Briseis

02 Phoenix

I open my eyes.

I have no idea what happened after unconsciously following that light.

I look around. I'm not in New York anymore. I'm in a... forest?

The forest was filled with green bushes and trees. There were green grass everywhere. There were colourful flowers too, but there were no insects or animals. The grasses were soft as cotton. I looked up. The sky was covered with tree leaves, only two or three light beams shined through. But it was bright.

"Where am I?" I whisper. "This forest is... awesome."

I take glances around. The wisp looking Blue Light was gone somewhere, along with the voice.

"Elena! Queen Elena!"

I hear someone yell. Wait, Queen Elena...?

"Queen Elena! ီတးသ ယောု့ ိသနးတ ိတ? ဩဟ, Queen Elena!"

What is he talking about?

All I can understand is Queen Elena.

And in front of my eyes, there is a bird. Talking.

The voice is from a red bird. The bird seems to have a cockscomb but feather grew on it, and it has fur instead of feathers on it's chest. The pretty feathers and fur is a colour mix of red, yellow and orange. The tail of the bird is not short, and two of them are really long. It seems like the bird is glowing.

The bird was a sacred bird, phoenix.

"ီ့ နော့ ိုေ့ ကနေို ယောု ိုောုလဒ စောမေ! ဩဟ့ Queen Elena! ဘလေသသ ုသ! ထဟာနကသ ဂောဒ! ဖကောသေ တေလလ မေ ယောု ာရေ့ Queen Elena!" The bird speaks in a language I never understand. I have never heard of this language before.

"Hey bird, I mean phoenix, I don't understand what you are saying, but, do you understand me?" I ask.

"ဩ္ စောုရသေ ိုေ ဒော့ ဗလေသသေဒ ောနေ၊ ဏောို့ တာကေ တဟိသ စာပသုလေ၊၊၊" The bird calls another bird, it is a green one. The green phoenix tosses a capsule looking... maybe a medicine, to the red phoenix.

"ထာသတေ တဟိသ၊ ီတိုိလလ ဟေလပ ယောု ုနဒေရသတာနဒ ုသ၊" The red phoenix says something.

"What?"

GRAB!

Right after I ask "What", the green phoenix came running to me and grabbed my arms. He was strong. How could a bird be this strong? And the red one force opens my jaw and pushes the pill into my mouth.

"Hey! Hey...!" I yell. But it is too late. The pill has traveled through my neck already. What is this? Poisonous? Harmful? Medicine?

"Queen Elena, can you understand us now?" The red phoenix asks.

How? How is this... What situation is this? Who are these phoenixes? I can't believe what's happening in front of my eyes.

"Queen Elena?" This time the green phoenix asks. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, yeah. I can understand you." I say calmly.

"Good. The pill was for you to understand us. Don't worry. It's not poisonous." The red phoenix says.

"Okay. Thanks." I say. "Hey, um... where am I?" That was the first question that popped up in my head.

"You're in Briseis."

What?

That's my last name. A place which has my last name?

"Wait a minute. Briseis? That's my last name. Is this coincidence? I think not. Or am I so famous that you guys named this place Briseis?" I ask with a frown of confusion.

"Well, it is your last name. But it's not exactly from you. We got it from your sister." The red phoenix explains.

"Sister? I don't have one! I am the only child."

"You do. You have an older sister."

"No I don't!"

"Yes you do. You have an older sister named Lucia Briseis."

I pause. I stop moving and stare at the phoenix. I murmur "Lucia Briseis..."

"No, I don't. Who are you guys? Why do you guys insist I have a sister? You know nothing about me! I don't know Lucia Briseis. She's not my sister. I'm sorry, you found the wrong person. Where's the way out? Let me out of here. Bye. It was nice to meet you." I yell strong and firmly. I turn my back and walk.

But before I can take 2 steps, the red phoenix says with a dreadful face: "You don't remember your poor sister Lucia who had the most miserable fate?"