I am a dragon! Help me! (TOME 4 of the TIAMAT'S WARS SERIE)

The Treasure of the Demon Lord

Marise and Isolde had nursed Tania, who came out laughing. Marise remembered Vladimir's voice.

"Mama? You're not well?"

"Hahahahahah, I've never been better, hahahahah!"

Feeling Tania's beading violence, she walked away.

"Hey, don't leave without me...we must celebrate our overwhelming victory over the Orcs and the Dragon Lord...z"

Tania stood up and fluttered as Baron Harkonnen did with the same sinister laughter.

They then left the infirmary and Tania clapped her claws: "We are celebrating the victory!"

And, with a sure step, she left her base and joined the palace of Altus.

Tania and Marise, Isolde and Andromedus, and Pharotek the Mentat of Tania, arrived at the foot of the throne of the human king.

Altus nodded to them.

The people were assembled (forcibly...) with the entire human army and Tania's army.

They appeared on the balcony of the castle and the king (prince-pontiff) declared:

"The prophecy has come true and the only end was that of the demon lord's army. He was defeated

The war is over. It is now time to rebuild our lives and our cities."

After a long political speech, the trumpets sounded and a real military parade was organized with the troops in line, horsemen, siege engines and mobile ballista, then vehicles of all kinds and an overflight by ornithopters and other flying machines, the whole overhung by shuttles and a few ships showing the almighty power of the army.

Dwarves, elves and others, tremble!

Meanwhile, Marise had slipped away and wanted to see the "prisoner"...

At the bottom of the cellars of the castle, dungeons and one of them was a cylinder covered with white and luminous and anti-magic rings.

At the bottom, a broken rag was rotting in a critical state.

The dragon was unrecognizable, covered with wet gauze, no more, chained to its legs and a lock on its jaw.

He was moaning, with burns spread over 3/4 of his body. Marise wanted to protest but there was no one there.

The creature moaned but was only going to be there for a few hours, 2-3 days at the most in this state.

"Mamaann. Glaurung...

papaaaa. Please, St. Nicholas Marcus...

grandfather...

King Ghidhora...

help.

Where are you?

I don't want to die.... help me!

Mamaann... grandfather, Kraa, grandmother..."

And so on and so on until he collapses from sleep. The pain diminishing a little, asleep.

Marise went down into the pit and looked at his infected wounds.

"Tania! How could you..."

She saw a horrible necklace embedded in her neck, almost forming a cyst.

She looked at his skin all burned. It was burned 3/4 of the way through and was healing from infection.

The pain must have been excruciating.