"Y-you!" Kyo stares in fright at the girl standing before him. She sighs as she takes her black high heel shoes off and steps into the house.
"Gosh… You don't need to sound so scared, Kyo."
"Who's at the door, Kyo?" Yuki asks as he walks down the steps. He turns white in fear as he looks at the girl with red eyes. "P-Phoenix?" Phoenix puts a hand on her face.
"Damn this sucks." She looks back at Yuki. "I was told Tohru Honda lives here. Does she?"
"Grab her!" Yuki yells pointing at Kyo.
"Got it!" Kyo grabs Phoenix by both her wrists from behind.
"Hey!" As Yuki runs up the stairs Phoenix tries to turn her head around to look back at Kyo, but he keeps turning her in different ways to avoid eye contact with her. "Why are you doing this to me Kyo?"
"You're here to mess with Tohru's head aren't you?"
"I'm not! Let go of me!"
"Ms. Honda!" Yuki yells as he knocks on Tohru's door. "Ms. Honda! Are you in there? Hello?" Tohru opens the door wearing a new change in clothes. Yuki stares at her, seeing her in the school uniform. "Why are- oh, never mind, come on!" Yuki grabs her by the wrist about to head for the stairs but stops.
"Hey! Wait!" Tohru yells. "What's going on?"
"No time to explain." Yuki lets go of her wrists, heading towards the window. As he gets it open, he looks out from it seeing the ladder that leads to the roof. "Ms. Honda, go onto the roof from here."
"Huh? But why?" Tohru asks as she runs up to him.
"I can't explain it yet but-"
"Hya!" Phoenix yells as she sends Kyo flying backwards hitting the wall behind him.
"Hurry Ms. Honda, hurry!" Yuki pushes her towards the window before he goes running downstairs. Tohru sighs as she climbs out the window and onto the ladder.
As Yuki runs down the stairs, Phoenix was there looking up from the bottom. A look of determination crosses Yuki's face as he puts both his hands against the walls. "I'm not letting you through."
"Fine, I'll force my way through!" Phoenix runs up the stairs at top speed, her arms hanging backwards as if she were ready to take flight. She head butts Yuki in the stomach, crashing him against the wall behind him. Phoenix looks around frantically till finally she notices the open window. She runs up to it, looking out and around and then noticing the ladder. As she climbs onto the ladder, she sticks her tongue out at Yuki. As she climbs up the ladder and Yuki sits up, rubbing his shoulder, Kyo runs up the step, taking in deep breaths.
"Where'd she go?" Kyo yells. Yuki points to the open window. Kyo runs to it, looking upwards. "Hey!" Phoenix gasps as she goes up the ladder faster, but she fails, feeling his hand around her ankle. She looks down, seeing him with one foot on the ladder, the other on the window, and his other hand hanging onto the ladder as well.
"Tohru Honda is on the roof isn't she?" Phoenix asks.
"Don't go anywhere near her bitch."
"She's up there isn't she?"
Tohru jolts up, hearing that unfamiliar voice. She carefully goes over to the edge of the roof, seeing Kyo and Phoenix fighting. Feeling her presence, Phoenix looks up into Tohru's eyes, seeing the fear in her. Kyo looks up a second later as well noticing it.
"Tohru! Run!"
"Shut up Kyo! Where could she run! Tohru! It's me! Tammy!" Kyo froze along with Yuki inside over hearing.
"You're…" Kyo mutters out, but not finishing his sentence.
"Tohru! What are you doing with my the Sohmas?"
W-what's going on?" Tohru asks almost in a whisper. Kyo and Phoenix stare at her in surprise.
"What do you mean?"
"W-why are you two fighting like that? Someone could get hurt." Phoenix smiles at her thoughtfulness.
"I'm glad you're worried about us. But, this is a family feud that even I don't understand." Kyo's eyes go into rage.
"You're the one who started the feud, bitch!" Kyo pulls Phoenix down hard and fast causing her to loose her grip on the ladder. As Phoenix goes down to the ground, Kyo lets go of her. One of Pheonix's last visions as she fell was seeing Tohru yelling and reaching a hand out to her. Phoenix shuts her eyes tightly as she catches on fire, hitting the ground below her.
"Are you sure you're alright Tammy?" Tohru asks as she wipes Pheonix's feathers with a wet towel. Both Tohru and Phoenix are outside moments later after the fall. Phoenix, now as a mystical bird sits up against the wall, looking down towards the ground.
"Yea… thanks Tohru." Silence passed between them till Phoenix sighs. "How long have you been with these guys?"
"Almost two years. I didn't know you were related to them before."
"No way you could have. They're part of my moms' side of the family. And when she got married, her last name changed."
"hehe… that's right." As Phoenix transforms back into a human, she hurriedly gets into her clothes that were right next to her. As soon as she gets back in her clothes, she sticks a tongue out, smiling.
"Hey, do you want to know why I transformed?"
"It's because you're a zodiac mem… wait…" Tohru thinks for a moment, "There… wasn't…"
"There wasn't any Phoenix in the zodiac. Yea. No kidding."
"Then how were you able to transform?" Phoenix smiles.
"God had a pet that didn't want to be living on earth." Tohru and Phoenix took a seat against the wall. "So, I became Gods' right hand… bird. But, the thing is, the phoenix wasn't a very good bird to the other creatures. Only to gods and humans. When the phoenix heard that god was about to hold a banquet, the phoenix got so mad, that it did everything to keep the animals from coming to the banquet. As the animals, invited to the party, were heading to the mountain for the banquet, the phoenix caused natural disasters to happen to keep them from coming. To bad for the phoenix, the plain failed and the animals made it to the banquet. As god gave each of the animals at the banquet a year, the phoenix got jealous, thinking that it wasn't gods' favorite creature anymore. So as the animals left the banquet, the phoenix went through higher measures, actually getting rid of the animals."
"Meaning…"
"The phoenix killed the animals. And from then on, I don't know the rest." Tohru stares at her in disbelief.
"I never heard that part of the story before." Phoenix laughs sarcastically.
"Ha. Ha. Ha. There are things most people want to keep secret. Only temples and our family know the rest." Phoenix lays her head against the wall, looking up into the sky. "Cool thing for me is, is that I don't transform as easily as the zodiac members and Kyo does. When I'm in mid air, I can transform…meaning I can't play jump rope as well…"
"Why is that?"
"I don't know. I think one of the reasons is is that the phoenix was still gods favorite pet even after all it did. Either way, the phoenix got punishment which I think deserved it too." Phoenix stood up, wiping some of the dirt off her pants. "I better get back to Akito's. I bet he's pissed." Phoenix laughed again, looking sad, before she waved goodbye to Tohru.