0:02 - 0:04	Water.
0:04 - 0:06	Earth.
0:06 - 0:08	Fire.
0:08 - 0:10	Air.
0:10 - 0:14	Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony.
0:15 - 0:18	Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.
0:19 - 0:21	Only the Avatar, master of all four elements,
0:21 - 0:23	could stop them.
0:23 - 0:26	But when the world needed him most, he vanished.
0:27 - 0:30	100 years passed, and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar,
0:31 - 0:32	an airbender named Aang.
0:33 - 0:35	And although his airbending skills are great,
0:35 - 0:37	he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone.
0:37 - 0:38	Unh!
0:38 - 0:42	But I believe Aang can save the world.
1:15 - 1:16	We need you, Aang.
1:17 - 1:19	I need you, too.
1:24 - 1:27	Be careful, guys!
1:27 - 1:28	Guys?
1:29 - 1:30	Gyatso?
1:30 - 1:32	Why did you disappear?
1:33 - 1:34	I didn't mean to.
1:40 - 1:43	We need you, Aang.
1:48 - 1:50	We need you, Aang. We need you.
1:51 - 1:53	We need you, Aang. We need you.
1:55 - 1:57	Huh! What's going on?
1:57 - 1:58	Did we get captured again?
1:59 - 2:01	It's nothing. I just had a bad dream.
2:01 - 2:02	Go back to sleep.
2:02 - 2:03	You don't have to tell me twice.
2:04 - 2:05	Are you all right, Aang?
2:05 - 2:07	I'm okay.
2:07 - 2:09	You seem to be having a lot of nightmares lately.
2:09 - 2:10	You want to tell me about it?
2:11 - 2:12	I think I just need some rest.
2:12 - 2:15	You guys want to hear about my dream?
2:16 - 2:19	That's okay. I didn't want to talk about it anyway.
2:24 - 2:25	Look at those clear skies, buddy.
2:25 - 2:27	Should be some smooth flying.
2:29 - 2:32	Well, we'd better smoothly fly ourselves to a market,
2:32 - 2:33	because we're out of food.
2:34 - 2:36	Guys, wait. This was in my dream.
2:36 - 2:37	We shouldn't go to the market.
2:37 - 2:38	What happened in your dream?
2:39 - 2:40	Food eats people!
2:41 - 2:44	Also, Momo could talk.
2:44 - 2:46	You said some very unkind things.
2:53 - 2:55	There is a storm coming.
2:55 - 2:56	A big one.
2:57 - 2:58	You're out of your mind, uncle.
2:58 - 3:00	The weather is perfect. There's not a cloud in sight.
3:01 - 3:04	A storm is approaching from the north.
3:04 - 3:08	I suggest we alter our course and head southwest.
3:08 - 3:10	We know the Avatar is traveling northward,
3:10 - 3:12	so we will do the same.
3:12 - 3:15	Prince Zuko, consider the safety of the crew.
3:15 - 3:17	The safety of the crew doesn't matter.
3:21 - 3:24	Finding the Avatar is far more important
3:24 - 3:26	than any individual's safety.
3:30 - 3:33	He doesn't mean that. He's just all worked up.
3:36 - 3:39	It's good. It's perfect, I'm telling you.
3:41 - 3:43	I don't know if I like the sound of that swishing.
3:43 - 3:45	Swishing means it's ripe.
3:45 - 3:49	It's the ripe juices swishing around, huh?
3:49 - 3:50	I think it's true, Katara.
3:50 - 3:51	Swishing means it's ripe.
3:52 - 3:54	I just realized we're out of money, anyway.
3:55 - 3:57	Aww...
4:00 - 4:02	Out of food and out of money.
4:02 - 4:04	Now what are we supposed to do?
4:04 - 4:06	You could get a job, smart guy.
4:06 - 4:07	We shouldn't go out there.
4:07 - 4:09	Please! The fish can wait.
4:09 - 4:11	There's going to be a terrible storm.
4:11 - 4:14	Aw, you're crazy. It's a nice day.
4:14 - 4:16	No clouds, no wind, no nothing,
4:16 - 4:18	so quit your nagging, woman.
4:18 - 4:21	Maybe we should find some shelter.
4:21 - 4:23	Are you kidding? Shelter from what?
4:23 - 4:26	My joints say there's going to be a storm,
4:26 - 4:27	a bad one.
