Aang (Avatar)/Synopsis

Synopsis

The story of the prodigious last Airbending Avatar Aang from the Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise

Early Life[]

Aang was born to two airbenders from the southern Air Temples, like both his parents he discovered he was one himself and amazingly, he was shown to be a prodigy at air-bending at a very young age. Also somewhere along the line, when Aang reached a certain age he was asked to pick 4 toys out of thousands by the older monks, which would prove to be an instrumental change in his life much later.

During his time training Aang was taken under the mentorship of the eccentric Monk Gyatso who also became a father-figure to him as well, and even making himself a lifelong companion in the form of a sky bison he happily named Appa. He also made friends with kids all around the world such as the Earth kingdom of Omashu, where he developed a lasting friendship with the good-natured but eccentric prince Bumi and a young kid from Fire Nation named Kuzon, with whom he went searching for a dragon in the mountains and saved a dragon egg from poachers

Throughout his years of practicing air bending Aang was always able to excel at any new bending moves he learned; at the age of six, he was a better airbender than children twice his age, and by the age of ten, Aang had proven himself to be better than his own teachers & by the time he reached 12 he earned his airbending tattoos and the status of an airbending master, making him the youngest airbending master in Air Nomad history at the time, unaware that this surprising skill would show the sign of something that will change his life forever.

Learning of his destiny[]

One fateful day, while he was teaching some of the other kids a new move he invented called the air scooter, Aang was summoned by the elder monks of the Air Temples where they reveal some surprising news to him, which is that he is the newest incarnation of the Avatar: a special being that is the host of the spirit of Light Raava that is capable of bending all the four elements of water, earth, fire, & air. When he learns of this Aang reacts in a confused manner as he doesn't think he was the one, but the monks confirm these suspicions by showing him the 4 toys he picked years ago, which they revealed because they all felt familiar to him because they all belonged to avatars prior to him, when he asked why would they tell him now, the monks say that they fear "storm clouds are brewing", a fact helped with the unknown passing of his previous life as Roku, and that he must be prepared to be the Avatar now.

Despite initially not getting the pressure of the world in his hands too out of hand for him, after that day Aang's normal life was never the same for him anymore as his status as both theirs & the spirit world's future bridge made the other children refuse to play with him anymore, and he came to spend more time practicing airbending with the monks. Fortunately Gyatso was the only one to still treat him as just a kid but on one more fateful day, believing that Gyatso would hinder Aang's training, the other elder monks decided to send Aang away to the Eastern Air Temple to receive proper training.

S3E7 Sailors unaware of who's under them — Aang & his buddy frozen in Ice

Unaware to either of them he secretly overheard everything and crushed by this, a heartbroken & frightened Aang refuses to accept his destiny as the Avatar and that very night, he sneaks out of the temple flies away with Appa, but not before leaving a note for Gyatso on where he's going. However, as he & Appa are flying over the ocean heading to the south pole, they're caught up in a terrible storm, and gets knocked deep underwater with his bison, but as he is sinking he unconsciously enters the Avatar state: a defense mechanism that channels the powers of all previous avatars, making him water-bend that freezing Appa and himself to save them from drowning, but it also lands them in the bottom of the ocean.

As he lay sleeping in his icy cocoon, any form of rescue team coming to rescue him was all just a dream inside Aang's head because the monks fear of a "storm" building up is all true, because in secret Sozin, the ruler of the advancing Fire nation at the time, was so proud of his empire's prosperity that he decided to expand it. With no one powerful enough to stand in his way Sozin lead his nation across the world on a global-sized conquest with the other three nations too divided to mount a successful counterattack against them, and all Aang could do inside his ice ball to do nothing but hope that someone will come and rescue him.

Book 1: Water[]

Meeting new friends/family[]

1 whole century later Aang, still remaining just 12 years old due to the enchanted ice, is finally freed from his icy prison by two teenage siblings from the Southern Water Tribe - Katara, a waterbender, and her brother, Sokka - and he briefly falls down unconscious before waking up in the girl's arms, now awake Aang's first thought upon being freed from the iceberg was to ask his liberator, Katara, to go penguin sledding. The newly formed trio (but secretly kept his identity as the avatar a secret) later travel on Appa to Katara and Sokka's village of Wolf Cove, where Aang was met with bewildered stares from the natives, who had never seen an airbender before.

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Aang facing the fire nation prince for the 1st time.

However his stay at Wolf Cove is soon brought to a stop when he and Katara go off and do some exploring outside the village where the pair accidentally stumbles upon an abandoned Fire Nation ship & they set of it's signal flare, and possibly alerting some Fire Nation ships attention to the village, Aang is banished despite Katara's objections. Fortunately he is soon brought back to save the village when it is attacked by a ship under command of the grumpy (& banished) scarred prince of the nation Zuko whose on a hunt for his head, despite successfully defending himself with airbending, Aang sees his duel with Zuko is threatening the village's safety & to protect them, he agrees to surrender.

Though once he was on Zuko's ship and alone with just a few guards, Aang easily frees himself and races to escape, but is soon faced once again a rage-filled Zuko who relentlessly hunts him until they get to the upper deck, when the prince blasted Aang from his ship with firebending, the young airbender fell into the ocean where he entered the Avatar State once again. Reemerging from the water, Aang trapps Zuko's ship in ice before passing out again however, Sokka (who was initially hostile towards him but changed his mind for his sister's sake) and Katara arrive on Appa, rescue him and escape from the prince's sight, though once they did Aang expresses his reluctance towards being the Avatar, and the group sets a course for the North Pole so that he and Katara can learn waterbending together to begin their journey of bringing peace to the world, all the while making a few stops along the way.

Finding out a devastating truth[]

S1E3 Discovering the Southern air temple — Aang as he returns (to what's left) of his home.

After their first night of traveling together, Aang decides to check upon the Southern Air Temple, believing that his people were still safe despite the belief of the people of the Southern Water Tribe that the airbenders had become extinct during the war time, when they finally arrived at the Southern Air Temple, the group found it mostly empty and partially ruined. Regardless, Aang initially continued to hold the belief that his people were safe, and began to show Sokka and Katara around in his old home as he demonstrated several locations, though was often surprised and saddened to see them in ruins, but he still maintained hope that some Air Nomads were certainly still around.

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Aang & Sokka chasing Momo.

Aang eventually led his group into the air temple sanctuary, as Gyatso had previously told him that he would find an ally there, but they instead find the statues of past Avatars, with Aang instinctively recognizing Avatar Roku's statue. The group was interrupted by the appearance of a local winged lemur; the Avatar chased him to make friends with him. This continued until the boy came across Gyatso's skeleton at the Altar of Remembrance, surrounded by the corpses of Fire Army soldiers. Aang thus learns the truth: The year he vanished, Sozin had taken advantage of the firebending-enhancing powers of a mystical comet to launch a war on the three other nations, and to his utter shock and disbelief, the Fire Nation's opening gambit had been a genocidal assault on the Air Nomads in an attempt to kill the latest incarnation of the Avatar Spirit and all four air temples were stormed and even though they fought against the invaders, leaving many firebender corpses in their wake, the ambushed monks were slaughtered, truly making him the last known airbender in existence.

In this moment of great grief and rage, a heartbroken Aang once again entered the Avatar State, however before any more damage could be done, Katara was able to calm him down, and assured him that she and her brother would be his family from then on. The visit at the Southern Air Temple also had another positive side: The winged lemur had decided to stay by Aang's side, and thus became his new companion who he named Momo. Having seen what had happened to his home and nation, Aang finally realized that the future of the four nations rested in his hands. It was his duty to defeat the Fire Nation and restore peace and harmony to the world. To achieve this, Aang and his new friends and pets set off on a quest to find and learn from master benders, while evading capture by the Fire Nation.

Stop at Kyoshi Island[]

S1E3 The signature coin-spin — Aang showing off his airbending skills to Kyoshi Island

Even though he gradually began coming to terms with his heavy responsibility as the Avatar in the middle of a war, this doesn't stop Aang from encouraging Sokka and Katara to make several detours. During the first of these side-trips, they landed on Kyoshi Island, named after one of his incarnations. There, they were captured by the Kyoshi Warriors and brought to one of the island's villages. The inhabitants had kept out of the war for the past one hundred years and thus were xenophobic to outsiders. The village elder, Oyaji, and the warrior Suki believed they were Fire Nation spies and were about to throw them to the unagi, until Aang proved he was the Avatar and they became honored guests in the village. However, Aang's new celebrity status went to his head, causing him to entertain and impress a group of fan girls, much to Katara's dismay.

The young Avatar and his fans visited several locations of the island, and he also helped a group of Kyoshi Warriors to arrest some thugs in Koi Harbor. When Prince Zuko subsequently arrived and raided Kyoshi Island, seeking to capture the Avatar, Aang realized that by staying too long, he had endangered the people. Therefore, he escaped with Katara and Sokka, knowing Zuko would follow him and leave the island. Before leaving, however, Aang jumps off of Appa and hops onto the unagi, controlling the creature to spray water over the burning houses, once all the fire is put out, Aang leaps into the air and is caught by Appa and the three promptly fly away into the sunset as they continue heading to the North Pole.

Reuniting with an old friend[]

Eventually Aang and the group at Omashu, where he recalled how his childhood friend Bumi had taken him on the world's biggest roller coaster ride on the city's postal system and thus wanted to show the attraction to Katara and Sokka. However, the group discovered that any suspicious people were stopped at the city gate; Aang thus disguised himself as elderly man to gain access. Once inside the city, his cover was almost blown by the cabbage merchant before the latter could be distracted. Aang then led his friends to take a joy ride in the Omashu delivery system, only to discover their path blocked by a hungry guard. By fulfilling a series of minor errands (and beating up a group of thugs), Team Avatar was able to acquire lunch for the guard and bribe him to let them through. After again chasing off some criminals at the delivery system station, Aang led his friends onto the slide.

After their destructive roller coaster ride, they were arrested for damages suffered by the cabbage merchant. Team Avatar was taken before the king. The old, seemingly crazy, king tricked Aang into revealing he was an airbender and thus the Avatar, and had the trio taken to a refurbished prison chamber. Aang woke up to find out that the king had encased Katara and Sokka in a strange mineral called "creeping crystal", and would only free them if he passed three tests. He passed the challenges, but the king had one last challenge for him: to guess his name. Figuring out the link between his seemingly random challenges was that he had to think outside the box, Aang identified the king to be his old friend Bumi, who had said something similar to him a hundred years prior. Having his friends freed as promised, Aang was told by Bumi that in order to end the war, he must learn all the bending arts and defeat the Fire Lord himself, but before the team leave the city, Aang and Bumi ride the Omashu mail system one last time for old time's sake.

The first jailbreak[]

S1E6 Spying on a young Earthbender — Aang & the others meeting Haru.

Following their adventure at Omashu, Aang and his friends continued their journey to the North, at one break they stopped to make camp in a forest where they discovered a training earthbender named Haru, and when they tried to greet him, he quickly fled much to the team's confusion. Not long after, the group arrived at a Fire Nation-occupied mining village and while there, they again met Haru in a shop belonging to his family, as he had fled because earthbending was forbidden by the local Fire Army garrison, and thus he had to train in secret. Haru's mother offered Team Avatar to spend the night at their house's stable.

S1E6 Aang and the others going to save a friend — Aang & his gang preparing for a rescue.

However the next day, Haru's worried mother informed them of her son's had been arrested as yesterday he helped an old man using his earthbending, only for the same man to turn him in, as Katara felt especially responsible for Haru's arrest due to inspiring him to use his abilities to help others, the team resolved to free him. To do so, the friends devised a strategy to fool the local Fire Army troops into thinking that Katara was also an earthbender. Thus, the waterbender was also arrested and brought to the prison rig where Haru is being kept, while Aang and Sokka covertly follow the brig she was riding on Appa.

By the time they make it to the prison, the two meet Katara on the prison rig where they discuss how to get all the earth benders out, the group agreed to free not only Haru but all prisoners. To do so, Aang, thanks to a plan from Sokka, sneaks into the rig's industrial areas to sabotage the local vents and funnel coal into the prisoner quarters. As he did so, the Avatar had to overpower some prison guards, including the prison's cowardly warden, ultimately, the plan proved to be a success and the earthbenders –including Haru and his father Tyro– use the coal to bend and escape the rig, as well as inspiring them all to fight back against the fire nation garrisons and take back their villages.

First contact with the Spirits[]

As Team Avatar continued its journey across the world, they came across a scorched forest that had been destroyed by the Fire Army, they also meet an elder who asked them to help his home, Senlin Village, which was tormented by an angry spirit. Aang felt responsible, and thus ventured to the settlement where he tried to negotiate with the spirit. However, the creature refused to listen, caused further destruction and abducted Sokka. The young Avatar chased after his friend, and unknowingly entered the Spirit World. There he was contacted by Avatar Roku's dragon, Fang, who led him in his spiritual state to Roku's temple on Crescent Island.

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Aang comforting hist 1st spirit.

By showing Aang visions of a fiery comet and beams of light shining toward Roku's statue, Aang realized he could talk with his previous incarnation during the winter solstice. He also learned that the angry spirit, Hei Bai, had begun to attack Senlin Village due to destruction of his forest. With this information he then returned to the mortal world at Senlin Village and attempted to mediate with Hei Bai in the next night and this time, he managed to pacify the spirit by pointing out that the forest was already regrowing, which allowed the spirit to calm down and return Sokka and other kidnapped villagers.

First meeting with Roku[]

But right after getting a Spirit to calm down, Aang was told by Roku to subsequently journey toward Crescent Island in the Fire Nation as Roku has some urgent news to tell Aang, itching to know what it is he and his friends pass through a Fire Navy blockade and entered the Fire Nation, journeying to the Avatar's temple. However, they found that the temple's guardians, the Fire Sages, were instead hostile to the Avatar, having given their loyalty to the Fire Lord and thus begin attacking him, luckily with the help of the one sage still loyal to the Avatar, Shyu, Aang manages to enter the inner chamber of the temple just as the solstice begins.

Once the young airbender is locked inside Avatar Roku, who manifests himself when light from the solstice sun struck his statue, warns Aang of Sozin's Comet, the same comet that returned once every one hundred years and greatly increased a firebender's power which allowed him to start the war. When Aang asks what does it mean, Roku tells is that the comet's due to return at the end of summer, and if Aang doesn't defeat the current Fire Lord before it arrives, the Fire Nation will have truly conquered the world and the Avatar would be unable to restore balance to the world.

Hearing this, Aang despaired that he had not learned the other bending arts and would not be unable to complete his training before the comet's arrival, but Roku assured him that he would succeed, as his previous incarnations had done before. Upon the end of the solstice, Roku helped Aang in confronting the invading soldiers who were stationed outside the sanctuary, as he was able to manifest himself as his previous incarnation, who proceeded to destroy the temple completely as Aang and the team were later able to escape safely.

First waterbending lessons[]

Following the winter solstice escape, Aang begins growing frantic over the fact that he must master all elements to defeat the Fire Lord before Sozin's Comet arrives, so Katara begins teaching Aang waterbending, despite her limited training. Waterbending comes naturally for Aang, much to Katara's frustration. Later, while in town to buy supplies, Katara finds a waterbending scroll on a ship run by pirates, which she promptly steals. Katara struggles to learn the techniques in the scroll, while Aang picks them up quickly, further frustrating Katara. Meanwhile, Zuko runs into the pirates and agrees to help them find the scroll, and subsequently Aang. They soon find and capture Aang, Katara, and Sokka, but Sokka turns the pirates against Zuko, and the three escape in the ensuing chaos, with Aang and Katara using their newly-learned waterbending skills to overwhelm their enemies.

The "Freedom Fighter" incident[]

Aang and Katara helping Jet — Aang & Katara unknowingly preparing a flood.

