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Chapter 4: Ajax
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Rise of the Phoenix Chapter 5: Emmi
The next morning, after breakfast with Ajax, I spend time with Dr. Everett. He is really a great doctor and he’s very nice. He’s working hard to try and figure out what’s going on with me, but I can see that he’s frustrated.“Emmi, how much science did you get in school?” he asks me.“Well, I went to classes when I was in foster care or group homes, but I never really lasted too long in any one place. So, probably not enough to understand what you are going to tell me.”“Okay, sit here,” he says, patting the seat beside him. He’s sitting at his computer workstation. There’s a lot of equipment in this room, but it seems to be very organized from what I can see.He begins flashing images up on the wall across from us. “This is DNA, it’s your DNA actually. It has a really long name that only scientists remember, so for us, let’s just call it DNA.”“Okay,” I say, looking at the staircase looking image on the wall.“DNA is like the roadmap for who you are. Without getting too technical, it
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When I went to have lunch with Emmi, she was in my father’s office. I knocked on the door and was surprised when Kaylani answered.“Hey, I wanted to see if Emmi wanted to have lunch with me,” I said, looking past Kaylani and seeing Emmi looking very stressed out. “What’s going on?”I move past Kaylani and walk to Emmi, seeing images of DNA on the wall. Whatever my father has said has upset my mate. I don’t hesitate, I wrap my arms around her, pulling her to me.“Whatever it is, we’ll figure it out,” I whisper to her. She nods her head against my chest, and I smell the salt of tears. I look over her head at my father whose face looks grim.“Do you want to tell me about it?” I ask her.“Dr. Everett can,” she sniffles, her arms going around me and holding me tightly.I begin making crooning sounds, rubbing her back as my father explains what he’s found in Emmi’s DNA.I grit my teeth. I refuse to let this sweet woman die. I can feel my dragon’s protectiveness swelling inside of me. I’ll do
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I watched the young dragon struggle to control her fire. My mate has very good control of his earth element, but when you mix elements, it takes both parties to keep the elements stable. Her fire was getting out of control and my Sunshine was at risk of getting burned, so I took control of her element. Since I’m not angry, Emmi didn’t fight me coming forward. She could feel my need to protect our mate. She doesn’t feel the bond as strongly as she will once our spirits combine, but she still likes Ajax a lot.Sunshine comes over, crouching in front of me. He reaches out and places his hand on my knee. “Are you okay, Emmi?”“Sunshine,” I purr at him.He looks up. “Well, it’s pretty sunny out. We’d planned to go flying today. Did you still want to fly?”“Yes,” I tell him. With him close, it’s easier for me to stay forward and Emmi isn’t fighting me right now, which also makes it easier.“I’ll be right back, stay here,” he says, standing and turning to the water dragon. Kaylani is her name
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‘Did you hear all of that, my love?’ I ask my mate in our shared mind space as I watch Ajax take off with Emmi and whatever her shifter is, on his back.‘I did, my dragon. You need to speak to Yhendorn.’I turn to Kaylani. “We need to speak to Everett," she says.“Merethyl says we need to speak to Yhendorn as well.”“She called you young, Avani. A young dragon and she knew that dragons used to be older than elves. This isn’t a normal shifter.”“We already knew that, Kaylani. If Doc Everett can’t figure out what she is, then she’s not something that was alive in our lifetime before she was called.”Together we walk back to the main house. I look over and see Cedric’s wolves building a new medical wing. This one is more towards the front of the main house, where the old one was behind it. I have to give those wolves credit, they are master carpenters and they work fast.“Everett’s waiting for us,” Kaylani says as we walk.“KENNA!” I boom in my dragon’s voice.“WHAT?” she booms back, maki
