Chapter 5: Awaken The Prophet.

Author's note: Nothing that important to impart I guess Enjoy!

The loud crash had Alibert and Lucian rushing out the door to see what had happened. Alibert relaxed when he saw his son hugging what appeared to be Percedal of Sadlygrove. He smiled, Percedal had been like the big brother Yugo never had, and according to Yugo's retelling of their last adventure he had turned out to be the Iop god. It would probably do him some good to talk with the man.

"Who is that?" Lucian asked innocently "I've never seen him before."

"That," Alibert added "Is Sir Percedal of Sadlygrove, a Iop knight and Shu-Shu guardian. And one of Yugo's oldest friends."

"The God-King called him here?" Lucian asked

"No," Alibert answered "It seems he found his own counfounded and destructive way to get here on his own time," The man sounded somewhat annoyed "As Usual."

The cook returned to his kitchen, passing Chibi and Grougal's room on the way, the two slept peacefully, he was glad. Lucian followed Alibert not knowing what else to do.

"If you're gonna be in my kitchen," Alibert began "Make yourself useful, there's som dishes over on that counter, bring them to me."

"Uh, okay." Lucian decided it was good for him to have something to do, the last few hours had been much too straining.

Percedal hugged Yugo tightly, not knowing what else to do. After a few moments he released him. The boy had clearly undergone something terrible in his own right, and Percedal was asking a lot to just have him up and go with him.

"Yugo," he said "I don't understand, what do you mean you're a god now?"

"Well…" he started, but trailed off before he could finish as though he was unsure what to say

"Just start at the beginning," Percedal said "It's simpler that way."

"Okay," Yugo said "When I harnessed the power of the Eliatrope Dofus to come help you. Something came out of me, little shards of me became their own beings, I tried to suck them all back in, but it appears a few hundred managed to get out. I met one earlier, he keeps calling me God-king, he looks at me with so much hope, I don't want to shatter it, but I don't think I can be a god Dally!"

"Neither do I," Percedal said "That's the whole reason I chose to keep this arm gone anyway. I don't think I would be very good at it, and I have evangelene, that's more than enough for me."

"Wait," Yugo said realizing something for the first time "You have both your arms, how did you…"

"That's what I was trying to tell you Yugo," Percedal said "Something happened to Master Goultard, the divine power left him and entered me again, and brought my arm with it."

"And now I don't really need this chain anymore," a guttural voice said from Percedal's hip.

"Rubilex!" Yugo said "Long time no see."

Don't get all chummy with me," Rubilex replied "It gives me goosebumps."

Yugo laughed.

"Listen Yugo," Percedal said "I know you have some things going on right now, but I need to assemble the Brotherhood of the Tofu, and quickly. The thing that defeated my master will head here soon, and we need to be ready."

"YUGO!" Chibi's voice rang from inside the Inn, the voice sounded afraid, petrified, something had happened.

Percedal and Yugo rushed inside and found Alibert already sroking the young Eliatrope's head.

"What's the matter?" Alibert asked him

"Bad dream," Chibi said "Yugo, bad dream." He continued

He reached his hands out towards Yugo and Alibert let him walk towards his older brother, Yugo looked to ALibert and the man shrugged "I guess he really misses you." He said.

"It's okay Chibi," Yugo said

Chibi walked up to Yugo "Not okay Yugo," he said "Bad dream."

Chibi's hands glowed blue and he placed them on either side of yugo's face then he pulled Yugo's head down and placed his forhead against his, suddenly Chibi and Yugo began to glow blue.

When Yugo opened his eyes he was no longer in the inn, he was floating somewhere in the krozmos. A fleet of golden vessels loomed in the nearby area and a powerful gilded warrior faced off against A giant dragon, and a woman who stood on top of it.

"That's the great dragon!" Yugo said in surprise "And Eliatrope!"

He looked around, a red haired man engaged what appeared to be the other gods and goddesses, and below them several of the gods lay broken on the largest ship's deck. Among them was goultard.

"Goultard!" Yugo shouted

The Golden warrior's head turned and looked Yugo in the eyes. Those piercing blue eyes filled him with fear, he knew the man could see him, knew he was aware that Yugo was there.

