The Last Pheonix

1,000 years ago

The council of kings and queens gather into the royal meeting room. The high king, Aiden Pawthorne in the head chair. All the other kings and queens sit in their rightful seats.

A war had started and no one knew who had started it. People where being burned alive villages being burned. The high king summoned the council to figure out what they needed to do and who. Three people were missing in this meeting. Aiden had noticed for he always looked forward to seeing Lilah. He had yet to find his fated mate but Lilah had and so their relationship came to an end. Aiden understood and let her go. However it did not mean he still didn't love her which is why he let her go. Lilah and Gabriel where yet to arrive. The demon king, Marcel is not here yet either. Aiden wonders if they had not shown to this meeting because of the war and were attacked or if its one of them. Though if it was one of them, if it were him he'd want to be at this meeting to see our strategy in finding who they are and ending them. It is possible it could be them. They both have fire powers. Lilah and Gabriel are Phoenix. Some demons can control fire so its very plausible that it could be one of them. Suddenly the giant oak double doors of the room slams open. There stands Marcel covered in blood and burns. He had been in a fight.

"Council its is Phoenix kingdom that is the cause. They burned the villages and people. I just encountered them. Caught Gabriel opening a portal to the dark realm." Everyone gasps at hearing what Marcel tells them. " I tried to stop him but could not. the portal is opened and I could not close it. " Marcel continues.

The royal seers eyes turn completely white. She runs into the meeting room. She kneels in front of Aiden. "My king i had a vision i must warn you of. Gabriel Solis king of Phoenix is burning everything. The dark realm is opened. There is but one way to close it." Vivian, the seer says. "How?" Aiden commands. "Every last Phoenix must be sacrificed" Vivian answers him. "Why? There must be another way!" Sophia, the witch queen declares. "I am sorry my dear sister but there is no other way my vision is clear. Because Gabriel opened it Phoenix must be sacrificed." Vivian answers Sophia. Vivian is a witch with the gift of visions, making her a seer. "What about the children? We cannot just kill innocent children. This is absurd!" Sophia says. " Even the children must go" Vivian say with no remorse or emotion towards the children. "Aiden you can't actually be considering this. Its wrong." Sophia begs. Lilah is sophias best friend and in some ways her sister. " Sophia I'm sorry but I trust in Vivian's visions. I may not like it or want to do this but to protect this realm from the dark realm Phoenix kingdom must fall. That is my declaration." Aiden declares.

Lilah comes running into the room. " help! Help. A portal is opened. It leads to the dark realm. Gabriel is trying to close it." Lilah yells out. "No need to lie lilah they all know Gabriel opened it. So why would he close it." Marcel says with malous. " Liar! How could you?! He didn't and you know it! " lilah screams pointing at Marcel crying. Aiden grabs her arm and swings her around facing him. He feels guilty for what he's about to tell her. He still loves her. He tells her the orders about sacrificing every pheonix including her. Lilah breaks down crying begging him not to do this but Aiden will not budge in his decision. He orders guards to arrest Gabriel. "Lilah make this easy for your people and order them to gather at the castle in your kingdom. It will be a swift death i promise you that. I do not want to fight you." Lilah sees there is no changing his mind. She sniffles her tears away. " when will it take place?" She asks him. "The sacrifice must take place during a full moon." Vivian answers. The next full moon is in three days. " May I spend my last days with my mate and friend please." Lilah asks Aiden of this one request. "Yes but Gabriel will stay in the cells. You may visit him as much as you'd like. But there will be guards there in case. I will grant your request. My last order is that you don't tell your people until the very last second. I don't want any of them running away." Aiden tells her. "Yes my king. Thank you." She says running out the room crying. The meeting ends and everyone leaves.

