Twilight of a Hybrid, стр. 50

Sora stopped no less than inches away from him. From their height, she was four inches shorter than he was. “There’s always more than one way to penetrate the strongest defensives.” Sora’s placed her thumbs on Valverno’s forehead and central chest. She softly inhaled and quickly exhaled.

Her thumbs glowed a white-blue color similar to the color of the Crystal Sword. Sora smiled while her own hands glowed. “This will help you restore part of your memories: memories from the time we’ve spent together.”

Valverno felt a small numbness crawling through his wings. His legs were shaking from a great sudden shock. His dragon hybrid eyes twirled in random directions. His horns moved from his head behind his ears, which had the outer edges also turned into rock solid fins. His skin was turning from human skin into more of a rough, rock-solid skin like a lizard’s skin. His chin became more pointed like a short-pointy goatee, and his hair grew slightly longer right to the length of his shoulder.

Valverno could feel his mind stirred like eggs in a bowl. He felt a small pain erupted into his nose. His eyes were blinded by the light from Sora’s thump. Valverno felt a unique power starting to course through his arms, making his hands clutch into fists.

After many staggering seconds of feeling strange things happening in his body, Valverno was gasping for air. He was feeling his old self retaining his same personality but his skin felt more wrinkle, if he was sitting in water for a long number of days.

Sora removed her hands from Valverno’s head and chest, and she moved back. Then she waved her hand at Marina, Geraldus, and Flarefur. They were released from magic barriers Sora placed on them and stood up. “How you do feel now?” she asked.

Valverno blinked twice before turning to face Sora with his eyes. His eyes flickered at her eyes. “You used to drag your arms around my neck everywhere I go and you would always relay on me to do everything for you, even that time when… when Mother used all her magic save us both from Pangaea’s destruction.”

Sora smiled small. Valverno had remembered a bad incident with their mother and a childhood memory they both shared.

“We both were kids, but I had the brain of a dragon adult,” continued Valverno. “You were one impossible sister to escape from. And an annoying sister always was clinging to her half, older brother.”

Sora then jumped and swung her hands around his neck. “You remember about me now.” Quickly as she hugged, Sora ceased her grip to look at her older, half-brother who remembered her and a fragment of his past.

“But I can’t remember what happened during my life time before you and the three other White Knights had tried to do. And I should have known Lusìvar’s followers would have infiltrated the ritual and steal parts of my physical body, my Pangaean body that’s been ripped.” Valverno looked at his hand and saw the armor he found in the Northern Region that sank into his skin and grew into his body.

The armor he found was actually a part of his body, which meant the other two were dragon body parts and not forged armor: parts that had been stripped from his body and carried to different places on the island. He had recovered one, he was close to the second, and he was still far from recovering the third and truly recovering what power he had lost.

The ritual Sora mentioned is what he was remembering. It was in this dark, underground chamber where the ritual was performed. His sister and three other White Knights were supposed to go into hibernation. Valverno remembered he mentioned the Shadow King would rise, and when he did, Valverno and his White Knight comrades would awaken.

However, during the ritual that was being performed, four intruders came out of nowhere and a battle was ensured. Valverno’s last moments he was remembering his White Knights standing with barriers protecting them from harm. Then everything grew dark but he still heard and felt everything. He felt a leg, a hand, and a part of his chest ripping from his body. And then, everything went silent and he fell into a deep slumber.

Sora’s glowing touch of her hands helped Valverno restore a part of his memories, but not everything. Thanks to Sora, Valverno remembers a few small moments in his past life that did happen ten thousand years ago, and he remembers he is the son the Crystal Dragon god, the Ruler of the Gods.

“Er, Vaeludar?” said Marina, walking up to Valverno. “Is that still you?”

Valverno stared at Marina.

“I still remember my life as Vaeludar, as well as remembering my ancient life as Valverno. And I still prefer the name Valverno, if you don’t mind, Marina. I still remember marrying you and will never forget you, and we share the same cottage house at near the western beaches.”

Marina signed of relief. She was worried about Valverno had his memories completely changed and would have fallen for the strange girl and forget all about the Siren. “And just who are you supposed to be?” asked Marina. Marina held the shortsword at Sora’s neck.

Valverno quickly dashed to Marina and held her arm before she could cut Sora with a big cut. “Weren’t you listening to her and me?” he asked. “She is Sora: my half-sister whom lived ten thousand years ago with me. We share the same mother, but we don’t share the same father. Now disarm yourself, Marina.”

Marina glared at Sora who also glaring at her. Both girls were looking hostile to each other.

Valverno pulled Marina’s shortsword away from Sora. “Look. Both of you are my family. Sora, this is Marina, a Siren I recently married; she’s my wife or mate.

“Marina, this is Sora, my half-sister. So, both of you are sisters-in-law. And from now on, treat each other as sisters. I will not have new and old family relatives