Author's Note: Actually I thought about putting Adamai in with Seraphin already, might still do it. I'm not 100% sure what I want to do with Adamai yet. He is set against Yugo for the moment but he reached this decision because he genuinely thought he was doing the right thing, so I'm not really sure what to do with him yet. I will keep that idea in mind however.

Chapter 6: The Princess and the Cra.

"This. Is. So. Awsome!" Cleo exclaimed happily as the two of them explored the Trool fair together. Cleo had been there before, but only for a brief time before being caught by her older sister and Percedal and forced to leave with the Brotherhood of the Tofu.

"Please tell me I can fight in the arena!" Cleo said her eyes shining brightly with excitement as she looked back at the Sadida Princess.

"As long as we don't have a repeat of last time." Amalia said a little cooly. "No contracts."

"Trust me," Cleo replied "I learned my lesson on that one."

Amalia was satisfied with that answer, convinced Cleo truly meant that statement at least. Though she wasn't so sure about the rest of it.

"But before we do that," Amalia said "Lets go find some Sadida bags!"

Cleo was a little less than enthusiastic about that, but seemed to undertand the idea of a fair exchange in that one. Give a little by letting Amalia shop first in exchange for Amalia giving a little to watch Cleo fight later.

The Green haired princess detested fighting or violence, though she admitted that at times it was necessary. After living for a time as an adventurer she understood that such things were not all glory and fun. She had learned the hard way what battles were really like, the loss of what you love in exchange for a victory that felt like a hollow shell. She had watched three times what battle had done to the innocent young man she loved, and tried so hard to be there for him during the aftermath.

"Amalia," Cleo said slightly excited "They do have this year's model!"

Her reverie forgotten, Amalia rushed towards the window "Really!" she exclaimed "Oh, my god, I have to have it!" Cleo chuckled and followed the green haired girl into the shop. She would never understand the Princess's desire to be so up-to-date fashionable. Sure she understood being fashionable in general, no one wants to look like a slob. But the princess was borderline obsessive over having all the latest models and looking as glamorous as she could; at least when she wasn't adventuring with the brotherhood anyway.

Amalia rushed around to the different stands taking in all the new items and buying up anything she found interesting. Cleo almost envied her she was fairly easily appeased with material goods, while Cleo desired so much more out of life. She was an adrenaline junkie, she needed to feel the thrill constantly or she got bored really fast.

Amalia walked up with several bags pull of product. She began loading them onto the Drago-Turkeys with a huge smile on her face.

"So…" Cleo began "Is the princess satisfied with her purchases?"

Amalia frowned, she could shop all night, her father had rather deep pockets, he was king after all. But she knew that Cleo had been about as patient with her as Cleo was capable of being, and now was the time for her to hold up her end of the bargain.

"Yes I am," She said stifling her disappointment "Let's head to the arena."

The two were just outside the massive gates of the arean when the arena owner walked by, he stopped for a moment and looked back at the two of them.

"Cleophee?" He said "It's been too long my dear Cra!" he seemed rather excited. "Hey Are here to battle in the Arena again? You know the crowd loves you!"

"I think I'll watch a few matches for now." The Cra Replied "Maybe later." The last thing she needed was that greedy pig causing her and her friends more trouble. The man was only interested in how much money she could make him, and he got a lot more money out of a contract that a random battle.

The man humphed "Suit yourself," he said "I suppose it's good to stake out the competition though."

He went inside followed by an entourage of various women from different races.

Cleo sighed "I don't think I can go in now." She said "I knew I would get one fight at least, but if he's here, he''l kick me out pretty quickly if I wont sign any papers."

"Well," Amalia said "We can always watch for awhile."

"No," The cra said "Evangelyne is right, I should responsible."

The Sadida's eyes widened, she had not actually thought she would ever hear such words come out of the young cra's mouth. Although happy for her, it also made her feel incredibly old momentarily.

Cleophee laughed "Y'know it's funny," She said "I crossed my fingers behind my back when I told you we wouldn't cause trouble, and here I am, genuinely not wanting to cause it. It's so unlike me, I don't even understand." The cra looked at her hands as though there was something weird or wrong with her.

"I do," Amalia said "You're growing up, becoming a woman."

