The blonde man snarled at the ash, his hands were the only thing keeping him from going to help the amnesiac girl who seemed so close to him, in another life, considering his inner wolf was angrily fighting to get to the surface. To protect her.
"Just wait, boy. I have a feeling she'll get through this. She's a strong fae. Deep down we all know it." He deeply grumbled out.
Reluctantly the wolf and Dyson backed down, unhappily agreeing with the Ash.
The next moments happened too quickly, the series of violent swings by the Cyclops had cornered Korbin soon she was forced up by her neck. Next thing he knew she was above the behemoth of a fae with blood soaked wings and was struggling to keep herself in the air. She had a fierce, determined, warrior's glare. Anyone who looked in her eyes turned away as it felt like the fire-haired woman was burning them from the inside. Then she dove down as fast as she could and drove her fist into the Fae's neck, effectively killing the beast.
She rolled off the now dead fae and stood up.
She stared at the crowd with a wild ferocity in her sapphire eyes.
She looked to the Ash and then settled her glare onto the Morrigan. Her wings flared indignantly, every fae watched in awe as her wings started to envelope in flames effectively enveloping the feathers and burning the crimson blood filling the stale air with the metallic scent that caused to Dyson wrinkled his nose in disgust as it was enhanced for the wolf shifter. The fire died down and now every fae in the room could see the feathery appendages in all of their glory. Everyone was silent now realising what kind of power she held. With finality she spoke, her voice echoing around the walls of the warehouse, it was filled with authority and boldness.
"I know you want me to choose a side. But I can't. I won't. I trust neither of you and I damn well know you don't want to protect me out of the kindness of your hearts. I choose to serve myself."
Dyson snarled in aggravation, why does every new fae that comes into to town decide to not choose a side.
To Dyson's right he could see the Morrigan disappointed expression and the Ash hit the railing in anger. They would both do well to have a Phoenix on their side in case a war were to break out.
But the shifter didn't have time to be smug as he saw out of the corner of his eye, Korbin falling to her knees and he immediately ran down the scaffolding to get to Korbin before anyone else could.
He knelt down at her side and lifted up her head. He gently pressed two fingers to her pulse point on her neck. He let out a curse when he felt that it was extremely weak.
"Dyson she's lost a lot of blood. We don't know the extent of her injuries or what we can do to save her. I'd need to get her an X-ray. A blood transfusion. All of this I could get down at the Ash's compound. But she's not Light Fae." The human doctor said sadly.
"Do what you can! Please, Lauren, it's my fault she got in this mess. If I hadn't been so reckless she'd be fine." Bo pleaded.
The blonde doctor looked to her and then to the Ash, she couldn't keep her eyes from widening in surprise, he gave her the approval to go forth. Not wasting a second she looked at everyone, forming a plan.

"Ok, Trick, Bo, and Kenzi, I need you to go back to Trick's lair and find anything on a phoenix, look for rituals, species specific healing spells anything that could aid Korbin. Dyson, Hale you're with me, I won't be able to carry her on my own." The good doctor ordered.

Everyone scrambled to their feet and got their asses in gear. Somehow that girl wormed her way into their hearts, and she didn't have to do anything. Maybe it was the guilt.

Lauren watched with worry as Dyson took the limp and broken girl up in his arms. Maybe if she didn't call it in, this wouldn't have happened.

Dyson looked at the weak and unconscious girl in his arms. He forced back a snarl, maybe if he hadn't told his suspicions to his friends this wouldn't have happened.

Once they arrived at the Ash's compound they immediately put her in the hospitable bed.

Lauren put on her lab coat and doled out commands, having the fae nurses hook up the unconscious woman whose wings seemed to fold under her body.

Hours went by, Hale left to go help Bo and Trick at the Dahl, at the very least keep Kenzi company. Whilst Dyson stayed behind, pacing, snarling, being an overall pain in the ass to Lauren. Nothing was working, the bones she set weren't healing at the same rate any normal fae's would, there was no way she could transfuse any blood since they had nothing even close to her species' blood type in stock, if she used anything else she'd go into anaphylactic shock and die because of the weakened state she's in, and a plethora of other medical anomalies she couldn't solve, so Lauren did what any medical professional would do on her situation, she snapped

" Dyson, I'm gonna need you to either sit down and help Bo, Trick, and Kenzi at the Dahl. You are not being any help staying where you are pacing around and acting like a helpless puppy."She growled out.

Before Dyson could snark back Bo burst in with all her Succubus glory, out of breath and huffing over an old leather bound book.

"We found something." She finally huffed out.

Dyson was on her in an instant.

"It doesn't say how we can stop her from dying, it encourages it actually. But we found a ritual where she can keep this body and her memories, or in this case, lack there of.." Bo said awkwardly.

"Really? How can you be sure?" Dyson asked.

"We found it in this old diary Trick had. It says we have to do the ritual immediately after she's gone, because apparently when a Phoenix dies they last for about 10 minutes so their loved ones can say their goodbyes."

"But she's not dead." Dyson interjected.

"But she is dying, this ritual is to make sure she keeps what memories she's had, and the body she made in her past need to do this right, or we could all die, or Korbin could end up stuck in Limbo for eternity." Trick appeared with Kenzi and Hale flanking him

As if on cue they heard a groan from behind them, then the sound of rapid beeping from the machines.

They turned around to see Korbin sitting up looking like she grappled a train, and it won, 20 times over. But she was different, her eyes were rolled back and she was breathing faster, her heart started beating so fast the monitor glitched and could no longer monitor it, only emit an ear piercing screech. Which in turn had incapacitated Dyson, for his wolf ears couldn't take it so he collapsed to his knee holding his ears while Kenzi, Lauren, and Trick, had all but passed out, their noses and ears bleeding. Hale acting on impulse used his siren abilities to meet the pitch and cancel both sounds out while Bo ran to Korbin to check on her. Bo's stomach dropped when she couldn't find a pulse.

Yay, I finally updated this story. Which means that I actually will be updating hopefully back in schedule and the hiatus is gone. And I'm going to be making longer, more detailed chapters. So, cheers!

Hope you enjoy the story.

Love, Kerah