Bell opened his eyes to a heavy weight across his chest, and a pair of red eyes so close to his own they were all he could see. It was a second later he realized the weight he was feeling was her body atop his. Or perhaps more accurately, some very specific parts of her body pressing against his.

"Good morning, Bell," the girls said lightly, her voice oddly sultry.

"Uh, um, g-good morning?" Bell asked as he tried, and failed, to ignore that there was a girl pressing her body against him, making his face start to redden.

"Lilith," the girl said as her hands crawled up beside bells shoulders, allowing her to lift her head up a bit, letting Bell to see her whole face. "That's my name, if you have forgotten since last night,"

"R-right, sorry," Bell apologized on reflex as Lilith lifted her body up a it more, granting bell a very intimate view of her cleavage. "Um, why are you, uh, on top of me?" bell then asked, trying, and again failing, to avert his gaze.

Lilith smiled as she somehow pushed herself further up bells body and pressed down a bit, her ample breasts almost pressing against his chin as she spoke. "We did not get much of a chance to speak last night, so I decided I would rectify that and, get to know all about you," she said with a lick of her lips.

"uh, we can talk, without being so close, right?" Bell asked as he tried to stop his mind from going down the route of a pervert.

"Nope!" Lilith said as she pressed her chest into bell even more, making him go red in the face, and putting her face almost right back in front of his. "I want to learn about you. What your body is like, how you sound in particular situations, how you taste when-"

Lilith was cut off with a yelp as she was pulled off of Bell and lifted into the air by Honor, who was standing near the back of Bells bed with a sour look on her face. "not even one day and you are trying your luck. Father explicitly told you to not try anything Lilith."

"I just wanted to get to know him," Lilith pouted as she hung her head, seemingly allowing herself to just be held up by the collar.

"Raping him is not getting to know him," Honor said in disgust. "He is our brother for the Abyss's sake!"

"only a half brother, I don't see a problem with it," Lilith complained loudly.

"You and your mother may not, but father and everyone else's mother does," Honor said before grinning evilly. "Maybe we should get my mother to remind you?"

Lilith visibly paled and began trying to wiggle out of honor's grip to no effect. "please no," she mewled.

"no chance," Honor said with a grin as she began walking to the door still holding Lilith as she turned to look back at Bell. "Sorry for this Bell. I'll deal with Lilith. Breakfast will be ready soon, so come down when you are ready,"

"Oh, uh, right," was all Bell could say before Honor left the room, closing the door behind her. Bell simply say there for a few moments, still trying to figure it out in his head, before his face got even redder and he rolled over on the bed and hid his face in the pillow.

Had that really just happened? Did he need to worry about the others who were, supposedly his siblings, trying to jump him when he was asleep as well? Or did he just need to worry about the one? He just didn't know. How could he really? He only roughly knew their faces and names after all, and knew nothing really about who they were.

Or what they were to him.

That thought made Bell roll back over and stare at the ceiling uncertainly. The information he had learned from the Helltaker and lucifer was . . . . concerning was not quiet the right word. For there to be an item that can prove lineage was oddly specific and felt kind of, convenient. Enough so that it made it rather hard to fully believe it. The idea he was immune to contracts seemed a bit more likely, in contrast, but Bell still was not sure what to really believe.

The Helltaker, Lucifer and Honor seemed honest, and the angel had said the same things.

But it was still a lot to take in and even make sense of. Not that a lot of it even made sense to him.

Bell heaved another sigh and sat up before kicking his legs over the side of the bed, standing up and marching over the closet and throwing it open. If he was going to believe what the two of them had said, that he would be able to go back to Orario, he had to keep moving forward no matter what was in front of him. Moping about did not help him in the past, and it wasn't about to start helping him now.

Getting dressed in a simple white shirt and black pants and shoes Bell opened his door and stepped out, and promptly bumped into someone. "ah, s-sorry," Bell said as he stepped back on reflex before looking and promptly freezing.

