Fanon:Circi Loves Wilfre
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| Circi Loves Wilfre | |
| Author(s) | GuyThatExists |
| Publisher(s) | GuyThatExists |
| Release Date(s) | Nov. 25, 2020 (Original Draft, Deleted in favor of AO3 Version) Feb. 23, 2021 |
| Platform(s) | Archive of Our Own |
| Genre(s) | Action, Adventure |
| Related Work(s) | N/A |
| Last Story None |
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Circi Loves Wilfre is a short story written by GuyThatExists, and focuses on the relationship between Circi and Wilfre, along with how both of them became Shadow beings.
Synopsis
Circi and her family seek refuge in Rapoville after Shadow infests their home. When Circi meets a RapoBoy named Wilfre, her life will change forever as they go on adventures of enormous proportions.
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“Mom? Where are we?”
“This is Rapoville honey. It’s gonna be our home until the Shadow goes away.”
“How long is that gonna take?”
“I don’t know sweetie. I don’t know.” Circi’s Mother looked at the mountains and watched as the highest point in Shadow City disappeared beyond the horizon. No one truly knows what caused the Shadow to invade the city, but no Rapo in their right mind stayed behind. As the group walked up to the Town Hall, they were met by three Raposa. The first was an energetic Rapo with orange fur, a brown bowler hat, and a thick mustache to go with his blazer.
“Welcome to our village! You must be Circi!” he said, squatting down to look at the young girl, hiding behind her mother’s leg. “I can assure you, the three of you are safe now. I am the Mayor of this village and if you need any help settling down here, this young gentleman would be happy to help!” The Mayor gestured to the younger Rapo with him. Although he was much younger, he had sharp silver fur and wore a blue jacket with a black undershirt. Some of his hair was pulled back into a ponytail.
“C’mon now son. Don’t be shy!” The silver-haired Rapo looked up at the voice, coming from the third figure. “I apologize for my boy, Wilfre. He’s getting into that phase where he doesn’t like to talk. My name is Steven.” Circi’s Mother laughed and looked down at her daughter.
“Don’t worry about him. My girl’s the exact same way. My name is Percate, and this is my mother Athys.”
“Hello dear. I hope we aren’t too much of a burden on your community,” Athys rambled.
“Oh, don’t worry about being a burden. We have more than enough space to accommodate a new family in our village! Now, let’s help this family into their new home!” The three Raposa began to walk the family to their home and helped them unpack. “Now, if you don’t mind, we’d like to give you a tour of our village.”
“We’ve visited plenty of times Mr. Mayor,” Percate responded. “Although, if you have any ‘new resident’ voucher’s for Cookie’s restaurant, we’ll happily accept that offer!” The room erupted into laughter from everyone except the two children. Circi looked over at Wilfre and noticed that he was staring at her dress. When he noticed her watching, he immediately looked back up and blushed.
“Well, I apologize but Wilfre and I must be heading home now. If you need anything from us, please don’t hesitate to visit. We live just next to Town Hall.”
“Thank you for your help Steven!” the Mayor waved.
“And thank you Wilfre,” Percate said as she reached into her pocket. She pulled out a red, inkwell pen and handed it to the child. “This is a gift for you. If your father doesn’t mind of course.” She looked up towards Steven and smiled.
“Well Wilfre? Would you like to have it?” Wilfre smiled and took the pen from Percate’s hand. He looked up and locked eyes with Circi once more and began to blush. Percate and Steven saw his face redden and looked towards Circi, only to notice that the blush was just as bright on her cheeks, if not even brighter. The two laughed and Steven left the house with his son.
“Hey dork! Where’d you go?” Circi ran through the village looking for her friend.
“What if I don’t tell you, huh? What happens then?” A voice called from the sky. Circi looked into the air to see Wilfre hiding on top of the Police Station.
“Gotcha now!” Circi began to climb the station’s walls until she heard a booming voice from below her.
“Circi! Get down from there right now!” Circi looked down to see her mother and Officer Cricket judging her from below.
“Or what? Gonna ground me?” She began to climb higher.