"You think so?" Cleo said

"I know so."

Their moment was interrupted by a course yell "Amalia!" the unmistakeable voice of Ruel Stroud yelled over the crowd, momentarily making the Sadida shiver.

"Please tell me you did not call him here." Amalia said visibly upset.

"What?" The cra said "You think I called the stinkmeister? I may not be all girly, but I don't fraternize with stinky enutrofs."

The two laughed, unfortunately that caught Ruel's attention.

"Ladies!" he yelled running towards them to both women's chagrin. "Oh good, Cleophee's here that saves me some trouble." He said

"What trouble?" Cleophee asked indignantly

"Well I'm here with Yugo and Percedal," he said "We're getting the brotherhood together, apparently something really bad is happening that requires our aid."

Cleophee smiled "Well, guess it's my night after all." She said "I may not get to fight in the arena, but I'll get to fight at least."

Amalia sighed. "Well I take it Yugo is behind this gathering?" she asked

"Yes," Ruel said "Ruined my mining for this thing he did, better be worth my time!"

"Alright," Amalia said "We should go hear what he has to say at least." The Princess turned to her cra friend who was no longer there, a dust trail instead in her wake.

"Last one there's a rotten Api!" She yelled running off.

"you don't even know where we're going!" Amalia yelled back.

"To Ruel's stinky buggy of course!" She replied "He never goes anywhere without it anymore!"

"I do too!" Ruel yelled though his words did not reach the quickly accelerating cra. "You young people, no respect." He mutterd.

Yugo was searching the stalls, hoping to find Amalia there, he knew she would love to be shopping. As soon as the King had told him that Amalia had taken Cleophee to the Trool Fair he knew that she would want to update her wardrobe immediately. But it appeared she wasn't here. Apparently the young Cra had convinced her into some other activates already.

As he was leaving the fashion stalls to head to the coliseum a Cra rushed past him at break neck speeds headed towards the entrance. "Hi Yugo, meet you at the buggy!" the figure uttered quickly as she passed.

"Cleo?" Yugo said before fully processing her departure. "Wait Cleo, Where's Amalia?" he said as he began following her through his portals.

"With Ruel!" she responded.

Yugo stopped, that was a recipe for disaster. Percedal floated down from above him, apparently finished searching wherever he had gone.

"Ruel's on his way back with Amalia now." Percedal said, "We should head back to the buggy."

"Yeah," Yugo replied "Lucian's about to meet Cleophee without a filter."

Percedal laughed "That actually sounds quite amusing." he said.

"I'm not sure he'll agree." Yugo relied.

Lucian was against the wall, his eyes bugging out of his head, he had no Idea what to do, No idea. Who was this girl sneaking around the buggy trying to get in? he hadn't been told anything about this, Yugo was supposed to bring back the two girls they went to find, strangers weren't supposed to be breaking and entering.

The girl found the door and opened it without difficulty, almost as though she had used it before. Lucian hid in the back hoping to avoid her.

"Well, looks like I'm the first one here." She said "Odd, it's not like Ruel to leave this thing unguarded."

Guarded right, he was supposed to guard the buggy, make sure no one tried to steal it. He supposed he didn't have a choice, he wasn't that good at fighting, but he couldn't let Yugo and Ruel down.

A portal opened next to Cleophee's head she turned "Hey Yugo – " the thought lodged in her throat mid sentence as a being that was definitely not Yugo emerged from the portal. On instinct she drew her bow and summoned an arrow, all childish desires and thoughts gone, she placed her entire body on alert, ready to kill.

"Who are you!" She demanded, not angrily, not emotionally, but just coldly.

The boy jumped back summoning a portal in front of him in a defensive gesture, if she shot him it would go through and miss "Please don't kill me!" he yelled.

"Answer the question!" she demanded again "Who are you? Are you quilby?" she didn't know how long Eliatropes lived and she didn't know if a dead one could return a dofus through dimensional walls, but the only other Eliatrope she had ever seen was Quilby, and Quilby was bad news.

"My name is Lucian!" he yelled "I'm Yugo's… Friend, I'm Yugo's friend!"

