Chapter 55 - Chapter 55

"Philip, I'm done," Isabella said, after drawing for several hours. She gets up to go show her husband her art.

She drew the three rings, and what it looked like to her. She showed Philip the aura that she was seeing around those rings.

"It looks like it would be very dangerous if we picked it up," Philip said observing the drawing. "It's a good thing I told them not to touch it."

Isabella looks at her drawing. "How can it be dangerous?" she asked.

"If we were to touch it, and the entire island decided to disappear again right at that moment like,"  'makes popping sound,' "what will we do? Or what if the demon appears we wouldn't even be prepared to fight him."

"Right," Isabella said forgetting there was a demon on the loose. 'But why would they tell us not to let him back into the past?' she thought. 'Wouldn't it be best to let him back into the past and allow them to deal with him themselves or scribble instructions to summon one of them here to the future?'

She hears a notification. "Oh, Alice is doing a live," she said when she heard the notification. "Do you want to watch as well?" she asked.

Philip smiled tiredly. "No, it's probably some movie spoilers or checking out some model with Phoenix or something," he said moving his hand around.

Isabella shrugs and goes to her seat to watch the live. "And good evening Bolivia!" Alice's face popped up and Isabella could see her grinning a bit.

'Where's Phoenix?' Isabella wondered.

"I know a lot of you are wondering why I'm going live today, but I am about to witness some epic fight and I would like to share it with you!"

Isabella didn't take this to heart. It's probably an action movie.

She was surprised to see the scene change to Phoenix and a girl both holding dangerous weapons. "It's an actual fight?" she exclaimed, startling Philip.

"Philip come here!" she said.

Philip sighed as he got up. His knees made cracking sounds as he got up and stretched. He goes to sit next to his wife and looks at the screen.

His eyes widened. "That's a scythe in Phoenix's hand!" he said.

"Oh they're not enemies, they're friends," Isabella said sounding relieved, before becoming worried. "But why are they fighting aren't they supposed to be friends?"

They heard the computer's count down, and when it reached one. They were surprised to see their future in-law disappear and only appear when his blade was about to reach the girl's neck.

"Is he trying to kill her?" Isabella exclaimed.

"No," Philip replied. "She took three steps back," he said, in an observant voice. "Phoenix would have stopped if she hadn't done that, also there aren't any murder intentions."

"How can you be sure?" The Empress said in worry.

Philip looks at his wife in disbelief. "You are a trained fighter, shouldn't you know this as well?" he said.

Isabella huffs at him angrily, but she doesn't argue with him. It was a one-sided fight. "Why is this girl using a dagger, it is the wrong weapon to use in a situation like this."

"Maybe, that is why they are fighting," Philip replied to his wife.

"It doesn't seem fair," she said frowning.

They continued to watch and the Empress couldn't help but say. "Phoenix knows how to use that thing way too well," she said.

Philip nods in agreement. The girl jumps several feet back and throws one of her daggers up while looking at Phoenix going toward her, she jumps again and kicks the dagger midair.

Phoenix dodges and the dagger breaks through the forcefield.

The Emperor and the Empress were surprised by this, their eyes widened. Isabella's mouth opened agape. "Oh," she said.

The girl lands on the ground before disappearing and appearing behind Phoenix to which Phoenix responds by swinging the weapon in his hand over his head.

She bends down and sweeps him off his feet, making him fall.

They both could see that Phoenix was about to catch his fall, but Athena had gotten up already and punched him down hard.

They saw blood come out from Phoenix's mouth before he landed on his back.

Athena placed the dagger near his neck while he had somehow shortened the handle of his weapon and the inner blade of the scythe was behind her neck.

Isabella held her breath for a while. "Well played," they heard the girl say.

"You too," Phoenix said, and the scythe retracts. The girl got up and helped him up. He was holding his stomach. "It's a good thing we didn't eat anything before any of this," he said jokingly.

"Now is not the time to joke!" Isabella shouted.

"How is he still standing?" Philip said looking very lost.

They were discussing how the handle of the girl's weapon could also retract and expand as well. They were also talking about making one for Hiro.

"Phoenix was the one who created the weapons?" Philip said in surprise. "That's impressive."

"I am honestly still surprised," Isabella said.

"Um, you guys," they heard their daughter say. "The dagger is still melting the ground," she said.

Phoenix went over to deactivate the weapon melting the ground by pressing the button at the bottom before turning to the girl. "I think that's a good idea, Athena," he said.

"Oh her name is Athena," Isabella said.

Athena and Phoenix then shook hands.

Isabella and Philip then proceeded to read the comments and someone typed that Phoenix was Augustus' fiancé.

"The people didn't know already?" Isabella said in surprise.

"I guess we didn't do anything about it," Philip said, scratching the back of his neck a bit.

Isabella shook her head and Philip sweated a bit. "I'll announce it tonight," he said.

"Don't bother," Isabella said disapprovingly, going to her social media account where millions of people were already asking if it was true. "You know Augustus wouldn't announce it, so why didn't you announce it?" she said in annoyance.

"I wanted to wait until we were very sure that Augustus actually liked him," Philip said.

Isabella glares at him. "What? Of course, Augustus likes him a lot, he's still living with him and Augustus doesn't glare at both of us whenever we call to see how he's doing," she said.

"I'm sorry," Philip said.

In the next few minutes, the internet was on fire because of a simple announcement made by their Empress.

Prince Augustus is engaged to the beta son of the Davis family, Phoenix.