Exodus was talking with the 2 red dragons but others had followed and were like us near the convention center.

From 10 we went to 30 dragons...Who came directly here...

It was a mess.. .And they were dracosires and former generals of Exodus and also wives who rushed in as soon as they heard the news of the resurrection of the dragon lord.

They arrived secretly, using magic... and... we had to hide them. But they knew the shrinking and humanizing spell...

Mom was furious, Esme and Ragul too.

Dad was with them, discussing the plans to follow.

But I was in mom's arms against her. She was massaging my neck in the inaccessible places.

My wives lying on top of me...

"Mom, what's going to happen to us???"

Valtrax: "Daddy has to fix everything. A family is one thing but an army is another. But I'm pissed off. Firrax, his infernal concubine is here.

It was his general during the conquest of Britannia and the others are also generals who swore loyalty to him.

I hope he doesn't fall back and wake up his old ghosts."

Rubix :" Tomorrow we'll have a cell phone for us and you too Torin... you'll see "

Humans who had nothing to do with it were in charge of connecting the power and the TV, internet and the whole package.

Rubix was the only one who got it and me a little too. I also had to make an effort to be worthy of her.

The barbarian life was over here and so was the wild beast.

Then I arrived in the other industrial hall made of metal tubes and aluminum canvas and Dad was getting angry.

I did as usual, I put my foot down.

"Hello Firrax..."

Dad interrupted me: "General Firrax!

I turned around.

I TURNED AROUND AND SAID : "NO. Britannia is over...our life is here... I miss Blizzard but he had to go back to the wild. We are not horses. Nor are we at war.

It's over.

You're my daddy... you've got mommy and the whole family is together... No one is missing and you, I'm going to be on first-name terms with you... because you're also a bit of my mommy or beautiful dragon mommy. And I licked Firrax."

It was silence and Exodus began to laugh..

"Children are the future... let's seize the opportunity."

I put the dragoness's paw in Dad's. "You love each other, and that's all that matters... I just want to have siblings... not wars. I'd be heartbroken if one of you disappeared."

The other dragons cheered.

Thermax, the red dragon looked me up and down and saw my warrior potential. then I looked at the sky.

"You see, there are people in the sky, that's an airplane, have you seen the comfort...pure water coming out of a pipe, civilization is much more advanced. We are fools next to the simplest human. We need to learn from them and make friends."

Exodus: "What are you getting at?"

"Lord British had no excuse to attack us yet he did but if we had fought and without them we would never have had the orb fragments and you wouldn't be alive. We're banned but we're family and together."

Thermax: "The kid's right...we keep repeating the same mistakes and we'll lose...eventually."

Exodus: "But you have to look at the long term..."

Me: "That's just it. You want to go back to the caves? I had a house, a farm and a palace. But here we have everything and even more! But we need money. Here as there, but here it is more important."

Exodus patted me on the back and Valtrax came to meet us with a laptop in tow.

"Look how wonderful!" Then I went to our compartment and lay down next to her, sitting on my wrist and her surfing the internet for the first time.

I was sucked in by so many wonders. Movies (obviously the teachers had put parental filters...)

Anime, sales sites

We watched until we were exhausted and all three of us fell asleep.

Exodus resumed during this time.

"The children are right but one problem at a time. We don't know where we are or how. It's chaos but the people are nice and we have to trust them.

But I had to use magic to make sure we were all safe here as a family.

The chiefs and even the king were afraid of us and wanted to put us in zoos for observation. Don't be fooled, the people here are cowards and dangerous. They are informed by their tamtam, their network."

The dragons were seriously discussing the situation, what they had seen.

Night was coming on and we were still around the fire except for my human parents and wives who were sleeping with me.

The humans left us in peace with the charm spells that were left solely to daddy's care, so as not to provoke contradictions and arouse suspicions. But they wanted to chip us, to study us and especially to react to our higher numbers.

Father was right, he had more experience than any of us, but maybe not so much.

There were realities, terrible truths to hear sometimes.

Exodus: "I don't know if you've noticed anything very, very different from our world...?"

Freezer : "They use science in an abnormal way, mechanics taken to the extreme and the forces of nature..."

Exodus : "For an ice dragon, you burn"

Poisonus: "They use lightning and produce it and use unknown and light materials.."

Exodus: "You are all right but it's not that. 2 things:

WE HAVE TIME! We don't age, they do! but most importantly .

