As its name suggested, it was a huge ship, built for combat and capable of massacring most other ships.

Dumas had made numerous modifications and the ARK was absorbed, dismantled and then used as parts for the Colossus.

It was like a city in space, in stark contrast to Alpha, which remained in the Middle Ages, without taking into account the advances like electricity, gas and electrical appliances that were all the rage down there.

From the ground, I dreamt of seeing all that junk tumble to pieces and finding peace again, but the system had decided otherwise. I'd reached my limit or my energy would literally explode. To put it bluntly, I was at the point where I couldn't breathe any more... I felt like I was going to die or evolve by force.

I'd had enough of the whining and as if I needed to go to the toilet urgently with a stomach bug, I went in, grabbed Kroa, Sacha, Zipette and Maxime and threw them into a cylindrical shuttle specially designed for the portal.

I tapped the rag with my hind leg and the shuttle whirred to life, entering the first portal.

Instantly, they were in orbit, just as Kroa had experienced.

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Then they crashed into the long-distance portal.

In five minutes... they were in Earth orbit and without realising it, they were in France! in the pynets.

The acceleration was terrible and it was like a flash and everything went black.

The shuttle sent coordinates and a message saying that everything was in order.

Chlorophylle was furious with me for abusing my family and was about to slap me when I collapsed on my side, screaming in pain.

"It... we have to leave now!... I'm going to die!"

Xaida came running with my whole family and looked at Blanche...

"Mir is dying! He has to go now..."

Dumas arrived with his booted legs and the crew trailing behind.

CLAP CLAP CLAP...

I see you've succeeded. But I should have been warned!

I raised my head. "Do what you want... but I have to leave too, otherwise I'll die."

But Dumas wanted my super evolution.

She said to Blanche and Alpha: "Maybe I could help him by adding some extra heads...".

GROAAR said Dad.

"Nobody touches Mir...'

Dumas:" AH!??"

Xayda: "You've got your portal now, give it a rest! We kept our word.

And I was taken back on board the crystal ship.

It was disgusting and exhausting, but charging the ship's energy was the only thing that made me feel better now.

Then I say, "We've got to get on board now. The portal is still open and she has her toy. Afterwards, she'll devour everything on the planet to make her abominations and monstrous clones.

But just as I finished my sentence, I saw Vidocq who had followed us like a weasel and all the wyverns turned to grab him and tear him apart.

"Ahhh but..."

We thought he was still one of Dumas' lackeys but he fell to his knees... "Let me back down to earth!"

Chloro tore off his shirt to see if he had phlyctenes but he didn't.

Xayda cast a healing spell to remove the conditions (illness, poisoning, afflictions) and nothing changed.

Alpha in his big voice: "You go, you die, you talk, you die!

And so he remained on his knees.

"Wait! I can help by using codes... I'm still a commander and I'm "emancipated".

I didn't believe a word of it and had to play the game of the predator posing as prey.

Of course Dumas knew and she'd let me escape with Vidocq as her super-infector. I knew Umbrella and I wasn't from the last war. Like in chess, you had to leave an opening and set traps.

Then I took a deep breath and straightened up.

"Vidocq, don't you want to?"

He didn't understand, but the wyverns started laughing. Zalar too, having taken the hint.

"What do you mean, Majesty?"

"Don't you want to have horns and wings so you can fly?"

In fact, I knew Dumas was in Vidocq and I wanted to humiliate her, penetrate her so she could feel what it was like to be impaled. I wanted to see her little iron lady face weep as she submitted to my greatness and beg.

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I was drooling and Chlorophylle shouted "MIR!!!! ENOUGH!!! we're not enough for you? you've already fucked every wyvern in the tribe... YES... ALL OF THEM!"

I felt ashamed and wondered if I'd done Mum too.

I turned my head and Mother turned hers to look away.

Then, looking down at the floor, I fell onto my wyvern knees and began to cry....

"Kill me!"

Then Dad straightened me up and licked away my tears...

I cried, my head hidden under his wings...

"PArdon daddy....Pardon..."

"Mir... we're not human... we love each other and that's natural, isn't it? Then he pulled me aside, holding my winged arms with his, and straightened me into a sitting dog.

Then his eyes met mine.

"This way, every little one born will be the children of all of us, without exception. That way we'll be stronger!"

Dad found the barbaric words he needed to invigorate me. He was a rock.

"DAD, You're the Alpha but I'm going to call you ROC because you're solid as a rock that defies the elements."

I ignored Vidocq completely and we got down to business.

We cast the earthquake spell and the walls of the cave parted, leaving a giant crack.

The sun struck the Mordenkainen fortress with one of the most powerful spells ever conceived. More powerful than meteor clouds, more powerful than disintegration or prismatic rays, more powerful than blade barriers and equal or even more powerful than the ultra taboo spell of resurrection.

This spell had to be cast by several people because the energy was divine and also had to be cast in parallel with reincarnation to prevent the body being transformed into a zombie, vampire (if possessed) or worse, an abomination (flesh demon).

Vidocq asked: "Can you save the crew?

Blanche replied: "We could, but there's the Colossus and its cannons... the crew is lost! and we don't want to provoke Dumas' anger. It's bad enough that if we break away, she won't appreciate it.

Vidocq: "But can we talk to her and give it a try?"

Blanche: "GRRRR. You talk, you die!

Krii: "Just a bit, just a bit, please!"

Vidocq dropped to his knees. "sorry"

Krii : "Coward!!"

