History of Katara (Summer 100 AG)

After the fall of Ba Sing Se, Katara and her friends hide away in the Fire Nation, stealing clothes to disguise themselves and planning for the Invasion.

The Awakening


The episode begins where we learn that Aang has been unconscious for weeks after having been shot with lightning. Katara informs Aang that he had grown a head of hair now and remarks her admiration of this aspect. Hakoda approaches to formally introduce himself to Aang. Katara becomes angered at his remark of being Sokka and Katara's father seeing as she had just called him "dad". After she demands privacy from her father, Aang asks if she was angry at him, a statement she denies. Aang, still feeling pain from his injuries, goes back to his room with Katara to undergo healing. During the healing session, Aang recalls the battle in Ba Sing Se and realizes that he was "gone" before Katara brought him back. The next day, Sokka informs Aang about their return to Chameleon Bay after he was injured. The gang found her father and later captured a Fire Nation ship. Hakoda tells Aang that despite the Fire Nation's capture of Ba Sing Se, they still plan to invade the Fire Nation on the Day of Black Sun. In an angered tone, Katara corrects him, stating it was Sokka's plan, surprising her father with this remark. Sokka reveals to Aang that the eclipse isn't even their biggest advantage and that they have a secret, being Aang. He explains how the whole world thinks the Avatar is dead which upsets Aang.

Katara and the others run into another Fire Nation ship. The ship captain interrogates Bato and Hakoda, disguised as Fire Nation soldiers, but soon figures out their ship has been captured and arranges plans to sink it. Overhearing the captain's plans, a fight erupts. Katara nearly capsizes the enemy ship through the use of Waterbending and the team attempts to escape. Despite the tremendous efforts of Katara and Toph, the ship takes heavy damage from the pursuing Fire Nation ship. Out of sheer misfortune, the serpent of the Serpent's Pass appears only to be struck by a stray fireball. The heroes escape as the enraged serpent attacks the enemy Fire Nation ship. Later on, Katara, Toph and Sokka walk into Aang's room, stating they were going to a market to get dinner. Sokka encourages Aang towear a headband to obscure his arrow tatoos, but Aang refuses. While Toph and Sokka go to the market, Katara stays behind to talk with Aang, attempting to console him after he states his feelings of failure. Shortly after she leaves, Aang, feeling helpless and useless during the fight and guilty about failing in Ba Sing Se, flies off alone on a mission to regain his honor. Katara, after discovering that Aang was missing, breaks down in horror and confronts her father on her feelings about him leaving her and Sokka to fight in the war. She is the first to hug Aang when they find him on the shores of the Fire Nation and is greatly relieved upon seeing he is safe.

The Headband


Katara and the others travel to the Fire Nation with Aang, using Airbending and Waterbending to hide themselves and Appa in a cloud cover. They take temporary shelter in a cave and decide to seek out new clothes to help them better blend into the Fire Nation. They find an unattended clothesline, steal some outfits and go to town to buy some accessories (including a new necklace for Katara, who sadly removes her mother's Water Tribe necklace).

Aang enrolls in a Fire Nation School and gets into trouble for "roughing up" a favored student of the headmaster, resulting in a parent-teacher conference. Sokka and Katara attend the conference acting as Aang's parents, calling themselves "Mr. Wang Fire" and "Mrs. Sapphire Fire." After the conference, Aang insists on helping the children in the school and decides to hold a secret dance party for them in the cave. When Aang asks Katara to dance, she begins making multiple excuses out of shyness; at last she accepts his offer and takes Aang's hand. She becomes embarrassed by the amount of attention they receive from other students, however, Aang smoothly reassures her, leaving her blushing before they become serious. They perform a combination of neijia drills and capoeira in synchronization, which appears to be an acrobatic dance. However, the headmaster and several teachers appear on the scene, having been told of the dance by Hide. The crew manages to slip away in the opening behind the cave. While the party flies off on Appa, Toph compliments Aang on his efforts, which she believes had a serious impact on the students. Katara agrees and kisses Aang on the cheek which causes him to blush.

The Painted Lady


The group floats downstream in the middle of a river heavily polluted by brown sludge deposited by a nearby military factory. With little chance of catching any food, they decide to buy some at a nearby village floating in the middle of the river. Many villagers are sick because of lack of food or medicine and the polluted water. Katara wishes to help the people, but Sokka says their overall mission should remain their primary focus. Katara berates him for his thoughtlessness towards the poor people, but is soon convinced their mission must be given prime importance. When a small child asks her for spare food, however, Katara gives him one of the fish they had bought.

