Twilight of a Hybrid, стр. 71

Away from Sora distracting the Leviathan from looking at Valverno, who was trying to find a way to sneak up away from the large beast, the demigod looked at the small light shimmering shielded behind the Leviathan’s legs. And there was little chance he would get past the eyes; four eyes were rounded its goat-like head.

Even though the Leviathan was easily distracted, it’s body was in front of the armor sitting at the summit a staircase leading up to the pillared top. Valverno had no good angles to sneak around or get through the Leviathan. Its feet, which was a bear’s paw with aligned with a fox’s paw, moved every two seconds and not staying in the same place twice; the Leviathan was always moving with no little chance of getting past its thin legs.

Valverno waved his hands in the air and ran toward the Leviathan, which still paid attention Sora flying closely around the Titan’s eyes. The fog behind Valverno followed him behind and bogged the around him when Valverno came to a halting positioning.

The fog rose ten times bigger than it was. The demigod flapped his wings against the fog and exhaled a beating wind from his mouth, making the fog rise higher than the Titan’s head. Valverno had a strong hopeful feeling this fog would be a blinding weapon to conceal his presence and get past the Titan unnoticed.

And since Valverno has a man, a Griffin, and a Siren behind him, they wouldn’t be enough to toe-to-toe this giant beast, not to mention a single experienced White Knight was fighting the beast alone.

After Valverno made the fog denser, he could smell the presence of someone close beside him. With his hybrid eyes, he looked to see Sora standing right next to him. It appeared when Valverno had made the fog; Sora took noticed and decided to give some restful thought beside the important demigod. “Sora, you can fly?” asked Valverno.

“Yes, I can,” answered Sora, floating beside Valverno.

“If I can’t fly, how can you fly? It doesn’t make sense.”

“You’ve taught me of how to harness the power of gravity, remember?”

“I did no—” Valverno had a triggered memory running deep in his skull of a child version of him being able to fly over the ground without a single flap of his wings. Valverno saw his child-self floating while in a seating position if he was sitting across a loveseat.

This memory also showed Sora (as a little girl around age five) looking at a teenage Valverno of how the demigod was floating in the air, without the power of flight or wings to give a creature the ability to fly. The small child Valverno was remembering himself has looked more gullible than a four year old girl.

“Now you remember,” said Sora, seeing Valverno’s eyes rolling away from her. “How is it I can do this and you can’t? You’re older than me.”

“Well, when comes to my memories, I can’t remember everything immediately,” said Valverno.

“You were raised by these old primates and adapted to their cultures for so long, you have forgotten what a specimen from the Second Generation was meant to be. Seriously, after we get you your body fragment back, I’ll be drilling old memories back into the small brain of yours.”

Valverno smirked.

“What are you smiling about?” asked Sora.

“You are starting to sound like our mother,” answered Valverno.

“Well, one of us has to look out for the other. If you can’t act like a leader of this family or a demigod the Crystal Dragon you were chosen to be, I might as well take over your position and become a demigoddess.”

Valverno shook his head in disproval. “No way. No how. Un-huh. As long as I have the power within me and keeping me alive and high-and-mighty, you’re not going to become a half goddess.”

“Says who?” asked Sora.

Valverno swung his sword out and whipped it close to Sora’s neck. “Says the Elder Brother. Anyone who dares rebel against this family I have created will be expelled from it.”

“Including your sister?”

“Two words: tough love,” said Valverno, putting the sword back around his back. “But right now I need you to keep distracting that thing before it—LOOK OUT!”

In a reaction, Valverno saw the large tail of the Leviathan coming toward him and pushed his sister to the ground. Valverno raised his hands and wings to create a plasma barrier around them.

The tail banged against Valverno’s barrier, which faded and sent Valverno soaring to a wall far across the platform in one sling of the Leviathan’s tail. The demigod foresaw the attack swinging while talking and protected his sister from the attack, which bounded for only him and not her. The energy flowing throughout the barrier channeling from Valverno’s legs and his wings rebounded through his human body, making him feel numb to dodge from the attack itself.

“Brother!” shouted Sora.

Valverno still remained alive. He weakly removed his body form the impacted hole he made into the wall and jumped down to the ground. Shaken by this impounding experience, Valverno’s legs struggled make him stand up and caused him to collapse in very few steps. He felt his entire body shaking if he survived from an earthquake; even his tail was slivering ten times faster than usual.

The energy he made barrier from his dragon parts paralyzed most of his human muscles and stop the majority flow of his blood flowing in his veins.

However, among his paralyzed body, his dragon wings and arms remained under his controlled and untouched of his barrier’s energy rebounding on his body.

Valverno shook his head so he could resign his sight on Sora, whom was okay and running to him. By the sight of the Sora being okay was worth taking the blow of the swinging tail and making his the day better.

Sora came running to Valverno who was barely standing on his curved, hind legs. “Valverno! Brother, are you alright?” Sora slipped close