"Somehow I have a bad feeling." Bell leaned around the corner and eyed the building on the other side of the street.
For an hour they had observed how many man entered the building, but it was too quiet.
"I haven´t seen any other exit."
"We should be careful."
"Of course, ready?"
"Let´s go."
They crept cautiously to the building, it was too quiet to try an open attack. The building looked like a normal bar with dancing from the outside. Ryuu used some techniques she was not so proud of and unlocked the door silently. It was dark on the inside and they heard no noises.
"Maybe it is a trap?" Bell whispered as softly as he could.
There was a soft knock ... somewhere below them. In the rest of the house there was no one to be found, they checked every room and closet, even the bathroom.
"The basement.."
They continued to sneak, what wasn´t easy for Bell in his armor. After searching for a few minutes, they discovered an open door with stairs that led downward.
"Let me go first." Ryuu held her sword in reverse, as always covered in the bandage.
"Be careful."
Slowly and carefully they went down the stairs, thankfully the steps didn´t creak. The basement was made of stone, like in many houses in Orario. Shelves and barrels stood lined up on the wall, there was nothing suspicious here.
"There..."
One of the bricks in the wall looked like it was slightly pushed back. Bell drew his sword as they stopped in front of the wall and Ryuu pushed softly against the brick. They had expected a loud noise, but as the brick was pushed,
a part of the wall swung backwards in complete silence. It was a hidden door with a stone stair thad led down in a circle.
"Shall we go?"
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Ryuu nodded and together they went down. The stairs led deep down, much deeper than the sewers. After a few minutes they heard silent voices, just as the stairs stopped the round built and went over into a normal stair. Bell and Ryuu looked down into an enormous storage room. About fifty men and one women were down there...but it didn´t looked like there were any strong fighter among them.
As silent as possible, they jumped from the stairs behind some huge boxes and watched the criminals as they worked, they noticed a big gate at the other end of the room.
"No please no! Please let me go!"
A young woman was dragged by a huge man into a corner of the room, where they had built some kind of jail.
"Oy Ed! Do not damage the goods!"
"Yes Ma´am!"
As soon as Bell saw the people that were locked into the cages, he wanted to act, agitated.
"Bell wait...we have to observe to be sure that no traps are here, then we can rescue them."
"Grrr..." It was rare for Ryuu to see Bell so angry, but she understood him.
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"My dear boys! Come come, I have to announce something." The tall woman walked forward and waved to the other people, apparently she was the boss here.
Bell could feel that Ryuu became stiff as they saw, that the woman was an elf...
"You all did excellent work and we will soon get a big profit from that."
The men cheered loudly.
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"But now, we shouldn't forget our manners, we greet our guests. You two there that are hiding behind the boxes, come out."
"!" Bell´s and Ryuu´s eyes widened, they were spotted.
"Shall we attack now, we have no other cho-"
"If you think about attacking us...I wouldn´t do that if I were you...Ed."
"Okay Boss!" The tall men stood between the cages and held an red orb in his hand...an inferno stone.
"The hostages!" Ryuu looked shocked and enraged.
But they had no other choice, so Ryuu stood up and walked slowly into view, Bell followed her shortly after. A murmur went through the crowd as they saw the cloaked figure and the walking armor.
"Well well well...If these aren't the two fiends sabotaging my business here in the district..."
"You are scum!" Ryuu couldn´t stop herself.
"Oh...that is not very nice of you...but talking with a cloak on isn´t either...take it off...or else..."
With a dark face, Ryuu slowly took off her cloak and revealed her face. Some of the men whistled as they saw her.
"What a nice face...I think my men will have fun with you...now would you be so kind and take off your vest and jacket?"
"No."
"Hmm...Ed?"
The man had put down the inferno stone and waited a few dozen meters away with a crossbow, aimed at the stone. His finger wandered to the trigger...
"Stop! I´ll do it..."
They will pay for that! Bell grinded his teeth, he could barely hold back now.
As ordered, Ryuu took off her jacket after that the vest, her upper body was only covered by her shirt now.
"What a nice young woman...maybe I should rather sell you..." Some of the men started to whine. "Hmm...no I think my men deserve some fun with your body...after all we don´t get young elves often."
