Louis entered the dark part of the darkness and could see the second half of the Octahedron, like a pivot on an infinite labyrinth.
It was a terrifying place and she didn't dare to go back there, except with someone...
"Mom," she cried.
Then she stretched out her wyvern wing arms and flew towards the geometric figure.
She wanted to confront her grandmother, to do something, to beg, but certainly something foolish.
She didn't have the wisdom or the distance to feel the divinity and the distance of respect between a creature and its god.
Enka, her grandmother, was a God and she seemed to forget it...
A noise made of billions of laments turned into a litany of moans and like tinnitus.
Suddenly, a terrible voice exploded in the labyrinth.
"LOUISE! I FORBID YOU TO COME HERE!"
She wanted to move forward but an invisible wall rose up and she crashed into it, hurting her lips and muzzle.
Blood flowed and behind the barrier, ice golems appeared and monsters like scrawny bears growled, bound by a rusty chain.
They were the guards but also a projection of Louise's worst nightmares.
"Grandma???? why??? I'm not mean... I just want to talk to you...."
ENKA: "LOUISE!!! I'm angry!!! what's going on here is none of your business and...it's dangerous, extremely dangerous. And then... you hear like me!"
Louise reflexed her blood that was flowing a little bit and her regeneration took over, the wounds closing.
Enka sighed... "Listen, my child... Here I am a god and the guardian of time! It's not easy... But I am above all a god before being your grandmother."
Louise, feeling betrayed, began to cry.
"Don't cry, Louise...but I am watching over each of you. And you must prepare for the coming and waking of the others. "
Louise was overwhelmed.
"Grandma... Mom!"
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
Louise wanted to get closer to the octahedron but walls of eternal ice stood before her.
Enka: "If you get closer, your soul will be torn apart... "
"Grandma... are those voices?? who are they??"
Enka: "These are the laments of the Gods that are being digested in my belly. ....
Louise was suddenly very afraid...
She had never thought about the cruelty of a devourer or a destroyer...
"Understand me well... We are no longer on the primal plane. Our time, our reality has been taken away... and we are on a positive primal plane..."
Louise was not following and was crying, overwhelmed... for the first time she was no longer following the explanations...
"Louise, you are at the beginning of your existence... and you have my divine blood in you... It is up to you to awaken it and make it grow.
But if you don't understand... We are here because we had nowhere else to go... Do you even understand that?
Louise nodded and looked at her paws...
But Enka continued.
"We are not welcome here... All the gods and creators have put themselves between us and this world, this universe...
You were my egg and I protected you.
I went into the pile and they are in my womb..."
Louise cried again, not accepting the explanation...
"Louise.... how to say....we are demons....."
Louise could not accept this reality and her body...
"I was human...!!! I want to go back to the way I was...!"
A head with a neck deformed by several kilometers, like a hair enlarged a million times...arrived at Louise's mouth.
Enka: "It has been millions of years since your humanity evolved. It's up to you to find the magic and strength within you to change your appearance. "
Louise: "It's too hard..."
Enka: "You want my place??? To stay awake for a billion years and bite everything that threatens us??? So stop complaining..."
"But, grandma... why can't we all wake up together??"
Enka started to smile.
First of all, I don't want to! I am a jealous and possessive goddess. You are mine!
Seeing the sadness and despair.
"Louise... stop looking at me like that! Yes.. I am a monster! And yes, we are all damned. We are all monsters from hell... we all have blood on our hands or paws... without exception.. But the truth is deeper...
There are still gods here and if we continue the destruction, there won't even be a floor to put our paws on... worse, we will pass through this reality... like eternal ghosts condemned to starve or freeze forever... Do you really want that?
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If we release dad and even an arch-dragon... like Nicolas and Dantinne... we risk collapsing like a black hole!!! We need to be observed, our reality to synchronize with this world... A billion years to change dimension, it leaves traces.. I'm sorry..."
"But... then when? how?"
