Water, Earth, Fire, Air

Stories have been told about old days. Times of peace and prosperity. When the Avatar maintained balance between the Water Tribes, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation, and the Air Nomads. That all changed when the Fire Nation declared war on the world. Only the Avatar who is the master of all 4 elements could stop the ruthless firebenders, but when the world needed him the most he mysteriously banished.

A century has passed and the Fire Nation is almost on the brink of victory in this war. Men of the Southern Water Tribe went to the Earth Kingdom to help in the fight against the Fire Nation leaving two Water Tribe teens Sokka and his sister Katara in taking care of their village. Most people believed that the Avatar was never reborn into the Air Nomads and that the cycle has broken, but Katara hasn't lost hope. She still believes that the Avatar will indeed return to save the world.

South Pole

On a cold day in the South Pole there lies the Southern Water Tribe. Two young teens were on canoe fishing for dinner.

The two teens were named Sokka and Katara, two siblings from the Southern Tribe. Katara is a young pretty girl with brown hair, dark skin, and with stunning blue eyes. Also she wears a necklace which it means a lot to her. Sokka is Katara's elder brother by 1 year only. He had also brown hair which he wore it in which he calls a 'Warrior's wolf tail', with light blue eyes.

Sokka was holding a spear in his hand, and he could feel that fish was nearby. "I am going to catch a fish for dinner; it's not getting away from me this time", he said to Katara. "Watch and learn Katara, this is how you catch a fish." Katara was a bit skeptical, since her brother is not exactly the best hunter. Then she looked down and saw a fish in the water; then she took out her gloved hand to make a special techinique on the water where the fish was. She made a bubble sphere of water holding the fish in it.

"Sokka look", said Katara to her brother.

"Shh. Katara you're going to scare the fish away. Mmm, I can already smell him cooking."

"But Sokka I caught one", said Katara frantically while she was holding the fish trapped in the water sphere she made. In a moment, Sokka hit the bubble sphere with rear part of his spear and the bubble popped, releasing the fish back into the sea, and getting him and his sister soaking wet.

Katara yelled, "Hey!"

Sokka got annoyed at this and asked to Katara, "Why is it that every time that you play with your magic water I get soaked?"

Katara replies, "It is not magic. It's waterbending, and it's a…" Sokka interrupts by saying, "It's an ancient art unique to our culture blah, blah, blah." Then he says, "Look all I'm saying is that if I had powers like those I'd keep my weirdness to myself." Katara teases, "You're calling me weird. Well I'm not the one who makes muscles every time I see my reflection." Sokka was just doing that, and then he stops and directs a glare at her.

The canoe then felt trapped by a fast current. Sokka started paddling away to keep from crashing into the icebergs. "Look out!" Katara yelled to her brother. The current then became stronger with their canoe in collision course between two chunks of ice.

"Go left, Go left," Katara screamed to her brother. The canoe then crashed, and the two siblings then were left stranded on an ice platform.

"You call that left."

"You don't like my steering. Maybe you could have waterbended out of danger."

"So it's now my fault."

"I knew it I should have left you home. Leave it to a girl to screw things up."

Katara got angry after hearing such words coming from him and shot a glare at him. "You are the most sexist, idiotic, immature, nut brained jerk. I'm embarrassed to be related to you." While Katara was angrily replying to Sokka, he heard some cracks coming from a big iceberg behind them. She seems to be waterbending with intense rage.

She then continued, "Ever since mom died, I've been taking care of the shores, while you goof around playing soldier." Sokka tries to calm down and tell about the iceberg, "Ahh Katara." Katara still continues, "I even wash your clothes. Have you ever smelled your dirty socks? Let me tell you. Not pleasant!" Sokka tries to tell her about the iceberg, "Katara settle down!" Katara then said, "No, I'm done helping you out. From now on you're on your own!" With that she finally broke the iceberg which finally caught her attention.

"Okay. Now you've gone from weird to completely freakish," said Sokka to a surprised Katara.

"Did I just do that?"

"Yup, congratulations sis"

Suddenly a blue light shines below the water catches their attention. Then out on the water to the surface appears a big iceberg which shines bright blue.

Inside the iceberg, there are two figures trapped. One of them looks like a mystical creature which is big and weighed around 10 tons, while the other one looked like a small boy and bald with red and yellow clothes.

The boy then started to open his eyes a bit. "He's alive! We have to help." She then borrows Sokka's club.

"Katara get back here. We don't even know what that thing is," says Sokka. He then goes after his sister to where the big iceberg was. Katara started clubbing as hard as she could on the iceberg. Then one last hit, the iceberg cracked and the frozen iceberg bursts a gust of air that blows them away. Within the iceberg, a light blue pillar of energy shoots upward to the sky. Tigerseals, a few Mamoswines, and few other creatures roared for that moment. Sokka, Katara, and the creatures are not only ones to witness this spectacle.

A small Fire Nation boat

Not far from here, a teenage boy wearing a red and black armor with streamlined shoulders was watching the blue light pillar from his boat. His head is mostly shaved and there was a patch of hair tied in a ponytail. His most prominent feature was a burn scar in his left eye. He is recognized as the banished prince of the Fire Nation, Zuko now at 16 years old.

"Finally", said Zuko.

"Uncle, do you know what this means", Zuko asked to an older man with grey hair. The grey haired man was Iroh; brother to the current Fire Lord, retired general and uncle to Zuko. Iroh said, "That I won't finish my game." Zuko replies to his uncle, "No, it means that my journey is coming to an end. That light came from an incredibly, powerful source. It has to be him." On the ship, there was another young man aboard. He had black raven hair in a messy style, brown eyes, two z shaped marks in both cheeks, and also was wearing a smaller, and leaner version of the red and black armors everyone was wearing.

