Listen to your Heart

Folcön opens her eyes and looks around confused. How is she in her room. "Milady you're awake already." Folcön smiles at Mary. "Yes, how am I in my room wasn't I in the sacred volcano?" Mary looks at her confused, you finish your trials two weeks ago. You and Prince Nedla flu out of the volcano on your phoenixes. The Prince had badly injured his left arm so he was tended to immediately as you landed." Folcön nods that sounds right but why does it still feel like something isn't right. "May I go see my brother?" Folcön asks hoping that he will know the answer. "Why of course. He is in the library like usual." Folcön gets a bath and the maids put her into a red dress with white flowers. "Did my mom pick this." The maids nod as they do her hair. Folcön notices that her hair has now red highlights. Is it from banding to her phoenix but why can't she remember it.

Once the maids are done, Folcön races out of the room. She bursts into the library. "Cön you know that a library is my quiet place to study." Nedla says not even looking away from his book. He was just wearing a vast so to not irritate his arm. His left arm bandage. "How's your arm?" Folcön walks over to the table. Nedla pushes a plate of sweets towards her. "It still hurts a little to move it but at least I can move it a lot more than before." Nedla looks away from his book and smiles at her. "I'm glad hey do you remember the ball that was held after the trials?" Nedla looks at Folcön like she grew two heads. "Yeah, you stood and talked with a boy who you gave my clothes to. I mainly stood with my friends and talked about the trails." So she was with Troy. Then why can't she remember it for herself. "Oh okay. I just can't seem to remember anything after the trials."

Nedla closes his book giving his sister a worried look. "Did you hit your head or something?" Folcön shakes her head. "I don't think so but I may be wrong." Folcön says rubbing her head to see if there is any pain or a bump but there is nothing wrong. "I'm going to go riding." Nedla raise an eyebrow. "In that good luck." Folcön looks down at outfit. She totally forgot that she was in a dress. She roll her eyes. "Of course I'm going to change." Nedla waves her goodbye and goes back to reading. Folcön goes back to her room and change into her riding gear. She then heads outside and runs to the hole in the wall. She crawls through and heads to the meadow.

She reaches the meadow and sits down on the fallen log. She start counting the trials. "Test of courage, test of strength, test of knowledge, test of skill, and... what was the last one. Wasn't there five trials." Folcön mumbles to herself. "Princess sitting around mumbling to yourself isn't going to get you anywhere." Folcön turns around at the sound of Troy's voice. "What have you been up to these past two weeks?" Folcön asks to see if anything seems off. "Nothing much but ever since I went to the palace I been thinking of joining the blacksmiths." Folcön nods not seeing or hearing anything off. So way does her heart feel heavy.

Suddenly a loud trumpet sounded in the distance. Folcön runs back to the wall with Troy behind her. She crawls through the hole and froze in horror. Folcön is met with the worse sight imaginable. Her home is being attacked. Folcön takes a deep breath. 'Even though she was only ten she is trained since three to fight.' Folcön runs into the secret tunnel to the armory. "Troy pick any armor and weapon." Folcön shouts as she picks her own armor. Troy with wide eyes quickly looks through the armor. After Folcön puts her armor on she helps Troy with his. Troy picks up a sword. Folcön smiles she has been sparring with him everyday for a year. Hopefully that will help him now.

The two race out of the armory and into the battlefield. Folcön sees her father's phoenix attacking in the distance as well as her mom riding on her Firefox. This is only the second time she seen her mom's fox in it's true form. Folcön runs to attack an enemy combatant but froze as the enemy starts to laugh. In fact all the enemies are now laughing but why. She looks behind her and to her horror the three most important people in her life are held with a sword to their throats. "No!" Folcön runs over to save them but right as she starts running their throats are cut. All the enemies retreat leaving her to her nightmare. Folcön cries out in pain as she holds onto her brother.

"This doesn't make sense why didn't you summon your phoenix? How did they get mom off of Scarlet? How did they get dad? This doesn't make sense!" Folcön yells out to the world as her heart breaks. Folcön stops crying, 'wait why didn't I summon my own phoenix. It's been to weeks after the trials so I should have my phoenix but I don't even remember what it looks like.' Folcön eyes widen in realization. She looks at her family and give a soft sad smile. "The test of heart." Folcön touches each of her family's forehead and smiles. "This is the test of heart the final trial and often the hardest to bare." Suddenly everything catches on fire but the boy in her arms. In fact her brother starts to move and shake. Folcön looks at her brother who's throat is no longer bloody. She smiles she is holding her real brother. She looks at his face which is pale and has tears running down into his hair.

"Ned wake up it's not real." Folcön starts to gently shake him. "He can't hear you." Folcön suddenly looks up and the gentle voice. Right in front of her lays the mother of fire. The mother Phoenix is pure fire with shiny black eyes. Soon she feels her brother has stop shaking. She looks away from the phoenix to her brother. Just in time to see his eyes open. "That was the worst nightmare ever." Nedla hugs his sister tightly. "You two have passed all of the trials. You two may now have your own phoenixes." The mother Phoenix spreads out her wings and flap them once. The wind would've knocked them both down if they were standing.

Two feathers floats down to the twins. Nedla lets go of his sister and grabs the bright red feather. Folcön grabs onto the black feather with a red tip. The feathers bursts into flames and change shape. Folcön is now holding two tiny black feather earrings with red tips. Folcön looks at her brother to see he had a bright blood red ruby ring. "Name your phoenix and they will appear to take you home and to be with you forever more." The mother Phoenix says as she lays her head down and sleeps once more. "Birdy." Folcön says to the earrings. The earrings light on fire and a beautiful black and red phoenix appears in front of her. Her phoenix is mainly black with a red neck and head. It's eyes open to reveal burgundy irises. Nedla looks at her phoenix in awe then at her in disbelief. "Birdy really?" Folcön sticks out her tongue at him. "I really like the name so back off." Nedla rolls his eyes and names his own phoenix. "Blazve." A bloody red phoenix appears with gold eyes. The twins hop onto their phoenixes and fly up and out of the volcano.

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