Fatherhood arc.

> "I love you my daughter, and I will tear myself appart until the last chunk of me to protect you" - Sapo to Ruby while she was asleep.
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> Fatherhood arc
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> Cognition filter Sapo laying down on a green field with a sleeping Ruby.
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> ### Participants
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> Sapo[1], Ruby.
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> ### Non-Participants
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> Deimos[2], villagers.
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> Outcome
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> ### Achievments
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> Witch hunter succesfully taunted Sapo using Ruby, forcing Sapo to regain his need for improvement.
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> ### Casualties
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> None
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> ### Special Events
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> Sapo and Ruby form a bond, Ruby learns.
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> Arc Info
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> ### Start
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> June 2020
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> ### End
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> July 2020
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> ### Location
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> Terrabloom and outskirts
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> Prior and Next Arcs
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> ### Arcs
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> Sapo's writings < Fatherhood arc >
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Sapo finds a shapeshifter wolf in a crater and decides to take care of it.

## Prelude

Sapo follows Deimospark and Tr3ks into a new place, building his own house and becoming a silent farmer close to Deimospark's village.

## Tell-A-Story

### Fatherhood.

As Sapo crossed the bridge into Deimos' village to ask the citizens about where he was, Sapo instead saw Deimospark around the village's lake, dipping his toes in the water. Sapo steading his backpack where the wolf was, approached him. "Hey man." he saluted while walking closer to him.

"Hi." Deimospark turns around to face Sapo425.

Sapo follows the convo. "Could you help me with something that requires investigation? also how are you."

"Okay, also yea I'm good." Deimospark responded.

While heading to Deimos' labs, Sapo decided to give more information about his request. "Now that we are closing in, I would like to fill some information as to why this, I found a blazing wolf born from the fight between a fire dragon and ice dragon, but it might be more than that."

"Go on."

"Well..." Sapo moved his backpack to the front and decided to touch a bit of the wolf's fur, the fur extended over Sapo's hand trying to strangle it, but the fur fell off before doing anything. "It doesnt quite have ice and fire properties as oneself would expect."

Almost in light speed Sapo had cut the fur carefully.

"From all the stuff that we have seen this isn't really that strange to be honest, if you really want to find out stuff about it we can go check but it most likely wont be anything new." Deimos said.

"Well I hope its nothing too special, another dog will come in handy for me and I indeed want to have a closer inspection." Sapo smiled softly.

"Not gonna be so happy when he burns your house down by sneezing." Deimospark pointed.

"Nothing some good speed reaction can't solve, don't worry." Sapo425 assured.

While the duo was entering the lab the wolf suddenly woke up, struggling, it made it out Sapo's backpack, but was quickly catched by Sapo, the wolf in a struggle attempt expulsed hardened fur spikes, making Sapo take one step back to prevent any projectiles getting him, this temporarily made Sapo lose the grip on the wolf.

Deimospark quickly reacted by shooting the wolf with a sleeping dart, the animal didn't struggle much after and fell asleep again. "I finally got to use this." Deimospark chuckled and with his body he formed a small drumset "Badum, tsss." Then the drumset disappeared inside his body.

Sapo lifted the wolf's dormant body and gave it to Deimospark so he could inspect the wolf's properties

"You dont mind waiting right?" Deimos said to Sapo while smiling.

Sapo sighed. "Do what you must."

Deimospark entered the thick doors of his lab, leaving Sapo to stay by himself in the small hallway, Sapo played with his fingers, suppressing his other counterparts' emotions, he then felt asleep.

"**Hello...**" A soft voice said. "**Uhm, this is kind of sudden and I'm sorry... but please take this gift, you deserve it, it isn't close to repairing anything I know, I apologize, I can't stay here too long, he is closing in... bye.**" the calming voice disappeared, and Sapo's never ending nightmares flowed again, like a rainstorm.

A loud noise was heard and Sapo awakened, instantly cleaning his cold sweat.

