"Water... Earth... Fire... Air…" Katara voices over as the benders demonstrate as she talks. "My grandmother used to tell me stories about the old days, a time of peace when the Avatar kept the balance between the Water Tribes, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation, and Air Nomads. But that all changed when the Fire Nation attacked." It journeys into the map showing the world and closes in on a bender displaying all the elements. "Only the Avatar mastered all four elements. Only he could stop the ruthless firebenders. But when the world needed him most, he vanished." He disappears from sight. "A hundred years have passed and the Fire Nation is nearing victory in the war. Two years ago, my father and the men of my tribe journeyed to the Earth Kingdom to help fight against the Fire Nation, leaving me and my brother to look after our tribe." It shows the Water Tribe men on their boats and Katara hugging her older brother Sokka holding up a lantern. "Some people believe that the Avatar was never reborn into the Air Nomads and that the cycle is broken, but I haven't lost hope. I still believe that somehow the Avatar will return to save the world."
The Airbending Kid!
Water and ice everywhere, that was what was here in the South Pole where two teens in a small canoe fishing for food for their tribe. The boy's name is Sokka, he's the oldest of the two siblings and it shows as he stands up in the canoe readying himself. He looks down at the water, spear at the ready. The other was a girl, the younger sibling, she's Katara and much like everyone in the tribe wears a blue overcoat to keep warm. The canoe is drifting slowly through the ice-cold water as Sokka concentrates on his fishing. A fish swims close to the surface of the water in front of Sokka. "It's not getting away from me this time. Watch and learn, Katara. This is how you catch a fish." Sokka boasts keeping his eye on the fish in front of him. Katara leans over the edge of the canoe to see her own fish. She hesitates at first but removes her left glove from her hand. She takes a deep calming breath closing her eyes and lets it out, opening her eyes with a determined look in her eyes, she begins to move her hand in an up and down motion then a globe of water containing a fish bursts out of the water as she continues to move her arms around from side to side.
"Sokka, look!" Katara exclaims in excitement.
"Shhh. Katara, you're gonna scare it away. Mmmm... I can already smell it cookin'!" Sokka whispers at her trying to concentrate.
"But Sokka! I caught one!" Katara tells him as she tries to retain her control over the globe of water. She seems to struggle with the blob of water as it floats closer to Sokka, who at the wrong time raises his spear in the air to strike the fish. He cocks his arm back and bursts the water bubble, the fish falls back into the sea as Sokka gets drenched in water.
"Hey!" She complains disappointed.
"Ugh! Why is it that every time you play with magic water I get soaked?" He asks his shoulders slumping down.
"It's not magic. It's waterbending, and it's-" She tries reminding him of the facts.
"Yeah, yeah, an ancient art unique to our culture, blah blah blah. Look, I'm just saying that if I had weird powers, I'd keep my weirdness to myself." He interrupts her having heard it many times before.
"You're calling me weird? I'm not the one who makes muscles at myself every time I see my reflection in the water." She points out as Sokka again proves her point as she looks over to see him making muscles and looking at the water's reflection. He stops turning to Katara giving her a look. Suddenly the boat gets caught in a current bumping everywhere, they look to see they have entered an area full of ice.
They move around trying to manoeuvre their canoe between the icebergs in the water as they scream. "Watch out! Go left! Go left!" Katara shouts out in fear, the canoe moves through the ice pack with speed but the icebergs around them are colliding with one another. They narrowly miss them one by one till their canoe is crushed when three icebergs all collide at once. The two teens jump out at the right time onto one of the icebergs. "You call that left?" She asks her brother angrily.
"You don't like my steering. Well, maybe you should have waterbended us out of the ice." Sokka mocks her as they sit on their little iceberg and behind them, a huge one rears up from the water towering over them into the sky above.
"So it's my fault?" Katara asks him.
"I knew I should have left you home. Leave it to a girl to screw things up." He moans as Katara boils up in anger as she points at her brother.
