This time we were really hungry.

My stomach became noisy and the feeling of hunger in dragon was more intense than for the human self.

The three of us stood at the edge of the hole leading into the void.

I was all black and so was Ancalagon, but the sun's reflections gave it a bluish appearance. I wanted to go out through the low entrance. But the pretty red dragon blocked my way.

- No! Do as Leucaruth told me. You have to learn to fly and hunt again.

But first, our "sacred ritual" first!

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The dragons huddled together and took the dog sitting position and then began to sing the sunrise, the blow stretched upwards like wolves howling at the moon. But here the dragons were screaming in the sun.

Ancalagon beckoned me to come and join them and pray to the sun.

"Amphisbaene, listen to the song of the star! Close your eyes and let yourself be filled with morning joy"

A muted sound, like an infrasound, made me vibrate, but it sounded like cello... it's true! I heard music. Rhythms! Violins... the birds were no longer chirping. It was a choir!

I wasn't in the same world anymore!

This world was musical!

"But we'll be spotted!!!!! Stop! I shouted!"

The dragons said, "We pray to the sun!"

I did the same as them but I kept my faith in God. Secretly, I prayed that this nightmare would stop. But obviously, dragons and men do not worship the same gods at all.

But it was tempting, so I started singing to the music too. Then I'll squeeze my horns. Yes, that's right! The horns are antennas: they pick up electromagnetism and they feel telluric waves.

Then I had the sensation of seasickness. I felt like throwing up but nothing was coming because I was so hungry.

Too much!

Too much at once! I had too much information, too many feelings that were forced into me.

I now had other senses and I was afraid of heights. My soul fused with the dragon.

I got my head caught between my legs and wanted to rip it off.

"aaaaaaaaahh, please! Godmother! Godmother! Help! Stop the machine!"

Then I fainted, drunk with sensations.

When I was 6 years old I had been in a fair with a giant octopus-shaped carousel and I had been with my grandmother in it. It was fun at first because we were floating with soft music and then all of a sudden the movements got bigger, faster and the music became infernal and I was terrified, and I twisted and detached myself from the seat and hid between the seat and the back of my grandmother whom I called godmother and shouted: stop the machine! stop the machine! and since when I cannot hold it, I shout the same thing!

I miss her so much! She must certainly be dead of grief by now!

PAF!

Ancalagon had just woken me up with a slap.

"Hey, pull yourself together!"

This time it became more severe:

We're going to go to the lake to train you to fly and fish!

You fish, you eat!

You don't fish, you don't eat!"

Me: "Don't hit me anymore! Please!" Terrorized....

The dragons were looking at each other and Leucaruth started crying again.

Ancalagon: "Are you proud? You make your little sister cry!"

I'm stung to death, and I'm trying to get my act together. "Excuse me!"

Ancalagon: "A dragon does not ask forgiveness! He acts! He redeems himself and must save face in all circumstances!

You'll comfort her by bringing back fish and not with a kid's apology. You're the male and you should protect us! You are no longer a human! You're a dragon!

Be a dragon now! Amphisbaene is an adult! You are Amphisbaene and more Marcus!"

Then suddenly, without warning, Ancalagon pushed me into the void.

A 50-metre fall!

I opened my wings by reflex and suddenly I went up and more or less managed to stabilize myself.

I was immediately followed by the dragon red that dried her tears and she saw that I had the same nonchalant flying style as her late brother.

Leucaruth: "I know you're no longer Amphisbaene but let me dream a little."

Then the 2 straps, laughing, hung their wing claws to mine and they flanked me and we made manoeuvres. They would quickly smile again and when the flight became natural, as if I was riding my bike back up, we did pirouettes and games in the sky.

We had a lot of fun.

Rounds, loops, freefalls, spins, robberies on your back.

We were like children playing in a huge swimming pool but the air replaced the water.

Then Ancalagon hit me and licked me in the face while flying and then, out of jealousy, Leucaruth did the same.

Then we saw the lake that we had forgotten. And we flew over it in a clod and shouted with joy and then, Leucaruth said to me: look!

And, with a sudden clamp, clap, a big fish was standing in one leg and she threw it into the air and fell back into her open, gaping mouth and swallowed the fish in a fraction of a second.

