"Giiiiii..."
"Ahm..."
"Giiiii..."
"Bell?"
"Giiiii..."
Ah...I feel purified just by looking into his eyes...my little angel is so cute...
"B-Bell, is something?"
Alfia looked a bit troubled, Bell was watching her from up close, sitting on the couch next to her. Zeus couldn´t help but chuckle, trying to stop himself from bursting into a loud laugh. It sparked joy in him to see how easily Bell was able to make Alfia flustered...as far as he knew, Bell was the only man that ever managed to do that...at least so easily. Especially when he adored her like that. Even when he himself tried to peek on Alfia together with Bell´s father, she didn´t got flustered...just angry.
"That was so cool, Mom!"
"Huh?"
"How you destroyed the avalanche! Was that magic? Are you a mage? Are you able to do magic tricks? Are you an adventurer? Are you strong?"
Alfia was nearly blinded by the pure, sparkling shine in Bell´s eyes...and how much he admired her.
"Magic...tricks?"
"Ahahahaha!"
Zeus slapped his thigh and laughed, he couldn't help it.
"B-Be quiet, old man."
Bell kept beaming at his cool Mom.
I guess I have no choice.
"Bell.."
"Yes?!"
He is so excited...so cute...
Bell was the cutest and most precious thing in the world for Alfia.
"Bell, yes I can use magic. But I am no adventurer."
At least not anymore.
"It looked so cool!"
"And I only did it because you were in danger...my little darling."
"I have the coolest Mom ever! How did you learn magic? Was it hard?"
"Let´s say it wasn´t easy."
"Woah!"
Alfia turned more aorund to Bell and gently took his hands.
"Bell?"
"Yes?"
"Would it be okay with you, if we wait until I explain it to you? For now I would like to just tell you, that my magic is only for emergencies, okay?"
"Okay! I will wait!"
Her heart wanted to melt by his grin. Alfia would need time to decide what exactly to tell Bell, when to tell him and how...she also wanted to talk with Zeus before that.
"Hehe, I really love you, my little hero."
"And I love you, Mom!"
Bell grinned to Zeus. "And I love grandpa!"
"And I love my grandson...and your Mom of course."
Zeus winked when he saw Alfia becoming more red. Bell admired his Mom so much, that he insisted of reading the story of Alfia with her again, about the fight against the Leviathan. He still had no clue that the heroine of the story was really her.
And when he went to bed this night, Bell read the second story of this book on his own, about the gold fured fox priestess.
And far away in the far east..at the same time but early in the morning...a small fox girl read a hero story at the same time, about Argonaut...her favorite book.
At the same time, both thought about something.
I want to meet someone like her one day.
I want to meet someone like him one day.
It was four days before someone framed her for eating an offering...which would bring her on her fated course towards Orario...
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And while Bell kept admiring his awesome, cool Mom, things happened in Orario too.
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Astrea looked up from her desk when she heard a soft knock from her door.
"Come in."
The door got opened and a green haired young woman looked inside.
"Lady Astrea, do you have a moment?"
"Ryu, for you always. What do you need my dear?"
Ryu walked inside and closed the door behind her, when she turned to Astrea, she stopped for a tiny moment. The reason was something in front of Astrea, aside from her paperwork, there was a tiny figure there. A figure that looked very much like a certain god with an elephant mask on his face.
The gods called a figure like this a "chiby", he had his hands on his hips and was grinning in his usual way.
"Hm?" Oh, hehe, you haven´t seen it, right? It was a gift from Ganesha, it´s kind of cute."
Astrea gently tapped the head of the figure.
"I am Ganesha!" The voice from the god came from the figure, but a bit higher than usual.
"Ehehe." Astrea giggled.
"Uhm...why would god Ganesha gift you something like that?"
"Oh he wanted to give one to every god at the last Denatus. But most of the others declined his offer."
In fact, only Astrea had taken the figure.
"Hah...well okay."
"So, what do you wanted, Ryu?"
Ryu took a deep breath, to steel herself.
"I wanted to ask you something important, lady Astrea."
"Hm?"
"It is..about "that"."
"That" was the maid uniform that Ryu had to wear after she ran away from home. Astrea liked it so much that she asked Ryu to wear it again at the last "birthday" of the goddess. The Familia celebrated the day when Astrea came down from heaven, they called it her birthday, since they had no better name.