"You are the most sexist, immature, nut-brained…" She raises her voice at him but as she says this the iceberg they are sitting on begins to move and a crack appears on the iceberg behind her. "Ugh, I'm embarrassed to be related to you! Ever since Mom died I've been doing all the work around camp while you've been off playing soldier!"
"Uh... Katara?" Sokka tries warning her seeing the cracking iceberg behind her.
"I even wash all the clothes! Have you ever smelled your dirty socks? Let me tell you, NOT PLEASANT!" She shouts.
"Katara! Settle down!" He warns her.
"No, that's it. I'm done helping you. From now on, you're on your own!" She screams at the end once she finishes, the iceberg behind her splits open entirely. It falls apart the major pieces falling into the water around it, pushing the iceberg away as the teens hold on tight until the iceberg settles down on the water.
"Okay, you've gone from weird to freakish, Katara," Sokka tells her.
"You mean I did that?" Katara asks him.
"Yup. Congratulations." He tells her looking as they both lean over the edge of the iceberg raft. Suddenly the water in front of them begins to glow an illuminating blue in the surface of the water. The teens move backwards on their little raft as another, slightly lighter colour iceberg breaks the surface of the water. The new iceberg begins to settle on the water, Katara walks to the edge of their iceberg to get a better look. Deep inside the ice, a figure of a boy in a meditation pose. The outline of white arrows on his fists and head when suddenly his eyes pop open with his eyes glowing and his arrow markings glow white too.
"He's alive! We have to help." Katara shouts grabbing Sokka's club putting her hood down and turns to the boy in the iceberg.
"Katara! Get back here! We don't know what that thing is!" He tries changing her mind but she just ignores him and skips across a few little patches of ice towards the boy trapped in ice and Sokka follows behind her. She begins using the club whacking the ice a few times after a few hard whacks, the ice cracks open. Air releases out as if the iceberg has a hollow chamber within it but it is not entirely clear. The iceberg cracks from the top to the bottom before exploding open. A large shaft of white-blue light shoots straight into the heavens above. The iceberg part under the water it glows brightly, the shaft of bright light can be seen from afar.
On an iron-hulled battleship with a spiked prow cutting through the sea nearby. On the bridge appears to be several decks above the main deck. A young man stands on the foredeck dressed in red armour, his head shaved except for a ponytail. He stares intently at the shaft of light in front of the ship. His face is illuminated by the shaft of light, the left side of his face is badly scarred around his left eye. The light from the shaft of light dissipates from the sky. "Finally," Zuko turning around to address someone behind him. "Uncle, do you realize what this means?" He asks. An old man seated cross-legged at a low table, drinking tea and playing a game.
"I won't get to finish my game?" Iroh guesses looking at his nephew.
"It means my search - it's about to come to an end," Zuko states with determination and Iroh groans and looks over to his right. "That light came from an incredibly powerful source. It has to be him!"
"Or it's just the celestial lights. We've been down this road before, Prince Zuko. I don't want you to get too excited over nothing. Please, sit. Why don't you enjoy a cup of calming jasmine tea?" Iroh asks him looking down at the piece in his hand.
"I don't need any calming tea! I need to capture the Avatar. Helmsman, head a course for the light!" Zuko explodes in anger before a burst of flame passes his face, he jumps back avoiding the flame, he looks to his right to see who had done that.
"Helmsman? Who is your superior?" A woman's voice asks, Zuko narrows his eyes at her as she walks over to him.
"You are, General Rin." Helmsman answers her.
"Very good, Prince Zuko, who is the superior here?" She asks him looking at him with a glare.
"I am." Zuko answers.
"You're wrong, little boy. I am, I am your superior here and I am in charge, so helmsman do as the little boy says and follow the course for the light and step on it." Rin orders and turns around to walk away. "They listen to me only. So do us all a favour and shut up grumpy." She walks away to a small group of soldiers.
The explosion of light from the iceberg, Sokka tries shielding his sister from the blast, the teens look up to see a blue light still swirling around the top of what is left of the iceberg. Suddenly a boy, his eyes and arrow markings still glow a white light. "Stop!" Sokka shouts raising his spear at the glowing boy. The Said boy stands up as the glowing and residual energy begins to fade. He seems to have passed out and slides down the side of the ruined iceberg to Sokka and Katara, they lunge forward and catch him as he falls. Sokka pokes Aang in the head with the blunt end of his weapon.
