It took awhile on foot but Aang and Katara finally made it back to the village. The villagers and Gran gran are looking out by the gates at sunset. They look down the ice road out of their village to see Aang and Katara in the distance walking toward them. As they approach, the children run forward to greet them. The children are excited and parading around, "Yay! Aang's back!" as Sokka comes forward angrily. He pointed one of his angry fingers in Aang's direction, "I knew it! You signaled the Fire Navy with that flare! You're leading them straight to us, aren't you?" Katara ran to stand in between the two boys, "Aang didn't do anything. It was an accident." Aang, looking like he was still trying to figure out what happened, "Yeah, we were on the ship and there was a booby trap and well…" he started rubbing his head, trying to puzzle out the thought, "we 'boobied' right into it." Gran gran shook her head. "Katara, you should've never been on that ship. Now we could all be in danger!" Now it was Aang's turn to step in between, "Don't blame Katara! I brought her there." Looking downtrodden and looking down, he adds, "accident or not, it's my fault." Sokka starts jumping up and down in euphoria, "AHA! The traitor confesses! Warriors," he looks to the children, "Away from the enemy!" The children all walk towards Sokka and Gran. Katara is angered by this. She bellows out, "Sokka, you're making a mistake. A big ass mistake!" Sokka, equally as enraged now, bellows back, "No! I'm keeping my promise to Dad. I'm protecting you from threats LIKE HIM!" Katara motions to Aang. "Aang is not our enemy! Don't you see? Aang's brought us something we haven't had in a long time." She looks downward towards the children, then back up at Sokka, "Fun!" Sokka was almost feverish with how worked up Katara was making him now. "FUN? We can't fight firebenders with FUN!" Aang, for the first time since the yelling began, smiled earnestly and piped up, "You should try it sometime." Sokka, seething at this point, growls "Get out of our village. NOW!" Katara, pleading now, "Grandmother, please don't let Sokka do this." But Gran was hearing none of it. "Katara, you knew that going on that ship was forbidden. Sokka is right. I think it best if the airbender leaves." In a huff, Katara shouts out, "then I'm banished too!" as she takes Aang's shoulder and walks off.
It seemed like the short walk to Appa took forever, with everyone staring at their backs, mouths agape, as they walked. Appa is on the left, ready for flight, Sokka and the villagers on the right. In between are Katara and Aang walking to Appa, the sun starting to set behind them.
Sokka comes stomping up to Katara, pointing at her, while asking, "Where do you think you're going?" Katara, calmly and without missing a beat, answered "To find a waterbender! Aang is taking me to the North Pole!" Aang, for a second, was momentarily confused, "I am?" but confusion didn't seem to last long for this kid. He brightened, "GREAT!" Sokka was not in as bright a mood, "Katara" he yells in that way he knows will make her stop, she does. "Would you really choose him over your tribe? Your own family?" She pauses, doubt and indecision spreading across her face. Aang comes down from loading up Appa, "Katara, I don't want to come between you and your family." He pets Appa's muzzle. Katara's eyes are welling up, "So, you're leaving the South Pole? This is goodbye?" sadness didn't seem to last long for this kid either, because Aang just said, "Thanks for penguin sledding with me." a little choked up, but not trying to show it, Katara asked, "Where will you go?" Aang paused petting Appa for a second, "hmm…" he continued petting the fuzzy creature. "Guess I'll go back home and look for the airbenders." he thought for a second. "Wow. I haven't cleaned my room in a hundred years. Not looking forward to that." he airbends himself onto Appa's head where he takes the reins. He turns to address the village. "It was nice meeting everyone!" Sokka, finally happy to see the boy leave, "HA! Let's see your bison fly now, Air boy." Aang shakes the reins, "Come on, Appa. Yip yip!" Appa rumbles and gets to his feet. Sokka, feeling a little proud to be proven so right in such a short time, "Yeah. Thought so." Just then, a little girl with pigtails rushes forward with a cry to stand by Katara. "Aang! Don't go! We'll miss you!" the little girl says, tears shining in her eyes. Aang says, "I'll miss you too." with a sad smile. He turns to look at Katara, braids blowing in the breeze. He turns around, shaking the reins once more. "Come on, boy." Appa walks off somberly. The little girl runs off crying back to the village. Gran gran comes up behind Katara. "Katara, you'll feel better after you-" Katara was so angry that manners meant nothing, she cut off Gran gran, "Are you happy now? There goes my one chance of becoming a waterbender. MY! ONE! CHANCE!" She stalks off angrily, leaving Gran gran alone.
