Change of Fates

by Ventanus

Sometimes a single question can change the course of fate for many people. "What would you do if you survived what follows?" This is my "What-If?" story about a female mage escaping death and going to visit a certain, white haired boy. Rating M just to be sure. Will contain Spoilers up to Sword Oratoria 12 and Danmachi 15, but with a few changes in a few events.

7. Training start

"Bell, attack me when you are ready."

The wind moved the gras a little bit, Alfia´s open hair waved slightly. She had thought for a long time how to train Bell, even asked Zeus for his opinion. .

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He had simply smiled and shrugged his shoulders. "What can I say. Your whole existence is a cheat to the world anyway, whatever you do it will surely turn out perfect."

"A cheat? What do you mean?"

"I mean look at you. You are an incredible powerful mage, maybe even stronger than the Empress. Yet you are one of the best swordsman I ever saw, even Maxim had massive problems with you, or Zald.
And that together with your speed...don´t you think the skills you have are quite unfair? On top of that you are quite the looker, in fact I know a few goddesses that thought it was unfair."

"Are you trying to praise or mock me, Zeus?"

"Maybe both."

"Grml."

"Hey don´t stare at me like that. I´m sure your glares really can kill. To get back to the topic, Bell couldn´t hope to get a better teacher in the whole world. Just do what you think is right."

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Bell held his wooden sword with both hands, he had learned how to hold it properly over the years of playing hero. Alfia only used her right hand for her sword, not to mock Bell, but it was her favorite style of using it.

Since there was only one person that knew Bell as good as she did, Alfia knew about his temper and what Bell wanted to do in his life. Based on that she had worked on a trainings plan, Alfia wanted to start with something else, but at first she had to show Bell something.

"Attack me with all you have, Bell! Hold nothing back!"

"Daaaaaaah!"

Bell charged forward and raised his sword in a direct attack against Alfia, it didn´t even came close to threaten her, with a dull thud sound, she blocked him.

"Continue!"

"Raaaah!"

As good as the untrained Bell could, he attacked Alfia from various directions, she didn´t moved an inch from her position, just kept blocking him.

"Good, continue!"

The "fight" continued for a while, until Bell was completely sweaty and lowered his sword.

"*Huff**Huff*My fingers *Huff* are numb *Huff*, I can *Huff* barely feel *Huff* my hands. My arms *Huff*are so heavy.*Huff**Huff*"

"And you are completely out of breath, Swe-...Bell."

While it hurt her very much, Alfia wouldn´t call Bell her sweety during training, that was really hard for her. She watched how he lowered his sword more and more, put the tip onto the ground to lean on it.

"Pff...Pff...Pff..."

"You did well, Bell."

"Really? Pff..."

"Yes, you passed the first test and learned something."

"Is that so?"

"Yes, come, let us sit down then I will explain it to you."

"Okay, Mom."

"Ahem!"

"I´m sorry. Okay, teacher."

Alfia smiled. "Better."

Both sat down, Alfia wore wide pants and a shirt for the training, to wear her dress would let her feel that she mocked Bell. And no one mocked her little angel, not even she herself!

"To learn how to fight isn´t that easy, you have to understand a few things."

"Okay."

"At first, you notice that you are completely out of breath."

"Because I am untrained?"

"No, because you breathed wrong."

"Breathed wrong?"

"Yes. This will be our first lecture today after I finished to explain everything to you. Breathing is very important in a fight, an opponent or monster doesn´t need to do anything if you just faint from fighting."

"Makes sense I guess."

"Then the way you swing your sword. It looks good, looks flashy, but it won´t work in a fight. You show too much what you are doing. I don´t say that to make you feel bad, you are untrained and that´s all."

He nodded enthusiastic.

"And you are too eager to attack and don´t watch what your opponent does."

"But you didn´t did anything, Mo-..Teacher."

"Correct."

He looked confused. "But why did you let me attack you when I would make all these mistakes anyway?"

She showed him her motherly, loving, understanding smile that was reserved for him alone in the whole world.

"Because I know you, Sweety."

We aren´t training right now, so it is okay to call him that. Yes, I´m sure it is okay.

"You would have become restless when I told you to sit down and breath. You would have wondered why we are just sitting here and breath without doing anything else. Then we would go through the basics of moving your legs and feet, without tripping."

Bell had indeed tripped a few times during the fight.