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I watch Emmi, or more correctly, her shifter. When I mentioned Cal repopulating the world with dragons, her eyes went unfocused.“Emmi?” I ask quietly.She turns and looks at me and the way she leans into me, I know this is still her shifter. My dragon feels the pull to this shifter, so I know that it’s her that I’m mated to, but Emmi is part of her, just as I am part of the dragon inside me now.“Were you created in a laboratory? Or did you awaken because of what happened to Emmi when she was with the bad hybrids?” I ask her.“No. I told the earth dragon and water dragon that I was called. That’s why I’m here.”“So Emmi was a human, like me, but now she has you, her shifter?”“That’s correct,” she says.I reach out and stroke her cheek. “What’s your name?”“I’ve had many names in my life, but over time, I felt it was just easier to take the name of my host. It’s less confusing that way.”“What does it mean that you were called?” I ask as she leans into my touch and my body. I need to
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I’m not sure how my mate feels about me telling the others what she is and normally, I’d go to Ancalagon with something like this. Unfortunately, he’s been hovering over Eliane now that she’s pregnant and it’s not really a good time to talk to him. So, he’s not an option. I love my father and I know he’ll want to know what Emmi is, but he’s human, or mostly human now that he’s mated to Kaylani. What I need to ensure that my mate survives is the elemental dragons. All of them.When we get back, I land and shift quickly, grabbing my clothes where I left them and saying hello to the other dragons before taking Emmi’s hand and leading her to the medical center where my father is most likely in his office.Before we get inside, I hear them, my father and step-mother. It’s not the first time that I’ve come across them having sex, but it is the first time that I’ve been aggravated because I really need to talk to someone.I turn and look at my mate, still seeing the red rim in her eyes. “Fire
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I wake up in my bed in the temporary hospital having no recollection of how I got here. The last thing I remember was being in class and watching Ajax and Anala practice combining their elements.‘Ask Ajax.’ It’s like there’s a voice in my head that just spoke to me. I look around my room.“Hello?”The door to my room opens and Kaylani walks in. “Hey, there she is. How are you feeling?”“Umm, good, I guess.”“You guess?”“I … I sort of don’t remember anything that happened yesterday afternoon. I don’t remember coming back to my room or going to bed.”“What’s the last thing you remember?” she asks and I tell her that it was being in her elemental manipulation class.“Ajax is bringing you breakfast. He’s asked if he can be the one to tell you about yesterday.”“Something happened?” I ask, getting nervous.“You don’t need to be afraid. Several of us talked to your shifter yesterday. She came forward. But she talked to Ajax the longest. Wait for him. He’ll explain everything. We have a mee
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I feel like I’m really starting to recognize when it’s Emmi the human versus Emmi the Phoenix that is forward. Besides the red that rims her blue eyes, and the higher pitch of her voice, there is also confidence. Phoenix is extremely confident in who she is and what she can do. Emmi isn’t there yet, but I wonder if that will change once she and Phoenix connect.I know that the elemental dragons were interested in getting more information about the coming war, but my goal was to make sure that Emmi stayed forward. If these two are going to connect, she has to stop going into her trance-like states. She has to stop pulling so far back that she doesn’t remember what is said around her. So, I tried to help ground her and keep her forward. While it seemed like she struggled to do it, she maintained some level of consciousness. And when I asked Phoenix to step back, kissing her to let her know that I was proud of her and appreciate her stepping back, Emmi came forward almost immediately.“El
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Rise of the Phoenix Chapter 54: Kaylani
