Chapter 2: new friends,
Bell walks through the busy streets of Orario excited to enter a new Familia, hoping he could find someone that could help him. He walks through the city, all of it reminds him almost of Tleskyura when he spent a few years there in the arena for combat training. The bustling people walking every which way and the loud murmur of people haggling at grocery stalls or just the happy atmosphere this part of the town had brings a smile to his face. He wonders which of the two Familia that his grandfather recommended, he will join.
HIs grandfather gave him two options of who to join, he could join Freya Familia, who had the most powerful active adventurer in the world in Otar or would he join Loki. Loki would probably be a better choice in the end though he has heard of some of the horror stories about Freya and what happens within her Familia from Zeus and to a lesser extent his trainers. He has heard that Loki is more like a traditional familiar with people helping each other to get better.
Bell in his strength that he has he was sure that no matter which he decides on he would be able to join either one with the level of strength that he has cultivated over the years, but he still had a backup if Loki doesn't want him.
Bell asks around and finally gets solid directions to twilight manor the home of Loki Familia and he finally makes his way there.
Bell was clothed in his traveling gear that looked pretty good for what it was. Most of it was enchanted in some way to not allow for dirt and grime to accumulate on it. The clothing consisted of a gray button-down cotton shirt that made it down past his hips where it met a pair of loose but fitted to his body, pants that went all the way down to his feet in his leather adventuring boots that he spent an absurd amount in one of the Athena Familia shops in Athens. This was all complimented by a set of dragon skin chest plate that covers all of the vital areas of his chest, with a set of dragon leather greaves and leggings. All of this looked good and fitted to him no matter who you are. All of these dark colors contrasted his snow-white hair and ruby red eyes that he got from his parents to make him into a very striking looking man.
After walking through the endless crowds, he finally made it to twilight manor. The guards at the front of the gates were lazing around on the chairs, reading books or just talking to each other to pass the time. He finally got up to one of them and spoke
"Hi, I was wondering if I could speak to Finn or Loki".
The guards were kind of taken aback by this unusual request. Who walks up to one of the most powerful families in the world and just asks to speak with the most important member or God?
The guard looks bell up and down and makes a decision to handle this himself. But in the meantime, asks this mysterious young man a few questions.
"Why do you need them"
"Well, I need to speak with Finn about a few matters. Mostly I have a message to deliver to him or Loki, preferably both at the same time."
The gaud wasn't all that surprised in all truth. This was a common occurrence. Loki and Finn were booth influential in the world, so he just said
"Wait here and I'll go get someone to see if they are available. Oh, sorry don't mind me asking but what is your name?"
Bell amused by the forgotten question says "Bell Cranel"
The guard nods and runs off to see Finn.
INSIDE FINN'S office.
Finns in his office working on plans for the upcoming expedition that they were going on. He was worried about how they were going to get past some of the obstacles that he ran into recently. They had the large caterpillar monsters that spit and bled acid to contend with and the overall unknown of the deeper unexplored floors. This was all really taxing until he finally had something to distract him.
*Knock knock knock*
"Come in"
The door opens and the guard comes in confidently walking over to the desk to speak with Finn and speaks
"Hi captain, there's a young man that says that he has a message for you or Loki only but preferably both. HIs name was bell Cranel"
Finn thought for a matter of seconds. The man had a message. He wasn't expecting form the prunes or any of the other big names in orarion.
He finally said, "do you know what it's about or who it's from?"
The guard said "no. He said that it's for you and Loki only"
Finn was only a little surprised by this. He thought for only a second when his thumb started aching when he was about to reject the man at the gate. As soon as his thumb started to ache, he rethought that what could this be to make his skill start to activate.
He finally said "Alright send him in and could you go find Loki and send her in"
The guard nodded and ran off to fetch Loki and walked to the gate.
The guard got to the bell who was laughing and talking with the other guards he left like old friends.
The guard thought this was odd, the guards at the gate are usually guarded by people when this happens, almost never really speaking with the people trying to come inside. He shrugged and let it go. He would ask them later what that was about.
