"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 Kid's The Avatar?
It was sunset in the Water Tribe village, Gran Gran and some of the other villagers look down the ice road out of their village to see Aang and Katara in the distance walking towards them. As the teens approach them, the children run over to greet them. "Yay! Aang's back!" The Children cheer gathering around Aang as Sokka walks towards them angrily.
"I knew it! You signalled the Fire Navy with that flare! You're leading them straight to us, aren't you?" Sokka accuses Aang pointing him out.
"Aang didn't do anything. It was an accident." Katara protests against the accusation.
"Yeh, we were on the ship and there was this booby trap and well…" Aang tells them putting his hand to his head as if trying to puzzle out the thought. "...we "boobied" right into it."
"Katara, you shouldn't have gone on that ship. Now we could all be in danger!" Gran Gran shakes her head in disappointment at her granddaughter.
"Don't blame Katara! I brought her there. It's my fault." Aang protests trying to protect Katara.
"Aha! The traitor confesses! Warriors, away from the enemy!" Sokka exclaims and the children walk away from Aang towards Sokka and Gran Gran. "The foreigner is banned from our village!"
"Sokka, you're making a mistake," Katara tells him angrily.
"No! I'm keeping my promise to Dad. I'm protecting you from threats like him!" Sokka yells.
"Aang is not our enemy! Don't you see? Aang's brought us something we haven't had in a long time. Fun." Katara motions to Aang trying to help her cause.
"Fun? We can't fight firebenders with fun!" Sokka argues against the idea.
"You should try it sometime." Aang offers smiling earnestly.
"Get out of our village. Now!" Sokka orders Aang with no remorse on his face.
"Grandmother, please, don't let Sokka do this." Katara pleads with her.
"Katara, you knew going on that ship was forbidden. Sokka is right. I think it best if the Airbender leaves." Gran Gran tells her.
"Then I'm banished too!" Katara yells back, she turns around, taking Aang by his shoulder and they begin to walk away. "C'mon, Aang, let's go!"
By the village on the left, Appa was ready for flight, while Sokka and the villagers stand on the right. In between them, is Katara and Aang making their way over to Appa, with the sun about to set behind them. "Where do you think you're going?" Sokka asks Katara pointing at her.
"To find a waterbender! Aang is taking me to the North Pole!" Katara yells back at him.
"I am? Great!" Aang seems confused at first but brightens up at the thought of spending more time with Katara.
"Katara!" Sokka calls out to her and she stops in her tracks. "Would you really choose him over your tribe? Your own family?" He asks her. She pauses in her step in doubt. Aang comes up next to her.
"Katara, I don't want to come between you and your family," Aang tells her and walks away towards Apps.
"So, you're leaving the South Pole? This is goodbye?" Katara asks him looking sad.
"Thanks for penguin sledging with me." Aang directs the question away.
"Where will you go?" She asks him.
"Guess I'll go back home and look for the airbenders." He pats Appa's head. "Wow, I haven't cleaned my room in a hundred years. Not looking forward to that." He thinks aloud. He airbends himself onto Appa's head where he takes the reigns. He turns to address the village. "It was nice meeting everyone."
"Let's see your bison fly now, air boy." Sokka teases him trying to get the last laugh.
"Come on, Appa, you can do it! Yip! Yip!" Aang exclaims moving the reins but Appa just rumbles getting to his feet.
"Yeh, I thought so." Sokka scoffs, just as a little girl with pigtails rushes over with a cry and stands next to Katara.
"Aang! Don't go! We'll miss you!" The Little Girl cries out with tears in her eyes.
"I'll miss you too," Aang replies sadness in his voice as he turns to look at Katara, her braids blow in the soft breeze that rolls by. Aang turns away, shaking the reigns once more.
"Come on, boy," Aang says and Appa begins to walk off, Katara and the little girl watch on with everyone else behind them. The little girl runs off crying back to the village while Gran Gran comes up behind Katara.
"Katara, you'll feel better after you –" Gran Gran tries reasoning with her but she is cut off.
"You happy now? There goes my one chance of becoming a waterbender!" Katara cuts her off angrily shouting at her before stalking off with heavy footsteps, leaving Gran Gran alone. Sokka directs the little boys through the village gate.
