We arrived in Florida and saw smoke from thatched cottages, burnt houses and villages. We went to see and it was Orc villages that had just been exterminated.

The fortifications had been blown up and we could still see shell casings....

But.... is 21st century technology!!!!. Not Zerg or medieval ball cannons... Fragmentation weapons.

Then we looked better... Wheel tracks with inside traces of horse hoofs.

The cannons were mounted and pulled by horses as in 1914... Strange.

Marc looked at the traces... "Humans have massacred the village but we will not find anything. Except the remains of a huge pyre...

The dead were incinerated...

No traces of dead humans... they must have taken the corpses and offered them a burial place.

We took again our flight after having eaten some pieces of dried meat in our inventory.

Then we set out again.

Blanche (Tiamat): "Turn behind the hill, the biggest, there must be the castle. I came here years ago to meet the Valiant Prince... A very handsome man."

From a distance, we saw the castle but it was in ruins, as if it had imploded...

One part was standing, and the other collapsed and replaced by a wooden structure... probably repairs.

To avoid being spotted, we landed in the nearby jungle and I took the appearance of a magus in the service of Altus. Georges accompanied me, also transformed into a human.

He resembled me like two drops of water and I considered him more like a son than a grandson.

"I know that I will never replace your father, who was a formidable sensei and Kung-fu master. He was very strong and your mom loved him above all else. He kept his dignity to the end and refused the transformation. He said that his cycle had to renew itself naturally. ..."

Georges let go of his tears. He loved his daddy very much... They remained happy until the end. Glaurung was devastated when she woke up and he was gone in his sleep with a smile on his face, just like that, without warning... The doctor explained that he was sick and never showed it. Using his Ki to compensate for his growing weakness.

He had left, happy to have taught Georges everything and that it was up to him now to continue the dojo... but the cataclysm decided otherwise....

On foot, they arrived at the kingdom of Midas, a neighboring and allied country, without really being allied with the kingdom of Altus.

People often traveled by boat, and the swampy land was often crossed by swamps and dark rivers,

The marshes were infested with crocodiles and other mangrove pythons, and their flesh was highly appreciated by the locals.

They ate them more than fish. It had a vague taste of chicken...

Thus, the population was not hungry but cereals were rarer and therefore more expensive.

By questioning the passers-by who were suspicious of foreigners but calmed down when they saw the coat of arms of Altus, we learned that we were in the kingdom of Midas and that the Valiant Prince had become the king.

Valiant I, Valiant first of the name... Midas II having abdicated after his disastrous campaign and the destruction of half of the castle, leading to the death of many nobles.

A problem of knowledge with unstable explosives.

An idiot had to bring a lighted torch too close to a table filled with black powder dust.

The arsenal must have blown up and caused the collapse of part of the structure.

That's why now the arsenal was separated from the castle, much, much more isolated.

All the people cursed the dragons, who were responsible for these wars and this catastrophe, but some said that some were nice, the 3 females who had sought refuge.

If you spot this story on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.

They ran away and were hunted for treason..., refusing to finish off their father, a horrible monster.... The last male....

We entered a tavern near the castle and I let Georges do it, his experience and the language in patois that he knew well...

At least that way, we didn't arouse suspicions...

We listened to the craziest rumors and the barman was a sponge for information.

One of the craziest rumors was that the mad dragon, or the Red Death... who terrorized the kingdom was in fact the younger brother of Midas II, the father king who had abdicated. He had placed his valiant nephew on the throne and refused to let the kingdom be ruled by a dragon, a half human but with all the features of a dragon... only his intelligence was human...

And since the dragon had children, they were to inherit the throne normally. Captured once, and having saved the prince once, they were freed by the prince's gracious and noble gesture. They were even baptized and exorcised...

But Vaillant did not want to leave his place to dragons, even by marrying Dantinne ...

The population, tired of the incessant attacks and collusion of Ignar the madman with orcs, demons and a succubus dragon, could never accept such an event...

The dragons had to disappear for good...

After a terrible battle between the 3 dragons, his two daughters and their abused mother, against their father and the succubus, allied to an army of orcs, Ignar was finally defeated.

Seriously wounded, Ignar was to be executed, but the dragonesses fled with him, having understood Vaillant's plans. They also hindered the coronation, with the risk of associating Midas II with Ignar's terrible vengeance. His incessant battles and attacks that influenced the kingdom were caught and he had to pay. His family was massacred by the family branch of Midas II, he was saved by his nature as a half-dragon (well, practically a dragon) and had to resolve to spend his youth like a wild beast. The succubus, being attracted by his immeasurable hatred, made him even crazier and more dangerous.

