Avatar: The Last Airbender - Book One: Water

Aang and Appa are awoken a hundred years later by two siblings of Southern Water Tribe origin, Katara and Sokka. Aang learns that the Fire Nation started a war a hundred years earlier, just after his disappearance. The Fire Nation's opening move in its campaign for global conquest was to launch a genocidal attack on the Air Nomads which drove Aang's entire race to extinction, thus making him "the last airbender" left alive. He realizes that he must fulfill his destiny of becoming a fully realized Avatar and return balance to the world by defeating the Fire Nation. Aang sets out to master the three unlearned elements: water, earth, and fire. With Katara and Sokka, Aang decides to head first to the North Pole to find a waterbending master.

Aang soon discovers that Sozin's Comet, which Fire Lord Sozin used as a power supply to start the Hundred Year War, will return in the coming summer, giving the Fire Nation enough power to ultimately accomplish victory. Aang realizes that he must master all four elements and end the War before this time. For most of their journey to the North Pole, the group is pursued by Zuko, a banished Fire Nation prince and son of Fire Lord Ozai who is obsessed with capturing Aang to restore his lost honor.

### Episodes

#### Chapter One: The Boy in the Iceberg

21/02/2005 - Sokka and Katara, two teenage siblings living in the South Pole, discover Aang and his pet flying bison, Appa, trapped in an iceberg. After Katara frees him, she discovers that he is an airbender and the siblings take him to their home village in the Southern Water Tribe. Meanwhile, his unfreezing attracts the attention of the Fire Nation's Zuko intent on capturing him.

#### Chapter Two: The Avatar Returns

21/02/2005 - Prince Zuko attacks the Southern Water Tribe seeking to capture the Avatar, Aang. Katara and Sokka fly in on Appa to save Aang from the Fire Nation. After realizing that he is the long lost Avatar, they agree to accompany him on his travels to master the other elements.

#### Chapter Three: The Southern Air Temple

25/02/2005 - While journeying to the North Pole, Aang, Sokka, and Katara explore Aang's former home, the Southern Air Temple. Aang learns of his people's genocide at the hands of the Fire Nation; his anger triggers his Avatar State, which in turn alerts the world that the Avatar has returned. Meanwhile, Zuko and his uncle, Iroh, have their ship repaired at a Fire Nation port commanded by a rival, Commander Zhao.

#### Chapter Four: The Warriors of Kyoshi

04/03/2005 - As Aang and his friends begin crossing the expansive Earth Kingdom, they are captured by the female warriors of Kyoshi Island. Sokka is trained by the Kyoshi Warriors while Aang lets the villagers' reverence go to his head. Zuko finds out that Aang is on Kyoshi Island; he attacks the village and Aang and his friends escape on Appa.

#### Chapter Five: The King of Omashu

18/03/2005 - While in Omashu, Aang and the gang accidentally destroy parts of the city on a joyride on the city's mail system. The King of Omashu challenges Aang to three tasks that require creative thinking before allowing Aang and his friends to leave the city.

#### Chapter Six: Imprisoned

25/03/2005 - Aang, Katara, and Sokka camp at a small Earth Kingdom town where all the town's earthbenders are arrested by the Fire Nation. Katara accidentally gets an earthbender, Haru, arrested. In her guilt, she tricks the Fire Nation into arresting her so she can help to free the earthbenders from the inside.

#### Chapter Seven: The Spirit World (Winter Solstice, Part 1)

08/04/2005 - The gang finds themselves in a small Earth Kingdom village under attack by a Spirit World monster. Aang attempts to stop the monster from destroying the town and is accidentally transported to and trapped within the Spirit World. Meanwhile, Iroh gets captured by a group of Earth Kingdom soldiers and Zuko must track him down.

#### Chapter Eight: Avatar Roku (Winter Solstice, Part 2)

15/04/2005 - Aang must travel to the Fire Temple, while battling Zuko and Zhao, to receive a message from Avatar Roku. He soon finds that even the once loyal sages of the Avatar are against him.

#### Chapter Nine: The Waterbending Scroll

29/04/2005 - Katara steals a waterbending scroll from a band of pirates and begins to teach Aang waterbending before they reach the North Pole. Zuko and Iroh learn that the pirates were robbed by the Avatar and team up with them in order to capture Aang.

