We looked at the sky together and saw a huge explosion that lit up the whole sky.

A few moments later, the earth shook and a terrible sound made us suffer.

It was like a huge red meteorite that crossed the sky. It seemed to be hurtling towards us.

We were going to be pulverized.

Me: "Quickly... get into the ship. We have to take off!"

We squeezed together, packed like sardines, as small as possible in the ship. We couldn't even close the doors.

"AI, AI, Take off but we have to be anywhere but here! We're going to get blown up."

AI: "Not enough fuel"

"Who cares! Take off!"

I threw "feather fall" and gravity reversal to help the ship.

The engines started to roar and the flame cones came out of the back of the ship.

We slid down and felt as if our heads were going to meet our butts.

Our tails were sticking out and being pulled hard by the air suction from the roaring engines.

We made a parabolic jump and we crossed the bolide which, by the turbulences made us spin in all the directions and we went to crash in an unknown zone, with immense trees and a luxuriant vegetation.

We landed but being piled up, we were very shaken, shocked, breathless.

On the horizon we could see the sphere change course, stop and land vertically in human territory. Beyond the territory of the demon lord. Beyond the territory of the dwarves and elves and the kingdom of Midas. In the capital! Right in the area of Prince Bishop Altus.

A meteor doesn't change its course.

It was a ship.

We got out and I asked the AI what had happened. Everything had gone too fast.

AI: "It's a ship of unknown type but with technology beyond our understanding. Mystical powers of great magnitude. The Mordos fleet is anihilated. 20 destroyers ships.

Levi was dragged off and captured. He's inside the sphere. We're lucky we're not blown up like the fleet.

We are probably marked or spotted. "

We were left to our own devices again.

Panthalassa was crying but knew that her son was alive. That was all that mattered to her. I, too, shared her sadness. And... Knowing what happened and the absurdity of accidents and reactions, I passed the sponge on Levi. He had paid enough.

The succubus was trembling with fear, of Ignar, and of Panthalassa and of all of us in fact. She too was a victim. She was just a clone who had tried to survive, and even if she had done it, it was not of her own accord...

Cornered, I approached.

Her back against a rocky wall, my chest was against hers and my head facing her, almost muzzle to muzzle.

She turned her head away, downward in submission.

She could feel my hot, angry breath.

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"What am I going to do with you?"

Heartfelt tears flowed.

I grabbed her jaw so her eyes met mine.

"I'd like to believe you mean it!"

But her eyes rolled downward, unable to hold mine.

She was breathing hard, full of fear and sadness, cornered.

I looked at her black canines protruding from her lips.

She was trembling, gripped by my grip that was a vice.

"Ruby... How did you heal her when she was dying and you have no powers, that you claim...?"

Sanguinema: "The medi-kit... There is a defibrillator....all is automatic..."

I released the drag that slid down the wall, and resumed its natural pose.

I sighed. Relieved and at the same time not knowing what to do with this enemy...

The other dragons were just waiting for a gesture or an order to pounce on her and tear her to pieces.

Then I turned to the AI, on some sort of remote-controlled seat, outside the ship.

"Scan me that.... This... Sanguinema..."

Immediately, I saw that she had implants in her brain.

"What is it?"

AI: "It's a remote control interface. When our slaves don't know what to do, an ai assists them as to pilot, learn to solve a problem, do complex tasks and most importantly monitor it and give it orders for missions and remove its free will."

I turned to the green creature with a look of pity.

Then I asked the Ai. "What is the status of the implant? Is it active?"

AI: "No, it's destroyed. The heat from the lava must have destroyed it and the missing tissue was regenerated by its draconic nature."

"Should*we remove the implants?"

"No, they are now just melted traces and the tissue is no longer affected.."

Me: "Is she under the influence?"

AI: "No, she has her free will back. She never had any..."

I took a deep breath and motioned for the others to calm down.

I asked the Ai: "Was it her free will to have treated Ruby?"

AI: "Yes, the orders would have been to keep her crippled in order to delay you to facilitate your capture."

I clutched my head in my paws.

"This is a tragedy...!"

Sanguinema was not expecting me to jump on her.

I hugged her between my paws.

"Poor Sanguinéma...."

She didn't understand, not used to tenderness.

I motioned for the others to come over.

"She was under their control... she couldn't help it.... You have to forgive her..."

The dragoness cried out in regret.

Panthalassa but why did you send my son up there?

"SNIFF... SNIFF.... I didn't see him.... he was in the parabola...It...it was an accident.... I was following orders.... "

Panthalassa: "But you didn't have the thing in your head anymore!"

"I was afraid... The queen and all those lies... as long as I obeyed, I could live... Every day I won was another day. I saw the other "Bees" die one after another. As soon as they were useless... Poof, they fell dead and a machine sprayed their body and a few minutes later everything was dissolved like soap.... no more traces... "I was afraid and in their head, when it dissolved, we saw a metal thing that remained with many threads. Like a spider. And I knew that I had one in my head. And that I could do "poof" like the others... "

Panthalassa. "I can now understand... but... my son is gone even if it's not your fault... I won't kill you but don't ask me to love you... I wouldn't be able to do that..."

The succubus swallowed and lowered her head, saying nothing.

Ignar looked at the trembling dragoness.

Then he sighed..., the anger evacuated through his nostrils in the form of black smoke...

The same for Ruby and Sanguine. Sanguine moved closer to the trembling dragoness and stroked her.

"We are a family. We give you a chance... Be true to yourself and everything will be fine. We have to survive and save Levi now... Do you understand?"

Sanguinema: "Yes..."

Me: "Well, now we are lost and we only know that the sphere is the prophecy and that it is a spaceship. And that Levi is inside..."

We could go looking for him. It does not say that he is a prisoner..."

Then I looked at the ship and it needed repairs and we had no tools. They had stayed put... Very, very far away...

There was not a drop of fuel left...

We then wedged the ship against the rocky wall and we brought trunks that we put in palisade of the best we could to make a semblance of camp. Who knows what happened at night?

At the end of the day, we finished a very small palisade that could barely protect us and we slept against each other. Me, Ruby, Sanguine, Pathalassa, Ignar and Sanguinéma. There was a hole near Panthalassa. And it was the place where Levi slept near his mother.

During this time, Levi, after the reading, felt that the ship had landed but he was locked up...

He wanted to protest and strike but his instincts dictated caution.

As he reread the notes of the infernal bible, he realized that he was dealing with real arch-demons and that not only was his life hanging by a thread, but his soul as well.

He began to be afraid and Vulture sensed this and smiled.

Levi: "I'm in trouble... I have to stay in their good graces..."

And... a voice in his head surprised him.

"That's an excellent suggestion, little dragon..."

It was the voice of General Vulture.

Levi wondered if they were reading his mind.

"Of course, you moron... You're not even trying to hide them..." the voice in his head shouted.

"Levi, that's what your name is... You are lucky to be in the good graces of his majesty... You are under my command now and you will serve in the infernal army. Either you obey and behave yourself and stay here in this world, or you will join the outcasts in the 66th legion of the dragoness Hirrax but in another world, which means that you will never see your family again... So do the right thing. I have no reason to be angry at the moment but I warn you. I punish first and explain later .... if you survive.."

Levi swallows in terror.

Vulture: "Now that you know who we are... you are warned and be careful to stay in your place! We love crying and whining, because we feed on the fear and misfortune of others. We are demons. So make sure we get along!"

Levi nodded, tears in his eyes... "MOM!"

So he began to study the words of the book by heart. Maybe as a priest and servant of Tiamat, he would have a chance to regain his freedom??? This was the only clue the demons had given him.