Enka: "your generation, the youngest, the most innocent, the ones with the least blood on their paws and the conscious animals can go out safely... and..I'm sorry, but you'll have to have young..as soon as possible. That way they will permanently ingrain our existence with this world... All their hopes rest on you!..."
"You want me to do me, have a dinosaur climb on me?"
Enka: "I can see the future, but there are rules I never break. For your sake and for the sake of our whole family."
"The Spino????"
Enka... "You have a lover, right?"
"It's not fair..."
Louise, too stupid did not understand that Enka had just revealed to her to go in search of the one she loved... Auguste but had understood that she had to be mounted by Apex...and maybe have to kill Vicky...
She ran away and passed a cell with a gate and a girl full of light singing.
A chain on the wall...
XXX . "A minion of the Destroyer..."
Louise landed in front of the horrible cell.
"Oh... you are a prisoner? "
Louise hadn't even made the connection between Enka and the labyrinth and its occupants..
XXX: "Ah.. a pure soul..You look like a nice creature, yet you are scary. Are you a dragoness?"
"I was so pretty before...I was human...."
XXX: "You are the children of the Destroyer... I don't understand... But... are you crying???"
Louise: "SNiff..."
XXX held out his hand between the bars... "Demons cry???"
Louise: "I am not a DEMON!!! NO!!!"
She sat down in front of the dungeon. Then she lay down.
Louise: "I can't even sit up anymore... did you see me? I was so pretty......."
XXX: "But you are a beautiful wyvern... and your heart makes your scales vibrate with a thousand fires..."
Louise put her muzzle against XXX's hand and he caressed her.
XXX: "I see the girl in you... you were blonde, weren't you? "Then she stopped and felt all the malice that the dragons have suffered...
The goddess prisoner dropped a tear... And looked differently at the Destroyer...
"What a mess..."
Louise broke the gate. "Are you coming? I'm getting out of here... "
And Louise stepped out of the labyrinth, to find herself at the foot of the Doom.
The ship was on its waiting hold.
She turned around and saw a light, fleeing the valley and leaving through the entrance tunnel.
She then realized what a stupid thing she had just done... Ah... I freed an enemy of Mamy...
Then she entered the cruiser... "We have to wake up Waspy..they will help me to kill Vicky...but...Vicky is so nice...I can't take it anymore!"
She climbed onto the extinguished freight elevator and jumped off, spreading her wings and climbing about fifty feet to the belly of the metal monster.
Everything inside was sinister and dark.
With her night vision, she managed to get to the main reactor and knowing how the ship worked, like their little cruiser that they had restored for fun but had not enjoyed, she was overcome by a wave of nostalgia and saw her brother and the 3 dragonets with her busy restarting the equipment.
"How I miss it..."
And she arrived near a control panel.
"Let's see if there's any power left,"
She put her paw on a sphere and transferred mana to it, as before, and she realized that everything was multiplied by a hundred..
"Ah!!!" her eyes twinkled, hoping to get her daddy and Waspy's dragon command station back online and able to use the antenna and radar..
A screen lit up, flickering a bit, but regaining its functionality. It wasn't made of diodes or a beam like the cathode ray tubes, but made of mana crystal powder with complex magic circuits, converting primal magic into advanced technology.
All the lights were in the red.
The life systems were at a standstill and she looked at the mana core
"There must still be energy."
A side screen lit up. It was connected to the darkness...
Enka appeared on the screen
"What are you doing? Louise??? Stop this immediately...! "
Louise: "Grandma... I don't want to lay dinosaur eggs!!!" I'm a girl... not a monster!!!"
Enka: "Think about your mom! Kate! Are you glad you saw her again? She is a dragoness like you. She is alive and proud of you. She loves you and me too!..."
Enka knew about the freed goddess...but felt imminent danger. Louise was falling apart mentally... And scolding her would only precipitate everything... She had to be kept busy...talk...
Louise: "I don't want APEX... NOT APEX... PITY. NOT HIS EGGS.... HE'S A BEAST!!!"
