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Aang uncomfortably turns around and a look of guilt crosses his face. In the vision, Appa swims through the vast sea, reflecting the brilliant sunlight.

Everything switches to a dream of Aang's, colored in various shades of gray. Aang is sleeping on Appa's saddle while clouds build around and ahead of him. Lightning splits the sky and the rumble of the following thunder awakens him. He shoots up and looks around. It is raining and Aang is sitting on Appa's head again, holding the reigns and screaming at the top of his lungs in terror while they go down. Appa and Aang splash into the waters of the ocean. Appa resurfaces again, growls, but is quickly subdued anew by another wave. Both Aang and Appa sink unconscious into the water. As Aang releases the reigns and drifts off, his eyes and tattoos suddenly start to glow brightly. He slams his fists together, creating a bluish-white sphere that encases Appa and himself. As the air sphere slowly solidifies into an icy globe, a voice permeates the dream.

"Aang? Aang! Wake up." Aang shoots up, throwing the covers of his body and gasping for air. Katara perches beside him and stands up as she sees that Aang is awake. "It's okay, we're in the village now! Come on, get ready." She points to the door of the tent. "Everyone's waiting to meet you."

Aang happily gets out of bed and starts to dress himself while Katara takes a step toward the door. Before she exits, however, she glances back at Aang and gasps, staring in wonder at the blue, arrow-shaped tattoos that trace his arms and legs and reach up his back and to his head. Before Aang is able to get up, Katara pulls him along by his arm to meet the rest of the village.

Aang is dragged out the tent toward a small congregation of villagers. He passes Sokka, who is sitting at the side of the tent, sharpening his boomerang.

"Aang, this is the entire village." She points to the line of villagers in front of them. "Entire village, Aang."

Aang bows respectfully toward the villagers, but they cower away in fear, bringing a surprised look to Katara and Aang's faces. Sokka just watches from a distance.

Lance, meanwhile, is looking around at the village from his position near Aang. "Oh, and by the way, this is Lance. We also found him where we found Aang."

Uncomfortably, Aang asks, "Uh, why are they all looking at me like that? Did Appa sneeze on me?"

Aang checks his clothing while an elderly woman steps forward out of the line of villagers.

The elderly woman explains, "Well, no one has seen an airbender in a hundred years. We thought they were extinct, until my granddaughter and grandson found you."

Aang says in shocked disbelief, "Extinct?"

Gesturing, Katara explains, "Aang, this is my grandmother."

"Call me Gran-Gran. As for you, Lance, I can't help but feel we've met somewhere before."

Lance's attention went towards the grandmother, awkward at what the old woman had said, "Um, you may be thinking of another hotshot member of the Water Tribe. I haven't been here before."

"Are you sure? You look as though you may be from the Water Tribe," Gran-Gran questioned.

Sokka walks toward Aang and abruptly snatches his staff out of his hands and starts to examine it.

Sokka says, annoyed, "What is this, a weapon? You can't stab anything with this!"

Aang uses a small air current to get his staff back.

"It's not for stabbing! It's for airbending," Aang explains. He opens his staff into a glider, making Sokka gasp in fright and cover his head with his hands.

Excited, a young village girl cried out, "Magic trick! Do it again!"

"Not magic, airbending." Aang says. He moves his glider around him, visually demonstrating what he is talking about. "It lets me control the air currents around my glider and fly."

Sokka mockingly states his disbelief. "Ya know, last time I checked, humans can't fly!"

Aang said, accepting Sokka's challenge, smiling. "Check again!"

Aang grabs hold of his glider and pushes himself off the ground, leaving Katara and Sokka to cover their faces against the sudden wind. The village stares in awe as Aang makes some loops and turns in the sky. Lance, however, wasn't very impressed, looking as though he had seen this before.

In admiration, one village girl said. "He's flying!"

Aang makes another loops and speeds up to soar past the gazing villagers.

"It's amazing!" the village girl yelled out.

Aang's shadow passes over Katara, who is smiling broadly at him. Aang, intending to further impress the villagers, flies sideways and closes his eyes while grinning broadly. He promptly flies head-on into the village's watchtower, causing his head to be stuck in its side. Katara covers her mouth as she watches Aang struggle to extricate his head from the icy watchtower. Succeeding, he tumbles downward onto a pile of snow at the base of the tower that crumbled from the building. Katara immediately rushes to his side while Sokka stares in shock at the damage inflicted on his watchtower.

