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Me: ok u guys ready for the 2 episode.

All: yup!

Me: ok let's start.

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BOOK 2: EARTH

CHAPTER 2: CAVE OF TWO LOVERS.

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Sokka: oh great....

Aang and katara blush-ish.

Aang: oh yay......

Katara: yay.....

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(The episode opens with a daytime shot of the sky and cliffs covered in vegetation. The camera pans down and to the right to show that the cliffs have been cut by a river that runs at its bottom. Three figures appear in the river near a sand beach on its far bank. Two of the figures, Aang and Katara face each other like gunslingers in front of a natural arch of stone that protrudes from the cliff wall. The third, Sokka, rides lazily in a boat made of an enormous leaf.)

Sokka: You guys are gonna be done soon, right?

(Cut to a side shot of Sokka floating past the camera in the foreground. He is naked except for a white loincloth. His hair is no longer in a pony tail and now lies tangled in a wet mass on his head. In the background, Katara too has dispensed with her normal blue garb. She wears the equivalent of a white two piece bathing suit. She is in a bending stance as she faces Aang across from her, who is naked from the waist up and also in a martial arts stance.)

Sokka: We've got a lot of ground to cover if we wanna make it to Omashu today.

(Katara drops her bending stance and slumps over at Sokka's statement, then turns to face him with an arched eyebrow as she replies.)

Katara: (teasingly) What, like you're ready to go right now, naked guy?

Sokka: I can be ready in two minutes. Seriously. (He lifts his hair to look at them and lets his arm drop lazily back into the water.) Whenever.

Aang: So, you were showing me the octopus form.

Katara: Right. Let me see your stance. (evaluates Aang's form and comes over to correct it) Your arms are too far apart. See, if you move them closer together you protect your center. You got it?

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Suki and toph: hahah he's blushing.

Aang is blushing

Katara blushing because she didn't notice he was blushing.

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Aang: (blushing, slightly flustered) Oh... yeah. Thanks.

(She drops her hold on him and walks back to her former position. She turns around to face him once again in a bending stance.)

Katara: Okay, let's see what you got.

(Cut to a shot of Aang's feet in the water. His hands enter the shot from above as he raises some water from the river. Cut to a wider shot as Aang finishes pulling up a large blob of water. With a smooth motion he causes the blob to sprout about a dozen, wide tentacles. Katara then begins to rapid fire icicles at him. The first one is grabbed and deflected in mid air by one of Aang's water tentacles. After several more are deflected, cut to Katara, back to the camera, legs wide apart, raising, freezing and shooting ice projectiles at Aang who is off screen to the right. Cut back to Aang, who dodges Katara's icicles and then uses one of his water tentacles to lash at Katara who is off screen to the left. Cut back to a close shot of Katara from the front. She is slightly surprised as Aang's water tentacle grabs her leg and yanks tight. Then she straightens, places her hands on her hips and smiles as she addresses the Avatar.)

Katara: You make a fine octopus, Pupil Aang.

(Cut back to Aang, who is now encased in the bubble of water, his arms and, consequently, his tentacles waving lazily around him. He is clearly having fun imitating an octopus. )

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They all chuckle.

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(Cut to Sokka still lying in his leaf boat, Momo draped across him. Momo raises his head, his head and ears filling most of the screen and blocking Sokka as music and singing is heard from off camera.)

(scene ends 42 sec)

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Cut to a wide shot of the kids in the water looking towards the beach from where the sounds are coming from, then cut to a view from somewhere along the path to the beach within the forest. A group of travelers dressed in colorful mix of Asian and Polynesian styles walk by playing instruments and singing. The one carrying a guitar like instrument and wearing a wreath of flowers begins to sing softly.)

Chong: (singing) Don't fall in love with a traveling girl. She'll leave you broke and broken hearted...

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Toph: ha lol.

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(Cut to a frontal shot of the troupe as they sing and dance their way forward. The woman on his left wears black and pink, has big hair adorned with a single flower and plays a flute. A rotund fellow behind him wears a white and pink robe, a coolie hat and plays a drum.

Cut back to the kids in the river watching them approach. Suddenly, Sokka's leaf boats capsizes and he yells as he falls into the water. Cut back to the singers as they stop, finally noticing the kids.)

