"Get up Jay!" Cole said urgently shaking Jay awake. "Huh what?" Jay asks getting up and rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. "We need to go and find Kai before Nya finds out." Cole said as he drags the master of lightning out of bed. "Ugh fine." Jay said as they got up. The rest of the boys and Toph were there all discussing why a spirit would be taking people. "Maybe the moon spirit got angery and decided to do it." Toph suggests making Sokka angery. "She is a kind hearted being who rules over the night sky with her moon spirit powers!" Sokka yells at Toph. "Ignoring that lets check out the landscape maybe if we know what type of spirit it is we can find the missing people." Aang said. They agree on that course of action and head out to look at the market.
Once they reach a cliff over looking the whole valley they take in the sight it was beautiful. "Any spirit should be happy here it's the most beautiful landscape I've ever seen." Aang said. "Hey Zane have you tried Kai's communicator?" Jay asks. "Yes but I can't get a signal." Zane informs them. "Excuse me sir but what can you tell us about the spirit?" Cole asks a man who was passing them. "Well it only comes on a full moon and showed up a couple of years ago and takes someone every full moon except last night." The man explains. "Why not last night?" Sokka asks. "I'm not a spirit who knows but if you want to know more ask old man dingy he's the only one to see the spirit and live to tell the tale." The man said. Toph walks up behind him and tugs his robes startling the young man. "Where can we find him?" She asks.
Once the man gives them the address they look all over town and around dusk they finally find him hammering boards over his windows. He was a old man with wrinkles and a balled head. When the gang shows up he gets startled and hits his thumb instead of the nail. Cole and Jay take the boards from him and begin hammering them to the windows for him. "What you kids want? It's a full moon for crying out loud." Dingy said pointing at the moon that was beginning to rise. "We were hoping you could tell us about the spirit that tried to abduct you." Aang said. "Never saw no spirit just felt a presence posses my body. I tried resisting it but I couldn't and started walking towards the mountain I looked up at the moon for what I thought would be my last sight of the sky. Before the sun came up and I had control of my body again, I didn't question it and hightailed it out of there." Dingy said. "Why would a spirit be taking people to a mountain?" Zane asks. "Oh no! I did hear people screaming from the mountain! They must still be there!" Toph exclaims. "And so is Kai." Lloyd adds as everyone looks up at the full moon.
"Those water bending moves were amazing!" Nya exclaims as Hama leads them into the woods. "I loved the one with summoning water through the air!" Katara giggles. "Yes but I shall now show you something that can only be done during a full moon." Hama said and the girls jump up and down excitedly. They enter a clearing in the full light of the moon and soak it up. "For centuries water benders have basked in the glow of the moon with it blessing us with the power to move water. I've never felt more alive." Hama said sinisterly. At the tone in her voice the girls look at each other and they both have to suppress a shiver at her voice.
The boys and Toph reach the cave and find a tunnel that was pitch black. "It's so dark down there." Sokka exclaims. "That's why you have us." Toph said gesturing to herself and Cole who smiles confident. They pull everyone in and they hold hands as the two earth benders lead them through the cave system. Eventually they reach a door to a cell with two torches burning at each side. Cole steps in a rips the metal door off and throws it down the tunnel. Lloyd and Sokka each take one of the torches and follow Toph and Cole as they find a giant cavern. It was filled with malnourished people who were chained to the walls all around the cave that had numerous pillars. At the sight of the gang a villager looks and and happily exclaims. "Finally were saved!" He said and the rest of them cheer. Toph grabs her bracelet and bends it into a key as she unlocks the chains of the villagers. "I didn't know spirits made caves." Aang said looking around. "It was no spirit she seems like a nice old lady but she's a witch!" Another villager said. "You should see what she did to that poor fire bender last night." Another man said. "Kai!" They all yell in union. The ninja begin searching frantically looking everywhere calling out his name.
