Chamber of the supreme archeologist, Corroded city.

05:00 at night.

The crackling of the torches interrupted the silence of the desert, filling the room with its small tune. Valeria's body was sore, and her mind even more, although it was not something strange; rather, it was a miracle that Valeria's vampiric gene was functioning without any blood during combat.

Any other vampire would have died in such conditions, but in willpower no one could beat Valeria. Phoenix was able to warn Flynn and Jeellel fast enough, almost taking Flynn by the scruff of the neck until the prophet gave his blood to his grievously injured daughter.

Now, Valeria rested on a strange "pillow", trying to fight to wake up.
The vampire moved from side to side, trying to get support on his arms but the wounds only managed to make her snarl softly. "Shhhh... dont be stubborn and rest, you've earned it"

Valeria opened her eyes little by little, to find the yellow-eyed girl who had saved her. The vampire tried to sit up, resting her hand on Phoenix's thighs. "I've been using you as a pillow, right? Forgive me..."

"There's nothing to forgive, Valeria, I was so focused on my reading that until I heard you hit the wall I had no idea what was going on..." Phoenix whispered, warming her palm and placing it on her head , as a hot towel.

Flynn interrupted the silence between the two girls, entering the bedroom followed by Jeellel. "The four girls are already on Earth, in an ambulance in the direction of Light's hospital.

How is valer-" Flynn didnt say anything else, because his daughter's open eyes were signal enough to throw herself at his side and hold his hand. "MY GOD, VALERIA! You've had me so... so worried! How can you lose to some dogs?!" Flynn cried, but relieved to see how Valeria sent him to hell with her hand.

"I already told you, Flynn! that Chief Kobold was using Eldritch magic and even mirror techniques! You would have fallen too... until Calia would have lost that fight!" Phoenix said raising his voice a little, causing his flaming wings to appear again.

"Stop stop stop stop! That's my bed! If you're going to fight, do it in a place where I dont have important memories!" Jeellel interposed between Phoenix and Flynn, when all her attention really went to Phoenix. If the hot girl had shown him something, it was that he had no problem setting everything on fire to get away with it.

"Jeellel, dont get involved! Phoenix, now Valeria is awake, so you can go on explaining everything!  Why you have a cathedral of the sun like me?! How do you know our names? WHY HAVE YOU STOLEN ME THE NAME" PROPHET "?" Flynn said all this holding Valeria's hand harder, causing the Vampira to come out with tears.

"You want answers, right?" Phoenix lifted Valeria's head gently and left her on one of the pillows, after which she stood up and snapped her fingers, making a dark raincoat appear from a flare. "Then, I invite you to come and meet me in Aeromere! I'll even invite you to my apartment!"

Phoenix ran through the bedroom to jump through the opposite window. By the time Flynn arrived, there was no sign of her. "Shit! what's Aeromere, Jeellel?"

"A city of the tribe of the forest, built to the west of here, on the border between Autumncrest and the Grand Desert ... it is not a much appreciated city... it is full of... "undesirable" to say it in some way. And it's next to the Cathedral of the Sun, that's why Phoenix has an apartment there"

 Jeellel checked Valeria's bandages while Flynn continued to look out the window, renewing it while rubbing a pink crystal through the wounds.

"I may be hurt, but it will calm pain in time" Valeria just nodded, while noticing Jeellel's guilty look. The vampire hated to admit it, but whatever that crystal was, it was calming all the kobold bites.

Flynn closed the window, while his spear appeared and passed it where Phoenix was sitting. "We will leave for Aeromere immediately, Valeria, get up and prepare yourself"

"What ?! Dad! I've been beaten! I'm not in a position to follow you..."

"Valeria, I need you by my side! You've seen her! Phoenix isnt an Iloa, she's a human! One was already here before we arrived!" Flynn was right in what he was saying, until Valeria, half stunned, had seen that Phoenix had human features and skin, in addition to speaking the terrestrial language.