"You´re an elf yourself! How can you do something like that!"
"Because I follow a greater truth...and now...take all of your clothes off...show us your beautiful body.
"That will not happen..." Bell stepped forward and shielded Ryuu from the lusty eyes of the men, his gauntlets started to glowed fiery, one could literally see his anger.
"Haaa...you two bore me...burn them!"
The three mages that were hidden among the criminals finished the chants they had started as soon as Bell and Ryuu came into view. The criminals jumped out of the way when a roller of fire raced towards the two.
Down here was no way to evade that fire and having a high level or not...fire was still fire.
"No!"
Bell turned around, pulled Ryuu into his arms who made herself as small as possible, then he covered them with his red cape. It was Welf´s idea to make the cape of high quality salamander wool, since the armor was meant to be used with fire magic. That saved Ryuu now, the heat was immense as the fire washed over them, but no flames came in contact with her body.
"Urgh!"
Bell took the full strength of the magic as well as cross-bow bolts that the criminals shot at him. One after another they got stuck in his armor, he hissed in pain, when one hit his arm between the armor and another his side.
"Bell!" Ryuu looked at him fearfully.
"Don´t worry! I can do that! I will protect you!"
Eventually the fire stopped and all of the criminals looked at the smoking figure.
"Oh! You two are still alive! My, thats convenient!"
Bell turned around, still shielding Ryuu with his body, blood dripped from his two wounds and soot fell off his cape. "You will pay for that..."
Ryuu had never seen Bell so threatening, especially since the one he talked to was a woman.
"Ooooh I´m shaking! What will you do-"
The gate behind the criminals started to open.
"Men! It is ti-Bluargh!"
The criminals turned to their boss as her sentence ended in a gargle. A massiv white javelin protruded from her neck, blood splattered everywhere.
Wha-
A faint whisper filled the air as more white javelins were shot at the woman and pierced her, screams filled the air. Ryuu used the distraction to grab her armored vest and put it back on, next would be her cloak.
"What is that? That looks like..!"
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Clack-clack-clack-clack...
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No no no! It can´t be!
An icy shiver ran down their spines...both knew that sound all too well. A sound came echoing towards them...a dry sound like a broken marionette abruptly laughing.
An abnormal sound that no human could made...and it wasn´t a human. The gate at the back had opened completely without making a sound...inside was only darkness...and that sound.
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Clack-clack-clack-clack...
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The men cheered loudly and ran into the darkness, not one of them paid attention to Ryuu, Bell or the hostages...then it came.
Something was lurking in the darkness...a drop of fearful sweat fell from Bell´s chin. Until that day, he and Ryuu were still scared of that special type of monster that were coming out right now.
A white mask floated in the darkness...
Two twisted horns and two black holes hovering in space...a skull sheep...no not one...many more white masks came out of the darkness...
"Why are there monsters in here?" Bell started to run to the cages as the criminals tried to flee into the darkness, the skull sheep ignored most of them, only two were killed and devoured by the monsters.
"I don´t know, hurry!"
The arrived at the cages and broke the locks. "Run!"
The good thing was, there were only ten hostages, in the tumult they managed to run to the stairs...and strangely the skull sheep ignored them completely.
"Bell we have to stop the monster, if they climb up the stairs.."
Ryuu was right, when they escaped from here..many in Orario might die and who knows what else was behind that gate. They asked themselves whether they'd run straight into a trap. But it wasn´t a trap, Bell and Ryuu were just unlucky enough to arrive here right when the attack started.
Most of the criminals were gone by now or dying...blood smeared the floor and the skull sheep, thankfully they had only killed three of them...otherwise it would be a bloodbath and Bell knew he wouldn´t be able to sleep for a long time after seeing that. Ryuu unsheathed Justice Lumina as the first skull sheep ran to her and with one slash, a surprised skull sheep turned to dust. Her sword was very effective against evil and undead monsters, when they went down to the 37th Floor in years, she and Bell were surprised how easily she could defeat the undeads...at least one at a time.
Bell and Ryuu fought side by side, attacking the monsters or defending the other. They had to be very careful, there was blood and rubble in all directions and the ground got slippery.