4:28 - 4:30	Well, it's your joints against my brain.
4:31 - 4:33	Then I hope your brain can find someone else to haul that fish,
4:33 - 4:34	'cause I ain't coming!
4:34 - 4:36	Then I'll find a new fish hauler,
4:36 - 4:38	and pay him double what you get.
4:38 - 4:39	How do you like that?
4:39 - 4:40	I'll go.
4:40 - 4:41	You're hired.
4:43 - 4:45	What? You said get a job.
4:45 - 4:46	And he's paying double.
4:46 - 4:49	Double? Who told you that nonsense?
4:55 - 4:59	Oh. Looks like your uncle was right about the storm after all.
4:59 - 5:00	Lucky guess.
5:00 - 5:02	Lieutenant, you'd better learn some respect,
5:03 - 5:05	or I will teach it to you.
5:06 - 5:08	What do you know about respect?
5:10 - 5:12	The way you talk to everyone around here,
5:12 - 5:15	from your hard-working crew to your esteemed uncle,
5:15 - 5:18	shows you know nothing about respect.
5:19 - 5:21	You don't care about anyone but yourself.
5:22 - 5:26	Then again, what should I expect from a spoiled prince?
5:30 - 5:31	Easy now.
5:34 - 5:36	Enough!
5:36 - 5:40	We're all a bit tired from being at sea so long.
5:40 - 5:43	I'm sure after a bowl of noodles,
5:43 - 5:46	everyone will feel much better.
5:48 - 5:51	I don't need your help keeping order on my ship.
6:00 - 6:02	Sokka, maybe this isn't such a good idea.
6:02 - 6:03	Look at the sky.
6:04 - 6:05	I said I was gonna do this job.
6:05 - 6:07	I can't back out just because of some bad weather.
6:08 - 6:11	The boy with the tattoos has some sense.
6:11 - 6:12	You should listen to him.
6:12 - 6:14	Boy with tattoos?
6:14 - 6:16	Airbender tattoos.
6:17 - 6:20	Well, I'll be a hog monkey's uncle.
6:20 - 6:21	You're the Avatar, ain't you?
6:21 - 6:22	That's right.
6:23 - 6:24	Well, don't be so smiley about it.
6:26 - 6:28	The Avatar disappeared for a hundred years!
6:28 - 6:30	You turned your back on the world.
6:31 - 6:32	Don't yell at him!
6:32 - 6:34	Aang would never turn his back on anyone.
6:35 - 6:37	Oh, he wouldn't, huh?
6:37 - 6:39	Then I guess I must have imagined
6:39 - 6:42	the last hundred years of war and suffering.
6:42 - 6:44	Aang is the bravest person I know.
6:45 - 6:46	He has done nothing but help people,
6:47 - 6:49	and save lives since I met him.
6:49 - 6:51	It's not his fault he disappeared, right, Aang?
6:52 - 6:53	Aang, what's wrong?
6:56 - 6:58	That's right! Keep flying!
6:59 - 7:00	You're a horrible old man!
7:00 - 7:01	Ehh!
7:05 - 7:06	Appa, yip yip!
7:07 - 7:08	Uhh!
7:08 - 7:10	Hey! They left without saying good-bye.
7:10 - 7:12	Your friends ain't too polite, are they?
7:12 - 7:14	I know. This one time, I was―
7:14 - 7:16	Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get below deck.
7:37 - 7:38	I'm sorry for running away.
7:38 - 7:41	It's okay. That fisherman was way out of line.
7:42 - 7:44	Actually, he wasn't.
7:44 - 7:46	What do you mean?
7:46 - 7:48	I don't want to talk about it.
7:48 - 7:51	It has to do with your dream, doesn't it?
7:51 - 7:52	Talk to me.
7:53 - 7:55	Well, it's kind of a long story.
8:01 - 8:03	I'm gonna try to get a little fire going.
8:06 - 8:09	I'll never forget the day the monks told me I was the Avatar.
8:12 - 8:15	I was playing with some other kids just outside the south wall.
8:15 - 8:17	I was trying to teach them how to do the air scooter.
8:18 - 8:21	First you form a ball. Then you've got to get on quick.
8:23 - 8:24	Ha ha ha!
8:24 - 8:26	Yeah! Ha ha ha!
8:26 - 8:28	Whoo-hoo! Yeah!
8:28 - 8:31	Okay, here goes.
8:31 - 8:32	Quick. Get on.
