The children were growing up fast, too fast for my taste but I couldn't help but be proud of them. They were like inseparable siblings now and I looked up at the stars pondering what I had accomplished and what I still had to do.

In the last six months, life had returned to normal and many human women were pregnant and the various scientists had asked me to help build artificial wombs but before, I would have approved but the dragon I did not. It was not in Enka's plans either, but I was thinking more about managing large families, but all that was beyond me, and so were Kate and Sarah.

I could also hold Darkia's black egg in my paws.

And, naturally, I thought of Tiamat.

She was with my kids all the time and she was a pretty good teacher.

She watched and helped the little ones with their project to save a cruiser. But every 3 days Kate and I would give her regeneration treatments without weighing down my barely stable balance.

She still had a limp, but her leg had grown back and her rib cage was healed.

One wing stump had grown back while the other, healed, was attached by a giant splint to her body.

To fully regenerate would take a minimum of two years or a hibernation of at least 50 years.

That included me, but I was likely to take even longer. Less with luck.

But I was happy and we started to breathe a little.

The Repressior was finished as well as the Doom thanks to the Vespalians but the humans were still in a critical position and apart from the cafeteria and some businesses with the dwarves and elves, the world population did not exceed 100000 individuals, with 300 humans..., the majority being the Vespalians.

If Waspy did not control the population, it would be quickly an uncontrollable proliferation and an extinction by famine and cannibalism.

Even so, management became arduous and complicated and problems, however minor, piled up.

The new sport had become raptor hunting. They were trained as hunting animals and thus protected.

My dragons had doubled in size and now Arnold and Louis were able to ride them to go faster, but they used telekinesis and "floated" at full speed playing and pretending to be Tyrants, even with the costume that went with it.

The young dragons replayed my fight with the deity without getting tired of it, constantly perfecting their martial arts and magic skills.

Tiamat was like an aunt and had replaced the kobold godmother. She was always at home to take care of them but Tiamat was their fighting "godmother".

Then, naturally, she came to me as a companion in distress.

Seeing that she had never transgressed the rules imposed by Darkia, she naturally lived with us as a member of the family.

From time to time, she would cry after her child, but she would stop, surprised that she had tears.

Then one evening I held her between my paws and kissed her.

She let me do it and she slept with us.

I knew that she would bring unparalleled knowledge to our family and, for her, she would find a place to live that she could call "home".

She was an empress and a queen who ruled over a hundred legions and that was exactly what was needed to manage and straighten out this tattered world, well not really because the vegetation was lush, the resources almost infinite and the fauna exceptional. A paradise worthy of the Cretaceous.

Meanwhile, beyond time and space...

A heartbreaking cry crossed the space. Like millions of voices and lives that were extinguished at once.

A cry of despair and injustice... No one knew where to go to escape death. No time, no shelter, just the horror of a flash and being crushed in a microsecond and for the less lucky, ending up in the interstellar void.

The Toge had pushed the lever of despair.

Then he knelt down, facing a circular shadow casting another even darker shadow swallowing life and even light. The huge, over-the-top creature looked down at him from its lair.

"Majesty, your meal is served..."

And all that was once a solar system, a planet and its moons, all was converted into energy and absorbed.

"A LITTLE PRINCE!" but he had good taste! was all that the Toge could understand through his being that vibrated with gravitational waves.

He was determined to die at every "meal" of his lord, no, of his emperor. He himself was an emperor.

The true devourer, the true destroyer had done his work and was going back to "inspect" his empire.

Then, a name came out of her three throats "ENKA"... I miss you!" and a diabolical and sadistic smile appeared on one of her heads. One of her was a slave to the others but she "followed" well.

Then the Toge shook again, its living space reduced to a black sphere that was heading towards one of the destroyers of the fleet.

Destroyer: "Hydra of the Great Void, look at your son!" Then he turned to the Toge, who was able to catch a glimpse of the golden glow of a few scales before their light was absorbed again.

"Space warriors for the Ummites!"

The slave head turned to the Destroyer... "You have no mercy but he worships you more than any other. There is no other like him."

This was his way of turning pity into an intelligent calculation in the face of absolute evil.

Destroyer: "I know you love him but I need more warriors like them. They are worth a thousand times more than humans and their fights are a delight to watch."

The former dragoness and former human in another life sighed.

And the image of the barbaric and savage wars of dragoraptors tearing human soldiers apart, using modern weapons, tanks built for them, other dinosaurs with human intelligence and the monstrous Apex Suchominus and Allosaurus dragons clad in armor plates and cannons as bludgeons pulverizing everything in their path, everything was nothing but violence and barbarism.

They barely stood in the presence of humans, and even then, they had to be part of the original tribe or have earned the right to live.

Svy, the third head, also remembered the sad fate that awaited the defeated. And the monstrous drago raptor queen Dantinne, reigning in claws and fangs over a once human land..

Dantinne:

Dantinne, was originally a raptor tribe queen who was dragonized after mating with a red dragon. She has a deep resentment against the human species, since when she was still a 4 year old girl, she was locked in a tube, sent to a Jurassic planet and injected with raptor marrow after having undergone a lobotomy...

The dragonization made her regain consciousness and increased her size and strength tenfold, her savagery is only matched by her brutality...

Svy, when her "Master"-or "forced husband..." opened a portal, she was already looking forward to seeing her son.

He was a red dragon of colossal strength who had risen alone against carnivorous dinosaurs since his birth. He was the only one who, without help, managed to be "praised" by the Destroyer, whom he immediately recognized as his father and his God. He also had Destroyer blood in him, just like his father, he knew how to cross time and space but he was above all an elite warrior who was not afraid of anything, even bigger than him.

Then Svy looked at the other two heads, his infernal companions. "Poor Enka..." and she remembered the heartbreaking screams of agony under the monster's claws.