Right when they managed to secure a small area around them...
"Dooooooooohhhhhhh!"
More monster came through the gate, huge skeletons, one with a spear-, one with an axe-, one with a sword- and one with a club-like bone weapon and a shield in the other hand...these were one of the most dangerous monsters on the 37th Floor.
"Spartoi!"
Four of these huge skeletons came out of the gate and behind them...something even bigger.
"What is that?!"
It looked like a spartoi, but was at least two heads taller than them. It wore a black armor made from obsidian soldier bodies. In one hand it wielded a big shield, in the other a mace made of Obsidian soldier´s body stone.
"An irregular?! We have to bring it down! Firebolt!" Bell raised his arm but...nothing happened.
The mace of the huge spartoi gave of a dark aura.
Ryuu jumped backwards, evaded a skull sheep´s teeth and stabbed it´s magic stone afterwards. "It cancels magic?!"
Why..why why why are there monsters here?! Why those special monsters?!
Bell had a feeling as if their old nightmares came back to haunt them. But he was stronger since the last time and Ryuu was with him and after the huge spartoi came through the gate, no new monsters came. Thankfully the skull sheep had used all their bone lances and were out of projectiles.
We can do this!
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But without magic it was quite difficult, they had to defeat every monster with weapons alone...and all the criminals were slaughtered already, so the monsters concentrated their attacks now on Bell and Ryuu. At least their number hindered them in attacking all at once...and they didn´t go to the stairs.
A skull sheep snapped at Bell, but due to his new status he was faster, he whirled Fairy´s Dawn in his hands and rammed it into the sheep´s throat, dissolving it to ash. When he first fought them at level four, Bell was badly wounded and nearly without gear. The next time, a bit over two years later at level five with Ryuu on his side, it was easier. Now on level six...he should overwhelm them, but two things were against him. Somehow the monsters were stronger than he remembered and...
Ryuu and Bell were still traumatized by the monsters of the 37th Floor. They could fight them, they fought them weeks ago and now they didn´t hesitade...but a hard to describe fear was in them. Things like that happened to adventurers,
some got scared of the whole dungeon, some only of specific Floors or monsters.
Justice Lumina was a white shade as Ryuu slashed with all her skill, first she blocked a bone spear from a Spartoi, then she stepped to the side and beheaded a skull sheep. She was worried about Bell, each time a strong attack came that she couldn´t evade, he stepped in an took the blow with his body or rather his armor. It was the best option to take, the smartest option. Always minimize the damage your party takes. But Bell did that not because it was the smartest option. He wanted to protect Ryuu, he would protect Ryuu at all cost.
No matter how often she scolded him for being to reckless and risking getting hurt...he stepped in with joy to save her. He would argue back that his armor was stronger than hers and that he would be unable to continue fighting when she was hurt.
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One time...only one time since they became a couple they fell into quarrel, in the dungeon. The others kept their distance and waited.
"Bell you are too reckless! You got hurt again!" It was a long time since Ryuu had scolded Bell so strong...she only did it because she was worried
"It isn´t that bad."
"You are bleeding! You don´t have to step in and take the hits for me!"
"I can´t let you get hurt."
"Bell." Ryuu took a deep breath. "I am used to that, I am an adventurer too."
"I can´t..." He looked uneasy, then his voice got louder than he had intended. "I almost lost you once! I will never let you get hurt like this again!" It was probably the only time that Bell ever got loud with Ryuu.
"Bell...I can´t thank you enough for that...but understand me please...I pains me too, seeing the man I love getting hurt..."
"Ryuu I..."
"Promise me to be more careful?"
"I...will try.."
"Thank you, Bell." She smiled lovingly.
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Another thing that was against them, they couldn´t evade how they wanted. Bell and Ryuu were forced to fight with their back to the other, so their strong side, their speed, was gone. They had to block incoming attacks or give the other these small signals that had worked on.
A crashing sound came from the huge Spartoi and some of the skull sheep fell back to make room for his four Spartoi guards. His shield started to glow and something like a dark aura enveloped his the guards. Ryuu and Bell only had to face the Spartoi now, but that was easier said than meant. One raised his battleaxe and as Ryuu used the moment his defence was open and stabbed into his armpit...nothing happened. Justice Lumina was stopped by the aura before she could pierce it, even though it glowed more and more as if the blade was enraged by the evil around it.