"Here." Zane heared a hoarse voice say. He turns to another room hidden in the darkness and gets the others over. Cole grabs the door to and rips it off its hinges to find Kai chained in the middle of a metal room with his hands and feet tightly bound so he couldn't summon any fire. He had scratches all over his visible body that were bleeding slightly and could get infected but he would live. "Who did this to you?" Zane asks as he freezes them breaks the chains. "Hama." Kai replies hoarsely he looked extremely dehydrated. "Okay Kai be honest I know she's a bender and all but I'm pretty sure you can take on a old lady." Jay said getting a angery look from the fire ninja. "Hama used bending like a puppeteer. She made my blood to come out through my skin. She used me like a puppet, she bended my blood." Kai explains hoarsely barely able to stand and has to hold onto Cole to stand. "I knew I didn't trust her!" Sokka exclaims. "You go I'll free the rest of these prisoners." Toph said with Cole and Zane also staying behind to help with Kai. They agree and run out determined to find Hama.
"Let me tell you girls of how I escaped that awful prison." Hama said and the girls lean in close to hear the story. "The guards were careful to keep all water away from us. Pumping hot dry air in and keeping us suspended off the ground in metal cages. Before giving us any water they would bind our hands and feet to stop us from bending it. Any sort of retaliation was met with swift punishment it looked hopeless. But the moon in riched me every month with its glow and I soon realized that every living being was just a sack filled with water. The rats that used to crawl across my cell I would practice on them perfecting my technique of blood bending. Once I was done I used it on the guards the very ones who caged me let me out after years of seeing nothing but that cell." Hama said turning to face the girls. The girls were horrified by this blood bending it seem sinister. "But reaching into the bodies of others isn't something I want to learn." Katara said. "Me neither I could never bend my brother's blood like a sick puppet." Nya said with a shiver. Hama smiles sinisterly and Nya's eyes widen in horror as a thought came to her. "Where's my brother? I haven't seen him since we got here." Nya asks. "He's a fire bender! The very kind that destroyed my people he deserved to be my practice puppet." Hama said. "It was never a spirit taking people it was you!" Katara exclaims.
"They took me and imprisoned me for decades they deserve no less a fate. You shall carry on my legacy of blood bending." Hama said. "No we won't." Nya said. Outraged at being denied Hama raises her hands and the girls go still as there eyes widen with horror. They move thier bodies against there control feeling there blood go against them. Hama makes them bow before her and the girls start crying not liking this feeling at all. Nya closes her eyes and thinks of all she's gone through, Katara does the same and both girls call forth the power of the moon to rise against Hama's control. They each start sending blasts of water at Hama who dodged them back at them but she was clearly at a disadvantage. "Nya! Katara!" They hear Aang, Sokka, Jay, and Lloyd yell out as they run into the clearing. Hama smiles and the boys suddenly can't control thier body's unable to fight it as they get flung at the two girls. "What's happening?" Aang asks as he almost hits Katara with his staff. "She's bending our blood!" Sokka exclaims as he gets swung around. Nya and Katara manger barely to summon enough water to splash water into Jay and Lloyd freezing them to it. "Sorry guys." Nya apologizes. "No biggie on your right!" Jay screams as Sokka's sword almost takes her head off. She dodged it as Katara took on Aang who kept apologizing. Soon Hama see's she's making no progress so in a change of tactics she makes Sokka aim his sword at Aang and pushes them together with sword aimed straight at Aang's heart.
"NO!" Both girls yell and they flung out their hands. Aang and Sokka both stop moving towards each other and Nya's hands move apart same as them. Hama is trembling as Katara brings her down to her knees just as the rest arrive with the prisoners. They cuff Hama but she doesn't care her work was done. "Congratulations girls your blood benders!" Hama yells at them over and over as the villagers lead her away. Nya finally lets go off her hold on Aang and Sokka and collapsed crying with Katara crying too in the light of the full moon.