Fuchur and I took a language and writing course in English and made remarkable progress.

Then after the communication base was good they asked Fuchur about his story:

"So, your name is Fuchur," Heater asked. "And your name is Vermithraxa."

You have a sister Auberone and you're alone?"

"We have Fuchur as our future husband, we love him very much and his mother entrusted him to us."

"I can't believe we can communicate in English. Your speech is perfect and your sentences are structured like people," says Heater.

I replied: "We are self-aware but our interests differ from humans. Our needs are less material. Our bodies are strong and we are part of nature. We are forces of nature. We like to sing and fly and hunt and live happily, but we are all different. Many of us have perished and their knowledge is lost with them. We had a language and a writing. We had gods and temples. Everything was destroyed by humans."

Heater: "According to our analysis, you have human genes inside you, did you know that?"

"Yes, I'm 1/4 human. Dad, Crazy Ignar is 1/2 human, but he never managed to turn into a human. His genes were broken as he said and the dragon took over.

He was raised by a Nazi, commander of an Uboat. He had to slaughter brothers and sisters to avoid being a lab rat. So the commander raised him as his son and filled his head with bullshit. He's crazy about his gramophone and music. You can ask him anything for music. He loves movies and got the black baron tattooed as the hero of the film. He thought the hero was the plane, not the pilot... That's why he called him Ignar the Madman, because he's crazy. He loves fighting and bad moves.

Falkor is my friend, but he was very unhappy because of Ignar and Aurore, (Metanovae) a bloodthirsty dragon. She wanted to kill him and kill us.

Aqua's in love with him and so am I, but we leave him to her and keep Fuchur. "

Then Heater asks Fuchur, "Say Fuchur, you like humans, I see. "

"Yes, Heater, you're nice to me. Daddy's human, I mean, he's Aqua's brother, my mommy. They were raised together in the village and the villagers, fishermen liked me a lot. I used to help them push the fish into their nets and they would give me fish to thank me. I would often bring fish home. I miss Daddy but he stayed in the kingdom. I will never see him again. His name was Valiant. Sniff."

Then Major Perry called us into the great hall. The interrogation began...

I lay down in submission and waited for him to speak.

"Vermithraxa, what a beautiful name! You can lift your head up, you won't be harmed.

So you are dragons! These creatures have been described as bloodthirsty and barbaric brutes, but I've seen the exact opposite.

Explain to me why the humans want to exterminate you."

"Hybridization. Humans cannot tolerate mixed couples to exist and have children together. Since I have human blood, and by genealogy, I'm a candidate for Duncan's throne. They saw a threat and decided to exterminate us. We destroyed the castle and the royalty by deception. We dropped V2s on the castle on the day the green and yellow earth dragons were executed. The humans all died with the castle in a thousand pieces except for Profion, a madman of power, father-in-law of General Tullius. "

Perry: "Who built these V2s? The model I saw was extremely sophisticated, almost a Scud missile" (trick question).

"What's a scud?"

"Ah, ( bleep not falling for it, Perry thought ) it's your fancy V2."

"V2s were built by the human u-boat technicians."

"Ignar was insane to test these toys and the wizard Morthales, the chief technician was his mentor. Ignar was always bugging him with questions and to try this and that he had to give Ignar work over and over again."

Perry: Where's "Morthales?"

Me: "He died tripping over a vial of Lemon Glyceryne, I think, or pitro or nitro?? Well, he blew up at Ignar's feet. Ignar tried to put the pieces back together with glue. It was pathetic. He just managed to make a human hamburger. He came looking for me because he needed a chef. He's lost without a chef. We have to tell him everything."

Perry: "I see..."

"If we bring peace to your kingdom, will you go back? It is your world after all."

Me: "Never, this planet reeks of the death of our fellow creatures. We're all unhappy there and we have only bad memories of it. We'd rather die than go back there."

Perry: "What do you want? "

Me: "Simple: Live under any conditions to be somewhere else but this hellhole. We'd rather wander through space in ships than go back there. MERCY LORD PERRY. PITY. WE'LL DO ANYTHING YOU WANT! ALL WE ASK IS THAT THE COUPLES NOT BE SEPARATED. WE HAVE LIVED HORROR, HUNGER AND FEAR. WE ARE EXHAUSTED AND DESTITUTE. YOU ARE OUR GOD, OUR SAVIOR!"

Perry, "You're smart, I see and other people are smart like you?"

"No, a small quarter, who have been in contact with humans and learned from them or else they were wild, in tribes and passed on their family customs and songs and a little art."

Perry: "Vermithraxa, you know I'm a commander and you don't get to this post without being very strong. You see, I've watched you and dragons much older than you submit to a young girl like you. There's something you're not telling me. I'm saving your life and you're lying to me, and I'm not going to ask you twice. "

Me: "I built the V3s..."

Perry... "No way."

Me: "Here we have the liquid oxygen pump that's injected as an oxidizer into the combustion chamber. The one nozzle in Laval that converts the pressure into velocity. The servomotors with a magnetite core and a winding that will move under the impulse of the pulse generating transistor. This will move the servo valve which will orientate the jet by 5° in relation to the deflectors. The deflectors must be made of ceramic and the nozzle of ceramic because of the heat. Here the gyroscopes and here the mana stone and its sister. It works like a galena circuit. So you place a transmitter stone and the receiver stone will be attracted and move the magnet which will deflect the flow of electrons into the cathode ray tube and initialise the transistors there and there and orient the deflectors to direct the missile towards its target. Unlike radio waves which are diffuse, manacoms are linear and homogeneous."

I studied all this at the magic academy and in the Nazi notes."

So, as I understand it, you would have been able to put a mana stone that looks like any other stone and the probe would have taken it or me with samples and when we got home with the stone you could have fired a missile at the Vulcanus and shot it down!

But you know we've got shields..."

Me: "Yes, but I'm detecting shields because your shields are weaker and we have a signature identical to the magic shields on the golem."

I enchant an anti-shield stone and I pierce your shields.

Perry:" But that doesn't explain the submission of the dragons. "

Me: "They know it's over, they can't reproduce anymore."

Perry: "But????"

"I am the RED DRAGON! My fire can turn them to ashes. They fear my power and my magic. "

Perry: "Have you ever eaten a human?"

"Never never never ever!" I protested.

Perry: Thank you. You can go rest.

Then Perry summoned Fuchur, and Fuchur trembled with fear.

"Young Dragon, your name is Fuchur, isn't it? All right, now..,

What do you want to do on this ship?"

"Are there children here?"

"Perry, yes, the crew. There's a few of them, but they go to the ship's school. Why?"

Fuchur: "I'd like to play with them. I'd like to go to school to learn how to be a good knight."

Perry: "In the world we're going to, there are no knights anymore. There are military men and scientists."

Fuchur: "Then soldier! Or scientist! Fuchur work hard! Fuchur learn to work for lord perry."

Perry: " I like you! We'll see if we can leave you with the kids."

And what do you like to do more than anything else? Flying?

Fuchur: Swimming and catching fish and eating with the family. And playing with the girls. The girls all want to marry Fuchur! Human girls.

Perry: "And you want to go back to the planet?"

Fuchur: Never!