"All right! Ready our defences! The Fire Nation could be on our shores any moment now!" Sokka warns them, one of the little boys stops, raising his head and dances around suggestively.
"But, I gotta –" The little boy pleads.
"And no potty breaks!" Sokka tells them pointing at them.
In the frozen wastelands outside of the Water Tribe village, Appa and Aang rest in a curved formation of ice and snow. The formation was two doughnuts shaped holes, Appa lies on his back in the lower ring, Aang in the smaller but higher one. Appa makes a rumbling noise. "Yeh, I liked her too," Aang says looking out to see something in the distance with shock get to his feet to see a Fire Navy's ship steaming towards the Water Tribe village. He looks over to the ship and to where the village lies over the horizon. "The village!" Aang shouts, he slides off his perch. "Appa, wait here!" Appa rumbles in reply shifting his position slightly.
Sokka back in the village readies himself putting on his war garb, his fingerless gloves, arm wraps, boots and finally face pain done with silence.
On the Fire Navy ship, Zuko is being helped into his armour by some attendants as he stands. He places his breastplate, shoulder guards and helmet on himself. Rin walks into the room in her armour, her helmet by her side, she looks at Zuko narrowing her eyes sizing him up readying him for battle then nods putting on her helmet before leaving.
Sokka leaves his tent with his weapons at hand. Alone, Sokka stands atop the ice wall of the village, scanning the mist for any sign of the enemy. Suddenly, a rumbling noise can be heard and the ground begins to shake. Parts of the wall on which Sokka stands on begin to crumble down. The villagers look around themselves in alarm of what is to come. Sokka stands as his watchtower in the background collapses in a heap of snow and ice. "Oh man!" Sokka grumbles to himself as he looks behind him at the fall of his watchtower. Chaos breaks out in the Water Tribe village as people begin to run every way. Katara in the midst of the panic sees something in the mist. Still, atop of the ice wall, Sokka looks so small as a massive shadow suddenly emerges from the mist, dwarfing Sokka. It is the bow of the Fire Navy Ship that boards Prince Zuko. "Ohhh, man!" He yells out as the ship approaches. The ship cuts through the ice all the way to the village wall itself. As the ship continues to break through the ice towards the wall, Katara puts Gran Gran into one of the tents at the back of the village then gets a small child out of harm's way as the ice floor of the village begins to crack all over the ground under the stress.
As Katara puts the child in a tent nearby, she turns to look back to Sokka, the ship as it reaches the wall, Sokka steadies himself at the ship's hull with his weapon in hand. "Sokka, get out of the way!" Katara shouts out at him. The ship finally reaches the village wall, it collapses under the hit into a heap of ice and snow tumbling back into the village, carrying Sokka with it. The ship comes to a halt, steam floats up from where the bow split the ice. The villagers, Katara in front, emerge from their shelter and stare in fear and amazement of the ship. Katara draws a deep breath in suspense, Sokka looks up at the ship, who also draws breath.
The sound of metal on metal from the bowsprit of the ship opening and folding out and down onto the Water Tribe's village ground. The bowsprit becomes a huge gangplank, for the disembarking Fire Nation troops, Sokka falls onto his back trying to avoid being crushed by the bowsprit.
As the steam clears from the top of the bowsprit, Zuko and a host of Fire Nation soldiers are revealed. Sokka and the village look on at them in fear, Zuko walks down the gangplank stairs followed by guards.
