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Water...

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Earth...

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Fire...

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Air.

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Long ago...

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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 were 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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I'm losing this war.

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I'm letting
the whole world down.

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I should have seen this war
coming, and prevented it.

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For so long, I thought that if my dad
accepted me, I'd be happy.

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I'm back home now.

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My dad talks to me.

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Everything should
be perfect, right?

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I should be happy now,
but I'm not.

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Please, uncle, I'm so confused.

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I need your help.

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Forget it.

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I'll solve this myself.

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Waste away in here
for all I care.

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Aang, it's time you learned
my history with Fire Lord Sozin.

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You need to understand how the war
began if you want to know how to end it.

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Meet me on my home island on
the day of the summer solstice.

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Ok, Roku.

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You need to know the story of
your great-grandfather's demise.

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It will reveal your own destiny.

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There it is.

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That's Roku's home.

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But there's nothing here.

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Yes, there is.

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An entire village.

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Hundreds of houses.

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All completely buried in ash.

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Wait.

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I need to ask you something.

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What do you remember about
our great-grandfather's history?

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Ah, Zuko.

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It's so strange
how your mind works.

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Fire Lord Sozin began
the war, of course.

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He spent his early years
secretly preparing for it

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but he was as patient
as he was clever.

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He famously waited
for the comet, later renamed Sozin's comet

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and used its power to launch
his full-scale invasion of the world.

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In the end, he died
a very old and successful man.

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But how did he die?

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Didn't you pay any attention
in school, Zuko?

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He died peacefully,
in his sleep.

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He was ancient.

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What does it mean?

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The fire sages keep the secret history
in the dragon bone catacombs.

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The final testament
of Fire Lord Sozin.

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Come, Aang.

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Where are we going?

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To visit my past.

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Our shared past.

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As I feel
my own life dimming, I can't help but think

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of a time when everything
was so much brighter.

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I remember my friend.

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Looks like I win again, Roku.

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Are you kidding?

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The tree root did all the work.

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Nice one, Sozin.

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You were friends
with Fire Lord Sozin?

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Back then, he was just Prince
Sozin, and he was my best friend.

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Say something to her.

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Uh...

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Love is hard when you're young.

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You don't have to tell me.

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Don't worry.

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It gets better.

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Now come with me.

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We have a party to attend.

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Wait, whose party is it?

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Sozin and I
shared many things, including a birthday.

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Did something happen
to my father?

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No, Prince Sozin.

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We are not here for you.

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We are here to announce
the identity of the next Avatar.

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It is our honor
to serve you, Avatar Roku.

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So the day came when my friend, Roku,

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had to leave the Fire Nation
and face his destiny as the Avatar.

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He needed to travel the world
so he could master the other elements.

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Hey, why aren't you packed yet,
all-powerful Avatar?

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Come on, show me how it's done
using all four kinds of bending.

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I started packing,
but then the fire sages told me

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I won't need any
worldly possessions anymore.

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Oh.

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It happened so fast.

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Everything's gonna
be different now.

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Here.

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I hope you're at least
allowed to have this.

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But this is a royal artifact.

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It's supposed to be worn
by the crown prince.

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I want you to have it.

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Do they have bathrooms
in the spirit world?

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As a matter of fact,
they do not.

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Hey, we're almost at
the Southern air temple.

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This was the first stop
on my Avatar journey.

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It was the place where I was
trained to master airbending

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and also where I met
an old friend of yours, Monk Gyatso.

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No way.

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Hey, Gyatso, you want to see
a new glider trick?

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Ha-ha-ha, check this out.

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He's air-surfing.

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I can't believe
I never thought of that.

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That's amazing.

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I can't believe you were friends
with Monk Gyatso just like I was.

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Some friendships are so strong,
they can even transcend lifetimes.

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After my years mastering airbending,
I traveled to the northern water tribe.

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Waterbending was
especially challenging for me.

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But in time,
I mastered it as well.

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I moved on to the Earth Kingdom.

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My earthbending master, Sud, was
uncompromising, stubborn, and blunt

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and a lifelong friend.

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It was bitter work,
but the results were worth it.

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Twelve long years passed
before I saw my friend again.

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When Roku returned, he was a fully
realized Avatar, and I had changed as well.

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Sozin, or should I say,
Fire Lord.

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Customarily, my subjects bow before
greeting me, but you're the exception.

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After all these years,
he was still my best friend

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and a few months later,
he was my best man.

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Roku, it's that girl
who didn't even know you were alive.

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Ta Min.

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I was persistent.

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When love is real,
it finds a way

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and being the Avatar doesn't hurt
your chances with the ladies, either.

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On wedding days, we look to the
future with optimism and joy.

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I had my own vision
for a brighter future.

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Excuse me.

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May I borrow him for a moment?

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It's not very traditional,
but ok.

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What's on your mind?

