-NO ONES POV-
Water. Earth. Fire. Air. My grandmother used to tell me stories about the old days: a time of peace when the Avatar kept balance between the Water Tribes, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation and Air Nomads. But that all changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar mastered all four elements; only he could stop the ruthless firebenders. But when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years have passed, and the Fire Nation is nearing victory in the war. Two years ago, my father and the men of my tribe journeyed to the Earth Kingdom to help fight against the Fire Nation, leaving me and my brother to look after our tribe. Some people believe that the Avatar was never reborn into the Air Nomads and that the cycle is broken, but I haven't lost hope. I still believe that, somehow, the Avatar will return to save the world.
Sokka, a teenage boy, and his younger sister & friend, Katara, a teenage girl, and a young teenager named Y/N are sitting in the boat; Sokka holds a spear at the ready, while Katara simply stares into the water on the other side of the boat with Y/N by her side. The shot cuts to an overhead view, revealing that a fish is swimming close to the surface right in front of Sokka, who is focused on it, following its every movement.
Sokka: It's not getting away from me this time.
Sokka grins confidently over his shoulder in the direction of Katara and Y/N. "Watch and learn, ladies." This is how you catch a fish."
The shot pans quickly from Sokka to Katara and Y/N, who seems indifferent to his claim and turns back to her side of the boat again. Katara's expression changes to surprise; looking down into the water over her shoulder, another fish quickly swims by her, close to where she sits.
She shoots a quick glance towards her brother, removing the glove from her left hand. She stretches her arm out in the direction of the fish, taking a deep breath. Her look is a mixture of concentration and apprehension as she starts making a wavy motion with her wrist, moving her hand up and down.
"What are you doing?" Y/n asked confused "I'm practicing flower." Katara always with a smile at the slight younger one.
Sokka, still focused wholly on the fish in front of him, is completely unaware of what is happening behind his back. As Katara continues to move her hand, the water in front of Katara and Y/N, just in front of the shot, starts to ripple. Suddenly, a bubble of water rises up from the ocean containing the newly trapped fish.
Katara: [Happily surprised.] Y/N, Sokka, look!
Y/N: Good job Tara! [smiles]
Sokka: [whispering.] Sshh! Katara, y/n, you're going to scare it away.
A look of bliss adorns his face. He licks his lips and wiggles his fingers, not taking his eyes off the fish.
Sokka: Mmmm ... I can already smell it cookin'.
Behind you & Sokka, Katara is still making circular movements with both her arms, suspending the bubble of water that holds the fish in the air and moving back and forth. The camera cuts to her face, contorted slightly by the focus it takes to control the water. You turn to look at her happily.
Katara: [Struggling with the water that passes right in front of her.]
Y/N: But, Sokka! She caught one!
The bubble containing her fish slowly drifts around her to hang over Sokka, who is still oblivious. As the bubble hovers over his head, Sokka raises his spear to strike the fish he was following. He bursts the bubble of water with the blunt end of his weapon, causing Katara to lose control of the water; it rains down on Sokka, soaking him.
You: [chuckles]
Katara: [Exclaims indignantly.] Hey!
As Sokka lets out a gasp of discomfort, the fish tumbles through the air and Katara follows its arc with her eyes as it flies over her head and splashes back into the sea. Sokka rounds on his sister, placing his spear perpendicular to the rim of the boat as he yells irately.
Sokka: Why is it that every time you play with magic water, I get soaked while y/n doesn't?
Sokka clenches his fists and a few drops of water fall from his soaked gloves.
Katara: [she sighs lightly before answering in slight annoyance.] It's not "magic", it's waterbending! And it's ...
Sokka: [Cutting her off.] Yeah, yeah, "an ancient art unique to our culture", blah, blah, blah. Look, I'm just saying
Sokka grabs his warrior's wolf knot with his left hand as he turns away from her, wringing the water out of it. Meanwhile, Katara has crossed her arms with you beside her holding the hem of her jacket.
Sokka: that if I had weird powers, I'd keep my weirdness to myself. Isn't that right Y/N?
