Against all odds, I woke up. It was even a surprise for Enka...

It was a bit like a patient waking up in the middle of a surgery.

My eyes were groggy but I was ultra weak but also angry. VERY ANGRY.

The first thing I saw were my children tucking me in and crying against me, Tiamat, Kate and Darkia watching over me like a dead man.

Weakly, my wings covered them and I said thank you for everything.

Then my eyes adjusted and I stared at Enka. I was too weak to do anything, let alone stand up, let alone turn back into a human. It was only a brief respite.

Enka: "You have one month... you all have one month to get your affairs in order... After that, it will be the end.."

Mother... Why?" I asked weakly...

She turned her back.

"We all love you. You are our mother and we owe you everything... life, our existence... everything. But you don't like us anymore? you want to get rid of us? or put us in a drawer or better in a freezer??? We don't have your vision of things... we don't understand and we are all afraid... and we are beginning to be afraid of you and for you.."

She looked up to the sky..

"Look..."

And we saw that the sun was cut in two, like an eclipse and...the next moment, it was darkness...

Enka: "There is no more sun...you will all die of cold, starvation of time..."

Then the next moment, the light returned...

"This is an illusion, a ghostly image...the sun is no more and the earth is in the last bubble. Beyond...it is nothingness..absolute nothingness.."

Tiamat: "Enka...you have devoured the world..." You destroyed everything.!!!

Then she lowered her head...any fight was useless...There was nothing left to do..

Tiamat : "One last question : Why???"

Enka sat down and made gestures to calm the general panic.

Some were about to attack Enka with all they had, a fight lost in advance, but a bar of honor.

Enka: "Calm down... violence will not lead to anything and honor in nothingness, remains nothingness...

I have lived and existed since time immemorial and I have also evolved like each of you.

You were born from my pieces in other dimensions, the rest being Tiamats.

Yes, you are all Tiamats, fragments, sparks, dust, but you have grown, you have multiplied and you have evolved from animals to sensitive beings with a soul. I will not go back over your evolution.

The world also evolved, grew, but, when you are a stellar giant, a superior deity like me, you can see things that are beyond comprehension.

Yes, I am a destroyer, but what have I destroyed? Nothingness within nothingness

I have never destroyed living things but... how can I put it.

Let's imagine that you have the size of a thousand suns, of a thousand galaxies, then you would see the universe differently.

It is infinite in the sense that it has no edge but you would see by calculation a torus shape.

But it's more complex, it's a fractal torus..the more exact shape of a diamond.

The stars eventually burned up their energy and everything collapsed as black holes and the black holes clustered together giving access to a dark universe, reduced to a black point, empty.

All the energy was drained.

The diamond has become black. There is no more light. Everything collapsed and accelerated with the appearance of portals and corridors of time that different civilizations have abused. And the energy has burst like a balloon pierced by a needle.

This is where we are now.

This is the ark, the final sanctuary.

I am not responsible and I have not yet destroyed the world. The world has stopped because time has stopped. There is nothing more to do."

Bello stepped forward and dropped to his knees.

"Almighty Goddess... What will become of us? Are we going to die too?"

Enka: "All things come to an end..and..I am very unhappy about it.

It's heartbreaking that I can't even die! I only dream of that! To die!"

It was a shock.

Darkia: "Mother??"

Enka placed her claw on her daughter's cheek.

"You've had thousands of older sisters .... who have almost all died in my care. Do you think it's a good idea to have the thing I love most die in her arms? You have been reincarnated thousands of times and I have suffered martyrdom at each of your deaths. And I..."

Enka collapsed with grief.

"But this time... this is the end....I will be able to die and go with you... We'll all go together..."

I became frightened and my low energy did not allow me any action, just to raise a head.

"Please!"

Enka dropped a tear on my head...

"We are not going to die... not this time... but we are going to leave... go on a great journey.."

"Mom... In the dream, I met other hydras, other dragons that you froze.."

Enka: "It's not like with Tyrant... you can dream and live a certain way... I'm not the monster you imagine... I'm sad that you think so but it's inevitable... with the little you know despite your immense knowledge.."

