Demodragon could see I was collapsing, unable to hold the load.
He thought back to the jaws of Tiamat... And he pulled himself together. Ivan must survive... I'm making a mistake. He's not an avatar of Tiamat, he's my little brother...Ivan.
Ivan was breaking down in grief...death, and this imposing body...I understand...
"IVAN!!!"
"IVAN!!!!
COME AGAIN!"
"YOU'VE BEEN GIVEN A SECOND CHANCE... DON'T WASTE IT. THINK ABOUT YOUR WIFE..."
SNIFF...
"I WILL HELP YOU...
Demodragon shrunk him down to human size and pushed on the door...
Then an AI appeared with a Japanese voice.
The AI had been hacked...
Sniff...
I watched Demodragon open the door and get into the computer.
But Demodragon knew nothing about military protocol.
That was my job.
"It's Japanese, he's asking for identification..."
Demodragon looked at me: "Learn!"
And he did a charm spell.
Ai returned to normal.
"I await your command, Demodragon..."
I: "Restoring system..."
The I.A. Ejected the spy programs and recent modifications.
Moments later, the IA told me..:
"Chancellor Major Ivan, I await your instructions."
I said, "Link up with the satellite.
Scan the area and try to establish communication with Norad.
Enter my identification codes."
A few moments later:
"Your identification codes are out of date. Reason: Deceased.
Contact Higgins,
"Here's his I.D. code," I gave him...
A few moments later,
"Accepted Codes"
Message:
"ARGENTRIX, I LOVE YOU. I'M ALIVE. I'M COMING. YOU STILL OWE ME A SAUSAGE!
IVAN!".
The deception hasn't been unmasked...
Demodragon: "We must be careful"
And we're heading due west. The other directions, too guarded...
.
.
.
Commander General Neuville was having a cup of coffee with Higgins. They were
surrounded by various machines and brols in the Alaskan base.
Higgins: "This winter will be especially cold."
Neuville: "Any news on the "little one"?
Higgins: "The doctors and vets haven't found anything and neither have the medics.
But her health is deteriorating. We're going to have to lock her up or put her under forced sleep.
The dragons call it "the great hibernation" but they usually do it big...
and fat. But here... the prognosis is bad.
They are, after all, magical creatures or part of them. At least, they have
so much affinity that the magic must act as endocrine substances, to
regulate their complex organism.
Here, given the number of dragons, the natural mana and underground veins are in
slowly receding and the crystals are slowly giving back the energy
missing primary...
The world is changing."
Neuville interrupted Higgins
"Mr. Higgins, that flashing orange light behind you on your desk."
it's been blinking for a long time and it's unpleasant..."
Higgins turned around and...
"My God! It's the rocket train.... Have they cracked the code?"
He checked with his computer and called a technician.
The man sat down and said, "It can't be! According to the revision history, they have
overrode the communications, recoded the protocol and they got re-hacked, and the
factory version has been reinstalled. The satellite was operational for a few minutes
The message is cached. It's a slow back door system, to protect
the operator and avoid detection.
The image... it looks like 7 dragons... gigantic... there's a problem... the image is
deformed"
Higgins: "Play the soundtrack!"
"GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH GROAAAAHH. "
Technician: "The sound was too loud for the microphone.......But the identification code
used is that of IVAN...
Higgins: "Try to filter the sounds..."
After a few minutes, Neuville pasted next to the screen, the message could have been in
part recovered.
"ALIVE ALIVE!!!! ARRIVE!!! OWES ME A SAUSAGE!"
Higgins: "This doesn't make any sense...!!!"
Neuville: "Except maybe to a dragon...
Either way, it must be important."
Higgins: "Are you thinking about Argentrix?"
Neuville: "Exactly..."
Higgins made a copy of the recording and took a driver to the ranch with an old model army limo. Higgins likes the classics, green in color.
Auronne was at Argentrix's feet trying to get her drunk holding the head.
"Come on, little one, think of your eggs! You're a mommy now...
What would Ivan say if he saw you..."
And she straightened up a little to make an effort.
Iggins entered the ranch "den" and sat down next to the dragon and put his hand...on her paw.
"Listen, little one, I always thought of you as my kids at the firehouse and...
seeing you hurt yourself so much upsets me.
Okay, listen, I got a strange message from overseas. It's very bad quality, but I think it's for you. It's draconian and French... well,
I don't think it's a trap set by the Japanese, but you have to...
stay safe. It's to lure you into a possible trap..."
He pressed the button on his smartphone and the sound and video played.
Tears fell from Auronne and Argentrix.
"Uncle, if this is a joke, she's very mean... and if it's lying to me...
To save, it's a failure," replied the dragon.
Higgins: "The message came from the rocket train of the first expedition. The codes
of access are Ivan's. Only known to him and the IA at Norad. He's not a
wrong.
YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, Hurla Argentrix...
IVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN, COME BACK!
Auronne: "Higgins, if it's true, then Ivan would have come back to life???? But that's Impossible. We all dragged his corpse... I felt his heart stop in my paws trying to save him..."
Higgins: "I don't understand... But the message is today and the date is today is correct on both sides of the gate. It's not a postmortem message."
Argentrix: "The sausage... that's him!!!! That's my Ivan... He's coming back for me."
She staggered to her feet...
GROAAAAAR!
She roared
I WANT IVAANNN... COME BACK!!!
She was crawling towards the gate...