“That’s exactly what I’m going to do young lady!”
“Oh ok. Let me just go all the way up first and then I’ll see what I can do.”
“Circi!” Percate walked up to the building and began to climb until Officer Cricket pulled her back.
“Don’t worry ma’am. She can’t make it to the top. It’s impossible unless someone else-“
“Ok! Done!” Circi peeked over the steeply sloped roof with Wilfre right behind her.
“I should’ve known he was up there with you. The two of you come down right now! Unless you want me to get your father.”
“No! No! I’m coming just…please don’t get my dad!” Wilfre yelled down to Percate.
“Hey!” Circi grabbed Wilfre’s arm. “You’re just gonna leave me up here?”
“You don’t get it. My dad is…well…rough when things like this happen. I don’t want to get in any more trouble than I already am.” Wilfre slid off the roof and landed on the ground in front of the adults. “I’m sorry, just please don’t tell my dad.”
“You’re in big trouble young man.” Percate looked back up at the roof. “And so are—Circi? Circi where’d you go?”
“I’m right here!” Cricket jumped from hearing Circi’s voice behind him.
“You. Come with me.” Percate grabbed her daughter’s arm. “And you, please stopping getting into dangerous situations.” Wilfre looked down and apologized before running off. “I can’t believe you let him convince you into climbing that building. Do you know how dangerous that could have been?”
“Yes mom, I know how dangerous it could’ve been. But it wasn’t. Wilfre and I are both ok! Nothing bad happened.”
“It’s a matter of principal Circi; you can’t just do something because you want to. Especially if it could seriously hurt you.”
“Why not? It’s not like anyone ever gets hurt here. We have the Creator, remember?” Percate looked around the village before whispering to Circi.
“The Creator isn’t going to save you. If he didn’t save us from a Shadow infestation, why would he save you from a fall?” Circi paused and opened her mouth to respond when they heard a shriek.
“Somebody help! Dr. Cure! Mayor! Please, somebody help me!”
“That’s Wilfre’s voice. We have to go help him, mom c’mon!” Circi and her mom ran towards Wilfre’s house and were met by Dr. Cure, Cricket, and the Mayor along the way.
“Wilfre what’s wrong?”
“It’s my dad he’s not moving I don’t know what happened he just won’t move and I—”
“Wilfre calm down. It’s going to be ok! Let us take a look at him.” Wilfre guided the five visitors into his house and next to Steven.
“I got here and he wasn’t moving.” Dr. Cure sat next to Steven and checked for a pulse. The room was silent for what felt like ages to Wilfre. Dr. Cure eventually stood up and whispered something to the Mayor and Cricket before walking up to Wilfre.
“I’m sorry but there’s nothing I can do. Your father is dead.” Wilfre fell onto the floor and began to bawl. Circi kneeled next to him and tried to comfort him. Dr. Cure walked back to the Mayor and Cricket, gesturing for Percate to join them. “I don’t think this was of natural causes. I feel like this was an attack, but I’m not entirely sure. Cricket, what do you think?” Cricket looked at the body and noticed some marks on his clothes.
“It looks like some cut him across the chest. Whoever it was, they meant to hurt him.” the four of them looked at each other and then to the teens. Circi looked up into the gaze of the adults, and they decided to take Wilfre outside. Before they could leave, Circi spoke out.
“Did anyone else hear that?” The group looked at her and continued walking outside. “I guess not…” Circi looked over to Steven’s body and saw a shadow dart into the corner. She jumped in surprise, ran outside, and slammed the door shut.
“What’s wrong? Did you see something in there?”
“No, it’s just, I can’t deal with bodies all that well…” She looked at the building’s outer corner and noticed that it was covered in an inky substance. She turned back to the group and mat Cricket’s gaze. The two of them walked to the corner together and inspected the substance. “This is the ink that we used to make in Shadow City. How did it get here?”
“I’m not sure, but I only know a few people who could’ve brought it here.”
“Wait, I know what you’re thinking but there’s no way that it was me, my mom, or my grandma!”
