Memories - King's Return (Wakfu): The Hub

Chapter #5 - The Little Remains

~7 years later~

Yugo's eyes blinked open slowly. He sat up and looked around him. His vision was unclear, and he could tell he was in a busy street and the people around him stared at him as if a miracle had just occurred. He shakily breathed, realizing how weak he felt. The brisk air felt paralyzing. He heard blurs of cheering, and a name rang through the street. One he couldn't recognize. His senses were focusing, and he gasped.

"You're the people who attacked me!" he aggressively whispered, noticing and recognizing their hats. The Eliatropes around him looked at each other and frowned. Ralo walked up to him and sat facing him. Yugo scooted backward in fear.

"Is that all you remember, Yugo?" He asked him, looking at him curiously. Yugo looked left and right, seeing if anyone would respond.

He turned his gaze back to Ralo, saying "My name isn't Yugo, sir. He himself told me that my name was-"

"Augh!" Ralo stood back up and said, "I forgot that Qilby convinced us all that he was you." He growled at the thought of Qilby. Tuto walked up behind him and put her hand on his shoulder. Ralo looked at her.

"You can't blame him, Ralo. His memory was erased, and that's how everyone addressed him," she said, smiling calmly. Yugo looked up at them.

"So, my name isn't 'Qilby', then?" he asked. The following crowd gasped at this comment. Tuto and Ralo frowned at him although they knew he was innocent.

"That name is never spoken. He was a traitor who no one expected until..." Ralo trailed off with tears in his eyes. Tuto sighed.

"...Until he hurt you. The traitor practically killed you. No one knew if you would wake up, although, Adamai and Chibi were convinced you would," Tuto finished.

"Adamai... and Chibi? Are they people I know? Or... knew?" Yugo asked condescendingly.

"Adamai is your brother and Chibi is the best inventor of the entire Eliatrope race. He is the accomplice to Kolor, a Master of Medicine. Kolor is practically a self-taught Eniripsa, per-say," Tuto told him.

"Speaking of Adamai and Chibi," Ralo started, wiping the tears from his eyes, "We need to tell them that he's finally awake."

"Do we bring Yugo? He probably can't even stand up!" Tuto mentioned. Yugo tried to stand up but tumbled back onto the concrete. He groaned with his head in the ground and rolled to face the sky.

"I can't. I'm too weak right now," Yugo said. They all sighed and looked over at a castle-like structure behind them.

"I'll go inform them," Ralo jumped to suggest. Tuto nodded as he made a portal to the castle. The crowd around them had gone back to find their families. Tuto sat down next to Yugo. 

"Ralo... he's the one who first shot at me, right?" Yugo asked her. She smiled back at him.

"Yes. It was so long ago, though. Ralo has always been optimistic about your return. He was even before 'he' attacked you when you came back the first time,"

"So long ago? How long has it been since that day?" Yugo asked. She stopped smiling at him.

"Yugo... You've been asleep for seven years now," Tuto condescendingly responded to him. Yugo froze. The thought of being absent for that long was frightening.

"Seven. Seven whole years? Why would you keep me here for that long? Am I someone very important?" he asked, slightly quivering. Tuto looked saddened at that question.

"You, Yugo, were supposed to be our king. You came back to save us from Emrub, the timeless dimension in which we were trapped, but we ended up bringing you into the World of Twelve," Tuto explained slowly.

"If I wasn't ruling as king for seven years, who has been?" Yugo asked, worried about what had happened to his own subjects. Tuto smiled at that.

"The rest of the Council of Six has ruled us in your absence. Thanks to them, we rebuilt our nation near the Sadida Kingdom and are now a thriving country in the World of Twelve. It was all your brother's idea," Tuto said, calming Yugo finally.

Ralo appeared far in the distance with the rest of the council. Tuto called out to them, and they came running. Adamai was in front of the bunch. He ran faster than the others, shouting like a child in response. He stopped in front of Tuto and Yugo gasping for his breath. The rest of the council was still catching up,

"It really is you! I've really missed you, Yugo," Adamai said squeezing him tightly out of pure excitement. Yugo smiled and asked Adamai to let go of him. Adamai, still panting, did so with tears of joy in his eyes.

Yugo slowly and sadly told him, "I don't recognize you, um..."

"Adamai."

"Oh! So, you're my brother, then?" He finished remembering what Tuto had told him. Adamai slightly frowned looking at Tuto.

He looked down while saying, "He doesn't remember us, Tuto. How are we going to tell-"

"Yugo!" the rest of the council exclaimed, looking at him.

"I think we don't," Tuto said, thinking that Yugo would realize who they were. Adamai slightly nodded.

Yugo panicked knowing that all these people knew who he was and what he was like even when he didn't. He tried to stand up to greet them respectfully but tumbled back on the ground groaning. The council helped sit in a chair rather than the rocky and dusty road he currently was. He thanked them each and started asking more simple questions like where are we? and, can we get food here?

The council explained his answers carefully to him and finally decided to ask him a question.

"Do you want to see your closest friends?"

He smiled and simply nodded. He tried one more time to stand up and made it onto his feet, but his balance was the question now. He instantly tripped and, out of instinct, tried to make a portal to catch himself. One started appearing in front of him, but evaporated when he was supposed to fall into it. He hit the ground harder than before.

Yugo pushed himself off the ground and stabilized himself with the chair until he finally sat back down on it. He looked up at the council in front of him. Shocked expressions stuck their faces as they stared down at him.

"He can't make portals!" Kolor shouted from the back.