(Author's Note: This a short chapter, yet very detailed)
Chapter Four – The Phoenix Knight
It was a place only phoenix's go. It was a dead place, of no human life or any life known to this world; it was beyond. The skies were constantly haunted by dark grey clouds, sometimes silvers or small patches of Red sky shown through, but never really. At one end of the valley were twin peaks, and a cliff. On the side of the cliff, an old tree, the color of Ash clung to the cliff, its roots were exposed. The entire tree was dead. Below the cliff, was a mass valley it was a mass delta of many rivers and banks, and running through it was magma. The Delta ran far into the opposite end of the valley where an endless range of Mountains laid.
Josh was falling down a steep incline, a mountain. His skin was being ripped and sliced open by jagged rocks and stones. He didn't see much, everything was swirling around, rolling, and then his head smacked against a boulder and he laid on the ground. At the base of the mountain, he was out cold.
"Hold on buddy!" Chris said, speeding through traffic. As he pulled up into the Hospital drive way, he parked behind another vehicle, then Josh's body seized, and his eyes shot open. Josh, wanted to scream, he was in pain, his eyes were frozen open. Chris saw cuts and bruises appearing on his sons body, and then his body jerked, and his moved to one side; Josh fell forward. Chris didn't know whether to panic or get his son into the hospital.
Josh laid on top of the cliff, the last hit did bad damage, a gash was in his forehead, and pouring blood onto his face. He moved his body onto his back, and moaned in pain.
Chris unbuckled his
seat belt, and un did Josh's pushing his body back into the seat,
he saw something that made his heart stop. A gash was in his son's
forehead, and dripping blood fast.
"Oh god." He gripped his
son's shoulder, and screamed for his brother, "WYATT!" And
orbed away, Chris orbed his son's body into their home in Hollows
Hill. Josh's eyes were still frozen open and his body still seamed
paralyzed. "WYATT!" Chris screamed, he ran for a towel.
Josh looked up at the cold looking sky above. "Where am I?" As he sat up, he winced at his battered body. He looked around, and saw a cliff not four feet from him. He looked around, his one leg was broken he was sure of it. He saw the boulder, with a splash of blood on one corner, he slowly crawled over to it. He grabbed, the boulder, and then he screamed in pain, he looked down at his leg, his pants were ripped. The pain surged through again, and he screamed.
Chris, saw blood from his son's leg, he ripped the pant leg open, and as he pressed on the wound to stop the bleeding, his son screamed out in pain. Chris stopped, but as he lifted the towel, he saw a broken white bone that was pushed through flesh. Chris almost got sick.
Josh's eyes were watering, the pain was blinding white hot, he couldn't take much more. As he pushed his body up on the bolder, he used his remaining leg to support him. He then finally began to look around at his surroundings. Where he was, he didn't know. What he was doing there, he didn't know. He turned his head, and looked up at the mountain from which he fell from. The mountain was taller then any he had ever seen. The mountain disappeared into the clouds. He turned, and something his neck, snapped, he moaned, and put his had to it. Nothing broken. He finally then took around his surroundings, he saw the dead tree, the cliff, the valley, the mountains off in the distance.
"DAD!"
Josh screamed for his
father in the paralyzing state he was in. Chris knelled down next to
his head, Chris had never been more scared in his life. "WYATT!
JOSH IS DYING!" Instantly, Wyatt orbed in standing in his
traditional Blue button down shirt and black pants and polished
shoes; he looked down at the scene. Blood was coming from Josh's
left leg, his arms, face, under his shirt, and head. He looked at
Chris would was terrified white.
"What the hell happened?"
Wyatt yelled.
"I have no idea." Chris said, "He passed out in the car, and then he started having some sort of an attack, and his skin was slicing open. He's dying."
Wyatt then fell to his knees put his hands over his nephew, healing him.
Josh felt warmth over him, something inside of him was healing, but before he knew it something knocked him over the head hard and he was face down in the dirt. He couldn't take much more of this, he looked turned his head, and saw a red bird sitting on the tree. The bird was beautiful, it had red and orange feathers, it was massive as well. The size of very large eagle. The bird, looked at Josh with its' catlike yellow eyes. A Phoenix.
Wyatt's healing
wasn't working and he was thrown back into the doors.
"WYATT!"
Chris yelled, Wyatt got up, shaking his head.
