I slowly opened my eyes taking in my surroundings. It took me a moment to realize I wasn't back at my old run down apartment I rented from my old life. As soon as I was awake enough I contacted my partner to see how the process went.

"Vapor. Are you awake? Did the process work? Were there any problems?"

I heard her yawn before answering me. "So you are awake young one."

"Young one? What gives with the new title?"

She snorted, "What else would I call a fellow dragon?"

"Wait it worked? I'm a dragon now?"

"That you are, everything went as you had hoped and it does feel like you have your protection from falling. The only thing I am not sure of is how it will affect your transformation when you activate your sacred gear."

"Well no time like the present. Let's fire this puppy up and take it for a test spin." This got a roaring laugh from Vapor at my child like behavior. Well I am in a 12 year old body.

I raised my left arm into the sky while focusing my energy into it and yelled, "Night Terrors come to me!"

A bright light exploded from my body and as it died down I looked and was amazed at what I saw. I was covered from head to toe in what as can best be described as a grey assassin's armor complete with my dual Berettas on my shoulder and both kukuri on my back. I have never felt this much power in all my life, I didn't think it was possible to feel this alive. I tested out my vectors picking up things in my room and moving them around and setting them down in a different spots. I went invisible for what felt like 3 mins before I was forced to come out of it, I will have to work to increase my time it looks like. Then the real test came, I summoned my Angel wings and was surprised to see I had the most beautiful golden wings. They were large and the plumes spread out like a fan. The ends of them swayed and moved as if blowing in the wind. They became more transparent as they got towards the tips of them. I asked Vapor if this is one of the side effects.

"That is indeed a side effect young one, and even tho you can see your vectors, no one else will be able to as they are now ghostly too."

"Hell Yeah!" I yelled making Vapor snort again in laughter. Then the last thing I need to test is to make sure I can't fall. With my wings summoned I looked into a mirror and told a bald face lie while having naughty thoughts of what I wanted to do to a certain goddess if she would let me. Nope nothing, seems I'm good to go.

"What is your plan now young one?"

"Well I need to train since this worlds level system is completely different than what we are used to, so what do you suggest I do milady?"

Grinning Vapor looked at me, "I will make you into one of the most respected and feared beings to ever walk this world. Those who wish to do evil will tremble at your name and the ladies will swoon at the mere thought of you."

Laughing I bowed deeply and replied, "Then I am in your care, beautiful." With a blush, she told me to follow her into my mindscape and we started working on our future. We spent the next month training my magic at night in my sleep while I worked on my combat skills during the day in the dungeon. I found it was very profitable sneaking around mining all the rare ores while killing the monsters that guarded the nodes. After a month we were rich enough we could live off our contracts and commission from blacksmith patterns I remembered from my old world. We prepared the whole month for my coming out, I figured if I did it right I could help Hestia Familia become more popular.

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As I am walking around town I think back at how hard both Vapor and I have worked for what we want in this life. We sacrificed alot to get where we are. She was with me almost every single day pushing me to be a better man and giving me the advice I needed to invest the seed money given to me at the start of this. We have also gotten alot closer as well.

Before I knew it, I was standing at the gates of a monster fighting tournament, I heard the whispering of all the everyone around me. "Is he new? He is so hot! I wonder if he has a familia? He needs to just go die stupid pretty boy!" Wait, the guys here wish death on me? WTF dude, that's not cool. Then I spotted someone I knew from watching the anime, there she stood, red hair, flat chest, and drunk. Yep, there's Loki. I look around and see many of the other gods and goddess in attendance. Poor Hestia, everyone is bad mouthing her and Bell and looking down on them. Well we are going to change that today hopefully.

I found the sign in table and made my way over to the elf behind the desk.

She looks up at me, "Name, Familia, and what monsters do you want to fight?"

"My name is Keith Gregory, I don't have a familia yet, and I will fight the toughest monster you have here."

The elf looks up at me with slight shock and maybe a little disgust. "You want to fight our top monsters and you don't even have a familia so you don't even have a blessing yet do you?"

"No I haven't found the right place yet, that's why I'm here today and don't worry about me I have trained hard so I can handle myself."

"Well I can't just let you go into a fight with our toughest monsters without some type of proof that you can handle yourself."

I reached into my backpack and pulled out a contract I had with some of the smiths in the tower for mithril and other rare ores. "This should be proof enough, I go into the dungeon daily to gather these ores and fight monsters to train my combat skills."

She takes the contact from me and looks it over for a bit then hands it back to me. "Do you have any idea what your level is at this time?"

"No, as far as I can tell your level system is set up to advance using deeds not experience so there won't be a way to judge my skills until I find my familia."

