2031, Pondicherry, On TV everyone was talking about it

Fighting took place on the Himalayan border at the Naku Pass, which connects the state of Sikkim (northeast India) to Tibet. This time, it was no longer a skirmish. The international community had condemned this Chinese adventure.

Two dragons, among the last three in the world, lived in India. Everyone knew their history and their kindness and they were considered full citizens.

But their strength and powers were of great interest to the military of Dharma corporation. This was the top secret research center. One of the dragons, Viseron, director of a secret government agency, DarkSkies, was helping the researchers.

By extracting his DNA and fusing it with that of a human, they hoped to make super soldiers, but all the tests were failures.

The 3 remaining dragons were the survivors of a cataclysm that occurred 10 years earlier after a comet crashed into the moon, causing a rupture in space-time and the 3 dragons were in the wrong place at the wrong time and were sucked into our world.

N/A See: "I am a dragon! Help!"

After yet another failure, Professor Maltezer working at Dharma went to visit Viseron.

From the top of his skyscraper, with its black-tinted windows, the dragon lay in his suite on the top floor. He was waiting for the results.

Maltezer: "We must be missing something. We have taken marrow, blood, tissue and scales from you. But the human cells are dying, leaving only the dragon cells. We can't get them to multiply."

Viseron: "Dear colleague, I have told you the same thing over and over again. We are partly magical creatures. Without magic, we are sick and dying slowly.

We are holding on here because there is a little bit of it from the debris from the moon that fell here and there on earth, but don't expect to make magic here on earth. In any case, not for a very long time."

Resigned the professor had a suitcase near him.

"I'd like you to activate your mana on these last two samples, this is the marrow of the dragoness and wyvern. They were cooperative against all odds. Perhaps out of fear of losing their rights."

Viseron: "Let's just say, I know how to make myself persuasive! They have a human family too that lives with them."

After taking a pick-me-up, an excellent Scotch, the professor and the dragon knew how to get along. After all, Darkskies was raking in huge sums of money and he was partially funding the professor's research.

There is nothing like having shock troops, elite troops to serve under his authority.

And for Viseron, there is nothing like a war to finance himself. He was not far from a crime.

Maltezer saw super-soldiers and Viseron saw a big pile of gold from a war provoked by a false-flag attack.

When the case was placed on the table in front of the dragon, he concentrated his mana into a sphere and said, "Go!"

and the professor pressed a button and two syringes mixed their contents with human marrow.

A light appeared in the glass capsules, indicating that the fusion had taken place.

The professor was grinning from ear to ear.

In a hurry, he rushed to the roof where a helicopter was waiting and he went to his laboratory to analyze the results.

It was crowded, but the staff was handpicked with a family background check and so on.

It was a top secret center.

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With his eyes glued to the lenses of his microscope, he exclaimed, "Unbelievable! We've got him!"

An assistant remarked, "But professor, we don't know if this will turn a human into a dragon or a hybrid!

Maltezer: "The dose! It's all in the dose!

You forget that if you magnetically strengthen the human DNA, it will only be partially affected.

A secretary arrived in his laboratory. "Professor Maltezer, we are over budget and the commission wants to see results before releasing the rest of the funds. We can't continually ask Darkskies to fill in the financial gaps. It's almost fraud and treason. You have no right to involve an outside company for your funding."

He sent her away with a wave of his hand. "Yes... yes, I know... I'll manage as usual.

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He phoned Viseron: "Dear friend, this is a great success. You can go!"

Viseron rubbed his paws with golden eyes.

A few days later, the professor shouted that they were searching the medical files for a certain type of tissue with compatible DNA.

Then came the name of an unfortunate child who had suffered a terrible trauma.

He had poly-traumatic wounds, like war wounds, and rather than doing endless grafts, he was offered a regenerative treatment.

In fact, this treatment was supposed to transform the unfortunate man into a dragon or a hybrid. And against all odds, his sister was also "vaccinated", under the pretext of compatibility in case of organ donation or transplant.

In the meantime, the false-flag agency put on the Indian uniform and took over the area coveted by China manu militari. It was also a massacre. Civilians as well as soldiers, everything passed.

India did not understand the need to dismiss the general responsible, but he did not exist.

China reacted by attacking Sri Lanka, having already naval bases there.

The two dragons in Pondicherry disappeared without a trace and nobody knows what happened to them. They were probably fleeing persecution and war.

Darkskies added another layer by attacking Pakistan under the Chinese flag.