In the morning, Appa is found lying on his side, his tongue purple. Katara suggests the village might have herbs with which to heal him. When they arrive at the village, everyone appears to be in much better spirits. According to Xu, a legendary local river spirit known as the Painted Lady came and delivered food the previous night. When he states that no medicine is available, Katara suggests they let Appa rest for another day. That night, a thick mist descends upon the village and the Painted Lady arrives to heal several of the sick. The child Katara helped earlier thanks her and the Painted Lady, actually Katara in disguise, leaves across the water.



With Appa still sick the next day, they return to the village. The village, in even higher spirits, had erected a large statue of the Painted Lady in gratitude for healing their sick. Dock suggests that perhaps the Painted Lady could heal Appa. Sokka skeptically notes that the Painted Lady's work will be all for nothing unless she continually helps them for as long as the factory should stand. He jokingly suggests that the spirit should use her "spirit magic" to destroy the building. The next night, Katara once again disguises herself, accidenatlly waking both Momo and Aang upon her departure. Seeing the Painted Lady, Aang attempts to persuade her to aid their group, prompting Katara to flee. Aang chases her to the village where he discovers her scheme. Appa's illness was the result of her feeding him berries that stained his tongue. Katara sadly confesses her actions and the assumption of her identity as the Painted Lady. She apologizes for delaying them, however, Aang states his approval of the idea. Together, the two infiltrate the factory and destroy it, stopping the flow of the polluted sludge. Upon returning to the campsite, they realize Toph and Sokka have unfolded their plot. As they prepare to leave, they catch sight of a squad of Fire Nation troops heading towards the town on speeders and realize they must believe the villagers had sabotaged the factory. Determined to stop them, Katara and Aang, with help from Appa, Toph and Sokka providing spooky sound effects, stage an encounter with the Painted Lady to defeat the troops and drive them away.

The team stays behind long enough to help the villagers clean the Jang Hui river. That night, as Katara examines the water, a thick mist appears and the real Painted Lady appears to express her gratitude.

Sokka's Master
Katara and the others witness a meteor shower one night when a meteorite suddenly soars past them and collides into the earth, resulting in a fire. With a village lying nearby, the team races to the scene of the incident to extinguish the fire. Katara uses Waterbending to douse the flames.

After successfully extinguishing the fire, Sokka begins to brood on the fact that he does not possess bending abilities as opposed to the rest. Katara suggests they go shopping to cheer him up. When he discovers a sword to his liking in the weponry store, the shop owner informs him about a swordsmaster, Piandao, who lives nearby. Sokka travels to Piandao's castle to learn the ways of the sword while Katara, Aang and Toph wait impatiently for his return. He later returns, appealing for help in taking the extinguished meterorite to Piandao's palace where he proceeds to craft his own sword.

When Piandao presents him with his meteorite sword, Sokka reveals he is from the Water Tribe, not the Fire Nation. When Piandao suddenly engages him in a duel, the others run to Sokka's aid only to be halted by their friend, who claims this to be his fight alone. Katara, Aang and Toph witness the duel, eventually resulting in Piandao's overpowering of Sokka. Sensing him to be in danger, they rush to his aid only to be paused by Piandao who praises his skills and signals the end of the battle. The swordmaster reveals his knowledge of Aang being the Avatar and Sokka hailing from the Water Tribe and addresses Sokka himself, claiming he would gradually become a more superior swordmaster. The team soon departs from the palace.

The Beach
Katara and the others rest in an isolated quarry where Aang unknowingly reveals his identity to two Fire Nation soldiers patrolling the area nearby. Stunned to find out the Avatar was secretly alive, they sent a message on a messenger hawk; however, the journey was intercepted by a Raven Eagle owned by Combustion Man, the assassin Zuko hired to eliminate Aang. That night, while sleeping, Combustion Man attacks them using a special Firebending technique that enables him to shoot fire from his third eye. A short duel is fought and Aang narrowly escapes with his friends on Appa.

The Avatar and the Fire Lord
Aang and his friends travel to the island that was once Avatar Roku's home after he approached Aang in a dream. Once there, Aang meditates and ventures into the Spirit World. At one point, Katara asks Sokka whether they have bathrooms in the Spirit World to which Sokka replied that they did not. When Aang returns to the physical world and tells of his adventure with Roku, Katara expresses shock at learning how Fire Lord Sozin betrayed Roku. She, along with the others, hold hands at the end.