#### Chapter Ten: Jet

06/05/2005 - Traveling by foot, Team Avatar accidentally stumbles into a Fire Nation camp. The soldiers immediately surround them, though the team is saved by Jet and his Freedom Fighters and invited back to their treetop hideout. There, the team learns about the orphans living in the woods and fighting the Fire Nation soldiers who dare to set foot in the forest.

#### Chapter Eleven: The Great Divide

20/05/2005 - While crossing a canyon on foot, Aang has to mediate between two tribes, the Zhangs, and the Gan Jins, who have been feuding for almost one hundred years. After sending Appa to the other side with the sick and elderly, they become trapped in the canyon when their earthbender guide's arms are broken.

#### Chapter Twelve: The Storm

03/06/2005 - While a storm approaches, Aang tells Katara why he ran away from the air temple one hundred years prior. Meanwhile, on Zuko's ship, Iroh tells the crew the tale of how the prince received his scar and was banished from the Fire Nation.

#### Chapter Thirteen: The Blue Spirit

17/06/2005 - Aang must travel to an herbalist to retrieve a cure for the ill Sokka and Katara. While returning to his friends, he is attacked and captured by the Yuyan Archers, sent after him by the newly promoted Admiral Zhao. A mysterious masked swordsman, the "Blue Spirit", assists Aang in escaping his imprisonment.

#### Chapter Fourteen: The Fortuneteller

23/09/2005 - Katara convinces Sokka and Aang to travel to a village after hearing of a fortuneteller named Aunt Wu who resides there. Aang and Katara become excited when the fortuneteller predicts their love-lives. Sokka, however, doubts Aunt Wu's predictions and is proven correct when the volcano she predicted would not destroy the town becomes active.

#### Chapter Fifteen: Bato of the Water Tribe

07/10/2005 - Sokka and Katara meet Bato, a warrior from the Southern Water Tribe, at an abbey. When Aang overhears that Sokka and Katara are excited over the prospect of reuniting with their father, he hides a map leading to their father's location. Meanwhile, Zuko, using Katara's necklace, hires a bounty hunter named June to track down Aang.

#### Chapter Sixteen: The Deserter

21/10/2005 - After being chased out of a Fire Nation festival, Aang, Sokka, and Katara encounter a group of Fire Nation deserters, led by firebending master and ex-admiral Jeong Jeong. After realizing this could be his only chance to learn firebending, Aang – with the help of Avatar Roku's spirit – convinces Jeong Jeong to teach him firebending. Meanwhile, Admiral Zhao continues his chase for the Avatar.

#### Chapter Seventeen: The Northern Air Temple

04/11/2005 - After hearing tales that people with the ability to fly are inhabiting the Northern Air Temple, Aang and the crew travel there, eager to meet airbenders. However, they instead find a misplaced tribe of Earth Kingdom natives, who, much to Aang's disappointment, have renovated much of the temple.

#### Chapter Eighteen: The Waterbending Master

18/11/2005 - Finally reaching the North Pole, Aang finds a waterbending master. However, the master refuses to teach Katara being that women are forbidden to learn the art. Meanwhile, Sokka spends time with Yue, Princess of the Northern Water Tribe. Admiral Zhao hires the pirates to assassinate Zuko while he prepares a massive fleet to invade the North Pole.

#### Chapter Nineteen: The Siege of the North Part 1

02/12/2005 - The Northern Water Tribe braces against the attack by the Fire Nation. Meanwhile, Zuko sneaks into the North Pole to capture the Avatar. Aang, realizing that the Water Tribe cannot defeat Zhao's fleet alone, decides to visit the Spirit World to get help from the Moon and Ocean spirits.

#### Chapter Twenty: The Siege of the North Part 2

02/12/2005 - Sokka, Katara, and Yue follow Zuko to save Aang. In the Spirit World, Aang learns the identities of the Moon and Ocean spirits and that they are in danger. As Aang returns to the real world, he is saved by Katara. Meanwhile, Zhao succeeds in capturing the Moon Spirit, the source of all waterbending. Aang enters the Avatar State to destroy the siege, Zuko defeats Zhao, and Yue gives her life back to the Moon Spirit to save the Water Tribe.

### References

1. ↑ Avatar: The Last Airbender | Avatar Wiki | Fandom
2. ↑ Book One: Water | Avatar Wiki | Fandom