Without asking, I shouted, "Everyone get on board... let's get the kids!"

I wanted to turn into a hydra and use the darkness but I collapsed, exhausted.

My dragon mouth hit the ground hard and I was groggy. Tyson had punched me in the face!

no, but I had hurt myself and a groan of helplessness naturally came from my throat.

I then begged mom...

And everything went round and round.

Tiamat straightened me up and I crawled meter by meter from my house to the spaceport. The behemoth could be seen from a distance, but it was no use.

I saw Enka smiling at me and I was as if drunk with fatigue.

"Coffee!" I begged. I knew that if I slept, it would be for years...

Kate and Darkia were also supporting me

Arnold: "Dad...stay with us!!!"

Vermithrax was sticking his little snout down my throat.

"DAD...hold on."

I was breathing hard but my whole body hurt.

"This is the end... I'm afraid... Arnold... Vermithrax... Darkia, Mama and Tiamat will be there to help you... ,Arnold...you are strong but.... be careful...our enemies are devious and persistent.... never forget who you are and where you came from... "But my eyes rolled back and I fell asleep.

I could feel myself being carried on a stretcher.

The children hit my cheeks but I was limp. I could feel the pain but I was like a sleeping limb.

Tiamat: "You should cover it with gold... that would speed up its regeneration by ten..."

Darkia: "That would be 5 years at best then..."... and the threat looming.

I think we need to start the ship and get Enka to put it in orbit. She's my mother too and she'll help us...

In the meantime, the humans transported me to the clinical wing of the old shuttle and put me in a hibernation chamber.

But many of the elves and gnomes were relieved that I was put to sleep. I was a threat all the time.

They knew that I wanted to eat them and that a single thread of reasoning prevented me from going on a rampage.

Darkia went to Enka's temple and the 3 dragons started to pray to the Destroyer.

Arnold and Vermithrax too.

Enka appeared in human form with several pairs of horns and very long hair. She was sitting on a throne, which was in her temple that had appeared on the ruins of my old base.

Even in this guise she looked frightening, but since we were "family" she kept her human appearance.

Her look was less severe on Tiamat

Enka: "You becoming a concubine was not on the agenda but I like it better..."

Darkia: "Mother and Goddess..."

Enka: "I know everything... but this is part of Hans' test... And she lowered her head. I'm sorry... I can't do anything... This is the "Father's" domain. The children are in his clutches but I think that Emperor Nicolai will not harm the children... The biggest danger is Dantinne, who abhors humans and loves to devour them... A real dinosaur evolved with human intelligence. A Jurassic empress. I would say that she is still a wild animal with the intelligence of a dragon.

Bloodthirsty warriors, but it is likely that if the children are not taken prisoner, they will certainly undergo training that brings them closer to dinosaurs than to humans... they might turn them into brutes. but I may be wrong.

Emperor Nicolai is a rising star for the Devourer and his new toy..but I don't think he has a cruel streak. Yes, he is a bully and a true dragon who is more like a dinosaur than anything else considering he grew up among them and follows the only true law for him:

The law of the jungle. He has allied himself with a Soviet-style rebel faction, like your friend Yuri, and has crushed the land armies with the strength of his muscles.

It's the brotherhood that runs the earth right now, he's not interested in power, but only to prove to his father that he was capable of it. In a way he saved his skin, the emperors of the Destroyer's empire not lasting long.

The monster forcing each of his vassals to kill each other to "collect" under the pretext of the djizira, souls, energy, resources to satisfy his abysmal and limitless stomach.

Nicolaï comes to crush Volkor and Tyrant but I am afraid for you afterwards...You are the next on the list.

If I intervene, the devourer won't rip off a few heads this time, but I might become his next meal. If I'm only skin deep, now you know why. Any attempt on my part would have drawn his attention sooner and you would no longer be a part of this world as I speak."

The dragons were terrified and groaned at the lens of darkness reflecting Enka.

Tiamat dared to speak, her long experience able to help.

"Goddess almighty, do you have any advice for us? Hans is in a coma and we are only a handful..."

Enka thought for a moment then sighed, "My children... Fighting is useless... they will crush you like a fly. If Arnold were an adult and in full possession of his powers, and with Volkor as his servant and Hans in form and you with your old powers, yes, you could beat him, but he is not alone. He has his father's powers and he has a family of powerful dragons, not to mention dragonified dinosaurs. He would get into Hans in hand-to-hand combat and it's not like Tyrant's a fencing fight but a dragon knight fight mixed with the savagery of a T-rex...

I've already seen in the future fights and Hans gets torn to pieces every time. He won't even have time to cast a spell, he'll have one of his heads cut off... "The only future comes from the children. Face them bravely, make ritual fights like in the jungle to show if not your strength but rather your determination.

Everything will depend on Dantinne. Don't forget that a raptor in his heart is never afraid of someone stronger than him... never.

They know how to die at any moment and you will have to show the same determination. If you surrender, they will tear you apart.

If you attack them, they will tear you apart.

You will have to face them and show that you are not afraid to die and then, maybe... they will recognize you and you will have to join them... It is also possible that they will take the planet for themselves... which is not so bad after all, considering your desperate situation. Humans have been living with them for a long time... so you might have a chance..."

Darkia: "What about you, mother?"

"If I am still alive... that will be a victory in itself... I'm not afraid of Dantinne, or the Electrons, but of the Devourer...he tore me apart... "

Then Enka started to cry....remembering her savage rape, which was closer to a snuff than anything else. The monster had held one of her severed heads in his jaws...