"We have an Audience." The golden man said with a smirk turning his attention back to Eliatrope and the great dragon. "Let's try not to disappoint."

Portals opened up all around Eliatrope and the golden man the goddess jumped upward into one and emerged from others faster than Yugo could follow, she struck several blows against the Golden man before he caught her arm. The golden man swung her and forced her to land on one of the ships. The great dragon moved in and went for a swipe at the Golden man, but the swipe was dodged and a sword that had not been present before appeared in the golden man's hand as he slashed the dragon's thick neck.

Chibi released Yugo and fell to the floor falling asleep, it appeared sharing that vision drained him quite a bit. Yugo's eyes were wide with shock and fear.

Alibert looked at his adoptive son "Yugo, what happened."

"Percedal, your were right," Yugo said "We have to go, now."

Lucian rushed into the room "Please allow me to accompany you God-King."

Percedal couldn't help but laugh when he heard the boy speak "God-King," he said "I guess this is that guy you were talking about earlier huh Yugo?"

"Yeah," Yugo said as his face burned red with embarrassment, he chose to subdue any anger he felt though, this boy didn't really know any better "Please Lucian, just call me Yugo." The eliatrope asked politely.

The boy's face turned red as well, but he nodded "Okay," he said, "Please, let me come with you… Yugo." The boy asked still sounding unsure about calling his god by name.

Yugo smiled, perhaps this whole god thing wasn't so bad "Alright," he said "You can come."

"Whoa, Whoa Whao, Wait a minute," Percedal said "I can carry two people at once for sure, but how are we gonna get everyone else together?"

Yugo looked over at Chibi, who seemed more or less back to normal, he was still sleeping, grougal growling protectively from the boy's shoulder.

"You are a god aren't you?" Yugo said "Just lift them up like you did to the Sadida kingdom."

"I guess," Percedal answred his glow returned and he floated from the ground, his hands reached downward "Alright you two, grab hold."

Yugo and Lucian both grabbed an arm, percedal was about to rocket off when Alibert cleared his throat. "Whatever you do better not make too much noise," he said "I want Chibi to get back the sleep he lost.

"Okay," Percedal said, he floated slowly outside and away from the inn. "Hey, I can feel Ruel's still nearby, we should grab him while we have the chance. He might have that buggy with him."

"Because we all love that thing." Yugo said sarcastically

"Yeah, cuz it goes fast and – " Percedal stopped mid-sentence "Was that one of those not-really-serious statements? I'm not good at catching those."

"You caught that one," Yugo said smiling "You're getting better.

Lucian watched in awe as the two spoke, it was odd, they spoke like normal people, acted like normal people, is this what a god truly looked like?

Gold was indeed a beautiful sight, and there was some amount of it all over the planet, he was currently searching below the forbidden forest for any deposits. Jr had detected one nearby and Ruel was determined to have it. More gold meant more Kamas, and more kamas meant getting richer.

Ruel's eyes sparkled as he felt the gold vein getting closer and closer. Jr. sniffed around on the ground for a few moments the pointed towards a wall. Ruel began to dig quickly, he wanted the gold as soon as possible.

After a few minutes he broke into a cavern with gold deposits all over the ground, several veins were visible in it's walls. He hoiseted a lantern and grabbed a second one from his bag placing it a little farther from the entrance.

"It's beautiful!" He said moved to tears "Good Job Junior, We're gonna be rich!"

Ruel pulled an eye piece and a pickaxe from his bag and began the process of mining. He inspected to find the purest strains, then picked them off with the axe. There was a lot of gold, no way he would be able to carry it all now, he would have to bring the buggy later, but for now he would grab the cleanest deposits and put them away in his haven bag.

As he was about to mine another deposit he heard a rumbling noise and dirt began falling from the ceiling. "Uh oh, Junior we're gonna have to come back with the buggy. This place is about to cave in."

Another rumble, this time several medium sized rocks were dislodged and fell down crushing some of the deposits. "No!" Not the gold!" Ruel said on the verge of tears. Then he heard something. The unmistakable sound of muffled voices, they sounded like they were arguing with each other. Someone was after his gold!

