He released his hands and stood up slowly while trying to maintain his balance from falling in the bitter darkness his hybrid eyes couldn’t see in. He remembered grabbing both the Siren and the king as they all went through the portal, but everything he remembers after that was seeing pitch black, after he went through the portal.
Valverno inhaled a lot of the air and spat out a large fireball that went blazing sky-high. The fire lit very brightly like the sun and he found himself standing on a pile of dead animals. This made him snap so suddenly and flapped his wings in a great fright. He flew into the air, and looked around him.
He was in his old home city that was buried in beneath the surface world of Shimabellia. He looked where he originally stood: a pile of dead animals.
Valverno saw the dead, failed experiments lying across the streets and alleys of the underground city. Valverno was glad to see the monsters dead before his eyes, and he knew those monsters were affected by Origenes’s banishing blast.
The monsters had been unnatural and coming back from the dead was very unnatural. Now Valverno didn’t have to deal with the monsters that came to life from his DNA, and he wouldn’t have to worry about Lusìvar using these monsters as a secondary army. But he didn’t want their bodies lying around the city; it was a burial place of his fellow Pangaeans.
And those monsters were created on the surface world. So he leaped down and pounded his hand with a small green flare lighting on his hand onto a dead animal.
The green flare spread out like Origenes did when Valverno told the god to banishing all kinds of unnatural stuff from the islands. Valverno sent this green flare out through the city’s streets and turning all the dead animals to small dust particles. This power spread across the city in a matter of seconds, like Valverno going at his greatest speed, consuming the dead corpses into dust.
In a matter of seconds, Valverno sensed his power ending and he quickly flew over to the large, flat platform edging near the Pool of Shadows. Behind him, the many dust created from the dead animals came soaring. The dust followed close behind and he landed by the cliffs.
Valverno looked down and saw the Pool of Shadows was still there and waving just the same as the first time he saw it. Then he snapped his fingers and the dust flying above him soared down into the Pool of Shadows, burying all the dusted dead animal corpses into the Pool.
All the dust soared from the city, into the air behind Valverno, and into the Pool of Shadows to be buried and never come out again.
Valverno saw the dust departing into the Pool and hopefully never had to deal with those evil creatures again. Now he just needed to find the Siren and the man he wanted to kill. He tried to pick up their scent, but he couldn’t pick up anything yet he felt something amiss.
When he decided to reach for the Crystal Sword on his back, the sword wasn’t there. Valverno turned his to his shoulder and he didn’t see the hilt. The sword itself wasn’t on him. He knew he had it on him with him when he entered through portal with Marina and Uragiru.
This made no sense to him. The three of them should have gone to the same location at the same time, but he didn’t find the two people when he first found the dead animals. Now the Crystal Sword is missing. He can’t even feel the presence of the two people anywhere. It’s like his senses have been weakened from the god’s banishing power, the power of summoning the god, or the multi-animal DNA Belverda gave him as an embryo may be the cause of his sensing ability.
After all, the DNA strands Belverda gave him were considered to be unnatural since he was never born with them in first place. Even though those abilities may have enhanced his natural ones, Origenes saw those animal abilities in the demigod as unnatural and went to banish those too from Valverno’s body.
Whatever Belverda planted into his embryo were long gone now, casted into the Pool of Shadows and Valverno felt relieved when he just learned about Origenes sending those evil things from his body and into the Pool.
Then he began to feel a bit cold all of a sudden. It was like warm there for a second from the fireball he created than the warmth dimmed.
“Valverno, look out!” Marina’s voice called out.
Valverno looked turned his head quickly at the Siren’s voice. Although he wasn’t quick enough to react, he saw Marina leaning on the ground, but he didn’t catch until a moment’s notice Uragiru was behind him.
Valverno finally felt a great pain splitting his spinal cord from a cold metal that suddenly struck him very fast. He could see Uragiru holding the Crystal Sword and slicing the demigod’s back.
Then Uragiru grabbed Valverno by the neck and intended to slit his throat by the very godly weapon Valverno used in his battles.
But Valverno used the spikes on his arms to hold the sword by the blue blade. He felt Uragiru’s arm holding his neck while Valverno used his arms’ spikes to the sword away from the kill.
“You may have taken away my magic, but I always have a backup plan. Marina will become mine and you will die!” Uragiru slid the sword away and quickly shoved Valverno over the cliffs that led to the Pool of Shadows. “I will bring back magic and as long you are the sacrifice into bringing it back.”
Valverno fell and his somehow lost his strength to fly so suddenly. Valverno, who couldn’t fly, could still soar with his wings wide open. His falling became a soaring with air waves being created from
