On a screen, Archeron was watching films of fights between animals, each more savage than the other, on one of the most inhospitable planets.

He saw a raging sea and unfathomable cliffs with only atmosphere in the cliffs and canyons, the air on the plateaus having disappeared leaving the void of space, meteorites and death all around yet life clung on with its fiercest.

Black birds, half insect, half pterodactile, clawed and lacerated a kind of soft delta wing, like a huge manta ray.

This one had a single eye and launched attacks of fireballs and psyche against the bird and this one answered with a lightning bolt.

The 2 monsters of roughly equal strength had been fighting for some time and were being watched by a team of Ummites aboard their new combat shuttle.

They looked like a mixture of a saucer, a plane and a sperm whale.

The mantis collapsed, burned out, and soon after, the bird fell, exhausted, but the shuttle caught it in the air with a net and left immediately for the Black Moon, the military production base of the secret Ummite weapons.

A little later, the small saucer dropped its sleeping catch in a huge hangar and the animal was exposed to various rays opening its dna and its cells to nano robots which transformed it into a kind of animal robot, a fury. His strength, his anger and his powers were multiplied tenfold by science.

Then the Idol contacted Emperor Volkor in his flying fortress and his fleet was refueling with ammunition, new shuttles and 2 amiral shuttles were also refueling with golgothes.

For a long time they had anticipated the arrival and visit of the Devourer's imperial fleet, even expecting to face this monster.

But the Devourer feared no one but another primal animal god. The Winged Lion...

The electric raven screamed as it awoke from the pain and the injection of lasernium and nanobots that reshaped its structure and sculpted its mind to the command and order system of the Ummite fleet.

The immense robot in another room had just undergone the latest modifications, an electromagnetic laser, a system between light and magnetism capable of repelling and reversing gravitational waves and many other gadgets resulting from observations and conquests.

These were no longer weapons of pomp and politics protected by the powers of a god but real weapons that did not need the support of a god. They were weapons of science.

The shuttles surpassed everything that had been built before and surpassed in performance the Electron shuttles and ships.

The motivation of the engineers.

The Electrons ruled by fear and domination and the Ummites and their allies by survival instinct now that the yoke of Tyrant was off. The Ummites did not want to bend, they wanted to win. And...their empire had integrated all kinds of populations and also humans.

Observation shuttles were sent to the area where Tyrant had perished and they were nearing the end of their journey.

But the fleet that had begun to head for Earth shifted to the Black Moon for refueling and critical upgrades. All this because of the Electron fleet that had appeared near a space alteration, on the edge of a black hole. This is where the Midway was with the Electron fleet of which it was now a part.

Nicolai and Dantinne were waiting for a signal or simply for the arrival of "Pere".

Nicolaï dreamed of being the third head....even Dantinne did not understand... probably a complex or a devastating madness or simply violence become a drug.

Octavia and Augustus often hugged their daddy between their paws so that he would chase away such madness from his mind, which often made Dantinne cry, secretly, because a "raptor" showed no weakness...

Several days passed and slowly, but surely, the fleet of electrons approached. To give them time to realize that they were there was their strategy of terror and desperation. They were accustomed to breaking down the opponent's and the ground's defenses and with only a few ships in sight, they had plenty of time.

This also gave Nicolai time to reflect and also time for his father to manifest himself, always giving him a comfortable window of opportunity.

Except for him and Dantinne, no one in their right mind in the universe was looking forward to his coming from the depths of the abyss... the final destination of most black holes... an energy filling zone for an insatiable devourer.

Glacias and Augustus were also enjoying the friendship... and Octavia had more than friendship to offer Vermillion.

They lay together watching the suns slowly pass by in the view from the windows of their artificial "jungle".

Vermillion: "I would like you to come to my land, everything is wild like here but bigger. Huge trees, swamps as far as the eye can see and there is lots of life, insects, vines and giant frogs. Crocs and wild dinos and the carno kobolds... They're smart like your people and ..humans,..they're only 300..they're nice and still a little scared...then he turned to Louise who was pulling her head a little, forsaken probably because she was human, well still..

Octavia: "Would you like to become a dragon? You look unhappy.."

She stood up and went to sulk a little further. Glacias and Vermillion wanted to join her but they changed their minds.

Vermillion :" It's her brother and her sister and daddy and mommy who miss us... and auntie too..." She needs to be alone for a while.

She put her paw on the young dragon's.

"When we are older, especially you, I would like you to show me your world..."

"Yes, we'll hunt together!

But there are the Vespalians... they are numerous..."

They are as big as carnos or small dragons and live in hives... they are very strong and have axes or scythes on each of their legs and they are very intelligent and they hide very well and their preys have no chance..."

Octavia: "They are monsters but they will be leathery against my fire breath."

"Yes, but they are our allies and they live with us... and they follow their queen who is madly in love with daddy."

We were walking towards the central pond then a jewel at Octavia's vents signaled her to join the main deck.

Machinically Vermillion and Glacias followed the raptor dragons. They were scary even for a dragon, a bit like a human facing a raptor.

The musculature was incredible.

Dantinne's pressure began to take effect on the two young dragons.

Octavia : "Mommy! you'll scare Vermillion...!!"

Dantinne smiled and made the young creature shiver.

In the blink of an eye, her muzzle was against the dragon's and she sniffed it...

Then she looked at Octavia...

"MOM!...you're going to make him cry..."

And she slid between her and her mom, a giant of more than 20 meters...

Vermillion, by reflex, clutched the dragoness raptor...

Dantinne : "I like you more and more, young dragon... I think my daughter" and then she looked at Augustus protecting Glacias..

"I think I'm going to make a tour on your planet..." and she looked at Nicolaï.

Then she slumped like a raptor at rest.

"We're tired of these wars, I'd like to have another brood and see you grow up and see your own... "

Vermillion and Glacias began to blush... but the tension fell.

Dantinne: "What about the hunt?"

Octavia: "They are perfect considering their age, they need to catch up a bit on techniques on large prey, jumping and using their paw talons, for magic, we should learn a lot together."

Dantinne: "So look out for each other and never get separated.

Octavia, go to the armory and get them the necessary protection for space. I don't know how they would react in the vacuum of space if the ship were to be destroyed.

Stay away from the engine sections and stay close to the evacuation shuttles. My instinct and my senses shout me to be wary but Mister Nicolaï wants to please his daddy more than his beloved...

Vermillion: "Thank you, Queen Dantinne!

Dantinne: "I like this little one!"

In the greenhouse, the dilophorus was monstrous with its teeth sticking out like scissors but it held out a paw to Louise...

With an electronic device to convert some robotic sounds, Rapetou "I also cried a lot...Before, I was a raptor. Infernal machine transformed Rapetou dilo and brother in Allosaurus... because dirty traitor want to eat us and babies..."

Rapetou: "Come bridge, general call.."

And Louis accompanied the Dilo, taller than her and holding her paw.

She had her first dinosaur friend...well...

"Thank you Rapetou.. you are nice..."

Rapetou: "Me sad...not living old...bad blood dragon...bad speak..handicapped."

Louis had tears in his eyes when the dilo told him his story, the cruelty of human hunters and his short life of maximum 30 years... he had only 10 years maximum to live and, already, rheumatism was felt and his performance in hunting.

She took her paw between her 2 hands.

"We will find a solution... I promise you... mom is very strong to heal... and maybe our dragon blood, well my brothers can help you..."

Dilo smiled a little more, and the light came back into his eyes.