Sokka gets up slowly and charges at Zuko with a loud war cry. As he runs up the steps to Zuko, he casually and expertly kicks Sokka's weapon out of his hand then kicks Sokka in the face, sending him sprawling on the ice to the right. Sokka's head gets stuck in the snow, he struggles trying to free himself. The villagers draw back in fright and the ease with which their only warrior was put down by the invaders. The Fire Nation troops arrive at the village border in front of them stand the villagers, Zuko walks towards them to address the village. He looks over the crowd, then walks over to Katara and Gran Gran. "Where are you hiding him?" Zuko asks them, looking around the crowd as they do not respond. He grabs hold of Gran Gran showing her to the villagers. "He'd be about this age? Master of all elements?" He asks them but again no one responds. After a brief pause, he throws Gran Gran roughly back to Katara. With a cry of frustration, he launches a gout of flame over the villager's heads as they cower in fear. "I know you're hiding him!" He yells at them. Behind him, Sokka gets up after freeing himself. He retrieves his weapon and charges at Zuko with another war cry. Zuko turns around to him in annoyance but stops when seeing Rin holding Sokka by the neck, with a tug he falls onto his back. Rin places herself in front of the Prince to protect him. Rin drops onto her knee punching the ground by Sokka's head, but as she does he rolls out of the way, throwing his boomerang at her as he does. Rin moves her head only slightly avoiding the boomerang and moves Zuko at the same time. Zuko turns to look back in anger at Sokka over the near miss. A little boy in the crowd of villagers throws Sokka a spear.
"Show no fear!" The little boy shouts out, Sokka catches the spear and charges at the soldier, who, as Sokka reaches her, breaks off pieces of the spear shaft with just her wrist guard. After the head of the spear is shorn off, Rin grabs the spear, hitting Sokka on the forehead with it several times, then breaks it in half over her knee and drops the pieces to the ground. Sokka, after getting hit, sinks to the ground, rubbing his head. Rin stands over him sternly. In the sky the boomerang reappears, it slams into the back of Zuko's head, knocking his helmet off kilter. Zuko becomes furious, spitting fire out of his hands as he storms over to hover menacingly over Sokka.
Aang skyrockets towards the village on a penguin, staff in hand. He flies right under Zuko, sweeping his legs out from under him, knocking Rin down onto her back. Zuko lands on his arse, his helmet lands on him. The children cheer as Aang reaches the villagers. As Aang and the Penguin bank, they dump a lot of snow on the cheering kids. They stop cheering for a moment, but then take up another cheer anyway. The Penguin slides to a halt pushing Aang off, the penguin gets up, looking at Aang then turns and waddles away. "Hey, Katara. Hey, Sokka." Aang calls out seeming to not know what he had done.
"Hi...Aang. Thanks for comin'." Sokka replies dryly. Aang looks over at the Firebenders. Zuko gets to his feet along with Rin both assuming a firebending stance, Rin with her helmet still on, Aang at the ready with his staff. He is surrounded by Zuko and his men, they begin to close in on him, but Aang blows the men on either side of him back with a blast of air. He blasts Zuko and Rin as well, but they hold their ground, they shield their faces from the wind. "Looking for me?" He asks.
"You're the Airbender? You're the Avatar?" Zuko asks looking at him in disbelief.
"Aang?" Katara gasps.
"No way," Sokka says also in disbelief., as Zuko and Aang manoeuvre for position against each other in the middle of the village which seems to have become an arena.
"I've spent years preparing for this encounter. Training. Meditating. You're just a child!" Zuko tells him in disappointment at the outcome, he signals Rin secretly to back off as she makes a step towards them but stops.
"Well, you're just a teenager." Aang counters, before Zuko, fires blast after blast at him, as he cries out. Aang is hard pressed, fear showing on his face. Aang dissipates each blast as it strikes by twirling his staff in front of him. The dissipation doesn't block the fire from reaching the villagers, and they cry out at the flames. Aang looks behind to them realizing he can't protect them all. "If I go with you, will you promise to leave everyone alone?" He asks Zuko as he's still in a firebending stance. After a brief pause, he straightens up and nods stiffly. Aang stands still as a soldier takes his staff and leads him to the ship. Katara rushes forward to try and stop him.
"No, Aang! Don't do this!" Katara tries reasoning.
"Don't worry, Katara, it'll be okay." He tells her as they push him forward roughly. "Take care of Appa for me until I get back."
"Head a course to the Fire Nation. I'm going home." Zuko orders, Rin walks over pushing Zuko back.
"Who gives the orders around here?" She asks him in a hushed voice.
"You do, General Rin," Zuko grumbles but loud enough.
"Well done." She taunts him and walks away as they board the ship and the bowsprit rises back up. Aang looks back hopefully at his new friend as the ship bowsprit closes. Katara's eyes water as Aang leaves her sight. Aang's smile drops as he sees Katara in pain. The shadow of the closing bowsprit closes over him and snaps into place.