The latter, being part of NATO, asked China for compensation and for the military leaders to be handed over to them for trial.

China refused and amassed its troops. India did the same.

Then, the game of alliances as in 1914, the 2 world wars having obviously not been enough as an example, the conflict started.

At first it was skirmishes and then rockets.

From rockets, missiles were fired.

From the missiles, tanks and planes were used.

But all we know is that the world went up in flames.

But Connor and his sister were now rotting in a glass tube and their DNA was being extracted to "contaminate animals, other human beings with varying degrees of success."

There was never any question of releasing them. They were condemned to stay in those awful tubes.

Viseron was raking in the budgets and Maltezer was providing cannon fodder, very, very strong soldiers.

He was gloating.

But the first atomic bombs fell. The radiation wreaked havoc. It was like a microwave oven. Everything metallic emitted radiation that burned skin and tissue in the worst areas.

With the place hidden and safe, the professor modified his program and gave his guinea pigs a resistance to radiation, natural for dragons.

But the situation got worse and the H-bombs fell and devastated the world as we know it.

Many countries remained neutral, like Russia and Africa as well as Central and South America, but the dust and black rain caused an ecological disaster.

This resulted in famines, civil wars. People were fighting for food.

Years passed and they both regressed into an egg. Dragon & Wyvern Eggs.

The forgotten but half-gutted complex was left abandoned with the 2 poor unfortunates, completely dragonified, but fortunately dormant.

A year passed, then 2, then 10 but the famine and the society was destructuring. Electricity and equipment gradually disappeared, industries having disappeared. Only a few craftsmen were tinkering with something. The oil, it was necessary to forget and we returned slowly to a civilization as in the 16th century. Humanity had taken a huge step backwards.

But this was also due to the super soldiers. Having absorbed a lot of radiation, some of them mutated and changed race altogether. Dragonoids, elves and noble humans, very strong and hybrid dragons.

The latter quickly climbed the ladder to become the ruling caste.

Thus, our world disappeared, technology gradually giving way to magic.

Centuries passed, then a thousand years, then two thousand years.

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With a Salic society, humanity regressed to the point where the Middle Ages were a modern figure. One could compare the world to a period corresponding to the Dark Age, as in the 6th century.

This is how the kingdom of Uriah, named after its king Uriah, was created. A very strong human with magic and a strong resistance, he was part of the ruling upper caste. He married a dragon hybrid. Able to take on both appearances. Not really human and not really dragon, she still had exceptional physical strength and the breath of a true dragon. Their daughter also inherited the power of their mother but not their son, a noble human.

In the court, there were also dragonoids who looked like humans except for their skin and heads and tails. They looked more like crocodiles standing on two legs.

Although they were the superior caste, they were simply stronger than normal humans.

They suffered like other races from the still vivid traces of the "dead" areas, areas that were unlivable for them because of the high radiation levels. This also highlighted the difference between the ruling caste and the mass of the population.

Then came the wild dragons and wyverns. Unable to communicate with humans, they were considered just a little more than animals. Serfs, as it were. Of course, the dragonoids and hybrids understood their language.

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Due to their lack of education and their confinement mostly to stables as mounts, they did not have a very happy life plan.

Sheltered, trained, fed and obedient in stables, the choice was quickly made between being hunted or staying alive.

That's why there were almost no wild dragons in this country.

Only those who were able to take on humanoid form had a chance to be recognized as citizens of the society.

Old or injured dragons were kept alive if they could still be useful, otherwise a sad fate awaited them.

Some kept secrets from the old world, but they were a legend, even a prophecy.

They were hidden somewhere outside this realm, guardians of terrible secrets that could challenge the established order.

Since Maleström had not been moved hundreds of miles, Dharma's base was at the University of Michigan, so she was in old Michigan. But all these names and places didn't make sense anymore. It's like us talking about via Appia in Roman times. It's very very old... too old...

Besides, there are almost no traces left, the rust and the concrete not resisting to the corrosion everything had collapsed and in dust since. But who knows???? It was by being free and not chained that the dragoness could find her answers.

She had a whole world to discover. But above all, she had to learn how to live and survive in the wild with her new body, to outwit the traps and keep her hard-won freedom.

The problem was that she had an old world logic and her choices could betray her.

Now she is alone, left to herself and at the mercy of an innkeeper. Moreover, she is wanted by the royal family where a sad and unenviable fate awaits her. Her only companion is a young sword with a conscience, also in a hostile, unknown and terrible world.....