Disclaimer: Neither ATLA is mine, nor this song. This amazing song is by Led Zeppelin, because they are awesome. AWESOME I SAY!!! But the story is mine.

Mai was going to buy a stairway to heaven. Not literally, of course. She was going to get what she wanted. She would rise to the highest position possible in the Fire Nation available to women. She would become Fire Lady.

Of course, to do that, she had to make Zuko, the Crown Prince of the Fire Nation, love her. She started at the bottom. the first step. Childhood crush. Make sure he knew she 'liked' him–and also befriend the cruel Fire Nation princess Azula as a plan 'B'; never know if things could go wrong between the Prince and herself.

With that accomplished, she turned to the next step. Unattached liking. She was interested. sure, but not enough to act on it. Make him come to her. She was halfway up the stairs when Zuko went and got himself banished. There goes the easy way up–now she had to work on her relationship with Azula. Azula would become the ruler of the Fire Nation if Zuko never came back, being her best friend was not quite the same as Fire Lady, but it was as high as she would be able to go without actually being Fire Lady. She could work with this.

But Zuko came back, and the original plan was back on. However, he was thinking about someone else, some other little hussy. She knew it was a woman, not the Avatar as everyone seemed to think. This was not acceptable. She would have to work to banish that woman from his mind.

As soon as that was taken care of, and she was sure he wasn't thinking about that girl, he went and left her. He left! No doubt, Mai had been mistaken, and he was returning to her. She knew this because he had broken up with her. Through a letter of all things. After a long while, he finally came crawling back to her after the final battle. She glared at him.

"Never break up with me again." She told him. He nodded meekly. Good. She was the one wearing the pants in the relationship. He wore the silly pointy shoes. She told him to make her a sandwich. She was hungry.

And then he proposed. After several years, he proposed. She acted flattered, and excited. Little did he know that she was rejoicing because her climb was almost finished.

It was a month before the wedding. She was bubbling with excitement, which more Mai, meant she smiled her toothless smile. All the time. Once, she even showed some of her teeth. Her ladies in waiting were nearly frightened to death, and Zuko would have peed his pants if he wasn't in his twenties. But, to spoil the great mood Mai was enjoying, she came back. The old ember between them, Zuko and the woman, flared up, renewed. Time had done nothing to extinguish it.

And Mai was dumped. The engagement was broken. Her stairway to heaven shattered underneath her, and blew away on the whispering wind. She watched as Katara, the brat who had travelled with the avatar, who Zuko had chased around the world, became Fire Lady. She had stolen Mai's Stairway to Heaven.

Song: Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin

See? Truly epic song. Especially if you went to youtube, and looked it up. Now, there is a line in there that I used that truly belongs to deviantART user 050108. Its called The one true Zutara, in case you wanted to search for it, since I can't post link/address here. I should post it on my profile, but I'm too lazy. It's hilarious. And I know, I used Mai in place of Katara, but it had to be done. Zuko keeps getting into relationships with aggressive, controlling women. Please Review!