in breath.

And when the last two felt the soft substsance between there toes, they had found earth.

They were now almost full in demension, and they had breath, drink, warmth, and earth but they were still not happy nor satisfied.

Because it was dark and lonely in their world. One day, they joined hands, and found a new substance. It was light. When they had light, they had life.

Once they had all found there desires, they wanted to be with them, their unfulfilled wish was so great that the spirits saw them and combined there wills to grant them the power to manipulate there desires, they granted them there life force so that they were the only ones left in substance, and the spirits were inside them. Using the power of the spirits, they could bend.

So these 8 Great ones had the power, but they didn't used it. That is in the story of the great becoming: the first usage of there powers.

[Isabel]

So these 8 Great Ones had the power, but they didn't know how to use it, to do this, they went through the great storm. the great storm was, scientifically, just that, a storm, but to them, it was a test to see if they could use there powers to survive. They were conversing with eachother about their love of the elements when they felt the storm. They, so unused to any physical sensation, were terrified. They saw that they needed shelter, and so the first to finish a test was the Earth benders.

They needed to find shelter from the heat, the wind, the rain, the dust. They were ona barren planet, with no pretection. they serched over the hoizon, but didn't get far, so they stopped. . they were tired and frustrated, tormented by these emotions wich they had never fewlt before, so they found the will to use their powers. The two earth benders felt thire poiwer insid eof them and they, acting on instinct, made the many mountains that cover our planet today, they were bender. Working together they also made a small shelter from the dirt. Feeling drained but satisfied they all went inside, and rested.

[Isabel]

the 8 benders now had there shelter. but every time they would go out to look for food the storm would push them back inside, someone had to calm the winds. The air benders took it upon themselves to do this. They ran out side and redirected the wind back upon itself, buy that wasn't enough. So they pushed it up, strait up into the sky, to space. the winds now blew about high above where they were camping. They were still blowing strong, but high enough to leave them in peace. That is how air benders created the atmosphere.

[Isabel]

After the wind stopped it got warmer, but it was still freezing outside. They were all going to die of hypothermia if they didn't get warm soon. Then everybody noticed that the 2 firebenders weren't cold at all. The heat seemed to radiate off of them. the fire benders tried to help the others by hugging them (the first huggs) but it still wasn't enough. They then tried to concentrate on the heat like the others did with there elements, but they couldnt move any heat because it was just heat, not actual fire, but it moved a little. they were soooo frustrated (fire benders have a temper) that there emotions just exploded out of them, and they created the first fire.