Twilight of a Hybrid, стр. 49
In one swift of her elbow arrowing at Geraldus’s spear, he frozen suddenly and stood standing like a statue. She spun immediately and touched a feathered wing of the Griffin and the Griffin, too, froze, but not in ice; they both became paralyzed.
The girl then flipped backwards, jumping over Valverno and landed behind Marina, with the two kukri knives coming back into her hands. “You are not experienced in the advanced fighting style like I am, fish.”
Marina swung her arm, but the young girl grabbed Marina’s arm and disarmed her of the shortsword Marina was suddenly carrying instead of the bow, displacing the bow with the shortsword when Marina saw the second boomerang and the other twin knife coming at her. Marina was shocked to the young girl’s amusement.
Then the girl crunched the two knives to Marina’s throat. “You have a lot to learn when facing a highly experienced fighter, fish.”
Suddenly a blade came flying to the young girl’s neck. Valverno was holding the Crystal Sword to the girl’s neck, not hesitating to defend his wife. “And you don’t have any experience in dealing with me, girl, and don’t call your hostage a fish,” he said.
The girl smiled bigger. “On the contrary, demigod brother, I do have experience.” She then pushed Marina to the paralyzed man and Griffin and swiped the Crystal Sword away. This made her free and turned to face Valverno. “I have tons of experience from many battles throughout my years. My years I served under you and how my idol hero showed me how to fight.”
Valverno readied his sword in hand while the girl had the dual-wielding knives in her hands, but Valverno dropped the sword from his hands. The hybrid did have the intention of fighting, but this girl kept calling him a brother and he wanted to know how he was even related to her. And he saw her countering the attacks from him and his four companions, if she had predicted any future attacks and countered against them before an individual could attack.
“Just who are you?” asked Valverno. “I don’t know who you are or what you are even doing here. How did you know my name?”
The girl signed. Her eyes glimmered the fires Valverno made earlier, and her hair was being blown from a soft wind coming from the cave’s darkness where light was not being shown. “I knew your memory would have been crippled. I am your half-sister, Sora; and you are my older, half-brother, Valverno, the son a god and the mother we both share: Celestreá la Mùne. And I have always hoped you would return, Elder Brother.”
“Elder Brother?” said Marina. “What kind of story is that?”
Sora waved her hand in the air and a small fog came from the altar: a memory showing the past. A pale image of a small six year old girl and a bigger eight year old boy with bat-like wings but with human legs were shown playing in a grass field. “This is us when we were young, Valverno,” said Sora.
The image then transformed the two children into full grown adults. Valverno was shown on the image as well as Sora in older years than their current teenage ages. “From this day worth, you will be known as the White Knight of Charity, Sora. So when in a great depression arises, your power will be able to give gifts to people feeling alone or families feeling poor or stressed. And whenever you need or want to, transfer your power into someone else so they can carry on the tradition. When the day comes when the Shadow King arises again, the power will be transferred back to you and you will once again become a White Knight.”
Valverno gasped at this. This girl standing before him was not just a girl claiming to be a blood related sister, but the first White Knight of Charity. His mind was seriously being overrun with numerous thoughts of his past. If he was over ten thousand years old, why couldn’t he remember this girl standing in front of him? “I’m sorry, but I don’t hold that memory in my mind, and I don’t remember you.”
Sora signed again and placed her duel-wielding kukri knives away. “Then it is has I have feared.” said Sora. “That ritual we tried to do so many years failed, and it also erased your memories like a ghost reincarnated into a new body to start a new life and forgetting of his past life. Let me restore some of your lost memories.” Sora walked forward to Valverno and reached out an arm. Then Marina stopped in front of her and grabbed Sora’s wrist.
“Don’t touch my husband.”
Sora gave a small glare at the Siren. “Husband? I don’t know what your game is here, fish, but Valverno is my brother I’ve known longer than you have been with him for the past six months.” Sora spun and thrown Marina across the chamber and waved her hands and the both paralyzed Geraldus and Flarefur were magically carried into the air, if they nailed to a wall. “I am his younger sister, and he is my older brother. We both share the same mother, but we don’t share the same father. I was there when you, Valverno, were turned into an embryo by evil ghosts. And only for you to remember, someone with the same power you have will have the power to restore your memories or at least part of your memories.”
Valverno gulped. He did learn Ralenskrit and Belverda weren’t his parents, and this girl, whose was going by the name Sora, may hold a key into his true past. He shook his head and proceeded to step forward to her. “If what you say it true, then restore my memories. But how can you? I