"Should I call your royal guard?" Ren asks.
I shake my head since I don't want to bother him because he might be busy and he'll overreact.
Ren nods respecting my decisions since he doesn't want a beating like I gave him the other time. He picks me up and carries me to the bathroom under the watchful eyes of Asra. With Asra's guidance he places me in the shower and leaves the room. Asra growls and locks the door which is a sliding lock after she grabs a pair of clothes for me.
After staying in the freezing cold for a while some strength is restored and I get out and change into the hoodie and slacks that Asra got me to stay warm and comfy. I walk out of the bathroom with the smaller towel to dry my hair.
"What are you doing?" I ask Ren when seeing he's in the kitchen on his phone. I sit down at the counter and dry my hair.
"I asked Aria what to cook for you but she hasn't responded so I looked up what's the best dish to make for someone who's sick." Ren answers.
I laugh before I stop and grab my phone which Asra brought with my clothes. I press on the contact Si.
"Hola, quién eres?" She speaks.
"Hola it's Adi you're favorite, sickly same aged sister." I smile.
"Oh? Adi what's wrong?" Atasi pants exhausted from working out but even though she's exhausted she still has a calm voice.
"Ren wants a recipe. Here." I pass the phone to Ren who Atasi talks to him very carefully about a healthy dish for me.
After an hour and some small mistakes Ren finally finishes cooking food.
"Cocido madrileño or madrid stew." Atasi answers when Ren finished and asked what the dish is called. She hangs up after bidding goodbye since she has something else to do (sleeping).
"What language does she speak?" Ren asks not knowing.
"Spanish. Atasi's mother Imogen is from Argentina and her father Austin is from Spain. Imogen is a witch and Austin is a fox." I explain.
"Oh. Spanish sounds awesome, do you speak Spanish?"
The f*ck? My jaw hits the floor with his question. "I have the ability to speak all languages that I hear and I heard ven aquí ahora mismo (get over here right now) or mierda (f*ck) whenever the Foxes got into trouble or hurt themselves."
Ren blushes in embarrassment when remembering. He buries his head in his food and doesn't look at me until I finish my plate and stand up. I wash my plate and grab a pot before sitting on the couch.
Ren finishes and sits beside me. "Have I asked you why you keep vomiting?" He asks.
"I don't think you have." I answer racking through my memories to check but I don't recall telling him the exact reason.
"Care to explain why you vomit?"
"Fine since you're the one who's looking after me for the next few days." I shrug my shoulders. "Well Ellora my mother, my quin brothers; Sage, Orion, Ekon, Braxton and I were travelling back from Fog Village which is in Renata when we were attacked."
Ren sits back when knowing this will be a long story.
"We just had our first birthday so we were limited in power. The rebels clearly had an advantage. Ellora has always been weak in strength but what she didn't resolve in strength she resolved in talking. She believed that everything can be sorted out by sitting down and just talking about it but she tried to do that once with Henry our father but it didn't end well. So anyway the rebels targeted Ellora since she was the Queen but they also went after Orion and Ekon because Orion's a rare silver dragon while Ekon was a rare fish person or what humans call mermaids or merman's."
***
15 years ago.....
I move the debris off of me and stand up slowly. I look around but I'm irritated by my ears ringing. With the help of the fallen debris everywhere I slowly pull myself to where I can sense my mother.
"Haha?" My voice is soft and baby-like.
"Adi." My mothers voice comes from under the debris I'm leaning on.
I pull the debris off of her and go to find Orion while mother goes to find Sage who's yelping in pain.
"Oreo!" I gently call. "Brax!"
I whip my head around when I hear a high pitch chirp coming from my right. "Astrid."
[On it]
I shift into a small black phoenix with very long tail feathers and small body. I glide over to where I see Braxton in someone's hands. The person is trying to shove him into the sack but Braxton is putting up a fight despite being small. I screech and dive at the person's head which he hits me away. My eyes turn dark purple.
Astrid picks us off the ground and attacks the man's hands which makes Braxton fall. She grabs him by the back of his collar and gently puts him on the ground.
"Ah! Stupid bird." The man growls, raising his hand to slap but before he can hit me something bites his hand. "OW!" He howls in pain.
Orion gargles but doesn't let go of the man's hands. He eventually gets thrown off when the man shook his hand. Orion shakes his head and his eyes turn blood red.
Astrid grabs Braxton and pulls him away from the man knowing that it's about to get bloody.
From Astrid's eyes I see Orion or should I say Kao run at the man using his vampire speed when he's only young. He crawls up the man's legs and torso until he gets to the neck when he stops. Fangs protrude from his mouth and he bites the man's neck.
"Ah!" The man screams. In a matter of seconds his tanned skin turns deathly pale and collapses in a heap.
Orion steps back from the man and his eyes go back to red and green. He has a guilty look on his face but Astrid gives control back to me and I curl up around his neck comforting him on his first ever kill.
Orion turns around and helps Braxton up before walking to where they think mother is.
"Oh my god! Is that blood?" Ellora exclaims when seeing Orion's shirt and mouth. "Oh honey." She hugs Orion when seeing his eyes showing guilt and regret.
I leave Orion when seeing mother hug him and fly to Sage who's leaning against Ekon but before I can reach him I'm thrown side ways.
I crash into the ground and from whatever hit me impact I skid a while before stopping. My eyes widen and I quickly shift back to my human form.
"Haha?" I say but it comes out more like a question. I touch my waist where black blood quickly stains my clothes.
"Adira!" Ellora's eyes widen when seeing me bleed. She then does nothing that we've ever seen before she breathes in deeply and her eyes glow.
Boom!
The direction where the bullet came in is blown apart and is on fire. All of our eyes widen but my vision starts to blur and my heart beat and blood starts to slow down.
"Adi! Adira! Chichi!" Is the last thing I hear before blacking out.
I later wake up to a white ceiling. I look around the room to find it's all white and I'm strapped to the bed.
'Astrid' I call out.
[I'm here. Don't worry I'm fine] She reassures me but I can tell she only just woke up like me.
"Baby!" Ellora walks into the room and envelopes me into a hug but I don't move. "Why aren't you moving?" She asks but before I can reply I throw up black blood. The front of her pink dress becomes black. "Master Bai!" Ellora screams, running out of the room in a hurry.
I try to move my body but I can't. I can't even make a sound.
***
"When Master Bai came back with Ellora, Edith and Aunt Cora black blood was running out of my mouth and onto the white sheets. Master Bai used 10 years of his life to make me able to move but to make it permanent he had to get a witch to come which costed him 100 years of his life." I end my explanation.
"You didn't tell me how you got to being so weak? What shot you to make you die?" Ren asks.
"First off a purple spirit bullet which was very powerful to an already weak child but add being in phoenix form I'm even more vulnerable and weak. Kind of like you." I laugh. "I later found out that Ellora fed me royal blood which can save other people's life brilliantly but can't use it on another person who has black blood."
"How long were you out for?"
"Four months." I answer. "Barely another four months passed when my sister, Mika died."
"Oh."
"Ever since that day I throw up once every three months." I say. A portal appears right before me and a hand pops out.