8:32 - 8:34	Whoa. Whoa...
8:35 - 8:36	Uhh!
8:37 - 8:39	You kind of have to balance on it like it's a top.
8:39 - 8:41	Man, that's hard.
8:41 - 8:42	Where did you learn that trick, Aang?
8:42 - 8:43	I made it up.
8:44 - 8:45	Wow!
8:45 - 8:47	Aang, come with us.
8:47 - 8:49	We need to speak with you.
8:57 - 8:58	How do you know it's me?
8:58 - 9:02	We have known you were the Avatar for some time.
9:02 - 9:04	Do you remember these?
9:08 - 9:11	Those were some of my favorite toys when I was little.
9:11 - 9:14	You chose them from among thousands of toys, Aang.
9:15 - 9:18	The toys you picked were the four Avatar relics.
9:19 - 9:22	These items belonged to Avatars past.
9:22 - 9:24	Your own past lives.
9:24 - 9:26	I just chose them because they seemed fun.
9:27 - 9:29	You chose them because they were familiar.
9:30 - 9:34	Normally, we would have told you of your identity when you turned 16.
9:35 - 9:37	But there are troubling signs.
9:37 - 9:40	Storm clouds are gathering.
9:40 - 9:44	I fear that war may be upon us, young Avatar.
9:44 - 9:46	We need you, Aang.
9:53 - 9:55	I'm sick of taking his orders,
9:56 - 9:58	and I'm tired of chasing his Avatar.
9:58 - 10:00	I mean, who does Zuko think he is?
10:00 - 10:02	Do you really want to know?
10:02 - 10:04	General Iroh, we were just―
10:04 - 10:06	It's okay.
10:06 - 10:07	May I join you?
10:07 - 10:08	Of course, sir.
10:12 - 10:14	Try to understand,
10:14 - 10:16	my nephew is a complicated young man.
10:17 - 10:19	He has been through much.
10:25 - 10:26	Let me in!
10:26 - 10:28	Prince Zuko, what's wrong?
10:28 - 10:30	I want to go into the war chamber,
10:30 - 10:31	but the guard won't let me pass.
10:31 - 10:34	You're not missing anything. Trust me.
10:34 - 10:37	These meetings are dreadfully boring.
10:37 - 10:39	If I'm going to rule this nation one day,
10:39 - 10:42	don't you think I need to start learning as much as I can?
10:43 - 10:46	Very well, but you must promise not to speak.
10:47 - 10:49	These old folks are a bit sensitive, you know?
10:49 - 10:52	Thank you, uncle.
10:58 - 11:01	The Earth Kingdom defenses are concentrated here,
11:01 - 11:04	a dangerous battalion of their strongest earthbenders,
11:04 - 11:06	and fiercest warriors.
11:06 - 11:09	So, I am recommending the 41st division.
11:09 - 11:12	But the 41st is entirely new recruits.
11:12 - 11:16	How do you expect them to defeat a powerful Earth Kingdom battalion?
11:16 - 11:18	I don't.
11:18 - 11:20	They'll be used as a distraction
11:20 - 11:22	while we mount an attack from the rear.
11:22 - 11:26	What better to use as bait than fresh meat?
11:26 - 11:29	You can't sacrifice an entire division like that!
11:29 - 11:31	Those soldiers love and defend our nation.
11:31 - 11:32	How can you betray them?
11:36 - 11:37	Zuko was right, you see?
11:38 - 11:41	But it was not his place to speak out.
11:41 - 11:43	And there were dire consequences.
11:46 - 11:48	So you were upset that you were the Avatar?
11:49 - 11:51	Why wouldn't you be excited about it?
11:51 - 11:54	Well, I didn't know how to feel about it.
11:54 - 11:56	All I knew was that after I found out,
11:56 - 11:58	everything began changing.
11:59 - 12:00	Hey, not bad.
12:00 - 12:01	You guys have been practicing.
12:02 - 12:03	Not only that,
12:03 - 12:06	we made up a game you can play with the air scooters.
12:06 - 12:07	Great!
12:12 - 12:13	What's going on?
12:14 - 12:15	Now that you're the Avatar,
12:15 - 12:17	it's kind of an unfair advantage
12:17 - 12:19	for whichever team you're on.
12:19 - 12:20	But I'm still the same.
12:20 - 12:22	Nothing has changed.
12:22 - 12:25	So, what? I can't play?
