Louise was frozen but she was also impressed by her valley, her village and the mountains she was used to admiring.
It was home and, in a way, reassuring, but this time it was gloomy, lifeless, silent, dark and dead.
Everything was sinister, worse than in a cave.
It was, how can I put it, like a tomb. Yes, that's right, a tomb!
You could hear the crunching and straining of the ice, which sang and twisted but never broke, and it was disturbing.
The summit was invisible as if in a dark mist, without sunlight at the edge of the night, and the village looked like a village of vampires.
Louis went to the temple but everything was frozen, closed and the access to the command center was too small.
She concentrated in her human self but ended up hurting her eyes by squinting.
She had to get used to it. It was to be expected..She's a Wyvern now, a winter wyvern.
Dark blue with crystals and a tail crest and impressive claws that don't allow her to use tools, though Enka, in his great kindness left her with a reversible thumb on her hand/wing. But with 3 fingers ending in strong talons, it was not practical to use tools... Her paw talons were more flexible for manipulating objects.
She thought "now I have to use my toes... Great!" (Great in the sense of catastrophic)
But she was worried and her instinct was to run and fly, then glide to reach the exit.
"Please don't let the defense system shoot me! Please..."
And, when she reached the closed gates, there were no lights or indicators visible through the glass of the entrance gate.
She took a branch that was lying around and threw it at the gates but nothing happened and she jumped over it, using her wings, and she arrived at the exit, at a concrete crossroads and she arrived in a tunnel of ice wide enough to pass through and she didn't wait for the rest to join the light on the other side.
As soon as she passed through the tunnel of imperfect ice, she turned to look at the monstrous size of the pyramid. It was not a pyramid, but an octahedron whose tip was reaching through the clouds and into space.
Immediately, she felt the cold of space flowing down the walls and it could be deadly. A draft at -80°C was deadly. She might as well have taken a bath in carbon dioxide snow.
She galloped away towards the walls of a colossal crater, a mountain range, with the Octahedron in the middle.
Soon she arrived in a forest of cold-resistant conifers and could admire the landscape.
Everything was craters and broken rocks, plateaus raised and eroded for millions of years. It was a bit like the Grand Canyon, but 10 times worse, wooded and forming a circus of mountains and valleys around the perfect geometric figure.
The sound of water and a river attracted her attention and she was dying of thirst and hunger.
After an hour's walk, the frozen area gave way to a sparse but open area of forest, with only the most resistant trees having managed to grow here.
Then, grass appeared on the ground and, quickly, tall grass, bushes and thickets and, finally, a swamp with water that circulated quite quickly. The water was clear and a beach of pebbles and cobblestones made it possible to reach the water without sinking too quickly.
Louise looked around for a moment and life was normal, but the presence of the colossal monster was felt to the point that trees and grasses were growing, deviated by the micro gravity it emitted.
Seeing nothing in the water and nothing around, Louise brought her mouth close to the surface of the water so she could see what it looked like. With her crystal mana she found herself... beautiful in a way. She was a very beautiful dragoness, who also had a certain charm.
She swallowed her head completely to gorge herself with water. An incredible thirst, almost the thirst of a diabetic who can drink and drink and still find himself with this cursed thirst.
She stuck her head out and shook herself and looked for an imaginary sheet from when she was still human.
"Shit, I have to shake like a dog and she thought again about magic and its lessons.."
She circulated her mana, and the next thing she knew she was dry and shiny.
"AHHH!!! how good it feels! and this water... really fresh!!!"
There were sure to be trout or salmon, that was for sure, but hunger gripped her.
She inspected her magical inventory and took out one of Enka's "rations".
And she opened the cloth containing the meat and...a bust, legs, and elf heads impaled on a spear were on the menu and...a small letter of accompaniment.
