Me: "Exactly... if you can fly, I can do it too (I was thinking about the flight simulators from when I was still human)..."

The other dragons looked at me with astonishment.

The dragoness then gave orders to the ship's AI, but he refused to obey the slightest request and even refused to say why.

But... I could see that the gun turret was turning very, very slowly toward the succubus dragoness.

I took a piece of iron from the ship and with clay I made a pellet representing it, a bit like a voodoo doll.

Then I cast the spell "Monster Charm".

And, as if by miracle, I took "possession" of the AI

"AI! Give me the administrator mode and give me access to all the functions. reprogramming!"

The individual complied and I entered a new administrator password.

Ignar: "How do you know that?"

"Dad,... (He was surprised that I called him DAD!) That's also how I defeated you. I have the knowledge of the old world. I have the memories of another life before... it's that simple. I remember how the machines were built and repaired..."

After a moment I asked the AI to locate in the cache the coordinates of sending the message.

It was impossible... so we put all 6 of us and we lifted the ship to point it outwards, finally its nose where the radar was.

"Transfer the transmitter to your radar and convert the signals.

The aI complied and finally we could locate the poor dragon. It was in high orbit, frozen by the cold but alive.

But it was impossible to communicate with him. No air, no sonar or ultrasound.

Electromagnetic waves are too high in frequency for him... as for us."

"AI, why don't you answer and point the turret at the succubus?"

AI: "The orders are to eliminate the succubus. Her time is long over and her mission is complete. She is of no value to the Mordos and her knowledge may compromise other missions. All traces of the project must be erased."

Me: "But she knows how to use the space drug and survive. she is not incomplete."

AI: "These are limited life clones. They are compatible with the drug cristals but do not have access to mystical powers. They are useless and have completed their mission."

Me: "What are the mission orders?"

"Destroy all traces, capture living dragons or their eggs. Eliminate witnesses.

Study and reproduce. Secondary mission: Trace the Magestic destroyer and trace the Zerg armada and Baron Zergalor. Spy mission. The mission takes priority over the elimination of the Succubus. As long as she can serve her mission, she can stay alive.

If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.

As she was discovered and defeated. Priority elimination and self-destruction.

Self-destruct compromised. Liftoff compromised. Not enough fuel."

Me: "When will they arrive?"

AI: "Approaching orbit. Destroyers are deploying."

Me: "Can we communicate?"

AI: "Yes!"

I looked at the other dragons.

"If I give them Levi's coordinates, they will capture him and he will be saved, but we may be captured or eliminated... What should I do?"

Panthalassa: "Run away!... I am staying here to be taken away with my son. Sorry, Ignar... I wish I had eggs from you. I will think of you for the rest of my life..."

Me, sighing. "AI, send Levi's coordinates... and try to track the maneuvers with your radar..."

The others didn't understand my technical gibberish. Only Sanguinéma was following a little.

AI "They spotted Levi..."

Meanwhile, Levi was floating with various debris and could see the planet from his high orbit.

He was sick as he spun around and gesticulated in all directions to right himself but to no avail. He was "pedaling" in the void.

Only his wings tended to straighten him very slightly due to the solar wind.

No sound came out and his tears were crystallizing instantly.

He did not understand where he was but realized with horror, that he was extracted from his world. He was going to wander in the stars forever. Finally like a block of ice or a dried fossil.

The anguish was terrible and the blackness immense. the immense stars also. Everything was immense and the dizziness atrocious.

In the distance, he saw small points flashing, like triangles and luminous sticks.

Would this be his salvation? Help?

He began to hope.

But, on the other side... something shapeless and gigantic was coming towards him.

A sphere of polished metal, resembling a small moon without craters had just arrived and was slowing down.

As it neared his level, a hole in the structure deformed and five dragon heads emerged from the chasm in the structure.

She was not looking at Levi but at the other points.

Mentat Mordos: "A sphere just appeared!"

Executrix, appearing on a control screen: "There is a disturbance... It's a dimensional monster! Run away!"

But before the ships could react, several rays left the sphere and with a speed defying the laws of physics and light, the whole fleet was torn apart. None of the 20 ships escaped.

All that remained was a cloud of dust.

"Good shot, Vulture!"

"I am here to serve you, my highness!"

The Hydra looked behind her into the control room and looked at the two sleeping raptor dragons.

Vulture: "They won't know a thing when they wake up... like they never slept..."

Tiamat: "Good! "Let's rescue (capture) that ninny! How did he end up here? A sea dragon swimming in space. HAHAHAHA! He put me in a good mood..."

A tractor beam drew the dragon into a hole, and a few moments later he was at the goddess' paws.

He threw himself at Tiamat's claws and tried to lick her claws.

"Thank you, whoever you are!...thank you for saving me from this horrible death".

Tiamat smiled as he watched Vulture return the favor.

They were looking at the perfect ninny, the perfect toy.

They were going to have fun. They weren't arch-demons for nothing.

Vulture looked frightening with his huge vulture beak and his scepter topped with a skull and crossbones.

Levi also licked his talons in total submission.

Vulture: "At least you know your place... but you can't know who we are and that's why we let you live.."

The young dragon trembled. He didn't want to die.

"Our goddess has received from prayers, a cry for help! And I guess it's not you. Don't you know our goddess? Has no one ever told you about her?"

"It was never just me and mom...all alone in the ocean...and then red dragons. I attacked them but lost and followed a vampire dragoness. We had to break her ship so she couldn't call for reinforcements. And then I found myself in space..."

Tiamat: "Mhhh, so you have no relationship with my followers..."

Levi: "I will pray to you for saving me. I am eternally grateful to you!"

Tiamat wiped away his torturer's look, accepting the will of a new follower.

Tiamat: "Vulture, explain to him how my cult works. or give him a gospel of darkness. The reading will keep him busy."

Levi was taken to a cell with a book to read to keep himself occupied.

Vulture: "You must assimilate knowledge and our goddess expects you to be her first servant in this world. It is up to you to guide your loved ones to avoid the devastating wrath of our Goddess of Faerune."

At these words, Levi understood that the hydra was the embodiment of absolute evil, corruption, envy and destruction. He knew that Faerune was considered a hellish plane, the underworld.

The sphere entered the atmosphere and the ship became the Red Star. The star of prophecy. The star of destruction.

Levi was actually "Prisoner" of Tiamat.

But it was better than "Free & Dead" and he resigned himself to it. What was to become of him? What would the others do?

Tania and her daughter, waking up as if from a wink of an eye, did not flinch during the descent. Not suspecting for a moment the prisoner who accompanied them.

Meanwhile, on the ground, surrounded by canyons and purple rocks, Dantinne looked at the monitor and saw that the Mordoss dots disappeared.

AI: "The fleet was destroyed by an extremely powerful Gamma beam."