The phoenix beneath the trio vanished as its occupants levitated afterwards. The fate of the rebels was to be buried, flesh and bones, on the divine beasts' belly as the meager snacks it had earlier did not satiate its appetite.
The phoenix was ravenous and was now having its well-deserved reward for being such a good carrier for the tourists.
"Ahhhhhhh! No please! No!" the immortal food was pleading frighteningly as the phoenix was having its stomach filled by the second. It was very ghastly to witness your friends getting eaten as you know in a while you're going to be next. To be eaten alive was a death so unimaginably scary.
"We surrender, please don't let the beast eat us!" the others in queue for the dining beast begged to the man.