The guard got close enough to say "Finn and Loki are free at this moment they will see you. Would you please follow me? I'll walk you to Finn's office.
Bell looked at him and said, "alright I'll be behind you."
;'
'Turning back to the group he was speaking to
"I'll see y'all later. I'll tell you the next part when I see you next." they nodded and he walked off.
Bell got a plethora of stares while he walked through th3e manor. He didn't readily care too much; he was used to it from all of the traveling he did and being the new guy in town on a regular basis.
After the short but kind of confusion walk to the office he knocks on the door and hears someone saying to come in.
Bell walked into the well-furnished room and looked around surveying his surroundings like he's had to for years. He was on guard but still looked relaxed. The most curious thing was he looked relaxed no matter how you slice it he looked like he was completely comfortable meeting some of the most important people in the city.
Finn's pod
The boy walked in; he was small and frail. He had on expensive looking traveling gear that almost looked like adventuring armor but a little more refined than what a lower-level adventurer would wear.
The attire was the least curious thing about this man though.
The boy was oddly alert. BY that he was almost completely on guard but the most confusing thing about it was that to a lower-level adventurer he would look completely relaxed but with no openings whatsoever. He was the most curious person I have met in a while. This in addition to my thumb aching up a storm ever since he walked into the room made me kind of confused.
LOKI Pov
Finn pissed me off when something fired just now. He called me in from drinking to talk to this child. What the hell.
This kid doesn't look like much though. He looks like a kid wanting to have an adventure. Nothing really that odd in all truth.
I Was about to walk away when he entered the nut. I felt something familiar. Something that I have felt before. Something that feels like divinity but different from a god's more like a spirit… more like… air"
Normal pov
Finn spoke first hello mister Cranel what is it that you needed to speak with me about?
By this point Finn was extremely interested in this young man. He was almost an enigma so far and he wanted to get to the bottom of the aching in his thumb.
"Hello, it's nice to finally meet you Finn Dienem and lady Loki." Bell finally spoke. "I have come with a letter from someone you guys know fairly well." bell reaches to the side and a small portal pop open to the surprise of both Loki and Finn.
Bell rummages around in the portal for a moment until he pulls out a letter that has the seal of Zeus in wax on the end of it and he puts it on Finn's desk.
Finn reaches for the letter almost immediately. But hold himself and asks bell
"What was that you just used?"
Bell Smiled and said "oh that's how I carry all of my stuff around while I travel or go on expeditions. It's one of my personal magics I have called portal. It allows me to make a subspace in time that I can put things in and carry around. It doesn't have any weight requirements and is almost instantaneous to grab things."
Finn was amazed by this magic, running through all of the possibilities that this would have for expeditions but stopped himself and finally said
"That sounds so useful. I wonder what else you can do?"
Bell just smirked and said "before I tell you more, I need you to read that letter really quick. That will explain a lot and has a little more credibility than I do."
Finn accepted this and opened the letter and read
Finn and Loki,
Hi, you guys, I bet you never thought that you would hear from me again but here we are. I know that this is kind of sudden, but I need Loki to give Bell her blessing. He is very important to me, and he needs to go to the dungeon to grow more. He has reached his limit outside of the dungeon. He has been adventuring for the past 8 years outside of orario and he has amazed me time and time again. He has more to offer than you would believe. He will tell you most of his capabilities and I know Finn will want to test him. I need him to go to the dungeon and yall are the best option, I don't want him to go to a fray if I have a choice. I know we have had bad blood in the past, but I really just need this one favor. Bell is like a grandson to me. I raised him since he was born and gave him my falna when he was six, and boy has he done more with that blessing than almost anyone in my previous Familia.
With respect
Zeus
P.s he is full of more surprises than you'll realize just speak with him for a little about and ask him some questions.
They finish reading and both of them are thinking the same thing.
What is he talking about?"
After a moment of thinking Finn speaks up and asks for the bell.
