MERCIA
51. Phoenix Birth.

"Xara how's she doing?" ask a woman with yellow hair.

"it's still the same, I don't understand why he got to where we are, and can continue to survive his condition now" said the woman named Xara.

"Call Veric bring me the artifact here."

"artifact?" ask xara.

"i'll explain you, hurry up and go!"

Xara instantly disappeared and appeared in front of a dome-shaped building, she blinked her eyes several times.

tock.tok..

A man inside the dome rushed to open the door when he heard a knock.

"Lady Xara" the man leaned over to see a woman standing not far from her dome.

"Veric Queen Sheila called you and asked you to bring the artifact! said Xara.

The man named Veric was surprised. "had the queen found him?" veric said with sparkling eyes.

"discovered what? hey Veric?" Xara looked puzzled seeing Veric hurriedly leave.

Before long Veric appeared with a large box. Xara and Veric soon meet Queen Sheila.

"sister, what exactly is going on?" ask Xara.

Sheila did not answer, so she took the big box that Veric had brought and placed it over the head of a weakly lying woman and opened the box.

Xara saw a large egg the size of three ostrich eggs when the box was opened. The white egg suddenly seemed to burn, the reddish aura slowly entered the body of the woman. Sheila and Veric smiled at the scene, only Xara looked still confused.

"this artifact is a phoenix battle suit, and as you can see, it has already found its new owner" Sheila said.

"i still don't understand" said Xara.

"the demon power has risen and is getting stronger, the crystal has already chosen, the light shield has already appeared, the golden dragon has already appeared, it is time for the phoenix to be reborn. Xara.. The great battle will take place in proxima, this woman will be the differentiator, unlike the previous battle the victory only put the demon power to sleep, this time I believe the demon power is gone forever." said Sheila.

"What queen do you know who this woman is?" ask Veric.

"i don't know, my eyes are locked, I'm trying to enter his mind, like there's a shield embedded in his subconscious" Sheila replied.

"Xara when this woman suddenly appeared in our world did you find anything?" ask Sheila.

Xara tried to remember something. "it..!" Xara pointed at an object on the table behind Veric.

Veric took it and handed it to Sheila.

"i don't know what it was, it fell out of its under its clothes" Xara said.

Sheila had not had time to observe the object given by Veric.he heard the sound of cracks in the egg.

kraakk..!

The egg broke, a phoenix came out of the egg shell, the bird's body was as bright red as glowing lava, its two wings which it stretched gave off sparks as well as its tail. Sheila and the others looked at him with awe, and the phoenix flew around the not-so-large room several times before he stopped staring at a woman lying unconscious. the phoenix flapped its wings back, its body spun back and then turned into a wisp of darting energy pulling the body of the lying woman.

The woman twitched, her body soaring up into the air the wisp of energy wrapped around her swirling, Sheila and the others lowered their heads avoiding the violent energy swirl, the energy slowly began to dissipate and the woman's body was covered by something like a fiery red metal, leaving only her hair and ears, on her back two stretched wings, the feathers of the two wings were sharp sword blades glistening.on his forehead was a tiara with a red stone.The woman's eyes opened looking bright red.

Sheila and the others got up, the woman looked at the three of them vigilantly.

"Who are y'all? where's me?" ask the woman carefully.

"Calm down, we're not your enemy, my name is Sheila, queen of the land of Hollyland the guardian of the seven worlds, you're where we are."

"we don't know how you got here, my sister Xara found you weak."

"what's your name?" ask Sheila.

"My name is. my name is. akkkkhhh" the woman held her head.

"i don't know.."

"i. I. I just remember a woman's face and I want to kill her" said the woman.

"do you know who that woman is?" ask Sheila.

the woman shook her head, "i don't know"

"what happened to me, how did this get out of my body?" ask the woman.

"it's a phoenix battle suit, the power of the phoenix has chosen you, I think it's that power that has brought you into this world, use your mind to take that shirt off" Sheila said.

the woman closed her eyes it took a while before she finally managed to take off the battle armor.

"until your memory returns, do you mind if we call you Elda?" ask Sheila.

"what does that mean?"

"Knight"

"All right."

"When Xara found you, you brought this thing, it was yours" Sheila said, handing the thing in her hand to Elda.

"Save it, maybe one day it can help you restore your memory."

Elda accepted Sheila's gift without saying a word.

"Xara will drive to your room, we've prepared clothes for you, we'll talk again" Sheila said.

"Good."

Xara escorted Elda to her room.

"this is your room, clean yourself the waiter has prepared food for you, if you are bored you can visit my place whenever you want, you don't have to worry that everything will be fine" Xara said.

***

In the morning, the sunlight coming from the mouth of the cave awakens August.

"i didn't expect, I could sleep well in the cave, how about you Amara?"

there's no answer.

August was surprised when he turned his body, he did not see Amara, the chain bracelet in his hand was no longer there. August searches around the cave but finds nothing.

'He must be outside, is he in the shower?' think August.

He then went out of the cave, before long he reached the place where he had bathed yesterday.

"Mara.. Amara... where are you..?! shouted August.

August decides to sit on a rock where Amara sits waiting for him, but after a while Amara never shows up.

"Mara.. Amara..!!"

There is no reason.he returned to the cave, hoping Amara had returned, still he did not find it.

'Has he gone?' why didn't he say goodbye to me? August looked sad.

he returned to the riverbank, took something from under his cloak, the white cloth of Amara's blindfold that he kept, August washed it in the river.

"Listen, Amara, when my business is done, I will seek you, and I promise to help you heal your eyes." August shouted out loudly and left the place.

A smile was seen from the lips of the two women sitting on a very tall tree not far from where August had been.

'Mercia, I know it's only been a day since we met, but you've been the first person to make me fall for you, do you also have the same feelings for me or your attitude solely because my face is similar to that of Julia your murdered lover?"

'I will find out, if you really like me I will fight against that phoenix and whoever the woman tries to get close to you, I will continue to train to become stronger.' Amara clenched her hands and got up and darted away.