“I know that none of you would’ve done this intentionally but…well, I’ll talk to your mother about this. She can tell you if she thinks you’re mature enough.” Cricket stood up and began to explain his theory to Percate. She nodded and walked over to Circi.
“We need to go home Circi. I’ll explain later.” Circi hesitantly followed her mother but stopped to look at Wilfre. He was still crying, holding the Mayor tight, and Cricket was talking to the other Rapos in the huddle. She turned back around and followed her mother the rest of the way home.
“No! You can’t go into Creation Hall! And the fact that you think you can do this is borderline heresy!”
“Mayor, you don’t understand, I have ideas that could change our lives!”
“I don’t care if you could redraw the entire planet! I’m saying no and that’s final!” The Mayor walked out of Wilfre’s house and slammed the door behind him.
“Well screw you too!” Wilfre threw his chair across the room.
“Hey, what’s going on in here?” Athys walked into Wilfre’s room and sat down on the broken chair. “That’s no way to scream at an authority figure. You gotta do it like this!” Athys began to scream profanities throughout the house until Wilfre covered her mouth with his hand.
“What do you think you’re doing? Your daughter would kill both of us if she knew what you just said!”
“Oh she couldn’t hurt a fly! Girl lost her spark when your father died.”
“So did the Mayor apparently. He won’t even listen to me! I have all these ideas about how we could make the Village better—make the world better even!”
“Don’t listen to him, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. If you got an idea, you should go after it! C’mere for a second.” Athys led Wilfre into her room and pulled out a red journal from her dresser. “This is a special journal and I want you to have it.”
“But why? No offence but we barely know each other.”
“Oh really? You think I don’t know who you are? Heh, I know more than anyone in this whole wide world.”
“Well if that’s true, then can I ask you two things?”
“Go for it!”
“Thank you. So, about—”
“No kid, that’s the answer to your questions! Go for it! Draw in that old book! Date my granddaughter! Do what makes you happy!”
“Wow. You really do know more than people would think.”
“Now why would I ever lie to a boy?” Wilfre ran out of the house with the journal and his inkwell pen. It had become day while he was talking to Athys, and he snuck off to Creation Hall. No one was inside, so he grabbed the Book of Life and took it back to his house.
“Oooh you brought it back to me?” Athys said excitedly. “Glad to see that someone recognizes the elderly’s talents.”
“Well, you had the journal, so it would only be fair for you to help me help the world.” Wilfre handed her the Book of Life and the Inkwell Pen.
“Well thank you kid. Although I do have to say that I don’t intend to help the world with my ideas.”
“Wait wha—” Athys pushed Wilfre down onto the floor and began to draw grotesque creatures into the Book of Life. “What are you doing?”
“If I can’t go back home, then I’m gonna bring my home to me!”
“What are you talking about? Shadow City?”
“Of course, kid! Did you really think I was gonna sit and wait for the Shadow to go away before going home?”
“You went back. You left through the City Gate and went back to the city didn’t you!”
“Those Kaorin berries really do a number on your digestive track.” Dark patches of shadow began to appear on the ground. “Luckily, I had some of my new friends to help me out.” Shadow Walkers rose from the shadows as Athys pulled Wilfre to his feet. “Now, I got some business back home to attend to. The Ink Factory needs its boss back, and they even have a three course meal prepared for me. Good luck explaining this mess to the Mayor!” Athys disappeared into one of the pools of Shadow as the door burst open.
“What did you do?” Cricket ran into the room and dragged Wilfre out.
“This is exactly why I told you not to write in the book!” the Mayor said as Wilfre was pulled outside by Cricket’s deputy.
“No wait! It’s not what it looks like. This is all Athys’ fault!”
“Percate’s mom? She died when she went back to the City! Did those monsters dilute your brain too?” Wilfre paused and thought back on what just happened in his house. “Now, you gotta go. We can’t have you messing around in the Village with whatever you just did in there.”
“Please just let me explain!”
“After those monsters scrambled your brain? Not likely. Now, get out of here!” Cricket’s Deputy pushed Wilfre away, not noticing that the Book of Life was still in his hands. Wilfre ran towards the bridge and ran into Circi.
