We returned shocked by this bivouac and we were happy to meet again the weekend mother Hissa and Auronne who came especially to taste the new Hissa style dishes. Lizard kitchen, for lizard, lizard-style....

What was good in his kitchen were the big pieces with the bones. The broths she made were extraordinary and full of juice (cooked blood)

She always made sauces with marrow and dragon herbs that I brought back from the forest, it was a little aniseed and she went happily with the rum.

Everyone in the private villa complex knew when she was preparing her "bouillon".

But she knew that I loved fruit and vegetables above all else and she added pineapples or mangos to the broth.

The vegetables were also cooked in the broth and they had a soft consistency in it and crispy, crunchy on the outside.

Of course, we all had steel jaws and we crushed the bones that we breaded and fried and ate them like chips.

In the canteen, we were particularly noisy when we brought our meals prepared by Hissa with love....

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Higgins: "Yes, Mr. Secretary of State!

Visitors have brought their culture and culinary knowledge but we have 1500 years more technology than they do.

Auronne gave us the keys to magic but the results are disappointing.

On the other hand, our monitoring network has allowed us to witness the operation of a dimensional portal. They managed to bring in an animal talking about their world, a white-collar eagle. They managed to send a rock to theirs but the energy is colossal. The probes indicate that the energy used is equivalent to that of a small black hole. This is no joke."

Secretary X: "What about the dragons?"

Iggins:" Perfect human beings... Their level of survival is unparalleled. They could become our best agents. All the hidden agents were located by the 2 dragons, as if they had an information network within them. The female, Argentrix, is particularly kind to her human classmates but desperately clings to the black dragon. Our hunter even saw him sucking blood from his male. It seems she suffers from the same symptoms as the kajit and argonians. Those who suffer from it hunt intensively as if they were desperate. Maybe we could ask them directly."

Secretary X: "Yes, they seem to be cooperating and anyway, we would not be able to keep these beings locked up without causing a disaster. Who knows what powers they hide? If they are able to break through space/time, what could we do? No, keeping them for our just cause is the best way to keep them under control."

Iggins: "And what about our agreement with the other powers?"

Secretary X: "The Indians are our master card. Give to receive better is our motto.

They fight each other to find the dragon and seduce him or her, but they will break their teeth. We have to let them do it so we don't have an open war. I think our dragon will like to stay here. The prey is juicy, there are mountains and not too many people to bother them. They're at the officers' school and what more could you ask for? No need to capture them, they work for us....And it costs less that they stay voluntarily rather than build mega infrastructures that they will destroy anyway.... "

Iggins:" You're right... Besides, he didn't stay in Belgium... he came back here of his own free will. It must be overcrowding or taxes......."

Then Iggins took his cell phone and called my smartphone.

"Ivan,? Iggins! Can I talk to you?"

Me, surprised to have Iggins on the phone: "Yes, there are no problems..."

Iggins: "Why do the Argonians and Kajits go hunting and slaughter game?"

Me:" Oh, yes, the earth is a magical desert since the dragons and unicorns fled this world. Magic has fallen to such a low level that magical creatures like me suffer from mana deficiencies, a form of chi, a vital essence.

The result is painful fatigue and they have to draw some mana from the prey's blood to regenerate their bodies. It's hunting anyway."

Iggins: "You didn't affect him!"

I: "Normal, I come from this world and I was born in this world as a human being and born as a dragon. I would theoretically be the last Earth Dragon. I fill this world with my mana every time I exhale. I'm kind of a source of mana."

Iggins: "How would your land make it magical?"

Me:" A thousand dragons like me, for a thousand years..... It's not that I don't want to help you or unwillingness, but I think it's impossible.

We could bring condensed mana crystals from Argonia but who knows if the earth would explode? I'll ask you to try it with small crystals.

"

Iggins: "But why is it so difficult?"

I said, "Because of the weather!"

Iggins: "Yes, the times are not the same... In fact, you're communicating with people who died 1300 years ago..."