Deimospark oblivious, spoke. "Be very careful with this spicy dog, he's very similair in many aspects to me, for now heres what you can do to take care of him, feed him from a distance so he forms a small bond with you, play with him while still being at a distance and do not bring him inside unless you want your house trashed." Deimospark lectured and added. "Also hes not like any regular wolf, treat him more like if he was your baby."

Sapo got up and carried the wolf slowly back to his backpack. "Thanks brother, I will follow your advice closely." He said and then waved at him, before disappearing in a blink. He then appeared again to give Deimospark a redberry cheesecake slice, to then leave for good this time.

Sapo sat down close to his tomato farm, the fluffy wolf resting in his arms, his smile twitching, his face sweating and his body shaking, if his eyes were visible they would be wide open. "A-a... A BABY????" he stuttered.

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Sapo let the wolf lay down in the cool grass, went to his chicken farm and cleaned one chicken body for the wolf, in a small wooden plate Sapo put down the food, not too long after, the wolf, a bit trippy woke up to eat. Sapo cautiosly looked from afar monitoring even the slightest move, but the wolf clearly noticed him, the wolf tried to swiftly escape but in a lightning shot, the wolf found itself suspended from the ground and in the hands of Sapo.

"Look pup, I just want to give you food, so can you not escape? I desire no harm." Sapo said while holding the wolf face to face.

The wolf softly whimpered but didn't attack back, Sapo slowly put it down and made it follow him right next to the chicken farm, just to check if the wolf was still hungry.

As Sapo had expected, the wolf put a fierce look on them, but instead of breathing heavily and taking its tongue out like his two dogs had, it was instead very modest, quietly staring at them like an eagle. "Welp say no more." Sapo said, he proceeded to skin another chicken and lead the wolf to the plate again, so it could eat again, this time the wolf was in a less pressured pose and allowed Sapo to be just a small bit closer.

"I know I promised Deimos not to but, really don't wanna leave this pup outside, so I'm bringing it in." Sapo talked to himself while crossing his arms.

Once Sapo lead the wolf inside his house, he let the wolf suit itself, and by that its instead running to the kitchen and staying right next to the cooking pot, not moving from there and becoming a bit smaller.

Sapo again, assaulted by curiosity about Deimospark's words, he consulted his bookshelf, quickly grabbing the language book Phobos gave him some days ago, he moved to the start of it, the alphabet, he approached the wolf and made sure it was looking at him, with his finger Sapo pointed to the A. "A." Sapo pronounced.

The wolf twisted its muzzle, its jaw quenching, but still managed to let out a fairly misspronounced. "A..."

Sapo was shocked, not really because of the letter's pronunciation, but the voice, it was the most soothening, soft and hesitating voice he had ever heard, merging many femenine traits to it, if the breeze of gentle flowers had an actual voice, this would be it.

"Uhhhh..." Sapo astonished, couldn't decide anything else than just, lock the door, going up the stairs and take some rest, it had been a long day and Sapo was highly exhausted.

He closed his eyes, ready to face his soul-crushing nightmares yet again.

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Sapo had found himself awake, looking at the candle right on top of him, he sat down and was surprised to see the wolf was staring at him, like an owl. "Good morning, box filled with surprises huh?" He got up, adjusted his E.G.O gear, equipped his sword and walked to the stairs below.

Followed by his dogs Sapo harvested the onions, carefully harvested the tomatoes, fed the chickens and grabbed some eggs, took the bridge to Deimospark's village, grabbed milk and returned to his house to accomodate and store his bounty. Upon entering, he was surprised by a large sized wolf hypnotized by the bubbles from the cooking pot, he decided not to interrupt her, and started cooking using the ovens.

As Sapo was baking and finishing the small bits of the process, he started slicing the cake to repair some energy and repair his sugar savings, but in the amidst of it, he immediately noticed one slice was GONE. He oh so slowly turned his head into the wolf's direction, having a non-friendly, infact, menacing smile on his face.