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I've been thinking hard about
the state of the world lately.

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Sozin, it's my wedding.

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Have a cookie.

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Dance with someone.

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Lighten up.

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I know, I know,
but just hear me out.

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Right from the start,
I was destined to be Fire Lord

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and although we didn't always know
it, you were destined to be the Avatar.

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It's an amazing stroke of fate
we know each other so well, isn't it?

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Together, we could do anything.

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Yeah, we could.

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Our nation is enjoying
an unprecedented time of peace and wealth.

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Our people are happy, and we're
so fortunate in so many ways.

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Where are you going with this?

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I've been thinking.

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We should share this prosperity
with the rest of the world.

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In our hands is the most
successful empire in history.

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It's time we expanded it.

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No, the four nations

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are meant just that - four.

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Roku, you haven't even stopped
to consider the possibilities.

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There are no possibilities.

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This is the last I want
to hear about this.

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That was my first
real test as the Avatar.

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Unfortunately, it was many years
before I learned that Sozin

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had gone ahead with his plan,
despite my warning.

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I've seen the colony, Sozin.

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How dare you occupy
Earth Kingdom territory.

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How dare you, a citizen of the Fire Nation,
address your Fire Lord this way?

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Your loyalty is
to our nation first.

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Anything less
makes you a traitor.

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Don't do this, Sozin.

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Don't challenge me.

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It will only end badly.

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It's over.

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I'm sparing you, Sozin.

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I'm letting you go in the name
of our past friendship.

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But I warn you, even a single step out
of line will result in your permanent end.

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Sozin and I didn't speak or see each other

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for 25 years after our battle.

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I spent most of my spare time
here at my home.

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Let's go.

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Roku's island
was 100 miles away.

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But I could still
feel it rumbling

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and see the black plume
of smoke.

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I had never seen anything
like this catastrophe.

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This is amazing, Roku.

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You're battling a volcano,
and you're winning.

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Unfortunately, my success
didn't last, Aang.

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There was no way
I could do it all.

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Battling the elements
was hard enough

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I had to do it while
I could barely breathe.

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The poisonous, volcanic gasses
were overwhelming.

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It's all right, Fang.

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Get out of here, I'm fine.

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Need a hand, old friend?

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Sozin?

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There's not a moment to waste.

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Don't breathe the toxic gas.

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It's... too much.

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Please...

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Without you, all my plans
are suddenly possible.

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I have a vision
for the future, Roku.

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Who's, wait,
that's me, isn't it?

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Make sense of our past, Aang.

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And you will bring peace
and restore balance in the world.

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Roku?

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Roku...

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With Roku gone,
and the great comet returning

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the timing was perfect
to change the world.

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I knew the next Avatar
would be born an air nomad

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so I wiped out the air temples.

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But somehow,
the new Avatar eluded me.

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I wasted the remainder of
my life searching in vain.

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I know he's hiding
out there somewhere

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the Fire Nation's
greatest threat.

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The last airbender.

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That can't be it,
where's the rest of it?

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You sent this, didn't you?

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I found the secret history.

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Which, by the way, should be renamed
"the history most people already know."

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The note said that I needed to
know about my great-grandfather's death

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but he was still alive
in the end.

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00:21:29,549 --> 00:21:31,736
No, he wasn't.

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00:21:31,737 --> 00:21:34,342
What are you talking about?

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00:21:34,343 --> 00:21:37,885
You have more than one
great-grandfather, Prince Zuko.

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Sozin was your
father's grandfather.

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Your mother's grandfather
was Avatar Roku.

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Why are you telling me this?

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Because understanding the struggle
between your two great-grandfathers

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can help you better understand
the battle within yourself.

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Evil and good are always
at war inside you, Zuko

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it is your nature, your legacy.

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But there is a bright side.

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What happened generations ago
can be resolved now.

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By you.

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Because of your legacy, you alone
can cleanse the sins of our family

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and the Fire Nation.

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Born in you,
along with all this strife

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is the power to restore balance
to the world.

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This is a royal artifact.

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It's supposed to be worn
by the crown prince.

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You mean, after all Roku and
Sozin went through together

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even after Roku showed him mercy,
Sozin betrayed him like that?

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It's like these people
are born bad.

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No, that's wrong.

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I don't think that was the point
of what Roku showed me at all.

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00:23:08,549 --> 00:23:09,902
Then what was the point?

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00:23:09,904 --> 00:23:13,446
Roku was just as much
Fire Nation as Sozin was, right?

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If anything, their story proves anyone's
capable of great good and great evil.

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Everyone, even the Fire Lord
and the Fire Nation

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have to be treated like
they're worth giving a chance.

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And I also think it was
about friendships.

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Do you really think friendships
can last more than one lifetime?

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I don't see why not.

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Well, scientifically speaking,
there's no way to prove that...

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oh, Sokka, just hold hands.