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

Alban

Tania and her team summoned a tongue of fire and buried themselves to the surprise of all to take shelter from the bombing.

From her monitor she could see and calculate the position of the impacts.

The stones would pass by. Spectacular but harmless this time.

A radio message coming from her base, indicating that a strange dragon wanted to talk to her, but above all to Iseultbella!

Some soldiers and a mentat described the dragon as a heldrake but not part of the infernal army.

But Tania was on to something and asked the mentat to interrogate the dragon.

After a few minutes, Tania asked if he could come to them but she learned that he could not fly...

A Heldrake that can't fly... impossible, they are beings from the sky...

Then the mentat said that the Heldrake cried all the time after Isolde.

Tania "Ask him if he has any news about Alban..."

The answer was dreadful.

She spoke directly with the heldrake in draconian language.

Then she turned sadly to Isolde.

Isolde, beginning to know the subtle expressions of the raptor feared the worst.

She heard in draconian language: "Yes, I will tell him... This is terrible.

She will have to be brave..."

Tania, holding the microphone against her so that no one could hear, turned to Isolde.

"It's your brother.... he had an accident.... It was terrible..."

Isolde burst into tears. "HE HE HE is dead? Is that it????"

Tania: "The Alban you knew is gone... or rather, it's him again. He is alive but..."

Isolde, begging "But what??"

"He was shot and his body was lost... the dragons.... turned him into a heldrake...".

A metal dragon hybrid with almost nothing organic...

It's worse than draconization...

He is half machine...but alive....

Isolde : "Put him on... I want to talk to him...".

Tania put the CB radio to Isolde...

"Alban?? Alban??It is Sister... Tell me that you are alive, I beg you..."

- "SNIFF... "

She could hear her brother crying but her voice was much lower, like thunder.

Like he was talking in a long tube.

"Sweetie.... I'm sorry...I did the wrong thing too much...Those dragons.... they're monsters... Run away... don't stay with them...

You'll be sorry... They turned me into a metal monster. I am a nightmare on legs.

I've seen what they are capable of, you can't imagine the horrors they do.

They've turned me into a scrap heap!!! they're crazy. I beg you, go home..."

Isolde was shocked.

It was his brother...

"Say, Tania, is it true that he was mutilated like that???? Answer me!"

Then she said "Tania, I'm suffocating here... I want to get out..."

The tank came to the surface and they came out...