Interlude: Name an (Idiot)
Trickster
"Ugh." I hate Denatus Day, that's why I'm happy that it usually happens every three months. But after what happened in the dungeon last week, every god in Orario has been summoned into this cheesy mansion. So today I was ready to be pissed, until I got some decent news! I can get Viole a second name for his achievements, but I'm gonna have to fight like hell to make sure it doesn't suck.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't No-Boob Loki!"
"Well, well, well. If it isn't the little shit!" Probably because of her ant-like height, I couldn't see the midget until she was right in my face. "What the hell are you doing here, I don't think we serve children."
"I'll have you know, I'm here too because my Bell was such a huge part in the destruction of the Monster rex. Nehehe! I'm expecting a large reward." The brat was wearing her usually shitty dress and scarf. Still can't afford a real dress, hehehe!
"That Rex wouldn't have been modified if you and Hermes weren't idiots and ran into the Dungeon, you almost got my Vy-Vy killed!" I myself didn't really bother wearing anything fancy, I'm Loki for god's sake! I'm beautiful enough! "You owe me a mil for his medical bills!"
"Bleh, sorry but I hid my cash in the same place I hid your chest" The urge to slam this bitch into the ground ravaged throughout my body before I stopped it on command. Sure there was still a small residual of hate but I just bottled it up for next time. Why? Because I had to get myself an ally!
"I'll let the comment go by if you promise to be on my side here!" While it's a fairly normal event to give adventure's alias'. The gods are absolute assholes! They always make a game out of giving the kids aliases that are normal on the surface but always screw with their gods! I'm lucky Sword Princess was as normal as it was, even if it still gets on my damn nerves. "I need to get Viole a normal name, please!"
"Hmph, why the hell should I help you?! I remember clearly you enjoying torturing me with Bell's name!" I flinched at her retort. Damn, that was really fun. B-But still.
"Look, I don't want to get serious here but I will. You know how they butchered Angra's alias after the... incident, right?"
"Y-Yeah, I heard about that. What's going o-"
"I don't want them to do the same to Viole, just because he's the son of... you know. Please just be by my side on this one. I'll owe you." Shorty was stunned for a bit, probably because I've never really been this serious with her much.
"I-I'll try." With that the chibi made her way into the building before flashing me a smile.
"Let's hope this works out."
SSS
Blah blah blah, no more going into the dungeon. Blah blah blah, Little Rookie is impressive, blah blah blah, Viole- oh here we go!
"Huh? I wasn't listening, what's going on?" Finally deciding to pay attention, I look around the room and see that most of the gods have got a serious face on. Oh no.
"Well, Lady Loki, we were talking about your newest child. Viole Keres if I am correct?" The red haired God, Apollo spoke. Ugh, if he's speaking, it can't be good. "I must say, even for a Capped he is quite interesting." Ew, he had that glint in his eyes, better shut him down now.
"If you lay a finger on him, I won't hesitate to use my entire familia to crush you."
"Oh no, I have no interest in the son of the Fool. I'm surprised you still haven't-"
"Say another word and I'll gut you." The perverted god shut his mouth and just smiled. "Okay, so what about him?"
"Well, we were about to speak of his achievements. Based on the information that you and the guild have given us, it seems that he is on track to follow in his father's footsteps." Takemikazuchi was the new lead in the conversation.
"Hopefully he won't be such an idiot." a random god said under their breath.
"Grh..." Normally, I'd take offense to something like that but I'm sorta in enemy territory right now for that.
"While I agree that Lord Keres didn't make the best of choices at the end of his Adventuring career, it would be wrong of us to judge his son based solely on his blood." I was thankful that Take was keeping a calm head about this. Him and Angra didn't exactly get along... which was strange. Take's one of the nicest gods I've met.
"Well, he still is Capped." Ishtar the dumb bitch opened her slut mouth. "There is no real reason to celebrate one of them, now is there?"
"You dumb..."
"Viole assisted in killing the disrupted Monster Rex that Hestia and I caused." Hermes finally decided to open his mouth. If you say anything dumb, I'm going to shove my foot so far up your ass, your captain will have to shrink me down to save you from the pain! That made no sense. I should calm down. "Not only that but his spell was absolutely amazing for a level one, capped or otherwise. He is destined for greatness, at least in my eyes."
