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A news story went around the world, the destruction of a remote Argentine rural town.


But the news was not the fire that destroyed their homes. The authentic news was the being that the locals said that they had attacked... and the message that he had given them.


"I will arrive Bahia del Sol, home of Calia Sol, in less than two days... and I will destroy the Dirty Lover and anyone who gets in the middle of both... be sure of it..."

 

 


 

 

Home of the Reyes family: February 16, 02:00 at night.

 


Hannah yawned as she watched the microwave, as the popcorn was slowly appearing. It was not the most fun task in the world, but considering that her attempt to cook dinner had been disastrous for the frying pans, she did not expect to be allowed to do anything else.It was not even worth looking out the window, with all the houses in the neighborhood empty.


There was a strange sensation in the air, with almost all the inhabitants of Bahia practically evacuated. Only a small GUN patrol passed from time to time.To add more things to the occasion, it was just snowing for the first time all winter, which does not add more than a disturbing white to the postcard that was Bahia del sol right now.


The giantess felt so helpless at such times that in her continuing depression she did not notice that Lloyd and her mother were passing from one side of the kitchen to the other, having finished preparing such a large and late dinner. Although from time to time they spoke among themselves, the sensation of fear and restlessness persisted in normally quiet home.
"Hannah, if your popcorn has already popped out! I can not be cooking on crutches and having to dodge you too, my love!" Hannah did not answer, just nodding and picking up the bag of popcorn, as she walked back to her room.


"She'll be fine? she has not burned so much to be so quiet" Lloyd finished peeling potatoes while still watching the fryer.


"She's my daughter, so of course she'll be fine! She's a strong girl who has managed to gather a lot of people!" Juddit did not stop smiling proudly, but without wanting to look at the pan that hannah had smashed against the marble.

 

It was strange that the house, with so many people inside, was so quiet.Hannah just listened to Dylan's instructions on how to wear the GUN armor, and occasionally Jack complained about something, usually being silenced by Mira almost instantly.
Until Hannah's room, where Elsa, Chris, Bolt and Sora were planning how to act felt distant and distant.


"Elsa please, we cant steal a tank!" Thank God that Chris had stayed in this internal meeting, because as it depended on a half-depressed Hannah or Sora and Bolt who do not know much Elsa... the crazy thing that would have happened.


"Why? We know Jolbirth it is a kind of dragon! And it also comes flying from the south! We can stole a tank or... WE HAVE TO TAKE CONTROL OF AN ANTI-AIR MISSILE!"


"ELSA PLEASE, Let's think about things that do not require us to oppose the army of the United States!" Big sister Sora was right, but considering that the army planned to wait for Jolbith to land in Bahia to attack him, taking their weapons and using them was not a bad idea either.


"SORA! VALERIA HAS LEAVED VERY CLEAR THAT WITH THE EVACUATED CITY THE ARMY WILL NOT DO ANYTHING UNTIL JOLBIRTH ATTACKS! I DO NOT THINK TO LET A DRAGON DESTROY MY CITY! WE ARE NOT IN THE MIDDLE AGES OR IN DRAGON AGE TO PASS THOSE THINGS!"


In the last 24 hours, Elsa had gone from having everything under control to pulling her hair out of tension, every minute that passed, anguishing her more and more. And not only her, the "Bahia last defense team" felt exactly the same.

 

The team emerged from an emergency situation, and after Mayor Vagrand locked himself in to negotiate with the army and Valeria, Light, Zoe and Robin locked themselves in the cathedral, those who were here were the last stronghold of resistance against Jolbirth.

There were not many, nor did they have many weapons. (Only those that Lloyd had taken from the commissary and the GUN armor that Elsa and Bolt had recovered from Carmen) But something was clear, none of those present would leave without a fight.


In the end, the smell of popcorn led Elsa to open the door, only to find Hannah leaning against the wall in front of it. "Honey, what are you doing in there? Come in with the popcorn! I need support in my plan to steal a missile!"


"HANNAH, DONT SUPPORT IT!" Towards hours that Bolt and Sora did not agree on anything, so to hear them so convinced was something refreshing and reassuring.


Hannah just nodded, entering and sitting on her bed, while watching the map of Bahia that Elsa had placed on the floor of the room. A lot of points were marked with red pen and with the phrase "Good site for missile".One if he saw it from outside would seem more a meeting to destroy Bahia than to save it.


"We're going to pretend we dont have missiles for a moment, okay?" Chris tried to put order again, to which Elsa only responded with an expletive under his breath. "We have enough strength to face it according to Valeria, so because we do not take it to an open place, we have the American fubot stadium, the university campus, the port..."


"And let him destroy them as he has done with that people in Argentina, no, Christopher! He has devastated an entire village and not all the weapons of the army there have been able to harm him! We have to finish him before he takes ground!" Bolt was the most pessimistic of the four, but it was still preferable to the idiocies of Elsa's plans.

