RUDIA, THE WORLD DEVOURER
On Tuesday morning, Mom called me in my head: "Ruby, if you have nothing else to do but play, my time is getting shorter because of the eggs.
After that, I won't have enough time and you still have a lot to learn.
I couldn't answer... I still had to learn. It's true that the shield somehow saved my life.
I warned so much that I would come back for meals but that I had to speed up my training.
When breakfast was over, I flew to the lair and Rudia welcomed me.
I was angry about Friday, but she was right...
Rudia: "What you don't know is that on Friday your bones were broken... and I cured you! But before we lose the morning with your useless admonitions, you're going to have to learn how to heal yourself and others."
I said, "But!"
Rudia: "Shhht!"
She pointed her claw at me and said something with plants or roots.
She had a very sharp claw that approached my arm. I wanted to leave but my body didn't respond anymore...
I saw with horror her claw penetrate my arm like butter. I was crying but nothing, not a scream came out of my mouth, only tears running down...
The pain was unbearable.
Rudia:" Does it hurt? No?"
Blood was flowing from my bleating wound. I had had like a butcher's knife that pierced my arm and cut along the bone from side to side, tearing everything apart in its path. I was mutilated and I would never fly with such an injury.
Mom was crazy, but I never thought she would hurt me so much.
Rudia: "Well, now that you have your attention focused on your lesson, remember it! Otherwise your damage will be permanent!
Pray to your grandmother and your great-grandmother.
Visualize them as perfect dragons, nice and terrifying at the same time.
Think of Tiamat as your goddess even if your human side screams the opposite. Embraces our way, our way of life. Visualize it with her 5 heads as on the engraving. Imagine her white head blowing on your wound and begging for mercy so that your dragon integrity can be restored. Pray to the emperor, her black head that she blows into the darkness and that through her, through your shadow, her healing breath reaches your arm and drives away the cut.
Imagine a sphere of black, of pure hatred invading your arm and restoring your arm.
When I opened my eyes, the wound was closed but there was still chaos inside.
At least it didn't hurt anymore.
Rudia: "Now you thank her for knowing that she has succeeded. But you also offer her your pain. So if it's a failure, you don't insult her, but she knows you still need help.
No thought for humans. She hates them and eats them like wild boars.
You're gonna think they're thinking and talking.
Didn't you talk to the boar you ate the other day? It's the same for humans.
Her knowledge exceeds anything that humanity can have as knowledge. For her, humans are insects...
For me too, by the way. I pray all the time to Grandma. You have goddess blood in you and you can become immortal. Your prey that you don't eat, offer them as a sacrifice to Grandmother. When you have received her message and after singing with her, you will be able to communicate indirectly with her and then you will propose a plan for her safeguarding and she will give you her blessing. My goal is to get her back here or at least to get her out of her abyss or where she's stuck. Only external intervention can get her out. Other brothers and sisters in other worlds are also trying, but we are in a more technologically advanced era and she has placed her hopes in me."
As soon as I was released, I wanted to run away but my mother's tail was preventing me from going out.
Rudia "Where are you going?"
Me: "As far away from you as possible. The more I know you, the more you scare me! Today you're tearing my arm off. What are you doing tomorrow? You rip my head off and put it on my tail and say it's to go back better?"
I had a masterful slap.
Rudia: "Will you be polite? You know I love you, but I'm a red dragon and I get carried away easily. Sorry about the slap, but it went away by itself! It's also proof that you're growing up."
I held my sore cheek and spit blood out of my nose and mouth and then put myself in a corner' in a ball and started crying all the rest of the morning. I didn't dare go out to dinner for fear that she would hurt Luc and Celine...
My arm was hurting me horribly and everything was still torn apart inside. It was only "minor care"after all. A light healing.
Rudia grabbed my arm and put her paw on it and everything went back to normal. I was able to open and close my wing without pain and I had no trace of injury.
Rudia: "lesson over !!!!
Tomorrow, same time. "
She turned her back on me, but I knew she was crying.
I approached and touched her tail, which she lifted out of reach immediately.
"I'm sorry, I should never have told you that. I'm sorry, Mom!"
She turned around and I saw big tears falling from her eyes. I must have really hurt her. I felt bad! I felt bad!
Me: "I really hurt when you stuck me and hurt me, I didn't expect it and I said things at the time, out of anger. I'm sorry"
Rudia: "Me too, but I don't know any other way to learn this power that will one day save your life or someone you love."