Sokka is directing a small troop of little boys through the village gates. The older children sing 'Be A Man' while they file in line. Sokka stops the tiny troops, "All right! Ready our defences! The Fire Nation could be on our shores any minute now!" A little boy stops, raising his hand and dancing about suggestively, "But I gotta-" Sokka cuts him off forcefully, pointing to the fortifications, "And NO potty breaks!"
Many miles away from the village, Appa and Aang are resting in the curves of some ice formations. The formation has two doughnut shaped holes. Appa lies on his back in the lower one, Aang in the smaller higher one. Appa rumbles. Aang agrees, "Yeah, I liked her too." Aang looks out to sea and gets up with a start. He sees a Fire Navy ship sailing… "to the village!" Aang realizes. "Appa, wait here." Appa rumbles in reply, obviously saying OK because he didn't move from his spot, only rolled over to get more comfortable.
Sokka is putting on his war garb. Fingerless gloves, arm wraps, boots and face paint are all applied silently. Zuko is being helped into his armor by some attendants. He girds himself with a breastplate, shoulder guard and helmet.
Sokka leaves his tent with his weapons. Alone, Sokka stands atop the ice wall of the village, scanning the mist for any sign of the enemy. Suddenly, a deep rumbling noise is heard and the ground begins to shake. Parts of the wall on which Sokka stands begin to crumble. The villagers look around in alarm. The guard tower crumbles. Pandemonium breaks out in the village as people begin to run every which way. Katara is in their midst, but stops, seeing something in the mist. It's the bow of Prince Zuko's ship.
Prince Zuko's vessel has cut through the ice all the way to the city wall itself. As the ships continue to break ice towards the wall, Katara puts Gran Gran into one of the tents in the rear and then gets a little child out of harm's way as the ice floor of the village begins to crack all over the place under the stress. As she puts the child in a tent, she turns to look back at Sokka. She screams at him to, "Get out of the way!" As the ship reaches the wall, it collapses into a heap of ice and snow which tumbles back into the village, carrying Sokka with it. The ship finally comes to a halt. Steam wafts up from where the bow has split the ice. The villagers, Katara in front, have emerged from their shelters and stare in trepidation and amazement at the ship. Katara draws a deep breath in anticipation.
With a noise of metal on metal the bowsprit of the ship opens and folds out and down onto the village's floor. The bowsprit has become a huge gangplank, similar to the Roman corvus, for disembarking Fire Nation troops. Sokka falls backwards 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. Zuko starts walking down the gangplank stairs followed by four guards. Sokka gets up and charges Zuko with an adolescent war cry. As he runs up the steps to the Prince, Zuko casually and expertly kicks his weapon out of his hand and then kicks him in the face, sending him sprawling on the ice to the planks right. His head gets stuck in the snow and he struggles comically to free himself. The villagers draw back in fright and the ease with which their only warrior has been dispatched by the invaders.
Zuko walks forward to address the village. He looks over the crowd, then walks over to Katara and Gran Gran. "Where are you hiding him?" He looks around the crowd as there is no immediate response. He grabs Gran Gran and shows her to the villagers. "He'd be about this age? Master of all elements?" 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. They cower in fear. "I KNOW YOU'RE HIDING HIM!" He screamed louder, angrier.
Behind Zuko, Sokka gets up, his face paint largely gone. He retrieves his weapon and charges Zuko with another cry. He dodges Sokka's charges and flips him over his head. Zuko fires a blast of flame at Sokka, but Sokka rolls out of the way, throwing his boomerang at Zuko as he does. Caught by surprise, Zuko barely avoids the boomerang. He turns to look back in anger at Sokka over the near miss. A little boy in the crowd throws him a spear. "Show no fear!" the tiny troop member yelled out. Sokka catches the spear and charges Zuko, who, as Sokka reaches him, breaks off pieces of the spear shaft with his wrist guards. After the head of the spear has been shorn off, Zuko grabs the spear, boinks Sokka on the forehead with it several times, then breaks it in half and drops the pieces on the ground. Sokka, after getting bonked on the head, has also sunk to the ground, rubbing his head. In the sky in the background the boomerang reappears. It slams Zuko in the back of the head, knocking his helmet off kilter. Furious, Zuko begins to spit fire out of his hands as he hovers menacingly over Sokka.