"And I would have showed you how to place your hands on your sword and how to swing it. Your fingers hurt because you are too cramped. These lessons will take between one and three weeks, depending on how good you are. And now tell me you wouldn´t have become restless and asked me why we are wasting time and don´t actually train how to fight with a sword."

"Is that the reason why Grandpa hasn´t given me his blessing yet?"

Alfia nodded. "Yes, we wanted to wait until you know the basics or it could be dangerous for you. The first time after receiving a blessing can be confusing and strange, since you get stronger nearly every day. Especially your stamina increases and now imagine that you can do more and endure more, while breathing wrong all the time."

"Makes sense I guess."

"Okay, it is important for me that you always understand why we are doing a special kind of training. So if you don´t understand something, just ask me, okay?"

"Yes."

"Good."

Alfia got up and gave Bell a signal to do the same.

"Okay, now let your arms hang down relaxed and breathe slowly, deeply in and out."

Bell did as she told him, he soon felt his breath calming down and he relaxed again.

"It is always important to get your breath back after a fight."

For the whole first day, both did nothing else than breathing. Alfia showed him how to breath to calm down again, how to do it while he fought and even while running. After their first training fight, Bell understood how important that was.

"I have never thought that breathing is such an important part of a fight, my books never mention that."

"Well they are meant to entertain and tell the story of old. I´m sure your idol Argonaut knew how to breath, even when he fought against the Minotaur."

"You are right!"

In the past these stories didn´t interested Alfia. But Bell loved them and she often read these stories together with him. It was important for her little angel, so it was important for her.

"So, Bell. We will start and end each day with a run around the village, to increase your stamina and train breathing. You will notice that at some point you won´t even get out of breath of sweat from that anymore, then we will increase the distance."

"Understood."

"Then come, I´m sure when we will be back, your grandfather will have dinner ready."

While they jogged around the village, Alfia explained their daily program in the future. First a run around the village, breakfast, taking care of the fields, starting the training and so on. But Alfia didn´t allowed Bell to train every day, he should get time for his hobbies and books, to spend time with her and Zeus.
She wanted her baby boy to be able to enjoy his peacefull life as long as possible.

And there was a hidden reason for Alfia. She had to steel herself and make up her mind. During the training...she would have to hit Bell or at least move the wooden sword in his direction, and she had a serious problem with that.

When they were outside, Zeus often sat in a chair and watched them, while he carved new training swords, in case the ones they used would break. As long as Alfia didn´t gave her okay, Bell wouldn´t get the chance to use a real sword. To get a sword in such a village was just impossible, but Zeus had two in his posession.
One for nearly a thousand years now, the other not even twenty. But the time to give them Bell was not now, and of course not without his Mom´s okay...Zeus wasn´t crazy after all. The idea what Alfia would do to him if he gave Bell a sword and he hurt himself with it, it was frightening even for a god.

So for the next two weeks, Zeus watched the basic training of these two. Bell wasn´t the only reason he watched, seeing Alfia move in pants and a shirt that sometimes clung to her body or had problems to cover her chest, was nice. But whenever Alfia glanced to him to see if he was oggling her, Zeus reacted faster than she could look and focussed on his carving or looked at Bell.

Don´t underestimate me, Alfia! I have peeped on women hundreds of years before you were born! I have skills in that, that no mortal or other god can even hope to come close to! That sounds a bit creepy I must say...at least if someone else than the handsome, smart Me had said it!

And then came a fatefull evening.

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"Bell, are you ready?"

"Y-Yes, grandfather!"

"It won´t hurt, don´t worry."

Bell was clearly nervous, Zeus would finally give him his blessing, under the condition that he took it from him on the day that Bell would go to Orario. At first he wanted to do it the next morning, but Alfia sighed and said that her little angel wouldn´t be able to sleep then, he would be too excited.

Alfia sat in front of Bell, held his hands and smiled gentle. "It´s okay, Sweety, your grandfather won´t hurt you."

Bell had taken his shirt off, while Zeus sat down behind him. "It may feel a bit strange, but you are strong Bell, you can bear with it."

Zeus poked his index finger with a needle and let a drop of divine blood fall on Bell´s back. Light shone and runes started to appear.

"Nnnngh!"

Bell squeezed Alfia´s hands slightly.

"Zeus! Are you hurting my baby?!"

"No I don´t! You know that it doesn´t hurt! And don´t call Bell your baby, he is fourteen now."

"He will always be my baby boy! My little angel!"

Bell gritted his teeth. "It feels weird, so weird!"