"Stop it!" Katara shouts as she gives Sokka the club turning to the boy. She gently turns him over so he's lying on his back. He begins to wake up. He slowly opens his eyes and the first thing he sees is Katara. A gentle breeze blows her braids and he takes a breath.
"I need to ask you something," Aang whispers in a weak voice.
"What?" Katara asks.
"Please... come closer," Aang whispers.
"What is it?" Katara asks him.
"Will you go penguin sledging with me?" Aang asks her in a normal voice filled with excitement.
"Uh... sure. I guess." Katara answers him as he airbends himself to his feet as he starts to rub the back of his head.
"Ahh!" Sokka exclaims in slight fear at the movement.
"What's going on here?" Aang asks them.
"You tell us! How'd you get in the ice?" Sokka asks him as he pokes Aang with his spear. "And why aren't you frozen?"
"I'm not sure," Aang tells him trying to move the spear away from himself absently. He gasps as a low, animal-like noise is heard from inside the iceberg, he frantically begins to climb back up the melted iceberg. He jumps over what is left of the iceberg and lands on a huge furry animal that is inside. "Appa! Are you alright? Wake up, buddy." He asks the beast. He leans down opening one of the beast's eyes then closes it again. Aang hops down from the beast and tries to lift the animal's large head, but with no effect. Katara and Sokka come around the corner and their mouths both drop in shock to see the beast, whose mouth opens and licks the young boy trying to wake him up. "Haha! You're okay!" He cheers and hugs Appa, he seems to be occupying most of the crater left by the explosion. He is a large bison with six legs and horns like a steer, he was a flying bison. Appa gets up shaking himself off a bit.
"What is that thing?" Sokka asks Aang pointing towards Appa.
"This is Appa, my flying bison." Aang introduces him.
"Right. And this is Katara, my flying sister." Sokka says sarcastically pointing to her as he says it. Aang opens his mouth to reply but Appa interrupts him as he begins to sneeze. Aang ducks just in time as Appa lets out a loud and large sneeze, it flies out and lands over Sokka. "Ewww! Aahh!" Sokka screams like a girl as he's covered in snot, he tries getting rid of it, rolling around on the ice and snow.
"Don't worry. It'll wash out." Aang informs him as if it were nothing.
"Ugh!" Sokka groans trying to wipe it off his face.
"So, do you guys live around here?" Aang asks the two teens.
"Don't answer that! Did you see that crazy bolt of light? He was probably trying to signal the Fire Navy." Sokka warns her looking at Aang with suspicion.
"Oh, yeah, I'm sure he's a spy for the Fire Navy. You can tell by that evil look in his eye." Katara jokes looking at the innocent face Aang was pulling. "The paranoid one is my brother, Sokka. You never told us your name."
"I'm A... aaaahhhh... ahhhhhh... aaah aaah aaah AAAAAAACHOOOO!" Aang sneezes zooming high up into the air from the ground, he lands on the ground with a whistling sound much like a bomb dropping. "I'm Aang." He introduces himself while sniffling and rubbing his nose due to the cold.
"You just sneezed... and flew ten feet in the air," Sokka exclaims in disbelief.
"Really? It felt higher than that." Aang disagrees lightly.
"You're an Airbender!" Katara gasps looking at Aang with a newfound realization.
"Sure am." Aang agrees with her a goofy smile on his face.
"Giant light beams... flying bison... airbenders... I think I've got Midnight Sun Madness. I'm going home to where stuff makes sense." Sokka tries reasoning, turning to walk off, but stops at the edge of the iceberg.
"Well, if you guys are stuck Appa and I can give you a lift." Aang offers airbending himself on the top of Appa's head, he sits down on a gigantic saddle on the beast's back, he reaches for the reins attached to both of Appa's horns.