The hesitation before friend bothered her a bit but he boy seemed genuine, she withdrew her bow. "Well then 'friend of Yugo' I assume you were left to guard this hunk of junk?"

"Uh," Lucian started not fully understanding the question, though he understood 'guard' "Yes." He said gulping.

"Well," the blonde said "You suck at it."

The girl sat down on one of the benches and relaxed as though it was her home and her right to do so.

"I'm Cleophee," she said "Though my friends call me Cleo." She extended her hand, Percedal had taught him that meant he was supposed to grasp it firmly and shake once. He did so and the blonde pulled him in towards her until his face was pressed next to hers.

"I hope for your sake you aren't lying." She said quietly into his ear.

"I promise I'm not!" he said desperately, she was strong, way stronger than she looked.

She let him go and smiled "Then you have nothing to worry about."

About that time stifled laughter reached their ears. "What?" Lucian asked

Cleophee walked to the door and looked outside. There, hiding near the door were the rest of the crew. Percedal, Yugo, Ruel and Amalia, laughing at the scene before them. Cleo's face turned beet red.

"You were so serious," Amalia said "For a minute there I thought you might actually kill him!"

Cleophee frowned and hit Percedal in the head.

"Ow!" he yelled "What was that for?"

"Because," Cleophee growled "just the thought of this has your name slapped all over it."

"Guitly as charged." Percedal answered.

Cleophee turned her wrath on Yugo next "And you're no better," she said "He's supposed to be your friend, I was really going to kill him!"

Lucian gulped, that was a dark revelation. But he was more interested in the behavior of the God-King. It was so strange, he had always thought of Yugo as this high and might lord among the heavens who had chosen a place on earth to live. And ancient being who was wise and all powerful anle to solve any issue. But Yugo seemed to be just a person right now, no godhood, no special qualities, just a boy laughing with his friends. Is that why he kept denying his godhood?

Ruel walked up into the buggy "Well we best get this thing rolling," He said, still Jovial "I'm not the biggest fan of repeated information so Yugo can explain to you two on the way."

The rest of them climbed in and the buggy started kicking out a black cloud that caused a crowd of nearby visitors to cough and hack at the smell. Ruel seemed to take pleasure in that each and every time.

Yugo relayed the situation to the girls and Cleo was taken aback "You're only Four month's old?" she said addressing Lucian "You look sixteen at least." She said. "Don't Eliatropes normally age super slow like you?" she asked Yugo.

"Well, he's not a normal Eliatrope." Yugo answered.

"I'm not an Eliatrope at all!" He said

"Then what are you?" Amalia asked.

"Well..." He said "The others, the ones like me, they call us…"

"Call you what?" Yugo asked.

"You'll be mad." Lucian responded.

"I doubt it's that bad." Yugo said confidently.

Lucian seemed to take this at face value "The call us Yugolites." He said.

"Yugolites." Percedal repeated "That Actually has a pretty nice ring to it. Maybe I should make the Iops start calling themselves Percedalites."

Everyone stared at Percedal with disappointed looks.

"What?" he asked "I thought it a good idea."

"You're not upset?" Lucian asked Yugo "You never like it when we treat you like a god."

"I am," Yugo said honestly "But it's not your fault, none of you knew better, I can't be mad at you for that."

Amalia was still processing the whole Boyfriend becomes a god, she was wondering if this is what Evangelyne felt like when they discovered Percedal was a god. Much like Dally, Yugo didn't seem to want the mantle, he was dead set on staying a mortal like his friends.

"So that's why you hesitated." Cleo said.

"Hesitated?" Lucian asked.

"When you said friend," she said "You were very hesitant to call yourself Yugo's friend. Makes sense I guess, you think he's a god."

Yugo grimaced a bit at that, he was still very uncomfortable with being referred to as a god. "Well one thing does make sense." He said turning to Lucian "I'm gonna have to teach you how to use those powers, if Cleo put you on the ropes that easily you'll need a lot of work before you can stand as an equal member fo the Brotherhood."

Percedal, Amalia and Cleo all seemed to agree, Az made affirmative chirps as he floated around the room trying to keep himself occupied.