Aang skyrocketed towards the village on an otter-penguin, staff in hand. He flies right under Zuko, sweeping his legs out from under him. Zuko lands butt up. The helmet lands on his behind in a most suggestive manner. The children cheer as Aang reaches the villagers. As he and the otter-penguin bank, they dump a lot of snow on the cheering kids. They stop cheering for a moment, but then take up the cheer again anyway. The otter-penguin slides to a halt and it pushes Aang off. The otter-penguin gets up, looks at Aang, and then turns and waddles away. Aang beams. "Hey Katara. Hey Sokka." Sokka says very dryly, "Hi, Aang. Thanks for comin'."
Aang looks over at the Firebenders. To Zuko getting to his feet and assuming a firebending stance. Aang at the ready with his staff, surrounded by Zuko and his men. They begin to close in, but Aang blows the men on either side of him backwards with blasts of air. He blasts Zuko as well, but he holds his ground, shielding his face from the wind.
As he blasts Zuko, he shouts, "Looking for me?" Zuko incredulously asks, "YOU'RE the Airbender? You're the Avatar?" Bewildered, Katara looks at the boys, "Aang?" For once, Sokka is in full agreement with his sister. "No fu… freakin way."
Zuko and Aang are maneuvering for position against each other in the middle of a village that has become an arena. Zuko cries out in frustration, "I've spent years preparing for this encounter. Training. Meditating. You're just a child!" Aang, figuring this was less about fighting and more about pointing out the obvious, says "Well, you're one to talk. You're just a teenager!" Zuko fires blast after blast. Aang cries out. He is hard pressed, fear showing on his face. Aang dissipates each blast as it strikes by twirling his staff in front of him like a helicopter blade. The dissipation doesn't block the fire from reaching the villagers, though, and they cry out. Aang looks behind him, to them and realizes he can't protect them all. "If I go with you, will you promise to leave everyone alone?" Aang asks Zuko, who is still in a firebending stance. After a brief pause, he straightens up and nods stiffly. Aang hands one of Zuko's soldiers his staff and is led aboard the ship. Katara rushes forward from the crowd of villagers, "No, Aang. Don't do this!" Aang throws a bright smile over his shoulder, "Don't worry, Katara. It'll be ok." they push him forward roughly and he screams over his shoulder, "Take care of Appa for me until I get back." Zuko smiles, for he knows there is no 'coming back.' He turns to one of his soldiers and says, "head a course for the Fire Nation. I'm going home." They board the ship and the bowsprit rises back up. Aang looks back hopefully at his new friend as the ship closes. Katara's eyes water as the prison closes around Aang. His smile drops as he sees her pain. The shadow of the closing bowsprit closes over him.
Not long after Zuko left with Aang the village life returned to "normal." The jagged path through the ice that Zuko's ship opened is plainly visible as is the shattered village wall. Life goes on, however, the fire at the center of the village smokes and villagers are visible about their work. They all look sad. Katara is at the water's edge looking out at the sun rising over the sea. Sokka walks behind her carrying some things. She follows. "We have to go after that ship, Sokka. Aang saved our tribe, now we have to save him." Sokka tried to get a word in, but was cut off by Katara, "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-" Finally Sokka cuts his sister off, "Katara! Are you gonna talk all day or are you coming with me?" Sokka motions to the canoe, all ready to go. Katara realizes what he's been doing. "Oh, Sokka!" she says with a happy gasp and a bear hug. Sokka receives the best bear hug he's gotten in a while and says, "Get in. We're going to save your boyfriend." Katara looks flustered, "He's NOT my-" "Yeah, yeah, whatever." Gran gran comes out from the gates and comes clearly into view to ask, "What do you two think you're doing?" they try to look innocently at a Gran gran that's trying to look stern. After a moment of staring at one another, Gran gran smiles, and offers the kids 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 hugs Katara. "And you, my brave warrior, be nice to your sister." and she hugs Sokka. In a much softer tone than he used with his sister, and a half smile, Sokka responded with the same words as earlier, "Yeah, yeah, whatever." but this time it was more sentimental. "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."