Continuing their journey to the North, Aang and the others stop for a break near a forest full of traps and continue to go into their on foot, Aang, Katara and Sokka are rescued by a rogue teen named Jet and his group of Freedom Fighters. Jet invites the team back to their vast treehouse hideout, where the group plots out its attacks. Jet and Katara form an instant bond, but Sokka has suspicions about him, which leads the young rebel to tempt Sokka with missions. His plan fails, however, with Sokka becoming increasingly concerned about Jet's motives and true objectives after he attacks a harmless old man simply due to him being from the Fire Nation. Sokka is unable to convince Aang and Katara to believe his concerns, while Jet enlists them to help him "save" a nearby Earth Kingdom town by filling up the reservoir.

That night Sokka follows Jet and discovers his real intent is to drown the village, sacrificing the lives of innocent civilians to destroy the Fire Nation garrison stationed there. The next day, after filling the reservoir faster than expected, Aang and Katara learn of Jet's true plan. After a skirmish Katara manages to freeze Jet to a tree but she and Aang are unable to prevent the reservoir from being destroyed, washing away the town. Sokka arrives on Appa, revealing he managed to evacuate the town, Earth and Fire citizens alike, with the help of the old man in time to thwart Jet's plot, before they and his own team leave to go off on their own separate ways.

A night from the Storm[]

Aang creates an air pocket — Aang saving a fisherman's life.

Continuing on to the north, Aang has a strange dream about his past that clearly troubled him, but did not tell the others. It started happily with Aang, Katara and Sokka unrealistically flying through the skies, but suddenly Aang was alone, trapped in a storm and plunged into the sea. Stopping by a port town Aang, Katara and Sokka stop by a market, but realize they were out of food and money, during which they run into a fisherman, who hired Sokka, but when he found out that Aang was the Avatar, he yelled at him, saying that "he turned his back on the world." Aang became upset and flew away into a cave. Katara reprimanded the fisherman for his harsh words and went after Aang as a horrible storm began brewing.

After lighting up a fire, a depressed Aang starts telling the story of his past to Katara, beginning with the day the monks revealed to him he was the Avatar, scared of being burdened with extra training exercises and ostracized from his friends, Aang became confused and afraid; so when he learned that the monks were planning to separate him from his guardian, Gyatso, he decided to run away. Aang was caught in a horrible storm, and as he was about to drown, the Avatar Spirit inside him formed an air pocket, saving himself and Appa, but freezing them inside for the next one hundred years. Aang suffered terrible guilt over abandoning the world, but Katara convinced him that "it was meant to be", and he "gives people hope".

As the storm reached its height, becoming a typhoon, the wife of the old fisherman arrived at the cave, beckoning for the Avatar's help. She explained that her husband and Sokka should have returned from their fishing expedition and must have become caught out at sea. Aang and Katara flew out on Appa and came upon the fishing boat that was capsized. They were able to safely rescue Sokka and the old man and return them to the cave. Aang later told Katara that he was ready to move on from the past and look toward a brighter future.

Fighting alongside a "Blue Spirit"[]

Once the storm passes by Aang and the others fly to an old abandoned Earth Kingdom fortress, but Sokka had fallen ill due to his exposure to the storm, there Aang learned of a herbalist who lived at the top of a nearby mountain and made plans to travel there to find a cure, but when Katara quickly grew sick herself, Aang was forced to travel to the herbalist alone. Using his airbending abilities to speed his pace down the mountainside, after a frustrating meeting with the herbalist, Aang learns that his friends must suck on the frozen bodies of hibernating wood frogs to get better, which could be found on the bottoms of riverbeds.

Aang imprisoned — Aang brought to a Fire Nation Fortress.

However, he made little progress toward his destination before encountering the Fire Nation's best marksman the Yuyan Archers, who wasted little time in pinning his boots to the ground with arrows, Aang airbent to defend himself from the succeeding shots, freed his legs, and jumped off of the mountain into the thick forest below. Aang ran out of the woods, and unexpectedly ended up in a murky, partially-frozen river. He found the frozen frogs he had been looking for, and even while avoiding the Yuyans' arrows, managed to scoop several of the amphibians into his clothing. However, several arrows caught the sleeve of his left and right arm and pinned it to an overturned tree before a net was shot over him.

Afterwards he is brought to a stronghold where he is taunted by Zuko's rival for his capture, the prideful commander-turned-admiral Zhao, who only sees his capture as his means of achieving more glory for himself, who intends to keep him imprisoned until he is brought before the capital of the Fire Nation to ensure he doesn't do anything to disrupt their plans. But just as it looked like he was gonna be chained for good, Aang finds himself being rescued by a mysterious swordsman in a blue mask and together, they best Zhao's security & escape, but as they did Aang discovers that his rescuer is none other than Zuko, as even though it's nation's victory, the reason he's so hung up on capturing him is because his heartless father Ozai ordered him do it because one little speaking out in a war-room meeting lead to him challenging him to a fire duel called an Agni Kai & because Zuko only wanted was to make him proud, refused to fight which led to him getting his terrible scar & banishment, never to return until he can "restore his honor".

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Aang with his "savior".

Despite them being enemies and all the danger he put him and the ones he attacked to get to him, Aang took the opportunity to carry him to safety and rest up for the night in the forest, the following morning, Aang spoke nostalgically of his friends during his time with Kuzon being chief among them, and once he's done he asked Zuko if, under different circumstances, they too could have been friends. After hearing this question, Zuko paused for a brief moment before responding to this... by launching a fire blast, which Aang easily avoided before leaping through the trees, regardless of this encounter Aang manages to get a new batch of frozen frogs and gives them to his pals, allowing them to feel a lot better.

A love problem... & village rescue[]

Aang feels hot — Aang seeing Katara in a new light.

After feeling a lot better and once again back on the road to the North Pole, the group stops by a lake where Aang takes the time to make Katara a replacement necklace which she lost to Zuko, he saw her in a whole new light, developing a strong crush on her. Loud noises drew the group to a spot in the wooded area where an elderly man was being attacked by a vicious platypus bear. Despite the dire circumstances, however, the man remained oddly calm. After Appa managed to fend off the bear, the man told them he came from a nearby village where a fortuneteller, Aunt Wu, lived. The group decided to travel to the village to have their fortunes told, much to Sokka's dismay.

While there, Aang tried repeatedly to draw Katara's attention, even taking advice from Sokka on how to approach her. Sokka instructed Aang to act aloof, as though he did not really care. This behavior, however, was not successful in impressing Katara, much to Aang's disappointment. He instead opted to retrieve a rare panda lily flower for her on the rim of the Makapu volcano which led to his discovery of the volcano ready to erupt and destroy the village.

Seeing the danger Aang & Sokka race down to warn everyone, but because the villagers have become so trustful of Aunt Wu's predictions they don't believe them, leading him & Katara to make a cloud symbol in the sky to make Aunt Wu convince everyone about the danger. After they manage to convince the town, Aang and everyone dig a trench to channel the oncoming lava to the river and some impressive displays of airbending power, Aang managed to successfully quell the volcano's fury and save the village, as well as making Katara see him in a new light as well.

Later once they finish the Volcano problem, Aang is given a brand new lesson by Aunt Wu, just as he molded the clouds to his own design, it is his responsibility to actively shape his own destiny. With that, the trio get a few supplies for themselves and leave the village to continue their northern journey.

A Fight for a necklace[]

After some more traveling Aang and co. find a seemingly-abandoned Water Tribe ship that belongs to their father's fleet. Camping out by the boat, Sokka and Katara are overjoyed when they are joined by Bato, an old friend of their father and fellow member of the Southern Water Tribe. Bato had been injured in battle and temporarily left behind by the rest of the Water Tribe soldiers while he heals. While they reminisce about the old days, Aang feels left out. A messenger arrives with a message from Katara and Sokka's father for Bato, with instructions to find him. Aang intercepts it and keeps it to himself, fearing Katara and Sokka will abandon him. He later comes clean about the message, but Sokka, furious at Aang for keeping it from them, is insistent on leaving to find his father, with Katara joining him.

However, the two realized that Aang was their family and they were needed by him on his journey north and march back to rejoin him, but on the way back they're attacked by Zuko with a tracking animal called a Shirshu owned by a bounty hunter named June. Aang soon came to their rescue, leading them to a nearby town and engaging in an intense battle with Zuko and June, ultimately defeating him as the three made up, and as a bonus Aang was able to get Katara's necklace from Zuko's grasp, returning it to her and making a grateful girl kiss him on the cheek, causing him to blush and twiddle his thumbs as they continue to fly back to the North.

First Lesson in Firebending[]

Following their latest escape from Zuko, Aang and his friends decided to go to a cultural festival in a Fire Nation occupied town so that Aang could witness some firebending, ensuring their safety from attack with disguises, although they acquired masks soon after their arrival. Regardless, it was discovered that Aang was the Avatar after he was forced to "save" Katara from a dragon of fire by using his airbending, and the three friends quickly attempted to escape from Fire Nation soldiers. Their escape was aided greatly by a man named Chey, who told them of a firebender and deserter named Jeong Jeong. Chey took them to where he's camping and after the spirit of Avatar Roku appeared to Jeong Jeong and persuaded him to be Aang's mentor, he reluctantly agreed to teach Aang firebending.

S1E16 First step- breathing — Aang's first day of firebending.

The following morning Jeong Jeong starts teaching Aang slowly, focusing exclusively on breathing exercises, but the young Avatar desired to learn more advanced firebending techniques. Jeong Jeong was greatly angered with Aang's lack of discipline, telling Aang vehemently that without control, firebending would bring nothing but unnecessary destruction, using a former student of his who displayed similar impatience and lack of discipline as an example. Aang quickly apologized and said that he was ready to learn Jeong Jeong's way. Jeong Jeong proceeded to teach Aang to use real fire, much to Aang's enthusiasm. However, his enthusiasm was quickly deflated when Jeong Jeong only assigned him the simple task of preventing a leaf from being completely burned. Jeong Jeong soon left to other matters, and Aang, still feeling restricted, took his exercise to the next step and created fire.

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Aang accidentally burning Katara.

Unfortunately, an overexcited Aang played around with it for a little while despite Katara insisted that he be careful, which ended with him accidentally burn Katara's hands when he attempted to imitate a move he saw at the festival, leading her to run away crying, and Sokka became enraged as a result and furiously tackled him. Jeong Jeong, having returned, followed Katara into the forest. However, during this time, Admiral Zhao, who was revealed to be the former student of Jeong Jeong, and his men located the camp, and in turn battled Jeong Jeong, although the master's attempt was half-hearted.

Aang, completely guilty for this hid away in Jeong Jeong's hut in order to reflect over his error, was urged by Katara to aid Jeong Jeong. Although Aang felt terribly guilty and promised to never firebend again, Katara's revelation of her healing restored his battle spirit. With a fiery display, Jeong Jeong and his men made their escape, while Aang confronted Zhao. Recalling Jeong Jeong's lesson of control, Aang provoked the firebending master, goading him into destroying his own ships leading Zhao to only watch as his ships burned and sank into the river as Aang escaped, with this act, Aang demonstrated that some firebenders had little self-control and Jeong Jeong gone, the three resumed their journey and leave the forest.

Battle of the Northern air temple[]

After the forest battle and continuing to fly across the land to the North, The gang hears a rumor that people who travel in the air reside at the Northern Air Temple, making Aang think there were some survivors of Sozin's genocide. He is disappointed to learn that the "flying" people are not true airbenders, but just people who have learned how to use gliders on the strong air currents around the temple. Aang is further saddened that the current residents have remodeled the temple extensively, often knocking through walls and ornate Air Nomad architecture to accommodate pipes which propel their rudimentary experiments with steam pressure.

Teo, a young paraplegic, inspires Aang to open the one remaining area of the temple left untouched, the Air Temple sanctuary. Aang is shocked to see the "pristine" room is in fact stocked with dozens of inventions with Fire Nation insignias on them. Teo's father, a skilled mechanist, confesses to aiding the Fire Nation by building weapons in exchange for the guaranteed safety of his son and his people. When the Fire Nation comes to collect their latest invention, Aang tells them to leave, only to stand together as The Fire Nation launches an attack against the temple, but Aang and the villagers manage to successfully defend their ground, Afterward, Aang stated his approval of the villagers having settled there as they continue flying to the North, unaware that the army was able to find the mechanist's newest invention, a war balloon, which would have devastating consequences much later.

Arriving at the North Pole[]

Welcome_to_the_Northern_water_tribe_(Avatar_the_last_Airbender) — Welcome to the Northern water tribe (Avatar the last Airbender)

Aang & co. finally arriving at the North.

Eventually after flying across the ocean for two days straight, the three of them finally arrive at the Northern Water Tribe where the Tribe's chief welcomed Sokka and Katara as family from the Southern Tribe, and Aang was honored as a special guest, as part of the celebration Aang and Katara were delighted to see the waterbending master, Pakku, and his students performing elaborate and elegant waterbending moves for entertainment, especially. After the waterbending performance was over, Aang was introduced to Master Pakku. Aang was looking forward to Katara and himself learning waterbending, after a few days rest, though Pakku was unimpressed with his work ethic, telling Aang that he would receive no special treatment just because he was destined to save the world & said if he was told that if he was interested in learning waterbending, he would be ready at sunrise.

S1E18 Refusal to an unfair tradition. — Aang & Katara facing Master Pakku over tradition.

However the next day as they approached the palace, Aang & Katara expressed her joy at being able to learn from a real master, only to be greatly horrified to learn from Master Pakku that it was forbidden for women to learn waterbending for combat and advised her to go to the healing huts and learn from another waterbender to use her bending for healing only. Although Aang initially refused to learn from Master Pakku as he to is outraged at the unfairness, Katara urged him to return, saying that he could not risk his training for her, leading Aang to reluctantly begin learning his waterbending without her this time.

S1E18 Aang teaching Katara — Aang & Katara's night time training.

Despite becoming very skilled in hiswaterbending, Aang still shows discomfort in learning waterbending without Katara, and when the gang meet up in their living quarters to vent the frustrations they're having here Sokka, who's having a hard time trying to woo a new girl he likes: the chief's daughter Yue, suggests Aang teaches what he's learned to his sister. So that following night, to ensure they don't get caught by anyone, Aang and Katara begin their waterbending training, but unfortunately, Master Pakku catches them & is angered that Aang had disrespected him, his teachings, and his entire culture, the young Avatar hastily apologizes but a stubborn Pakku refuses to teach Aang anymore before leaving.

S1E18 I'm sure she didn't mean it — Aang after an angry Katara wants Pakku to fight her.

Not wanting to mess with her crush's quest just because he wanted to help her, Katara urges the Chief to make Pakku change his mind, fortunately Master Pakku agreed to continue training Aang... on the condition that Katara swallow her pride and apologize to him. However Katara, angered by his pomposity and condescending attitude as well as not wanting to let the Tribe's stupid rules get the better of her, does none of it & instead challenges him to a fight and will be waiting for her outside, despite a worried Aang trying to convince otherwise.

A little while later as she prepares for her showdown, Aang assures her she doesn't have to fight Pakku for him, but the southern waterbender assures it's not as it is simply her knocking some sense into the stubborn old man, something only pushes to her breaking point when Pakku once again dismisses her and strikes him in the back, making old man finally grant Katara her wish as Aang & some others watch. Though after some intense waterbending actions, what really set Pakku straight is when he takes notice of Katara's pendant, given to her by her mother and her grandmother before her, making him realize that Katara's Gran-Gran is his ex-fiancée Kanna, who also could not tolerate the Northern Water Tribe's customs and left to start a new life with the Southern Tribe.

S1E18 Good to see you hear — Aang & Katara finally getting their wish.

In the end by the following morning, even this didn't completely tone down his grumpy attitude or even his harsh training methods, Master Pakku has finally decided to make things right with what he's done to his fiancee's family and finally allows both Aang and Katara to be his students, much to both their happiness. Little do they know is that while all this is happening, Zhao has put all the pieces together on where they were going and prepares a colossal storm to go capture him & bring the water tribe down, with Zuko secretly coming along.

