The Dragon's Flaming Rebirth

A slightly wrinkled sheet of paper is gently pushed onto a desk “Who placed this note on my desk” grumbles the old wrinkled substitute teacher. As she glances up she sees a student standing in front of her. She begins to snarl then leans in closer to the girl who seems to be standing in front of her rummaging around in her bag her hand with a watch placed on the edge of her desk she leans further in and glares “Young woman what are you doing giving me a note instead of just speaking to me” the girl glances up and points at the note before lowering her head and continues searching her bag. “SPEAK GIRL” She leans back in her chair “I can't read your mind“ at this comment a small smile developed on the girls face as she leaned in a bit further into her bag soon she pulled out a small silver voice recorder and handed it to the impatient substitute teacher. After a few seconds of the teacher staring blankly at her she finally presses the play button on the recorder and the message played “Hello” a female voice emanates from the recorder “You must be either a substitute teacher or a new teacher this is just a message to say my daughter Mariah is and has been mute from birth so please assist her in any way you can thank you”.the teacher at the front of the room goes pale with embarrassment, at this two boys in the back of the class smirk to each other as Mariah retakes her seat.

“Mariah” said one of the to boys that were sitting up the back “what was that like the fourth time this year”

“Max not now were walking back home anyone could overhear”

~Yes Max it was the fifth time, Sol why are always so overprotective its not as if others can just break into a telepathic conversation~

~Test. oh ok you did set up a link that’ll help~

~Max if you give me a migraine again I swear~

~Mariah I said sorry like twenty times~

“You two are crazy” said Sol shaking his head “Also where was Celeste today”

~Regeneration cycle or something along those lines~ thought Mariah

“I don't know about you but I just wanna to go home get changed and go flying”

“Max we are walking down the street anyone could overhear seriously”

~Isn't your regeneration cycle three days after Cell’s?~

“Well great I hate my cycles”

“and your sister doesn't”

“actually she doesn't really mind”

~I would point out we have long talks about the fact she hates them~

“Well thats new”

“Any way Max theres the house i’ll race you and if you morph I swear i'll get you back”

“dangit”

~what about me~

“no teleports and” Sol finished

~3~

“2”

“1”

~GO~ a new voice shouted? causing the boys to trip while Mariah laughed silently

~Cell how long have you been in the link~

~Max I've been here for a good three minutes~

~So how far through the regeneration cycle are you~

~Yeah.... I’m sitting a little pile of ash i could use some help feathers...~

~Aren't easy to clean I know~

“You done yet”

“No Sol I’m not”

“Ok have fun I’m gone”

As Sol walked off towards their small wooden home on the outskirts of the city Mariah stopped laughing silently and began waiting for Max to dust himself off and head back to meet up with his sister. soon they reached the quaint wooden home opening the door the three of them walked up the steps towards the bedrooms.

“You guys should stay outside phoenix regenerations aren't exactly pretty” Max warned

“The room looks ok now its just kinda.... on fire annnnnnnd covered in ash” Celeste said over the sound of wingbeats

“I’m gonna go underground i'm getting a bit hungry” said Sol as he was enwrapped in dark green flame which slid down his body replacing the school clothes he was wearing with a verdant green t-shirt and khaki shorts with a stripe of red yellow and blue when Sol finished both Max and Mariah were enwrapped in aquamarine and violet flames respectively Max came out wearing blue T-shirt and shorts with a flame on the center, Mariah came out with a white shirt with a large stripe of purple diagonally with the top on her right hand shoulder. As Sol was beginning to leave Max opened the door to his sisters room revealing a large bird covered in ash staring back at the three of them. üh yeah so.....” Celeste began awkwardly “I may need some help putting out these fire’s and getting this ash off”

~I got it don’t worry~

“Do what you want to i'm getting something to eat then i'm gonna clean the tundra and lake. Cell when your done its your turn to fix the lighting system Max Mariah you good for cooking?”

“Hey Mariah could you maybe use some tk and get this ash off me”

~I got it birdie~

“I'm not a birdie, I'm a phoenix”

Mariah moved her hands together and pushed them apart channeling energies unknown to most humans as she pushed her hands apart the ash covering Celeste flew off and hovered a few meters away from her revealing a golden and red eagle looking bird with aquamarine tail feathers then Mariah grabbed all the ash in the room off of the wall and placed it into a plastic garbage bag which was dropped in front of Celeste.

“Thanks Mariah let me just change back”

“I’m gonna go make something to eat”

~Ok Max i'll be there in a sec~

Celeste ruffled her feathers then was encased in golden flame and after it was gone all that remained was Max’s twin standing there smiling.

