PART 9
"Phoenix!" Blake called as he watched his soulmate jump
towards Macon. But he couldn't do
anything to stop her. She was out of
control, tearing at Macon's stomach with her hands that had turned into
claws. All anyone could do was watch on
in horror.
"Phoenix!" Star called trying to get through to
her. "What are you doing?"
"I
think it's pretty obvious." Thorn
said in morbid fascination.
Blake
tried to get through to her in another way. He walked up to her and placed in had on her bare shoulder. She didn't even seem to notice him. "Phoenix, think about what you're
doing."
"Get
away from me." She practically snarled back to
him. "I need to finish
this." And that is what she
did. Out of nowhere a bright ball of
fire came out of her hands and was thrown at Macon. He disappeared into a ball of fire.
"No,"
He said
forcefully. "You're my
soulmate. Come back to me."
"Help
me Blake," A
small voice inside Phoenix pleaded to him. "I don't know how to deal with this."
"Just
come back to me."
Phoenix pulled
away from Macon, her hands all bloody. She looked at Blake then down at her hands and gasped. "Blake," she said in a small voice
before she fainted.
Blake
caught her before she hit the ground. He looked over to where Macon used to be. All that was left was a pile of ashes.
"Whoa,"
Thorn said looking at what was left of Macon. "Go Phoenix."
"Thorn,"
Star said rolling her eyes. "Shut
up." She looked at Phoenix
worried. "Blake bring her
upstairs, Megan and I will look after her."
Blake did
as Star told him, not really even realising it. He let his feet lead him to his bedroom. He didn't take his eyes off Phoenix the
entire time. When he reached his room
he found that Star and Megan were already there and had pulled back the covers
of his bed. He carefully laid Phoenix
down on them, brushing her hair back when it fell forward over her face.
"We'll
take care of her Blake." Star
said, taking his arm and leading him towards the door. "Don't worry about her." She pulled him outside his room then shut
the door in his face.
It took
him a while to realise what had happened. He banged on the door, trying to open it.. "Le me in!" He
yelled telepathically at Star.
"Not
until we're ready." She responded calmly. "Why don't you, Josh and Thorn go
and get drunk or something. We'll fill
you in later."
As if they
had heard what Star had said, Thorn and Josh appeared at his side pulling him
away from his room. "Come on
Blake. Let the girls do their
thing."
"She's
my soulmate," Blake growled, "You can't expect me to just walk away
from this."
"We're
not," Josh said using his calm to try and get through to Blake. "But there's nothing you can do at the
moment. You jus have to wait until the
girls call us."
"Yeah,"
Thorn said, and his eyes lit up. "Star told us to go and get you drunk, and that's exactly what
we're going to do."
Blake had
to laugh at that. Thorn took any excuse
there was to get drunk. "Star's
actually letting you get drunk? I
thought she was trying to stop you from doing that?"
Thorn
looked a bit sheepish, "Yeah she is, but this is a special occasion. Besides, she told me to do it."
Josh and
Blake could only laugh, and Blake was glad for that, he needed to get his mind
off Phoenix, even if it was only for a little while. Everyone was right, there was nothing he could do at this
time. So, he decided to get very, very
drunk.
* * * * *
Upstairs,
Star and Megan were trying to find a way to get through to Phoenix.
"What
if I connected with her?" Megan
asked. "If I can get inside her
head, maybe I can find out what's wrong and wake her up."
"Yeah
it could work." Star said, but not
sounding very convinced. "You'll
have to be careful though, whatever's keeping her unconscious could harm you. You're mind will be completely open, you
know what could happen."
"I
know, but it's our only chance." She placed her hands on Phoenix's temples and closed her eyes. The connection was almost immediate. She was in Phoenix's mind and was
shocked. Megan had been in contact with
many powerful people before, but she had never seen anyone with as much power
as Phoenix, unlike the others though, Phoenix kept her power bottled up. But that wasn't the only thing that shocked
her. She snatched her hands away from
Phoenix's temples and looked down into her open eyes. "You're working for Circle Daybreak."
* * * * *
"The
thing about women," Thorn slurred, "is that they don't know what they
want. I mean, one minute Star and I are
fine, the next she jumps up and is all pissed off at me. I don't get it, we're soulmates, perfect for
eachother, meant to know everything about eachother, but then this crap
happens. I just don't get it."
"We're
not meant to." Josh said frowning
into his glass. Josh was very funny
when he was drunk. He'd drink all his
drink, then look down to an empty cup and wonder where it went.
"Some
bloody bastards drunk all my drink. I
need some more." He got up and
stumbled over to the liquor cabinet, filling his drink, then looking around to
see if anyone was there to steal it.