Tsk.
Bell had the same problem, he blocked the spear of another Spartoi and evaded the shield to stab upwards, but the aura stopped him too.
This will be a problem!
Normally a level six adventurer in full gear would have not much of a problem dealing with these monsters, but Bell wasn´t that long on level six and he was still about to get used to it.
The difference between five and six were immense, his body reacted much stronger and faster than he was used to. He had an idea how much Ais must have hold back when they trained.
At least the circle around Bell and Ryuu was broken, they withdrew cautiously and made sure the Spartoi stayed ahead of them, instead of getting circled again. The aura around the Spartoi got thicker and it looked like they started to turn black...
"Bell! I have an idea!" Ryuu blocked with her sword the incomming attack of the axe, aura or not, Justice Lumina cracked one of the axe blades.
"What is it?!" Bell countered the sword of another Spartoi with Fairy´s Dawn, the part in his sword reacted too and the sword got damaged.
"Can you fight the Spartoi alone for a moment and give me a gap?!"
"Yes!"
Ryuu let herself fall back, put her sword into her belt and Bell stepped in front of her.
"Come on! I´m here!" I will protect Ryuu at all cost!
Bell took Fairy´s Dawn in his right hand and opened and closed his left gauntlet. The peculiarity of his left gauntlet was, it was bigger than the right one, it was about one and a half times its size on the backside of his hand.
Since Bell was not a fan of shields, he could use the gauntlet to block attacks when he used his sword in one hand or punch with the gauntlet.
It was both, harder and easier to fight four Spartoi at once, they had problems with only one target because of their number and Ryuu had fought often enough together with Bell to stay behind him in a way that the Spartoi couldn´t get behind him.
Just a moment...soon...soon...
Ryuu was highly focussed on the movements of the monsters, not only the Spartoi´s but the Skull sheeps too. The sheeps walked from one side to the other, waiting for the attack signal of their master.
As she crouched down, the memory came to her.
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"Kaguya! What did you do?! That was reckless!"
"Ts ts ts little one...the word you wanted to use was "amazing" or "beautiful"." Her friend sheathed her sword again.
"You could have gotten hurt!"
"Oho? Are you worried about me, little one?"
"I have a name!"
"Right right...Lion."
"Grml..."
"Hehe...you are so easy to tease."
"But still...what was that just now?"
"A special technique of mine, "The wandering tales of Shana-oh, part one."."
Alise´s voice came from the side. "The name is from her homeland not from her."
"Alise, silence!"
"Hehe, sorry!"...
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Kaguya...I hope you watch, I´ll try to do you credit.
It was the only part of the tale that Ryuu had ever learned, the others were too difficult and dangerous for someone who was not a true master of the quickdraw.
She also only learned the first part of the technique´s name, the second part was in the language of Kaguya´s homeland. Ryuu never understood why a technique needs such a long name.
Everything that Ryuu saw, were movements...in her perception they were getting slower and slower, her focus rose. One of the Spartoi tried to hit Bell with his shield and-
Now!
"BELL!"
Ryuu sprinted as fast as she could past Bell, rolled beneath the rising shield and jumped. She was too fast for the monsters to react, right in her path was a skull sheep, instead of slaying it, Ryuu jumped on it´s back.
"Clack Clack!" Since it couldn´t scream, it clacked indignantly.
Without loosing time, Ryuu jumped forward using the sheep as a stepping stone. A second sheep moved to the side and Ryuu stepped on it´s back, kicking herself off and jumping onto a third sheep.
All or nothing!
The irregular Spartoi was only a few meters away, slowly turning his head to her, her whole jumping part only took three seconds. Ryuu kicked herself off, put her right hand on the handle of Justice Lumina, pulled up her legs and...
Ryuu swore she could hear Kaguya´s voice beside hers.
The wandering tales of Shana-oh...part one!
The wandering tales of Shana-oh...part one!
