Chapter 144 Phoenix
Normally, Fox was very self-controlled and would stop after eating a hot dumpling. He didn't keep staring at Ma En like this time.
However, Ma En didn't pay too much attention. He kneaded a larger ball and fed it to it. It was just a mouthful, and it tilted its head and looked at Ma En.
"Hey, you're addicted to eating..." Ma En said as he fed it, swallowing seven or eight in total, before it lowered its head and scratched the underside of its wings with its beak, and burped.
"Marn, are you sure there's nothing wrong?" Esther pointed at Fox, who suddenly turned his head and put his tail on the table by the window without moving.
Ma En was also a little unsure: "Isn't it stretched to death?"
"Probably...not that. It's a phoenix, so it shouldn't die that easily..."
Before he finished his sentence, Fox suddenly stretched his neck, then let out a cry, jumped from the edge of the window into the air, flashed past, and disappeared. (Note)
"This is..." Ma En ignored Fox, who was behaving strangely. He pointed at the egg with red and yellow patterns on the table and said, "Is it... laying an egg? Why does it look like a chicken and it cries two Voice?"
As he spoke, he opened the letter in his hand, which was written by Dumbledore.
The letter clearly records how to hatch a young phoenix and raise it, and reminds Ma En that it is best to be kind to it when it is young, so that it will stay when it grows up.
"This is really an ancestor..." Ma En muttered in his mouth, but he didn't stop. He made a circle with his fingers, and a line of fire rushed to this beautifully patterned egg.
"It seems that Fox can still do it," Esther said, looking at the phoenix egg that kept swallowing up the milky white flames. "It really helped you get a phoenix --- although it is a little different from what we imagined. Same."
Ma En sighed. No one expected that Fox would send the bird by himself. Isn't this just a half-finished product...
Fortunately, the hatching method of this thing does not require a nest like other birds, otherwise it would be really troublesome.
Ma En controlled the flame to continuously "water" the egg. As time went by, the yellow pattern became brighter and brighter.
"Come on, come on, stand back a little. The letter says that the flames will burst out when it is born..." Seeing the light starting to dazzle, Ma En quickly reminded several girls.
There was nothing wrong with his prediction. As soon as Margery and the other two girls retreated out of the door, they heard a "coaxing" sound, and a blue-red fireball suddenly appeared and exploded in the attic. The flames headed towards Spreading out quickly all around.
Ma En quickly restrained the fire before igniting the surrounding flammable furniture, formed a ball of fire and placed it in front of the newborn phoenix.
The letter said this was its first meal.
The little bird, which had not yet fully grown its feathers and looked more like a chicken than a phoenix, did not rush to eat its fire food as the letter said. Instead, like its mother, it tilted its head and looked at Ma En.
He thought for a moment, stretched out a finger, summoned a small flame, and placed it in front of it.
After a cheerful and childish cry, it started to slurp happily. The way Marn looked at it, he suddenly remembered the way Hermione slurped grapes that day...
The girls outside the door heard the sounds coming from inside, and tentatively pushed the door open to a crack. Three little heads stuck out from top to bottom, and looked over curiously.
"Come in, it's okay." Ma En held its own rations in his left hand, and his right hand kept conjuring small milky white balls one after another and placing them in front of it.
Hermione looked at the chubby little guy with some curiosity: "Is this Fox's child? Why does it look a bit like..."
Before she finished speaking, the little bird that was happily eating suddenly disappeared from the spot, suddenly appeared on her shoulder, passed through her thick curly hair, and pecked her ear accurately, not too hard, but Hermione Still he screamed in surprise.
When she tried to tilt her head to find this guy, it had returned to Ma En's fingers again, greedily devouring the delicious food as if nothing had happened.
"It's quite smart..." It didn't hurt too much, Hermione said gently rubbing her little earlobe.
"The phoenix has always been quite smart... I'm thinking about what to name it... I don't know how much the phoenix is worth..."
"Are you going to use your naming method again?" Esther said helplessly from the side, "When you have a child in the future, how many galleons do you plan to name the child?"
"I learned this from Margaery. You have to ask her, but it's really convenient."
This little guy had a big appetite. He ate seven or eight fireballs about the same size as his own body before he stopped. His body was also covered with beautiful feathers.
Unlike Fox, two of its tail feathers are cyan, and the ends of its wings also have several slightly longer hard feathers of the same color.
"How about calling it an Egg? It was an Egg when it came..." Ma En gently tapped the head of the little phoenix with his finger. As soon as he finished speaking, he was pecked.
He quickly retracted his fingers and rubbed them gently while saying awkwardly: "It doesn't seem to be too satisfied..."
"How about Patrick, the noble patron saint? We can't tell whether it's a boy or a girl. This name can be used." Esther said on the side.
"What do you think?" Ma En lowered his head and looked at the little phoenix, who was slowly pacing on the table with his wings on his back like a full man taking a walk.
It cried softly, appeared on Ma En's shoulder, and gently rubbed his ear.
"Looks like he likes it, doesn't he, Patrick?"
"Hiccup~" A voice came from Ma En's shoulder to his ears.He took Patrick downstairs to find a basin and a few supports to make a temporary nest for it and put it in his room.
When she went downstairs, Miley happened to be reading some publications and glanced at his shoulder strangely: "Kid, where did you get the chicken?"
Ma En sighed, and the next second Miley's scream rang out in the living room: "Damn, how did it get here...Wait a minute, Ma En, did you get a phoenix!?"
Looking at Miley who was slightly shocked, Ma En had to explain patiently, which saved her tomorrow. This little guy might have eaten Ma En's food and thought of him as his mother...
After finally explaining the matter about Patrick to Miley, Ryan opened the door and put the umbrella aside. He raised his head and asked in surprise: "Marn, where did you get one... Wow !!”
Judging from the screams, Ryan was much more miserable than Miley. Ma En sighed helplessly and seemed to have to say it again.