12:25 - 12:26	That's the only fair way.
12:27 - 12:29	Oh, okay...
12:29 - 12:31	Sorry, Aang.
12:32 - 12:35	Okay, now, who wants to have Jinju on their team?
12:45 - 12:48	Very interesting move, young one.
12:48 - 12:49	What do you mean?
12:54 - 12:56	Hey! Ha ha ha!
12:56 - 12:58	Ha ha ha!
12:59 - 13:01	You're playing games with him?
13:01 - 13:03	The Avatar should be training.
13:03 - 13:06	Aang has already trained enough for today.
13:06 - 13:08	Time is short. Come with me.
13:08 - 13:11	I must test you on some high-level techniques.
13:11 - 13:14	No. As long as I am his guardian,
13:14 - 13:16	I will decide when he trains
13:16 - 13:19	And when he gets his butt kicked at Pai Sho.
13:19 - 13:20	Hmmph!
13:26 - 13:30	After Zuko's outburst in the meeting,
13:30 - 13:33	the Fire Lord became very angry with him.
13:34 - 13:38	He said that Prince Zuko's challenge of the general
13:38 - 13:42	was an act of complete disrespect.
13:42 - 13:45	And there was only one way to resolve this.
13:45 - 13:48	Agni Kai. A fire duel.
13:48 - 13:50	That's right.
13:50 - 13:54	Zuko looked upon the old general he had insulted,
13:54 - 13:56	and declared that he was not afraid.
13:57 - 13:59	But Zuko misunderstood.
13:59 - 14:02	When he turned to face his opponent,
14:02 - 14:05	he was surprised to see it was not the general.
14:05 - 14:09	Zuko had spoken out against the general's plan,
14:09 - 14:12	but by doing so in the Fire Lord's war room,
14:13 - 14:16	it was the Fire Lord whom he had disrespected.
14:17 - 14:22	Zuko would have to duel his own father.
14:24 - 14:26	Then, just when I was starting to feel better,
14:26 - 14:28	something worse happened.
14:28 - 14:31	Aang needs to have freedom and fun.
14:31 - 14:34	He needs to grow up as a normal boy.
14:34 - 14:38	Hmm. You cannot keep protecting him from his destiny.
14:38 - 14:41	Gyatso, I know you mean well,
14:41 - 14:44	but you are letting your affection for the boy cloud your judgment.
14:44 - 14:48	All I want is what is best for him.
14:48 - 14:51	But what we need is what's best for the world.
14:54 - 14:57	You and Aang must be separated.
14:57 - 15:00	The Avatar will be sent away to the Eastern Air Temple
15:00 - 15:02	to complete his training.
15:13 - 15:14	That's awful, Aang.
15:15 - 15:17	I don't know what to say.
15:17 - 15:19	How could they do that to me?
15:19 - 15:20	They wanted to take away everything I knew,
15:20 - 15:22	and everyone I loved!
15:22 - 15:24	Whoa! Hot cinders.
15:25 - 15:27	I'm sorry I got so mad.
15:27 - 15:29	You have a right to be angry
15:29 - 15:30	after the monks sent you away like that.
15:31 - 15:33	Well, that's not exactly what happened.
15:39 - 15:41	I was afraid and confused.
15:41 - 15:43	I didn't know what to do.
15:49 - 15:51	Aang?
15:51 - 15:53	I'm not going to let them take you away from me.
15:53 - 15:55	Aang?
16:03 - 16:05	I never saw Gyatso again.
16:21 - 16:23	Next thing I knew, I was waking up in your arms
16:23 - 16:25	after you found me in the iceberg.
16:29 - 16:30	You ran away.
16:30 - 16:33	And then the Fire Nation attacked our temple.
16:33 - 16:35	My people needed me, and I wasn't there to help.
16:35 - 16:36	You don't know what would have―
16:37 - 16:38	The world needed me, and I wasn't there to help.
16:39 - 16:41	Aang... The fisherman was right.
16:41 - 16:42	I did turn my back on the world.
16:43 - 16:45	You're being too hard on yourself.
16:45 - 16:46	Even if you did run away,
16:47 - 16:49	I think it was meant to be.
16:49 - 16:50	If you had stayed, you would have been killed
16:51 - 16:52	along with all the other airbenders.
16:53 - 16:54	You don't know that.
16:54 - 16:56	I know it's meant to be this way.
