Twilight of a Hybrid

Shadow King back into a black hole to the stars above this world and to the gods. When I am living here in the Mortal Realm, I want to make do without some ancient dark being ruining this perfect life.”
Vaeludar whisked his flying to a higher altitude. His flying momentum drew his body higher over the cliffs and his cottage home, and he flew toward the castle at a slow rate, with him gliding with the wind.

ARRIVAL AT THE CASTLE
It took nearly several hours for Vaeludar to reach the capital city, while holding Marina in his arms. His new home was near high cliffs overlooking the sea and some small beaches and far away from civilized life. Miles and miles away from his old home, Vaeludar’s new life with Marina seemed to be lonely at times. Even though it was just her and him living at the cottage and all the nature beauty wonders that surround his home, Vaeludar sometimes misses his old home.
The shouts of people attending a party and the cutting of wheat plants and mules prowling in the wheat fields, the playful cries of little children running in the fields, the watchful eyes of full grown Dragons watching their young hatchlings play with human kids and sometimes cause mischief for the full grown human adults, and the faces of Geraldus and his sons and daughters are all what Vaeludar seemed to have been missing during his time at the cottage and his search for the next armor artifact.
Even though he was missing the old life, his new life with Marina was very enjoyable. Vaeludar was getting to like the quietness of the beauty of nature and its wonder of untouched of human hands. They both lived in the cottage through the cold winter, and both survived the coldness. During the cold winter, Vaeludar would leave and always resume his search for the next armor artifact or go hunting for that seemed to be scarce.
Marina’s body was very sensitive to cold and couldn’t adapt to the bitter coldness of the snow. Her body was very fragile and weak against a very cold, freezing temperature. Not wanting to leave Marina in the cottage in winter, Vaeludar would always use his dragon fire to heat the fireplace. Dragon fire is a special type of fire; dragon fire was considered to be magical and could heat at a length of a hundred feet wide, while regular fire could warm at a length of a few inches, and dragon fire would take days to die down.
When Vaeludar always leave the safety of the cottage, he would always ignite the fireplace with dragon fire being able to warm the entire cottage for several days. Knowing that Marina would be warm from the bitter cold, Vaeludar would be able to resume his long search. But, in the cold snow, always hard to resume his old tracks with hard snowfalls and snowflakes burning his tracks and signs he last remember going to before withdrawing his search.
This winter was long and colder than the usual winters. There fewer snowstorms and falls in the past seventeen years. Since his battle with the Five-Headed Dragon, the weather seemed to be changing a lot. So, Vaeludar spent the entire winter with Marina, and the hard work fell to him to find wood and food for their little cottage, and they manage to survive the cold. As soon as the spring season sprung, Vaeludar resumed his search and traveled with Flavius.
As Vaeludar drifted down to the capital city’s top level, a small band of city guards gathered in unison. They stood facing him and moved aside, making a direct pathway that lead to the throne room and lowered their spears diagonally; a way of saluting to a celebrated hybrid.
Vaeludar placed Marina on her feet. Seeing how a greeting party was saluting him (or the couple), Vaeludar and Marina marched forward.
The guards wore silver armor and helmets covering their bodies from the eye’s view. Their silver armor reflected the sun’s light brightly and their shields were bronze ironed into a tiger’s face.
Vaeludar lead Marina through the alley of soldiers. Two lines of the soldiers had their spears tilted, raised above the heads of Vaeludar and Marina. Vaeludar felt suspicious the soldiers would thrust their spears onto the two walking lovers. Vaeludar rushed Marina through the soldiers and directly to the throne room entrance. Two guards standing by the door opened the door for Vaeludar and Marina and they walked in, as the guards closed the doors behind them.
The throne was massive high and columns of limestone pillars stretch over a hundred feet high. Three statues of a dragon, a male human, and a female mermaid stood high above a long seat blossoming in gold and silver, with the backside reflecting wings and the handles of claws of a Griffin.
The couple saw King Uragiru sitting on the large throne, and Geraldus was standing next to the king.
“You have approved Marina’s request to have an earlier wedding while I was close to find the second artifact?”
“Yes,” said Geraldus and King Uragiru.
“By the graces of the gods,” complained Vaeludar, “why do I have to be outnumbered by people who want to have an early wedding than wait a little while longer? On the verge of my search, I get distracted by an early wedding. What’s next on the unexpected list?”
“I also requested Teutates, King Uragiru’s distant relative, to come to our wedding,” said Marina.
“You got to be kidding me. That man is descended from a traitorous prince. There is no way I’ll have Teutates on this wedding day. No way, no how. I can’t believe you’re going behind my back without consulting with me on these changes, Marina, and these changes are starting to make me feel uneasy.”
“How are these changes starting you felt uneasy? I felt the same way every time you left our new home by the sea. I was worried you would die, or I would come under attack and