The Great North Pole Siege[]

S1E19 Aang seeing the "Black Snow" for the first time — Aang & everyone realizing the Fire Nation is coming.

After sometime training with both Katara and Pakku, Aang comes to see tons of black soot coming down upon them which makes them all realize one thing: a fire nation armada is coming this way and there are a lot of them on the way Northern Water Tribe prepared to defend itself from invasion, and Sokka volunteered for a dangerous mission in which several warriors would be forced to infiltrate the Fire Nation fleet. As the walls of the prestigious city began to fall, Aang felt duty bound to prevent the same fate that befell the Air Nomads and the Southern Water Tribe and riding out to the fleet on Appa, he managed to successfully overtake several battleships, but as the dusk approached, however, he came to the realization that his efforts hardly thwarted the Fire Nation's advance and he retreated in despair as they and the fire fleet rest up for the night.

S1E19 I rise with the sun — A meditating Aang being captured by Zuko.

That very night while they continue preparations, Princess Yue related the origins of the Water Tribe and its power, leading Aang to realize that if he could enter the Spirit World and meet with the Moon and Ocean Spirits, perhaps they could help him defeat the Fire Nation. Inspired by this Yue took Katara and Aang to a hidden oasis which was the spiritual center of the North Pole & after observing the two koi fish in the oasis, which resembled yin and yang, Aang entered a trance and crossed over into the Spirit World, but as this happens a disguised Zuko manages to sneak past both armada and the Northern defenses and followed them and despite Katara's newfound skillset, the moment daybreak begins Zuko beats him & takes the Avatar's unconscious body before escaping the city.

In the Spirit World, Aang hurriedly sought out the Moon and Ocean Spirits, receiving only minimal guidance from a begrudging baboon spirit who urged him to chase a nearby firefly which proved to be anything but successful, fortunately Aang once again comes in contact with Avatar Roku, who advises him to see Koh, one of the oldest spirits in existence, but before parting, Roku warned Aang to show no emotion while speaking with Koh, as the spirit would otherwise steal his face. Aang eventually arrives at Koh's lair where he questioned the spirit and learned that the white and black koi he had seen swimming in the oasis were the Moon and Ocean Spirits, Tui & La respectively, and that they were in danger, returning to the physical world & with Hei Bai's help, Aang flies to where Zuko took his body (where he was busy venting his frustrations throughout his life, chief among them being his "born lucky" sister) and manages to escape just in time for his friends to rescue him, but despite his team's objections, Aang convinces them to bring a knocked-out Zuko along.

As they are flying back to the city, they soon discover to their horror as Zhao, who had his armada already storm the capital, take the moon spirit out of the water which bleaches the sky red, making a lunar eclipse and leaves all the water benders powerless, when they arrive back at the Oasis Aang pleads with Zhao to see the flaw in his choice of removing the moon, as it would permanently cause the whole world (fire nation included) to crumble, a fact that is backed up by Zuko's peaceful & all-loving Uncle Iroh, who unlike the rest of his family & nation, desires peace for the world and even threatens to bring pain on Zhao if he doesn't let it go. But despite heeding everyone's demands a furious Zhao, not willing to let this "glory" be taken away from him, burns the spirit alive before cowardly fleeing an angry Iroh, but just as it seemed hopeless, Aang suddenly entered the Avatar State and fused with the Ocean Spirit into a giant, water-based creature and together they massacred the Fire Nation troops and annihilated the fleet, forcing a hasty retreat of the enemy before killing Zhao for his crimes.

S1E20 Their first well-earned victory — Aang & co. after successfully saving the North & the balance.

As for the fate of the moon Yue, who had been imbued with life by the Moon Spirit as an infant, willingly sacrificed herself (just not before saying one last goodbye and giving a kiss to Sokka) to revive Tui and restore the moon's power and thus became the new Moon Spirit and with the moon reinstated, Aang exited the Avatar State and was returned safely to the Northern tribe. With the Fire navy badly beaten following their failed fight, Aang, Katara, and Sokka reunite with triumph as they overlook the Northern tribe and the colossal victory over the fire nation they had just won.

Book 2: Earth[]

First lesson in the Avatar State[]

S2E1 A quicker way to end the war. — Aang being learning a faster way to save the world.

Sometime following the Siege of the North Tribe, with Pakku and some others going to rebuild the southern tribe, a-now skillful Katara (also given some water from the Oasis) becomes Aang's waterbending master again and with both his control over both air and waterbending now complete, Aang & the gang fly to the closest Earth kingdom garrison to be safely escorted to Omashu where Aang can safely learn his next element earth from his buddy Bumi. However when they arrive at the garrison the man in charge, Fong, convinces him he doesn't need to learn the other elements and says he could just use the Avatar State to defeat the Firelord now, and despite Katara telling him to not try it, a few looks at some of the wounded earth soldiers is what convinces Aang to try & figure out how to get into the state.

So for the next few days, Aang and the general try and use numerous ways to make him enter the Avatar State, but with each one it all shows nothing but the results they want, but once the sun begins setting, Aang is once confronted by a concerned Katara who convinces him that trying to unleash that much power is a foolish play, this & with a nightmare he has about the first time going in it in 100 years, is what convinces Aang to give up on trying to use the Avatar State as a weapon and explains this dilemma to Fong. But when the Avatar points out he only enters the State when in danger, the crazy general decides to do just that and has his men attack him to do it, which finally works when he decides to strike Katara, but as he is in the State Roku appears before him & tells him it's flaws: It is a defense mechanism that while it gives the power of every prior Avatar incarnation, being killed in it will permanently destroy the reincarnation cycle just as he returns to his body & in Katara's arms, right after he hoped she'd never see him like that again & after Sokka knocks Fong out, the group heads off the Omashu themselves.

The Labyrinth of Love[]

After some flying Aang and the group stop by a nearby lake where Aang & Katara continue to perfect the former's waterbending, while resting they meet with a bunch of hippie nomads who tell them about a shortcut through the mountain: a secret labyrinth made by an earthbending couple. Of course, since they learn that many have already entered the cave but got lost and died, the group simply decides to just fly over the mountain to get to Omashu... only to actually take the love-cave after surviving an extra intense Fire guard attack.

Upon reaching to the entrance of the cave, the group is attacked by the same battalion of Fire soldiers they had encountered earlier and race inside the cave, but once they enter it the commander listens to the legends warnings and simply closes up the entrance & trapping the group inside. With the way now sealed-up Sokka tries to solve the labyrinth by making a map, but he constantly gets the group in dead-ends as for some reason the tunnels were constantly changing, and soon enough they get attacked by a bunch of wolf-bats which spooks Appa so much he accidentally causes a cave-in, and although Aang manages to keep everyone safe, he & Appa alongside Katara are separated from the others.

Alone with nothing but a single torch to light their way, the young avatar and his waterbending crush travel down the path to try and find the exit, but they little to no success, but after some extensive periods of walking around, the pair and sky bison finds themselves before giant stone door which they hoped was the exit, only to find it was the tomb for the titular lovers, which also shows them their story of how they became the first earthbenders by learning from the badger-moles and building Omashu to commemorate their warring villages coming together for their sake as well as giving them the advice of "love is brightest in the dark" to get out. Inspired by this phrase as well as her growing feelings for Aang, an embarrassed Katara suggests that she and Aang kiss in an attempt to find the exit, but because he still didn't know how to express his feelings for the girl, his reaction to that suggestion came out the wrong way which left her a tad angry and she storms out of the tomb in a huff, leaving a disappointed Aang to look down on his love expression, eventually the torch that is with slowly begins to burn out and not knowing what to do, Aang and Katara decides to just go for it, but in that brief moment of darkness the pair find out that the lovers had placed glowing crystals that help them lead the way out to the other side.

A little while afterwards the pair and sky bison are happily reunited with Momo and Sokka (the latter having just barely kept his head together due to the nomads' shenanigans) when they manage to tame a bunch of Badger-Moles inside the labyrinth and had them dig their way out. Soon afterwards the group bids farewell to the nomads who go off to the other direction and Aang and co. march up the hill where they first looked at Omashu, only to discover, much to their devastation, that it had been conquered by the Fire Nation.

The Omashu Evacuation[]

S2E3 A not-unconquerable city — Aang looking over a conquered Omashu

Even though he knew the dangers of being caught, Aang decided to enter the city and search for Bumi as it was not just about rescuing an earthbending teacher but also a friend so to avoid being seen he, Sokka, and Katara infiltrated the city via a sewer, upon emerging, Sokka found several harmless creatures called purple pentapuses stuck to his face which Aang removed with ease. Moments later, they encountered three Fire Nation soldiers who questioned why they were out past curfew. Aang quickly covered his arrow tattoo with a piece of cloth and Katara said that they were just on their way home. The soldiers decided to let them go until they noticed the marks on Sokka left by the pentapuses, raising their suspicion but Katara quickly fabricated an explanation by claiming him to have "pentapox", making them frightened and run away.

Soon after as they were trying to find Bumi, Aang and his friends accidentally get caught in the middle of the Omashu resistance's attempt to assassinate the governor's family and make it looked like they were responsible, and after managing to avoid getting caught by the governor's ever-gloomy daughter Mai, a professional knife-thrower, Aang and his friends find themselves in the resistance's base. They explain that even though they were conquered, the day they attacked Bumi willingly surrendered to the Fire Nation and even they don't know where he is, after convincing the resistance to evacuate to fight another day, Aang and co. decide to fake a pentapox outbreak to get them, the resistance, and as many citizens as they can out of the conquered city, which works like a charm.

However, even though they got everyone out, Aang discovers that while he was out still trying (and failed) to find Bumi, Momo accidentally brought the governor's infant son with them, and when they thought they kidnapped him, the governor calls for an exchange for him and the release of King Bumi, which is something he decides to do but made sure his marks were hidden to ensure his identity as the Avatar remained secret. The following morning Aang & his pals carry the baby where they meet Mai along with her cheerful friend capable of briefly blocking a bender's chi, but once she shows them an imprisoned Bumi Mai is talked into calling off the deal by her other pal, Zuko's younger & more insane sister Azula, & in an attempt to save his friend, Aang accidentally reveals his identity as the Avatar to her and she immediately gives chase, after another slide down the delivery shoot, all while evading capture or getting hit by the fire princess' blue flames, Bumi reveals he can still earthbend by using his mind.

Bumi explains to Aang that the real reason he surrendered is that he really just waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike and take back his kingdom, making the young Avatar realize he's gotta find someone else to teach him earthbending. To which Bumi says he has to find a bender who "waits and listens" before heading back up, that same night Aang returns the infant son back to his parents & goes throughout the earth kingdom to find his teacher, but now he's gotten the attention of Azula and with her two friends, goes off hunting for him.

March through the swamp[]

Sometime after their escape from Omashu, Aang and his friends are somehow attracted to a mysterious swamp and are separated from one another, while hidden somewhere in the swamp, Aang sees a strange illusion that takes the form of a flying girl and a strange girl laughing and wearing white robes, eventually he is able to reunite with his friends but learn that Appa and Momo have been captured by swamp natives. But after some misinterpretations, Aang and his pals realize that the swamp natives were waterbenders themselves and they give them a quick meal before they fly off, but during their meal, Aang wonders who it was she saw in the swamp, to which one of them Huu explains how all of them are connected in some way, which makes him think he might meet this girl in the future, not knowing just how right he is.

Meeting a "blind" little girl[]

Sometime after leaving the swamp, Aang and his crew travel through the town of Goaling in search for an earthbending teacher, after finding the local earthbending instructor unfit for him, Aang soon hears that a bunch of the best earthbenders are gathering for a secret tournament and the gang fly off to it's location to see who could be the right teacher his earthbending teacher for him. When they arrive at the tournament, Aang watches to see that none of the fighters there wait & listens to the earth, but it wasn't until the final round when he sees the tournament's reigning & mysterious champion: a little & actually blind girl called "the Blind Bandit" do exactly just that, even showing the same laughter he heard in the swamp, Aang tries to talk to her during a bet for money, but he enters a fight with her & wins with airbending, he still tries to talk to her, but an angry girl leaves the stadium in a huff.

Following the match, Aang tries to find where the Blind Bandit might have traveled to, where he learns from two guys that the flying boar (the animal he saw) is a symbol for the wealthy Beifong family, heading to there estate, Aang, Katara, and Sokka meet the girl, Toph, the young daughter of the family who learned to see through her feet, but confesses that due to her overprotective parents. This lead her to secretly take up the wrestling life behind their backs, leading Aang to suggest traveling with them, but as they do that the tournament's host Xin Fu and several of the earthbending fighters come out of nowhere and kidnap Aang and Toph, thinking they secretly collaborated to cheat the other fighters out of the prize money.

When the water tribe siblings alongside Toph's father and earthbending teacher give them the ransom money, he releases Toph but leaves Aang captured as he recognized him as the Avatar and plans on selling him out to the Fire Nation, and at Katara's urging, Toph springs into action and beats all the earthbenders once again before she rescues Aang and they all escape from the arena. Later that night, Aang watched from the sidelines as Toph expressed her desire to travel with them to her parents, who only deny this request and they're ordered to leave their home, but before they leave, Toph comes out and reveals her dad changed his mind and allowed her to come with them and they fly off, unaware that her father already changed his mind and hired a pair of earthbenders to try and bring her back by force.

A night without sleep[]

Now with someone who can teach him earthbending, Aang and the gang set up camp at a nearby remote forest, was pursued by a tank train operated by Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee. Their machine allowed them to cover great distances at high speeds; additionally, they were able to trace the team's whereabouts by following a trail of shed fur Appa consistently left. Aang and his friends were repeatedly forced to escape, depriving them of much-needed rest and draining the last of their power and patience. To make matters worse, Katara and Toph became tangled in a bitter conflict with Toph eventually leaving the group after a particularly acrimonious fight.

Aang attempted to deceive Azula by leaving a false trail of Appa's shed fur for her to follow, while Katara and Sokka retreated somewhere safe. Azula, however, unfolded his plan; she sent Mai and Ty Lee in the direction she believed the group to have gone and followed Aang's fabricated trail herself. Aang's ultimately wound up in an abandoned town where he was later found and confronted by Azula. Zuko arrived on scene shortly after and all three assumed fighting stances, prepared to duel. Azula fired the first shot, hitting Zuko hard and knocking him back. All three exchanged blows until the duel was joined by Katara, Sokka, Iroh, and Toph. Azula was eventually cornered by the other six combatants. She surrendered and Iroh momentarily let his guard down, turning to see his comrades. Azula took advantage of this and launched a fire blast at him, striking him in the chest. Zuko let out a horrified cry, and all four benders unleashed their power against her; Azula, however, was able to escape the scene unharmed. Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Toph gathered around Iroh, but Zuko yelled for them to leave, backing up his words with a sweeping arc of flame. Respecting his need for privacy, Aang and the others fled the scene.

First day of Earthbending training[]

Following the intense showdown, Aang and co. travel to a rocky valley where an excited Aang is eager to begin his earthbending, which Toph immediately began for as well, the ex-fighter commenced her instruction with the simple act of moving a rock. She explained to Aang that earthbending required a firm, steady stance and demonstrated the technique by sending a rock into a wall. Aang tried to emulate her, but ended up hitting the rock with airbending and propelling himself backward. Aang questioned his inability to move the rock while in his correct stance. He tried to find an alternate solution, but Toph explained that such creative thinking was the problem, as earthbending required a head-on approach. She proceeded to train Aang through several activities involving the earth with the Avatar gradually improving. Toph decided to teach Aang how to stop an oncoming rock. She blindfolded him, thereby urging him to sense the vibrations in the earth as she did, and rolled a boulder down a steep hill toward him. Fearing injury, Aang leapt out of the boulder's path at the last second; this action infuriated Toph, who chastised him for showing cowardice.

