TEASER: Azula Gets Spanked in "On the Night of a Full Moon"

INTRO: 

Water. Earth. Fire. Air. My grandmother used to tell me stories about the old days, a time of peace when the Avatar kept balance between the Water Tribes, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation, and Air Nomads. But that all changed when the Fire Nation attacked...

In this episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Team Avatar is attacked by Princess Azula, Ty Lee, and Mai at the Black Cliffs, the rendezvous point for the invasion of the fire nation. Aang, Sokka, Katara, and Toph are taken unawares, and because they've been training and preparing non-stop, they are in no position to ward off an ambush.

However, Katara knows something that their attacker don't -- something she learned in Hama's village that no members of the fire nation are yet aware of. Tonight, it just so happens to be a full moon...

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"Behind you!"

Katara flings herself off a small ledge to dodge a jet of fire. Her breathe is forced from her lungs by her impact with the ground. She lies on her back, breathing hard, and in this unusual lull everything seems very quiet. Peaceful. They are, after all, by the seaside. The air here is crisp, clean, and salty. Only a few trees have managed to grow in the craggy soil of the outcropping, and their leaveless branches reach towards an infinite blue sky, tinged pink by the setting sun. She admires it for a moment, allowing herself to close her eyes.

"You're on fire!" She hardly registers the blueness of the sky again before Toph stomps over and begins stomping on the hem of her robe. The Earthbender is flailing her arms and cursing to herself as she stamps. Katara reaches her arm back and bends a cold stream from a rushing wave towards her, letting it drop on herself, extinguishing the singed robe. 

Toph exhales deeply, exasperated. "C'mon Katara! We're getting our butts kicked up there!" She gestures to the top of the cliff face, where Ang is locked in combat with none other than Azula, the crowned Princess of the Fire Nation. 

Katara stands and sighs. Her body aches from fighting since dawn, and the fighting isn't going well. She turns and sees Sokka face down in the sand -- he straightens up and spits out a spray of ocean water. Toph is in a fighting ready stance, but even she is lilting like a white lotus under a hot sun. She squints upwards as Ang flutters through the air, and the sky becomes gray with smoke. Azula, Ty Lee, and Mai, unlike Team Avatar, are well-rested and hardly slowing. Everything seems hopeless. 

And yet, Katara can't help but smirk.