The impact was terrible and we were all shaken up. The stone wall was hot and the air passing between the cracks was burning like a heat gun.

The stone wall was hot and the air passing between the cracks was burning like a heat gun [https://img.wattpad.com/e4dddedac6618dbfc7c0c2994fc9ee67a5298017/68747470733a2f2f73332e616d617a6f6e6177732e636f6d2f776174747061642d6d656469612d736572766963652f53746f7279496d6167652f7959754c52726c76757476304f413d3d2d313030353035313132352e313635366234336231313735326232313834353336383530313934322e6a7067?s=fit&w=1280&h=1280]

Armed with my magic shield, I went out to witness the desolation.

Many stones of different sizes were falling. Some so big that atomic mushrooms rose into the sky after impact.

The ground was shaking all the time and cracks were appearing everywhere, causing a cataclysmic volcanic hell.

The ground was shaking all the time and cracks were appearing everywhere, causing a cataclysmic volcanic hell [https://img.wattpad.com/c4c1b4e383fed3ab059fb3e2c414f7a93ea0730d/68747470733a2f2f73332e616d617a6f6e6177732e636f6d2f776174747061642d6d656469612d736572766963652f53746f7279496d6167652f4747795476544a796254686e38773d3d2d313030353035313132352e313635366234343361343030336266643830373931393036383335342e6a7067?s=fit&w=1280&h=1280]

Then the smoke and the sunlight would disappear.

I knew by science that we would freeze to death and perhaps asphyxiate, our lungs being too big for the oxygen depletion that would follow.

I heard rales... close to me...

The trio of allosaurs...

The parents were mortally burned and lay there, their little one still alive but burned to varying degrees.

They were crying... They knew I was going to tear them to pieces.

But I didn't... I helped the little one up and cast a minor healing spell that relieved most of his injuries.

He bent his dying parents back.

There was nothing I could do for them, they would have needed 2 major restorations and I felt my goddess and mother was unable to bear such a burden for the time being.

A few minutes later, the little one came to me and submitted. His parents were gone.

He began to follow me. Deep down, following me meant a chance to survive, a slim one but a chance anyway.

In my inventory, I had enough to survive for years, for an army...

But the priority was to save a few species.

The little one knew the area and he understood that I wanted to save other creatures like him.

I followed him and we came across T-rex, Allosaur, Carnosaur and Ceratosaur nests and some herbivores. Always the same show. The dead parents on their eggs to protect them.

They were more than animals... I picked up what was still alive and some young ones followed me: Acrocanthosaurus, Austroraptors and others.

To recover mana, I devoured the smoking carcasses and my little companions as well.

A cold wave seized us and reminded me to return to the cave.

The air was becoming unbreathable and the temperature had dropped 15 degrees in a few moments.

Cold, soon to be freezing winds were going to immobilize us and end up killing us.

Cold, soon to be freezing winds were going to immobilize us and end up killing us [https://img.wattpad.com/3f6487c6025cb4a89d232c062107e042c9d80cb8/68747470733a2f2f73332e616d617a6f6e6177732e636f6d2f776174747061642d6d656469612d736572766963652f53746f7279496d6167652f3235656c366b6e66364f525473413d3d2d313030353035313132352e3136353662343464326461353061326234323235313032393334382e6a7067?s=fit&w=1280&h=1280]

We rushed towards the cave where the raptors were waiting for us.

Cast spell : "Appeasement"

And the raptors did not growl at the tribe I had brought back.

They would be my companions if I was to be stuck here forever.

The raptors were cold and huddled together to share the warmth.

From a tropical temperature, it was only 15 degrees and I was freezing, deprived of my inner dragon fire.

We sealed the huge cave to keep the cold out and, in a last effort, we had gathered tree branches and wood to make a fire and warm ourselves up a little.

Always under appeasement, the dinos didn't panic and ended up getting closer to the fire, until they were no longer afraid of it.

Slowly, the cave warmed up but there were no skins or furs and we were not producing enough heat ourselves to make it efficient.

I had to find a solution.

I had to spit out a Zerg sphere... By any means...

One with the least amount of mana. yes, not inhabited... Who could...

Yes, a small emergency unit with a collector...

Warming myself to the maximum with fire, I finally manage to spit out a sphere.

After 3-4 hours of rest, I threw a shield, more for the cold but also against desperate surviving predators impossible to subdue.

I came out of the rocky spur and the cave and an icy cold attacked me.

Where the valley had water and huge burnt fields, it was the ideal place.

The sky was all green and burning rain was falling. It was Iridium crystals.