Me:" That's right, except for dragons that can hibernate for centuries, preferably in a glacier..."

Iggins: "Do you think we could go to Argonia at this time?"

Me:" I don't know, we should Chronos the space-time magician here, but I doubt it because I know a little bit about it thanks to Merlin... (Oops... I spoke too quickly... meeerde!"

Iggins: "Why are you hiding and depriving us of the magic that is a right in your country?"

Me: "Change the sun!!! The sun sends us electromagnetic waves. In the other world, our sun sends us mana waves. We are immersed in it... Quite simply."

Iggins: "And why? Do you know that?"

Me: "Mmmmh our sun is too old... The Outremonde is a recent world, more volcanic, life appeared faster, earlier and it is a young world. The sun still emits a lot of primary light... But it's a belief."

Iggins: "Thank you Ivan"

Iggins hung up the secure phone after turning off the speaker.

Secretary X: "Yes, asking is easier, but that doesn't mean stopping our reversals. At least we were saved some time so we wouldn't have to waste any time.

It is then necessary to make an artificial sun, a mini to generate mana and understand why the sun has lost the ability to emit mana.

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Hissa: "Ivan, Auronne must stay close to us!.."

I said, "What's going on?"

We were on campus, in the private residence, a kind of house/villa twinned with another family, surrounded by a front garden and a small garage. There were 200 identical and semi-detached small houses.

Hissa and Brutus lived there and Brutus being a soldier and Hissa a cook, He lived there.

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Me and Argentrix were in dormitories for girls and boys and Auronne stayed with Akar on our ranch that we had at the foot of the Anchorage mountains.

Hissa took a stool, which was better for her and for Brutus, given their huge lizard tail:

"Ivan, you'll have to talk to Argentrix, Auronne is not fine at all!"

In the morning, she spits blood, especially on weekdays and recovers a little on weekends, and I don't know what it is! Worse, she's lost her powers and is, like, emptied... I beg you, if you know something, say it."

Me:" Argentrix was sick a short time ago but I managed to "cure" her finally to relieve her... but she wants to keep the remedy secret! She's afraid to tell her mom.... She is REALLY ashamed and afraid..."

Hissa: "What is it with you... with Argentrix?...?" all smiles!!!!

I blushed very hard but I replied that no!

Hissa: "I would still like to hold a little dragon in my hands one day... I hope I don't die of old age before!..."

Hissa frightened me and suddenly I started crying with great sorrow.......

She stroked my neck and grabbed me from her long tail so I could get closer to her."

Ivan, I know this will be a tough time, but we don't have a choice! As my mother used to say, we are tenants in the world and we are transitional beings... We stay a little, to rest and live and recharge our souls then we go to the infinite, to other worlds in the form of small stars, star dust then new adventures await us, new families, new friends, sometimes we are happy, and sometimes unhappy....

I am happy to be here with my entire family. I will be sad to leave, but above all I will be sad that you are sad... We looked at each other, eyes full of tears both of us, then we hugged each other.

We were interrupted by our stomachs screaming famine. Then we looked at each other and laughed.

Then I told Hissa: "My blood.... Argentrix drank my blood and took some mana. After that she felt better..."

Hissa dropped her knife in the sink as she cut vegetables and turned around: "That's it....................................................sniff...... Poor Argentrix.........Become a vampire......."

Me: "NO, HISSA!, It's only 2 three drops of blood to allow the mana to transfer itself... I have lost almost nothing, I am recovering well... "

Hissa: "Stop lying, it's not like a dragon..."

Me: "I don't care, dragon or human..... I love you all, I can't bear to lose you... I've already lost my family three times, on the plane, with knights and bad unicorns. You're all I have left!"

Hissa squeezed my neck and her beautiful golden eyes looked at me with a beautiful smile.

Me: "You know Hissa, you have the same look as my late grandmother. All smiles, never anger and golden eyes too... You're both adorable beings. Now that I see that, I love you even more..."

