In the ice, near the exit of the octahedron, there was a huge tube filled with liquid and 2 metallic shapes were floating in a kind of oil.

Suddenly, an eye opened and the red light came to life.

Quickly, metal plates, claws and tubes moved in the oil frozen in time.

Another form detached itself from the first one and blue lights lit up too.

The creatures had main eyes but also 2 other pairs of secondary ones.

"Hella???? "the first creature called out.

The second reacted by squeezing the first.

"Alban! We're alive!!!"

The infernal creature booted his hud and a whole series of information invaded his mind.

One piece of information was critical.

"Phew... she's alive!"

A graphic in his head showed 2 eggs still alive in one part of his body.

After a quick round of information, everything was ok and all functions were top.

"Nanobots in oil... that's it... we've been fixed..."

His rage subsided a bit and then a red laser like light scanned the environment.

A belt of ice surrounded the remaining liquid tube.

Hella scanned as well. "Yes, but I detect that the layer is thin at the top, we could melt it with the phaser we stole from the ice queen.."

The weapon was built into her guns now and with a bang, a laser cut through a film of eternal ice, not melting it, but just fast enough to push a "cork"

The next moment the 2 helldrakes could get out of their prison.

"Quick, we have to get out, the ice is regenerating."

They fell out of the tank, soaked in the oil that started to freeze with the cold.

Wheels came out of their paws and they ran towards the much warmer exit and the next moment, the two dragons of steel and electronics were in the open air.

Alban: "Everything has changed! Nothing looks like what we saw before. "

Hella : "What do you remember?"

"MMM, if my memory is intact... yes... oh... shit! we are a billion years old!!! and we are somewhere else... no map, nothing. Yes.. I have, no, we were picked up in space while fleeing the wave of temporal destruction. We were affected a little and we rusted. You took it bad...but I was picked up by a faction, the devourer's faction...a ship, the Midway... It's here, I know it and Alice is asleep. Nice girl, that AI. OH... Hella, don't be jealous..."

The dragoness clutched her mate and began to cry.

"Alban... I'm so happy to be with you.... But leave your revenge aside... I know you were human and what they did to you but I'm sure they did everything to..."

"Stop, Hella... you don't understand... My king, my kingdom, my friends...they are all gone...I only have you and...my sister turned into a monster like us!"

Hella: "A billion years ago...we are your family now...make a new start!"

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Alban : "But those bastards! they might be here too!! who knows.. It's unfair and disgusting! You have no idea what we have suffered because of them, their madness and their magic... They tore the world apart with their infernal machines. And I!!! I am a machine!"

Hella: "And what about me?...am I a machine in your eyes?..."

Alban looked down, aware that he had hurt Hella's feelings.

"Listen, I understand and I don't blame you... I was born like this... we don't decide what kind of face we have. You were born human and reborn as a Helldrake. A beautiful and super Helldrake. You are the most beautiful and the strongest I could ever dream of having...And...I love you, you don't know how much. You think a machine can love???"

The dragon plane Alban sighed "Yes...you're right...sorry...I'm bringing it all back to me and I have to leave these grudges in the past."

Hella: "That's the Alban I love!"

They walked away from the mountain without looking back.

Hella: "Don't you want to explore the mountain?"

"Nah... I feel presences, lots of presences and the past must stay the past. I know they're there and I don't want to wake them up...or see their faces again...and...I'd be in danger of making a mess."

"And Tania? Do you feel that she is here too?"

"Yes, she's here..."

"And the eggs? It's still his wife and their child... "

Alban turned around.

"Hella... "Look what they have done with the human me... Tania... you have no idea what she is! She's... she's a demon... she's HAKUMEN!!! a dragon crossed with a 9-tailed fox demon and a war-mad commando and....she's got Tiamat's hellish legions in her in all their glory.... If we release her... or silk, even if she protects us, it will be chaos, fire and blood again... "

Hella: "Yes, but she has a heart! She knows how to love too! and she has a good heart!"

Alban: "Of course I know all that...I would have to partially seal her and I am not a God! She's nice but she fights at the first opportunity and it degenerates into armies and then again and again. She is addicted to war. And then it's too early!...and I'm scared!!!"

Hella: "You are afraid?, You?"

"Yes! They look at us like they look at Tania..., I feel it and my senses tell me that we have to run away"

The wings unfolded and their necks went in. The tail froze and the two creatures started to look like a mixture of F16 and dragon and then, the next moment, their turbines started to whirr and they took off almost vertically.

"YEEAAAAAAAH!!! " they screamed in delight as they took to the air for eons.

The two creatures were filled with joy and flew around the mountain, scanning the surroundings and sending out radar waves to map their environment for the next 200 miles.

Hella: "I sense a city to the south, to the west and one to the north.

Alban: "And I feel signals to the south and west. It's weak and must be a comm tablet like the ones from Midway... I'll try to hack them..."

Moments later: "One is moving, to the West and the other to the South is not moving...

Yes, military tablets... Oh, a dragoAllosaurus.. Krakou!... and in the South, Roth!...a human.."

Immediately he decided to go south.

"Alban! Do you want to find humans already??? the others??"

"Hella?"

"Alban... you know I love you and... I'd like to leave all this behind... Why don't we make a den for ourselves? A house just for the four of us? This whole world... it's ours! Why should we share it again and again and follow orders???"

The dragoness had awakened Alban. In a way she was helping him regain some of his humanity.

"Hella...do you...do you want to make a home?"

"Yes...It's just the two of us. The army is over, and so is hell. Tiamat the orders, the missions... it's over. It's just us... let's start a family! That's what I want since I'm with you!"

Alban: "But..."

Hella: "Shhh, we know how to have children, dragonets! Even if we're made of metal..."

Alban looked at himself and at his companion..and he felt her metal heart beat..

"It's true... I'm alive! I'M ALIVE! ROOAAAAARRRR"

He clung to Hella and as a tandem, they fled southward, toward a mountain range surely rich in minerals and prey.

In their joy, they flew over the raptor tribe and a "Bang" of sound barrier crossing shook the entire village.

Moments later, as they passed through forests and swamps, the landscape became more rocky and they flew over a neolithic type town with some aspects of the Middle Ages, but they didn't care.

A "Bang" accompanied them and they soon found themselves on top of a mountain, a mountain range. They settled there.

Alban: "There are humans further away and we'll see when they hatch. If she has her memories or not, we'll improvise..and we'll see about Tania..."

In the Raptor village, Volkor says through his teeth. "Helldrakes.... this is not a good sign!"

Roth: "Tiamat's army?"

Volkor: "The blue, yes...the red, another faction...even more terrible. "

Roth: "The Demon Lord? "

On the mountain to the south,

"The problem is that if one dies, another is chosen directly below him. And if it's the last soldier, then he automatically becomes Demon Lord in turn... even if he doesn't know it himself.

A bit like you... You are one of the generals of Tiamat's army now, a Helldrake Lord..."

Hella: "That's exactly what I want to get away from. It's over... I don't want to talk about it anymore. It's just us now..."

After kissing, the two helldrakes started looking for caves and a safe place to start their new life together.