The Familia really adored their goddess...and Ryu when she looked like that. But it was extremely embarrassing for the young elf, since the others enjoyed teasing her a bit.
Eventually Ryu had asked Astrea if not one of the others could wear this uniform for once...so she would be spared. Astrea had thought a while about this and said it would be a good idea, this could become a form of punishment in their Familia, for doing bad things. The goddess liked the idea of seeing her adorable children in maid clothes.
But...so far only Ryu wore it, not even once did it one of the others.
"Oh "that", right. My birthday is coming up again, hehe, I´m looking forward to it."
"Right..."
"Ryu?"
"Lady Astrea...please answer my question...why...did non of the others ever wore it? I...I will wear it for your birthday if you want me to...but..."
"Oh Ryu...hah...I thought that this day would come..."
"Lady Astrea?"
"It is because non of the others ever wore this uniform, right?"
Ryu looked very uneasy, by no means she wanted to accuse her goddess of breaking her word.
"Yes..."
Astrea sighed, she looked a little bit depressed.
"Ryu...I hoped this day would never come...I wanted...to spare you that..."
"Lady Astrea, please tell me."
"I...can´t...I´m sorry Ryu."
"But why? Is it because of what I did? Are you still mad?"
"It isn´t because of that, trust me."
"Then why? I can´t think about any other reason than that. You said it would be a form of punishment in our Familia and yet I am the only one wearing it. So...you want to punish only me?"
Ryu looked really sad now.
"No, Ryu! Please believe me, it isn´t because of that!"
"Then why? Did I do anything wrong? Do you all love to tease me that much? Have you...maybe...stopped to see me as a warrior after I sullied my honor? That I was blacklisted?"
"Dear goodness, no! Ryu you are still my precious daughter, like all the others! But I can´t tell you the reason...please...I..."
"Lady Astrea?"
Astrea looked down for a moment, played with the Ganesha doll with her fingers for a moment, it helped her often.
"I can´t tell you the reason...it would...hurt you."
"Hurt me?"
"Yes..."
Ryu´s ears dropped...if that wouldn´t happen because she was sad, Astrea would think about that being so cute.
"So it really is a secret...something I am not allowed to know...that you still hold a grudge against me."
Astrea put down the Ganesha doll near the edge of her table.
"Ryu, please believe me when I tell you, I swear on justice, we hold no grudge against you. The whole Familia loves you very much and the others just don´t want to hurt you."
"Then why? Please tell me!"
"I can´t...it would hurt you...I don´t want to hurt you..."
Ryu had small tears in her eyes, she didn´t wanted to talk with her goddess like that.
"Lady Astrea, please! Please tell me the reason, I have to know it!"
"It would hurt you!"
"I can deal with that!"
"I don´t want to hurt you!"
"You won´t hurt me! Please!"
Astrea´s heart broke when she saw the begging in Ryu´s eyes.
"Are you...sure?"
"Yes, absolutely."
"Fine..."
Astrea took a few deep breaths.
"Ryu..."
"Lady Astrea..."
"The reason why they don´t wear the uniform like you do is..."
"Yes?"
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"The uniform is way too tight around their chests, they all complained about that."
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"..."
"Ryu?"
Astrea looked worried at her child, Ryu´s expression had gone blank.
"Ryu? My dear?"
"R-Ryu?"
"Kuuuh..."
Tears gathered in Ryu´s eyes, she was seventeen now...but it was unlikely that her body would develop much more...it was unusual for elves in the first place to be...well endowed. If Astrea thought about it, the only real exception she knew was Loki´s elf, Riveria.
"Ryu...my sweety...I didn´t wanted to tell you...because..."
Ryu was as purehearted as a maiden could be, she said herself that it didn´t mattered if her chest wasn´t that big...but deep inside her...she would be glad to have a little bit more...to be a bit more womanly...
"Kuuuh..."
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And of course things had to get worse for the poor elf. By chance, the amazon Iska walked past Astrea´s door when she met Alise there. Both, Astrea and Ryu heard what they talked about.
"Oh captain, good to see you here."
"Hm, what´s wrong Iska?"
"Here, your package. I went to get my weapon from the Hephaistos Familia and they asked me if I would take your order with me."