Katara tried to console Aang by offering to practice waterbending with him. The two practiced in a nearby marsh where Katara encouraged Aang to face the issue instead of avoiding it. She explained that Aang was working with his opposite element, earth, and thus difficulty was to be met. She surprised Aang by throwing a reed at him, which Aang was able to slice in half with waterbending. Katara congratulated Aang for having reflexes of a waterbending master, and Aang referred to her as "sifu", meaning teacher, Katara. Toph taunted Aang about his submissiveness by abusing his staff. Aang expressed a desire to be left alone; when Katara approached him, however, concerned that Sokka had not yet returned to the campsite, the Avatar agreed to help search for him. Aang eventually found Sokka wedged in a hole in which he became stuck while hunting. Sokka asked that Aang utilize earthbending in order to free him to which Aang shamefully admitted his failure to earthbend, but than angry saber-toothed-moose-lion mother comes out of nowhere to attack Sokka for trying to hunt her baby, initially tried to avoid the beast, but he eventually faced the mother head-on and drove her away via airbending. Toph, who had been silently observing the conflict, made her presence be known and congratulated Aang on his show of fortitude. Aang demanded his staff be returned and Toph, determining that he possessed the qualities of an earthbender, ordered him to earthbend. Aang complied and, much to his delight, he was able to successfully earthbend.

Gaining knowledge... but losing a friend[]

Now a bender in both water and earth, Aang begins to take a few "mini-vacations" for everyone as they take some time to relax and a way to unwind after all the work they have done, but Sokka, believes that the group should be working on getting "intelligence" on the Fire Nation, most specifically a map for when Aang must hunt down the Fire Lord or something that could help them win the war. During one stop the group meets an ecstatic Professor named Zei, who told them he was searching for a legendary library said to be in the middle the Si Wong Desert created by the spirit of knowledge Wan Shi Tong and his fox servants, filled with more valuable tomes than any other place in the world, making an intrigued Sokka saying they should go there.

Flying on Appa, the group soon find the library but discovered it was buried in the sand, except for its single, highest tower which they can enterthrough, while Aang, Katara, Sokka, Momo, and Professor Zei used a window to enter the library, Aang lets Appa stay outside due to him now developing a fear of claustrophobia after the whole love labyrinth adventure, and of course Toph as well due to being blind. Upon entering the main library they come face-to-face with Wan Shi Tong himself, the spirit initially did not trust them, disliking the fact that humans use knowledge only to gain an advantage over other humans after a scuffle with the last human (Zhao) he allowed in, and believed the group only wanted to get information to help them defeat their enemies. Though there was truth to the spirit's accusation, Aang and his friends were able to convince him otherwise. After going through a bunch of Scrolls (one of them Aang finds about giant creatures called Lion-Turtles), Sokka found a burned paper that mentioned "the darkest day in Fire Nation history" which had a date but no other information. It also turned out that Zhao, before leaving, destroyed every other bit of information about the Fire Nation, probably to prevent exactly what Sokka and the others were trying to do, however, a fox spirit finds the group and leads them to a room dedicated to astronomy where a date could be entered on a stone wheel, which showed the sky on that particular date; when Sokka entered the date of "the darkest day", it showed a solar eclipse occurring, making the group realize that solar eclipses must take away firebending the same way lunar eclipses affect waterbending, making them realize they could use this information to plan an attack on the Fire Nation.

Unfortunately just as they discover what they came for, they excitedly say it out loud which attracts an angry Wan Shi Tong's attention, the giant owl spirit decreed that he will no longer allow humans to misuse his beloved information and attacked the group while beginning to completely sink the library began deep underground, bringing them along with it, but moving quickly, Aang and Sokka discover that the next Solar eclipse will be in a few months, just before Sozin's Comet will return. Learning this they plan to give this information to the Earth Kingdom armies of the Kingdom's capital city Ba Sing Se to help in the War and they quickly escaped, except for Professor Zei, who said he would rather spend eternity in the library than see it vanish forever, leading them to grant his wish, unfortunately, just as they escape the Library they find that Appa is nowhere to be found & when Aang asks Toph wear he is, a guilt-ridden Toph told Aang that Appa had been stolen by a bunch of sandbenders, leaving him completely heartbroken.

March through the Desert[]

Infuriated, Aang unreasonably blamed Toph for Appa's kidnapping. Seeing how everyone was more focused on making their way through the desert than on his lifelong friend, Aang flew off on his own in search of Appa. Aang's search proved to be fruitless, with him engendering a gigantic mushroom-like cloud in frustration. After returning to the others, the group continued their trek through the endless desert, with Aang acting despondent, if not outright, hostile and bitter over their situation all the way. The group eventually came across an abandoned sand-sailer and compass, which they used to travel to a large rock formation in the desert's center. There, they were attacked by a hive of buzzard wasps, one of which Aang viciously struck down after it had attempted to take Momo, the group later encountered the sandbenders themselves, one of whom Toph identified as the person who stole Appa. An enraged Aang demanded to know where his bison was, threateningly obliterating their desert sailors one by one before slipping into the Avatar State. The sandbender Ghashiun confessed that he had traded Appa over to some merchants and that he was probably in Ba Sing Se by now where he would be sold. The wind and sands twisted around Aang as he proceeded to fully enter the state, but just before he could do serious damage Katara manages to make her way to him and calm him down as tears rolled down his face as he fell into her arms and out of the Avatar State.

Journey across Serpent's pass[]

Immediately after that intense showdown, Aang and his pals are escorted by the frightened Sandbenders safely out of the desert, and as they stop by for a break at a nearby lake, they meet a humble family with a pregnant mother traveling to Ba Sing Se as well, seeing the mother's predicament the group help the family head to an underground ferry way that led to the city, and after getting tickets as well Sokka and the others were reunited with Kyoshi Warrior, Suki, who was there helping all the war refugees. However, just as they are about to board the next boat trip, Aang learns from the family that someone stoll all their belongings and documents as well as the mother's baby still slowly getting ready to be born, and because to guard lady won't pity her predicament, not even when they offer their tickets, Aang and co. alongside Suki (who Sokka is trying to keep safe after what happened with Yue) decide to personally get them to Ba Sing Se by leading them across the dangerous other route across the lake: Serpent's Pass.

Just before crossing over, the group reads a warning sign saying they have to "abandon hope" if they want to make it to the other side, which is something Aang, after the whole desert incident where he completely lost control and was afraid of it, completely agrees to as they all begin their dangerous journey across the lake, as the group traveled along a sheer cliff side of the pass, Suki pointed out Fire Nation forces patrolling the water, telling them that they were rumored to be working on a secret project. As they continued, Than fell when the ground underneath him crumbled and while Toph managed to save him, the falling rocks drew the attention of the patrol ship, which launched a fireball at them. Following the intense attack, the group stopped for the night at an outcropping rock site, but Aang was one of the only ones who couldn't bring himself to sleep, when she noticed this Katara tried telling him that it was okay for him to miss his sky bison and asked why he was acting so distant, which makes the young Avatar remind her that he was so upset about losing Appa that he could not control himself and that he hated feeling like that, Katara tried reasoning with him and told him that he was not letting himself feel anything now and that sometimes it hurts to car and tried to get Aang to promise that he would not stop caring about Appa and offered him a hug only for him to decline and walk away, leaving Katara disappointed.

The following morning, Aang and his company continue traveling to Ba Sing Se but as they make it to the other side, they all encounter a colossal setback on the journey there: most of the bridge on the other side has been brought down underwater, but luckily since they have Katara with them they all get behind her as she creates a giant air bubble for them all and they all continue their journey across it down the water. However, they only manage to make it halfway across the path when they find something giant in the water, and when Toph rises up the ledge in the water, they all find themselves attacked by a giant hungry sea serpent (hence how the dangerous pass got it's name), while he and Katara, the latter first makes an ice bridge so everyone else can get to the other side and together, Aang and Katara managed to drive off the serpent by using the currents to slam it into the cliff and making it swim away.

With the latest problem now out of the way, Aang and everyone else finally make it to the other side of Serpent's pass with nothing but the city's giant walls just on the horizon, however just before they march on over to the city Ying immediately feels that the baby is coming now, luckily for them Katara, who had had experience in birthing children, quickly took charge, despite having Sokka pass out like an old lady in the process. The baby, a girl, was born with no complications, thanks to her and Aang, seeing the family coming together, renewed his hope, which was what the family decided to name the baby. Aang chose to go on ahead of the group to find Appa, but before he went, he told Katara how he felt about her, making her let a few tears run down her cheeks, and she and Aang embraced in a hug before he and Momo left to look for Appa, but just as he makes it to the wall he makes a horrifying discovery on what exactly the Fire Nation was building: a colossal drill heading straight for the wall, making him postpone his search so he can rescue Ba Sing Se first.

The scuffle atop the drill[]

S2E13 Seeing the coming danger. — Aang & co. seeing the danger.

Quickly returning to the group and telling them of the danger, Aang and everyone carry themselves to the top of the wall so they can give the family a much-needed new home, after stating his identity as the Avatar, Aang & co. are brought before the general in charge of the wall defenses. Though when he is brought before the man, a newly-appointed warrior named Sung, he brushes off his offer to help them as he is still greatly confident on his wall's defense and the men he already has, of course when it is revealed that Azula is placed in charge of the conquest and has Mai & Ty-Lee bring his men down, the general is immediately reduced to a frantic wreck and allows Aang and his friends to do their thing.

S2E13 A countdown to catastrophe — Aang & co. learning of the coming attack.

Thinking quickly, Sokka gets the idea of destroying the drill from the inside by attacking its pressure points, sneaking down into the battlefield while Toph tries her best to slow it down from the outside, Aang, Katara and Sokka sneaks inside to sabotage the drill, after ambushing an engineer and finding a set of blueprints, the group figure out that they simply need to cut through the braces in the that hold the machine. Heading to where the main braces are located Aang & Katara begin cutting them apart waterbending. Unfortunately after long and exhausting work, Katara and Aang only manage to cut through just one brace and knowing that they will never destroy the drill in time at this rate, Aang remembers what Toph had been teaching him and suggested they only cut partway through the braces beofre delivering a final blow at the top.

With this new plan the waterbending pair then get set to work with chopping down enough braces when it's ready to finally burst, but just as they decided that they had cut through enough braces to go to the top, the group is once again outed in the drill and are attacked by Azula, Mai and Ty Lee. Deciding to split up, Sokka and Katara tried to leave the drill while Aang went to deliver the final blow. When he got to the top, he found the Earth Kingdom soldiers dropping boulders on the drill and him. After cutting a wedge in the metal with waterbending, he shaped one of the boulders into a spike. Just as he was finished carving the wedge, he was attacked by Azula, resulting a furious duel, during which Aang was briefly knocked unconscious and almost fell off the drill, but he managed to run part way up the wall and destroyed the war machine, splattering the wall and the spectators atop it as they all celebrate their victory, after reuniting with the others atop the wall, Aang and co. finally head into the city to look for Appa, all the while ignoring Sokka's suggestion that they all start calling themselves "Team Avatar" for better recognition, much to the annoyance of them all.

Discovering a city of secrets[]

After stopping the fire drill assault, Aang and his friends ride along the city's monorail where they are introduced to Joo Dee, a "cheerful, pleasant incessantly" smiling woman assigned to guide them around the city, with Katara assuring Aang that they'll find Appa. Going around the city, Aang and the others slowly see things that are off in the city, chief among them being attempts by Sokka to coax their guide to talk about the war and a possible audience with the Earth King being invariably ignored.

After the tour the gang are taken to an extra special house for their efforts in saving the city, but won't be able to see the king in a month, the kids decide they should spend some of that time searching for Appa, but soon see even more suspicious things such as everyone they ask pretend that there is no war happening outside. While they do that though Joo Dee, always forcing them to keep their mouths shut about mentioning things outside the city, but after returning to their house, they learn from their neighbor that everyone is too scared because the Dai Li — elite guards who ensured the safety of Ba Sing Se's culture and society - is secretly watching everything and advises them to keep away from them.

Fortunately for them, Aang and the others find a way to talk to the Earth King when they hear that tonight he's hosting a party in honor of his pet bear (and yes, when I mean by just "bear" I mean a completely, ordinary real-life Brown Bear) Bosco, and decide to use this opportunity to speak to him now. After Katara & Toph manage to sneak past the security, Aang and Sokka were able to infiltrate the palace themselves, albeit disguised as servants instead.

Upon sneaking inside the main hall of the festivities, even though he did his best to try and keep his identity a secret to all the nobles attending, Aang was soon exposed as the Avatar, but he quickly smoothed things over with a display of his abilities to entertain the audience. When the Earth King arrived, Aang rushed over eagerly to greet him, but was confronted by Long Feng, the Grand Secretariat of the Earth King and head of the Dai Li, soon leading a confused Aang to a secret room where the rest of Team Avatar had been brought to... against their will.

Upon being brought to the room, Aang and everyone try to convince Long Feng that what they know is absolutely important to the King, but not only does the man once again shuts this down, but they also discover that 1) The Earth king has now become nothing but a figurehead knowing nothing about the war, 2) It's really Long Feng who has control over all the other city resources, and 3) (quite easily the worst one against them) is that he has absolutely no intention of doing anything to help them and fully intends to keep things as it was for years, not caring what he does or who gets hurt to keep it that way. Furious over the fact that he's forcing an entire city to live in a world that's coming so close to falling apart and he won't do anything to change it for the good of all, Aang threatened to tell everyone about the war, but the corrupt chancellor countered this by threatening to expel them from the city, even saying that if Aang persisted, he may never find his missing bison again, which forces the gang to comply (at first) to the corrupt city's system as they are escorted back home by a different woman named Joo Dee, further showing how much control over the city the secretariat has.

The Tale of Aang in Ba Sing Se[]

Despite now being forced to keep his mouth shut, this doesn't stop Aang from enjoying the earth kingdom capital or trying to find his giant bison buddy, flying high over Ba Sing Se, Aang lands at a small zoo looking for Appa, where the local Zookeeper tells Aang that he would like nothing more than to let his animals run wild in open spaces. Aang suggests moving the animals outside to an open area just outside the city, but the animals prove too difficult to control and begin running amok around some of the buildings, thinking quickly, Aang used earthbending to create a wall around the animals before creating paths, secluded areas, and habitat accessories, thus successfully constructing a new facility.

A "vacation" to Lake Laogai[]

S2E17 Posters for his missing friend — Aang "missing Appa" poster.

Eventually after a few weeks of waiting for their audience with the , Aang and the gang decide to start upgrading their search for Appa by sending off flyers all across the city, but they are all brought down by the original "Joo Dee", who implores them to stop doing this but Aang, having already been fed up by playing along with Long Feng's unfair system, stands his ground & tells "Joo Dee" off. After this statement Team Avatar decides to once again put up all the missing flyers in the hopes of someone will find it and help them, but as they do this, for the first time in a very long time, they once again meet Jet again.

S2E17 Getting the answers they need — Aang & everyone surrounding a brainwashed Jet.

But although Katara was completely distrustful of him following their last adventure with him, Jet assures them that he genuinely means to help them and says he knows where Appa is, something Toph confirms he's being honest by reading Jet's heartbeat and breathing patterns through the ground. Following the guy, the gang sadly discover that Appa "flew off to Whaletail Island" which could take weeks or months for, but just as they're about to leave they are confronted by two rebel fighters that have followed Jet who say that he was, quite rightfully, arrested weeks ago, & although Toph senses both of them are telling the truth, Sokka decides to go with the newest truth and correctly deduces that Jet only says the truth because he thinks he is... because somehow Long Feng was able to brainwash him.

With this dangerous revelation revealed Aang, his pals as well as Jet's friends gang up on the brainwashed rebel and tie him up and that very night, they take him to a secret attic in the city to try and somehow break him free from the Dai Li's control. After some attempts that ended in failure, the group are able to snap Jet back to his senses and ask him to remember where he was taken, to which he responds that it was somewhere under a Lake called Laogai.

