It was dark but there were several layers of black... really black black black and shadow black where you could see shapes with mind projection and a bit of astral... and... I was held firmly in the paw of a dragon immensely bigger than me.

It was like a Dali nightmare. The paw encircled me and the wrist like a rubber band stretching to infinity to have a monster of planetary size in front of me.

I was a film, less than a flea in the face of this all-black giant.

I let myself go and trembled like a frightened animal or dog and began to cry in terror.

I hissed and that seemed to make the monster in front of me react.

Then an eye came at me. It was as if the whole of Mount Everest was staring at me.

"THEN? MIR...WHAT'S GOING ON? DO YOU WANT TO RUN?"

But my mind was crumbling and my instincts were taking over. I began to struggle like a snake trying to escape from a clutching hand.

I contorted myself in all directions and began to bite. and I began to huff like a snake.

"SHHHHHHH SHHHHHHHH RRRRRRRRRRRRR GRMGMGMGLLLLLL"

I stared at the eye without taking any notice and concentrated on the piece of flesh that was squeezing me and I started to chew. Trying to sink my teeth in, I turned my stinger like a wasp, without success. No mental attack, magic. Pure, savage instinct.

Then the colossus roared and I fainted, tongue hanging out and head back, playing dead, but really being in a situation of pathological stress.

Nothing, no words, could make me react. I was a wild beast. I really was.

The grip loosened, and I was dropped into some sort of basin with water and calmed down.

The creature sighed from his 8head.

"Mir... you're a savage barbarian"

Me: "GRRRRRR"

It cast a soothing spell and I relaxed as if injected with Valium.

My muscles relaxed and my nose and mouth cleared up.

The light came back into my eyes a little but I still began to cry and tremble with fear like a prey animal just before its neck is snapped.

I curled up in a fetal position, as if in an egg, and waited for the fatal bite.

After what felt like an eternity, I opened one eye and I was still in the basin."MIR... we need to talk..."

I was in shock and looked down at the floor. Broken and wheezing.

Another spell was cast on me, perhaps to soothe me, but it was to remove my state of shock.

My breathing returned to normal and I began to look around me, but I saw nothing. Only the edges of the basin.

Then a voice from everywhere terrified me and I started scratching at the basin to try and escape. I scratched, writhed, ran out of breath and then started again, irrationally.

"MIR..Calm down... if I wanted you dead, you'd have been dead a long time ago "but I kept scratching and links appeared and I fell on my side.

"Sorry, you leave me no choice. but I see you're more animal than human though you've wreaked havoc on Alpha, like no dragon or demon lord has ever done... In fact...you destroyed a world! Do you understand what I'm saying... YOU DESTROYED ALPHA!"

Me: "GRRRR!!"

The hydra lowered its head... Shit, it's my fault... I woke up the earth system on Alpha and every level was like a cheat code through the false invocation of hero...

Mir had a human soul and it fell apart under my nose and rebuilt itself as a wyvern. The wyvern put the pieces of his soul back together and filled in the gaps with pure instinct.

Tsss. You might as well blame a chicken.

Then she turned, smiling.

"MIR... Mir... look at me... little..."

And I raised my head, blanched with terror.

Enka: "I'm removing you as demon lord... but you'll go back to being a simple wyvern... do you understand?"

I nodded

Enka: "Hallelujah! At last, the bug understands what I'm saying".

And, with a snap of the clamp, the pressure inside me eased.

A human or sentient being would have looked at his system, but not me.

"Aren't you looking at your system?"

I lowered my head...

"Don't you want to look?

I nodded.

Enka saw that deep down I was still a child whose youth had been stolen from him. I was twisted, tortured and downright broken.

Her paw began to caress my back and I gave in like a cat.

"Mir... I see you didn't use your demon lord powers, only your alchemist's magic. Who are you? Mir or Professor Brilliant? I see you haven't lost your human touch..."

I began to beg, to cry..." Madam...Goddess... I'm Mir... Mir, not Brilliant..."

The hydra lowered all its heads and stood at the same height as me, well a bit much taller. At least I wasn't afraid of heights any more.

"Thank you... I was afraid of heights when I was looking at you".

Enka: "You're going to call me Mother because I'm the mother of all dragons and wyverns, drakes, wyrms and kobolds. Is that OK? I'm not going to take your life away from you. Do you understand what I'm saying?"

I nodded. "yes...m.mm.. MUMMY is MUMMY and DADDY is ALPHA".

Enka smiles: "Yes, I'm also Mummy's and Daddy's mummy...".

Me: "Grandma's still alive! She's Mummy's mummy!

