On the platform the Dragons were on, Vaeludar, as he was descending, saw the Dragons were ready to attack. The Dragon King and his guards snarled their teeth and dug their claws into the ground.
When he finally landed, Flavius was there with the dragon bodyguards and the Dragon King. Vaeludar was happy to see the familiar faces when he got there, but he couldn’t find Wonomi, Monico, and Galvin among them.
“Vaeludar!” yelled Flavius, dashing towards him. “Vaeludar, what happened?”
The Dragon King and his guards stayed closely with Flavius. The one group ended up coming close to Vaeludar and Marina.
“Lusìvar,” said Vaeludar, grimly.
He told them everything of what happened, starting at the bar and ending with the ghost of the Shadow King. And how he remained unscratched in the attack and how he easily defeated the evil spirit that is supposed to be dead.
“This is ill news,” said the Dragon King. “I didn’t expect him to return this soon.”
“We need to get going. We need to find those three humans and that Griffin before we can fly towards the mountain border.”
Marina stepped in all of a sudden. “I was going to show you around my home, and this day just had to be spoiled by a long undead king I want to stay dead. I didn’t want anything between me and you and our romantic moment.”
“Romantic moment?” said Flavius. “Do you mean…?”
“Marina and I love each other, and we are an official couple now, Flavius,” admitted Vaeludar.
Flavius was holding back a hard laugh.
Vaeludar looked sternly looked at Flavius. “What the matter? Jealous I have someone to hold hands and you don’t have any girl to hold hands with?”
“The idea of a hybrid already a child of two different species and a Siren as lovebirds is a completely twisted way of romance,” laughed Flavius.
“So, you’re saying me and Marina are not meant to be together as a unison?”
“I didn’t say that,” argued Flavius, calming down.
“Oh, but you were thinking it, inside that brain of yours,” said Vaeludar.
Flavius stood silent and whispered to the Dragons, “I’m not starting to like his dragon persona that seemly can read thoughts.”
Vaeludar sighed.
“Forget about him,” said Vaeludar, pulling Marina away and walked toward the edge of the platform.
The horizon was a stunning: valleys gloomed in the orange of the midday, foothills sparked the autumn sunlight, clouds covered the peaks of snowy mountains, a soft breeze of fresh-scented autumn was in Vaeludar’s face, and sounds of working animals getting food for the long, cold winter.
“I’m starting to wish I lived here,” admitted Vaeludar. “This place has a spectacular view. I can see why you stayed here and not in Geraldus’ village. Why didn’t you want to stay there?”
“Because I heard the king lived in a glorious city filled with so much food and the people here are treated equally,” said Marina. “I was following a child’s fantasy of a perfect city, which turned out to be a gunky city. Now I don’t know why I have stayed with him.”
Marina held Vaeludar’s hand with her own and rested her head on his shoulder. “And this was the place I was going to show you,” she said, in a soft human tone instead of her Siren voice. “This is the reason I stayed here: a glorious horizon.”
“When did you speak like a regular human?” Vaeludar asked, curiously.
“It happens to be one of my personal traits to talk like a real human. I’m a Siren, remember? A monstrous creature that lures men to their bloody demise, with the sound of a beautiful song.”
Vaeludar turned his front body to her and wisped her long hair from her shoulders and placed his hands on her face. “You’re not a monster. Not to me anyway. You are eternally bound to me, because I saved your life.”
“When someone saves the life of a Siren, they win the heart of the Siren for life. So you are going to be stuck with me for the rest of your life.”
“Not if I swipe you off your feet and throw you down there,” laughed Vaeludar.
“Oh, you!”
Marina swung her arm but Vaeludar grabbed her flying arm with his left arm and her left arm with his right wing. After that, he wrapped his tail around her belly and pulled her closer to his hybrid eyes.
“Don’t think you can attack me that easily. I know the movements of the Siren, even their fins strike when their arms are caught.”
“You are smarter than I thought you were,” said Marina, in her Siren voice. She closed her eyes and leaned forward to kiss Vaeludar with green lips.
“And I know the Despair Kiss of the Siren,” whispered Vaeludar, releasing Marina from his many grips. “I don’t need to despair.”
“Then you do know everything about me,” Marina said, seductively. “Now kiss me.”
“Don’t seduce me. Since I am half dragon, I am resistant to the sounds of a seductive Siren. You’ll have to do better if you want me to kiss you.”
“I love you,” she whispered in Vaeludar’s ear.
“Now that is better,” said Vaeludar.
As they were about to kiss, which was just shy of an inch, a shout rang out. “Hey! We’ve got to get going!” yelled the voices of Wonomi and Monico. The two were sprinting faster than a cheetah could at its fastest speed.
After them, the Griffin appeared and flew from behind the two sprinters. Behind the Griffin, Galvin was just passing through and taking his time to walk slowly.
“Now what!?” Vaeludar turned to his companions going for a dragon bodyguard. Then he saw a lot of human eyes glaring at him. Vaeludar thought he had gotten away from a human crowd but he
