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katara: water... 

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earth...

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fire...

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air.

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long ago, the four nations
lived together in harmony.

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then everything changed
when the fire nation attacked.

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only the avatar,
master of all four elements,
could stop them.

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but when the world
needed him most

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he vanished.

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100 years passed and my brother
and i discovered the new avatar

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an airbender named aang.

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and although his airbending
skills are great

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he has a lot to learn before
he's ready to save anyone.

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but i believe aang
can save the world.

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iroh: previously on "avatar."

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you're looking at
the only waterbender
in the whole south pole.

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this ship has haunted
my tribe since gran-gran
was a little girl.

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it was part of
the fire nation's first attack.

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woman: the legends say the moon
was the first waterbender.

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our ancestors saw how it
pushed and pulled the tides

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and learned how to
do it themselves.

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katara: i've always
noticed my waterbending
is stronger at night.

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toph: what are you doing?

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katara: i'm making my own water.

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suddenly, they heard something
down the hall, in the dark.

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it came into the torchlight.

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and they knew the blade
of wing-fun was haunted!

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i think i liked "the man
with a sword for a hand" better.

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water tribe slumber parties
must stink.

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no, wait, i've got one.

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and this is a true southern
water tribe story.

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is this one of those
"a friend of my cousin

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knew some guy that
this happened to" story?

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no, it happened to mom.

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one winter, when mom was a girl

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a snowstorm buried
the whole village for weeks.

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a month later, mom realized
she hadn't seen her friend nini
since the storm.

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so mom and some others
went to check on nini's family.

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when they got there,
no one was home.

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just a fire
flickering in the fireplace.

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while the men
went out to search

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mom stayed in the house.

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when she was alone,
she heard a voice.

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"it's so cold,
and i can't get warm."

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mom turned and saw
nini standing by the fire.

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she was blue,
like she was frozen.

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mom ran outside for help,
but when every one came back

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nini was gone.

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sokka: where'd she go?

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no one knows.

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nini's house stands empty
to this day.

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but sometimes, people see smoke
coming up from the chimney

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like little nini is still
trying to get warm.

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[gasps]
wait.

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guys, did you hear that?

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i hear people
under the mountain,
and they're screaming.

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pft, nice try.

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toph: no, i'm serious,
i hear something.

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katara: you're probably just
jumpy from the ghost stories.

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toph: it just stopped.

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all right, now
i'm getting scared.

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woman: hello, children.

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sorry to frighten you,
my name is hama.

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you children shouldn't
be out in the forest
by yourselves at night.

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i have an inn nearby, why don't
you come back there for some
spiced tea and warm beds?

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yes, please.

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thanks for letting us
stay here tonight,
you have a lovely inn.

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aren't you sweet?

69
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you know, you should be careful.

70
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people have been
disappearing in those woods
you were camping in.

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what do you mean, disappearing?

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when the moon turns full,
people walk in

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and they don't come out.

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who wants more tea?

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don't worry, you'll all be
completely safe here.

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why don't i show you
to your rooms, and you can
get a good night's rest?

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i know, momo,
this place is creepy.

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i don't know if i'm
gonna be able to fall asleep.

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hama: wakey-wakey.

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time to go shopping.

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that mr. yao seems to
have a thing for you.

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maybe we should go back
and see if he'll give us
some free komodo sausages.

83
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you would have me use
my feminine charms

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to take advantage
of that poor man?

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i think you and i are
going to get along swimmingly.

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you won't have any
ash bananas till next week?

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well, i have to send the boy
to hing-wa island to get them,
and it's a two-day trip.

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oh, right, tomorrow's
the full moon.

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exactly, i can't lose another
delivery boy in the woods.

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people disappearing
in the woods

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weird stuff during full moons

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this just reeks of
spirit world shenanigans.

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i bet if we take
a little walk around town

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we'll find out what these people
did to the environment to make
the spirits mad.

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and then you can sew up
this little mystery,
lickety-split, avatar-style.

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helping people,
that's what i do.

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hama: why don't you all take
those things back to the inn?

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i just have to run
a couple more errands.

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i'll be back in a little while.

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this is a mysterious,
little town you have here.

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mysterious town
for mysterious children.

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that hama seems
a little strange.

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like she knows something,
or she's hiding something.

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that's ridiculous.

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she's a nice woman who took us
in and gave us a place to stay.

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she kind of reminds me
of gran-gran.

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but what did she
mean by that comment
"mysterious children"?

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gee, i don't know.

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maybe because she found
four strange kids camping in
the woods at night?

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isn't that a little mysterious?

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i'm gonna take a look around.

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sokka, sokka,
what are you doing?