Lilah is still in the hallway crying when Sophia comes out and sees her. She starts crying because she's going to lose her friend. " Soph can we talk in private" lilah asks her. Sophia nods her head yes. Sophia waves her hand in the air doing a spell to bring them to her secret office. Lilah sits on the couch with Sophia. "Sophia i have to tell you something and ask you of something entirely selfish." Liliah tells her. " anything. You know you can tell me anything." Sophia tells her. Lilah set her hand on her lower stomach. She takes a deep breath and breaths out. " OK., so here goes. I'm pregnant. I need you to save my baby from this. I need my baby to survive please I beg of you. " lilah says. Sophia is shocked bit agrees. She knows the risk if anyone was to ever find out. Saving this baby might cause the dark realm portal not to close all the way. Everyone would then be looking for this child. "How far along are you?" Sophia asks her. "I'm about 2 and half months. I was waiting until after my third month to make it public." Lilah answers. "Sophia Gabriel really didn't open that portal. He's being framed. I can't believe that no one believed me. Vivian's vision is wrong. He was trying to stop it from happening. " Lilah confided to her friend. Sophia didn't know what to believe. She wanted to believe lilah but her sisters vision contradicts what lilah is saying. On one hand Vivian wasn't always honest about her visions but that was always small stuff, like what the weather would be or something like that. It has never been something big like this. If she did then what is her goal in this. Whats the point? On the other hand Vivian has always come through for Aiden. She get good information for wars and up coming events. Years ago Vivian had a vision that saved thousands of lives. After that she became the high kings royal seer.

" lilah I know you would never do anything to hurt someone on purpose. I will save your child and raise it as my own. I promise you." Sophia hugs lilah comforting her. "Tomarrow come see me and I will get started on the spell to protect the baby." Sophia tells her with a reassuring smile. Lilah nod her head. Sophia does a spell and teleports her back to the same hallway they were originally in. Lilah walks towards the door to exit the building. She ignores the stares and looks.

As she's about to leave Aiden stops her. "Lilah can we please talk?" Lilah knowing her impending end will be in just three short days she nods in yes because she wants to at least have the decency to die in peace with no regrets even though she may have a few but those are no longer impotant. Those regrets are for someone else to fix now. She follows Aiden to a near by room. Now alone with no prying eyes looking at her. "Lilah I'm sorry for everything but my hands are tied. If there were another way I would do it but the fates say other wise. Please forgive me for this. A single iron arrow directly into the heart. It will be quick." Aiden tells her "Is this supposed to make me feel better. Because it doesn't. Aiden do you honestly believe that Gabriel would do this. Or is this because you still love me and I chose my fated mate over you." Lilah asks him in tears. " lilah yes I do still love you and I always will. This doesn't feel right to me. I don't want this but I have to. Please understand that." Aiden begs. " Aiden I understand but I will not forgive you for this. I will however leave you with this a prophecy I will for tell to you. One day a pheonix will rise from our ashes and avenge our people. They will find the truth and the truth will be set free. Another war will happen and the victor will be pheonix. The next pheonix will defeat the darkness that has become of the realm." Lilah declares. Her child will avenger their people. Aiden gets angry feeling threatened. His lycan especially feels threatened. He takes deep breaths to calm himself. He does not want to argue with her. He hates doing this but he must. Vivian visions come from the fates and he must follow them. "Is this a threat?" He asks her. Lilah smirks. " No just a Pheonix prophecy that i now understand. The truth will be know in the future. It may not be me to expose it but someone will take my place it uncovering it." Lilah tells him. Lilah told him a white lie. She is the one who made the prophecy up knowing that someday it would be true for she has faith that her child will be the one to bring this land back into the light and out of the darkness. The dark realm portal is already spreading but this realm was already in darkness. "If you are telling the truth that Gabriel truly did not open the portal then I truly hope that this prophecy comes true." Aiden tells her. " May I please see my mate now?" Lilah asks him. " yes of course." Aiden says leaving. Lilah leaves to the cells to see her mate.

