Twilight of a Hybrid, стр. 48
Valverno walked to the picture resembling him and touched it with his right hand.
Then a small fog puffed from thin air and small images erupted. Valverno was shown in the fog. His wings were the same, but his face was different. His eyes were shown more to be humanlike of with bright emerald eyes and black pupils. His hair was straight and long and slightly curled. Basically his entire head had more human assets than dragon such as horns, and he looked 10 years older than what Valverno was looking in his current appearance.
Valverno studied his older form showing in the fog. His other self (in the fog vision) seems to be more handsome and attractive looking than Valverno in his current form. “Is that how I really looked like ten thousand years ago?”
Valverno looked closer to the foggy image of himself and saw, in the fog, standing on a cliff overlooking a dark horizon with four figures standing behind him. The four figures were wearing light blue armor and white capes. The four figures had to be the White Knights of Trust, Charity, Loyalty, and Strength.
After a short while, the fog faded over the altar. Valverno then turned back to the image of himself plastered on the wall. “So, I chose the White Knights to do battle with me while I was alive back then. But what did I really do ten thousand years ago? I have no memory of what happened during that time?”
Geraldus placed a hand on Valverno’s shoulder. “It’s alright. Sometime in the future, you may get the chance to find your memories… Valverno.”
Valverno placed his hand on the picture again to see what would happen. Nothing had happened. He signed that nothing had happened.
“Is-is that you, Valverno?” asked a girl’s voice coming behind them.
The group turned behind them with weapons drawn and eyes glaring at the entrance they heard the voice coming from.
A young girl stood by the entrance, which the group entered from. She was about twenty years of age with long, thin, graceful black hair with a few dyes of green and blue swirling down her hair, tanned skin, and eyes bright as silver. She was wearing leather clothes and an entire arm strapped in metal-plated armor, and the girl had what seemed two shortswords sheathed on her back. She was standing with thick high boots on her legs. Her face was sparking with great shock, amazement, and thrilling.
“Hey, she knew your name,” said Marina. “Do you know her?”
“Just how would I know her?” asked Valverno. “I just changed my name hours ago. I wouldn’t know her.”
The girl took a few steps forward. “I-I can’t believe it’s you,” she said. “I mean, it’s really you. After so long of a long search, I have finally found you.” The young girl came trotting up to Valverno. And up close she closely resembled Valverno but with more of a female look. “And I can’t believe it’s really you, eld—”
Valverno raised an eyebrow. The girl was standing inches in front of him. He was too speechless of what to say as to what exactly to say to the girl standing near him. But the words came out of his mouth were, “Sorry, who are you?”
Suddenly, the girl burst into a great happiness and wrapped her arms around Valverno’s neck and shouted, “My Elder Brother!”
At first the group was silent as the grave then gave a loud gasp of this girl calling Valverno a brother.
AN UNUSUAL REUNION
Everyone was standing silent. The girl, who called Valverno a brother, had her arms clutched around Valverno. She didn’t seem agitated or embarrassed to be that close to the hybrid and close enough to be touching a stranger she just met for seconds.
From Valverno’s perspective, this girl was a stranger they just saw met for several seconds, and she had called him “Elder Brother.” Talk about love at first sight, Valverno was practically trapped by the girl’s arms and Marina’s face sparked with jealousy.
Valverno used his arms to pull the girl’s arms from him. For a girl, she had a tight grip around him, tighter than Marina’s usual grip and her arms were harder to pull. With the dragon muscle in his arms and even with the muscle strength he had; it was a challenge for him to pull the girl free from his neck. Valverno had his wings to slip through the girl’s arms and push them both apart.
Then in a swift move, Valverno jumped backwards and pushed the girl with a small gush of a windy breath he exhaled in his mouth.
The girl was pushed away from the hybrid, but she flipped backward at a single touch of his wings. The girl showed a great host of speed and dodged Valverno’s wings and his windy breath, and she manage to move away from his unarming attacks if she did know what the exact moves Valverno was about to pull. Then she ran up to him again.
Quickly, Valverno folded his wings in front of his front body and whipped his tail at the girl, who stomped on his tail with in a great stomp just as he whipped it but suddenly casted it down without a small flinch. He pulled out the Crystal Sword with his right hand.
The girl pulled out a boomerang and swung it at Valverno’s hand, and it precisely hit the hilt of the sword and made it fly from his hand.
Geraldus pulled out his spear, Marina pulled out a bow and heaved an arrow to its string, and Flarefur grunted his claws into the ground.
The flying boomerang flew back to the girl’s hands and she swung it again with another boomerang. Then she pulled out kukri knives, knives that have inward curved blades, from her back and swung them her oncoming opponents. The two boomerangs and her twin knives spun endlessly in the air to the armed people, but those served only as