Chapter Six.
Subtitle : her grandmother.
** General POV **
Melanie began to panic as soon as Charlie went out of sight.
She sobbed as tears roll down her eyes.
Why did she agreed to come here anyway?
Why did she just come here of all places.
She could have just stayed back at home and pretend nothing happened between her and the alpha king.
At least she would still have a roof over her hed and food to eat even if everyone detested her.
Killing herself out here by offering her body as burnt offering to a fire beast was an insane option.
But she's already here.
No going back..
She sniffed and dried her tears before walking towards the border that lead into the desert.
Her sandald where dried and broken since she had being managing them for three years..
She had lost them while those two rogues kidnapped her.
She only hard a leggings on and her brown rusty hoodie.
As thick socks covered her feet.
As she stepped into the border of the desert and huge and blinding wind hit her hard in the face.
She shivered and screamed moving back.
After the wind has settled down she ambled back towards the desert.
Her eyes that was filled with tears seconds ago was now replaced with a face of determination.
She was ready to sacrifice herself to the beast if she would have peace of mind and forget about her heart that was hurting.
She was ready to take the risk.
As she stepped into the desert one more time a different kind of feeling hit her.
It was a feeling of dangernyet it screamed power.
She was scared to bones.
It was dry and carried around a banished humor.
She was afraid to the core for her life.
It was cold and freezing.
She had just a hood on and a pair of torn dirty leggings with a layer of sox.
It was a rough thing to encounter.
The breeze churned at her ears as it made angry sounds.
She shuddered and bite her lips.
It was as if someone was seeing her.
"Who's there? "
She asked.
Her voice echoed in the dark as it made multiple more voice as it echoed along the way.
"Pleaseee don't harm me... I just want to pass.. "
She added.
There was a sudden fuss in weather. It got too breezy that her hair was flying around in four different directions.
Her cloths fought to hug her body as it flew along.
A huge and dark figure appeared in front of her.
It was so huge that she almost fainted.
The beast was huge and looked like it had wings.
She whimpered and moved backwards.
With every step she takes the beast takes one after her.
And when the beast spoke it has the most unusual voice ever.
It was as sweet as a flute bread and was as melodious as her mother's lullaby.
She widened her eyes in surprise.
"hmmmm. How long would it have taken you to find me? "
The beast asked.
She cringed.
"please don't eat me... I'm just gonna pass here and I won't come back again... "
She muttered still going back.
"pass to where? I've waited nineteen years for you to come to me and now you want to pass? How redundant!"
The beast was angry as it reflects in its feminine voice.
Melanie could tell the beast was female from the way it talked so sweetly yet it's dark figure betrays it's sweet voice.
She still couldn't pin point what it was exactly.
"who... Who are you... Please do not eat me. "
Melanie added as she tripped on a stone and fell on the sand.
She crawled back.
"I won't eat you. I am the legendary fire phoenix and queen of the Phoenix deserts.
It's being thirty years since I recoiled here after loosing my fire bird.
I'm too old and have a little more days to live.
You are my next of kin and also the last. You have to take over from me before I die! "
The beast snapped and Melanie almost fainted with confusion.
"No please I don't know what your talking about please.
Do not eat me.
I don't know you.. "
She was brazed to the bones.
The beast was annoyed.
"shut up! "
The beast snapped and Melanie yelled and fell to the floor.
"I'm your queen and you don't have the right to talk back at me. Your just a phoenix princess. You must do as I say!"
The beast snapped again and Melanie closed her eyes.
It looks like she won't be able to escape from the beast.
"if you really want me to believe you then you should show me what you look like. "
She gathered some caurage and speak up.
"Right. "
The beast replied and a sudden red fire enveloped it making the wild desert go windy again.
Melanie covered her eyes as she couldn't look at the beast.
It was too bright.
"Look! "
The beast ordered.
She turned to face the beast and then.....
The moment she looked towards the bright direction a line of pee came wetting her pants.
She was terrified, shocked and mesmerised.
It wasn't because she was afraid but it was out of shock and disbelief.
"whhhat... What... Aare you... Please stay right there.. "
She cooed.
