After being disgusted by my discovery, I had to warn Chlorophylle at once.

As I flew away I jumped on the back of one of the maids, who fell, and knocked over the other maids in a row like dominoes.

She hit a stone basin and broke her front tooth, cursing the one behind.

This earned them a reprimand from Vadia, who slapped the maid.

I had to level up too, I had to be more powerful and I was desperate.

As I walked along the corridors, unseen, I was attracted by a slight draught behind a tapestry and discovered a secret passage.

Going down, we came to the basements of the palace and one led to a long, endless corridor after a flight of stairs and after an hour's walk I came back to the intersection.

From there I heard crying and... English!!!

Slipping behind guards, through the ceiling and the top of the doorframe, I arrived in the dungeons.

And, I recognised the "students".

"Maxime, I'm afraid... what will happen to us?" cried the girl in uniform.

But on inspection, it looked like a military academy uniform. Military... students.

"Sasha... calm down... if they wanted to hurt us, they would have done it already."

"But they got mad when we put our hands on the sphere, a kind of holographic lamp"

"Me too, I had this impression... they tried to communicate but only a few words were common... a kind of ancient Latin but nobody knows this language anymore..."

Me: "I do!"

They turned around but saw nothing.

Maxime put his hands on the bars but they were getting hot. They should have been electrocuted but magic had little influence.

"Who... Who are you? Where are you? I can't see you!"

"I am a friend, but my existence must remain a secret."

Sasha: "But how do you know our language? And that whistling accent?"

"Sorry... I have my secrets. I suppose you are from earth?"

"Not really, we were born on an exploration ship and were heading for Alpha"

Maxime: "Shut up!"

Sasha: "But how would he know about Alpha and Ship?"

Me: "Alpha Centauri and I suppose the ship took off from Cape Canaveral?

After a pause, Maxime resumed.

"The ships leave from lunar orbit and in earth orbit there is an orbital lift. The rockets don't leave from the ground anymore, because of the pollution... are you from earth too then?"

"In a way, yes...a long time ago then."

"Whoever you are, help us... We want to go back to the ship! Please!"

I then removed my size and invisibility and they saw that I was on their side of the bars.

A monster worthy of the movie Alien.

"I am MIR!"

They fell to their knees, arms outstretched as if to avoid my bite.

"Don't be afraid... I'm a wyvern, a dragon and I don't eat humans..."

"Mir?? please. please... don't bite us... we'll do anything you want. "

They hoped I wasn't a wild animal.

My head snapped up and the girl began to sob.

"No..no.."

But she got a lick... a sign of friendship.

Maxime also got a lick from me.

Then I started to laugh. I had to clutch my stomach

"We Wyverns greet each other with a kiss... we are very close to each other. And we also know the intentions, the lies of the person in front... And also to test his strength. If I hold out my hand, I might scratch your hand with my claws.

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"Boo-hoo!"

Then I turned my back and Maxime touched my tail

"BE CAREFUL, IT'S POISONOUS!

And he just had the reflex to withdraw his hand.

"Mir... who are you? What's going on? We don't understand what's happening to us."

I had the princess to worry about and now.

-DING- my system gave me a quest..

"Investigate the heroes"

"Protect the two Heroes of the third...".

I brushed off those annoying windows, That was why my "system" was rudimentary, animalistic.

I looked down, overwhelmed.

"You are in danger. They are mean, cruel and sadistic, don't trust anyone and don't try anything... in a way, you are safe here."

Sasha: "But how can we go back???"

"It's impossible... you're stuck on Alpha..."

Maxime : "We're on Alpha? is it Alpha of the centaur??"

"Yes... in a way, you've arrived at your destination... but if you land now, you'll be massacred..."

"But... but they're in the Middle Ages!!"

"I'll tell you what's going to happen..

Your ship will re-enter the atmosphere and as soon as you hit the ground, they will see you as demons or invaders.

Your weapons will bounce off their armour and they will tear you to pieces or at best as slaves.

They will not listen to any of your messages, besides if they do not understand you now here, they will not do better later. They don't have time to listen to you...This is war and it will grow."

"But Mr. Mir, the dragon, who are you. Why do you understand us and speak our language and how do you know all this?"

"As I said, I lived on earth long ago but my life is here now. I am no longer human. I am a wyvern! "

Sasha: "Why don't you come back with us?"

"If it were possible... but my family is here, I don't care about earth anymore, this is my world now. And then, what will I do on earth? In a few years I'll be 100 feet tall... and end up in a zoo and be miserable... not for me!"

The humans had tears in their eyes.

"Mir... help us..."

"Yes... but you must promise never to have met me. My existence must remain a secret for as long as possible... I am "a familiar, a tiny wyvern".

"Please Mr. Wyvern! Please" said the budding astronauts.