"Ah, thank you so much! It´s finally here."
"What did you order?"
"A new chestplate."
"Oooh that lookes good, adamantite?"
"Yes, pure adamantite, hehe."
"It´s bigger than your old one, right?"
"Yeah...my old one got too tight around my chest."
"Oh, I know that problem... When I went out today, Kaguya accompanied me on my way for a while, she needs new bras again."
"Well, the luxury problem of being a woman, hm?"
"You are right."
Both continued to chat while they went away.
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"Kuuuuuuh..."
"R-Ryu? Sweety?"
Astrea saw that Ryu was crying...it hurt her pride as a woman.
Ryu´s instinct took over, she wanted to jump up and run to her room.
"Ryu, please wa-unf!"
Astrea got up too fast...Ryu saw what happened. Her goddess leaned forward and due to that movement...her large chest knocked over her mug...and something else happened.
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"I am Ganesha!"
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The voice of the doll came again...muffled since it got stuck in Astrea´s cleavage.
"Oh no...my chest got in the way again..."
Astrea pulled the grinning doll out between her breasts...was it just her or grinned the doll more than before?
"Kuuuuuuuh!"
"R-Ryu?! I-It isn´t what you think, I didn´t tried to mock you! The size of your chest isn´t important!"
Ryu slopped down to her knees and sobbed. Hearing Astrea say that was the same as when a rich person told her that money didn´t mattered...
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"Et tu, lady Astrea?"
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In the home of the Ganesha Familia "Iam Ganesha", the sturdy god suddenly started to cry.
"Ganesha? What is wrong?"
"I feel like I missed something incredible just now, Shakti! Something heavenly soft!"
"Huh?"
"I can feel it, all around my body!"
"What are you talking about..."
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But the Astrea Familia didn´t only had silly things happen. Their fate had changed, most of the Familia was alive. And due to their fate changing, the fate of other people would change too.
One evening Astrea asked two of her children to come to her room.
"Thank you for coming, you two."
Ryu glanced to her right side, Kaguya stood there in her usual outfit. She wasn't kidding with what she said to Ryu. Kaguya wore a hakama instead of a kimono now. The side with her silver arm hung down, the sleeve along her leg. She also wore bindings around her chest to protect her from looks. Kaguya was the only person Ryu knew to openly display her silver limb. She had even begun to draw fine lines on her arm in Far Eastern ink, reaching down to her shoulder. On the one hand, that covered up the spot where metal went into flesh a little, on the other hand, there was another reason. According to her, tattoos were frowned upon in her home country, which was mostly given to criminals or crooks. As far as Ryu knew, Kaguya was originally of quite high status in her home country or her clan. So apparently she took great pleasure in being a "bad girl".
"We always follow your wishes, lady Astrea."
"Indeed."
Unusually for her, Astrea had a slight grim look on her face.
"I have talked with Ganesha for a while now and we both came to a conclusion. We need...specialists."
"Specialists?" Ryu looked confused.
Kaguya smiled slightly. "I guess you talk about justice work...and yet at the same time not?"
"You are right, Kaguya."
"Eh?" Now the elf was even more confused.
"Leon, you never heard about my family...my clan from back home, right?"
"You mean, the Gojouno clan? No, except from the name I know nothing...you never talked about it."
"And you probably won´t ever hear much about it. I will just say...my former clan is doing "dark jobs" for the goddess Amaterasu."
"Dark jobs?"
"Yes, it is one of the great families in the far east, some have the job of protection, others do other things. and the Gojounos...jobs like espionage, torture for informations, assassination...things you don't want to associate with the sun goddess."
"How cruel..."
"Not necessarily."
Astrea nodded with a grim face.
"And that is why I called you two. There are some dangers in Orario that we can´t get rid off openly, but they are too dangerous to be left alone. I will not ask you two to become assassins, but take care of some hidden problems. The plan is to expose the crimes of certain people so that Ganesha's Familia can arrest them and have them tried publicly. I'm talking about things like human trafficking, slavery and forced prostitution."
Kaguya nodded. "I am your woman, lady Astrea."
"Ahm...I understand that Kaguya was knowledge about this...but why me? Is it because...I..."
Astrea shook her head, while Kaguya sighed, both smiled.