"I
know what you mean." Blake
said. He was the drunkest of the lot,
having drunk a whole bottle of vodka and was starting on his second. "I mean, when I followed Phoenix into
he room not long after she arrived we started…excuse me," he laughed,
"I burped. Anyway we started
kissing, and it was going good, great actually. I mean, there we are lying on the bed when zoom," he waved
his drink around, spilling half the contents. "She pulls away and says she's not ready. Bull shit she wasn't ready, I've never seen anybody so responsive
to me." He looked down at his
shirt, noticing it was wet. "Some
idiot spilt his drink on my shirt." He shrugged, "Oh well," he pulled his shirt off and threw it
away, his muscles rippling at the motion. The shirt landed on Josh's head, and they all cracked up laughing.
It took
them a while to calm down, but they did eventually and they got on the topic of
woman. "We're the men in this
household." Thorn said jumping up. "They should listen to us. We're stronger than them, they should do
what we tell them."
"They
should." Josh nodded, "But
they don't, and there's no way I'm going to say that to Megan. Do you know what she'd do to me?" He shook his head looking horrified. "I tell you, there's no way I'm going
to go through that."
"What
would she do?" Blake said taunting
him. "Yell at you? Not talk to you?"
Josh shook
his head, "Wore than that. There'd
be no sex, for god knows how long."
Blake and
Thorn looked horrified at the idea. "Don't tell her buddy." Thorn said. "Nobody
deserves to go through that."
"I
know," Josh said seriously. "So I'm not going to risk it."
Blake
snorted. "At least you have
something to loose. I don't."
"Don't
worry," Thorn said hitting Blake on the back so hard it almost made him
fly out of his chair. "When
Phoenix wakes up we'll… I don't know, we'll lock you two in room or something.
Blake's
eyes lit up, "You'd do that for me? Oh, guys thanks." He walked
up to them and drew them both into a bear hug.
"Okay,"
Thorn said uncomfortably. "Personal bubble, you're invading my personal bubble!"
"Sorry,"
Blake said pulling away from them. "Got caught in the moment."
"Blake?" A little voice said from the doorway. "Was' goin' on?"
Blake
turned around to see his little brother and sister in the doorway holding
hands. He walked up to then, stumbling
a bit, and picked Brianna up in his arms and taking Nickolas' hand. "What are you two brats doing up at
this hour?"
Brianna
giggled, touching his face. "Your
breath smells funny." She wiggled,
wanting to get down. Blake set her on
the ground and she ran over to Thorn, jumping into his lap. "Uncle Thorn what's going on? Why is it so noisy down here?"
"Yeah,"
Nickolas said scowling just like his brother. "It woke us up disturbed our sleep and everyfing."
"No
it didn't." Brianna said, she
turned back to Thorn and pouted. "Nicky woke me up from a really good sleep."
"Did
he?" Thorn said in mock anger,
trying to sound sober for Brianna's innocent sake. "Then we'll have to do something about that, won't
we?"
Brianna
nodded happily. Thorn went and chased
Nickolas around the room, who laughed gleefully.
"He
never grew up did he?" Blake asked
Josh as they watched Thorn chase Nickolas around and around the room.
Josh shook
his head laughing. "Well you know
what they say. Of you can't beat 'em,
join 'em." They laughed and
proceeded to chase Nickolas and tickle Brianna.
* * * * *
Phoenix
looked into Star's and Megan's accusing gazes. "Wait guys, you have to listen to me."
Megan
backed away, her eyes filling with tears. "You work for Daybreak! You
were sent to spy on us! How could you
do this? We trusted you."
Phoenix
tried to reason with her, her eyes pleading them to understand. "Please listen to me. I can explain everything."
"Explain
how?" Star yelled. "Explain how you lied to us? I must say something though; you're a great
actress. Oh god!" She said her eyes widening. "Blake, he thinks you're his
soulmate. What did you do to make him think
that?" She asked furiously.
"Nothing,"
Phoenix said, her eyes too were filling with tears. "I didn't do anything to him, or to any of you. What you've seen when I'm with you guys, is
the real me. I didn't act
anything. It's all true, what you see
is what you get."
"No
it isn't, not entirely." Megan
said, tear rolling down her cheeks. "You lied when you told us that you worked for the Night
World."
"Yeah
I did. And I'm sorry about that, but it
was my job, I had to do it. You would
have done the same thing if you were in my situation."
"But
we're not in your situation!" Star
yelled. "We'd never be in your
situation to begin with. Where exactly
were you meant to do here? Gather
information? Kill us? What?"
"I
was meant to get all the information I could on the fourth Wild
Power." Phoenix replied looking
Star straight in the eye, showing her that she wasn't afraid.
"But
we don't have any information." Megan said. "The only
information we have is what we took from Daybreak."
"Really?" Phoenix asked confused. "Thierry was certain that the Night
World had something."
Star was
beginning to calm down now and she remembered something that Phoenix had said
before. "Wait a minute Phoenix,
weren't you shocked when we found the Circle Daybreak had some information
about the forth?"