"We'd love a ride! Thanks!" Katara says while climbing onto Appa.
"Oh, no... I am not getting on that fluffy snot monster." Sokka argues.
"Are you hoping some other kind of monster will come along and give you a ride home? You know... before you freeze to death?" Katara asks him sarcastically. Sokka opens his mouth to try to say something but gives up before he does. He sighs in defeat and gets onto Appa's back with Katara, the look of excitement on her face and Sokka looks all grumpy arms folded across his chest like a stubborn child.
"Okay. First-time flyers, hold on tight! Appa, yip yip!" Aang cheers, he shakes the reins but Appa just makes a low rumbling sound, he flaps his huge beaver-like tail then launches himself into the air. Appa spears his legs wide, but falls right back down into the water with a huge splash and begins to swim in the ice cold water back to their tribe. "Come on, Appa. Yip yip." Aang tries again but nothing.
"Wow. That was truly amazing." Sokka teases him looking gleeful.|
"Appa's just tired. A little rest and he'll be soaring through the sky. You'll see." Aang reasons making a 'soaring through the sky' motion with his hand, his eyes finally rest on Katara, he leaves them on Appa's saddle with a smile on his face as he looks at her.
"Why are you smiling at me like that?" Katara asks him looking at him strangely.
"Oh... I was smiling?" Aang asks her faking innocent.
"Uuuuugh." Sokka groans in disgust, as Appa swims through the water, flapping his tail.
Back on the Fire Navy Ship sailing in the night, Zuko stands on the spotting deck off the bridge looking forward, Iroh approaches him. "I'm going to bed now," Iroh tells him as he exaggerates his yawn. "Yep. A man needs his rest. Prince Zuko, you need some sleep. Even if you're right and the Avatar is alive, you won't find him. Your father, grandfather, and great-grandfather all tried and failed."
"Because their honour didn't hinge on the Avatar's capture. Mine does. This coward's hundred years in hiding are over." Zuko says with determination.
"Yeah, if he's still alive," Rin mumbles to herself walking away with two soldiers on either side, feeling the glare Zuko gives her retreating form.
Appa still swimming with the group still on his back, Aang lies back onto the top of Appa's head. Katara, sits down on the saddle on Appa's back with her brother, she crawls forward, she leans over looking down at Aang. "Hey." Katara greets lowly.
"Hey. Whatcha thinkin' about?" Aang asks her looking at her all dreamy.
"I guess I was wondering – you being an Airbender and all – if you had any idea what happened to the Avatar," Katara asks him snapping him out of his daze.
"Uh... no. I didn't know him... I mean, I knew people that knew him, but I didn't. Sorry." Aang lies trying not to look at her.
"Okay. Just curious. Goodnight." Katara says looking sullen.
"Sleep tight," Aang says as she turns away back onto the saddle, Aang looks away with a look of fear runs across his face as Appa keeps on swimming.
Aang walks up on top of Appa on the saddle with rain clouds in the sky with rain pouring from the dull sky, Aang finds himself struggling against Appa's reigns with more heavy rain pouring down. "Aaahhh!" Aang screams, he again finds himself somewhere else, this time underwater, Aang and Appa puncture the water surface and enter the watery depths. They make it up for a brief grace of air, Appa groans but they are once again driven down under by the harsh waves. They drift further downwards, Aang drops Appa's reigns beginning to lose consciousness but suddenly Aang's eyes and markings glow a bright white light. He puts his hands together, freezing himself and Appa in a huge ball of ice saving them.
"Aang! Aang, wake up!" Aang hears Katara's voice from far away growing closer, he wakes up with a gasp finding himself in a tent. "It's okay. We're in the village now. Come on, get ready. Everyone's waiting to meet you." She tells him as Aang gets up putting his shirt and hood on. Katara looks at his Airbender tattoos in slight awe, she grabs Aang's hand dragging him outside the tent as he carries his staff with him.
"Whaaaa!" Aang exclaims at the fast action as she puts him out into the village with a small crowd gathered wishing to greet him, in the crowd, it was only women of different ages and children.
