Twilight of a Hybrid
could only hope he just could be wrong that nothing would crash the party with a loud bang or a big fireball exploding at the speed of light.Everyone was being happy and enjoying themselves in this wonderful feast. This was the wedding of the millennium. These people never had the thought those two odd, strange-looking, cross-specimen couple would have come together in a romantic matrimony. This wedding will likely to be told for many centuries to come. These witnesses would likely tell their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren about how two different species would have come together and be united in a dying love they share with each other.
The Dragons would surely remember this day in their elder years, for a Dragon could live up to a thousand years. The memories of the Dragons will remember if this wedding only took place yesterday while the humans would see this wedding as a story in a thousand years.
Vaeludar seemed that this wedding was too good to come true. Then, his ears flinched at the sound of a flapping wing. Vaeludar blinked suddenly and felt his skin burning. His tail started to uncurl itself. His nose was picking up the scent of dead animal meat everyone was feeding on, but he couldn’t smell anything else. This strange, sudden feeling was making him feeling uneasy. The feeling he had something bad was coming back to him.
Marina saw Vaeludar move from a silly made sitting position to standing up. Vaeludar stood up all of a sudden; she stopped eating and stood next to him. “Vaeludar, are you alright?” she asked, worryingly.
Vaeludar sniffed the air. There was a change in the wind, and he could smell it with his own nose. “I smell something is wrong. There has been a sudden change in the winds.” He gazed at the people around: eating, talking, and acting normal. He was having a stranger feeling that Lusìvar was coming to town.
“What do you mean? There is no danger here if that’s what you mean?” The king has tens of thousands of soldiers in this city. There is no way for any outsiders to come breaking into the capital city.”
Vaeludar wasn’t convinced they were not safe out in the open, even in a heavily guarded city like the time when he first came to the city and Marina was touring was the time the city did come under attack and he fought Lusìvar in that unmanned armor. Then his eyes gazed at the sky: a thundering, black cloud swirled into formation. Vaeludar could feel a cold chill going up his spine. He instantly knew dark forces were coming as the very second.
Then an earthquake struck. The people started to tremble. Plates, cups, and silverware were rumbling on the tabletops. Vaeludar couldn’t feel his balance and flapped his wings, which made him floating inches from the ground. As the earthquake pounded, strong wind gushes exploded from out of nowhere like an invisible explosion happening that no one could see. Many people were thrown to the ground. Tables and chairs were tossed into the air if a ghost was prowling through the crowd.
Vaeludar managed to stay on balance of his feet, but he couldn’t do the same with the large crowd of people falling.
Amongst the confusion in the crowd, a black wispy fog sparked in dead center of attention of everyone. “Congratulations on your wedding day, hybrid,” said a voice coming from the fog. It was Lusìvar’s voice in his ghostly form. “I came here to crash this wedding with my own gifts. Enjoy.” The Dark Spirit laughed and hundreds of evil creatures emerged from his foggy form: Basilisks, Black Dogs, Chimeras, and Manticores. And from the clouds from the sky, Banshees and Harpies submerged with shadowy wings and taunting whispers.
This wedding day was ruined.
A WEDDING RUINED
Vaeludar’s feeling of something going to be bad he always kept walking about was happening right now. The capital city was under attack by Lusìvar’s army of creatures. One by one, dozens of Lusìvar’s creatures was being summoned from his ghostly form and began attacking and charging in different places after they emerged. The evil creatures on Lusìvar’s side were the Banshees, Basilisks, Black Dogs, Chimeras, Cyclopes, Harpies, and Manticores.
Banshees were hooded female creatures dressed in dark robes, and they were thought to be humans, whispering dreadful thoughts to their victims. Basilisks were creatures with bodies of snakes and heads of chickens, turning anyone to stone. Black Dogs looked like hounds in black fur, but been tormented in darkness and shed in great fear. Chimeras were creatures with two heads on a lion’s body, a lion head and a goat head, and a tail of a snake’s body and head. Cyclopes were giants that looked human but had only one eyeball. Harpies were creature that looked like human women but with wings on their arms. And the Manticores were full bodied lions, but with a scorpion tail.
These creatures alone were deadly and horrifying, perfect servants for the Shadow King. The creatures appearing in great numbers were remarkably attacking and damaging the city in a matter of seconds. The city’s people were being caught in the middle of the attack. The guests were being pounded from their chairs and the creatures were attacking in different places at once.
“Enjoy the rest of your wedding day,” said Lusìvar. His black fog faded and left the wedded couple with his “wedding gift.”
Vaeludar growled and ripped his clothes apart. He swung out the Crystal Sword, and ignited his right arm. “I just knew this was going to happen,” roared Vaeludar. He charged forward, cutting down many of the creatures he saw before his eyes.
Before he would move forward, he headed back to his bride, Geraldus and his family, and the king and his family. “Marina,” said Vaeludar. Vaeludar tossed the dagger Alaric had given him to Marina.
Marina caught the flying dagger, which suddenly grew three inches longer and making it a shortsword, and quickly beheaded a Basilisk before the chicken