"You are more beautiful with one of your heads between your teeth"

while drinking her blood spurting out of her wound....They were all shocked.

Their goddess had given everything, she was now just an empty shell...

Darkia: "Not a word of this! Especially not to the humans..."

Enka: "I'll put the Repressior and the Doom into orbit and try to integrate their fleet..."

Kate: "What if Arnold is leading with Volkor...?"

Enka: "That's crazy...You would never see Louise or her brother or sister again...ever.."

Tyrant had his chance and he lost!

Kate: "What if his fleet is more powerful?..."

Enka: "Arnold would be his puppet, and then he would have to face the Devourer, confront Nicolai and probably kill Hans his own father to "prove himself" to the devourer demon.

Kate began to sob along with the broken goddess. Darkia began to think...flee to the dream world..A'Arnateth...to my palace...the Devourer would be able to go there though the Sphinxes...but it was the ultimate refuge..Enka looked at Darkia.

"The forgotten castle...it was my palace thousands of years ago...all that remains of it is black, glazed stone.... He did this to me...there..in my own castle... It was so beautiful by the sea. It used to be so calm...now it's just eternal storms...all because of Him!..."

Darkia let out a small moan of sadness, her animal part taking a bit of the instincts because of the inextricable position they were in.

Meanwhile, on board the Midway...

"Faster! Faster!" ordered Octavia to Vermillion.

They were racing with the raptors that had awakened and had only their former "masters" as reference.

"Alpha" didn't have a name yet, but his mind was getting clearer by the minute and the draconic venom was transforming him and his companions. Octavia had offered to dragonify Louise who had refused..

"we're already very strong like that!"

Octavia was also having a great time with her new friends..

"Ah, yes... Daddy told me that your parents called for help and they were told that you were safe. "

Vermillion jumped at the older dragoness' neck but she let the young dragon do it.

"Thank you! Thank you!"

Octavia: "Dantinne, Mama is glad you treated the raptors as friends and not as pets. She wants you to train like the young dragoraptors, but I see you're in good shape! Not like those mean humans..."

Louise: "Why does your mom hate humans so much???"

Octavia: "I don't know if I should tell you this but... it's a secret. I mean... she was born human a long, long time ago and she was sold as a lab rat... they put her brains in or marrow in or something... it's terrible, she was butchered and turned into a raptor and lobotomized... and then released with the other dinosaurs.

It was a carnage and all the children were massacred, devoured, torn to pieces and Dad arrived, saved her and voila. I was born!

Then the humans came back and they destroyed everything and our planet with it, well, I was not born on Vegeta but on grandpa...disguised as a fake earth... He is terrible and his anger is even more terrible but he doesn't get angry at me or at August.

Dad is afraid of him and Dantinne obeys him to the letter.

That makes me angry! And daddy, he fights all the time and he doesn't spend enough time with us! I'm unhappy to have to follow him like this..."

Vermillion: "You want to be our friend?"

Octavia: "Aren't I already?"

Glaçias: "I'll get there first... You slow down when you talk!"

Indeed, Glaçias arrived first at the central rock, a copy of the raptor rock on the Theniaw continent of the late Vegeta.

Octavia: "According to mom, in this hole, raptors used to hide and then climb up here to survive the terrible Dilophosaurus.

Louise, arriving last, "What's a dilo?"

Octavia looked around the jungle... "Well, there's one that's been following you all along... If it had wanted to, you'd be torn to pieces and bled dry.

They bite you and it's like scissors... the wound doesn't close and you bleed to death, you exhaust yourself and they pick you up in little pieces... and they see very well in the dark. It's a big raptor except that they can't jump like we can... The worst part is that they mimic the cries of their prey, giving them an air of false security. "

Rapetou, a dilophosaurus dinosaur came out of the bushes, right behind Louise and put his paw on her shoulder without hurting.

"Hi, you're Louise, I think."

Louise let out a cry of surprise. Octavia smiled and introduced Rapetou to the new arrivals.

Rapetou: "They're doing pretty well for their age but... but... when I was a baby, I almost got eaten a few times. They need to develop their senses and become aware of their environment.

Octavia: "Yes... The aura and also the notion of presence. That of killing intent being insufficient... My raptor aunts taught me a lot, but we can see that you have started to hunt in packs..."

Louise: "Why do we have to hunt like in prehistoric times when we have weapons..."

A magic dagger went to plant itself in the bark of the tree behind Louise, grazing her index finger, almost scratched.

Octavia: "Because this will keep you from pulling the trigger on your weapon. The humans of our land were crushed because they relied on their gadgets, but deprived of them, they were nothing more than chickens to the slaughter."

Louise wanted to cry.

"You mustn't cry... you must be hard on yourself! Here, weakness is death. And I don't want to see my friends die. We still want to be free, because we have always fought! Otherwise we would be in zoos or reserves with visitors throwing popcorn at us.!!!"

Then she led Vermillion to a wooden hut and took out a chest. "This is my most expensive treasure!. "And she showed a necklace with chains and an electric mahout stick:

"It's to remind me that daddy almost died so I could be free. Humans chained me and electrocuted me! I will never forget!

Everyone here, has experienced more or less the same fate and dad didn't escape it. He also found himself in a cage with a triceratops that died of hunger and was tortured...It was at the time when they didn't all speak yet but we had a terrible time!"