It is morning in the Water Tribe village ruined with the jagged path through the ice that the Fire Navy's ship opened up plainly visible as the same shattered village wall. Life seems to go on, however, the fire at the centre of the village smokes and villagers are at their work. The villagers tend to the fire, digging out the watchtower and re-raising tents. They all look so sorrowful. Katara stares out at the edge of the water looking out at the sun rising over the sea, Sokka walks by her carrying some things. "We have to go after that ship, Sokka. Aang saved our tribe; now we have to save him." Katara tells her brother.
"Katara, I—" Sokka tries saying.
"Why can't you realize that he's on our side? If we don't help him, no one will. I know you don't like Aang, but we owe him and I—" Katara argues but stops.
"Katara! Are you gonna talk all day or are you comin' with me?" Sokka asks her as he motions to his left, she turns her head to see a canoe at the ready.
"Sokka!" Katara gasps in happiness giving him a massive bear hug.
"Get in. We're going to save your boyfriend." Sokka tells her.
"He's not my—" Katara tries arguing.
"Whatever," Sokka says.
"What do you two think you're doing?" Gran Gran asks them walking over to them. They turn around trying to look innocent. Gran Gran looks at them looking momentarily severe, but then smiles at them and offers them a blue bundle. "You'll need these. You have a long journey ahead of you. It's been so long since I've had hope. But you brought it back to life, my little waterbender." She tells them and hugs Katara. "And you, my brave warrior, be nice to your sister." And she hugs Sokka.
"Yeah... okay, Gran," Sokka says looking at her.
"Aang is the Avatar. He's the world's only chance. You both found him for a reason. Now your destinies are intertwined with his." Gran Gran tells them.
"There's no way we're gonna catch a warship with a canoe." Katara comments as Appa mounts the crest of the hill in the background. He makes a low rumble as he approaches. "Appa!" She exclaims as she runs towards him.
"You just love taking me out of my comfort zone, don't ya?" Sokka asks her.
On the Fire Nation Navy ship prows cutting through the ice packed water. On the foredeck, Aang has his hands bound behind him, facing Zuko, Iroh and a bunch of guards as Rin talks to some of her men. "This staff will make an excellent gift for my father. I suppose you wouldn't know of fathers, being raised by monks. Take the Avatar to the prison hold. And" Zuko orders them then shoves the staff in Iroh's direction. "take this to my quarters." Iroh takes the staff from Zuko as he walks away. Iroh immediately turns to the guard on his left.
"Hey, you mind taking this to his quarters for me?" He asks the guard. The guard takes the staff from him as Aang gets escorted down some stairs into the ship. The ship steams through a narrow strip of water between walls of ice.
Aang is escorted along one of the many ship's hallways. "So... I guess you never fought an Airbender before. I bet I can take you both with my hands tied behind my back." Aang tells them.
"Silence!" One of the guards orders him as they stop in front of a door. As one of the guards moves to open the door with a key, Aang draws in a great breath and blows the guard with the key into the door, knocking him unconscious. They are blown all the way back down the hallway. They crash into the stairs they came down on. The guards are knocked out since Aang uses him to cushion his own impact. Aang then airbends himself back up onto the deck and airbends the door at the end of the deck open. He enters the ship and runs down the hallway. One of the guards Aang escaped from emerges from below and shouts up at the guard on the bridge deck in the foreground. The bridge guards turn and run.
"The Avatar has escaped!" A guard shouts out.
Appa swims lazily through the water, with Katara at the reigns and Sokka on his back in the saddle. "Go. Fly. Soar." Sokka orders drearily.
"Please, Appa, we need your help. Aang needs your help." Katara pleads with him.
"Up. Ascend. Elevate." Sokka tries again.
"Sokka doesn't believe you can fly, but I do, Appa." She tries reasoning. "Come on. Don't you wanna save Aang?" She asks him but all Appa does is make a rumbling noise in response, but doesn't speed up or fly.
