The Egg The Eyes and where is Croockshanks and Athena?!

In a special room deep in The Lab Konrad stood among pieces of a crimson cauldron. His girls lied in a big bed he conjured for them, as they were still to regain consciousness after the explosion. All around him the remains of golden elixir lied spread over the floor.

But Konrad's gaze was focused on the centre of the room. There a spherical shaped golden liquid like object was spinning slowly, absorbing the elixir spread around the room that slowly moved towards it. Thanks to its slight transparency Konrad could see the shape of his wand that was clearly disintegrating. Konrad saw the how the colour of the object slowly changed to pure white and shiny like a pearl but...more, while its shape became more oblong, like an egg.

Soon the entire liquid in the room entered the egg. It shone with a bright white light and Konrad could feel an aura of power and light. Itfelts pure, and good, and above any doubt, very much alive!

Konrad walked to the Egg slowly when suddenly he heard a moan from behind.

"Ow, my head..." Said Hermione.

""Your head? You mean My Head!" added Luna from beside her as she sat back up.

"You're awake! Konrad said disregarding the egg for the moment.

"I was so worried about you Girls!" He said as he run to them and hugged them after checking if everything was really alright. The egg glowed a little brighter.

"Daddy..."Moaned Cristal slowly sitting back up from the bed.

"Cristal are you alright?! Do you feel any pain?!" Konrad asked. He didn't see the egg once again glowing a little more brighter than before.

"I feel surprisingly good if a little sore Daddy..." She said while hugging him. "What happened Daddy?"

"Yeah we'd like to know as well." Asked Luna and Hermione.

Konrad caressed the cheek of the still unconscious Ruby and replied.

"A little accident that I didn't foresee. I wasn't expecting to drop my wand into the cauldron. I'm really sorry girls I endangered your life it was such a stupid thing to do." He said with his head lowered. The egg glowed brighter once more.

Konrad felt someone's hand on his cheek and looked up to see the ruby colored eyes of Ruby that just a moment ago lied unconscious. seems like she woke up in the middle of his apologies.

"It's not your fault Daddy. Everyone can make a mistake once In a while. It's just like mommy always says 'Makeing mistakes is a part of life and learning from them is a real wisdom' I'm sure that you're not going to make a a similar mistake again Daddy." Ruby said.

Konrad was really moved by her words and became teary eyed and happy seeing that neither of the girls looked angry at him. They all forgave him for this stupid accident.

"Your Wisdom is ahead of your age Ruby... I'm so happy that were all together. I wouldn't give you up for anything!" Konrad said. "If-If any one of you died today I would force Death itself to bring you back but I would never stop looking for a way to save you" He said, his voice croaking. The girls saw the worry in his eyes and everyone hugged him tightly, each one reasurring the others that everything is alright and soon everyone relaxed, but neither wanted the group-hug to end.

None of them realized that The Egg behind them, started glowing much much brighter than before, until The silence was interrupted by a very loud crack.

Everyone turned towards it surprised.

"Konrad... what is that?..." Asked Hermione.

"It's...so......... Beautiful......." Said Luna with a dreamy look after activating her magesight.

"Ohh....this....it was here when I woke up absorbing the elixir and...my wand... I was about to investigate it when you woke up and your safety became my top priority..."

*CRACK*CRACK*

Hermione was about to say something when suddenly the Egg broke into pieces that flew in every direction with a flash of a blinding white light and In the origin of the light a smallwhite bird showed itself, it's wings spread to the sides. It was beautiful and... Konrad realized, It was a Phoenix!!! But it was in no way a normal Phoenix. That's for sure.

The light slowly subsided and the Phoenix flew graciously towards them. They watched it land In front of Konrad and only then they realized that even while being the size of an adult chicken the White Phoenix was only a hatchling. It looked at Konrad curiously a d then jumped into his chest and snuggled into him.

They were lost for words. This creature, this Phoenix was nothing they ever saw before. It gave them the same aura of pureness and happiness as a fully corporeal Patronus yet it was a living being and a phoenix nonetheless. Konrad could feel it's heartbeat as it snuggled happily into his chest. He finally regained enough senses to move his hand and slowly cares the almost eteric white shining feathers and puff. Soon the girls joined him and The little White Phoenix enjoyed the attention of everyone not even slightly weary of them.

"This... Its...I don't understand..." Said Hermione quietly finally breaking the silence yet never taking her eyes off of the little hatchling lying on Konrad's lap.

"I-I think... It's the effect of mixing a phoenix heart a wilingly given horn of a unicorn and a cauldron full of highly purified tears of the purest creature In the world changed into an elixir of life... This...I think that thanks to the phoenixes power of reincarnation we accidentally created a phoenix of the highest purity. Im not entirely sure in the end but..." He looked at the cute hatchling that fell asleep on his lap"... I'm pretty sure, I don't regret dropping my wand into that cauldron anymore. How should we call him?" He asked with a smile.

"Luna smiled and replied.

"in the memory of the one Phoenix that gave his life so this one could be born, I think we should call it..."

"Phoebe." Konrad said with a smile then he realized something. Was she a girl or a boy?!

"She's a girl Daddy." Replied Cristal to his unspoken question.

"Yeah, I can feel it too Daddy." Added Ruby.

"You can feel her gender?" Asked Hermione surprised.

"Of course mommy! You can't?" Asked Cristal with a surprised expression.

"Well then Phoebe it is..." Konrad said omitting the discussion about Ruby and Cristal's ability to sense gender of other creatures.

"But I still don't understand how could she even be born? It's supposed to be impossible to create life!"Said Hermione.

"I don't know Mione, maybe its like I said. The power of Phoenix's reincarnation. The original Phoebe's soul departed as she chose to, but her power might have allowed for the creation of a new soul altogether? or it was the same unknown proces of soul creation of any newborn beings? We can check it someday but for now... We have some cleaning to do, and a new member of the family to care for." he said happily. 'I wonder how would Athena and Croockshanks react to Phoebe. Right...Where are they actually? I didn't saw them for at least a week now that I think about it...'

In all this skirmish none of them realized that their eye irises changed a little and now each of them possessed a golden hue.