BXBX NOVEL Chapter 980: Meeting Between The Past And Future
"Eh?!"
Both were shocked, and indeed, I was waiting for such a reaction myself, honestly. Both were too cute together! Little Titania lost her shyness for a bit, slowly descending towards us and looking at her own future self.
At the same time, Titania remained unmoving, glancing at the girl in front of her. There might have been a million questions inside their heads right now, but sadly it wasn't like we could just tell everything yet.
"I-Is that another fairy like me?!" Little Titania asked.
"Is she… my younger self?" Titania asked.
"Wait, younger self? Me? Am I going to grow up to be such a pretty lady?!"
"Y-You are indeed my younger self, only I at that age would have ever acted like this…"
Titania facepalmed, as her little past self glanced at her and then at us curiously.
"What's happening? I didn't know you had a fairy with you! I am sure you can enter, please enter!" Baby Titania allowed us to enter the barrier without problems.
As easy as that!
I can't believe it, this ended being quite simpler than I imagined.
At the end, as we made our way inside the barrier with everyone else, with the help of all my friends, we explained everything to Titania, and her younger self.
Unlike Mercedes, little Titania took this surprisingly well, maybe because she was a child and didn't have that much common sense or experience to think something implausible, or suddenly begin to doubt her own sense of self either.
"Please come in, come in! You're all welcome in my little palace!"
She welcomed us inside a huge palace made of wood and stone right below the tree. There, we found countless little divine beasts, children of the three divine beasts. Large Onyx Crows, a Colony of Walking Mushrooms, and also Violet Snakes.
And of course, their parents also appeared. Saphee, Huginn, and Terra. Which were immense, much bigger than we remember their Boss forms to ever be! They emanated glowing, divine auras, and were quite smart as well, with sharp gazes, they didn't trust us so easily.
Until my own Familiars appeared, looking much different than them after having been revived and evolved into brand-new beings with newer powers and abilities. However, the original ones were so shocked they remained paralyzed watching the others, as if looking at weird mirrors of themselves.
"Shaaah!" However, the original Saphee immediately got along with my Saphee, as she rubbed her nose on the other.
"CRAAH!" The two Huginn cried loudly and then started leaping around one another.
"Guh…?" Meanwhile, the two Terra… well, the looked at one another.
"I can't believe it! You even have like, adult versions of my friends!" Little Titania said. "It's so cool you come from the future!"
"Y-Yes, I suppose so." Titania nodded.
There was something we didn't talked out loud, which I told Titania through our telepathy, that this was a Divine Dungeon that was somehow simulating a fragment of the past's memories. So this might not truly be the past, but a replication of the past. Nonetheless, it was as real as it could get most of the time.
"Ah, Saphee, everyone…" Titania, however, still felt moved when she saw her Divine Familiars before being corrupted, and before being revived by me. "I missed you so much… I thought I would never see your true selves anymore."
"True selves? But what are those guys then?" Wondered little Titania.
"Well… I suppose it is fair we can tell you what might happen in the future, it is something we can prevent after all." I said, as Titania nodded while petting Saphee's head and kissing her snout a lot.
"My lovely Saphee, mooch, mooch! You're my cutie little baby…" Titania, however, nodded but still stayed with Saphee for a bit. Huginn and Terra were also given pettings and kisses. Though all three of them were more like confused than anything, tilting their heads as they received the affection of a stranger to them.
"Titania!" I called her. "Come on now."
"A-Ah, yes!" Titania finally sat down.
We were currently sitting around a huge wooden table, Titania's "babies" as she called them, which were many plant monsters, brought us tea and fruit to drink and eat. Titania joined the conversation as we spoke about the future, and the reason we came here. It took a few more minutes.
"S-So that's… What will happen? It's way too sad! I can't let that happen!" She cried. "I want to help!"
"Then can you help us?" Asked Titania to her younger self. "We require to make some sort of connection with Yggdrasil, one strong enough to supply us with a part of her Divine Spirit powers, so we can overpower the Domain of Miasma from the Demon King Continent."
"I-I want to help yes, but I don't know if I can do that…" Baby Titania sighed. "Mama is the one that must judge us first, but it is complicated. She's sleeping right now, sometimes she goes to sleep for a while."
"Is there a way to wake her up?" I asked.
"Maybe…" Titania said. "Maybe if something happens, if you show her that you are strong and need her help? Sometimes when I cried a lot, she would wake up and comfort me. Mommy is very sleepy, but she always helps when needed!"
"Hmm, so we need to prove her that we are worthy, is that what you're trying to say?" My daughter wondered.
"That's like those stories where a hero comes to ask the help of a magical creature, but the creature ask them to show their worthiness by slaying a monster." Anna said. "Yep, I can tell where this is going…"
"Good idea!" Little Titania nodded. "Yeah, that! Maybe if you slay something that's been annoying mama for a while we could gain her attention."
"Something?" I wondered. "Is it a miasmic creature by any chance?!"
"Oh, no, not that. But it is a monster, a very annoying one!" Titania said, the baby one.
"Ah yes, I guess I never went into details." Adult Titania said. "This Continent might not have any demon king threat right now, but still, there were many annoying monsters through my childhood I had to deal with, with the help of my divine beast friends."