Chapter II- Nightmare
I run through the forest, trying to get away from this person. It feels like I've been running for hours even though I've only been running for a few minutes. I fall to the ground, tripping over something, maybe a root. I feel hot breath on my neck and smell cinnamon. Suddenly there is warmth all around me, maybe too warm. It becomes warmer and warmer while I squint my eyes even though it is dark out. I feel so uncomfortable, I can't take the heat…
I open my eyes to see a streak of sun in my line of sight. I'm not in the woods anymore. I'm in a room, a very fancy room. It is decorated in colors of red. I pull the sheets off of me, because it is very humid in the room. Wait, where am I? I can't remember what happened to me, just force against my body and the smell of cinnamon.
I walk over to the door, then pause. Should I open it? There could be danger outside these walls. I decide to take the chance and open the door. Nothing, except a hallway decorated in sheets of red. Wait, those aren't sheets, they're flags, flags of the Fire Nation. I'm in the Fire Nation, my mind screamed. I look down each direction the hallway goes, no one, then I step out. I turn right and start walking. I've got to find a way out. I walk for about a minute then stop at a door. This door is different than the other doors that I had seen in the hallway. It's a double door, so I figure that it could be a way out.
I open the door, then walk out into the most magnificent garden that I had ever seen. There were flowers everywhere. The garden appeared to be surrounded by walls, but I walk through the garden, figuring that there should be a door somewhere.
"Where do you think you're going?" a too familiar voice said. I feel shivers down my back. I slowly turn around and face the man that I most truly hate.
Zuko. I glare at him and feel heat rising to my face. "How did I get here?"
"You don't remember?" Zuko asked, slowly walking towards me with a scowl on his face.
"Well, I obviously don't since I just asked," I said sarcastically.
"Well…let's see," Zuko pondered, "I found you all by yourself on an island and decided to kidnap you."
"That was you? Why would you kidnap me?"
"Because Ozai ordered me to," Zuko said, the scowl disappearing from his face.
"Why does Ozai want me? What use am I to him?"
"Why don't you ask him yourself?" Zuko yelled. He turns and walks away from me, clearly in one of his 'pissed off' moods.
I run up behind Zuko quietly, not wanting to be detected. I bend some water, then I attack Zuko. I force the water to surround Zuko's head, so he can't breathe, then I let the water drop.
"Where is Ozai?" I asked Zuko, who is lying on the ground trying to catch his breath. He glares at me.
"I'll take you," he growled, then gets up and starts walking towards a door that I didn't see before.
We walk through the door and walk down a hallway that seems never-ending. We finally stop at a set of double doors, much larger than the other ones. Zuko opens the door and I follow him into a room with a throne at the end of it. And of course, in that throne was Fire Lord Ozai.
"Awww, I see that you have succeeded at my request," Ozai said to Zuko as we get closer.
"Of course I have father," Zuko said, bowing down to his father as we stop in front of the throne.
Ozai gets up and walks towards us. "Katara, Katara," Ozai said, "I knew it wouldn't be too hard for Zuko to find you."
"Why am I here?" I asked, glaring at Ozai.
"Hmmm… let's see," Ozai pondered, "well, you're here because you are going to protect me and my family during the eclipse."
"Don't you have guards to protect you?" I asked.
"No, not this time," Ozai said, "you're not just going to protect us, you're going to protect us from the Avatar."