So Isaac opened his eyes and saw that the whole crew was lying down, or in the process of changing.

It was terrible and painful.

He tried to straighten up but fell

His head was at a strange angle and he looked at his hands. Instead of fingers, 3 large claws including a parallel thumb, not reversible. Disaster.

He put his paws on his face, which had disappeared and given way to a prehistoric monster's head. He had to face the facts, he had become a dinosaur, a velociraptor.

He had reptile skin and teeth like a super carnivore.

He looked behind him and saw the shreds of his orange suit. Everything was in pieces.

His senses, on the other hand, were amplified and he looked around and saw that he was not alone. A leg was chained to a pole and he felt scared.

What to do about it? What will I become? What's my name? Oh, yes, Isaac, commander of the Prometeous Mission.

He wanted to get away, but the chain was holding him back.

POV Isaac

Another lizard man, he looks like an Argonian approaching me

I fall to the ground, I'm lost!

The lizard man is reaching out to me.!

He wants to help me up?

Ahh ahhhhhhhhhhhh! I can't control anything. I have a tail and my knees are reversed. My arms no longer bend as before and my fingers"

Oh, my God, what's happening to me?

These instincts, this fear!!!

No, no, no, I'm Major Isaac! I have a mission to accomplish.

I'm not dead! I'm not dead!

I shout AO! Help! "Fwiwiish iiirkkkk"

No reaction!

Reaching out to the lizard man may be my only chance.

He helps me up... and caresses my head and arm.

he slaps his chest and says "Rakshah!"?

His name "Rakshah??" Yes, it must be his name!

I try to do the same: "Isaac" but a growl comes out of my mouth.

He turns to a human and makes a sad sign by shaking his head.

NOnononon, don't abandon me!..

The rocket, yes, AO, show the rocket:

I'm pointing my index finger at the rocket.

He caresses my cheek to reassure me. And caresses my front paw.

Then he waved with his index finger and put a strap around my snout: yes, don't bite...

Another lizard man helped me to remove the shreds from my old costume and brought sheets and a loincloth.

2 lizard women came and stared at me, adjusting it to my new anatomy.

I was given leather bracelets on my arms and a loincloth to hide my lower abdomen and leather sleeves on my hind legs. I wasn't naked! They dressed me to respect my dignity!

They are civilized beings, not savages!

A bowl was brought to me with water and crushed pitch, in paste so that I would not hurt my tongue. We put on some kind of wooden funnel, like a syringe, and they helped me eat. They took the food and carried it to their mouths, which looked like mine.

My mouth was more predatory and my teeth sharper, but theirs had nothing to envy with mine in terms of sharp teeth. They, on the other hand, had a more human morphology and especially fingers like humans, even if instead of nails they were very sharp claws.

I was invited to sit on a stool, the chairs being useless since I have a huge tail.

One of the humans turned into a copper dragon. And he growled and tried to talk with growls.

"Hello Earth Human Hello.!"

Yes, I understood!

me:" Ah, I understand!"

"Good evening! I am Karlonk, a dragon lord and officer of the Draconian Emperor Sinistrar's army."

I:" I am Isaac, commander of the Prometheus reconnaissance and colonization mission.

Thank you for helping us!"

Karlonk:" We have received the emperor's order to come and help you, travellers!

Before we go any further. Are you suffering?

Are the people who lie down and transform themselves your crew?"

Me: "Yes. Thank you very much for coming to our aid."

Karlonk: "I'm going to untie your chains at your paw. You're a carnivore and a predator now.

Out of hospitality, please stay close to your crew and do not try anything aggressive.

This is Raksha, our priest Lizard, and his priestess acolytes will provide care for you and your crew

Raksha is a golem and guard specialist and would like your ship to be able to recognize you and not enter defense or aggression mode. Raksha will take over. I will inform my superiors of the situation

Humans groaned and some finished their mutation... Others were screaming and going crazy.

we put them in cages to protect them from themselves first.

2 female lizards helped Isaac stand up and direct him to the ship

Raksha was standing in front of the door with the monitor and AO's camera

AO: "Guest Raksha, I'm in automatic mode and on standby in the absence of my commander."

