Author's note: Well despite Netflix making Wakfu available to a broader audience (at least until they decide to take it off Netflix like they always do with the good shows) Just looking at the number of fics made for it (168), vs say… Naruto(380K), kingdom hearts(78.3K) or Harry Potter(711K), Also taking into consideration that in order to even see the Special Episodes, you'd have to hear about them first, then dig them up somewhere on the internet with subtitles (assuming you don't speak French). Taking all that into consideration, I think I'm doing pretty well actually.
Second note: This is legitimately the first chapter I havn't known what to do with, I have a cool battle I've been planning in my head, but after humiliating Yugo in the last chapter I feel that is a bit innaproapriate. He needs some time to adjust before running headlong into battle again (And ooh will it be a battle) but… what do you even write for that without making it shameless filler y'know. Well I think I found a solution, hope you all agree with me.
Chapter 11: Demi-Gods
The light streaming in from the door was blocked by the bodies of Yugo and Amalia as the latter led the former inside. Elely raised her head to look at Yugo who's face turned away in shame.
"Cool!" Flopin said wide eyed next to her.
Yugo grimaced at this remark which Elely noticed, despite her Iop Heritage she was very good at telling what other people were feeling, and right now Yugo's heart was filled with cacophony, he felt shame above all, anger at his brother, betrayal from the same, fear of judgment from his friends and a bruised pride. With so many emotions running wild the poor boy wasn't sure what to feel and his face reflected this, a blank and empty stare.
Flopin moved towards the disgraced Eliatrope but Elely stopped him, Flopin looked at her and she shook her head, Flopin sat down and frowned, he knew better that to doubt Elely's instincts.
"Well, That cat's out of the bag." Ruel said at the duo walked in
Yugo's eyes went wide, his pupils becoming tiny specks in his eyes as he stared at the old Enutrof. "Y-You knew?"
"Of course I knew," Ruel said "Alibert used to offer me free food to bathe you when you were a baby."
Yugo's eyes moved down, staring at the floor "Makes sense." He said blankly.
Elely could tell that the boy was incredibly distressed at this revelation, why she didn't know, but it was the way things were, Amalia didn't seem to be doing well in consoling got up and approached Yugo.
"Elely – " Flopin said
Elely's put her hand up silencing her brother, her actions mirrored those when she protected Ogrest at Sadida after his defeat, but slower, more deliberate, this time it was clear she knew something the others didn't. she had learned a little while ago that her other family members couldn't sense emotions like she could.
She touched Yugo's cheek, the Eliatrope's eyes met hers his pupils still small, but larger than they were. Elely stared into them, then closed her eyes and and her body glowed orange like her father's, the glow covered Yugo as well.
Percedal and Eva walked up behind Yugo and Amalia with Otomai in two, the two parents stopped, staring at what they saw through the door. "Elely!" Eva yelled worried and began to move. Otomai's hand held her back.
"Wait," he said "Your daughter has a unique power, I have suspected this for some time now, but this is proof."
"Hey," Cleophee said as she caught up, Lucian slung across her back after Otomai had shoved the boy onto her shoulders. "What's going on?"
Percedal smiled, a proud father's face "My little girl's powers are awakening!" he said excitedly.
"No," Otomai said, "This is no Iop Power, this is a power she has gained from her Demi-God Blood."
Yugo felt something warm enter him as Elely touched him, it was smooth and soothing, he wasn't sure what it was. It began in his face and moved down through his chest into his stomach. He saw things before appear in his mind, images of friends and family, the people he was with now, he could see something else, it looked like their hearts maybe, their souls? He couldn't tell. But through that sight he could tell how the others around him felt.
Amalia truly believed what she had said earlier about his wings, she also felt sad for him and terrible that there had been nothing she could do, she was angry at Adamai for his behavior, a venomous anger, one she would likely unleash the next time she saw the dragon. Ruel was indifferent, it didn't seem to bother him, he seemed to see nothing wrong with the boy. Flopin thought they were cool and wanted a pair of his own.
Percedal and Evangelyne were harder, Percdeal was proud of his daughter, sad for his friend, but a dark brooding anger presided underneath those feelings, he too would trade fists the next time Adamai appeared. Eva was worried for both Yugo and her daughter, unsure what she was witnessing, Otomai looked on with a knowing look, his heart held no anger, rage or judgment. He was disappointed in Yugo's brother, but more because he believed family should stick together than anything else. Cleophee was worried, not so much for Yugo, she seemed to believe that Yugo was one who could handle himself and didn't really need her help, but more for Lucian who was hanging like a sack from her shoulder and clearly had been injured rather extensively.
No one judged him? No one believed he looked ridiculous or that he was an inhuman monster? Why? Isn't that what he was, a dragon twin, one with dragon's blood in his veins. He was not human, a child of Eliatrope and The Great Dragon, he was something else an ancient being reborn, something that shouldn't exist in this world. These things had bothered him since he was a boy, Alibert always told him there was nothing wrong with him, he was just different, like all the races were different. Everyone else believed that too?
Yugo's eyes met with Elely's again, the little gir's eyes were open now and a smile spread across her face. "I think they're pretty, they suit you." She said.
