Chapter 21
Hennessy
I blink my eyes awake, but that doesn’t change anything, everywhere I move my eyes everything is black and cold like. Where the hell am I. Please tell me that I didn’t go drinking with Tennessee, groaning I roll onto my side and look around.
In the distance I hear someone say ‘she needs to fight’ but who said that. Swallowing to wet my dry throat I gather the courage and ask the question that I am desperately wanting an answer to.
“What must I overcome” I ask out loud.
“Hennessy your awake” A woman with fire for hair asks, her voice is Smokey and she looks absolutely amazing. She has a curvy body but in all the right places she has long hair that looks like living breathing fire and when I look into her eyes they are absolutely glowing.
“What must I overcome?” I ask again.
“Everything” the woman replies.
“Who are you?” I ask her again. It feels like I have seen her before. You know that feeling that you get when you meet someone and you feel like you have met them before but you can’t place them. I have this feeling now and it is annoying as I can’t place her.
“I am your super, in other words I am what your super looks like” the woman replies again with a gentle smile.
“What is your name?” I ask, I can’t keep calling her the fire woman in my head.
“I have lots of names, no one has ever called me one thing. I come and go every few centuries. But my other half has never given me a name” The fire woman replies with a gentle voice.
“What are your other names?” I ask, if she wants a name then I will hear what her other names are and go from there.
“Well, I have had names like Fire, Blaze, Red, Hot, Sparky which I never understood I am fire not a bloody electrical outlet. I have been called Phoenix as well as my least favourite Bright” the fire woman says as she tells me the names one after another.
“Ok well they suck; I have two for you and you can pick which you like the most. The first one is Ember a play on fire or the one I like the best is Nix because I am guessing that you are in fact a Phoenix and you are beautiful.” I say as I continue looking at the fire woman.
“Nix, I really like Nix” Nix replies with a happy smile. Smiling back at Nix I sit up right and cross my legs look directly at her.
“Now Nix back to what you said earlier, what must I overcome?” I ask.
“Where would you like me to start?” Nix asks while we continue to stare at her.
“The beginning, well the beginning of me anyway” I say as I watch her face, I am not normally a good judge of character.
“Yes, you are, you only have blinders when it comes to your family.” Nix responds. I look at Nix and my jaw drops open. Did she read my mind there is no way that she could read my mind right. Pink hippos swallowing watermelons.
“Yes, I can hear your thoughts as we practically share the one mind and first of all pink hippos are not a thing but they do eat watermelons” Nix responds with a smile and a small giggle.
Shaking my head I think that this conversation would go much better if I was drinking a cup of coffee. But sadly, I doubt Nix can make that happen.
“Sadly, I cannot but I also think that your addiction to caffeine is something that we have in common and also something that I am thankful for.” Nix says with a smile.
“What do I have to overcome?” I ask again.
“There is a lot” Nix says looking at me with sad eyes.
“Tell me, tell me everything” I say. If I am meant to do something then I want to make sure that I understand what is expected of me.
“Ok, I am going to tell you but you have to understand that if I tell you this now there is a chance that I can jeopardise our future meaning that at the age of twenty-three you and I are meant to meet for the first time and this means that you will become a super. With that there will come a lot of heart ache as you will know everything that I have seen since the moment of your birth. Terrible things as well as good. For us to become one you need to accept me. I know that you may already know this but I am a Phoenix and many, many years ago the current Royal family tried to kill our entire species off. It would have worked accept they didn’t do this by honest means which means the Phoenix species didn’t die from old age. As Phoenix’s we are only able to die and once we have extinguished all of our feathers and that comes from re-birth, so basically, we die and are reborn and to be reborn we will lose a feather signifying that we have used a life.” Nix says
“How many lives do you get?” I ask as I realise, I have lent forward during Nix’s story.
“Noone knows, some live for centuries some may only have a handful of lives and others never die. I myself have been here on and off throughout time and with each other half I have been saddled with it was never a fun experience. I had one super that use to drink his weight in ambrosia everyday funny thing was the idiot was allergic to the ambrosia and died from poisoning which was funny” Nix says as she chuckles at the memory.
“When you said that I would see all your memories, will I be able to see your past lives?” I asked, something about that intrigues me.
“I do not know, none of the others have mentioned that but there is a possibility I guess” Nix responds looking thoughtful
“I do know that you will experience each and every one of my deaths as well as the knowledge and secrets that I have learnt about your family whilst I have been with you.” Nix says looking at me with tears in her eyes.
“Will it hurt” I ask, I can’t stand pain but looking at Nix my heart sinks
“Yes, you will experience each death as if it was your own” Nix responds.