The young boy was just shaking his head and said, "Not this again. He says that every time he is sure that we have found the target. What do you say Pikachu, Riolu, and Delvil?" A yellow mouse with red cheeks and a thunder shaped tail that was on the boy's right shoulder which was named Pikachu. There was a small blue bipedal jackal dog on the boy's left shoulder which was Riolu. The black hound with dark and fire abilities was on the ground on the boys' side. The three creatures seem to understand their master perfectly and silently agreed with what he said.

The young man with spiky raven hair said now to the prince, "Listen, my prince. We have been through this for almost three years, and still we haven't found the mystical being." Zuko now responds to the young man, "Listen Satoshi. This time I am sure that we will find him. My sources are not wrong this time." The now named Satoshi just nodded and had to believe in Zuko's words; meanwhile Iroh was playing a card game while listening to Zuko and Satoshi's talk now says something, "Listen about that energy light I think that it could be just the celestial lights. I don't want you to get excited for nothing. How about if both of you relax and enjoy a cup of calming jasmine tea?" He says those last words in a calm and soothing voice.

Zuko got angry and responded, "I don't need any calming tea. I need to capture the Avatar. Helmsman, head a course for the light." A helmsman nodded to the prince's command and headed to a new course.

Back with Sokka and Katara, the bald kid with blue arrow tattoos steps out of the iceberg. Katara saw that kid's tattoos glowing light blue just like the celestial light they saw. The glowing eventually ends, and the kid falls over in Katara's arms. Sokka then starts to poke the boy with blunt part of his spear on his head repeatedly. Katara exclaimed at her brother, "Stop that!" Sokka just stopped poking the kid's head.

Just then the bald kid was opening his eyes and saw the first person who happens to be Katara. He saw that the girl was really beautiful with pretty blue eyes.

The boy then whispers to the girl. "Come closer. I need to tell you something."

Katara says, "What is it?"

"I need to tell you something," says the boy.

"Say what you need to tell me."

The boy then wakes up completely and asks, "Will you go penguin sledding with me?" Katara was surprised to see him alright and then said, "Sure, I guess."

The bald kid then floats back to his feet while trying to find out where he was now, "What's going on here?" Sokka points his spear at the supposedly suspect, "You tell us. How did you get in the ice? Why aren't you frozen?" The bald kid responds, "I'm not sure."

The boy then heard a loud yawn behind him and it was the large creature that was trapped inside the iceberg with him. "Appa! Wake up boy." The giant furry creature heard those words and woke up to give him a lick. "You're okay buddy."

Sokka then asks, "What is that thing?" The boy says, "That's Appa, my flying bison." Sokka being a bit skeptical responded, "Yeah right," he points a finger at Katara, "and that's Katara my flying sister."

Appa sneezes and shoots snot all over to Sokka. Sokka just gets covered by bison snot and frantically tries to remove it, while Katara was laughing a bit with her brother's misfortune.

The bald boy then says, "Don't worry. It'll wash out." Then he asks to both siblings, "So do you guys live around here?" Katara was going to answer, but her brother beat her to it. Sokka then says with a small hint of distrustfulness, "Don't answer to that. Did you see that crazy blue light beam coming from him? I'm sure that he was giving a signal to the Fire Navy."

Katara says sarcastically, "Oh yeah, I am pretty sure that he is a Fire Navy spy? You can tell by the nasty, evil look in his eyes." The boy just gave an innocent and goofy smile to both Water Tribe siblings. She says then, "The paranoid one is my brother Sokka. You didn't tell us your name."

"I'm ah-ahh-Ahhchooo." The boy sneezed when he was about to tell his name and flew really high, and then he landed softly on the snow. "I'm Aang."

Sokka was shocked and said to the boy named Aang, "Unbelievable. You just sneezed and flew 10 feet high in the air."

"Really it felt higher than that like around 17 to 20 ft high at least."

Katara responds to this surprisingly, "You're an airbender."

"Sure am."

Sokka can't believe all the crazy events that just happened to him in just one day and replies to all this, "Okay this is wack. Giant light beams, flying bisons, and airbenders. I think I have Midnight Sun Madness. I'm going back home where things are normal and make sense." Sokka tries to return home, but he remembers that he and his sister are stranded with no canoe. Aang then suggests an idea, "If you want to, Appa and I can give you a ride to your village."

"We'd love to," says Katara approvingly. "Oh no, I am not going to ride that fluffy snot monster," says Sokka. Katara then teases him, "So are you going to wait until other monster comes to give you a lift before you know freeze to death." Sokka tries a comeback, but he realized he had no choice.

"Okay first time fliers hold on tight!" Aang now called to his flying bison, "Appa, yip yip!" The flying bison prepares for liftoff then jumps as if going to fly, but it lands on the water and starts swimming.

Sokka says sarcastically and unimpressed, "Wow. That was some ride."

"Appa is just tired that's all. A good rest and he will be soaring through the skies you'll see." Aang looks a bit to Katara with a smile on his face. Katara was now noticing Aang's look on her and asks, "Why are you smiling at me like that?"

Aang stops staring at her and responds, "Oh I was smiling."

The three are continuing riding to the village on Appa's back.

Night time Fire Nation ship

Zuko was on deck observing and then comes Iroh to accompany him.

