"You've grown come on lets takes a look at you," Jades mother Ishtar said.
Jade was speechless it had actually worked for once in her life a plan without hesitation had worked without dire consequences, Jade ran over to hug her mother.
"Wow this is so weird but in a good way," Bloom said.
"Bloom is that you I haven't seen you since before Sparx was destroyed," Ishtar said with an outstretched hand.
"Wait…how do you know Bloom," Flora said suspiciously.
"Of course she's my niece and Jades first cousin," Ishtar said.
"We're cousins," Jade and Bloom said together looking at each other.
"You mean you didn't know, didn't Feragonda tell you," Ishtar said in surprise "wow and I distinctly asked her too,"
"So you're my first living relative which means you're from Sparx, right," excitement rang in Blooms voice.
"Right, you see, after Sparx was destroyed Daphne took you into her care and insisted that we hide you, she would tell us later that you had become the chosen one to carry the Dragonfire, and with Lilith on a mad scramble to get all three powers it was best that we hid all three powers. We never did find the third power but I refused to let you go until Lilith came to Shira. I come to make my decision I had to separate the both of you so that Lilith wouldn't find you," Ishtar sighed, "You two are the chosen, your job in life is to make sure Lilith never ever gets the Tear of God, but if she does then you better wish and pray that you have the final chosen one because if you don't then were all going to die."
"What is the final power, and what is this tear of God thing anyway…" Jade said trailing of she couldn't bring herself to use the word mother.
"No one knows but supposedly this power will rival yours," Ishtar said, "and the Tear of God well let's start at the beginning you all know about the Great Dragon that created all of the magical realms, okay that's the Sunday school version of it all. The real story is much harder to comprehend yes the Dragon did create most of the magical realms, but then again so did the Phoenix, but the real story begins with the Source. For you see at the beginning at time there was the Source and the Source was the universe, one big empty space pretty much. The Source was everything yet it was alone. It yearned to grow, learn and experience. Thus a universe began, the human one anyway, the Source sent out three of its…pets if you will to start the magical realms, thus the Dragonfire the second cleanest magic in the universe, which is quickly followed by the Phoenix force. Anyway the Source was young and inexperienced. It separated small parts of it's self into independent, sentiment entities, through whose experiences it intended to be nourished and enlightened. However the Source was displeased with its initial creations, and became frustrated at it. This negativity resulted in these newly created entities to become embodied in darkness rather than the Sources light. These creatures were forever creatures of the Dark. Incapable of abiding its creations, the Source abandoned them all, banishing them from it's presence for an eternity, including the very first of his creations his first born son, Seth. The pain of abandoning it's beloved creations especially Seth caused the Source to cry a single tear…"
"The Tear of God," Stella said finally making the connection.
"Exactly, you see that the single tear had manifested into one single crystallized tear, which symbolized the hurt the Source felt inside. You see the Source knew that if any magical entity were to find this they would find a way to destroy it so the Source made the Tear in perceivable to our eyes and any magical entity. We don't know how Lilith found out about the tear anyway you see the only way to destroy the Source…"
"Is with the three powers, and I'm guessing the only way to destroy the Tear is with our three powers combined," Bloom finished.
"Correct Lilith wants justice brought back to the creatures of the night the Source so cruelly mistreated. After all Lilith is named after…"
"My great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother," Jones said with a sigh, "Yes I know all of this."
"So you're a descendant from the ultimate evil?" Stella questioned, "But you're so nice…"
"The niceness is part of my father side and the rest is my inner beast, yeah it took centuries to actually curb that inner beast," Jones flashed her a dangerous grin.
"Centuries how old are you?" Flora questioned.
"579 years old why?" Jones said looking at her black fingernails.
"But you don't look a day over 18, how do you…?" Tecna began.
"I'm a succubus, I thrive of sex what guy in there right mind wants to have sex with 579 grandma," Jones rolled her eyes.
"In other words she ages unnaturally slowly and will probably look 18 for another 500 years before she looks 20 and so on," Jade added. "Besides considering that she's half human she's aging pretty quickly for a Succumbus."
"Gee thanks," Jones said wryly.
"Your welcome," Jade said absentmindedly, before snapping back to reality, "It's not like any Succumbus ages past 30 anyway."
"What's up with you've been off lately," Stella commented.
Jade shrugged, "My senses are growing it's almost as if I'm one with the ground like…uh never mind I guess I'll grow into it," Jade said as she went into another round trip to outer space.
"No actually the Phoenix Force is tied to everything on Shira you won't grow out of being more aware of your surroundings but you will stop spacing out within the next 24 hours."
Jade snapped up from her reverie, "Hundreds of people are coming this way, I wouldn't even consider them a threat, but I think they're looking for me," Jade said.
"Even so get ready for anything," Bloom said.
"Yeah who knows what the Trix sisters will throw at us," Flora agreed.
5 minutes later a huge crowd had gathered around the cave…
A man stood out from the crowd, as he was the definite leader, he was a thin man dressed in grubby beige shorts and a tank top that had, at some point, been white. He was barefoot and drinking beer from a can, grinning at them with a look that was not entirely trustful.
"Our princess, we have come to help you destroy the plague that has destroyed our once great nation," he said with a strong accent.
"So where were you half an hour ago," Jones stated from the corner of the cave.
"We were gathering our last forms of a resistance, to help you, but you easily vanquished the Orcs."
"Yeah but what about Lilith," Jade said stifling a yawn.
"Lilith killed my family with a sweep of her hand, to be honest we're to scared to face Lilith," the man's voice said.