Irkh...her maternal instincts are too strong. I pray to my fellow buddies in heaven for the woman that will fall in love with him later and try to get together with him...they don´t know who they will have to face then.

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In that moment in Orario, two girls that were a few years too young to be called young women, sneezed.

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After finishing his job, Zeus put a piece of paper on Bell´s back, draw a circle with his finger and waited for a moment.

"So, Bell. Here."

Bell´s eyes shone when he looked at the paper.

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Bell Cranel

Belongs to: Zeus Familia

Level: 1

Strength: 0

Endurance: 0

Dexterity: 0

Agility: 0

Magic: 0

Abnormal Resistance: I .

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Zeus had wondered about something when he looked at the paper at first.

Why does he start with the abnormal resistance? This never happened to any of my boys.

Zeus had continued to read, the runes told him everything he needed to know.

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Abnormal Resistance: I

Due to eating healthy meals filled with a mother´s love and receiving much maternal love, increased resistance to poison, continuination will increase resistance further.

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Dear heavens Alfia, how much of a Mom can you be? You have already given Bell a head start against all other adventurers! Other people like Zald would get this resistance by eating something poisonous!

"Hehe, I have a Falna. Now I can become a hero!"

Zeus and Alfia got blinded by the sheer joy and sparkles in Bell´s eyes, they got never used to it. Alfia was sure, her cute son could defeat undead and demon monsters with just the purity in his eyes.

"But Grandpa, why says the point for magic, zero?"

"Because you don´t have magic for now, Bell. That will take a while."

"Eeeeeh!? I thought I would get the same magic as Mom."

Alfia gently patted Bell´s head. "It is unlikely that you will be able to use the same magic as me, Sweety."

"Mouh...I wanted to be like you, Mom. You are my hero."

The way he looked up a bit sad to her and was so honest, it squeezed Alfia´s heart from cuteness.

Zeus grinned. "Maybe you will get it in the future, for now focus on your training with your Mom. I will update your status every evening after your training, so do your best to become stronger."

"I will!"

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"Hah-Puh...Hah-Puh...Hah-Puh...and finished."

"Puha! Mom, you are amazing, to run this distance so easily."

"You will get there too, Sweety. I´m proud of you, you did all that running and training without complaining once."

"How could I complain when my super cool, beautiful Mom agreed to teach me?"

"Nice words won´t give you bonus points, Bell. I smell the influence of your grandfather."

"I´m not trying to get bonus points, Grandpa just teached me to always be nice to women. To be polite."

Hah, I will really have a hard time in Orario to shoo all these lonely, love starved women away from him.

There was something that Bell didn´t knew, as a level seven adventurer, Alfia shouldn´t sweat in the slightest from jogging around the village. And yet her white shirt showed signs of sweat, was partly see through. But jogging in a dark shirt would ruin it after a while, due to the salt in her sweat.
Alfia didn´t minded if Bell saw her like that, he had no interest in a woman´s body so far and she was his mother. But she had forbidden Zeus from coming to watch their training after they ran.

"Okay Sweety, let us drink some water and then start with your training."

"Yes, teacher!"

The sight of Alfia with her hair bound to a ponytail, her nape revealed, her shirt clinging to her body and her wearing shorts, many men would have paid for this sight, especially Zeus. Not even her fellow Familia members had seen her like this, only Meteria so far. She even had her shirt pulled up a bit, revealing her belly button.

"Hmm.."

"Bell?"

"Mom, why does your skin look so different from mine and grandpa´s?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean your legs, your arms and your stomach, they look so smooth."

"That´s because I am a woman, it is quite normal."

"Hm, okay."

Both went to a tree stump, where they had put down their stuff before they went of jogging. Their wooden swords were there, towels and bottles with special water. It wasn´t Alfia´s creation, but something that Meteria had made for her in the past.

Lemon water.

It wasn´t only lemon juice put into water, but mixed with a bit of honey to counteract the sourness of the lemon. That water was really refreshing and helped with fatigue, it was what kept Alfia going when she traveled from Orario to the village.
When she had shown it to Bell for the first time, he wasn´t so sure because of the honey, Bell really didn´t liked sweetness. But the moment she told him it was a creation of his mother, he looked happy.

After drinking something, Alfia always had an eye on Bell to make sure he was well hydrated, both took their wooden swords and went to the are they used for training.

"Assume your basic position."

Bell took a deep breath, grabbed his sword with both hands and got into his position.

"Lower your arms a bit more, feet a little further apart."