Iroh says, "I am going to bed now." Then he makes a long yawn and continues, "Yeah. A man needs his rest. Prince Zuko, you need to sleep. Look even if you're right and the Avatar is indeed alive you won't find him. Your father, grandfather, and great-grandfather all tried and failed." Zuko then says with a mixture of anger and determination, "Because their honor wasn't at stake on the Avatar's capture, mine is on the line. His century of playing hide and seek is over." Iroh replies, "Just try to not be up so late. Satoshi is in his bed getting his sleep."

Satoshi is in his bedroom which was between Iroh's and Zuko's bedroom quarters. He was sleeping peacefully after a hard work. Pikachu, Riolu, and Delvil were sleeping along with their friend and master in the bed. What no one knew at this moment is that Satoshi was going to have a dream which could tell him about his future destiny.

(Dreamscape)

Satoshi is walking inside his mind and starts to be a bit confused. "Why am I inside my mind?" Satoshi continued to walk until he saw an astounding creature over him. It was a rainbow colored phoenix although it had a few dragon characteristics, and at the moment it speaks to the young man in front.

"Hello there young firebender," says the mystical phoenix.

"Who are you?"

"I am Ho-oh. I have been among humans for centuries watching over them and their actions. I am here to tell you that in a not so distant future you will encounter the Avatar."

"Watching over humans for what HO-OH?"

HO-OH said, "I have been here since centuries to watch over humans, especially the last 100 years since Fire Lord Sozin started this war against the 3 other nations. In the old days, I was considered along with the dragons as one of the original firebenders."

"You must be considered a deity to the Fire Nation. So why you appear in front of me?"

"Even though I am a symbol to the Fire Nation, I do not highly approve their actions to the rest of the nations in causing war. What about you?"

Satoshi said, "To be honest I am not so sure this war is for the better of the world either. It has caused pain and suffering for everyone, but the current ruler, Fire Lord Ozai, believes this is for the best no matter the cost."

"I see. Listen I must go for now, but we will see each other next time. Soon you will learn of your true destiny."

"So long HO-OH."

(End dream)

Satoshi wakes up a bit and sees his three Poké partners still sleeping. The dream he had felt real, but he would worry about that in other time so he went back to sleep.

Aang, Sokka, and Katara were riding in Appa which was swimming in the Southern waters. Sokka was taking a nap in Appa's saddle. Then Katara took the time to look in front of her new friend to ask a question. Aang was also looking at her.

"Hey," says Katara to the airbender.

"Hey, What are you thinking of," asked the airbender.

"I was wondering well you being an airbender and all. Did you ever get to know what happened to the Avatar?"

Aang flinched a bit at hearing this but remained calm then said, "No, I haven't. I mean I knew some people who met him, but not me sorry."

Katara replies, "That's okay. Good night."

Aang says, "Good night." Aang then looks away, with a hint of fear in his expression as if he has lied about what he said.

Aang dreams of something that possibly happened to him in the past when he and his flying bison Appa were trapped in a storm. Aang and Appa struggle against the strong currents unitl they lose consciousness until he was hearing Katara's voice waking him up.

"Aang, Aang!" He wakes up from the dream and gasps a bit. Aang asks, "Where am I?" "You're in our village. I am going to introduce you to our people."

"Okay I'll be out in a few moments." Aang then puts on again his clothes as Katara is now looking amazed at his airbender tattoos. Then she comically pulls him outside.

The Southern Water Tribe was much smaller compared to other places and their people consisted mostly of mothers and young children. It is of the mostly ravaged places due to the war.

Katara introduces her new friend, "Aang, this is the entire village. Entire village this is Aang." Aang bows friendly and respectfully to them, but some back away.

"Why they are all looking at me that way? Did Appa sneeze on me or are they afraid?"

Then on the scene appears an older woman who looked mostly like Katara and also wears blue coat like the rest of Water Tribe citizens. The elder woman then says to Aang, "We're not afraid, but we're certainly surprised. No one has seen an airbender in over a hundred years. We all thought that they were extinct until my granddaughter and grandson found you." Aang was surprised by that, "Extinct?" "Aang, this is my grandmother," Katara introduces him to the elder woman. "Call me Gran-Gran," said the elder woman.

Sokka then grabs Aang's staff and says, "Is this a weapon? You can't stab anyone with this thing." Aang replies, "It's not for stabbing. It is for airbending." Aang uses airbending to suck the staff back to his hands, and then he opens up the staff into a glider.

A little girl was impressed and exclaimed, "Magic trick, do it again!" Aang says, "It's not magic, it's airbending. It lets me control the air currents around my glider and fly." Sokka being skeptical about the kid's words says, "Last time I checked humans can't fly." Aang determined to prove wrong responds to his challenge, "Check again."

Aang then jumps into the air with his glider and starts flying around and doing loops impressing everyone. He looks down to see Katara thrilled with his demonstration, and he was happy to get her attention that he got distracted just for a moment and crashed into a snow tower. Sokka exclaims, "My watchtower!"

Katara then says, "That was amazing!" Sokka is clearly annoyed by this, "Great. You're an airbender, Katara is a waterbender. The two of you can waste time all day long." Aang exclaims surprised, "You're a waterbender!" Katara giggled a bit and responds, "Sort of. Not yet." Gran Gran appears and says few things to her granddaughter, "Okay no more playing. Katara has chores to do." Katara walks away with her grandmother.

"I can't believe it. I finally found a bender to teach me."

"Katara try to not put your hope in that kid."

"He is special. I can feel it Gran-Gran; he must be full of wisdom." Meanwhile, Aang now had his tongue stuck to his stuff due to the cold climate and everyone giggle at that funny scene.

