Mutanbe, the warlord had decided to set up his withdrawal camp on the island/reserve.

There was no network or means of communication except through the relay antenna of the scientists.

The attack by Matouls who had pledged allegiance to Boko Haram was of unprecedented magnitude.

Their objective: to put Pondicherry to fire and blood in order to set an example and to settle down durably.

The Boko Haram of today has nothing to do with that of 2020... They have the support of foreign powers such as Arabia and other very rich nations.

The term Boko Haram means "destruction of Western values".

Pondicherry, being the best target, the stronghold of occidentalism in Asia, the symbol of Christian and Hindu settlers ignoring Islam and Sharia.

Moreover, the cataclysm having engendered war and desolation, everything was put on the back of Westerners wanting to mock God and creation.

The cataclysm being seen as a divine punishment that spared much of the Islamic lands was a sign from heaven.

It was now necessary to extend the sharia!T

he dragons being seen as beasts of Satan, the appearance of Viseron at the UN, and guarded by soldiers in black had struck the spirit of the most moderate.

The West was under the control of the Devil and something had to be done! And the first, as always, Boko Haram!

The aim was to provoke a general panic and through the use of gang rape and the enslavement of unfaithful children, these acts were to provoke a mass movement.

They wanted to purge Asia of Westerners and then gradually crush Hindus and non-believers. The children would be converted to Islam by force and sent to reform camps where Sharia reigns supreme.

To get out of there, they would have to know the Koran by heart, without a mistake and to the letter.

Punishments ranged from beatings with sticks to whipping, chained, suspended, and deprived of food.

The most stubborn were broken and girls were raped. Absolute terror.

For those who came of their own free will, fleeing misery and hunger, a welcome pack was provided:They were offered a motorcycle, a gun and cartridges, a house or a room and a woman, often a kidnapped child or teenager, whose family could not pay the exorbitant ransom.

Thus thousands of fighters gathered in Sri Lanka and occupied it insidiously, keeping only a puppet government for the façade and being able to organize themselves militarily with impunity.

The coast had just been attacked and the forces of law and order were defeated within hours.

Now they were marching on the City, which would fall in the coming hours. The bombardments were impossible because the Islamist sect was mixing troops and civilians.

And, on the ground, they had the upper hand. The weaponry was portable, discreet and effective. Laser targets, portable missile launchers and the whole panoply of the professional guerrilla.

Dany was the first to see the Matouls with their typical red turban and black jacket and sword. Unfortunately for our friends, they had left their mobile phones and clothes at the altar and went to the lake in their bathing suits with just their towels.

Mutanbe shouted: "Infidels, children! they can't be far away!"

He moved their belongings into their tent which was confiscated by the soldiers and their mobile phones were taken. They would be used for a possible ransom!

But when they saw an altar with offerings, they became angry.

"BLASPHEME! INFIDELS"

Mutanbe: "Find them at the lake! Slaughter the men and rape the girls!"

Dany turned around and signaled to the others to be quiet. Philippe, Rudy, Me and Jasmine understood that something was wrong.

Dany: "Run... it is necessary to hide... they are looking for us!"

Mutanbe took a loudspeaker: "Infidels, surrender without making a fuss and you will avoid the worst. If you embrace the Sharia, no harm will come to you."

Of course, it was a lie, a nincompoop. And it was very effective. For Boko Haram, the purge first. Those who survived were chosen by Allah and converted to Islam and put into slavery.

God will free the most deserving. That was their logic, so to speak. Panicked, the children no longer knew what to do.

"The dragon! Can we ask her to hide us or bring us back?"

I ran first to the cave I knew, but they did not. But they followed me without asking any questions. My aura, perhaps? We saw a rather large crevice and entered it. It was dark. In the large room, there was a scree slope and underneath, the passage continued towards underground passages and a dead-end lake.

The water of the spring certainly came from the overflow of the lake.I waved to follow me and we climbed on a kind of terrace hidden in height, 8 to 10 meters higher than the passage below.

So, if they enter, they will continue to search the passage.But I had just realized that if they liked the cave, it would serve as an air raid shelter, ammunition storage or a fallback bunker.

From above, we soon heard voices. But they passed over the cave.Too late to cast an illusion spell. I was in a hurry and reacted in panic.

The voices went away. Phew... they haven't found the cave yet, but it won't be long now.

We would normally be lucky for the night. The coolness froze us and we all put ourselves against each other to warm up. Jasmine sobbed.

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Dany: "I hope the dragon won't be angry that we moved in her Lair."

Me : "Still, this should has to be its lair."

Rudy : "Yes, you're right, there would be brol and bones."

Me "Eh... she's clean!"

Philippe: "Shhh, less loud! Perhaps that amplifies our voices."

The night fell and one heard in the distance of the shots and full of gunfire, dca, sirens and planes which flew over the city. Missiles hit them and they crashed into flames.