Yugo closed his eyes, Tears of gratefulness streaming from his face "Thank you Elely," he said.
"You can use my room," Elely said happily "It's a little more private there, that way." The girl said pointing Amalia and Yugo in the right direction.
Percedal and Eva walked in, the mother in awe of her daughter's actions.
"You should make Yugo a new hat mommy," Elely said "He's calm now, but I don't know if he'll stay that way."
"What did you do?" Eva asked Elely.
"I helped him." The girl replied.
"You're girl can read and project the emotions of those around her." Otomai said "Isn't that right little one."
"What does project mean?" Elely asked.
"You can make others feel what you feel." Otomai answered.
"Yes, I learned about it right after the fight with Ogrest." She said
"Speaking of which," Otomai said "I should go check on the little one."
Cleophee entered carrying Lucian, she laid the boy on a chair in the entrance to make sure he didn't get hurt.
"We should find an Eniripsa to treat him." Cleo said.
"I'll go find one!" Percedal said enthusiastically
"I'll go with," Cleo said, she leaned into her sister's ear and whispered: "To make sure we actually find one."
Eva giggled "I'll start working on a new hat I guess," She said "gonna be tough with those ear things on it though."
Darkness surrounded him, slowly sound pierced the veil, the sound of voices. They were smooth and comforting. Did he need to be comforted? He couldn't remember. Moments later the pain came, intense pain, he felt as though he had been smashed by a train. His head swam and images began to pour forth, that's right, the God king's brother, he had appeared, they had fought, but he had lost quickly and brutally. Yugo must think him weak and pathetic, par for the course he supposed, he'd always been clutsy.
A voice rose above the others "He's regaining consciousness." It said the other voices quickly quieted themselves. He opened his eyes slowly, it felt as though the action took all the energy he had. Fear crept in and he tried to move his body, but found he could not, it barely responded to his commends. His eyes dashed back and forth in fear, why couldn't he move?
"Calm down little one." A person near him said, he moved his eyes and saw a middle aged woman with long black hair sitting next to him. She had little wings that popped out of her back, like fairy wings only bigger. She held a cloth in her had and placed it on his head.
"If you keep that up, you'll get a fever," The woman said "Can you speak?"
Lucian opened his mouth, at least that still responded, "Yes." He said.
"Good," The woman said "My name is Deanearys, I'm an Eniripsa, I'm here to try and help heal you. Your friends told me you took a nasty hit. You shouldn't get into unnecessary fights."
"It was necessary." Lucian said "He – "
"It wasn't necessary at all idiot." The voice of Cleophee sounded nearby, Lucian put all his strength into turning his head, he could see her sitting on a chair nearby leaned back staring out the window at something he couldn't see.
"Adamai is not someone to trifled with," she said "you should've just let Yugo deal with him"
"But Yugo is my…" Lucian started
"Your what?" cleophee answered "Your king? He's king for a reason, and it's not because he's a weakling, Adamai was only able to beat him by resorting to an underhanded measure."
"Adamai won!" Lucian said trying to lunge upward and failing.
"You need to calm down!" Deanearys said. "Miss please stop agitating him."
Cleo grunted and got up leaving the room, as she left, Flopin came in, he walked over to the makeshift bed the Eneripsa had constructed.
"Oh! He's awake!" Flopin said "Yugo will want to see him."
"I don't think that's a good idea right now." Deanearys said. "He still needs his rest."
"Okay," Flopin said "Here's the berries you asked for, is there anything else I can do to help?"
"No," The Eneripsa responded "Sometimes you have to wait for awhile before you can do anymore."
"Let him stay." Lucian said "I'd like to talk with someone closer to my age."
They both looked at him with curious glances "You're at least ten years older than me." Flopin said.
"I know I look like it but…" Lucian searched for the words in his mind "I've only existed for, how long did Yugo say… Four months."
"WHAT!" Flopin said in surprise "You're younger than me?!"
"That can't be possible," Deanearys said "There is no race that matures that fast."
"I wasn't born," Lucian said "I was created."
"Wait," Flopin said slowly putting two and two together "Four month's ago, that's when my dad lost his arm, it's when he fought Ogrest."
"You're father fought Ogrest?" Deanearys asked in shock
"Yes, my father, Yugo and Mr. Otomai." Flopin said "They turned Ogrest into a little green floppy eared kid, he comes over and plays with us sometimes."
Deanearys stared at flopin for a few minutes in stark horror, then she slowly got up and left the room.
Flopin wondered what was wrong, but chose to ignore it, he had learned that his family and it's members were not normal and sometimes that scared people, the usually came around.
What Flopin did not see was the Eneripsa making it out of the house door only to be intercepted by Otomai who placed a hand on her head.
"Forget what you heard." He uttered. Her eyes glossed over for a moment, then she seemed fine.
"Where am I?" she said "I was just in the room, how did I even get out here?"
"You said something about grabbing ingredients." Otomai offered
"For the boy inside?" She asked "Yes that makes sense, I need to head to my clinic and grab a few things, thank you very much."
As the she left Otomai sat down by a tree "I do not like doing that," He said to himself "It is incredibly exhausting."
