The Dragon's Flaming Rebirth

"IT WAS A CUP OF COFFEE SITTING THERE AND I WAS FEELING LIKE SOME COFFEE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A WASTE"

"Seriously Cell what are you on about I didn't ask about any coffee"

"Stupid people being wasteful and expecting me to do the same"

"Cell what are you on about"

"Oh forget it Max"

The pair continued walking in silence until they reached their respective rooms

"Well g'night think the officer guy’ll say anything"

"Nope hes probably too scared"

"YOU THREW FIRE AT HIM. what did you expect"

"Well I didn't expect him to bolt out the door once he got out of the elevator"

"Whatever you say, see you tomorrow"

The sun rose, bird sang and Max woke up a with massive migraine that felt as if he had been run over by a train. Stumbling around in his room looking for the door when he walked into it with his broken arms. realising that he was still really hurt he went and just sat down looking out the windows and thought about their current situation seeing as how the big whirling mass of whatever it was is still out there they were still in danger. but to make matters worse the had to make a letter to excuse the three of them from school for the day. "And people miss childhood. This is just great now we have to put together another illusion to go and sort it out next time we go in why Mariah insists on going to the strictest school in the area I will never understand" Max grumbled to himself before getting up and opening the door through a painstaking process of raising and lowering his still hurting but now mobile arm to get in position for the door knob. Once outside he headed down the steps towards the kitchen trying to get a feel for who was awake to judge the time of day. Cell was awake and with Mariah trying to convince her that adding rubies to her topaz and emerald block thingies would be a bad idea but Sol looked to still be out so either it was before 5:20am or he was unconscious. Judging from the fact Cell was nearly shouting at Mariah while she worked trying to get the blocks done she was keeping her cool and frustrating Cell to no end after a bit Max decided watching this was getting him nowhere instead favouring to just grab what was left of the lamb they'd had two days ago. Peeling back the glad wrap and slicing off some pieces onto a plate Max walked off into the living room to sit down and accidentally bumping into Celeste on the way triggered a barrage of questions relating to how long he'd been downstairs and why emeralds wouldn't mix with rubies because of their special properties. Half ignoring it and just being unable to understand it due to the migraine he was suffering Max went and sat down getting a random book off of the shelf to use as a tray while he ate. Sitting on the floor he could barely begin to hear other things over his sisters laughter and yelling..... and sarcastic comments. Beginning to eat now he started getting annoyed at his sisters incessant yelling. Looking at the book he was holding "Interactions between powerful creatures and crystals: a reference guide"

"may as well"

Opening the cover towards the index and promptly looked for the section on phoenixes after finding it he began reading and found some facts like ice and fire phoenixes are separate in what crystal effects do. For example an amethyst for an ice breed would have no effect whatsoever whereas with a fire breed the same crystal would induce a conscious paralyzed state with nothing more than the ability to move one's eyes, breathe and talk for an hour per gram swallowed. an evil grin spread over Max's face but disappeared when Celeste grabbed him and dragged him into the kitchen screaming about how pears are terrible and she prefers star fruit and asking his opinion on the subject. "Cell reason number 1 why you should shut up I have a freaking migraine reason 2 since becoming a BIRD OF PREY I can’t stand fruit however tomatoes are ok and reason 3" Max froze Celeste solid in a block of ice leaving her mouth and nostrils open to the air. "Max what are you doing"

"Revenge for all of the stealth related pranks you pulled"

"Ok i’ll play along. There were about fifteen just over the past two weeks"

"Thank you"

"Now wheres the amethyst supply"

Mariah came back with some amethyst and a cup of tea, Max began chipping away at it and weighing it "Ok I think two hours should do"

"Two hours of what"

Max went and grabbed small slice of lamb taking it and placing it on a plate with the amethyst in the centre "Read this book while you eat"

Cell stared blankly at him "I can't move i’m sorta frozen in case you didn’t notice"

"Fine eat the meat and i'll read it to you. Of forget it i just realised what i said this is gonna hurt now open up" opening her mouth Max used his right arm to lift the gem encrusted meat into celestes mouth all the while grimacing in pain. after she swallowed Max handed her the book and as she walked over to the lounge room reading down the page the Max had opened the book to and looked to be having trouble standing up and sat down. "You know max that was a good one now where is the part where I feel like I am being hampered... in any way"

"take a look out the window and you'll see why" staring outside and her eyes widening in shock a storm was brewing and while max was dealing with her, Mariah had gone outside and set up a lawn chair in the rain. "I dont want to play along anymore."

