Just move your hands a few feet away from each other...like this. ...good. Now move them in a circle, like this." She was a beautiful woman. Long, brown hair braided at the side and connected in the back. You can tell she was Katara's mother.

As Katara was moving her hands in a circle the water in between them started freezing but not too much. it became snow. the little watterbender just learned how to make snow. "Look mommy, I did it!" She was full of excitement as she told her mother. The eight year-old's giant eyes filled with amazement as the water crystallized into snow that -she- made. "I knew you could do it!" her mother was so proud of her daughter.

Although she wasn't a bender she spent much of her time studying the old ways of bending the water analyzing e every move, reading every last detail of the scrolls carefully. She knew she mastered it when she could actually feel the water going through her body, even though the was no water around.

"Hey Kat...: with a very sinister grin she screams "think fast!." she scoops up snow and throws it at Katara and it lands on her face "Hey!" she said while throwing the snow that was already in her hand at her mother. They both start throwing more snow at each other until their soaked. A few moments later katara comes running up to her mother and hugs her and she picks Katara up. "C'mon lets go inside and dry off. Do you wanna help me with dinner?" "Yep!"

As Katara and her mother where walking back to town, her mother noticed something out the corner of her eye ."Kat...go run inside." Katara looked at her mother with a confused expression. What happened? "Katara! Now!" "But-" "Now!" She hardly ever yelled so it must have been serious. She wanted to find out what was wrong but she didn't want to disobey her mother. She just wanted to know why she was so worried .Katara ran back with terror in her eyes.

The little girl was scared and sad. Everyone around her knew something was wrong by her expression, and the Fact that she came back alone when they knew she was with her mother when she left. "Where's mom?" her brother asked as he and their father came up to the frightened girl.

"I-I don't know. She saw some boats and she told me to run back here." "Boats? We didn't send anyone out for trade." Her father was worried as well. He knew everything that happened in the tribe, but know one left the tribe recently. The earth kingdom wasn't scheduled to come, and the Northern Tribe would have sent notice or contact. " Kat, do you know what color the ships where?" "Umm, black i think. They where metal."

"Firenation... Bato! Gather every one and tell them it's an emergency. We haven't much time left if they where in eyesight...Sokka I need you to take your sister and all the other children and bring them inside and make sure they don't come out. can you handle that? "Y-yes dad." the little boy was scared like every one else, but he knew when there was time to be scared and when to act like a man.

As the members of the tribe started entering the places they where told, Their mother came in screaming 'their coming to shore.' She ran into her husbands arms not knowing the thought that some of them might not make it out of this battle. All you could hear in the tent the kids where put in, were whines and cries of the smaller children, it was really hard to keep everyone quiet while keeping in a small crowded tent possibly for hours.

"Sokka!!" The little girl came storming past the group of children. "Why are we here!? What was your mom so worried about?" as she continued screaming, she started realizing what she was saying and what was happening. The war with the firenation, the black boats, why they needed to hide in that tent. The firenation closed in on the south pole .The little girl was about to cry. She and everyone else in that room knew someone wasn't going to make it out alive. When sokka saw her face, he grabbed her hand, and he knew he didn't have to say any thing else but "it's gonna be okay. just stay in here"

With those words she knew she would be safe. However Katara was still a little shaken up about what happened earlier. She was sitting in a corner with her eyes full of tears .Sokka came running to her pushing though the crowd and sat next to her. "Sokka," she sniffled and wiped her eyes "what's happening. I'm really scared." she said. Sokka knew that she wouldn't handle the fact that they where going to be a battle too well. She knew about the war with the firenation, but a battle in her own home would really get to her.

At that moment their mother came in with a message to all the kids. She basically said, that they shouldn't be scared, and their parents loved them and would never let anything bad happen to them.

Once she finished her speech, something overwhelmed her. Something bad. She knew someone in her family wasn't going to make it. At that moment she ran to her kids to and trapped them in a giant hug then kissed them both on their forehead. "I love you both. You two your father and gran-gran are my every thing. I won't let anything happen to you two." she gave them one last hug and left the room. When she returned to her husband, she gave one more kiss hoping it wouldn't be her last.

They where assigned positions throughout the tribe; Some on the south side, others on the west protecting the tent the children where in, and others facing the boat.

"Ahhhhh!" the kids cried as the boat landed on the northern shore. The ships were big, and powerful and made a huge earthquake as landed. Most of the children fell on the floor, because of the impact.

"Ahhhhh!" Katara fell of the side of appa's head and to be saved by none other than her new boyfriend Aang.