The cargo ship carried the four of us to Norfolk, Virginia, the largest US military base.

Surprisingly, no bands or receptions but a frosty welcome.

As soon as we left the container, we were escorted by a 2 jeep armed one in front and one behind.

We went to an airplane hangar and an office was set up there.

An officer, with a cane and white gloves was sitting, surrounded by 2 marines at attention.

He was waiting for us and he got up and made the military salute when we arrived.

I was scared to death.

The hangar door closed behind us with a "clang".

The hangar could accommodate an awac and was huge.

Each hangar was defended by an anti-aircraft armoured vehicle and all these weapons made me nervous. Hissa, Auronne and Argentrix did not understand the dangerousness of these weapons. A burst of fire could pulverize us...

"Hello Ivan, I'm Commander Iggins and I run this military base. Don't be afraid. We brought you here at the request of the Minister of the Interior, who receives his orders from Parliament and the President.

Our information network is monitoring you and we believe that you are withholding information that could endanger national security. We'll ask you nicely once. A short film will help you talk."

A surveillance camera in the cave showed the other side of the gate with the carnage and then a series of blurry testimonies.

I got angry with Argentrix and Hissa speaking: "I am his mother and he is terrified. "

Iggins: "Mrs. Hissa, he's 48 years old! And you have 16. You're not even an adult here, only Mrs. Auronne seems an adult here and Miss Argentrix also calls her mother.

I think you are neglecting or underestimating our investigative capabilities.

You go through time, show evidence to historians. The positive point is that there has been no law violated, hence our complacency, but we will not tolerate lying. To be clearer, if you lie, even by omission, your rights will be taken away from you.

According to testimonies, these muscular orcs had the strength of 10 local men. Thousands were killed by you!

Who says that in a coup of madness or reproductive rage, it wouldn't go through your head to kill innocent people?"

I spit fire and ice!

Me too says Argentrix.

And we had magic too, like fireballs.

He took note.

Well, that's a good start.

What's next?

The report Hissa Ivan and Argentrix Auronne?

We looked at each other and said, "We have no choice..."

Hissa took a robe and amber light out of nowhere and I was an 8-year-old kid in front of the officer.

Hissa put on my robe.

Iggins suddenly got up and approached me.

"Are you the dragon?"

"Yes..."

"Are you really a child?"

"Yes!" I cried

Another light and Argentrix turned out to be an 8-year-old girl.

"Oh" says Iggins.

I better understand why dragons are adopted...they are children and why they are so loved...

Iggins asked me a simple question with unbelievable consequences.

"Ivan, when you slaughtered the orcs, did you know what you were doing?"

I: "Yes.

If you just risked dying, you wouldn't have fought like that, it's not right to take a life for a life... But it was different! To surrender meant having your soul torn off and being sent to hell to be devoured incessantly or to be enslaved by demons for eternity, much longer than the life of your sun... It was the fight not to lose... So we gave everything to save ourselves. We had our legs tied by skeletal hands, the real forces of evil..."

Iggins: "Do you regret it?"

I said, "Take lives, yes! But the innocent had to be saved and by sabotaging the gate, we saved the kingdom from genocide. We avoided ethnic cleansing and who knows, we avoided them coming here afterwards."

We were then invited to follow him to a shooting and training range.

"Ivan, I want to see your breath on a tank. Destroy it!" Otherwise he'll shoot you!

The tourelke was pivoting.

"Commander Iggins, there are people in there!"

"Well, you asked yourself the right question."

I looked in infrared, but it was empty.

"There's no one in there," I shouted, "I was flying away and suddenly I turned the tank around."

"I don't care! I want to make sure there's no one in it."

Cast Strenght

All of a sudden, I tore the tank like a sheet of paper and there was someone in it, surrounded by thermal insulation. The guy was tied up and gagged.

"Murderer" I shouted towards Higgins.

And I freed the unfortunate one.

Iggins:" You just won your freedom! You have proven that even under threat, you respect life." But I ask you without threats this time, I would like to see the power of magic.

Me:" You want magic? Okay, I'll write to you what had in Merlin's book, but, apart from knowing how to light a fire or make a flashlight, you won't go very far. But that's fine! You took us in, it's normal that we compensate you."

I took some distance and blew on the tank and it froze instantly.

The tank next to it, a fireball and the affected area melted a little.

"Iggins: what power! What about your fire?"

I climbed up and blew a ball of breath with a little mana and the tank got its paint and a little molten metal, as if a molotov cocktail had been thrown.

Lethal and formidable for the Middle Ages but against tanks, useless...

Iggins was a little nervous, thinking he was finding a terrible weapon.

"Commander Iggins, I see you're sorry. But these are natural weapons to defend us, to heat us and disinfect us... It's not intended for war, forgive us"

Iggins: "And what's this about the Demon Lord!????"

"Oh, I ran away from the post!"

Iggins: "Why?"

Me: "They had bad breath and the castle smelled like cabbage! I was tired of all this crap and I wanted to go home and play with my train..."

Iggins????????

"What do you want to do later? "

Me: "I would like to go back to school...with Argentrix and then get married and open a craft pottery or Forest Ranger to watch forest fires and accidents or first aid in the high mountains..."

Iggins hit his forehead... "Potter..."

Iggins: "And why don't you work for us...?"

Me: "If it's not to kill people, it's not a problem..."

Iggins: "You know that at 18 you will have to do your military service!!!!!! Might as well do it as soon as possible to be quiet and"

Argentrix cried, "We'll be separated??????" surrounding me with her wings.

I said, "What about school?"

Iggins: "We have the military academy where we train the nation's elites and as "Great Silver Goddess..." an honourable title of officer would go well with the office.

Remember that by having a rank and a function, you also have the protection of the army because other nations have a BIG sight on you.

Kidnapping, blackmail, experiments, forced egg laying and a whole range of tests and living dissections..... There is a legion of scalpel fools... isn't it Mr. "Ivan the terrible"?

In addition, making a V1 by means of....slaughtering an elite army... going through time in addition to being a dragon, it is only through our good will that you can fly under our blue sky..."

"I understood, Commander..."

Argentrix: "You're not going to..."

I said, "Yes, you are, and you're going to come with me. The military academy is still about children. Even if they are raised with a wand, they remain children and we too will remain as children and enjoy our youth. Commander, I accept if Hissa can come with us and Auronne too. We don't want to be separated. That's our only condition..."

Iggins:" Okay, will it be okay? As a human?"

Me:" Yes, if we have a hangar and we can fly and hunt nearby. We have big stomachs.

Being human is for us like walking in shoes that are too tight."

The Indians protested and some also registered to follow us to the military academy.

Once we left to arrange our affairs in Alaska and prepare for the start of the academic year in 2 months, we took advantage of it as if it were a summer vacation that would end to keep in touch with all our refugee friends.

It was also time to make friends on earth because I think we're going to stay here for a long time.

My brothers and sisters in the orphanage wanted to follow me, but we had to resign ourselves to separating.

Brutus wanted to come with Hissa, to watch over her and he enlisted as a soldier. After all, he's been doing this all his life!

Arak wanted to join the special forces as a sniper and he also joined the army. They were also doing their military service, in a way.

Then, after a few weeks of wildlife and TV in the evening, we flew off and went to the military base where we would be debriefed for the next few days and decide which academy we would enter.

Obviously, we choose the one where we would be most in the mountains. The sea, the boats and the confinement, too little for us....... The fresh air... raaah!