All around the fire, let's say a St. John's fire... in the meadow...

We all stood in a circle and gasped at these revelations.

Mondain arrived at the fire, followed by Minax, his faithful witch.

He took out of his briefcase a collector's box of the video game and lead figurines of the main characters.

Then he gave it to Exodus, bursting with laughter, but this time Exodus wasn't laughing anymore.

He was offended, frustrated and angry with Mondain.

Valtrax hugged him: "No... don't provoke him. Don't listen. We are a family... I love you, I love you Exodus..."

Exodus threw the box on the floor, furious.

Mondain : "Did you think that if you destroyed the box, you would disappear...???, well, the original I have ????"

Exodus swallowed, but he was a brave dragon. He had a family to defend.

He lowered his head to face Mondain's eyes.

"It's over...Mondain.. I died once..."

Mondain: "Millions of times... It's all nonsense. We can rewrite your past, your history... All you need is a computer scientist and a sector editor...We can bring back to life whoever we want...."

Valtrax and the others did not grasp anything, completely overwhelmed by this futuristic world for them.

But Exodus was an extremely intelligent and calculating dragon.

His face went from furious to amused as if he was eating a pie.

"If I remember correctly, everything was trampled, destroyed in the exhibition center and even drowned in water. The computer was destroyed... and we're still here... I don't believe a word you say.."

Mondain let out a sigh..

"Sharp as ever, Exodus...I congratulate you on that. But don't take it the wrong way. Your hatred for me was only machine coding. I was created like you to be the antagonist of the story just like Minox.

I took on my role and my power when I realized that I only existed in a story, a game and I had to be the real big bad for it to be a success. For the doors to open to reality, to life. And you... you are the magic!

Look... here I am nothing. But now that you are here, the magic returns.

You were and are the last orb. But I didn't think you would go out with an army of dragons..."

Exodus understood then that the resentments and experiences were only coding... that none of it was true.

He cried, understanding the depth of what this implied. Even the foundations of his relationship with his wives... and Torin...

A tear fell from the giant.

Minax spoke up and wiped the tear from Exodus, who sat up quickly to avoid being touched by the witch.

"I'm sorry, Exodus, but there's more to the coding. Your family, your son were not coded but it is the life of your soul. Indeed, you took your reality in this game but your love, Torin, your family and your resurrection were not coded... "

He then hugged my mom tightly.

The dragons touched each other to see their shaken reality.

It frightened them. Minox approached me.

"Hello Torin... Hello Rubix, Saphie..."

She turned and pointed to her car.

"I have a surprise for you Saphie.."

Her parents, her mom and her blacksmith dad got out of the car and Saphie jumped on her parents' necks who couldn't believe their eyes.

Mondain: "The passage is closed forever but I wanted to give this welcome gift. So we don't start off on the wrong foot."

Saphie asked about Max and the others.

Mondain: "They have no souls...secondary characters...sorry... But you can talk to them again when you play the game..."

Then Minax reached over and took my paw, well a finger.

"Torin...we all know you're unhappy...and an unhappy dragon, it shouldn't exist. "Then she turned to Rubix.

"Well, I hope you don't kill me for that! "

She put a gold ring around my finger, behind the claw, and he took her waist.

"EH! The magic is working again!" she exclaimed.

Minox: "Impossible to test but now you focus on your size and you can shrink it at will and in human, like scrolling. 24H then 48h in dragon. The difference is that the ring is not painful.

But you will learn magic... because you have eternity ahead of you."

My beard turned black as anthracite and fire came out of my nostrils...

Rubix became afraid...

Valtrax cast a spell on me so that the dragoness would survive...My dragon instincts, no, dragon god instincts...and my human libido...an explosive mix.

Rubix flew away.

GRRRRRRRR!

I shrank in size, the same as her but a little bigger, say a third.

I wanted to fly away and chase her but daddy crushed me on the ground.

I was under his heel, and I got excited and scratched the ground, the grass and the bloodshot eyes. I was crazy.

The dragons laughed but Exodus didn't laugh...

Neither was Mondain.

"It needs a weakening spell. His mana will disintegrate his wife...It will simply devour her and she will be dead before she recovers her senses."

GRRRRR

GRRRRR

My destructive strength was not to be taken lightly.

Dad was putting all his weight on me, reduced to a human.

I was like an ant that could lift 150 times my weight.

Mom had to put her foot down too.

Saphie came closer and my eyes became like glass, mirrors reflecting the fire and my wife.

GRRRRRROOOAAAR!

I twisted around.

My parents felt like they were putting their paw on a jack because my strength was increasing tenfold.

Frizor, an ice dragon, came up and blew on my lips like a kiss, and her tongue met mine.

Saphie was jealous but determined.

Slowly I was cooling down like a reptile in a fridge.

My movements slowed and slowly I came to my senses.

And I began to cry...

She cuddled me....(Frizor)

And turned to Sapphie: "I'm sorry, but I love Torin too... I've been chasing him for a long time. But I love you too, little human."

The fever subsided...and my parents released me.

Minox: "You see, you must learn to control yourself..."

But go join them. The crisis is over.

Torin climbed on top of Frizor and Sapphie hugged him like bikers do.

Rubix had found a barn in the park and had built a nest for the occasion.

Frizor dropped us off and let out a little moan, wanting to join us but she left. After all this was our real "wedding night..."

Mondain left. It was a first contact.

The dragons organized themselves and the couples formed.

And imitating the young, they tested their existence and their reality.

Thus the dragon people were born or reborn...

Mondain and Minox had been here for a long time and had great ambitions.

But before leaving, they took off their emperor clothes for a more "Mondain" outfit...