"I need someone to watch Kaguya´s back, to help her, fight with her when necessary."
"I understand but..."
"Ryu you have a problem with doing such hidden things, right? You suffer from what you have done, right?"
"Yes."
"And that is the reason why you are the perfect partner for Kaguya."
"Huh?"
"Do you know what a naysayer is?"
"Ahm..."
Kaguya winked to Ryu. "She wants you to argue every decision we have to make during our job. That you will always be the voice of "Bright Justice", while I have to think about what to do as "Dark Justice", that you will help me to not lose sight of what justice means."
Astrea nodded. "Exactly."
"Alright, I will work together with Kaguya."
Together these two would do the work that the Astrea Familia couldn´t achieve openly. Most of the time it was about asking people things while they were incognito and make the crimes of certain people public. Syr, who found it incredibly exciting, helped Ryu at her "detective work", later they would give lots of trouble to a certain casino.
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And since the fate of the Astrea Familia changed, the fate of other people also changed.
One day the whole Familia sat in the big living room...something was about to change. Astrea had talked with her children that now, a bit over two years after the incident with the Juggernaut, they would start to recruit new members for the Familia, those who were worthy of Justice.
And now...the day came where they would greet their first new members...the Familia would still remain complete female.
There was something special about Astrea, a certain race was "drawn" to the goddess of justice. A race that had normally problems with most of the gods and thought of them as pleasure seekers. But Astrea and a blue haired hunter goddess were much different.
Those of that race who were a bit...more rigorous were more interested in joining Artemis´ Familia. But those with a more open mind and tolerance...were interested in Astrea. But the biggest difference between the two Familias, was that Astrea didn´t forbid her children to seek for a partner, fall in love and marry.
In fact, Lyra had dated Finn of the Loki Familia for a while...but they were just too different...a fact that would make a still young amazon very happy in the future.
"So, please greet our first new member."
The girl that entered the room...was an elf. She deep green eyes and moderately long blonde hair that she wore tied back and bangs that flew to the middle of her forehead. The young elf was at the point between being called a girl and a young woman, she was fourteen years old...older than Ryu when she joined the Familia.
"I-I am Laurier, p-pleased to meet you all!"
Laurier was visibly nervous, but everyone greeted her politely. Ryu was a bit nervous too, since Astrea told her before she would now become a big sister too, like her fellow Familia members were. Laurier would become happy in the Astrea Familia, since they weren´t wiped out, she would never join the Hermes Familia...and Astrea would never ask Laurier to do jobs that went against her nature, like stealing informations to blackmail people...like Hermes would have done.
As the captian, Alise greeted her before the others, but didn´t offered her hand to Laurier.
"I know that you elves don´t like getting touched, we will wait until you are ready on your own."
Alise winked and Laurier already started to like her captain.
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"And now for our second new member, please come in."
No reaction.
Astrea smiled gently and went out of the door.
"It´s okay my dear, they will welcome you, don´t be afraid."
"Okay..."
Three things caught the attention of the members of the Astrea Familia as the young lady entered the room. Her pointy ears...her red eyes...and her black hair. It was an elf of the same age als Laurier...the other elves of the Familia knew what black hair usually meant...that this girl was "cursed" ever since birth.
"I am...F-Filvis...Filvis Challia..."
It wasn´t easy for this poor girl to trust someone, since most people...especially elves...reduced her to her haircolor...and what it meant.
The first one that greeted her wasn´t Alise...someone else got to her feet faster.
"My fellow elf."
Filvis looked up to Ryu, who was a bit taller than her...but not much.
Ryu smiled warmly. "I offer you my warmest welcomes to our familia. Rest assured, neither I nor anyone here cares about your hair color."
Laurier, who had sat down next to Ryu by instinct, got up to her feet and also greeted Filvis.
"I-I also don´t care a-about your hair color!"
Filvis was a bit taken aback, she wasn´t used to that behaviour towards her.
"Leon...it´s usually my right as the captain to greet her first...but I guess it was important for you all. So, Filvis, welcome to our Familia."
Alise winked, while the others smiled.
Astrea leaned slightly towards Filvis´ ear and whispered.
"See? I told you."
Filvis didn´t said much, just because she wasn´t used people not resenting her.
