244 Black Serpent Vs. Red Phoenix (2/2)
”Winter!”
”Brother!”
”Lord Winter!”
He had his eyes tight shut but he could tell that aside from Solenn, he was now surrounded by everyone in the room. He could particularly feel his mother's warm touch. Still, the pain in his chest didn't disappear.
”Mommy…” Winter cried softly. ”It hurts…”
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”MOMMY, it hurts…”
Tilly's heart thumped hard against her chest when she heard her baby's cry. Her fatigue vanished and the anger that rose up in her chest fueled her energy back. Winter's face and arms were almost covered by silver scales now. His form as the Moon Serpent had shown up, but it seemed like his body wasn't ready for his transformation yet. And thus, the pain.
Oh, Winter…
Their failure as adults led to the suffering of Winter and Julian now. Although the two had old souls inside their tiny bodies, they would always be her little cinnamon rolls. And she wouldn't let her babies suffer because of their incompetence as grown-ups.
”Luna, Lord Forrester, do whatever you can to ease Winter's pain,” Tilly said in a commanding voice that made everyone around her sit properly. Without waiting for anyone's comment, she stood up and looked up. ”These guys…”
Kiho, in his form as the Black Serpent, just slapped Wixx, in his Red Phoenix form, with his long and steel-hard tail. His brother was sent flying but he was able to stop before he hit a huge, tall tree behind him.
”Why are they wasting their divine powers like that?” she snarled, then she glared at Ainsworth who stood beside her. ”And why didn't you stop your fellow Beast Gods?”
”You're asking too much from me,” Ainsworth complained. ”Even in the past, only you could stop the Black Serpent and the Red Phoenix from fighting.”
She just huffed in frustration.
Then, she looked up at the sky where the two Beast Gods were still fighting aimlessly.
That made her mad. Of course, the argument that they had with Red Phoenix wasn't a small matter. But it wasn't big enough for Kiho and Wixx to kill each other.
And we wouldn't get anywhere if those two idiots don't calm down.
”You feral beasts,” Tilly growled in an angry voice. ”Kneel!”
And just like that, the Black Serpent and the Red Phoenix both froze in the air.
A few moments later, the two fell down from the sky while transforming back to their human forms. When they were finally back as the normal Kiho and Wixx that they knew, the two knelt in front of her, along with Ainsworth.
The three Beast Gods even had their hanged low from shame, perhaps.
Yes, we should all be ashamed of ourselves.
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AKU was surprised when all of a sudden, Elis Ripperton was brought down to his knees.
The Blue Dragon was in the middle of standing in front of the wine cellar while choosing a bottle when that happened.
”What happened to you?” Aku asked with a soft laugh while browsing his collection of the best alcoholic drinks in the empire. Kyro requested to have one, and so they went to the cellar to choose the best drink that would suit the Moon God's taste. And Elis Ripperton accompanied him because Kyro would take over his body later. Thus, he wanted to choose the drink himself even though he'd be unconscious once the Moon God entered him anyway. ”Is it of old age?”
”The Supreme,” Elis Ripperton said. It looked like he couldn't stand even if he was trying hard to do so. ”I feel her heavy presence. Wherever she is, she's definitely angry at the Beast Gods. And she's this angry…” He looked up at him with a blank look on his face. ”My hunch is right. The Red Phoenix has been freed.”
The Blue Dragon told him a while ago that the Red Phoenix might have been freed because he could no longer reach out to Drake, his spirit guardian.
He also couldn't contact the Golden Tiger's spirit guardian called Faline.
”Well, Garnet Nystrom also told us that the one he saw was the real Red Phoenix and not his spirit guardian who often cloned him,” he said. In the past, Sentinel would always trick them by pretending to be Winchell Rosenberg. But now, they were certain that the Red Phoenix that the North King saw was the real deal. ”We should wait whether the North King's plan would benefit us or not before we make a move.”
Elis Ripperton, who finally broke free from the Supreme's influence, stood up while fixing his elegant robe. ”All the Beast Gods have finally descended the earth now,” he said. ”It's time for the Sky God to make a move soon.”
”We already did everything we could to make the ”immovable” Sky God move,” Aku said, then he picked up a bottle from the shelf. ”It's time for him to show us where he hid the remains of the Sun God.”
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KIHO was shocked to see Winter covered in silver scales after he came to be.
He was still kneeling before Tilly along with Winchell and Ainsworth, but he was distracted when he heard Winter's soft whimpers. Based on the bluish light coming from Lady Luna and Asher's hands, he could tell that they were trying to ease the pain of his youngest.
But it was clearly not working.
”It hurts…” Winter whimpered softly. ”My chest is burning…”
”Kiho,” Tilly called him in a pleading voice. It looked like she calmed down after hearing their son's cry. ”Can you help our Winter?”
”Of course,” Kiho said, then he stood up and immediately walked towards Winter. ”You didn't have to ask, Tilly.”
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