School Time Shipping

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School Time Shipping is a Avatar: The Last Airbender short. It features almost all of the Avatar characters so far and is styled in Chibi Anime. This story is about Aang trying to ask Katara to the Golden Dragon Dance, and he fails almost every time.

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Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

After all of the students are depicted, Roku appears in the classroom and tells the class that the most important event of their lives, the Golden Dragon Dance, is coming up. Sokka is the first to worry over who to ask to the Golden Dragon Dance, and he looks at Suki and Yue. Suki is shown with a pink heart and the heart floats over to Sokka. Princess Yue is shown with two hearts above her head. They start to float over, but Suki grabs them, saying, "I saw him first!" (a reference to how Sokka met Suki in episode 104, and Yue met him in episode 118.) Yue responds angrily, and a large moon appears in the background.

Aang says that he already knows who he's going to ask while Yue and Suki fight over Sokka in the background, and he gazes at Katara. Then it shows Katara writing, and suddenly Jet, Haru, and Zuko show up with flower bouquets for her. Later in the day, when Aang tries to approach her during track, he's pushed out of the way with Haru's earthbending, who in turn is booted away by Jet, and who is then burned away with the scene ending when Zuko runs up beside her. At the library, Aang writes a note to Katara on a paper plane. When it floats in front of her, she reads it, and seems enamored over the writer, but then sees Bumi is sitting beside her. Assuming that he wrote the note, she crumples it up, and tosses it at him as she walks away.

Later on, Aang goes to see the school counselor, Iroh, who gives him some advice, making Aang have an idea. When school seems to be over and kids are going home, Jet appears to Katara on Appa, and asks her to the dance while making a heart with his tongs. Right after that, Zuko appears on a Komodo Rhino, and makes a huge heart by firebending, shouting, "My heart burns for you!" Haru earthbends, constructing a huge statue of Katara. She says he's sweet, but much too sensitive for her. Ty Lee shows interest however, so Hari kicks of the head of Katara's statue and replaces it with Ty Lee's features instead. Then, up in the air shows Aang creating Chinese characters in the sky (before asking Katara out to the dance in English underneath.) Katara tells him that she'd love to go to the dance with him, but says she's already going with someone else.

When she says that someone dressed as the Blue Spirit comes over to take her away, walking toward the sunset. (Zuko is actually watching this with Jet and Haru, and he groans, "I did not expect that.")

There are several references to the show in the video. The head librarian in the school library is the Knowledge Spirit, Wa Shi Tong, from the episode, "The Library". Also, you can see many animals from the show like the Serpent from "The Serpent's Pass" in the beginning as a class pet.