Raksha:" AO, your commander is here, he has been transformed but seems to have kept his mind"

I "AO, it's me Isaac!"

Ao: "Raksha, I don't recognize the captain! No CT validates his identity.

Neither the eyes nor his DNA and I only hear animal cries. Access denied!"

Me:" Raksha, ask for a tactile request, a keyboard... a manual identification mode"

Raksha: "AO, the commander is requesting a manual tactile identification mode? Keyboard?? "Write..."

AO: "Authorized

The screen was split in two and a US qwerty keyboard appeared on the screen.

Ao:" Enter the personal identification code!"

I typed with my claw: "To my regretted love, Barbara!"

AO: "Validation code accepted. Welcome, Commander.

A rescan and update of your identification data is required immediately.

I entered the airlock, helped by Raksha and an acolyte who helped me move around the structure. And the file had to be removed from my commanding seat.

I could not speak or communicate with my AO. I had to ask Raksha everything... In a way, it created trust.

AO: "Commander, should you consider the mission a failure or a success and should we engage self-destruction?"

I:" Raksha, answer that the mission is successful and ask AO to put the ship to sleep.

I fell to the ground in tears. And the lizard men lifted me up and took me out.

I was invited to a tent with a diaper and suggested I rest to get my ideas back in hand.

An acoustic bubble was magically created, the animal screams being terrible outside.

Many lizard men cried when they saw our misery.

The next day, I always woke up in this nightmare body and a Scientific Assistant April had come to her senses. The others were growing with beast growls and erratic giggles. A third, Curtis, the exobiologist and chief scientist of the mission, had also come to his senses.

We were able to communicate in a draconian way. All the others had become beasts and 3-4 kept a semlblant of intelligence, let's say they could be trained.

The mission was a total carnage. Of the 100 settlers and crew members, 50 had died during the mutation and 43 had become stupid animals.

I headed towards the copper dragon and asked: "Lord Dragon, Thank you again for saving us. On behalf of the American people of the world, we thank you for your kindness and hospitality. Can we send a message to the earth about our situation? as long as the portal is active?"

Karlonk:" Only the emperor here present can answer this request. Your coming here has disrupted the functioning of the portal. And our magicians must analyze your coming.

Then trumpets sounded and the whole army of humans and lizard men prostrated themselves and a man all dressed in gold, with long blond hair and a vague resemblance to Auronne appeared.

Isaac wanted to bend down but unfortunately fell, unbalanced. The other Raptors with a semblance of humanity are lying down, drugged and unable to move.

Sinistrar spoke in draconian..:

"Poor visitor, I believe your name is Isaac?

Welcome to my world, but I am very sorry on behalf of all my people for what has happened to you. It's not our fault.

Hyper magic or Hyper science from your point of view involves risks whose consequences you have paid for.

I do not know what y

our intentions are, but I will take advantage of this unfortunate event as a first contact with your people.

Considering the state in which you are, and the state of your unfortunate compatriots, we offer you asylum on these lands which, I hope, will restore some of your lost happiness. Our best healers are here and being myself a scientist and archi mage in addition to being the emperor of the dragon people we must face the fact that we cannot return your original condition.

But in your misfortune, you have evolved into the draconian race and as a result you will have access to the rights and privileges of our race over other races."

If you have any questions, I'll listen to you, Isaac."

I: "Your Majesty, can we send a message that we have arrived and what has happened to us. So that others don't try and die like us?"

Sinistrar: "Granted. If you have any intentions, hostile, I will know immediately. Now you are our host and as soon as you are set up, a celebration will be organized to welcome the representatives of your people to which you belong"

"Your Majesty, what will we do?"

Sinistrar: "You are my hosts and my palace will be your home but you will be built an embassy

Oh yes, AO your ship is intelligent. You can move in here."

I "I have the documents authorizing us to come and settle in the territory of Ivan the Terrible"

Sinistrar looked at the paper stretched by the velociraptor....:

"Hahaha!, Ivan depends on Auronne who had to decide on his life or execution and Auronne depends on Goldur and Goldur is my vassal! I'm ultimately the one who decides. I authorized it to you so I don't go back on my word but the control of the portal is strictly ours. I cannot tolerate human management of such a dangerous tool.