Standing in front of him was the one younger angel, wearing nothing but a towel, and coming out of a doorway at the end of the hall that Bell had somehow not noticed before. Her hair was wet and dripped droplets of water onto her collarbone where it glistened against her pale skin. "No, I should look where I'm going, sorry about that Bell," she said with a smile, the wrapping of her towel loosening a bit around her.

"no I shouldn't have looked, I mean, I didn't look, ah, your towel, the towel," Bell rambled in a panic before promptly turning around to look away.

"Hmm? Oh, need to be more careful with you around now I guess, sorry about that," she apologized as Bell could hear a door unlatch. "Your fine now, I'm in my room,"

Bell very slowly and carefully turned around to see the door to the room across from his own ajar slightly, light spilling out through the crack. "Sorry, um, it was Tamiel, right?"

"Yep, that's right," came Tamiels reply alongside the sound of something else that Bell couldn't place. "I guess getting our names down won't be as easy for you as it is for us huh?"

"What?"

"I mean, we've always known of you, so its not hard for us to place your name, but you never knew of us, so you have all of our names to remember, right?" Tamiel asked, right before the sound of something hard striking the floor echoed out of the room.

"Are you okay?" Bell asked quickly.

"Oh I'm fine, it was just my halo," Tamiel said in an amused tone before the door to her room opened and she came out in the clothing that Bell had seen her in the day before, her halo spinning above her head like it was a dropped plate.

"Um, is your, uh, are you okay?" Bell asked as he stared at the halo uncertainly.

"Yeah, why would I be? Is my hair doing something weird?"

"The, uh, halo is, spinning,"

Tamiel looked at Bell for a moment before snickering and raising a hand to catch her halo, stopping it from spinning. "it's a bit funny, but normal when I'm tossing my halo at the walls," Tamiel said as she stepped out of her room and closed the door behind her.

"Um, shouldn't that be something important to be taken care of?" Bell ended up asking on reflex.

Tamiel shrugged. "Its nearly indestructible, I don't need to worry," she said uncaring before taking a step down the hall and smiling to bell, if your not going to use the showers in there come downstairs, breakfast should be soon and well need the energy for school today."

"Um okay, but what is that?"

Tamiel stopped misstep and looked at Bel, her expression a mix between confused and worried. "Are you, not going? Did dad not tell you?"

"He said I was going, but when I asked what it was the answer was a bit, weird," Bell admitted. "its like an academy for learning magic, right?"

"It, well there are classes for that but. . . . . Have you never, gone to school?" Bell shook his head gently in reply to Tamiels question, making her expression go pale as she grabbed Bell by the wrist and began dragging him down the hall, down the stairs and into the living room where he then saw Honor, Lilith, Vassago and both of Orthros's bodies around the living room. "Bell has never gone to school!"

The whole room went silent as all eyes turned to him.

"Well, that's a problem," Honor said simply, while Vassago simply shrugged.

"Was that really expected though? Worlds such as the one father found him in seldom have universal education, and what little there is, is reserved for nobility or merchants most often."

"Yeah, a lot of them looked dumb," one of Orthros's bodies said with a smirk before the other piped up and joined in. "They knew nothing!"

"I volunteer to teach him then!" Lilith spoke up gleefully.

Right before Honor lightly smacked the back of her head. "You are the last person that should teach anyone."

"JUST LET ME TEACH HIM SEX-ED!" Lilith stated very seriously as he eyes were dilated strangely.

"Absolutely not, go to sleep," Honor said as she smacked Lilith on the back of the neck, knocking her unconscious. Dropping to the floor looked painful, but Bell could not help but notice that when Lilith fell forward her ample chest seemed to coushin her fall, and that no one seemed to bother to even worry about her.

"um, is she alright?" Bell asked.

"Ignore her, she's fine," Honor said as she stepped over Lilith without a care. "Is it true you have never gone to school? You've never been taught anything?"