Sol walked down the hall hearing them still talking and thinking about how quickly he could clear the tundra so he could swim in the lake. after reaching the bottom of the stairs he took a sharp left into their small living room “why we decided to go with the most cliche of secret entrances is completely beyond me” Sol sighed as he pulled on a book rotating a bookshelf and opening a door to an elevator.  after a few seconds of rumbling it reached the bottom the doors opened revealing a massive underground cave with artificial biomes a tundra, lake, miniature shield volcano and in the center a crater with crystals coming out of the ground and crackling with different auras of energy.

~Hey Mariah you feel like emeralds tonight?~

~Sure sounds nice, get some topaz as well~

~On it~

“Ok time to morph and get this over with”

A green flame enveloped Sol again as the flame dissipated Sol stood there but not as a human or phoenix but as a dragon with a stripe of scales interchanging colours of red, blue and yellow from tail to head through the center of the spine. the rest of the his scales were a dark green. at about half the height of the average human slightly smaller than a doorway and two meters long this was a rather impressive sight. using his tail Sol dug up and then smashed some emeralds and topaz from their crystal farm before levitating them back into  a small satchel by the elevator before changing back and traveling back up the elevator and through the bookshelf.

entering the living room he saw Celeste on her way down to fix the light in the tundra which had been on the brink for a while.

“Have fun birdie” Sol smirked

“Save it I hate the cold” Cell snarled ”In any case i’m gonna be late back im gonna stop by the volcano to warm up after”

“CELL” Max came running through the living room “Oh hey just wondering do you feel like fish or just some of last nights lamb? because we need some more fish otherwise”

“guys i have to deliver some gemstones...”

“oh ok sorry”

“Cell why are you apologizing”

“Sol just go past, now Cell you good to go hunting or what?” said Max as Sol continued walked past

“yeah Max i'll go hunting after I fix the lights and warm up at the volcano” said Celeste with a blank face and a sarcastic tone.

“Ok ok Cell i'll go grab some fish and bring it back”

~Sol where are the gems i've finished the twins seasoning all i need is the the fish and gems~

~I’m on my way mariah i'll be back and Sol’s nearly there~

Max encased himself in a blue flame and morphed into a ird the same as Celeste’s but with the blue taking the place of the gold with  golden tail feathers. then he flew out the open window and headed off towards the beach on the other side of town at quite a fast speed. meanwhile mariah got the gemstones Sol collected and transformed into her own dragon form. after the purple flame subsided what remained was a white and purple scaled dragon with the white scales running a pattern around her body from tail to golden horns she was slightly smaller than Sols dragon form but at the same time still large enough to be quite threatening. then she picked up the assorted gems of  topaz and emerald and began compacting them together with telekinesis trying to crush them together to the point where they wouldn’t fall apart after creating this block of crystal she set it down and began creating another one of the crystal blocks when she had finished the four blocks she laid them out and started looking for Max.

~Hey Max where are you~

~b..y c.a.. t... ...~

 ~Celeste, Sol I can't reach Max with my telepathy somethings wrong~

Two yells came from the other end of the house simultaneously

“Were on our way meet us at the lake”

Mariah proceeded to rush out the front door and after taking a couple of seconds to stretch her wings took off heading over the city the night sky provided a free camouflage for her purple scales. A bolt of electricity shot down in front of her illuminating the sky and revealing a falling phoenix.

Mariah then mouthed “Thats not good”

swooping down she caught Max in her paws and looked up seeing celeste falling and Sol who now had switched the colour of his scales to having yellow as his main with green taking its place on his back limping his way down the roof of a commercial building.

Mariahs eyes lit up in a violet aura glowing brightly and time slowed down celeste fell slowly towards the ground and sol was nearly on the roof  she placed Max down and flew as quickly as she could over to celeste picking her up the same way she had Max and carrying her over to sol before letting the aura which had built up from just around her eyes to surrounding whole draconian body dissipate and time retook its normal pace as she went to pick up Max and carry him back to Sol.

“Hey Mariah nice of you to show up, enjoy your leisurely flight?”

~Oh shut up and pass out already~

“Sounds nice but I thought I should tell you Max and Cell have broken wings and  yeah I think passing out sounds nice but your gonna need help to teleport us back”

Mariahs expression shifted from glaring to just sighing in defeat ~come on help me out with this~ with curled up on the top of the building mariah dropped max next to cell and sat next top Sol and began channeling again a teleport with Sol pitching in to boost the power a flash of multicoloured light and they were all in the caverns underneath their home in the crystal crater changing back and rushing over to a seam of emeralds in the center working frantically she shaped them into four malleable emerald bandages for max and celeste and then rushed up to grab the emerald and topaz blocks she had made earlier. Bringing them down she noticed Sol had passed out after setting up Max and Cell into positions where she could fix their wings easily. After applying the crystal bandages she changed back to human and went to check on Sol. After checking all she found was his right wrist was broken some major bruising and his left foreleg was dislocated. After setting his leg and going back to check on the twins The doorbell rang.                   End chapter one.