“If that is your plan, then I won’t argue,” said Geraldus. “I’ll head to my village and try to send word to gather all my bannermen to assemble and hopefully send out word the king has joined Lusìvar before he could tell the island I turned traitor,” said Geraldus.
“But before you go,” said Valverno, walking up to Geraldus. Valverno’s tail swirled to Valverno’s view and used his hand to pick up an object.
The knife the Piper flung and Valverno luckily caught in his tail. Valverno held the knife in his hand and glared at it with anger. He saw there was red, dried blood on the blade: it was the knife that gave Valverno the scar on his eye. Valverno remembered he blocked only one knife but not the other, and this knife was the one he didn’t block on time.
“Take this with you and find out what material it’s made from. Whatever it is, the metal is sharp enough to cut me, which means this thing is my main weakness of piercing through my skin.”
Geraldus grabbed the knife and made with haste from the beaches and to his home village. The White Knight of Loyalty rushed back as fast as he could to his village and to send his messenger birds everywhere to tell of King Uragiru’s betrayal.
Valverno was left with the two girls who were part of his personal life and bonded by family means. “There can never be enough manpower in any family I come across.”
“Why don’t you try to push out some extra heat at the cottage?” asked Marina.
Valverno twirled his tail around Marina and pulled her closely to him at point blinking range of his eyes. Then Valverno placed a hand around Marina to prevent her from escaping his grip. “My legs sure could make the heat instead of my dragon fire warming up the environment.”
They both shared a kiss, knowing there was love inside them instead of hate. Both Valverno and Marina still loved each other, despite one being a demigod hybrid and the other being a humanlike fish. Valverno and Marina still haven’t forgotten their vows they made to each other.
As the two were having their lovely time, Sora was blinking endlessly at them.
Valverno and Marina stopped their kissing and looked at Sora, the White Knight of Charity strangely looking at them. Sora was staring at them very oddly and strangely she couldn’t wrap her head that her brother married a different species and not someone ordinary of her species such a full human being.
“What?” asked the wedded couple.
“I can’t get over my brother married a humanoid fish that was an ordinary fish tens of thousands of years ago,” said Sora.
Marina released her arms from Valverno’s neck and looked at Sora. She walked closer to Sora with a very, unfriendly look.
“And I can’t get over the fact my husband’s sister is a White Knight, yet the first White Knight of Charity. I still can’t over the fact my husband is a demigod from an, ancient dead land.”
Valverno could see the tension rising again between the two girls, and he was in the center of the attention of another bitter talk Sora and Marina were having. Instead of acting like two sisters, they were treating each other as rivals fighting over the same hybrid.
“Both of you, just stop!” he growled loudly.
Marina and Sora stopped staring and both suddenly gave a glare at him. He gave a glare back at the two girls. He blinked once and a yellow mist swirled on the sides of his eyes. “Stop it at once, or I’m dismounting myself from this family you both are in now.”
“You’re allowed to do that?” asked Marina. “You’re my husband.”
“And he’s my brother!” said Sora.
“And I am the son of the Crystal Dragon,” said Valverno. “Being half god means half of me as half divine. I can break all sacred vows of being a husband and a brother, even if I am half. It’s said the gods have some kind of power or breaking rules. Shall we find out if I could try it: breaking sacred rules that make me the husband of Marina and the half-brother of Sora?”
Both girls remained silent.
“Good. Now let’s just get along, since we part of a family now, Sora and Marina. Since Marina is my wife now and Sora is my half-sister, from today, you are sisters-in-law and you both will start treating each other as such if you were real sisters. This is my saying and it is absolutely final.
“Tonight may be the last night of any peaceful comfort we may get. So let’s spend it with the time we have to each other, and let’s make it a small family reunion tonight and do get along well. Any bitterness you two have get rid of. As of this very moment, we are at war with King Uragiru and the people who follow him.”
W
Two hours had passed while the three were still standing on the beach and night had fallen over the sky. The night sky was filled with two purple moons and one blue moon. The stars flickered very brightly that a person could become blind in one flick of a flashy star. The night was more blossoming than the sunset was. Life was sparkling more lifelike than a big light setting with such dullness.
The moons shined brightly to give enough light where dark were. High rocky cliffs and the waves of the watery ocean were seen by the starry night and moonlight. The moons weren’t as bright as the sun, but there was enough light to show the ocean terrain in the human eye.
Valverno was standing on a high cliff with a good overlook at the beaches that shown beneath the three moons above. He could see out further out in the distant horizon and see other faraway rugged high cliffs.
And he couldn’t pick a better