"Ivan, they are disoriented, tormented and he just cries, traumatized by the ice and he is locked in.. Marc/Blanche, the neo Tiamat...is just a crying wreck... They all cry...like sheep going to the slaughter...I've seen them...even the strong ones, like Sarge and the dragon snake.. Why so much cruelty...??"

Enka:" The seats in our vehicle are uncomfortable... and the seats are very expensive... I'm sorry, this is the only thing I could find to get us through the great extinction.

It's our only hope... Sorry... Even with millions of years, I'm not as smart as you, Hans, nor you, Tiamat... yet, I'm complete but unlike you, I didn't rebuild myself... better...

She stepped aside to join her palace...

"MOMAN!" I shouted at the top of my voice.

She turned around, in tears.

"WE TRUST YOU!!! SAVE US!"

Enka smiled at me, "Finally one who understands...! all is not lost".

She went back to rest and my family brought me food and some soup and blood.

They all knelt down in front of me to ask me questions about what I had understood.

Nicholas approached me.

"Hans... you owe me a fight...! For honor!"

I started to laugh.

"Yes, Nicolas... I see that you are a good guy...you too have been through a lot... And I turned to Dantinne.

"Your queen is beautiful! Her mix of dragon and raptor. She is beautiful... I could have fallen in love with her too!"

Dantinne smiled at the compliment, Kate and the others a little offended..

I turned to Darkia.

"Honey.. I think you have a lot of work to do to welcome all these people to A'Arnateth. I think your 'Vizier' is going to end up as a vizier in the laundry, at least, his head.."

She blushed. Hans!... I love you! and I must still devour you...

I returned her smile... "So enjoy your meal!"

Darkia disappeared into her world, a huge task that only she could prepare.

I turned to Tiamat" You too have access to A'arnateth, instead of Faeyrune... right? So go help her... see you in a month.

Kate was licking my ears, leaning against me.

"Honey... are we all going to die?"

"Not exactly... Enka ... no... She's the keeper of time in addition to being the Destroyer...

But don't be afraid. Let's say we are on an island. but the universe is a diamond...

It is black and has no energy. We are in the diamond.

So either a benevolent God picks up the rock and heats it up with a laser and re-lights the stars in it... that's good... that's great and everything starts over again... except that even if we heat it up, it will all go into the black holes... It's like inflating a punctured balloon or filling a colander. And that's the drama...

But a goddess with 8 heads was passing by...Enka...

She decided to crush the diamond into powder, melt it down and give it a new shape, keeping its energy, at least until the new end of time...

Kate: I understand that we are in a car junkyard, that the earth is the last barracks and that we will recycle all this metal to make new cars?

Me: "Yes, sort of... but I forgot something essential: Thank you for everything... thank you for saving the kids... for taking care of everything while I was sleeping..."

Kate: "I'm scared...we're all scared..."

"I would be lying if I told you that I wasn't, but...Enka, go clean the aquarium, so to speak...but she will also be part of the trip...we won't stay in the diamond...we'll get out of it and join other universes, somewhere else, even further away, and only the eternal galactic ice will protect us from the absolute nothingness. Even a black hole could not reach us...nothing..."

KAte: "And if Enka never wakes up again? we would be wandering in infinity for the end of time?"

"KAte..we are at the end of time..!!! but it is a risk to take... To die here now and there would not even be a reincarnation possible... no more evolution, no more transition.."

Bello and Sarah were listening. and, at the end of the day. Everyone was busy classifying, sorting and arranging their knowledge, knowledge and even engraving in crystal our sciences, customs and the names of those who accompany us but also those lost forever.

The ummites, dwarves, elves, fairies and other creatures also began the great hunt where we had to secure and allow the animal, vegetable and magical species to be able to fall asleep in peace but also to wake up without killing each other in case we would wake up one day.

Quickly, one month was not enough.

Enka suggested we go to our rooms and make ourselves comfortable.

We dragons gathered in the temple in a huge nest of leather and cushions, all against each other with our wings covering each other.

Darkia, Kate and Tiamat were against me, for a last embrace.