WE HAVE MAGIC. THEY DON'T!!! Even copying us, I noticed that they have no mana! or very little... And NO resistance!

On Britannia, I could have charmed 5 or 6 adventurers at most.

HERE, I charmed 100 people out of the 100 that were in front of me...

Then they tried to prick me with some kind of dart to get dragon blood and... you know what?

Their metal crashed, bent over my scales...

We are GODs to them..."

Valtrax arrived and said: "EXODUS!!! ENOUGH!... The wars are over! I want a home like Torin! And your fight now is to get money! Come on HOP EXECUTION!"

Exodus was crushed by the authority his wife could emit and he owed her everything. Valtrax had never given up, and that's why he loved her the most, but Firrax and the others had also had the courage to follow them against all odds.

In a way, I , Torin, was surrounded by a living barrier of adults who protected us. This was reassuring.

But some humans exploded in anger at their colleagues who had done 180 degrees of what they had been asked to do with the dragons.

They were their toy, their object of study and research and above all the key to exploring other worlds other than by rockets and space impassable by infinite distances...

One of the generals, Lucien Jacquet, quickly realized that something was wrong and that the dragons were like that, suddenly stateless, recognized as human beings, then considered by the mayor as political and climatic refugees. And they were settled like that, leaving them in peace, while immigrants were going through an obstacle course.

The scientists have nothing on them, on their intentions, their way of life, but they were intelligent predators. Did they have the power to hypnotize their victims, like Kaa in the Jungle Book, who coaxed her victims and then devoured them once they were taken to their lair?

There was a mystery and... how come we could understand their language like that?

They had special weapons and the alloys or materials were unknown.

All these questions were running through the general's mind and then it clicked.

Investigation, Isolation and Observation!

He took his phone and contacted one of his friends, a specialist in psychological warfare and interrogation.

It was 4 o'clock in the morning, but nothing could stop a general, even if he was close to retirement, because he had nothing to lose.

He picked up his corded telephone, a thousand times safer than a mobile phone.

"Dimitri! Lucien here!"

"But it's four in the morning!"

"There is extreme danger with our new friends..."

"Oh, no, it's going to your head like the others!.."

"This is the general speaking, sorry Dmitri!... The people in contact with these immigrants from another world have reacted abnormally. They are extremely advanced predators... They say that they come from medieval times, but the quality of their possessions does not fit. The axes, swords are a thousand times more formidable than those used by our ancestors. And I know the weapons very well..Nothing escapes me."

"Ahhh (Yawn) Lucien...you are calling me for an axe??"

"Dmitri!!! I'm not kidding! You saw their teeth, and their claws! They can tear anyone apart! And they're out there !!!! We have released Trex!!! The carnage is imminent!

I want a list of contacts!!!

They must come here to the barracks in Saive. That's an order and there's no way they'll be in contact with anyone else. "

"But, General... hypnosis doesn't allow you to do that!"

"Precisely! You are right! We must find out! Film, observe. Find out how they manage to talk...In my notes I have 7 dragons, one of them a child, a small female who is very intelligent and has these famous axes... and 3 humans... but if I can still count, on one of the cameras, the others are all cut off, I counted 30 dragons! And nobody reacts.

We don't know their strength, their defense nothing about them."

Dmitri: "!!!!!!! I understand, my general.."

"And the worst part is the king. It seems like he knew each other from long ago and wasn't afraid to shake hands with one of these monsters.

You will give binding orders against these creatures like separating them to study them. These orders will be given to 3 different people. One who has been in contact with them, one who will be in contact and a third via robots, phones and watch their reactions."

The next day Rubix was surfing the internet, having figured out the basis and all of a sudden she dropped everything and started screaming.

I was awakened and everyone else followed.

It was a cry of despair, fury, sadness and incomprehension

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I took the dragoness under my wings..

"What's the matter Honey?"

"Let go! you're not real!!! you're not real! You don't exist!

I don't exist!

STOPRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHH"

And she fell unconscious with grief..

Valtrax brought the little one to her parents who covered her and washed her with a wet sheet and some lavender.

She was sweating but mostly in shock. Saphie picked up her computer and fell on the page...

She began to vomit...

"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

Rubix is right... Help Torin!!! help !!!!!"

Valtrax looked at the picture and then turned her head... But did not understand ...

"Is this Britannia?" then she looked at me...

I had some notions but I was far from being an idiot.

Then I had a giddy feeling and I started to cry...

"MAMaaanannn... Papaaaaa!!! MUUUM DADDYYYY!"

