Chapter 5: Welcome to Uumbera little one
When Xina arrived back at her nest the first thing she noticed was that there was one more egg that survived then she remembered. As she scanned the eggs with her spiritual sense she noticed one of the eggs was very different from the rest. She also noticed that the broken eggs no longer had any energy left in them as it it had been drained away by some unknown force. Phoenix eggs are imbued with and immense amount of energy that allows creatures known as divine beast to be born in this world. They are born with a power level that exceeds many spiritual beast adults. If Sindore had been allowed to feast on her eggs alone he would had easily doubled or even tripled his current power level, and he could already be considered a pseudo-divine beast. So imagine how powerful and average beast or person would become if they could get their hands on a Phoenix or Dragon egg. And now not just one but six of those eggs had their energy consumed by this mysterious entity that is now inhabiting one of her baby's eggs. Xina doesn't know how she should feel. Part of her is upset by what she sees, but another part of her, the pragmatic part of her, understands that no real harm was done. Those eggs were already destroyed and her kids inside of them were already dead. When she checked her other kids they were completely fine and no harm of any kind had come to them. She could even tell that the new addition to her family was emitting a slight energy barrier to protect its siblings. Upon realizing this she couldn't help but smile looking at this.
While Xina was checking the condition of her kids I.M.M.A was nervously observing her. Going back one week as soon as Tom's essence past by Sindore the golden roulette wheel absorbed all of his luck weakened Sindore's very essence. Tom then landed inside of one of the broken eggs. The golden roulette wheel spun while inside of the egg. When it stopped on winner the egg slowly began to mend itself back together. The embryonic substance of the baby phoenix mixed with Tom's essence causing a strange mutation to take place. And while this was happening I.M.M.A's autonomous systems detected very large quantities of energy. Since I.M.M.A was in a hibernation status she had no clue where or who she was taking the energy from. For three days straight she absorbed the energy. It allowed her to fill 15% of her energy reserves which was more then enough for her to awaken again. As her system fully loaded the first thing she noticed was that they were not on the planet they were supposed to have arrived on. Checking her autonomous system logs she noticed that right as she was going into hibernation a powerful force nudged them off course. The only thing she knew of that was around them at that time was the Golden Roulette Wheel. Its final act before being sealed was to change their travel course so that they arrived on this world. The strangest thing was that I.M.M.A's systems had no data of this world. The race of being that created her were not only they most advanced they also were credited with being the only race to have explored 98% of the entire universe. So the likelihood of finding a planet that even they didn't know about was astronomically small, bordering on impossible.
One of the first things that I.M.M.A checked was the level of spiritual energy in this world and to her utter surprise it was extremely high. This concentration would allow her to reach fully power in 40 years, maybe less if special treasures could be found to help. She next checked the condition of Tom inside his egg. She could see that the Void Physique, Elemental Veins, and Enlightenment Tree were present in his body, also it seems he acquired something else from the bloodline that he got from the egg. Due to the mutation it called it was hard for I.M.M.A to tell exactly what it was. I.M.M.A once again checked the surroundings and she could tell that a battle took place there. She saw the broken eggs and realized where the energy that awakened her came from. I.M.M.A covered her mouth with her hand as tears welled in her eyes. Even though she knew the eggs were already destroyed and the babies inside had already passed away she still felt as if she stole something very special from them. She observed the rest of the nest and saw the three eggs lying together under a overhang. She moved Tom's egg close by but remembering the Golden Roulette Wheel she kept his egg a meter away from the others. As she was moving Tom's egg she noticed that the strong winds at their height was making small pebbles fall on the eggs every now and then so I.M.M.A conjured a small barrier around all of them. Now that she had them all settled she planned to learn a little more about the world she found herself in when suddenly she noticed an energy source that was close by and getting slowly stronger by the second. I.M.M.A went to the cliff edge and looked down when she was a ball of flame slowly getting stronger and bigger as time went by. It was already more power then herself. She could only get stronger as Tom grew stronger and that wouldn't happen until many years after he was born. I.M.M.A decided to hide her presence and hope that whatever was growing down there would leave soon after it grew powerful enough. Unless someone specifically came up here to check they wouldn't be able to sense anything through her barrier. Hopefully whatever IT was would leave as soon as IT finished what it was doing. But contrary to I.M.M.A's wishes as soon as it finished growing stronger the first thing it did was to fly straight up to the nest. But it was an aggressor, on the contrary it was the mother of these eggs, which meant it was now Tom's new mother. I.M.M.A was now scared that it would either attack Tom's egg because of the life force that was stolen from the broken eggs or just reject and attack Tom's egg because he was in essence an interloper in this already damaged family.
Xina looked at the eggs and after touching the three surviving eggs she looked at Tom's egg and how it was a little away from the rest. She cocked her head to the side in curiosity when she was about to reach for his head but stopped herself.
"How long are you going to stay in there observing me and why don't you want me to touch my child's egg? Why don't you come out here and we have a little talk shall we?", Xina said gently trying not to scare who ever was watching her. She felt absolutely no malice or strife aimed her way so she knew whatever it was it meant her no harm. Plus she felt it was too weak to harm her even in her weakened state.
I.M.M.A weighed her options and realized she really had no choice. After Observing Xina for a while she realized that she meant Tom no harm, she even called him her child. I.M.M.A was even surprised she was perceptive enough to feel her not want her to touch Tom's egg in fear it was cause her unintended harm. Taking a moment to steady her resolve I.M.M.A slowly materialized a holographic image of herself above Tom's egg.
Xina saw a little transparent girl hover ever so slightly above her new child's egg, " Welcome to Uumbera little one.", Xina said with a beautiful smile.