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

Epilogue: Dusk of the Tale

Vaeludar found himself flying in a near-panicking state. He rushed through the sky as a human child fell from the sky. He caught the child rather quickly with his left hand, and his wings ignited a gush of wind. There was a loud roar shattering in the skies, and Vaeludar's winds shattered the clouds, and a bolt of a heart-pounding electricity took to a shocking sight.

A dragon fell from the sky with its scales fried. But its eyes remained opened as its catlike pupils glared at the human dragon hybrid in his demonic form. It blinked once before its wings flapped and moved its paralyzed body to a nearby cloud to disappear.

Vaeludar sighed as the red-scaled dragon vanished from view; he didn't want to kill it as someone was trying to hunt for a lone monster to kill. He looked to the child who flapped a pair of dragon wings of her own.

Not to his surprise, this child inherited his own traits despite her face and figure looking like Marina. Her legs compressed of dragon legs with sapphire scales and human skin paling to the clear skies. She lacked a tail and instead fins of a fish attached to her elbows, back and kneecaps. She really looked as both and one could say a clone of both Marina and Vaeludar: a siren dragon hybrid.

"Athena, I told you before. Your lungs are not capable of breathing fire, and your muscles are not yet capable of howling things heavy."

Athena was the daughter of Vaeludar and Marina, and their lives together came together to have an offspring of their own: seven-year-old Athena. Her humanlike body was that of a her mother, and her legs, arms and parts of her head of her father. Her body was of the open ocean and sky, and her inherited her father's personality traits.

Athena only kept her head down and her fingers trembling. Being a child of a hybrid and a siren have created a more unique hybrid, but she was a siren with siren traits. She was frailer to damage than Vaeludar. Humans have strong immune systems than sirens as they lack immune systems. Creatures of the sea and not tolerate of sun, expect for Marina.

"I'm sorry, father," Athena replied shyly. "I..."

Vaeludar cuddled his daughter close to her. He hugged her showing he shows a great deal of love. "Just because I was young doesn't mean you are the same. You have your mother's half abilities, and remember. It was I who absorbed other creatures' genetics creature that made me stronger when I was born. I was born in an unnatural state, but you were. I love you as your mother does, in the case will be worried. Let's go home, my daughter."

Vaeludar released Athena from his arms as he watched her fly on her own. She did look like her father, but only the dragon parts. The rest reflected Marina, with dragon horns behind her siren ears.

Vaeludar flew and Athena followed back home to Marina.

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Marina paced herself among the high cliffs from the beach. A cottage house built behind her, and it was her home along with Vaeludar. Her daughter, Athena, has been gone all morning. There was only a note left behind written, I want to be become stronger like father. It was directly saying she wanted to become a living legend as Vaeludar was.

Marina was worried her daughter could have become... No! She didn't want to think it. Athena was the only child of her and Vaeludar. For eight years, Marina and Vaeludar raised the child with proper care the child need, unlike Marina and Vaeludar who grown without proper guidance from a parent and from a distance toward their own homelands.

But Athena was raised as a proper child and not neglected or left behind. This time, Vaeludar and Marina in their similarities raised Athena to be a proper child. They found out she was a capable warrior at heart, and she was as her father.