Primal Iberium!

Ouch, it burned where it touched me.

Almost all the trees had been burned by the fire but also by radiation [https://img.wattpad.com/151a2d838ec8b334d99851a2d261401e8a0379ab/68747470733a2f2f73332e616d617a6f6e6177732e636f6d2f776174747061642d6d656469612d736572766963652f53746f7279496d6167652f43395659674856463546665462673d3d2d313030353035313132352e313635366234373963653063326437343437353539343438313838352e6a7067?s=fit&w=1280&h=1280]

Almost all the trees had been burned by the fire but also by radiation. I was partly protected by the shield but it was still burning.

Night came suddenly, dark and certainly for years.

By looking at the configuration and with the experience on Arrakis, I found the first trees in Tiberium [https://img.wattpad.com/5f32ec8a6886ed82073080a6f62b2b51d830ccfe/68747470733a2f2f73332e616d617a6f6e6177732e636f6d2f776174747061642d6d656469612d736572766963652f53746f7279496d6167652f4e7777314575704f6c596a3935413d3d2d313030353035313132352e313635366234383332366639343562653333333038333730353035302e676966?s=fit&w=1280&h=1280]

By looking at the configuration and with the experience on Sahelia, I found the first trees in Iberium.

Since Iberium grows only at night, they collected all the Iridium in nanoparticles dissolved in the atmosphere. A powerful mutagen.

The world was going to undergo profound mutations from now on.

Iberium would also disappear in a hundred years, with the return of the sun but also buried by layers of ashes and sediments that took years to fall to the ground.

I let go of my sphere and prayed to Tiamat, that the base would unfold.

The bubble expanded, revealing the 3D structure in light, and then, like a teleportation, everything took on consistency.

In front of me, a collector of Iberium and his small refinery. Small, but we would be saved and sheltered.

A force field protected the shed from bad weather and the Tiberium oven would protect us from the cold [https://img.wattpad.com/011a375d6d8c2392b93d3b16fbed35910b4e4e42/68747470733a2f2f73332e616d617a6f6e6177732e636f6d2f776174747061642d6d656469612d736572766963652f53746f7279496d6167652f6f30536d326251334c566b336c673d3d2d313030353035313132352e3136353662343861363238373631376237373530323538353936312e6a7067?s=fit&w=1280&h=1280]

A force field protected the shed from bad weather and the Iberium oven would protect us from the cold.

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The automated collector could be launched on demand.

Then came the ordeal. Literally, it was necessary to pull everyone down the hill.

The raptors saw the structure below and understood that it would be hot but they had to bite the coldest.

When the last ember was extinguished, then everyone rushed behind me to avoid freezing cold.

The temperature was dropping and was only 9°C It was raining acid rain and black rain

Living outside would soon be no longer possible for us.

It was now dark and only the silo and the refinery were emitting faint green light.

From time to time, green lightning illuminated the ground, showing the horror that was growing, burning life as we knew it, sparing only a few areas here and there [https://img.wattpad.com/7d703e5150b20319f46b88a5e6e276a79a806168/68747470733a2f2f73332e616d617a6f6e6177732e636f6d2f776174747061642d6d656469612d736572766963652f53746f7279496d6167652f73417746416b75743269666832413d3d2d313030353035313132352e313635366234613236643036343065373630323633363937343037352e6a7067?s=fit&w=1280&h=1280]

From time to time, green lightning illuminated the ground, showing the horror that was growing, burning life as we knew it, sparing only a few areas here and there....

The Carboniferous forest, gone.

The oceans full of life... dead

Everything smelled of death and decay.

Reclusive in the center of the heated hall, the dinosaurs were trembling with fear.

I showed them the central drain to do their business, and so they were educated from day one.

They were clean very quickly. The smell betraying their presence was written in their genes.

Alpha would stick to me from time to time to exchange our warmth but also to learn.

I also activated the molecular reactor at the refinery to obtain synthetic meat in granulated form, like dog food and vegetarian kibble for herbivores.

Even without appeasement, the animals now knew each other and knew each other. Alpha and I found our own corners and made sure we maintained a semblance of order.

The life they had known and enjoyed a little bit was over.

They had to evolve! They could do it!

They looked outside, and, when the collector came back to unload the collected ore, the Iberium, the crystal dust burned the mucous membranes and they kept their distance from the machine. They quickly understood.

Afterwards, some of them could no longer be locked up and went around the building in the snow, but after 2-3 minutes, they had quickly returned to warm up.

I didn't hold them prisoner but this building was our only refuge.