At the Fire Nation boat, Zuko and Satoshi were having a spar with crew members who are capable firebenders. Zuko had two members, while Satoshi sparred with other two benders. Iroh observed them. "Again", he says. Zuko blasted two fireballs which they ducked under the blasts. One of them counters with a fireball of his own, but Zuko also ducks this attack then back flipped to evade other blast coming from the other soldier. Zuko in mid-air then punches and kicks more blasts of fire, but the two soldiers blocked them.

On the other hand, Satoshi blasts smaller, faster and more accurate fireballs from his fingers without consuming a lot of energy to knock down his sparring partners and demonstrating his highly athletic ability to dodge, duck and wall jump to surprise attack them when they less expect it.

"Satoshi, good job on your performance," said Iroh to the spike haired boy. "Thanks Iroh," said Satoshi to the retired general. "Prince Zuko you need to remember this. Power in firebending comes from one's breath not the muscles. Breath becomes energy in the body; the energy extends past your limbs becoming fire," said Iroh while showing his nephew to firebend the correct way as he explained, "get it right this time." Zuko becomes impatient nad syas, "Enough. I've been drilling the whole sequence all day. Teach me the next set, I'm more than ready." Satoshi then says, "I don't Zuko it doesn't sound good idea to me." Iroh then continues, "Besides you're being impatient. You need to master your basics first. Drill it again." Zuko gets a bit angry and kicks a powerful fire blast that knocks out one of the crew members.

Zuko explains his reason, "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 4 elements. I'll need more than firebending basics to defeat him. You will teach me the advanced set!" Iroh took a moment before nodding his decision, "Very well, but first I'm going to finish my roast duck." Zuko sighed at this.

Sokka was now giving a pep talk to his soldiers. "Now men, it's important to not show fear when facing against a firebender. In the Water Tribe, we fight till the last man standing. For without courage, how can we call ourselves men?" His soldiers were just 6 year old children at least. One of the boys raised his hand and says, "I gotta pee." Sokka replies, "Listen until your fathers return from the war they're counting on you to be the men of the tribe, and that means no potty breaks." The same boy says desperately, "I really got to go." Sokka sighs at this, "Okay, who else has to go?" All the children raise their hands.

Katara goes over to her brother, "Sokka, have you seen Aang? Gran- Gran says that he has disappeared for over an hour." Then they see Aang now crawling outside a small igloo. Aang says at this, "Wow, everything freezes in here." The kids laugh at this and having fun.

Sokka groans at this, "Katara get him out of here. This lesson is for warriors only." The children then have more fun by using Appa as a slide, and Sokka gets angry at this. Katara didn't seem to mind this since she was happy to see them have a good time. "Stop! Stop it right now! What's wrong with you? There's no time for fun and games with a war going on."

Aang asks, "What war?" Sokka then has an expression like saying is he serious and replies, "You're kidding right." Aang then looks and exclaims, "Penguin!" The penguin was seen and waddles away.

Katara then follows Aang to the penguin field until she found the person she was looking for. Katara and Aang then talk for a moment on how he has a way with animals. Then Katara sees Aang walking and talking like a penguin itself that makes her giggle a bit.

She then says, "Let's make a deal. I'll teach you how to catch a penguin, if you teach me how to waterbend." Aang responds, "Deal! There's one problem though, I'm an airbender not a waterbender. Isn't there a waterbender who can teach you?" Katara sadly replies, "No. You're looking at the last and only waterbender in the South Pole." Aang responds, "This isn't right. A waterbender needs to master waterbending, what about the North Pole? There should have plenty of benders who can teach you." "May be. It's just that we hadn't had contact with our sister tribe for quite a long time. It's not exactly turn around on the next glacier. It's on the other side of the world." Aang with confidence says, "You forget that I have a flying bison. Appa and I would be honored to take you to the North Pole. We're going to find you a master." Katara with a bit of uncertainty says, "I don't know. I have never left home before." "Well just think about it. In the meantime, how about teach me to catch those penguins." Katara then says in a faux teacher tone of voice, "Okay my young pupil listen carefully. Catching penguins is a sacred and ancient art. Observe."

She then takes out a small fish from her coat and tosses to Aang. In an instant, he is surrounded by many penguins. Then both Aang and Katara shoot of a snow bank, and each riding on a penguin. They speed downhill and get to snow ramps; you could clearly see they were having the time of their lives. Katara was laughing, "I haven't done this since I was a kid." "You're still a kid."

They enter through an ice tunnel. The light shined inside the tunnel from various holes making the experience surreal. The ride ends when they get out of the tunnel and land in front of a frozen ship.

Aang being curious asks, "What is that?" Katara being in front of the ship became a bit afraid and serious, "A Fire Navy ship, and a very bad memory to my people." Aang gets interested in this and decides to in there to check the ship inside. "Wait Aang, we're not supposed to go in there. The ship may be booby trapped." Aang replies to her, "If you want to be a bender, you have to let go of fear."

They enter the ship walking through dark corridors full of menacing weapons. "Katara, why are you like this about this particular ship?" Katara responds, "This ship has haunted my village ever since Gran-Gran was a little girl. It was part of the Fire Nation's first attacks." Aang was uncertain and replies, "Okay, back up. I've got friends all over the world including the Fire Nation. I've never seen a war at all." Katara asks, "Aang, how long were you been trapped in the iceberg?" Aang responds, "I don't know a few days maybe." Katara then says, "I think it must have been for a hundred years." Aang then says, "What that's impossible. Do I look like a hundred-twelve year old man to you?" "Well, think about it. The war is already a century old. You don't know about it because somehow you were in there the whole time. That's the only explanation."