Enka: "You didn't understand anything.... I was talking about Nicolas's children..your drago raptor friends!!! and there are still a lot of them to meet...like Marius, his cousins...and you're going to have a little brother soon..in dreams.."
"Auntie Darkia???"
Enka: "She's sleeping...the dream world is reconnecting, it's a work in progress...honey and I'm exhausted..I really need to sleep."
Louise: "More promises... "Then she looked at herself.
"Sorry Grandma!"
"STOP!... If you press this button... you will die!"
But Louise was haunted by the ghosts of her mutilated youth. The journey and the ice had taxed her soul and she no longer knew who she was or where she was... everything was so different.
A teenager needs to build an identity, a life and a reference, but here everything was mixed, chopped into a soup of tragic events, wars, prison, power, and time.
Life had lost its colors, leaving only horrors, fears and scares.
It was too much.
"Sorry, grandma... I love you but it's too hard..."
Enka didn't let herself be led by emotional blackmail. And her protective smile of a goddess who loves her children, for even a cobra raises and protects her family.
Louise saw the terrifying face of the Destroyer and his horrible teeth...
She had her finger on the button and wanted to push it, but time seemed to stand still.
"Louise, you have gone too far and defying a Goddess of Destruction cannot go unpunished!
Because of my love for you, I violated the rules of time by warning you that you would die. And this is for me one of the worst taboos!
Not only do you unleash a powerful enemy, I guess more out of ignorance and stupidity than defiance, but you dare to threaten me with your own destruction!
I AM FURIOUS! AND I REMIND YOU THAT YOU ARE MINE AND YOU DO NOT BELONG TO YOU!"
Then, Louis wanted to apologize and move and saw with horror that the dashboard crystallized and that the ice went up the button and along his greenhouse.
"ARRGHH PITY MAMYYYY!!! NO NO ICE NO NO NO.... I won't do it again!"
Enka: "I'm sure you'll never do it again....because you won't get the chance to do it again!"
Louis felt all the malice of the goddess, mixed with his love for her...
The terror was absolute and she pissed herself, slipped and ripped off the clamp that was stuck on the button. Blood spurted out, like when you rip your fingernail off by slamming your finger in a car door... well, you can imagine the pain.
Louise scratched with her hind legs to escape the ice that was invading the reactor.
She started to run and avoid the crystals that were growing fast everywhere.
"HIIIIIIIII HIIIIIIII"
She dashed off the platform extending her wings with her horribly painful "hand".
"SORRY GRANNY....SORRY GRANNY.... We're not monsters... We're not monsters... "she shouted.
She somehow managed to get out of the mountain, and she dived into the river but her finger was throbbing with pain...
Then she saw Enka's reflection instead of her face, in the reflection of the water.
Her tears fell on the water.
"Sorry. Grandma.!!"
Enka: "Sorry who???"
"Sorry Goddess Destroyer!!!"
ENKA, furious, roared and the whole mountain shook... the mountain circus shook and rocks tumbled down the wall and ... a volcano erupted with a Pliniènne explosion.
Louise turned around in terror and fell to her knees begging Enka to forgive her.
"LISTEN, LITTLE SHAMELESS WYVERN... A DRAGON HAS NEVER DARED TO MAKE ME ANGRY. IF you weren't my little girl... you would have gone EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE until there was nothing left..."
Louise: "You were so sweet," she dared.
ENKA, excited. "If you do not want the ice to take you then write on a wall, a rock what you want with your blood: "I beg you to forgive me, DEESSE ENKA" 100 times!
The terror was absolute and the punishment cruel but necessary to put Louise's head back on her shoulders.
Then she cried, the pain was awful but also equal to the affront.
"I really messed up...It's my fault...sorry granny..."
Enka felt Louise repent and she breathed a sigh of relief, looking into the crystals of reality... The tragic path had changed.
These emotions had tired her and she fell asleep a little, against Hans... "My most faithful child... your daughter has quite a temper... She wanted to look into the future, the realities that were collapsing and returned to the present to see the factors that endangered their position.
"Children...the future is in your paws then she let herself sleep a little..
"Just a little...."