Twilight of a Hybrid, стр. 64
The hybrid slowly climbed down the building on its walls. He crawled down the walls and tried not to make any noises that Sora won’t be able to hear him come to surprise her if he was a predator stalking his prey. It took him about two full minutes to creep down the walls without making a sound. He succeeded to do so.
With his feet touching the ground, Valverno vilely smiled and walked slowly to her. Valverno had crept very close to Sora. Doing this was bringing back the happy memories to him. He could not resist trying to surprise her again. As he neared a few inches from her, Sora quickly spun.
She spun on her feet very fast, drawing out one of her daggers. She had quicker reactions than Marina on an empty stomach.
Valverno reacted faster than his sister could. The claws of his wings swiped away the dagger from Sora’s two hands holding it, and Valverno used a foot to swipe against Sora’s feet.
Sora tripped over Valverno’s dragon foot, seeing how her attack had failed her. As she fell, Valverno bent his legs and caught Sora with his arm grabbing onto her back. Their eyes were sparkling each other. She was fainting for some air, and she didn’t seem surprise when Valverno tried to sneak from behind. “You always liked sneak attacks, brother.”
“And you always forget I have two more arms and a tail that moves like a snake, or make that.” Valverno pulled his sister back to her feet. His tail moved the kukri knife to Sora feet.
Sora grabbed the kukri knife and sheathed it. She turned her head away and looked at the mansion. She was drawn to the building, if it was the old home for her and Valverno.
“Is that it?” asked Valverno. “Is this tall castle, pyramid thing our home?”
“Not really,” answered Sora. “It served as a temple built to worship the Three Gods. I spent a lot of time here more than you ever did. Basically, you never have been inside this temple.”
“Alright. Where is the house then, if this large temple was never our home?”
Sora looked grim. Not for a second, she looked toward her right.
Valverno studied Sora’s eye gazing of a pile of stone rubbles. He walked closer to the strange ruins. There was a long building with long walls stood high. A small tower lay in ruins on what remains of the roof. The building itself was in ruins, and all of it was covered in black, burnt marks. The house was in complete ruins.
“I see.” Valverno signed to see the original house, which he thought to be place he lived in with his mother and sister, destroyed.
Sora walked beside Valverno’s side. “Like I said, Mother sacrificed her power only to save you and me. She couldn’t bear the heart to save anything else. She couldn’t let go of us, so she gave her magic power to save us both and she died with all the other city’s inhabitants. Thanks to her, we both are alive and made it back home.”
“But the house is crumbled and the entire place is buried beneath the islands. And I lived for seventeen years on the surface world. I really am walking in a coffin, where the dead are placed in and buried into the earth, which this city is now.”
Sora turned back to see the temple she mentioned about. “This served as another home to me. How mother and I always came to this building to worship the gods, and the people would do the same. They also worshipped you if you were a full god. The just didn’t understand you were a demigod. It was here you lived for some time, working as a king.”
“I have no memory of this place,” said Valverno.
“That is because you never went inside. And also, this is where I had awakened.”
Valverno blinked. “Awakened? You mean, this is where you spent your time in hydration?”
“Yes, but we can’t enter it now.”
“Why now, Sora?”
“Because the temple’s interior had collapsed. It is now just one giant block, and there would have been nothing in there. Trust me; I already looked for that bodily, godly armor that goes on one of your feet. It is not in there. The time I was spent awake I could have found the armor artifact, but you were highly more important to find.”
Valverno puffed smoke from his nostrils. He was hopeful to find his next target in this large temple.
“There was nothing really special in there anyway. It was just statues resembling the Three Gods. But we have to think first before we continue exploring this entire city. It’s going to take five days to explore the city. Where would the Shadow Men hide the part they took of your foot or leg?”
Valverno remembered holding the gauntlet in the cave of the Northern Region. It was placed on a high alter of the sort with a light shining through a hole from the high ceiling. He held it in his hands, right before one of his companions trying to grab an awesome weapon and suddenly waking two Dragons.
In his deep thoughts, Valverno’s dragon feet could feel the vibrations of people running to him and Sora. He never knew Geraldus, Marina, and Flarefur would be trailing far behind Sora.
Geraldus, Marina, and the Griffin came trotting behind a corner, relieved to be seeing Valverno and Sora standing close to each other. “We thought we lost you,” said Geraldus.
“Don’t be rushing ahead of us,” said Flarefur. “Some of us aren’t born or built for running on our paws, feet, or claws.”
Valverno wasn’t listening. He was thinking about the armor gauntlet he found in the north. He looked at the fireballs and he thought if he were to dim or make those