Aang falls down after such realization, "A hundred years I can't believe it." Katara comforts her new friend, "Sorry Aang. There is a bright side to all of this." Aang smiles and says, "Yeah I did get to meet you." Katara smiles at him then says, "Let's get out of here. This ship is creepy anyways."

Aang and Katara were walking out of the ship until unexpectedly Aang trips over a wire, and a grate door drops down and closes them in. "What was that you said about the booby traps?" Then a flare shoots up to the sky and both Aang and Katara stared at it. "Oh Oh"

They saw a hole in the ceiling and Aang took Katara in his arms and he jumped outside and went back to the village. Little did they know that they were being watched.

Prince Zuko was watching them from his ship through a telescope. "The last airbender is quite agile for his age. Tell my uncle and Satoshi that I've found the Avatar." He looks at them returning to the village. "Also, that I have found his hiding place."

Satoshi was on his bedroom with his Poke-partners Pikachu, Riolu, and Delvil playing Pai-Sho until they received word from one of the crew members that Prince Zuko found the Avatar in a near Souther Water Tribe village. "So this time is for real, well we better get going." His pokemon nodded at this message. Satoshi and his friends are now running to the deck. Then the word spreads to Iroh who immediately wakes from his afternoon nap and goes to where his nephew is.


Back at the village, Aang and Katara looked up in the sky to see that the flare was still there. She had a bad feeling that both she and Aang were going to be in serious trouble for this.

They return to the village, and they see the people gathering waiting for them. The children are happy to see Aang back, but Sokka and the adults not that much instead were angry. Sokka steps forward and points accusingly to Aang, "I knew it. You signaled to the Fire Navy with that flare. You're leading them here."

"Aang didn't do anything. It was just an accident."

"Yeah we were in this ship. There was this booby trap and we kind of boobied right into it."

Gran- Gran then says after hearing this, "Katara, you shouldn't have gone in that ship. Now we could be in great danger."

Aang replies a bit downcast to this, "Don't blame Katara. She warned me about the ship, but I didn't listen to her. I convinced her to go in there. It was my fault."

Sokka voices out, "So the traitor confesses his crime. Warriors, away from enemy. The foreigner is banned from our tribe."

Katara protests against Sokka's decision, "Sokka, you're making a mistake."

"No I'm keeping my promise to dad. I'm protecting you from threats like him."

Katara replies, "Aang is not our enemy! Don't you see! Aang has brought us something we haven't had in a long time ago… fun."

Sokka retorts angrily, "Fun? We can't fight firebenders with fun."

Aang says, "You should try it sometime."

Sokka yells at this, "Get out of our village!"

Katara tries to reason with her grandmother, "Grandmother, please don't let Sokka do this."

Gran-Gran unfortunately sides with Sokka, "You should have known that going to that ship was forbidden. Sokka is right. I think it is best if the airbender leaves."

Katara had enough of them being unfair to Aang and replies, "Fine! Then I'm leaving too!" She then grabs Aang's hand and says to him, "Come on Aang!"

Sokka then asks, "Where do you think you're going?" Katara responds, "To the North Pole and find a waterbender to teach me. Aang is taking me there." Aang gets confused for a moment, "I am?" Then he lightens up at the idea, "Great!"

Sokka wouldn't let his sister turn her back on her people and tries to reason before she makes a mistake she might regret, "Katara, would you really choose him over your tribe? Your own family."

Aang then says, "Katara, I don't really want to come between you and family." Katara asks, "So are you leaving the South Pole? Is this a goodbye?" Aang responds, "I'm afraid so. Thank you for penguin sledding with me." Now she asks another question, "Where you will go?" Aang says, "Guess I'll go home and look for the airbenders. Gee I haven't cleaned my room in a hundred years, not that I look forward to it."

Aang jumps into Appa's saddle, "It was nice knowing you." Sokka sarcastically says, "Let's see your bison fly now air boy." Aang replies to his animal guide, "Come on Appa. You can do it. Yip yip!" Sokka then snorts out, "Yeah, I thought so." Then a little girl was crying at this and runs next Katara, "Aang, don't go. I'll miss you." Aang replies to the little girl, "I'll miss you too." Aang then looks at Katara who had sad eyes by saying goodbye to her new friend. Aang snaps the reins on Appa and both now left the village. The little girl walks back sadly.

"Katara, you'll feel a lot better after you-"

Gran-Gran is interrupted by Katara, "Are you happy now? There goes my one chance to become a waterbender." Gran was left there feeling guilty for her actions.

Sokka says to his 6 year old troops, "Ok ready our defenses. The Fire Nation could be on our shores in any minute."

"But I gotta…"

"And no potty breaks!"

Aang and Appa were now resting in ice formations. He hears his pet growling about something. "Yeah, I liked her too!" Aang wakes up and watches into the sea a lone Fire Navy ship streaming into the village. Aang alarmed at this. "The village! Appa wait for me here!"

At the village, Sokka was putting his leathers, war paint, and had his club and boomerang on hand ready to defend his homeland from the Fire Nation invaders.

At the ship, Zuko and Satoshi had the attendants to help them with their battle armor. The last thing they wore was a flame helmet on their heads.

Sokka was outside his igloo and standing on top of the ice wall. Then everything started to shake. Parts of their village including the watchtower crumbled due to the loud, booming noise from outside. "Ah man."

