His hearing had caught the sound of a child crying coming from within the shield and the second he faltered wondering why he heard a cry, Mu'ut's angry bellow followed his shield exploding as her white and golden aura dwarfed every fire burning around. For a moment, all that he saw was a white and golden phoenix flying towards the huge scared forest and into the fire that the Yggdrassil wood burned in.
An additional look made her as clear as day within the white and golden ethereal body of a phoenix.
He stumbled as he flew towards her but she was faster than he was.
The minute she walked into the fire pillar surrounding the branch where the giant dragon fruit was, her white and golden flames turned emerald green and golden.
Then like it was being blown upon, the fires went out in a gust of wind that almost blew him and Gaga away.
Gaga had come chasing after Mu'ut. A second too late to say. The very same second she had spent trying to figure out what happened.
Mu'ut had just grown powerful and simply broke through space using water. Something beyond conceivable. Water and light couldn't break through space. yet she did.
But Mu'ut growing twenty-five feet tall was everyday life.
Her turning into an ethereal mythical phoenix was just icing on a cake that almost made her want to bite a few heads off.
But being thrown away like an old rag hurt her pride way more than anything did.
She cut the air with small bursts of wind blades made with rotating air that made any chainsaw seem like it was out of power.
The blade shielded her but also cost her a lot of energy to keep her safe. When the wind died, the fires around were dead except for the orange-yellow fire surrounding Mu'ut more than half a mile away.
Even the ground that was bare a minute ago was now covered by a thin layer of grass and tree seedlings that grew fast enough to be noticed.
But not too fast.
She and Gammad stared at the branch that withered like a mummy. They saw its energy move to the fire which surrounded the two crying kids at the same time.
Two?
Gammad couldn't believe his eyes when he saw Mu'ut crying whilst mothering the little green and black-scaled reptilian humanoid with their head on her lap.
The fire burned fiery for twenty more seconds as the other guardians found themselves being forced to watch the tree branch slowly dissolve and the two kids burnt themselves out.
Gaia had forced all of her guardians, to watch the first of the next generation of guardians rise and let them know that their frozen clock had just started to tick again. To let them know that natural death for them was still in the picture for them but a few thousand years were still left for them.
Unbeknownst to the rest of the guardians, there was another meaning behind the fire that seeped through the holes in space that the frit explosion caused.
Cyraon, the keeper of the tree of wisdom woke up from his slumber as his head started spinning in high gear. A lot of information bombarded him so much that his head froze as the seedling in the other room started growing seven more branches and with it more than seventy-two leaves.
He waved his pale hand around and a circle of runes flowed into the room, shielding him from all the information that made his nose bleed. But his blood wasn't red like most living beings.
Nor blue or golden like most of the gods beyond Alkebulan. Nor was it deep purple like demigods. Rather it glowed milky purple on the vedge of turning white.
He took he drew a circle and his bed turned into a study table where he now sat on its chair. On the study table were a fountain pen and a pile of parchment anyone who saw it would have thought it was a pile of new printing paper.
He waved once more and the bottle of ink next to the parchment pile and the parchment rose into the air.
The ink flew out of the bottle and into the parchment. The spills turned into writings as all the information blocking his head wrote itself into the paper.
For a second, he felt relieved but once he saw what he was writing, he felt scared, pained, and worried.
He took the first paper as his eyes lit up.
"Thoth," He called into the night air. "I am sorry but your people are in danger."
"I know." The air replied back. "But I already gave up on them the moment they started making killing things for their so-called sacrifices."
"I don't mean that. Your life..."
"Is coming to an end. I know. Maybe you should look at the Ceiba. It gave birth to a child instead of a heart of a new world."
"What?!" The last sleep that was still lingering in his eyes faded away as he looked at the Yggdrassil tree. A huge branch was on the ground and the dragon fruit that had always appeared like the second sun and everyone had thought was going to be a heart of a new world was gone.
But on the ground, the dragon fruit was split open and two kids cried in front of it.
One was Mu'ut.
The other was not entirely a humanoid. Or someone they knew.
They looked like a boy, yet they weren't. They looked like a dragon-human hybrid with red-black with a tinge of green scales.
He tried to see how much energy the child had but the dragon whelp dwarfed everything he had ever seen. Even the saint seemed to be a candle in front of the sun.
Mu'ut was a different story. She seemed to be growing stronger with each second, even for a child. Her energy cores had always burnt like it was a brown dwarf was now slowly appearing to be a blue star.
Her whole body had the same energy the planet had, only concentrated. He didnt need glasses to see that the boy was harvesting the energy from the tree and all the fruit around and feeding it to Mu'ut. She refined the energy turning it into her own and using enough a tenth of it on her own and passing it to the child.
He added the energy he had collected during her refinement and passed it back to her in an endless loop that scared him way more than anything. the circle broke every time Gammad and Gaga used a spell.
A portion of the energy was sucked by them making them spend just a little of their own to cast spells. spells that were boosted by both the tree and the siphoned energy the boy and Mu'ut harvested from the tree. The planet seemed to be helping them too, sucking a few ounces of energy from its own core to their location.
"Gaia, what are you doing?" He asked.
Gammad watched only for a second before worry overwhelmed him. He ran to his child in the middle of the fire and grabbed her.
The brief contact made him worry and the strongest desire he had ever had to stay next to the little dragon born.
He quickly pushed it aside and inspected his unconscious bundle of joy and trouble for injuries but she was just tired.
The dragon whelp looked at him with its huge eyes streaked with tears.
He frowned, making the whelp cry and the dying fire burn both bright and violently.
He picked it up too and the fire instantly died and the whelp started sucking on his armors energy source. Sucking both its metals and magic gems they deformed and melted at the heat of the fire burning inside the whelp's throat. The liquid flowed into its mouth as baby dragons did.
He took out one of the fruits he picked earlier, a golden apple, and plucked its mouth with it to stop his davross armor from being eaten by the whelp.
The whelp sucked the apple like it was everything.
"you cheapskate!" Gaga slapped his head once the fire vanished.
"What?"
"Couldn't you have given him an orange at least?"
"An apple works fine, see, he is already asleep."
"He didn't even eat it."
"what do you want woman? you didn't even keep Mu'ut away."
"She hit me and warped away." She massaged her nose as if it was still hurting.
"She can't warp. She doesn't know how to bend space."
"yeah. And water is as useless in combat as a third nose." She retorted in a whisper as she took Mu'ut out of his hands to help him carry the other child easily.
"Oh." The brief contact made her share with him read her mind and as the incident of Mu'ut's escape was still fresh in her head, he saw it.
"This is exactly why I would never marry you. Did you have to pry into my head?"
"That's not on me, it's on you."
"How is that my fault?"
"I've always been honest with you. I don't do it intentionally."
"Like every time you land inside my panties. Sure there is nothing intentional about that."
"There is and a lot of intension behind it, it's just that being your booty call is not something I like."
"what's that supposed to mean?"
"Look, I..." Gammad stopped before he incriminated himself. "I will have to clean up here and answer all the questions that the others are throwing inside my head right now. Maybe find some answers myself. Let's have this conversation never."
"Dont try to change the subject."
"I probably have two kids to raise now instead of one and..."
"So? We raised Lyska and the others without difficulties and they are fine young men and guardians." She looked at him with the same eyes that absolved Ava of all incriminations as the real culprit of Mu'ut's serious, inquisitive look.
If he removed the age difference, he could just see Mu'ut in her face.
"let's put them to sleep first, and talk, we have a lot to talk about." He opened a vortex in space that opened inside his house two thousand kilometers away without using any focus.