Enka burst out laughing... "MIR... MIR... I'm mummy's mummy's mummy... do you understand?"

Me, realising my stupidity: "Yes, Mummy's Mummy's Mummy...".

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Then I smiled blissfully, ignoring the rest and the situation... when I was "Animal" it was like that and I could do the stupidest things then Brilliant took over without comment.

Enka : "Hello? Brillant? little Mir??? do you read me?"

Me, coughing... "Sorry... I've always been like that.... I'm Mir with the memory of Brilliant.. but I don't feel like Brilliant. It's me and it's not me..."

Enka : "In your next life, you'll be whole...but it won't be for a while because today you won't die. I was furious that my territory was being violated, that someone was passing through my domain (the black hole, near the earth) without warning and without my authorisation. I'm a sort of guardian but also a destroyer... I destroy worlds and with the pieces, I recreate others... I'm not interested in what happens there... although you dragons are amusing...

How did you get through the black hole?

Me "Brilliant created the machine by accident...and I don't remember anything, except exploding, feeling pain and being in my egg then...MIR.."

So why did you make another portal?

"The pain! I was about to explode... I fucked everything I could and the pressure doesn't stop..."

Enka :" Mmm I'd like to try it with you... I like you as a wyvern..."

"So, to sum up, you fled the system to survive... and the others?"

I looked at the ground again: "Please, don't hurt them..."

Enka: "They didn't build the portal..and they're not responsible... Yet you could have become a demigod! in my image, the Tiamat of Alpha! So why did you run away with them? They didn't need the portal.??"

Me : "The devourer... A self-proclaimed god.. Dumas... a mad computer that grew flesh on him... he devoured the crew "

Enka: "That's not my problem"

"They're going to and have started devouring Alpha's humans..then it'll be the animals, the plants and eventually Alpha will be like Mars.."

"You're making me hungry, Mir..." But first... come on, climb on top of me!"

I did so and felt the divine energy flowing through me and I lost consciousness. In my dream, I had 5 heads and she had put something unknown inside me... and... I woke up in the Crystal Vessel... I had the impression that, but my bottom hurt... very badly...

Blanche and Mum were shaking me...

"MIR??? MIR??? Are you all right?"

"DADDY...HUG!!!"

But I received a slap that put my head back on my shoulders...

Dad: "MIR, Xayda needs you... we don't know how to do this!!! look!!!"

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we were in front of the earth. EARTH!!!

We'd made it... and.... I looked around at everyone on the main deck. In fact there were 3 rooms in the structure: the control deck, with a crystal glass window, part of the central structure, the weapons section with magic weapons and the bunker, the indestructible centre of the structure. There was access to the towers, which were used for propulsion and also for firing prismatic beams, with the damage they could inflict.

The fortress could be used as a base, a mountain and a refuge on land, sea and in the air. It wasn't designed for space, but it was improved.

The only mechanical equipment was life support, including artificial gravity, oxygen production and recycling, and waste recycling. There were also invisible magic chests with mage equipment and also food to last everyone about 1 year.

It also had an energy reserve to make the reverse journey, but that was about it.

The runic computer was called Ogre. But it was simply a support for calculating the parameters of atmospheric re-entry and exit.

Everyone was frozen, looking at the earth, which looked like Alpha, but something had happened on board.

Firstly, we felt that our ... that we were hardened, as if our atoms were stronger in front of this young sun.

It reminded me of the very old film Superman, who became stronger because of our star, which is different from that of Proxima Centauri and its habitable planet Alpha.

Then I didn't see Vidocq any more.

But I could feel him...

The wyverns moved aside to let me pass and I could see a red soup on the ground.

Chloro: "It's like...exploded... I'm scared... Mir... are we going to explode too?"

TOus: "Mir... we're scared! "

Then I remembered the black hole... and Enka... Ughhh... oh, no... the vicious one... I didn't dare say what she'd done to me... yet I was an animal... an obsessed animal and... I'd found my mistress! With her gravitational fields that bound me like a sausage.... leaving only my tongue hanging out... and licking her paws... otherwise, she squeezed harder... She made me cry.

Then I turned round, tongue hanging out and drooling... as in my "absences", and took a breath.

"Ah... the guardian... I can, well, we can use the portal, I have permission but... it has a cost..." and I lowered my head, my scales all red and ready to burst...

Blanche screamed "MIR..!!!! it's going to explode!"

Then I rolled on the floor laughing.

"Yes, I'm going to explode... you can't imagine what I've been through".

Blanche "You... you You've still got a concubine hidden somewhere?"