Ruel braced himself and waited, if they wanted to steal his gold they would do so over his dead body. Another rumble, this time more prolonged , the ceiling began to collapse and then, the sound of an impact and an entire section of the ceiling was destroyed. Sunlight filtered in through the falling debris and a man stood up in the middle of it, his features were unclear but that didn't matter, he had threatened an Enutrof's gold.

Ruel rushed forward "Get out of here you thieving scum!" he yelled angrily and swung his shovel at the man. It connected, but didn't seem to do anything, the man did not move, rather it felt as though he had hit a rod of iron.

"Ow," a familiar voice said "What was that for?"

A familiar red headed man looked at him through the debris, his white and red cloak dirty with the earth he had displaced. Next to him Yugo threw off a rock, kicking up dust. Another boy Ruel didn't recognize emerged through an eliatrope portal on the other seide.

"Percedal?" Ruel said curiously

"In the flesh!" Percedal said in a courageous sounding voice

Ruel proceeded to whack percedal in the head followed by another blow and another and another.

"Ow!" Persedal exclaimed "He, what the - ?"

"How dare you come down here and ruin my Gold!" Ruel yelled angrily "You of all people should know better!"

Percedal caught Ruel's shovel with his right arm, and Ruel stopped, he saw the orange glow around percedal. "Dally, what happened to you?"

"Something bad happened," he said "And I need your help to fix it."

"Well I say no!" Ruel responded "None of you care about my gold or my kamas. I just found a vein and I'm not leaving it."

"Ruel," Yugo said from his place under the hole Percedal had made "The Brotherhood of the Tofu needs you."

"Brotherhood Shmotherhood," he said angrily "You didn't really need my help!" he said "You and Dally are powerful enough to take care of things on your own, you don't need me, you haven't needed me for a long time."

"You may not be as good at fighting as us," Percedal tried to convince him "But you're better at other things, like making sure we don't spend to much. Without you around we'd go broke in a week."

"Yeah," Ruel said "And then maybe you'd learn your lesson you hard headed Iop!"

"The world is in danger Ruel," Yugo said in his young innocent voice "And, I know we make a lot of fun of you for it, but you are a lot older than us, and wiser. Something terrible is coming, and we don't think we can beat outright, we don't know what to do, you and eva are always the ones with a plan ruel, we really do need you."

How was he supposed to say no to that face, Even though he knew the boy was eighteen and certainly old enough to make his own decisions, he still looked the child and knew how to act it when he wanted. The poor old man had never been able to truly disappoint Yugo, The little eliatrope had always been the only one who had put his faith fully in Ruel, even when the others no longer believed in him.

"Oh, alright," Ruel said in a defeated tone "The Buggy's this way." He said Jr. wagged his tail and barked happily at Yugo and Percedal. The Drheller had always loved the two of them, though he wasn't as fond of the redhead's wife.

The three followed Ruel and Jr. back to the Drill buggy. "Who's your new friend?" Ruel asked "Another Eliatrope?"

The boy seemed rather disturbed by that statement "No I – " he began before Yugo cut him off

"Yeah, I met him in the forbidden forest." The blue clad boy said. "His name is Lucian."

"Isn't that a Shu-Shu name?" Ruel responded.

"Um…" Yugo began "It's kind of a long story."

Ruel grunted and continued, it was clear Yugo didn't want to talk about whatever it was. And Ruel figured he'd talk about it eventually. Until then he escorted them into buggy and started it up.

"Where are we going?" Ruel asked.

"Sadida kingdom," Percedal answered

Yugo smiled, it would be good to see Amalia again.

Eliatrope slashed at the gilded man with her spear, but he was far too fast, she missed. The Great Dragon caught her and she jumped back. The man just kept dodging with a big smile on his face. The Great Dragon slashed and roared, but the man was just out of reach.

Suddenly he looked off to the side, his face returned with a smirk "We have and Audience," he said "Let's try not to disappoint."

Eliatrope felt outward with her Wakfu and sensed one of her immortal children's presence, Yugo, their king, He was with Chibi the prophet. Both felt as though they had been recently reincarnated, their memories were clean. If Seraphin could sense when someone was watching through a vision that made him very dangerous indeed, was their no end to this monster's power?

Eliatrope summoned a barrage of portals to surround her enemy and disappeared into one above her head. She continued to slash at Seraphin through the portals, jumping from portal to portal. The man's arm reached out and grabbed her own swinging her aside and throwing her into one of the ships. She landed elegantly and looked up to her enemy.

