“You made that choice on your own. It goes to show you how unfaithful you are to me. People have to communicate with each other, and it goes to show how faithful they are.”
“I have been faithful to you. I am no child, Vaeludar, and I can…”
Geraldus was having enough the couple’s argument and had to end it now. “Vaeludar! Marina! Enough of this bickering.” Geraldus stepped in the couple’s heating argument. “Your arguments aren’t winning this war. Vaeludar, you left the battle without helping the rest of us out and it cost me the life of my eldest son; we aren’t as powerful as you are, and your reckless personify would get more than a family killed. And Marina, all unwedded people have to agree on the same day as the wedding would take place; going behind someone’s back is proving unfaithful you are to Vaeludar. So you two are having the same share of the blame.”
Vaeludar and Marina signed. They turned their gazes away from each other, feeling the pressure they were having from their big argument.
Geraldus back away from Marina and Vaeludar. “But is done is done. The battle took place an hour ago, and that is now in the past. There is nothing more we can do. Before there is another argument brewing between the both of you, we need a plan before we proceed any further.”
Vaeludar stroke his chin with the claws on his fingers. He knew what his plan was: find the second armor artifact and increase his need to speed. He would stay silent until someone would speak their mind, but the throne room stayed silent. Vaeludar saw no one saying anything and took his chance, “I’m already sticking to my own plan: the armor artifact. I will resume my search for that, and I will not be drawn to any another events. This is not up for negotiation. I’m choosing to go find it and I will go, even if I have search for it on my own. And if anyone wants to come, feel free to join me. Otherwise, leave me alone on my journey.”
Vaeludar grunted and paced to the door. He rudely was dismissing himself out of the throne room and not looking back to say a goodbye. Then Marina ran and got in Vaeludar’s way, thus blocking his exit. “I’m not letting you go on your own.”
Vaeludar used his wings and flew over Marina and headed to the door while in the air. Vaeludar landed behind Marina and placed his hands on the doors. “If you want to come along, I’ll be more than happy to bring you there, but I don’t want any more distractions or obstacles coming in my way.”
“Wait, stop!” said Flavius. Flavius caught up to Vaeludar who was just about to pull the door open. “I’ll also come with you.”
“No, Flavius,” said Geraldus, catching up to the small group. “I need you to take your sisters and your brothers back to the village. I need you to take Alaric’s place as my heir now, Flavius. The responsibilities he held must now be passed onto you.”
Flavius heard his father and nodded his head. With Alaric dead, Flavius would be carrying the mantle of Geraldus’s heir, the first in line of being the Steward of the Western Region. Flavius would no longer be a traveling companion for Vaeludar and less people Vaeludar would have to watch over.
Geraldus banged the door Vaeludar was opening. “I’ll go with you, on your journey, but first we need to talk a bit of how we’re going to settle things?”
Vaeludar was grunting impatiently. His foster father was getting in his way. “What things do we have to settle for? You saw my power today: Lusìvar is still stronger, and I need to become stronger than him.” Vaeludar pulled his hands away from the door and looked angrily at Geraldus. “And any one getting in my way becomes an obstacle.”
“You dare say that to the man who raised you?” asked Geraldus.
“Yes, I do, I choosing to be more dragon than I am human,” said Vaeludar. “And you said to me, it is not wise upsetting a Dragon. And I choose to be more dragon than human.”
Geraldus stood his ground against the hybrid he had raised. He saw Vaeludar going from a son he raised to being a very hostile, dragon-like hybrid, and Vaeludar was backing down from the foster father he was raised by. Both knew each other the longest and both are head-butting each other at the current moment. They were known to be family for years were now becoming drawn into a confrontation of enemies in seconds.
“Everyone in this throne room need to have a plan before we set out into the unknown wilderness,” said Geraldus.
Marina placed his hand on Vaeludar’s shoulders, trying to make him stay just a few minutes longer. “Can’t you wait a little longer, please?”
Vaeludar grunted loudly and walked toward Teutates and the king. “This better not take too long, people. I want to get going as fast as I can. You all know my quest, and I have to find two more armor artifacts if I have a chance to beating Lusìvar as you saw today: not scratching him a bit.”
Teutates silently stood where he was standing. King Uragiru sat on his throne. Flavius, Teutates, and Marina joined Vaeludar. Then Geraldus spoke: “Flavius will head back to my village and stay there until I return with Vaeludar and Marina. We’ll being that Griffin, Flarefur, with us so that the four of us in a small group will find that armor Vaeludar is looking for and