"Well, there was no school where I grew up, but its not like I wasn't taught. I know how to read and write and do math," Bell answered, finding a bit insulting that they thought he knew nothing.

"Well that's a start, but you probably don't know any other written or spoken languages, or know even basic engineering or science huh?" Honor asked, sounding somehow utterly not insulting despite what she was suggesting.

"Um, no. Why would I need to know more than one language, and I'm not an engineer, so why would I need to know that?" Bell replied.

"There are a few reasons, and some of it is less useful, but most of it can be very useful in many applications," Honor said simply before shrugging. "You'll understand as you learn though, so there's not much point talking about it here. "

"You sound like you knew about this beforehand," Tamiel said in an odd tone.

"Well, I do work at the school, so I should hope so," Honor said with a smile just as a loud ring echoed through the house. "And there's the food bell."

"What?"

"No not you, that ring. It tells everyone that breakfast, or dinner, are ready," Vassago said with a smirk, prompting Tamial to come up beside Bell and pat his shoulder.

"which means we need to get in there, once you have dads pancakes you will never go back!"

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Breakfast was something that Bell was not heavily accustomed too. Most days started with him exercising, then heading off to the dungeon and maybe grabbing something to snack on the way. He would often take a small meal with him, usually dried bread, dried meat and dried berries, to eat inside the dungeon. Dinner was of course because of this, the most important meal of the day where he could recharge and gain the nutrients back that he used in the dungeon.

The idea of a moderate meal to start the day was strange, but Tamiels words had surprisingly rang true. The odd fluffy things called pancakes, which they could cover in sugary syrup, a variety of cut-up fruits, and even something called whipped cream, which couldn't possibly be actual cream as it was not a liquid, was downright heavenly, beating even the best food that Bell had eaten at the Hostess of Fertility!

What was actually scary was just how much food there was, and how much everyone was eating as well. The food was piled high on plates and bowls, more than could possibly be eaten even by everyone at the table, but somehow they piled their plates just as high and dug in with gusto.

"Hey Bell, if you are going to be going to school, I would suggest you eat much more than that," Alecto said seriously as she used a fork to stab and carry over to her plate a trio of pancakes that were easily an inch thick each.

"but, isn't a school like an academy, mostly sitting down and reading?" Bell asked as he carefully ate a fork full of fruit.

"That is somewhat true," the Helltaker spoke up, causing the din of the room to mellow somewhat. "on most worlds above a certain technology level schools exist to teach the populace basic knowledge they will need and build on to allow them to strive for what they wish t o do with their lives. The schools in heaven and hell are similar, but more varied in their teachings. Instead of classes like social studies and history, they have classes on morals and contracts, combat tactics, as well as magic and discovery tactics."

"And unless the school has changed its usual setup since I went there, Mondays are split between combat and magic classes in the mornings and contracts in the afternoon," Alecto said between mouthfuls of pancakes.

"There have been some changes to the morning classes, but that is just merging the combat and magic classes into one, that's all," Honor said with a smile towards Bell. "I am one of the contracts and morals teachers, and don't worry, I won't put you in the spotlight just yet."

"Wait, does that mean that Bell is in our class?" Tamiel asked Lucifer in surprise.

"I asked Beelzebub to pull some strings. The two of you can help him out if he needs it. And he probably will knowing how some people can be," Lucifer said with a slight scowl, clearly having remembered something annoying.

"Yeah, that won't be a problem," Tanya said as she looked at bell, pointing her fork at him. "How good are you at fighting anyway? Know any magic?"

"Um, I guess I'm okay at fighting ,and I know a simple spell," Bell admitted, finding the distinct personalities of everyone a bit hard to keep track of.

"That should be fine to start you off," the Helltaker said simply. "If what you were capable of before was any indicator you should be fine."

"As long as the rite is done promptly," Lucifer said as she looked at Honor expectantly.

"I was planning to start my class with it, but if you want it done early I can do that," she replied respectfully.

"That should be fine," Justice spoke up with a grin. "I'm sure Tyrant won't be too hard on em to need the rite beforehand.

