"We can't leave her like this!"

I then called a human technician: "Would you know how to 3D print a leg and a shell in the form of an exoskeleton?"

he replied that the volume was large and that the material to be printed was recycled due to lack of material.

But he suggested to make molds and to recover the mold to reprint other parts.

I could make it bigger, but it was beyond my strength at the moment. Maybe she had the solution.

We worked for 2 weeks to give him back a leg and his horns. Kate managed to give her eyes back and thicken the flesh and muscles at the ribs to stabilize her, but the size, the divine nature and the extent of the wounds made the restoration extremely exhausting and tedious; it would take months of care to make her more or less valid, without the wings, let alone the other heads.

Gradually, the moans were replaced by snores or she was recharging and her core was slowly coming back to life, the mana pushing and unblocking the damaged channels and activating the natural healing.

Then she woke up but didn't have the strength to open her eyelids. She didn't even know that she had regained her eyes and eyelids and thought she was still in eternal darkness.

Tiamat (Phantom pain): "Ahhhh... it hurts! Please... finish me off!"

The problem was that all his nerves came back to real life, reactivated and, through pain, told the brain what was working and what was still affected or amputated.. In addition to the painful tingling, there was pain in invisible limbs, such as his left leg, his missing wings and a stump of a tail.

His head hurt because the eyelids were back and the 2 eyes were repaired, one of them restored.

His cheeks were also back and his tongue was back, as well as his lower jaw, which was crushed.

The dental pains were atrocious and among the most painful.

Kate gave him soothing care and I put him on an infusion of anti-inflammatories and drugs to partially numb the sore areas, but the phantom pain was the most difficult to heal.

Electrodes were implanted in her stump and connected to hydraulic servos to simulate the movement of a dragon's hand/paw. This would allow her to rehabilitate and start walking again. She would no longer be grounded.

For her wings, I was looking at a hydraulic folding system with two plasma-powered runic engines to allow her to fly a little. but that would take months.

We were all busy resettling, fortifying the Village, the link with the dwarf fortress, and the two bases into a military-industrial complex with industry on one side and agronomic science on the other. Not to mention the technicians mobilized to transform the Doom and the Repressior.

We all felt a threat and an attack but we could not know that the Ummite empire was also on its knees and in full restructuring.

The Doom was almost finished but had to be adapted into a hellish hive of activity for the Vespalian conquest in space. A lot of equipment was tested to make space viable for the Vespalians, the possibility of hibernating for long years in the void, and to have weapons capable of piercing the armor of ships. The prototypes were left in the hands of the Vespalian fairies and they converted the plasma weapons into runes and then into spells that could be used by the soldiers, then the eggs, a parasite system and a latent magic capable of hibernating for centuries or more.

But always with the message of not hurting humans, at least those who worship the darkness or submit to the Hive.

It reminded me of the old Science Fiction movies "Alien" 3000 years ago.

Monty and Raven cried from time to time, knowing that they would have to go on board the Bucéphalus for distant and uncertain missions and not being sure they would be able to return.

Darkia reassured them that they could come back here as much as they wanted and changed their minds when she suggested that they visit her world in the 21st century and go shopping and downloading to the max.

Soon the tears gave way to wonder and following a human-friendly dragoness reassured them.

Knowing that school was about to start (or start again), the five friends went hunting in the jungle, but more importantly, they played with the debris from the Ummite shuttles and played Star Wars while sitting in a cockpit that had been torn in half.

Louise: "I've watched Dad often use the "Repair" spell to rebuild badly damaged parts and reconstruct burned memories and photos..."

Vermillion: "I think we're going to have a lot of fun!"

But the dragoKobold Maya had followed them and yelled at them "But you are crazy!!! There are bombs here! It's dangerous.

They had entered the wreckage of one of the huge cruisers that bombed the hive and were playing hide and seek.

The dragonets scattered and Maya began to cry.

"Hans will punish me... I will be eaten by Enka.... please...!"

She was looking for the five boys and other friends who had gathered.

Meanwhile, we had found fire extinguishers and were having fun painting everything white.

Then we found a cart with wheels and we put the big fire extinguisher on it and Glacias straddled it and opened the valve wide!

"Whoa!" and it shot out across the room, leaving a white smoke like fog. And soon we were all covered in powder and couldn't see anything on the ground, but as we stood up, we could see through the cloud layer.

"Look! I'm flying!" and Vermithrax spread her wings to fly above the "clouds" but she was still too young to fly for real.

Then we came across uniforms in crates and dressed up like clowns.

Arnold laughed at seeing a dragon with an officer's jacket crawling around on the floor.

"GRRR, medals...you're going to RACLE!" and Louis laughed as he saw Vermillion being a jerk.

Then Glacias looked at the wreckage.

"Yes, it's not that damaged. Except for a big hole in the command center... everything looks intact.!"

Arnold remained thoughtful.

"We'll have our own ship then! And we'll go around the world! Our world!"

"Yes, but when Kate has completely fixed my horns... then he cried.."

"Grishka, why are you crying?" asked Vermithrax in draconic. Vermithrax translated to the two humans but they understood anyway, because of their powers.

Grishka: "I want to see mom! I'm all alone here!

Louise clutched the long-tailed green dragon, It had no wings but looked like a giant emerald varan, a Prasinus with an extremely long and prehensile tail like an elephant's trunk.

"You're not alone... you have us."

But the other two dragon lizards stood in the corner and cried, prostrate...

Arnold: "I've decided... we're going to get the thing working again and when it's ready, we'll go looking for your mom! you too and you too!

Grishka squeezed Arnold "You're nice!" and he gave Arnold a lick.

"Ehh! I'm a boy!"

