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

Acceptance

The dawn appeared of the clearly sky, and all shrouds of evilness that tainted the air was now clear. The world lacked the necessary evil to destroy it, and life can flourish onward. Everything that happened has happened for a reason, and everything appeared to have been turned back into the way of life flourished before Lusìvar try to slay all living mortals.

However, it may be, life couldn't be the same anymore. Those who dared fight against Lusìvar suffered several casualties, and none was more lost than Vaeludar. The hybrid chosen by the gods had given his life to save those in need, but the up who still needed the most saving was Marina.

She was absolutely devastated when she saw nothing was left of him, only the arm and the Sacred Sword he held. But even the Sacred Sword didn't last long. Since it was longer a useful item, it sparked a bright light and bursts into a thousand sparks like stars. Those lights rose into the sky and likely back to the gods, but that wasn't good enough for Marina. She wanted Vaeludar by her side, not dead.

Throughout the morning, the soldiers heard her cries and best left her, except for a few followers. Sora, Monico, Flavius, Teutates stood on one side, and a few others from the Northern Region stood across the other: Alfhild, Orinù, Kelda, and Halvdan.

They heard Marina's crying and how heartbroken she was. Her first love she'd have was gone. Dead all the more, and only with him could she feel the most alive. One life broken in two different forms. And there was nothing that could be done as Marina does know this. But it was too soon. Why did Lusìvar have to cheat to stay alive, and why did Vaeludar had to die so?

Marina couldn't live her future without him, and she knew he couldn't live with her. With him gone forever, she won't live her life as a human she called herself. That warm feeling of love to keep someone alive and to be with forever she can't no longer be with as with Geraldus.

Sora was alive, but she also loved Vaeludar. Two girls loving the same hybrid, and there may have been some hostility there, even if Sora apologized to Marina. Sora could still feel the romantic love, but Vaeludar only seen her as a sister, not a true lover.

She stood behind Marina as she caresses the only thing of Vaeludar: his arm. Sora strolled without warning to Marina who ceased her crying, but she still was in heavy grieve.

"Did it hurt when I told Vaeludar I loved him?" asked Marina.

Sora placed a hand on Marina kneeling on the ground. "It hurts as much. We love another person, but sometimes the other person just can't love the same person back. You and he were meant to be together, and I just didn't see it. I was focused on loving him much, I was blinded by the truth. I hated you, after some thought, I just have to give up. But now there is nothing to be done. He is... forever... like my father."

Marina tried to fight back her cry, but Sora's words propelled her into crying again. Yet Marina couldn't do it. She just can't cry, but her heart grieved. It would take years for her to recover what strength she needed to keep pressing forward. She was understanding more of what Vaeludar said of "looking blindly to the light and keeping eyes open to darkness and keep to the middle of it all."

She had to keep pressing forward, but without him, she just doesn't have the strength to keep moving forward. He made her stand and fly with him, and she remembered the warm feeling when he took her in flight.

"Come let's go home," said Sora.

"I had a home," Marina cried, taking one last glimpse at Vaeludar's sliced arm. She stood back to her feet and turned to walk.

Sora took a glance at the arm, and it just wasn't enough compared to the entire entity it belonged to. Now Vaeludar had gone to join Geraldus. Sora followed Marina and left the arm behind as a burial mound where Vaeludar's body had joined the minotaur's corpse in a pit of a canyon.