A dragon devouring faeries (TOME 15 of the TIAMAT'S WARS SERIE)

Emptiness, Despair and Nothingness

A tractor beam docked the wreckage of the Helldrake and the Repressior hangar opened up, letting in a tangle of scrap metal.

Large Vespalians arrived and one of them, a space engineer, was able to recognize the plates, axles and parts.

In a few minutes, the scrap metal was separated from the rest of the Helldrake, to realize that in fact, there were two of them so entangled that it looked like one single piece.

Then he told Bello: "This is a living organometal. It is necessary to treat the metal with a degreasing oil saturated with nanobots that can regenerate the structures."

They carried the carcass also covered with rust, mud and petrified slime, almost stone and they were bathed (actually in a tank and sprayed with nanobots taken from the Bucéphalus.

Darkia recovered and tried to reason with Tiamat.

But the hydra was lying down, all its eyes closed like a frightened lizard and only one pair of eyes, the one of the white head, which could see in the ether as well as in the astral remained half-open.

"I am lost this time...They are all gone...frozen, killed, or dead...and he is coming to finish me off..."

Darkia: "No one is coming to kill you...not while I'm alive.."

She turned her head to look out a giant window...

He's already here.

And she began to squeak...

Darkia immediately felt the "presence"...

On her comm, she shouted. Turn on the engines, they must flee.

But Tiamat put his paw on Darkia's..

He will catch up with us. If I surrender, maybe you'll live.

She stood up, her heads almost on the ground except for the white one.

Darkia jumped against the fallen hydra.

"No...you're family... I know... I saw everything... It's terrible but we are here!... Arnold and his sisters and Vermillion.. They are counting on you. Their daddy is away and you saw Kate, she's a human in a dragon's body...Arnold needs you now more than ever..

Tiama fell on her belly, crying with happiness to be so recognized but also having so little time...

Desperate and trapped, and most of all, reluctantly... she begged..

"Goddess Enka...Destroyer of worlds...I beg you...help us..."

There was silence and the beating of 2 dragon hearts could be heard. then...clap clap clap.

It was Enka... she was in human horned form, like a great succubus.

A throne appeared out of nowhere and she sat on it, looking at the two flattened dragons on the ground.

"Mom...???"

Enka stood up and went to caress and kiss Darkia..

"Ah... my faithful daughter... then she turned her head towards Tiamat who was shaking, terrified..."

She put her hand on the white muzzle.. Tiamat had all her eyes closed in terror.

"Well, Tiamat... you are progressing. Don't worry, everything has a reason but your time has not yet come".

Tiamat: "I don't want... please... not the ice cream..."

Darkia: "Mom??? why?? I saw what she saw..."

Enka: "You will know in time... they are safe... trust me..."

Darkia: "And Hans?? I have his egg!! release it!! for God's sake!!!"