You: [looks away from sokka] don't bring me in this...
Katara: [she raises an eyebrow skeptically, arms still crossed.] You're calling me weird? I'm not the one who makes muscles at myself every time I see my reflection in the water!
Near the end of her response, Katara smiles smugly at her brother; he is flexing at his reflection in the water and grinning confidently. You roll your eyes putting your own hand in the water as a fish goes towards it. You smile feeling the nibble.
His happy look vanishes upon hearing his sister's remark and he turns around slowly, meaning to face her. Before he can say anything, however, the canoe suddenly shudders. As the three try to keep from falling over, Sokka whirls around toward his end of the canoe, a frantic look on his face. Soka immediately grabs you by your blue jacket to keep you in the boat as you yelp.
The boat is caught in a rapid current, which is pulling it swiftly toward a jumble of large icebergs which block the end of the narrow passage formed by the towering walls of ice. Sokka paddles the boat in an attempt to stay clear of any floating chunks of ice.
He manages to gain just enough speed to keep the boat from being crushed by two icebergs which slam together behind the boat.
A series of shots follows: the canoe moving through the water as Sokka rows furiously; a close-up of Sokka's head; and a frontal shot of the canoe as it is nearly pinned by a number of smaller chunks of ice. Cut to Katara's and your face, full of panic as you both yell commands to Sokka.
Katara: Watch out! Go left!
The shot shows an overview of the ice floes moving closer together in front of the boat, narrowing their path. The boat manages to stay clear of some of the icebergs, but it veers to the right with the current and becomes pinned by three large chunks of ice.
As the canoe is completely crushed by the ice, you, Katara and Sokka throw themselves from the canoe and onto one of the floes; Katara nearly slides off the other side into the water holding you, but comes to a halt at the floe's very edge.
As she raises her head, looking around, the shot zooms out to reveal the siblings are floating on one floe among dozens.
Katara, shuffling on her hands and knees, moves away from the rim toward the middle of the floe pulling you with her, sitting next to her brother. His spear is embedded point-first in the ice just behind him.
Katara: [A touch of bitterness in her voice.] You call that left?
You: It's not his fault he's stupid... [pouts]
Sokka: You guys don't like my steering? Well, maybe you two should've [He waves his hands, mockingly imitating waterbending.] waterbended us out of the ice.
You looked around and among the large icebergs and tiny floes surrounding you three stands a massive, towering shard of ice, its craggy peak rising high above the siblings.
Katara gets on her feet again, facing Sokka so that the pointed iceberg is behind her.
Katara: [Indignantly.] So it's our fault? leave Y/N out of this!
Sokka: [Annoyed.] I knew I should've left you guys home! [Katara is staring down at her brother in anger while he rants calmly.] Leave it to a girl to screw things up!
Katara's face contorts with fury as you sigh hearing such sexist comments from the teen boy. Katara points accusingly at her brother, who makes no movement as she screams her disgust at him, the floe bobbing lightly up and down.
Katara: You are the most sexist, [She brings her hands up to her head and swings them back down and behind her in her rage; the movement creates a small wave of water behind her.] immature, [Hands raised back to her head.] nut brained ... [Swings her arms back down again, creating a slightly larger wave; she raises her hands back to her head during a brief loss for words.] I'm embarrassed [Throwing a hand upward, a short jet of water shoots upward as well.] to be related to you!
She swings both her hands back forcefully once again and her unconscious waterbending hurls a wave directly into the towering iceberg behind her; with a loud, splitting crack, a hooklike fissure arcs up its surface and out its side, leaving a spray of ice where it ends.
Sokka, who wears a somewhat disinterested expression, glances briefly in his sister's direction and sees the iceberg; after a short moment, he does a double-take, his expression morphing into one of terror. The shot cuts to show Katara's outburst from behind Sokka; as she continues with her verbal outburst and arm movements, little chunks of ice from the iceberg splash into the water, unheard and unnoticed by Katara.
You noticed it as well as a splash from the wave hits your face. You gulp terrified at what you are seeing.