"What was it that kid said? Yee-ha? Hup hup? Wahoo? Uh... yip yip?" Sokka asks but the last one seems to get a response as Appa makes a rumbling noise again and begins to flop his massive beaver-like tail. He begins to hop along the surface of the water as he picks up his speed. Finally, with a mighty heave, he takes off into the sky.
"You did it, Sokka!" Katara exclaims in excitement.
"He's flying! He's flying! Katara, he's—!" Sokka exclaims too in excitement, but one look at Katara giving him a smug look. "I mean, big deal, he's flying." He changes his mood, as Appa flies up higher and into the horizon.
Aang runs down one of the ship's hallways, looking behind him for pursuers. His hands are still bound behind him, he turns around and starts to run forward right into three Fire Nation soldiers blocking his way, weapons drawn at the ready. "You haven't seen my staff around, have you?" Aang asks them panting for breath. Aang runs towards them, running up along the wall and ceiling around the guards in a corkscrew-like manner. He gets around them with ease and they look at his retreating form with surprise. "Thanks anyway!" He calls back as he runs into another hallway, this time only blocked by one guard. The guard blasts a fireball at him, but he avoids it by launching himself over the guard's head. Aang passes by while cutting his wrist bonds catching them on the horn on top of the guard's helmet. The bonds break and the guard gets thrown off balance and falls onto the floor. Aang, with his now free hands, makes a run for it. Aang opens up random doors as he goes by, the last one he opens it Iroh's room where he sleeps on his bed snoring. "Sorry…" He whispers while he closes the door. He then runs to another door, he opens it, but stops and turns back to it. "My staff!" He exclaims. He enters the room as the door shuts behind him. Zuko appears by the door having hidden in waiting for Avatar.
"Looks like I underestimated you." Zuko comments after a brief pause, he begins blasting fire at Aang, as he barely dodges the attacks. He looks terrified and gasps panting to catch his breath. After dodging a few more shots at him, Aang rolls underneath Zuko to get behind him. Zuko is unable to blast him with his fire as the Avatar stays behind him. Aang and Zuko fight as Zuko releases another blast. Aang dissipates each fireball with a small air ball he forms with his hands. He creates an air scooter and rides it around the walls and ceiling of the room, all the time getting licked by the gouts of flame Zuko unleashes at him. Aang terminates the air ball and grabs a tapestry off the wall. He wraps Zuko up in it as he passes. While Zuko struggles against the tapestry, Aang grabs his staff. Zuko breaks free of his bonds and they once again square off against each other. After a few seconds of manoeuvring, Aang airbends a mattress up off the floor slamming it into Zuko. The mattress propels Zuko into the opposite wall. He smashes into it and falls to the floor, onto the mattress. Aang airbends the mattress up to the Zuko, smashing Zuko into that. Both fall back down to the ground. Zuko looks up in anger to find Aang gone.
On the bridge, where the wheel mechanism that opens a deck hatch on the floor begins to spin. The hatch opens to Aang airbending himself onto the bridge from below. Aang rushes forward out onto the bridge's observation deck, he opens his glider, throwing it into the air and jumps after it. He catches it, with a happy expression on his face but unfortunately for him, Zuko jumps after him in pursuit. With a fierce cry of desperation, Zuko grabs Aang's foot. Both get up and square off yet again. Aang's look of fear is tempered as he turns his head over his left shoulder to see Appa up in the sky gaining speed on Zuko's ship. "What is that?" Zuko asks as Appa approaches the ship.
"Appa!" Aang shouts out, he turns just in time to use his staff blocking a fire blast from Zuko. Aang uses his staff like a helicopter to escape the blast and comes back down on the edge of the deck, almost falling overboard. He regains his balance and blows three more fireballs before his staff gets knocked away from him. He dodges a few more blasts before he's finally knocked overboard. Aang falls into the water below.