“Oh hey, what’s up Wilfre?”
“Circi, you need to help me. Wait for me on the other side of the bridge, I’ll explain later.”
“Wait Wilfre, what’s going—”
“Just go!” Circi ran back across the bridge and hid behind a bush on the other side.
“Hey! Don’t let him leave with the Book!” Wilfre looked down and flipped through some of the pages.
“I gotta do something about these scribbles.” As the Mayor and Cricket closed in, Wilfre began to panic. “If they get the book back with these scribbles, the creations will be destroyed for good…I guess I have no choice…” Wilfre began to rip page after page from the Book of Life, watching them drift off into the wind.
“Hey! Stop that!” Wilfre threw the shell of the Book back into the Village.
“I’m sorry! I promise I can make this better!” Wilfre ran off the bridge and grabbed Circi by the arm.
“What did you just do? Was that the Book of Life?”
“Look, I can explain on the way, but we need to go back to Shadow City.”
“Well regardless of how you can explain your way out of this, the City gate is on the other end of the Village!”
“We have to go around. Things are gonna get really messy in the village soon, and we can’t rely on the gates to go anywhere.” Circi stopped following Wilfre and looked back towards the village.
“What did you do? I won’t follow you anywhere until you explain to me what’s going on.” Wilfre turned around and sighed, sitting down on a rock nearby.
“Ok fine, but I need you to believe me.”
“I promise. No matter how insane your story could be, I promise you I’ve heard weirder.” Wilfre began to recap the past ten minutes to Circi.
“...That’s the weirdest story I’ve ever heard! How could my grandma possibly be alive when we found her body at the City Gate?”
“I don’t know, but I swear, what I told you actually happened! I know my mind wasn’t tricking me.”
“Look Wilfre, I know what I said, but I don’t know if I can trust you on this. Ghosts seem a little out of the ordinary.”
“Ok well how about this then?” Wilfre pulled out Athys’ journal from his pocket and opened it to the front cover. “Do you know what this is?”
“That’s…That’s her journal. We’ve been looking for that since she died! Where did you find it?”
“She gave it to me when I was in my house. It was in her dresser and she just shoved it into my hands.” Wilfre thought back to the incident and remembered what she told him about Circi. “She also told me that I should do things that make me happy, so I’m really sorry about this.”
“What do you me—” Wilfre leaned into Circi and kissed her before pulling back.
“I love you Circi. Please, I need your help to clear my name.” Circi stood there starstruck, not moving at all. She eventually regained her composure and walked up to Wilfre.
“Well, if youre going to try to force me to help you with a kiss, its not gonna work.” She looked him in the eyes and grabbed his head. “I’m gonna help you because I love you too.” She kissed Wilfre back, and before he could react, she pulled away. “Now! Let’s go to Shadow City and find my grandma!” She walked down the path and towards the city before noticing that Wilfre wasn’t following her. “Well? I’m not gonna clear your name on my own! Let’s get moving Picasso!” Wilfre smirked and began to chase her down the path.
“Ok, so do you know where the Ink Factory is?”
“I lived here for maybe six years before the shadow came. This place is huge.”
“Well, sorry, I just thought since you were from here—”
“Look, I may not know where it is, but I think these signs might be helpful.” Circi pointed towards a road sign with the label “Ink Factory – 3 Miles.”
“How did I not see that?”
“I don’t know snookums, but if we just follow this trail, we’ll make it to the Factory in no time.” Wilfre stared at Circi.
“Snookums? Really?”
“What? Would you prefer ‘Wilfee-poo’ or ‘Doodle-bug’?”
“Snookums it is.” The two of them laughed and began to tread through the City, avoiding the people who were walking through the streets.
“So, how are we gonna get into the factory once we’re there?”
“Leave that to me,” Circi said as she began climbing a wooden ladder on a wall. “C’mon snookums, don’t just wait down there. We gotta go!”
“What do you expect me to do? Climb up those rickety planks?”
“I don’t see any other way to climb up! Now hurry up, you’re drawing attention to yourself.” Wilfre hesitantly grabbed onto the ladder and climbed up with Circi. They made their way through the city until they got to the Gates of the Ink Factory.
