During the festivities, I was delighted and Darkia did not let me off the hook.

Then, from the balcony overlooking the valley, I saw six fighter ships landing and the pilots, especially the first one, rushed out. What was my surprise when I saw Waspy... Then Star was running after her.

A few seconds later, a Vespalian in all her size was facing us and...She jumped on me

"MAAIIIIITREE MAIIIITRE How we missed you BOUHOUUU HOUUUU!!!"

The giant mantis was crying sincerely and I took her by the "shoulders" Waspy!...

Then STAR intervened by kneeling down...

"Master... I am delighted to see that you are well. But I must announce you that Waspy matured during your absence and that she continued your work with determination. We have rebuilt an even stronger army and a battle cruiser/carrier is operational."

Then I looked at Waspy who was crying and scythes trying to grab me for a "Hug."

"Is it true about all this...? You really did all this for me?"

Waspy: "Yes, but for Enka... to bring you back alive..."

"I'm sure she heard you and she will reward you..."

Then Waspy turned her head. She was on my lap like a big dog..

"This is Darkia... my sister and ...my bride.."

Enka stood with her mouth open... She was enjoying it and didn't know what to say, pleasantly shocked..."

Darkia : "I Je.... am her worst nightmare..." Then she stared at Waspy in the eyes

Waspy was in a moment in the palace on the island of the storms and a gigantic shadow made its appearance. She was in small fairy and could not transform herself into Vespalien...

There was a throne...and a dragoness was sitting at full height but her shadow was "pushing" the fairy forward.

She knew that she was going to be devoured...

Darkia had already the open mouth, full of teeth and Waspy began to moan, to beg but she advanced towards the jaws... her legs not answering any more.

A step, then the other until the fateful moment...

Darkia's neck was abnormally long, her mouth open like a church porch and Waspy was coming to an end. But Darkia snapped her jaws at the last moment, and Waspy slammed her muzzle.

"This is a warning, dear Waspy... I want you to know that I am the Queen of Nightmares and not just the Queen of Darkness. I'm saving you from having your dream end in a nightmare this time. But know that I know everything, and no thought or intention can escape me.

But just once try to take my prey for good or ill, and your worst nightmare will become reality. I can decide if your wounds here can reappear in reality."

Waspy: "But I love Hans!!! "

Darkia: "Hans is my prey! I can do what I want with him! He is mine and nobody else's..."

Waspy: "But with what right??? you want to kill him??"

Darkia : "Enka gave him to me! I have to HATE him!"

Waspy laughed....

Darkia was frustrated... "You dare to laugh?

Waspy: "Enka, if that's your mother... she got you!!! If she told you to "devour" him... It's because she wants... pups???"

Darkia remained with her mouth open, her cheeks all red... then... she started to cry of her idiocy..

Waspy came out of his torpor and jumped from Hans' knees and didn't even dare to look at Darkia. Waspy smiled of his victory over the queen of nightmares...

Darkia, on her throne, held her face between her paws, all red then she got up and fled by the balcony, spreading her wings and running away...

Hans looked incredulously at the dragoness. .

"I'm not going to let her go now that I have feelings for her.."

And I also leapt into the sky after Darkia...

I shouted behind her.

"Darkia... come back.... come back..."

"Let me..Hans..."

Drops touched me. It's raining? no... it's tears...

I flapped my wings and caught up with Darkia, my cheeks touching her tail.

"Don't leave me.... I would be miserable without you.... Darkia!!! Darkia...I beg you...I love you.!"

She stopped, hovering and I held her by her front legs as we landed

Darkia: "Enka laughed at me.... I got it all wrong..."

Then I stroked the dragoness to comfort her.

"Mother is a deity and she has concepts that are beyond us. She must also be alone and she wants us... Just by our presence... "

Darkia:" I made a fool of myself... To devour for a devourer also means to make love?"

"Yes... If she wanted you to devour me to kill me she would have told you "get rid of Hans"

It was also up to you to discover the meaning of her words...We are the closest to her and we understand her but she also has her modesty and she is a goddess...do you understand...?"

Darkia suddenly started to laugh.

I did the same and we returned to the castle not to spoil the party that they had so hard to arrange in so little time.

In the meantime, Waspy was informed of the latest events and at the end of the evening, when everyone was calmed and fed and the dwarves and Kobolds slowly returned to their quarters, Waspy informed me of the capture of the children, Bello and Kate...

"Tomorrow, Waspy, I'm coming to see your work and visit our "guests."

Waspy withdrew and returned to his hive with the spider ships...

"We need to talk to the Chancellor..." Bello asked insistently

Black Fairy: "Human, you are overstepping the good grace you have been given to stay together... tomorrow you will be judged by our Supreme Leader, Lord Carnage."

Bello bowed his head. The Vespalians were adamant. But tomorrow everything would be decided.

Meanwhile, Sarah arrived in the village and summoned Mondeville alone.

"General. It's a catastrophe..."

Mondeville: "Are they dead? Where are Kate and Bello?"

She whined...

"Bello let himself be captured... They got Kate. She didn't have time to do anything.

The vespalians, they are huge monsters..Waspy their general and their Queen!!!"

The general rubbed his moustache: "AH! But go on!!!"

Sarah: "They have tanks, they are armed and have radios and they talk! Some of them are fairies with the spells that go with them and they captured Kate in a net and carried her like ants. The tanks, they transform them... they have an armada, the Kobolds are with them and the dwarfs too.... There are thousands of them! Their smallest soldier is 4 meters high! It's worse than the alien queens in the old horror movie!"

Mondeville reconsidered his options...

Very powerful monsters, capable of taking out tanks while flying...

Sarah: "Oh, yes, I forgot... the radars, radios and equipment are jammed... and they have missile turrets at the entrance to the hive... and they have fighter shuttles... faster than the Ummite shuttles..."

Mondeville: "And the children, are they dead? were they shot down?"

"No... the crane shuttle, we saw it. It was damaged but there were no gunshot marks on it...they are safe and sound with Waspy who would like to stay friends with.."

"Sarah, in your opinion...with our tanks, and our elven troops combined...would we stand a chance against them?"

"I highly doubt it, General... we don't even know if our ammunition could hurt them"

"And with the elf magic?"

"General... have you seen the carnage of Hans' weapons against the elves and their armor? Waspy once explained to me that the elves got their magic from the sacred stone in orbit, an Ummite magic. But Hans used earth and runic magic, universal and far more complicated...but stronger, more powerful and forgotten by man..."