Shocked, Sokka cries out, "My watchtower!"

Aang lies covered in snow at the base of the partially collapsed tower. Katara and some other girls of the tribe run toward Aang, smiling.

Offering her hand to pull him out of the snow, Katara says,"That was amazing!"

Sokka runs toward his watchtower and starts to pat it in the hope that he can save it from collapsing any further. While Aang spins his staff around to retract its wings, Sokka is being knocked down by a large pack of snow that falls down.

Annoyed, Sokka mutters, "Great. You're an airbender, Katara's a waterbender. Together you can just waste time all day long." He wedges himself free from underneath the weight of the snow and stalks off.

Surprised and with admiration, Aang asks, "You're a waterbender?"

Nervously, Katara answers, "Well, sort of. Not yet."

"All right, no more playing. Come on, Katara, you have chores," Gran-Gran reminds the young waterbender.

Kanna leads Katara away from Aang. The surrounding villagers part to let the duo pass.

Excitedly, Katara tells her grandmother, "I told you, he's the real thing Gran-Gran! I finally found a bender to teach me!"

Calmly, the grandmother warns her granddaughter, "Katara, try not to put all your hopes in this boy."

"But he's special! I can tell!" Clenches her fist and closes her eyes in hope. "I sense he's filled with much wisdom."

Katara opens her eyes again and glances back toward Aang, who is surrounded by a bunch of kids. He smiles while his tongue is stuck to his staff.

Muffled, Aang says, "See? Now my tongue is stuck to my staff!"

Much to Aang's discomfort, one of the smaller village boys starts to yank his staff, pulling Aang along with every movement. The village kids laugh and applaud Aang as his tongue remains stuck to his staff.

Meanwhile, on Zuko's ship where Zuko is facing two soldiers dressed in the uniforms of a firebending Fire Nation soldier. Iroh is sitting on a small chair next to them with Keith sitting on the ship's floor.

Sternly, Iroh says, "Again."

Zuko opens the fight by spreading his arms in the direction of the two firebenders, showering them with flames. His adversaries block Zuko's attack with ease. Zuko shifts his weight to duck under a retaliation blast of the firebender to his left. The firebender to his right jumps forward to aim a blast at Zuko's feet. The prince propels himself out of the way. He twists around in mid-air and directs another fire blast with his hand to the firebender that retaliated first, and another with his foot to the firebender that aimed for his feet. Both soldiers jump out of the way of Zuko's flames. Zuko lands and stretches his fists out toward his adversaries, ready to face another attack.

Zuko sighs while he gets up. "No!" Iroh says, causing Zuko to lower his arms and look at his uncle. "Power in firebending comes from the breath" Iroh moves his both hands up in front of him to emphasize the breathing motion, "not the muscles." He stretches his left arm out as if he was sending a fire blast. "The breath becomes energy in the body. The energy extends past your limbs and becomes: fire!" Iroh directs a fire blast at his nephew that evaporates just before it would scorch him. "Get it right this time."

With suppressed anger, Zuko walks toward his uncle and addresses him. "Enough! I've been drilling this sequence all day. Teach me the next set! I'm more than ready!"

"No, you are impatient." He sits down again on his chair. "You have yet to master your basics." He yells his order. "Drill it again!"

Zuko clenches his teeth in anger. He turns around and suddenly directs a power fire kick toward one of the soldiers. The firebender attempts to stop the fire blast, but he is unable to and is thrown on his back by its power.

The suppressed anger is very apparent in his voice. "The sages tell us that the Avatar is the last airbender." Iroh does not look pleased with the attitude of his nephew. "He must be over a hundred years old by now. He's had a century to master the four elements! I'll need more than basic firebending to defeat him." Starts to yell at his uncle. "You will teach me the advanced set!"

"Or, he could be much younger than that," Keith muttered under his breath.

Iroh, concedes reluctantly. On a dire tone. "Very well," His expression changes completely to one of delight as he picks something up from the ground. "but first, I must finish my roast duck." He quickly munches down the roast duck, much to the dismay of Zuko.

"Thanks for the help, Iroh," Keith says under his breath, once again not being noticed.

Sokka is pacing to and fro, his arms behind his back.

With a stern expression. "Now men, it's important that you show no fear when you face a firebender." He brings out his club and holds it proudly. "In the Water Tribe, we fight to the last man standing! For without courage, how can we call ourselves men?" He clutches his fist to emphasize the word "men" as he stares down the people in front of him.