I have reigned for a thousand years and we have known peace and we know that conflicts come either from races (human, dwarves, elves) or from orcs, goblins and demons.

But rest and give us news from our friends. Are they alive? "

I:" Yes, sire, they are fine, but Auronne is pregnant! Argentrix and Ivan are doing better. But they are suffering from the lack of mana in the atmosphere."

Sinistrar:" That's what I was afraid of... how are they doing for the mana?"

"They drink Ivan's blood and Ivan gives it to them."

Sinistrar threw his cup on the ground and turned into a gigantic dragon and screamed like thunder!

"MY POOR CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!"

Raksha breathed to me: "Goldur is Auronne's father but Sinistrar is Goldur's great-grandfather... a big family business..."

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Then he started crying and stared at me.

"TELL ME ALL THE DETAILS... THE PALACE WILL WAIT... I WANT TO KNOW EVERYTHING NOW!"

After brief explanations and the normalization of blood transfusions in our world, it was not considered vampirism.

There was no predation but the blood bite did not cause a blood transfer, just so that the mana could find its way efficiently. without getting lost, given the rarity.

Sinistrar turned, as a human and had tears in his eyes:

"If I understand correctly, Ivan has never used his powers on earth... just to turn into a human and he is at school with everyone...

I am glad to know that they are fine, but I knew it from the stone passed on to Goldur.

But the mana problem is worrying. If I can still calculate, Ivan won't last long. He will eventually run out of energy to help the 3 little ones who will arrive unless they adapt to your world...

The problem is Goldur, Fomalhaut and Emerald, who have crossed... Any news?"

Me:" I think we saw them but there was a partial collision and one of the dragons bounced off the hull and we saw a trail of silver blood on the windows.

Sinistrar: "I hope they are safe! Do you have a means of communication?"

I: "It would be necessary to deploy a parabolic antenna to communicate with the portal and or the relay probes released into space via the portal. But the collision ripped out a black hole of heat dissipation."

Sinistrar: "Black hole???? A black star??"

"Yes, we built it!"

Sinistrar: "You have the technology to build this kind of monster and it's in the portal?. He will devour everything between the worlds and our two worlds will disappear! This is a disaster!"

Me: "No, it's a small one that will be able to evaporate in a few years. It keeps the gate running by supplying it with energy thanks to the heat of the stars..."

Sinistrar began to fear these humans and consider them a threat worse than demons.

"Why do you have this kind of technology?"

I: "We are beginning to explore space and sow life in other worlds...."

Sinistrar seemed a little better off:"

Start installing your means of communication. I hope to hear from my protégés. Thank you on behalf of our people for the assets they have received.

But the mana problem is terrible. It's really humiliating for us to depend on a chromatic dragon. Fortunately, he has a good heart.

When you communicate with your people, we will have to focus on stabilizing this portal, this monster.

Eight other dragons jumped into it and a caravan of gnomes. It's insane! They are putting themselves at risk and we must act urgently!

My magicians are studying a solution for your world but now it will have to become fantastic... I won't let my children die! NEVER!"

The emperor disappeared as he arrived and Karlonk said to me: "You survived his anger! It was terrible but it is expected that he will destroy half of the castle upon his arrival, finally his return to the castle in the city of Gold, the capital. I think he likes you.

Now, we'll give you your dragon education! All dragons have to go through challenges after an apprenticeship given by their mother. They are perfecting their skills at the academy and they must take on human form on their own to have access to it.

The emperor has given me the responsibility of taking care of your education. You will represent your people as dragons and follow the mandatory training. Humans cannot engage in politics on the territory of the empire. This is reserved for dragons. So when other humans from your nation come, you will represent and defend them in the council.

Otherwise, another dragon will represent you. This system ensures the maintenance of peace and sits on the authority of Sinistrar, our Emperor."

After a few days to get used to the idea of our new Saurian condition, we started building the antenna. The work done by lizard men, everything had to be explained and this increased the working time by 10 times.

April was going crazy and had to be sedated because she didn't accept her new appearance. In fact, no one. No one and nothing was used to this! to this horrible transformation.