Against us too were Glacias, Vermillion, Vermithrax, Arnold and Louise and also Darkia's egg.

Dantinne and Nicolas were also against us because Octavia and Auguste were tight against my little ones.

Waspy was also against me.

Some Dragoraptors and CarnoKobolds were lying down.

The two metallic Drakes, Alban and his companion, had been soaked in a liquid of oil and mana crystals to regenerate themselves and were kept close to us, so that they could also benefit from the ambient mana.

Outside, thousands of people were singing and praying, candles in hand, watching the last sunset. Then a procession ended in silence, each one returning to his bed. Others screamed in despair and mages had to cast the very last sleep and soothing spells.

The lights and electricity went out. And darkness gradually overtook the Earth.

As a group, we sang one last time the ode to the sun and the moon that had strangely stayed with us... like a black star in a black background. Even the sky was no longer blue. It was transparent, black, without clouds.

I raised my head. "Mom? the clouds?? it's gone?"

Enka: "I'm still waiting for one last visitor.... He's not a good one. A real villain but you will need him one day. Let's just say, I have some therapy within the darkness just for him...."

Everyone was silent and waiting... anxiously... No one could find sleep even if they were looking for it so as not to live this moment, this moment of freezing and death..

Enka: "I'm sorry, but fear is part of life too.

Sleep potions appeared by the thousands near each of us.

Enka: "Make the little ones drink it... they don't have to be conscious when you freeze..."

"Thanks Mom!"

The parents made their children, their wives and finally themselves drink the potion and the breathing became less intense, a sign of the sleep that was taking over.

Some, tormented and panicked, fled into caves and even some managed to get into my old base and the subway that overlooked the lava, hoping that it would not freeze and thus have a chance, but it was lost... The ice was freezing the time. It was not "cold" Even magma could be frozen while remaining magma.

A tintinnus... A sound almost of ultra-sounds...

And suddenly, a light appeared in the center of the village and a monstrous machine appeared.

A cube with infernal cogs at the base and a magical summoning tray filled with symbols of the cherubic alphabet appeared.

The FORGE or the other name: The infernal machine of Basilus.

Everything was aligned with the clock of the end of time.

In the center appeared 2 Figures, 2 dragons with intertwined wings.

A Wyvern and a Draconis.

The Wyvern collapsed...and looked at her male, her God and Lord.

"Allister??? Allister, are we there yet?"

But the dragon collapsed, tired, exhausted, his mana completely drained.

Enka: "Oh... Alamaberge... the queen of the Goths! You should have been dead for millions of years..."

The Wyvern turned around... "Please. Whoever you are... don't eat him! He is my husband..."

Enka: "I know who you are. I know all the corridors of time but I wasn't expecting you... it's a surprise and you're the error factor but... it doesn't matter... you'll be along for the ride like... That crazy wizard! But how did he know?"

Alamaberge: "He studied the gates of time from both sides..."

Enka looked at the machine. This is a collector's item. The first functional machine to generate portals in space-time...

I'm not going to destroy it but add it to my collection... let's say it's your ticket to entry..."

The wyvern was trying to pull the wizard dragon off the platform as he had explained in case it was unstable again but Enka lifted it and Alamaberge licked the Destroyer's paws.

"Goddess of Destruction... I'm not a queen anymore, I'm just a little wyvern.. please.."

Enka turned around, finally, a head. "Amalaberge, follow me to the palace. You have only made one stopover. The real journey is about to begin."

Arriving at the crystal temple, the domes opened up and part of the gallery came into view.

There were pedestals.

On one of them, empty, was engraved the name of Basilus, on the one next to it ALLISTER, followed by another empty one.

The next moment, AMALABERGE.

Cushions appeared and she laid Allister on them. Sleep, crazy dragon!

And Allister curled up on the bed and a crystal dome engulfed him.

She turned to the wyvern.

Enka: "You have a choice. Well, not really.

You can settle down for the eternity we'll go through together or you can lie awake, dying of cold and hunger in the pitch black...