Grishka "You never asked .... I'm a girl!"

all the dragonets laughed at Arnold who was blushing.

Vermillion: "With a tail like that, if she catches you! you're not sure you'll get away!

Arnold ran down the hallway "Tentacle alert!

And the 3 lizards went after the 2 humans and the 2 other dragonets.

They had an advantage: They jumped very far and very hard and could run on the ceiling or any smooth vertical wall. And they often hunted on the prowl while suspended. Their tails could also be used as lassoes to catch their prey alive.

In the evening they all came home without Maya and Kate scolded them.

"Wait for Hans to come and there will be trouble! But do you know what time it is???? or were you?

"It's 2 a.m. and we were ready to go on a rescue expedition.

But Kate noticed the three dragon lizards who had nowhere to go and were getting ready to sleep outside in the park, like animals in the forest.

One of them had started to dig a burrow...

Kate: "But you are crazy! Grishka... have you seen your paws? You are full of mud!"

And Kate took the 3 varans to the bathroom where a hot shower warmed them up.

"Here in the Village, nobody is miserable..." (Kate), and then where do you stay? The Kobolds? The dwarves? The Vespalians?

Grishka: "They don't like us... we don't belong here... only the humans give us food and take care of us a little and we go from house to house but they are all busy and they don't have time...".

Then Maya arrived, all black with grime and she rushed into the shower without saying a word. She was furious and angry.

Kate: "Maya??"

But the dragoKobold didn't answer..she was in shock and especially afraid of Hans.

Then she looked at us crying and stared at Kate for a moment.

"Sorry, Kate... I can't do it!" and she went out to go home to the dragoKobold neighborhood. a kind of Chinatown but Kobold style.."

Kate looked at the 5 companions: "We'll have a discussion tomorrow but right now, I can't leave Grishka and her sisters outside..and they'll sleep under my wings tonight!"

The operation took hours and hours and all my medical knowledge was needed.

The next day, Kate had recovered and was back to exhausting herself on organ strengthening and the neck.

Little by little, the dragoness was coming back to life but in an artificial coma.

I fixed the prosthesis and tested the nerve impulses. It was constructed in sections. Each section was removable to allow regrowth of the leg bones and muscles.

I worked on the movement and flexion of the prosthesis and a sectional armor at the neck hid the holes made by the other 4 heads and necks that had been torn off. I was trying to rebuild her with some style and give her back some of her beauty.

One eye was open and her breathing was quickening.

"Your Highness, can you try to move a finger?"

Her eye swiveled and met mine.. then a tear fell..

She swallowed.

To reassure her, I resumed my dragon form and was now her size.

"Don't move now... I am a doctor and surgeon. I am rebuilding you..."

Tiamat opened her mouth: "Thank you..."

"Do you have pain somewhere?"

I hit with the back of my talons some places to see the reflexes and the continuity of the nerves.

"The right side is not damaged nor your left lobe of the brain..."

I took a light and watched the pupils retract fairly. Secondary eyelids came into place.

"Good!"

Tiamat: "Lord doctor...you have restored my vision...thank you...thank you...I am indebted to you.."

"We'll talk after...I want to make sure that when you get up, your internal wounds don't reopen."

It was Kate, my wife who cast restorative spells on you...but I myself am caught in a loop of weakness like you.... Without your power to lift your resistance, you can't heal yourself. This is the weakness of deities...."

Tiamat thus understood that I had a divine part in me and that I was a powerful creature, very powerful.

"Try to press the prosthesis..."

Tiamat: "It is well made, it looks like the work of the zodiacal Dragon Aries."

I remembered Enka's teachings: they were the 12 infernal generals of Tiamat and acted independently of the calamities that were Vulture and the abomination Demodragon, a spider dragon demon.. I didn't know what had become of them, but if Tiamat was in pieces, they must have been too. Then I remembered... Yes... Darkia told me about one of her missions: To pulverize the invasion fleet of the demon lord led by Vulture and Demodragon... They had been pulverized by the powerful cannon of the Bucéphalus following a distress call from the humans. From the Wyvern Lord, a part of the dragons of the zodiac had survived and transformed an identical earth synchronized with our world... As if the worlds were balancing between dimensions...

Tiamat: "Where am I??? Enka kicked me out of here...she hates me but I didn't do anything to her..."

"We'll talk later. Focus on your healing..."

Tiamat, weakened ran the hydraulic motors and shook, trying to put a paw on the ground without tearing her stomach..

"Yes.. that's it..good.."

"we're going to attach a harness to you and lift you up. The crane will go back and forth and you'll put your paws down one after the other and we'll lower the winch as soon as your strength allows you to walk again.."

Tiamat: "Am I going to keep this for the rest of my life?"

"Oh, no, the restoration is very slow..and I can't cast a spell right now. And..I doubt Enka would want to lend me her power to heal you.... It would also be an insult to mother on my part..."

Tiamat got scared and whimpered a frightened complaint..

"You are Enka's son?? a destroyer too?"

"Her son will do... my name is Hans! Hans Reinhardt or Professor Hans..."

Tiamat: "....Professor..."

Then she smiled sincerely. "Thank you!"

"You will thank me when you walk!!!"

This made her smile... a true dragon surgeon... Hans was unique in the whole universe... and something happened inside her... she felt her heart beat but also her crystal heart...

"You healed my heart? Did you replace it? "

I turned my back, looking at the giant X-ray monitor and she could see her reconstructed heart.

Suddenly she stood up and walked towards me and crashed into my paws and licked my talons...a flood of tears of joy and gratitude... "Thank you Thank you ...."

I turned around with a smile....

"Welcome to the Village!"