"Aang, this is the entire village. Entire village, Aang." Katara introduces pointing to them, Aang bows to them in a friendly manner, but the people pull back from him anyway.
"Uh... why are they all looking at me like that? Did Appa sneeze on me?" Aang asks Katara looking over himself as an old woman walks over.
"Well, no one has seen an Airbender in a hundred years. We thought they were extinct until my granddaughter and grandson found you." Gran Gran informs him looking him over.
"'Extinct'?" Aang asks her looking confused.
"Aang, this is my grandmother," Katara tells him.
"Call me Gran Gran." She tells him.
"What is this, a weapon? You can't stab anything with this." Sokka says walking over to them from his spot outside the tent from before taking Aang's staff trying to find out what it does.
"It's not for stabbing," Aang tells him creating a jet of air that sucks the staff back into his own hand. "It's for airbending." He opens the staff showing that it's a glider with red wings.
"Magic trick! Do it again!" A little girl exclaims in excitement.
"Not magic, airbending. It lets me control the air currents around my glider and fly." Aang corrects her.
"You know, last time I checked, humans can't fly," Sokka argues.
"Check again!" Aang tells him launching himself into the air with his glider in his hands. He soars through the air, doing loops in the air as the villagers on the ground point at him in wonder.
"Whoa... it's flying... it's amazing!" They cheer, Aang looks down to the ground at Katara who smiles at him from the ground. He does seem to be paying attention he crashing right into Sokka's guard tower. He pulls his head out of the tower and falls to the ground with his glider with a crash groaning at the impact.
"My Watchtower!" Sokka cries out in disbelief.
"That was amazing." Katara smiles as she helps Aang back to his feet. He twirls his glider shut as Sokka examines the damaged tower behind them but once Aang closes his glider a huge bank of snow buries Sokka.
"Great. You're an Airbender, Katara's a waterbender, together you can just waste time all day long." Sokka grumbles.
"You're a waterbender!" Aang exclaims looking at Katara.
"Well... sort of. Not yet." Katara tells him timidly her cheeks turning a tinge of red.
"Alright. No more playing. Come on, Katara, you have chores." Gran Gran tells her leading her away.
"I told you! He's the real thing, Gran Gran! I finally found a bender to teach me." Katara tells her.
"Katara, try not to put all your hopes in this boy." Gran Gran warns her knowing how stubborn her granddaughter is.
"But he's special. I can tell. I sense he's filled with much wisdom." Katara tells her looking over to her right to see Aang with his tongue frozen to his staff, the children gathered around him.
"Sthee? Now my tongue ith thuck to my sthaff." Aang slurs, a child next to him grabs the staff yanking it, but Aang's tongue stays stuck.
"Tee hee!" The children clap.
The Fire Navy ship cuts through the waves as the sun sets with Zuko facing two Fire Navy seamen with Iroh sitting nearby with Rin next to him. "Again," Iroh tells him as Zuko blasts fire from his hands at the guards but misses. The guards attack Zuko with blasts of fire from their firsts, but Zuko dodges them. He backflips the guards to land behind them. "Ha! Heeya!" Iroh sighs getting up from his spot.
"No! Power in firebending comes from the breath. Not the muscles. The breath becomes energy in the body. The energy extends past your limbs and becomes fire. Show him Rin." Iroh says as Rin gets up walking towards the Prince, she demonstrates, releasing a controlling plume of flame that bursts in front of Zuko but doesn't hit him. "Get it right this time."
"Enough. I've been drilling this sequence all day. Teach me the next set. I'm more than ready." Zuko argues aggressively.
"No, you are impatient. You have yet to master your basics. Drill it again!" Iroh says the last bit more forceful.
"Grrrr... huh!" Zuko explodes as he blasts one of the guards backwards with a gout of fire. "The sages tell us that the Avatar is the last Airbender. He must be over a hundred years old by now. He's had a century to master the four elements. I'll need more than basic firebending to defeat him. You WILL teach me the advanced set!" He argues.
"Very well. But first I must finish my roast duck." Iroh tells him and begins eating.