Everyone near Lake Laogai.

With a new place to start looking, Team Avatar and the freedom fighters agree to team up to rescue Appa and put an end to Long Feng's messed-up regime, so the following morning they all get up on a monorail and head on over the where Lake Laogai is located and when they get there, Toph finds a hole that leads directly underneath it. Crawling down the hole, Aang and the others find a hidden tunnel-system that goes all across the city where anyone who doesn't comply with the Ba Sing Se conspiracy is forcefully hypnotized into playing along, they even have tons of woman being brainwashed into thinking they're "Joo-Dee" just to be his extra-eyes around the city.

Eventually Jet is able to lead them all to where Appa is being locked away, but when they get there they're only met with Long Feng and a ton of Dai Li agents and a battle quickly ensued, soon enough Aang and Jet are able to corner Long Feng and right after denying a bargain to leave the city as it was, the evil chancellor uses the trigger word he placed on all his brainwashed subjects and puts Jet back under his control and attack the Avatar. Luckily Aang is able to snap Jet out of it but Long Feng retaliated with earthbending and strikes a grievous blow to Jet, Long Feng escaped as the others entered the chamber. Katara tried to heal Jet and realized just how badly he was injured. Longshot, speaking to Team Avatar for the first time, told Aang and his group that they should go and find Appa and leave Jet to Smellerbee and himself. Jet tried to assure Katara that he would be fine, but as they left, Toph sorrowfully claimed that Jet was dying. As the four exited the room, Smellerbee tended to Jet while Longshot pointed his bow at the doorway in case Dai Li agents enter the room.

Team Avatar finally reached Appa's cell, only to find the chains broken, and Appa gone and thinking that Long Feng had taken him, they rushed back to the surface, only to find themselves surrounded by the Dai Li, who erected two walls to prevent the team from flying away. Momo suddenly took off into the sky, only to have Appa come down and break through the Day Li trap, destroying the walls to open an escape route. Long Feng tried to attack Appa, only to have his foot caught in Appa's mouth, with the bison throwing him into the lake. Long Feng's body skipped three times on the water before sinking, soon leading Aang and the others to joyfully reunite with the flying bison and fly away once again.

Un-earthing Long Feng's conspiracy[]

9807BE57-E7A8-42BF-AA4C-FA65BFA184F1 — Aang & Sokka voting to bring Long Feng down.

Finally reunited with his flying animal companion once again, Aang and the others rest up on nearby small island where he has some aloe time with his bison, and once he's done the young avatar then joins in on a conversation with the water-tribe siblings on what they should do next now that they main ride is back with them. In it Aang and Sokka vote on finishing what they came here to do and tell the Earth King about their invasion plans and reveal Long Feng's treachery in the hopes of him knowing the truth will make things much better for Ba Sing Se, and after sometime thinking about it, Katara and Toph go (who were thinking of leaving the city while they still can) completely agree with the boys and at the sight of an approaching scout ship sent by the Dai Li, Team Avatar bounce back on Appa once again and fly back to the palace and put an end to Long Feng's evil regime for good.

Flying across the city, Aang and his team make it to the main palace, but because Long Feng already had a colossal head start, he had enough time to have the entire palace security guard to shoot them down to prevent their plans, but not going to stand by it this time, Aang and co. furiously battle pass all the guards attacking them (apologizing along the way 'cause of their good intentions) despite the strong defenses as they march up into the palace to bring the Earth King into the light. After some difficulties navigating the palace they finally reach the Earth King's throne room where the king is sitting, but also encounter Long Feng and numerous Dai Li agents, after revealing himself as the Avatar, Aang attempts to uncover Long Feng's conspiracy and the war, but while he doesn't fully believe them at first, he is able to convince the king to personally see these claims for himself, which is something they all abide to.

After an awkward trip on the monorail, Aang and the gang show their first evidence to the Earth king by revealing to him the underground base underneath Lake Laogai, only to find that the entrance to the subterranean facility has bee destroyed to prevent further investigation, but just before he returns to the palace Aang and co. think of another & bigger piece that'll convince him, which they're able to do by letting him ride on Appa, though while flying the Earth king admits that there's still part of him wishing that there really is no war for different reasons, which makes Aang agree as well. Upon making it to the outer wall, a relieved Aang and crew are able to show a shocked Earth King the damaged fire nation drill still stuck in the wall, which the Dai Li were secretly covering up rather than completely remove from the part of the wall it had broken through, seeing this, along with Long Feng's pathetic attempts to pass it off as something other than a machine of war, is what finally opens up the Earth King's eyes and he angrily orders his former "trusted advisor" to be arrested immediately.

With the dangerous conspiracy now no longer being kept secret to the crown, a successful Aang and team Avatar fly back to the palace in triumph where they are thanked by the king for finally showing him what's really happening in the real world, right afterwards they tell the Earth King about both the upcoming comet and the solar eclipse, and after some well-thought out persuasion, agrees to support their plan to invade the Fire Nation. Immediately once this agreement is made, all of them are approached by the Earth king's highest-ranking general How, who after his arrest had his men raided Long Feng's office and discovered files about every person in Ba Sing Se, including Aang and his friends, with Aang's saying someone who can help him.

Reading the letter, Aang learns that it was written by a Guru: an expert in spiritual stuff, who Appa met while he was away and says he can help take the next and biggest step in his journey as the Avatar, how he can fully control the Avatar state, but seeing how the others have different places they wanna go, Toph getting a letter from her mom saying "she's come to an understanding" and in the city, and Katara & Sokka learning that a fleet of water tribe ships lead by their dad Hakoda is right next to the nearest bay, Aang reluctantly agree they should split up for now. As he and Sokka, as Katara allowed him to be the one to meet their father while she stays behind to make the battle plans, prepare to leave Ba Sing Se, Aang tries to confess to Katara of his love for her, but Sokka unknowingly interrupts him before he could say anything, much to their annoyance, though he does get both a hug and a kiss on his cheek from her before flying off, and as Aang and Sokka made their way over the plains surrounding Ba Sing Se on Appa, a relaxed Sokka (after hearing that the "Kyoshi warriors", mainly Suki, are coming to Ba Sing Se) goes onto feel glad that things were finally going working out for them, blissfully unaware and unprepared of the fiery typhoon about to strike them.

Opening up his Chakras[]

After landing a slightly nernous Sokka right next to the bay where his father and the rest of the men from his tribe are guarding, Aang and Appa depart from him for now as they once again fly back to their old home to meet with their spiritual teacher. Upon arriving back at the eastern air temple at sunset, Aang officially meets the Guru who introduces himself as Pathik who was a spiritual brother to the Air Nomads and a close friend of Monk Gyatso, when Aang asked Pathik how he would teach him to gain control of the Avatar State, the guru replied that if he ever wants to restore balance to the world, he has to restore balance to himself first.

So that following night far down in the temple where the water flows, Guru Pathik takes a drowsy Aang down to a little clogged-up creek where he explains to him that in order to have full-control of the Avatar State, in which he can easily go into it whenever he wants to, all he has to do is simply open up the chakras, nexuses of metaphysical and/or biophysical energy residing in the human body, and since Aang doesn't know what they are, Pathik teaches him the basics. Using a pond clogged with algae, he successfully explains to Aang the concept of chakras: by removing the clogs between pools, the water will flow, just as energy isallowed to flow through the body when his chakras were opened & that there are 7 chakras within the body, each with a purpose and each with a different blockage; an intense sensation results from each of their openings to which he warned that the process of opening the chakras must be completed without interruption in order to achieve success, a risk the young Avatar decides to do and throughout the night, they go all around the temple opening his seven Chakras in the following order.

He opened the earth chakra which was blocked by fear by meditating & envisioned himself surrounded by fire and in the presence of the Fire Lord, and after receiving reassurance and guidance from Pathik in addressing the emotion, Aang was able to clear his thoughts and unlock it.
He opened the water chakra which was blocked by guilt, where he confessed his regret for running away from the Southern Air Temple to escape the pressure accompanying his position as Avatar & harming others while in the Avatar State, where Pathik replied that Aang must accept what had happened and not allow the events to influence his judgment and must forgive his own actions, which he was able to do.
He opened the fire chakra which was blocked by shame. Aang recalled his first attempt at firebending and vowed to never firebend again, Pathik dismissed this, saying that in order to obtain balance, Aang must accept all aspects of his life, including his need to master firebending, which he was able to do.
He opened the air chakra which was blocked by grief where he envisioned the Air Nomads that died because he abandoned them & sadly watched as they slowly faded away into dust, but Pathik stated that love was a form of energy and flowed around everything & reassured that the monks' love for him was still present and manifested itself in the form of new love: the love he felt for Katara which did the job.
He opened the sound chakra which was blocked by the lies he told himself, which was him denying he was the Avatar to which Pathik said that all must accept who they are and thus Aang must accept his position, which he calmly accomplished.
He opened the light chakra which was blocked by the illusion of separation, to which Aang applied this principle to the four nations, and Pathik agreed, stating that the people of the world were in reality one people, despite their decision to live as separate nations. He explained that even the separation of the four elements was an illusion.

Unfortunately, despite the previous six being slightly easy, Aang soon faced the hardest choice to make when he finally began the process of opening his final chakra: the thought chakra which was blocked by earthly attachments, and when he meditated on what those attachments were, they all but took the form of the first girl he saw after being freed. Seeing this Aang greatly hesitates doing this as he is unwilling to let go of his attachment to Katara, which only gets even more interrupted when he has a vision of Katara in danger and chooses to help her, against Pathik's warning that he will be cut off from the Avatar State entirely.

The Battle at destiny's crossroads[]

S2E20 Aang and co. meeting Iroh again — Aang & the others meeting unexpected help.

Picking up Sokka and soon joining up with Toph, who discovered that the letter was just a ploy for her parents' hunters to capture but managed to escape by inventing a new set of sub-bending called "metalbending", Aang flies them all back to Ba Sing Se arrived at the palace, the Earth King reassured them that Katara was fine, but a search of their messed-up house all but confirmed Aang's suspicions that she was indeed in peril and soon enough they meet Iroh once again, whom Toph had befriended earlier. Iroh appealed to the team for aid, stating that Azula and her friends have snuck into the city and captured Zuko but although initially wary of the "angry freak's" prior actions, Aang and Sokka agree to help, afterwards Iroh reveals to them that he had captured a Dai Li agent who reveals that in addition to sneaking past the gates (which she did by disguising themselves as the very Kyoshi warriors (after capturing Suki and her team) that were heading to town), Azula has teamed up with Long Feng, having decided to take control of Ba Sing Se by force because the Dai Li remained loyal to him, and are planning to capture the earth king and other generals today.

When they questioned where had they imprisoned their loved ones, the hostage reveals a secret system of caves appropriately called the crystal catacombs directly beneath the palace and they placed them both there for further security, prompting them to race back to the palace to check it out and when they get there, Toph senses the underground tunnels to confirm the agent's answer. Opening a tunnel that leads into the catacombs, Sokka and Toph race to the throne room to warn the Earth King while Aang & Iroh go down to look for Katara & Zuko, while traveling through the earthbent tunnel to this prison, Aang recounted to Iroh the events of his training with Guru Pathik and unsure if he made the right choice, hearing the Avatar question his choice and doubt his abilities without the Avatar State, Iroh reassure the kid that he was very wise to choose happiness and love over power and perfection, which he perceived as overrated as they finally make it to the prison and find the ones they were looking for.

After reuniting with each other, Iroh allows the pair to go off to meet up with their friends while he & Zuko discuss some things, they race to go and join up with their friends only to be halted when Azula sends a blast of fire at them and a fierce battle ensued between the three of them, fortunately Aang and Katara are just able to have her cornered but in that moment a "changed" Zuko arrives on the scene as well. After a brief moment of dramatic tension, Zuko made his move and began fighting... on Azula's side as his crazy sister pointed out that if he chooses to side with them, he'll finally be able to get his wish of their father "restoring his honor" and finally returning home as the great man he knows he is, as Aang & Katara now battle both the fire nation siblings many Dai Li agents appear as well, having been convinced by Azula to betray their nation as well as betraying Long Feng, and make things too hard for them, just as they're now being backed in a colossal corner, a depressed Aang finally decides to open up his though chakra and lets Katara go as he enters the Avatar State, but just before he can attack a sneaky Azula strikes him in the back with the deadliest & most advanced form of firebending: lightning-bending, which immediately kills him as his body falls down, just before a devastated Katara catches it as Iroh appears to buy them the time they need to escape.

S2E20 A small win after a colossal loss — A knocked-out Aang with Katara after escaping a captured Ba Sing Se.

But just as it looked like both his and the Avatar's time in the world was over forever, a desperate Katara swiftly uses the spirit water she still had with her to heal up the devastating wound in his back, which heals up his body and allows his spirit to return their just in time to once again find himself waking up inside Katara's arms, though the lightning blast was still to much for him to handle and he passes out. But even though he was able to survive that close shave with death, this did nothing but change the reality that now with the Dai Li obeying her every command, Azula has nevertheless finally conquered the capital of the Earth kingdom with no hope of them ever fighting back to take it back, leaving them all to escape from the once-untouchable city on Appa with what the best they can do for now.

Escape from the spirit world[]

Even though his body was able to barely recover from the lightning to the back, Aang's soul was not yet fully able recover from the death-attack and was stuck still bound to the spirit world and what's worse, because he was killed while in the Avatar state, the Avatar cycle is in danger of being permanently destroyed. As he is busy trying to return to his body he encountered Princess Yue about the danger, and informed him that if he wants to rescue the Avatar cycle, he has to reconnect with his past four lives.

Aang found Avatar Roku amid the fire geysers and told him about his extreme shame at failing to master the Avatar State. However, Avatar Roku consoled him, explaining that he, too, had problems with mastering it. He confessed his first two unsuccessful attempts to master the state, and explained to Aang that it was a very difficult skill to acquire and that he should not feel ashamed, with that settled Roku subsequently told ang he had to meet Avatar Kyoshi next.

After some traveling Aang reunites with Hei Bai who took the kid to meet with Avatar Kyoshi, upon reuniting with her she apologized for the events at Chin Village and explained how after she defeated Chin the Conqueror, balance was restored, but she stated that she later had an error of judgment and told Aang how she assembled a group to uphold and protect the cultural heritage of Ba Sing Se. She trained a group of elite earthbenders, who later became known as the Dai Li. Aang was shocked by the revelation that an Avatar trained the Dai Li, stating that they were "the worst, most corrupt earthbenders in the world". Avatar Kyoshi explained that she thought it was a wise decision at the time and stated that all actions have an effect, whether positive or negative, for many lifetimes. She subsequently instructed Aang to find the Water Tribe Avatar who came before her, Avatar Kuruk.

Aang and Hei Bai traversed a murky swamp in the Realm of Koh, when they bumped into a mysterious man, who introduced himself as Avatar Kuruk. He asked Aang if he had seen a beautiful woman with long, brown hair. Aang responded by inquiring about Kuruk's dilemma to which Kuruk proceeded to tell him his history as the Avatar. Suddenly, Aang recalled his encounter with Koh while in the Northern Water Tribe. He realized that one of Koh's faces was that of the woman Kuruk had described and shared this revelation. Heartened by the knowledge of where his wife was, Kuruk set off to track down Koh once again and told Aang to look for the nomadic Avatar who preceded him, Avatar Yangchen.

Avatar Yangchen appeared atop the mountain in the clouds. She asked Aang what he learned from meeting his past lives. Aang realized that the past Avatars struggled and made mistakes, like he did. Aware of this, he pondered why the Avatar is born human and thus, is allowed to make mistakes, rather than being an all-knowing immortal spirit. Avatar Yangchen explained that the Avatar must experience human emotions to understand how precious human life is. She also explained that Aang's ability to enter the Avatar State had been disrupted, so he would now have to rely on his friends rather than his past lives, though he would still be able to contact them. She bade him farewell and informed Aang that when he awakened, his trip to the Spirit World would be like a forgotten dream.