"Well, tyrant is actually on a vacation this week," Honor spoke up. "Abaddon is covering the combat class this week."

Everyone was dead silent for a solid minute, no one even eating as they just stared at Honor.

"Honor?" Justice finally spoke up with a smile.

"Y-yes mum?" Honor asked carefully.

"For your brothers sake I would suggest you, Tanya and Tamiel leave early and get Beelzebub to set up the rite for him. Just to make sure its done properly. For his sake."

"I agree. Abbadon is an ass so he'll need to be ready," Pandemonica said with a nod as she picked a cup and drank deeply from it.

"Understood, well make sure its done!" Tamiel said with a smile while Tanya simply nodded.

"You will want to leave soon in case Beelzebub is busy," the Helltaker said as he stood up and cracked his neck to the sides. I'll meet the four of you by the door before you leave." He then said before he walked out of the room.

"Well you heard him, let's finish up and get ready to go!" Honor declared before she shoveled oneclast fork full of food into her mouth.

Tamiel and Tanya then did the same, forcing Bell to before they two of them nearly dragged him out of the dining room and out to the living room and a door that Bell figured was the one that led out of the building.

By the door there were a number of jackets hung up on the wall as well as a number of black and red bags of some kind on the floor beside a rack covered in black shoes. The Helltaker himself was also standing patiently nearby with a bag of some strange shiny material by his feet, and smiled softly as they approached.

"Ready to discover school?"

"Um, I guess so?" Bell said uncertainly as Tamiel and Tanya went for shoes and started slipping them on.

"Well its good to be," The Helltaker said as he reached down and pulled a pair of shoes out of the back and handed them to Bell. "here, these should fit you, and will be better than the ones you had before."

"Um, thanks," Bell said uncertainly as he took the shoes and knelt down to put them on. They were comfortable, but something about them didn't feel quiet right somehow.

"No problem," The Helltaker said as he then took out a backpack and placed it beside him, before taking out a white jacket and handing it to Bell as well. "And here, a jacket for you and your backpack. Some notebooks are already inside."

"Uh, okay. Is all this really necessary?"

"Immediately, no, but you will need the books later in the day, and the jacket will both protect you, and make it clear whose family you are a part of. Should help curb some potential arguments or more violent fools."

"I, I see," Bell said, before muttering under his breath not quiet quietly enough to not be heard. "so Demons are violent then."

"No more than some mortals," Tanya spoke up.

"No, demons are generally more violent, the male ones at least. They like to show off," Tamiel said as she looked to Bell. "do you have a weapon of some kind, or just that one magic you mentioned?"

"Well I had a knife but,"

"No, you have a knife," the Helltaker said as he pulled the sheathed Hestia knife out of his pocket and held it out to Bell, who nearly snatched it out of the air before affixing it to his belt with a smile. "Bell, listen carefully. That knife is a brilliant piece of work, and while it was made by a pair of gods who are not the least thought of, please do not tell anyone who made it, or who it is dedicated to unless you have no other option, understand?"

"UH, okay. Why do demons hate the gods so much?" Bell asked, earning a huff from Tanya and, to his surprise, Tamiel as well.

"angels do not care for them either," Tamiel stated, looking as if she had just eaten something sour. "We can explain it on the way to school if you would like."

"That would be a good idea, better he know than not," the Helltaker agreed with a smile while he watched Bell cautiously put on the jacket as if it would possibly eat him. "It looks good on you Bell!"

"Does it? I think it's too bright. My hair already attracts enough attention to me," Bell said in response. The jacket was comfortable, but he didn't like it that much. It would just give people more of a reason to all him a rabbit, and he didn't really like that nickname.

"Well I doubt you will have to much trouble here as red eyes are nearly universal for demons, and whitechzir is rather common," the Helltaker said as Honor walked up to them with a large case of somekind slung over her shoulder, her outfit a little cleaner and more formal looking while somehow not being different.

