I loved the episode "The Puppetmaster", and I thought Hama was a really interesting character who needed a little more of a back story; even though she is a crazy bitch.

Hama chuckled softly to herself as a barrage of snowballs came her way. She admired her friend's persistence, but pitied her stupidity.

"Kanna, when will you learn?" Hama smirked.

She raised her right arm and with it five clumps of snow rose up. She made a cupping motion with her hands and the snow formed into snowballs. Hama pulled back her arms and swiftly brought them forward. The snowballs shot at Kanna.

Kanna managed to avoid the first four, but the fifth hit her squarely in the back. Hama fell to the ground, laughing hysterically, and Kanna raised her fist in mock anger.

"Damn your waterbending!"

Kanna ran over to Hama, and collapsed onto Hama stomach, who let out an "oomph". The two girls went into a giggling fit. They sighed and lay still for a few moments. Hama was about to get up because the ice was making her backside numb when a nasty smell filled her nostrils.

"Burning coal.." She said under her breath.

"What?" Kanna asked sleepily.

Hama stood up abruptly, pushing Kanna to the ground. She peered cautiously at the icebergs, looking for a sign of anything. Then she saw it; a flag appeared over the top of an iceberg.

"Fire Nation.." Hama said in a louder voice.

She grabbed a confused looking Kanna by the wrist and pulled her towards the village.

"What's wrong? Whatsa' matter?" Kanna asked in a panicked tone.

"The Fire Nation is coming. I saw their ship," Hama replied. Kanna gaped at her. "They'll probably be here in a couple of minutes."

As soon as they got into the village, Hama and Kanna began shouting.

"The Fire Nation's coming! They're here! They're coming! The Fire Nation is here!"

The whole village quickly gathered outside. They chattered nervously to each other.

"How do you know this, girls?" The Water Tribe leader, Soan, asked.

"Because we saw them! Well.. I saw them! But they are coming!" Hama was beginning to feel a little angry as the situation was becoming more and more urgent.

Soan frowned. He knew how much Hama and Kanna liked to mess around, so it was hard to take them seriously. Before Soan could say anything, the sound of a ship's horn ripped through the air.

Everyone froze and turned towards the edge of the ice. An enormous ship came crashing through the ice and towards the village. Soan turned to everyone. "Okay, I want the waterbenders at the entrance of the village and warriors to stay in the Circle. Hurry now!"

Without any argument, everyone went to their assigned positions and quietly waited for what was going to happen.

Hama had gone with the waterbenders, most of whom were young to elderly men, only a few women. She knew it was not a sexist thing, waterbending were just more common among the males. She took the stance she had taken so many times when she was playing with Kanna as the ship came to a stop and began to drop the side-doors. When the door was only half-way open, fire-balls shot out of the cannon-holes.

The waterbenders created a wall of water to stop the fire and tried to freeze the doors shut. But it quickly melted away as the firebenders started coming through. They charged the waterbenders, creating large balls of fire in their hands as they came. The waterbenders braced themselves, and as soon as the firebenders got close enough, they released the fireballs as the same time. The waterbenders couldn't do anything simultaneously anymore, so they split up and surrounded the firebenders.

Hama took water and created long, water-arms, over her own arms. She ignored the biting cold and ran at a firebender who had strayed away from the rest. He didn't seem to notice her; he was too busy looking out for the larger waterbenders. She snuck up behind him, knocked him over with one of the water-arms. As soon as he fell to the ground, he lifted up his arms in a threatening position. But so did Hama. The soldier submitted and lay still.

"Why are you here?" Hama asked, holding a water-arm to his chest.

"It was Lord Azulon's orders," The soldier gulped, "To wipe out all of the waterbenders."

Hama let out a small gasp, then a growl. She looked down at the firebender. "Well, that's not going to happen! We're not so weak, you know?"

In a swift movement, Hama made the end of the water-arm turn to solid ice, and stabbed it through the soldier's chest. He gasped for a second and was dead within a minute. Hama stepped back with disbelief in what she had just done, and pulled the blood-covered ice-spear out of him. She let the ice-arm fall off, and turned back to the battle. She was not sure, but it seemed that there were less waterbenders fighting, however she could not see any bodies.

"Get your head in the game, Hama!" Soan shouted over to her, who was in the process of fighting a group of firebenders.

Hama ran over to help, and just as she did one of the firebenders saw her, sending a fireball her way.

"Hama! Get out of the way!" Soan yelled.

But Hama couldn't move, her body just froze. The fireball was coming quickly, and just when Hama thought it was over, Soan ran in front of her. He tried to make a wall of ice, but it was too thin, and the fireball quickly melted it, knocking into Soan. Soan and Hama were thrown into the ground, and slid quite a distance. Soan had been hit with the fireball, while Hama was just pushed by him.

"Damn.. Thanks, Soan.." Hama sat up and looked over to Soan. He wasn't moving, and his body was badly burned. "Soan?"

She looked for any sign of life, but couldn't find anything. To her delight, he groaned, and moved slightly. His eyes fluttered open.

"Hama.. I'm glad you're okay," he took a deep, shallow breath, "I'm not going to make it. Can you promise me something?"

"What is it, Soan?"

"Promise me that the waterbenders don't die out. Do everything you can to prevent that." Soan inhaled deeply, and then let one last breath.

Hama sat in silence for a moment until she realized that there was a battle still going on. She was not imagining it, there were less waterbenders.

"They must be taking them on board.."

Hama charged at the group that had killed Soan, and created a thick whip made of water, knocking the firebenders to the ground.

"You bastards!" She shouted, sending ice-needles shooting from every direction. "You killed my uncle!"

The needles killed all except one, who had a couple stuck in his leg and one his shoulder. Hama stood over him, and looked him in the eye. She bent down and pulled one of the needles out of his leg. She held it to his throat, and grimaced.

"I'm sorry, but it has to be done!" She turned her head as she took the sharp end and drove it into his trachea. His body fell to the ground with a thump as the blood flowed on the ice.

The battle continued, or what it felt like, for several hours, and she could definitely feel it. Including Hama, there were only three waterbenders left and she had no idea what was going on with the people with the village. She struggled on as much as she could and just when she thought things were going well, another ship pulled up. Nearly a tidal wave of Fire Nation soldiers poured out of the ship and surrounded the waterbenders.

The three waterbenders gave each other exasperated glances and dropped their arms to their sides.

"We surrender.." one of them said, dropping to his knees.

"It's about time. We were wasting our gifts fighting against waterbender filth," a Fire Nation general said. He motioned to the waterbenders, and they were quickly carried towards the ship.

Just when Hama was being pushed up the ramp, a group of people came running from the village; a smaller number of people than earlier. They were Water Tribe people, and it seemed they managed to fight off the small group of firebenders who snuck into the village.

Kanna ran towards the ship, but she was held back by one of the Tribe members. She looked up at Hama, tears in her eyes, opened her mouth halfway, closed it, and hung her head sadly.

Hama was roughly pushed up the ramp and in to the ship, getting one last look of the icy tundra that was her home before the bay-doors were closed behind them.