Chapter 3 – "What War?"

Aang set of in need to find a toilet. Rather funny that he couldn't find it in over an hour, when he did, he couldn't figure out how to use it.
That was funny to.

Sokka was drilling the little men of the Tribe the basics of Solider
'How can we call ourselves Men?!' Sokka asked them
one put their hand up after a little bit of silence and said 'I gotta pee!'
'Listen! Until your fathers come back from the War. They are counting on your to be the Men of this Tribe! And that means no potty breaks!'
'But I really gotta go!'
Sokka sighed 'Alright, who else has to go?'
They all put their hands up, and Sokka slapped himself on the forehead.

'Have you seen Aang? Gran-Gran said that he disappeared almost an hour ago.' Katara asked Sokka when she walked up to him

Aang, finally figure out how to get out when the children where going
'Wow! Everything freezes in there!'
They all laughed
'After you're done! We can play some more!'
They all followed him to Appa, he told them to stay and he ran off to find things to prop up Appa's tale into a slide of sorts

'Ugh! Katara, get him out of here! This lesson is for Warrior's only!'
They both turned too heard on of the children having fun. And to see another sliding down Appa's tail into a batch of snow below.
Katara thought it was great and laughed. Sokka on the other hand didn't

'Stop!' he nearly tripped over the snow ledge. 'Stop it right now!' he walked over to Appa. 'What's wrong with you? Theirs no time for fun and games when theirs a War going on!' He said while pulling a spear from where it was propped.

'What war?' Aang asked as he dropped down from Appa 'what are you talking about?'
'You're kidding, right?'
Right in the line of Aang's sight was a—
'PENGUIN!!!' He then proceeded to chase after it with Air Bender speed

'He's kidding, right?' Sokka asked Katara who looked at him with a look of "you're-an-idiot"

Katara then walked in the direction of where Aang ran of in
'Where are you going?'
'I'm going to see that he doesn't get lost.'

'Aang?'
She heard him laughing so he couldn't be too far away. As long as he could stand out from all the penguins, she'd be able to spot him easily. She soon found him while he was saying
'Hey, come on, little guy, wanna go Penguin sledding?' He asked as he tried to catch one in vainly. Katara walked over to him as he Bended himself to stand

'I have a way with animals,' he informed her, and then proceeded to do a little display of what he though was Penguin
Katara laughed at him

'Aang. I help you to catch a penguin, if you teach me to Water Bend.'
Aang was being dragged by one penguin's tale, dropped the tail and turned his head to her.
'You got a deal! Just one little problem, I'm an Air Bender,' he Air Bended himself into a sitting position on the snow, 'not a Water Bender. Isn't there someone in you Tribe who can teach you?'
'No,' she said as she turned sideways, 'you're looking at the only Water Bender in the whole South Pole.'

'This isn't right. A Water Bender needs to master water… What about the North Pole? Theirs another Water Tribe up there, right? Maybe they have Water Benders who can teach you.'
'Maybe. But we haven't had contact with our Sister Tribe for a long time, it's not exactly turn right and the second glacier. It's on the other side of the world.'
'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.'

Leave home!?

'That's – I mean, I don't know… I've never really left home before…'
'Well, you think about it. But in the mean time, can you teach me to catch on of these penguins!?'

'Okay! Listen closely, my young pupil. Catching Penguin's is a sacred and noble art. Observe—'
Yeah right. Katara thought then threw him a piece of fish. He caught it at the same time the Penguin's smelt it, and came to him, he started to laugh, even as they pulled him down.

'Sledding!' Aang said, as one of the Penguins who had some fish was lenient enough to let him ride. Katara laughed as he persuaded her to get on one to.

Then they were both sledding down the icy hill. Both laughing all the way. Jumping of one to another, Aang was in the lead. Not that this was a race. Aang pulled his Penguin to a little glitch and flew over Katara's head, laughing as he did so. He landed ahead of Katara, who saw a glitch in the ice where Aang landed, went over it and flew a little, she landed next to Aang's Penguin.

'I haven't done this, since I was a kid!' Katara exclaimed, forgetting how it was to actually ride Penguins
'You still are a kid!'

The then raced into an ice-hill-cave. Where everything was dark, less the place has a hole in it where the sun was pecking in. Aang was behind Katara until he Air Bended to get in front of her.

The penguins slowed, and they got of them. Aang noticed a very large shadow, and looked up and asked;
'Whoa, what is that?'
'A Fire Navy ship.' Katara answered. 'And a very bad memory for my People.'