The Spartoi´s head swung around, Justice Lumina became a white flash as Ryuu drew it and slashed in the same movement. The nature of Ryuu´s sword did not tolerate something evil or undead, so the sword cut right through the Spartoi´s neck and Ryuu flew past him.
"Gurg?"
The giant Spartoi stopped confused...then his head fell off his shoulders and with a small explosion it turned into dust. The magical effect stopped immediately.
Back in the Mansion, Cassandra woke up, her heart raced, the last prophecy was just being fulfilled. She was sure of it, now it would begin...Chaos.
"Firebolt!"
"Gra!"
One of the Spartoi had enough time to scream as Bell atomized it´s head. Ryuu landed on the ground, whirled around and jumped to the confused skull sheep. Slash after slash, attack after attack more dust fell to the ground.
Ryuu jumped and kicked with all her strength into the hollow of the knee of a Spartoi, the skeleton came down and fell with his face right into Bell´s sword.
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It was over.
Puffing and panting both stood in the remains of the monsters.
"That...was...amazing...!"
"I...would...still...call...it...reckless.." But Ryuu smiled.
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"Well done...well done you two..."
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Bell and Ryuu turned around, panting.
A tall figure with a dark robe and a staff in the right hand stood in the dark gate and watched them.
"Who are you?!" Ryuu readied herself.
"Please don´t...I don´t mean you two harm."
"Did you just send the monsters?"
"Yes...but I didn´t thought someone else would be here...thank you for freeing the hostages...and sorry for bringing you in danger."
"Who are you?" Bell repeated Ryuu´s question.
"Someone who doesn´t want you two to get hurt...you are not my targets."
"Targets?"
"Yes..for my revenge...I can´t tell you more...except...please leave this city and take your beloved ones with you."
"Why?"
"I don´t want uninvolved to get hurt...for what will follow."
Ryuu thought about her friends. "You mean Orario harm?"
"Yes."
She got into fighting stance. "Then we will stop you."
The figure raised the staff. "Please...you two don´t belong to "them"...and you are too young to be part of it "that" time...I don´t want to hurt you...step aside."
"Not happening.." Bell raised his sword.
"Don't make me do it!"
But Bell and Ryuu didn´t moved.
*Sigh* "Then...you leave me no choice...I´m sorry.."
Without any gesture, chant or warning, a black beam shot out of the staff right onto Ryuu.
"Ryuu!" Out of instinct, Bell jumped forward and rammed Ryuu with his shoulder out of the way...the beam hit him at full strength.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
An immense pain shot through Bell, like no pain ever before. In a second, Bell´s chestplate, his helmet and the magical suit that turned him invisible dissolved into dust, together with his shirt.
"Bell!" Ryuu rushed to his side...just as the aura around Bell vanished.
"Eh ah what?" Bell sat in his underwear and looked confused, the pain was gone and as he patted his bare chest...he was unharmed.
When they looked up, the figure was gone, the gate empty and showed a brick wall.
"What...eh...what just happened?"
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Back in his hideout, Hades took off his hood and looked at the rod. "It pains me that I had to do that...they looked so innocent...I´m sorry you two..."
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After they returned to the Mansion, the intervention force of the Ganesha Familia secured the building...this time Ryuu talked to Shakti and told her what happened, Bell went to the box he got from Fels.
"Bell I´m worried...are you feeling well?"
He had accidentely dropped his sword and one of his gauntlets onto the floor with a loud crash.
"So far yes...wait a moment please."
After looking for a moment, he found the item he seeked, it was a tiny cube with a small lens on one side.
"What is this?"
"Mr. Fels wrote that this cube can detect harmful magic, the lens turns red then."
Bell put the cube onto his chest and waited for a moment...nothing happened.
"Is this magic item safe? Does it work?"
"I tried it a few times, so far it worked."
"Hmmm..Bell, thank you for what you did...but..."
"I know that you are worried Ryuu...but I won´t say sorry." He was adamant about that subject.
"Okay..." Ryuu walked to Bell and placed her hands on his shoulders. "I´m just glad you are sa-"
"Bell! Ryuu! Are you allri-!" In that moment Hestia pushed the door open, she had heard when they came back and was worried because of the loud sounds, she thought that intruders attacked them.