Chong: (smiling and pointing briefly at them) Heh-hey! River people!

Katara: (gesturing negatively with her hands as Sokka resurfaces behind her, Momo landing on his hand) We're not river people.

Chong: You're not? Well then what kind of people are ya?

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Toph: aliens

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Aang: Just... people.

Chong: (pleased) Aren't we all, brother? Whoo.

(Sokka walks into the shot from the left, still mostly naked and with Momo perched on his shoulder. He has grown noticeably since the prior season.)

Sokka: (with an accusing finger pointed at Chong) Who're you?

Chong: I'm Chong, and this is my wife Lily. (He indicates the woman on the left. She makes a little curtsy.) We're nomads, happy to go wherever the wind takes us!

(He riffs on his guitar like a real world rock star for a moment, his voice not matching the various random notes he plays.)

Aang: You guys are nomads That's great! I'm a nomad.

Chong: Hey, me too.

Aang: (flatly) I know... you just said that.

Chong: Oh. (His attention wanders elsewhere, then to Sokka) Nice underwear.

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Everyone but Sokka chuckled

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(Cut to close shot of Sokka and his mostly naked body, Aang and Katara behind him. His eyes bulge at the sudden realization that he is wearing very little in front of complete strangers. He grabs Momo and places him strategically over his body and sidles rapidly off the screen.

(Scene ends 37 sec)

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(Cut to a close up shot of Iroh's face. He is looking a pretty white and red flower in the foreground. Cut to a wider shot of Iroh squatting in front of the plant, mesmerized. He is in a forest and is wearing a dark green shirt and trousers. A bush begins moving in the background and a series of grunts are heard as Zuko, clad similar to his Uncle, emerges from it. Short black hair now covers his head.)

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Toph: aaayyyy ur hair is better now.

Zuko: eh

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Zuko: (frustrated) I didn't find anything to eat. I can't live like this. I wasn't meant to be a fugitive. (kicks at the ground angrily) This is impossible!

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Katara: it not.

Zuko: I know that......now.

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(Iroh sniffs the flower deeply.)

Zuko: (more calmly) Uncle... what are you doing?

Iroh: You're looking at the rare white dragon bush. (lovingly) Its leaves make a tea so delicious it's heartbreaking! (gravely) That, or it's the white jade bush, which is poisonous.

Zuko: We need food, not tea. I'm going fishing.

(Zuko exits right.)

Iroh: (still contemplating and stroking his chin) Delectable tea? Or deadly poison?

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Suki: I hope he doesn't cause it's a 50/50 chance.

Zuko:welllll.........

Katara: oh gosh

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(Cut to a close up of Appa's left eye. Around his eyebrow lie several braided locks of his fur which are adorned with many small, pink flowers. Appa groans. His eye looks up as the camera pans up to reveal one of the nameless members of Chong's troupe braiding his hair. Cut to a wide shot of Appa lying down on the beach in front of the river. Everyone but Sokka is lying on or close to Appa listening to Chong play his instrument. Sokka himself approaches from the left side of the screen.)

Aang: Hey, Sokka, you should hear some of these stories. These guys have been everywhere.

Chong: (stops playing) Well, not everywhere, Little Arrowhead. But where we haven't been we've heard about through stories and songs.

(Cut to frontal shot of Sokka who raises an eyebrow in skepticism at this.)

Aang: They said they'll take us to see a giant night crawler.

Moku: (dreamily) On the way there's a waterfall that creates a never-ending rainbow.

Sokka: (firmly) Look, I hate to be the wet blanket here, but since Katara is busy I guess it's up to me.

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Toph. Ha!

Katara: 😑😑😑😑

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(Katara, whose hair is being braided by Lily, looks crossly up at Sokka at this) Sokka:We need to get to Omashu. (Counting off the verboten distractions on his hand) No sidetracks, no worms, and definitely no rainbows.

Chong: Whoa... sounds like someone's got a case of "destination fever," heh. You're worried too much about where you're going.

Lily: You've gotta focus less on the "where" and more on the "going."

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Toph: that doesn't make sense.

