A bright light flashed before my eyes. An unstoppable force blow me away off of my feet. I was falling with no control. At last my body slammed onto the ground. I've never experienced this piercing pain inside of me.

My eyes fluttered to the view of a man on fire. Ethan! He was standing there gazing at us—in his Phoenix form. He flashed a villainous smile at me.

"I'm back," he laughed.

All of us stood up and stared ghastly at Ethan with glowing, fiery eyes, his cot shaded with red, orange, and yellow, and covered in cosmic flames.

"Don't shoot at him," I commanded Tucker.

"Hold your fire," he commanded his army.

Stern smiled as he stepped up to Phoenix.

"Phoenix, I've been waiting for you," he said.

"Optimus, brother of Phoenix," he breathed.

"At last you have returned. With both of our powers combined together, we can rule this entire world."

"I see. You brought me back for that only reason. I want to control and destroy everything except there is one flaw."

"And that is?"

"You are not part of this."

Stern's Optimus jewel suddenly disintegrates into dust with blue smoke following and disappearing taking away Stern's powers.

"No," he gasped. "W-What have you done?"

"I manipulate, control, and destroy anything I want. Whatever Phoenix wants, Phoenix gets."

"Why did I bring you to me? Why?!"

"I am fire…and life incarnate! Now and for all eternity…I am Phoenix!"

Most of Stern's androids, who were still alive, shot at Phoenix.

"No!" I screamed. It was too late. Bullets deliberately shot into the back of Ethan's body. Phoenix turned back to them and floated into the air.

Stern's androids abruptly transformed into dust. Each of them becames little bits of matter and blew away into the air.

"Dear god," gasped Benny.

"Everybody, get out of here!" Erica screamed. All of them ran for their lives. "Run! Save yourselves before you die! RUN!"

Everybody surrounding Ethan began floating into the air and disintegrating into dust. Dirt and rocks were dancing into the wind. Fires were starting as street lights were thrown against objects. Everything tumbling, rolling, flying, spiraling out of control. Nothing was uncontrolled by the power of the Phoenix. It was breaking my heart into pieces. Water of the ocean surrounding us started to float up into the air by itself. Even the Alcatraz prison transformed into dust.

"What have I done?" said Stern. "Dear God…what have I done?!"

Stern attempted to make a mad dash for it. Phoenix caught him in the act. Stern was suddenly smoking and flames were covering his entire body burning to death.

He was crawling towards me. His skin burning off and his living flesh was revealed frightening me.

"I am sorry," he gasped to me. "I didn't know. I didn't know what I have done!" At the brink of death, his ashes blew away into the wind.

"We have to go before he kills us," said Fallon.

"No, we can't leave him," said Benny.

"It's too late for Ethan," said Erica. "He's gone."

"He's still in there, Air," said Rory.

"Somebody has to stop him," said Jesse.

"You guys go," I said. "I'll stop him."

"Sarah, are you insane?" shrieked Benny. "He'll kill you."

"I can't die, remember?" I reminded him.

"Just do what you need to do," said Benny. "I believe in you."

"Thank you. Now go. Hurry!"

My friends ran to safety near the Golden Gate Bridge. Phoenix was up at the surface of the atmosphere smiling as disastrous strikes.

He wasn't always the bird on fire. He was Ethan, the awkward, sweet, brave man whom I fell in love with. He would never harm anyone unless they were harming the ones he loves the most. Everybody has a dark side in them. Ethan did his best to control his. Unfortunately, he lost the will to control him. Now I must get him to control the untamed Phoenix inside of him.

"Ethan!" I screamed. Phoenix looked down at me. "Ethan, I know you're still in there! Don't let it control you!"

I floated up into the air to get Ethan back. Suddenly, a strong wind forcefully pushed me down but I was still flying. Bits and pieces of my skin and flesh were flying away revealin my internal body, but the bits flew back to me.

Only pieces of my clothing were flying off of my body. Although I wasn't dying, my flesh was burning me for the first time since my painful vampiric transformation.

My friends glance at us from down. Jesse said, "She's burning. Can she make it?"

"Lord help this child of the night," begged Fallon.

My flimsy upper body dropped a little. When I regained a bit of strength back, I threw my upper body up. Chunks of the flesh of my chest were flying away. I let out a screech of agony and started crying.

I couldn't believe this with my own eyes. Ethan—my Ethan—was trying to kill me. How could do this? He loved me and he lets Phoenix control him and try to kill me. How dare he?!

Momentarily, my flesh returned back to me. I was left in my tanktop revealing my bra a little bit and my jeans that were burnt up to my thighs.