The Goth Queen wept. "I have endured so much, suffered so much just to stay alive and... I have to end up in the fridge..."

She lifted her head to face the Destroyer.

"Why??"

Enka shed a tear..

"I can't stand the death of my children anymore... With each death, a part of me is gone..."

The queen then understood the pain of a mother and she climbed on the bed herself, sat down and looked at Enka one last time.

"Enka, are they all here? Marcus too?"

Enka nodded and she opened her mouth.

"Wait, Destroyer... can I go give him one last kiss?"

Enka: "His crystal. If he regains consciousness outside the dome, it will be panic, screaming and despair... he is an adult but still a sensitive child. He died to cross the corridors of time but he also grew up. His family is also here. Go... you have a few moments to say goodbye to him... He will hear you in the dreams and you will meet in A'Arnateth on the journey to infinity."

Amalaberge licked the ice sphere and it was not cold...

She looked at Enka: "Isn't he dead?"

Enka: "It is his time that is frozen..not him. He is protected.."

Amalberge: "But this is a prison!

Enka: "Yes... it is a prison..but inside, when the ice melts, it will be like a simple night of restful sleep.."

Look at the other dragons in pieces... "They were dying but the ice can also allow the tissues to reform but without causing the damaged tissues to die.

They will wake up young, fit, like children!"

Enka escorted the last visitor out.

"Is this the last land, the last world?"

"Yes, you look very wise as a wyvern. Allister has rubbed off on you in a good way..."

Come with me... we'll start the great departure and you'll be the ultimate witness of the ultimate universe at the end of time.

The tiny wyvern flew up and landed on Enka's shoulder.

A temporal shield surrounded the great Hydra with the small wyvern and the next moment, the earth was instantly frozen.

It was nothing but a marble.

"Ohhh! How beautiful!"

The universe collapsed and the wave crushed the bubble that was the earth and its moon

Enka. "It's time to go to sleep... I have to sleep too."

Amalaberge: "And... Where are we going?"

Well, look.

The sky formed like a wall.

And the earth, like a steel ball, broke a mirror and we left at a dizzying speed a kind of black crystal.

Enka: "The diamond is our universe. Now, we go towards the light..."

Amalaberge: "What is this light?"

Enka: "Another universe, another multiverse at the beginning of its time..."

"And are you sure you can do it?"

Enka "I am the Destroyer... I have "destroyed" the universe 12000 times! But you are the first to accompany me. I am not so alone anymore."

Amalaberge: "And the gods of this universe?"

Enka smiles, showing her teeth... "If you knew how many I ate..."

Shamrock: "Why do you save those who don't like you then too?

Enka: "Oh yes, they love me and they all have my blood... and I also took their companions and loved ones so that they will never be unhappy again"

Amalaberge: "But... when they are free, one day, their time will resume.."

Enka: "Yes, but none of them here will age anymore, which is not bad and I will see to their reincarnation so that they are not really separated. That's what took me the most time and effort.

Bringing everyone together as a "collection

Amalaberge: "I understand your collection now and I'm not afraid anymore... I'm happy to be with you... but... who will watch over you?"

"Your prayers... They warm my heart.. That's the most important thing..But now, we'll go to sleep together.. If you want, you can sleep on me. "

"Thank you, Goddess Friend..."

Enka went to his palace and lay down on a pedestal on which it was written

"THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS ENKA SHIVA"

The ice grew and grew until it formed a gigantic sealed pyramid mountain.

The wyvern fell asleep, brooded under the wing of the hydra and everything was black...

Thus for millions of years of wandering in the void and the nothingness towards a light, a small point hardly perceptible but which grew slowly, slowly.

Thus, the history and the time ended...

THE END

Thank you dear readers.

I hope that this end will ask more questions than answers.

A sequel is in preparation but in another universe, another time.

You will find Alban the Helldrake and some flashbacks how he could escape the time wave.

PRIMAL CARNAGE:

Arnold's odyssey, all alone with his siblings facing a hostile world of ice and water, in search of a hypothetical civilization and fantastic kingdoms under the rule of dragons at the top of the food chain. A Neolithic hell.