The Tale of a Hybrid and a Siren (old version)

The Hybrid Arrives

It was no pain and no bone was bitten. There was a short, dead silence after a sudden quake and a fierce roar. Marina thought she was going to be eaten by the wild dog, but there was no pain and no foul breath. There was only a sudden feeling of relief, and a strong earth tremor and a louder growl not of a dog's bark or a lion's growl.

The child she concealed in her arms kept her ears covered and eyes closed. Marina looked away from the child, who was safe, and looked at the spot near where she felt the earth tremor.

The first color she laid her eyes on was a ruby. A ruby with color rubies forming up on a single strange line curving upward and over to another form of a strange U-shape attachment. A pair of strange hind legs of a wolf and a red whip slivering in the air like a whip. Claws sharp looked rather big at the feet and stood on the tip of the feet like a human standing on the feet's toes.

Higher above a warm wind gushed two massive objects of big red bat wings waved against a naked human body in red, sunburnt skin. The head was indeed a human head with red hair. Strangely enough, a pair of red horns was in place of human ears.

The strange figure was seemingly bending over and stood back up to match the shape of a human torso but only the upper half of the body was human and the lower half, from the waist to the legs, was something different. A pair of dragon legs and wings don't go to a human torso.

Then the figure turned around to show a male human face, and eyes of a strange color pattern. A pair of golden islands was surrounded by a clear ocean embodied with rubies burning like a volcano, a great, remorseful hatred. Eyebrows reflected the emotions of a human contaminated with a

The figures' shoulders showed the same human skin, but down to his hands and elbows were if they were plagued by a crystallized with crimson rubies. This was no human the siren looked at, but something half human.

Marina was awestruck when she was a strange human creature she'd never heard or laid eyes on before. She knew about centaurs (half human half horse), minotaurs (half human half bull, and fauns (half human half donkey), harpies (half human half bird), but there was nothing heard of a half human half dragon.

The eyes of the strange creature glared deeply into the eyes of the siren and the child she was cradling beneath her body. Their gaze was cut short when the back of wild dogs came sniffing closer.

The creature Marina did not know what species he belonged to took a single step forward. Suddenly, he was gone. One quick second. Then he was seen again close to inches away from the dog. Without a quick warning, the wild dog was unlucky and was suddenly slammed into a tree, away from the creature without taking a move.

Then again, the creature disappeared in one second and reappeared in front of another dog, and the dog was rolled away quickly.

But from behind the creature, a dog jumped behind and bit the red scaled creature on the left shoulder and claws scratched on the human's red skin like a wolf jumping on its prey. The wild dog was biting and clawing deep on its victim it had picked, but the victim remained silent and still until the hand grabbed the dog's jaw and slammed the dog into the ground.

A loud tremor shook the earth, and the power length as the first one Marina felt before she saw the first wild dog jump to her.

Then the entire pack of wild dogs attacked at once and the dragon-winged human snapped its wings and a wild wind powerful like a tornado sent the dogs rolling away like balls rolling on flat ground.

And the creature rose into the air after the crimson wings caused a windy storm to blow away the wild dogs. His hand latched out and the hand's palm squeezed into a fist. The air felt tense and everything froze.

The dogs from the ground soared above the straw of wheat flower, and he raised his other hand, which he held his fingers wide open, to point to the sky above him. A strong windy breeze blew against this head and waved his red hair wildly like tree branches wavering in a rainstorm.

His hands grazed in red dragon scales shot beams of a pulverizing, shocking power. It was an emerald fire swarmed with a violet shock of lightning bolts. An endless of a shocking, burning power shot from the hands at the dogs of the single person with red wings, red legs, and a red tail of a fire-breathing dragon, and the power turned the black dogs into black fogs of screeching greyish, dying skulls.

A half-human creature Marina never saw the likes of had a great power to destroy a pack of wild, black dogs. Black dogs are said to be hounds of an afterlife to come and torment ghosts of the living and drag children down into the depths of an endless burning fire. A great power a siren never witnessed was a thrilling, terrifying sight to behold.

One mortal being a half human with dragon limps conjured a power beyond the wildest imagination and his power was without flaw. Magic was a mortal power that came with a cost of aging its user whenever used, but the half human wasn't aging and was relentless as Marina witnessed him to be.

Then the power dwindled, and the black dogs morphed into black dogs with echoing skulls screeching out like crying children who lost their toys to a fire. The specimen halted his power and touched down to the ground. He breathed softly through his nose without opening his mouth, and he looked back toward the siren.

He walked forward toward the siren concealing the child with her body, and he stopped just six feet away from them.

Marina noticed the eyes of the man, with a look of a monster and a human and the eyes of a hateful sorrow.

"Who or what are you?" asked Marina.

"I am Vaeludar. I am a cross specimen of a human and a dragon. My mother was a human, and my father was a dragon, and I am a human dragon hybrid. But what I want to know is, what is a siren, which is a creature that eats humans, doing in a human village?"