" I've got all the stuff I need, so we can leave whenever," honor said as she slipped on her own shoes.

"Good. Girls, watch over your brother, Bell, do your best but don't try to all of you have a good day!" The Helltaker exclaimed with a smile

The girls all gave affirmations as they nearly dragged Bell through the door and out of the house into hell itself.

Xxx

Hell it turned out, was not what Bell expected. What little he knew described it as a cavernous pit of fire and despair where demons tormented and tortured humans for pleasure.

He had not expected 5o find them in a large open world with a sky that was a dull red where they came out onto a large street with houses lining the sides of the road. The houses wer3 made of dark stones, mostly black or dark, red, but the sight of gardens, street lamps and 9f no burning bodies or screaming souls made it almost seem like a regular residential street.

"Not what you expected huh Bell?" Honor aske with a grin.

"noo, it isn't. I figured there be more, uh, torture going on," Bell admitted.

"Well that happens, but not where people live," Tanya said with a giggle.

"So demons do torture people then, " Bell said nervously.

"yeah, but, you're probably thinking of it wrong, or were told wrong," Honor spoke up. "Bell, what have you been told of demons in the past?"

"Um, I've only been told stories were demons are dark things intent on destroying the world, killing the gods and torturing mortal souls," Bell admitted as he recalled the stories in his head. " they also described demons as like monsters, but intelligent and malevolent."

"Yeah that sounds pretty accurate to what most mortals think," Tamiel muttered. "Most mortals have no idea what hell, or heaven, are actually for."

"Then, what are they for?" bell asked curiously.

"Well, its pretty simple actually," Honor spoke up. Heaven exists to help balance the realms, keep demons in check, drive mortals to do good, and keeps watch over the cycles of reincarnation. Hell exists to also keep the balance, to try to corrupt mortals so that others know what goodness is, and to torment and destroy the souls of evil mortals so their evil cannot be reincarnated in the cycle."

"But, but that isn't anything like what the stories tell," Bell stated in confusion.

"You can thank those backstabbing gods for that," Tanya grumbled.

"What?"

"Bell, the gods were formed alongside angels and demons at the beginning or creation and were suppose to form a kind of, neutral third party to help guide mortals. But unlike demons and angels they did not have any real direction which led to them having a variety of different ideas on how to do things. They ended up in spats with each other, and found the rules of the demons and angels to be too, restrictive, for their liking," Tamiel explained in a sour tone.

"That's very ancient history though," Honor continued. "What really set off us angels and demons though was when the gods became fed up with things not going their way, and humans in the first world starting to not worship their very beings just for existing. The gods eventually used their power to not only create a new world of mortals that wasn't supposed to exist, but they then abandoned every other mortal world they were supposed to exist on just so they could hide on the one they created to claim dominion over it. That is of course, the world you were found on."

"But that doesn't make any sense, I've never heard anything like that, and why would the gods lie about something like that?" Bell asked, finding the entire story to seem a bit, mean spirited.

"Of course not, that would put them in a bad light, so of course they would only say things that make them look good," Tanya stated, causing Honor to speak up again.

"Bell, there's one major thing you have to understand. Demons are not capable of telling outright lies, and that gods are two faced. Most care only about their own state and pride, and very few of them truly care about mortals as anything more than tools, with only a handful from each pantheon who could actually care."

"But, how do I know you are not lying?" Bell asked carefully, feeling more than a little awkward with his question and the conversation as a whole.

"Demons cannot lie, gods and angels can," Tamiel spoke up with a light sigh. "Just like humans can Bell. No one is perfect, but we have no reason to lie about a millennia old grievances that still cause issues from time to time. The gods, as a whole, are not trustworthy, and they are not mortal and do not think like mortals do."

"But, not all the gods, right?" Bell asked, not looking directly at any of the girls as he did.

"no, not all the gods are universally hated," Honor admitted after a pause that made it seem like she didn't want to admit it. "The ones that are not hated are the ones that argued against the gods breaking away to do their own thing, and are almost university the ones that actually care about what they do and how it effects mortals."

