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Wakfu: Chronicles of the Lost Ninja

-Chapter 9-

-Last Time-

"Man, I can't wait to see everyone's faces when they see that we already got the sap." Yugo cheered as he and Ruel rode on the back of a winged blue dragoturkey wearing aviator goggles.

"You don't have to much longer Yugo, there's Nausica's place now." Ruel said as he pointed to the small cottage in the distance that was just visible thanks to the soft moonlight.

*CRACKLE* *GROAN* The instant he pointed this out though, both he and Yugo were shocked as the whole place began to glow a bright green before a MASSIVE willow tree burst into existence.

"Oh boy, that can't be good."

-And Now-

"Holy bwork!" Yugo exclaimed as he had to crane his head just to see the top despite the fact he was several hundred feet in the air. "It's so big!"

"Yeah, too big!" Ruel shouted as he made the dragoturkey swerve to the side right as a large branch shot through the space they had been occupying. "Hold on tight Yugo! This is not gonna be a smooth landing!"

With his piece said, the old Enutrof tightened his grip on the reigns before having their mount go into an extremely steep dive. Both males screamed at the top of their lungs as they rocketed toward the ground at high speed, swerving wildly to avoid the various branches that grew around them.

On the good side, once they got low enough the branches were no longer a problem. The bad news however, was that by then they were barely thirty feet up and dropping way too fast to stop in time.

"Oh Shi-!" Ruel started to yell, only to be cut off when he, Yugo, and the dragoturkey vanished into a portal just as they were about to crash. A second later, another portal appeared a few feet away that they shot out of and ended up skidding several feet across the dirt before colliding with a giant root.

*Bleuagh* "Uuuugh, not my best landing that one," Ruel groaned out as he slowly stood up, wiping off the traces of vomit that remained on his lips. "Are you alright kiddo?"

"…I'm alive… alright might be… stretching it a bit…" Yugo muttered between breaths as sweat dripped from his brow.

Meanwhile the dragoturkey stood up with nary a scratch and squawked at the pair angrily befre trotting off.

Sighing in relief, Ruel shook off the last of his nausea before helping the boy to his feet. "Good enough, now let's get going, we still have friends to save after all."

"Yeah, Amalia and Naruto are… depending on us." The hat-wearing boy said once he managed to catch his breath somewhat.

Limping away from the crash site, the pair slowly made their way to the base of the thankfully finished growing tree, where they could see a large entrance still giving off a soft green glow. Carefully moving around or over the massive roots and debris that used to be Nausica's house.

"Hello? Anyone in here?" Ruel called out as he peered inside the wooden cavern, before feeling his jaw hit the floor at what he saw.

The space inside the tree was massive, easily big enough to fit a large house or two with room to spare. Large semi-transparent roots as thick as regular tree trunks ran along the walls and across the floor with pulses of green light running through them in slow regular intervals.

And at the exact middle of all this sat Nausica's bed, where Amalia lay wrapped in countless smaller roots, her eyes wide open and glowing a blindingly bright green. Beside her stood an extremely sickly and exhausted looking Naruto with his hand held against Amalia's chest by even more roots, only these ones were pulsing blue with tinges of red mixed in while Eva and Nausica tried in vain to separate the pair.

Dally was sprawled out on the ground snoring loudly, still out cold from the Dreaming Daisy extract.

"Ruel! Yugo! Oh thank Cra you are back!" Eva exclaimed as she tried to hack through the roots around Naruto's arm with Rubilax, only for the demonic blade to bounce off without a scratch. "Please tell me you guys have the Severum sap!"

"Yeah, right here," Yugo said, holding up a pair of wooden vials while looking around in shock and confusion. "What's going-"

"We'll explain later! Give me the sap!" Nausica yelled as she stopped her attempts to pry the roots off in favor of catching the vials that were tossed to her. Handing one to Eva, both quickly ripped the corked out with their teeth and poured the vibrant orange liquid into Naruto and Amalia's mouths.

"Huh… taste like maple syrup." The whiskered blonde muttered weakly as he swallowed the sap.

At first nothing seemed to happen, and the group was quickly growing more concerned as Naruto grew paler. However, just when they were sure that the sap wasn't working, a pulse of energy sudden blasted from the two and Amalia shook her head a few times as her eyes and the roots covering her lost their glow.

"Uh… my head," The greenette groaned as she tried to sit up, only to naturally be halted by the vegetation covering her. Blinking in surprise, the princess slowly began to take in her surroundings.

"What… what the heck? Where am-*Crack* Naruto?!" Amalia exclaimed mid-sentence when said blonde suddenly collapsed on top of her, dislocating his immobile arm in the process. Reacting instinctually, the princess willed the roots off as she shot up in worry for the whisker-faced boy.

"Hey Happa-chan… glad to see you're… feeling better." Naruto said with a tired smile, not even flinching as his injured arm slumped down. "You had us… scared for a bit there."

"What are you talking about? Scared about what? What's going on?" Amalia demanded worriedly.

"Ask Surudoi-chan... I need to take a nap." Naruto told the Sadidan girl before passing out on her lap.

Not knowing how to react to this, Amalia turned her head towards Eva as said girl came into view and started checking her over while Nausica helped Naruto. "It's a long story."

-The next day-

"I am so sorry for your house getting destroyed Nausica. This is all my fault." Ruel said while bowing apologetically to the fairy woman. Both were currently standing just inside the willow tree while the rest of the gang stood on the outside.