He didn´t answered, just followed his Mom´s orders.

"Alright, form one."

He raised his sword, the tip next to his shoulder, Alfia took the same stance.

"Forehand, backhand, forehand, backhand, and again."

Following her words, they moved the swords in unison.

"And from below. Forehand, backhand, forehand, backhand, and again."

He changed how he held the sword and made the same movements as Alfia did.

"Parry overhead, right side, left side. And stitch technique. Straight ahead. From the side as in a hook. Backhand stitch from the other side. And again."

They always started with the basics, it helped them to loosen up and focus Bell´s mind to his weapon. There was a large number of ways to swing his sword and Alfia made sure he rememberred them all. She didn´t even wanted to think about what could happen if Bell just went to Orario, got a starter weapon from the guild and went into the dugneon without training.

"Okay, next as a pair, from the start."

Now both faced each other and slowly worked their way through the entire movement, only touching the edge of the others sword lightly. When Bell made a mistake, she pointed it out with the patience only a mother could have.
No other person would get this kind of treatment from Alfia, she would fight much faster and more brutal, driving the other to a near death experience. She had done this in the past, knew no mercy, but Alfia had changed, at least when it came to Bell.

"Step two."

Again they moved through every step, but a bit faster.

"Step three."

There were five steps, each time they got faster.

"Continue with step five!"

Again and again Alfia let Bell move through every step, this time with the highest speed. Their swords clacked now whenever they hit against each other. Bell felt shocks running through his fingers and arms, he relaxed them for a splitsecond whenever he pulled his sword back, like Alfia had shown him. This way he wouldn´t get a cramp, or at least delay it as long as possible.
Sweat started to run over both of their bodies. Compared to the past, Alfia really was out of form.

But also due to her illness.

At her full strength, there probably wasn´t an other adventurer in the world that could stand a chance against her. She had defeated Ottar before, with a single spell. Of course there was at least a third level seven adventurer somewhere, if Hera´s information in the past was correct. Three Familias had taken ofn the three great quests, Hera´s, Zeus´ and Poseidon´s.
Poseidon´s captain, who went by the alias "Knight of Knights", a pretty dumb name in Alfia´s opinion, was also a level seven adventurer, but she didn´t knew what became of him. Poseidon had a great interest in slaying the Leviathan, but they didn´t had time to celebrate after Alfia´s killing blow to the monster.

That was at her full strength. Now, she was probably around the strength of an early level six adventurer most of the time...and Alfia felt herself getting weaker. She could muster all of her strength, but it took a huge toll from her, Zeus guessed it could even become dangerous for her life.
In the second week of their training, Alfia had suddenly started to cough a lot and broke down to her knees, Bell was instantly at his Mom´s side. She shook so heavily that he lifted her up and carried her to the house, nursing her for the whole day.

She had promised to Bell to be carefull and take it too far, that she would tell him if she got too exhausted during their training.

And by herself, Alfia swore that she would only use her full power when Bell or her own life were in danger. She had promised her sister to watch over Bell and she could only do that while being alive. Alfia would give him the chance to grow and let him do his thing, but Mama Dragon would always watch over her little one.

And if even one woman from the pleasure quarter will even look in Bell´s direction, I will obliterate the whole district! with Genos Angelus!

These thoughts came more often to her, Alfia slowly had to accept that Bell was growing up.

"And freestyle!"

Now Bell was allowed to use the form he wanted to and attack her as fast as he could, Alfia would only block and counter. Even when she was weakened, Bell didn´t had the strength to counter one of her blows.

"Move your feet, don´t stand still! The rigid tree will break in the storm, only the swaying reed will stand!"

That was actually something the Empress used to say, Alfia saw no reason why not to use it. To make sure that Bell didn´t stood still, she herself moved back and forth, turned this and that way. All the time she kept looking at Bell and focussed on his breathing and how he moved his arms.
He was completely focussed on Alfia, a mistake she would show him.

While pulling his sword back and making a fast step forward to follow her, Bell´s foot suddenly caught on a tuft of grass, braking his balance.

"Wuah!"

With a thud, Bell landed face first on the gras.

"Ouch..."

"Are you okay, Bell?"

"Yes, I´m sorry, I forgot to look out for my surroundings."

"No problem, you noticed your mistake and you learn from it. Now back to fighting stance."

"Yes, teacher!"

They started again with the ground pose, went through the steps one to five, until they went over into freestyle again. Sweat rained down from their bodies and splashed around. While it was exhausting, Alfia liked the feeling, it felt somehow honest.

