Avatar: The Last Airbender is the story of a young boy named Aang.
He is an Airbender of course, one who can basically use air to do all sorts of interesting movements and tricks. He carries a stick that can turn into a Kite like flying device, allowing him to fly as he manipulates the Wind with his powers to airbend.
Twelve year old Aang is found in a glacier, in the South Pole by 2 members of the Water Tribe village known as Katara, who is the only water bender in all of the South Pole, and her brother Sokka whose a young warrior in the tribe.
Other characters Aang and the rest of the audience gets to meet Zuko, a fire bender and prince of all fire benders.
During the time that Katara and Sokka find Aang Zuko is on a major quest to search for the Avatar whom apparently is Avatar Aang, the one whom supposedly has mastered all earth elements.
From fire to earth to water to air. Simply, an avatar is someone who can control or shape these earthly elements. Other characters include Aangs flying Bison named Appa whom seems to be quite the interesting creature to travel on.
The conflict is: protection, the water tribe for some time has been under attack by the fire benders. No one has been around for.. about a century to keep all of the land in balance between the elements: Earth, Fire, Wind & Water. Aang just may be the one to help bring balance back to all the land. Could he be the Avatar..? That's is the question.
Many would sound out yes immediately but perhaps the many other upcoming episodes will allow the public to answer the unanswered questions. As we look further into the premiere of Avatar: The Last Airbender, it turns out that Aang only knows how to airbend.
A little over a century, the fire group apparently worked towards taking over most of the globe and at that the same time many wondered if after all this time the last Avatar died, after such a long period of being missing in action.
If Aang is the Avatar then he is much younger than a century or so old. After being stuck in the glacier so long,assuming that things were still peaceful Aang had no such idea of the conflict that was taking place.
The end result is that it could very well be up to a twelve year old airbender to learn all the tricks of the trade and yes help restore peace across the land. With some kind of help from Katara& Sokka and a few others along the trail.
