What's up my followers I have returned yet again with part eight of The phoenix of Darkness. Once again if you guys have any ideas or opinions feel free to comment right at the bottom below, and I realize my chapters are short i'm going to try and make them longer that's why I need your feedback. Let's dive in


Chapter 8: The last trial part 1

For the next few month's Yubel and me have been continuing our training, I had improved so much my fighting skills were getting better, and now that I can use magic it's increased my physical strength. Today Yubel brought me to a forest to burn off energy.

"Mom can I please go exploring please"? I asked Yubel

"Alright then your big enough go ahead but don't go to far you hear me" she told me.

"Alright" I screamed, I took off running.

"That boy so much energy" Yubel said

Suddenly Yubel felt another sharp sensation of pain making her stumble some. The pain went on for another few seconds before it went away. Yubel huffed and puffed a little but started to catch her breathe.

"I'm getting weaker by the day I'm not sure if I can hold on much longer"


Back with Zodie

I leaped from a ledge diving head first toward a branch on a nearby tree.

"Awwww yeaaah" I shouted as I swung myself back toward ground level doing a front flip. I landed back onto my feet and ran along the forest plain. I climbed up another tree and maneuvered through it swinging from branch to branch. I came to a stop on a branch to get a view of the amazing scenery.

"This view is great but i'll bet I can get a better one if I climb all the way to the top" I said.

I climbed up the large tree eager to get to the top along the I reached for a nearby apple because I was little hungry after all. After seconds of climbing I made to the tip top, I could see almost everything up there it was truly amazing. As I was looking at the view I then start to feel a set of eyes on me I shot around to get a look but was suddenly knocked out of the trees. As I was falling I hit just about all of the branches on the way down I finally grabbed onto one of them and swung myself to another, I kept doing this until my fall was broken by a bush.

"Oww what the heck just happened"? I questioned myself but my question was soon answered when something large with a primate feature cam crashing down onto it's feet. This thing had large hands and and it had green and purple fur, I was looking at forest vulcan Yubel told me about them some of them lived up in snowy mountains but the one im looking at stays in the forest.

"Well well well what do I have here" The vulcan said, "A little runt snooping into my territory, that's not really polite runt"

I finally spoke up "really your going to talk to me about what's polite after you knocked from the tree trying to kill me".

"Hey your the one on my turf and I don't let anybody come up on my turf I don't care who they are" The vulcan said. "Now your gonna have to apologize for intruding"

I soon got a tick mark on my head, "screw you if anybody should apologize it's you after trying to kill me you jerk".

"AHHH what wrong is the baby gonna cry because he gotta boo boo" the vulcan mocked

That was the last straw I cracked my knuckles and dashed right toward the "alright that's it let's go put em up you stupid monkey" I yelled out.

As i ran toward the vulcan with my fist shrouded with darkness ready to throw a punch, but as I tried to the vulcan just knocked me way with a swing of it's fist making me crash into a tree. I got up and quickly dusted myself off I brushed off the pain and ran back to the vulcan this time alot faster.

"Dark Phoenix knuckle" I said as I unleashed a barrage of punches hoping to hit the vulcan but instead it was blocking all of my punches with it's one hand.

"Hahahahahaha is that all you got runt" The vulcan mocked he then slammed his fist on to me and kicked me away making my body hit a rock and landing on my face.

"What's wrong can the baby go on or are you worn out" he mocked, after not responding the vulcan just turns around and walks away, as he wasn't paying attention I drew my dagger from my side and gathered up the remaining stamina I had. With what power I had left I used my dark phoenix mad dash to launch myself from the rock right towards the vulcan.

"Hey ugly keep your eye on this one" I said. Right as the vulcan toward around I swung my dagger right at his face making hi howl in pain and cover his eye with his large hand.

"AHHH my eye my god damn eye" he shouted out in pain. While he was stunned I quickly came back up to him and hit him with right hook to the jaw and then a kick to his jewels. Finally I leaped and grabbed onto a large branch broke it off and hit over his head with it.

"How's that for a runt huh, yippee ki yay Monkey man" I shouted out in a mocking tone.

The vulcan then looks onto my direction with now a scar on his right eye and and a large knot on his head and look of anger on his face that me scared a little.

