Katara struggled to breath as the light of the nearly full moon touched her skin.
She used to love the moon, even before she actually really knew anything about her bending, but now, it made her feel sick.
She had always felt strong feeling inside her when the moon was almost or completely full, finding it making so much sense when she learned how the moon was connected to waterbending.
As she grew stronger and learned more techniques, she started feeling the power of the moon beter and beter at night and when she needed to fight, it made her feel invincible.
Only, a few nights ago was she forced to learn the dark side of that power.
The, horrible, despicable side that Hama forced upon her.
She had started off using waterbending for random little tricks at home, then for fighting and later healing and now-
A sob forced it's way hast her lips and tears filled her eyes.
Bloodbending.
Hama already started to make her nervous and a little scared when she took Katara outside that night but when she started explaining how she managed to escape her imprisonment and what she invented, Katara had been horrified.
Had Hama only kept it for escaping her imprisonment and never used it again, Katara may have been able to look past it, but it was the fact that the old woman kept using it, not just for self-defence but for controling and imprisoning innocent people again and again, leaving them to rot.
And she enjoyed doing it.
Katara had realised that the woman she had been starting to see as another grandmother-figure was actually a bitter, evil monster.
When Katara refused to be like Hama, the old woman started using that devlish power on both Katara and her friends.
It had felt horrible.
Het body had jerked every way, no matter how hard she tried to she tried to stop it and it felt like her muscles were on the verge of being torn, same with her bones breaking and at some point she swore it felt at some points like her blood was trying to escape from it's veins.
And now she had used that power on someone else.
Hama had been about to make Sokka stab Aang with his sword.
If Katara hadn't bloodbended Hama, she would have definately killed Aang and after that probably the rest of them.
She didn't have a choice.
That was what she kept telling herself.
It was what Sokka, Aang and Toph kept telling her.
It should have been as simple as that, having done it once to save the others and never again, but it wasn't that simple.
Because now that Katara had bloodbended, it was a part of her, just like all forms of waterbending.
Now whenever she felt the strenght of the full moon, she would feel it's power and be reminded of what she was capable of because of that power.
No matter what, she would never be able to fully escape it.
That was what it meant to be a bloodbender.