The wolf was firstly munching on the cheesecake with a joyful expression, but started downgrading every tick Sapo looked more directly to her, from joyful to neutral, to a sad one and then a worried one. Sapo took one big breath to then exhale, and faced his slices once again. "I will need to take care of you when the sugar hits."

The sugar did hit, and hit hard, soon enough the wolf seemed actually silly like an average dog, it even ignored the event from a moment ago and started running all over the house, even playing with the other dogs.

"Hey, hey pal, chill out." Sapo softly attempted for the wolf to calm down, but it was no use, it kept running around a lot.

Things were moved an thrown since the wolf elongated herself a lot, but did no major damage to anything.

"Everything that goes up..." Sapo said as the wolf started calming down, until she laid down and got small to consume less energy. "Has to go down..."

Sapo again took the language book, sat right next to the wolf, pointed at the same letter and pronounced "A."

The wolf sat down squinting a bit at the letter and nicely pronounced "A." aswell.

Sapo went around the letters, making the wolf pronounce one by one, and then left her to her own means, he got up and walked to the second floor where he continued his journal for the day.

After some time he decided to get on his afternoon break and by that its also checking up on the wolf, but right after he closed the journal to get up, he sensed something, looking back he saw the wolf trying to replicate her own version of a hand, managing to make a smooth hand but that still contained the paws.

Sapo was amazed, but still not enough, with a look, the wolf gave Sapo the book, this time now to go for something a bit solid, verbs and pronouns.

"Alright girl, verbs." Said Sapo while quickly reading the book. "Verbs are the actions of somebody, having different times and are crucial to every sentence, lets first go for." Sapo then walked around, the wolf looking at his every move. "Walk, now you say it." Sapo instructed.

"Walk!" The wolf said, but didn't act.

Sapo mentally facepalmed. "Walk." and he walked in circles.

"...Walk?" The wolf said hesitating and also walked in circles. Given the goofy situation Sapo laughed and patted the wolf's head.

"Good job." Sapo said.

The wolf deformed its jaw to a more human-like one, making a W with her mouth while closing her eyes, tail wiggling.

Sapo opened his dresser and started searching peacefully, the wolf opened one eye to look at him, with said eye she elongated it to look inside the dresser by curiosity. "Alright there." Sapo finally said, pulling out sunglasses that had a really strong white ink simulating brightness. "Tr3ks gave me these but I pretty much dont need them in the slightest, so they are now- woah."

Sapo looked as the wolf quickly retrieved the eye back into her socket, opening the other eye. "Holy fuck." Sapo shaked his head and cleared his throat. "I think uhm, you will look great with these ones on." He said and put the sunglasses on the wolf's nose matching her eyes.

There was a red-pink glow that pierced through the sunglasses' darkness, Sapo looked at the blue crystals inside his dresser and remembered the Terraverse jewels, within that train of thought he came with an idea. "Since you look like one of them jewels, considering you even have those in your body, I will name you Ruby."

The wolf: Ruby, seemed content with that name, simulating again a W with her mouth closing her eyes, a small fang barely making out of the mouth.

Ruby started toying with the sunglasses, Sapo looked at her with the ghost of a genuine smile. "Language can wait, let's get you some fun."

Sapo grabbed his backpack to then tell Ruby to jump in, Ruby downgraded in size until she became a puppy but denied entering the bag, just the sight of it made her tremble a bit, Sapo understood the situation and just grabbed her, both of them left the house and took the bridge to Deimospark's village.

Sapo entered the village's store and instead of looking by himself he went to the counter, where a young kind looking man was working. "Good afternoon."

The young man quickly looked at him. "Thank you sir, right back at ya, what do you need?"

Sapo put Ruby on the ground, the pup moving slowly somewhere else. "Well uhm, got anything that can entertain children?" The young man raised his eyebrow a bit too much, Sapo cleared his throat. "Kid's toys, for my uh... child?"

