Title: Child of the Legends

Disclaimer: Jade Empire does not belong to me and I do not get any money off of this story. Any character that is not in Jade Empire is from my creation! Hope you enjoy!

Author's note: Apologies for the wait! More updates coming soon. My Christmas gift for all of you!

Chapter 3:

Mei Lin awoke, her head throbbed, more than that, if felt like it was on fire. Mei Lin clutched her head and curled up into a fetal position.

"Mommy," she whined, "my head huuurts!"

She grabbed her sheets and pulled them over her head. Her sheets were incredibly soft, silky. Did mom get new sheets, Mei Lin asked her self. She opened one eye and looked at her sheets, Red Silk?

Red was a royal color, Jen Zi nor Sky would insult the empress by using such royal colors, and silk!

Mei Lin sat up, ignoring her throbbing head. She was on a round, silky bed fit for a god, the sheets were red with gold lining and the bed was surrounded by pillows, yellow, red, gold, and all the colors you could imagine and probably more!

"This isn't my room, or any room in the house at all, she thought sliding off the bed on to the cool steps. Her feet were bare, and she got chills every step that she took.

Mei Lin had to walk down steps, at least 15, to get onto the main floor. She looked behind her, facing the stairs. She looked up and saw the red bed again, surrounding the bed was large golden pillars sculpted with the faces of gods on it. Behind the bed was a giant jade dragon and phoenix, with candles in front of it.

Mei Lin looked around her, other than the stairs, this place was empty. The floors were black, and it had a white symbol, that she didn't know what it meant.

"Hello!" She yelled out to nowhere,"HELLO, does anyone hear me?"

Suddenly, the sound of bells sounded behind her, Mei Lin turned to it. There was a man, he was very tall, he wore a black mask tat had eyes that pointed, and a white mouth that curved down wards, that mask covering his face. He wore red robe with bells on the end with black armor that was pointed at the shoulders and knees. He had a long and ripped cape that faded from white with bells on it.

Mei Lin froze in her tracks; all her memories came flowing back. Her head pain completely disappeared as she remembered. When she was at home, someone was at the door.

"I got it," she yelled, and opened it before her mom would say 'no' and tell her to wait until she got it.

Someone, maybe this guy, looked down at her. She couldn't tell what his emotions were, maybe he was smiling at her, or frowning, she couldn't remember.

"I was hoping to see your mother, but seeing you is much easier, so much easier," the person's voice was dark. Mei Lin knew that this man was probably bad, she tried to close the door but the man grabbed her.

He was so fast all she could do was let out the beginning of a scream, "1 have a letter for your daddy, and I need you too. You could help us more than you know."

Mei Lin's eyes widened in fear and she kicked and tried to scream, but this figure had her mouth and held her so tight that she couldn't move. Before Mei Lin realized it everything was a blur, the entire area, like she was running so fast that everyone was like shadows. But all she remembered was that at the time, everything was getting dark, and then black.

Then she woke up here, in this godly room, this room was bigger than Godmother Silk Fox's. Mei Lin snapped back to reality, she knew that she needed to get away from this creature, if it was the thing that brought her here or not she needed to leave.

"Finally you've woken up," it said, its voice was muffled by the mask; "We've waited for you long enough, let's go child." It turned around, its cape hitting Mei Lin in the face and walked off towards the endless side of the room.

This was her time to dash the other way, or maybe it would be wiser to follow him and run later. For now, she would follow, she thought quickly. She followed behind the armored stranger.

They walked until they stopped at a white wall with a giant symbol of a tiger on the wall. The stranger pulled out a key that had to be bigger than her hands together, and struck the door with it. Instead of the key breaking or a giant hole in the wall forming, the key seemed to disappear into the wall; only the handle could be seen.

The stranger turned the key to the left, and pulled the key out. He put the free hand on the spot around the door and pushed, the door opened. Mei Lin could finally see the lining of the door.

"Move," it commanded her. Mei Lin walked past him taking another glimpse and him as he held the door open for her. As soon as she got out of his way, she heard the sound of a large rock falling against the wall; she turned and realized that the stranger closed the door he was holding.

"Was that door that heavy?" she asked herself, as the stranger walked past and led her to god-knows-where.

The whole time Mei Lin was walking, she was focusing on her surroundings. She was scared, but she always knew from her daddy was never let fear take over your mind or you'll end up hurt or getting someone hurt. She believed him because he always had a sad look on his face like he was remembering something very painful.

She just walked down an endless hallway, pictures hung, and statues of warriors were at every door? They stood there like they were guarding the spot; they all wore similar clothes to the stranger who was in front of her. They stopped at a fork, the left was had light at the end of it and the right was dark. So the light meant 'exit', but unfortunately for Mei Lin, that was the direction the stranger took her.

They entered this white room, it wasn't as big as the room she was in but, this room didn't look like a bed room, it looked like those place, those, uh, what was it called again?

Mei Lin didn't have enough time to remember what the name was when another voice spoke from no where, "Ah, Mei Lin was it. I'm glad you are here."

Mei Lin saw the stranger walk behind her, next to the door. She looked for the voice, but no one was there. She also heard the sounds of someone's shoes tapping onto the floor, but there was too much of an echo to figure out where it was coming from.

Suddenly someone was in front of her. Mei Lin jumped and fell onto the ground, "Mei Lin, no need to worry. I will not cause you any harm, I just need something from you, that you have, which is mine."

"I- I- never s-t-ole an-n-ny thin-g!" she panted, this man's chi was so strong it was scaring her, he was going to kill her. She felt it, she realized it just then.

He laughed, "You don't remember? Well that's fine; I will force you to remember." He grabbed her arm and walked towards the door. He stopped and looked down at her, "If you throw at temper tantrum I will kill you, do you understand?"

Mei Lin nodded, sweat forming and rolling down her cheeks.

"Good."

She looked at Spirit; it still had her notebook in front of it, reading the pages. It looked up and her.

"Just another dream," she sat up and held onto herself tightly.

This one, she didn't want to write down or remember it, she looked at Spirit, "it was a bad dream. I was looking through the eyes or someone, I or that someone, grabbed a dying ally's shoulder. I was shaking him, so hard, but he wouldn't wake up. I looked at my other ally, she held onto her stomach, as blood spread and covered the ground. I crawled to her, but it was so painful, something was broken, but I got to her. I held onto her wound with my hand, and looked up at the bridge that was in front of us. On that bridge was a shadow, and it was saying how strong it was, and its whole body shinned blue, and it looked at me, but I fainted, or maybe I died. There was so much pain and the feeling of loss and betrayal. It hurts, even now," Dawn Star said.

Spirit, shook its head, and used its nose to push the notepad to her. "Write it down, I know." She said, she did, "Really think that I should go to the Imperial City."

Spirit didn't answer, instead it turned around and walked off, Dawn Star followed it, and it led her to the beach. She looked at Spirit, and she smiled softly. The sun was setting, the sky and sun was red, just like her last dream. "Let's leave tomorrow, very early so we can head out to the city." Spirit nodded and left again.

Dawn Star, did her usual at sundown, she lit incense for every grave in front of every home and dojo in two rivers, said a prayer, and left to her home with Spirit Ever since Dawn Star returned to two rivers she has been doing that, and she never saw spirits haunt her dreams. They only returned to her to say thank you and apologized and forgave, and they had a short talk and left.

Dawn Star really missed everyone, but she did that so they wouldn't forget her, or vice versa.