A giant flaming bird-like creature on a field of fire. Flapping it's wings staying afloat, in front of another equally as tall figure. The figure looks humanoid, but Salem is unable to figure it out with it's appearance being blurred. Both the blurry figure and the flaming bird about two football field length apart.
***: "This is the first battle to protect the island."
A loud, booming, ethereal voice.
The voice comes from behind Salem. Frightening him and making him jump away from the sound, falling on to the ground.
Salem turns to see what talked to him.
What Salem sees is the bird again. Salem looks back and forth between both birds. The exact same bird behind him, is the same bird that is in front of him now.
Standing on it's flaming claws at an incredibly tall height. That would be the height of a bus if was put to face straight up.
Salem: "What are you?"
Salem's voice comes out as scared and scratchy.
***: "I am Wonder The Phoenix. The one that bestowed upon the power of the flame and of rebirth."
Salem: 'Flame and rebirth? What is this bird saying?'
Wonder: "With the power of flame you have complete control of fire. With rebirth, though death is inevitable. You are granted a longer life span as well as your rebirth into this world once more."
Salem: "Wait.. How are you both here and there..?"
Wonder: "This is a memory, hence why you have not felt or have been burned by the flame enveloping the area."
Salem looks around. Wonder is right. Not only is the area around the first bird burnt. It's this whole area. As far as the eye can see... Fire.
Not only that, Salem finally notices that both the blurred figure and memory Wonder is still, like a paused movie.
Salem: "What is the blurred figure? Is it... Is it a foe?"
Wonder: "A foe it is. As for what it is... Is a Myth."
Wonder brings down it's flaming beak. Turning it's head to the side, so that Salem looks into it's burning red eye.
Salem: "A.. a Myth? What is that?"
Salem out of instinct covers his face with his arm even if he doesn't feel the heat, he can feel the intensity of the wind behind it.
Wonder: "A Myth is a being born out of human superstition. How we are born is unknown, but we do know it is the humans that thought it up."
Wonder cranks it's head with it's erratic movement and blink once. Quickly open, close. With just that blink, enough wind could have made the fire around the area pick up, but no fire was affected and only the wind pushed against his face.
Salem: "Humans... Like B.C.E. people thought you guys up? You and That Blurry thing?"
Salem slowly moves his hand away from his face. Making him see eye to eye, almost literally, to the giant bird. The bird's eye the size of Salem's head.
Wonder: "Me. Yes..."
Wonder looks up it's beak faced in the direction of both the memory Wonder and The Blur.
Wonder: "... That thing... I have no clue when it was made. The Egyptians thought me up. Over time people thought of me more and more differently. Eventually naming me, The bird Phoenix, Wonder."
Salem becomes visibly taken aback on what Wonder says. That, The Blur is something that, has an unknown time date...
Salem: 'Does that mean humans aren't the only living creatures in the universe... No wait, Does that mean that there are other Myths... Wait. Human's made Myths--"
Wonder: "Humans didn't make us. Yes, there are other Myths.. And for the last one... I don't have that information."
Salem looks up at Wonder with a surprised look on his face.
Salem: "You heard me?"
Wonder: "Yes, I heard you. We're inside your head... You're asleep outside... Don't worry your sickness will disappear when you wake. That was just your body getting funny integrated with my power."
Salem: "You knew I was sick?"
Wonder points his beak down for both of it's red hot eyes to look down onto Salem.
Wonder: "That is my apologies, I gave it to you. The heat with both your body and power were so extremely different. You will have to rest in order for you to become better with your power.. You might sleep for another full day."
Salem: "I'm going to be here for a full twenty-four hours?!"
Wonder shakes its beak. Flames follow on the top of it, smoke following just above, making an S shape.
Wonder: "No, when you awake you will be placed on your bed, most likely covered in sweat."
Salem: "Will I still feel sick?"
Wonder shakes its beak again.
Wonder: "You'll be fine."
A piercing screech reverberates from behind Salem.
Wonder: "Get up, Human. You'll have to watch this."
Salem gets up. Pushing himself off the "Flaming cool" ground and turning his body at the same time to face in the direction of the Memory Wonder and The Blur.
Memory Wonder still flying, ascends higher and higher. Until he reaches a point in which even with The Blur's tall figure it can't reach. It doesn't stop The Blur though in fact it looks like it challenges Memory Wonder.