Katara: Ever since mom died, [Points to herself.] I've been doing all the work around camp while you've been off playing soldier!
She emphasizes the last words with a strong swing of her hand, waterbending and deepening the crack in the iceberg. Sokka's terror deepens, holding you close to his chest.
Sokka: [Pointing to the iceberg behind her, his voice subdued by fright.] Uh ... Katara ...
You: [eyes widen] Tara.....
Katara: [she continues her outburst, a finger pointed in Sokka's face.] I even wash all the clothes! Have you ever smelled your dirty socks? Let me tell you, not pleasant!
As she yells out that last word, she unconsciously waterbends once again, causing two new splits in the chunk of ice.
Sokka: [In a screeching voice, his eyes open wide in fear holding you tighter.] Katara, settle down!
Katara: (Angrily) NO! THAT'S IT!! I'm done helping you. From now on, (shrieks) you're ON YOUR OWN!
Her last movement is her most agitated and it creates a huge wave which, when it impacts the iceberg, sends a number of fissures to snake their way up the iceberg; one of them reaches the top of the iceberg, splitting it completely in half.
Petrified, Sokka gasps for air, and it is only now that Katara turns to look behind her. She gasps and the shot cuts to the iceberg; the two halves begin to fall away from each other and the siblings can be seen through the widening space between them.
The shot jumps to the siblings' and your backs as the two halves collapse into the water; a wave larger than any Katara cast at it radiates outward toward them and they are thrown to the ice as it pushes their floe backward.
As the waves subside, the shot cuts to a head-on close-up of the trio, their heads slightly over the edge of the ice.
Sokka, holding a protective arm over Katara, turns his head toward her.
Sokka: Okay, you've gone from "weird" to "freakish", [He releases her.] Katara. [he looks at you to see if you are okay]
You: [still amazed] woah...
Katara: [Astonished.] You mean I did that?
Sokka: [Sarcastically, glancing at her and smirking.] Yep. [Nudging her with his elbow.] Congratulations.
Several small bubbles appear on the surface of the water directly in front of them and a small spot of water begins to glow with a bright bluish hue. An overhead shot shows the spread of the brilliant glow and the bubbles within.
the two siblings scramble back in renewed terror from the edge, pushing their friend behind them just as a large, roughly spherical iceberg breaks the surface of the water.
The shot jumps behind you, Katara and Sokka as an iceberg rises above the surface, revealing its massive form to be the source of the glow. The crashing waves generated by the iceberg's rising push the floe backward as the berg itself rocks to one side, before coming to rest with its rounded dome exposed above the water.
Mesmerized by the iceberg, Katara strays closer and stares at the iceberg; behind her, Sokka halfheartedly stretches out his hand, as if to hold her back. You also wanted to go up there, but it was obvious by how sokka had his arm out he wanted you near him.
A few cuts ensue: the iceberg from behind Sokka and Katara; Katara's face as she stares at the object; and a shot of the iceberg itself, revealing a human shape within below a larger, indistinguishable mass. The human figure, perched in lotus, has glowing arrows on its head and hands. Katara raises an eyebrow in confusion.
The shot cuts to a closer view of the figure in the ice, its features accentuated by reflected light, revealing it to be a boy. Suddenly, the boy opens his eyes, the same brilliant light emanating from them, eliciting shocked gasps from both of the trio.
Katara: He's alive! We have to help!
Before Sokka can grab it, Katara grabs Sokka's club out of its sheath on his back and pulls her hood over her head, heading in the direction of the strange boy sealed in the iceberg. Sokka again reaches out his hand in an attempt to hold Katara back, though she is already running across the ice.
Sokka: Katara, get back here!
You ran from behind to follow Katara as your smaller frame is behind her.
Sokka grabs his spear from the ice and runs after Katara and you, who is already at the ice's edge.
Sokka: We don't know what that thing is!
Katara and you hop across the short distance between her floe and the iceberg on five tiny chinks of ice; Sokka, close behind the two, does the same. Reaching the iceberg first, Katara repeatedly strikes the iceberg with Sokka's club. You just stood there realizing you don't have anything to hit with.
