What's cool about being a dragon is taking a nap!

As soon as the skins were filled with straw to make cushions, we made a huge pile.

The cave was big but I dug, dug and dug and dug again.

Alcoves for storage with branches that the kids adjusted, ropes on the ceiling for food and rats can't eat and when everything was cleared, it was a real little farm. Then outside the rolling stones and everything was to escape and stay hidden. I flew all around to see if anything could betray our location, hide 1 or 2 underground passages and evacuate for rescue.

A small fortress in itself. We were talking about making a field, but it was too obvious. The best thing would be to barter with a farmer and me as a human.

After two weeks, we were starting to be organized and when I saw the pile of cushions, I couldn't resist!

Nap!

Rahhhh, how comfortable! Of course everyone followed me even the unicorn.

I liked her, Axula! She was a beautiful girl too. Sylvie was a little younger and a little puffy.

What was hard on the first night of rest was the crying.

We were all asking for our mom and dad, including me... You can't imagine the scene of a big dragon whining with four other children.

But crying hard is good for you... sometimes. We swallow our tears and deepen our bonds.

Then I heard a voice:

"Hello? Is anyone there? Ah, humans..."

I shouted, "Wait, don't run away, we won't hurt you!"

An eagle was perched and was looking at the remains of the previous day that I have not yet put in the ashes.

"You can help yourself! I don't eat eagles!"

Surprised, the children asked me, except Axula, if I could talk to the animals.

I answered in the affirmative.

Their eyes were sparkling.

So the eagle Vertix came after each hunt to use the remains and he was no longer afraid of us. He talked about us and was reassured that we were living with a unicorn.

Axula liked to walk by the stream and near the small lake and the air here was clean.

Then, she put flower bands and braids on my spikes to make me look less scary and she wanted me to put sky blue or pink on my scales but I refused and forced her to camouflage herself:

"To live happily, let's live in hiding!"

I built a spindle like in the sleeping beauty and yarn was made from the cotton tufts and wool of the sheep I caught, it was a rough trick but we managed to make yarn and the children could knit clothes. It was great for a dragon, average for a unicorn but unbearable for humans without adults!

After a Cro-Magnon lifestyle, intestinal problems appeared, the meat diet was too fat and at least cooking utensils were needed.

A future plan was then decided around the fire.

We were isolated, peaceful and more or less quiet, my smell rubbing off on them, the wild animals did not attack them.

I started a pottery oven again and recreated jars, pots and tagines.

Then Axula and the children went in search of fruits and vegetables and roots. With the unicorn it went fast and our food balanced out.

But then I made a decision. :

"Men and adventurers will come here one day, sooner than we think. The animals warned me that hordes of adventurers were trying to reach the valley and that some had succeeded. We must remain vigilant.

I asked Vertix to give the letter to Erza, explaining the situation to her, I await his answer."

Vertix took a scroll weighted with a scale on his stamp and dropped it from above into the guild's training yard.

A cleric picked up the scroll addressed to Erza and the latter opened it and recognized my scale.

"My dear Tantante, I am sad to have to once again run away from the people I love.

I miss you and the friends of the guild too. Don't worry about me, I'm a dragon and I'll survive in the wild.

But I'm writing to you for something a thousand times more serious:

Princess Sylvie and Prince Will, 5 and 7 years old, are with me and alive. I also have a 5-year-old Robin. The Geoliers "executed" them by locking them in the same cage as me and hoping that I would eat them without leaving a trace. King Felicius is an impostor and it was he who had King Robur murdered under the pretext of the Black Elves. It's a coup d'état.

Axula is with me and she helps me protect the children. We have to repair this injustice but I'm too small, well, we're just children! Even as a dragon, I can't do anything against an army and I'm afraid of the Balists!

We'll try to survive first!

We love you and Goodbye!

Your little dragon Ivan!"

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Erza was frozen with fear!

The missing Unicorn and the Magestia reserve forces who are here. The heirs of the throne and the king's assassination...War as an excuse...

The purge of the order of chivalry, the old guard! Yes, that's right! The old guard! Rebuild the royal guard!

Rebuild it!

A revolt and regain power!

She then wrote several letters and gave them to carrier pigeons --------Somewhere in the north, a giant Black Lion gathered troops of minotaurs, archers goblins and orcs as well as a host of war machines.

The troops had to make several thousand men and beasts and demons and were gathered in the valleys of Magestia. Horn rang and the mass swept into the magical kingdom. It is as if a gigantic mincer on legs were breaking out towards the capital Magestia.

Troops were mobilized and many magical creatures answered the call of the faes but caught unprepared.

Queen Magestia was lost, her elite troops in Kanda-ar, scattered in pursuit of me.------------Erza received on a manacom, a magic sphere used urgently to communicate between guilds or to relay extremely important events.