She frowned a bit when she noticed something, Bell refused to use a few movements during freestyle, he refused to aim at a certain part of her body. Not that he could actually touch her body with his sword or hurt her even when he did.

"Bell, is there a reason why you don´t aim for my chest? I told you it is a weakpoint."

"I can´t! Grandpa told me I should never aim at this place at a woman!"

"Bell, I´m wearing protection, you should never hold back with an opponent."

"But-!"

To make her point clear, Alfia made a swift step forward when Bell raised his sword over his head. She grabbed both of his wrists with her hand, pulled them down behind his head and grabbed his waist with her other hand, pulling him close to her.

"Eek!"

"Startled?"

"Y-Yes!"

"Good, learn your lesson."

Alfia let go of him and stepped back, she definetily didn´t did it just to hug Bell...well maybe a little bit.

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While Bell and Alfia trained, things happened in Orario, the time of banishment for a certain elf was over.

Alise grinned while she looked at Ryu. "Nervous, Leon?"

"Of course not, I´ve been in the dungeon before."

"Yea, but now you have to look over our little ones."

Over the past seven years, Ryu had her hair grow longer again, after Syr had cut it to hide Ryu. She didn´t wore her old garment from the last fight against Evilus, but used long leather boots that went over her knees, short green pants, a white shirt with black cords at the sides and a long green cape with a hood, formed like a flower.
During her banishment from the dungeon, Ryu had given Alf´s Lumina back to the Goibniu Familia for a while, as she had promised to let the smith from them finish his work. Now the wooden sword got enhanced, had the Durandal effect forged into it and a sharper edge, yet Ryu had asked them to keep the dull backside so she could use it like a staff.

While her sword was away, Ryu had used Ardee´s Sacred Oath. At first she wanted to give it back to Shakti, but she told her to keep her little sister´s sword to bring Justice to Orario.

"I-I´m sure you will do fine, Ms. Ryu!"

Lefiya looked as nervous as always before they went to the dungeon. Only the elves of the Familia didn´t used Ryu´s nickname, for them it wasn´t hard to pronounce her name.

During the past two years, they had gotten two additional new members, which meant Lefiya wasn´t the youngest anymore. One of them was a human cleric, called Cecil. The other was also an elf, a dark elf. She used a spear as her weapon and heavy armor.
The dark elf was very shy at first, but Alise knew just the right person to get her out of her shell and asked Lefiya to help her a bit. Lefiya had the same effect on Filvis, the black haired elf had opened up more and more to the Familia, she was really happy that not one of them cared about her haircolor.
Alise and a few others always thought it looked funny when Filvis and the dark elf, Viana, stood next to each other. Filvis with her bright skin and black hair, Viana with her wheat colored skin and completely white hair, direct opposites.

Ryu felt a touch at her shoulders, Astrea gently put her hands there and smiled.

"I´m sure you will do good."

"But will you be okay, lady Astrea? With us all gone?"

"Hehe, don´t worry, Ganesha will come over to spend her company."

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"Okay girls! Onward to the dungeon! Let´s aim for level ups! We can´t fall behind the Loki Familia more than we did already!"

Lefiya nodded eager, she wanted to get stronger, get her nerves under control and follow a few tips she got. She had nearly fainted when she waited for her Familia members in front of Babel with Filvis and saw the famous lady Riveria. There wasn´t one elf in Orario that didn´t knew the high elven princess.

"L-Lady Riveria, g-good morning!"

Filvis tried to hide behind Lefiya, she wasn´t sure how a high elf would reac to her haircolor.

"Oh, good morning, You two belong to lady Astrea, right?"

"Y-Yes we do!"

"You are going to the dungeon?"

"Yes! Our goal is to catch up to your Familia!"

Riveria had smiled. "Good luck with that."

To exchange a few lines with Riveria felt like a blessing for the young elves. Filvis had looked so happy that Riveria cared not one bit for her haircolor, even asked about her name! And even when these two weren´t part of Riveria´s Familia, she gave the young ones a few tips, since they were mages too.
Riveria was the reason why Lefiya had nearly accepted Loki´s invitation to join the Familia, but there was just something about Astrea, maybe her divine aura, that drew elves to her. But Lefiya was happy with her Familia and didn´t regretted it.

It wouldn´t be the last time that they met Riveria by chance. One time Filvis would accompany Lefiya to train her magic while luring monsters to her, so that she would fight her panic. Riveria was a bit grumpy because a Familia member let her wait, so she decided to teach her a lesson and asked the two young elves if they would go with her in the dungeon.

