Twilight of a Hybrid

brick chimney, and it was big an wide enough to fight two big families. Vaeludar and Marina seemed to be living like royalties in the countryside.
My new home, thought Vaeludar. He entered through the door and into the cottage. Inside, the walls were covered in cement. A fireplace lighted in fire was on the far right side. A wooden column was attached on the ceiling, as part of building the roof from collapsing. The entire room shared a number of wooden chairs, a single bed, a table and stools, the head of the Minotaur he beheaded stood near the ceiling, and no walls had been built other than the bricked walls. So Vaeludar and Marina shared the same space without any privacy, even though they didn’t care what they could be seeing; it was only them and their new home.
Marina wasn’t seen to be inside.
Vaeludar folded his wings and sat down on a stone seat built from the brick wall. He tilted his head down and looked at his right arm. Claws hung as his fingernails, a horny spike spiked from his elbow with a small fin attack to the spike and the elbow, his arms covered in dragon scales scaling to his shoulder, and nearly a few scales covered his human chest. He truly was becoming a real hybrid showing characteristics of a human and a dragon.
A year ago Vaeludar hid in the shadows alone, keeping his distance from human civilization. This time, he was miles away from any civilization. He still felt unwelcomed back to Geraldus’ homeland.
Then the door opened. Marina had entered the cottage. She wore the neckless of sapphires pearls that matched the Siren’s eyes. And she seemed to be wearing a noblewoman’s dress completely made from rich silk and strangely seaweed; the strange-mixture-of-cloth dress made her beautiful and very attractive made Marina look like princess of the seas, and the coloring matched her scale colors.
“Vaeludar,” she gasped.
“I was wondering where you could have been,” said Vaeludar, leaning forward. “I have some urgent news I need to tell you.”
“Did you find your next armor artifact?” Marina asked.
“No, but I was close. I was within a few miles of the main base. Where I strongly believe it is being held, and I would have found the place until we received news from King Uragiru. So I had to withdraw my search by a few days or maybe a week. Er, I can’t ever be left alone, not like the old days before I killed the Minotaur. I’m beginning to miss those old days.”
“You have slain a Minotaur and a Dragon with five heads, Vaeludar. Every girl in the kingdom would want to have you as their husband,” said Marina.
“Well, those other girls in the kingdom aren’t going to be lucky as you are. We’ve already engaged, and we’re going to be closer together in the next few days. And believe me, I would take a Dragon right now instead of an army of girls trying to come frolicking to my toenails—” Vaeludar paused and looked at his dragon feet. “To my claws. And I want no other female to be with, other than you. You have traveled with me to the north and back. You showed great emotion when I saved your life years ago. I don’t want us to die young than we are.”
“Oh, my love, you worry too much,” said Marina. Marina sat down to her groom-to-be and bent her head on his shoulder. The Siren rested her head near Vaeludar’s front shoulder. Her hair had drifted over her side, covering Vaeludar’s chest that partly covered by dragon scales. “Try to think about us. Think about our wedding in a few days.”
“Our wedding in a few days? But I was going to tell y— you asked King Uragiru to have an earlier wedding!”
“Surprise, surprise. I wanted to have an early wedding. A Siren’s anxiety can be less handling for their body and we deal with stress less bearable than a human body. My body isn’t resistible to sickness like humans. I always feel so sickly and weakly every time I keep seeing you fly away, not knowing when you may come back or get captured by an enemy that could be stronger than you. I don’t want to lose the only hybrid human who saved my life years ago.”
“Oh, Marina,” signed Vaeludar. “Is there one thing you can do without asking the king for anything?”
“Afraid not,” answered Marina.
“I was close on my search you wanted to have an early wedding? I mean, I could have found the next armor artifact within the day. Now my search has to hold for the time being. Couldn’t you wait maybe at least two more days more, before I had to come back here?”
“No.”
“By the magical powers of the Crystal Dragon, why must I agree with this? So close yet now so far.” A hint of anger began to swell in his mind. Close to powering his hybrid body, Vaeludar couldn’t believe Marina had requested an early wedding. Before standing up, Vaeludar gently twitched his shoulder so Marina would move her head from his shoulder he was leaning on.
Marina could see the small anger on Vaeludar’s face. “Are you mad?”
“I was close to having the armor,” said Vaeludar, fiercely but controlling his anger. “I needed less than half-a-day to have it within my grasp. Once a plan has been made, I don’t want it to change. I want to have more power than Lusìvar. You saw the power he wields: the Dragon with five heads. But that was a mere fragment of his true power, and I need to be stronger than him. Having this next armor will greatly enhance my speed agility. Speed seems to be my most desired power right now.”
Vaeludar got up and walked to a window and looked gazed at the beautiful cliffs of chalk rock that stretched into the ocean tides.
Marina got up and joined her soon-to-be husband, in hopes of easing his anger