Jones fell to the ground as did her mother, "It's a trap they've got some sort of sleeping spell or something," Musa said as she fell to the ground unconscious.
One by one the girls fell, till Bloom and Jade were standing, both girls managed a glare at the man before they both fell.
Much Later…
Jade groaned as she woke up, her head was pulsing, upon further inspection she found that she was set spread eagle to the ground in a painful position. She glanced around noting the strange patterns on the ground.
"Everyone alright," Bloom's voice rang out, there was a chorus of yes's as the greasy looking man appeared in front of them.
"After all these years I've finally got the Phoenix force in hand and now it is time to become one with Ot the Goddess of the Shirans," the man said with a smirk as ring of people surrounded Jade.
"Right, so I'm a sacrifice for some cult god, great if this is the thanks I get for risking my neck to save you people, then remind me never to do that again," Jade said sarcastically.
The man backed away from Jade as the 17 men surrounding her began to sing a chant, "Vervloekte door de Priesters, gescheurde, samendraaide en ritme Veroordeelde tot dobbelsteen, door de KwadeOog God van de Oven van de Sorceress-Haar, ik roep thy de Naam Alstublieft bezorgt mij van de Slang, de Slangvan Pijn HET VUUR GOD, Verbrandt DE VUUR GOD alle Zondaren in mijn wegDe verhoging op verslindt-inferno van Ultieme Macht God van Vernietiging-Verbruikt hen met uw Uitbarsting Ontvlammen de Sorceress en de Priesters van Kwaad die mij Singe hen bindt, Verbranden hen, Vernietigen henAlstublieft, alstublieft bezorgen mij Met Heilige Vuur, de Goudene Brandstapel.. De dood HET VUUR GOD, Verbrandt DE VUUR GOD alle Zondaren in mijn wegDood, verdelg met Vuur en Zwaard! Vlammen van Rechtvaardiging! Ik impale thee op het Geweldige Spijker van Haat Door de VLAMMEN VAN DE ZWARTE STER! HET VUUR GOD, DE VUUR GOD die ik roep thy de Naam, verbruikt mijn pijn! Verbrand alle Zondaren Voorbij Dood.. Voorbij Dood!" as they chanted the words Jade screamed in antagonizing pain as the Phoenix force seemingly ripped it's self out of her body.
A phoenix of fire appeared in the sky as it descended down upon Jade's now prone body. Jade shuddered violently as a blast hit her straight on nailing her on her chest, the chains that bound her at once melted of into a pool of liquid metal as she got up.
Jade opened her eyes and flicked her now glowing red eyes at the man and smiled cruelly, as he bowed almost immediately, his words were now a babble as he tried to string a sentence together.
"My goddess… your humble servant…I'm…"
"Yes I know who you are Allen, and I have to thank you for your 17 male sacrifices," the possessed Jade said with a snort.
Allen looked around and gasped the 17 people who had done the spell were dead, "But I only want to serve you for an eternity my goddess," Jade snorted.
"No you wanted to be immortal, but if you truly wanted to serve me than you could do so in hell for the rest of eternity in the fiery pits." Jade placed both hands on Allan's temple and smiled as the man screamed in utter pain, "you do not command a goddess you poor pitiful little man it's quite the opposite, now die," Jade whispered in his ear as flames seem to come out from his ears, mouth and nose. Jade watched as the man slipped down dead, another cruel smirk alighting her lips. A light surrounded her feet as it she went into a daze, "This planet isn't fit for a goddess no it's not even close, the Orcs deserve to die for ruining this once jewel of a dimension, so it shall be done," Flame erupted from her feet and seemingly passed through the walls of the cave. Done a man died on the park bench the teenagers who did that him all point and laugh, how could any one be so cruel, the man will be resurrected… will be resurrected… will be… will be… be… Jones are you messing with my mind."
"Yeah cause right now you're just a 16 year old with an attitude problem," Jones said beads of sweat coming down her face.
"No I'm Ot," Jade began to say as she fell to the ground and let out another piercing scream, escaped from her throat. Jade fell to the ground, as Jones passed out, the phoenix force reappeared on her chest but this time it was different. No longer was it just the fiery red colour it had morphed into something else, the bird itself was golden but red flames seemed to rip out the bird itself.
It was 10 minutes later that Jade awoke her eyes flicked to her friends who were still tied up, "Apertus" she muttered as the chains unlocked. Jade rubbed her head as she stood up.
"Are you okay," Bloom asked as Jade wobbled a bit as Bloom caught her.
"I've been better, I do not recommend be possessed by a god," Jade shook of the dizziness and glanced down her shirt, slightly impressed with the new version of her personal Phoenix. "Now how's Jones doing," Jade said as she walked over to her best friend who was still lying on the ground.
Jones looked at Jade, and growled at her slightly, "Never ever say that they don't seem like a threat again," Jade grinned at her and stuck out her hand as she helped Jones up.
"So now what I don't think Jones can teleport us to the guys camp let alone use her telepathy over a long distance, ditto for me and using my Winx," Jade said.
"So I guess we're stuck here for the night," Bloom said.
"Yeah it'll be great sleeping under the stars," Musa said.
"But as the Princess of Solaria," Stella began.
"Don't you draw powers from the moon," Jones drawled from the corner.
"Yes my main powers are drawn from the sun and the moon," Stella said haughtily.
Jones raised an eyebrow, "Then you should be all for sleeping under the stars besides we have to stay hidden."
"Yeah but we should take turns watching out for intruders, we can't afford another attack," Bloom said.
"Yeah, I'll take first watch," Musa volunteered, "Cya in a hour.
A/N: Next chapter the first to fall and betrayl rock Jades world