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In the frigid South Pole, we are introduced to Sokka and Katara, two siblings that often rival. They are fishing in a small canoe, before water currents pick up, and they end up dodging icebergs. The boat is destroyed when it is crushed between two ice bergs, but Sokka and Katara jump onto another iceberg just in time. A sibling rivalry begins when Sokka makes a sexist comment against girls. Quickly, Katara replies with a well-thought out comeback. "You are the most sexist, immature, nut brained..."As Katara rages, she ends up violently waterbending without realizing it, quickly destroying an iceberg. A new iceberg comes up from below the water, which has the shape of a giant orb with a blue glow to it. Katara begins chopping away at it with a water tribe club, eventually breaking it and releasing a large amount of air (and a very bright light that attracts unwelcome visitors).
The bright light is seen by a teenager who has been hunting the Avatar for two years. His name is Prince Zuko. With him is his uncle, "Uncle Iroh." He orders his ships to head toward the South Pole.
After Katara breaks through the ice, a young boy, the 112 year old Avatar that has been gone for over a hundred years, appears on the edge of the iceberg. He is an airbender, a race that has been gone for the duration of the war between the Fire Nation and the other nations. Suspicious of the boy, Sokka points his spear towards the stranger. Whether it was the fact that he had been frozen for what seems like many years, or passed out from the fact that Sokka was holding a spear at him, the boy falls down and into Katara's arms. She lays him down on the ice, and tries to help him. Then Sokka pokes him in the head with the blunt side of his spear. The mysterious boy opens his eyes to see Katara staring at him with deep blue eyes. He immediately falls in love, and quickly becomes fully alert, eagerly asking Katara to go "penguin sledding" with him (sort of a sad attempt at dating...). His name is Aang. When Aang climbs back into the iceberg's crater, he says something about "Appa." Appa is a very large flying bison. After a few moments Appa awakens and then proceeds to sneeze on Sokka. In need of a ride home, the group gets on Appa's saddle. Sokka does not believe that Appa can fly. Aang cries "Yip-Yip!" causing Appa to leap into the air, and come crashing right back down on the water, turning into a boat-like transportation device. Then, Aang turns around and stares at Katara with a huge smile on his face, causing her to ask, "Why are you smiling at me like that?" "Oh, I was smiling?" After a brief check-in with Prince Zuko and his uncle, now home, Katara asks if Aang knew the Avatar. He replies with that he knew him, but that he doesn't know where he is. (He's the Avatar, and he knows that.) Katara and Aang say goodnight to each other.
That night Aang dreams about the storm that he and Appa had encountered while they were near the South Pole. In the dream he re-lives how he and Appa were brought under the waves, and how Aang created the iceberg. Aang wakes up in a tent in the South Pole, when Katara walks in. He quickly gets dressed, with Katara watching. She looks at the arrow markings running along his body, and then when he's completely dressed, pulls him into the village, and introduces him. "Aang, this is the entire village. Entire village, Aang." The village acts surprised to see the airbender. Aang wonders why. "Did Appa sneeze on me?" The village hasn't seen an airbender in a hundred years, thinking they were extinct. Then, Sokka wonders why Aang always carries his staff around, realizing it's not sharp enough to stab anybody. Aang shows them how he flies with it and crashes into Sokka's watchtower. Gran-Gran (Katara's and Sokka's grandmother) is wondering if Aang may be a threat. Of course, Katara wants him to stay, and says that he could teach them so much. They glance over at Aang, to see him showing off to the toddlers how he can stick his tongue to his staff.
Meanwhile, Prince Zuko is practicing his firebending techniques, with Uncle Iroh as his mentor. Zuko gets impatient and asks for his Uncle to teach him advanced moves. Iroh is not happy with the fact that he does not want to learn his basics, but agrees... right after he finishes his roast duck.
Back at the Water Tribe camp, Sokka begins to teach the younger boys, lecturing them about how they are the warriors of this tribe. He is interrupted by a little boy who has to go to the bathroom. The other boys say the same thing, although they really just want to go play with Aang and Appa. Sokka gets mad at Aang for distracting the "warriors" and begins to throw a fit, when Aang sees a penguin and chases after it, leaving Sokka behind.
Aang tries to capture one, but to no avail until Katara teaches him the art of catching penguins. After they catch a couple penguins, Aang and Katara go penguin sledding only to end up in front of a Fire Navy ship frozen in the ice. Aang wants to go in and explore, but Katara is wary. She has been told never to go onto the Fire Navy ship, but Aang convinces her otherwise. As they explore, Aang comes to the realization that he has been trapped in the iceberg for a 100 years. Then, at the perfect moment, a booby trap is set off, sending off a flare hundreds of feet into the air. Aang saves Katara by airbending out of the ship, but Prince Zuko has found the Avatar at the southern water tribe, and his hiding place.