Hestia stopped with red cheeks as she saw that scene. Her little Bell only in his underwear and parts of his armor still on...about to get hugged by Ryuu.
"Wh-Wh-What kind of play ist that?! Oh ehm...sorry for disturbing..." Hestia closed the door silently.
Ryuu and Bell looked at each other for a moment, then they understood what Hestia had guesses as she saw them like that.
""Lady Hestia/Goddess you are wrong!""
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That night, Bell didn´t slept well...it was not because of pain or nightmares...it was because...
"Bssssss..."
"Bssssss..."
Bell tried to hit the mosquito that flew around his ear for the hundreth time, she just didn´t want to let him sleep. For once Ryuu didn´t slept in his arms, after he tried to scare away the mosquito again and again, she apologized but said she was tired and slept on her side of the bed. She emphasized extra that she wasn´t angry about him moving so much.
In addition, she had put on special earmuffs, since an elves ears were really sensitive, it was more than unpleasant for them to get stung by a mosquito.
"Bssssss..."
Please...sting me and let me sleeeeeep!
But...
"Bssssss..."
Bell had dark circles under his eyes as the sun finally came up...at least he took a bit of pride in it that he had protected Ryuu´s body from the mosquito when he finally killed it...
I´m so tired...
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As Ryuu sat up in the bed and took off the earmuffs, he could see that she looked tired too, she hadn´t slept well not because of Bell´s moving...she had missed his body warmth and his arms around her.
"Morning..."
"Morning..."
Both smiled tired and shared a short morning kiss. Ryuu put her forehead against his chest and smiled with closed eyes, she really enjoyed the body contact...at least until she opened her eyes.
"!" With a bright red face she turned her back to Bell and looked at the wall.
"Ryuu?"
"B-Bell...there.."
"Hm? Where?"
"U-Underwear!"
Bell looked down at himself, then he got red too, his underwear had slipped down a bit and revealed a morning phenomenon of men in all of it´s glory.
As he got up on his knees and hastily tried to adjust his underwear, he lost his balance, fell forward and pushed Ryuu down by accident.
"Ah!"
Ryuu landed on her back, Bell on his side, his face near her hips and...his hips turned to her now steaming face and..."it" twitched.
"Eeeeeeeeeeep!" Ryuu´s face was never before that red...so were her ears.
"S-Sorry!" He turned himself around, while Ryuu covered her eyes with her hands.
"Ah..n-no problem..."
Seeing Bell´s "sword" standing proud as the first thing in the morning...and pointed at her face from a close distance...that was a bit much for Ryuu...at least both were fully awake now.
That was the first time Ryuu had seen "it" from that close...
"W-We should probably head to the bathroom and go down for breakfast."
"Y-Yeah..."
I hope this day won´t get any worse...
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Bell never had so much bad luck in such a short time.
And it just wouldn´t end here...
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When they wanted to take out the clothes they would wear for the day...Bell opened by mistake the wrong drawer...it was the one with Ryuu´s underwear...
"B-Bell!" She came rushed over and her face got red again.
"Sorry! I swear this isn´t on purpose!"
"I-I know...you aren´t like that..." Her heart pounded fast...Bell had almost seen the underwear she got from Syr...
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Just as they were about to leave the room...Bell bumped his little toe on a dresser...and rolled on the floor whimpering, while he hold his toe.
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In the bathroom it didn´t go any better for him...at first the water from the water tap had too much force and it splashed onto his shirt...then as he washed his hands, his sleeve slipped down and got wet too.
What is hapenniiiiiing!
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After that, nothing happened anymore and they could go down to have breakfast with the Familia´s.
"Ms. Haruhime, could you please give me the milk bottle?"
"Here master Bell." Smiling, Haruhime reached him the bottle.
"Thank you."
Bell tried to open the bottle but the lid stuck. "Hrngh!" He used just a tiny bit of force...but...since Haruhime was still leaned forward...
Splat!
"Kya!"
Haruhime squeezed her eyes shut and flinched back slightly, as milk hit her face.
"Ah..." She opened her eyes, many milk drops stained her face and some dripped from her chin.
"S-So much of master Bell´s white stuff hauuu...master Bell..d-do you like this kind of play?..." Shyly she averted her red face.
