We last read Chapter 2, in which we were given a proper introduction to Firebird—the new Fire Sect Leader—and witnessed her perform quite the magnificent entrance indeed, with her awesome displays of lava, fire, and heat absolutely astounding her people and knocking them off their feet. Unfortunately, her show came to an abrupt halt when an informant approached her, passing along Keena's message for a meeting regarding the Mandalay Bay & Casino attack. This time, we watch as the meeting between Keena and Firebird unfolds, and as they discuss the possible solutions each of them could come to.....
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Firebird's bedroom—which was separate from the throne room—consisted of a wide, nearly-circular chamber with one red door lined with yellow accents that acted as both the entrance and exit. There was a bed perfectly fit for one person on the right side of the chamber, an office desk positioned on the left—with papers and pens on it—and two sets of bookcases across from the entrance, placed on either side of a wide, rectangular window overlooking the rest of the Firelands.
As Keena paced back and forth across the room annoyedly, having already traveled to the Inferno Fortress a while ago, Firebird went on and on about what had just happened about an hour earlier.
"Okay, so guess what I did?!" she exclaimed, sounding as though she could barely contain her joy. "I literally surfed on magma! I was like the Rell Sunn of the Elemental Realms! And then at the end, I started ascending back to the surface, and the whole middle section of the town explodes, right? And guess who was standing right there, towering over everyone else, when all the smoke cleared?!"
Keena blinked. ".....You were?"
"I was!" Firebird verified, before signing happily. "I'm sorry, I just had to share that with you. I really wish you could've seen it; it was absolutely nuts! The flames, the smoke, the embers.....everything was just so hot! Just the way I like it! .....So, what did you want to talk about?"
The Water Sect Leader took a deep breath. "I want you to stop losing track of these 'fire spirits' of yours," she began, summoning a large, transparent water globe containing the extinguished cores of the creatures that she and the other water mages had rounded up earlier that morning at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino.
Firebird's gleeful face was quick to fall. "Oh, no! Are.....are they okay?! You didn't kill them, did you?!"
"No, they just need re-lighting."
Firebird allowed Keena to burst the globe and send the fire spirits' remains clattering to the floor, at which point the Fire Sect Leader picked them up.
"Look, I am so sorry that they—"
"This isn't even the first time I've had to clean up your mess this week!" Keena complained. "What do you even do with them, anyway?"
"I've been trying to do a little 'experimenting'," Firebird revealed. "The idea was to try to create and train them. To get them docile and just.....not hostile to humans."
"Yeah, it worked out very well....."
"Hey, I'm not finished."
Keena exhaled. "Sorry."
"I thought that.....we might be possibly able to use them on Earth one day. Without anything going wrong. That maybe they could be used to light torches and activate fireplaces. They're also sentient, so they would be good company."
"Well, you still have a long way to go if you wanted to make them passive," Keena admitted bluntly. "Firebird, I hate to say this, but if you can't look after them.....then maybe it'd be best if you scrapped them altogether."
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Coldsnap: Storm's Call
Teen Fiction~PARAGON CINEMATIC UNIVERSE: PHASE 2, BOOK 5~ *This novel serves as the 5th novel of Phase 2 and a sequel to "Coldsnap: Harbinger of Ice" and "The Paragons".* "The Ascendant has abandoned us! Were we not good enough for him?! Is that it?! Must we no...