It was probably the second happiest day in their young lives, to receive tips from Riveria directly. Being in her Familia or not, Riveria liked it when young people worked hard.

And as if fate had a sense of humor, two weeks later, Filvis and Lefiya had their shift at the pub, when the Loki Familia had a small celebration there. The way Loki oggled them, made it clear to her that she had made the right decision with the Familia choice, but serving Riveria her drinks and food was nice.

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"Guha!"

Time slowed to slow motion for Alfia. Bell flew backwards after she had dealt a straigh thrust, due to him moving in another way than she had thought, she had hit his forehead instead of his shoulder.

"Bell!"

She dropped her sword and jumped to him, but Bell didn´t moved, he had lost consciousness.

"Bell, my baby, wake up!"

In panic she rolled him onto his back, thankfully he was breathing.

She heard steps and a voice behind her.

"What are you two doing?"

"Zeus, Bell lost consciousness!"

"Mh? Ah don´t worry, he will soon wake up."

"How can you say that! My baby might be hurt! And it is my fault!"

"Then just heal him."

"How!? I have no healing magic."

Zeus shrugged his shoulders. "Put the back of his head on your lap, stroke his hair and wait, it works wonders."

She frowned. "Are you making fun of me in a situation like this?"

"I don´t make fun of you. This is one of the world´s laws. A man receiving a lap pillow from a beautiful woman will heal up to 125% faster."

"This is stupid!"

"I didn´t made this rule. If you don´t want to help you son, just wait."

Bell!

Alfia´s body moved before her mind could decide. Zeus wasn´t ashamed about what he said, Bell got the first lap pillow of his life from a really beautiful woman.

I´m quite the good grandfather I must say.

Zeus had also discovered why Bell already had the Luck ability, maybe it was too much to call it lucky pervert accidents, since they were mother and child, but the old god was surprised that Bell´s fall got cushioned often by Alfia´s body, when he lost balance. More than a few times her bosom even caught his face.
She moved by instinct during that, wanting to protect her son.

Kuh! Bell you are so lucky! I want to do that too!

From now on, whenever Bell lost consciousness during their training, Alfia would do that for him, and it really helped. She tried to be very carefull and would never do that on purpose. But sitting in the sun, gently caressing Bell´s hair, while lookin in his peacefull face was nice.

My baby boy.

Alfia wanted to lean down to kiss his forehead, but two things got in her way, for a moment Bell´s head got sandwiched between her thighs and her chest. While he was uconsciousness, Bell had the feeling as if heavenly soft clouds enveloped his head.

Whenever she accidentally hit Bell during their training, Alfia felt much more pain than Bell did. She apologized to him over and over again every time. That went on until Zeus scolded her for forgetting the purpose of Bell´s training, that she went easy and soft on Bell even after training for two months, that going soft on Bell would be dangerous for him in the future.

It was a good thing for Bell, that this awakened Mama Dragon.

While being the most loving and caring being on the surface in their freetime, Alfia would become strict and more forward during the training.

After two months of training, Bell´s status had risen a bit.

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Bell Cranel

Belongs to: Zeus Familia

Level: 1

Strength: 48

Endurance: 76

Dexterity: 54

Agility: 49

Magic: 0

Abnormal Resistance: I

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Auhtors Note: Thank you very much again for the Reviews. I´m having quite much fun with this story, especially about the relationship between the two.

After getting quite a few messages and things I read in the Reviews, I decided to don´t go the path with a partner for Alfia. It would have been a small part of the story anyway. Would have happened much, much later when Bell has his partners.

The partner I had in mind for Alfia was the Knight of Knighs, Poseidon´s captain. He wouldn´t have been like Bell´s stepfather, just a light love interest for Alfia.

But that is away from the table now.

To answer questions.

Kratos1991: I will spoil as much, Bell will not become Hestia´s child in this story.

Katsuru Hiroyuuki: No Liaris Freeze. He will grow a bit faster than normal adventurers do, but not so fast like in the main story.

torrezalvaro1996: No Harem in this story, Blood of Zeus is for that. Also no Ryu, she has her own story.

sadkai727: Your question was answered a bit above.

Next chapter is for Blood of Zeus, let´s see which Familia Bell will join there.

Edit: I erased the "Luck I" from his status, I made a mistake with that since Bell only got this ability with level two.