"Th-Thank you for having me..."
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While the life of Laurier wouldn´t change much, the fate of Filvis Challia had changed completely. Since she joined the Astrea Familia, she would never be on the Floor with the other adventurers when the corrupted spirit tentacles attacked and killed them. The core would never put into her body, she would never become a creature or join the Dionysus Familia.
Due to the question that led to Alfia deciding to live and save the Astrea Familia...Filvis Challia´s life would be spared and she would get the chance to become happy.
In the end her hair color would mean nothing and just be an unusual hair color. .
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These two wouldn´t be the only elves that joined the Astrea Familia, all in all it would be six elves later...Ryu becoming something of the "elven captain", since she was the oldest elf in the Familia, she would become even more of a big sister for them than the other Familia members.
Two years later from that point in time, another elf would join the Familia.
She would become the best friend of Filvis, later sharing a room with her. That elf was an honor student at the academy in Orario, two gods invited her to join their Familias. One was Loki, the other Astrea. Due to Astrea being there, that young elf took her offer...since she felt a bit unwell about Loki...that looked way too carefree. She would have joined the Loki Familia if Astrea wouldn´t be there...the main reason would be the high elf Riveria. Loki would lament to the goddess of justice for snatching away her prey...which only made the young elf happy to have chosen the justice Familia.
Her name was...Lefiya Viridis.
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But it were still two years to this point.
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""Bell, happy birthday!""
The young boy smiled happily, it was his tenth birthday, Alfia was in the village for nearly three years now.
"Thank you so much!"
Bell was really happy, he loved to spend time with his grandfather and Mom, every day was pure bliss for the young boy. Two presents were on the table in front of him, wrapped in paper, one was long and the other more a bundle.
A birthday cake was on the table and in the kitchen the food was prepared for later. Alfia had done her absolute best to make this cake, since Bell didn´t liked sweetness that much, she had to think about something else. She found out that Bell liked fresh fruits, when they weren´t too sweet.
So instead of adding sugar, Alfia used finely sliced carrots and fresh fruits for the cake...Bell loved it.
Zeus knew that he loved more the fact that it was made by his Mom...but the tase was really good. He was amazed how good Alfia had become at cooking...all for her little sweety.
To make both happy, Bell changed the order in which he opened his presents every year. This year, Alfia´s came first.
Carefully he started to unwrap his present and his eyes shone more and more.
"Woah! It looks so good!"
Alfia had worked a long time to make the long red cloth for Bell, he could wrap it around his waist and wear it like a belt. Together with the black, scarf like cape she made for him, Bell could look pretty close to his hero, Argonaut.
"Mooom! I love you!"
Bell jumped up with the red cloth in his right hand, landed on the couch and gave Alfia a kiss on the cheek...that alone made all of her work worth it.
"Ehe and I love you, Sweety."
"Hehe."
But Bell didn´t forgot his grandfather, so he carefully put the cloth down on the table and started to unwrap the long present, even Alfia didn´t knew what was inside.
"WOOOOOAH!"
Bell´s eyes shone...literally.
It was a sword. Zeus had carved a wooden sword for Bell. It wasn´t a simple carving, what Zeus had produced was a masterpiece, the details were amazing, the only thing that made it look different from a real sword, was that it was made from wood.
"Graaaandpaaaa! I love you!"
Zeus got a kiss on his cheek too and grinned.
"Now you can look like a real hero."
At first Alfia wanted to complain to Zeus, that gifting a weapon to a child was not right. But when she saw Bell´s happy face...she decided otherwise. All that mattered was that Bell was happy...and it wasn´t a real weapon, a wooden sword wouldn´t harm him...at least she hoped so.
Alfia didn´t knew that Zeus had a present hidden in his room, a present that Bell would only get in a few years if he wanted to have it...a present that the god had for several hundreds of years now and always took good care of it...nothing was good enough for Bell.
The present was also long and hard...and sharp...very sharp.
"I´m going to get my scarf!"
Bell put the sword on the couch and ran to his room.
"I hope you made sure that the edges aren´t sharp?"
"Of course and don't worry about splinters, I sanded the wood neatly and sealed it with varnish."
"Is that the reason why the blade part looks so dark?"
"I wanted to give it a slight metalic look, so it's more immersive for him."
