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A couple of dragons escaped from the Franco-Italian zoo.

Our special envoy interviewed the zoo director.

"What happened, Monsieur Quentin?" asked the reporter.

"During the normal examinations we wanted to do an ultrasound of the beast. She was docile until she was tied up for the examination. She was certainly frightened and the incompetence or incomprehension of the nursing staff is to blame. Her screams caused her partner to react and after breaking their restraints they fled to the mountains."

Assistant : "One was spotted near a lake, probably fishing.

They barricaded themselves in a rocky crevasse in the high mountains, making capture operations extremely difficult.

Shuttles are now ferrying mining equipment to clear the roll and gas the dragons to capture them without violence to either them or the personnel."

Journalist : "Why do you say stupid when it's been established that they are sentient beings?"

"That depends is a political problem. My role is limited to the conservation and safeguarding of a species. Ask the supreme court of justice.

They don't meet the requirements. They sided with the animals by not applying to the integration programs the other dragons did."

A huge shuttle took off from a military base. A large gravitational-field cannon on board...

On the news channel, we could follow the capture live.

In the cave:

"Darling, I'm scared! I'm hearing noise outside, machines! They're going to crush us."

"Don't worry, sweetie, Vermi's trying to help us, but she's far away! We should've listened to her earlier."

The two dragons had sealed the entrance by fusing the rock in places, making any excavation terribly difficult.

They were desperate.

I had to intervene!

I took a communication channel and asked to contact the Zoo Director.

I was denied access, even though they said I was a dragon! They thought I was a hoax!

Firing from the moon to earth, even in Titan mode, would only result in the death of innocent people, but that's where I was! after the space port. But those deaths were accidental, collateral victims... but ARRRgh, it's hard to find a solution!

What can we do? What can we do?

My mission comes first! But I can't leave them like that!

REPORTERS! That's it, that's it!

I'm gonna do a dragon mode interview! I'm not gonna risk my EVA coverage!

I'll call the reporters on Luna 1 and a conference will be held in a few minutes.

"GROOOAAAAAAR!

Hello journalists, can you put me in touch with the Zoo Director Mr. Quentin?"

The journalists put me on the Holo projector and my person in 3D is projected on the 4 inhabited colonies as well as the earth and of course the moon.

"Hello, I'm Vermithraxa, and I'm working on the space program to conquer new colonies for World!.

I have learned that my brother and sister Dragon have escaped from the Franco-Italian zoo. "

Journalist: "Why do you call brother and sister? "

"We are a family and we, the last 50 of us, swore that we would be a united family and that we would all die for each other!

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I'm stopping you there, I'm calling because right now a tragedy is happening.

And although we all have time, if one of us is killed or maimed we have sworn to avenge it. We are of a peaceful nature and we love my humans here who have given us a second chance, but do not push us to despair! Even though all the other dragons have perished, don't misunderstand and don't take this as a threat, but, we the last 50 are also the best and most powerful 50! Unlike humans, dragons are in constant contact with nature and especially with the dragon goddess. She is not easy and we all fear her. I can't imagine if, we dragons are afraid, then, for humans..."

Reporter: "What is her power?????"

Me: "It's a devourer!"

Reporter: "What is it? A devourer?"

"In scientific human terms, it's a conscious black hole. It bends the universe and traverses dimensions, crushing and reshaping everything as it pleases. Size doesn't matter. It can swallow the sun like the whole solar system if it wanted to. This goddess knows your world and was named by the Sumerians Bahamut and by the Incas Gidhorah."

Reporter: "We're now liaising with Professor Quentin."

Professor: "Ah, it's weird to talk in English with a creature like you. You speak our language perfectly. It's as if you've lived here. Why do you want us to stop the capture? They are more animal than you, I see, and by that they are a danger!"

"Mr. Quentin, you're going to cause a tragedy! The dragons are of the blood type and they called to me for help in our mystical ways.

It was agreed that no harm would come to them! You have sawed off their claws, damaged their horns which are very sensitive organs that allow them to pray and communicate with nature.

Since they arrived, you promised them semi-freedom and they have not seen sunlight since Montana.

They have been drugged all the time, chained and forced to move around with electric truncheons.

These treatments are from another time and unworthy of the human race. Were you born on Arcadia? Or on Earth?"

Quentin: "These accusations are false! How can you say such things?"

"The dragons have decided to commit suicide! They are vampire dragons! They will bleed each other to death hoping to go into forced hibernation and petrify for at least 500 years but they have a 75% chance of dying. This ritual is only used in cases of desperation. Worse, your men will all die!