"Aang! No!" Katara shouts hysterically as he sinks into the water. "Aang! Aang! AANG!" She screams as Aang's eyes and tattoo's glow a bright white, an expression of determination forming onto his face. He turns around in the water and begins to rise up towards the surface. Around him, a mighty whirlpool of water begins to form, Aang, at the centre of a now monstrous, inverted tornado of water propels towards the surface of the water with amazing speed. He breaks the surface in front of the ship, towering high over the bridge atop his swirling maelstrom of water. Zuko looks up at the swirling column of water as Rin stands next to him still wearing her helmet at the Avatar looking at him with dismay and fear on Zuko's face. Aang lands on the deck of the ship, his eyes still aglow, and bends the water from the column around him in a circle. He releases the water and it expands outward in a shock wave that blasts Zuko, Rin and the soldiers overboard. Sokka and Katara witness the scene from above on Appa's back. "Did you see what he just did?" She asks her brother.
"Now that was some waterbending!" Sokka cheers for Aang as the kid on the foredeck, is on his knees, wobbling after the huge energy expenditure. He falls forward, the white energy fading from his eyes and tattoos. Appa lands on the foredeck, then Katara and Sokka jump off of his back to retrieve Aang.
"Aang! Are you okay?" Katara asks her brother worried, she kneels down next him holding Aang, Sokka beside her.
"Hey, Katara. Hey, Sokka. Thanks for coming." Aang says weakly.
"Well, I couldn't let you have all the glory," Sokka tells him.
"I dropped my staff." Aang points out.
"Got it!" Sokka tells him running over to pick up Aang's staff. As Sokka picks it up, he's shocked to see that Zuko holds onto it on the other end as he holds onto Rin with her helmet having been knocked off from the fall when they were washed overboard. Sokka butts Zuko in the head with the staff three times. Zuko let's go of the staff and begins to fall into the water just as Rin lets go of his hand, she jumps up holding the edge of the ship, pulling herself up as Zuko holds onto the anchor chain in time hanging on with one hand. "Ha! That's from the Water Tribe!" Sokka cheers unaware of the two firebenders still hanging on to the ship. Appa gets up, shaking off some of the water, the guards that were washed off the ship get up, preparing for combat. Rin pushes herself up with them ready for a fight. Katara picks up a stream of water from the deck and the guards pull back slightly in fear.
"Fight! You idiots!" Rin shouts gaining attention from everyone.
"Who is that!" Sokka shouts out in shock at the beauty shouting at her men. Katara tries using a water whip at the guard, but instead freezes the water on the deck, including the water around Sokka's feet in the process.
"Katara!" Sokka shouts at her as he tries chipping away at the ice holding his feet with his boomerang while the soldiers move towards them once again with Rin in the background. Katara picks up another stream of water and throws it at the soldiers without looking. She turns around and climbs back up on Appa.
"Hurry up, Sokka!" Katara shouts for her brother.
"I'm just a guy with a boomerang; I didn't ask for all this flying and magic," Sokka says to himself as he finally frees himself and makes a run for Appa, he makes it as he runs up his tail. "Yip yip! Yip yip!" He yells once he's aboard. Appa makes a rumbling noise and takes off. Iroh just emerges onto the deck after his nap and looks up to the sky.
"Huh?" Iroh asks looking confused, as Appa rapidly flies away from the ship, then Iroh helps Zuko back up onto the ship's deck with Rin.
"Shoot them down!" Rin orders her men as Appa gains altitude. Zuko, Rin and Iroh in unison launch a massive bolt of fire a mix of orange and purple up at Appa. Katara and Sokka look behind them in horror at the approaching fireball. Aang jumps to the back of the saddle and, uses his staff like a baseball bat, airbending a gale, that sends the fireball at a right angle away from Appa and into the ice cliff nearby. The fireball explodes, releasing a huge amount of ice from the cliff wall which falls into the narrow channel that the ship is navigating. Zuko gasps in horror as the bow of the ship and the entire channel is blocked up under an avalanche of ice before a large blast of purple flames bursts from the ice and snow. Aang, Katara and Sokka laugh as they fly away but stop when they see the burst of purple flames erupt up from the avalanche of snow in shock and horror as Rin pulls herself out from the snow. Iroh and Zuko on the foredeck of the heavily damaged ship look at her monstrous aura around her.
"Good news for the Fire Lord. The nation's greatest threat is just a little kid." Iroh comments.
"That kid, Uncle, just did this," Zuko tells him pointing to the prow buried in ice. "I won't underestimate him again." He says.