The Runaway
The gang briefly resides near a Fire Nation Fountain City where Toph begins using her Earthbending skills to scam local residents for money. Katara immediately becomes displeased with Toph's behavior, accusing Toph's motive behind her actions as an attempt to avoid thinking about her parents whom she ran away from. When Katara discovers a wanted poster of Toph who has been nicknamed "The Runaway", things only grow worse.

Another argument breaks out between the two with Toph going on a rant about how Katara was acting too motherly which upsets Katara greatly. Later, while bathing in the water, Katara overhears a conversation between Toph and Sokka. Sokka confesses to Toph that although Katara did become bossy at times, the maternal role she took on when their mother died was so great that he has since then replaced his image of his mother with his sister's face. Katara later devises a scam with Toph much to everyone's surprise. Things don't turn out the way she had expected, however, when both she and Toph become imprisoned in a wooden cell. Fortunately, Katara discovers a technique she can use to escape: sweat manipulation. By bending her sweat, she was able to slice through the wooden cell and escaped with Toph. The relationship between the two was finally mended when Katara agreed to help Toph send a letter to her parents.

The Puppetmaster
As the gang continues on their journey, they stop in a forest and start telling ghost stories. Sokka tells one about a haunted sword which fails to scare anyone. Katara proceeds to tell a story of her mother's friend, Nini, who mysteriously disappeared during a snowstorm which manages to frighten everyone. Toph suddenly says she hears screaming coming from under the mountain and how it suddenly stops. An old woman named Hama suddenly appears, offering them a safe place to stay for the night, as people in the woods had been mysteriously disappearing on full moons. The group accepts her offer to stay at her inn. Katara gets along with her very well. The next day, Hama leads her guests on a shopping trip, during which Sokka overhears some of the locals talking about the disappearances during the full moon. When Hama sends her guests ahead of her back to the inn, Sokka investigates the house for anything suspicious. Sokka then sees a box lying in a room. Just before they manage to open it, Hama walks in and catches them in the act. However, she opens the box for them and pulls out a water tribe comb, revealing she is from the Southern Water Tribe, but was captured a long time ago. She explains that she knows they are from the South Pole, too, as she heard them talking in the woods.



During dinner, the group also discovers that she is a Waterbender. Hama offers to teach Katara what she knows in order to carry on the tradition of the Southern Waterbenders, and Katara happily agrees to learn, wanting to know more about her tribe's cultural heritage. The next day, she personally tutors Katara and explains to her that water can be found in places she least expects. She demonstrates to her several useful techniques including how to control water vapor and how to draw water from fire lilies, flowers native to the Fire Nation. She then tells Katara she has one more technique to teach: one that can only be used at the full moon. When Katara expresses hesitance due to the rumors of disappearances, Hama reassures her, stating that two master Waterbenders under a full moon should be able to handle anything.



That night, Hama takes Katara into the woods were the villagers have been disappearing. She recounts her time spent in prison. Hama reveals her technique that she used to escape the prison, Bloodbending, which can only be used with the influence of the full moon enhancing her abilities. Horrified by the idea of controlling another person's body, Katara refuses to learn Bloodbending. This leads Katara to realize that Hama has been causing the villagers to disappear, but Hama angrily states that the people of the Fire Nation deserve the same treatment that they gave to the Southern Waterbenders. Hearing this causes Katara to adamantly refuse to learn Bloodbending and to stop Hama from further terrorizing the town, and so Hama uses the technique to temporarily force Katara into submission. However, Katara quickly regains control of her body, telling Hama that she not only draws power from the full moon as well, but her bending is far more powerful. The two begin to battle, each drawing water from the grass and trees surrounding them, and it quickly becomes obvious that they are nearly equally matched. When it seems that Katara has the upper hand, Aang and Sokka arrive to assist her. Hama, using Bloodbending, sends them flying at first Katara and then each other, with Sokka's sword pointing straight at Aang. At the last second, Katara uses Bloodbending to subdue Hama and protect Aang and Sokka. Toph arrives with the other villagers, who handcuff Hama and take her away, vowing to imprison her forever. Hama remarks that her work is done, as Katara has already willfully used Bloodbending, and laughs as she is dragged off. Katara then breaks down in tears, with Aang, Sokka and Toph's comfort.

