Wakfu Next: Return of the Prince

Chapter 7: Aria the Unstoppable

The shockwaves from the clashes between Chibi and Aria were both deafening and terrifying. The sea below them parted as a result of the blowback from their immense power. Grougal and the Xelor could barely tell what was happening. But they could feel it. Everyone in the World of Twelve would have been able to feel it.

To everyone else, this battle would begin and end in a flash, but for Chibi and Aria, it lasted for a very long time.

Chibi started with a quick rush into Aria. She caught his fist but couldn't stop his momentum. He managed to push her down towards the ocean. Aria smirked and used her free hand to quickly craft a series of portals behind her. This managed to disorient Chibi who was suddenly being guided in multiple different directions without ever pushing Aria into anything. Reacting to his confusion, she jabbed her knee into his torso. Chibi had the wind knocked out of him and then felt the shape of Aria's fist embed into his right cheek before being catapulted through trees and into the ground. There was no time to stay there however, Chibi rearranged the spinning dofus to his back and charged back at Aria with even more force this time. Before he reached her, he had opened several portals around her. Most of them began to fire energy blasts at her from all sides. Aria maneuvered around the beams of light like an elegant dancer before an adoring audience. Her movements were almost hypnotic. Chibi knew that he couldn't get distracted and, thinking fast, dipped into one of his other portals. Using the beams as a ditraction, Chibi took multiple strikes at Aria. But she was too quick for him. She opened her own portal and evaded him yet again. This time however she planned a counterattack and reappeared behind him. Chibi only had time to glance back before she blasted him with her own Wakfu. Chibi, once again, came crashing into the ground.

"GRRRRRAAAAAAAAAA!" He yelled in frustration. As he yelled, he was enveloped in a bright blue aura and the ground at his feet cracked and gave way.

"Instead of using the Dofus to fight me, maybe you should have just used them to end that little war of yours" Aria shouted to him.

Grougal and the Xelor finally could see them. Aria, floating above her island, with a genuine smile on her face, and Chibi, more frustrated than he had ever been in his life. "Why!?" Chibi yelled to nobody in particular, "I have all six of the Eliatrope Dofus! And you're just a remnant of my brother! A fake!"

Aria appeared before Chibi, this time her smile gone. She raised her hand and gave him a swift but crisp smack across his face. The impact was deafening.

Aria stood looming over Chibi, who was holding his cheek. He was shocked that she had left it there and not blown him back into the ground or something.

"I am not a 'fake'" she said finally, "nor am I a remnant of Yugo. I am my own person. I am Aria the Unstoppable!" AS she proclaimed that, her own aura flared to life and sent dust flying in all directions.  "As for why you can't defeat me with the dofus, it's because you're honestly not using them to their full potential.

Chibi was dumbfounded.

"You said it yourself remember? She continued, "You didn't want to hurt me going into this because I know where the prince is on this island. The dofus reacted to that wish in your heart and they're not drawing out as much power as they could be"

Aria's feet just barely floated off the ground before she teleported herself away. Chibi suddenly felt a huge shift in power. He looked behind him. The dofus were gone. When he looked back at Aria, his face became pale. She had stripped them from him.

"Now this is how you use the dofus, boy." She raised her hand and a great sphere of Wakfu appeared and grew bigger and bigger. Everyone looked in awe as Aria held a massive ball of energy in the sky. "Sis, don't!" Clara pleaded, "You're gonna destroy the island! You'll destroy the entire World of Twelve! Please! Don't do it!"

Aria pointed her hand at Chibi and the orb followed her directions and slowly began its descent. However, before it could go any further, a beam of purple light shot through the sky and struck the ball of Wakfu, causing it to explode. Aria was shot down to the earth and everyone felt the scorching heat of the explosion. Aria rubbed her head as she sat up slowly. Chibi slowly lowered his arms to see what had happened.

"You are far too reckless Master" a voice shouted from within the smoke. The smoke finally cleared and a small figure was seen descending towards Chibi and Aria. When they finally touched down, Chibi's knees began to quake. He slowly reached out to touch the familiar figure. "B-Bert...?" he stuttered, "Is...it really you?"

The boy looked back at his uncle and smiled.

"Good day Uncle Chibi" he said with a toothy grin.