Twilight of a Hybrid, стр. 66
““Now the welcoming party comes out to greet their house guests?” asked Sora. The young girl held her two kukri knives. Magically, white armor appeared on her body. Shoulder plated armor shined over her left shoulder and gauntlet worn over her bare hands. A short white cape draped over her right shoulder. Around her front was cuirass that was strapped with the shoulder armor. Sora’s legs had high leather boots. From her waist, she wore a pteruges, which is a skirt with leather fabrics cut into several straps. “This White Knight of Charity is ready to give some cutting presents to these bad monsters.”
Valverno was excited to see Sora in her White Knight uniform. If he had the other three, Strength, Loyalty, and Trust, then he and they would be able to plow right through this giant crowd surrounding the small group. He himself widened his arms and let a solar energy run on his spinal spikes: the same energy he used to kill his first Minotaur.
“Who would have thought these undead creatures would be crawling up to us?” said Geraldus. Geraldus pulled out his spear and pointed at the undead creatures.
The Griffin flickered his wings and hawked like a real eagle, and Marina readied her bow and pulled three arrows on the bow’s string.
Sora looked at Geraldus, who was armed with a spear. She saw him spinning the spear around a few times with such great skill. Then Sora looked at the Griffin, which she saw looked like a predator’s eyes on its next meal. Lastly, she saw her sister-in-law, Marina, getting ready to shoot three enemies with just three arrows. Having an idea in mind, Sora tipped a finger on Marina’s shoulder.
“What do you want right now?” asked Marina, feeling her shoulder being lightly touched. “Can’t you see we’re busy?” Marina had her eyes on the surrounding animals inching closer to her and her husband. Marina wasn’t going to risk the sister of Valverno to disrupt the Siren’s consecration.
“I can upgrade your bow with my power,” said Sora. “You’re arrows made from wood aren’t going to be enough.”
Valverno was hearing that another bitter argument was happening between Sora and Marina. This wasn’t something he needed since he was seeing so many of these experimented creatures coming toward the group. Needing to take necessary action, Valverno spoke to Marina, “Just give her your bow.”
“But, Vaeludar,” Marina tried to argue.
“I am your husband: just do it!” Valverno shouted at the disgusted name he never wanted to be named again. “Give Sora your bow quickly so she could upgrade it. After all, I am your husband and Sora is my sister. Start treating her if was your sister.”
Marina grunted and shook her head in disbelief. She unquivered her arrows and pointed her bow to Sora.
Sora quickly dropped one of her twin knives and grabbed Marina bow. With the weird looking bow in her hand, Sora tapped the other knife in her other hand on the bow thrice. With each tap, a light glazed on the bow suddenly.
In a matter of seconds, the bow went to a bow made from trees to a bow made from metal. The newly, transformed metal bow glowed bright like Sora’s armor.
Sora looked at the curved edges and saw them as fish heads holding the string in place. Sora was pleased with this magically transformation and handed it back to Marina. “There we go. Try this bow without using your arrows to put on the string. All you have to do is pull the string.”
Marina hesitantly looked at the prowling monsters and her bow, which she was thinking had been downgraded to a rusty old bow. Without a moment’s noticed, Marina took back her upgraded bow and pull back on the string like Sora instructed, without attaching any arrows on the string Marina was pulling back.
Suddenly, an spiky straight arrow, which was shimmered white as snow and yellow as the sun, appeared on Marina’s hand as soon she pulled the string back. To Marina’s surprise, it seemed Sora was right, but now the question was: will it work?
Marina released the arrow from her hand and let to fly out. The bright arrow went soaring straight ward and went through many creatures at once. A large energy was also unleashed from Marina’s hands, which when released the arrow. It was a magic ability created and sent many of these creatures flying into the air and into the surrounding buildings.
Marina looked shocked as she was surprised to see this bow had been upgraded, and it felt lighter than the wooden bow. With this bow, the Siren could show some female fish power when undead creatures would try to come crawling to her feet. She pulled the string again and shot two more arrows in two different directions.
The two arrows had appeared from thin air on Marina’s hand and the string she pulled back, released from the Siren’s hand, and launched toward the enemies that were brought from the dead using her husband’s blood. Every enemy the arrows shot through sent those creatures back to the buildings, plowing right through the large crowds.
All the creatures still standing growled and slowly began to pull away from this unexpected turn of events.
Valverno smiled, loosening the solar energy running on the spikes on his spinal cord of his back. “Now that is what I call female power. My sister shares some of her White Knight power to a bow, and my wife uses the bow without consuming any life energy. What a great family this is turning out to be. But come, I have a feeling they’ll be back. Let’s go.”
Valverno looked toward where the rays of light were shining and ran that way. If he only could fly, the hybrid would have to travel faster than just running on his legs and potentially would have the leg armor reattach to his leg by