16:56 - 16:59	The world needs you now.
17:00 - 17:01	You give people hope.
17:07 - 17:10	When Prince Zuko saw that it was his father
17:10 - 17:12	who had come to duel him,
17:12 - 17:14	he begged for mercy.
17:15 - 17:17	Please, father,
17:17 - 17:19	I only had the Fire Nation's best interests at heart.
17:19 - 17:20	I'm sorry I spoke out of turn.
17:21 - 17:24	You will fight for your honor.
17:24 - 17:26	I meant you no disrespect.
17:26 - 17:27	I am your loyal son.
17:28 - 17:31	Rise and fight, Prince Zuko.
17:31 - 17:33	I won't fight you.
17:33 - 17:35	You will learn respect,
17:36 - 17:39	and suffering will be your teacher.
17:41 - 17:43	I looked away.
17:48 - 17:52	I always thought that Prince Zuko was in a training accident.
17:53 - 17:55	It was no accident.
17:56 - 17:57	After the duel,
17:57 - 18:01	the Fire Lord said that by refusing to fight,
18:02 - 18:04	Zuko had shown shameful weakness.
18:05 - 18:07	As punishment, he was banished,
18:07 - 18:10	and sent to capture the Avatar.
18:11 - 18:14	Only then could he return with his honor.
18:15 - 18:18	So that's why he's so obsessed.
18:18 - 18:20	Capturing the Avatar is the only chance he has
18:20 - 18:23	of things returning to normal.
18:23 - 18:25	Things will never return to normal,
18:25 - 18:27	but the important thing is,
18:28 - 18:30	the Avatar gives Zuko hope.
18:47 - 18:50	Help! Oh, please, help!
18:50 - 18:52	It's okay. You're safe.
18:52 - 18:54	But my husband isn't.
18:54 - 18:56	What do you mean? Where's Sokka?
18:56 - 18:58	They haven't returned.
18:58 - 18:59	They should have been back by now.
19:00 - 19:02	And this storm is becoming a typhoon.
19:02 - 19:04	They're caught out at sea!
19:04 - 19:05	I'm going to find them.
19:05 - 19:06	I'm going with you.
19:07 - 19:08	I'm staying here.
19:11 - 19:13	We'll be back soon. I promise.
19:20 - 19:21	Where were we hit?
19:21 - 19:22	I don't know.
19:22 - 19:24	Look!
19:24 - 19:26	The helmsman!
19:43 - 19:44	Aah!
19:54 - 19:55	Where are they?
19:58 - 20:00	Come on, Appa!
20:11 - 20:13	The boat! There!
20:16 - 20:17	The Avatar!
20:17 - 20:20	What do you want to do, sir?
20:20 - 20:21	Let him go.
20:22 - 20:23	We need to get this ship to safety.
20:24 - 20:28	Then we must head directly into the eye of the storm.
20:36 - 20:38	I'm too young to die!
20:38 - 20:40	I'm not, but I still don't want to!
20:55 - 20:57	Hang on to the rope!
21:01 - 21:02	Whoa! Whoa!
21:50 - 21:52	Uncle, I am sorry.
21:52 - 21:54	Your apology is accepted.
22:15 - 22:17	Oh! You're alive!
22:18 - 22:20	You owe this boy an apology.
22:20 - 22:22	He doesn't have to apologize.
22:22 - 22:25	What if, instead of an apology,
22:25 - 22:27	I give him a free fish, and we call it even?
22:27 - 22:29	Actually, I don't eat meat.
22:29 - 22:31	Fish ain't meat.
22:31 - 22:33	Seriously, you're still gonna pay me, right?
22:34 - 22:35	Aah!
22:36 - 22:38	Katara, I think you were right before.
22:38 - 22:39	I'm done dwelling on the past.
22:39 - 22:40	Really?
22:40 - 22:43	I can't make guesses about how things would have turned out
22:43 - 22:44	If I hadn't run away.
22:45 - 22:46	I'm here now, and I'm going to make the most of it.
22:47 - 22:49	I don't think you're gonna have those nightmares anymore.
22:50 - 22:52	If you weren't here now...
22:52 - 22:54	Well, I guess, I wouldn't be either.
22:55 - 22:57	Thank you for saving my life, Avatar.
22:59 - 23:01	Do you hear that?
23:01 - 23:02	It stopped raining.
23:09 - 23:11	Uh! Appa!