Merry Christmas! I hope that this multichapter makes your day and that you love this gift. Hopefully, I'll have chapter two that should focus a little bit more on the twins written out and posted soon! So I decided to give it my all for the cool!Bell story where he's slowly clued in to all of the girls liking him except three, and naturally, I started off with the hot springs scene and Loki. Hopefully, I wrote that well. I can just imagine Loki teasing him like no tomorrow despite the fact that he ran away screaming or rather more to that fact. She can make him remarkably flustered with her sudden and attentive attention though. I hope that every chapter of it becomes just a little something to brighten your days. I hope that you have a very blessed day and that every day closer to Christmas gets just a little bit better and more exciting. I've never gifted a multichapter to anyone for Christmas, and I hope that this is the gift that keeps on giving.
It was a relatively ordinary day for Bell; he'd just came back from the dungeon and managed to drop down through several floors after roughly five, long hours in the dungeon though the fact that he was more than a little sore and tired from it, covered in the blood of his enemies.
He followed a well worn trail that he'd never really followed before, but it seemed like a very pretty and relaxing trail through the woods outside of town.
Bell knew that with whatever sprang up in case it really wasn't safe, he could take down with a simple swing of his Hestia knife.
He smiled at the thought; he loved fighting in the dungeon and as he rapidly grew stronger, he only got better at it.
His ruby red eyes flickered to a slight opening of the path that at first he thought was a meadow, but the further he stepped into, the more he realized that it a spring of some sort.
Bell's eyes flickered up, following the noises that his ears picked up on, and found himself staring smack dab at a naked Loki who was laughing and trying to get Aiz to step closer, and Bell gulped when his eyes inevitably traced back over to Aiz that also looked like perfection herself with her blond hair down, and then they flickered to the twins, matching well toned bodies before his mind caught up to what he was seeing,
A scream tore through his throat as he realized that he'd accidentally been checking out the female members of Loki Familia without their permission in the middle of a hot spring that was probably theirs.
No one had thought to try to cover up with towels or anything, and most of their bodies were bared to the cool, forest air.
Bell turned tail and ran as if he'd been a lost dog yelled at quite viciously by his owner which is strangely enough what the young adventurer felt like.
He could fight well in a dungeon, but for him, he was rather hopeless when it came to girls and even more so when they were not wearing a single thing to latch on to decency.
Bell had never been his grandfather, couldn't imagine being him though he did look up to him, and now he felt like he couldn't run fast enough.
He was inevitably fast on his feet from maneuvering around a ton of monsters in the dungeon to come back at them on their blind spots, but yet he didn't feel nearly fast enough, barely managing to jump over sticks and other potential tripping devices in his haste.
He only managed to calm down and take in easy gulps of fresh air once he was halfway through town though really hoped that none of the other girls in town will walk up to him now, because he was half sure he couldn't handle it right now, half bunched over, panting like he'd never breathe again, and sweaty as all can be, mostly just because of nerves and a rather late set of embarrassment.
Bell only realized belatedly that his luck had to be absolutely terrible when at least one of the towel clad females had chased him down; a part of his mind wondered why she couldn't have been wearing a towel earlier and save him from this level of embarrassment.
"So what's the matter? I know that I can be downright irresistible despite whatever Hestia probably tells you." Loki shrugged, and Bell's eyes were lit up under her stare and yet still somewhat nervous.
She was standing before him with a thin veil of a towel, having just beat the twins here, and Bell gulped, trying to find the words to speak to her.
Fighting in dungeons came naturally to him, but women on the other hand, were just as hard to handle as he could imagine.
"L-Loki, Goddess. It's just..." His voice trailed off, and she sent another smirk his way with a casual wink; did his tongue just swell up in his mouth or was that just his nerves?
"It's just?" Her smirk was stubborn, and Bell tried to find the words to respond, he really did.
"I-I don't feel right, catching you all unaware like that. It's improper. You, as a goddess, deserve so much better." The words tumbled out like mini avalanches, and he prayed that they'd stop; he certainly didn't sound right before a goddess no matter how dressed she was, did he?
"How about I give you permission to see me like this?" She fiddled with the towel hiding away her chest, her stomach, and further down; he gulped.
"L-Loki, it's not, I don't think that's best." His red eyes bounced away from her towel clad frame; please don't stare, she might not like that despite what she says.
"Why? Surely, you like what you saw and want to see it again?" Her smirk was back on her face, and Bell's eyes danced up to it which only made his face start to blush again, because despite how common that look on her face was, it was still unbelievably attractive.
"It's just..." Bell's words trailed off before he could stop them from running away, "Loki, Goddess, I just... I'm sorry for looking earlier without your consent." His eyes accidentally dropped to where her towel hid her chest and even though she was perhaps one of the smallest chested goddesses out there, his mouth felt dry from just knowing what was beneath that towel, just knowing that size hadn't been the thing that drew his attention before. She was just, painstakingly beautiful though Bell quickly averted his eyes under the fact that he really shouldn't be staring now, not even if her towel came slightly forward being as close to her chest as it was.
"I would have given it to you anyway." She shrugged, and her towel slipped for a quick, heart stopping second, and Bell could barely catch his breath.
"G-Goddess," Bell wished that there wasn't a strange kind of intimacy to referring to her without her name tacked on, sort of like he know her well, and that this was okay when it really didn't feel like it.
Loki shifted her towel with a sort of ease that drew his eyes again, covering up the small amount of space above her chest that had slipped into view just a second ago.
"Yes?" She now asked him though Bell's tongue still felt kind of heavy, and he was pretty sure that she was teasing him again.
"I-I was going to tell you that your towel fell down a little bit, b-but you already took care of it." His eyes were strictly only on her face, but had her eyes always shone like that when she was teasing someone?
"Oh, so you were looking?" Loki teased, and that self satisfied smirk of hers sent butterflies swirling in Bell's stomach that were beginning to act a little like Minotaurs though he wasn't sure if he could fight off that tempting feeling as well as he could fight off a Minotaur right now.
"N-No." Bell stammered before finding the will to say a few more words, "L-Loki, Goddess."
She smiled at him though it had softened a small amount, leaving Bell's stomach full of floor boss sized butterflies now, because honestly how could he not like the softer look to her face, the genuine affection that he still didn't understand that clung to her face so readily.
"I guess I'll see you around." Loki turned around after sending a casual wink his way, and his eyes shouldn't have been drawn to the way her hips curved when she moved, and her posterior that looked absolutely, way too hidden right now; he tried not to look, had been distracted by the lazy movement, and had to drag his eyes away yet again.
His body was a strange mix of nerves and something else that slithered through him, not unlike a snake, and he found himself too much in a daze to think of leaving that spot that he'd stood in talking to Loki, the goddess of Loki Familia, herself.