"This Zahire," Velvet began to say. "What do we do about him?"

"Don't eat him that's for sure," Vanessa said.

"I wasn't planning to."

"What's the plan?" Lailah asked.

"We do what we did last time. We just need to beat him enough so that Sorey can purify him."

The group entered the Earth Pulse to the Phoenix was trapped in a cage. Velvet summoned her claw and broke the cage, ready for an attack just like the one Vanessa and Sorey told her about. She slammed her claw against the cage and broke it, then in a second, jumped back before the Phoenix made his move.

The Phoenix shot a beam of fire at the team to which Lailah blocked. Sorey and Vanessa attacked at the same time as Velvet ran to get in a final hit. With a team of mainly fighters, they made the Phoenix rethink his strategy. He rose above them and covered the ground in fire; another attack Lailah had to block. She surrounded herself with paper and absorbed the fire before she sent it right back at him.

Vanessa, with her halberd, knocked the Phoenix into the ground, and hard enough for him to take time to regain his strength. Before he could, Sorey used the silver flame to get back to his senses.

"What's going on?" Zahire asked.

"It's a long story." Velvet said.

"Take this to help you fight against him." The Phoenix plucked out one of his feathers and gave it to Vanessa. "Good luck out there little one."

"Thank you," Vanessa bowed.

"This is getting easier, come on guys." Sorey said.

The party returned to the inn; it took about ten minutes to defeat Zahire, a record time. Since they were expecting an attack and sort of knew what to expect, they didn't have much troubles. Laphicet commented on how the earth pulses were returning to normal, and at that rate, the world would be back to balance. Which was a good thing, it meant that they were one step closer to stopping whatever Lucilius had planned.

Vanessa looked at the three feathers she had, one of pure white, one red and one green. She didn't know what to do with them just yet; Sorey said that he had faith she would figure it out in no time once she got the rest of the feathers.

(I was waiting until I got the cover done to make another chapter of this story, I am so tired. After Vanessa's arc is done, there will be another long break and I'll start the last arc. After that, the Xillia X Vesperia fan fiction will have its first chapter and custom cover. This one will be full fan fiction, not a crossover with my series or another series that isn't Tales.)