Back to Kathmandu:

While Rudia and Luc, in the astral, were getting to the mountains, a clear objective, life was also going on here.

The journalist followed Emilie's exploits and published her story in the local newspaper.

The mother, Krivja, regularly went to a lamasery to pray for the death and disappearance of her sister by the red death.

A wind blew up and made the Rudia scale she was keeping glow, but more importantly, a white scale had reappeared in her pocket. What is this monster doing?

Since she was a little girl, she knew that the monks were hiding a huge secret. And her scales were there to remind her that she had not hallucinated or become disillusioned in the mountain blizzard.

In front of the prayer wheel, her pockets radiated a slight glow, signifying a renewed activity of this monster. He could be as close as 100 km away but he was back in the area.

Worse, the male or another, the red death sometimes was not alone and the legend said that it was even more necessary to fear the other. If Rudia was called the red death, she was also the little death and the other...The big reaper...

"He's back... Blackthorn! The Lord of Sins..... "

She fell to her knees crying...

Monks arrived to help her up.

The monks knew her and most of them were from her village.

They took her to a warm room where they treated and warmed the victims of the mountain.

The chief lama leaned over to the old woman.

The old woman was crying and wanted to talk to the "Celestial One".

The monks prevented her from doing so. All contact was taboo and even his existence was hidden from the world.

The chief reminded her:

"No mortal has the right to come into contact with the Celestial. Not even to mention his existence. I'm sorry but the rules are absolute!"

She pointed to the scales. "They're back!" "Blackthorn, Rudia and her infernal offspring are back. And she let go of the last black scale: Blackthorn too. "SHE is on her way. The devourer has found her way back to this world. Darkstar is arriving with the infernal goddess!! KALI ... She will devour us all!!!"

The great Lama hurried to raise the poor slumped woman. He looked at the scales, took a breath and was upset.

The secret could be shared with this trustworthy old woman. She too had been in contact with these beings from another age and another time.

Come with me!

He took the keys and behind the draperies, walls hiding secret corridors penetrating the bowels of the mountain.

They arrived in a huge room where a blue dragon lay asleep, in a deep coma. A young beast, but probably due to ignorance, the egg hatched into a dragonet, which was raised as a human and for fear that it would become a monster, it was fed exclusively on vegan food. But the lack of mana, the lack of his mother, the lack of blood and fresh mana paralyzed the poor creature and he soon fell into a deep coma. As a survival reaction, everyone who touched him lost mana and passed out.

It was about 20 meters long with a tail and neck, a bit like Ochria and Azure who were only 15 meters long. Probably the same age but born much earlier. Its hibernation having lasted tens of years even centuries.

He was thus sealed in this underground room waiting for an event or a reaction.

Probably for the protection of the world or for his own protection. In his misery, the fact of being sealed and in hibernation probably saved his life but obviously, he was wasting away for lack of care and food.

The lamas could see this and were helpless, unable to wake him up or do anything to save him. They had resigned themselves to his peaceful death in his sleep.

The great lama approached the young dragon but there was no reaction. Then he took the four scales one by one and when the small scale came near him, he twitched in his sleep, and his nose twitched a little, a tear flowing from his closed eye.

Lama: "He reacts to the little scale!"

Krivja: "But the celestial is a monster too. It will grow and devour us!"

Lama: "He is a child and a descendant of a blessed lineage that has always protected humanity but the absence of his parents has put him in this state because we have to ignore a lot of things about them. We have tried to go to the mystical plane to contact his soul but he is in a real coma, a kind of hibernation impossible to wake up. Each attempt has pushed him further down and we've decided to stop intervening to stabilize his condition.

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It reacts to the red scale, the little one."

Krivja: "She is the offspring of the red monster Rudia and probably Blackthorn the scourge of darkness. According to my son, she is a female and she was treated by a French doctor and escaped her mother's violence and is living with humans in Europe.

My son could tell you more. She would have been captured by American dragon hunters and she would have run away and her trail would have been lost, terrorizing fishing villages in the south but my son could tell you more.

He has the contact information for the creature's adoptive parents. I must have them on me."

She held out a piece of paper with Luc and Celine's phone.

The old monk took the information and signaled to summon one of his monks who had studied in France.

The young recruit ran in, wearing sandals, a shaved head and a purple woolen veil.

He stood flat on his back in front of the Supreme Lama, seated in a sort of alcove filled with golden draperies and cushions and underneath concentrated Buddhas and far from the laughing, obese Buddhas with ears hanging down from their shoulders at home.

"Get up, Jules..."

The monk stood up again, his trunk tilted downwards

"Can you look at me, can you speak French well?

Contact the adoptive parents of the free red dragon in Europe.

Try to find out what this creature is and what its intentions are. Try to find out more about it and especially if it has blood on its legs.

This mission is very important. We need to know if it can save the Celestial. If it has a good soul, bring it here. If it is a wild beast or a bloodthirsty monster, kill it or try to get its blood.

Any way you can. If the Celestial dies, our world will collapse."

"But, most high revered master, is the Celestial not well?"

Lama: "He is dying. For now, his body is asleep to save itself, but the corruption of the world and the evil that lives in it and will come soon have taken its toll on his health. He won't last two years at this rate and if we don't act now, it will be too late."

The Lama made a gesture and Jules went out backwards, head bowed, hands clasped.

He and Krivja set off down the mountain on a donkey to the airport, where his son worked partly in the control tower as a radio host and local journalist.

After half a day of riding, they arrived at the airport where their son greeted them with hot tea and some local sweets made of almonds and honey.

"Mama, this is not your age anymore, these expeditions in high mountains..."

"Your mother with her old bones still has something to do down here..."

"What do you mean, Mom...??"

