It was dark. A blackness of absolute emptiness, a blackness of darkness.

And, cutting through the jelly of darkness like a knife, a geometric shape was travelling astronomical distances at a speed that no one could measure, except perhaps the gods themselves.

Behind it, the last of the stars were fading, their light gone for centuries and millions of years.

Stars were becoming scarce and were being swallowed up by a universe of black holes that were devouring each other to become a dot in a dead dimension, with nothing, no energy. As if the universe had been devoured... And whoever thought that was not far from reality. If reality, the word still had a meaning.

The days repeated themselves and continued in a well-established process.

With the alternating alarm clock, for one day every century...

And after looking at each other and touching, the tears, cries and moans... then Dany held his beloved... naked in bed

He stroked her hair...

For all these years... I wish we had had a child too. On the nightstand he saw a horned girl with a reptilian tail.

But I love and have always loved Victoria... She looks a lot like you.

"I love you Danny... You will always be my man."

"And me, what do you want me to call you today? My little Tiamat darling or Poisse?"

The half human straightened up and stepped aside, stretching her arms.

Being in your arms warms my heart and knowing that part of my family is here comforts me.

Dany got dressed and joined the others after putting on a bathrobe... No need to dress up for a day...

In the dark room, a hundred people knelt on worn cushions in front of portraits of departed loved ones and on the walls of the universal temple, crosses, Hindu symbols, and Muslim crescents and of all religions and denominations reflected the single glow of the single lamp in the room. They were used to the dark and every ounce of energy had to be saved.

No more solar panels, no more external mana. Nothing left as a power source except the billion year old central crystal. Computers and all unnecessary functions had been turned off for centuries. Only the residual magic of the evil idol kept the structure alive as a few survivors traveled into infinity with only one direction... a distant point. Not too close, not too far.

Too close meant being devoured... and too far meant being lost to the end of time, which, all things considered, has come.

A large black dragon was lying in the back and it was not a comfortable one, hence its name: Cruel!

A black angel dragon, a destroyer.

But a human woman came closer and kissed the monster on its snout.

"Cruel.... I loved you... you were a crazy, perverted old man... but you're young now... right???? "

He sighed and lay back down, raising his wing and Obsidian lay against him. she then moaned. "Marise... MArise...why!!!!"

Cruel: "She lives in you...she is not dead...."

Obsidian, "She's just a head! What a horrible fate... I'm doing everything to make her happy... "

Cruel: "I know... it's hard, but I promise to bring your little sister back as soon as we touch down... you know that..."

Obsidian: "Yes... the crystal... This is our death sentence..."

Cruel: "I know... you've found me beyond death, beyond dimensions, and you've faced fate... but we'll get there... I promise..."

Obsidian stamped her foot and then rubbed against the body of her beloved dragon... "That monster... I hope he pays....You know.. She's mad as hell... and that's what makes her far more dangerous than the devourer..."

Cruel chuckled... "I know... Inferno... that's one of his many names but at least he wasn't crazy. The only reassuring thing about the hydra is that her maternal instincts still overpower her madness, but that doesn't make up for all the evil she did...

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The human then cried for her mother, her human mother and all her friends she was happy with.

"How I miss Switzerland...my family, my friends...."

Cruel licked her head... "Courage my beautiful one...I promise you beautiful children when we are out of business..."

Then she burst into tears... and slid down his scaly body...

"Cruel... I can't take it anymore. I'm going crazy......"

The dragon said nothing and she turned to see the eyes of the others fixed on her, then lowering their heads.

Some were afraid, even terrified at first but with the routine, and the deadly peace aboard the near ghost ship, this deadly ark, they were all resigned to die and humans, as well as dragons all looked the same. That of being trapped in the void and having the feeling of being buried alive.

Some, in fact, the majority had asked not to be woken up again and a sort of 'spin' had set in but unfortunately, Poisse and Obsidian were forced to stay the course and make sure they followed their mortal enemy.

Then, bitterly and with a heavy heart, the humans returned to their cryo-containers lined with galactic ice, an assurance of non-degradation of vital functions and a brake on the old age that could overtake them at any moment, turning them to dust instantly. But the structure, the octahedron, protected the ark, the Aegis 3, designed and created by Bishop, a scientist who had pierced space-time, a pioneer in long-distance travel.