I laughed. "You could say that. But don't ask me to go back and forth between here and Alpha... My bottom will eventually give out..."

Then they saw that I was limping like Chloro and Sacha the first time.

Then I turned round and growled: "NO QUESTIONS...OK!!!! THIS... is... er... She has eight heads... and... both sexes....but she's your mum...The first dragon..."

The wyverns wanted to howl with laughter. But my nasty, nasty look made them shut up.

And I took over again.

The Earth had the moon, but at the poles there were 2 immense rings, bigger than the diameter of the Earth, and it was like a tube with a ground, a sky, cultures and jungles.

My ship couldn't enter it without doing immense damage, as it was almost a kilometre long from one end to the other.

At the equator, there was also a structure of the same type, but with the addition of a network of defence turrets and an orbital spaceport. The ships looked to be military and... on alert.

Damn... bad welcoming committee.

The shade on the ground reduced the temperature of the deserts and the sand had given way to lush jungle. All the land was covered in lush vegetation and the cities seemed to be frozen in time, as if we were still in 2135 even though it was 2225???

Sacha and Maxime no longer had anyone alive from their time, but probably distant cousins. Or so they hoped.

Zalar hoped that his Kabile clan still existed and that the medina was still in the family.

But there were also a dozen heroes, normally there to kill me, but when they heard we were organising a return trip to Earth, they quickly forgot that I was a demon lord.

Then I looked at myself and reverted to my teenage wyvern appearance, with my brown and beige scales, just as before.

Then I invoked the system, which didn't respond.

I was relieved.

Very relieved.

Then I felt a radar scan and it was as if someone was staring at us.

"QUICK XAYDA, CHLORO!! invisibilised, Astralisation!"

I doubted I had any powers left but thinking of the hydra and its 'cure', dissuaded me from borrowing its powers...

Everything turned black and white and we pointed the fortress towards Europe and we could see a dot on the amethyst screen, a milestone.

"KrOa and the others... they're in Marseille... If things don't work out, we'll go to your place, Zalar... is that OK?"

Zalar "No.. just something big and some birds... big big birds... but we'll see!"

Then everything shook. The ship entered the atmosphere and 2 crystal towers reversed and a plasma light acted as a retrorocket until the fortress stabilised above the clouds and the structure was directed like a drone towards Marseille.

The Mediterranean... its unique blue... Everything was more beautiful now, as if pollution were a distant memory...

And where there's a jungle, there's prey, and I was salivating at the thought of the carnage that was about to ensue.

The animal in me was just waiting to be unleashed. I was like King Kong, ready to roar and thump my chest to announce to the world that I was here and that the hunt was about to begin.

Chloro: "Mir... you're drooling again... what are you thinking about ... the babysitter?"

Me : "No... I'm thinking about grills, kebabs and herbes de provence! Garlic, mint, lavender, honey and bouillabaise!

As soon as I arrive, I devastate the harbour and gobble up everything!"

Zalar: "What's he going to bring out for us? Merguez? Couscous?"

"Then I'll fuck everyone and lie in the sun on a big white stone in front of the sea."

Everyone was afraid of me and my instincts... They'd never seen me like this, driven and full of energy...

Zalar said to Xayda... Mir really is a barbarian! But that's also why I like him the way he is. He's not calculating... he's frank.

Then she turned to Etincelle. "You'll protect me, won't you?"

The dragoness smiled. "Yes, if you want, but you don't know what you're missing...."

Xayda: "Is he that special?"

"You can't imagine... It's as if the forces of nature were crashing into you and you were discovering another you... Ahh... Mir..."

And the dragoness instinctively rubbed her belly.

Xayda: "You... You think so?"

The dragoness smiled..I hope..

Then I spotted the shuttle, hidden and invisible, but there was no one on board. In any case they were no longer on board.

Then, mentally, I tried, I pushed but I had realised that having no system left, I should have lost my telepathic powers.

"KROA!!! we're here!!! we made it!!!! KROA ... where are you?"

and to my surprise.

"MIR?? MIR? is that you? we're alive... Are you here?"

"Yes. We're all here. Dad and Mum too and Auntie and Granny too!"

Kroa whistled with joy.

"Where are you?"

"In the crystal ship...the fortress!"

"But you're crazy! We're going to be spotted!"

Me: "Don't worry! "

"Sacha got his Mas back in the pine forests. a little further west, north of Cassis! "

And the fortress flew invisibly over the town, and only the noise of the engine and vibrations gave the impression that the ground was undergoing a small earthquake.

We soon arrived above the villa with its estate and vineyards as far as the eye could see.

Everything was automated and the work and maintenance was done by drones."