The Black Dogs carefully separated and began circling around Vaeludar.
Vaeludar placed the claws of his wings slowly to the ground, so he would be ready to pounce or dodge any attack. He heard the Black Dogs sniffing him very carefully.
With all of a sudden, they headed back into the forest, without one of them swinging a claw towards Vaeludar.
Surprised to see this, Vaeludar ceased his menacing growling and went back to his usual self. He was ready to attack before the Black Dogs had withdrawn from their small engagement of the hybrid.
He turned back and saw dozens of soldiers, Unicorns, Dragons, Centaurs, and Griffins ready for battle.
Geraldus strode his horse towards Vaeludar.
“You’re going to have to keep a good eye on your twin sons before they end up doing something deadly again,” said Vaeludar.
A FAMOUS HYBRID
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he next three days were quite a commotion; Vaeludar was the main talk of the entire town. It was a rare sighting to see a Minotaur venture out in the middle of daylight. It was told the beast only roams during the night and stalks villages smaller than Geraldus’s village. The Minotaur’s attack on a larger village was unheard of.
The one house that was demolished was rebuilt, just a bit larger than the original house. The family, which consist a father and mother with two sons, were unhurt and sad to see their home was gone, but grateful for getting a new one.
Vaeludar, who was the one to have caused the destruction of the family’s hut, participated in the reconstruction. He felt responsible for destroying a home, so he decided to help rebuilding as an apology for destroying it. His helping made the family happy and hopeful that the one who caused the destruction of a home was helping rebuild a new home.
After the hut had been rebuilt, the family thanked the hybrid for rebuilding their home and said there was no need for an apology as it was just an accident while Vaeludar was protecting the people living within the village more than protecting the buildings.
Vaeludar spent the entire morning of the third day walking around and seeing the villagers greeting him with a smile. After seventeen years of being the outcast of the village, Vaeludar was being accepted into the village’s society. They thanked him for protecting them and putting on the fiery show the night following his morning battle.
Even among the humans, Vaeludar was becoming quite popular with the dragons. They had never known a single human could take on a Minotaur and live to tell the tale. What amused the dragons was the mention of Vaeludar’s skin. The mentioned of the Minotaur spear being unable to pierce the hybrid’s skin was highly unusual to hear of.
Vaeludar did mention to a dragon crowd he was the first cross-specimen to be a human and a dragon, and he felt he was an embodiment of both in personality and physical form.
Vaeludar was becoming the celebrity in the village, even more popular than Geraldus.
Through the morning to the early afternoon of the third day, Vaeludar was sitting on Geraldus’s roof, as he always was. He could hear his name being called out from afar. His hybrid ears could hear human voices echoing around corner of the village.
He was told by Geraldus that Nerio and Arron both entered the bordering forest, under a dare given to them from a dragonet (a dragon child). The twin boys accepted the dare and now both ended up under supervision and the one dragonet was caught by its mother for being reckless.
The boys and the dragonet still remained free to play, but under guard from several Dragons and guards.
Vaeludar didn’t care of what happened to Arron or Nerio; he wasn’t their father or older brother. The twin boys were Geraldus’s responsibility, and he was stern on them when Geraldus found out two of his sons did something so reckless that could have destroyed the entire village and the people living within it.
Vaeludar kept watch on the people walking around every corner of Geraldus household and watched them wave as he would wave back at every human walking by.
After sitting on Geraldus’ rooftop for quite a while, Vaeludar jumped into the air and started flying. He drifted slowly above the wooden houses. He could see playful small children, ages between four and eight, seeing the flying hybrid and ran after him. Vaeludar saw the kids chasing after him and descended down to see them.
Another eventful thing happening in his life was parents were allowing their kids to go see the strange hybrid. When Vaeludar landed, about a dozen kids crowded around him. Vaeludar showed them his dragon legs, his wings, the spikes on his arms and spine, and his red scaled dragon hands.
They gaze in awe and smiled when Vaeludar told them about his battle with the Minotaur. As he was telling the story, he felt his tail being nailed by four little toddlers, wanting to sit on it. Vaeludar smiled and gently waved his tail back and forth, seeing the four smiling and laughing while Vaeludar allowed them to ride on his large tail.
Vaeludar did take noticed of a few parents looking at him while he was talking and playing with the kids, including the parents of the four kids riding on his tail. He had to make sure the little toddlers riding on his tail didn’t fall from their fun ride.
About ten minutes of having some fun telling the Minotaur story and the four toddlers riding his tail, several parents called to their kids, telling them it was time to leave. Vaeludar remained silent for the young crowd to disperse from him, while smiling happily as the children around him waved goodbye.
However, the kids on his tail weren’t leaving, so he angled his tail to a position where they could slide off without getting a