Before her stood a magnificent, elegant and we'll feathered red phoenix bird as Charlie hard earlier explained to her.
It wasn't as huge as the dragons in her books but if was almost ten feet tall and hard a broad body.
"Who are you please? "
Melanie couldn't help but ask again.
She heard the beast growled and she hugged her thighs together in fear.
"what more do you want me to say? I am the the old phoenix queen and you are my next of kin. Your the last of our kind. People thought I was the last. No! werewolves and witches hunted me for my powers.
I lost my mate and daughter so I had to recoil to this place.
It was not because I was afraid of them but it was because I wanted to noture a firebeird egg for the last Phoenix Princess.
It took me twenty years to do so before you were born.
The eggs is now mature and is waiting for it's master to order it to hatch.
You are my next of kin.
You are its master!
The beast snapped and Melanie freezed.
"What do you mean next of kin? I don't even look like a beast not to talk of being related to you so please you've got the wrong person.. "
Melanie sobbed.
"Nonsense! Who said I'm not your next of kin? I'm your grandmother... So you are my next of kin! "
The beast snapped.
Melanie was dumbfounded.
"I'm a daughter to a werewolf. My mother is currently on her sick bed and is dying, every one hates me. How does that has to do with you? "
She snapped at the beast.
The beast sighed and saw that the young lady was broken.
The wind again started to blow fierely and another thick layer of fire enveloped the beast.
After the fire died down only a old yet beautiful lady with red hair was left standing.
Melanie almost screamed with terror. It was too much for her little weak brain to register.
"See, I'm also human. Don't think a beast because even you are my next of kin. Believe me when i say I'm you grandmother. How is your mother doing?.... "
The beast asked and Melanie who couldnt take it any longer fainted abruptly.
Chapter seven.Subtitle : reborn of the Phoenix Princess.** Still on general POV **Melanie groaned in pans as she opened her eyes.Her back arched and she was squirming.Her tummy made a loud growl, she was damn hungry and needed food to fill her empty stomach.Her throat was soggy and dry, it longed for a drip of water on it.She opened her eyes abruptly and looked around the strange room.It was neat,bright and looked elegant.The room was fit for royalty, she wondered where she was.The last thing she could remember was her fainting while having a conversation with a huge bird only for it to turn into an old lady and say it was her grandmother.The next and last thing was she fainted.She shrugged her shoulders and yawned sitting up on the bed edge.** Melanie's POV **I shrugged off my shoulders."must be one of my frequent nightmares"I thought to myself as I sank my hands in my hair.I had no idea who mounted me here."I see your awake.. "The familiar new voice echoed from be
Chapter eight. Subtitle: her firebird. ** Melanie's POV **I winced in pains as my eyes flew open. My head hurt and my eyes where painful and burning as if a fire was set upon them. I was laying on the dirty, dusty ground of the lonely dangerous desert where I remember was the last place I was before fainting. I made to sit up when I realised a shocking thing has happened to me. I wasn't human anymore. I was feeling how huge and disastrous I was even without anyone showing me or looking in the mirror. My whole body was huge, my height was as large as anything, I had a pair of four legs instead of two legs and two hands. I was lying on my left wing which was red and feathery. I was terrified beyond words at how I had transformed and turned into. "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarghhhhhhh! "I yelled with terror through the huge desert as my voice echoed in the dust and horizon. It made loud monster sounds but it was still melodious. I began to sob which came out as a growl as I made to s
Chapter nine.Subtitle: burn to ashes. ** general POV **Right before my eyes I watched as the old yet elegant castle lighted up to live. It was as if a broken palace in ruins have suddenly came to live and it was amazing.The large rusty rocks that were used to build the walls began to glow, the chandelier in the room they were in began to burn brightly and lights that were hidden before shunned brightly. It was a gloriousoment for the new phoenix princess who was still in so much away of what was happening. "it seems our palace is coming to live. Too bad we don't have any villagers to stay with us or even people around.. "Latisha's voice was excited yet disappointed. Melanie sighed. "let's take a look at the whole palace. "Melanie suggested and they began the quest with Latisha hanging on Melanie's shoulders like a parrot. As they surveyed the whole palace they came across many things of etiquette that not even the werewolf and human world have.The Phoenix palace it