Three Days LaterThere is so much pain, so much loss. I’m overwhelmed by it, but I have to keep going. The students here, those who are left, are depending on me.Yhendorn, Kenna, Merethyl, and Avani have taken all of the dead elves back to their troupes for a proper burial. Cedric and Tana have taken the dead wolves back to their packs to be burned so their ashes can return to the Moon Goddess’ realm.Tonight, the dragons and hybrids will lay Sena and Dion to rest. They hadn’t been with us long enough to learn how to fight and use their elements and they had been the casualties on the dragon and hybrid side of this war.I walk to the nursery, checking on the young. There are so many of them and they are all frightened, especially since their parents have been gone so much lately.Aithne, Ehrendil, and Daijaro are struggling the most. All of them are under three. Their dominant gene isn’t dragon, which makes their development slower. Tana, Cedric, Merethyl, and Avani have spent every
Rise of the Phoenix Chapter 53: Ajax
As soon as we had the coordinates from the warlock, we raced to find Phoenix and the hatchlings. I’m not as large as Ancalagon or even Avani, but my mate is there and I pushed my dragon to speeds I’ve never achieved before.Ancalagon arrived first, slamming into a wall of magic. Avani hit it too, but I was able to pull up before I crashed into the invisible wall. Tana and Kenna both stopped and when Ancalagon roared his fury, we all started using our elements to attack the wall of magic.While Avani and I made the earth rumble, Tana and Kenna blew their fire at the wall. Ancalagon began dropping tornados, pulling water from the ground and splashing it up to where Tana and Kenna are heating the wall.When the first cracks start to form, Ancalagon yells for all of us to get back. We do and Ancalagon stands in front of the wall, then spins, slamming his giant tail against it. The wall explodes, shattering around us.We all shift then race inside. I lift my nose, trying to find my mate’s
Rise of the Phoenix Chapter 52: Phoenix
I knew Emmi wasn’t ready for my power, but we couldn’t wait any longer. Her fear had flooded through the bond between us, then burned off with my fire. There is no room for fear now. The witches are here and it’s why I am here.While the others were fighting, I’d been protecting the babies. Each time one got sucked into the tunnel, I would fight to pull them back out. But there were a lot of witches trying to get to the babies and I knew I hadn’t pulled them all back.When I saw the powerful witch who had been fighting with Zephyr take off running, I knew she was going to close the portal. I had screamed my anger and gone after her, burning through the remains of the tunnel so the dragons could get to the witches that I hadn’t gotten to yet.I could hear the screams of pain and fury all around me, feel the pain of the others as they fought to protect the hatchlings and each other. This Academy, this place, has become a home to many of these dragons and hybrids who had no where else to
Rise of the Phoenix Chapter 51: Tana
“FENIAN!” I say, rushing a still broken Ishir into the medical center.He pokes his head out of a room, the room I’m assuming has Eliane, then rushes to me.“Oh shit!” he says.“Exactly. Everett says to run a full body xray on him. We need to know which of his organs were punctured and I need to know if he’s stable enough for me to go help others.”He turns, waving me to follow him. “Have you seen Tesha?” he asks.“No, but it’s chaos out there.”He nods.“Can’t you speak to her through your bond?”“It’s shut down. I’m trying not to worry about what that means ...” he says, swallowing hard.“Tesha is a strong woman. She’ll be okay. When I go back out, I’ll look for her. How is Naida?”“It’s going to be a while before she can fly again. If she were a mature dragon, maybe, but as a hybrid ...” he shakes his head. “I need Doc Everett to look at her.”“I’m not sure who he was going to help next, but you can expect to have more like these two coming in. How are Eliane and the baby?”“I can
Rise of the Phoenix Chapter 50: Ancalagon
I don’t know what the fuck is going on, but I’m pissed. Both of my parents seem to know, Ajax seems to know, the other elementals seems to know, and no one thought it was a good idea to let ME know?The thing I thought was the danger, the Phoenix, wasn’t, and I wasted valuable time focusing on her when I should have been focusing on the real danger, these fucking witches.They’re after my kids and my mate!I’d heard my mother’s cry for Iniko. I’d hear Eliane call out to me, but it was her panicked scream that had finally cut through my anger. Then, her quiet voice in my head, calling me to her that sent a wave of icy fear rushing through me.When I’d rushed back, I’d found her unconscious, buried under a tree. By then, the witches and warlocks had started appearing out of thin air. I couldn’t spare much time for them as I bellowed for Everett.I lifted the tree off my mate and shifted. “No, no, no! Eliane! Eliane, open your eyes. I’m right here! I’m right here!”I felt my dragons figh