It was a distress call from Magestia: "The troops of the Demon Lord Bhaal break out and raze everything! A massacre!

Friends, allies, Adventurers, come and help us!-------------

Magestia was in communication with Felicius 2:

"Sire, I beg you, come to our aid, we will be infinitely indebted to you, we cannot stand up to Bhaal's army!"

Felicius: "Queen Magestia, you can find refuge here, but we too cannot face the demon lord's generals. We have signed a non-aggression pact in exchange for a refuge for your defeated men and troops as well as for yourself.

It's a tough time to go through, but I'm sure that with time you can forgive us and recover your lost land. We have experienced famine (because of taxes, he laughed deeply) and our troops must protect themselves from Ténébrion who will probably take revenge!"

Magestia: "So, King Felicius, look at how a queen dies for her people, for her sacred land!"

Then an explosion occurred and communication was interrupted.-----------Vertix then gave an answer, a very fat and roasted chicken leg next to Erza's reply letter.---------

PAF on my head!

And I received the scroll when I was swimming."Hahahahah! Good shot, huh," laughed Vertix.

He landed on me and scratched me between the scales. It was funny! He was looking for shreds of dead skin and I let it happen, it tickled but it felt good.

"Oh, yes, there, Vertix, scratch me higher! Yes, that's right!"

"Can I have some fish?"

"Yes, anything you want!, mmmmhhh, aaahhhh!"

Axula: "Hey, Ivan, aren't you ashamed?"

Me: "Mhhhh, not at all, mmmh, but you can scratch me with your horn if you want!"

Axula, angry! "Fuck you!...fat lizard!"

Me: "Oh, it's okay! You should let Vertix do it to you! He's a massage expert!"

Axula: "But I'm not going to pay him in fish or meat! I'm a vegetarian!"

Me:" Just take it on my note, I laughed and laughed"Oh, well, it's a letter that just arrived, open it, I'm soaked and the ink would disappear.Axula took the scroll from me and opened it:"Oh noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Shout such!

"Ivan, Ivan, Ivan, help!"

I quickly straightened up, looking serious again.

"What's the matter?"

"Mom and grandmother are lost!!!!!!! We must save them, please!!!!"

???

"Erza says Magestia is under attack and grandma is calling for help!

I have made contact with the elders of the royal guard. The knight Navarre, will reorganize the troops and order but it will take time. He would like to meet you, Ivan, and Sylvie and Will, to see if they are healthy. He kept the seal and the crown, proof of royalty before the nation. She also says that she suspects Felicius of coalition with Bhaal because the reception facilities for Magestia were already prepared in advance. It smells like a trap and murder! Take good care of yourself!

Kisses

So aunty!"

I turn to Axula:"Look, I have a plan, but we're devoid of anything and I couldn't prepare anything!

They want Ténébrion, they'll get Ténébrion!

I'll have to kill a white horse and put his blood and guts in a skin bag and I'll need your blood too, just for the smell and mana signature of the unicorn, not much but a little bit anyway!

Drink some broth afterwards, and you'll have more blood at an incredible speed, I promise, and you can mix it with young nettles! It's excellent! Not the flowering ones, it's poison!, but the stems not flowering!"

I found an unfortunate white colt whom I instantly killed with lightning, which scared Axula and the children.

They saw the firepower I was capable of and it was no laughing matter!

"It's a thousandth of my power!" but it kills indiscriminately, by zone effect! Very dangerous and I never use it!

He died instantly and he doesn't even know he's dead, he didn't suffer."

"What do you know about it?" Axula got angry

"In the other world, I was struck by lightning and knocked out and I didn't feel anything at all! They are birds that woke me up with a peck of my nose!"

Axula: "At least one humane death! It's better than freezing or cooking! or bleeding!"

The bloody bag was prepared and Axula spilled her blood in it.

We sewed the bag back on and I froze it and took it in my mouth!

"Axula, if I don't come back, remember me as your friend!! and protect the 3 little ones. Take them to the guild at Erza's and nowhere else. NEVER reveal that you are a unicorn or their identities, okay."

A kiss was given and I flew to Magestia, the queen and the kingdom with the same name.

Meanwhile, the Queen's armies of the magical kingdom were routed and rushed towards the castle, the last line of defence.

All was lost!

The Black Lion and the giants would make only a bite out of the ramparts.

In addition, he had brought a company of giant scorpions that could walk vertically, clear the top of the fortifications with their huge claws and spray the defending troops with irritating but poisonous tear venom. One, a mixture of pepper spray, irritants and Urticants. In more concentrated doses such as a bite, it was fatal or, at best, incapacitating venom.