Lucian turned red very quickly "Wha – What?" he askes "I'm not worthy of – "

"Look," Cleo interrupted "We don't really care who you are or how you came to be, that doesn't matter to any of us, Yugo included. We care about people, and you seem to share that concern, as far as we're concerned that makes you our equal." She looked at him a moment then a warm smile spread across her face "okay?"

Lucian was in awe, he didn't know what to say, these were the brother's-in-arms of the God-king, to the Yugolites they were like gods themselves, but they were so, personal, so normal, they weren't standing on high looking down at him, they were inviting him to join them on adventures.

Amalia smiled with pride for Eva's sake, it seemed that the little brat sister of her best friend was becoming quite the noble and well-spoken woman. This was surley not the same girl who had taunted her by calling her "Princess Gobbal" for a month straight, this was a full fledged woman, and a warrior who had staked her claim with the Brotherhood.

Eyes opened to soft light, a blurred ceiling slowly came into focus. Gold and Iron was all he could see. He turned his head from side to side. Some odd machines were near him, making odd noises one wall was glass the rest were gold and iron like the ceiling. Leaning against the wall near the foot of the bed he lay on was a man cloaked in black, with bright red hair twirling a large serrated knife on his finger like a Gobowl ball.

"Look who's finally up." He said "Sleep well lizard boy?"

The Great Dragon suddenly remembered what had happened the battle the golden knight, the blade that had… He lunged forward looking down at his body, strangely he was unhurt, as though he was sure the golden knight had cut him in half.

"I wouldn't move to fast if I were you." The man at the foot of his bed said.

As if on que He became dizzy and fell back onto his back. He was still in human form why? Normally he would have reverted by now.

"Where am I?" he asked looking up at the intricately woven ceiling.

"The Great ship Valorous" The Red haired man said "Flagship of the Gilded Fleet."

The man sounded somewhat uninterested in the name, he certainly had no pride about it, despite the pompus structure of the statement.

"The Golden man?" The Dragon asked

"Off doing his Kingly duties," The Man said "I'm Jack, We'll be spending some quality time together until he returns."

"What do you want?" The dragon asked next.

The man stopped spinning the knife with a flick of his wrist, the handle settling perfectly into his palm, before he sheathed it on his belt. "Well now," he said "That's where things get interesting. You see, what we want is to warn and defend you."

"You're lying." The Dragon said

"Why would I bother?" Jack replied

"You attacked us."

"That my friend," Jack said finally standing an moving towards the Dragon's bedside "Is all a matter of opinion. We entered this universe, sure we didn't exactly ask permission, but we didn't attack anything or hurt anyone. You, attacked us, remember?"

"It was not unprovoked." The Dragon said.

"No I suppose not," Jack said leaning on the bed "Seraphin could've certainly handled that part better, but he's a little new to this sort of thing, so give a little time would you."

"Why have not reverted to my original form?" The Dragon asked

"Well," Jack began "That would be a problem, you see, your original form is about twice the size of this ship, so Seraphin forced you body to keep that form for awhile."

"You really mean us no harm?" The dragon asked, this would be his last question. He had listened to Jack for some time now and was convinced that Jack, at least, genuinely believed Seraphin had come to help this universe rather than harm it.

"We really mean you no harm," he said with a hint of sadness in his voice "You kind of forced us into a corner there. Unfortunately the deities aren't recovering quite as fast at you two."

The dragon knew without asking that 'you two' was himself and Eliatrope. Where is she?" he aked in an aggressive tone.

"The healers are working on her," Jack said "but she's still unconscious."

The Great Dragon sat up again, this time more slowly, something was tugging on his arm and he reached over to remove it.

"Don't do that!" Jack yelled grabbing the dragon's arm "That is attached to a vein, and removal would cause you to bleed out very quickly."

The great dragon frowned "Who would you defend us from anyway, you're the only outsiders in this realm."

Jack hung his head and rubbed the back of his neck. "Seraphin will explain this better than I but, There is a powerful evil force out there, one that Seraphin has never defeated on his own, and at the moment it's eyes are set on you."

Author's note: I looked at the Wakfu site and discovered that the Eliatropes in the game refer to Yugo as the "King-God" not the "God-King" but I'm sticking with it for continuity at this point. It's after 11:00, I'm tired PEACE!