Sometime later....
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~ The Portal to Iredescent ~
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Orange flames surrounded the kaleidoscopic portal to Iredescent's dimension, commonly known as the sparkly dimension. Prismatic colors enveloped in flames created a wonderful, breathtaking view that nobody saw. It radiated its lonely beauty even as the flames began to steadily extinguish. Within a matter of hours, the flames were gone, and the portal reopened once again.
In the vast distant space, the Phoenix hovered over Earth, his fiery wings slowly flapping as he surveyed the planet from a distance. His gorgeous beauty was darkened amid the flames, like smooth volcanic rock on fire. He was mighty in appearance, elegant and graceful in form, swift in flight, and contained a wealth of knowledge beyond measure.
A Black Rose just appeared, and this time he or she is not a native Iredescent, the Phoenix realized. His kind could always sense the appearance of a Black Rose. He had sensed it from afar and traveled to space to see its strange source, surprised it came from Earth.
A Black Rose's powers were unknown until a certain point in their lives that deemed them to become the Black Rose. One cannot simply tell from birth who would become the next Black Rose; every ninety years an Iredescent was chosen at random to become the most powerful Iredescent known as the Black Rose, a legend of darkness and light. His or her power, or ability as the Iredescents called it, could be anything. And it was on the eve of the ninetieth year that the Phoenix felt it: the presence of a Black Rose.
He had no idea whether this one was a man or a woman, for he did not wish to visit the planet, but he knew the Black Rose was there, and that he or she would be arriving on Iredescent sometime before the end of the ninetieth year.
He could tell the Iredescents and give them reason to rejoice, but the Phoenix chose to hold the secret to himself. Let the Black Rose chose when to be revealed, he thought, looking at Earth one more time. When that happens, I am sure the bodies of Adrezo and Evana will also be returned to Iredescent and we will finally learn what happened to them. The Black Rose's arrival will bring joy to Iredescent, ending the long months of mourning, being like a rare blossom in the middle of winter.
Smiling warmly, excited and eager to wait for the arrival, the Phoenix started to turn around, heading back towards Iredescent, the planet of the origin of the Black Rose.
The End
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