“This place looks like a palace! You said you had a plan to get in?”
“I did say that didn’t I. You said that my grandma called herself the boss of this place, right?”
“That’s what she told me.”
“Alright then hopefully this works.” Circi cleared her throat and stepped forward. “Hey Athys! I got your dinky journal and a tiny complaint about it! Your art is awful! It sucks even worse than Percate’s and I should know! I’m one of em!”
“Wait, you’re a creation?” Wilfre interjected.
“Nah, but that’s what my mom always called me. Her little creation.”
“That’s cute! If we get out of here alive, that’s what I’ll be calling you from now on.” Circi laughed and turned back around to face the gates. “I guess your idea didn’t work then.”
“Oh, it worked alright.” Circi and Wilfre looked up to the top of the tower, where they heard the booming voice. “I assume the two of you wanted to see me?” Athys floated down from the top of the tower and landed on the ground in front of the two Raposa.
“Yes, we did. And we want you to undo whatever you did to the Book of Life!”
“Whatever I did? Correct me if I’m wrong but you’re the one who not only destroyed the Book but shifted all the blame onto a dead granny! How rude of you!” Athys walked towards Wilfre and brought some shadow up to her side. “You need to be punished for such evil deeds!”
“Wait!” Circi yelled. “What are you gonna do to him?”
“Nothing much, just a little something like, this!” Athys fired her shadow at Circi, engulfing her in the substance. Wilfre screamed and lunged at the elder, only for her to shoot more shadow at him. “We’ve been short-staffed recently! Hopefully the two of you can fix that problem!” Suddenly, Circi’s earring began to glow. “What the—” The Shadow burst off of Circi, leaving only a purple bodied Raposa with solid white eyes. Her earring glowed a brilliant red and she began to fire bursts of shadow back at her grandma.
“How dare you touch him! He’s been nothing but good to us and you ruined him!” As Circi berated her grandmother more and more, the Shadow began to pile on top of her. Wilfre stood up from where he was attacked and looked down at his body. He was covered in a pitch black mist and he felt a surge of power running through him. As he watched Circi attack her grandmother, he felt a rage burn within him. He began to pile more Shadow on top of Athys until he lost his intense emotions.
“Wait! Circi! Stop!” He ran towards his girlfriend and tackled her to the ground. “What are we doing? We can’t just attack your grandma like this!”
“Why not? She did this to us! We’re just like her now!”
“We might look like her, but we don’t have to be like her! Circi please!” Circi stared into Wilfre’s solid white eyes, and her layer of Shadow began to fade. “Wait, Circi! The Shadow! It’s fading!”
“Yours is too! Oh my God! I thought we were dead for sure!” The two Raposa embraced and ran back through the Shadow City. “Let’s go back to the Village and try to clear your name.” As the two reached the Outer Walls of Shadow City, they were met by a giant made of darkness staring down at them.
“You thought you could get away that easily? This is my domain! I rule here!”
“Not anymore!” Wilfre yelled at the monster, as his Shadow returned to him. “If there’s anyone who’s gonna die here today, it’s going to be you Athys!” Wilfre’s Inkwell Pen began to glow a brilliant red, drawing Circi’s attention to him. Circi stood next to him and began to fight Athys alongside Wilfre. Eventually, the titan fell into the drain leading into the city. Wilfre and Circi returned to their Raposa form, with the pen and earring returning to their original hues.
“What just happened?”
“I think the pen your mom gave me has some connection to the shadow. Same with your earring. I think they’re letting us control the shadow.” Circi sat down on the ground as she took off her earring and stared at it.
“How are these able to harness the Shadow? I’ve had this since I was a little kid!”
“Was it also a gift from your mother?”
“No, I got this from—” Circi stared at the drain leading into the sewer, “—her.” Wilfre sat down next to her and pulled out his pen.
“Well what are we gonna do? I have no idea how to control this and I want to keep you safe.”