Alfia allowed herself a slight smirk.
"You really became a good grandfather."
"Right back at you, Mommy."
"Grandpa, Mom, look!"
When they turned around to Bell, Zeus´ eyes started to shine.
Hehe...you always liked that look back then.
Bell had wrapped the red cloth around his waist, wore his long black scarf and held the wooden sword in his hands.
"You look really heroic, Sweety."
Alfia knelt down in front of Bell and adjusted the red cloth for him.
"Do I look like Argonaut?!"
"Very much I have to say." Zeus grinned.
Bell had a bright, innocent smile on his lips.
"But Bell, please be careful when you play with your sword, okay? And please don´t do it in the house. Promise me?"
"Yes, Mom!"
"Shall we eat some cake?"
"Yeeees!"
Bell carefully put his sword on the table, he would wear his small hero outfit for the whole day and play a lot with his grandfather and Mom. Zeus dressed himself up with a bit of hay and other things, to look a bit like a monster. He used two short ground branches that he tied to his head with a leather thong to look a bit like a certain monster.
They didn´t needed to ask Alfia twice to join their little play outside, Bell´s happy laughter and smiles brought her so much joy...he was her very reason to live.
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"Please save me, hero."
"Grooooo!"
"I will save you, Mo-..Princess!"
Maybe it was a bit embarrassing for Alfia, but as long as it made Bell...her son...happy, she did it with joy. She wore a simple, white dress and sat next to a tree strump, a small rope was put loose around her wrists. Zeus pretended to be a Minotaur that had captured the Princess, and Bell...he played the role of his hero Argonaut.
While Zeus was well padded with straw and clothing, he was still cautious. Still a kid, Bell could get a little overzealous...even when he was careful. Of course, Bell didn't have the strength to hurt Zeus...it was just a game anyway. Bell's sword strokes were overly heroic and would be unsuitable for a normal fight, but it looked good...in his opinion.
The little boy was having the time of his life.
"Groooo!"
"You will not devour the pretty, young Princess! I will defeat you, evil fiend!"
Alfia got a bit red, she got praised before during her time in Orario, but it made her only happy when Bell did that...especially when he called her young. Zeus was proud of him, on an instinctive level Bell understood what to praise on a woman.
On this day, Bell saved the princess four times and he received a kiss on the cheek everytime from Alfia.
Around noon, they took a break since Bell was lying on the ground, panting from playing so much, but he never looked more happy before. When they returned to the house for now, Zeus showed Bell how to wash and take care of his most precious possessions. And Alfia was busy in the kitchen, for his birthday she would make his favorite food...rabbit stew. Since Alfia moved to the village and growled at every wolf and other predators when they took a walk, these animals had moved away more from the village. For them it was like a female dragon had moved in there and declared her absolute dominance in this territory.
And due to that, the bunny population exploded. There was much food here and no predators...so it got a bit troubling for the village. They did their best to defend their vegetables. In the end they made a virtue out of necessity...there wasn't usually much meat for the villagers as cows and chickens were very valuable. But thanks to the rabbits...there was meat on the table regularly.
So the villagers made sure that the bunny population didn't increase too much, that would also become a problem for the animals. Alfia herself went hunting occasionally, making sure that any arrow she used was instantly fatal so as not to torment the animals. In this way, they also gently taught Bell where meat came from and that they had a duty to follow certain rules while hunting. They used almost everything from the animals, taking the fur to one of the villagers who knew how to process it. The winters became all the more bearable because there was no shortage of winter clothing. Of course, no one could have known that Alfia was the reason for the rapid increase in bunny numbers.
And since they didn´t wanted to waste the meat, Alfia trained to cook this meat. Bunny in garlic sauce, bunny with mushrooms, roast bunny, stewed bunny, grilled bunny... and many more ways she learned to cook.
Bell got to love this meat, even more because it was Alfia who made it...his love for his Mom knew no end.
But bunny stew was his favorite, so she made it for him whenever he asked.
She had to admit...Alfia´s weakpoint was Bell...whatever he asked or whenever...she did it for him. And Bell´s weakpoint was her, he swore to her he would absolutely do everything to protect his Mom.
"I want to be your hero, Mom!"
"My little Sweety...you are my hero."