The young man sighed. "Yes we have stress-relieving squeaky toys, colorful bouncy balls, marbles, coloring/drawing books with their respective set of crayoons." The young man stopped and made a sightful look on Sapo.

Sapo a bit nervous decided to go for the last one. "Drawing/coloring books with their respective set of of crayoons." Sapo then smiled by courtesy.

"Aye, second hall to the right, bring the item here and pay for it." The young man instructed.

The 'halls' were spaces between each shelf of products, Sapo arrived and by the surprise of his, Ruby was already there. "Well hello there little one."

Ruby kind of jumped but didn't do much other than that, she was just about to munch on some crayoons she already had thrown by herself, Sapo a bit confused started collecting the crayoons and ordering them inside the box they were meant to be in, he then inspected the shelves and found an outstanding book, bright lemon colored 'Let's learn to play read.' Sapo's mind clicked and immediately grabbed it, Ruby following him for protection and curiosity.

He wandered around getting pencils, erasers and sharpeners, to then buy it all, Ruby and Sapo had arrived home, with Sapo a bit ecstasic about teaching Ruby something more kid friendly, instead of a rough language book.

But not yet, he first handed the crayoons to Ruby, making sure she didn't munch them and grabbed a worned notebook from his bookshelf. "Let's draw alright?"

Sapo used some crayoons to draw a very simple, strange looking Ruby, the now normal sized wolf had a shine on her eyes that could bring a smile, she went around on circles a small bit until she sat down, deformed her paws to more human-like ones and started coloring furiously.

Sapo again left Ruby to focus on her work, as he started cooking, while casually looking at his two dogs play outside, he wanted to give Ruby at least a much better food than just raw chicken, but something not as strong as the cheesecake, so he started crafting a much more tasty variation of the raw chicken, while also making food for him and his dogs.

After calling in his dogs and serving them their food, Sapo then grabbed a plate that, for everyone inside the house had a irresistible smell, the dogs wined in protest as they knew it wasn't for them, Ruby's concentration broke as she felt the strong scent of the food. "This is for you lil-lady."

It was not a normal chicken, it was surrounded by something crunchy and was in pieces, accompanied by a white-reddish sauce all over it, Ruby blinked and grabbed one, after munching it, her pupils changed to those of stars, even behind the sunglasses it was entirely visible.

Sapo sat down right next to Ruby with his bread slices that had the same sauce as well, he looked at the notebook, it was a chibi draw of him in a simple green field, stars adorning his head, then a draw of Ruby showing her paw giving some sort of greeting, she was drawn happy, after that it was a draw of Sapo holding his sword, against a... "Huh??" Sapo muttered while chewing, it was a poorly drawn Deimospark in a menacing pose, it was Sapo raising his sword at him with a trembling Ruby right behind him, there was another draw followed by blank pages:

## Ruby's fear

Ruby's last draw for the day

Sapo's smile twitched lightly, he didn't like Ruby's idea of antagonizing his friend, Sapo looked at the wolf, her tail wiggling with a trusting face.

Everyone finished their food with contempt, Sapo left Ruby to study the kid's vocabulary book while he washed the dishes and made a quick clean up of the house.

After finishing it he went right outside into the backyard and laid down there, looking at the beautiful blue sky with puffy clouds, a cold breeze moving the leaves of trees and grass alike in a gentle way.

"Mama." One small voice said. "I at jar."

Sapo got up immediately, looking at a Ruby followed by one of his dogs, raising one big eyebrow.

"Pretty sure I'm a male." He answered. "Do you even know what a jar is?" Sapo asked.

His dog barked and patted Ruby's back, she didn't bark back but nodded, she was carrying the lemon colored book on her back, Ruby then dropped down the book and started scrolling through the pages quickly.

"Mama." Ruby repeated making Sapo sigh. "Me wan knove mor."

"Want know more." Sapo corrected.