"It's fine Ruel, you had no way of knowing that something like this could happen. Besides, I'm pretty sure your gift makes up for it all and then some." Nausica said as she cradled the plant pot in her hands with a small sprout in it. "Once this Severum Sapling grows I'll be able to do so much good."

"It is the least I could do," The old Enutrof said with a smile, though if you looked closely you could see the pain on his face. 'Such an easy fortune lost, damn my bleeding loyal heart.'

He had transplanted the sapling from the original tree while he was 'collecting sap' and had been planning to grow it himself so he could sell the valuable substance it produced. However, while he may be cheap, greedy, conniving, manipulative, and at times a con artist, Ruel was man enough to pay for his partial responsibility to Nausica losing her home.

…No matter how much it might hurt his pride as an Enutrof.

'Meh, I was never much of a botanist anyway, the darn thing would've probably died after a week in my care.' Ruel reasoned with himself with a sigh.

"Besides, I can't wait to study this tree more thoroughly," Nausica said as she rested a hand on one of the pulsing roots. "I have never seen anything like it before, it's so fascinating."

"That it is." Ruel said with a nod, unable to deny his own curiosity towards the massive tree.

"I'd also like to know more about that friend of yours, but I guess that is a mystery for another time." The fairy woman said while glancing at Naruto, who was chuckling alongside Dally as Yugo told them about the crazy lady in the Evil Forest.

If it wasn't for the fact she'd been the one to treat him, Nausica would have doubted that he'd just been severely poisoned, had his lifeforce drained by a colossal plant, and dislocated his shoulder last night.

"Another time for sure, but now we must get going." Ruel stated before he and Nausica hugged. "It was good to see you again Nausica."

"And you as well, good luck out there you old coot." Nausica said with a smirk as Ruel chuckled while feigning to be upset by her words.

Meanwhile with the others, Yugo had just finished telling his friends about Sybannak. "Man, that sounded like a rough trip." Naruto said while the teleporting boy nodded in agreement.

"If I never have to massage someone's feet again, it'll be too soon," Yugo muttered with a shiver before smiling brightly. "But it was worth it though since you and Amalia are alright now."

"No kidding, I owe you one," Naruto said, patting Yugo on the back with a grin of his own. "If you'd been any longer then Happa-chan would have sucked me dry of-*Smack*-ITAI!"

"Don't say it like that!" Amalia yelled with a bright blush as she whacked the whiskered blonde over the head with a vine.

"Itai itai itai, what's wrong with the way I was saying it?" Naruto honestly asked as he rubbed his sore head. Also confused, Dally and Yugo turned towards the princess with questioning looks, causing her already inflamed cheeks to practically glow while Eva facepalmed.

"Uh… well it um… you're er, making it sound like it was my fault!" Amalia stuttered out accusingly. "It wasn't like I intentionally made this happen after all! It was the poison's fault! The poison!"

"Okay, alright, I get it, I'm sorry." Naruto said with his hands held up in surrender, getting the greenette to calm down a bit.

"Apology accepted," She said with as serious face she could manage, which wasn't saying much as she was still making a tomato envious, before turning to Yugo with a smile. "And you have my thanks as well, you really came through for us."

"Oh and what am I, chopped gobbal?" Ruel cut in, giving a mock frown as he walked up to the group. "I'm hurt, giving all the credit to the kiddo when I put in just as much work."

"Fine, you both came through for us," Amalia corrected with an equally false exasperated sigh. "Better?"

"Much, now, I do believe we have dawdled around here long enough. We're still a long way from Oma Island and I'm not getting any younger here." The Enutrof stated while pointing towards the horizon dramatically.

"He's right," Eva said, standing up from the root she'd been sitting on and stretching a bit, "Unless we hurry up, he'll die of old age long before we get there."

Everyone minus Ruel burst into laughter at those words, with the old man himself simply scowled while muttering things like 'I'm not that old' and 'No respect for one's elders' under his breath.

This was the sight Nausica was greeted with as she watched the group walk off into the distance with a smile. Because she was focused on this however, she never noticed as the roots that had once held Amalia start to glow faintly once more before curling into a sphere around the empty bed.

…

…

*Ba-bump*

-Meanwhile, Unknown location-

"My oh my, quite an interesting specimen you are." A robotic looking being with glowing blue eyes said as it watched video of Naruto through a series of large glass lenses. Some showed him as he was being de-petrified, others laying a beatdown on ghouls and Vampyro, saving Amalia's life with Senjutsu, and just various other random clips.

"So much Wakfu contained in one spot, and so potent." The metal man said the feeds were replaced with video of the giant willow being grown. "And such an intriguing reaction from just a small taste of it, this must be the mythical power of the ancient people I've read about."

The video changed, this time to pictures of old scrolls and torn pages showing pictures of people shooting flaming dragons from their mouth, conjuring storms, or summoning creatures of enormous size. A few of the images though, were of old relics such as broken spade-like daggers, deformed star shaped blades, and rusted metal plates with various carvings in the middle.

"I'll need to keep a close eye on this young man and find out what makes him tick." He said while snapping his fingers, causing the images to change once again, this time to a live feed of Naruto and the rest of the group as they were walking down a dirt path.

"He'll make for a very suitable replacement if the Eliatrope fails to lead me to the dragon."

-End Chapter-

AN: Filler chapter, sorry if it was boring. Thank you for reading and please review.