“And yes,” said the king, turning to see Valverno from the other side of the throne room. “Since you ended up choosing the losing side instead of my side, you and Marina are sentenced to death. You will die through a spear piercing, like in my world you destroyed, and Marina will be burned alive.”
Valverno flashed with great anger now. He had grown a lust to kill both the king and the witch. With all his strength gone, he still felt had some fighting spirit left in him. But without his physical strength to support his moving muscles, it was useless to resist; all he could do was stare angrily.
“Before you do die, you will witness Marina before you die.” King Uragiru snapped his fingers again and the chains magical moved from the throne room and fly outside.
Valverno, strapped to the magic chains he could not break free from, was in the courtyard and ironically it was the place where he married Marina. The black chains carried Valverno over the cliffs of the courtyard where he could see the entire southern lower levels of the city.
From his hybrid eyes, he saw a very large crowd gathered around and he could see the two soldiers dragging Marina to a tall pillar standing upon a table of straw and hay and a large wooden stake. The two guards place Marina around the wooden pillar tightly tied her wrists around the pillar.
The king walked and went aboard the stake, where Marina would end up being tied up to. Then an unarmored soldier with a cloth covering his head, which only showed his eyes and mouth, carrying a torch walked to the king and gave him the torch.
Then the king held up a crystal ball, which glowed brightly, couched it with the lit torch of fire. The ball sprouted down a dozen more crystal balls, which shot off in random locations at once and went off in different directions into the horizon.
After ten seconds, the floating ball turned red and King Uragiru spoke, “Attention, witnesses of Shimabellia, is it I Uragiru, rightful king of the island. The hybrid Vaeludar and his wife have refused to take sides with me. From the beginning, they were never poisoned by Geraldus’s lies but they were indeed acting of their own record to kill me.”
As Uragiru laid talking to the crystal ball and the people crowded around the people with lies, the ball came floating to the chained Valverno and the tied-up Marina, intending to show the people horrifying penalties of what happens to people who would betray him. The ball flying in front of Vaeludar was showing the island his form: the corrupted form he was given from the Pool of Shadows.
“Geraldus was no master mind in the past, but once my friend. But from the start, when he found this hybrid and the Siren, he knew they would be the key elements of what would had me dead and Geraldus on the throne. As he pretended to be my friend, the Siren I took into my home and raised as my daughter was with him all along.
“And Vaeludar, who you see here in his true form, would have landed the killing blow upon me, but now he has been captured and subdued to my will. Both these soulless, cold-hearted monsters pretended to show love to one and other but it was all a ruse to get near me and kill when they had the chance, which they don’t any more.
“And to those who would betray me, let this be a lesson; those who are guilty to the crime to treason and sentenced to die upon the Flame of Eternal Torment.” Then the king, without any reluctance, placed the torch upon the on the hay and watched it erupted into flames beneath Marina’s feet.
Down below, Marina shined a great horror in her eyes upon the fire quickly burning through the hay and straw in a matter of seconds and there was a cry of shouts coming from the people witnessing the horrifying torment.
Valverno, chained only seeing from his hybrid eyes, growled in anger. He could no longer bear to be weak and see Marina suffer any more before he eyes. He could no longer resist of what was lingering inside him: a shadowy power lurking somewhere inside. In that moment, the second of seeing the fire burning, he let go of his resisting power and let it consume him.
This made his skin grow paler and his eyes turned bright red-yellow. His strength seemed to have returned and tried to break free from the magic chains keeping him chained to save the Siren. He felt a great darkness, a great evil when he released the Shadow power he kept at bay for quite a while.
Now he fully unleashed it and the evilness one small once of liquid was very, very strong, strong as his divine power given to him by the Crystal Dragon.
With an awesome evil power circulating in his body, he suddenly popped his jaw open and bit apart one of the chains holding both a wing and his arms. With great strength pouring back into him, he pulled with the strongest of his hybrid demigod might to break free from the chains.
Suddenly, the guards surrounding him and jabbed their single spears into the hybrid’s body, impaling him with ease.
However, their weapons didn’t take a single effect on Valverno, as the dark energy he released kept his body from dying. As he pulled the chains to break free, he saw the spears piercing right through his skin but he wasn’t feeling pain nor was he dying from any metal piercing
Then in a single and final push of his wings, a great whipping of his tail, the crunching of his legs, and a pull of his arms, Valverno broke free and the chains faded into clouds of smoke.
He landed in
