"Cactus juice, I really wish you could train with me, Y/N. Hama can extract the water from things just as easily as you can." Katara said excitedly, pacing the large clearing as Y/N practiced throwing knives and controlling her new space rock shurikens.
"I haven't waterbended in days, Katara." Y/N murmured, putting her weapons away and gathering up the knives. "I've never gone this long without it. It feels... weird."
"Here. We're alone." Katara quickly took the water from her pouch, throwing it at Y/N, but she let it hit her, most of it splashing to the ground.
"You know I can't." F/N sighed, watching as Katara frowned, concentrating and extracting the water from her clothes, slowly, but she was getting it.
"Come on, I said Cactus Juice. Just for a little bit, okay?" She offered, swirling the water in her hands.
"There's no reason other than having some bending time. It's super open out here, what if someone comes and sees Y/N bending??" F/N asked. Katara put her water away, walking forwards.
"Y/N is you. Don't say your own name like that. Are you alright?" She puzzled, unable to see anything in her fractured eyes. "Is there something wrong? Geez, where's Toph when you need her, I can't read you with those stupid glassy eyes."
"Y/N needs to back up a bit until the war is won." F/N snapped, the piece in her mouth making her rising voice fluctuate strangely. "Stop asking if I'm okay, she and everyone else here are safer when I'm here instead."
"...okay." Katara sighed. "Hama wants to show me one more thing tonight, at the full moon, where waterbending powers are the strongest. If you want to watch, you can follow us."
"...whatever."
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The night was cold, but bright, a soft breeze rustling the near-dead leaves still left on the twisted trees around them. The full moon made it difficult to follow without being noticed, but it was doable from a distance.
"I have never felt so alive." Hama breathed, looking towards the sky. F/N sat in the upper branches of a nearby tree, watching the two waterbenders below, standing in a small clearing.
"The technique I will show you, I discovered in that wretched Fire Nation prison. They were very careful to keep any and all water away from us. They pumped in dry air, our cages were elevated off the ground, and when we drank, our limbs were bound so we could not bend."
F/N looked closer as Hama turned around, a creepy smile on her face. Something wasn't right, and she was starting to get an idea of what it was.
"I realized one day, where there is life, there is water. I began practicing a technique on the rats that crawled into my cage. Once I had perfected the technique on them, I was ready for the men. The very guards who had kept me in chains opened my cell. It is a power that can be used to force your will upon others, and control their bodies. Bloodbending."
F/N was moving immediately, silently sliding down the thick branches and stopping right above Katara, the leaves still clinging to the tree's limbs and barely hiding her presence.
"I am aware of what it is." Katara mumbled darkly. "And I can tell you now, I don't want it."
"Oh, but it isn't your choice to make. The power exists. We are the last southern waterbenders, it is our duty to use this power to fight the Fire Nation. All of the other waterbenders, your mother-"
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FanfictionY/N was getting sick of the South Pole. Her cocky twin brother Sokka, her insufferable little sister Katara, the endless snow, ice, water, and chores. Yes, she loved the place, and her family, but ever since father left she had basically been lookin...