When she gets to the cells the guard lets her in and leads her to her mates cell. The guard opens the gate letting her in. He closes the gate and locks it back sealing them in. Gabriel is sitting on the ground looking up at his mate. He is injured from the battle of trying to stop Marcel. Marcel had been harassing lilah for years. Lilah mind links Gabriel about the plan for their child. Gabriel is pleased to hear that their child will survive. Lilah and Gabriel lie in each other's arms for the rest of the night.

The next day lilah meets with sophia as planned. They teleport to her secret office. Sophia has lilah lay down on the couch. She picks a bowl up with mixed herbs she grounded into a paste earlier in preparation for the spell. The paste is a dark hunter green and smells like dirt. Sophia scrunched her nose due to the smell. She lifts lilahs shirt up and rubs the past on her belly. Sophia says a spell to bring for a life keeping glow orb. Once the orb appears she lays her palms on her belly and starts chanting. After two minutes of chanting the child is moves into the orb.

Lilah sits up grabbing a tissue off the coffee table wiping the herb paste off. "There is a catch to this. In a normal pregnancy it takes about 9 months this however will be centuries before it is ready to be born." Sophia explains. Lilah understands. She is just grateful that her child will survive. " Sophia if its a girl name her Lilliana jean and if its a boy name him Alexander Henry. Lilliana is a combination of lily and ana lily is for my favorite flower a lily and ana means gracious and merciful and jean means God is gracious, something i hope she is. Alexander means defender of the people and Henry means ruler of the home. I want its name to mean something. Will you do that for me. My little lilliana or Alexander?" Lilah requests. "I think those are lovely names. I will name it that. I wish I could tell you the gender of it now but it is for to early. It will be at least a century or two before I could tell." Sophia tells her. They spend the whe day talking a spending time together for this will be their last. They end it on a good note. Sophia bowed to keep the child safe and for her dear friends prophecy to come true even though she is still not sure if it was Gabriel or not.

Its the night of the full moon and sacrifice. King Gabriel and queen lilah stand before their people. They had all gathered at the castle as instructed. Warriors from each kingdom was there lined up side by side creating a barrier so no one could run. Gabriel explained the situation to his people. His people where all filled with all kinds of emotions. Some wanted to fight which was why all pheonix warriors where ordered to be killed first. King Gabriel and queen lilah were force to watch everyone of their people die right in front of them. Everyone screaming it was hard to bear. The warriors finally get to the last one and now it is Gabriel and lilahs turn. With each kill the portal closed just a little bit. Now with the king and queens sacrifice it will fully close. Gabriel and lilah were allowed one final kiss. They shared ther good byes both heart broken. Two warriors stab an iron arrow directly into their hearts killing them both while the king and queen held each others hands never letting go even in death.

The dark realm portal closed almost all the way. It was still opened by two inches. Aiden confused as to why it is still not closed looks to Vivian. She tells him one pheonix remains. Aiden gave orders to search the pheonix kingdom lands to see if anyone is left.

Meanwhile they search for the last remaining pheonix Vivian meets with Marcel. "The portal did not close. One pheonix remains my lord." Vivian informs him. "Well I suggest you find them or things are going to get very bad for you. We are so close to gaining what us ours." Marcel tells her angry now. "Yes my king." Vivian says.

Days later still no one had found the missing pheonix. Marcel was inraged he needed that portal closed for his plan to work. He then came up with a plan and summoned Vivian. She came to him. " still no pheonix. I have a plan. You will lie and tell the high king you have had a vision of him finding his mate and that she will bare a son and he is destined to kill the last pheonix." Vivian smirks liking this plan. " yes I will not fail you. My lord. Our plan will come to pass and you will be high king and I your queen." Vivian declares.

1,000 years later

Sophia was had come to her secret office to check of the child. The orb was glowing brighter and bigger and bigger until it popped. The child was finally born. Sophia picks the child up and says a spell to clean it up. She grabs a diaper and clothes she had for the baby just in case and gets the baby dressed. Sophia looks at the baby thinking it looks just like Lilah. She look down at the baby in her arms and says, " hello Lilliana Jean"