"Mostly family and work-centric deities, but not ones associated with war and the like," Tanya added with a huff.

"So, that's why those two didn't have a problem with Hestia?" Bell asked quietly, though not so quietly that he could not be heard.

"The goddess of heart and home, was the one who you, served, is that right?" Tanya asked for clarification while sounding utterly abhorred to the idea.

"She was, yes,"

"Well at least you were under one of the few good ones, and one of the most respected."

"Um, what gods are, not hated?" Bell asked as he noticed that while heading down the very very long street there was a huge building on the horizon. Was that where they were going?

"Hmm, let me think," Honor said with a hum. "Hestia, Hephestus, Artemis, Ea, Ereshkigal, Hades, Heimdall, Anubis, Ra, Quetzalcoatl, Ganesha, Izanami, to name a few. Its mostly gods of protection, creation and death that are good because they actually care about mortals."

"Then, what about the ones that are hated?" Bell found himself asking out of curiosity.

"Oh that is easy. Gods who are tricksters, rapists or war deities. they are the absolute worst!" Tamiel exclaimed vehemently. "Though there is like, maybe two exception to the war deities.

"Let's end this angry conversation for now, the academy is coming into sight," Honor spoke ip as she looked to bell with a smirk. " ready to meet the second most powerful demon in hell behind your own mother and go to school?"

"Um, no?" Bell admitted.

"That's the spirit, let's go!" Tanya exclaimed as she and Tamiel began dragging Bell forward toward the massively ominous building ahead of them.

Bell however was not thinking about what was ahead of him, but about the gods. Most specifically how his goddess was faring with him being so rudely yanked away from her.

Xxxxxxxxx

The goddess Loki , when told that Goddess Hestia of all people was requesting to speak with her, expected it to be for something inane or annoying. The two of them were after all,not on the best of terms. They were not outright enemies, their personalities just did not mesh well.

So to say she was not just surprised, but utterly terrified, to find Hestia with blazing red hair, dragging Hermès by his collar, and releasing enough Divinity to make some mortals nearby visibly nauseous was saying a lot.

"Hey, that's uh, interesting look for you," Loki greeted, finding it hard to keep up her dual façade. She could see Takemikazuchi and his entire Familia a few meters behind Hestia, accompanied by Hephaestus's one member, and Hermes captain, all of them saying nothing and looking both sad, and nervous. It was, off-putting.

"Loki, I don't lIke you, but I need your help," Hestia said seriously as Divinity kept radiating off her in waves.

"I could use some help too here, could you maybe convince her to let go of me and go back to heaven?" Hermes asked Loki hopefully, earning a kick to his side from Hestia, something Loki never thought she would see.

"Shut up Hermes! Who do you think is responsible for this!" Hestia stated venomous, getting Loki's attention in an instant.

"Okay, what exactly is going on, and what do you need?" Loki asked curiously.

"The Helltaker has kidnapped my Bell, and Hermes knows something about Bell in relation to Zeus, but won't say what. He spilled other things he did in the dungeon, but won't spill anything else. I need your help to interrogate hum, or I have no chance of getting Bell back!"

Loki smiled. She had never expected to hear the Helltaker of all entities, but her curiosity quickly got the better of her as she realized that the reason Hermes had not run off yet was that he couldn't. Hestia was overpowering him through sheer divinity density. "Alright squirt, I'll help you. But it will cost you."

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Kibble scribble: okay, its here, not as long as I originally intended, but its been oddly hard so I figured this was a fine place considering the wait.

So to be honest and blunt, I don't have a lot of notes or plans for this story. It just came into my mind as an idea and I started writing. That is part of the reason it's update is so slow. with the way I write it just isn't conceivable for fdter updates.

For this reason and others, I am putting BelltKer up for adoption, so if you want to continue the story, PM me and I can pass over the fre notes I have for it .