"You rest Iroh, I'll take it from here," Rin tells him walking in front of Zuko with her eyes narrowed at him, she curls her hand into a fist with a burst of flames shooting out to Zuko pushing him onto his back. "Let's begin shall we, Prince Zuko." She smirks down at him with the guards around them whispering and staring at the two in fear as Zuko looks up at her with anger.
Sokka stands with the afternoon sky behind him addressing an audience as he paces back and forth. "Now men, it's important that you show no fear when you face a firebender. In the Water Tribe, we fight to the last man standing. For without courage, how can we call ourselves men?" He asks them but his audience a bunch of children looking at him with boredom.
"I gotta pee!" A little boy tells him raising his hand.
"Listen! Until your father's return from the war, they're counting on you to be the men of this tribe. And that means no potty breaks." Sokka tells them.
"But I really gotta go." The little boy argues.
"Okay... who else has to go?" Sokka asks sighing and all six of their hands rise into the air. Sokka slaps his forehead in disgust as all six of them leave and Katara arrives.
"Have you seen Aang? Gran Gran said he disappeared over an hour ago." Katara asks him.
Aang emerges from a small igloo type bathroom stall, he straightens up adjusting his pants and smiles at the boys coming over to him. "Wow! Everything freezes in there!" Aang laughs gesturing over his shoulder to the toilet and the boys laugh with him.
"Ugh! Katara, get him out of here. This lesson is for warriors only." Sokka tells her. They get interrupted by one of the kids exclaiming in joy, they look over to see Aang on Appa's back, he has his tail propped up using a makeshift sawhorse. One of the children uses Appa's back and tail as a slide to land in a pile of snow. The children laugh at the fun and Katara joins in on the laughing. "Stop! Stop it right now!" Sokka orders them then turns to Aang. "What's wrong with you? We don't have time for fun and games with a war going on." He asks him.
"What war?" Aang asks them hopping down from Appa's back. "What are you talking about?"
"You're kidding, right?" Sokka asks him but Aang moves his gaze slightly off of Sokka to look behind him.
"PENGUIN!" Aang screams jumping in joy looking at the penguin, the penguin stops in its tracks as if aware that it has been spotted, makes an excited noise turning to waddle away. Aang uses his airbending skills to run at an unbelievable speed towards the penguin.
"He's kidding, right?" Sokka asks looking at his sister who shrugs her shoulders.
On the beach, penguins waddle around squawking, Katara tries looking around for Aang. "Aang?" She calls out as Aang chases some penguins around, unable to catch any of them as they waddle away.
"Haha! Hey, come on little guy. Wanna go sledging?" Aang asks them, then lunges for one but lands flat on his face. He gets back up as Katara walks over to him. "Oof! Heh heh, I have a way with animals." He says putting his arms out like the Penguin and waddles the same. "Yarp! Yarp yarp! Yarp! Yarp yarp! Yarp!"
"Hahaha... Aang, I'll help you catch a penguin if you teach me waterbending." Katara giggles looking at his act.
"You got a deal! Just one little problem. I'm an Airbender, not a waterbender. Isn't there someone in your tribe who can teach you?" Aang asks her.
"No. You're looking at the only waterbender on the whole South Pole," Katara says looking way in sadness.
"This isn't right. A waterbender needs to master water. What about the North Pole? There's another Water Tribe up there, right? Maybe they have waterbenders who could teach you." Aang asks her looking so hopeful.
"Maybe. But we haven't had contact with our sister tribe in a long time. It's not exactly 'turn right at the second glacier.' It's on the other side of the world." Katara tells him.
"But you forget: I have a flying bison. Appa and I can personally fly you to the North Pole. Katara, we're gonna find you a master!" Aang tells her with glee.
"That's…" She says happily but pauses. "I mean, I don't know. I've never left home before." She says in concern thinking of her home.
"Well, you think about it. But in the meantime, can you teach me to catch one of these penguins?" Aang asks her trying to have fun.
