The red dragon dinosaur was in front of his giant screen aboard his trusty living ship, the mighty destroyer-class Midway.

Dantinne was on the trip.And a few humans and mostly raptors were at the helm on the officer's deck.The ship was autonomous and inhabited by a sentient AI, Alice. She owed everything to the dragon and was her unfailing support.Her powerful celestial sword was still operational. An are even more powerful than the runic cannon. The difference was science versus magic. Each had its advantages but both were devastating. The sword being able to cut a moon in two.Some generals had tried their hand at the dragon and they were no longer here to tell the tale. Only the unyielding Toge followed Prince Nicolai.

But behind him, a fleet of ships, each more sinister than the last, with brutal humanoids on board.

The "Electrons", a caste of space nobles swearing loyalty to their Emperor and the Dragon Prince.

But although there were a few sentient dinosaurs on board, most of them stayed in their prince's ship.

Especially since there was a lush mini jungle on board, reminding them of their destroyed planet.

Then he asked Alice to deliver his message.

"After all these hardships, the way is open for us to go to other worlds where we can prosper and rebuild our families and rebuild what we have lost.I know that the land we conquered is nothing but a block of concrete and the oceans stink of chemicals and the jungle, well what's left of it is nothing like what we once knew."

All the warrior dinosaurs bowed in respect for their queen and leader.

"But... Father... and Mother... have led us here! And nothing is random.We are not here as refugees... We came as conquerors.

As we have crushed the earthly government, we come to take our own!"

And all chanted the word of the three-headed god:

"What you take is yours! What you take is yours! What you take is yours!"

Then, as if to show his inhumanity, the dragon climbed on top of the drago raptor queen and they mated in front of everyone.

Many did the same and some humans, submissive to the dinosaurs suffered the assaults of their mates/masters.

Only the noble humans with the Devourer's "blessing" were spared.

The electrons enjoyed these violent displays.

Then Octavia, a young dragoness raptor arrived and screamed.

"DAD!!! MOM!!! I hate it when you do that!!!"

Dantinne, still under the assault of her male,

"it will be another song when your heat comes on!"

"Why do we leave one war for another? I'd like to have mates and have fun like humans but you have to break everything in your path.. That's no way to live."

Dragon Prince Nicolai I stood up to his daughter, half his size.But instead of showing violence he caressed her cheek.

"Honey, you know we love you. But you can't remember...but our existence is hanging by a thread... Father...any excuse is valid to devour our world...even mother doesn't know how to stop it. "

Octavia: "You are a devourer too, and you will one day be as strong!!!, right?"

Nicolai smiled: "You are young and innocent like your brother and cousins... but don't forget that you have raptor blood in you and even if you love humans, you are not one even if you have traces of me.

Don't forget that we are the children of the eternal Jungle..."

Octavia: "So, why, with all your powers, don't you settle down in a big botanical garden with lianas, monkeys and preys at will???"

Dantinne clutched his 40-foot-long daughter between his paws. She was more dragon than raptor.

"My dear...we have no choice... Do you see those ships? Those electrons... They are our servants... only because Father decided so and he let us live because and only because we are good warriors and better than his infernal troops.

There were never any promises.

Vegeta, he promised to give her back to us, but don't forget. He is the son of Hydra, the ultimate evil... So you see... we must keep our people motivated.

Violence is a facade, to keep us together, to keep us respectful.

Otherwise, you see, your friends, dinos and humans, their smiles would disappear and many would take their own lives."

The young dragoness began to cry...and she looked at the red dragon.

"Daddy!...Daddy...tell me this is a nightmare.."

Then he looked over his daughter's head, towards a star... The one of his home planet...While caressing his daughter's crest, his son Augustus had returned to the bridge and jumped on his parents, wanting to participate in the embrace.

Nicolas licked his wife and two children

"Every day we win is a victory in itself. Let's see what this world brings us"

but he knew a horrible truth that he was hiding and that was undermining him.His father's "note" in draconic writing with shades of seriousness on it was explicit.

He had earned his "right to live" by performing a double feat impossible in the eyes of the Devourer.

Now he had to earn his "right to freedom" by eliminating and taking the place of one of the Electron Lords, supposedly one of his "brothers.

The Devourer had a galactic and dimensional empire that stretched across time and space.And each "node" or empire had at its head a "demigod", a prince like him, an emperor and an empire.

All these empires scrutinized each other and at the slightest weakness, they were conquered.

The Devourer used the incompetence and weakness of his "son" as an excuse to devour him or to leave him in a miserable state, emptied of his powers. An oversized ego sometimes forbidding him to get his hands dirty.

And if he survived the wrath of the God, the old minions never forgave.

Nicolas didn't let anything show but he was terrified and had only one desire, to hold his mother... but that was also taken from him... His mother being the third head of the monster... Slave forever to the Tyrant... condemned to acquiesce, watch and participate in this endless savagery.

With each passing day, she disappeared a little more, becoming one with the watch. She lost herself and was lost, her only oasis being Nicolas whose merits she praised to protect him.