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you can't just snoop around
someone's house.

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sokka: it'll be fine.

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aang: she could be home
any minute.

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sokka, you're gonna get us
all in trouble.

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and this is just plain rude.

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i'm not finished yet.

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[grunts]
come on...

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aang: ok, that's pretty creepy.

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so she's got a hobby.

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there's nothing
weird about that.

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sokka, you've looked enough.

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hama will be back soon.

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just an ordinary, puppet-loving
innkeeper, huh?

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then why does she have
a locked door up here?

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probably to keep people like you
from snooping through her stuff.

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sokka: we'll see.

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it's empty except for
a little chest.

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[gasps]
maybe it's treasure.

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sokka, what are you doing?

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you're breaking into
a private room.

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i have to see what's in there.

134
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we shouldn't be doing this.

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maybe there's a key
here somewhere.

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oh, hand it over.

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come on, come on.

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this isn't as easy it looks.

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aang: guys, i don't know
about this.

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this is crazy, i'm leaving.

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suit yourself, do it, toph.

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hama: i'll tell you
what's in the box.

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an old comb?

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it's my greatest treasure.

145
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it's the last thing
i owned from growing up
in the southern water tribe.

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you're from the southern
water tribe?

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just like you.

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how did you know?

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i heard you talking
around your campfire.

150
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but why didn't you tell us?

151
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i wanted to surprise you.

152
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i bought all this food today
so i could fix you a big,
water tribe dinner.

153
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of course, i can't get all
the ingredients i need here, but

154
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ocean kumquats are
a lot like sea prunes,
if you stew them long enough.

155
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great.

156
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i knew i felt a bond
with you right away.

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and i knew you were
keeping a secret

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so i guess we're both right.

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[grunts]
but i'm sorry we were
sneaking around.

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apology accepted.

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now let's get cooking.

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i'd steer clear
of the sea prunes.

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i thought they were
ocean kumquats.

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close enough.

165
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who wants five-flavor soup?

166
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you're a waterbender.

167
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i've never met another
waterbender from our tribe.

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that's because the fire nation
wiped them all out.

169
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i was the last one.

170
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so how did you end up out here?

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i was stolen from my home.

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it was over 60 years ago
when the raids started.

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hama: they came again and again.

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each time, rounding up
more of out waterbenders
and taking them captive.

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we did our best to hold them off

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but our numbers dwindled
as the raids continued.

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finally, i, too, was captured.

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i was led away in chains.

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the last waterbender of
the southern water tribe.

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they put us in terrible prisons
here in the fire nation.

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i was the only one
who managed to escape.

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how did you get away?

183
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and why did you stay
in the fire nation?

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i'm sorry.

185
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it's too painful to
talk about anymore.

186
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we completely understand.

187
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we lost our mother in a raid.

188
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oh, you poor things.

189
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i can't tell you
what it means to meet you.

190
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it's an honor, you're a hero.

191
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i never thought i'd meet
another southern waterbender.

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i'd like to teach you
what i know

193
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so you can carry on
the southern tradition
when i'm gone.

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yes, yes, of course.

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to learn about my heritage,
it would mean everything to me.

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hama: growing up
at the south pole

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waterbenders are totally
at home surrounded by
snow and ice and seas.

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but as you probably
noticed on your travels

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that isn't the case
wherever you go.

200
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i know, when we were
stranded in the desert

201
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i felt like there was
almost nothing i could do.

202
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that's why you have to
learn to control water
wherever it exists.

203
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i've even used my own
sweat for waterbending.

204
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that's very resourceful, katara.

205
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you're thinking like
a true master.

206
00:13:06,580 --> 00:13:10,290
but did you know you can even
pull water out of thin air?

207
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you've got to
keep an open mind, katara.

208
00:13:18,290 --> 00:13:21,900
there's water in places
you never think about.

209
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aang: this has gotta be
the nicest, natural setting
in the fire nation.

210
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i don't see anything that would
make a spirit mad around here.

211
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maybe the moon spirit
just turned mean.

212
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the moon spirit is
a gentle, loving lady.

213
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she rules the sky
with compassion.

214
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and... lunar goodness.

215
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aang: excuse me, sir.

216
00:13:46,620 --> 00:13:49,760
can you tell us anything
about the spirit that's been
stealing people?

217
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only one man ever saw it and
lived, and that's old man ding.

218
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where does old man ding live?

219
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katara: wow, these flowers
are beautiful.

220
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hama: they're called
fire lilies.

221
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they only bloom
a few weeks a year

222
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but they're one of my favorite
things about living here.

223
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and like all plants,
and all living things,
they're filled with water.