Rise of the Phoenix Chapter 49: Cedric
CedricI was teaching a class on Lycan and werewolf history when I heard both my mate and my daughter bugle an angry warning. Fire dragons are passionate creatures, but they don’t bugle frivolous warnings. Ever. Since both my girls bugled at nearly the same time, I knew something was very wrong.‘TANA!’ I yelled in the mind link as I sprinted out of class.‘Phoenix rose! Something’s wrong but I can’t tell what it is. The dragons are about to attack her,” she says.I shift as I run out of my classroom. I see Phoenix's fiery figure in the sky. I’m nowhere close to her but I can already feel the heat of her anger.As I race toward the chaos, Phoenix shoots a flame aimed at nothing that I can see. I’ve almost reached them when Zephyr screams for Iniko and races to the nesting grounds. At the same moment, I catch a scent and a vicious snarl erupts from my gut.‘Cedric?’ Tana’s concerned voice floats into my head.‘Banari is here,’ I snarl back. I remember the scent from when we rescued Inik
Rise of the Phoenix Chapter 48: Zephyr
We all heard the scream, the screeching sound that I somehow knew was Phoenix. Most of my children were in the nursery, except for Kaze who is a teenager in his dragon form and Lyra who is only three months old. Kaze was in school, taking flight lessons this morning and Lyra is home with me.Ishir had taken Nova and Brooke on a run through the forest, both girls loving the time that they get to spend with their father. I’d just finished nursing Lyra and put her down for a nap when I heard Phoenix's warning and cold fear had rushed through my body. The witches are here.I grabbed Lyra and raced to the Big House. They have the nursery there and I know some of the older teenagers, like Enya and Aspen will be there. Unlike Kaze and the other elemental children with the dragon gene, neither of those young women were raised to fight, so it’s better for them to stay and protect the young.As I rush into the Big House to drop Lyra off, Everett is coming in from the medical center with the girl
Rise of the Phoenix Chapter 47: Ajax
I felt the rush of fear from Emmi a moment before I felt power unlike anything I’ve ever felt before flow through my body. That was followed closely by a burning fury that rushed through my veins as Phoenix’s mind snapped into my consciousness. I knew before I saw her that Phoenix had risen and that the battle was here.I raced out of class, rushing to her and had tripped when I saw her flaming body in the sky. She is utterly and completely gorgeous.Then, my own fear brought me back to reality as hybrids and laboratory dragons all shifted and launched into the air to fight her.“NO!” I screamed, watching Kenna fly up to snap at the dragons flying toward Emmi.I watch Daichi, an earth dragon lunge at Phoenix but Tana flies up to intercept. She bellows that them to stay back while Kenzo tries to tell the others to stop. Tesha, in her scaled Lycan form flies in front of Phoenix, trying to help protect her as wolves come rushing from every direction.“AJAX!” Ancalagon bellows, flying in f
Rise of the Phoenix Chapter 46: Phoenix
Something didn’t feel right about the time it has taken for the witches to attack. I’ve kept my senses sharpened on the portal, waiting for the moment when the witch or multiple witches come through, but so far, nothing.It’s not sitting well with me. I’m here, and there’s a reason I’m here. They wouldn’t have put the portal beside the hatching grounds if they weren’t planning to steal the eggs, so why wait?‘I want Ajax to take us to the place where the others felt the magic and couldn’t find the witches. I would fly us, but I’m not sure you’re ready for that yet,’ I tell Emmi. I wish I could fly. I want to so desperately, but I know it would disappoint Ajax if I pushed Emmi too hard, too fast.‘I’m not sure we want anyone to see you yet,’ she says, but I can feel how terrified she is about flying.She goes to find Ajax and tells him what I said, since I still can’t mentally connect with him.“Phoenix, Ishir has been there multiple times. He has the best nose of any shifter out there.