Chapter ten. Subtitle: welcome to the pack. I sat with my legs crossed in the room I was in. The alpha of the pack that was planning to kill Charlie was sitted opposite me staring intently at me. "what did you say Charlie did again? "I asked coldly. He looked at me with a straight gaze. The fact that I was an intruder who had come to intimidate him in his territory was not pleasing him at all and he was boiling with anger. "she killed a lady... And according to my code of law anyone who kills someone without any reason must be killed also."He snapped. "according to the story you just told me she didn't kill the lady for fun. The lady stole her mate from her, if it were me I would burn her to ashes. ... The mate bond is a very strong bond and anyone who gets rejected finds it hard to move on.. I had a similar case but I choosed to move away from them. There are some people who cant do that. ... And I kind of regret leaving."I muttered."rules are rules. ... And beside
Chapter eleven. Subtitle : dangerous phoenix. ** Melanie's POV **I sighed as I explained to alpha Cole what happened to me. "those fools humiliated and hated me. I didn't do anything wrong. Was it my fault that i was weak at that time? Was it my fault that I was mated to the damn fool of a king? Anytime I think of the pains they've caused me I just want to make them pay. And if I should ever come across the lady my mate rejected me for I won't just kill her normally like Charlie did. I'll chop off her body to pieces and roast them into ashes. This anger string has already being pulled and I want nothing to do with them anymore!"My voice quivered as I spoke. One could tell from afar that I was really angry and i was not in my right senses of mind. My anger was betraying me. "Ryker and I have being friends since middle school. Me him and Jaxon attended the same university and graduated recently before we both returned home to take our respectful places in our
Chapter twelve.Subtitle : she hates her brothe** general POV **Due to Melanie showing up in the picture things were shifted.The Starzeal pack who had planned to go to the crescent moon pack on the day of the mating ceremony shifted their schedules.Since they had a powerful phoenix to back their pack up they needn't to attend the trianing late.Warriors were assembled and the journey was taken upon by them.Melanie couldn't help but get more excited as they drew nearer and nearer to her former pack.It's not being up to a week and she's already back nowShe didn't feel Any feeling of rejection or anything but rather felt excited for what was going to happen.*** Melanie's POV**The air breezed my long red hair as I flew though the clouds.I was literally excited for the visit to my old cruel pack.Latisha was left to trail behind me.Although the clouds blocked my eyesight a little it wasn't a problem since I had an advance level of eyesight."slow down Melanie. Your too fa
Chapter thirteen. Subtitle: the red necklace. *** general POV***As soon as Melanie left Jaxon turned to cole with a questioning look. "you know the Phoenix princess? Wow! "Cole pretended he didn't know anything about Melanie being jaxon's sister.. "that was my sister dude. If I'm not mistaken it's her although she's changed a lot in the space of a week. She wasn't this pretty she had brown hair not red, her eyes weren't red and her skin wasn't red either. You came with her so you must know what happened to her. And wait what did you just call her? "Cole asked Jaxon. He was way beyond curious and needed an answer. "relax man. That's the Phoenix princess,i didn't know she was your sister. She just joined my pack yesterday and offered to protect my pack for the exchange of her friend's life... "Cole muttered looking at Jaxon with a redundant face. "no! You have to know about what happened to her. This ain't Melanie anymore! She wasn't this willful look the way she
Chapter fourteen. Subtitle : her pains. *** still on Melanie's POV ***I began to panic immediately mother didn't respond to my call. I touched her neck to feel if she was still breathing. I confirmed that she wasn't dead and blew out an air of relieve.At least I know she was'nt dead. I wanted to remove the necklace but then after thinking it through I didn't. Who knows, may be grandma put it there for a purpose. Maybe it was performing some functions that were meant to be. Grandma certainly wouldn't kill her own daughter will she? It was best to get out of the house for now.I stood up from the bed and quickly took mother into my arms. Although the red light didn't die out completely it still shunned a little. I scooped mother into my arms with just a little difficulty. She wasn't heavy at all. She barely eats for a long time now and this has caused her to go skinny and disfigured. I sighed and turned towards the door walking towards it with her in my arms. I kic