We made the illusion of the girl and replaced her with a tube of pepper...

We threw up shields and force on ourselves and waited for the show.

Vertrix, an awful wyvern and extremely obese for a reptile, crashed practically at the feet of the illusion. Its belly was practically unable to fly for long.

"MMMM Mima miaaammm" he did, falling into the trap. He approached the girl and bite into her.

"MFFPhhhh" I had to refrain from laughing as I saw his froggy eyes circling over themselves like chameleons do.

"KSshh"

He ran and barked like a dog towards the lake to quench his thirst and soothe the pepper's sting.

He drank liters and liters of water and with a swollen belly, he could not take off and had to paw his way to the city, visibly irritated.

"VENGEANCE" "VENGEANCE" he shouted!

He was still within 50 feet! Five meters higher than us!

In hand-to-hand combat, it's a child fighting a sumo wrestler.

We had to watch out for his claws and his breath.

So we flew away and he spotted us.

"Ahhh, females!!!! Come here you!!!! , I command you! I'll give you a hug!" grunted draconically.

Auberone didn't understand anything, not understanding the draconian, but I did.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA, catch me if you can!" I laughed.

I wanted to exhaust him by charming him.

We danced in the air and he finally flew away like a big toad. Besides, his scales were puffy with fat and he really looked like a winged toad...

I was afraid that his ugliness was contagious... I really was.

When he reached a dangerous altitude, he was given a new spell that I wanted to test...

" Feathers falling backwards Spell" And he fell like a lump on the floor and burst his stomach. He was killed instantly!

Easy trick! We still had a pinch in the heart because it was a wyvern that had just died.

We prayed for it, and a priest came and asked us on his knees:

"Now that you've taken its place, are you going to eat us?"

ROOAAAAR of anger!

"I DON'T EAT HUMAN FLESH! AND WE WILL SLAY ANY DRAGON THAT EATS MEN!"

Then a great "HOURRA" came from the people.

and a great feast took place.

I cast a feast spell on the poor shared food and it all turned into a royal feast.

Then, in front of all the people around the big buffet:

"Vermithraxa and Auberone, I would like you not to forget our names and that not all wyverns are bad by nature.

If you find eggs, take them and look for good or evil on them. Spare the egg that reacts to the good and raise it as one of your own. Love it and cherish it. It will protect you and give you back all the love you give it. Look at my sister, how beautiful and kind she is!"

"We Wyverns,love art, beauty and music and we love to play. We belong in the sky. We must sing the sun, the stars and the moon. We must bring joy and beauty to a world of bullies. We must not let our peers rot in violence and that is our mission. We must give back to our race its rightful place. Help us make the world a better place!"

Applause. And cheers followed.

"Anyone for a ride on my back?" Auberone asked.

Children lined up to climb on top of us and we went around the city three times with children on our backs and they came down with sparkling eyes: "Mom, Dad, it was great, again, again Vermithraxa! "

"My darling, find a wyvern egg and raise it!"

"But why???? They will eat us!"

I started crying about this horrible situation.

"Why are you crying?"

"Oh, it's nothing, it's too hard..."

Then I took one look at Auberone and suddenly we took off into the air and flew to Vertrix's lair.

Ugh, what a stench I thought.

Even Auberone had a high heart.

Then we saw human skeletons mixed with animals, scattered gold coins and a heap of rotting untanned skins that served as a layer. Dried excrement and other goo on the edge of his nest. People who had died more from infection were dried in a cage and silence reigned over this septic tank atmosphere. We looked to see if there was anything to save but nothing. Only time would finally get rid of the stench.

We looked one last time and then returned to the village.

The old man thought we were gone.

"Ahh, the smell was awful! We went to his lair to see if there were any survivors but everything died from the smell.

Beware of diseases, there are lots of skeletons but the best thing is to put wood and make a pyre because of the infection and the dirt.

We haven't touched anything and we stink of urine and manure just by going in. The corpses are unrecognizable and it is better that families are spared from this spectacle and the infection risks touching the water sources. Burn everything!"

The man nodded and we bid them farewell and let them grieve.

We had eaten well and were fresh to get back on the road but we decided to help the men put the wood in the hole and in the evening we lit the pyre with our combined breath.

Then we went to sleep under a weeping willow tree near the big square and at the crowing of the farmers' rooster had left us 2 jugs of milk and I mixed it with the honeycombs from my storage and we had breakfast and flew away for good this time. We flew over the lake and set out to find wilder areas.

We finally arrived, going up the river that fed the lake sea a green valley with a generous climate, forests, small mountains and lots of hiding places.

Of course there were villages in the vicinity but not really fortified towns and as we were on the border all sorts of races and people were walking these mountain paths.

But very few, in fact. There was a fortress further west, Winterfort, which was used as a refuge during large invasions, but no movement or political reasons were in evidence.

We quickly saw a thirty-kilometre tour to analyze the situation and we saw no immediate danger. No fortress with balistes, no archers' fields, no watchtowers in the forest, a dense forest and mountainous hills.

A lake with waterfalls and a few small and peaceful villages.

Cattle in meadows near farms and small farms. The villages had to be within 200 inhabitants each and separated by about 5 km.

Old ruins in the mountains and lots of game...

It was very far, very far away from the capital and it was relatively deserted. On the map we had copied at the academy, it was a quiet haven with the lowest population density and almost desert-like. in the sense of civilization.