Nightmares and Daydreams
Within the following days, Katara and the rest of the gang arrive on an uninhabited island in the middle of the Fire Nation where the entire invasion force will gather. Unfortunately, Aang learns that they have only four days until the invasion, and Aang feels unprepared, having not learned Firebending. He starts having nightmares about his duel with Fire Lord Ozai and trains relentlessly, depriving him of sleep. Aang starts having hallucinations and becomes tired, so Katara and the others attempt to help. Katara attempts to relax Aang with a few yoga sessions inside a soothing hot springs found on the island. However, the heat from the water reminds Aang of the Fire Lord's Firebending, causing him to panic. When Aang continues to train nonstop, Katara manages to get him to sleep for at least a little while by telling him to sleep for her, since he would not do it for himself. On the day before the invasion, Aang talks to Katara and tells her that his lack of sleep has helped him to realize that while he is fighting the Fire Lord to save the world, he is also doing it for Katara. He then tells Katara that he loves her and they begin to kiss passionately. However, this is merely a hallucination, so Aang explains his behavior to a confused Katara by lying that he daydreamed about living underwater, much to her amusement. Aang completely loses his mind later that day, so Katara and her friends shave an entire herd of Koala Sheep and use their wool to create a large bed for Aang. He refuses to sleep due to his lack of confidence in the upcoming battle, so Katara reassures him that he's ready to fight because since the day they met, Aang has trained for this battle and has become incredibly strong, brave, and smart. He has displayed great prowess in battle and a great love for his friends and allies, and both have helped him to get where he is today. Thanks to Katara and the others, Aang finally gets some decent sleep and is now fully confident in his ability to defeat Ozai.



Day of Black Sun
During the Day of Black Sun, Katara is first seen bending the water around the subs, allowing them to dive. Then, when they resurface, she tells Aang how proud of him she is, that he is no longer the goofy kid from in the iceberg. Aang then kisses Katara, to which she reacts by leaning in. He leaves on his glider and she proceeds to jump on Appa and continue along with the submarines on their journey towards the Fire Nation.

Katara then assists in the battle against the Firebenders, proving to be a worthy foe in combat once again. When her father is severely injured, she uses her healing abilities to heal him, giving him the strength needed to carry on despite not being able to actually fight. Katara does not join Sokka, Toph, and Aang in their pursuit of Fire Lord Ozai, but instead helps her father move around and attacks the Royal Palace. Unfortunately, the invasion fails when Princess Azula distracts Aang during the whole eclipse, forcing the group to retreat. However, the entire force could not escape because the Fire Nation destroyed their submarines, so Aang and all of the younger members of the force fled to the Western Air Temple while the elders surrendered. Katara gave Aang a look of reassurance when he cried over the failure of the battle.

Hostility


Katara and the group arrived at the Western Air Temple and they discussed who would be Aang's Firebending teacher. She suggested Jeong Jeong, but Aang said that there was no way of finding him again. When Prince Zuko showed up at the Temple, Katara was enraged and prepared to attack, but Zuko announced that he had changed and now wanted to teach Aang Firebending. Katara was the most opposed to trusting him, and attacked him with her Waterbending when he insisted that he be taken as their prisoner. Katara later confesses to the gang that when she and Zuko were imprisoned in Ba Sing Se, he made her feel sorry for him when he lamented the loss of his mother Ursa, but when he betrayed her by joining Azula she chose never to trust him again. Toph points out to the group that Zuko was being honest in his apologies over his past crimes and that he is the only available person to teach Aang Firebending. However, Katara and the others shut her down with their disinterest, causing Toph to storm off.

The next day, Toph returns to reveal that Zuko burned her feet when she tried to talk to him about joining the group. It was an honest accident as he had mistaken her for an attacker, but the fact that he used fire on her is enough to convince Sokka and the others to hunt Zuko down. While tending to Toph's wounds, the Combustion Man attacks, pinning the group down. Katara and Aang's attacks prove useless, but Zuko buys the gang enough time for Sokka to take the assassin down with his boomerang. Zuko apologizes once again to the group for his misdeeds and proves to the gang that he has in fact changed for the better. Aang, Toph, and Sokka immediately see that Zuko does have good in him and chose to let him join, but Katara only allows him to join because of Aang's need to firebend. Zuko was clearly nervous when she made her choice, knowing full well that she had little reason to trust him. Katara later confronts Zuko in his room in the temple and tells him fiercely,

"'You might have everyone else here buying your... 'transformation', but you and I both know you've struggled with doing the right thing in the past. So let me tell you something right now: you make one step backward, one slip-up, give me one reason to think you might hurt Aang, and you won't have to worry about your destiny anymore, because I'll make sure your destiny ends, right then and there; permanently!'"