"Why is it so imperative that you join our Familia specifically? And second, why should we let you join?"
Bell inwardly chuckled about this question. He knew Finn was going to ask this. He was almost certain they will let him in but now is the most important conversation
Smirking bell says "I have a few goals none of which are what you would expect after growing up with that perverted old man of grandfather. I want to get as strong as possible so as to complete the 3rd great quest."
This was a shock to both Loki and Finn. They were both mouth open gaping at the young man here in front of them. They had never heard someone outwardly express that sentiment to a god of Zeus statue no matter how true and secondly saying he had to kill the OBED?
Bell continued saying "... I have trained most of my life for this goal. I have trained with adventurers, trained in dangerous places and fought all manner of foes just to kill that damned creature. Hell, I've even fought the thing itself once. It was not fun."
The more that he said to them the more flabbergasted they were this young man has fought the OBED… and lived? Something the whole of the Zeus and Hera familias could not do?
Finn turned to Loki for a moment to see if she had noticed him lying and she shook her head saying he's telling the truth.
Finn regaining his composure says, "Be that as it may, why must you join us and why must you go to the dungeon?"
Bell expects this "well I have grown as much as I can outside of the dungeon. I am currently a fresh level six. I leveled up after killing the scorpion. Apart from that I've spent the past 4 years in the dragon valley killing the damn things endlessly. I also spent some time in Telskyura in the arena and also in the areas of Nike. this was all in accordance with my goal. ``
Finn and Loki were at a loss for what to do. Finn constantly kept looking at Loki to see if he was lying but to his surprise he was not. He had already decided to let him in no matter what happens, this man was just a different breed of thing that he needed to have in his Familia.
"I decided to join you guys because I thought that your Familia and the things that Zeus described about yours and Freya's would be better for me. I also have never liked Freya the few times I've met her, and I always think she's sizing me up and I don't really want to deal with that every day."
Finn just sits for a moment absorbing this nmoledge.1. He's a prodigy that has survived immense threat over his life. 2 he's a LEVEL 6 outside of orario 3. He is Zeus' grandson 4 he fought and survived OBED. this settles it he will be joining if he wants.
Finn looks at Loki and says "Bell, I know you are powerful, and you seem to be a good person, but could you go outside for a moment? I need to speak with Loki."
Bell says "sure I'll be just outside call me back in when you're ready, I have all day"
Bell walks out of the door.
Finn weighs a moment and says to Loki "all of that was true right none of it was a lie?"
Loki looking at Finn excited that she was about to get one of if not the most entertaining child
In gekai
"None of it was a lie. I think we need to have this kid in here. If he truly is as skilled as he says, then he will be one of if not the most important asset that we have."
Agreed but we have to run this by riviera and Gareth first." Loki nodded
Finn spoke a little louder the normal calling bell in "bell"
Bell opened the door and walked back over to the desk
Fin said "We would love it if you would join us in the Loki Familia. But I do want to run it by the other vice captains really quick if that's alright."
Bell not really mindfang one way or the other said "sure bring them in"
Finn calls Raul to go get both Riviera and Gareth. Who walk in and are immediately confused by the young man that's in the office?
Finn eventually explains the whole thing to Riviera and Gareth, they ask minor questions to Bell to get clarification and have him tell certain parts such as the OBED or the Dragon Valley thing.
Riviera finally says, "do you have any other kind of magic apart from the portal magic?"
Bell says "yes but that relates to a certain secret that I will reveal after I join, as it has a lot of personal baggage. It won't change anything in all truth but it's just something I have to keep kind of quiet until I join a Familia. Also just as preface I am a frontliner I am not a mage specifically I am more of a mix of the two a battle mage if you will"
with a nod of understanding she turns back to Finn and gives him a nod giving her permission same with Gareth who really didn't care one way or the other.
Finn finally looks to Loki who he gives the final nod, and she says excitedly
"Well kid, you wanna join my Familia?"
Sure, I'd love to, ``Bell says with a thoughtful smile.