Aurona and Emerald stopped her.
"It's unreasonable... it may be a trap, but we think it's alive too. The sausage is something only you and him would know! No one would know. Ivan is alive... Trust him."
Argentrix sobbed in his mother and grandmother's chest.
Iggins "I'm asking you to keep this information secret... you could, if he's alive, endanger his life...
He's in enemy territory. It must have been terrible to send us that message. Even our best agents, hacking into a Japanese Al..."
Auronne: "He must have used magic..."
Higgins had a quirky smile on his face... His best codes and ciphers, overwritten by magic... unthinkable... but he made no remarks.
Auronne wanted to see the message and the video again.
Suddenly she spit out what she had swallowed earlier in the day and curled up in a ball.
She hid from Argentrix to get her strength back, motivated again.
But she called Goldur and Sinistrar.
Two days later, the dracosire had returned to the ranch in a hurry and searched for Aurona and Emerald. They were in a ball at the bottom of a crevasse in the mountain behind the ranch.
They were panting, sick.
Goldur arrived first and felt his wife, Fomalhaut accompanied him.
"Auronne? Aurona? "
They weren't moving.
"SSHHHHHHHHHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT.................................................................................................................................................................................................................. There she is!
Fomahaut ?????????????
Goldur???????????????????
Seeing that they were getting nowhere. They turned to Higgins who didn't understand anything.
Goldur: "My friend... How long have they been like this?"
Higgins took off his hat. "My friends... I don't know... Argentrix got a message that I showed her and she is saved... Auronne and Emerald didn't react right away but after seeing the video version and grunting without filters, they defecated on the spot, lit up and ran away by smashing through a wall. They had just been found prostrate...
They must have had a shock.
Goldur: "Show me that message!"
Fomalhaut watched with goldur as a human first the filtered message.
Goldur: "That's impossible... but wait... Ivan was Demon Lord... He couldn't... Oh, no, he couldn't! The poor thing. He was cast into Hell to be judged...
He may have had circumstances but ...ZAAAR told me he was destroyed... His soul destroyed...
He can't be alive... He was dead....
Maybe it's more monstrous than we think.
Anyway, Argentrix seems to be getting better."
Higgins: "His mother forbade him to say more or show her more. For her, she's recovering, that's the main thing, she needs hope to live..."
Fomalhaut: "I understand."
After a break,
Higgins showed the unfiltered and video version.
After the recording, the two dracosires said nothing more.
Ten minutes later, Higgins saw the two dragons frozen, tears flowing from the two dragons. Goldur having understood faster than Fomalhaut.
Goldur laced a little word "Death is here..."
Then he turned to Higgins.
and made an unbelievable grimace, a mixture of fear, misunderstanding and revolt.
He returned to his dragon form, unable to maintain his concentration.
The same for Fomalhaut ...
Higgins didn't dare say anything. Something serious was about to come out.
"We have awakened that which should never wake... ever."
We all are dead....
It's not 7 dragons on the video... but 2 dragons.
Well, not really dragons, demons... Archidemons...
One of them is the creator of mankind...I don't dare mention his name... She might hear it.
Talking about her is enough to get her attention. Saying her name curses you...
Repeat it and mock it, and legions might break out...
They outnumber the DemonLord eight to one, inhuman and every one of his soldiers is a dragon...
She ate Ivan, knows all he knows and comes here to devour us!. The message for Argentrix is a warning from the Goddess of Pure Evil. She confirms that she devoured Ivan, know all about us from Ivan and come get us. She's alive and has finally left Tartarus.
Her emissary and servant Demodragon, a two-headed archidemon and dragon was in the picture.
The image is not distorted. Their size is monstrous. The goddess must be at least 100 to 200 meters tall. Demodragon is 90 meters tall... One of her hooves can crush us. He blows primordial fire and primordial ice. He has tentacles budding all over his body and can fetch every unfortunate rug from a corner, a cave. Whatever. It devours everything living in its path.
These beings are capable of destroying the world and crossing dimensions. No one is safe anywhere anymore.
None of your weapons are capable of scratching them. You need weapons blessed by the gods, the weapons of heroes. Even your atom bombs are useless.
No dragon here, not even all of them together are capable of putting up the slightest resistance.
She'll pulverize the beyond first, fill the whole planet with her corruption, collect her wealth, save and integrate her most fanatical servants, of course those she knows well... ... who regularly make sacrifices for her...
She will be magnanimous with them. She is loyal, but her servants, her followers in the chaos, are the most to be feared.
Higgins: "And what can be done at our level?"
Goldur: "Nothing, but try to buy time... To be forgotten, to be emptied of our wealth and to be insignificant. Maybe we'll have a chance to avoid her wrath...Pray to her. Offer up at least 50% of all our possessions. That's what we have to do seriously if we want a chance to survive."
Higgins "How about closing the gate????"
Fomalhaut: "She would see it as a provocation and attack instantly."
Higgins: "Aren't you exaggerating a bit?"
Goldur turned around, excensed by the remark, causing smoke to billow out of his nostrils:
"She hates humans because they were born from her body which was mutilated by the primordial Gods, the ones who created this world. Do you still see Gods? Universe in the making????
Sudden creations?
No! There are no more.... Do you know why there aren't any more? Because she killed them all and devoured them! Every last one of them. Her rage appeased, she dreams of destroying humanity to be whole again.
She is there and therefore she will be here!