224
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i met a waterbender
who lived in a swamp

225
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and could control the vines
by bending the water inside.

226
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you can take it even further.

227
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that was incredible.

228
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it's a shame about
the lilies, though.

229
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they're just flowers.

230
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when you're a waterbender
in a strange land

231
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you do what you must to survive.

232
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tonight, i'll teach you
the ultimate technique
of waterbending.

233
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it can only be done
during the full moon

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when your bending
is at its peak.

235
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but isn't that dangerous?

236
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i thought people have been
disappearing around here
during the full moon.

237
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oh, katara.

238
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two master waterbenders
beneath a full moon?

239
00:15:00,730 --> 00:15:03,430
i don't think we have
anything to worry about.

240
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aang: old man ding?

241
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eh, ow...

242
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aw, dad blame it.

243
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what?

244
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can't you see i'm busy?

245
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got a full moon rising.

246
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and why does everyone
call me that, i'm not that old.

247
00:15:31,260 --> 00:15:33,130
well, i'm young at heart.

248
00:15:36,070 --> 00:15:41,000
not ready to get
snapped up by some moon monster,
yet, at least.

249
00:15:41,100 --> 00:15:43,300
sokka: we wanted to
ask you about that.

250
00:15:43,410 --> 00:15:45,470
did you get a good look
at the spirit that took you?

251
00:15:45,570 --> 00:15:47,410
didn't see no spirit.

252
00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:49,610
just felt something
come over me.

253
00:15:49,710 --> 00:15:52,050
like i was possessed.

254
00:15:52,150 --> 00:15:56,080
forced me to start
walking toward the mountain.

255
00:15:56,190 --> 00:15:59,790
i tried to fight it, but
i couldn't control my own limbs.

256
00:15:59,890 --> 00:16:03,420
it just about had me
into a cave up there.

257
00:16:03,530 --> 00:16:10,030
and i looked up at the moon
for what i thought would be
my last glimpse of light.

258
00:16:10,130 --> 00:16:13,370
but then the sun
started to rise.

259
00:16:13,470 --> 00:16:15,670
and i got control of
myself again.

260
00:16:15,770 --> 00:16:19,170
i just high-tailed it
away from that mountain
as quick as i could.

261
00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:22,440
why would a spirit want to
take people to a mountain?

262
00:16:22,550 --> 00:16:23,810
oh, no!

263
00:16:23,910 --> 00:16:26,180
<i>i did hear people screaming
under the mountain.</i>

264
00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:28,950
the missing villagers
must still be there.

265
00:16:40,030 --> 00:16:42,260
i can hear them,
they're this way.

266
00:16:46,670 --> 00:16:50,070
hama: can you feel the power
the full moon brings?

267
00:16:52,910 --> 00:16:57,010
for generations, it has blessed
waterbenders with its glow.

268
00:16:57,110 --> 00:17:02,350
allowing us to do
incredible things.

269
00:17:02,450 --> 00:17:06,090
i've never felt more alive.

270
00:17:09,890 --> 00:17:11,360
this is the place.

271
00:17:11,460 --> 00:17:13,390
sokka: i can't see
anything down there.

272
00:17:13,490 --> 00:17:16,230
toph: that's why you have me,
let's go.

273
00:17:28,980 --> 00:17:30,840
we're saved.

274
00:17:30,940 --> 00:17:35,550
i didn't know that spirits
made prisons like this,
who brought you here?

275
00:17:35,650 --> 00:17:37,280
it was no spirit.

276
00:17:37,380 --> 00:17:38,750
it was a witch.

277
00:17:38,850 --> 00:17:40,790
a witch, what do you mean?

278
00:17:40,890 --> 00:17:43,990
she seems like
a normal old woman.

279
00:17:44,090 --> 00:17:47,590
but she controls people
like some dark puppetmaster.

280
00:17:47,690 --> 00:17:49,230
hama.

281
00:17:49,330 --> 00:17:51,230
yes, the innkeeper.

282
00:17:51,330 --> 00:17:53,970
i knew there was something
creepy about here.

283
00:17:54,070 --> 00:17:55,530
we have to stop hama.

284
00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:59,110
i'll get these people
out of here, you go.

285
00:18:04,210 --> 00:18:05,850
hama: what i'm about to show you

286
00:18:05,950 --> 00:18:11,020
i discovered in that
wretched, fire nation prison.

287
00:18:11,120 --> 00:18:14,750
the guards were always careful
to keep any water away from us.

288
00:18:14,860 --> 00:18:18,860
they piped in dry air,
and had us suspended away
from the ground.

