A/N: While I don't own the Avatar Universe, I do own the characters. XD

The sun rose over a small mountain temple. Yi-zhu sat on top of a large rock in one of the gardens meditating. His breathing was low and his concentration focused. He could feel the surroundings around him begin to awaken with the sun. He heard the small crawls of the land crabs and the leaves as they blew in the breeze. He could also hear something else. It sounded like screaming. He concentrated on the noise when he felt his being move through the cosmos. As he focused on the screaming all he could see was darkness but the sounds were becoming louder. He pressed forward in his mind but all he could see was darkness. The screams began to encompass his mind making him dizzy. The last thing he saw before his eyes opened were two red eyes staring him down.

Yi-zhu caught his breath as he came out of meditation. Immediately he jumped up and grabbed his glider staff and took off to a lower part of the temple where an older monk was tending to a garden.

"Master Pai-Qin." He bowed before coming closer to the monk. "It has happened again. This time I managed to see their eyes, two red eyes."

"You are speaking of the dreams?" He asked with his voice airy and old.

"Not dreams, visions. They happen when I meditate. Something is very wrong but I can't see what is attacking people."

"Attacking people?" Pai-Qin turned to him in confusion.

"Well it must be attacking people, I always hear screaming."

"I see." He put down his shears. "Yi-zhu, how long have these been happening exactly?"

"For three weeks, almost a month."

"Hmm, interesting. Isn't that about the time the lotus marking appeared on your arm." Pai-Qin nodded to a dark mark on Yi-zhu's arm that looked to be in the shape of a lotus.

"Yes." Yi-zhu looked at his arm and stroked two fingers across the mark.

"I've written to my brother in the south about it and he claims to know why you have that. It might explain these visions as well."

"What is it?" Yi-zhu asked eagerly.

"He did not say yet, he wanted to go to Wan Shi Tong's Library before he jumped to any conclusions. I suspect we'll hear from him in a week or two."

"A week or two? Why so long?"

"The Library moves. Wan Shi Tong does not keep it in one place for too long lately."

"Lately?"

"Yes, I'm not sure why he has decided to keep moving but that's what I hear. My brother believes it to be located somewhere in a vast swamp in the Earth Kingdom." Yi-zhu looked down in defeat.

"Don't worry, Yi-zhu. I'm sure everything is alright. Why don't you go out flying with Loba?"

"Loba still hasn't gotten better from that spidercat bite. She needs rest. I'll just go train."

"You train too much, Yi-zhu. You should relax a little."

"My test for mastery is coming up, I need to practice." He hurried away on his glider again. Pai-Qin watched him with worrisome eyes. He sighed before reaching into his robes and pulling out a letter. He glazed it over but stopped at the last line.

I believe him to be one of the chosen. – Your brother, Pai-Qen.

"Let's hope we're wrong, brother." He tucked the letter back into his robes.

A/N: I hope you liked it! Please R&R. Just some quick notes, they are not at any specific air temple because the first avatar period is so far back that it's before the air temples were established as specific dwellings of air nomads who are at this time, actual nomads.