The night was illuminated by burning villages and houses. Helicopters came and went in an attempt to evacuate civilians from the surrounded city and barges evacuated people while a naval battle took place between an Indian corvette and Matouls outboard equipped with machine guns.

Small and agile, they avoided fire and wreaked havoc on the coast guard ships.

Worse, they had tied children to the front of their boat as hostages so that the Coast Guard would not fire on them.

It was horrible!

Jasmine: "Mommy, Daddy, I'm scared!"

Then Rudy took Jasmine in his arms and they kissed. "This may be the last time we ever get to say 'I love you'".

Dany took my hand and kissed it. "Sylvia, you know I love you from the beginning."

And he came closer and our lips touched. I held him in my arms.

"I love you too and I love you all..."But, with one hand, gently, I pushed Dany away a little."

Dany... Rudy, Jasmine, Philippe... I'm sorry I lied to you, but I'm so afraid... I'm so afraid of losing you... I love my parents, who are my real parents... but I have a terrible secret."

Dany: "Look, we all have our secrets and we don't blame you. Plus I have feelings for you and I can accept everything..."

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Dany: "Listen, each of us has our secrets and we don't blame you."

I have to protect "Sylvia", my family, our life...

"If I tell you my secret, nothing will ever be the same again..."

Then I began to cry...

Dany: "Sylvia!!??? "

He held me close to him, shoulder to shoulder.

Me : "We have to save our families! "

Dany: "but it's suicide! they're everywhere"

Jasmine: "I have a family too, but more than anything else they want us to survive. If they died, let them not die in vain!"

Me: "I'm POISSE!"

All looked at me, incredulous

Dany: "No, Sylvia, don't come down! They'll kill you...You're losing your mind! "

Me: "If you love me, then protect me! keep the secret".

And a flash then they turn to Sylvia's place, Poisse!

"Dany, Philippe, Jasmine, Rudy, come, it's me Sylvia... I'm sorry about the chocolate and the waffles but it was too tempting! sweets are my weakness. And also my secret!"

Dany: "Woaaah!! you were with us all this time and we didn't see anything! "

His eyes sparkled and he wanted to caress me. I let myself do it and started purring like a cat.

They all touched me and I loved their hands going over the scales. It was reassuring.

I loved feeling loved."Climb on my back. Hang on, we're going to save our parents!"

I lowered my wing so they could climb easily and between the dragon and Boko Haram, the choice was quickly made for Jasmine.

Jasmine: "Is that you, Sylvia?? Is it? "

"I must save Rosetta and Brahma!"

All of a sudden I got out of the cave and I was climbing in the air. I launched shield and invisibility. No need to be targeted. It was strafing in all directions and the soldiers of Pondicherry were overwhelmed.

We rushed towards the center of the apartment and I landed in the garden behind. The neighborhood was still holding on a little and people were either holed up at home or waiting for the evacuation.The children jumped and went into the clubhouse to take refuge.I was in the darkness and searching. By the way, as time had stopped and it was night, there were plenty of attackers within my reach.As I passed by, my tail and claws laced and sliced the flesh of this sect, reducing the pressure and allowing the civilians to flee.

I worked hard on an area to the north to break the encirclement. I was sniffing around looking for mines and I saw Brahma, Rosetta and Ankur and Choudhary in a fortified place, waiting to be evacuated, holding a sign with my name on it: "Sylvia, Missing!"

Surish was on a stretcher with a bullet in his shoulder, but his life was not in danger. They were safe and sound. Then Philip's parents were in the marina, under fire. Philip had an assault rifle that he had taken from a killed guard and was entrenched with other guards. They could not evacuate.

It was an outboard shuttle firing at them with large caliber weapons. From the darkness I slipped down to the hull and took grenades and ammunition.I pulled the pin out of the grenade with my teeth and plunged back into the shadows.The next second, the boat exploded in a sheaf of flames.I took the ammunition and placed the grenades under the vehicles and one by one the vehicles exploded.

One by one I extracted the attackers into the darkness that engulfed them, massacred by the monsters I had dropped.

I had cast the spell of invocation of monster III, a thousand giant 5-meter legs and angry giant scorpions were waiting for them there as soon as they arrived.

Their weapons remained on the surface.With the labyrinth, nobody escaped it, the shadows devoured them!

After several hundred deaths, the guards finally held out and reinforcements arrived and repelled the fanatics.

Eventually there were hundreds of prisoners and most of them had fled the battle when they saw their companions being sucked into the ground or into a hole. They were afraid and deserted their sect en masse.It was a total debacle.I was a girl again and I ran to my mother. I wanted to treat Surish but he had gone to the field hospital.

The press reported the courage of the inhabitants who stood up to the invader. Philippe's father wondered how we had managed, especially since there were still deserters on the island, but it didn't matter... everyone was alive, at least those we knew.