“I can take care of myself. It’s the Village we need to worry about.” the two of them sat in silence for a long time, until Circi stood up. “Ok Wilfre, you’re not going to like this, but it needs to happen.”
“Wait what? What’s going on?”
“My grandma, as senile as I thought she was, was one of the strongest people I knew. If we were able to defeat her together then…” she paused and took a deep breath. “We need to split up. Go our separate ways.”
“No. No, Circi. C’mon, you’re all I have right now! You can’t just ditch me!” Wilfre’s shadow began to crawl back onto his body.
“Wilfre I know! I don’t want to do this either, but we have to!” Circi’s shadow began to creep back as well.
“No, we don’t! Circi, if we stay here, then we can fix what she did! We can start over!”
“What are you talking about? Wilfre, I though you wanted to clear your name!”
“Well maybe this enlightened me a bit!” Wilfre’s shadow was covering more than half of his body. Circi’s shadow was creeping around her head and started to crawl down her body. “Maybe, just maybe, if we go around fixing the corruption of the world, we can find a cure to our own corruption!”
“Do you have any idea how insane you sound right now? I love you, but you need to stop! Think rationally about this!”
“What about this is rational?” Both of them were completely enveloped in shadow once again. “We just saw your dead grandma turn us into shadow monsters and then we turned her into a demon! Nothing makes sense anymore!”
“Wilfre, I’m leaving. You can chase me if you want, but I can’t stay here. I’m leaving!”
“Fine then, leave!” Wilfre built a shadow cage around his former lover. “but listen to me first.”
“What if I don’t, huh? What happens then?” Circi snapped back at Wilfre. “Are you really going to kill me? The only person who can actually clear your name? I didn’t think so.” With her last remark, Circi disappeared in a puff of smoke.
“Circi? Circi? Where’d you go? Circi! Please!” As Wilfre cried out into the night, Athys rose back out of the sewers and grabbed Wilfre. “Hey! What’s going on?” As she dragged him down into the sewers, a bright red light fell off of his body and into the ink below.
As Circi came up to the Rapoville bridge, she noticed Officer Cricket and his deputies scouting the area.
“Circi, oh my God! Are you okay?” Officer Cricket and Percate ran up to her and began to give her a barrage of questions.
“Guys hold on! I can answer all of your questions and talk about Wilfre in a second, but first, I need to relax a little bit. Is Cookie’s still open?”
“It is but we need to know one thing first, one thing about Wilfre – where is he?” Circi looked at all the people surrounding her and mustered up a breath.
“I don’t know. He attacked me, surrounded himself in Shadow, and teleported me back here.” As the lie came out of her mouth, she began to break down.
“Oh honey, youre okay now. He’s gone and you’re here with me. Its ok, its ok.” The two of them embraced each other and stayed just outside the village until night fell. “Are you feeling better now?”
“Yeah…I think so. Now, let’s go get some Banya Burgers.” The two of them walked into the village and laughed the night away.
“What are you going to do with me?” Wilfre yelled at the corrupted woman.
“Oh, I’m not going to do anything to you. You’re going to do stuff to me.” Athys placed him down at the top of the tower, resting on a broken conveyor belt.
“And Why would I help you?”
“Because your life is on the line. You can be one of the most powerful beings in the world if you only let me help you.”
“You turned me into this monster and turned me against my own girlfriend! Death is better than this hellhole you’ve put me in.”
“Oh don’t be so sure! If the two of us work together, we can solve the mystery of this world, and you can even save it one day!”
“And how would you know that?”
“Now that you’re here, it’s safe to tell you I assume. When I died trying to come back here, the Shadow restored me. If it wasn’t for you and your girlfriend, I would’ve been a perfect recreation of Athys, but now I’m just…well…this.”
“So Athys never truly came back to life?”
“Of course not! Only the Creator has the power to resurrect those who have died! But for now, we can try.”
“You want to rival the power of the Creator? That’s insane! No one could possibly do that and live!”
“Maybe not before, but now the stage is set! The Book of Life was destroyed! Your power is growing! And Circi is all but our mole!”
“You used us. We fell right into your trap!”
“A trap of my design, but your making! Plus, even if you wanted to go back, they’d never accept you like this!”