Flopin sat on the stool next to Lucian "So if you were created," He asked "Who created you."
"Yugo did," he said "He created my whole race."
"You mean the Eliatropes?" Flopin said
"No," Lucian answered "Not exactly, we're made in his image, or close to it, we are parts of him, his heart, his soul, but also our own, I don't know how to explain it."
"Sounds confusing," Flopin said "I'll probably understand it when I'm older, my mom says that a lot."
"What is it like…" Lucian said uncertainly "Having parents?"
Flopin drummed his fingers on his knee his brow furrowed in thought "I don't know," He said "To me having parents is normal, I don't know what it's like mot too, so I'm not sure what you mean."
"What do parents do?" Lucian asked
"Well," Flopin said "They play with you, they read to you, they teach you, they tuck you into bed at night." Flopin thought a little harder for a few moments "They hug you when you're sad," He continued more slowly now, with more emotion in his voice "They always make you want to make them proud, they take care of you, they love you." his voice shifted again, back to a happier tone "That's all I've got." He said with a shrug of his shoulders.
"Besides," Flopin said after a short pause "You have a dad don't you?"
"Who?" Lucian said
"Isn't Yugo your dad?" Flopin asked sincerely "You said he created you, doesn't that sort of make him your dad?"
Lucian was about to dismiss the idea outright, but stopped he thought about Flopin's description of his parents "I guess, it sort of does…" Lucian said slowly.
Jack was bored, this base was cool and all, but a cave in a valley was just boring to look at after awhile. He walked out into the moonlit valley opening and sat down on a rock.
"Damn," He said "No TV, No internet, this stupid planet's still stuck in the middle ages."
He opened his communicator, this thing didn't require a signal, it used Seraphin's power to contact him directly. He opened it and tapped a few buttons.
…Static, then… "Jack?" Seraphin's voice said through the device.
"Yep," Jack answered "I followed them when the popped out, trouble is, they didn't all pop out, only one of 'em. They are really scared of us. By the way, their planet is boooooring!"
"So come back to the ship," Seraphin said
"Can't yet," Jack said "There are life forces super similar to that guy you knocked out first, need to go talk to them before skedadling. There's a group of people hear that actually listened when I said I came to help too, they're willing to help us fight Achron."
"Tell them to stand down," Seraphin said "They'll be slaughtered, no mortal has the slightest chance at defeating an Aetherian."
"Calm down," Jack said "They're all deity class, I think one might be a natural immortal. That would be a stroke of luck."
"Indeed," Seraphin said "Alright, I'm coming to you."
"Sir, I don't think that's nece – "
"I want to see this group for myself."
"Fine, when should I expect you?"
"Three days."
"Roger."
Jack closed his device and stuck his bottom lip out, Seraphin should be bolstering defenses, not coming out here on a whim, but he was the boss after all, he can do what he wants.
"So was that your mysterious benefactor?" A voice said from behind him said, Echo's voice if he wasn't mistaken.
"More like my boss." Jack answered.
"Deity class, immortals," Echo said "You use some strange words."
Jack gave her a backwards glance.
"If We're going to work together," Echo said "We should trust each other, I'm aware that my garb and my evasiveness makes me seem condescending and aloof, but I really am trying to save this world. Please help me."
Jack sighed, He could never refuse a kind woman "We use a class system to rank individuals based on genetics and power."
Echo raised an eyebrow "Genetics?" she asked
"Has to do with what your body is made of," Jack replied "Anyway most people are mortals, mortals can get pretty powerful, but they have their limits and they can die of old age." Jack stood up and approached Echo. "You and almost everyone here is deity class, usually gods of some sort or another, but demi-gods and people locally refered to as immortals usually count, above that is the immortals, most of the time an immortal is a mortal elevated by and Aetherian, but sometimes, very rarely an immortal is born naturally. The last tier is Aetherian, they are basically a master race, they have absolute power over the entire physical realm and can pretty much destroy and entire universe with a flick of their wrist."
Echo stood for a moment "That… is a lot to take in at once." She said
"Yeah," Jack said, "didn't work for me the first time either."
"You are an immortal then?" Echo asked
"Yes," Jack said "I was mortal two thousand years ago, when Seraphin found me."
"I see," Echo replied "then you think one of us is a natural born immortal? Who?"
Jack jabbed his finger back towards the cave "That dragon kid," he said plainly "He has more power than the rest of you combined, but I don't think he knows it."
"Indeed," Echo answered "I was in fact very glad when he chose to join us. You are right, he outclasses us all, but we have not made him aware."
Jack rubbed his chin "Well you have three days to, or Seraphin will tell him anyway."
"This 'Seraphin' is your boss?" Echo asked
"Yes," Jack said "he is a high Aetherian, one of only two left."
"I think it will be best if we simply feign ignorance." Echo answered.
"Suit yourself," Jack said shrugging his shoulders "I'm gonna head out, I've got a few more gods to go talk to."
"Good luck then." Echo answered before walking back into the valley "The moon was beginning to fade, the sun would be out soon.
Author's note: Sorry this one took extra long, like I said I wasn't really sure what to do with it.