In other words, if she detects any act of treachery, she will not hesitate to take his life (possibly with Bloodbending). She then leaves a very stunned and silent Zuko to ponder on these scathing words.

In "The Firebending Masters" she still shows her hostility towards Zuko as she openly mocks his loss of firebending and the irony that if he had lost it long ago it would have greatly helped them. By the time of "The Boiling Rock, Part 1", her hostility towards Zuko appears to have lessened: she mocks him after he fails to tell a joke properly, but in a less vindictive way than she did in "The Firebending Masters".

Trusting Zuko
At the beginning of "The Southern Raiders", a fleet of Fire Nation ships led by Azula assaults the Western Air Temple. When a bomb strikes the ceiling, a number of heavy stones fall to the ground, nearly crushing Katara, until Zuko saves her. It irritates her, however, that Zuko was the one to save her life, and she ungratefully shoves him off of her. The group attempts to escape through a tunnel, while Zuko holds off Azula and the fleet. When they can't get Appa through the tunnel, Sokka suggests they split up. Katara fiercely objects, arguing that the Fire Nation shouldn't be allowed to break up their family again. Hakoda reassures her that they won't be apart forever, and he bids farewell to Katara and Sokka. Katara and the gang escape on Appa, and she saves Zuko when he falls off of Azula's airship.



Later, the group camps out on an unnamed island, and they celebrate Zuko's heroism. Katara, however, does not enjoy the celebrations, or Zuko's joke about trying to capture them. When Zuko says he doesn't deserve their praise, Katara agrees with him and storms off. Zuko follows her and tells her that everyone else trusts him now, and that her continued animosity isn't fair. She angrily replies that she was the first person to trust him, and he betrayed her. When he asks how he can make up to her, she angrily says:

"'You really want to know!? Hmmm, maybe you could reconquer Ba Sing Se in the name of the Earth King, or I know-you could bring my mother back!'"

After learning what happened from Sokka, Zuko discovers that the Southern Raiders were the ones responsible for Sokka and Katara's mother's death. He waits outside Katara's tent and when she wakes up, he offers to help her track down her mother's murderer.



A furious Katara takes up the offer. When they ask Aang if they can borrow Appa, Aang jokingly asks if it is Katara's turn to take a field trip with Zuko. When Katara says that it is, Aang asks what's going on. Zuko tells him and Sokka that he knows who had murdered Katara's mother, and that they intend to find him. An argument ensues, where Zuko and Katara claim that she needs to have emotional resolution, while Aang and Sokka both say that it is a bad idea (as both violence and vengeance are never the answer), and Aang claims it is revenge. The argument ends with Katara angrily storming off. That night, Katara and Zuko sneak off to take Appa anyway, and Aang and Sokka meet them there. Aang lets them go, but he urges Katara not to kill the man who killed her mother, but to forgive him.

Zuko flies them to a Fire Navy communication tower, where they will find the location of the Southern Raiders. After sneaking in, they find the scroll showing the Raiders' whereabouts, at Whale Tail Island. Katara flies there for a day without rest, and tells Zuko the full story of what she remembers of her mother's death.



When they arrive at the Southern Raiders' ship, on the night of a full moon, Katara almost effortlessly takes out almost all the ship's crew. The two of them force their way towards the leader, and Katara blasts a metal door open with waterbending. When the leader fights back and Firebends at Zuko, she willingly uses Bloodbending to subdue him. After looking him in the eyes, she realizes that he is not the same man who had killed her mother. When Zuko interrogates him, he reveals that the man they're searching for is Yon Rha, the former leader of the Southern Raiders who had retired four years ago when Katara was ten years old.



She and Zuko track him down on a Fire Nation island and ambush him. Katara demands to know if he remembers her, and although he cannot at first, he realizes she is the Water Tribe girl that he had seen six years ago. He reveals that he had been ordered to find and kill the last Waterbender of the Southern Water Tribe, and that Katara's mother had told him it was her. An enraged Katara says that her mother had deliberately lied to protect the last Southern Waterbender, herself. She furiously then creates a dome out of rain, which she transforms into dozens of ice spikes, which she sends to kill him. However, she stops them at the last minute. Yon Rha begs for his life, and even offers his own mother's life in exchange. She says that she realizes now how sad, pathetic and empty he is, but no matter how much she hates him, she cannot kill him. She and Zuko leave, while Yon Rha cries. When they rejoin the group, Aang says he's proud of her for forgiving Yon Rha. Katara replies that she has not forgiven him, and that she never can. She does forgive Zuko, however, and gives him a warm hug.