The beginning of the school year was postponed for a month to allow the families to reorganize themselves.The remains in the labyrinth were ejected into crocodile swamps that I had brought myself to reinforce the masquerade. We avoided ourselves a little while while we went home and erased the traces of looting and degradation. But after 3 days, my friends came to ring the bell at home.

I saw Dany and he jumped on my neck.

"Sylvia.... thank you.. thank you for everything you did.... You saved our parents, we know it was you who defeated the terrorists."

We walked back to my room and my office and everything was in order again. I was going to help Surish do the garden with Mom, Brahma and her husband. their children being sent to stay with cousins in another state to take their minds off things.

Mom wanted to send me to Grandma's before school started, but my place was here with them. We had a small grinder and I was handling the chainsaw.

We cut down the felled and damaged trees. The shavings would be used as weed killers.

Dany: "And to think that you were a dragon all this time...."

Me : "Ehh, almost 2 years ago, I was a simple human!... But that's it! that's how it is!...but shush! otherwise, I'll have to run away..."

Dany : "But why don't you assume your true appearance? Nothing and nobody can hurt you!"

"Listen, Dany... I was murdered once... by that fat, scaly ninny on TV! He's my nephew! And I haven't told you everything yet but I have my little one to protect!"

My friends dropped their tools.

"How?"

We took a break and went to get an ice cream from the freezer and, we all sat down together on the low wall, on the edge of the path leading to the garage.

"I was reincarnated Sylvia...but my body survived and I became Poisse again with all my memories. But I am still Sylvia... And before I was murdered, I had kept my egg hidden in the family.I am not yet fit to keep a family but in 2-3 years, maybe I will be able to have a situation and conditions to raise my child."

Dany was shocked. and he asked: "What about the father?".

I answered sadly "The madman with his henchmen eliminated them, they are in the future... 10000 years separate us... And I'm sad that they don't try to contact me...I'm imagining things but I'm unhappy... As Sylvia, I am happy to be with you but as a dragon, it's... I am the last, even our goddess has perished... I have only you..."

And I started to cry...Jasmine who was afraid sat down next to me and consoled me.

"You are our family, our spiritual sister... You have protected us.... You are not alone."

Rudy and Philippe "Yes, we are here!"

And Dany took my hand and kissed me.I took his neck and the feeling was mutual...

"Do you accept me as I am?"

"Of course I do! You are for me the most beautiful creature!"

We stayed like this for a long time until mom saw us peck each other. She started to laugh and we stopped.

Dany was all red.

"Excuse me, madam..."

Rosette came and sat down next to us. "That's how you work? Hey, did you at least leave me some ice cream?"

We started laughing and a huge weight was lifted from my shoulders. My family was there, and the air was suddenly lighter. Then I looked up at the blue sky, staring at a spot as if I was looking at the dragons.

"Where are you? Where will I be without you? "

I looked at Danny and gave him a kiss on his lips and then I looked at the sky again. Sorry, Oriharukon...I can't wait any longer, the baby is due soon and I'll probably have to raise her without you.

I sobbed and Dany understood, especially Jasmine.

Rosette thought it was because of the violence of the fighting and that I had been very scared.

Jasmine decided to spend the evening and the night with me. A girls' sleepover with two other classmates joined us but only Jasmine knew and she kept quiet.

The others went home in the evening, or brought back home, only Jasmine was lying next to me in bed.

"Sylvia, how did it feel knowing you were a dragon?"-

"I was very scared at first and everything was going around in my head. I didn't know who I was or what I was until my memories came back. I'm still Sylvia and I wasn't absorbed by the dragon and my reflection terrorizes me. It's very hard sometimes. I am the worst nightmare for those who don't know me and I apologize for scaring you but I didn't know that one day I would have to face you and tell you the truth. I wanted to spare you and not involve you in my hidden life but it is impossible. "

Jasmine: "I understand. You did this thinking about us, your family and friends..."

She took me in her arms and put her nose in my hair."You have beautiful blonde hair...you smell good..."

She took me in her arms and put her nose on my hair. But you are also beautiful as a dragon...I didn't know that your scales are soft and your skin is not slimy but feels good."-

"I liked your caresses. My animal self loves it. I also have a huge lack of affection and tenderness but I wasn't always nice."

Jasmine: "The past is the past, it's better to bury and put aside the bad things and look to the future."-

"Thank you Jasmine."

"Do you really love Dany?"

"Yes, I do... He is nice and sweet and I also like jokes and his mischievous side. I also liked when he overcame his fear of me with the waffle."

Jasmine: "You did it anyway!"- You still had to play the game, and pastries are better than a bloody beef carcass.

Jasmine "Now we understand why your appetite is so bad..."

"HEHE."

Then I heard snoring. Jasmine was in dreamland and we both fell asleep thinking about our lovers.I didn't know it, but we were going to have a lot of adventures together...