The Blur's legs look to tighten. Eventually after a few seconds the Blur leaps from where it is standing slowly closing the distance between both of them. Memory Wonder also reacts, diving straight down towards the airborne Blur.
Both of them inch closer and closer. At the last second, Memory Wonder spins left out of the way of the Blur. Going around back of it with the Blur still slowly ascending. The Blur turns around
Memory Wonder now flaps its wings hard. Making the Blur go higher, it wind strength unbelievable. While that is happening giant balls of fire start appearing behind Wonder. Two, both double the size of Wonder.
Salem: "Did you do that..?"
Wonder: "Yes... Pay attention."
Wonder says in a calm and ever so ethereal voice.
The balls of fire fly toward The Blur at an unimaginable speed for its size. The first one connects with The Blur. Fire sets in, attaching itself to The Blur.
The Blur lets out a horrible, warbling, screeching sound. So loud that it stuns Memory Wonder, making the bird seemingly become disoriented and fall. Before falling, Memory Wonder still somehow makes the next fireball connects.
While Memory Wonder falls, The Blur stays on fire, but picks up speed descending down towards Memory Wonder, Unable to do anything from the disorientation, The Blur that has seemed to make a fist with it's hand, pulling it back.
Once The Blur and Wonder are close. The Blur punches Wonder into the ground, while still falling closely toward Wonder.
The Blur lands on top of Wonder, making a crater large enough to make both of them fit inside, While a dust cloud that blocks out the vision of what both The Blur and Wonder is doing.
Soon The Blur becomes visible, slowly showing Wonder that is currently being pummeled into the ground by The Blur.
Salem: "Did it hurt..?"
Wonder: "At the time."
Wonder seems to sound frustrated.
Memory Wonder now becomes aware of what is happening, but is unable to put an end to the endless barrage of blurred fists.
Left from The Blur, Wonders face and beak turn right. Wonder looks over at The Blur again. Right from The Blur, Wonders beak face turns left. This process continues for a while until flaming crescents. Start flying toward The Blur, unknowingly.
Many flaming crescents, the size Salem, fly into the side of The Blur hitting it over, over and over again. While the hot crescents hit, the fire that never disappeared off of The Blur seem to have increased.
Salem: "Is all the fire you?"
Wonder: "Yes, pay attention small human."
Memory Wonder let off another huge gust of wind. Blasting The Blur right off of itself.
The Blur, now seeming to not be able to withstand the heat, Yells. Differently this time, not the loud horrible screeching noise from before to disorientate Wonder.
This time it seems to be a deliberate decision, not to disorientate but to communicate.
Wonder: "He speaking in the language of The Mythological."
Salem: "The Mythology has a language..?"
Wonder: "Yes."
Salem: "Are you able to translate."
(The Blur) Wonder: "It burns, the fire. HOOOT!!"
Salem: "That's what it says..?"
Raising his eye brows in disbelief that, "That" was important.
Wonder: "Yes, but after this is what is important."
Salem: "Oh..?"
The Blur, Yells again in the voice just the same as before.
(The Blur) Wonder: "I'm not my last... Be wary, Bird!"
The Blur eventually succumbs to the heat. Burning so hot that the giant humanoid blurry figure burns straight to ash.
Memory Wonder who is riddled with wounds bleeding out of it's body, letting out flames instead of regular blood. Eventually Memory Wonder lets out a great screech. One that could be heard for miles.
Wonder also seems to light ablaze. Catching fire immediately and burn to ash just like The Blur. The only thing is that The ash isn't gray or black like soot. It's red and ablaze.
Salem: "What happened to you?"
Wonder: "I started my rebirth cycle..."
The flaming battlefield seems to shake entirely, strong enough to feel it but not enough to be frightened.
(Continue) Wonder: "Seems we have ran out of time."
Salem: "Wait but--"
Salem awaken to a beautiful black woman, makeup slightly on. Red lipstick and lightly blushed cheeks. Her curly hair flowing beautifully down to her chest. Her dirt colored eyes, has her lashes amazingly done. As she calls to him with amazing familiarity in her voice.
Wearing clothes from her work as a Nurses assistant, along with her name tag that'll tell her patients her name. "Marissa"
Marissa: "You have school son..."
As Marissa gets up, dressed in her nursing clothes. Walking out of Salem's room she says to Salem.
(Continue) Marissa: "Have you been working out? You look lean. More muscle on you looks great."