Well, I'll take that. "Nightmare Odyssey, huh." Pretty cheesy name, but all caps are kinda edgy. But even compared to his dad, that spell was something. Sure Angra's specialty was never magic, but it still took him at least three months to cut a row of Minotaurs in half in a single swing.. "So what, can we just get onto naming the kid so I can take a nap!"
"I would like to be the first one to suggest one." Hermes raised his hand with a smile. I nodded at him, signaling to go ahead. You impressed me before, don't let me down. "I believe that the kid has a shot, he's reckless, sure. But not as much as daddy dearest. He's got the talent to make split second decisions. I think he's going places."
"Get on with it."
"But, he is still capped." ugh, you... "We all know that they are held down by their selfish desire for revenge. Even promising ones eventually fall into temptation. But...I see promise. So I propose the name... Magenta!"
"W-what did you just say?!" Hearing that I jumped out of my seat from the round table. That's what _ referred to him as. How did she...
"Hm? I came up with it last night. Sorry, is it a bit much?"
"N-No. Never mind." I sat down in my chair just before jumping out of it again. "Hey, what the hell?! Magenta?! Why the hell would you propose his Alias to be a color that doesn't exist?! Are you trying to mess with me?! HUH!"
"Now now, calm down Loki. No need to get your tits in a... oh wait."
"WHAT DID YOU SAY, CHIBI?!" The damn brat just smiled at me before staring at Hermes.
"I have to agree with Loki, however. While I may not know much about Angra, I do know that Viole is a dear friend to Bell. So I can't just sit by and let you screw with him!" I'm not going to lie, Chibi's little speech there tugged at my heartstrings. But just for a second!
"I'd have to agree..." A low voice said from somewhere on the table. "My kid really likes him. So, be nice..." Soma? Sure enough, it was the gloomy god, sitting next to Apollo. I'd barely noticed him because he barely came to these. Is he talking about the little Pullum? I thought he didn't care bout his kids.
"Now now. While yes, the fact that I chose a color that Humans cannot perceive and doesn't technically exist was very much on purpose. But you all should know that there is another meaning to the color. Harmony, emotional balance, compassion. All of the traits Capped lack. I believe that he can acquire those traits. So it's sort of like a test. His alias will forever be a reminder of what he can be. Something that won't exist in this world for long, or something that isn't 'just a capped.' Get it?" I hate to admit it but it made sense. Sure it was still kind of insulting, but... it could work.
"Hope he likes it."
SSS
Capped
"Magenta, huh? Not bad, not bad. I always did like purple." I was sitting in my bed when Loki gave me the news on my new Alias. If it had any deeper meaning, it went over my head, but I liked it. "It's way better than Little rookie. But I would have rathered something cool like dad. Reaper is so cool, but I can manage."
"Wow, didn't expect you to like it that much." Loki said while rubbing the back of her head. "Well good, from now on you will be known as Magenta in any and all future adventure's business. Kay, Vy-chan?"
"Don't call me that." Loki stuck her tongue out at me before suddenly becoming serious. "Loki?"
"Hey... before you came to Orario, have you met any gods or goddesses?" I was taken aback by her seriousness so I made sure to answer quickly."
"Well, the only goddess I've met before you was Lady Dia. But that's just because she visited Mom and Grey always annoyed her to come around." Loki nodded her head before snapping her gaze at me and slapping the back of my head. "Ow!"
"How come she gets a 'Lady' in her name but I don't?!"
"That's why!" Loki stuck her tongue out at me and stormed out of my room. Ugh! She can be such a child sometimes. Shortly after, Lily walked into my room. "Hey, how was your day?" I swallowed my anger at my goddess and gave my friend a smile which she gave me a big one back before looking around.
"Hm, she isn't here today, good. But, my day's been good! Bell's recovering nicely and so is Welf. They should be good as new by the end of this week." Since the Rex incident, the only one in our group who wasn't bed ridden was Lily. But I was the worst out of the three. Turned out that fighting with a broken arm wasn't such a bright idea. I've been stuck in this bed since I'd woken up, and I'm supposed to be stuck in it for another week.
