Element of Fire

Avatar: The Legend of Twilight

Book One: Fire

Prologue

Ponies of Ponyville roamed about in their everyday business. The weather was sunny, but not hot, and the skies were almost clear. It seemed as though the pegasi, were finishing their job of clearing the clouds, making it seem like a good day, if not, perfect. The birds chirped a song of nature, and a light breeze flew throughout the calmness of the land, causing the trees sway gently. Everything seemed fine, but that was only on the surface...

Somewhere below ground, a group of earth ponies were planning something big.

"Hey Gravel Hoof, are you ready?" the red stallion-known as the Lieutenant- asked.

"Ready, Lieutenant. Today is the day that we finally show the world who we are, and what we're going to do. Let's call Sombra, he told us to call him first," Gravel Hoof replied.

The Lieutenant then picked up the telephone, his thoughts buzzing on what he should say to his leader. Gravel Hoof noticed his expression and snickered.

"Should've wrote what you wanted to say to leader like you did with the speech," he said.

Lieutenant rolled his eyes, raising his hoof in front of the gray pony's face. Gravel Hoof was loyal and cunning, but still wasn't smart enough to keep his darn mouth shut. He could be so stupid at times, it was hard to even believe he was his partner.

"Will you be quiet-"

"Hello. Lieutenant?" another pony's voice said on the other side of the phone. It was Sombra, the leader. His voice was deep, and intimidating, even to his associates. The red stallion straightened his posture, as if his leader was facing him in this very room, right now.

"Oh- hello, Le- Sombra, it's Brick. Er, I mean, Lieutenent. Vice versa."

"I can tell, and speak properly. I can't have you announce the start of a revelation with you sounding like a colt in pony school!"

"My apologies, sir." From the corner of Brick's eye, he could see Gravel snickering. He gave the gray stallion a threatening glare. Almost instantly, the snickering stopped, but that annoying expression remained on his face.

"Hm. Anyways, did you properly hack the radio system?" Sombra asked, breaking the Lieutenant's glare.

"Yes. Once the microphone turns on, the speech will be heard by ponies all across Equestria."

"Excellent. Now, begin. I do not want to waste precious seconds with a simple phone call."

The call ended quickly. The red stallion nodded towards Gravel Hoof, who lifted the microphone, and handed it to Lieutenant's own hooves, and turned it on.

Radios all across Equestria stopped their usual broadcasting. At first, there was a sharp, static noise. Then, silence.

This rarely happened, and ponies put their hooves to work as they tried to fix their radio, in confusion, frustration and worry. But it was no use. It was if a force was controlling the radios. And, there was. Not exactly a force, a pony. Somewhere below...

There was quietude.

After that, a voice was heard. But not a regular broadcaster pony. This voice was... unrecognizable. Static blended into the voice as well, but it wasn't loud enough so that anypony couldn't hear the mysterious voice.

"Greetings, Equestria. I know this may seem a little out of the blue, but I assure you, this speech won't be long, and things are about to change.

For the better.

"Now, let me give you a quick story. Ever since the beginning of Equestria, earth ponies, unicorns and pegasi lived in harmony. Ha! It's probably written somewhere on the page of a book, in some dusty ol' library. But be honest, my fellow earth ponies. Was it always so harmonic? Benders- they think they have all the power in the world! Which, I must say, is true! I bet they're so full of themselves, showing off their wings or horns to normal ponies, bragging about the fact that they can bend an element, while we non-benders hide in their shadow, disgraceful of how we are nothing more than simple ponies who can't do anything! But now, we can change that. We have the power in our hooves, the power to change the world! Soon, the elements; fire, air, water, earth, and magic will be no more! Nopony will have to be different- everything will be equal! You will see.

"The most important part of my speech is that, earth ponies, we need you. We need you to join us, to form an alliance against the tyranny of benders! We will start our revolution, starting one place at a time, and we need the power! Our power is stronger together, enough to take down this twisted world of bender ponies! Still not convinced? Sozin's comet- a comet that only happens every 100 years, will enhance the powers of fire-bending ponies. I bet that they're so desperate to stop us from achieving equality, they'll harness the comet's power to annihilate us. Who knows? Its likely though, and the comet is coming in what, a month? Beware, you never know with the fire ponies. Even the Equestrian Council, the Fire-bender Representative, Miss Fire Lily, is already planning to do what I had just said, because I know. I can feel it.

"Speaking of Sozin, it's almost funny, because Sozin was a fire pony who wanted to conquer Equestria into a fire nation! He even tried to wipe out the air ponies, but don't worry, pegasi. We will show *some mercy. But who will control the weather? Oh why, nature, of course! We cannot risk having a single pegasus throw off our plan of equality, and it certainly wouldn't be fair that they have power, while the earth ponies and the soon-to-be non-bending unicorns look up to them, I mean, literally! Always up in the sky, showing the sin of sloth by napping on a cloud. And that, little ponies, is not a lie.*

"Alas, we will have a convocation soon, and benders who secretly sneak in will automatically be volunteers to be stripped of their bending. Our leader, Sombra, will handle them. And soon, benders will be extinct.

"Finally, if you're wondering who we are, who Sombra is or anything, time will tell you the answers soon. But who are we, the light in the dark, shadowy world of bender ponies?

We, are the equalist ponies."