We looked at each other and we agreed.

First, a nice swim in the lake.

I had a ball of soap that I had made at the academy and we passed it around to shine our scales. Then we made bubbles and played at making the biggest ones and who would last the longest.

We laughed and dived and then we heard an "AGGGhh," and a weird, sky blue being came out of the water and ran away, he couldn't hold his breath and had to come to the surface and tried to run away.

Auberone ran into it and so did I.

"Niiiiiiiiiiiiiice !!!!!!"

"HOooh my god! He's beautiful!"

That's the most beautiful dragon we've ever seen. He's Cuuute!

Cuuuuuute! RAAHH!

We wanted to get him for sure!!!

Then he wanted to run towards the water and I threw Wall of Force horizontally and he crashed into the surface of the wall and pecked the surface .

He shouted "Nooooo I don't want to die" in draconian but Auberone couldn't understand anything.

She WANTED it. I, too, I don't know what, but I wanted to cuddle him and hold him close to my heart, caress him and play with him.

Then I threw paralysis on him and he froze! and he started to cry.

We landed next to him and we were three or four times his size. He was still a baby dragon.

"Don't be afraid, we won't hurt you," I said, and Auberone said the same thing in common.

"Do you speak Common?" he said, whimpering.

He squeezed himself down and shielded his eyes and cried: "Mommy! I want my mommy!"

"Shh, beautiful dragonet! I am Vermithraxa and my sister Auberone. We mean you no harm, we only want to be your friends."

"You're Red Dragons, you eat men and everything that moves!"

"Tuttutututtu, that's not true.!!!!

You can smell our breath, we eat honey, fruit, fish and game and lots of vegetables and we love pastries and sweet things.

Look, we even have honey. Do you want to eat honey with us? We also have farm milk mixed with honey and seeds that is delicious.

Ah, well, we'll take you off your feet. But excuse us, as soon as we saw you we thought you were so cute that we wanted to catch you to play with you.

We're a bit crazy at the moment but we're dying of loneliness and we miss our friends!"

"Fuchur! My name is Fuchur and I have my own fluffy coat growing and I'm about to get my white and blue coat."

Our eyes took the shape of hearts and we were thinking about what we could do in a few years and Auberone and I were starting to have steam and fire coming out of our nostrils.

.

.

"YOU'RE going to attack, that's it!" he shouted.

"Noooooo, Mommy, help! Help! Help!"

We freed him and cried, "FUCHUR, FUCHUR? Stay close to us! We just want to be your friends. We're smoking because..."

SPAAAAAALLSH.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A huge Blue Dragon came out of the water and was about 5 or 6 metres higher than us and she inflated her chest.

I had just enough time to throw a wall of forces in front of us and a very powerful ice jet came and hit us hard. and froze the surface of the lake near us instantly and large blocks of ice accumulated against the wall of forces.

We would have been frozen, and then she hit us like a killer with her tail and blew the ice blocks off. SMACK (BOOOOM)!!!!

Everything shattered. If we'd been frozen, we'd have been shattered into a million pieces.

She was attacking to death!

I knew of an anti-breath spell from the dragon hunters and she ran at Auberone and stuck her claws into her side, but the shield spell resisted and she was amazed at our resistance and the absence of attacks.

CAST : spell Anti Breath!

She drank water from the lake and was going to make a cutting water jet like a water jet cutting system. Even the hardest rock or steel was cut by the water under pressure.

Only the anti-blow spell ruined the pressure and released the pressure in the dragon's mouth.

She spat out blood. She seriously injured her jaw.

Fuchur screamed: "Mommy, Mommy, you're bleeding! Suck it up!

BAD DRAGONS! YOU HURT MOMMY!"

"We're not being mean, we just wanted to be friends with you. You're lucky you still have your mummy dearest. We don't have anyone left, just a family of humans who raised us, but he died of old age. We're all alone and you attack us when we offered you honey and milk to eat together."

The dragon wiped its mouth and spat blood and roared at us! She went into a rage to protect her dragon and we flew away. She wanted to follow us, but Auberone cast an" inverted feather fall " spell and the dragon mum fell heavily into the lake water.

We were terrified and ran away.

"SMALL Jerk," we shouted...

Then we ran away and went down by the river by the rocks and thought maybe we should go somewhere else.

"You see we did well to go to the academy! we would have been torn to pieces otherwise," I shouted to my sister.

She nodded and told me, he's such a little brat! that dragon. He seemed nice but they hate us too, because we're red! now. What madness!

We went hunting and brought back a deer that we cooked after washing it...

But I had a bad hunch and I have a feeling that the water dragon is really coming to try and kill us.

"You know what? Why don't we go to the village and announce ourselves?" Auberone suggested.

"Yes, good idea.!"

We left for the village and went around in circles in the high sky and sang with music.

Then we warned the people in the village who were panicking that we were coming to settle down and that we would not hurt them:

"OHE, OHE, people of the village, I am Vermithraxa and my sister Auberone.

We have come to settle in the hills and we don't want to make any trouble with you. We don't eat humans or their livestock. We like to trade, party and play and play music. Saluuttt" and we whirled around a little more and dropped flower petals and golden glitter.

Then we saw an old ruin above the village, an old castle and we settled there. We were a few hundred meters from the village.