"Honey, I'm sure you must be starving after that very very long trip. This can only soothe the pain in your stomach but this humanoid meat is the best thing for storing mana. It is fresh from a few years. It's important that you regain your strength my dear. You are a magical creature now and to be able to survive a journey of a billion years (well, a few million) only that which is imbued with my mana has been able to withstand the ravages of time and the thousands of curses that the gods (whom I have eaten in the process) have hurled at us to prevent our unwanted arrival.
I know it's hard but you are brave and you are able to overcome these small trials.
They didn't believe in me anyway and they kill dragons... I'm sorry to say... we're the bad guys... well, that's a matter of opinion... we're the good guys for the family... well, you'll find your answers.
Grandma Enka who loves you!"
Louise looked at the torn limbs forming a pile of bloody meat...
The first reflex was to vomit ice.
Then Louise started to cry.....
Then GROWLL. the stomach started to burn and the meat and blood.... were like light for a moth... Attractive.
"No... I can't.."
GROWWWLLL!!!
She then remembered Darkia and Kate's words, "You should NEVER refuse a gift from Enka... She is your grandmother but her tantrums can be devastating...never forget...she is the DESTROYER!!!!! She can rip you to shreds that you didn't see and might even nip you in the bud! It's a matter of remaking you... Some kobolds told us about their misadventure when they made fun of the goddess when they were still elves! Now, they're digging in the iron mines! or they come to serve us in the hope of a pardon..."
GLOUPS!
"I... I have to eat zombie???? but the bodies must have been elven mages or clerics... full of mana juice!"
She pulled the head skewer out of the spear and swallowed one of the heads, like an egg being swallowed without biting...
The ball appeared in the neck and went down the esophagus and Louise cried...
Then, suddenly, she heard a cry.
"WOUAHH HUAHH!!!"
It was familiar...
but the noise was getting farther away.
"HUAH HUAH!"
She went to hide towards a rock and leapt onto the rock, 6 to 7 meters higher.
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Louis was 15 meters long and the size of an African elephant, plus the neck and tail, his head the size of a Deinosuchus (the head). So a hell of a jaw that has nothing to envy to the T-rex.
It had to grow twice as big... according to Kate, who reached 30 meters at the end.
Louise, in the shelter of the high ground, overlooked the shore and could see any predator coming.
Her height also gave her a certain advantage and the steep rock forbade any dangerous climbing or jumping.
She still managed to fly a little, even crashing, but it was enough to escape.
She tried: "WOUAH!!!... Wow... "as she imitated the cries of her hunts with Arnold and the Alpha pack. Their Raptor buddies.
"HUAH" "HUAH!"
The voice answered, and more followed to indicate the number.
There must have been 5 or 6 of them.
It was risky, but she knew how to integrate a group of raptors, but she was no longer a child, but a teenager and...that carried risks, especially from a love parade...
And breaking a courtship meant rejection and sometimes it ended badly. Love quickly becomes hate in the animal world.
Hunting and eating animal prey was better than having to ingest ENKA's "gift"...and even if they were humanoids, the pack hunting is ...more natural.
"HUAH - HUAH"
This time it was close and we could hear the dead twigs and branches breaking under the heavy footsteps of the predators...
Louise: "What kind of crazy world am I in?
She looked up at the sky, which made her dizzy, and could see the earthly moon, completely frozen like a crystal ball... and, behind it, an immense moon, one fifth of which was missing. Probably the earth moon that had pulverized a sliver in the other big moon
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The footsteps slowed down and we heard sniffing
The footsteps slowed down and sniffing was heard.
"HUA!!!"
"GROUUA!"
It was a friendly call
Louise whistled in Raptor and their eyes met.
Immediately they snarled and Louise lowered herself onto her rock in submission.
"HUAH?"
"GROA... " said a dominant male.
They recognized Louise as a scaly one but surprised by her appearance which must have been 6 or 7 times their size.
But not to be fooled, Louis showed them his teeth and snapped his jaw once.
The message had been sent.