Seraphin had not waited even that long as he twisted his body a golden sword appearing in his hands, the sword slashed outward cutting into the Great Dragon's neck. Eliatrope smiled, that cut would not be enough to take down her lover.

The Great Dragon morphed to his humanoid form summoning a purple blade of stasis energy to block the next blow.

"Interesting," Seraphin said "You actually gain more power in this form don't you?"

The Great Dragon didn't answer, he didn't have to, Eliatrope emerged behind the Golden king and stabbed forward with her spear.

Seraphin dodged by raising his arm and moving to the right "Ah, ah, ah." He said "No trick works twice on me."

The Dragon moved over seraphin's head and slammed his elbow into the golden man's neck, the man grunted in pain. Eliatrope appeared in front of the golden man and stabbed with her spear, Seraphin caught it and fought the goddess's thrust, suddenly the spear became a sword and she pulled it from his hand cutting it deeply. Seraphin let out a short cry followed by a scream as the Great dragon slashed his arm off with the stasis blade in his hand.

"Alright," Serphin said angrily "Enough games."

In a flash his arm reattached as though nothing happened, his hand was good as new and even the armor Eliatrope had damaged regenerated. Seraphin smapped his fingers and his golden sword disappeared, a slender metal sword appeared in his hand glowing brightly with white light and a black sword was in his other.

"Tenebrus and Luminari," Seraphin said "The powers that cut the cloth of the heavens."

Suddenly Seraphin stood behind the great dragon and the swords cut the mighty God in half, no sooner it happened than he was inches from Eliatrope's face Tenebrus lodged firmly in her belly. Serphin pulled back and the blade came with him, eliatrop began to fall, she was caught be srong hands, the last thing she felt before all went black.

The Panda was down now and the old man wielded some weird shovel like weapon. The blue goddess had left the green haired god's side and the cloaked god slashed erratically with his dagger. Every time Jack tried to hit the old man or the cloaked god the blue goddess erected a magic shield around them. He was getting impatient.

Jack wielded a long serrated knife, the only weapon he usually needed, he had a gun, but it would be next to useless against gods. He lunged left as though going for the cloaked god, but switched to center quickly jabbing his knife towards the blue goddess. The knife stopped an inch from her skin.

"What?" he said in disbelief, she hadn't erected a shield had she?

An explosive backlash forced him back and the shovel wielding old god came down on him hard and fast slashing his chest. Luckily the wound was not deep and he was able quickly regerate.

"You're not as strong as the other one." The blue goddess said, "I think we can beat you."

Jack smiled "Think again." He said

A shadow seemed to grow from his back pulling him into it, it spit him back out behind the blue goddess and he delivered a bone shattering blow to her head. A blue-ish green field became visible around her and cracked. She quickly dodged away from him as the cloaked god closed in with his dagger.

Jack shoved the Cloaked god's arm away and dodged an attack from the old looking god.

A scream resounded and he looked over to see his king's arm fall from it's socket, followed by a growl and words of action.

"This battle will be over a few seconds." Jack said

"Over our dead bodies," The blue goddess yelled

"Oh I would like that," Jack replied "But he doesn't like to kill people."

Jack warped again slamming the blue Goddess's shield this time shattering it and pressing his knife into her back. "I on the other hand," he said as he pulled the blade out and turned to face the other two "Have no qualms with that when necessary."

He lunged towards the cloaked god, but stopped in his tracks as the gods seemed to all be struck at once by some major force. He looked back and saw Seraphin stepping away from the blue goddess that had fought with the large purple dragon. He watched the gods fall and the flagship move in to catch them.

Jack returned to his king "Well, that's over with." He said

"Yes," Seraphin said sadly "Now hopefully they'll listen this time, if they don't we'll lose this Universe to him as well."

"Achron." Jack spat the name out like venom

Author's note: So in case you were wondering throughout this battle, I tried to make sure that Jack and Seraphin did not know the names of their adversaries and used Descriptive monikers when seeing things through their eyes. Now that the God's have been thoroughly trounced what will occur next? Also this is a long chapter I know, let me know what you think about it's length.