The Phoenix's Mate

Chapter 1

Flair POV

I watched from the tree tops with a bow in hand and an arrow just resting on the bow string as I watched a full grown male deer come out of the forest and into the small clearing where I but some deer bait for it. I'm wearing a white cloak so I could blend into the snow cover forest around me, I then slowly and quietly pulled the string back and slowly pointed the arrow at the deer. I then slowly take in some slow and quiet breaths while trying to make sure that my warm breath doesn't show in the cold morning air; as I watched the deer look the other way and I took that chance and let the arrow fly and hit it's target.

The male deer ran and I quickly got out of the tree and onto the ground and followed after it and it wasn't that hard since it's leaving a trail of blood on the snow covered ground. Soon I found the deer laying on the ground, unmoving, so it's obvious that it's dead; I grabbed my arrow and pulled it out of the deer and clean it up and put it away then I started to work on the deer. I got the fur off then grab the meat and put it in my bag, I work quickly and make sure not to leave anything behind then I leave back to my temporary home.

I ran as quickly back home to where my little baby is; I know what you're thinking Why did you leave your child?! well it's either leave her while making sure to put a protective spell around our temporary home or take her with me and starve to death during the winter because she doesn't like the cold and will cry and scare away prey and it takes up my energy to keep my body heat warm and will also keep my little girl warm as well. So I had no choice in other words during winter but other seasons I would take her with me; as I ran the familiar path back to the temporary home but also take a detour to make sure that no one is following me, I just let my mind wonder.

I start to think about what happened to my family, tribe and mate 6 years ago and I've been living by myself for seven months until Jade, my daughter, was born. I stayed in my new home in a town for a few months with my daughter and not leaving until I smelled the scent of hunters that killed my family, tribe and mate then I had to leave and we've been travailing in the deep forest to make sure that no one will ever hear us ever again but I have heard a legend about me starting to form. It started when I helped a small family of werewolves during the fall 5 years ago from rouges when they were just trying to have some family time and I was hunting nearby and Jade was back at our old temporary home since we only stay at one place for a month or two; until I heard a child scream. Of course with a child of my own my mother instincts just kicked in and I ran to a small family of 4 and 10 rouges circled them and the father is trying to protect them and the mother is holding her children close to her while trying to look for a way out so her kids can be safe but as for the kids, they're holding onto their mother and they're full of fear and won't move inch away from their mother. So I quickly grabbed two of my side blades and got into the middle of the circle in front of the father and started to kill the rouges without a problem; I killed all of the rouges one by one but at the time I didn't even noticed that one of them got away to tell the other's.

After I killed what I thought was the last rouge I just whipped the blood off the blades and put them back then start to walk away, at the time I was wearing a black cloak and my hood was up so the family didn't see my face. I hide in a tree and stayed with the family until they start to run back to the pack house and I followed them of course and when they were met up by from the looks of it back then the guards and took them back the rest of the way and I just went back to my daughter when it was deemed the family is safe, but after that I started to find rouges and hunters attack pack members that are by themselves or in small groups or in their little families so I protect them and it started to became my job when I go out to hunt for food and they started to call me The Silent Angel, because I'm quiet when I come and don't say a word to anyone when they ask me questions when I killed the rouges and as for the angel part is because I'm like their guardian angel.

I snapped out of my thoughts when I made it back to the rundown hunter shed, the shed is just a regular hunter shed that hunts deer and rabbits not supernaturals like me; I walked inside and went over to Jade, who's in a make shift crib on the bed so she doesn't roll out of bed and hurt herself, to see that she's starting to wake up in her blankets of fur that I made from white rabbits to keep her warm. I smiled and gently picked her up and kissed her little blond head that is just like John's and watched as she opened her bright blue eyes just like mine, Jade is the perfect image of the two of us and I wanted to remember my mate through her so I named her Jade from the stone that is precious which is just like her and it was John's favorite stone.

Jade cooed cutely when she sees me and I just smiled at her happily because even after all that have happened she became my little miracle and I will protect her no matter what, even when my life is on the line I would still protect her.

Time skip to when they're on the move again

I left the old shed and make sure that everything was put back to where I found it so the owners won't know that someone was living here and with everything in my backpack that I need for the trip and Jade close to my chest in my arms keeping her warm and making sure that her little straps are around her safely and tied around me as well so if I need both hands, I can just let go of her but she'll stay in the harness so I can protect her better. Then I started to run north while holding onto Jade so she doesn't shake around too much as I ran.

Jade is 6 years old but since Phoenix's grow slowly she looks like a 6th month old baby and as for me, I'm 118, which isn't that old for a Phoenix but old for other people and I look like a 18 year old. I met my mate when I was 112 years old but since we used to live around humans a lot I grew up at the same rate as a regular human so people wouldn't get suspicious and the hunters would of found us sooner and killed us. So when I was 112 years old I looked like at 18 years old and even acted like and when I found John, he didn't mate with me until I was 118 so we used the rest of the years to just get to know each other until I was old enough to finally mate. Because I lived out in the woods, Jade grow just like a regular Phoenix but as for me, I can't age anymore once I hit 119 years old and the ageing prosses already stopped for me because I'm a special case.

I kept running through the snow and the sun is still high in the sky but it started to snow a little so I used the snow rabbit's fur to cover Jade's sleeping face so she doesn't feel the cold snow and wind hit her.

As I kept running trying to find a place to sleep in for the night but while the sun started to go down, I didn't noticed that I ran into a pack territory until I heard growls of wolves and paw steps running behind me. I tensed and just kept running until I had to stop when more wolves came in front of me and I watched as they growled and I just hold Jade close to me as the werewolf pack just stayed there and watched me closely and I did the same while trying to figure out how to get out of here without revealing myself as a Phoenix because everyone things that all the Phoenixs died from the hunter attack and I would like to keep it that way. If you're wondering that if they can tell that I'm a Phoenix by scent, that would be a no because I made sure to smell like a werewolf and people really have to look closely to tell a Phoenix apart from everyone else which is really hard unless you know where you're looking.

After a few minutes, which felt like an hour, I started to smell the sweat smell of pine and cinnamon then my eyes went wide and I realized that someone just came and that they're my mate that I thought that I would never have a second chance mate but apparently someone felt bad for me and gave me a second chance of a happy life. I looked around trying to find where it's coming from but then I heard that one word that I missed hearing and even made my eyes water with happiness and slight sadness, the sadness is because my second chance mate isn't John but I didn't care when my mate yelled out. "MATE!!"