A huge shadow was seen on the mist. "Ah man," Sokka grunts at this. The ship finally breaks through the ice wall all the way into the village. Katara sees a little child trapped in there and rescues him in the nick of time.

The bowsprit falls to the ground and Sokka moves out of the way in time to avoid being crushed. The ship reveals now the invaders. The villagers could see a two young firebenders walking down the gangplank. Sokka being stubborn charged at Zuko with his club on hand, but Zuko kicked the club out of the way, and then kicked Sokka into the snow.

Zuko, Satoshi, and the other soldiers were now in the Southern Water Tribe. The prince looked into the crowd, and he saw that the villagers are mostly mothers and children. He then announced, "Where are you hiding him?" The villagers didn't know what he was talking about. Zuko walked where he saw Katara and her grandmother. He grabbed the elder woman and then says, "He'd be about this age. Master of all 4 elements." He then returned Gran-Gran with the crowd. He produced flames over their heads and the villagers cringe in fear. "I know you're hiding him."

Satoshi took this moment to speak in a civilized way without recurring to hurting the civilians, "Don't be afraid. We're not going to hurt you as long as you give us the information we need. We believe that there is an airbender among you." The crowd remembered Aang at that moment as the airbender they met before banning him from their village.

Sokka gets up and says a few words, "There was an airbender here before, but he's long gone since I banned him from our village." Satoshi stunned to hear this asks to the Water Tribe, "Why would you do such thing?" Sokka responds to the new Fire Nation boy in front of him, "He was a threat to our village, and I did what I had to do to protect my people." Satoshi then says with a hint of anger and disappointment, "You are such a xenophobic and idiot boy." Sokka gets angry and then charges at Satoshi with his club, but the fire prince gets in his way and ducks his attack and flips him over his head. Then Zuko blasts a fire attack to Sokka who dodges and then throws his boomerang at Zuko. The prince slips his head away from the boomerang.

A boy tosses Sokka a spear with a cry "Show no fear!" Sokka charges now the spear at Prince Zuko who effortlessly breaks it with his fists then he snatches the spear and pokes Sokka in his head knocking him down in the snow.

Behind Zuko, the boomerang came back hitting him in the back of his head and knocking his helmet. He readjusts it and directs an angry glare at Sokka. He creates fire daggers to burn the meddling Water Tribe boy. Just then, Aang appeared in time to save everyone in time sliding with a penguin and sweeping off the prince. The children cheered by Aang's appearance before being covered by snow. They stopped for a moment, and then they cheered again.

Aang greets Sokka and Katara in his usual way, "Hey Sokka! Hey Katara"

"Hey Aang! Thanks for coming," Sokka says dryly but not so rude either.

When Aang got here he was surrounded by the firebending army, he in a swift move made an airbending blast to knock down every soldier including Satoshi and Zuko. In few moments, Zuko and Satoshi get up and get surprised with this. He was the person they were looking for. Aang asks, "Looking for me?"

Zuko says to the kid, "You're the airbender? You're the Avatar?"

"Aang is the…?"

"No way"

Zuko takes a fighting stance and prepares to fight Aang, "I've spent years for this encounter. Training, meditating. You're just a kid." Aang responds to this, "Well, you're just a teenager." Satoshi laughs at this and says, "Sorry my prince. He's got a point."

Zuko starts by blasting some fire streams at Aang, who was repelling the attack with his staff by twirling it like a fan. This continued for a moment, until some of the flames were reaching the Water Tribe villagers Aang befriended in his stay. He needed to do something to protect them.

"Listen if I go with you do you promise not to hurt them."

Satoshi says at this, "We promise that they will be safe, as long as you do come with us." Zuko then replies, "I agree with him as well." A firebender then comes to grab Aang and take him to the ship.

Katara rushes forward to stop this madness and encourage Aang to not give up. "No Aang. Please don't this!"

"Don't worry Katara. Everything will be okay."

Katara started to have sad eyes now seeing being taken away. The firebenders were walking the captured Aang on the gangplank to enter the ship.

Aang then says to Katara, "Take care of Appa for until I get back."

Zuko commands to the helmsman, "Head a course to the Fire Nation I'm going home."

The bowsprit rises up to lock the ship. Aang smiles to himself as he did the right thing to protect the village, however as he saw Katara so sad and her eyes watering his smile fades as he shows to regret a bit his decision. The bowsprit closes in, and a few moments later the ship sets sail back to the Fire Nation mainland.

The village's mood was pretty downcast and somber after the Fire Nation finished their invasion. The villagers were depressed due to the fact that they discovered that the airbender Aang was the Avatar all along, and he willingly turned himself to be captured to protect them. Still life goes on and everyone started to fix their homes including the ice wall.

Katara was at the water's edge pondering at what to do now, and Sokka was carrying some materials behind her back.

"We need to go after that ship Sokka. No, we have to do this. Aang saved our village, now it's our turn to do the same."

"Katara, I…"

"Why can't you realize that he is on our side? If we don't help him then no one will. I know that you don't like Aang, but we owe him and I…"

"Katara", Sokka interrupted his sister to say something, "Are you talk all day long or are you going to come with me?" He gestures to a canoe in which it had the materials he brought.

Katara brightens up and smiles that her brother is helping her. She then goes to Sokka and hugs him which he returns the embrace.

"Get in sis. We're going to save your boyfriend," says Sokka in a teasing tone of voice.

"He's not my…"

"Whatever."

Just then Gran-Gran appears in the scene, "What do you think you're doing?" Her two grandchildren turned around and she had quite a stern look but then smiled at them. "You'll need these. A long journey awaits the both of you."

