“Before we what?” asked Marina.
Vaeludar looked toward the Siren and smiled. “Before we get married.”
Marina looked with confused at first. But her confusion faded into a shocking realization: he was proposing to her, asking her to marry him. Her eyes began to tear up with tears of joy. She covered her pounding heart. The hybrid who saved her life was proposing to her. The hybrid who saved a Siren, a creature considered by a vile monster, was asking for her hand without taking a sweat.
“Do you really mean it?” she asked.
“Why else would I give you this neckless of sapphires to you?” Vaeludar held up the neckless of sapphires he made chose from the building he found the neckless. The sapphires matched Marina’s sapphire eyes
“Oh, Vaeludar…” Marina jumped out of the bed and dashed to the hybrid. She wrapped his arms around his scaly-skin neck.
“Are you always this so lovable? I swear at times, I don’t understand the personality of a Siren yet you look so cute.”
“You often say ‘judge by personality and not appearance.’ Was the great and powerful hybrid starting to judge me as a human, not a Siren? Sirens do have sensitive personalities and much more complex than a human’s personality. I thought you, of all hybrids, should know that.”
“I am the only hybrid to be Dragon and human. Lookalike hybrids such as Mermaids and Centaurs aren’t part of the evaluation of humans or what I’ve heard from—”
“Oh, shut up and just love me!”
Vaeludar blinked silently. He just had gotten silenced by the lovable-hostile Siren. The Siren he just proposed to marry just silenced him. That wasn’t very lovable of Marina the Siren.
Then Vaeludar rolled his eyes, seeing how Marina only wants to be held by the hybrid. Vaeludar knew again true love had no bounds, even between two different species or two-and-a-half since Vaeludar was half dragon and half human that was two different species and Marina being a Siren. So crosspieces romance seemed to have no bounds, no matter what species they are.
After a long while, Marina released Vaeludar and walked back into the bed, with the necklaces around her neck.
Vaeludar gazed upon the bed Marina had laid on. The blankets were old and torn. The mattress looked ancient like prehistoric ancient. The wood holding the mattress was ready to fall apart. How could his future mate, bride, or wife whatever the Siren wanted to be called sleep on outdated furniture?
Since he happened to be the son of a witch, Vaeludar stretched out his arms and widened his hands. His thoughts began to channel heatwaves in his figures. A blue pulse melted from his hands and he softly pushed some light puffy fog around the bed. He moved his legs and waved his hands in a figure eight style. He spun one of his wings, creating a wavy wind that made the fog spiral slowly around the bed. Then Vaeludar raised his hands in the air and hastily motioned his hands downwards.
The bed looked new in a very expensive taste to it like it was made for royalty.
Vaeludar’s magical abilities and the powers of a Dragon could really size up against a rematch against Lusìvar.
“Having fun with your magic?” asked Marina.
“In a sense, yes,” replied Vaeludar. Vaeludar placed the sword and armor hand in a corner of the room and gazed upon the beautiful Siren, who seemed to be waiting for the hybrid to say or do something. “You really want to see the magical abilities and the unique stamina I have?”
“I’m a Siren. Surprise me!”
“Oh, I will.”
Marina smiled big. Vaeludar moved over to Marina and he sat right beside her. They touched each other’s foreheads and both were about to press their lips together to kiss and show what they could be made out of. Suddenly, Vaeludar pulled his head away.
“But when we get married first. I won’t show much stamina before we are married, even if you are ready for it right now.”
“Er, so close.”
“You keep forgetting: Dragons aren’t easily seduced like humans. I’m half of both so you have a 50/50 chance of seducing me completely. Once a Siren gets her man, she always ends up luring him into something the kids won’t understand.”
Vaeludar and Marina both shared a kiss, before Vaeludar walked to the window and gaze at the starry night sky. After he mysteriously placed the Crystal Hand on his hand, an exact location was inserted into his mind and knew where to find the second Crystal Armor: the Greenwood Forest.
He knew once he inserted the armor on, it showed him visions of other places to find the next armor artifact, while the map he remembered being stolen by the twin boys had wrong labels where to find the next two such as the gauntlet armor was thought to be found in a castle, but it turned out to be in a cave.
Vaeludar now had to find the next two armor artifacts before Lusìvar returned. It was only a matter of time before he would strike again and in full force. Vaeludar would have to be ready to face against Lusìvar again. He had managed to win against the Shadow King, but at a great cost: the life of a White Knight. He could now only wait for what she meant of a “girl from his long-lost past” would be coming to his aid.
And time would only tail of what will have happened next between now and Lusìvar’s next attack.
TESTS WITH NEW POWERS AND TRAVEL BACK SOUTH
V
aeludar was awakened by a loud bell echoing through the open window.