289
00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:24,630
before giving us any water,
they would bind our hands
and feet so we couldn't bend.

290
00:18:24,730 --> 00:18:29,470
any sign of trouble
was met with cruel retribution.

291
00:18:29,570 --> 00:18:34,170
and yet, each month,
i felt the full moon
enriching me with its energy.

292
00:18:34,270 --> 00:18:37,580
there had to be something
i could do to escape.

293
00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:42,310
then i realized that where
there is life, there is water.

294
00:18:42,420 --> 00:18:45,790
the rats that scurried across
the floor of my cage

295
00:18:45,890 --> 00:18:49,520
were nothing more than
skins filled with liquid.

296
00:18:49,620 --> 00:18:55,660
and i passed years
developing the skills
that would lead to my escape.

297
00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:58,260
bloodbending.

298
00:18:58,370 --> 00:19:01,100
controlling the water
in another body.

299
00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:04,540
enforcing your own will
over theirs.

300
00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:09,710
once i had mastered the rats,
i was ready for the men.

301
00:19:16,180 --> 00:19:18,450
hama: and during the next
full moon

302
00:19:18,550 --> 00:19:21,690
i walked free for
the first time in decades.

303
00:19:23,060 --> 00:19:27,690
my cell unlocked by the very
guards assigned to keep me in.

304
00:19:27,790 --> 00:19:32,330
once you perfect this technique,
you can control anything.

305
00:19:32,430 --> 00:19:34,700
or anyone.

306
00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:38,570
but to reach inside someone
and control them?

307
00:19:38,670 --> 00:19:41,440
i don't know if i want
that kind of power.

308
00:19:41,540 --> 00:19:44,080
the choice is not yours.

309
00:19:44,180 --> 00:19:46,750
the power exists.

310
00:19:46,850 --> 00:19:50,480
and it's your duty to use
the gifts you've been given
to win this war.

311
00:19:50,580 --> 00:19:56,020
katara, they tried to
wipe us out, our entire culture,
your mother.

312
00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:57,390
i know.

313
00:19:57,490 --> 00:20:00,960
then you should understand
what i'm talking about.

314
00:20:01,060 --> 00:20:04,660
we're the last waterbenders
of the southern tribe.

315
00:20:04,770 --> 00:20:07,870
we have to fight these people
whenever we can.

316
00:20:07,970 --> 00:20:11,400
wherever they are,
with any means necessary.

317
00:20:11,510 --> 00:20:13,340
it's you.

318
00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:17,110
you're the one who's
making people disappear
during the full moons.

319
00:20:17,210 --> 00:20:20,550
they threw me in prison to rot

320
00:20:20,650 --> 00:20:22,820
along with
my brothers and sisters.

321
00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:24,650
they deserve the same.

322
00:20:24,750 --> 00:20:26,650
you must carry on my work.

323
00:20:26,750 --> 00:20:29,260
i won't, i won't
use bloodbending

324
00:20:29,360 --> 00:20:32,090
and i won't allow you
to keep terrorizing this town.

325
00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:40,170
you should have learned
the technique before
you turned against me.

326
00:20:40,270 --> 00:20:43,540
it's impossible to fight
your way out of my grip.

327
00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:48,240
i control every muscle,
every vein in your body.

328
00:21:01,390 --> 00:21:03,020
stop, please.

329
00:21:21,310 --> 00:21:24,210
katara: you're not the only one
who draws power from the moon.

330
00:21:24,310 --> 00:21:27,180
my bending is more powerful
than yours, hama.

331
00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:30,350
your technique is useless on me.

332
00:21:55,380 --> 00:21:56,980
we know what you've
been doing, hama.

333
00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:58,780
give up, you're outnumbered.

334
00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:01,580
no.

335
00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,450
you've outnumbered yourselves.

336
00:22:13,990 --> 00:22:15,530
sokka: katara, look out!

337
00:22:17,630 --> 00:22:20,270
it's like my brain
has a mind of its own.

338
00:22:20,370 --> 00:22:23,140
stop it, arm, stop it!

339
00:22:25,470 --> 00:22:27,240
aang: this feels weird.

340
00:22:30,210 --> 00:22:31,840
i'm sorry, aang.

341
00:22:31,950 --> 00:22:33,510
aang: it's ok.

342
00:22:40,890 --> 00:22:43,820
don't hurt your friends, katara.

343
00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,190
and don't let them
hurt each other.

344
00:22:48,530 --> 00:22:49,830
no!

345
00:23:12,020 --> 00:23:14,850
you're going to be
locked away forever.

346
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,420
hama: my work is done.

347
00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,060
congratulations, katara.

348
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:24,600
you're a bloodbender.