The dust behind the figure moved back towards the rock wall. And everything that came apart was placed back together, and that would mean the dragon statue was placed where it was had it looked before it was crushed by the Five-Headed Dragon.
The witches and the Piper buried under the piled dust had stood up to look at the figure standing in front of them.
To the Five-Headed Dragon, to the witches, to Flavius, Wonomi, Galvin, and Marina, the figure that stood before them was someone who was thought to be dead.
“Vaeludar,” shouted Marina.
Vaeludar was standing right there in front of them all. The Five-Headed Dragon, the witches, the Piper, Flavius, Wonomi, Galvin, and Marina knew that Vaeludar was buried in the cave, but somehow he escaped. His appearance looked evolved and more dragonized
“Not the Crystal Dragon, the hybrid that lived in the shadows has returned,” he said. “I was almost buried in that cave if it hadn’t been for this.” Vaeludar raised his right arm in the sky.
The gauntlet was attached to his right wrist and stretched up his shoulder. It also covered his lower neck and stretches more over to his entire left arm. The entire thing covered both arms and formed into a dragon’s front legs but with fingers.
“I was nearly killed in the cave of rocks falling endlessly, but I managed to put the artifact on before I was buried in the cave. Now, my brute strength had increased dramatically. The Light you saw was not the Crystal Dragon; it was me. I’d shown the power within such a rusty, old relic made from ancient times. Now, it’s time to slay those who have wrong you all.”
Vaeludar flew at a random spot in the crowd near Flavius who was still carrying Charity and picked up the Crystal Sword with his left hand that was underneath some people. Vaeludar dashed to Charity and placed the sword on her heart.
She suddenly opened her eyes and breathed heavily. She became alive and breathing by a single touch of the blade. The White Knight was to be ready to fight again.
Then Vaeludar flew over the muddy sword in the pedestal. With his right hand, he pulled it out freely. The mud was loosened and shined like its other half. After pulling the sword free, Vaeludar smashed the two swords together.
In a flash that glowed a thousand times brighter than the sun, the two swords emerged into one sword; the hybrid was now carrying the true Crystal Sword. His evolved arms, the blade, and his dragon scales glowed a crystalized light. He never felt this very godlike never in his hybrid life.
Vaeludar’s arms, dragon scales, and wings became white and blue crystalized scales that could match the great dragon god itself. Now with the set in his body and under his control, Vaeludar was more powerful than ever.
“Now we became one,” said Vaeludar, flying up to the Five-Headed Dragon. “Never again will you harm this village. Ever again!”
Suddenly, he froze up from magic spells being cast from the witches. Beams of red blood trapped him in the air.
“Looks like we have to do this the hard way,” grunted Vaeludar.
The Crystal Sword broke in two; he held one and the other one fell down. Charity rose up and grabbed the falling sword. Then she unleashed a powerful gush of a lightning bolt directly at the witches’ chrysoberyl gems where the red blood was being cast from.
Their gems were struck and cracked by Marina’s arrows, ultimately destroying the gems.
The four witches fell back to the rock wall again as Marina, with siren fangs and claws sharp, ran like a wild animal toward the witches.
Vaeludar was released and went to face the Shadow King in his dragon body.
“How dare you survive your ordeal! How did you survive?”
“Magic runs strong in this armor artifact and stronger than you could ever imagine. When I slapped that thing on my arm, the magic flowed through my blood veins and transported me here, although it took some time to get here. But now it is time for you to fall as you did when the Crystal Dragon fought you.”
Charity rose up to Vaeludar, to give him the other half so he can merge the two swords together again.
Vaeludar grabbed the sword he handed from Charity and smashed them together again, transforming them into one sword. Vaeludar, at last, was going to face the Shadow King in his dragon body.
“That is enough from you, last White Knight,” yelled all five heads. The red and yellow dragons jabbed their jaws forward.
Vaeludar and Charity moved out of the way of the two snapping dragon heads, but that was merely a distraction to remove them from each other.
The green head swiftly moved his head and hit the White Knight at lightning speed. Once again, the White Knight of Charity was hit by the dragon and went plundering into the ground very fast and hard.
Driven into a great frustration of a fallen White Knight, Vaeludar charged at the red dragon’s head and slashed its eye with blinding light. Behind him the yellow dragon head struck, Vaeludar dodged that attack and slashed it’s both eyes with blinding light. Two dragon heads were blinded by the blade glowing light.
“You think you can beat me that easily? I have three more heads with the powers of an Ice Dragon, a Water Dragon, and an Earth Dragon.”
“And I have the one-third power of could be from the Ruler of the Gods.”
Vaeludar slashed his sword forward, sending out rays of electric beams at each of the dragon heads.
The dragon heads tangled themselves in a knot and blocked the attacks by their wings, which sent them back to the attacker.
Vaeludar cut down the beams he threw at the dragon and flew in between each neck of the five dragon heads. Vaeludar twisted and turned his wings, body, and tail so he wouldn’t get