He lay with his wife. Their human bodies having disappeared for millennia, they had slept for thousands of years in this vessel that had become a flying tomb through infinity and absolute darkness.

Their only hope was the appearance of meta-snowflakes, each representing a universe. And that was just a faint point of light through this darkness.

It was their only hope, their only reason to continue living.

To correct and maintain the dimensional shift, the two humans embraced their companions and entered the airlock naked. By magic, the oxygen was fully recovered and as soon as the vacuum took place, they climbed to the roof of the ship, but still in the Octahedron, the ultimate barrier separating them from space.

They held hands and transformed into half dragons and then lay down.

Their bodies grew to almost the size of the AEGIS and two five-headed hydras faced each other.

They were the same size and looked like twins but with the order of the heads changed.

They faced each other and Obsidian, the "young" Tiamat lodged her consciousness in the main red head and looked at her golden head. She was facing Poisse the "little" Tiamat.

They came closer and straightened up, taking each other's front legs to form a kind of arch with their heads.

The golden head, independent of the others, licked her red head.

"Obsi...don't cry...I am alive and with you, even though we have the same body, I feel good inside you..."

"Thank you, Marise..."

"Look, do you feel it like me??? "

"Yes...there must be mana...and lots of life...lots of souls..."

Marise : "Poisse, do you think we'll get there before we fall into dust?"

The little Tiamat, who was in no way smaller, rubbed her head against Obsidian, Tiamat the "young"

"I am afraid... what if our existences devastate this world? Just being here???"

Obsidian : "I don't know... at the beginning, if we make it, we will keep our human or half form or even dragon but no more in Hydra..."

MArise: "And you think they will attack us???"

Obsi: "I hope not... they are all victims but Enka is a monster... The worst thing is that she doesn't realize that she is the one who destroyed our worlds..."

Poisse: "She doesn't even realize, and she regrets and pretends it wasn't her but she's afraid...all the time afraid and her paranoia has destroyed everything...She moves with a massive black hole that destroys everything behind her back. She fears the devourer and...she even destroyed it without realizing it...or put it on ice like her children...She takes them out from time to time to play with them like dolls except that this is on a galactic scale..."

Obsidian: "I hope she collapses into one of her black holes and never comes out..."

The two tiamats caressed each other with their long necks, showing immense affection. Poisse considered Obsidian an intimate companion, a family member, and a big sister even though they were not blood related.

They bowed and the ship shook, each head connected to a dimension and they corrected course every century before going back to sleep.

They projected their minds in all directions to secure the ship so that no collision could occur in the next century during their forced and painful hibernation.

In addition, they were hungry.... and the sensation remained as a dull ache.

After their "ceremony", they returned to human form in the ship and Obsidian collapsed on Poisse...

"I can't take it anymore!!!! This is ... this is HELL!!!"

I am a Tiamat... but I am not a devil or a demon!!!!

Poisse but we are damned... but it's not your fault or anyone's..

She pulled her friend to her feet and kissed her without any intimacy, and she led Obsidian back to her igloo of eternal ice.

She let go of Obsidian's hand when she relaxed, a sign that she had finally fallen asleep.

Then Poisse sobbed to herself in the dead silence of the ship that had been extinguished for eons

She remembered her human life in Pondicherry and the gourmet meals in Lyon with her mother then she burst out... "DADDY...DADDY...I can't take it anymore...take me with you..."

Then she remembered the duck hunting scenes in the marshes with her dog and her dad.

She went into her ice igloo and waited to cool down...

"I'm so cold... I'm scared.... please... lord.... I beg you.... I've never been a bad girl... She still prayed for the terrorists she had killed to protect her village and her friends... Dany... Dany.... take me in your arms one more time....."

Then sleep overtook her knowing that her awakening would be in a century.

Crossing dimensions and space was one thing but going beyond time.... was a challenge...It would have taken a third Tiamat to compete with Enka.... She was not a primordial goddess for nothing...

As soon as her eyes closed, she was rudely awakened.

Screams of pain and pleas invaded her mind...

Enka was fighting... no... She was devouring the Divinities that protected their universe!!!

Her massive Octahedron had collided with a planet in a new universe and a cataclysm was taking place...

Enka was on a killing spree...