Sokka was, in fact, talking to six uninterested little boys.

Waving his hand in the air, one boy says, "I gotta pee!"

Angrily, Sokka yells, "Listen! Until your fathers return from the War, they're counting on you to be the men of this tribe, and that means no potty breaks!" He makes some wide arm gestures to emphasize his words again.

"But I really gotta go!" The kid pleas.

Sokka sighs, saying, "Okay, who else has to go?"

Every child immediately raises his hand. Sokka is surprised for a second, before facepalming in frustration.

Katara runs up to Sokka as the children leave. In a worried tone, she says, "Have you seen Aang? Gran-Gran said he disappeared over an hour ago."

Aang appears from an outhouse igloo, pulling his pants up a bit higher.

Amused, Aang says, "Wow! Everything freezes in there!"

He points toward the bathroom with a smile on his face. Sokka's "soldiers" halt beside Aang and laugh with him.

Sokka responds, annoyed, "Uh!" He angrily points at Aang. "Katara, get him out of here! This lesson is for warriors only!"

Sokka is about to walk away when he hears the sound of playing children.

"Whee!" one of the children yells.

He turns around, the village are children sliding down Appa's tail like a slide. The end of the tail is propped upward, so the children are propelled into the air. They fly over Sokka's spear, now serving as a mark that they need to cross before landing in a soft pile of snow. Katara laughs as a boy lands head-first in the snow, but Sokka rushes forward.

Sokka yells angrily, "Stop! Stop it right now!" The laughter of the children is stifled immediately and Appa turns his head to look at Sokka, who accusingly directs his anger to Aang. "What's wrong with you?! We don't have time for fun and games with the War going on!"

Sokka takes back his spear and casts an annoyed glance at the laughing children who run past him.

Aang slides down from Appa's head. "What war? What are you talking about?"

Sokka raises one eyebrow in disbelief. "You're kidding, right?"

"Give him a break. He's been frozen for a long time. He may have even been frozen before the war began," Lance tried to defend Aang.

"Wait. How do you know about the war?" Sokka questioned the teen. "Weren't you frozen too?"

Aang looks questioningly at Sokka, but the expression on his face changes to enthusiasm when he catches sight of an otter-penguin.

Aang exclaims enthusiastically. "Penguin!"

The animal is startled by Aang's outburst and quickly waddles off. Aang gives chase, racing past Katara and Sokka, enhancing his speed with his airbending. He leaves a deep trail in the snow as he dashes after the penguin.

Sokka says "He's kidding, right?"

The siblings glance at each other, not sure what they need to think of Aang's reaction.

Hundreds of otter-penguins are walking or sliding down icebergs. Katara approaches the penguins in search for Aang.

"Aang?" Katara calls out.

She finds Aang chasing the penguins while laughing. "Hey, come on little guy. Wanna go sledding?" He jumps at a penguin, but the animal evades his attempt and Aang belly flops into the snow. He turns on his back and quickly erects himself with his airbending as Katara comes up beside him. "Heh heh. I have a way with animals."

Aang stretches his arms wide and imitates the sound and movements of the animals around them, making Katara laugh.

Amused, Katara says, "Hehehe, Aang, I'll help you catch a penguin if you teach me waterbending."

Having grabbed the tail of a penguin, he holds on as it pulls him through the snow for a short way before letting go and looking up at Katara. "You got a deal! Just one little problem …" He airbends himself into a sitting position. "I'm an airbender, not a waterbender. Isn't there someone in your tribe who can teach you?"

Sadly, Katara replies, "No. You're looking at the only waterbender in the whole South Pole."

"This isn't right. A waterbender needs to master water." Aang thinks for a moment. "What about the North Pole? There's another Water Tribe up there, right? Maybe they have waterbenders who could teach you."

"Maybe, but we haven't had contact with our sister tribe in a long time. It's not exactly "turn right at the second glacier". It's on the other side of the world."

"But you forget, I have a flying bison." He happily points at himself. "Appa and I can personally fly you to the North Pole. Katara, we're going to find you a master!"

Katara is unsure at this gesture, "That's ... I mean, I don't know. I've never left home before."

"Well, you think about it, but in the meantime, can you teach me how to catch one of these penguins?" Aang asks her.

Mockingly imitating a teacher, Katara says, "Okay, listen closely my young pupil." Inclines her head toward Aang. "Catching penguins is an ancient and sacred art." She conjures a fish out of her sleeve. "Observe!"