"I... it's okay, dad..." Valeria pushed Jeellel aside, sitting on the bed as she tried to get up slowly.

"Flynn, I havent caught everything you said but Valeria is not able to accompany you! That Kobold has destroyed her much more than we thought!" Jeellel grabbed Flynn by the wrist to try to get her attention, but it only got the prophet to push her away.

"Jeellel, you're coming too, so you can watch that nothing bad happens to her!" The Iloa's expression was one of absolute bewilderment, but considering that her skin was rough, Flynn could not tell if she was angry or just surprised.

"I... I have a city to fix after the destruction of those kobolds! I am the tribe's chief, Flynn! I cant go like that without more than two times in a row!"

"I just hear that you're going to leave us when we need a guide! Jeellel, you're the only one I can trust in this world!" Flynn grabbed Iloa by the arms, looking directly into her eyes. "Please, I ask you"

Jeellel looked at the floor, not knowing what to say. The archeology was not very clear what to do when someone as powerful and attractive as Flynn begged her in that way.  "... I can ask my little sister to take care of everything a few hours more... but no more! I have a duty with my tribe!"

"That's enough for me, this time I will not let that Phoenix escape!" Flynn opened the door of the room, waiting for Valeria to arrive next to him. "My daughter, please... your father needs answers from that woman however... dont fail me now"

Valeria said nothing, walking with her head down towards the door. It was going to be a long night, that's for sure.

District "Bay 71-h", Aeromere:

10 minutes later.

Phoenix walked through the crowded streets of people who left the bars and people who went to work. They were a strange mixture, but the Iloa knew how to make even a crowd bathed in the light of the "neon" crystals have their charm.

The "neon" crystals, was one of the many ways in which Phoenix had influenced these people, a characteristic light for a city as busy as Aeromere. In a way... it was a way of reminding her of her old home, but giving a different air to a city in the process of expansion.

Of course almost no one would know who was Phoenix! beyond the crazy who lived alone in a cathedral in ruins, but that was just the sweet taste of time, which reduces everything to mere memories.

After a short walk from her apartment, Phoenix arrived at his favorite place, "Karmotrine". There was nothing to distinguish this bar built in the basement of a building of the hundreds of bars in the 71-h district, but for Phoenix, it was an unrepeatable place in the city.

Going down the stairs, Phoenix saw how the guardian construct was half deactivated. Some prankster or a little nosy, the redhead thought, it didnt really matter who it was, because Phoenix's anger didnt make distinctions.

With a small kick, the energy crystal of the construct came back to work again. "Get. Out. Of. Here. Kids!"

"Afternoon, Gordt, they've already turned you off and they're gone." Phoenix turned the construct over, checking that there were no major damages.

"What?. Damned. Children. Always. With. Their. Jokes!." The construct crossed its metal arms, wishing a better defensive capacity to avoid such embarrassing situations.

"The boss still doesnt change your parts, right? Every day you have more and more broken voice!" Phoenix laughed as he replaced Gordt in his usual position.

"She. says. that. we. dont. have. money. for. anything. else. Only. to. renew. my. audio. and. energy. crystals. but. without. a. new. frame. or. better. parts. I. cant. defend. our. bar!." Gordt simply re-activated his defensive systems, while opening the door to Phoenix with his foot.

Phoenix entered leaving his raincoat on the usual rack, seeing how the bar was as calm as most days. Only regulars were sitting at the bar, while Ranas poured a pink cup to phoenix's big friend.

"Here you have it, Dalia! A Bay Leaf Double loaded with sugar, as you like it! And for Phoenix... Dark Ale Freedom dry?" Frogs did not even need to look toward the door, as the temperature increase was always a sign that Phoenix was entering the premises.

"Well, start preparing it! My guests will arrive in a while, so today I can only stay half an hour or so." Phoenix sat next to the giantess, who rested her head on the bar. "Homework, exams, what is today?"

