(I got the idea from a vid on youtube called 'Katara the Last waterbender' i credit my idea to RinaBells the vids creator. she has given me permission to use the idea. hope you enjoy the fic)
The people screaming, blood staining the pure white snow, fighting and endless violence. One thing she could not push from her mind was the smell of soot in the air and the overpowering order of death. She could still see flashes of her mother's dead body. The young girl of 15 rolled over in her bed unable to sleep. Glancing out her window she could see the large pure white moon full and high in the night sky. She could feel her waterbending getting stronger as it always did in the full moon's light. No matter how hard she tried she couldn't shake memories of her past from her mind.
There had been stories back in Water Tribe of when the Fire Nation had raided the Southern Water Tribe and captured all of its waterbenders taking them hostage and laid it to near ruins. When she was younger and still lived in the Southern Water Tribe it had been invaded by Fire Nation soldiers like it had been years before. Katara had only 4 when it happened. Apparently they had heard rumors of there being still one waterbender in the Southern Water Tribe and had come in search of sad waterbender. They had murdered her mother and left without taking Katara which confused her. After they had set her mother's body to rest on the sea her father had sat her down with her older brother Sokka and explained that it was no longer safe for Katara to stay in the tribe in case the Fire Nation soldiers returned to capture her. She thought it was ironic that to keep her safe they had sent her to the Fire Nation to be put into hiding.
That was where she'd met her mentor Hama. She was an elderly woman now but when she'd met Katara she was in her late forties. Fortunately for Katara Hama had been one of the waterbenders from the Southern Water Tribe who'd been capture years before but she'd been the only one who'd escaped. She'd taught Katara all her waterbending techniques and trained her in stealth. Training was long and hard but as she got older it was easier. Hama had begun talking about how it was Katara's destiny that they'd met and that her destiny was to destroy the Fire Nation from inside the country itself. Over the past two years she'd put her training to use and with coaxing and encouragement from Hama had begun to go after the Fire Nation armies, killing soldiers, destroying their weapons and stealing important documents. Although she knew it was wrong to keep secrets from Hama Katara had been secretly going through and stealing files from Fire Nation military sights in search of the army that had been sent to find her and had killed her mother instead. Her body burned for revenge. She wanted whoever killed her mother to pay with their life.
Releasing a deep sigh she curled up in a tight ball and closed her eyes praying for sleep to come. The familiar feeling of lightness filled her body as she drifted off but not before a faint image of her mother filled her mind.