“Then I won’t return like this! I’ll use the pen to hide my shadow forever! There’s no way for you to force me into this!”
“Ok fine, you can go.” The monster released Wilfre from its grasp and waited for him to revert to his Raposa form. “Oh wait, that’s right! Your pen is gone now. I have it in a secure location but for now, you can have this pencil.” The monster handed Wilfre a pencil and the journal, which now had his named scrawled on it.
“You really won’t let me leave then…fine…what do I have to do to get my pen back?”
“It’s simple really. The first step involves gathering an army. I already have four commanders lined up for you to corrupt.” The monster pulled out four images and placed them in front of Wilfre. “The Icy Dragon, Frostwind. The Ancient Tree, Deadwood. The Giant Fish, Angler King. The Armored Giant, Scorpion. Corrupt these four and I’ll tell you what to do next.”
“Alright. I’ll do what I have to. Where can I find them?”
“Ow ow ow! What? No!!! This cannot be!” Suspended in midair, Wilfre called out to the world below him, signaling his defeat.
“Alright, time to empty this place out.” Boss thought to itself. The shadow in the Lair began to rise, forcing the Hero out and sending them back to the village.
Back in the Village, Circi and Percate returned, hearing about Wilfre’s demise. After returning to their house, Mari knocked on their door.
“Uh, hello? May I come in?” Circi went over and opened the door.
“Oh, hi Mari? How have you been?”
“Not very good recently. Wilfre, he…he killed my father.” Circi and Percate came over to her side and held her close. “I appreciate the support, but that’s actually not why I’m here. Circi, I know you just got back but I can’t do this job alone. Would you mind being my deputy mayor?”
“Mari, I-I don’t know. I’ve never been in that important of a role before.”
“I know, but you were like a mother to me growing up.”
“What about Jowee? Can’t he be deputy mayor?” Mari gave Circi a judgmental stare. “Sorry, just trying to lighten the mood. But ok Mari, I’ll be your deputy mayor.”
“Thank you so much! I’ll come by later to tell you more, but for right now, I get to tell everyone that Wilfre is dead! Yippee!” Mari left the room, and as Percate unpacked, Circi collapsed on the bed.
“He’s dead? They killed him?”
“They didn’t. The Creator’s Hero did! We’re going to celebrate later tonight if you want to come join us.”
“No thanks, we just got back, and I need to relax a bit.”
“Ah well. More celebrations for me!” Percate ran out of the house, leaving Circi alone. She rolled over onto her side and began to cry, gripping her earring. As her shadow enveloped her body for the first time in decades, she disappeared into a puff of smoke.
“You said you would protect him if I left him with you!” Circi stormed into the Boss’ tower, destroying the things trying to keep her out.
“I never said that. I said that if you didn’t interfere, I would make sure things went correctly. You need to learn to pay better attention to what I say!”
“I don’t need to do anything for you anymore! You let him die! Why should I spare your life?” Circi walked closer to Boss, beginning to shoot shadow at him.
“Because! You can get him back! In fact, I expect you to get him back! But you need to be discrete now that you’re deputy mayor.”
“How do you know about that? It literally just happened!”
“I know more than you think. Now, if you want to get your ‘snookums’ back, you need four items.”
“What are they? Tell me how to find them or else I’ll kill you.” Boss flipped to a page in Wilfre’s Journal, showcasing the four Artifacts of Power.
“Arrange these into a mannequin and draw Wilfre onto it. It’ll bring him back to you and the two of you can be together.”
“This better work, or it’s your head.”
“Just be careful. There’s one person you should be wary of – Mike.”
“The Raposa with weird ears? How important could he possibly be?”
“More important than you know. Let me explain.” Boss began to explain the reality of their world to Circi as she listen silently, shock plastering her face.
“So, if we aren’t even real, why am I doing this?”
“Because! You can be real if the Creator keeps Mike under! As long as he never wakes up, then we’re real.”
“…Fine, give me the Crystal Mask and I’ll get this started.” Boss handed the mask over and sent Circi to the Treetop Village to deliver it. “I can’t believe he never even tried to save him! After all the work they did together!”
