278 Goodbye Lucina Morganna (1/2)

”I WON'T die,” Lucina Morganna said, then she threw the huge ball of Black Flame at her. ”I will not let you separate me from my son!”

Tilly let out a tired sigh as a response to the other woman's claim.

Then, she let the Black Flame that Lucina Morganna threw at her ”burn” her.

It didn't hurt, of course. The Black Flame only made her body feel warmer than usual. And then, eventually, she absorbed the flame and it made her black wings grow bigger.

Lucina Morganna gasped in shock. ”No how can it be”

”Why are you shocked?” she asked, the Black Flame that was supposed to burn her was now completely absorbed by her black wings. ”I'm the owner of the Black Flame. Did you really believe that you can hurt me with my own power?”

The fear on her face already told her what she needed to know.

”There was a lifetime that you used the Black Flame to hurt Kiho and Winter,” she said, confusing Lucina Morganna who didn't have the same past memories as she did. ”Let me pay you back for that, my traitorous spirit guardian.”

She felt her black wings detach themselves from her back at her will.

Then, the form of the wings changed until it became a black phoenix the size of a regular eagle. Since she hadn't absorbed the Black Flame yet, she could only create a phoenix of that size. But she was confident that it was enough to burn down a village or a forest.

”Let me teach you how you to use the Black Flame,” she said, then she looked up and smiled at the black phoenix above her. ”Eat the traitor, my lovely bird.”

The black phoenix shrieked, then it flew down fast towards Lucina Morganna's direction.

When she turned to look at the other woman, she saw her running deeper in the woods to probably hide. She couldn't outrun the black phoenix, of course. After just a few seconds, the traitor was already caught by the flaming bird using its claws.

The black phoenix carried the yelling and struggling Lucina Morganna back to her. Then, the flaming bird dropped the traitor in front of her. The other woman dropped with a loud thud.

”You can't escape, Lucina Morganna,” she said coldly. When the woman looked up at her to glare at her, she just waved her hand. ”Burn.”

Lucina Morganna tried to protect herself with the Black Flame that she stole.

But instead of protecting her, the Black Flame actually attacked her, making her scream in agony. That didn't stop her from attacking the traitor with the black phoenix. The flaming bird wrapped Lucina Morganna in its wings until the only thing that she could see from the other woman was her head.

Lucina Morganna's cry for help was filled with anguish. She could tell that her body was being roasted slowly and surely.

She could just burn the traitor to ashes, but she wanted her to feel pain first.

”You can't die, Lucina Morganna,” she reminded her. ”You're not a human being in the first place.”

That seemed to hit a nerve because the traitor stopped crying.

Then, she looked at her with a confused look on her face.

Did she seriously forget that she's not a human?

”Lucina Morganna, you're a spirit guardian just like Sentinel, Faline, and Drake,” she said. She didn't include Yumi because the White Snake's case was different. Her mother-in-law was a minor god after all. ”You were only born from my flame. I don't know why you think that you're a human.”

”But she said she'll turn me into a real human” Lucina Morganna said in almost a whisper. ”She promised me that if I steal everything away from you, she will grant me a human body that I will be free from you forever”

She was confused at first.

Then, the image of the ”young Solenn” that was trapped in the Abyss entered her mind.

It was her, she said to herself. She was the one who made that ridiculous promise with Lucina Morganna.

”You have been tricked, Lucina Morganna,” she said and this time, she genuinely pitied the traitorous spirit guardian. ”Not even the Sky God could turn a spirit guardian into a human.”

Lucina Morganna looked devastated by her revelation.

”You do not have soul and it's the very thing that one needs to be human. After all, a human body needs a soul to be considered ”alive,”” she explained. ”But a spirit guardian is made of whatever element your master wields. For you, it's flame. The only human about you is your physical appearance.”

”Lies!” Lucina Morganna yelled while tears fell down her face. ”Do you think I will believe you? You're an enemy!”

”Because that little girl said so, right?”

Once again, the traitor was rendered speechless.

”You betrayed me because you were tempted by her lies,” she said while shaking her head. ”Why are you desperate to be a human, Lucina Morganna?”

”I want to be a wife,” Lucina Morganna said in a whisper. ”And a mother.”

At that moment, her heart broke for the enemy.

She silently asked the black phoenix to return inside her. The flaming bird opened its wings, then it slowly vanished. She knew that the black phoenix entered her body when she felt a strange warmth in her chest.

Lucina Morganna wants to be a wife and a mother

She looked down at Lucina Morganna who was now on the ground while hugging herself. Her clothes were already burned to nothing, and her skin was all red from the burn. Even though she wasn't a real human, her physical body was still similar to a real human and thus, she received the same damage as any other person that was literally roasted.

Lucina Morganna's long hair was also burned short. Her cheeks were only a little red because she didn't burn her face a while ago.

This pitiful woman

Before she realized what she was doing, she already took off her cloak and gently threw it Lucina Morganna.

”I don't need your pity,” Lucina Morganna said, then she looked up at her with a glare. ”Go ahead. Laugh at me. You already won.”