"That's it you little bastard your going to pay with your life" he said with rage.

I turned to run but the vulcan got a hold of me with both his hands and started to tighten his grip on me planning to squish me with his hands.

"I'm gonna make you pop like a blueberry" the vulcan said with rage and sadistic smile on his face.

I began to feel my body begin to crush and I felt like I was going to black out was this going to be my end was this where I would die, my thoughts are then interrupted from a large screech sound and the vulcans grip is loosened. I look to see what is happening and I see Yubel pinning down the vulcan with his talons and screeching at him.

"If you ever harm my son again then getting a scar on your eye will be the least of your worries" Yubel said in a threatened tone.

The vulcan nodded his head frantically scared yubel then let him go and he ran off until we couldn't see him. Yubek then came back over towards me checked to see if was hurt.

"Zodie are you alright"? Yubel asked

"Yeah a little" I said.

"Your bleeding little" yubel then spread her wings and used her magic to heal my wounds, after a few seconds I started feeling better.

"I'm sorry for causing trouble mom" I said

Yubel then used her wings to pat my head gently.

"No honey you don't need to apologize for anything I probably should've told you about being in vulcan territory, but on the plus side i'm proud of you for standing up for yourself, now what do you say we head home for now so you can rest. I agreed climbed onto yubels back and we flew back home.


Few weeks later

Yubel told me to meet her outside of the open valley for some reason she told me that this would be another training session but she wasn't clear on what we were doing.

"I wonder what i'll be doing"

Suddenly I was hit by a large gust of dark feathers and swept off a ledge, thankfully the attack placed me lightly on the ground. I got back up and took up a fighting stance I looked and I was surprised of who my attacker was it was none-other than my mom Yubel. I understood now Yubel wanted to test my combat prowess as part of the final steps of my training. Yubel then charged toward gettting ready to attack me with her beak. Instead of backing down I covered my hands with darkness and threw a punch at Yubel.

"Dark phoenix knuckle"

My fist impacted with her beak and launched myself safely back onto ground level Yubel then proceeded to rapidly peck at me but each peck was meant with the impact of my fist covered dark magic. Finally we both pushed ourselves back I started to catch my breathe a little after that.

" UH OH your not getting tired already are you Zodie"? "Me never" I replied "Good" Yubel said

She then spread her wings out and made the entire area we were standing in dark,

"Dark room of the dark phoenix"

I remember this spell it was a way for people who use dark magic to increase their power when it was morning, that means my power would increase as well but since im up against Yubel I know she'll be stronger. All of a sudden without warning Yubel hits me with her feather wind attack knocking me back a couple yards. I got back to my feet catching my breath and rubbing my head because the impact was painful, I then hear Yubl getting ready for another attack I saw a large rock and took cover behind it. I felt the ground shake as I could feel Yubel coming in my direction, I didn;t have a lot of time she would soon find me; suddenly an Idea popped into my head.

Yubel was approaching the rock I was hiding behind when she finally reached it she took a swing with her wing which was cloaked in dark magic and sliced it in half. To her surprise I was nowhere to be seen Yubel frantically looks around searching for me.

"On your left" I shouted out my body had emerged from the darkness of the ground shooting me up and hitting Yubel in the face with kick covered with my darkness. "How was that mom bet you didn't see that coming huh"?

"Clever boy but let's bring some friends to the party" Yubel then creates a wave of darkness and noneother than her silhouette soilders about nine of them appeared and took up fighting stances and so did I.

They ran charging toward me coming at me ready to attack with a barrage of punches and kicks but I got around that.

"Dark Phoenix feather storm" I sent a massive tornado of black feathers spiraling toward the silhouette soldiers wiping them out in one fell swoop. "Hah that all you got" I said.

"Oh no my boy that's just the tip of the ice berg" Yubel said as she now began to conjure up more power I was expecting her to send out more silhouette soldiers but I was half wrong, it was only one silhouette soldier but this one was different this soldier was about the size of a Vulcan and I could feel a lot of power coming from it.

Next thing I know it solidified a sword made out of darkness and swung it down toward me I quickly drew my dagger covered with dark magic of my own and blocked it. The blow made the ground beneath my feet crack this guy was strong. Next the silhouette began unleashing blow's from left to right all I could was block them and barley dodge it's attacks till it knocked my dagger out of my hand and kicked me into a tree.