"Two hours then you can come get me back"

"I hate you sooo much"

"If I were you I would be saying the same thing but im not sooo yeah"

Replacing some of the ice beneath his Sister and lifting her on top of it she was carried outside and placed there in the rain. In a t-shit and jeans. Sol opened the door to the living room from the underground and walked in and saw a very odd sight Cell was outside in the rain with no protection with her brother sitting in a hollowed out block of ice laughing his head off. Shaking his head and looking away he turned on the television set and was greeted with "It seems the weather burea are wrong again instead of the forcast sunny day we ended up having a thunder storm. In other news the mysterious dark clouds that were seen brewing over the city center early last night have had a breakthrough with video footage of what is believed to be a phoenix on fire charging into the heart of the storm."

"Thats right not only that but we have an officer who was wearing recording equipment who claims to have gone to a house to ask questions and been to some extent held half captive by the same phoenix here is a small snippet of the sound file. "Can I scare him when he wakes up"

a three second delay "Why not It'll be awesome I'll sit in front of him and burst into flames when he wakes up"

"Look we need to figure out what happened what went wrong with those clouds and the entity that absolutely destroyed you guys when we went in to fight it"

Cuts back to the news report "Officers are on their way to speak to this group of four as It will not only be a breakthrough in science but also perhaps bridge a gap we never knew existed."

~Thats not good~

"That is an understatement"

"What's the cure for cells amethyst problem"

"Funnily enough extreme cold... by phoenix standards"

"HEY WHAT WHY AREN'T YOU STILL PARALYZED"

"READ THE WHOLE PAGE NEXT TIME YOU BIG DUMMY"

"Oh hey Sol, Mariah. What's up"

"They have footage of you flying on fire into the storm last night. And an audio of you trying to convince us to let you scare him. So by the looks of things he was wearing the wire, or whatever its called"

"Well shi.."

knock knock knock

Three head swiveled towards the door

"Fight flight or just talk"

"I vote option three after I take a hot shower damnit Max"

"YOU KNOW OPENING THE DOOR WOULD BE NICE. WE HAVE GUESTS"

"This is the Sydney police department we just wish to talk"

"Also i'm Professor Terrigan"

"Max drop the act they know basically everything"

Opening the door Max stepped through slightly wet but all the same in better condition than the officers clothes. "Mariah why are your eyes closed?"

As soon as these words were uttered Max and everyone else in the room was blasted back all except for one officer. Named John Miller who now had an evil grin spread over his face. Which swiftly disappeared when he noticed Sol. In yellow dragon form. charging a laser. aimed at his face. by the time he looked back to Mariah a number of the potted plants in the room had been picked up and thrown at it/him quickly transforming back into its normal form the dark blob began creating clouds around the home. lightning began striking the ground. As the entire house blew up exposing a small area of the underground caverns. During the confusion Mariah had shielded the officers and professor who was writing down everything that happened. Max and Cell both shot off into the air the moment the roof was blown off one of which muttering curses in pain as they flew off. Taking up perches in the remaining areas of the cavern. Celeste moved first stealthing and moving off to flank the weird blob of darkness. Followed by Max who made six duplicates of himself and scattered himself and these copies to the wind. The blob took a solid form the shape of a human in a robe but remained the same indistinguishable black colour as before. Mariah stayed human and grabbed a multitude of rocks off of the ground making a shield around Sol as he changed from lightning to wind green scales replacing the yellow ones and returning to the ridge on his back. All but immediately after this process finished a Tornado appeared in front of Sol and began tearing up the area even this was enough force to move the dark entity Max and Cell had been smart enough on the other hand to fly away before anything happened Mariah prepared to teleport both herself and Sol out of there when ominous call echoed out across all of the surrounding area including sydney itself striking fear into the hearts of all it crossed paths with shaking their very souls “If you shall not come willingly and seek to destroy me in the process know now that we shall meet again and when we do it shan’t be pretty for you. However, that would be what I would say if i were to be defeated no I shall never be defeated but on the same note you shall and by the predecessors I swear to end you on this day here and now”

By this time Max and Cell had re-joined Sol and Mariah as they teleported out of the cavern and watched the tornado be brushed aside morphing back to human the stood side by side Sol’s shirt turned yellow, Mariah began floating, the ground beneath Celeste and Max froze and caught alight respectively and they began charging a beam of energy aimed to destroy the dark being. Oh pitiful how pitiful you have no chance the dark being raised its pinkie and shot out a beam the size of a banana at a nearby tree, that tree soon became an astronaut with a hole in it that was on fire. “We won't give up not yet anyway” they launched back their reply and the eerie shadow of a person sent his reply a full on blast with both his hands in an overly dramatic dragon ball z (tm) kame hame ha position  which blasted straight through their beam and into the ground behind the illusion they were still standing there faded and they came up behind and blasted him again this time piercing straight through him and into the ground below “ha you actually made me pull out my trump card well done but not well enough" It laughed as a massive explosion went off and the surrounding area was devastated the caverns destroyed the officers and professor who had gotten a video camera now were all blasted back and seriously injured. when the dust settled all that remained was a perfectly circular hole where they had been fighting. To this day no one on earth ever heard from those four again. Although I must add they certainly didn't die.