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It has been about two months since Wemmbu was captured. Everyday, him, Babblu, Zam, and Fanst were in the ravine having to mine for gold. Lettuce had decided that manual labor was a fair punishment before his execution. Lucky for them they still got food, because right now was lunch break.
“Do you really think that guy's house burnt down?” Fantst asked, stuffing his face.
“I mean, Lettuce did let him go home. He even hired a new chef,” Bablue paused to take another spoon full of soup, “I’m not complaining though, this is fire!”
Zam was about to say something but Wemmbu clutched his stomach as if he was gonna barf, catching the others attention.
“Umm, are you okay?” Zam asked
After a few seconds Wemmbu finally spat out “Go…go g-get let-” before promptly passing out.
Immediately Zan rushed forward to catch him before he hit the floor. Baablu and Fantst rushed to get a guard.
About 5 minutes later Lettuce and Loppezz walked in followed by two very worried axolotl hybrids behind them. As Loppezz loudly complained about how this better be worth their time Zam quickly shushed everyone. And what everyone saw next made them freeze.
Instead of the overly-confident, sarcastic, and powerful guy they are all used to, they were met with the face of a child that could be no older than 2 sleeping peacefully in Zam's arms. The kid was a light lavender, far different than the rich purple Wemmbu usually was. The normally huge horns that glowed like crying obsidian, were now little stubs on the top of his head the color of coarse fruit.
“Whoa, who's the kid? And where did Wemmbu go?” Fantst whispered, earning him a smack on the head from his brother.
“I… um, I , this!” Zam states frantically, “He started shaking and glowing and now I have this!” Zam just raised the child up to emphasize his point.
Lettuce just sighed while Loppezz somehow looked more confused.
“Literally How? You guys just said he just passed out!” Loppezz yelled
“How could this have even happened?” Lettuce said, letting out a sigh. Then a crash came from the kitchen and you could tell something clicked in lettuce’s mind as he yelled for guards to restrain the chef.
Unfortunately, all the commotion woke up a tiny sleeping Wemmbu. The small child woke up with a jolt and looked around the room, his eyes landing on Loppezz.
“Nope, nuh uh, not happening” she said backing up as the child continued to stare.
Instead of crawling to her like she thought would happen, the kid just stared. It looked like he was trying to memorise every detail of the scene in front of him. Then a tiny barely noticeable noise came from him “help”
Zam, Fantst, and Baablu, being the only ones close enough to hear him, all looked confused.
“Did he just say help?” Baablue asked, getting a quick nod from Zam in response.
“Hey there little guy, do you need anything?” Zam asked while moving forward a little, crouching to be at the kids level.
That seemed to scare Wemmbu as he flinched and started to frantically shake his head no. That just leads to even more confusion from the surrounding adults. But before they could ask anything more, Loppezz got a notification from her communicator. It was a death message
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“Huh, wasn't that the chef?” Fantst asks.
Before anyone can answer Lettuce and two guards burst into the room. They had a bundle that seemed to have the chef's inventory in it.
“The chef jumped out of the back window trying to escape but didn’t land the clutch,” Lettuce said as he dug around in the bundle, “One of the guards on the lower levels was able to find this.” He pulled out an empty potion bottle with the name tags letters glitching, It had a small amount of yellow liquid at the bottom.
“Hey wait, we know that potion!” Both axolotl brothers exclaimed at the same time. “We found that potion while looting a base awhile back, Baablu dared me to drink it and it turned me into a kid!”
“Yes, it was amazing to have my little brother be little again,” Babblu added with a laugh, “The potion was weird but we think it works like this. It turns the person into a child for 2 days, each day the person's mental and physical state changes to right after an important event happens. I think it skipcounts the ages by 2 ‘cuz Fantst turned 2 for 2 days then 4 then 6 then 8 all the way until he was back to normal. I think the only important thing to mention is the fact that they only remember what they knew at that age, so Wemmbu probably won't know any of us for a while.”
“Say, Zam, I think you have known Wemmbu the longest,” Lettuce stated “Am I correct?”
“Um, yes, When I meet him he said he was 16, just old enough to join me,” Zam said, “So we will have to take care of him for a while since I think he would be about 24 now”
With a sigh Lettuce said, “I guess were stuck babysitting”