Twilight of a Hybrid, стр. 34
The dragon statue looked so terrifying as if encountering many painful stabs with spears being thrusted into its body. The dragon’s head expression looked like it was in agony.
Vaeludar couldn’t tell if this statue was supposed to scare off intruders or be a scary decoration. Vaeludar twitched his eyes at the statue, seeing how it wasn’t relevant and not very important to be searching for a long-lost statue but a long-lost laboratory.
But maybe after his search, Vaeludar could take the statue and place it close to his cottage home and have it as a decoration of his own; it would look nice to scare the crows away if he started farming cornfields by his cottage. Then he took a step to the side away from the dragon statue and took a peak behind it and gazed upon the ruins of a building.
The ruined building matched its looks more of a greenhouse than a laboratory, a house that stores plants and herbs as to which the place Vaeludar was looking for where Ralenskrit and Belverda had conducted their experiments. The building was big as a three story peasant mansion and the width of the walls stretch some twenty yards long. What makes this building a ruined building was a giant hole, which had been burst through the roof and a wall, which caused the entire building with dents, bent walls, and crumbled stones. Otherwise, the building was still standing strong and still could hold a baby dragon on its roof.
The building wasn’t mind blowing or catchy as Vaeludar thought it would be. The first time he had expected to see something magnificent was the time he found the Lost Castle in the Northern Region of the island and where he found that princess who then died. “This is supposed to be the place my parents worked at?” he asked himself. “What could have happened here that led this to be a ruin?”
“Vaeludar, wait for us!” Marina called out.
Vaeludar turned his head to see Flarefur flying while Marina and Geraldus running up to him.
Geraldus shook his head. “Don’t be so hasty,” said Geraldus, taking out a spear. A long weapon this man has brought was a single spear with a blade almost a foot long and nicely curved of a skinny half oval. “Don’t be so rash going into unknown territory. Remember, hybrid, we—”
“Don’t the same powers and the same indestructible skin like I do,” said Vaeludar, annoyed of hearing the same thing. “Don’t do anything so reckless. I keep hearing this many times, and I don’t need any reminders.”
“Then why don’t you stay with us?” asked Marina.
“I try, but this body is very much more conflicted than yours,” said Vaeludar, “I have two minds in two mind: a dragon mind and a human mind. It’s like two different ghosts fighting over the same body. One is trying to be the wise thing and the other is trying to be hostile. Many spilt multiple personalities fighting over the same body and hard to tell to which is fully in control. And it’s hard to maintain a perfect balance between my humanity and my draconic… whatever; one hard decision can tip the balance between the two off course.”
Marina looked confused of Vaeludar’s explanation. She couldn’t tell the difference between the human side or the dragon side of Vaeludar. Geraldus seems to understand what Vaeludar was trying to say.
Flarefur seemed to be understanding very well; he was a Griffin who had half the brain of a bird and a lion with human intelligence, but the Griffins weren’t part of the eagle or the lion family trees. Visually, Griffins looked lion and eagle, but the Griffins weren’t considered to be part of the animal kingdom with all the other mythical creatures there are.
Vaeludar signed of seeing Marina not understanding. “Look, I don’t know how much better I can explain it,” said Vaeludar. “There are many elements science just can’t explain. These things just happen like me; born from a human and a Dragon and how they manage to do it is a complete mystery to me, so I won’t question it; it just happened.
Geraldus walked close between Marina and Vaeludar’s conversation. “I don’t mean to intrude, but, Vaeludar; we’re this close to finding your armor, so time to cut the chatter and talk about science later.”
“I thought you said don’t be hasty,” said Vaeludar.
“To you going in alone and leaving us behind,” said Geraldus.
“Alright, let’s get going before we get into another heated argument,” said Vaeludar.
“Agreed there,” said Flarefur.
Vaeludar nodded walked passed the dragon statue. As he walked away from the dragon statue, he took one more quick glance at the facial expression the statue shown to any curious watchers. “I wonder why this statue is supposed to be here. Scare off intruders? Or a very scary decoration they thought to be amusing?”
Marina took a quick glance at the statue they were passing before walking beside her new husband. “If they have this, why does it look sad? This statue is showing the Dragon look more human than dragon… by personality that is. But what does it matter, dear husband? I have you.” Once again, Marina kept close to Vaeludar, but instead of clinging to his arm, she leaned more against his shoulder as they walked. This Siren wouldn’t stop at nothing to stay close to the hybrid she was married to, if she was someone too obsessed with fairy tales, stuff that has the knights-in-shining-armor rescuing the princess from a dragon.
Vaeludar couldn’t compare himself to be as equal to the knight or the monster; he could compare himself to the both of them: the son of the knight and