Sapo sat down and commanded Ruby to get close to him, the wolf got next to him and tried going for a strangely looking a anthro form, also deforming her paws to oversized human like hands mimicking Sapo's.

Sapo patted Ruby and went through the pages of the book, all afternoon he spent teaching his now child everything the book had to offer, to Ruby's credit, she was a quick learner and managed to make some decent sentences.

Evening passed by and night arrived.

"For homework girl, you'll have to write these letters in normal and cursive, while also doing these drawing lines." Sapo said as they both went inside the house, the dog was since long gone and asleep on the living room's floor.

As Sapo went upstairs to jump onto his bed and Ruby laid in the carpets below, for a large time there was only the sound of a pen writing and crayoons scratching a paper surface, until Ruby looked at the book confused, using her hands to move the book like some silly inspection.

Sapo looked at her facing away his journal while also pausing his writing. "Hm?"

"Wot." Ruby said and raised the book to signal an activity she didn't seem to understand.

Sapo got up and instructed her. "Well you see what you have to do is follow the lines like this." Using his pen he started following the lines that completed an apple, leaving it half way.

Ruby looked at it again with a smile and started realizing the activity, moving her strange hindlegs while doing so.

Sapo got back to his bed, quickly finishing his new part of journal for the day and laying down completely.

Sapo found himself in a dark void, falling down, a small light going away from him, before he was so desperate to catch it, but lately he was indifferent, his will, in all senses was gone, his desire for life gone too, but he couldn't die.

"What is forcing you to keep me alive White smile?" Sapo asked to the nothingness.

There was an ominous laugh and Loresapo was tortured with nightmares again.

Right before waking up, the nightmares halted, Loresapo found himself in a strange abstract room, square made things in a square space made by tiny squares like 3D pixels, strange image looking things filled some places trying to badly simulate a reversed house, images of people flashed here and there and then a simple white smile opened from the ceiling, a black goo-like substance colored all surroundings from the face.

"*Things are about to get funky*." The smile winked. "*But don't you worry my worthless being, I'll make sure you have your moment, I dislike losing after all*."

Then a scrambled image appeared in front of Loresapo, it was hard to tell since it had so many styles, sculpture, newspaper, chalk, etc., nothing was always never anywhere, but it is there, it was "every", if the smile had eyebrows it would've raised one.

"*Stop speaking so loud, it is not too necessary*."

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...The "every" started screaming something, but it was too strange, it repeated itself incessantly, like a broken disc, before it even finished a word correctly, after some time, every started gaining more lucidity, in a rapid pace it became clear as water, a cosmological looking being, it had no form however its physiology proved to have glowing sky-blue eyes.

"Protect him." Every yelled, an incredibly strong imperative tone, every turned back to the white smile. "You will fall soon father."

The smile unanchored from the ceiling and became a full cartoonish body, it was really small, like a young child, he extended a "hand" to destroy the entity, every warped and contorted until it disappeared in a horrifying looking way.

"*It is not that funny*." The white smile moved onto Loresapo and started ripping his body appart.

Sapo jumped awake, breathing heavily, bathed in cold sweat.

He got up and looked at Ruby immediately, she was asleep on the carpet, Sapo grabbed one paw and then he saw himself grabbing Chxrry's eyes, with fear Sapo backed away, hitting himself with the drawer, then he blinked just to see the broken parts of The Red Mist, Sapo covered his mouth suppressing a scream to then quickly ran downstairs, he kicked open the door and was met by monsters, Sapo killed them all immediately, the corpses of the monsters reminded him of his fallen comrades at both Lobotomy Corporation and the Demon slayer corps, shaking and breathing heavily he made it to the river right next to his house, grabbing the grass he felt the memories of his counterpart, more, more memories, everything was too loud.

Sapo vomited on the river by all the nausea stress was causing him, inhaling and exhaling with trouble, Sapo sat on a pile of dirt nearby, the sun was coming up signaling a new day, closing his eyes Sapo mumbled. "It's a new day."

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