"I will talk to the princess, the second princess... Avoid promising anything to the first one, and trust NO ONE!!! "

"Why???"

"There are spies everywhere and the "Heroes" are prime targets for assassins! In a way your incompetence is a protection...but you have assets."

They fell to their knees. Please, Mir...we don't want to stay in a dungeon!!! "

Then I turned around, exasperated and showing my teeth..furious.

"ENOUGH! You want to go with the princess? Every day people try to murder her or hurt her badly! All maids are rotten to the core. Be thankful you have water and soup and not cockroaches for a meal!"

Then I shrank in size and made myself invisible again, and went back through the bars.

"Excuse me Mister Mir...Excuse me!"

I shook my head.

"You know... how old are you?"

"Sixteen and fifteen (Sasha)"

"I'm one year old...I'm not even a teenager, still a baby wyvern...I'm sorry, understand..sorry.." then I ran away, the pressure too much..

I wasn't a hero, I didn't have the courage, let alone the ambition, and I could barely overcome my animal instincts, like those of my tribe, and I feared the heat above all else, or Dad would tell me that we were getting zany.

Then, looking at those walls, those corridors and the yelling and bellowing of the leaders and sub-leaders yelling at each other, it all went round and round in my head. and I suddenly longed for MAMAN wyvern..I missed her..maybe if we surrendered we would be free?

But if the queen was so bad, the witch should be just as bad.

And if she was so kind, why wouldn't she let us live simply in our cave. After all, we were happy there.

These walls were crushing me and I felt the weight of the castle, of the politics, and I only wanted to get out of here, but to go where?

What would I do with my few miserable spells? With my appearance? And without a penny to my name?

Scream and roar like a gorilla in the forest like a normal wyvern would?

Already, a wild wyvern was to me, like a monkey to a man. That's where we were.

Instead of flying, I walked slowly and my stomach started to growl and I was attracted by the smell of the kitchens.

Quickly I made my way through the underground maze and found that the castle was a swamp.

Hiding behind a double-bottomed cupboard, I could see through the wooden ventilation grates that even the stupid staff were not paying attention.

I collapsed on my stomach, gasping for breath, and saw the staff bustling about in one of the kitchens, the one dedicated to the shed and staff.

You could see the sinks, fed by a hand pump, a central stone island on brick columns and ovens set into the bricks under the stone worktop, for cooking on top but also in.

Then, as soon as the cook apologised to the wicked maid, I watched her do her thing:

She opened a cupboard with a cockroach hatch and spilled several cockroaches into the sauce. And she exclaimed loudly, as if nobody could hear her: "That's for making Vidia cry, you dirty princess!

"But... It's not possible!!!! "I said to myself! What are these assholes thinking?"

Crazy with rage, I grew up and took the biggest pot that was lying around and turned it over with the dirty water and everything on her head and she was surprised and with a wyvern punch I slammed the pot and her head in it and she collapsed knocked out on the floor, and I crushed the pot so that her head was stuck in it and she could only get out by sawing it.. Hello with the tools here, (chisels and hammers!).

The cook, attracted by the racket, rushed in to see the carnage and the maid screaming in pain.

Meanwhile, I took the tray to serve it to Vidia!

While I had brought back a basket full of goodies for my princess, Princess Vidia was listening to the rumours and heard about an accident that had happened in the kitchens while trying to teach Chlorophyll a lesson.

Princess Vidia was looking forward to the meal that was about to arrive and was pleased that everyone was on her side and that she was sure to inherit all the powers of a witch and then become empress. Eliminating the queen or her mother was just a formality for her.

She was sitting at the table with her father Felicius and she made a face, a cockroach's leg sticking out of her mouth.

"But... what! ARRRGH!"

She spat and swept her plate off the table and all its contents were spilled on the floor to the dismay of the maids.

"What's the matter, my dear???"

The queen screamed, "Oh my god!!! cockroaches!!!!"

Vidia spat and spat

"WATER VIIITE"

The maids were panicked and didn't know what to do!!!!

Some were looking at the contents of the plate and several boiled cockroaches were lying on the floor.

As I was being cajoled between the horns by my princess, I got a notification

"DING! You've gone up a level!"

I felt like I was getting stronger, and bigger.

"Oh? Why?"

"System: The sprinkler system. You gave the first princess a taste of her own medicine. Her medicine tasted like cockroach!"

I laughed...no...giggled.

"Mir?? çaVa?"

I was looking at my possible evolutions and apart from wyvern mage or dragon, I was ready to close everything when I saw: "Monster humanization.."

The possibility for me to have a bipedal appearance a bit like a lizard man.

Yes... that could be nice.

But I still needed to go up a level... 5 to be exact. Here I was "Young Wyvern" and not "Baby Wyvern" anymore.