“Ook! Ook! Little person! What have in hand?” Circi dropped the mask on the ground in front of him and disappeared back to the village.
“He needs to pay for not stepping in. It would have been so easy to kill the Hero and save his life!” Circi knocked Zsasha unconscious and sent him to the Monkey King. “And Mike, I need to find a way to keep him as far away from us as possible…I got it!” Circi walked over to Mike’s house and knocked on the door.
“Hey Mike! Have you heard?”
“Hey…you! I haven’t heard. What’s up?”
“Mari wants me to tell you about a conference that’s coming up soon about engineering. She thinks you might be interested!”
“Well she thinks right! What are the details?”
Athys wondered around with Steven, looking for any lost souls who may have recently died. Appointed as guardians of lost souls by the Creator, their job was about to come to its climax.
“Circi!”
“Wilfre!”
The two souls called out for each other in the white expanse. Athys began to look for the female’s soul, while Steven looked for the male’s. The two were eventually brought together to talk to each other, away from Athys’ and Steven’s influence.
“Wilfre, I had so much to tell you! You can go back!”
“But why would I want to? I’m here with you now!”
“As much as I would love for you to be here with me forever, that can’t happen. Listen, Boss told me some secrets, and now I need to tell them to you.”
“I understand. This is my role now, but you know the Creator would defeat me again.”
“And when that happens, we can be together forever!” Circi began to explain everything that had happened since he passed. The death of Boss. The collection and dispersion of the Artifacts. The importance of Mike in the Raposa World.
“I can’t believe some deformed kid ended up being so important.”
“Well believe it. The pen, the one my mother gave you. Its currently in the ocean. Before I left, I hired someone to retrieve it in case I died. His name is BakiBeard.”
“How can I get it back from him?”
“Well, continuing to call it a pen would be an exaggeration. It’s more of a scepter at this point.”
“Well whatever it is, it’ll let me control my Shadow when I return to the real world.”
“Don’t get ahead of yourself. You’ll need a host if you want—”
“Heather. I can pick Heather.”
“Why her? She’s only a kid, she can’t be of use.”
“She has a pendant. Your mother gave it to her, remember? Plus, he face is already partially Shadow; she’s the only one who can handle the transformation into me.”
“Well, in that case, good luck. I set up a home for you during the time you have. You can figure out what to do there.” Circi and Wilfre stared at each other and hugged. “I love you snookums. Good luck.” With that, Wilfre disappeared back into the world of Mike’s imagination.
“Circi!”
“Circi, where are you!” Circi walked over to where the voice was coming from, only to find Wilfre, surrounded by a cape and a sock.
“Did it work? Is he staying in his coma?”
“No, he isn’t.” Wilfre and Circi turned to face the voice behind them, only to be met by the Mayor. “I’m sorry for treating you so harshly Wilfre. Had I known what I knew now, none of this would have ever happened.”
“It’s ok Mayor, I understand. But what about Mike? If he wakes up, we all die.”
“That’s what I thought too, but as it turns out…” Suddenly, all the Raposa appeared in the afterlife with them. “We all just come here. Happy and peaceful. And when Mike is in a better mental state, the ones of us who are alive will return to the world, while the rest of us will stay here.” Circi and Wilfre looked at each other and Athys and Steven appeared behind the Mayor.
You don’t get a formal ending because I’ve been writing this for almost 4 hours now and its 4:17 am and I feel really weird goodnight.
Characters
(In order of appearance)
- Circi
- Percate
- Mayor
- Wilfre
- Steven
- Athys
- Cookie (Mentioned)
- Cricket
- Creator (Mentioned)
- Dr. Cure
- Shadow
- Shadow Walkers
- Cricket's Deputy
- Boss
- Frostwind (Mentioned)
- Deadwood (Mentioned)
- Angler King (Mentioned)
- Wilfre's Scorpion (Mentioned)
- Hero
- Mari
- Jowee (Mentioned)
- Monkey King
- Zsasha
- Mike
- Giant Scribble Monster