"Okay, listen closely my young pupil. Catching penguins is an ancient and sacred art. Observe." Katara tells him in a mock teaching voice. She goes into her coat and pulls out a little fish and tosses it to Aang, he is then instantly surrounded by a horde of hungry penguins.
Katara and Aang rocket off the ice bank in the late afternoon, each sitting atop a penguin. They land on the bank below and continue down at a high speed on the penguin's belly. Aang and his penguin take a jump off a small ramp, eventually landing in front of Katara, she takes the jump and lands near him and they laugh and cheer. "I haven't done this since I was a kid!" Katara exclaims.
"You still are a kid!" Aang exclaims back at her. They rocket across the frozen landscape, they enter a system of ice tunnels. The tunnels have gaps with sunlight pouring through, they emerge from the tunnels and get off their penguins, which stand up and dizzily wander away making little-chirping noises. They walk forward, looking in front of them. "Whoa... what is that?" Aang asks her looking at a huge ship stuck in the ice. It was a derelict Fire Navy ship, the shadow on the ice from the sun behind it.
"A Fire Navy ship, and a very bad memory for my people," Katara tells him with a deadly serious tone as Aang begins to walk towards the ship. "Aang, stop! We're not allowed to go near it. The ship could be booby-trapped."
"If you wanna be a bender, you have to let go of fear," Aang tells her, but she looks uncertain but follows him to the ship.
They climb up the ice onto the ship and enter inside through a gaping hole in one of the forward compartment below the water line. They walk around the dark corridors inside, past many darkened rooms. "This ship has haunted my tribe since Gran Gran was a little girl. It was part of the Fire Nation's first attacks." Katara tells him.
"Okay, back up. I have friends all over the world, even in the Fire Nation. I've never seen any war." Aang argues gently with her looking around the room.
"Aang, how long were you in that iceberg?" Katara asks looking at him.
"I don't know... a few days, maybe?" Aang questions not sure himself.
"I think it was more like a hundred years!" Katara tells him in shock.
"What? That's impossible. Do I look like a hundred-twelve-year-old man to you?" Aang asks her looking confused.
"Think about it. The war is a century old. You don't know about it because, somehow, you were in there that whole time. It's the only explanation." Katara tells him as he puts his hand to his head and walks backwards stunned by this realization, he sinks to the floor.
"A hundred years! I can't believe it." Aang says in disbelief at the statement,
"I'm sorry, Aang. Maybe somehow there's a bright side to all this." She kneels down next to him in comfort.
"I did get to meet you." He smiles at her.
"Come on. Let's get out of here." She smiles back at him as she helps him back onto his feet and they start walking once again around the ship. Aang enters a dark room on the ship, Katara behind him in the hallway. "Aang? Let's head back. This place is creepy."
"Huh?" Aang asks as his foot drags a trip wire on the floor. Behind them the door gets blocked by a grate that drops from the ceiling, they grab it just after it falls shut on them but they are trapped inside the room. "What's that you said about booby traps?" Around them, machinery in the room starts to operate, with steam pressure and wheels begin turning. Steam begins to pour out of some of the equipment. Suddenly, a bright flare explodes out of the Fire Navy ship and into the sky above, leaving a trail of smoke behind it. Aang and Katara look out the window of the ship's bridge. "Uh oh." The flare explodes with a small shower of sparks, Aang and Katara are on the bridge where a hole in the ceiling as Aang looks at it. "Hold on tight!" He grabs Katara, she cries out in surprise by the action, he launches them both through the hole in the ceiling, he lands with her in his arms on top of the bridge.
Zuko looks through a telescope following the flare down for a few moments, before shifting downwards to show Aang hopping down the ship and the ice which encases it to the ground below, Katara still in his arms. "The Last Airbender. Quite agile for his old age. Wake my uncle! Tell him I found the Avatar…" Zuko says looking through the telescope as Aang and Katara run across the ice away from the ship. He scans left quickly, then pulls back right to focus on the Water Tribe Village. "...as well as his hiding place." He pulls away and looks to his left to see Rin who looks at him they both have a determined on their faces and nod to one another.
To Be Continued...