Josh didn't dare move, he and the bird looked at each other for a long time, then he moved, and bird screamed into the heavens. Its screaming exploded Josh's ear drums, blood shot from one ear, and he was deaf in one side, then the screaming was turning into singing. The sounds of an almost opera like singer, male, then the bird flew from the tree, and extended its wings and in a blaze of fire, grew. The bird transformed into a very tall man right before his eyes. The man had brown skin, seven feet tall, a very muscular body, a red vest, leather pants, no shoes. His mask was the phoenix's head, and the wings were armor along his entire arms and back. But what made this more horrifying, is that the man had the eyes of the Phoenix.
Josh screamed, turning over, pushing himself back with his one leg. The Phoenix Knight extended his arm and opened his hand, in a line of fire, a staff appeared, at least eight feet long. It had feathers at the top, and ribbons and leather bands. The Knight looked upon Josh was hate and distrust. The Knight swung his staff as if he was hitting Josh, and Josh's body jerked and slammed into the bolder, breaking his upper arm (Funny) bone; he screamed in pain. The Knight swung again, and slammed into a rock face parallel to the knight. He motioned his hand, and Josh's body was now upright and pinned against the wall.
As Josh looked into the man, he swore the cat eyes were glowing, then he screamed again in pain, he was slowly being pushed up the jagged rock face, the his back, and legs were being ripped open, a trail of blood followed where Josh was pushed up. The Knight jumped into the air, and flew up twenty feet, and with his staff smacked Josh across the face with his staff and he fell to the ground again. The Phoenix Knight then landed not ten feet from him. He looked at Josh, as if he was prize was won.
"Stop." Josh pleaded, "Please." The Knight jerked his palm out, the Josh flew back right into the rock face. Josh could taste blood in his mouth, and smell it in nose. Deaf in one ear, the Phoenix Knight flew up into the sky and vanished. Josh was still pinned to the wall, he didn't know how. He then began to cry. "Help me." He said. Then instantly the Phoenix Knight appeared, and grabbed Josh's face. Josh was horrified he looked into the knight's cat eyes, they seem to cut right through his soul. The Knight then took his other hand, and pulled his hair, Josh moaned in pain. The knight then began to examine Josh. He grunted, and ripped off Josh's blue blazer and shirt and tie, and threw them over the cliff. Josh watched as the clothes were incinerated in mid air. It seemed that the lava made the air over it, like an oven.
Chris backed away, as heat came from Josh's body, and his clothes burned off him. And he laid half naked in the entrance way.
The Knight, felt around Josh's muscular chest, it was torn and shredded by cuts. The Knight touched the skin around his belly button, the touch was now feeling hot and burning. Then the Knight was going lower.
"NO!" Josh said. He was then punched across the face, Josh felt the piercing stare of the Phoenix Knight. The Knight then moved his body around, and his chest and stomach were being pressed against the razor sharp rock. Josh, wanted to cry out, but he thought at best not too. The Knight's burning finger tips were now going down and around his back, it felt hundred times worse, for the burning was on open flesh and blood. Then, the Phoenix Knight, opened his palm, and a fire appeared. Josh felt heat, but he thought it was the fingers and then the Knight smacked Josh in the back, and burned his flesh. Josh was now screaming louder then over, the smell of burning flesh filled Josh's nostrils.
In the entrance hall of Chris' home, Josh screamed, Chris had never heard his son scream so loud in his life. He smelled burning flesh, and Chris moved his son's body over. And Wyatt and Chris watched in horror as a spot in the exact middle of his back was being burned. But slowly it appeared to be a marker.
As the Phoenix Knight pulled his hand away, the still sizzling skin, left the mark of the Phoenix. The Phoenix Knight stood back, and realized Josh from his spell. Josh fell back, and his body turned and he landed on his side, on his broken arm. The pain through Josh was so blinding white hot, it didn't matter where it hurt. He ached his neck up to see the Phoenix Knight, and as he did, the Knight looked back down at Josh. With the same stare, then the Knight flicked his hand and a bullet of Fire flew from his hand and hit Josh's pants. He was on fire!
The Phoenix Knight, jumped into the sky, only to vanish from sight. Quickly the fire spread burning Josh all over, his pants were quickly on fire, and then his skin engulfed in flames in a matter of seconds. He screamed in pain.
Wyatt pulled Chris away from Josh's burning body, Josh screamed for mercy, he screamed in pain, he screamed for his father. Chris's eyes and Wyatt's had tears in them, Wyatt realized this was Phoenix fire from the marker it left on his back, Water was no use on it. And then Josh's body exploded in both realms at the same time. All was left was Ash.
"NO!" Chris screamed. He went to the ash, and nothing was left. Then someone appeared in the house. She shimmered in. She looked down at the sight and saw Chris on his knees and Wyatt in shock.
"Oh don't cry, this is a good thing." She smiled.
