Twilight of a Hybrid

view to find Flavius. Vaeludar couldn’t see any of the men or Flavius in the village, so he was assuming they had stayed in the same place he last saw them or they have gotten lost in the woods or traveling slower than a snail.
He soon caught the scent of metal armor and weapons he smelled coming from the forest. Vaeludar had left the garrison in the same spot where he last saw them before flying off to find information.
Why am I the only being that knows how to move fast? he thought.
Vaeludar returned to the hidden spot in the forest. The thing his eyes came across was the soldiers taking down tents and packing the equipment on horses. Vaeludar saw Flavius talking with a Griffin. The Griffin was dressed in royal garments, which meant the Griffin had flown from the old King Uragiru. Vaeludar had descended to the campsite.
“What is a Griffin down here?” he asked.
“There you are,” said Flavius. “It seems we may have to return. King Uragiru has sent reports about increase sightings of Chimeras and Cyclopes across the western borders. He is ordering us to fall back and head back to his castle.”
“Oh, come on,” Vaeludar complained. “I found where the laboratory is and the king is ordering us back?”
“Apparently, he is also ordering a wedding celebrating to taking place in a few days. Your wedding, I believe.”
“My wedding with Marina taking place in a few days? The wedding isn’t supposed to happen until a week. We are close to discovering to find the next armor artifact, and the king is ordering us to return and have an early wedding?”
“Yes,” answered Flavius.
Vaeludar signed. Following orders from the king at the one place he is close to finding the next armor artifact was disrupting for the hybrid. He was close to finding the next armor artifact at the same time a message from the king had to interrupt his search. “Very well,” complied Vaeludar, “As soon as this wedding is over, the honeymoon is going to be short-lived. Tell the king I’ll be coming, after I tell Marina about the change of plans.”
The Griffin nodded and left.
“Well, I might go get Marina and tell her about everything. Of all the days, this message couldn’t wait until tomorrow? What is my life coming to these days?” Vaeludar widen his wings and floated above the ground.
“You’re going already?” asked Flavius.
“I don’t want Marina to be left out of the news, and I don’t want to let this early wedding to be ruining our little vacation we were planning to have before the wedding. The original plans were this: find the armor artifact within the next few days, a little vacation at the sea at our new cottage, and then get married and go on a long-planned honeymoon that now has to be cut short. This is to be the only interruption from anyone trying to interfere with a personal mission. I’ll see you back at the castle.”
Vaeludar rose higher and flew passed the treetops and headed toward the west.

A COTTAGE NEAR THE SHORELINE
Vaeludar came across a long range of a cliff side standing stretching dozens of miles across the ocean as he was still flying in the air. The high cliffs were consumed of chalk rocks rising up hundreds of feet. Dangling on the higher ends and beyond was bushes and trees of green. Plants drabbed the flatlands in green, but falling over the edges someone would see natural chalk rock as a mountain-like wall. Along the shoreline, two arches of natural stone stood a few miles apart.
Vaeludar heard the sounds of the ocean waves crashing against the mountain wall of chalk rock and open beaches that were small and stretch a quarter of a mile long and shared of a length of ninety feet of a shoreline before touching the seven hundred-foot mountain wall.
On a vintage point about fifty feet away from the highest cliff edges, a lonely cottage stood that stood with a great overlook that gazes on the sites of the mountain walls, beaches, and other nature wonders Vaeludar could see at a high point of the ocean view. The little cottage was his own private home; he moved away from his original home where he was raised by Geraldus and his family, and moved to this wide open spot with Marina. A month after his battle with the Dragon with five heads, Vaeludar scouted the shoreline to find a perfect, private area where he and Marina could settle down. And he found this spot that seemed perfect of him and his future mate could live while no fighting was to be evolved.
There was thousands of plants covered in lushly green, a big view of the ocean and long cliff sides of mountain walls that drenched into the ocean floor, and small beaches surrounded by the mountain walls and the ocean water. It was the perfect place for him and the Siren to be living while taking some time not to be fighting, which meant Vaeludar was cutting back on time he was spending with Geraldus and his family.
Vaeludar lived long enough in civilization he wanted to keep his distance, because he knew it would be very unusual for people to see a human dragon hybrid in love with a Siren. Two different species being completely different, especially one of composed of two different species in one form: the hybrid that is half human and half dragon. Love has no bounds, no matter what species the lovers may be.
Vaeludar touched down with the cottage, which he built with his own claws, his hands, and his magical abilities to levitate and create rocks from thin air. He practically did the entire heavy lifting by using all the magic he had. It took him about two hours to build the entire building.
The cottage was a single story building with a roof of hay, the walls built from bricks and rocks with sturdy cement, open windows, a wide