Book 3: Fire[]

A much-needed wake-up call[]

After the intense spirit world escape, Aang (now with a bunch of hair due to being in his coma for weeks) finally wakes up but finds himself in a room full of fire nation tapestries, and begins to panic, believing that he has been capture and flees his room, taking his airbending staff with him to help him walk, and runs into two guards in Fire Nation uniform. Aang airbends at the two guards to distract them and begins to stagger away, as the two guards chase after him, calling out to him to stop. He manages to make it to the upper deck, but his wounds are too severe, and he stumbles and falls. Looking up, he is surprised to see his friends in Fire Nation uniforms and cloaks as he faints again. After waking up again, Aang is formally introduced to chief Hakoda, where an angry Katara slightly brushes him off before he and Katara head upstairs for another healing session in the gruesome injury in that area and, during the session, Aang had a painful flashback to the time he had fallen & realized that he was not just injured, but that his spirit had separated from his body and that, if it were not for Katara, he might not have returned, and though Katara insisted that it was the spirit water that saved him, Aang told her that it was not the water; it was her.

S3E1 Another shell shock — A horrified Aang learning the world thinks he's *dead...* for real.

The following morning, a well-rested Aang learns just what he had missed during his coma: after escaping Ba Sing Se they were able to meet up with the men from the water tribe they had encountered earlier, though after that now free of being a royal for the time being, the earth king decided to go incognito and follow Team Avatar's example of seeing the world with Bosco, but with the earth kingdom capital now under fire nation control, ships had begun filling in the bay, luckily with quick thinking they captured the ship they're sailing on and made it there disguise. When Aang asks what will they do next, Hakoda explains that without the earth armies, they won't be able to have the massive invasion force against the fire nation as they originally wanted, so they planned to invade with a small-but-strong army composed of the allies and friends they met across the earth kingdom, but he also learns that, much to his dismay, is that according to Sokka he's their biggest advantage for the invasion... because the whole world thinks he's dead.

S3E1 But I'm still keeping my glider — Aang being forced to do nothing.

When a guilt-ridden Aang wonders how this could be good news, Sokka explains that it means the Fire Nation will not be hunting for him any longer or will be expecting him on the invasion as an actual Fire nation ship appears before them, while the others hide Hakoda and Bato try to talk their way out, but the crew eventually finds holes in their story, leading them to believe that it is a captured ship. The captain decides to let them think they got away, but sink the ship as soon as they are clear. Toph overhears the order, however, and swiftly drops the captain and his guards into the water by way of metalbending. Katara puts space between the two ships with a huge waterbending attack that nearly capsizes the enemy ship, and they try to escape. Despite the tremendous efforts of Katara and Toph, the ship takes heavy damage from the pursuing Fire Nation ship. Out of sheer bad luck, the serpent of Serpent's Pass appears, but is struck by a stray fireball before getting the chance to escape as the enraged serpent attacks the Fire Nation ship.

But after the battle Aang still felt great shame & frustration over what happened at Ba Sing Se and that following night while everyone was busy, slipped away in the night on his glider, determined to face his destiny alone and intent on preventing anyone else from paying for his mistakes. He made it past a naval blockade, but was soon caught in a nasty squall and cast into the stormy seas, believing he had failed again and would now die because of his foolishness, Aang found himself unable to work up the will to continue. At that moment however, Avatar Roku appeared and told Aang not to blame himself and claimed fault for the war's devastation and implored Aang to redeem his mistakes. The spirit of Yue then appeared and removed the last of Aang's doubt, encouraging him to save the world as he had before. She helped Aang to safety, creating a wave that carried Aang to Crescent Island where his friends found him lying on the island's shore in the morning. Aang apologized for his rash actions and accepted the fact that he would need their help. When his glider washed ashore, tattered and broken beyond repair, he planted it firmly in the volcanic rock for cremation, burning away evidence of his existence and symbolically letting go of his past.

First week in the Fire Nation[]

Following their brief departure from the water tribe army, Aang and his pals fly off on Appa disguised as a cloud until they stop at a nearby cave where Sokka claims they'll be living in different caves until the invasion begins. But seeing how terrible an idea that sounds like, they all choose a much more simpler idea of just "borrowing" fire nation garments so as to blend in with all the other fire nation civilians and right afterwards, they go off into the nearest town to further their disguises by buying accessories.

However as they are going around town, Aang quickly discovers that he unwittingly snagged a Fire Nation school uniform and is found by a local truant officer and taken to the nearest school, luckily for him he hid his tattoos with a headband and long sleeves and adopts the alias Kuzon after one of his old friends, still keeping his Avatar identity a secret. While learning at the school, even though he likes this opportunity to finally be just a kid again, he also begins to learn about history through the Fire Nation point of view, discovering that it is full of propaganda and falsehoods meant to indoctrinate the civilians into supporting a monstrous campaign.

So to begin changing the Fire Nation for the better before they end the war, Aang convinces his friends to give the fire kids a sense of freedom by secretly holding a dance party, during the party, he helped the students overcome their fear of self-expression and reluctance to be spontaneous by showing them some ancient dance movements, winning their admiration and loyalty. He also managed to gain the admiration of Katara, who shyly accepted an offer to dance with him; the two amazed the crowd with a flawless series of moves and further inspired the students to join the festivities, but that came to an end when the headmaster and several truancy officers arrived, luckily the entire student body ingeniously helped Aang to escape the scene by covering their foreheads with their belts, as Aang had done to hide his arrow tattoo, and thereby confusing the officers as to whom they were seeking in the crowd and escaped, as they fly off on Appa, Toph compliments Aang on his efforts, which she believes made a serious impact on the students, something Katara agrees and thanks Aang for dancing with her and kisses him on the cheek, causing him to blush & smile.

Helping Katara heal a broken village[]

Sometime following their secret party group floated downstream which soon led them in the middle of a river that seemed to be almost entirely brown sludge prompting them to stop in the village of Jang Hui, a fishing village in the middle of a river where many of the villagers were sick, and the polluted water created by a nearby factory had caused a food shortage & while Katara wished to help these people, Sokka said their overall mission was too important to stop and help everybody they come across. However in the morning, Appa was found lying on his side with a purple tongue, & Katara suggests that the village might have some herbs that could heal him, though they return to the village, they were shocked to find the entire village in much better spirits and according to a local, a legendary local river spirit known as the Painted Lady came and gave them food but they have no medicine as the factory workers took it all for themselves, forcing the group to let Appa rest for another day.

Aang_and_The_Painted_Lady_Destroys_The_Factory — Aang and The Painted Lady Destroys The Factory

...Before they cause collateral damage.

The next day the gang find Appa still sick which prompts them all to go back to the village where they find the inhabitants in even higher spirits and had erected a large statue of the Painted Lady in thanks for healing their sick, one of the locals suggested that maybe the Painted Lady could help Appa out while an unimpressed Sokka jokingly says the painted lady "use her spirit magic to blow up the factory", which is something Aang joins him in. That very night, Momo woke up which rouses Aang in turn and he spots the Painted Lady, Aang tried to ask for her help, but she ran away, goading Aang to chase her all the way to the village where he finds out that Katara had been acting as the Painted Lady and even discovered Appa was never sick to begin with, as Katara had been secretly feeding him purple berries that temporarily bleaches a tongue purple, she sadly confesses and apologizes for holding them there to help the village, but Aang naturally liked the idea but before they leave Aang joins her with following Sokka's idea despite it being crazy, so the two infiltrated the factory and wrecked it, stopping the flow of pollution.

Though just as the factory wreckers return to their camp just as the others find out about Katara's secret, just as they are preparing to leave, they see a squad of Fire Nation troops heading toward the town on speeders and realized that they must believe the villagers had sabotaged the factory, and Katara was determined to stop them from harming the innocent villagers for her actions leading the others to help as well. Once the soldiers arrive and started attacking the village, but a gust of wind blew their flames out when they started destroying everything. With help from Appa, Toph and Sokka providing spooky sound effects, Aang and Katara staged an encounter with the Painted Lady to defeat the troops and drive them away. Once the army are all gone Team Avatar decides to stay for an extra week to help the village clean the river and rebuild the old way of life for the villagers before heading off on their way once again.

A brief vacation-turned-escape[]

Sometime following their big river clean-up, Aang and his friends fly around for a bit before taking some time to relax in a secluded hot springs where they believe they are safe from being spotted by the Fire Nation. Playing in the water, Aang joyously goes down a water tunnel but is unknowingly seen by two bored Fire Nation soldiers, who recognize him and send a messenger hawk to the Fire Lord reporting the Avatar is alive, only for it to be received by someone else.

That very night, while Aang and everyone else were sleeping peacefully, Aang & everyone is jolted awake when Toph senses the a "metal man" is coming before that very man arrives above the springs, and he proves to be very dangerous by projecting rays of energy from his forehead tattoo that explode upon impact and the assassin's bolts counter anything the team throws at him, forcing them to take cover. Aang tells his friends to get on Appa and get ready to escape as he himself tries to lead the enemy away, Leading the guy to a plethora of rocky pillars, Aang uses both airbending and earthbending to fend off his anemy's attacks and once he gets out of his sights, Aang escapes and rejoins the group on Appa, though Toph comments on the randomness of the encounter, Katara says that she feels that this new enemy seems to know exactly who they are believe that this won't be the last they see of him.

Learning how the war came to be[]

Main article: Roku (Avatar)

One day following the insane encounter with that metal assassin, Aang gets another spiritual message from Avatar Roku who tells him to visit his home island so that he could learn how the war started, after traveling his friends the message he got, Aang and his friends travel back to Crescent island aboard Appa, where he sat on a ledge overlooking the ocean and meditated. Upon entering the Spirit World, Roku and Fang took Aang on a trip through Roku's past, where he learned that Roku and Fire Lord Sozin were best friends during their youths. When Roku was revealed to be the Avatar and went of to learn airbending first, Aang was also surprised and delighted to find out that one of Roku's friends was none other than Monk Gyatso. Roku commented that Aang's relationship with Gyatso years later proves that some friendships are able to transcend lifetimes.

Years following the completion of his Avatar training, Aang watches the reunion of Roku and Sozin but at Roku's wedding, Sozin tells him that the Fire Nation should share its prosperity and peace with the rest of the world, which is something a disturbed Roku rebukes him, explaining that the separation of the four nations maintains balance in the world, but this flew right over Sozin's head & when Roku discovered an invaded Earth Kingdom colony, he angrily confronts Sozin about it and they battle, but the Avatar quickly defeats the Fire Lord, sparing him in the name of their past friendship. Twenty-five years later following that fateful battle, Roku evacuates his island's residents after a massive volcanic eruption, which he unsuccessfully tries to stop, luckily Sozin arrives and helps Roku, but when Roku is incapacitated by poisonous gas, Sozin realizes that his plans for the world are possible without his friend and leaves Roku to die by the volcano's pyroclastic flow, showing just at the moment he is born at the Eastern Air Temple.

Immediately after seeing his birth, Aang immediately wakes up from his vision with Roku, where a bewildered young Avatar tells his friends the story of everything he saw. Considering the lives and actions of both Roku and Sozin, both proud members of the Fire Nation, he believes Roku was trying to tell him that any person is capable of great good or great evil, and that every person should be treated as though they are worth giving a chance for redemption, and even assures a little worried Toph that what Roku said to him about relationships was true and that their friendship will be one of the ones that will transcend lifetimes.

The brief gambling spree[]

Sometime following his lesson on both Roku & Sozin's past, Aang and the gang stop by the town of fire fountain city where after a training session that slightly got halted when Katara & Toph got into a mud wrestling contest, Aang & Sokka joined Toph in a gambling session when she uses her earthbending skills to scam one of the local con artists for money. When Katara became upset by this she feared this might get out of hand so to ease her worries, Aang made an "Avatar promise" that they would not let scamming become a habit, of course since he promised it as the Avatarand as himself, he continued accompanying Toph in her scams, allowing them to attain more money than before.

Of course things go a bit out of hand when the local authorities become very suspicious of her and put a price on her head which causes some tension between her & Katara, after overhearing Sokka discuss Katara's motherly instincts after the death of their own mother with Toph, Katara decides to pull a scam with Toph to patch things up. Katara plans to turn Toph in and collect the reward money, with Toph metalbending her way out of jail. The plan fails when Toph is placed in a wooden cell, soon followed by Katara at the hands of the same assassin, who Sokka decides to call Combustion Man uses them as bait in an attempt to kill Aang when he and Sokk go off looking for them, fortunately Katara brilliantly uses her own sweat to waterbend herself and Toph out of the cell and together the group subdue the assassin long enough to escape the town.

Facing another dangerous sub-bending[]

Sometime following their brief con-spree, Aang and the gang go off and camp near a small village at the base of a mountain and tell each other scary stories and to darken the mood, Katara tells a frightening story about a little girl named Nini, a friend of her mother's who disappeared during a harsh winter storm in the Southern Water Tribe. She recalls that despite her vanishing, the villagers kept seeing smoke coming out of her chimney which leaves everyone jumpy, even more so when Toph suddenly hears screams of people from out of nowhere.

Immediately after this strange phenomenon the gang meet a kind-looking elderly woman who runs an Inn who goes by the name of Hama, who told them they should not be staying in the forest at night as there had been mysterious disappearances as she invited them all to stay at her inn, and despite Sokka's earlier suspicions, they discover she was also a Southern Water Tribe waterbender, intrigued by this an excited Katara decided to train with Hama and while the rest of the team do some other stuff when they began fears from the locals about villagers disappearing every full moon, which they believe was caused by an angry spirit like it was the first time.

So that very night Aang alongside Sokka and Toph go off to meet the one man who lived to see another day to see what he knows about this phenomenon and when they do, he says he didn't see any sort of spirit but rather felt something take control of his body & he had no power to fight back and was somehow being forced to the mountain, but barely managed to fight it off before day arrived as he was about to head into a cave. Learning this makes Toph realize that the screams she heard the first time must have been from the missing locals and that they need help, so following to where they were getting louder, they discover an underground prison in a cave and Toph metalbends the door open and crafts her bracelet into a key to free the villagers from their shackles, when they ask the villagers who did this they tell them it was not a spirit that captured them, but the innkeeper Hama who say when in the full moon she control anyone like they were puppets and remembering Katara is with her & that she might be in danger, Sokka and Aang go save her from Hama.

By the time Aang and Sokka had arrived to where Katara and Hama were, the crazy old waterbender had revealed she had invented a scary technique appropriately named bloodbending and had begun fighting Katara when she was too afraid to use it and when they get there, all they succeed in doing is provide her with weapons to attack Katara with. Although the young waterbender manages to evade their attacks, Hama simply resorts to sending them flying at each other, at the last second Katara desperately uses bloodbending to subdue Hama and protect Aang just as Toph arrives with the other villagers who handcuff Hama and take her away, vowing to imprison her forever, but the old waterbender is alright with it Katara now being a bloodbender means that her work has now been passed on as Aang & Sokka do their best to try & comfort the latter's sister who's disappointed with holding a dangerous power, especially since they had no idea on w ho else was willing to use it for their own agendas.

A week before another battle[]

Regardless of that nightmarish encounter with the "puppet master", Aang and the rest of his pals arrive ahead of schedule at the Black Cliffs, the intended meeting place for the invasion force just four days before the Eclipse begins but learning that the invasion is no longer a week away leaves Aang deeply worried and stressed and as a result of the fear of facing Ozai & that he might lose, began having nightmares about facing the Fire Lord, such as having lost his pants and forgotten to study for a math test.

Aang's_daydream — Aang's daydream

The one nice & sane (-ish) daydream.