Dalia groaned for Phoenix's amusement as she left a tablet on the bar counter. "I have to write an article about the mommy figure, but lately I can not get the symbols right, either I'm over time or I'm too soon! I needed a drink... so dont you dare to judge me"

"That doesnt even have alcohol! Doesnt have alcohol, right Ranas?" Phoenix was in the obligation to ask, because although Ranas was an old acquaintance, his fondness was not unknown for trying to see how much it takes to get a giantess drunk.

"Of course not, for whom do you take me? I only give her alcohol when I know you will not come!" The iloa of the forest sticks its tongue out at Phoenix, before serving their cup.

"Phoenix, your prediction for yesterday's match was wrong! I won only half of what you told me!" One of the regulars shouted from the other side of the bar, while his partner broke up laughing. (She had ... a couple of glasses more than recommended)

"I told you they would win! Not how many goals they would make! You should thank me for not letting you lose half a salary by betting!" The iloa simply fell silent, while his partner laughed even louder. "Going back to the subject of Hannah and the symbols, why dont you try to steal a hair or something? You'd have a better chance if you got the DNA of her"

"But I already have her DNA in my DNA! The problem comes when I make a symbol with my blood, that takes me to a place where Mom or Mommy has been, or her ancestors! I cant calculate the right symbol because there is too much people in my family tree!"

"You're the first person I know who complains about having a great family that loves you... of course I've spent hundreds of years in total silence, so perhaps I dont know many people to compare..." Phoenix swallowed her drink, finishing it off before Ranas replaced it with a new one.

"I dont complain about having a lot of family that loves me! I complain about having a lot of family that loves me in many different places at the same time!" Dalia hit the bar with her fist, making all the glasses jump. "God, I hate this job sometimes!"

"You could choose another activity, I'm sure you would fit very well in the cheerleaders team!" Phoenix left a few seconds of silence, waiting for a laugh that would never come. "Ehhh... Dalia? You get it? You fit! It's a size joke!"

"God, you're so bad at making jokes in the past, present or in the future!" Dalia picked up her glass of juice and drank it all at once, belching loudly after that.

"Dalia Reyes Wood never leaves anything half-hearted! I signed up as a volunteer in the chronology club and I swear by the grave of my great grandfather that I plan to finish the school year without changing clubs!"

"You had to swear on behalf of Novaterrae or something... Jesus!... how exaggerated you are when you think you're drunk!" Phoenix sipped his own drink while Ranas renewed the glass of Dalia. "I know you're proud, but no one is going to call you a coward to change clubs if you feel that the situation is surpassing you! You're 14 years old for the love of God! You're in the age of trying new things and changing your mind a thousand times!"

Dalia seemed willing to say something else, but the bar door flew open, while Flynn came in with his spear. "Nice city that you have set up, Phoenix... Very... cyberpunk! It's like that? What else would matter... I want answers and I want them now!"

Behind the bar, Ranas looked for a few seconds at Phoenix, before understanding the situation and opening the back room so that all the clients could take refuge.

"Dalia", stay and watch! You'll be able to see my bittersweet, timeless will against the impatience and the pride of the sun's prophet! "Phoenix got up from the stool, finishing his drink and leaving it at the bar counter.

"This is a fight that makes the chronology worthwhile!" Dalia shouted excitedly as she walked away from Phoenix.

"Dalia?!... Oh sir... how am I going to enjoy this!" Flynn pulled away, letting Valeria enter the room. "Valeria, do you see that giantess there? Stay by her side and make sure nothing happens to her, my daughter!"

Valeria, so sore that she only had the strength to obey, crawled along the walls until she reached Dalia, where she fell on her legs. "Dont move, Hannah... dad is furious and scared... and that's his most dangerous emotional state..."

"Hannah? No, I'm Dalia... I cant let you go unconscious, you can rarely see Flynn lose a fight!" Dalia waved to Valeria, before crawling to the bar and start preparing (with lots of difficulties because of the small size of the bottles for her) one of the Ranas recipes.

Phoenix and Flynn, oblivious to all that, jumped against each other, colliding heads.

Sparks and embers jumped in all directions.