"L-Lady Haruhime what are you saying!" Mikoto took panicked a napkin and patted Haruhime´s face."
"What?! N-No! H-Hey why are you all looking at me? It was an accident!"
"""Giiiiii..."""
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Over the day many more accidents happened to Bell, at least he could give Ryuu a goodbye kiss as she went to her work at the pub without anything happen.
It was better for him not to go to the dungeon today so he helped with the house work...or at least wanted to.
First he made Welf cry as he told him that big parts of his armor had dissolved into nothing.
Then he was yelled at by Lily, he wanted to bring her tea but he slipped and poured it over her paperwork.
Hestia also went to work and was relieved for the first time in her life, not to be near Bell.
When he wanted to help in the kitchen, he stumbled and bumped against Mikoto, pinning her between him and a wall...right when Takemikazuchi walked in.
Many many more accidents happened and it got only worse...eventually Bell decided to just go into his and Ryuu´s room and take a nap...everyone felt relieved when he made that decision.
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If Bell were cursed by a real "evil" god who meant harm to him, things might not have been so...simply.
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But when he took his nap...the change came.
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Bell rolled around in his sleep...somehow he felt hot.
im..
He felt more heat and started to sweat.
aim...
What is that?
Maim...
What?!
Maim...kill...burn...
Bell´s face twisted, he was in pain.
Maim...Kill...Burn...
With a headache like he never had one before, Bell woke up. His head throbbed painfully.
"Ah...Au...what...is this..." Bell pressed his hands onto his forehead.
Maim...Kill...Burn...
He heard a voice in his head.
Maim...Kill...Burn...
The headache only got worse, when he took on of his hands off his forehead...he saw blood in the palm of his hand.
"Wha-"
In panick he felt his forehead and...felt two hard bumps...
MAIM...KILL...BURN!
The voice screamed in his head now...moaning from pain Bell got up from his bed...then his mind became blurry...
Somehow he stumbled down the street ... and bumped into someone...a werewolf that he knew...what was the name ag-
MAIM...KILL...BURN!
"Oy you rabbit?! What´s wrong with you heh? Can´t you look were you g-Aaaaah!"
Bell just wanted Bete to go away, his headache was killing him...but instead of pushing him lightly out of the way, he catapulted Bete into the next wall.
His vision got blurry again.
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Wh-Where am I?
An old abandoned ruined church...his...old home?
MAIM...KILL...BURN!
What are those screams! Who is that?!
MAIM..KI-...Me? Better ask who are you..or better we.
What What What? WHO ARE YOU?!
His head hurt more and more...and got heavier...
We...not me...we are the avatar of destruction...
Bell folded forward..the bumps in his head grew into...horns...
It hurts, it hurts, it hurts!
We...are the living calamity...
"Ah...Ah...Aaaaaah" Pain pain and more pain raced through Bell´s body...he fell on his hands...who started to produce black scales...his spine burned like fire...he heard his pants tear..
We...
"Aaaaaah!" His shirt tore apart...something came out of his back.
are...
"Raaaaah!" Bell´s shoes exploded as his feet grew...claws...
the...
"No no No please no!" His shirt ripped as his torso swole.
Chaos...
"Please...stop!" Bell´s voice became more and more inhuman.
Emperor...
"I...RARGH!" All of Bell´s clothes tore from his body as he fell forward and started to grow...scales coming out of his skin everywhere...a long tail grew from his spine and two large wings from his back...his head became longer...
DRAGON!...
What rose in the ruins and kept growing was no longer Bell Cranel...it was a black dragon with fiery red eyes and a mane of white hair at the back of his head.
"GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" The howl he let out, faded that of Asterios from the past...all of Orario heard that cataclysmic scream.
MAIM...KILL...BURN!...MAIM...KILL...BURN!...MAIM...KILL...BURN!...MAIM...KILL...BURN!...MAIM...KILL...BURN!...
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At the same time the earth under Orario started to quake...as somethinge titanic moved thorugh it.
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The end was here.
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Authors Note: So it begins... Hey thanks again for the Reviews. I still have plans with Ais, she will be important and so will Ryuu...and many more characters.