The 4 of them fled to the islands in the south of Florida and since a volcanic explosion we have no news.

Natives on rafts fleeing the eruption have mentioned their passage and the carnage in the tribes. The savages were scared and frightened by these red monsters bathing in the lava ... They had provoked the wrath of their God.

Georges : "One thing is sure, we have to go back up the flow of boat people and emigrants fleeing the carnage... to find their trace".

I had a laugh... "This Ignar... I really want to meet him... He must be quite a character this one...."

Georges laughed with me as he heard the craziest rumors about dragons and all the enormities that went with it....

After a while, we asked if we could have a room at the inn, to change our habits a little bit...

In this kind of hostel, there is always action...

Then, late in the evening, the other dragons took refuge in the darkness, in the shelter of the castle, we heard typical rattling of caterpillars...

From the tanks.... a column....

People came out, attracted by the noise and then ran away in the opposite direction.

Tania and her team were on our heels!!!!

What a bummer!

Tania was enthroned on the turret of a tank, followed by other tongues of fire, those terrible underground tanks... real moles on caterpillars.

Sitting next to Tania, there was Isolde and Marise was flying over the area and hoping to find us again by the smell...

But tobacco and beer, their smell had impregnated our clothes. We decided to stay inside to find out more.

The column passed in front of the inn and continued its road towards the castle.

They were greeted by a salvo of field cannon and the column came to a halt.

A dewlap with the Altus coat of arms stopped the firing and a dispatch rider came to inquire about Isolde.

She was received at the castle for an interview with King Valiant I.

But the soldiers were terrorized by a flying marsh that was a dragon. They had a very bad reputation.

And then, Tania, the icing on the cake. A dragon on a tank with 2 huge cannons. A real mobile fortress.

Shouts: "Ignar has come back for revenge... Ignar's army came back.... Save yourselves!"

In the throne room, recently repaired, the noble Iseultbella was on one knee on the ground, in front of her valiant majesty.

"Get up, my dear friend.... it's been a long time since you've been here. I'm also happy that it is you who comes to negotiate...

Speak, as king and friend, I promise you no harm will come to you..."

"Sire, you know the great prophecy."

"Yes," said Valiant, interested...

"She is here... and her daughter is a terrible dragon... Tania... She doesn't look like one but she has an army on her. So powerful that she can set the whole planet on fire....

But she's not here to make war on you...She hunts dragons and came from another world to capture them...

Altus didn't make any provocation and everything went well but she alone crushed the orc people and defeated the demon lord..."

Valiant, instinctively hating the dragons, "What is his army doing here????"

"She comes to warn you out of courtesy that she is crossing the kingdom to hunt down the fugitives and also Ignar and his family."

Valiant found a smile again.

"But I don't want any more dragons here."

Isolde: "Anyway, you couldn't stop her... She is the daughter of Tiamat the infernal and she is hunting Tiamat the evil one...what's left of her. This Tiamat is probably holed up here with her 4 companions, terrible dragons, a thousand times stronger than Ignar..."

Valiant resigned himself...

"I'd like to get to know him, Isolde... I hope I won't have to regret it, but you're obviously forcing my hand."

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but I care for you as I do for the rest of your friendly people, and I hope in this way to spare unnecessary bloodshed..."

"Still the same.... Too bad we can't get married... I wish I had you as my wife..."

"Isolde, I'm sorry, Valiant, oops Sire...but...I love someone..."

Vaillant understood immediately when seeing Tania storming into the great hall, accompanied by a few elite Zergs and overarmed guards.

She knelt next to Isolde who did not flinch and received a discreet kiss that did not escape Vaillant.

Isolde loved the dragon... and the feeling was mutual...

Vaillant: "Welcome to the kingdom of Midas, young dragon..."

His natural bipedal posture also helped to break the ice.

Tania: "Your Majesty, we are looking for escapees... and their accomplices... Altus let the dragon lord or demon lord escape if you prefer... He was to be tried for his crimes but a hydra and his accomplices helped him escape and took Isolde's brother Alban hostage..."

Valiant: "I know Alban...the poor guy... let's hope they are not as sadistic as Ignar...

But who are you???"

I'm on a mission to find and capture the dragons and their descendants that were sent here followed by the great cataclysm. I come from a world before the cataclysm. They don't belong here. Therefore, in his great wisdom, I must also capture what remains of Tiamat from this world. Thus, humans will live in peace."

Valiant: "And you will remain here?"

Tania: "Not at all... we will go back to the stars, we have other missions."

Valiant: "But who are you? Who are you in the end?"

The answer terrified Vaillant:

"I am the daughter of Tiamat the infernal and she is taking over and continuing the mission of Bahamut..."