“Get down here or I’ll order the guards to bring you down here!”
“Oh and just how will the guards be able to get me down if I’m standing up here, Princess Stephanie?” asked Vaeludar. “Your royal guards are humans and humans can’t fly.”
“I’ll call the honorary guards and have you roped down here.” Stephanie kept yelling out threats to get Vaeludar.
Vaeludar wasn’t listening to her bumbling threats. He raised his hands if he was holding something invisible. He was growing irritated of hearing endless threats from a royal princess. He held out his hand and a puff of cloud smoldered above his fingertips. Vaeludar pushed the cloud above Stephanie, and she didn’t take notice to the flying cloud above her.
And in soft tap from a finger, the cloud poured rain right on the annoying princess.
Stephanie started to shiver because the water was very icy cold. Marina wasn’t breathing because she was laughing so hard. Vaeludar knew how to impress and disappoint two princesses at once.
“You see,” pointed out Vaeludar, smiling big. “I cannot be won that easily. If you want me, you’ll have to win my heart first and to love me. I apologize for saying this; there is someone who had already won it. And she is standing in front of me.” Vaeludar starred at the Siren laughing away.
Marina laughter burst into silence. Her eyes turned into from a starry eye to emerald eyes; he eyes changed color like a chameleon camouflaging its skin color.
“Marina, I’ve won your heart when I saved you, and in doing so, you’ve also won my heart. It was love at first sight, for both of us. You have no idea how much I lo—”
“Your little confession is going have to wait,” said Geraldus, walking with a man dressed in royal red and blue robes. The man was King Uragiru.
The king appeared to be an old man; his hair was mixed with silver and white. A long, white beard covered his chin. Behind King Uragiru and Geraldus was a squad of fifteen armed and armored soldiers holding tall spears with a small banner waving in a weak wind.
They both drew to a halt.
Vaeludar and Marina drew their attention towards the two men. A soaked Stephanie looked angrily at the king Uragiru, her father and adopted father of Marina.
“So this is the hybrid that killed the Minotaur,” said King Uragiru. “His face doesn’t seem to have changed in the past five years since I last saw him, Geraldus. Vaeludar, is it?”
“I am,” replied Vaeludar.
“You don’t seem to have changed that much, other than growing many inches in the past five years. Yes, I never would have thought you would have been able to be a fighter or take on a large monster.” King Uragiru turned his gaze to his other daughter who was walking up slowly, still drenched in cold water. “I see you met my daughter and the Siren who wanted to see you,” he said, smiling.
“I cannot become someone’s groom from out of the blue,” said Vaeludar. “I don’t need to be someone’s husband just because of how powerful I am. I am my own person and I control my life as I see fit. As long as I remain half dragon, I won’t become anyone’s living trophy.”
“Indeed,” responded the king, turning back to see Vaeludar. “It is interesting how news can travel fast in these lands.”
“Your Majesty?” said Vaeludar.
“I heard a certain powerful specimen that killed a Minotaur without being harmed or getting killed. When I heard this, I needed to see you. You killed a Minotaur that would take ten men to kill. The last time I ever you was when you saved this lovely, young Siren.”
Marina’s face blushed a little red.
“Father, how could you ignore me?” asked Stephanie.
“And you seem to have already met the powerful fighter, my daughter. I’m not ignoring you, my princess. I’m admiring how much of a daredevil he is: taking risks and blowing fire. I had never known he would be so strong of a fighter. I needed to need how strong he was and see if the rumors were true.”
“I can assure you, Your Highness; the rumors about me are true” said Vaeludar. Vaeludar soared into the sky and blew out a wide, red-orange, thinly-stretched fire.
His fire was very big and wide it covered a third of the sky from the humans gazing at him. Then he landed a short distance from the king and the two princesses. With one whip of his tail, a hole had had plumped.
Vaeludar brought his hand and suddenly brought up a large rock shaped of a Minotaur. It was of the same shape and size but in stone form. Vaeludar made sure they were watching, along with Geraldus. He smiled and pulled out the sword, slashed the stone with ease, and placed the sword back into the scabbard.
The upper part of the Minotaur-shaped rock slid and split in half. The upper half fell from the standing bottom half. Before he walked back to the people watching him, Vaeludar snipped his tail into the bottom half.
The rock exploded into smaller chunks of rock in the dozens.
After showing the people a small demonstration of his power, Vaeludar walked back to King Uragiru, Stephanie, Marina, and Geraldus. “How did you like that?” asked Vaeludar.
King Uragiru was sparked with the greatest amazement. “More powerful than I thought you would be. I’d never thought a hybrid would be able to go solo against a two-legged cow.”
“I’d never thought I would be this powerful, let alone now wielding something that makes me stronger than ever,” said Vaeludar, showing the sword he had found. “I have a weapon of my own and I hear there are some things happening around the island.”
“Many raids and thieving are spreading across Shimabellia,” said Geraldus. “Every village of the island are being raided and attacked, and this