"It's been so long since I had hope, but you helped me recover it my young waterbender." Gran-Gran hugs Katara then turns to Sokka. "And you my brave warrior. Be nice to your sister." Sokka reluctantly returns his grandmother's embrace.

Gran now continues, "Aang is the Avatar. He is the world's only chance. For a reason you both found him, and now your destinies have become intertwined with his."

Sokka and Katara looked each other and accepted their new role in helping Aang. Katara looks at the canoe and says, "There's no way we're going to catch a war ship with a canoe." Both Sokka and Katara hear a growl from behind them and it was from Appa. Katara exclaims, "Appa!" Sokka replies curtly, "You just love taking me out of my comfort zone don't you?"

At the war ship, Zuko prides himself in having the Avatar captured and soon he could have his honor restored plus his throne back. Zuko has in his hands Aang's staff and says while clutching it, "This staff will make an excellent gift for my father. I suppose you wouldn't know about fathers being raised by monks. Take the Avatar to the prison hold." He then hands the staff to his uncle Iroh then says "And take this staff to my quarters."

Iroh hands the staff to the guard next to him, "Would you mind in taking this to his quarters?" Iroh then finds Satoshi lying down on the floor. "Young Satoshi would you like to come with me for a cup of tea?" Satoshi politely denies his request, "It sounds a good invitation, but I will stay here in case anything happens." Iroh understands and accepts his decision. Satoshi feels aura of someone near him and it was the presence of his poke-partners who were waiting for their friend and master's return. "Don't worry Pikachu, Riolu, Delvil this journey is about to end now with the Avatar captures thanks to the prince." They were happy to hear that. Satoshi and his Pokemon continued to rest.

Aang was being led with the guards to the lower levels of the ship and then he says, "Well I suppose no one has ever faced an airbender before. I bet I can take on all of you with my hands tied behind my back." The guards just tell him to be quiet. By the moment they got to a door Aang takes a deep breath and blows through the hallway knocking both of his guards out.

In the sea, Sokka and Katara have been riding on Appa for around 10 to 30 minutes and the supposedly flying bison has just been swimming. "Go… fly… soar" Sokka thought the flying bison thing was just a rip off. Katara gave some encouraging words to Appa, "Please we need your help Appa. Aang also needs your help."

"Up… jump…ascends… elevate."

"Sokka doesn't believe you can fly, but I do. Don't you want to help Aang?"

Sokka tried to remember the words that the bald kid said to make it fly, "What were those words that kid said? Yee haw! Wahoo! Hop in! Yip yip!" Soon after hearing those words, Appa groans and flaps his tail to use its airbending powers to finally fly and take the sky. They were up high and couldn't believe it.

"You did it Sokka!" Katara became excited, but Sokka was even more that it actually worked. "He's flying! HE'S FLYING! Katara, he's…" He sees his sister smirk at him, and then he soon changes his expression to his usual self. "I mean big deal. He's flying." Sokka still was glad after all this.

Aang was racing through the corridors of the Zuko's ship. He entered through many rooms including comically on Iroh's room where he was peacefully sleeping. Aang excused himself to the general, and continued in searching his staff. Then he finally saw the last room which was left wide open and saw his staff lying there.

Aang enters the room and the next that happens is the door getting locked. He turns around and sees the Fire Prince behind him. Zuko says, "Looks like I've underestimated you."

A battle starts between Aang and Zuko. Zuko blasts some fire fists at Aang, and the airbender dodges the attacks with such ease and grace. Aang then circle walks under Zuko, and Zuko tries to hit him but it isn't working at all. Aang was using his defensive capabilities to his advantage and then forms an air sphere and rides in it like a scooter to dodge more incoming fire blasts.

He airbends a mattress, which collides to Zuko, and then he crashes him into the wall and then into the ceiling. He picks up his staff and then opens up the hatch to the bridge. He rushes then into the observation deck where freedom is awaiting him.

Aang then sees both sides if the coast is clear. The coast is clear, and Aang converts his staff to his trusty glider. He jumps from there to fly his way to freedom, but the only thing he didn't count on was on Prince Zuko waking up and jumping to grab on his leg, and then he couldn't hold on to Zuko's weight. Both crashed into the deck.

The noise from the deck was enough to make Satoshi wake up from his nap, and saw with his own eyes his friend the prince squaring off with the Avatar. He decided to join the party to make this interesting. "My prince, how about if I fight him just enough to tire him out?" Zuko says, "No, I have to this on my own. I need to restore my honor." Satoshi replies, "Then let me help you in this fight." Zuko took a moment and nodded to accept his help. This was now a two on one match and Aang was now disadvantage.

Just when they were about to battle, the three heard a growl coming from the skies. It was Appa with Katara and Sokka who came here just in time.

"Appa!"

With this distraction, both Satoshi and Zuko made a double fire blast at him who narrowly protected himself of the attack by twirling his staff to repel the fire. The attack sent Aang almost overboard, but he soon recovered and started to counter against both Zuko and Satoshi with some airbending that knocks them down. Satoshi gets up and starts to attack Aang once more with stronger fire blasts which he evades them. Then, Satoshi and Aang near each other for close combat. They fight each other relentlessly at close combat while ducking each other's strongest hits. They separate each other to recover their energy. "I must say that you fight really well for a kid. You show heart and spirit, since you're the spirit of the world," says Satoshi. Aang looks at the man he's facing to and doesn't sense any evil intention in him and asks him, "Who are you? Why you don't seem to have evil intent?" Satoshi just responds, "I am Satoshi noble warrior for the Fire Nation. The other question will have to be answered in another occasion." Just then Satoshi focuses energy from his palm to form a blue sphere which was summoned with his own aura. Satoshi fires the aura sphere and Aang was quite surprised at this that he couldn't block the attack which hits him and was again on the edge of the ship.