Katara turns to the canoe. "There's no way we're going to catch up to a warship with this." Appa emits a low rumble as he follows the path Gran gran took down to the canoe from the village gates. Katara runs towards Appa happily, and hugs the side of his soft face. "You just love taking me out of my comfort zone" Sokka asked. "Dontcha?"
Zuko's prow is breaking through ice packed water. On the foredeck, Aang has his hands bound behind him and faces Zuko, Iroh, and a bunch of guards. Zuko has Aang's staff. " 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. And'' shoving the staff in Iroh's direction, "take this to my quarters." Iroh takes the staff as Zuko walks away. Iroh immediately turns to the guard on his left. "Hey, you mind taking this to his quarters for me?" The guard takes the staff as Aang is escorted down some stairs into the ship. And is being escorted down one of the 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." They stop in front of a door. As one of the guards moves to open the door with a key, Aang draws a great breath and blows the guard with the key into the door, knocking him out. The breath also propels him backwards and into the guard behind him. They are blown all the way back down the hallway. They crash into the stairs they came down on. The guard is knocked out since Aang used 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 hall. One of the guards Aang just escaped from emerges and shouts up to a guard on the bridge deck in the foreground. The bridge guards turn and run. "THE AVATAR HAS ESCAPED!"
Appa is swimming through the water, with Katara at the reins and Sokka on his back in the saddle. Sokka drearily spoke from the back of the fluffy beast, "Go. Fly. Soar." while Katara tried to coax the animal, "Please, Appa, we need your help. Aang needs your help." Sokka continued to try commands. "Up. Elevate. Ascend. Get high." And Katara continued coaxing. "Sokka doesn't believe you can fly, but I do, Appa. Come on. Don't you wanna save Aang?" Appa rumbles in response, but doesn't speed up or fly. Sokka just keeps rambling on to himself, "What the hell did that kid say? Yee-haw? Hup hup? Wahoo? Uuuhhh… Yip yip?" This last gets a response. Appa rumbles again and begins to flop his massive beaver tail. He begins to hop along the surface of the water as he picks up speed. Finally, with a mighty heave, he takes off into the sky. Both of them start ecstatically dancing in their seats, cheering, "He can fly! He can fly! He can fly!" Then Katara gives him a smug look and he changes his tone to an air of nonchalance, "I mean, big deal, he's flying."
Aang ran down one of the ship's hallways, looking behind him for pursuers. His hands are still bound behind him. He turns and starts to run forward – right into three Fire Nation soldiers blocking his way, weapons drawn. "You haven't seen my staff around, have you?" Aang runs forward and up and around the guards by running along the walls and ceiling in corkscrew circles. He gets by them with ease and looks at his retreating form with surprise. "Thanks anyway!" Aang shouts as he runs into another hallway, this time blocked by a single guard. He blasts a fireball at him, but he avoids it by launching himself over the guards head. Aang passes, and is able to cut his wrist bonds by catching them on the horn of the guard's helmet. The bonds break and the guard is thrown off balance and onto the ground. Aang, his hands now free, starts running down hallways opening random doors. One such door belonged to a sleeping Iroh. Aang respectfully whispered a quick "Sorry" and left, closing the door behind him. He then runs by another open door, stops and turns back to it. "MY STAFF!"