They sealed the cave by melting the rock. They're filling the cavity with their fire saliva, but instead of using it as a torch, they're evaporating it into a very powerful explosive which, if it doesn't kill them, will blow the cave and act like a giant cannon, pulverizing everything in the vicinity."

Quentin: "But how do you know that? "

"Clear your head and think of me, as if I were next to you!"

I focus and cast the message spell and try to connect with Quentin.

Contact established!

Heh, easier than I thought!

"now I'm in your head."

Cast Charming spell on Quentin

"Mr. Quentin, I'm going to make you see despair through my eyes, ah yes now that I've made contact with you,

1 never underestimate a dragon

2 even the stupidest of dragons is much smarter than a normal human.

3 you will not divulge any of these secrets to anyone. Normally I would have to take possession of you and force you to commit acts intended to discredit you before killing yourself.

But I have a kind nature and I always give a second chance! Don't miss it!

You can study these two dragons but respect them as if they were your own children.

Nothing invasive, nothing humiliating and give them their freedom. They have nowhere to go anyway!

It's up to you to create a relationship of trust. "

Cast Spell: Monster Summoning Type 1

A giant scorpion, one meter high and 3 meters long, appears next to Quentin.

It circles the professor, scaring away all the assistants...

But the biologists overcame their fear and curiosity.

"Monsieur Quentin, here is a glimpse of the prayers of our goddess. Such assassins appear near the dragon tormentors. They were well known to dragon hunters. Most would die before even approaching a dragon.

Be careful, this is not a real animal but a monster! A killing machine. It is programmed to kill and not to live or reproduce. This one has not received the order to attack. But it will defend itself like any other animal. But it has no reproductive organs. It is a chimera. A beautiful subject for you!

So Quentin took his comms and ordered the operations to stop.

Quentin was terrified of a dragon strike, it was no longer lizards or dinosaurs in front of him, but a force of nature in front of him. He felt like a straw festering in front of the power that a dragon represented.

Dragons, a reality. worse than the demons of hell, which only remain in the bible, but here he was dealing with superior beings, beings much more intelligent and who could even sign the end of mankind. Maybe it's even too late.

They're predators.

They will turn around and their teeth will melt into the flesh of mankind. They've already "absorbed" the knowledge. And that devourer she was talking about? was she one herself?

What if it's true? What if Vermithraxa was THE devourer??

He was starting to sweat.

Then he thought about what happened, the spaceport...

World!..

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What if World wants to destroy mankind??

A lot of questions were plaguing Quentin.

A spider was in his head! It was spinning his web!

The dragons play with us like puppets!

FEAR

TERROR

Don't provoke them!!!!!

He wanted to be sure. He called a Mexican friend, whose family goes back to Aztec origins. A specialist in the Mayan calendar of the end times.

He went back to his office and closed the veterinary office for dragons.

A barn with facilities in the park of the zoological garden was prepared. He warned the other zoo directors on the other colonies of the danger of suicide and to beware of dragons.

They were to be considered as a diver swimming with cageless white sharks!

Zothra and Lothjar were starting to bite each other when I made contact:

"Stop everything! Everything is fixed! No more harm will come to you!

Go back to the zoo and go to the barn, you'll be fine there but don't forget, learn English!

If you could communicate, none of this would have happened.

I promise to get you all out of here, but we have to pay World!!!

go back! We're not slaves anymore, we're employees! Big difference!

I don't know, if you're not good at it, do some art or painting or music or clowning, but do something! Make yourself loved by the public!

The audience can become your friend and they'll give it back to you! Work for the zoo or learn a trade!

Here Razoback has become the first Dragon Geek! He went crazy about computers and AI programming! You should see him in his glasses and gesticulate with holographic screens."

Lothjar started crying!

"What about the teleportation circle?"

"It wouldn't have worked for both of you. The consumption is too high. You didn't study magic at the academy and it's such a complex spell that normally we dragons have enough mana to cast whatever we want, but here we have to use energy saving tricks, even for us dragons.

Given the state, the distance and the fact that I have to use your own mana, it would have been insufficient unless the remaining dragon was sacrificed by pumping out all the mana.

Since you two love each other so much, I doubt that one can live without the other and sacrifice his mate to save himself."

"Thank you, Vermithraxa! We owe you our lives, thank you, thank you!"

The dragons roamed the dolomites for a while but with the permanent drone gene, they resigned themselves to returning to the zoo where they were treated properly. Quentin kept his promises.