Zuko gets up and blasts a fire stream at Aang after which finally falls from the ship and into the water. Aang is unconscious after the hit he received from the prince and slowly sinks in the water. He was out cold and almost finished until he heard some yelling coming from the surface. It was Katara who was desperately yelling his name to no avail. She didn't want to lose the boy she just made friends and also the world's last hope for peace and balance.

Suddenly, Aang's eyes and tattoos were glowing and recovered consciousness. Aang went back to the surface and twirling himself in a cyclone of water and Aang returned to deck. With the water around him, he bended the water and unleashed it at the prince, Satoshi, and also the guards to throw them aside the ship.

Sokka and Katara watched the entire scene, and they were shocked and amazed at this. Katara asks, "Did you just see what happened?" Sokka answers, "Now, that is some waterbending."

Aang unleashed his waterbending, but then his eyes and arrows stop glowing and he faints from exhaustion. Sokka and Katara got to the ship on Appa, and they then rush to his aid.

Katara asks to the boy with a worried tone of voice, "Aang, are you okay?"

Aang nods at this although he is a bit tired, "Hey Katara. Hey Sokka. Thanks for coming."

Sokka jokingly says to Aang, "Well, we couldn't let you get all the fun and glory."

"I think I dropped my staff somewhere."

"I'll get it." Sokka picks up his staff, but felt another hand grabbing it. It was Prince Zuko who grabbed the staff as well. Both went into a small tug-o-war, and then Sokka decides to pay the prince with the same chocolate by poking him in the head. Zuko loses his grip and almost falls over in the water, but he grabs himself into the anchor chain. Sokka exclaims triumphantly, "Ha! That's from the Water Tribe!"

Meanwhile, Katara was being approached by firebenders and she stepped over a puddle of water and pulls a stream to waterbend at them. Instead, she bends the water at her brother Sokka. Sokka yells, "Katara!" Sokka got at least his feet frozen.

Katara then turns around and repeats the same technique which fortunately freezes them. Katara then jumps on Appa with Aang. "Sokka let's get out of here!"

Sokka says to himself, "I am just a guy with a boomerang. I just want simple things in life. I never asked for all this flying and magic." Sokka chips his frozen feet and then hops on Appa and exclaims "Yip Yip! Yip Yip!"

Iroh wakes up from his slumber and rubs his eyes after watching the giant bison fly away in the sky. Satoshi gets up after that incredible waterbending move coming from the airbender. Then Iroh sees his nephew get back on deck after almost falling of his ship, and he helps him up. Iroh, Zuko, and Satoshi look at each other and think the same thing. The three launch a triple fire blast to knock down the bison. Aang, who had recovered from his collapse, swings his staff at the big fire ball that was approaching them to create an arc of wind and deflect the fire ball to an ice cliff. Large amounts of ice fell onto the ship preventing it from moving anymore. The kids laugh at this triumphantly.

Zuko was angry at this that he let his prisoner escape; he truly underestimated him this time.

Satoshi was annoyed at this, but he can be sure that there will be another chance to defeat them.

Iroh states, "Good for the Fire Lord. The Fire Nation's greatest threat is just a kid." Zuko replies to his uncle, "This kid just did this. I underestimated him; it won't happen again. Dig this ship out and then follow them." But his crew was still frozen. "As soon as you're finished with that."

Satoshi said, "Well today was not our day, but we will get them next time."

It was sunset and Aang and his new friends were flying on Appa. Aang knew what was going to happen next.

Katara asks Aang, "How did you do that… with the water? It was the most amazing thing I have ever seen, like a true waterbending master."

"I don't know. I just did it."

Katara and Sokka were looking at him to find out the answer they needed. "Why didn't you tell us you were the Avatar?"

Aang sadly responds, "Because I never wanted to be."

Kaara says, "But Aang, the world has awaited the Avatar's return. To put an end to this war and restore peace and balance."

Aang then asks, "How am I supposed to do that?"

"According to the legends, you have to first master water, earth, and last fire."

"That's what the monks told me."

Katara says with a glint of hope, "Well if we go to the North Pole, then we can master together waterbending."

Aang smiles at this idea, "That would be great."

She then turns to her brother, "And Sokka, I'm sure that you might want to beat up some firebenders on the way."

Sokka smiled at this idea, "I'd like that. I'd really like that."

Katara happily says, "Then it's settled. We're in this together.

"But before we go to the North Pole, we will first go do some errands (he shows a map and points to specific places). First we will ride the hopping llamas; then we will surf on the giant koi fish, and finally we'll ride the hog monkeys. They don't like people riding theme, but that's what makes it fun!"

The trio now flies away on the bison as a new journey starts for them.


Well this is the chapter's end, and it took me a lot to finish. I had to do final projects; a family member has rest in peace at the beginning of this month. For next chapter; Aang, Katara, and Sokka visit the Southern Air Temple (Aang's childhood home), and they discover a shocking secret. Zuko, Iroh, and Satoshi visit a Fire Nation controlled harbor in some part of the Earth Kingdom managed by Zuko's rival, Commander Zhao, and soon these two get into a fight. About Shinji (Paul) and Nozomi, I could plan have them for this next chapter. That does all for now see you next time.