Louise was a predator too and the Raptors had to know who they were dealing with.
She dropped her "Present" from the top of the rock as a sign of peace.
With dinos, a peace sign was a bloody prey offered to the dominant.
The alpha snorted then looked at Louise...
"LOU- I-SE?" he growled.
He had recognized her scent and presence.
"ALPHA!!! you're alive!!!!"
She leapt from her rock and embraced Alpha.
Muzzle to muzzle, they licked each other.
Louise "You talk!!!"
Alpha... "Alpha... talk a little dragon... Alpha and tribe devourer blood... devourer clan! .... You Destroyer clan!
You Enemy Clan!
Alpha and Louise and Arnold Friends!
Difficult! Alpha head small!"
But Louise didn't care... she recognized her hunting friends.
Alpha: "Arnold? Vermillion?"
Louise lowered her mouth... "I don't know... I'm all alone!
Alpha: "You come to raptor camp... See Chieftainess! You submit! Terrible chieftain..."
Louise: "Dantinne??? She is very nice to me.."
Alpha looked at the other raptors, not knowing what to say. His mind was proto-human and very very Neanderthal.
"Not Dantinne.. Vicky!! and Apex! Sharp! very big teeth!! You follow me!"
The raptors began to run again and I was hard pressed to keep up. They were very agile and light.
My body was making the surrounding area echo and the stealth level .... was not good.
The night had fallen and I could see a fire!
It was a campfire with spears all around planted and with human skulls stuck on it.
All around, bones and bones of different animals but some skulls of humans and elves and smaller ones, goblins maybe?
Then I arrived in front of the fire and on the rocks around, dozens of eyes were looking at me, and if I looked closely, many raptors were watching over the rock leading to a cave lit by torches.
On the fire, a huge boar was roasting and, on skewers, a human or humanoid impaled on a Neanderthal cooking spear.
One could see females making bowls and clay tanks with patterns carved with their talons and teeth.
Many had bones planted as decoration or jewels on their crests and some had capes and furs as armor, with bones going through to give more rigidity.
Others carved flints and made spears.
There were no knives or swords, but the spears could be held by their front legs and with speed, become a terrible weapon in addition to the claws.
Some had "gas pedals" attached to their tails. They could thus throw long arrows or assegais by their tail and produce a weapon superior to the crossbow.
Others made weighted nets for fishing but also for larger prey.
Probably humans or mammoths?
Louise was amazed to see a Neolithic tribe with a slightly dragonified saurian people. Well, more than a little.
One of the raptors offered Louise a crown of flowers and they licked each other in greeting and thanks.
The tribe welcomed her.
But suddenly, the ground began to shake.
And... a huge dinosaur, a mountain of fangs and claws stood before me.
We were the same size but his musculature... it was comparing the strength of a Gorilla and a human woman, about 20 to 30 times more powerful.
He would rip my head off in one shot... I could be one shot!
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It was a monster somewhere between an earth dragon and a spinosaurus on steroids
It was a monster between the earth dragon and a spinosaurus on steroids...
It growled and came straight at me.
I had the reflex to get down on my stomach and let out the raptors distress call.
Immediately his jaws clamped like a vise around my neck and I groaned.
"Dantinne Dantinne, help!"
His hind leg was already on my side and his talons were poking at my scales and it would have only taken a moment later for me to be disembowelled.
GROAAAARRR!!!!
My eardrums were about to explode... and, like any submissive female, I did windmills with my front paws, as if in a mating simulacrum.
The monster had taken position as if I was going to be mated but I kept my tail clamped between my legs, to show that I did not want to but that I was submitting.
After two or three grunts and nips to the back of the head, to let me know who was boss, I groaned like the raptors and the hold stopped.
The Spino moved away and another dinosaur just as big appeared. I didn't know him or the spino.
Alpha stood between me and the Apex and rolled on the ground in terror and pleaded.
