Ivan was sleeping on the floor. But where???

He was still in his hydra form and a violent headache multiplied by 5 was making him sluggish.

When he opened his eyes, millions of small golden stars dazzled him and, finally, by putting his paw in front of his favorite black head, he could vaguely distinguish where he was.

Kling!

Ah..

(POV Ivan)

"I have chains on my paws?" and on my neck?"

I was in a hemispherical crystal room with doors closed in a triangle pointing upwards. Each half-sphere was well over 100 meters high and I had recovered my height of 25 meters.

There was nothing but light that diffracted in the room.

On the walls, there were dark and red masses.

I put my eye against the crystal wall to try to see what they were and I understood the horror.

They were Tiamats... Lots of Tiamats... They were frozen in eternal ice. Many were mutilated, often with missing heads and frozen in the ice with their blood.

I was afraid.

The ice... My absolute fear... my trauma... .... I had been frozen "only" 5 years... but it had been an abominable horror and I still resented Goldur for it. I did not say anything, and did not show anything, but I resented him for this suffering. But I have a family now..., well... I had...

I got on my knees, and I began to cry...cry.. I was now a young man, a father but also a baby hydra in the temporal sense...

Then, the whole structure started to shake and the dome next to it opened...

The huge black Hydra was right next to me and I was shaking with fear. I started to make my sign of the cross... as a Hydra... and I prayed to the lord to forgive me. It's true that I had done some horrible things too and I didn't deserve any forgiveness... but it was also to save, not for personal interest...

I recognized another familiar hydra... Mom! Her 4 heads had been amputated and cauterized with... gold???? She was unconscious...

I screamed through the wall and knocked "don't freeze her...; don't freeze her.... please... she's my mommy...!

A door opened between the 2 domes but I couldn't move.

It was badly arranged and I wanted to throw a care of restoration on it... but nothing happened...

"Please, whoever you are... let me heal her....That's my mom..!"

Then the super Hydra held one of its heads in front of me which crushed me..

ENKA: "So, at least someone is begging for her? Yet it is the absolute evil..."

"She protected her family and her children.... she doesn't eat them..."

ENKA: "Are you so sure?"

I had my doubts.

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ENKA: "Do you want me to show you what was waiting for you?

"Tiamat, is not like that!... She gave me back my life... I owe her everything!"

The hydra started to laugh.

"But look at the disaster... all those Tiamats in pieces... They're all dying... and your mom too..."

"Let me heal her... please..."

ENKA: "It doesn't work like that here... The Tiamats are out of time, out of the world. They are gods and not creatures. Would you like to give your body then to put the pieces back together???"

"I have 4 extra heads!! give them to her!!"

Enka smiles. "No.. You are different..."

"Go and kiss her one last time..."

My bonds lengthened and I was able to hug mom one last time and I heard faintly... "Ivan... I'm sorry... I should have listened to you... ....... Live for me... be happy and go to your little family..."

Then she closed her eyes, exhausted...

"MOM!!! Sniff MOM!"

A puddle of tears now lay at the base of the hydra.

ENKA: "I promise you she will be healed one day... your tears will work a miracle but not right away...."

She sealed the dome and ice filled it, freezing Tiamat the infernal for eternity, well maybe a little less..

Then came my turn...

I was crying and terrified.

"Not the ice ... not the ice ... kill me or eat me but anything but the ice foam..."

I was like a 4 year old having an inconsolable grief attack....

The hydra was shocked to see me in this state.

A claw touched my head and I howled "IIIIIIIII" like a beaten dog.

ENKA: "Ah... the trauma... I see... I understand..."

My life and my adventures flashed before ENKA's mind.

Then, a silence.

I was in a ball in a corner, shaking.

ENKA: "AHHH... Ivan...Too bad you are on the wrong side but you were able to protect and restore your world... well... and I see that many are crying for you now... A beloved tiamat...this is a first...

I started to scream. "I AM NOT TIAMAT....I AM NOT A Tiamat.... not a tiamat....I AM A GOLDEN...SHADOWDRAGON....."

At these words, Enka started to laugh..:

"And why should I believe you....?"

"Please, lady big Hydra... I don't know you and I have to save my friends and my little brother... please... We must save Tristan...."

I was looking at the ground... awaiting my judgment and sentence...

Enka: "You think I am a judge of the underworld? You are wrong. You and the Tiamats here are not dead... in fact... I am saving you... from yourself..."

Enka: "Look at me closely... I am BAHAMUT... the TIAMAT who was not beheaded by the primal gods... I am the keeper of time!"

"I am also a bit of your mom... but in another dimension... "

"They made a fratricidal war with each other hoping to become ME. but they did not understand anything."

"Goddess ENKA...." I begged

"So you had children??? I beg you... I didn't do anything to you..."

ENKA: "The coming and going between dimensions has weakened the very structure of this portion of the universe. Portals to be used only in grave and important cases have become the norm and your ignorance has disrupted the established order. I don't give a damn, but the gods of other universes might react. And put our existence including mine and my descendants in jeopardy."

She was right... and I kind of suspected that it was abnormal as a power...

Enka: "Give me a reason to let you go..."

"We all want to go home...that's all..."

Enka: "What about the mysteries of the universe, the cosmos factory and materializing dreams?"

I didn't answer, completely ignorant.

"Didn't your mother explain it to you? Here, it is enough to dream and it happens in reality .... You are in the dream factory...the world of the primordial gods. Well, my world, since they killed each other and I devoured the last survivor..."

"I don't give a shit about the factory thingy.... The little one!!! he's in danger! He's more precious than the whole universe..."

Enka stood still...pensive...

"Ivan... You know who I am and what I am capable of... ..." she looked to show the ice...

GLOUPS.

"You will save your family but I forbid you to use dimensional powers... Otherwise... you know... the fridge...."

the chains disappeared and the door opened and I was able to get out. From the outside, we could see a city of domes and immense cliffs and an almost Jurassic world, primary, young and almost without erosion.

Above, the mega hydra was enthroned.

I was an ant in front of...

I knelt down... and thanked her for her clemency...

ENKA: "Do not forget... what I do is also for love. I have two daughters too and I know the value of a family. You also reminded me of these values..."

She pointed to a stream of water with her huge claw.

"Jump in and you will arrive in the universe of a land. Your little brother is there. This is your destiny and it is up to you to prove me right..."

Then I asked. "And if there are other Tiamats?"

ENKA: "The dangerous crazy ones are under ice... Sorry, but your mother was the worst of them all..."

"Can I see her again?

ENKA: "In a dream or when you are a great grandfather...her soul must rest and recover. I promise to take care of her..."

"A little black pit...just one! to bring her my offerings..."

ENKA: "I didn't say no but your mission first!"

Seeing that any discussion was fruitless and not wanting to compromise my situation, I jumped into the huge waterfall.

I was in a torrent of water, air, droplets and white from where I could not see the top or the bottom, the left or the right but one thing was certain, I was falling.

My wings did not slow down anything and suddenly

BLAF

I was in a lake, under tons of water from a huge waterfall.

Quickly, to the surface. And that's how I arrived, alone... in an unknown world...

"I swear to you... Tristan... the spanking....you will have deserved it... Rights or no rights...I promise you red buttocks...no! but...!