"Hehe!"
"A-And what about me?..."
"Of course your hero too, Grandfather!"
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And then two years later on his twelth birthday...about the same time when Lefiya Viridis joined the Astrea Familia...something happened that would change Bell´s fate a bit more.
A slip of the tongue...that would help two people in the end, since Alfia and Zeus never knew how to start to talk with Bell about a certain theme.
While Alfia was busy cleaning the house...she heard a noise that was...unpleasant to her.
Crash!
Something in the house broke...and shortly after she heard two voices.
"Oh oh..."
"Oh oh indeed..."
While Alfia was a really loving mother and would do everything to protect her little boy...she was also strict at some times...because she feared he might go astray or turn into a deliquent if she was too casual about his upbringing.
One time Alfia had a bad dream, that she had looked for Bell after calling him to come to eat dinner. In her dream she found him wearing the clothes of a ruffian with a coat, squatting on the ground and talking with a deliquent friend.
"Ha, my Mom called me for dinner, but I´m just gonna chill and eat two potato snacks...and I will just throw the paper on the ground."
"Woah dude...you are such a bad boy."
Alfia had woken up from her nightmare, drenched in cold sweat.
And that was the reason why she was strict sometimes and punished Bell lightly when he deserved it...like for breaking promises...like not playing with his sword in the house.
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Stomp...stomp...stomp...
"Oh oh..."
"Oh oh indeed..."
Zeus looked as uneasy as Bell, they had played in the house and Bell had accidentally caught and broken a vase with his wooden sword.
"Grandfather, what are we going to do?"
Both felt more the approaching shadow...or storm...that came from the kitchen.
Zeus carefully lifted Bell up and held him on his arm.
"Listen to me Bell, a man must not run away. If he makes a woman angry, he was to face that anger."
"Okay..."
In truth...Zeus wanted to use Bell as a "shield"...he knew that Alfia was weak to Bell´s sad face or puppy eyes. When she appeared from the kitchen, it looked like she was Medusa herself...as if her hair was alive and waved around her head.
"Bell...Old man...what did I told you two? What did you promised me?..."
"Fueh..."
Bell clung to his grandfather.
"Bell...be a man, we will stand up for our mistake."
"Mom...I´m sorry..."
Alfia´s anger vanished a bit...she wouldn´t punish Bell fiercly...that was something she just couldn´t...her heart forbid it, but give him a small punishment when he deserved it.
And due to her nature of not liking loud noises, Alfia had pretty sensitive ears...so she heard the old man mumble.
"Phew...looks like the Bell shield works..."
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"Be quiet, Zeus! How dare you use Bell like that!"
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Bell looked confused up to his grandfather. "Zeus?"
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Zeus blinked a few times, then he looked at Alfia who clapped her hands in front of her mouth in shock.
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The cat was out of the bag...
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Now these two would have a lot to explain...a lot.
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Authors Note: Many many thanks again for all these Reviews. I am happy that you like this story, I think Alfia deserves all the love she gets from Bell.
A word first about Laurier, Filvis and Lefiya. I thought it would just make sense when some people in Orario wouldn´t end in the same Familia as in the original story, since Astrea is still in Orario. You will all read later why I write so much about the Astrea Familia.
To answer questions again.
So to make it clear again. Alfia won´t fall for Zeus, nor will she have sex with him. I have maybe someone planned for Alfia later in the story, but I have to think about it if I will really do it, since many people send me messages that they wouldn´t be too happy with Alfia having someone. It wouldn´t be a big part of the story anyway, just wanted to give her a bit happiness, but since I´m focussing on Bell, maybe it´s enough that she is just his mom/teacher/mentor. And it isn´t a god and also not Riveria, not even a woman. I doubt that anyone will be able to guess who it will be. If I will do it that is.
EngineerGaming1: About the magic...I will say no and yes at the same time, confusing I know, but it will make sense later.
Perve: No, Bell won´t have sex with Alfia, like never ever. I mean she is basically his mother.
Since I get a few question if they will behave one way or the other because greek stuff, please remember that the "greek gods" in Danmachi are a bit different from our world.
Also Bell and Alfia aren´t greek even when Zeus is the king of Olympus.
Next chapter is "Elf (S)layer" for the Ero story, after that spirit child again.