He enters and the door shuts behind him. Now seeing Zuko, who was hiding in wait for the Avatar. "Looks like I underestimated you." After a brief pause, Zuko begins blasting fire at Aang, who barely dodges. He is terrified and he gasps and pants to catch his breath. After dodging a few more shots, Aang rolls underneath Zuko to get behind him. By staying behind him, Zuko is unable to blast him with fire. The long window of the room where Aang and Zuko are fighting lights up every other second each time Zuko releases a blast. Aang now faces Zuko. He dissipates each fireball with a small air ball he forms with his hands. Aang creates an air scooter and rides 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 airball and grabs a tapestry off the wall. He wraps Zuko up in it as he passes. While Zuko struggles against the tapestry, Aang is able to grab his staff. Zuko breaks his bonds and they once again square off against each other. After a few seconds of maneuvering, Aang airbends a mattress up off the floor and slams it into Zuko. The mattress propels Zuko into the opposite wall. He is smashed into it and he falls to the ground, onto the mattress. Aang then 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.
Up on the bridge, where the wheel mechanism that opens a deck hatch on the floor begins to spin. The hatch opens and Aang airbends himself on to the bridge from below. Aang rushes forward out onto the bridge's observation deck. He opens his glider, throws it into the air and jumps after it. He catches it, a happy expression on his face. Unfortunately, behind him, Zuko has jumped after him in pursuit. With a fierce cry of desperation, he grabs Aang's foot. Both get up and square off yet again. Aang's look of trepidation is tempered as he turns over his left shoulder to see Appa up in the sky gaining on Zuko's ship. Zuko's eyes get huge as he asks, "What IS that?" Aang answers just as enthusiastically as when he jumped for his glider, "APPA!"
Aang turns just in time to use his staff to block a fire blast from Zuko. He uses his staff as a helicopter to escape the blasts 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 is knocked away from him. He dodges a few more blasts before he is finally knocked overboard. Aang falls into the water below. Katara starts hysterically calling out for Aang, "Aang! AANG!" At Katara's final scream, Aang's eyes and tattoo's glow white, an expression of determination forming on his face. He turns around in the water and begins to rise towards the surface. Around him, a mighty whirlpool of water begins to form. Aang, at the center of a now monstrous, inverted tornado of water is propelled toward the surface at amazing speed. He breaks the surface in front of the ship, towering high over the bridge atop his swirling maelstrom of water. Zuko, who looks up at the swirling column of water and the Avatar at its pinnacle with dismay and fear. Aang lands on the deck, his eyes still aglow, and bends the water from the column around him in a circle. He releases it and it expands outward in a shockwave that blasts Zuko and his men overboard. Katar and Sokka witnessed all this on the back of Appa from above the ship. Katara, losing her shit, "Did you SEE what he just DID!?" Sokka tried to remain calm but was equally losing his shit inside, "Now THAT was some waterbending!"
Aang is on the foredeck, on his knees, wobbling after the huge energy expenditure. He falls forward, the white energy fading from his eyes and tattoos. Appa lands and Katara and Sokka jump off to retrieve him. Katara comes to kneel by him and hold Aang, Sokka comes to her side, ever the protectors. Aang, drained, thanked Katara and Sokka. "Thank you guys for coming." Sokka, kept his stance by his sister and new 'friend', "Well, i couldn't let you have all the FUN." and he winked at Aang. who then proceeded to tell Sokka that he lost his staff. Sokka, ever the effervescent warrior was on it. Sokka runs over to pick up the staff. As he picks it up, Sokka is shocked to see that Zuko holds the other end of it. Zuko was washed overboard, but held onto the part of Aang's staff that was hanging out over the deck. Sokka butts Zuko in the head with the staff three times. Zuko lets go and begins to fall to the water below, but grabs the anchor chain in time. He hangs by one hand. Sokka screams in triumph, "HA! That's from the Water Tribe!"
The guards who had been washed way down the deck by Aang's waterbending get up, preparing for combat. Katara picks up a stream of water from the deck and the guards pull back slightly in fear. She tries to whip the guards with the water, but instead freezes the water on the deck, including the water around Sokka's feet in the background. Sokka starts to chip away at the ice holding his feet with his boomerang while the soldiers move forward once again. Katara picks up another stream of water and throws it at the soldiers without looking. They are now frozen in a thin sheet of ice. With no hesitation, she turns and climbs back on Appa, screaming to her brother, "Hurry up, Sokka!" while Sokka mutters to himself, "I'm just a guy with a boomerang. I didn't ask for all this flying and magic." He finally frees himself and runs up Appa's tail. Sokka frantically yelled out "Yip yip! Yip yip!" Once he's on board, Appa rumbles and takes off.
