Terror at home...The new school year was coming up and I was revising my classes or I was the weakest.

Of course we studied together at home.

Philippe was watching videos all the time to see traces of the "dragon" but I was very busy too and I was preparing the mana for what I had to do.

I was going to try to reach Bishop directly from India. I was not a devourer like Mark who could fold the space as he wanted.

I let go of my magic and here I was as a dragon in the darkness. I walked through my domain and took the shortcut to the room where Bishop lived.

The more magic I used, the more I felt my power increase, as if my reserve was growing each time. My dragon strokes also increased. Until I had static electricity illuminating my crests like a monster from the depths. It was beautiful but also frightening. The Sylvia self was terrified of my own appearance. I felt the space bending in front of me.

The next moment, I took out one leg and then the other and I was in Europe! Instantaneously!

Bishop spit out his coffee when he saw me, all black, coming out of the darkness. If he didn't know that I was sweet in spite of my appearance, he would have died immediately of a heart attack, his open mouth frozen in all its horror.

"Poisse???? Are you coming here???"

I regained my girlish appearance. And I caught my breath, the transformation being sometimes painful.

"I could see my ... I wanted to see you again... I hope I can save my family... My life is stuck if I don't know if I will be able to see them again or if I have to rebuild my life here as Sylvia..."

Bishop: "Now that I no longer have any doubts about you... I have made a major discovery. I have found traces of dragons, but not those of our universe. Those of the parallel world, the world where I was born!...They are the children of the Great War."

He invited me to sit in front of him, in front of his desk.Above it was a snowy landscape, surrounded by immense glaciers and it was the only place where sunlight touched the ground. Then he showed me a special machine.

"My dear Poisse, you see, this machine allowed me to go from one universe to another. From one dimension to another and also to travel through time. But, contrary to what people think, time is not a river that flows in one direction. It is like a plain with lots of rocks that are impassable in relation to its reference point.

All the acts that we produce in the past have an impact on the present. For the future as well, our present is guided by possible futures. This is why I went to an anomaly at the extinction of the dinosaurs and it is impossible for me to repeat the journey because I cannot meet myself.

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If I did, I would disappear but as it is impossible the past is frozen. It can be changed if the implication has no consequences on the present. For example, influencing a historical scientist could change the course of history and never be able to discover the time machine. But since it is locked, one cannot influence the past. They are cogs and since we are part of them, we cannot change the cause and effect. I don't know if you follow, but I have seen a base of a well advanced civilization on my world and on ours here. I have seen the comet, the devastation and a tribe of intelligent dinosaurs that have set up an extraterrestrial military base.

They developed it to survive the cold and lack of food due to the nuclear winter following the cataclysm of that period. A ship came to get them and they disappeared on the ground! I rushed to the remnants and learned via AI that your family is 10,000 years in the future, and that the dragon raptor named Tania was the commander of the base.

She is following the orders of a Tiamat Inferno who is in pursuit of the dragons to capture them or bring them back here. That's all I learned because the building was shaking and I ran away and everything compacted into a ball, a kind of crystal. I picked it up and brought it back here. Then I was thrown out of time and ended up here. I tried several times to point to their time to get there but the passage is forbidden. It is not the other idiot's machine that is blocking but the events.

The key may be in the temple, but then you will have to face the infernal Tiamat and there is no guarantee that she will want to help you. You might pay the price with your life.

He gave me the key to the lab hidden with the machine and the diamond containing the Zergian base.

"Use the base only as a last resort. It will draw nations and armies will come to confiscate it. I know it is powerful it is capable of developing. There are even nuclear silos!. I know that you are good and that your heart will tell you what to do."

I kissed Bishop one last time and it was perhaps the last time we would see each other. I went home through the darkness and resumed my daily commute.

2 days after a good meal and a good deserved rest, our group went back to the island to get news about the dragon. But the night before, to stress them a little bit, I dropped a fish (shark, well, the head, the rest went in sushi...) in their gardens, Philippe's and Dany's.

The message was clear... the dragon knew where they lived...Waffles, sweets, pastries and chocolates, everything was devastated and they brought back their booty on a new altar, made of stone this time.

As usual, I made a clone of Sylvia that I manipulated like a puppet and after a roar, everything was spread out on the display.

BAm BAM BAM, SLASH (a palm tree cut like a twig by my tail sword).

Crraack"Oops!"

They were terrified and hid behind a large stone.

"EAT WITH ME!" I ordered...They were frightened.

Frozen in place."IF I HAD WANTED TO EAT YOU, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN DONE A LONG TIME AGO."

Shyly, Dany approached and cried in fear. I crouched, taking the huge waffle that was meant for me.

"MM it is good!...It changes fish!"

We looked at each other for a long time and then quickly, they took a candy and ate it in front of me.

What betrayed me was the comings and goings of my tail which betrayed my mood. I had the joyful air and that did not escape Philip.

Dany : "Mr... Madam the dragon... Poisse? You will not hurt us? No?"

I smiled but he saw my teeth and slime fell to the ground on a stone and he saw that the stone was melted by a super acid, flammable on top of that.

"IHhhhh"

"EH, DANY.... YOU'RE A MAN, AREN'T YOU?"

They were astonished that I knew their names. But they didn't dare to ask questions.

Rudy: "You... you... would you like us to be your friends?"

"HAHAHAHAHA" I laughed...

"FRIENDS... FRIENDS...Let's see... HUMANS???? YOU HAVE TO PROVE TO ME THAT YOU ARE BETTER THAN THE OTHERS."

I got up and walked towards the lake and went inside like a huge waving snake with my very long neck and my very long tail. They came closer and went into the water while keeping a respectable distance.

Then, I blew ice on a part and an iceberg originated in the middle and I pushed it in their direction. Quickly, it turned into a diving platform and little by little the distance decreased.

And the fear turned into laughter. They asked my permission to touch my scales and I accepted.

So they could touch a dragon for real.

I was sad that I had to keep the masquerade but I had to protect "Sylvia" and prepare a future for my little one.

Dany attracted me enormously and I had to make an effort not to fall in love. Although, I was already in love but I missed Oriharukon terribly and he was preventing me from moving forward with Dany.

I left as I had come, but it was on the way back that things went wrong. Boats were alongside and armed men had disembarked. Boko Haram! and the Matouls.