I was looking at my mana level and it crossed proportionally with the storage in the silo. Yes, I remember, the artificial mana...

So I tried a recruiting center, a Zerg training and formatting center. Where common sense and discipline were inculcated with a "formatting" of the brain...

Where common sense and discipline were inculcated with a "formatting" of the brain [https://img.wattpad.com/b02f8578e82fee2830379cc49c213ebfa62f0fe0/68747470733a2f2f73332e616d617a6f6e6177732e636f6d2f776174747061642d6d656469612d736572766963652f53746f7279496d6167652f474e6944774657464a76633830673d3d2d313030353035313132352e313635366234633863363162636532613335363836313236373034312e6a7067?s=fit&w=1280&h=1280]

All passed through and the eggs to be incubated were installed in the infirmary.

We continued to install our base and the dinosaurs had a notion of language in Draconian, more appropriate for their physics. Variations of grunts and clicks were easier than pronouncing vowels and human proto languages.

My goal was to build a temple for mom so that the connection between her and us could be restored.

The demons looked at our story like a soap opera you never get tired of.

Everything around us was dark and cold, but once we created a military workshop, we could automatically build construction machinery and greatly improve our way of life.

Alpha would come and lie on top of me from time to time in my quarters and I felt good to be between his paws and feel his manhood in me.

Never before had I felt so good....

But all of a sudden, I was afraid of becoming pregnant, Isolde...? But I too had needs and here, more than ever, I wanted to recreate a family that I missed so much.

In the pharmacy, I took pills, hoping that it would protect me, but if fate decided otherwise, I would accept my role as a mother, as matriarch for what was left of the Jurassic world.

The base was then surrounded by walls with meteorological antennas that isolated a cone towards the sky.

The clouds of dust were deflected, and a corner of sunshine managed to light us, if not warm us up.

The technical center was erected and the dinosaurs were about as intelligent as humans and the automated center made good "little" Zergoraptors soldiers, the first Jurassic division!

Weather control units were deployed and a warm microclimate was installed above the base.

The eggs hatched and the little ones could play in the closed enclosure. Only the collectors passed through the automated gates and, as in Sahelia, I managed the development of our base and our small community.

Only the collectors passed through the automated gates and, as in Arrakis, I managed the development of our base and our small community [https://img.wattpad.com/1d0e8c0e4d9188b83cd47caa8bfda4ba21236c27/68747470733a2f2f73332e616d617a6f6e6177732e636f6d2f776174747061642d6d656469612d736572766963652f53746f7279496d6167652f7859443043547a6e393131374a773d3d2d313030353035313132352e313635366234663934393937393935373238323138393333313939332e6a7067?s=fit&w=1280&h=1280]

Then days became weeks and weeks became months.

Everything was dark and cold beyond our base.

Extending the weather stations further and expanding the base would be a waste of resources and keep a reserve in case of a cataclysm, fall of other celestial objects or simply a tsunami and or an eruption, we had to be able to save ourselves and take refuge elsewhere. All the more so since the resources in Iberium were not infinite and had to be harvested further and further away.

We could hope to have the automated cryogenic chamber to make us hibernate and go out when the weather conditions stabilized but there were many dangers outside waiting for us and I really wanted to find mine, to see Ivan again and to ask him for forgiveness.

But I felt at least another chance to grow up. The chaos and darkness gave me strength.

Hair grew everywhere and my tail split.

I became a mixture of a raptor and a nine-tailed fox.

I became Hakumen...

After one year (A few days in Avernus, the projection jumped in time to see the evolution)

The temple was built automatically. It was resource-intensive and was originally intended to command a space fleet.

This would allow me to summon and conjure a Gundam vessel.

Before I inaugurated the temple that had just been completed, I summoned a sphere from my mouth and an empty transport vessel that appeared before us.

Taking off was out of the question, the dust would clog the turbines, although via the clear cone, it would be an opportunity, but to go where?

The antennas and orbital probes were launched but ALL the earth was covered with a mantle of smoke and the ice caps were reaching the Mediterranean Sea. At least one kilometer of ice covered the continent and only a thin strip at the equator was open, sterile water. The acidity of the oceans would drop when all this fresh water melted.

The earth was dry and cold in winter, but from our point of view, the world was dead. There was no sign of improvement. Just that permanent winters were setting in and the ground had no more sunlight.

Only intense volcanic activity was disturbing the sky.

Staying here was a place to stay. Being dinosaurs, our life expectancy would not even allow us to see the sun again one day. Only the dragons could.

I was crying about my sad fate. I was abandoned, well, not totally abandoned, but living in a prison where we were free to die and raise young in a zoo...What sadness.

