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

Alban, Heldrake

Alban opened his eyes and slowly came to life as the heated hydraulic fluids began to flow.

All his vision was disturbed and it took him a few moments to realize that he was still alive.

He breathed in and felt all weird... heavy and light at the same time.

Everything seemed small to him and he saw the dragons prostrate before him.

He was scared but he couldn't take a step.

His body was trapped by a big magnet in the ground preventing him from doing anything else stupid.

Then he saw that his nose was out of place and wanted to touch it, but his hands were paws and claws.

He turned his head and saw that his body was a tangle of metal structures that looked like a dragon.

ARRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

he shouted...

"What have you done to me?"

The dragons, on their bellies, were shouting Alaban's forgiveness. Sorry...

Alban looked at himself and felt his senses increase tenfold, the pain also when he wanted to tear off a plate to see if he was locked in it...

Tiamat: "You are going to hurt yourself... This is your new body... You have been burned to death, that's all we could do...".

Alban: "You are sick... worse than monsters... In fact, it's in your head that it's wrong...

Look at me... am I armor, a plane or a dragon? A piece of junk..."

Blanche: "You're a heldrake... A metal dragon... All your flesh was lost and no care could work..." White: "You're a heldrake... A metal dragon...

So I gave you a mechanical body."

Alban began to cry... Tears still streamed from his eyes...

Blanche and the others were sad for the poor man.

Alban: "Now I am an abomination...

White: No...you must be proud of your body. You are eternal now and one day you will be able to magically transform yourself again when your monster core is of sufficient level.

Alban: "Because I have a monster heart now???"

The dragons remained silent, their heads bowed...

"I really want to slay you. But apart you, who else do I have left?

Blanche: "We are your allies and you can take command of an army if you want...

It's for Altus, in fact... In case Tania wants to turn against you.

Oriharukon: "Alban, we're going to teach you to live like a dragon..."

Alban: "I don't want your life... You're not even monsters, you're sick!"

He struggled but remained stuck to the ground.

Blanche: " We are letting you go but don't get killed by the harkonnens and the soldiers. We would have at least wanted to teach you to fly without crashing, and to learn how to feed yourself.

Oriharukon: "You have a hud in your head that will tell you how to start. You just have to think "Hud"

Then the dragons released the magnet and a light hole appeared at the end of the corridor.

Tiamat: "The exit is on the other side of the light. We are nice... you arrive directly to the capital.

The heldrake rushed to the exit without asking for the rest, in case they changed their minds, and he found himself facing the castle of the prince-pontiff.