 

"If Valeria says we have the strength to defeat him it will be for something-" Sora could not finish speaking before Bolt jumped out of his chair and started screaming against the wall.


"NO! WE HAVE 5 GUN SPEARS, A LION ROOKIE IN GUN OPERATIONS, A JACK USING AN ARMOR THAT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND AND A POLICE AGENT WHO DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO USE AN ARMOR! WE ARE DEAD!

AND THE ALMIGHTY VALERIA IS HIDDEN IN THE CATHEDRAL! THAT'S WHAT SHE TRUST IN US!"

 

"Well ... we always have Hann-" And again Bolt did not let the phrase end, this time to Chris.


"BEFORE YOU'LL LET JOLBIRTH KILL HANNAH! WE HAVE TO FINISH US! ELSA, JUDDIT, YOUR CHRIS AND HANNAH WOULD NOT SERVE A FIGHT!"


Although technically Hannah knew Bolt a few days ago, seeing her suffer so much, being so afraid was very painful. But also see fear in the hearts of so many people supporting it? It was as horrible as knowing that I could not do anything to defend them.

 

"BOLT! Hannah and I can fight! Let's defeat Carmen together!" It is possible that the victory has risen a little to the head. Only a little.


Bolt simply sighed and sat down again, it did not matter what he said, Elsa had decided to fight and God knew he would have to go down personally to get rid of the idea.


Someone had to make the four stop arguing, and if Hannah was the Dirty Lover, it was for these things... As scary as she was. "Big sister Bolt ... I want to fight too." And the bomb fell in the room. A bomb that managed to silence the four discordant voices.


"Hannah, honey ... are you serious?" Sora pulled her wheelchair closer to the bed, just to make sure the giantess did not have a fever or something.


"Of course I am! You are fighting continuously, and there are only 16 hours left until I get to Bahia! I may not have had more than one day of continuous training, but I really believe we can have possibilities!"


"I like that way! We have strength! We have resources! We have many extra-human strength! We have even Lloyd! We can win!" Elsa's confidence was motivating, perhaps not in the good sense, but motivating after all.

 

"BOLT! Hannah and I can fight! We win the battle with Carmen together!" It is possible that the victory has risen a little to the head. Only a little.

Bolt simply sighed and sat down again, it did not matter what he said, Elsa had decided to fight and God knew he would have to go down personally to get rid of the idea.


"Big sister Bolt... I want to fight too." And the bomb fell in the room. A bomb that managed to silence the four discordant voices.


"Hannah, honey ... are you serious?" Sora pulled her wheelchair closer to the bed, just to make sure the giantess did not have a fever or something.


"Of course I am! You are fighting continuously, and there are only 16 hours left until Jolbirth come to Bahia! I may not have had more than one day of continuous training, but I really believe we can have possibilities!"


"I like it! We have strength! We have resources! We have many extra-human strength! We have even Lloyd! We can win!" Elsa's confidence was motivating, perhaps not in the good sense, but motivating after all. "We're going to get back to the top!"

 


 

 

Cathedral of the Sun: In those same moments.

 


"As I told you, my daughter, Hannah plans to fight Jolbirth." Flynn disconnected the surveillance camera as he sat down again at the altar.
Valeria did not get up from her mattress in the middle of the cathedral, she simply nodded as she continued to observe the ceiling. Already 18 people have had to suffer the wrath of Jolbirth, so as soon as he arrived in Bahia, they should kill him before he damaged the city.


"Even if Hannah wants to fight, I know Bolt and Sora, do not let her fight." Zoe approached the mattress, trying to remove Valeria from the middle to place the mannequin and start the assembly work of the armor. But the vampire was not for the work, and not with all the strength of the Lich, moved a centimeter.


"You must have faith Valeria! Everyone here is preparing the equipment for Hannah, so we just need to make sure we weaken the enough of the drango before Hannah uses the "Sol Wave" !" Zoe was right, the blacksmiths of the cathedral worked tirelessly, preparing an armor capable of resisting the impure breath of Jolbirth, and thanks to the help of Light, they were able to work much faster knowing the exact measurements of Hannah.


"Zoe, I brought you because dad needed your help to forge the onice's sword, but even though in GUN you are my second in command, this is my house."


"Valeria please! If you do not intend to help, just get out of the way! Do not make me wake up your mother to move you!" Flynn knew perfectly well that when his primogenite did not want to collaborate, not a damn train would move him from the middle.

 

"This is my way of protesting the lack of support I am having right now! Do not blame me for not moving! Blame Jolbirth for rising up and pretending to destroy Bahia!"


"Do not be childish Valeria! You do not have 7 years to act like that! It's sad to see that even Hannah is trying harder to help than you"


"And now you compare me to Hannah, Hannah has not had a hundred years to see how rotten the world is ... Forgive me for not having confidence that the army will really help us! Vagrand is wasting time! Not even a destroyed village is enough proof to move their asses! "


"And can you blame them? All the evidence they have is a poorly taken picture, a village reduced to ashes by a fire, and a lot of older gentlemen saying that a dragon appeared out of nowhere! If it were not because you say it's true I I would not believe it either, do you know?" If neither pulling Valeria, nor trying to overturn the mattress managed to get her out of the way, she only had the option to burn her alive until she moved away.


