Twilight of a Hybrid, стр. 35
Vaeludar drew closer toward the one building believing it to be the one Secret Laboratory. Vaeludar drew a breath of relief; his quest to the second armor artifact was nearly complete; he was only hoping the armor would be in this ruined building and not underground, because the place he found the armor for his right arm was a very serious rocky situation that he barely survived in, but he survived and now it was time to get the second part of the armor. Vaeludar came to the hole, which seemed to have been blown from the inside of the laboratory and entered.
At first, it was dark inside, but as seconds passed several rays of light flickered through and many small smalls and cracks throughout the laboratory that caught Vaeludar’s eyes, which he couldn’t believe he was suddenly and unexpectedly gazed upon.
Glass jars filled fill with dried organs and body parts filled and placed on wooden shelves. Skulls had been shelved on shelves near the ceiling top. Empty jars had been placed near the bottoms and many glass shards laid across the floor. Vaeludar never expected to see so much body parts and skeletal remains of mythical creatures to be laying around such a dreadful, abandoned building. Organs and bones from all the mythical creatures were placed in this now little lab. And that would range from the good creatures: Centaurs, Dragons, Fairies, Griffins, Merpeople, Pegasi, Sea Serpents, and Unicorns. And of the evil creatures: Banshees, Basilisks, Black Dogs, Chimeras, Cyclopes, Harpies, Manticore, and Minotaurs. Horns, fur, skin, eyes, and every body part there was to be seen outside or inside the body of a mythical creature Vaeludar was seeing here: in the glass jars or different parts like fur or heads hanging on the walls.
This didn’t seem like a secret laboratory at all; it was more like a secret torture chamber of horrors.
The room, which Vaeludar entered to, was squared and aligned that looks like a large bed chamber for royalty. And in this one-room laboratory, as Vaeludar saw, lots of filled and empty glass jars stood and placed upon shelves hooked up to the walls, and he could smell the scent of death everywhere. Vaeludar saw broken glass jars where he was stepping on. In the central part of the lab, he saw three broken tables and one table barely standing on its four wooden legs.
The hole he saw had black burnt all over; an explosion had occurred in that one spot he was standing on.
Vaeludar gazed in great shock of a great many things that were beyond his human dragon brain. “What, by the name of the islands and the face of the Three Gods, is this?” Vaeludar took a few steps inner while Marina, Geraldus, and Flarefur followed after Vaeludar entered through the exploded hole. They too were horrified by the horrific look of the now-scary laboratory.
“This is supposed to be a science lab?” said Geraldus.
“It’s more of a house of death,” said Flarefur. “I can smell many feathers and blood of my species within these walls, and I don’t like it.”
Marina kept silent and didn’t say anything. Her eyes were wide open and shockingly afraid a first small glance of a jar filled with parts she now wants to forget she saw. This mere laboratory of horrors she was seeing was making her wish she stayed in the sea and not set foot on land in her fishy life.
“Just what kind of experimentations did Ralenskrit and Belverda preform in this forsaken place?” Vaeludar asked out loud. “And their supposed to be my parents? What kind of parents would they be if they even had me?”
Geraldus looked at Vaeludar. “I’ve own your mother the longest, but I’d never expected to see she would go far as… this stuff.”
Vaeludar nosed a soft roar-like grunt and rolled his eyes. He stayed silent at the sight of his parents’ lab where their dark secrets were kept hidden from their friends. He walked close to the glass on the shelves that remained in place, even though he had noticed a large explosion happened inside the lab. He wondered how the shelves and glasses remained intact than broken in shards and dust on the ground. Something just wasn’t adding up in his mind.
Amidst this collection of body artifacts, Vaeludar walked toward the intact table where a large hardcover book was placed. It was covered with lots of burnt dust and fur filth. Vaeludar used the paper-like skin of one of his wings to wipe the filth off the book’s hard cover.
After dusting the book and making it tidy, his eyes had saw the book cover was almost blank: pictures or words burnt. Whatever was decorated with or written on it had been scorched away, erasing what was on the book cover.
He was too curious to know what it was and called to his companions. They came to him, but Marina walked slower than the others; her eyes were closed, not wanting to look at anything but hear Vaeludar’s voice calling to her and guiding her where to walk. “Whatever happened in this scary place had been recorded into this book,” said Vaeludar. “Hopefully, the answers I’m looking for better be in here, if they haven’t been caught in whatever might have exploded. But, at the same time, I want to continue to explore and see what other dark secrets that aren’t hiding in plain sight.”
Marina opened her eyes and walked quickly to Vaeludar’s side. Her