Finally, I was there floating face to face with Phoenix. Tears and sweat running down my face. I have never felt this much pain since the death of my parents when I was little girl. Plus, I've never been this tired either. I wasn't crying because of this. Only because of what this cosmic entity has done to Ethan. This form of Ethan was horrifying. His fiery eyes, his veins showing through his skin, and the evil look on his face. This wasn't him.

I was choking from all of the screaming and suffocating with a sensation of burning in my throat. Was this the end for me?

"Would you die…for them?" He asked.

The question unleashes a flow of anger and sadness in me.

"Them?!" I bursted out screaming. "I am burning to death here and you think that it's for them?! You think you know everything but you don't know this! Not for them. No. I die f-f-for you!"

Phoenix glared at me. "Yes, for you, Ethan. You are the only one I-I am dying for here. You're still there. Don't let it control you anymore."

The Phoenix continued to stare at me. Please, Ethan, come back to me. Please! I need you.

At the brief moment, his orange eyes transformed back into Ethan's chocolate brown eyes. However, everything surrounding us was still in control of the Phoenix.

"Save me," he begged. He was Ethan again. "Sarah, help me!"

"Ethan—"

"I don't care what you have to do, Sarah. Just do it before everybody dies! Even if it means that I have to die."

I looked at him straight in his eyes. He was really serious. Ethan was begging me to kill him.

"But if I do, then…here we go again. I'll never see you again." I sobbed.

"Sometimes you have to make sacrifices even if the sacrifice is your own life."

As tears continued to run down my face, Ethan crushed me against his chest and I burst into tears. This was too hard. I can't kill Ethan. Not now, not ever! Unless…I can't believe that I'm actually thinking of this.

"I can't do it." I whimpered.

"You can. You will." Ethan said.

I gave him a short yet passionate kiss on the lips one last time. Then, I kissed him on the cheek. I gave him another kiss on the neck and continued kissing his neck. On the last kiss, I pressed my lips against his neck for a long time.

"What is she doing?" asked Benny.

"What she always does," answered Erica. "Saving him."

My mouth opened wide and I did the only thing I had to do—the only way that the Phoenix will never return to Ethan is if Ethan wasn't human. I bite him.

Ethan let out a scream of agony which caused everything in power to blow. His screaming finally calmed down. I stopped the biting and wiped his blood off my lips. I locked my arms around Ethan and yelled, "Go to hell, Phoenix! And never come back!"

As we slowly floated back down, everything else floated back down along with us. I held Ethan against my chest as we were falling.

Finally, my back hit the ground. It didn't hurt as much as Phoenix's burning. I kept Ethan to my chest. When everything stopped, it grew silent. My hearing stayed on Ethan's heartbeat. It startled me when it came to a stop. Stop?! Why did it stop?!

"Sarah?" I looked up at Benny. "What have you done?"

"He asked me to kill him," I explained. "I couldn't do that. I just couldn't."

"Sarah, don't cry," said a voice. It sounded a lot like Ethan. I thought…I thought his heart stop.

I slowly pulled him away to look at him. Ethan was back to his original form, but it was different. He looked quite more handsome, his eyes were closed, and his skin has gotten more pale.

"Ethan…open your eyes," I whispered.

Moments later, his eyes opened. No longer did Ethan have the same dark brown eyes he used to have. They were glowing gold.

"He is immortal now," mumbled Fallon.

"You're like me now," I said to him.

"How come you didn't kill me?" He asked.

"I did, but being undead is better than being dead. How do you feel?"

"I never felt more alive until now. I feel reborn."

Carefully, I helped him up. Once he was on his feet, I hugged him victoriously and pulled back.

"So what now?" asked Erica.

"We should probably pick up everything," suggested Benny. "We going to have put the Golden Gate Bridge back in place. Also, clean up the entire city…with the building. We…We went through a lot but…we are finally at peace."

"Or we could just take a break," Rory suggested. "We could take a vacation. Paris, Morocco, Brazi, maybe China, or Vegas."

"I'm in," said Jesse. "How about you, darlin'?"

"Wherever you go, I'm coming with you," said Fallon.

"There's nowhere I'd rather be," I chuckled. "Ethan, are you okay?"

"Yeah, just…hungry."

"Don't worry. We'll get you blood."

"Actually, Benny looks pretty appetizing."

"What?!" shrieked Benny.

We all started laughing. Benny nervously laughed along.

"Just joking, Benny," chuckled Ethan. "I would never do that."

Ethan walked right pass him and flashed his fangs. "I wasn't joking, but I vow to never bite you."

"Deal," said Benny.

THE END