Sokka: I know.

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Sokka: (emphatically) O. Ma. Shu.

(Sokka's face gets further distended and exaggerated with each syllable until his warped features almost fill the screen.)

Katara: Sokka's right. We need to find King Bumi so Aang can learn earthbending somewhere safe.

Chong: Well, sounds like you're headed to Omashu.

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Everyone: 🤦‍♀️🤦🤦‍♀️🤦🤦‍♀️🤦🤦‍♀️🤦

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(Sokka smacks his forehead loudly at this.)

Chong:There's an old story about a secret pass... (ominously) ...right through the mountains.

Katara: (skeptically) Is this real or a legend?

Chong: Oh, it's a real legend. And it's as old as earthbending itself. (starts playing his guitar and sings)

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Suki: aw u guys looks so cute.

Katara: yes.

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Two lovers, forbidden from one another... a war divides their people, and a mountain divides them apart. Built a path to be together. (stops and says normally) Yeah, and I forget the next couple of lines, but then it goes... (sings enthusiastically as everyone else dances) Secret tunnel! Secret tunnel! Through the mountain! Secret, secret, secret, secret tunnel! Yeah!

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Suki: I like that song now.

Sokka: eh

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(Everyone enjoys the song except Sokka, who looks miserable. On the last note, Chong concludes his chord with a flourish that leaves his left index finger pointed to the sky in a gesture of triumph. His audience, except Sokka, claps enthusiastically.)

Sokka: I think we'll just stick with flying. We've dealt with the Fire Nation before. We'll be fine.

Aang: Yeah. Thanks for the help, but Appa hates going underground and we need to do whatever makes Appa most comfortable.

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Suki: aw Aang u look so cute 🥺

Katara blushes just a little cause Aang looked cute.

Aang: thanks suki. 😁

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(Aang smiles widely at the end of this statement. Abrupt cut to a shot of a Fire Nation Commander in front of two long lines of Fire Nation catapults. The screen expands to show even more catapults in the surrounding area.)

Commander: Launch!

(All the catapults fire simultaneously. Cut to Appa in mid flight, fireballs closing in around him. Appa opens his mouth to grunt and the camera angle flies right into it. Cut to Appa dodging fireballs at high speed, the cut to a close up of the kids on Appa's back.)

Aang, Sokka, and Katara: (terrified) AAAAAHHHHH!

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Toph: haha lol.

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(Cut to Chong and his band sitting by a log in the forest. The kids enter from the left, covered in ash and looking depressed.)

Sokka: (unenthusiastically) Secret love cave. Let's go.

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(Cut to a shot of the forest canopy. It is still daytime. The camera pans down and stops as Zuko enters the frame from the right. He carries a long fishing pole and a sour expression. The camera pans right to reveal the present source of Zuko's misery. At the end of his enormous fishing pole he has succeeding in spearing what looks like a minnow. It wiggles pathetically. Zuko begins to speak from o.c., then cut to wide, overhead shot of Zuko standing behind Iroh from a point somewhere in the upper branches of a nearby tree.)

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Sokka: ha ur fish is so small.

Zuko: that's all I could get.

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Iroh: Zuko, remember that plant that I thought might be tea?

Zuko: (horrified) You didn't!

Iroh: I did. (Iroh turns around to reveal his red, swollen face which he is scratching) And it wasn't.

Zuko: (in repulsion) Yah!

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All: ah!

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Iroh: (calmly while scratching) When the rash spreads to my throat, I will stop breathing.

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Sokka: why is he so calm.

Zuko: i don't know it's uncle Iroh.

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Iroh (excitedly) But look what I found! These are bacui berries, known to cure the poison of the white jade plant. That, or macahoni berries that cause blindness.

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Suki: he shouldn't.

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Zuko: (losing his patience) We're not taking any more chances with these plants! We need to get help.

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Katara: definitely.

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Iroh: But where are we going to go? We're enemies of the Earth Kingdom, and fugitives from the Fire Nation.

Zuko: (musingly) If the Earth Kingdom, discovers us, they'll have us killed.

Iroh: But if the Fire Nation discovers us, we'll be turned over to Azula.

(They look at each other and nod in agreement.)