"Welcome to the Familia"
"Happy to have you"
"Hope you can drink well youngin' "
Finn Riviera and Gareth give him the final greetings.
Loki speaks up and says "well lets getcha my falna. You wanna go to the other room or do you not mind if they see"
I could care less whether they see or not. I will probably have to explain some parts of it that took even a while to understand."
Loki nods and bell undoes his dragon leather armor, setting it on the floor next to him. He lifts his shirt to show a plethora of scars and leftover examples of battles he's been in. Finn and Gareth both cringe at the sight of this and Riviera and Loki both gasp at the grizzly wounds. Stabs, cuts, bruises, burns, almost anything you could think of is on this poor boy's body. He looks a little sheepish at his mistake of forgetting the grizzly sight that is his body.
He says in response" my legs are just as bad" her chuckles out trying to lighten the mood but failing miserably mostly just giving more worry to the faces of his captains. Bell continued by saying "most of this is really old. I haven'; t really gotten too badly hurt since my fight with OBED where I got healing magic that heals most of my lighter cuts without leaving a scar."
This shocked all of them, but they put it away and the admittance of healing magic excited booth Finn and Riviera the most with the thought of having another strong mage on the team with healing even if he will be on the front lines most of the time.
Loki made her way over with a knife and poked her finger and let a small droplet of blood fall and land on his back. Sending ripples over the Zeus Familia status working with the malleable text she sees his stratus and sees he is a fresh level six like he said but she falls out of her chair screaming after she sees his skills
"WHATTTTT?!"
This unexpected turn of events in the eyes of everyone else in the room led them all to look at his back with interest before Loki finally said
"What the hell does this mean when it says Half Spirit" Loki questions bell over the first thing that is most important in her mind she thought size was the only half sprit out her but apparently not
"Ah that's where you want to start, I guess" bell started "well Zeus never told me much in all truth just that I was half spirit from his domain in lightning. I don't really know what I am or how I came into being, but he told me it wasn't really an intentional side effect that was no one really knows how it happened, even Ouranos"
Everyone is floored after this. I Am confused by his words and what he's saying. He basically just said that he has some divinity in some way or another and that he is actually a descendant of the gods.
Loki speaks up and says "you're not the first half spirit in all truth, not the first I have seen at least it's just really rare and we will talk more about this but let's get into your skills first
Name: Bell Cranel
Level: 6
Alias: none.
Str: I 0
Vit: I 0
Dex: : I 0
Agi:: I 0
Mag: : I 0
Skills:
Survivor- grants a significant status boost when in near death condition, their consciousness is forcefully kept until the danger passes or they die.
[R?na?t : J?e?] Allows for an exponential rate of growth, status limits have been readjusted to 1500 and the owner will grow at an enhanced speed. (Extra effect: will unlock true meaning of falna at level 7)
JUPITER'S CAST: All Lightning based attacks are boosted to 200% the normal strength, Resistance to lightning increased by 200%.
Auto counter: Mental effects/ debuffs/ ailments are completely ignored and ineffective. They can be returned with double effects.
Argonaut {Allows a charge for a counterattack. It requires four minutes (formerly three) for a full charge and can either sound like a small chime or a grand bell depending on the power needed. It can be used for any type of attack but the effects will dissipate when the user is attacked or they lose focus
Magic:
-Firebolt {quick cast no chant required}
-portal .- {quick cast magic no chant other then name required}
Allows for a small subspace for items to be stored for indefinite time. Time is no concept for the objects stored; they will always be in the same conditions when brought out.
-Phalanx -{ A shield of condensed magic that protects from physical attacks to magic attacks. Distance of shield will grow with level }
-therapévo {quick chant healing all ailments}
Developmental skills:
-Luck: A
- Abnormal resistance: C
Fire resistance : S
IQ: B
Dragon Slayer: S
Regenerate: A
"T… this status is making me dizzy" Loki spoke making everyone in the room look on in added interest. What was it that could make even Loki, a god, dizzy?
