Vaeludar had breathed softly, taking in the air after he flew around and fought endlessly and taking the life of every evil creature that was dealing damage to the city’s inhabitants. He turned around and saw a group of people with heavy torn clothes walking to him. Vaeludar saw Marina running to him, with the wedding dress completely torn apart.
The Siren smiled big as she saw her husband unarmed. “Vaeludar,” she yelled, running to him. Vaeludar’s wife ran as fast as she could into his arms, calling out his name loudly.
Vaeludar seized Marina in his arms and spun her around. He was relieved to see her alive. Refusing to let go of her and she the same thing, Vaeludar saw Geraldus and Flavius walking to the wedded couple with dismay faces. Then Vaeludar turned his head backward and saw Eliana, Naìra, and Andrei exiting the throne room. Alaric seemed to be missing from the family group.
After the family was reunited, King Uragiru joined them from out of nowhere. The king seemed to have a very, very worried expression on his elderly face. “By the gods and spirits of the dead, what on the two islands was that!?”
Vaeludar signed that the king seemed to be in a different dimension. “Your Majesty, this city was under attack by the Shadow King and you didn’t have a bloody army ready anywhere on this wedding day! What is up with that?” Vaeludar spoke to the king with a great dragon might. The hybrid then saw Teutates walking toward walking to the small group.
Teutates had a mad expression on his face. Being the distant relative of the elderly king, Vaeludar was starting to consider that the exiled man should be the king of the island, not King Uragiru. He joined the others with the maddening expression of him saying, “Let’s have a long talk in the throne room while my men clean the mess up my distant family member has left. I don’t want prowling ears listening to what I have to say about this.” Teutates preceded to walk pass them and walk straight into the throne room.
Vaeludar nodded at the others and followed after the stern man, after he forced Marina to let go of him and wind-pulling the Crystal Sword back into his hand. Geraldus and Flavius followed after the hybrid, and they were followed by the Siren and the king.
A HEATING DISCUSSION IN THE THRONE ROOM
King Uragiru was sitting on his throne while Teutates was freely shouting at his distant cousin for having weak and lame soldiers who weren’t ready to fight. Vaeludar, Geraldus, Flavius, and Marina were listening if they were at a colosseum watching two gladiators shouting at each other to the death.
During the large shouting, Geraldus, Flavius and Marina studied Vaeludar’s change of appearance: his eyes changed to a corruptible look and his sun-burnt skin darkened. This made them worried that Vaeludar may be starting to head down a dark path. Vaeludar saw them studying his body and revealed Lusìvar said something about a darkness growing inside him. He told them everything the Shadow King said to him, which made Geraldus worry even more.
But even more, Geraldus revealed shocking bad news and said plainly to the hybrid: “Alaric is dead.” This news stunned Vaeludar, his eldest foster brother died in the battle. The eldest son of Geraldus was dead. Geraldus revealed that after recklessly charged into battle Hobgoblins ambushed them after they left Vaeludar’s barrier and Alaric was impaled by spears and swords.
Vaeludar was now feeling guilt that he felt like he was the one who killed Alaric. One of few people Vaeludar considered to be his family and one of few people he could personally trust had died in a matter of seconds. His eyes darken even more by the news of Alaric’s death.
After Teutates’s shouting had ceased, Vaeludar strolled several feet away from the man. Vaeludar wanted to speak to the king himself. “King Uragiru,” said Vaeludar, “Why didn’t you have your soldiers stationed near the top of your city than the lower levels. That is where the most damage had been taken. And I clearly did state something bad was going to happen and it clearly did happen. But did anyone ever listen to me? No! No one ever listened to me. The wedding should have been held as planned and not in the three days. Now look at what has happen. This wedding day has been ruined.”
King Uragiru was showing an apologetic expression. The king was seeing Vaeludar was siding the exiled man instead of the ruler was ruling since his father died years ago. “Forgive the choice I’ve made.”
“It wasn’t you, King Uragiru,” said Vaeludar. Vaeludar turned his eyes to Marina, who was the one who asked the king to change the wedding schedule. “It was my new wife, Marina. She made this day a bad day, and it cost the lives of many innocent lives caught in the evil king’s crossfire.”
Marina blinked at Vaeludar’s calling her name. “Me? What did I do to make this day a bad day?” she asked her new husband.
“You went behind my back about this wedding! And now there has been a horrible shift in my personality and I am starting to being consumed by a sudden dark energy. My body is feeling the effects of such strong negative energy, and this unwanted power has been growing since the Griffin messenger brought me the message of the wedding change. Marina, having this early wedding was such a poor decision; it cost me my time, patience, and it’s delaying my search to seek the second armor artifact.”
Marina was stunned of her husband’s accusation to her that the day’s events were her fault. “How is all of this my fault? You’re