On her fifth strike, the club breaks through the surface and a great gust of wind, which escapes from within the iceberg, throws you, her and her brother back from the side of the dome. Fissures quickly snake their way over the whole iceberg and, in a massive outward explosion, the entire orb of ice destroys itself.
A beam of light bursts from the core of the iceberg and rockets into the sky.
The iceberg from the shallow sea bottom as it emits ripples of light. The scene switches to a group of tiger seals, who erect themselves to growl at the distant beam of light.
β¨Cut to a Fire Nation ship, where a boy in a Fire Nation military uniform stands on the deck, gazing at the light. His ponytail flutters in the wind.β¨
Zuko: Finally! [He turns around to face another person in uniform, who sits at a small table.] Uncle, do you realize what this means?!
Iroh: [He is playing some sort of card game. He answers calmly while looking over the tile he's holding toward his nephew.] I won't get to finish my game?
Zuko: [Turning around again to face the light.] It means my search is about to come to an end.
Iroh sighs uninterestedly and places his tile on the table.
Zuko: [Gestures at the light while facing his uncle again.] That light came from an incredibly powerful source! [The light dwindles and disappears.] It has to be him!
Iroh: [With continuing disinterest and an air of skepticism.] Or it's just the celestial lights. We've been down this road before, Prince
Zuko: [He looks at the tile in his hand, depicting the symbol of airbending.] I don't want you to get too excited over nothing.
He places it on a tile carrying the symbol of firebending and gestures toward the open place at the other side of the table while continuing in a relaxed voice.
Iroh: Please, sit. Why don't you enjoy a cup of calming Jasmine tea?
Zuko: [Furiously, still facing Iroh.] I don't need any calming tea! I need to capture the Avatar! Helmsman, head a course for the light!
Zuko points in the direction of where the light once was. Iroh calmly continues with his game, placing another tile bearing the airbending symbol on the previous one. As he does, a gust of wind washes over him, shaking his tiles.
β¨Cut to the iceberg, where the gale has begun to settle.β¨
Sokka had protectively clutched Katara and you, but he now releases her as he looks around. As you just held sokka's arm.
Light still encircles the remains of the former mountain of ice, now reduced to a hollowed-out crater. Sokka looks at his sister and you and the three get to their feet, Katara holding onto you. He points his spear at the crater, ready to defend them, though lowers it in shock as a figure emerges slowly from the depression in the iceberg.
Sokka: [Brandishing his spear in defense once again.] Stop!
Now standing atop the crater, the figure slowly erects himself and looks down at them, and the three teens stare back in wonder and fear.
The circles of light finally dissipate as the boy stops glowing. The figure is revealed to be nothing more than a young boy, who gives a moan of exhaustion and suddenly faints. Katara gasps and runs forward to catch him before he hits the ground. Sokka and you follow behind and begins to poke at the boy's head with the blunt end of his spear.
Katara: [Waves the spear away. Annoyed.] Stop it!
You: [snatches the spear from sokka who pouts at you]
Katara places the boy gently against the base of the crater. You slowly looked closer at the boy from behind Katara as you narrowed your eyes. The boy as he slowly opens his gray eyes. He gasps in awe as he beholds the Southern Water Tribe teens, who stares at him, in wonder, with deep blue eyes and [eye color] eyes. Katara's hair loopies sway in the wind while you blink at him.
Aang: [In a weak voice.] I need to ask you something ...
Katara & you: What?
Aang: Please ... come closer.
Katara: [Curiously.] What is it?
You: ?
Aang: [In a clear, happy, hopeful tone.] Will you guys go penguin sledding with me?
Katara: [Awkwardly.] Uh, sure ... I-I guess.
You: [deadpan as you back away from the two]
The camera moves back again to show the four kids at the base of the iceberg. The boy elegantly rises to his feet in one swift motion, surprising the other three.
Katara looks at him in awe, your eyes widen with shock, while Sokka backs away in shock, aiming his spear at him again. Katara & you
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