The Coup D'éTat and the Awakening

{Smoke POV}

"A dragon?!"

This was what the boy was hiding? How can it be so big?

Where is Genesis? I didn't see her after the party.

"Father I'm right here."

"Huh?"

The priestess ran up to me, and then she took off her scarf and suddenly her appearance changed into my daughter.

"Wait, how did you even become the priestess? You know it's bad to-"

"I asked her to let me take her place, she accepted it gratefully."

She's so smart. I'm proud of her. Now, we just have to do what we came here to do.

I told Genesis to go and do her job as I searched around for my father. In a few seconds, I found this enraged phoenix staring at the dragon.

"A dragon?!"

My father's hatred for dragons is spurring out from his flames. I'll tell you why he hates dragons. He once called out Ddraig and attacked him. What happened next was humiliating for him. He was embarrassed and looked like a fool. That's when his hatred for dragons began. But to me, it was a sight to behold.

The dragon looked around with smoke coming out of his mouth.

"You know what to do, right?"

Lucian yelled at the dragon. The dragon looked down and nodded.

"And I think you know what to do."

"Yes."

Lucian looked over at Pire, then he looked at Fenrir.

"Protect her, I'm going to deal with this pervert."

"Y-yes."

Fenrir ran up to Yuki and made an ice shield while Lucian tackled Pire and they disappeared into the bushes.

The dragon faced his attention to my father, who was slowly transforming into his true form.

"You dare show your face to me, you stupid lizard!!!"

"You dare insult me?"

"I'LL KILL YOU!"

My father dashed at the dragon at full speed. There was a massive size difference between the two. My father in his phoenix form was about only a fourth of the dragon's size, but his flames made him look a little bigger. Still, the dragon was larger than him and I could sense that his power is even higher than that of father's.

Making my father look like a fool. All the dragon did was flick him away and he was thrown back as if he was just a pebble.

Crash!

He was knocked into one of the towers on the palace. I looked around for the queen and she was sitting there watching the whole thing. Earlier, I told her about our plan and she agreed to it. Maybe I should've told her about how much damage we were going to cause.

"I was brought out to fight this bird brain? Pathetic."

Dragons have a habit of calling us phoenixes bird brain. Well, we do call them lizards, so we're kind of equal.

My father gave out a horrifying cry and his flames started becoming dark, a dark violet color followed by black flames. At this point, he's lost his mind, phoenixes don't make any horrifying sound, the cries that we make are like an elegant song, but now, his flames are not pure red, orange, or yellow, he's fallen.

"What a disappointment."

The dragon mocked my father, who was flying straight at him. Then the dragon fiddled with his talons, and then my father was suddenly pierced with spikes made of light.

"GRAAAAA!!!!!!"

"Hmm, a phoenix could feel pain, but they can't be killed by us dragons. They'll just revive themselves as much as they want."

"Hahahaha, you can't kill me."

"I know, but he can."

His eyes were locked onto me now.

"M-me?"

"HIM?! HE CAN'T EVEN TRANSFORM! WHAT IS HE GOING TO DO?! HE IS JUST DISPOSABLE TRASH THAT I CALL MY SON! ALL HE EVER DOES IS BECOME SMOKE, THAT'S WHY I GAVE HIM THAT NAME!"

I winced, it's true, I can't become a phoenix because I can't use fire magic. All phoenixes are born with the affinity to use fire magic. I was born with it, but I couldn't even manage to perform a simple spell like fireball. All that ever came out was smoke, hence my name, Smoke.

"You look down on your son that much? I'm disappointed in this generation of phoenixes."

"Do you know who you're talking to?!"

"A bird brain, yes."

"GRRRRRRR!!!!!"

The dragon locked his eyes back on me, then he made some hand motions, and then I was floating towards him.

"W-what?"

"Smoke!"

"Father!"

Everybody was looking at me, shocked. Was I going to die? He was not putting on a friendly face.

"Calm down everyone, go mind your business. Now you."

"Me?"

The dragon was inspected me, staring at my chest.

"W-what?"

"Do you ever wonder why your flames are so weak?"

"Why?"

"Because of your aberrant, Verglas Flames."

"What? How do you know that?"

"I've met someone the same exact energy as yours. Flames that ignite with the power of the cold."

"What?"

"Your ancestor, Glacier, he was a phoenix whose flames were the color of blue. I remember a long time ago when we fought. His flames were pure blue, the purest blue I've ever seen."

"Glacier?"

"Don't you ever want to cool down?"

"Cooldown..."

I looked around. Ice. Ice everywhere. I suddenly had the urge to want to freeze myself.

"Go, go find Fenrir. Awaken and take care of this bird brain."

"No, impossible. No phoenix can use ice magic. It's merely impossible."

"Not when I fought Glacier. An Ice phoenix awakens at subzero temperature. After that, their flames will be unparalleled. You won't be able to smother him even if you tried."

"LET GO OF ME YOU DAMN LIZARD!!!"

"Go Smoke, find Fenrir."

I ran towards Fenrir. The wolf, she's a legendary ice spirit whose ice is at subzero temperature.

Fenrir growled, but when she took another look at me, she calmed down.

"What is it?"

"Can you use ice magic on me? Specifically, at subzero temperature."

"What? Are you trying to die?"

"Fenrir!"

The dragon yelled at Fenrir.

"Do it already, this bird brain is about to break out of my light spears."

The spikes that impaled my father were starting the break. His dark flames were consuming the light. The dragon shook his head lightly.

"You possessed a dark forged item."

"So what if I did?"

"Disappointing."

A light blue magic circle formed below me. Fenrir howled and then I was encased in ice.

"Ice pillar."

It was cold really, cold, but I could resist it.

Something inside me started surging, I could feel it. This...power.

Fwoosh!

Flames started igniting in my body.

"It's working."

I can hear my voice, it sounds different, it sounds so soft. I didn't realize it until I saw it, my body was absorbing the ice. My flames were now becoming blue, light blue. After the ice had been absorbed, I could feel the sensation in me, this overpowering sensation.

"Finally, now I'll be leaving this to you."

The dragon said as he faded away and returned to Lucian.

"SMOKE!!!!!"

My father was now free as he looked at me.

"Father, the age of your reign is over, I'm going to defeat you!"

"We'll see about that!"

FWOOSH!!!

I was becoming bigger, the flames on my body flared and soon, I was now a phoenix. A blue phoenix. I had an ice-cold, fiery yet misty blue aura.

"I'll kill you!"

My father, enrage, flew towards me while spitting out flames. I used my wings as a shield and blocked it. Then I tackled my father. As I did, his flames were starting to smother.

"COLD!!!!!!!!!"

"I'll kill you the way you killed my mother and my love, but this time, with my flames!"

I started transferring my flames into him, I couldn't control the amount of energy I could send so I just transferred all of it. As my flames started spreading across his body, his flames were starting to change.

"NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!"

He dropped onto the ground with blue flames all over him. I also dropped onto the ground. Looks like I used too much of my power.

"TOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!"

"That's what you deserve, you piece of shit."

He tried putting out the flames, but it was futile.

"What's wrong? Can't even put out some flames?"

"Damn you... you're a disgrace!"

"The only disgrace is you and brother. We've won, have fun in hell."

And then he was gone. He let out a fading cry as he turned into a pile of ashes that scattered into dust from the breeze.

"We've won."

A little too easy. All I did was overflow him with my flames and he suffered. It's what he deserved, though. Now he's gone.

I looked around, and everyone had stopped. All of my father's subordinates were dead, and Pire's friends were also dead.

"The only one left now is Pire."

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