And I hugged Esme and Ragul and then I ran to my father Exodus...

And I fell on my knees, my paws towards the sky, holding the computer with the picture...

Exodus didn't understand at once but looked at the picture and recognized his portrait.

"Play the most famous video game of all time!

Join Lord British and defeat the terrible Exodus.

From the deepest dungeon to the farthest reaches of space.

A fantastic role playing game by Lord British.. 39.95 $"

Exodus swallowed his saliva

I was crying my eyes out....

I was nothing.

They were nothing.

All this was just... a horror for us.

I looked at Esme and Ragul and Rubix.

Then Valtrax.

Dad was pinching himself and hitting himself.

Then he walked out of the hall, followed by everyone else...

The computer frozen on the image...

All the dragons were watching and did not understand...

Exodus made a face between laughter, anger, despair but mostly madness...

"HUHUUUHHHHHHH!"

Then he slapped the floor and rolled on the ground.

"MOUAHHAHAHA! HAHAHA!"

Then he took a fetal posture

And started to cry and laugh at the same time..

the dragons took fright.

Then he stood up and picked up the pc.

"HAHAHAA

This is the best!!!!"

"HAHAHAAAAAa!"

Then he looked at me

"HAHAHAAAAA!

You know what, honey, laughing sickly. How old are you?"

Valtrax: "Two hundred years old?

Exodus: "Mouahahaaaa!"

"Lord British... MERCIIIIIIII (Thank youuuu!) HAHAHAHAHA!!!!"

HAHA

HAHA

This is the best!!!!

What jerks!!!!

ABrutis!!!

HAHAHA

HEH

Son.. Wait.."

He hit me. and I screamed in pain!

"HAHAHA" You live..!!!"

"HAHAHA.... And you darling... "

He grabbed her, his strength increased tenfold by insanity and kissed her

Then he fell to his knees with one paw to hold on

Still laughing...

"We . ON.... HAHAHA. We are... HOHOHO.. We're out of a children's story! or something from a game ... "

I have to thank LORD BRITISH... HAHAHA... WHAT AN IDIOT BUT HAHAHA!"

then he looked at the sky.

"THANK YOU SELENE for the gift of life you gave us!"

But a voice interrupted him behind his back. A voice that he recognized above all and that he feared.

But he turned around and laughed.

"MONDAIN..."

Then an extravagantly dressed woman came up behind him: "Minox"

"Exodus, it took you a long time to get here... but I see you managed to bring a small army with you..."

You should thank me. Selene and all the others are just numbers on a magnetic disk. The massacres and the horrible sacrifices are just code text. They don't exist. They have no reality except in the imagination. But some lunatic, fortunately for us, slipped his game disc as a bookmark in a book of demonic magic and we crossed the void into reality.

I was the first to feel the passage connect with the portal system but the mass distribution of the game allowed the imagination to gather enough mana to activate it. In fact, you are a celebrity but people are now too stupid to make the connection.

No one plays Ultima anymore. except for a few collectors but the haunted computer sacrificed Shepard so you could get out. He is forever trapped in a loop, in a paradox.

Exodus caught his breath and wiped his tears.

"Torin... Valtrax, Rubix, Firrax... and all the others including you Sapphia and you, Esme, and you Ragul..."

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"We are babies... HAHAHAHAHAHA!

We are 10 days old! HAHAHAHAA!

But... I love you and we are a family."

Rubix stood trembling at me.

"Father. What will become of us?"

He thought for a moment and looked around at all the dragons, his paw holding his chin. His red eyes looked at his people.

Exodus : "EH, well, I am Exodus and you Torin are Thor. The God of destruction... You are what you are, what you want to be

We have soil under our feet, air, water, food and sky and sun... We are alive and that's all that matters."

"And you're still my daddy?"

But he squeezed me and kissed me on the forehead, rubbing my horns with his fist.

"You are my son and no one can take that away from us.."

Valtrax: "But what will become of us? We don't even exist!"

Exodus: "HAHAHA! Of course we're here... and forever... and you know what we'll do? "

Valtrax bowed her head in questioning

"We will be the founders!!! We are the dragon people and we are going to take a bite out of life. We will have our land one day and I long to see the sky filled with our children."

Rubix was comforted and hugged me.

"Torin... Do what you want as you want but cast the spell! Tonight I want us to do one!"

Valtrax put his paw on my shoulder. "Be careful with her and don't forget what I told you.