"Ohhh that's gonna hurt me in my sleep" I said, I got back up and faced the silhouette general "Alright then time for a change of plans" I said

I then begin to concentrate and conjure up my magic power "Dark Phoenix reinforce cloak" I said. My body was then covered in dark energy I could feel my power skyrocket some it all thanks to the dark room spell. I used my magic to create a dark tendril and grab hold of my dagger and took a fighting stance. The silhouette general took a stance of it's own and we both went charging for each other. Our weapons clashed but this time with a more powerful force behind them, the silhouette general was going fast but I was able to keep up with it. But after a couple of seconds I was starting to slow down and my reinforce cloak spell was fading.

"I gotta think of something quick" I thought. As I was thinking my dagger got knocked out of my hands and the general knocked me off my feet. I hit the ground with a large thud I looked up to see the silhouette general standing over me raising it's sword me ready to attack. After seconds it finally brought down it's sword on me but I grabbed a hold to it ceasing it's attack.

Suddenly after grabbing it something strange happened the silhouette general body soon became a dark orb and then the orb just went inside of my body. After this I could feel my magic power increase and my minor injuries were healed.

"Wow how did I do that" I asked.

"Hahahahahahahaha my boy you learned to absorb dark magic" Yubel informed me.

"Absorb"?

"Indeed I forgot to tell you this but with slayer magic the user can absorb their element to increase their power, though you can't abosorb your own power it must come from an outside force though" Yubel informed me.

"That's awsome" I said.

" that was most impressive Zodie you learned that trick awfully quick and you used it to beat your opponent. "But now it's time that we wrap this little fight up don't you think"

Yubel then flies up into the air and I can see her building up darkness in her beak concentrating alot of magic power into it. I knew what she was about to do it was sacred technique she showed me something I was to young to learn. I knew I had to somehow counter this I took a deep breath gathering all the magic power I had from the darkness around me I did this til I reached my limit and a black magic circle formed under me. Yubel saw this and she fired her attack towards me.

"BLACK HOLE ECLIPSE" yubel shouted

I finally unleashed my charged up attack

"DARK PHOENIX SCREEEEEECH"

Both maighty attacks collided with one another making spirals of darkness fly around The amount of power yubel had was making my knees shake a little and I felt myself being pushed back, I could really feel the power yubel had because my hands were shaking but I ignored it and I stood my ground I wasn't giving up. After a few more seconds the power from the collison just exploded and knocked me back a few inches, It took me a couple seconds to stand up my legs were still shaking after that. Yubel finally landed on the ground gazing at me for a second unitl she finally spoke.

"Alright Zodie that will be enough" She said "You did better than I expected, using my spell to your advantage, very clever".

I finally sat down letting out a huge sigh. "Thanks mommy, dang you weren't playing around you came at me like you were trying to kill me" I said a little frightened "Scary".

"Apologies dear but like I have told you countless times you can"t expect all battles to be easy" .

Minutes later

"Alright Zodie that battle was only part one to the end of your training", "now here is the second part are you ready"? Yubel asked

"Yes I am let's do this" I said full of anticipation.

"Very well" Yubel said

I then noticed that Yubels feather plucked off and then began to glow in a dark color. Next thing I know it flew far across the forest in different places.

"Zodie for your second and final test you must find the feather and bring it back to me before night fall".

"How do that"? I asked

"You have the power to sense dark magic and that is what exactly is inside of my feather, use what you know to find them I know you can do it".

"Okay count on me" I said, I then began to do a dash into the woods.

This was crazy she wanted me to find three feathers that have gone I don't know where and I have to do this before night fall this really won't be easy I thought. I sucked it up and headed toward finding the first feather nobody said this would be easy after all.


Yubel pov

After watching Zodie run off Yubel felt a little weak after using up her power, her vision was cloudy and faltered a little

"Damn must've used a lot of power today, nothing a little healing wont do"

After about a couple of minutes her strength came back to her and she was fine

"Much better I still have enough strength I must wait for Zodie"


Boom all finished this one took me a while but it's finished, next chapter will be sad but not to worry things will brighten up for out hero til next time peace.