Iroh emerges from the lower deck, awake from his nap, looking up at the sky and rubbing his eyes, he thinks he's in some sort of daze. "Huh?" He understands enough of what happened to know that Zuko needs help getting back onto the ship. He goes to help. As Zuko swings a leg over the side of the ship, he orders, "Shoot them down!" As Appa gains altitude, Zuko and Iroh in unison launch a massive bolt of fire at Appa. Katara and Sokka look behind them in horror at the approaching fireball. Aang jumps to the back of the saddle and, using his staff like a baseball bat, airbends 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 Zuko's ship is navigating. Zuko gasps in horror as the bow of the ship and indeed the entire channel is blocked up under an avalanche of ice. Aang, Katara and Sokka laugh as they fly away.
Iroh says to his nephew as he clambours onto the ship, "Good news for the Fire Lord. the nation's greatest threat is just a little kid." Zuko sighs, "That kid, Uncle, just did all this." He spreads his arms wide and Iroh takes in the prow buried in ice, the frozen soldiers, the water all over, and the dings all over the ship. "I won't underestimate him again. Dig this ship out and follow them!" he says, turning to his soldiers. He sees that they are using controlled firebending to thaw out their compatriots, "As soon as you're done with that."
As the newly formed group leaves Zuko's ship behind, the sun is setting in a wide array of reds and oranges as Appa flies through the clouds. Katara excitedly flails about in Appa's saddle, "How did you do that?" she flails her hands around her face, "With the water?" She puts her hands on her face, almost in a mimicry of Home Alone, "It was the most amazing thing I've ever seen!" Aang sitting, cross-legged, kinda sadly on the bridge of the saddle, just responds, "I dunno. I just… sorta… did it" as he looks at his hands, slowly turning them over, looking for some kind of answer. His thoughts are disrupted when Katara asks, "Why didn't you tell us you were the Avatar?" Aang, putting his hands down and bringing his knees up to his chin, very dolefully stated, "Because… I never wanted to be."
Overhead, a cloud passes over them, momentarily blocking the fading sunlight. After it passes, they enter a shaft of sunlight. "But Aang," Katara started, "the world's been waiting for the Avatar to return and finally put an end to this war." looking sadder than any normal human, and sadder than Katara has seen him since she found him, Aang asks, "And how am i to do that?" Katara, not missing a beat, and not letting his dapper mood get to her, piped up with what she knew, which wasn't much, but it was better than nothing. "According to legend, you need to first master water, then earth, then fire. Right?" Aang kind of half shrugged, "That's what the monks told me." Katara, lost in thought for a second as to what the world was like, snapped back and said, "Well, if we go to the North Pole, you can master waterbending." This thought seemed to cheer up Aang a considerable amount. Smiling, he said, "We can learn it together!" Katara, including her brother so he'd agree to go, "And Sokka, I'm sure you'll get to knock some Fire Nation heads on the way." And in a somewhat dreamy daze, Sokka agrees, "I'd like that. I'd really like that." Katara happily squeals, "Then we're in this together!" Sokka wakes up from his daze, shakes himself for a second, then turns to his sister, "Hey, hey, hey! What are you thinking? We barely know this kid, and you want to travel half the world with him? Are you crazy?" he takes a second to mumble to himself, "Well, you ARE my sister. I guess I've known you're crazy for a while now." he looks at Katara, bewildered, "BUT ARE YOU THIS CRAZY?" Katara sat up straight, the smile from earlier almost lost, but still remnants remained on her face. She looked between the two boys and petted Appa's side, and looked out at the setting sun, before answering. "Maybe. I might just be, I am related to you."
Aang, seeing that the matter was settled, produced a scroll. "All right, but before we 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." he points to two spots in the Earth Kingdom, and one spot on the Southern Air Nomad islands in quick succession. "Katara bends forward to look at the map better, "What's there?" "Here," Aang said, pointing to the Earth Kingdom, "We'll ride the hopping lammas. Then waaaaayyyyy over here," pointing 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!" Sokka leans back to make eye contact with Katara without Aang noticing, "mhmm… crazy." he mouths to her.