
In the third year of the apocalypse, Jocelyn Shaw gives birth to twin Phoenixes with the powers of pyrokinesis and cryokinesis. To evade pursuit from the Lockwood clan, she tries to abandon her children but is found by the young Phoenixes. Kaelen Lockwood, the head of the Lockwood clan, appears and reveals he is also of the Phoenix race. He brings Jocelyn and the children back to The Lockwood Citadel. The Elder Council covets the pure-blooded Phoenix twins' lineage and repeatedly attempts assassination. Jocelyn and Kaelen join forces, using the Ancestral Rite to have the twins undergo a perfect atavistic regression in The Phoenix Crucible, stunning everyone. Undeterred, the Elder Council sets a deadly trap by kidnapping the human twin decoys. The Phoenix twins take human form to help their parents fight back. After Kaelen is attacked, he is saved by Jocelyn's Phoenix-mother blood, and they finally eliminate their enemies. Three years later, Jocelyn and Kaelen hold their wedding ceremony, accompanied by their Phoenix twins. The family secures their position as the dominant rulers of the Phoenix race in the apocalypse.