"I can't take this anymore! Let me out of here! I can move fine now." Lily poked at my midsection with a smug look on her face. "See, fine." I have never felt greater pain. But I must go through with it or I will go insane here! The only connection with the outside world I have had has been Lily tell me about her day, Loki's drunken rambling, Lefiya and Riviera visiting me occasionally and Ai's constant visitations. Every morning she checks in on me before leaving for her day. She stops by for lunch and speaks with me until bedtime. I get that we're like best friends now but I can't help but feel like I'm wasting her time. But I need to get out of here!
"Well, you seem fine enough. So, I guess you can help me with shopping." Yes! I practically jumped out of my bed, ignoring the pain I was feeling and stretched. My arm was mostly healed now, only pain and the occasional bone creak could be heard. So I was ready to fight, if only I wasn't surrounded by concerned friends. "Don't do anything dumb, alright?!"
"Alright, alright. I'll behave." No Promises...
SSS
I made a mistake. I should not have come with Lily. Why did I think it was a good idea to go shopping with a woman who carried around a gigantic backpack? Sure, she wasn't forcing me to carry around everything she bought, but my arms were definitely on the brink of falling off... again. "Alright, just wait here! I've got another batch of materials to get here." We stopped outside another weapon shop in town. Instead of the stereotypical shopping for clothes, Lily was more the type of girl to be stupidly prepared. Well, given our last adventure, I can't say I blame her.
"S-Sure. Give me some time to rest." I dropped the bags I was carrying onto the ground and leaned against the wall, watching the small girl with her oversized backpack walk inside. Damn, this day just goes on and on, huh?
"Oh my, well if it isn't Viole-kun~" An unfamiliar voice called out to me, looking to my right I saw a man in a black suit and tie with grey hair. "How do you do?"
"Uhh, sorry but do I know you?" I've never seen this man in my life, so why was he acting so familiar? Huh? I've never met him...right?
"Now, that's just cruel. We met just the other night, on floor eighteen? Come on, it's me, Ophis!" I just shook my head at the man, nothing he said made sense to me. "Hmm, I suppose I did act a little off script. Oh, Lucy, you can be so mean." That sentence didn't seem to be aimed at me but it just made me more confused.
"Sorry Sir. But I think I should-" in the middle of my sentence a gust of wind blew by, throwing my hair into my face. "Woah." Brushing my hair out of my face, between myself and the mysterious man was a head of Blond hair. The owner of which had her sword pointed at him. "Ai? Woah, calm down there. Why are you threatening him like that?"
"That's a little dangerous, please put that away, Sword Princess!" The man's fear and outrage was far too...acted. His eyes were calm, in fact he was smiling. Like he wasn't afraid of one of the strongest adventurer's in the world. "I'm just having a conversation here, can't you see?"
"..." Even though I couldn't see it, I could feel Ai's glare at the man. If eyes could kill he would have died seven times now. "Leave Viole alone, Susanoo Member." What?
"What did you just say? Susanoo...you're a part of Susanoo's Familia?!" I swallowed my anger. Even if my instincts were yelling at me to rip out the man's throat, he'd be no use to me dead. Stop. Stop, I don't want to think like that dammit!
The man, Ophis continued to smile. "Why yes, I am Ophis. Vice captain of the Susanoo Familia, representing the Serpent. Pleasure to meet you." Immediately my body was brought to the ground, not by him. But by Ai.
"Where is he?! Bastard tell me right now, I'll kill you!" My mind was flaring, memories were digging themselves into my head. Blood everyeveryevery where! "Ais let me GO!"
"Calm Down there, Viole-kun." It felt like my body relaxed in a second. What did he just do? "I'm not exactly privacy to our gods' location. He's quite the busy man, as I'm sure you're aware of." Bastard! "Instead I am here for a proposition.,Viole-kun. Are you a betting man?" Everyone around us was staring. Their eyes full of fear since Ai said what familia he was from.
"Oh, I am. I bet I can-"
"If I lose the bet, you get your sister back." Abby? She's alive? She's okay! I knew I made a mistake. Upon seeing my face, the man's smile grew into a disgusting grin. "Prefect, let's make a deal, Viole Keres."
I was an idiot. I fell hook line and sinker.
"Deal."
This lead to a chain of events that's consequences didn't just encompass the next month. It's because of me that the world, no, all of existence was at stake.