The Ember Island Players


The gang retreats to Ozai's old beach house where Zuko and Aang continue their Firebending training. Katara questions if it is safe to hide from the Fire Lord in his own beach house, a concern that Zuko quickly dismisses. Sokka and Suki arrive, suggesting that the group go see a play about themselves. Like all the others, with the exception of Toph, she is displeased with her portrayal. Her character is played by a much older (and more developed) actress, and portrayed as very melodramatic and exaggeratedly preoccupied with "hope", often bursting into tears and melodramatic speeches for the occasion. Such as when Sokka asked Katara why she stole the Water Scroll, she answered (while crying) "It just gave me so much hope!", much to the dismay of the real Katara. When the play reaches the point where Zuko betrays Iroh, Katara asks an upset Zuko if he did say that he "hates his uncle." Zuko says that he might as well had.



The play continues and reaches the point when it shows Zuko and Katara in the cave, during the events of "The Crossroads of Destiny", with Actress Katara actress hitting on Actor Zuko, which makes their real life counterparts slightly uncomfortable. When Actor Zuko tells her he thought she was supposed to be the Avatar's girl, Actress Katara tells him the Avatar is more like a little brother to him and that she doesn't think of him romantically and they both hug. Aang gets annoyed and storms off. During a break between the acts, Katara finds Aang outside, and Aang tells Katara how he really feels about her. Katara confesses that she is currently confused and is not seeking to be in a relationship at the moment. When Aang kisses her, she becomes upset, noting she just said she was confused and goes inside leaving Aang heartbroken.

Like the rest of the group, Katara was displeased with the ending to play with the Fire Nation emerging victorious in the war.

Sozin's Comet


When Zuko berates the others for having beach parties when the Comet is three days away, Katara states that the Fire Nation pretty much won the war when they took Ba Sing Se. She states the gang's plan to wait until after Sozin's Comet to battle the Fire Lord. Zuko reveals Ozai's plan to burn the Earth Kingdom down with enhanced Firebending and warns Aang that he must defeat the Fire Lord before the comet. The following day, they discover that Aang and Momo are missing. The group searches the entire island, but are unable to find him, so they turn to Zuko, who has experience in tracking Aang down. The group flies to the Earth Kingdom, where Zuko asks June to track Aang down with Aang's staff. When her Shirshu is unable to do so, he asks her to find Iroh, and shows that he kept one of his smelly sandals. June tracks him down to Ba Sing Se and leaves. During the evening, the group is approached by members of the Order of the White Lotus, namely Pakku, who now is her step-grandfather, having married Kanna. Also with him are other White Lotus masters the group had met before: Bumi, Jeong Jeong, and Piandao. They take them to the Order's campsite, where they meet Iroh and where it's decided that Katara will return to the Fire Nation to help Zuko take the throne from Azula when Ozai is defeated.



They leave on Appa and head towards the Fire Nation. On the way there, Katara tries to reassure Zuko's worries of Aang not being able to defeat the Fire Lord despite being concerned herself. They arrive in the Fire Nation during Azula's coronation. Azula challenges Zuko to an Agni Kai while Katara watches the battle from the sidelines. Zuko battles Azula, eventually gaining the upper hand. When he mockingly asks Azula whether her refusal to generate lightning is due to a fear of him redirecting it, she takes the bait and generates lightning. Originally targeting Zuko, she fires at Katara instead. Zuko blocks the lightning, saving Katara's life, but takes the blast to his chest, injuring him badly. Katara proceeds to fight Azula who attempts to drive her away from any source of water. Katara eventually manages to trick her into walking directly over a grate of water. Freezing her in a mass of ice, Katara is able to chain the princess to the grate. She then rushes to Zuko and heals him. Zuko then thanks her, but Katara says that she is the one who should be thanking him. She is present at Zuko's coronation. Later, she is seen at the Jasmine Dragon, along with other members of Team Avatar. She follows Aang after he leaves for some fresh air and hugs him. She and Aang then look at each other lovingly before she instigates a romantic kiss.