Then it was Ancalagon's turn to do the same.

She swallows hers! Then Leucaruth grabbed a third and then a fourth and at the fifth, she threw it at Ancalagon, brushing against me. I thought it was for me.

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They laughed, "No fishing, no fish!"

Then they played at throwing fish at each other and I missed it every time.

Once it was above my head, once behind my tail.

As they were more flexible than me, and experienced for the flight, I had no chance. In fact they laughed and were happy with my company but it was also a form of training. Young dragons often trained through play. In fact, they loved the game and the challenges.

Clap, Missed!

Then Ancalagon winked at Leucaruth who stood under me and threw the fish at my head and I received the fish on my cheek and it made a huge clack! who destabilized me and Leucaruth caught the fish and swallowed it and looked me straight in the eye!

Do you want the fish? Kiss me and I'll give you a kiss!

Ancalagon laughed and we fell into the lake!

I debated and the dragons sank me!

"Can't you swim? Oh, the kid! He can't swim! Go say hello to the fish, they'll explain it to you."

The dragons swam underwater like crocodiles or snakes but they were comfortable and I wasn't suffocating!

I stopped struggling because they could laugh at me and laugh at me.

An eyelid automatically closed my eye and I could see through it and like underwater glasses I could see underwater.

We went into the depths of the lake and there were big, huge carp and Ancalagon waved at me to use the tip of my tail as a harpoon.

She made the gesture several times to show me

I copied it and my tail ended in a kind of curved sword with a tip and probably a venom gland.

They flanked the carp and folded them over me and TCHAK, finally, I skewered the carp.

I took it and kept it in the greenhouse of my hind leg, more prehensile than my hands!

Then I caught a second one.

Then we surfaced and swam to the shore and the loops shook and dried up instantly.

I did the same but unbalanced and above all clumsy, I turned back and they found a new pretext to laugh at me.

The fact that these creatures could laugh and cry was reassuring and I had stronger and stronger feelings for them.

Inside me, a click click occurred and I thought I absolutely had to protect these creatures. They were now my family and they were the only ones left in the world. Even Mom thought they were beautiful and Dad told me to stay together all the time.

I offered each of them my first fish as a symbol of love and friendship.

They cried immediately, but with joy.

They accepted the gift but immediately after they fished out some fish that we shared.

I now had raw fish in my paws but... I hated fish!!!!! At 11 years old, I only liked fish sticks fried or in doughnuts.....

They looked at me to see if I would accept their gift. Not eating it would be an insult!

Too bad, I opened my mouth and the fish went down by itself. I did not have my heart set on high! On the contrary! It was even delicious, especially from two loving loops.

"Thank you Sisters!"

Then we played with water, we used the flame channel to spit water like a water gun and it was pulling hard and far.

The jet, super concentrated and at high pressure, was able to cut trees! Of course, it bounced off our scales and it tickled.

I said, "Is it every day like this?"

Leucaruth: "With you, yes, but without you, we were unhappy! You know, with Mom and Dad, the three of us were happy, but Dad was very brave. Many soldiers died and Mom took us with her but she was mortally wounded and took days to die slowly. We caught frogs, snakes, small prey but she ended up starving to death and until the last breath, she taught us how to survive. You got screwed by trying to avenge our parents!"

Ancalagon sprinkled us: "Lost! "

Leucaruth: "We were taking a break!"

Acalagon: "How would you like a patrol? We could thus locate game groups! See the trails and find hunters' landmarks and surrounding villages.

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We took off like frightened pigeons and quickly gained altitude.

We flew over the forests that extended endlessly, the sky sometimes stained with a column of smoke, indicating a village and a chimney.

Villages were often built on the banks of rivers or streams used as a means of transport or protection against armed gangs. Often bands of legionnaires with no nation or goals just trying to survive by looting villages.

When they shaved and killed all the inhabitants, they set fire to them and the dragons were accused, who had 99% of the time done nothing.

In general, dragons had a territory and ignored humans because humans had their crops and livestock and dragons fished or hunted and rarely attacked human livestock. Village attacks were mostly caused by a captured spouse or stolen egg, causing the dragon's spouse or relative to attack. The dragons' bad reputation was overrated, but the reality was that the dragon areas were safer for humans, crops were more abundant and there were fewer predators for humans, who were eaten by dragons, such as bears, wild boars and harmful deer.