In an effort to stop these from showing an agitated Aang decides to stay awake until the invasion, but this backfired when he started having daydreams and hallucinations; in one such daydream, he hears Momo and Appa speak like humans and, after a dispute, have a samurai battle between them with rocks and sheep dancing around Aang. Of course one dream proved to be fine as he decided to confess his love and even kissed Katara and in another, Fire Lord Ozai told him he missed the invasion. His friends tried to relieve his stress through yoga at a volcanic core with Katara; therapy with Sokka and his beard; and heavy massage therapy from Toph, who later suggested acupuncture, but seeing that none of this proved to be helpful his friends make a comfortable bed out of fleece and saying he's got this after everything he's already been through, he gets the will to have a good night sleep before the invasion.

The Invasion on the black sun[]

Aang ready for action once more.

Early up in the very next morning, a well-rested Aang woke up just in time the invasion happy and rested, though when Toph asked if he was gonna go into the Avatar State when he faces Ozai, Aang says he can't because Azula's lightning strike was strong that it completely locked away his link to his thought Chakra just as the invasion boats began arriving with all the people they met on their previous adventures under cloaks of mists, seeing them Aang and Toph prepared for their arrival by making docks for them to stop by where Aang introduced Toph his friends they met prior to her as each one came off the boat such as Haru (now with a mustache & goatee) and his father, the mechanist and Teo, the swampbenders and even some of the earth wrestlers, they had a surprise for Aang in the form of a new glider for him. With everyone taking a short break for food and ready to hear the battle plan Sokka, though too nervous to speak so his dad did in his place, explain the full layout of the invasion plan: they will hop onto the boats and storm the beach leading to the fire nation capital just before the eclipse begins, because it will only last for 8 minutes, that way when the eclipse begins they can take on the firebenders that guard the palace and conquer the palace, all the while Aang will go on ahead & defeat Ozai while he is powerless, allowing them to take control of the capital & end the war, right afterwards Aang makes one final preparation before the fight by shaving his hair, ready to show the world that he's back.

After cheering up an embarrassed Sokka over his war plan, Aang alongside everyone of his allies hop onto the water tribe boats and sail off to the beach near the Fire Nation capital to confront the Fire Lord, after some sailing they get to their first major obstacle to got to the capital: colossal fire-net gates named after Ozai's father (and Azula's namesake) Azulon as the guards stationed there immediately begin coming towards them, fortunately they all get down to the bottom of the boats & onto new rides Sokka had the mechanist built: whale-shaped submarines that moves around via waterbending each loaded with earthbender tanks & trucks that carry both bendables for the benders to use as well as allow them all to easily get through the gates. Of course the one problem he couldn't fix with them is that the subs have a limited air supply so they'll have to resurface and get extra air before they all land on the beach, while they are resurfacing and all rest up before the battle, Aang and the gang get together one final time to wish each other good luck before parting ways once more while Aang and Katara say goodbye in private, to which Katara reveals she is proud of how much Aang has grown since they first met, but since he realizes how big this day is and that there is a chance that he may not survive, Aang decides that now was the time to make his move and kisses Katara, who comfortably returns it, before he flies off the face his destiny, leaving the amazed waterbending girl blushing & sad before she heads back into the sub.

Aang bursting into the Fire Nation palace... with no one home.

With the invasion plan slowly going smoothly so far, Aang flies ahead of everyone as he crosses over the guards stationed over the path into the Fire Nation capital, which still goes according to plan as the invasion force battles their way across the beach and past all the military defenses there, all the while he sneaks past everything guarding it on his way into the palace. Though on the way he finally reaches the city but finds that it's almost completely deserted and quiet, though suspicious at first Aang paid no attention to it and continued onwards, however when he barged into the palace, no one was present, and when he saw no one staring in his way he immediately went to the throne room, only to find it completely deserted.

Frustrated at this Aang returned to the battle and told Sokka, Katara, and Toph what had happened, but Sokka thinks that Ozai would not want to leave his city, but still stay close enough to be safe which lead him to suspect he was in an underground bunker and Toph agreed to help them find it, which they did with ease and entered it using earthbending, but after questioning a passing servant, he secretly lead them to go in the wrong direction. once the three entered a room, they only find Azula sitting on a throne, who was powerless due to the eclipse, but went ahead and revealed she knew about the invasion for quite some time, Aang and the others demanded to know where her dad was by reminding her that she could not firebend, Azula instead decided to tell them about her "souvenirs" from Ba Sing Se, two Dai Li agents and a battle soon took place with Aang trying to get to Azula while being interrupted by Dai Li, eventually the Dai Li were defeated and she & Toph give chase to her, but Sokka soon realized that this was a trap as Azula was not trying to defeat the Avatar, just distract him and take up his time (something he is goaded into attacking when Azula mentions she has Suki captive) what's worse is that her plan worked and realizing it's too late, Aang & co. decide to make a tactical withdrawal for now.

The three returned to Katara and the others just in time to see that the Fire Nation had built hot air balloons... which only paved a way for the make powerful airships, Aang and Katara went into the sky and destroyed a few of the balloons with the only problem being the airships as they try to get everyone to escape. they proceeded down to the beach where they bombed all the submarines, leaving the invasion force stranded. Knowing what needs to be done to keep hope alive, Hakoda decides that he and the older warriors should surrender while the younger ones escape on Appa, hearing this Aang looked away, crying over the fact that he failed again, but Katara knelt close to him and smiled proudly at her friend and turning to the invasion force, Aang apologized to the invasion force, promising to make it up to them and right afterwards Aang alongside Katara, Sokka, Toph, The Duke, Teo, and Haru boarded Appa and headed to the abandoned air temple made in the west as the perfect place for them to take refuge, unaware that one extra ally is quietly following them from behind.

Meeting a new ally & teacher[]

A little while after their second colossal defeat at the hands of the Fire Nation, Aang and the other escapees are now forced to walk (due to an exhausted Appa) all the way to the western air temple, where they find it hidden underneath and directly below the cliff they're standing on as they all climb down to inspect it's structure. While the others go off to do some exploring, Aang joins in on a discussion on what they should do next now that the eclipse is over, where Sokka says they'll simply go back to the original plan way back when they first began their journey: he'll have to master all four elements and confront Ozai before the comet comes.

However despite knowing he truly needs to learn it, Aang (still too afraid to firebend again following his first lesson with the fact that he accidentally burned Katara still fresh in his mind) is obviously reluctant to actually learn how to do it properly, especially considering the fact that the entire nation related to that element is still out to get him as well as not knowing where Jeong Jeong is now, and flies off to get his mind off of it. Of course when he flies off his pals immediately see something wrong with him as they wonder what sort of firebender will be willing to teach him as they all on Appa to bring him back into their current predicament, eventually as the evening fell, Sokka, Katara, and Toph caught up with Aang on Appa as they landed on another building of the temple to talk to him, but just Aang suggested showing them another part of the temple, Toph states that "it'll have to wait" as she senses someone new in their presence when they all turn to see who's behind them, for the first time since the Ba Sing Se coup, they come face-to-face with Zuko once again.

But just as they all gear up and prepare to battle him once again, to their colossal surprise, Zuko explains that he's finally decided to become a good guy and abandoned his nation following their failure in the black sun invasion, as well as revealing that prior to the invasion he followed them underneath Lake Laogai and had beaten them to Appa's cell & (after some serious questioning by his uncle) despite having the choice to make of making him a hostage instead chose to set him free, and even offers to become Aang's new firebending. Of course while Aang is at least considering him joining them the others (especially Katara since she was the first one to trust him before his betrayal) are all still very reluctant to willingly trust him again after all the pain and trouble he's put them and all they've encountered through during their journey all over the world and don't even give a dragon-rat's eye when he attempts to apologize to them, especially his latest action in which he revealed he was the guy Combustion man was working for to assassinate them, and when he brings up Aang's question about how they could've been friends, but Aang eventually rejects him as well, seeing this Zuko instead says they can take him in as a prisoner, only for Katara to attack him and ordering him to leave the temple, which he does.

After that intense reunion Aang and the gang head back to their camp as they discuss Zuko's strange explanation about joining them, to which Aang has more trouble supporting their conclusion as he recalls the time Zuko risked his life as the Blue Spirit to rescue him from Zhao, but Katara refuses to believe that Zuko saved him out of compassion but rather did so for his own benefit. But as they continue this Toph interjects and defends the fire prince because she sensed Zuko was being sincere and honest the whole time (a fact she had sensed earlier when she sees Appa (who really did Zuko rescue him) constantly lick him as a token of gratitude for his heroic deed), and further points out that Aang needs a firebending teacher, but upon hearing this Aang adamantly refuses to accept Zuko as the guy to train him, making a frustrated Toph leave the temple to find the guy, but not before saying that she wonders who is really the blind one in the team.

The very next morning though, Aang and the water tribe siblings wonder where Toph is now after yesterday when she suddenly pops out of a hole in the wall with her feet burnt, where she told the group that she tried to visit Zuko, but he accidentally burned her, this makes the group full conclude that Zuko really can't be trusted, to which decide on the right way to deal with the guy: invite him to come back and say he'll be their prisoner... so they can jump him and really make him one. As the group laid Toph's feet in a pool of water, Combustion Man arrives at the air temple and sneaks in on a high angle ready to strike, but Aang immediately senses him just as a pillar on the temple is fired on and whipped up a tornado at Combustion Man, but he dodged it and fired again which forces the team to take cover, but as they try to avoid getting fired at again Aang and the rest notice to their surprise that Zuko swooped in and trying (but failing miserably) to get the guy to stop attacking them, and seeing the opening he's giving them, Sokka strikes the guy on his forehead tattoo with his trusty boomerang, blocking his chi and blowing himself as his remains fall off the cliffside.

With the Combustionbender finally out of there hairs for good and once Zuko comes down over to their campsite, a grateful Aang thanks the guy for his heroic efforts before he goes on to properly explain himself on why he finally decided to join them in ending the war: even though betraying them and his uncle allowed him to finally get everything he wanted since he first met them like being hailed as his nation's hero, succeeding in making his father proud, and even getting together with Mai (who he had a crush on since they were kids), none of that ever came close to everything he's learned since his banishment and after apologizing for what he did to Toph last night, came to truly understand that honor is something you've gotta get yourself and is more that willing, but dead-set and determined, to help them return balance to the world once more. Hearing all of this from Zuko makes Aang reflect on his own firebending experience that similarly resulted in Katara getting burned, and seeing how it's really is easy to accidentally hurt those you care about, the young Avatar finally decides to accept Zuko as his firebending teacher but before that, he asks his friends if they will allow Zuko entry into the group, something that Toph, knowing that she can get revenge for Zuko burning her feet; Sokka only to help their plan of defeating the Fire Lord; and after a moment of silence, Katara reluctantly agrees, only because it is what Aang believes is right, this leaves Zuko enthusiastically promises not to let the group down as they all finally accept him as one of their own.

A new & better understanding to fire[]

Now with a firebender he can truly call his teacher, Aang wakes up the following morning where he officially begins his second day of firebending from his new enemy-turned-friend, but during training Zuko realized that he could not make strong fire blasts anymore due to no longer being willing to hunt him down while Aang was still too afraid to firebend because of what he did to Katara, so that night Aang thought the reason he couldn't bend was that in the past Zuko was driven by anger, and now that he's not the hothead he used to be he could not firebend nearly as well. Despite believing he might be right, Zuko admits to no longer wanting to rely on hate & anger anymore if he ever wants to help bring peace to the world, leading to a suggestion by Toph to go learn the original source of firebending from the ones who first bended the element, something Zuko found a trouble in because the original firebenders, quite easily being the dragons, were now extinct, however, there were ruins not far from here of an ancient civilization known as the Sun Warriors who first learned from the dragons, and believed that they could find something to learn from there.

So with this in mind, early in the next morning, Aang and Zuko hop on Appa and headed to the ancient ruined city of the Sun warriors, once they get there, they headed toward a tall pyramid in the middle of the city, along the way, Zuko told Aang that the reason he was on edge of learning from the dragons was because the they were extinct was because of Sozin as well. Because dragons were considered the ultimate firebenders at the time (despite obviously owning one as his companion and ride just like Roku), along with leading the war he came up with insanely messed-up tradition of hunting them for glory which drove many prideful benders to do it, which only increased because his uncle was the person who slew the last dragon.

When they reached the top of the pyramid, they found a door that was only opened on the solstice, like the ones in the Fire Sages' temples but Zuko attempted to deceive the door by reflecting the sunlight into the gem placed on top of the door and this caused it to open, which is something Aang complimented him for that, stepping inside, Zuko snooped around while Aang gazed at the statues depicting a move known as the "Dancing Dragon" and when he imitated the first move, he triggered something and asked Zuko to perform the technique with him. When they completed the move, a golden egg shaped raised up from the ground and despite Aang's warnings Zuko picked it up, which glue-like substance to shoot up from the pedestal and trapping them both next to bars up in the ceiling, they stayed glued up there way into the night until they're finally approached by a chief of some sort appeared and when the two were back on the floor and having the substance removed, they discover that the Sun Warrior civilization was still alive, once they were free Aang and Zuko stated their identities and revealed they wanted to learn the true meaning of firebending, leading the chief to say that they must learn from the masters if they ever hope to do it.

So the following morning, Aang & Zuko followed the sun warrior chief to a stone furnace containing the Eternal Flame, the very first flame given to humanity by the dragons which they kept burning ever since and each are given a piece of it, Aang was at first reluctant to take the fire, but the chief assured him by saying that fire is not only destruction, but also life, once they're given it two were told to travel up a nearby mountain to meet the masters Ran & Shaw where they will present their flames as signs of worthiness and be judged and if they were deemed worthy, they will be taught; if not, they will be destroyed on the spot before they begin marching up the mountain, as the two journeyed up the mountain, Aang felt reluctant about going through with this, but Zuko reassured him it will be worth it. Eventually they reached the top the chief and other Sun Warriors were already there, but before facing the masters, the chief proclaims that they may not like to see them (Zuko due to his ancestors hunting the dragons to extinction and Aang for abandoning his Avatar destiny and letting the world burn) as they head to the top of a pedestal but as they presented their flames Aang's went out just as the Sun Warriors began calling the masters, when Aang tries to get some of Zuko's flame, two dragons fly out of the caves and flew in circles around the two, seeing this Aang thought that they should perform the Dancing Dragon with the dragons & they do so once again in-sync and when Aang and Zuko finished, the dragons began judging them and subsequently shot fire at the two, which encircled them in many different colors, greatly astounding them before returning to their caves.

Climbing down the pedestal, The chief reveals to them that Iroh lied about killing the dragons and instead learnt the knowledge from Ran and Shaw and let them live, this makes Zuko realize he was so focused on relying on anger, rage and the will to capture Aang that he let it become his "inner fire", but now that he's seen the error of his ways he instead decides to draw from the true source, his desire to bring balance to the world while Aang, realizing that fire is much more than destruction and death, is able to finally firebend as well. Of course because Iroh also promised to not tell anyone that he also met the Sun warriors, the Avatar and fire prince promise to not tell anybody, including their friends, that they met them as well and simply say that they learned how to firebend through the statues movements when they fly back to the Western Air Temple, and since it takes the form of a dance (not helped with the name), they do not take it too seriously, but nevertheless Aang is now finally able to officially begin his firebending training with nothing holding him back.

Reunions with rescued allies[]

A little while later when they all wake up in the morning on a relatively regular & peaceful day, Aang and the others find a note written by Sokka and Zuko which says states that he and Sokka have decided to go on a "fishing trip" together and will be back in a few days, but not before the ex-evil fire prince has Aang do some "homework" via continuing his firebending practice, much to the Avatar's annoyance. Though of course, the "fishing trip" is really just a cover-up for Sokka to go on his own "little field trip" with Zuko as well: because he blames himself for the invasion plan failing, he decides to redeem himself by rescuing his dad with Zuko (relating to his predicament) tags along to help considering he was taken to the fire nation's highest security prison, and they not only succeed in doing so, but also get an imprisoned Suki (& another guy) out, but Zuko's involvement is what also pushes a visiting Mai, and eventually Ty Lee, to help them as well as they all head back in one piece... except without any meat.

