Twilight of a Hybrid, стр. 38
“So this was a complete failure. But after the explosion we hear a crying sound: a baby crying sound. We peeped where the explosion happened and went to look. What we discovered we couldn’t believe: the embryo was alive and well, in the form of a human baby.
“A human baby had been born! Instead of finding the embryo, we found a baby alive and crying. This is something Ralenskrit and I did not expect.
“We thought the embryo should have been destroyed in the explosion, but it was alive. It was a human baby we were suddenly seeing, but the baby match in appearance as the picture we found in the underground chamber. This human baby had wings, legs, and a tail of a dragon, which meant it parents, whoever they were so long ago, were a dragon and a human.
“And it is meant this embryo is indeed Valverno, the son of the god the Crystal Dragon and a Pangaean: a human dragon hybrid demigod. This is something we never expected to see, but it just happened. We have awoken the demigod son of the King of the Three Gods, and Ralenskrit and I couldn’t risk being parents. What kind of child would want to be raised by two scientists who tried to use this one as a lab rat?”
Geraldus went to last lines of the last page and read: “This is the last entry in this book. Ralenskrit has committed suicide; he turned into to stone. He was so filled with so many regrets of these failed experiments we did, so he concealed himself for stone for all time to come. Instead of living the dead in peace, we decided to play ‘gods’ and tried to bring the dead, and the dead become zombies, bloodthirsty monsters Ralenskrit and I created.
“Before Ralenskrit turned himself to stone and after the baby was born, the baby we’re naming Vaeludar we’re giving to Geraldus. The baby is belter off at but we know he’ll be an outcast; a hybrid living upon humans. I know Geraldus is an honorable man and will raise Vaeludar.
“I just hope these things Ralenskrit and I have done was worth our effects. Otherwise, it would have been for nothing, and Lusìvar will rule us all, and this hybrid, this demigod is the only hope for our future, because his real father was the one who defeated the Shadow King long ago.”
Geraldus remained silent. After he read the last few notes written on the page, he closed the book. He couldn’t believe what his ears had heard; Vaeludar wasn’t the son of Ralenskrit the dragon and Belverda the witch.
He was a thousand year old embryo in a dark cave and was condoned as a lab rat in a science experiment. And to think of Vaeludar being a science excitement was an act of trying to play a god.
And to make matters worse; Vaeludar was Valverno, the son of a god! The Crystal Dragon was a god and the true father of Vaeludar, and that god was Ruler of the Three Gods. He turned to see Vaeludar standing by the hole.
Vaeludar was standing still for a few moments. Suddenly, the hybrid smelt his scent coming from the exploded hole. As he took a step forward, a dragon foot stepped on a two-piece, broken flask bottle. He could smell his scent coming from that bottle.
He picked up the broken bottle and sniffed it closer to his nose. The bottle did smell the same like Vaeludar’s skin; this was the bottle he was inside as an embryo. He was coming to realize he isn’t the son of the two scientists who owned the lab. Then he turned to Geraldus.
“Parents are supposed to tell their children they are special people in a special world,” he said. “Be there to teach them, protect them, love them, nurture them, and always be there for them.
“But mine? They were never there for me, because they were never my real parents in the first place. They were scientists who found me under the island’s surface, in a dark underground chamber. They used my blood on experiments they tried to create as weapons but turned into soulless beasts. Ralenskrit and Belverda experimented on dead creatures they tried to bring to life with my blood and inserted my blood into the multiple dead bodies of mythical creatures they mutated into monsters.
“And what was I in the eyes of these two? Was I a son seen before that dragon and that witch? Were they natural parents to this embryo they were looking after? No, they were not parents from the beginning, and they were never mine. As for me, I am nothing more than a failed science experiment, a dead specimen, a lab rat! And the worst of it: I am the demigod Valverno, the son of a god!”
Vaeludar threw down the bottle and pulled out the Crystal Sword. Suddenly, the blue cloud glowing within the blade had turned from its usual blue color to a red color.
Geraldus knew what was going through his foster son’s mind and reacted quickly to get Marina and the Griffin out of the laboratory. He grabbed Marina by her arm and said, “We have to get out of here.”
Marina resisted at first. Being a beloved wife, she didn’t want to leave Vaeludar’s side. “I am not going anywhere,” she said. “I need stick with him.”
Then Vaeludar gave a howling cry. He swiped the sword he was holding and slashed it against the walls, against the glass jars filled with insides and the heads on the high shelves. His tail grabbed several broken jars