Chapter 8

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Mondstadt as a whole felt the whole ground shake with rage, building almost collapsing in the process as the citizens of the city were soon filled with fear.

"Look! There's a storm forming above Dragonspine!" One points out, making everyone look in terror at what seem a even worse storm surrounding Dragonspine on all sides.

Aether and Paimon witness the scene when the acting grand master runs over to him, "Honorary Knight!" She yells for him.

"Honorary Knight, you have to stop Miss Phoenix!" Jeans yells, catching everyone's attention.

Diluc glanced at her before looking back at Dragonspine.

"Phoenix is the one causing this!?" Paimon exclaims, her body shook with fear as Aether tries to take in all this information.

Without saying anything else, he and Diluc run out, leaving the city and head towards Dragonspine, Aether praying that he can stop this before things got worse.

'Phoenix, you have to calm down!'

Somewhere in Guyun stone forest

"Captain! Look!" Beidou looks up and sees something that she had never seen in her life, throughout all her adventures in the sea, this was something she never saw.

"What's going on?"

She looks to her right and saw the white haired male, Kaedehara Kazuha, standing there, it appears that he was confused about the commotion.

"Take a look for yourself." She nudges her head in the direction of Dragonspine.
"There's only one person I know capable of doing this and oh boy, someone pissed her off." She laughs.

"A phoenix?" Kazuha points out, his eyes widen as he watches a large flaming phoenix stays in the air. "It's beautiful...just like she described." He mutters to himself but Beidou hears this.

She glances at him for a bit before spotting the flaming bird flying down towards the mountain at a rapid speed.

"Everyone! Prepare for impact!" She tells everyone, they all get ready for the impact as the bird reaches its destination. "If the impact is that strong like she says...." She whispers as the bird disappears through the strom clouds surrounding the whole area.

"Captain Beidou, you know who's causing this?" Kazuha asks.

"Guardian of a village hidden from the rest of Teyvat. Guardian Phoenix is her name." Just as she was going to continue explaining, the flaming bird reappears but it seems to be fighting against another flaming hawk.

"We met a few months back at the harbor, her clothes is what caught my eye." Kazuha looks a bit confused from hearing this, "her clothes?"

"Her clothes look similar to what people in Inazuma wear." Beidou said, looking at him. "When I asked her about, she just looked at me and walk away with one of the workers of the funeral parlor."

Everyone witness as the heavy storm clouds around the mountains disappear slowly and if you looked close enough, you could see a person in the air with a fire flame on the palm of their hand.

Before they suddenly disappear along with the storm, only leaving fluttering red feathers behind.

Aether let out a shaky breathe, he couldn't believe what he just witnessed. He was still trying to process what he saw Phoenix's power....what she was capable of doing.

A single thought crossed his mind, he needed someone like her on his team if he wanted to find his sister. And he can remember the cold side gaze she gave him as they both arrived at the scene, she never once looked at him like that.

"You idiot!" Diluc's shouting brought his focus back, he saw Diluc holding Albedo by his collar. "You almost cost Dragonspine to obliterated in an instant because you pissed off a god!" He yelled in his face.

Albedo didn't look fazed at all, instead, he ripped Diluc's fingers away from his collar.

Diluc stumbled back as the blonde straightened up his wrinkled collar. "That wasn't a god, if she truly was a god, the people of Mondstadt wouldn't talk shit about her, now would they?"

Diluc grits his teeth, he couldn't deny that, he hear what the people were saying about her, even in the tavern they were talking ill about her.

'People like her should die.'

'Who let the outsider come back inside the city?'

Albedo glares at him, "that was no god, that was my old friend, [Y/n], but....."

He walks away from them and stands at the entrance of the cave, "she insists that her name is Phoenix and that I've confused her for someone else. It's only been two years so how could she forget me that fast."

Aether frown, so Phoenix was an old friend of Albedo, the same friend he mentioned to him when he was working for him doing experiments.

All this time, Albedo's old friend, [Y/n], was Phoenix? Was there a reason why she forgot her true name? He couldn't help but think.

"It's only been two years but, why does it look like more time passed for her?"

Collapsed on the grass near Wangshu Inn, you couldn't help but think back of what happened. You were trying to get rid of Durin's heart because you could sense that something big was going to happen soon.

But that alchemist had to get in your way.

"That idiot," you mutter without thinking, "if I don't get rid of it, you'll die." A single teardrop rolls down your face without you noticing.

"You'll die."

And so, Kazuha is finally introduced into the story but only for a bit, he and Y/n will reunited in a few chapters, will it be a tearful and emotional reunion or not?

(Last update for the next few days since I'll be busy playing the new update and other personal things as well)

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