Chapter Text
Once upon a time, a star was born in the embrace of sky, it did not drawn any attention to itself as it was only another star alongside its siblings, one of many, many others. yet, just for this night, it burned as bright as sun to the glory of the boy who was born at the same night. The boy who had field of purple Hyacinthaceae as his hair and the galaxy inside his eyes. That boy, then, was named wemmbu. Forth prince of cindercrest empire.
Somewhere in castle, The five years old hold wemmbu against his little chest as tight as he was able to, too careful not to drop his youngest brother that he didn't notice the little one's uncomfortable twists under his grip until his sobs filled the room.
“Wow he already hates you, nice one wifies, I'm proud.”
The five years old, so called wifies, frown as he watches his oldest brother took away wemmbu from his arms and rock him back and forth in a soothing way to calm the infant down.
“Why did he cried?” Wifies voice was mixed with a tiny bit of guilt as he questioned the infant’s reaction.
“I think it was because you held him too tight.” another voice, who had been observing his siblings in silence spoke. He had the same eyes as wemmbu but aside from that, his white hair and identical face to wifies was pretty hard to miss especially when they were sitting beside each other.
“Oh. Ooh. Right. but he would fall if i hadn't.” the brown haired boy confront his twin.
“That's the point buddy, you’re not suppose to hold a baby when you are tiny yourself.” the ten years old, oldest brother, ashwag, finally spoke up after he managed to calm wemmbu down, the kid was now staring at ceiling blankly. He ruffled wifies hair with his free hand as wifies took note of his earlier sentence. He would let himself grow a bit more before picking up wemmbu. While at the same time planet had crawled to ash’s other side to take a better look at wemmbu. his finger run across the infant's soft cheek, taking wemmbu’s attention, his void eyes locked in planet’s similar ones. He let out a quiet giggle when wemmbu’s hand curled around his finger.
_
Two months ago at this same day, ash had waken up by loud noises, hurried steps and the whole castle basically in chaos. He aggressively run down a hand from forehead to chin, letting out a exaggerated long sigh before sitting up on his bed. He already know what was happening, his father, king Fluixon had send him a letter weeks ago, saying there was a Ceasefire between cindercrest empire and great sea kingdom and their return from war will be expected within two or three weeks. Although he did not understand the reason for everything and everyone being so loud today. It wasn't like this was something new, last time their emperors had come back from war, everything was handled in a quite and professional way not whatever this was…or did wifies and planet bring some wierd mob in again? That would explain.
But once he looked at the clock that thought vanished. It was five at morning, the two would be in deep sleep by now. he think to himself, checking wouldn't hurt, so he stands up and walked out of his door, the long hallway lightened with candles at night as always, family paintings stand tall against the walls next to his ten years old form. Two separate from his parent, one king Fluixon and the other one king saparata. Few steps further he came into the paintings as well, young, naive, sitting on his father's lap smiling for whatever reason too old to remember. Those three person paintings lasted for two more until two other toddlers were added in, one smiling, brown hair falling on his forehead spreading shadow across his purple eyes, standing in the front carefully holding ash’s hand, and another with exact same face but white hair sitting on saparata’s lap, expression mostly confused unlike wifies. He stand still for a while, almost touching the edge of it before reminding himself to move on and check what's going on.
Walking down the stairs to main hall, he saw it. An infant wrapped in a white cloth resting in his dad's arms. Short, bright purple hair brush against his right arm while their small face buried against his chest. They were breathing softly, probably sleep for a while now and hopefully until morning.
“What the fu_”
“Language, young man.”
Saps was quick to interrupt him before he could finish what he was about to say.
“Also, good morning.”
“Morning…and welcome back.”
Then there was the awkward silence, the kind that no one dared to break. They were supposed to be a five people family. Ash know he was wanted when he was born, it wasn't an accident, buth Saparata and Fluixon agreed to bring him into world using some kind of magic he haven't known yet until this day. Wifies and planet were also kinda wanted, they were born because their parents wanted to test a few things with magic and cloning stuff, leading to them being bringed into life, planet with domain gen of Saps and wifies with domain gen of Fluixon while having the exact same beta model. After that, both parent decided their family was big enough. So he didn't know how this one happened. What? The kid Just randomly popped out of air?
“Can we talk about…that?”
“Right. So basically, Fluixon thought It was a good idea to use his powers too much and then this one just popped out of air. I wish I was joking. But I’m not. ”
Maybe yes. He had no idea that was even an option_ or could happend at all to be fair.
They were cute though.
“What are you naming them?”
“I was thinking, wemmbu would suit him.”
So it was another brother.
≻───── ⋆✩⋆ ─────≺
Wifies walked down a path between trees followed by a ray of sunlight, laugh and giggles of two young boy echoed in the back of his mind as he took more steps forward, each step closer to a distance memory.
Memory of him and planet sitting on their not so well hidden ‘secret base’ playing kingdom, memory of them decorating trees around their little base using flower crowns they spend hours making, few times bringing wato and ken there as well to help them upgrade it, memory of a twin he no longer had with him after one day disappearing into air.
There was no note, no loud sound, no goodbye. Not even his room was changed four years ago after he suddenly wasn't there anymore. His mind went toward the youngest brother wemmbu, who is seven years old by now and was three that time. He wondered if he even remembered him. Was he aware that he had three older brothers instead of two? Or every time he run past the castle’s hallway, laying his eyes on old paintings, will he wonder who that white haired boy was?
Wifies found himself visiting their ‘secret base’ deep inside jungle everytime he had chance to. There was no doubt, it's silence was comfortable, away from duty of being prince, away from chaos of castle, from everyone. He could just sit there, think, and no one would find him out here except maybe his wolf and cat hybrid friend. Or he thought, before witnessing a pair of green, blue, red and yellow wings at the entrance of base.
“Hello?” He said carefully.
The parrot hybrid seems to notice him as he turn around to face him, now he could see, behind him were two more people, one a fox hybrid and another a cockatiel hybrid with sunglasses. He looked like he was around his age, maybe younger by one years.
“oh. Hey, are you the owner of this base?” Green haired boy asked, one hand hovering above the bow behind his back as if getting ready to shoot him is he meant harm.
“You can say that.”
They likely did not recognized him, wifies assume they were either from a city really really far from capital, or completely a whole different empire/ kingdom. Hearing the answer, parrot hybrid’s hands fell to his sides
“my name is Parrot, and those two are my friends, theo and dean, we travel around overworld together.” he paused, looking at base and back to wifies “is it possible for you to let us stay here for a while? We don't have much to offer but we can take missions or_”
“You said you travel around overworld?”
“Yeah?”
Wifies thought for bit, those guys might be able to help him search for planet, maybe even finding him, considering they know a lot about this server.
“I won't take anything from you, but in return, i would like to join you in your travels.”
The three looked at each other, then smiled.
“Sure”