Moreover, the great epidemics and famines began with the disappearance and scarcity of dragons.

Flying was intoxicating. All kinds of smells and scents invaded my nose and senses.

I was the master of the world! Everything was small under me!

Then I dropped a huge GROAAAR! a roar that made my sisters close their eyes because it was so serious.

The echo came back to me and I was impressed myself!

The world was mine! The wind was blowing under my wings and I started dreaming of touching the clouds.

I was particularly attracted by the darker, denser clouds, by instinct.

Every moment that passed, I felt more dragon and this power, this energy invaded me. My scales shone in the sun and my sisters told me, following me:

"We find our proud Amphisbaene again! Stay as you are! Don't change" they begged me.

Fortified villages with castral clods and fortified towers were found on the hills. The closer we got to cities, the more towers there were. We turned back so as not to provoke an attack and went back to our lair. I had the honour of blowing to light the fire and we brought back foliage of fir and straw to make our nest and in the evening we all three went to bed, with sparkling eyes, looking at the fire.

My phone, recharged during the day, rang and it was Eddy greeting me with friends from the role-playing game.

Eddy: "So you are a dragon! Luck. Will you send us pictures of your sisters?" Strangely, the connection was smoother and I had 4 bars!

"Marcus!, you must try magic! You're a dragon! You have magic, that's for sure!

You have to learn first aid! Message and shield! It is essential."

Then Mom and Dad asked me how I was doing and I explained my first day and the flight, which was great.

Then Procyon resumed the conversation.

"Marcus! We've located your time. You are in the fifth century 1500 years separate us and the Events will be terrible! No region is 100% safe but the best is high mountains. Beware of the valleys. But time is running out. The solar charger you have is of poor quality and many models have failed! We could be cut off forever!

You have to make scrolls with tanned skins. Try to barter with villages without churches. The clergy is your enemy. You are in the period of Christianization and the dragons represent paganism and is a symbol of elimination, extermination.

So you have to take notes and make a job for gâlène! A primitive radio.

You need a quartz crystal.

I said, "Wow, it's complicated! But I can see the magnetic fields!" [https://img.wattpad.com/5641618c40fb7914ffab6e0d6fc7031de190b313/68747470733a2f2f73332e616d617a6f6e6177732e636f6d2f776174747061642d6d656469612d736572766963652f53746f7279496d6167652f2d4c2d56526f45575538674f75413d3d2d3738393335383935312e313563386633656236316432323437343930363637393938393234362e6a7067?s=fit&w=1280&h=1280]

I said, "Wow, it's complicated! But I can see the magnetic fields!"

Procyon: "Okay, then try to get copper wire and insulate it in rubber or resin impregnated fabric, otherwise use straw tubes."

Otherwise, save your phone! Look at the pictures we send you and take notes!"

Oh yes, be careful, Odoacre is looking for Augustus who has fled. He is on his way to Great Britain but Odoacre doesn't know it and he is sending troops everywhere. You are in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg but it is an old Roman colony and they will search the whole region. Be vigilant! And don't fly too high, you could get spotted.

Also try to find zinc, acid and lead. The Egyptians used batteries to galvanize their swords to gold plating." I was reading offline so my lessons sent to understand how to make a radio and a battery and wire. It would take me months to understand how it worked, but I would read and scratch to get out of it. This tiny screen was like a lifebuoy.

I immediately informed my 2 sisters of the probable passage of armies in the area. So we were going to keep a low profile for a while.

I quickly understood the notion of electricity, and some mechanical basics like a paddle wheel, an Archimedes screw, how to make a furnace, a potter's oven, and the basics of the foundry.

The components, I should find them in nature and it was becoming a feat! a quest in itself.

For example, I would need sulphuric acid and nitric acid.

For the first one, I should go to a volcanic lake and the other one filter bat droppings. But first of all I would need vials. I went back through the village hut again....

I felt lost and faced with a huge task.

First, take notes for the receiver and then the transmitter. If I could do the first one, I was saved!

I was afraid someone would break my G or steal it or have any accident! I was getting paranoid!