Loki copied down the falna onto a sheet of paper and handed it to Finn. Finn looked at it and started to laugh out loud and spoke
"; Loki that's a great joke, your Hilarious please copy the real status down." Finn said this, setting the page down Riviera and Gareth taking a look at it after he says this both seem a little bothered by the supposed joke.
Loki with an annoyed expression says, "it's not a joke that's his real status I almost couldn't get it on one page but there we go."
Bell perked up and said "oh if you want, I do have all of my level up sheets from level 1 - 6" reaching into the portal that he created a second later he has a stack of 5 papers and handed it to find who flips through them and he just looks at the pages.
Back to the bell.
Back to the page
Back to the bell and say "this is real, you're not joking right this is the real status, right?
Bell nods with an innocent face.
Finn just keels over passing out. Riviera takes tube pages and screams
"WWW HHH AAAAA TTTTT '' this was absurdly loud and louder than any high elf normally would yell, she didn't really care that she was so loud because of the number of spells and the absurd skills this young boy had. He had the power to probably beat any of the executives in a one-on-one fight and probably could take on most of them at the same time. He could even fight ottar!
A moment after the scream Tiona Tione Lefyia and Aiz all walk into the room to see the commotion. By this point Bell had put his shirt back on and was clipping his armor back into place. They saw Finn foaming at the mouth on the floor, passed out, Riviera going nuts over a status sheet and Gareth just laughing his ass off with Loki.
The first to do anything is tione who runs to Finn on the floor yelling
"Captain!"
Trying to wake up Finn tione sits him on the couch in the room to recover and left speaks up to Riviera in order to get some answers.
Lady Riviera, what's happened? Who is this Human?" she asks that last part with a little bit of disgust.
Riviera coming out of the stupor she was in she sees the group and speaks to lefiya "alright all of you are here, well we seem to have a new recruit. Everyone meet bell Cranel; please be nice you will be working with him for the foreseeable future as he is now an executive of the Familia" she says this to the rest of the girls who walk into the room all of them look in the direction of the young man that's standing there putting his clothes back on.
Lefiya finally says "WHAT!? He's an executive. What do you mean he looks younger than me?"
Bell says "I don't know how old you are but I'm 14. I also happen to be a fresh level six."
Bell says this while taking what's left of his armor that hasn't been stored and puts it into a portal to the surprise of the people who just entered.
Finn finally wakes up and regains himself, thanking Tione for her help he makes his way back over to his chair, he says
"Yes, Bell here is now the newest member of the Familia. He has been training for the past 8 years outside of the dungeon and has hit a wall since he made it to level six because there is little to nothing that can actually pose a threat to him outside of orario." Fin said this. The group all become more and more interested with the boy who is passively sitting there wondering what is happening.
Aiz is looking at me and I'm intrigued by him. He is more powerful than she is, and she's had the dungeon for the same amount of time he's been adventuring and he's already more powerful, outside the dungeon for that matter?
Finn "Bell." Bell looks away from the new group of people that walked into the room. All of them are still floored by his supposed feats. "... I understand that you are very powerful by status alone, but I need to confirm your actual skill level to find a good place in the expedition for you."
Bell accepts these Nods and says "Of course what would you like me to show. I have a lot of knowledge of the dungeon, and I can use almost any weapon that you could think of pretty well, but I do you a sword most of the time." Finn nods at this but is interested in the dungeon knowledge.
What do you mean extensive knowledge of the dungeon I thought you'd never been there?'"
Bell says "Oh, well I have never been in the dungeon, but I have all of the Zeus Familia records of the dungeon. I have also memorized the dungeon all the way until the 75th floor. There are notes all the way down to the 79th but I just haven't gotten time to read it."
This information made Finn stop for a moment. He was processing what he just heard. Bell knew of her dungeon for another 29 floors past what we have gotten too. Everyone else in the room was thinking the same and looking at him like he grew another head.
"Bell, you said 79th right?"
"Yes."
Finn passed out again. Tione again ran to comfort him but this time he wasn't waking up anytime soon.