The Apex rubbed my nose and the trickle of blood that ran down the back of my neck at the claw.
Then the female dinosaur came up to the Alpha and licked it.
He put himself on the ground and the Apex climbed on him but this time they mated in front of me.
I was terrified...I was afraid and I didn't want to carry eggs! no! never...I wanted to get back to my human size and shape...Grandma had promised me!...
I started to cry like a little girl, and this attracted the attention of the female Gigantosaurus.
She grunted and the Spinosaurus went away grumbling.
I squealed and some female raptors stood by me to comfort me.
The female was monstrous and... was wearing some kind of saddle... with... a tank turret!
A cannon on a dinosaur??? but what was it??
And not a WWII cannon... a railgun. and ammunition on the side. But there were inscriptions in French!!! yes... the language of Nicolaï!!! He didn't speak English or draconian.. but French.... It was quite a comedy... he knew English and Draconian but was stubborn about his original language!
Gigantosaurus : "Who are you? I smell the Destroyer!!! our enemy!
Speak well because if you speak badly we will eat you!"
"Sniff... I am Louise... Augustus and Dantinne's friend...!"
Vicky: "Ah... yes... the little human who was playing with Octavia..."
The tension dropped and Louise did not understand why the dinosaurs were sentient, forming a tribe like the cavemen.
So many questions
Vicky then took the "humanoid" skewer and handed it with its mouth to the dragoness.
"Peace meal!"
This time she could not escape.
It was bite the human or be bitten...
She shook and bit into the skewer and the flesh was ... how to say ... tasty ... like roasted ham!!!!
CRUNCH
CRUNCH
Vicky: "You hostage... why we not your enemies?"
"MMM.. You are Vicky.. and Apex is your husband... but ..your people are... similar to mine!... and Dad, HANS... Hans Carnage....his dad is Devourer! Grandpa!"
The gigantosaurus
Calmed down "Welcome to the Apex Tribe
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Calmed down "Welcome to the Apex Tribe."
Then Apex and Vicky lay down in front of Louise.
"You are smart...we are not...help us! "
Then I looked around...they were my family now.
Then, warming myself like everyone else by the fire, though I wasn't cold but the fire felt good, I asked.
"Are you the leader? or Apex?"
"No... no leader... too hard Raptors smarter... I am the raptors and I protect the camp."
They are children of raptor soldiers under Nicolai but they don't know the technique like the parents...Always sleeping..in mountain...cold...terrible danger! You help to get out family!"
Then looking at the skulls.
"Who are they?"
"Goblins, little green men, very mean..."
They are delicious! You just have to remove their cloth and put them in the flame otherwise they taste terrible!
"And he's an elf?"
"Oh, yes, they climb trees and shoot arrows but so do we and dragon scales!"
They hurt momo. Momo bleeding. Momo all little!. Momo will die!"
I stood up suddenly.
Momo??? godmother?
I rushed to the cave where some female raptors were applying mud and herbs to slow down the wound and I saw a white pink kobold. He had lost most of his blood, which was draining into his stomach.
There was an arrow and no one dared to pull it out.
The creature was tiny and fainted at my sight.
In a bed of leaves it was not, it was giving up the soul and it clutched in its small paw a scale of Hans... She prayed to the big hydra...
"NO!! and I used for the first time the magic that mom had taught me... Major healing.
Soon, the breath came back and the creature calmed down but was too exhausted to wake up.
I applied a cold cautery to freeze the arrow and get it out without causing a devastating hemorrhage.
The arrow with barbs that hurt even more and had to kill their victims was bleeding out. The arrow was in 3 wings so that the knives create a hemorrhagic channel. A nasty wound.
"Who did this!??"
The raptors pointed to the devoured skeleton...
Alpha: "There are other tribes...scouts probably.."
I took the little Kobold close to me and sang her a lullaby like she used to do with me when I was smaller.
Then, so that she could regain her strength, I made her drink some drops of my blood.