Jules put her hand on the old lady's and spoke up.

"Mr. Reporter, your mother is not rambling... Everything she says is true, but this mission is of the utmost importance, but in order not to risk ruining our efforts, don't publish what we are going to do. If our mission fails, it will be the end of everything."

Reporter: "It's not the story of the devourer yet...I can't take these legends anymore."

The monk then showed the 4 scales.

"Darkstar and Blackthorn have returned, their scales have reappeared.

The two red dragons are here too.

Their ritual will end in bloodshed and the devourer will return from his prison. Nothing and nobody will be able to stop him. He will eat every last human, wherever he may be, on earth or in the stars..."

Journalist: "But why?"

"Humanity would come from the pieces of its body, from its other half. Each time it swallows the soul of a human, it feels more complete".

"It doesn't make sense, the population is growing and so is the number of souls so..."

"You're right, it doesn't make sense; it's up to her to find herself complete. She must have confused reality with a trauma or a nightmare but I regret to say that she is completely crazy, demonic. She is in her coma, in her own hell and her own world that she has created. For demons are separate facets of oneself and put together, they form a whole, a soul.

I would like to know the truth about Rudia's offspring."

"Wait, I have the contact information for the doctor who treated her, Dr. Chlaks, he is alive and in Europe at this time. I'll call him."

He took his notebook from a drawer of his desk, turned on his lamp and his pc, to see if a video conference was possible but unfortunately, he was not online.

He then took his old bakelite handset, an ancestor of a nostalgic era, and began to turn the dial, digit after digit of his antique landline phone.

"Don't you have a cell phone?"

"The wireline network is much better here!" replied the journalist "Besides, we still use fax and telex in my profession"

After a long time, a voice came out of the silence.

"Hello, Chlaks...??"

"Yes, it's me, Krivja's son, the journalist..."

"Oh, how are you?"

"Me, fine, but mom is very worried and I have a friend here who would like to ask you something about the dragoness, it's a Lama monk who has something to ask you of the utmost importance, wait, I'll put him on."

"Look, there is a drama going on right now in Emily's family. I don't have time right now."

"Mister Chlaks, I have 4 scales and the little one is glowing, There are 3 dragons here, it's a matter of life and death.."

Chlaks: "You know then?"

"Yes, we know Rudia as the Red Death but her male is here again, Blackthorn ,the Lord of Sins and Darkstar"

Chlaks: "What's this about? What does it have to do with Emily?"

Jules: "Blackthorn is Emily's father. And their return is a very bad omen. But we need the dragoness here urgently. But first, how is she? Is she locked up? Is she safe?"

Chlaks: "No, she is free, has rights and has a normal human life but adapted to her condition. She is kind, loves her family and friends and her 2 brothers and sisters who live with her adoptive parents."

Jules: "2 siblings? She has 2 siblings? dragons???"

Chlaks: "Yes, I take care of them, they are mostly humans but they transform into dragons to go play, hunt or to get some fresh air. They were under the influence of their mother but Emily has put them back on the right path. They are adorable children now that they have overcome their hunting instincts."

Silence.

"It's even worse....Darkstar, Rudia, Blackthorn, Emily and her siblings..."

Chlaks "What's wrong?"

Jules: "There are enough dragons for the prophecy...even two spare..Nothing will stop the monster...The Celestial is lost.."

Chlaks: "The Celestial?"

Jules: "At this point, there's no point in keeping secrets. We have a young dragon here, from a line of protectors of humanity. But his parents died. We did everything we could to keep the egg alive from generation to generation and it hatched, revealing a young blue dragon.

But soon his health deteriorated and he had almost no childhood, being sick and now he has been in a coma for decades. He is now weakening day by day and we thought he was finished. Then Krivja brought the scales and the Celeste reacted to the small red scale, the one of Emilie.

We would like her to come here".

Chlaks: "If she comes, to your house, I need guarantees that she can leave, that she remains free. She has not committed any crime that deserves to be locked up even in the name of national prophecies...But she is coming back from Guinea on a scientific expedition as part of her work as an assistant at the university. "

Jules: "She has a job? Did she go to school?"

"It was a shock to everyone but yes, she overcame the physical differences and overcame the hardships."

Jules: 'But the dragon hunters...."

"She was found innocent and despite them watching her she is living a normal life"

"And Rudia??"

"That Monster just kidnapped her father right now. The 2 dragons protected Celine from Rudia but were powerless to protect Luc. I hope she spared him...But Celine told me that she regretted and was possessed by her mother. But how is that possible, she is schizophrenic and cannot be possessed, it's illogical".

Jules: "Doctor Chlaks, her mother, is the Hydra. A 5-headed monster that sits in hell, and returns to this plane of existence. She travels between dimensions and most likely influences the young dragons and especially Emily. I wouldn't be surprised if she possesses Rudia to make her commit atrocious acts."

Chlaks: "So, the Taliban, the easy hunts, and the massacres. That would be them?"

Jules: "These are demonic powers. Rudia certainly has this power but her mother Tiamat, the Hydra, has been using this power for centuries to make people kill each other. She arrives in sleep and already has a foothold in this world via dreams and possessions. It could even be that Rudia is just a victim, a puppet of Tiamat who has only one goal: to mold the dragons in her image to make a vessel, a receptacle for her soul.

She will take the dragons, and attach them to her body to have 5 heads and return to devour the world. Emilie, Rudia and the other 2 dragons are sacrifices."

Chlaks: "And in the lair, did you find any clues?"

Jules: "Access to the mountain is forbidden and the Chinese soldiers shoot on sight, without warning. This is his work. They are dragon soldiers. All the hunters and special services who went there are all dead or transformed. It doesn't look like it, but there's a network of caves filled with a real army in there..."