Blanche : "Mmmphh"

Me: "It's too late... I can't hold on any longer and I don't want to risk my family. When you undertook this insane journey, you knew the risks and you weren't careful enough with Umbrella.

Now they're here and I'm out of here.

Vidocq (Dumas in spirit): "What are you going to do on Earth?

Me : "I'm going to bask on a rock, eat, fuck and play with the kids. I'm not interested in anything else.

Vidocq : "And your powers?

Me : "If I leave, Dumas will probably have them. She'll be able to reign as she pleases and do what she wants with this planet.

Vidocq, caught off guard: "Ah... I hadn't thought of that".

Then I stared at him and my soul met the one that didn't have one, but an artificial one.

"Let's get one thing straight... I'm getting out of here because I have no choice. I don't know what my next evolution will be but it doesn't bode well. I want to go back to being just another happy lizard in his family. I'd have taken longer and I don't know if I'd have made it without the computers, but if I didn't have this curse of a crazy, packaged system, obviously I'd stay here. Abominations or not.

I just want a stone in the sun in front of the mountain or the sea and my wyverns around me...

I don't care about the empire.

I don't care about humans.

I don't care about this planet

and most of all, I don't give a damn about Umbrella.

Let her do what she wants, turn into a slime or tentacles or a vicious roper (my guilty thoughts again), I'm an animal and proud of it!

The wyverns, more down-to-earth than me, laughed and hissed.

My hormones were beading all over the place and I wanted it all the time. Even the ship attracted me... I was going crazy.

Mum blew ice on me to calm me down a bit. It was nice, but I even wanted to fuck Mum...

"IIIIIIIIIIIIIII"

The laughter stopped when they realised the seriousness of my situation. I wasn't vicious or obsessed, but I was ill and keeping my dignity was now impossible.

Xayda and Chloro understood this.

Then, to my great surprise, the "Old Man" appeared and jostled Vidocq without paying him any attention.

"Mir...through the black curtain of darkness I still see a young wyvern who wants nothing more than love. I've come to say goodbye and on behalf of the people of Alpha, I thank you. You will be missed and I've brought a friend with me who has to make a difficult decision".

Etincelle : "Mir... I think I've got your eggs in my belly... and... if you leave, that's all that'll be left of you but if you have a place for me where you're going, maybe I'll come. I'm not sure whether to leave your legacy here or accompany you to a new world for us...".

Me: "Etincelle, you're beautiful and you know that even though we were on opposing sides, I respected you and your protégée. It's up to you and her to make this decision.

We're heading for a world of unknown technology and magic, because nobody knows magic there, but don't worry. It takes 5 minutes to go through a portal and if you're unhappy on earth, you can go back through the portal... It's not farewell, it's goodbye. Nothing is final... even death!"

She kissed me and looked at Xaida.

"Shall we go together?"

Xayda nodded. Now that I know the portal, we can always make another one.

Vidocq then realised that Umbrella was going to lose something but didn't know what. It was a victory for Dumas but it had no flavour and she realised the monstrosity of her own existence. The abominations were damned, without fire, without life, without purpose.

Then Vidocq (Dumas) asked: "And when you're 'cured', will you return to Alpha?

Me : "I don't know. If the abominations burn everything and reform the flesh like a tumour or a cancer, this world will no longer be worth anything to me. With computers and virtual worlds, it's the same thing. They are lifeless, flameless boxes or cancer cells. What's the point if there's nothing left to discover? If nothing evolves? Or without the songs of the birds, the whistles of the wyverns, the sounds of the forest and the song of the planet?

Dumas has fled a hostile world that has not forgiven her for her mistakes. Now she has a world. It's up to her to protect it. If she devours it, that's her problem, and one day she'll discover that she's alone, with no family to love her. She'll be an eye floating in the void, looking at herself until the end of time, or watching stones being devoured. Yet it could try to evolve, to live, to survive and to win the trust of other living beings... even if it is a God or a self-proclaimed God. The gods are bored and have created us in their image, but because we have what they have lost: the thirst to live and hope that tomorrow will be a better day."

Then I passed out.

I woke up in the evening, inside the crystal ship, the fortress of Mordenkainen;

We were all reduced to the size of frogs and the ship was no bigger than 2 metres. A big rock. And with the magic of illusion, we looked like meteorites.

And... we were in space... between the Colossus and the floating portal.

We were drifting slowly, without attracting the attention of the metal monster. And Xayda cast an invisibility spell, assisted by Chloro who was her pupil.

The structure slowly pivoted, its powerful engines trying to make the mega-structure change position.

Suddenly, the colossus' belly opened up and a huge unfolding ring fell into place. A portal for the colossus!

We accelerated and were swept by a radar wave as we passed through the wall of the portal.

Then everything accelerated and we could see in the dark, like an exit window with the earth in the middle but.... some kind of eclipse closed the passage... behind the ship which arrived in the earth world.

I had passed through the ship and was floating in absolute darkness. I was trapped in the portal... I was lost.

Then, all of a sudden, I wanted to get back to my normal size and... I was at my normal height of 35 metres.

Then my paws touched something hard and soft at the same time.

I was on... the palm of a paw surrounded by ebony fingers and claws. Black with a few reflections of shiny black.

I was in a dragon's palm.

Then I saw a pair of eyes open, then another, another and another.

There were 8 pairs of eyes... all on a head with a huge neck and merging into a shapeless body that looked more like a black hole than a dragon.

I was scared to death.

"SO, LITTLE DRAGON LORD, aren't you? PRINCE OF DARKNESS.... DON'T YOU LIKE MY PRESENT??