Cooling down Katara's anger[]

Though because Azula was there during the whole prison debacle, she is able to track them down and come the following morning, she leads a bunch of Fire nation airships to the western air temple and begins attacking it, at the sight of this attack the group was forced to split (as Appa can't bring himself to go into a tunnel again) up through a tunnel. While Zuko held off the airships and Azula, Aang and the others (with Suki tagging along) flew on Appa while Hakoda and the others escape on another airship which they stole, and once they're out of the firebenders line of fire they all proceeded to catch Zuko when he and his sister fell from the airship after their attacks clashed, leaving her to hold onto a couple of vines as Team Avatar flies away to find somewhere to rest up.

After escaping the firebending airships, Aang and the others camp out near an uninhabited beach and by night they all (except Katara) toast to Zuko for his heroics, but by next morning when a determined Katara asked to borrow Appa, Aang learns that during their brief time in the crystal catacombs, she had mentioned her mother and hoping to make it up to her and learning about the fire nation raiders that took her life, he decides to help her with "getting some closure by helping her track the leader who did it, but when he found out about this Aang questioned her motives, even saying she sounded like Jet, and saying that he understood what she was feeling, mentioning Appa's theft by the sandbenders and his discovery of what happened to his people as it doesn't feel that too right. Later that night, Katara and Zuko prepare to take Appa without Aang's consent, however, Aang catches them again in the act and confronts them, but seeing he can't stop her now that she's given the opportunity, Aang ultimately allows them to take Appa as he truly believes it is a journey Katara needs to take, but he pleads with her to choose forgiveness rather than revenge, something she thanks him for and they depart.

A few days later, Aang and the others fly to another uninhabited beach where they meet Katara and Zuko by the dock, where Aang learns that she chose to spare her mother's killer rather than returning the favor and voices his proudness in her, though while the young waterbender explains that she will never forgive the firebender for taking her mother's life, she is willing to forgive Zuko, which she ultimately does. So now that it's out of the way Aang & Zuko watch as Katara peacefully heads back to their camp to tell the others all that she's done now that the thought of anger & revenge are now out of system while Aang and Zuko stay at the docks where the latter says he was right about not using violence to end something dire, which is something Aang victoriously agrees with... only for Zuko to strike him with a colossally strong question where the pacifist Avatar has his own problem figuring out: just what will he do, when he finally faces Ozai?

Learning Ozai's plans for the comet[]

Regardless of that armor-piercing question Team Avatar, now with both Zuko and Suki by there side, decide to take some time off and go into hiding once again while Aang can fully master firebending and battle Ozai for a guaranteed win for him and everyone. But with the entire nation now both being aware of his survival and Zuko's "betrayal" because he openly stated defecting them to his own father's face, Zuko leads them all to the famously-acclaimed vacation spot of Ember island where they lay low in (what he thinks) the one place in the Nation that no one will look for them: his family's old summer home.

However, by the time Aang has finally become a semi-master at firebending and he and the other lay around doing nothing, the day Sozin's comet will pass by their world again will be in precisely three whole days which is something Zuko chastises them for. Hearing this Aang explains that he and rest agreed that he was gonna fight his dad after the comet had passed because A) It would be quite foolish to battle Ozai when he's not fully-mastered firebending while he's at his most powerful and B) As explained by Katara, was that the entire point of battling him before the comet came was to just stop the Fire Nation from winning the war, but after their victory over Ba Sing Se and the invasion force, they all (as well as the rest of the nation) feel they pretty much did.

But when Katara remarks that things "couldn't get worse", a frightful Zuko tells them it's "about to get worse than they can even imagine and tells Aang and everyone the final sting that pushed him over to their side: the day before the eclipse he was asked to attend an important war meeting and while there, he learned that despite Ba Sing Se still under Fire Nation rule, this did not stop earthbenders rebelling and fighting off the garrisons there, when Zuko was asked (due to his time in the city) how they could stop these, he remarked how people could withstand anything as long as they have hope. Unfortunately, his desperate father only took his comment as that they have to destroy their hope if they wanna win, and after another, more sarcastic, choice from Azula which reminded him of the returning Comet, A power-mad Ozai comes up with the war's most vile and dangerous strike yet: to lead the fleet of newly-constructed airships and with the power of the Comet, he will incinerate the entire earth nation, & to a lesser extent both water tribes which will leave the Fire Nation as only one left, at this Zuko urged a terrified Aang to really fight his father to save the world, otherwise there won't be a world to restore balance to.

Preparations for his final battle[]

Sozin's Comet P1- Yeah, I'll just do that — A torn-up Aang over the choice of killing.

Hearing this disastrous plan makes Aang completely worried about this upcoming battle and doubts his abilities to successfully face the Fire Lord, but His friends, however, declare that they will fight alongside him to have a better shot at defeating Ozai which comforts Aang as Team Avatar joins together in a group hug, including a reluctant Zuko. Later that day, seeing as how he won't be a master when he faces Ozai, Zuko teaches him something his uncle taught him & invented that will come In handy as well as compensate over what happened in Ba Sing Se: lightning redirection, but as he tells him this he also tells Aang he must strike Ozai first, or else he will be defeated instead, something a hesitant Aang agrees to.

That afternoon Aang joins everyone on the beach a training session using a model for the Fire Lord with a melon for a head, called the "Melon Lord". He had Toph play the Melon Lord's forces, while the others attacked it, with Aang supposed to deliver the final blow, however, when the simulated fight actually took place and he was about to strike the final blow, Aang was unable to bring himself to kill the fake Fire Lord, during dinner, Katara found a painting of what she at first believed to be a painting of Zuko as a baby, until Zuko told them that it was actually a picture of his father. When Zuko said that the sweet and innocent baby Ozai grew up to be a monster, Aang pointed out to everyone that he was still a human being. When Zuko berated him, Aang began arguing with the group, telling them that he could not kill Ozai, as it went against everything the monks taught him. The others, especially Zuko, told him that he needed to kill Ozai for the good of the world leading him to storm off to the other side of the house and meditated in the balcony, something Zuko decides to let him figure out himself.

Sozin's Comet P1- Aang & Momo atop a strange island — Aang waking on a mysterious island.

As he was meditating and trying to figure out just what to do to end the war without having the kill Ozai, a frustrated Aang awoke in a trance and walked down to the beach, into the water and swam to a mysterious island that had appeared in the middle of the night, with Momo flying along behind him. When he woke up the next morning, he discovered he had left the Fire Nation and was still on the strange island in the middle of the sea with Momo, and when he briefly wondered if he was in the Spirit World, only to dismiss that possibility as Momo could see him, and he was still able to bend.

To kill or really not to kill[]

Soon after realizing this he soon finds out that the entire island is not full of life with humans or animals before finding himself on a hexagon-shaped platform that's not even earth, nevertheless Aang is still very reluctant to actually kill Fire Lord Ozai, despite his friends and allies earlier concern that it's the one way to save this world. Of course quickly remembering he can still talk to his previous incarnations, Aang soon gets into a meditating phase to ask for their advice on how he can do it, unfortunately despite his earlier hopes even four of his previous past lives that he chose to talk to (Roku, Kyoshi, Kuruk, and Yangchen) only try convincing him that killing is the only way, with Yangchen's (a fellow airbending Avatar) advice sadly being the final push in making him believe he truly does have to kill Ozai to bring balance to the world.

But upon waking up the next morning, with the comet arriving in only a few hours, Aang quickly learns that he was actually on the back of the "biggest animal in the world" and when he swims around to find it's face, he quickly discovers that it's really a colossal Lion turtle, one of four that made the first benders by manipulating humans' chi. Hoping he might have the answer he's looking for, Aang states his problem and deciding to help him, receives the Lion Turtles' spiritual advice about how "darkness always yields to purifying light".

As an extra bonus the noble creature decides to tell Aang about how he and the rest of his kind used to manipulate the chi inside humans way before he or any of his previous lives were around guarding it, before being given one element for him to bend that he called Energybending. Of course Aang doesn't know what his advice really means immediately but with time quickly running out, he hops off the Lion-turtle and thanks it for his help before bidding him farewell as he swims away to somewhere else in the world, but now with a determined will to not turn back now, Aang fully hops into his "Avatar-duty" role as he prepares to face Ozai just as the Comet finally returns.

Showdown with the Phoenix King[]

Heading atop a rocky terrain of pillars upon the shores of the earth kingdom, Aang has Momo stand clear of the damage and stands there ready for battle just as Ozai, whose so convinced he'll have victory that he decided to make Azula (who slowly began going crazy following their previous victories over her) the new Firelord... just so he can give himself a bigger title he calls the "Phoenix king", reaches the shore as he feels the Comet's energy and quickly begins burning it to the ground. Seeing this Aang quickly begins his counterattack by immediately destroying his flagship's engines which causes it to go down & stops Ozai's incineration, but this quickly catches Ozai's attention once he sees Aang, thinking him being here is a sign of the universe "congratulating him", flies off his ship and faces of with the Avatar to destroy him for good, but before that Aang reaches out to him in one-final attempt to end things peacefully when he says he has the power to end things, but Ozai only takes this as him having "all the power in the world" and seeing it really was going to end like this, the young Avatar also ditches his pacifist decision and soon engages the Phoenix king in battle as they battle it out all over the terrain.

Despite finally being able to bend all four elements, Aang is unable to overwhelm Ozai's experience in firebending especially now that it's been enhanced by the Comet as they move all over the battlefield with the young airbender throwing everything he's learned against the tyrant, eventually Ozai gets a bit too determined to kill him and soon begins shooting lightning at him, fortunately once he gets in the right position Aang manages to catch his latest lightning-strike. But just as he is about to redirect at the Fire tyrant, Aang still can't bring himself to kill the man and instead launches the lightning at the other direction, but this gives Ozai (though he chooses to not lightningbend again) the chance to send him falling down a lake before coming down to kill him, needing some time to think of his next move, Aang quickly rushes to the shore & encases himself in a stone ball (a similar one to the ice ball which he made all those years ago) but leaves a power-crazed Ozai to taunt about his people being weak before beginning to destroy his protection and kill him for good.

Doing his best to fend off the Phoenix King's relentless attacks, the terrified last airbender soon looses his grip as Ozai unleashes one final & colossally powerful attach that destroys his ball and slams him into a rock, hitting the scar on his back from Azula's lightning in the Ba Sing Se coup, doing this however inadvertently releases his locked seventh chakra, and because he had already unblocked before Azula struck him, Aang is able to once again finally enter the Avatar State... now in full control over it as well and with the combined power of all his past lives back with him once again, Aang quickly overwhelms a terrified Ozai who tries and fails to escape, once he pins hime down, Aang along with all his past lives declare he shall pay the price for all his forefather's crimes and prepares to kill him with all the elements at once. But before the final blow was struck, Aang quickly steps out of the Avatar State before it could kill him and makes it clear to all his past lives that he won't end it like this, but Ozai (thinking he was talking to him) takes his mercy as a sign of being weak and tries to kill him in the back, but Aang immediately senses this cuffs Ozai to the ground with earthbending as he finally understands the lion-turtle's lessons meaning, and with this he uses energybending for the first time and just as he barely succumbs to Ozai's negative energy that almost kills him, he easily overcomes this & as he shoots a beam of light across the sky the same way he did when he finally returned, he permanently strips Ozai of his Firebending powers, removing his ability to wage war &, in a sense, sentence him to something he considers to be worse than death, as all he really can harm others is with his firebending & without it is nothing less than a "little man trying to be big".

I_aM_tHe_pHoEniX_KiNg!!1! — I aM tHe pHoEniX KiNg!!1!

Aang victorious over the *Loser* Lord.

With the once dangerous Phoenix King now reduced to a powerless little peasant and too weak to strike again, the once naive airbender further demonstrates his newfound control over the Avatar State by bending the entire ocean and puts out all the fire he had caused just as Sozin's Comet vanishes beyond the horizon and Momo, Sokka, Toph, and Suki, the latter three having successfully destroyed the Fire Nation fleet accompanying Ozai, meet up with him to congratulate him for his efforts. Right afterwards they cheekily taunt the once powerful Ozai now that he's nothing to be afraid of and with a new stolen airship, they take up the ex-"Phoenix King of Getting his Butt Whooped" as their prisoner and return to the Fire Nation where they reunite with Appa as well as a triumphant Katara & Zuko over a mentally-broken Azula and after bringing both his ex-sister & father to prison, the triumphant Team Avatar officially get the Fire Nation to accept peace and Zuko to be the new Firelord, ending Ozai's reign of terror for good and finally ending the war once and for all.

Celebrating a new peaceful era[]

With the war finally over and the other nations at piece with each other once more, a grateful Aang dons official air monk clothes as he meets Zuko before his official coronation to be the Fire Lord he always wanted to be and before this he reminisces about how different his life was a year prior considering he went from being a goofy kid who didn't want to be the Avatar to a fully-realized bender, wherein Zuko assures him they'll be by each other's side to make a better world as the Avatar & the Fire Lord officially become friends again. As Zuko officially appears before the crowd & before he's made Fire Lord, he makes it clear to everyone that Aang is the hero as Avatar Aang also appears in front of the gathering where both officially declare the war to officially be over and promises to aid the world in the postwar reconstruction as Zuko is officially named the new Fire Lord.

Shortly after his coronation, the triumphant Team Avatar all go to privately celebrate their victory over at Iroh's new tea shop, and while everyone goes off to talk about personal things, Aang privately heads out to look over a new day rising to the world he rescued and will now protect. And as a special bonus for him Katara, after secretly affirming their feelings for each other after their reunion, joins him outside as well and after a little hug, they share their first official kiss and finally begin a romantic relationship together.

Adventures following the War[]

Following the celebrations of a new era of peace as well as finally establishing a romantic relationship with Katara, Aang and Team Avatar get into some wacky and intense shenanigans as they all begin navigating and leading a world that hasn't known peace for years and guide the new generation to an age of love & peace.

One of those misadventures they took was helping Zuko find his loving mother Ursa, who was banished when Ozai planned to kill Zuko and helped him get the throne by poisoning his father so he will spare him. While they will be more than willing to help him this would prove to be especially challenging because he (in an attempt to fix his broken family) decided to bring in a still mind-broken Azula along for the mission.

As they are flying to Ursa's hometown of Hira'a, during which Aang mentions he's glad he can now kiss Katara whenever he wants, though Sokka is still getting some time to actually get used to this new development.

The Legend of Aang Movie[]

COMING SOON

Starting the Republic of United Nations[]

Final years of his life[]

Being frozen in an iceberg for 100 years while in the Avatar State drained much of Aang's life energy. While he did not feel the effects for many years, after he entered middle age in his 50s, the strain of this exertion increasingly weighed upon his body. Ultimately, it resulted in Aang dying at the relatively young biological age of 66, in 153 AG. Aang was survived by his wife, Katara, and their three children, Bumi, Kya and Tenzin, but he did not live to see his four grandchildren, Jinora, Ikki, Meelo and Rohan (all of whom would become powerful Airbenders).

Guiding his successor & kids[]

Prior to his death, Aang tasked the Order of the White Lotus with finding and guiding the new Avatar after him. When Aang died, the Avatar spirit reincarnated into a feisty hot-tempered girl named Korra of the Southern Water Tribe. Aang intended for the Order to simply guide and guard Korra, but several mishaps in the aftermath of Aang's death (including a kidnapping attempt by the anarchist Zaheer) and the still-fragile state of relations between the now-Five Nations resulted in Katara and Tenzin sequestering Korra in a compound at the South Pole, bringing teachers to her instead of allowing her to seek out her own.