I had to be punished again and again for all my crimes....

But I never betrayed my adopted country, I never killed for pleasure or sport, just to survive... I didn't deserve a horrible end, isolated from time, from the world.

Then, in the temple, I started moaning and crying for Mama Tiamat. I begged her to come and get me, not to abandon me. I wanted to see mine, my friends, family and companions again. But also, when I looked at them, they too loved me, even more than the dragons...I had to do something for them. Try the impossible.

So I was working out a plan, with the calculations I had made to create the Nippon portal.

I was Hakumen this time and my calculations indicated failure. It was as if I was in a time bubble that would disappear with me and everything in it.

As soon as I leave here, they disappear into the abyss of time. Finished and caught up by history.

It was the same every time, the calculations separated our reality...

I had to be a projection... connected by the astral. My real body elsewhere, near Tiamat. Here, my soul in the body of a female raptor...probably my primal ancestor.

She had to survive for me to exist too...

It was terrible and gave me headaches.

I was looking for a pill or something, but everything was empty, exhausted and no way to go outside to find the ingredients. Anyway the vegetation was unknown and it was impossible to check their pharmaceutical properties.

Then I had a sudden idea.

I went downstairs and went to the main square where everyone was sunbathing at noon (a few moments of sunshine through the "hole" of the weather regulator, a kind of meteorological weapon.

I let everyone into the ship and turned it back into a bubble that I swallowed.

They were the crew frozen in the time and space of my soul, a bit like the space Hakumen had to store all those souls that gave him his strength.

Alone, I made a last tour of the base that would eventually degrade over time.

It was made to last a war, not eternity.

Then I went to the temple and cut myself a little to spill my blood.

On the other side, as Avernus, the demons were shouting Tania! as if to encourage me during a final fight.

My body began to convulse and I prayed to Tiamat to bring me back.

I prayed with all my strength until I fainted and a long sleep came over me.

The dark,

The stars,

intergalactic gas clouds....

I had a strange dream.

I saw again my lost friends but also my terrible enemies...

Then, with heavy eyelids and my leaden body, I saw light.

Then a huge head looked at me.

I was in the arms of Tiamat who was warming my little dragon body.

"MAman........Thank you... I love you......"

And I fell asleep again.

Then, a few hours later, I was awakened by the sun and the chirping of a bird and...by the snout of "me".... the raptor, my ancestor was next to me, coming to wake me up.

I had recovered my body and she had recovered hers.

Tiamat, tired, was sleeping behind me, I was between her legs when I raised my head. She had to die to save me.

I began to lick her paw and show my affection for the goddess. The fear was gone. I knew that she loved me, that she hadn't abandoned me and I told myself that now I would never disappoint her again.

One of her heads opened an eye...

"My little Tania... You know that you scared me... But it's also my fault, I was cruel to you... I'm sorry... I almost lost you. And her tears came over me.

"I was so valuable??? me????"

I finally accept this return to reality.

But the raptor! She was lying on my feet.

I woke up as if from a deep sleep, but all my muscles were coming out of this coma. I had to recuperate and I was terribly hungry.

Where was I? Oh yes... in the devil's tongue chariot.

Tiamat wanted to leave, for fear of a paradox, but I held her by the leg.

"Mother... don't leave me anymore. I won't do it again. I would like us to go home... ", begging her with her eyes.

She looked at the horizon.

"Our work here is not finished... Your daughter, she is a prisoner of the other Tiamat . I could not save her. It was her or you. But you were dying and she was a prisoner of King Midas, Valiant Midas...

I am afraid of a paradox but the Tiamat here is too weak, I can feel it. So I will stay with you for a while.

Tania: "Mommy!"

Then, seeing the raptor on my feet, lost, in front of all this stranger, she had only me as a reference, I also had the smell of the raptor and a family feeling existed between us.

Tiamat looked at the poor creature.

"What a waste, this comet... We are going to dragonize it and it will live with us. It may not be your mother, but it is your ancestor.

Because of her ruby eyes, Tiamat named her Rodania. She was sucked up by the silver rope to here.

Then I made a test and took out the Zerg transport ship and .....

!!! My tribe was in it, alive!!!"

My companions came out and roared with pleasure when they saw the sun again, the warm air and the vegetation around us.

But, having become intelligent, they rushed at my feet and those of Tiamat. They knew that it was the goddess I worshipped and they, too, bowed down.

Tiamat was overjoyed.

"They too will live!"

Our adventure, even crazier, continued...

Now, objective to save Marise and save Isolde! Then, we will see!