Brutus, in a corner of the other room heard our conversation and also shed a tear and went in, head down: "Ivan, you don't know how much I regret everything I've done in the past and how much I would like to be part of your family...

I said, "You know, Brutus, if anything happened to you, we'd cry for you too and I reached out to him and the three of us huddled together.

Finally, a little warmth in this brutal universe.

Auronne who was shopping arrived and was helped to unload and store the products and items she had purchased. No wonder she wasn't doing well financially. There was everything and everything, trinkets, spices and all kinds of stuff.

And when I wanted to kindly remark on her choices, she wanted to tell me something and collapsed at my feet, coughing a lot of blood. She didn't even have the strength to turn back into a wrist strap.

"Ivan... Grraaaaaaaah (blood spurting out of the mouth).

With the help of aaaaahh (vomiting blood)"

Oh no!

Quick major treatments!

I put my hands on and the light passed over his chest.

And his cough subsided.

Argentrix arrived from music classes and when she saw her mother collapsed, and I was full of blood, Her anger only went around once:

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY MOM! GRRRRRRROOOOOOOAAAAARRRR!"

Hissa stood in the way and Argentrix almost hit her to eject her to the side except that Auronne, still kneeling against me, raised an arm to say Stop without being able to talk. Then she fainted against my shoulder.

"MOTHER! MOTHER! What's going on???? Answer me!!!!!!!

MOTHER!!! Say something!!!!!!! and she wanted to shake her up and Hissa took her, lifted her up and took her to the bed in the room provided for her.

Me and Brutus had Argentrix struggling and I had to raise my voice for the first time against my beautiful.

"THAT'S ENOUGH! YOU CAN SEE SHE'S SICK! SHE SPIT ALL THAT BLOOD ON ME! I JUST GAVE HIM A MAJOR TREATMENT! I LOVE YOUR MOMMY WHOM I CONSIDER AS MY MOMMY TOO! NO ONE HERE WANTS TO HURT HIM!"

Argentrix burst into tears and threw herself at me, "PARDON PARDON, I saw all that red and golden blood and"

Me:" It's nothing, a mother is always precious. You reacted instinctively to protect her..." I stroked her hair.

Me: "Look, I think your mommy is suffering like you, but you're younger and you're adjusting to this world. You're getting even stronger and more powerful.

But your mommy needs me too, but I don't understand why she needs such a bleed. His vital forces are literally absorbed by something.

By combining a small restoration, the lost golden blood was returned to her and she regained much of her strength.

We then had a huge meal prepared by Hissa and I isolated myself with Auberonne in her room. She wanted us to be alone.

Auronne :

"Ivan, I'm afraid I'm dying... I have no strength left, I don't know what's happening to me and no matter how much I eat and hunt, my mana is not enough. I'm breaking from the inside and I don't know why...

You're a good dragon and a good boy. If I'm no longer of this world, watch over Argentrix for me. I have a necklace from my mom and my mom's mom. It is passed on from girl to girl and contains all our history, our culture and all our messages of love. Make sure she has that necklace. I can only count on you...

And she cried against me.

Me: "Auronne, your daughter was suffering like you, but I had to keep it a secret.

She had to bite me and swallow a few drops of my blood and absorb mana. It's been several days. It's not vampirism, but she's doing better and recovering."

Auronne:" But what about you? You're going to die!"

Me: "No, not at all, I come from here, it's my world and the mana comes alone, finally I have to compensate with prey but as I'm technically the last land dragon, I'm in phase with my world. So I can save you..."

Auronne: "I can't do that, it's immoral..."

Me: "No, humans make blood transfusions to save their own... It's the same thing... only we don't do it on public benches... we go to a blood centre.

Come to the infirmary, it will be more discreet and no one will ask questions. "

Auberonne: "I can't do that!!! I'm a gold dragon!"

Me: "I know and it's because I love my golden dragon that I can do this! I would never want to lose you!"

