Twilight of a Hybrid, стр. 81
“Let’s get on with it then,” he said.
Valverno was the first to walk forward, followed by Sora and Geraldus. Marina still kept her distance from the hybrid, so she went last and behind everyone else. The Siren was mistrustful against Sora and Valverno; she wanted to see the hybrid Vaeludar again and not the demigod he is.
Valverno could sense Marina’s mistrust for her husband and Sora, but he didn’t care about any mistrusts or family relationships at the current moment; he was focused on getting the information to the king as soon as possible. If Lusìvar does bring the ancient Titans back from their prison buried somewhere deep beneath the waves of the seas, then the future for any person’s freedom will be tarnished.
As the group walked toward the door, the two bodyguards stood from their guard posts and opened the large door for the group to enter. They didn’t take any close notice to Valverno’s appearance that they are doing as they are told by royalty: open the gate and let the group in.
Valverno, Geraldus, Sora, and Marina walked through the opened doors, which were quickly closed behind them.
In the throne room, a long narrow table stood in the center of the floor, stretching all the way to the throne. Wooden chairs had piled in little space to fit dozens by inches. Candles lit on small gold-plated, thinly-curved candlesticks.
The king was seen by Valverno sitting on his throne on the opposite of the tall table, enjoying a small meal. He was stuffing his mouth with chicken wings battered in light sauce. He then smiled upon seeing the group back alive. “Welcome back, my subjects,” he said.
King Uragiru was smiling bigger when he saw Sora stepping to the side of Valverno. “Ah, look who it is: the hybrid returned and very fast too.” The king got up from his throne, wiped his hands clean with a piece of cloth, and walked to greet his subjects closer than the far end of his throne. “Found another lovely girl? Marina wasn’t enough that you’re eying another girl?”
“Absolutely not!” said Valverno.
The king laughed. The old man knew how to cheer the environment. But he didn’t know he would stop laughing, as he walked closer to see his visitors and see Valverno’s change of a new appearance: his red-iris eyes and his head more dragon-oid the last the king saw Valverno. “By the Three Gods! You look… like Lusìvar.”
Valverno backed away and looked at the book Geraldus was holding in his arms. Valverno strolled over to Geraldus to retrieve the book and show King Uragiru what the main reason was for the change of the hybrids appearance.
Geraldus knew the evil-looking demigod was coming for the book and held it out to Valverno.
For him not wanting to be like the Shadow King, Valverno gently and softly grabbed the book from Geraldus and walked back to the king. Valverno walked toward a random spot at the table and used his tail to pull a chair away to make an open spot to him to dump the book on. He pulled open the about half the pages and flipped them over to a random page.
The first picture that came to Valverno’s view was a Centaur-like being: with a horse head on a human body with goat horse instead of a Unicorn’s horn. He saw the words “Project Failure” on the top, and the next page over was “Project Failure” again of a Minotaur-like body, with a half male human torso with cat-like ears and a unicorn horn.
“This is what drove me to change my appearance,” said Valverno. After the demigod opened the book to a random page of the two different creatures, Valverno slid the book to the king, so he could see what made Valverno change in his sudden, dementing appearance.
King Uragiru slowly glimpsed from Valverno’s demonic appearance to the book, still having an eye on the hybrid. The king looked at the two creatures on the two pages being shown to him. “What are those? Drawing you made when you were a kid?”
Valverno stared.
“Not me. Belverda and Ralenskrit!”
The king tilted his head to gaze at Valverno. “Belverda and Ralenskrit? Those two scientists created drew these pictures?”
”Not just these creatures, all these creatures written in this book.” Valverno turned a page over and showed the king two more multi-embodied creatures created from already-dead animals and creatures supposed to be dead and turned over many more pages.
As he turned one page after another showing the king the creatures Ralenskrit and Belverda brought to life, the demigod explained that each of the resurrected creatures had been labeled as failures.
Each undead animal was one failure after another failure, laying out the big details of body parts Ralenskrit and Belverda used: bodies of creatures: Centaurs, Dragons, Fairies, Griffins, Merpeople, Pegasi, Sea Serpents, and Unicorns. But not just the good creatures but also evil creatures: Banshees, Basilisks, Black Dogs, Chimeras, Cyclopes, Harpies, Manticores, and Minotaurs.
Valverno slowly explained how the two scientists tried to bring the dead back to life using the DNA of the main source to bring the dead back to life: Valverno. Valverno was used as the main source to bring the dead creatures to life, with Valverno as an embryo. His DNA was somehow extracted from his embryo form, even his body wasn’t fully form for blood to be withdrawn out.
Valverno explained of how he was used as a science experiment to bring the dead creatures to life, only to become monstrous, soulless beasts. And the final part Valverno added was the last few pages of the last project: Project Vaeludar.
“This is where I have changed and discovered who I am,” said Valverno. “There are no pictures, but large notes written by the two scientists I thought to be my parents. You can read these and see what they did to me and what had happened.” Valverno