She nods then looks back up to me, "very well, it's your funeral. Here's your number wait to be called and then enter the center of the ring."

"Great I'll be waiting over there, how long should it take?"

"You should be up in about 5 minutes so don't wonder off or you will lose your chance to fight, understand?"

"Gotcha" I grabbed my backpack and made for the waiting area. I stand by myself and wait to be called when Vapor makes herself known. "Partner are you ready for this?"

"Oh, yeah. I have been training for the past months to make sure we can blow some minds here today. I'm not holding anything back today. Are you ready Vapor?"

"Born ready partner, just remember no need to show them everything just enough to make them want to recruit you." As I was about to agree I heard over the loud speaker, "Keith Gregory to the ring, Keith Gregory." Here we go, no turning back now.

I make my way to the center of the ring and I can see the gods and familias sitting all around the arena. The announcer steps out and starts to hype up the crowd for my fight. "In this corner we have a newcomer by the name of Keith Gregory, he has no familia and we have no information on his fighting skills." I see everyone laughing and pointing. "In this corner we have our hell hound from floor 13." I hear the odds makers yell out, "100 to 1 for the hell hound to win." I walked over and handed him 100,000 vallas. "All of it on me to win." Everyone starts laughing and jeering my way.

"Vapor you ready to show these back woods idiots what a real warrior looks like?"

"Darn straight partner make them eat their words."

Everyone watches as I raise my right hand and yell, "NIGHT TERRORS COME TO ME." You could have heard a pin drop. Everyone shut up and sit down with their mouths hanging wide open. I summoned my wings and then looked at the crowd. "YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE YOU WOULD LIKE TO SAY?" Everyone just shook their heads while I saw Freya lick her lips. I smiled and thought to myself, take a good look goddess, if you want me you are going to have to work for it.

They released the hell hound from it's cage and everyone turned to look at what I would do. I simply drew my kukuris and charged at top speed. When I got to within a few feet of the hell hound it set it's feet and started to release a flume of flames. Everyone was surprised when I went invisible. I side stepped the flames that were sent in my direction and flanked the hell hound. I put everything into a downward chop onto the hell hound's neck. The first strike broke it's back and the follow up severed it's head from it's body causing it to disappear into a cloud of smoke and a crystal to drop to the ground. I dropped my cloak and bent over and retrieved the crystal then turned to the crowd. "You should have taken the odds." I dismissed my wings and started making my way towards the bookie. He gave me his marker for my winnings as I was starting to get surrounded by gods, goddesses, and familia recruiters.

I noticed the crowd parted as Freya made her way towards me. She was dressed way to sexy to be at a tournament, but hey who am I to complain. As she swayed her way towards me I started looking around for Hestia and Bell. They were still in the stands watching from a distance. I didn't notice Freya being so close to me until I felt a small hand land on my shoulder. I turned and looked into her beautiful eyes.

"Hello, my name is Freya. I must say I have never seen you around here before. I saw your wings, are you truly an angel from the heavens?"

"It is a pleasure to meet you goddess, to answer your question, I am part angel. I still have the wings and holy powers of my heavenly brethren."

She looked me up and down for a moment then said. "Yes, you will do just fine. You will become part of my familia."

"Thank you very much for your interest Goddess Freya, but I haven't decided what familia I wish to join yet."

Everyone seemed to be taken back by this, I guess they haven't ever seen anyone turn down Freya before. She looked at me and smiled, "I can give you many more wonderful things that other gods and goddess possibly can. Just swear yourself to me and you will want for nothing ever again."

"Ah, but goddess, I want for nothing now. I have a manor to call home, I have more vallas than I can spend, and as you can see my weapons are far better than what can be bought in Tower Babel, unless of course you were offering something entirely different." I said with a smile.

Silence fell over the crowd, then she started laughing, "Oh, you are just too much. I like you, I will be keeping an eye on you Keith Gregory. Just remember my offer is always open."

"Thank you goddess, I think I am going to start out small at first though, would you happen to know who has the smallest familia at this moment?"

"Oh, that's easy it would be Hestia Familia," the elf who signed me up answered. Freya looked at the poor girl like she was ready to flay her.

"Ah thank you very much. Can you point me in their direction?" The elf gulped and pointed towards Hestia and Bell sitting in the stands. "Thank you, now if you will excuse me I want to meet them and maybe get to know them more." With that I excused myself and headed towards an excited Hestia and smiling Bell.

THERE'S CHAPTER 2, IF FOLKS STILL WANT TO READ THIS STORY I WILL KEEP WRITING IT. IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO SEE CERTAIN PAIRING FOR COUPLES I HAVEN'T DECIDED WHO WILL BE WITH WHO YET SO LET ME KNOW YOUR IDEAS.