So I tell the others we're going to the infirmary.

I isolated myself with Auronne and she did as her daughter and her colours came back, she was as if revived.

I was in my turn exhausted, the spell of restoration, major care and the transfer of mana 4 times more important than for Argentrix really worried me.

We talked a little and looked for the causes and peaks of her mana's consumption and it became obvious:

It was my transformation into a human being at night..... that pumped Auronne's resources. The fact that I stay human at night was "a reinforcement" but it was at her expense.... The mana here did not compensate for the expense of transformation.

Auronne: "I'm sorry, Ivan, I couldn't find a better way"

Me:" Thank you, you gave me a place to stay or to place... I will manage..."

Then she got up and went to wipe herself and fell on her knees, a big point in her stomach.

Arghghghhhh,

she held her stomach and had to throw up.

But it wasn't blood, it was saliva... Fortunately.

A doctor came by and helped Auberonne to get up and asked her to accompany him. He was insistent and made her sit down and gave her a bottle. "Madam, a little urine test!"

Auronne looked at me, surprised and I said to him: "Do as he tells you, the sooner it is done, the sooner we get back"

Ten minutes later, the doctor called Auronne in his office. He kindly asked me to stay in the waiting room.

But I could hear everything and Auronne didn't put a shield to isolate me:

"Ma'am, I think I know why you're tired. These symptoms appear around meals?

Then he put a wand in the urine pot and a cross appeared on one of the squares.

"Ah!" he said, before Auronne answered.

He turned around and smiled at Auronne and said, "Madam, you are not sick...

you're pregnant!"

She opened her eyes and mouth, shocked: "Ah!"

I was shocked too!

Doctor: "We can see if everything is fine on this screen. "'

He invited Auronne to sit on an examination bed, put gel on her stomach and used an ultrasound probe.

The gynaecologist was surprised to see eggs instead of embryos. The eggs had scales and there were three.

Doctor:" Madam, are you from the other side ???? "

Auronne:" Yes, doctor."

Doctor: "It's none of my business, but you can count on me, your secret is professional. But if I can help you, here's my card. Are you oviparous?"

Auronne:" Yes, doctor..."

Doctor: "I studied veterinary medicine at first and was passionate about reptiles but I never thought I could help someone like you" If you have the slightest doubt, I can try to answer your questions as best I can"

Auronne: "Is it normal that I am so tired?"

Doctor:" Yes, this is the first phase and they will pump your energy. You must rest and manage your efforts better!"

That's when I realized why this collapse happened. The eggs pumped all of their mother's mana to adapt to the harsh and dry environment of the Earth.

Would have left the office and looked at me: "You know!"

I smiled with my thumb up and she ran up to my neck and said, "You're going to be HOLY!"

We came back to Hissa's house and they were all sulking, waiting for the verdict or a new fatalist...

Argentrix relapped her head full of tears and looked at her mother smiling.

MOTHER???

Auronne: "Ivan, Argentrix, IN DRAGON HOP! We're going to the ranch! "

Everyone was worried, but something didn't fit the drama.

Hissa and Brutus got on my back and we took off from the base, like that, without warning.

The guards were surprised to see dragons, even though they knew there were two, but they didn't understand why they saw three......

He called his supervisor who made the commission at Higgins and he called me via my Bluetooth headset.

"Ivan???? Are you running away?"?

Me: "No, Commander, it's the weekend! We'll be back for Monday but we have an emergency and a party to prepare! We may have to ask you for permission."

Higgins: "Why?"

Me: "I'm going to be TONTON, and a birth is serious for dragons..."

Higgins: "How?? Uncle? Aren't you a father?"

Me: "Commander, you know very well that Auronne is Argentrix's mother... Dogs don't make cats... Auronne is also a wrist strap. And she's pregnant!"

Higgins dropped his cigar. "Damn it!"

Higgins:" Ivan, it's important, who knows but the doctor?"