"The deeper your bond, the stronger the power will be! It can even rebuild a limb but unfortunately it can't bring someone back from the world of death."
Also be careful that this spell can be terrible and reversed. It can create and transfer wounds and cause someone to suffer horribly. By injuring and caring for him alternately and thus accumulating suffering by delaying the transfer to Tiamat.
Do you understand? For example, you treat someone 6 times and then transfer the pain to Tiamat only after the 6th time, then the pain perceived by the non-healing will be 6 times greater.
You can kill just by pain like that!"
"I'll eat... I'll be back in the afternoon. Okay?"
I took off and brought myself back to tantante. I was late and the pasticcios were cold.
"Sorry, I had a fight."
Luke: "Again?"
Celine: "Come here!"
She cuddled me on the back and looked at my eyes: "You cried again, didn't you?"
I jumped at her: "It is hard to be a dragon...... Boooooooooo
Celine: "Laaaaa, it's okay, we're here with you. You can tell unless you don't want to."
Me: "She paralyzed me with one look and I couldn't move..... She cut me deeply and forced me to heal myself. It's complicated and I can't talk about how it works, but it's a dragon and prayer thing to my great-grandmother, a terrible five-headed dragon."
Celine was looking over my head at Luc, who ran away into her chest.
Luc looked pale.
The more he knew about Rudia, the more he was afraid of her. Rudia, in her head, was changing from a dragon status to some kind of evil or all-powerful Deity. The image he had of it was that of a dragon eating the world.
I took my share of cold lasagna and cooked it in my mouth before eating it.
My mouth being an oven now.
Celine: "Are you eating cold?"
I opened my mouth and she could see the hot, steaming lasagna.
Celine : "Oh yes, I forgot. I didn't know you could cook in your mouth... I'm sorry..."
In the afternoon, I flew away and my friends saw me flying and wanted to follow me but I was too fast.
I had STRICTLY PROHIBITED them from following me. I told them I'd stop our friendship if I caught them following me!
Luc and Celine had warned them that they were in serious danger there!
I arrived at the lair and Rudia told me I smelled like tomatoes.
Now we're going to play hide and seek in the cave. Find me! Find me!
I was trying to watch, nothing, no presence. I touched the walls of the cave, nothing, no trace.
My sense of smell! Nothing! Nothing!
My infrared and electromagnetic vision, Nothing...
Rudia, in my head: "You can still look for a long time, HIHIHIHI!, Oh yes!, you're cold, cold!"
GRRRR.
An hour passed.
"You're cold, keep looking..."
I sat down and opened my map in my head and visualized the cave, but nothing!
PING, I heard a rock coming towards me. TCHAK, AYE!
"Sorry, you need to think a little more... We're smarter than humans, so it's up to you to solve this problem..."
None of my senses worked, not even echolocation. Or my tongue!
I began to despair.
Rudia: "Fill yourself with darkness and project a sphere of light in front of you to increase your shadow"
Magic light will illuminate the visible as well as the invisible.
Imagine a spherical black hole that starts from your legs and goes up through your body and gives you a feeling of cold, freshness and goes up to your head and meals to your limbs.
You will feel yourself floating and there you create a luminous sphere that will illuminate all around you.
It's called the spell of light."
I did as she told me and a small lamp began to light up the palm of my hand. I concentrated more and the lamp became a flashlight and I was able to illuminate and see Mom's den from another angle.
She was in front of me making a face at me!
I said, "Found it!"
Rudia: "It took you a long time!"
It was getting dark and I went home. I saw my friends on my bikes in the fairy valley parking lot. and an anger overtook me.
I landed to their great surprise, in front of them.
"Manu, Marise, what are you doing here?
I'm angry! I'm angry! Very angry!
How should I tell you this?
Well, I'm not going to go in four directions, there's a monster here who eats boars but if he sees you, he'll eat you."
Maryse: "Then why do you come to see the monster????"
Me: "To stop him from eating little girls like you!"
They saw playing legos at home in my room and then after a good meat loaf they came home and I was watching a little TV. I liked adventure and fantasy movies. It made me dream.
I tried to illuminate my room and to my amazement, I managed to make several colors of light.
I fell asleep but when Celine entered my room, everything was lit by hundreds of small multicoloured stars floating on the wall and in the air.
It was beautiful.
She covered me and gave me a big kiss and I could sleep soundly.