"My word has widened for Vagrand to evacuate the city! And a lot of channels are reporting the news! How can the American army be as proud as denying that a dragon really intends to destroy Bahia del Sol? IF THERE ARE EXTRAHUMANS DRAGON, FUCK! HOW CAN THEY SAY THAT A REAL DRAGON DOES NOT EXIST? ARE THEY IDIOTS OR WHAT? "

 

At the end after so many nonsense, Light got tired, and grabbing one of the blacksmith's clothespins, she threw it with all the strength to her stupid sister.The impact was clean, with enough force for Valeria to have to get up.
"MORON! IF YOU INJURE ME, I CAN NOT PROTECT THE CITY!"


"Valeria, from this moment, either you put yourself seriously or I throw you out of the cathedral and send you with the Hannah team."


"You will not be able..."


"You doubt it?" Light's cold stare stopped even the blacksmiths.


"I'll be good... I promise." And with her pride in the floors, Valeria turned to a corner and sat against the wall.

Jolbirth comes to Bahia to destroy it, Hannah is thinking of fighting without having any knowledge base of combat. And Valeria, the legendary girl without dreams was punished against the wall. How the times change.

 


 

 

Nightfort Pub: We continue in the same moments.


An empty city, hundreds of bars available, thousands of liters of alcohol available.
And here was Fiona, in the smallest and most hidden abandoned bar in the city, with the reserve of alcohol in half. Stupid life.


"Turning... I spend the day spinning, and the glass giving... no no, that rhyme does not work" What better option to spend the hours until an ancestral dragon destroy a city to motivate a teenager to write poems. Thank God the pub had a high ceiling, because the only thing I could improve tonight was a bar where the protoslime could not stand.
And again, thank God that the transmitter was lit with the priestess's indicator.

"Tower, are you there?"


"Finally! Priestess! I was a glass of this bad wine to kill myself!" Although for the priestess it sounded like a joke, the revolver loaded on the bar did not make him such a joke.


"No, please, Tower, from this moment I need you to prepare to fight"


"THANK YOU TO HEAVEN! FINALLY SOMETHING INTERESTING! WHO DO I HAVE TO SHOOT?"


"To all who survive in the Hannah's team"


"...sorry?"


"Tower, from this moment, your mission is to ensure that Hannah matures, either at the hands of Jolbirth or yours."


"Priestess... I am an outlaw, a kidnapper, a compulsive drinker, a bodyguard, a righteous... but I am not a killer of good people..."


Without waiting for Priestess to respond, Fiona simply cut off the transmission and leaned on the bar. The priestess had made her do horrible things authentically... but this? Kill people who want to protect their city? So important was your debt for how to get to this point?

Too many questions, too many questions and there is almost no alcohol left in this bar...

"Time to go to the next... I hope they have whiskey, because a very unpleasant hour is coming..."

 


 

 

In the skies of Peru: Has it been clear since we are still in the same moment? I hope so.



For the first time in years, Jolbirth felt alive! The screams of fear and pain of those peasants, the smell of ashes and broken dreams in the air. His looks of terror ...They were so pleasant! The old king might not recognize the language in which they shouted, but it was clear, they feared him.

They hated him

They were terrified of him.


Crossing a cloud, Jolbirth let himself fall of emotion, feeling the speed again in its old scales. No matter how much time passed, this world still did not understand who was its true owner.

And the king of the mausoleum was happy to remind him once Hannah's corpse hung on his throne.


Why he need to kill her? That was a question the dragon kept asking himself over and over again. What really did not matter? Not at all.Killing a giantess was always fun, and making her death the unmistakable symbol of her return was so poetic.

Opening his wings again, Jolbirth returned to take altitude, and with renewed strength he started again the flight to Bahia. Only a few hours more flight ... and finally his dreams would come true. If this was a fantasy, the old dragon had something clear.


"I'll turn my fantasy into your nightmare!" And with a roar that was heard throughout the country, Jolbirth said goodbye to him for the moment.
Sooner or later, he would return. And this time it would not be to fly over it.

 

Chapter End Notes:

Thanks as always to all the readers! Finally Jolbirth has found the way, and take it for granted... it is a path that will lead directly to the destruction of the Dirty Lover.


(I will take advantage of this moment to solve 2 possible doubts:) 

- How has Fiona come before Jolbirth to Bahia? For the people who work for the priestess, things like displacement are much simpler, and more so if in Bahia another agent of the priestess opens the link.


  - What happened with the meeting between Hannah and Sora? I have decided that to advance the action a bit, and so that in future post-Jolbirth chapters I can develop more Bolt, Sora and Hannah, I will keep it as material for a future (but not very far) flashback.

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