Phoenix's
eyes widened. "Yeah I was. Thierry had told me that we didn't have any
information at all. He was lying to
me?"
"He
could have been," Star said. "I think we'd better get the guys and tell them about this. They'll know what to do."
"No!" Phoenix said jumping up from the bed. "You can't, they'll all hate me. I can't have that, I can't have my soulmate
hating me."
"He
won't," Star, said smiling, "The only thing he won't like was they
you lied to him. But he'll get over
it."
"Besides,"
Megan said. "He'll be more angry
at Thierry for lying to you, then he would be mad at you."
"How
do you know?" Phoenix asked
nervously. "What if he ends up
hating me? What if he wants to kill
me?"
"He
won't," Megan, said soothingly, all her anger forgotten when she saw how
lost and sad Phoenix looked. "He'll understand, we'll make him understand if we have to."
"Alright,"
Phoenix said sounding defeated. "At least let me start to pack before you call him to tell them
all."
"Too
late." Star said. "I've already called them, they're one
their way."
"Great,"
Phoenix muttered putting her head in her hands. "Just want you to know that's it's been nice knowing you
guys."
"Oh,
don't say that," Megan scoffed. "Blake'll understand. He
won't kill you."
"You
haven't seen inside his mind." Phoenix said. "He's capable
of anything, don't think that me being his soulmate will stop him if he wants
to kill me."
Suddenly
Blake burst into the room holding his brother and sister. When he saw Phoenix was awake he immediately
put them down and went to her. "Phoenix!" He moved to
hug her but she pulled away from him, not looking him in the eye. "What is it? What's wrong?" He
looked at Megan and Star for an answer but they wouldn't look at him
either. "What's going
on?" He demanded.
Phoenix
sighed and he immediately looked at her. "You might want to be sitting down for this." When he just stood there stubbornly she
continued. "There was another
reason Star called you here, not just about my waking up. You see there's a different reason why I
knew my way around Thierry's house."
"You
told us it was because you had to know the house for another
project." Josh said looking at his
soulmate wondering what was going on, but Megan just kept looking at the floor.
Phoenix
shook her head. "No that wasn't
why." She took a deep breath and
just blurted it out. "I work for
Circle Daybreak."
"WHAT!" All three guys yelled, Blake's voice being
the loudest.
"What
do you mean you work for Circle Daybreak?" Blake demanded moving away from Phoenix with disgust on his face.
Phoenix's
heart broke as she watched Blake move away from her. Her head drooped on her shoulders and she wouldn't look at
anyone, she figured that she would tell them the whole truth because it
wouldn't matter if they killed her anyway, she was already dead inside. "I work for Circle Daybreak, I was send
here to get all the information on the fourth Wild Power that you had."
"But
we didn't have anything then." Josh protested.
"I
know that now. But Thierry had told me
that you had information and I was sent to get it." Phoenix explained.
"But
what Thierry didn't tell her was that they had info on the Wild
Power." Megan cut in looking at
Blake trying to get him to at least look at Phoenix again.
Blake just
looked away, a cold expression on his face. "That probably what she wants you to think." He looked at Phoenix but the look on his
face wasn't a nice one. Phoenix
flinched at the barely leashed hostility in his face. "I want you to leave." Blake said dangerously, moving towards the door. "I want you gone. If I come back here and find you still here,
I will kill you."
"Why's
Blake being so mean uncle Thorn?" Brianna asked a little scared of the way
her bother was acting.
Thorn took
her hand and lead her and Nickolas towards the door. "Because he thought that someone was helping us, but they
weren't, they work for our enemy. "Thorn spat out, looking directly at Phoenix. He left the room and Josh followed him
giving Phoenix his own look of hatred.
At least
he didn't kill you." Star said
softly, surprised that she and Megan had been wrong about Blake's reaction.
"It
would have been better if he had." Phoenix said wiping her eyes. She got up from the bed and got her suitcase out of the closet. "I have to start packing."
"You're
leaving?" Megan asked in
shock. She had thought that Phoenix had
more guts than to run away what the situation got bad, and she told her so.
"I
don't usually run away." Phoenix
said turning to Megan. "But them
again my soulmate hasn't told me that if he sees me again, he'll kill me. Forgive my if I do something that could save
my life."
"Blake
just needs some time to get used to all of this." Star said helplessly as she watched Phoenix
shove all of her things into the suitcase. "He'll come around soon."
"Yeah,
probably with a nice big iron knife." Phoenix said picking up her suitcase and moving towards the door. "Sorry, but I'm not going to be around
for that. Now please got out of my way
so I can leave." She said to Star
and Megan who were blocking the doorway.
They moved
away, if a bit reluctantly. "At
least leave us something to get in contact with you of something happens with
Blake." Star implored.
Phoenix
paused for a moment before moving again. "Every night I go for a walked in the park. If you want to talk to me I'll be
there." She left the house not
looking back and began the long walk back to the Daybreak mansion.
TBC
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