Avatar: The Last Airbender

There he is! Cut him off!

Stop in the name of...

Right there!

- Go! - Go!

He's over there! Get him!

- There he is. - Don't let him get away!

After him!

Stop!

An Earthbender.

Hurry!

Come on!

Now! Now!

He went that way!

Get that to the Earth King.

They're going to start a war!

- There! - Go now!

You're too late.

Your battle plans are already on their way to the Earth Kingdom.

Good.

That means all eyes will be on the Earth Kingdom.

All eyes but ours.

We'll be prepared for your attack.

When your king receives those plans,

he will redirect his forces to your borders

and rally the support of the other nations.

The Water Tribes and the Air Nomads and the entire world

will turn their attention to the Earthbenders.

You... you wanted us to know?

We aren't the real target.

My sights are set higher.

Much higher.

Why?

Why are you doing this?

Because it is our time.

A masterful ruse, Your Highness.

But tactically, the Airbenders are not the threat.

This isn't about the Airbenders.

This is about one who lives among them.

The only one who could possibly stand in our way.

But the Avatar is yet to be revealed.

Which is why we have to kill them all.

Water.

Earth.

Fire.

Air.

For millennia, the four nations have lived in harmony,

a peace made possible by the Avatar...

the one person with the ability to master all four elements

and protect the delicate balance between nations.

When one Avatar dies,

their spirit is reborn into a new body in an eternal cycle.

Since the death of the last Avatar,

the new incarnation has yet to emerge.

And so Fire Lord Sozin, the ruthless leader of the Fire Nation,

believes this is his moment to launch a merciless campaign

to conquer the world.

His first step is to eliminate the one person

who could stand in his way.

The next master of all four elements,

an Airbender who may not be ready for the responsibility of becoming

the Avatar.

Aang!

Aang!

- Hey, look! - Yeah!

Wow!

Who else?

Whoa!

Show-off.

- What? I was just enjoying the view. - Ha.

Monk Tsutop was looking for you.

You skipped training again!

It's all the same drills. You know I already know all this stuff.

Aang.

You may be more advanced than the others, but there's much you have to learn.

And believe it or not,

there may come a day when you wish you'd spent more time with your teachers.

Now, you and the other students better go help set up

for the Great Comet Festival.

Still a lot of work to be done

before the Air Nomads from the other temples arrive.

How many are coming?

Wait. What's that sound?

Look! Up there!

Look at all of them.

Wow! There's so many!

Look at all of them!

All of them.

Come on, Aang! They're right up there!

Wait up!

Did you tell him?

- It wasn't the right time. - The right time?

We don't have the luxury of waiting for the right time.

We need to go talk to the council now.

Aang has always been a prodigy.

The youngest Airbender in history

to receive the markings of a master.

But he is only 12.

We can't ask this of him.

Fire Lord Sozin is planning to attack the Earth Kingdom.

The Water Tribes are already sending the warriors to aid the Earthbenders,

and we need to help them as well.

And we need the Avatar.

Yes, Aang is powerful, but there's much he still needs to learn

about responsibility,

expectations,

sacrifice.

Most of all, he needs to know who he is.

If we send him away before he learns these things,

he could fail to be everything we need him to be.

And he and the world

might never recover from that.

The role of the Avatar is a heavy responsibility,

not meant for a child.

But it is not our place to choose who bears that burden,

and I fear you've grown too close to Aang to see that, Brother Gyatso.

Aang must leave immediately

to begin training in the other bending disciplines,

and we can only hope

that it is not too late for him to make a difference.

Are comet festivals always this much work?

Well, the last one was a hundred years ago,

and believe it or not,

I'm actually not old enough to have seen that.

Could have fooled me.

Remember the last time I brought you here?

Sure. When I got my tattoos.

Most receive their markings in the main hall,

but I wanted you to receive yours in the presence of Yangchen,

the last Air Nomad to be the Avatar.

When she died, the next Avatar was born

into the following nation in the eternal cycle,

so after Yangchen's death

came Kuruk of the Water Tribes, then Kyoshi of the Earth Kingdom...

And then Roku in the Fire Nation.

Which means the next Avatar

will once again be an Airbender.

Her spirit echoes in one of us.

Aang, you have always been special.

The most talented Airbender I have ever known.

I never asked to be special.

But you are.

Aang,

you are the Avatar.

The Fire Nation has embarked on a dark path.

Their actions threaten to throw the world out of balance.

Only the Avatar, the one person who can master all four elements,

can save the world.

The world needs the Avatar.

The world needs you, Aang.

You're to leave right away so you can begin training in the other disciplines.

Right away?

Leave my friends? Leave home? Leave you?

Now, this

would be a huge burden for anyone,

but you're not just anyone, Aang.

You're strong

and kind

and generous.

Remember that.

Always remember who you are

because I can't imagine a better person to have been given this power.

I don't want... the power.

Which is why you will make a great Avatar.

Why do I have to be different?

Can't I just

keep pretending that I'm your friend?

You are my friend.

You... will always be my friend.

Hey, Appa.

Couldn't sleep either, huh?

Gyatso says I'm supposed to be the Avatar.

Me.

Monks don't even trust me to feed the baby bison,

and I'm supposed to save the world?

He said I need to remember who I am.

But I know who I am.

I like to play airball and eat banana cakes

and goof off with my friends.

That's who I am,

not someone who can stop the Fire Nation.

Not someone who can stop a war.

The other kids always say I'm lucky because of the things I could do,

but I'd trade places with any of them.

I don't wanna leave.

I don't want the responsibility.

I'm scared of my power. I'm scared of being alone!

I'm scared.

You're right.

I just need to go up where things always make more sense.

At least for now.

Yip, yip!

Remember,

no survivors.

Brothers and sisters, we're under attack!

Yah!

- What's going on? - Come with me, quickly!

Where's Aang?

Aang!

Quickly, move along.

It's getting kind of rough, Appa. Maybe we should head back home?