Katara noticed that Aang was starting to walk towards it
'Aang, stop!' She put her hand out, he kept on going though, 'we're not aloud to go near it. The ship could be bobby trapped!'
Aang stopped to turn to her. 'If you wanna be a Bender, you have to let go of fear.'

I really don't wanna do this. Katara thought uneasily, but I want to be a Bender. Katara was still uneasy as she started to walk in the direction Aang was walking. Aang smiled to her, and then led the way to the jeered iced rocks.

Why is a Fire Navy Ship all the way out here? Aang questioned in his mind. It wasn't like the Fire Nation to go around with their Navy ships, unless of course, they wanted to trade… but that wasn't in Navy ships.

I wonder if Aang knows why this ship is such a bad memory for my People… The way he acted was like he didn't know… but why wouldn't he know about the War? He couldn't have been in the Iceberg that long! He would be a lot older, and he'd probably wouldn't be alive…

Aang helped her up the jeered ice rocks, even though he was smaller then her, he had the wind on his side, and could save himself if he fell. She on the other hand, could not. He helped her up the last jeered block where they saw a cracked entrance, then when he knew she was alright to climb herself he let her go, and went in first.

The looked into all the doors they came across, they went past a ladder where they heard the field ice mouse squeak. They even walked past the weapons room, which they went into.
'This ship has haunted my Tribe ever since Gran-Gran was a little girl. It was part of the Fire Nation's first attacks.'
Aang stared at the weapons
'Okay, back up,' he said to her while walking along the weapons holder, 'I have friends all over the world – even in the Fire Nation. And I haven't seen any War.' He told her while picking up a pick and examining it.

'Aang, how long were you in that iceberg?'
'I don't know, a few days maybe?'
'I think it was more like a hundred years!'

What?!

'What? That's impossible; do I look like a hundred and twelve year old man to you?' Aang asked her
'Think about it, the war is a century old, you don't know about it because, somehow, you were in there the whole time.' Aang looked devastated, 'it's the only explanation.'

Aang put his hand to his head, backed up into the fall, and then slid down it
'A hundred years! I can't believe it.'
Katara went over to him, and put her hand on his shoulder,
'I'm sorry, Aang. Maybe somehow theirs a bright side to all this…' she tried to suggest.
He looked towards her 'I did get to meet you.'

Katara smiled at him.

'Come on, lets get out of here,' Katara suggested to him, then held out her hands to take his and pulled him up. Then they left the weapons room. Aang kept going, he went up that ladder, he looked in every corridor or room he went past.
'Aang, lets head back, this place gives me the creeps.' Katara told him as they walked into a room, which looked like a boiler room
'Huh?' Aang looked down to see his foot meet a wire, which was covered in sleet. The door behind them closed, and they ran to it
'What was that you said about bobby traps?' he asked her.

Then behind them, all the weird gadgets started working, spitting steam out and making weird noises. Then they heard a noise from outside. When they went to the window to see what the noise was,
it was a flare

'Uh-oh.' Aang said seeing the flare. He then saw the hatch that was open. We need to get out of here! He then walked under it; Katara saw him move and looked to him.
'Hold on tight.' He then grabbed Katara and flew out of the hatch onto the ships outside. Much to Katara's dismay, who wasn't expecting him to fly out of the ship, yelp in surprise. Aang continued to make jumps all the way down the ship, still holding Katara as he did so. When he got to the icy floor, he let her go, and then started to walk.

'We should get back, the Tribe probably saw it,'
'Yeah.' Aang said in reply to Katara. Then they both started to run in the direction of the Village.

Not even knowing that a Fire Navy ship with a certain scarred Prince had spotted the flare… and Aang.

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(A/N: Well I must say I've enjoyed doing this. And I GOT IN TROUBLE FOR DOING IT BECAUSE IT TOOK SO LONG! It took me, like, three or so says, to, totally write this story up. I do have a social life. And I have my room to unpack so… YEAH! NO WONDER IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO WRITE IT! Um… Yeah I say this now.
Please, please, PLEASE tell me if you liked it -.- because this is the end of the episode (if you didn't know already). When I first watched it, I SO wanted to watch the next ep. But at the time I had no download limit to do so, and the TV series was FAR FAR away from the second episode. It was like in the second series at the time. Yeah, I'm weird, I watch the second series but I haven't seen the first. Go figure.
Anyways… I'M OUTTA HERE!)