Chapter 1

It was a beautiful night full of stars. It rained during the day (as it rarely does in the Fire Nation) so the water droplets glimmered in the moonlight. It was all silent until she woke up panting. Mai has been Fire Lady for six weeks now and these nightmares have been popping up the last four weeks. The royal physician, Naikai*, an elderly man but very talented at what he does, has been giving Mai sleeping draughts. But the nightmares always seem to come back no matter how strong the draught is.

Mai had had these nightmares before; the last one she had before they stopped happened the night before Zuko's Agni-kai with his father.

Flashback

She was tossing and turning and clenching her fists and sweating a lot; like she was in a furnis room in one of those factories that supply for the men that are in the war. With an image in her head of a harsh looking man that looked to be slowly walking towards a boy that was at least 14 years old. The man was saying something she could not understand because she could not hear anything.

They were in a room that looked exactly like the royal Agni-kai room at the palace filled with people she could not identify except Iroh, Prince Zuko and Princess Azula's uncle who had a very sad and worried look on his face, and Princess Azula herself who had an evil expression on her face. Then without warning the harsh looking man pulled his right arm back looking like he was about to punch the boy but when he lunged his fist forward instead of a punch he let out a gush of fire escape his fist and hit the boy on the area of his left eye. It wasn't till then she actually started to recognize the boy and the man; it was Zuko and his father, Fire lord Ozai. That was when she wake up with a scream, which was a surprise to her because she never really screamed a lot.

The next day Mai begged Zuko not to do this Agni-kai,"Please Zuko you can't do this."

"Sorry Mai, I have to."Zuko said with confidence.

"But Zuko..."she started to say before he cut her off.

"Don't worry Mai, I'll be fine; besides, he's just an old man, I'll win this." Zuko thought it was the old man he had interrupted in that stupid and cruel war meeting his uncle allowed him to go to. Before Mai could tell him anything otherwise, Zuko was already in there about to take his stance. Mai knew she couldn't do anything more so she ran across the palace grounds as fast as she could all away across to her home. When she got there she ran to her room and locked the door and slid onto her bed hoping what she had seen in her nightmare was false, but soon enough she could already hear his scream, it was the loudest scream of pain she had ever heard, that scream will mentally play though her head for a long time.

Present time

After the previous nightmare she had just had she was pretty much in the same position she was in from the last nightmare; sitting up sweating just the scream was replaced with a loud gasp. Her nightmare was full of ravens, just plane ravens. Mai read in a old dusty book in the more further side of the library where people barely go that ravens were more common in the fire nation thousands of years ago. There was also a dark figure wearing a black cloak with the hood over the figures head. Mai could also see the figure was wearing a pendent with a with a ravens head on it, just what made the raven stand out was that it had blood red eyes, that was when she realized that all the ravens there had blood red eyes.

The the figure said something in a woman's voice before everything disappeared "make us remembered..." Before the dream completely ended the women figure said it once again "make us remembered." That was when Mai woke up. Mai had just calmed down when she looked to her left, Zuko wasn't there; most likely working late in his office again. She decided to go to the royal library that nobody really used during the night except for her and sometimes Zuko but mostly her. She went over to the went over to the wardrobe and grabbed a black silk robe and left through the the bedroom door.