Goldur became madly angry when he learned of the disappearance of his daughter and granddaughter and me and the hostages who returned home.

He decided to involve the dragon people to join the humans in settling the orcs and horde once and for all.

The orcs had ravaged the forests to build boats and invade the lands of Magestia.

Goldur made the terracotta incendiary bomb technology used before against Bhaal.

It was a carnage.

All the Orc ships were sunk and the horde exterminated.

After a month-long campaign, Goldur arrived at the ruins of the portal.

He retraced the battle and found scales and drops of blood from his 2 protégés, then he was joined by Emerald and they huddled together, crying for their child and granddaughter.

Emerald was inconsolable and she lost her golden coat. It will turn yellow-brown...

"They were so kind..."

Goldur took back his childish form and entered an unbroken underground and staked out the fragile parts with his magic of earth.

He finally arrived at the heart of the gate, still intact with the runes that Hissa had turned over.

He came back to his beautiful girl crying.

Honey, they're alive.

But they are overseas and in the future.....

"And can we bring them back?"

"It's not an invocation circle, it's a space-time portal!"

Once there, you have to go and get them...

The cost in mana requires sacrifices...

We need another kind of magic.

He proceeded to rebuild the portal but in a draconian way by structurally modifying the magic and planting mana stones loaded by the dracosires.

Emerald was inconsolable and cried all the time.

Fomalhaut's father came to join them and Fomalhaut also worked hard to load the mana rocks.

A permanent magnetic storm made the place completely desolate and crystals came out of the ground by the magical force that reigned.

The dragons slept and recharged and so on.

The believers in the Great Silver prayed for his return and finally, one day a mini portal opened. He was purple and used some phantasmagorical and divinatory magic.

All we could do was put one hand or one arm.

Then a tiny voice rose up behind Emerald:

Great dragons, I'm alone and without family. And I love Argentrix and Ivan. They're my friends, they've been good to me. I can go and join them!

The little being was tiny and emerald stretched his claw and he came to rest on it:

"Little one, you show great courage and kindness. We will bless you and your future generations.

she put a necklace on him to give it to her daughter and granddaughter with gems with messages in them.

Here, this pearl, swallow it and you'll be dragonized. You will grow up and be endowed with speech and magic. Here is a pearl with which you will learn magic, heal yourself and your friends, make yourself invisible and unlock any cage.

Bless you, little bird..."

Thus Vertix rushed into the portal and the shields that the dragons infused into him began to protect him from the temporal and dimensional waves. Its twisted space and dimension were protected by the shield that prevented any attack on its integrity.

So the little eagle was sucked into the tubular vortex and found itself in the Alaskan Indian cave.

Of course, the Indian shamans and priestesses saw a column of purple light again this time and rushed to the sacred cave.

He was exhausted and lying on his side, a necklace around his neck and tied with small pieces of cloth.

He wore jewellery on his legs and ornaments showing that he was an intelligent and self-aware animal.

A raptor trainer took care of him and put him in a cardboard box with cotton wool, meat and a bowl of water.

He was allowed to rest.

The shamans said that he was certainly a messenger from the other side of the world.

Ribbons with common writing tied to the legs with pictograms and symbols of the Argentrix world....

The next morning, the little eagle woke up and started eating.

He also began to speak to the great amazement of the Indians!

A TALKING EAGLE!

They had to use the Common / English dictionary to understand that the messenger was sent by Auronne's parents, powerful magicians.

They would open the portal in 6 months, the time to recharge the crystals and they had given the plans to rebuild a portal in the other direction. Only Auronne could decipher them.

In 6 months, a message and in one year, a portal activated once a year. Stones of power and equal alignment should be sought, if possible each from the other world, to establish a strong and lasting bond. It was a crazy and risky bet.

That Vertix reached its destination was a feat in itself!

Then Vertix asked the falconer who was taking care of him to take him to Auronne who worked at the Anchorage library.

Auronne, prayed for her parents and paused in the park in front of the library and she heard his name in common and saw a bird calling her by her name!

A huge smile appeared on her face and she took the bird and squeezed it tenderly, covering it with kisses and tears of joy.

News! At last!

She devoured the banners with her eyes and took the necklace and swallowed the gems of the necklace one by one.

MMMMhhhhhhhnnnnnn what a delight!!I'm saving these for Argentrix,

The precious gems melted in the mouths of the golden dragons. They were their favorite snacks.

You could almost make them corrupt with it, but fortunately they had self-control over themselves that most humans don't have.

The gems by melting conveyed message, information and knowledge to their recipients and were also a safe way to transmit knowledge without the risk of interception.

She cried when she saw her mother, Emerald, talking to her and she was also sad to see through her father's eyes, her mother depressed and mad with grief for her. You had to tell them that they were fine and were really well treated and that the people here were doing everything they could to make them happy.

But the magic was dead and was slowly reborn by diffusion of their 3 bodies.

She thought immediately: to activate the portal you need more magic, and more dragons..... To have children......... no choice.

She prepared a good meal for Vertix and promised to take him to the military academy.

The portal will open briefly in 5 days but only to pass a stone or a gem.

It was the big purple gem super loaded with mana.

The weekend came and the four of us went back to our ranch, finally our barn and its little piece of land on the sacred Indian lands and we used the gem as a camera on which we showed our friends, the Indian tribes and the priests and priestesses and they showed that they had included in their rites the draconian rites of the sacred servants of the dragon manitus.

We all greeted each other with farewell and hope to show them that we were free and happy and above all, together. We also showed some pictures of our world but we prioritized our messages of love and farewell. And above all, that I will look after them.

The stone disappeared in a purple flash and a violent purple thunderbolt appeared in the sky.

On the other hand, Goldur was desperately waiting for a message or sign until a thunderclap rang.

The dragons rushed onto the purple stone and he embedded it in a matrix and the images appeared.

They saw our group, surrounded by friends in Argonian clothing (the Indians). And tears flowed from their eyes too old to have cried over the world.

"They are alive, free and safe! Surrounded by friends and happy!"

Goldur took his dragon wife by the shoulder and took her for a drink and they went to feast at their den, happy to know that we were safe!

Fomalhaut matured and his family got closer to Goldur. They shared all their memories of us as they told each other and they reviewed the images of the gem. They made enlargements and portraits of us were painted.

They also examined the images of our world and concluded that we were much more technically advanced than they were, but not so much on a social level.