The colors of his dragon scales swirled like fire and darkened, a black mist swirled from his red-yellow eyes, his long red hair waved in the air like cloud, and smoke puffed from his wings; he had unleashing the evil power from the Pool of Shadows within him.
A DARK POWER UNLEASHED
Valverno, now in a changed form to a fully demonic being, gazed down from the edge he was watching from. He saw the fire rising around Marina tied to the pillar. He growled ferociously and squeezed his fists into the palm of his hands. He wasn’t going to let the last Siren go up in smoke.
As he broke from his chains, he looked at his hands. He signed a heavy misty from his mouth as he saw he lost the red color he’d always had and saw the skin grey. His appearance stayed the same when he jumped out from the Pool of Shadows, but the colors had darkened in great contrast. His face still retained its human form, but dragon scales grew over his human skin and his horns became more twisted. His hair the same: long and bright red. Blood circulated around the scar across his right eye.
Valverno let the corruptible power of the Pool of Shadows take hold of him, no longer fearing the power the evilness that may affect him. Hastily, he gazed upon a reformed body that was more monstrous than human.
By unleashing this great, horribly power and taking over his body, Valverno caught the screams of Marina’s voice down below. His eyes turned down to the stake Marina was tied to.
The crimson fires were spreading quickly and sparking higher than the pillar Marina was tied to. Marina was feeling the heat from the rising flames and her fish scales were starting to fall from her skin and her skin was dehydrating to bone-rock dry.
Valverno quenched his eyebrows and jumped off the cliff with his wings wide open; black smoke smoldered the air from his wings flapping out the heavy clouds. He swirled around in the air and slammed onto a high wall. He stood sideways on a vertical wall as he looked down more and saw where each guard either guarding the stake of fire was or pushing away any civilian trying to push their away through the guards.
He could see King Uragiru standing closely to the stake as he looked with no remorse and gave a frightful, stern look he gave the Siren.
Valverno wasn’t going to have such a horrifying fate King Uragiru was displaying to the public of his castle home and the island. Valverno started running on the wall and flapped with a strong might of his smoking wings. He soared around the lower levels of the city and rained down fireballs upon a squad of guards his saw or any catapult ready to launch a rock to an invading army.
Then he came soaring down to the stake and landed into the fire. With one hard breath of a fierce wind from his mouth, the fire was doused out. Valverno wrapped one arm around Marina, who was conscious and suddenly afraid when she gazed upon Valverno’s demonic form, and used his other arm to break the ropes from Marina’s tied wrists. Valverno sliced the ropes with his claws.
After cutting Marina free from her bounds, she looked horrified to Valverno in a new form. Seeing him just after he came sprouting out of the Pool of Shadows was bad enough, but seeing him in a more vile, malicious state was traumatizing her. She couldn’t tell if this strange person was even the hybrid she fell in love with.
“Vaeludar?! Is that you?”
Before the demon-looking hybrid could put out an answer, arrows were shot close between their heads.
A group of five guards came charging on the stake with sharp spears and swords ready to cut down the two escaping convicts.
Valverno quickly punched a hand into the pillar, which erupted into a stick of fire. He flung the pillar of fire upon the guards coming his way and stormed off the stake. When he did, his black tail whipped the stake and fire burst back on the stake.
As he leaped off the burning stake, Valverno saw the crystal orb floating near King Uragiru and shot at it with a fireball he spat from his dark mouth.
The orb exploded upon impact, which sent King Uragiru and several of his bodyguards flying. Valverno made sure his arm was around Marina and squeezed her tightly. As he saw the old man come flying to him, Valverno spun and whipped his black smoking tail at the king. His tail wrapped on the king and flung him into the burning stake, the spot the king tried to execute Marina now will be put in her place.
“Valverno!” the king yelled from the burning stake.
Valverno ignored the king and flew off to the high castle walls. Just when he had the greatest chance to escape, something cringed on Valverno’s spinal cord. Valverno started to feel a cringing power breaking apart his spinal cord. This was making him unable to fly for much longer and he went gliding to the castle’s walls.
Gliding downward, Valverno japed his feet and his one free hand into the rock. He began to climb up the stone wall he came falling down on. After using one arm for climbing, he began to lift off and jump higher if he was a monkey climbing on tree branches. He managed to climb to the castle wall from the one-third of the city.
Once he got to the top, he hurled himself over a stone railing and landed on a walkway. From there, he jumped strong from the walkway and onto a roof of a building. After he landed on the roof, he jumped again to another roof’s building. He hopped to another building and to another very fast he