She tosses Aang the fish. As he catches it with an uncomprehending look on his face, the penguins immediately begin crowding him. He laughs as the penguins swarm over him, pulling him down amidst their ranks.

"Hi hi hi! Ha, ha, ha!" Aang laughs.

Aang and Katara use a protruding iceberg as a slide, each sitting atop a penguin. They soar through the air for a moment before landing on the slope and continuing their journey downward. They race down and Aang uses another iceberg as a ramp to propel him into the air and to soar over and past Katara. She in turn uses the next jump to land next to Aang again. The two laugh and shout out as they gleefully ride over snowy bumps.

Happily, Katara cries out, "I haven't done this since I was a kid!"

"You still are a kid!" Aang responds.

The two ride through a tunnel of ice. Katara is in the lead and tries to hold Aang back by constantly changing her direction when he wants to pass her. Aang solves this problem by increasing his speed with airbending, enabling him to race over the ceiling past Katara. The tunnel levels out on an open plain of ice where the two get off their rides. The plain itself is dominated by a large metal ship, elevated and held in place by a large protrusion of ice with the bow pointing toward the sky. Curious, Aang gazes at it.

In awe, Aang asks, "Whoa! What is that?"

On a slightly dark tone, Katara answers, "A Fire Navy ship. And a very bad memory for my people." Aang begins to approach the wreckage. "Aang, stop! We're not allowed to go near it! The ship could be booby-trapped!"

"If you want to be a bender, you have to let go of fear." Aang replies.

Katara ponders over that remark for a moment and walks toward Aang with a scared look upon her face. The two venture closer toward the ship. Aang helps Katara to climb some of the blocks of ice that lay beside the ship and they crawl through a hole in the hull of the ship. The two walk through the silent rooms of the shipwreck. Some white hamsters roam the otherwise deserted ship. Aang enters a room stocked with weapons in various places.

Her voice echoes through the room. "This ship has haunted my tribe since Gran-Gran was a little girl. It was part of the Fire Nation's first attacks."

"Okay, back up. I have friends all over the world, even in the Fire Nation." Aang picks up a Guan Dao to inspect it. "I've never seen any war."

"Aang, how long were you in that iceberg?" Katara asks.

Uncertainly, Aang answers, "I don't know. A few days, maybe?"

"I think it was more like a hundred years!" Katara responds.

In full disbelief and slightly accusing, Aang responds, "What?! That's impossible! Do I look like a hundred-twelve-year-old man to you?"

"Think about it. The War is a century old. You don't know about it because, somehow, you were in there the whole time!" Aang's expression changes to one of comprehension. "It's the only explanation."

Aang backs away and slumps to floor in shock. "A hundred years!" Saddened by his new discovery. "I can't believe it."

Katara squats beside him. "I'm sorry, Aang. Maybe somehow there's a bright side to all this …"

Aang answers cheerfully, "I did get to meet you."

Smiling warmly at him while offering her hand, Katara decides, "Come on, let's get out of here." Katara smiles and pulls him to his feet and the two exit the room. "Aang, let's head back, this place is creepy."

Aang ventures down yet another room with Katara on his trail. There, he trips over a thin rope; as he stumbles, metal bars slide downward over the entrance, barring it and trapping them inside.

"Huh?" Aang is confused. They both run toward the bars and peek through them. "What's that you said about booby traps?" The gears and engines of the shipwreck suddenly power up, beginning to function. In shock, Katara and Aang follow the movements of the machines until suddenly, a flare is fired and explodes high in the sky. "Uh oh …" Aang notices a hole in the roof of the ship and takes a surprised Katara into his arms. "Hold on tight!"

"Aaah!" Katara yells.

Aang enhances the power of his jump with his airbending to jump several feet into the air through the hole.

Meanwhile, with Prince Zuko, who is peering through a telescope. He follows every movement the duo makes as Aang, still holding Katara, jumps down the side of the ship.

"The last airbender!" Aang and Katara reach the ground again and Aang sets Katara down. They start to walk away. "Quite agile for his old age." He turns and angrily yells to a soldier behind him. "Wake my uncle! And my Avatar tracker! Tell them I found the Avatar." Zuko peeks through his telescope again to see that Katara and Aang are running now. Zuko follows the direction they are running in with his telescope and discovers that they must be headed for the village he spots. "As well as his hiding place …"

Zuko squints his right eye to look in the direction of the Southern Water Tribe.