"Dig this ship out and follow them!" Rin yells at her men as she walks out of the snow. Some of the soldiers use controlled firebending to thaw out their companions from the ice by Katara. "As soon as you're done with that." She says calming down slightly.
Appa flies through the clouds in the sky as the kids sit on the saddle. "How did you do that? With the water? It was the most amazing thing I've ever seen." Katara asks Aang.
"I don't know. I just sort of... did it." Aang answers her sitting cross-legged on the bridge of the saddle with a sad expression on her face.
"Why didn't you tell us you were the Avatar?" She asks him.
"Because... I never wanted to be." He tells her as a cloud passes over them blocking out the fading sun. Once it passes, they enter a shaft of sunlight.
"But Aang, the world's been waiting for the Avatar to return and finally put an end to this war." She tells him.
"And how am I going to do that?" He asks looking sad.
"According to legend, you need to first master water, then earth, then fire, right?" She asks him.
"That's what the monks told me." He says.
"Well, if we go to the North Pole you can master waterbending." She tells him.
"We can learn it together!" He says looking happier now.
"And Sokka, I'm sure you'll get to knock some firebender heads on the way." She tells her brother.
"I'd like that. I'd really like that." Sokka replies looking almost in a dream-like state.
"Then we're in this together." She tells them.
"All right, but before I learn waterbending, we have some serious business to attend to (he airbends himself over to them and opens the scroll to reveal a map) here, here, and here," Aang tells them pointing to two spots in the Earth Kingdom, and one other spot in the Southern Air Nomad islands.
"What's there?" She asks him.
"Here," He says looking at the eastern Earth Kingdom. "we'll ride the hopping llamas. Then waaaay over here" He points to a spot on the Southern Air Nomad islands. "we'll surf on the backs of giant koi fish. Then back over here we'll ride the hog-monkeys. They don't like people riding them, but that's what makes it fun!" He tells them then mellows down looking at the two Water Tribe siblings. "What I want to know was, who was the girl with the purple flames? I've never seen or heard of anything like that." Aang comments looking between them.
"I think I have. Dad once heard rumours of a child General with flames of violet, they took down countless enemies of the Fire Nation. They moved up the ranks so fast as they took down enemies, they grew in power not just for being a firebending master but for their deadly weapon. They call it The Violet Blade General." Sokka tells them, the thoughts of her powerful flames stay in their minds as Appa flies through the clouds at sunset, shafts of sunlight fading light breaking through the clouds.
Back on the Fire Nation Navy ship in a room sits Rin in her chair at her desk looking over some papers. "Well, Iroh was right. He is just a kid. The kid's the Avatar? And I will crush him." Rin mutters to herself before getting up from her chair and walks out of her room up to the deck where all her men stand with Zuko and Iroh stand next to her.|
"General Rin on deck!" A soldier shouts out as her men stand to attention.
"We all know now that the Avatar is alive. He maybe a child but we must think of him as a powerful enemy and show him no mercy!" Rin shouts out to her men. "We will begin by finding him at the nearest islands and if they do not tell us of his location then they will see what happens to liars. We are the best of the best and we can only do that as Fire Nation Soldiers, are we not Fire Nation soldiers!" She shouts out again.
"We are Fire Nation soldiers!" The soldiers shout back.
"Then we will find the Avatar and take him back to our Firelord. Have we understood men?" She asks them.
"Yes, General Rin." They all reply back.
"Then let us set sail for the closest island and fix our ship so we can find our ship. If any of you wish to go back home do not betray me." She tells them as one of her soldiers moves to her side giving her, her a double-edged scythe, she swipes it down giving a gust of wind pushing the first line of soldiers to fall onto their backs. "So begin preparations for the shipping yard." She orders them, they disperse and go their own ways leaving Zuko, Iroh and her alone on the deck.
"That was very well done General Rin." Iroh compliments her, she turns around to face him moving her scythe to lean against her shoulder.
"I would hope so, Ex-General Iroh I have been doing this for seven years now. Leading men into battle." Rin replies looking at Zuko. "It will soon be you Zuko. When you become Firelord." She tells him. "Got a nice ring to it, Firelord Zuko." She walks away off to the lower levels of the ship.