The village that they approached was a pretty big one, maybe even big enough to be called a small town. It was pretty ordinary, nothing really special.
Bell liked it at first sight.
Orario had been so extreme and fantastic, that something normal was really nice for a change of scenery. He saw a man leaving the small town, humming while he carried a fishing rod on his right shoulder, a bucket in his left hand, with a straw hat on his head.
He only saw a few guards, but not many. It didn´t look like wild monsters came here often or any bandits. The man with the fishing rod even waved towards them while he walked in the direction of the river that was close by. It was to be expected that a river would be close by, why else would people build a village here?
A few guards noticed them when they came to the path that led into the small town. Takemikazuchi and Miach went forward to greet them.
As usual, it was obvious for mortals when they had gods in front of them. The others stayed back and watched how the gods talked to the guards. Going there with the full group could be too much for the few guards, it could make them nervous.
While the talk went on, Bell noticed that Lefiya fidgeted a bit, as if she was nervous.
"Lefiya?"
"Hm?"
"Everything okay?"
"Mmh..no..."
"Are you...nervous?"
"Of course I am. I´m going to meet your grandfather, the man who raised you."
"I think my grandfather will be easier to talk to than my Mom."
"Maybe...but still..."
Haruhime sighed, she looked nervous too. "I wonder how he will be..."
"Oh, Grandpa is really kind and nice!" Bell grinned.
Meeting Zeus today wasn´t the only thing that let Lefiya feel weird and nervous. Last night she had sat with Haruhime and Bell a bit away from their camp to talk to them. Lefiya had felt really sorry for her behaviour in the past, how she had yelled at Bell for every small thing, how mean she had been. She told them it was never her intention to be a "Tsundere", like the gods called this behaviour, that she knew her personality had flaws.
But both told her they loved her for who and how she was. Lefiya was a bit ashamed when Bell told her that this special behaviour in the past was somewhat...nice. She got red when he told her it had a charm on its own. Haruhime made it worse when she told Lefiya that she too liked it a bit. Getting scolded by Lefiya was...a bit nice for both.
The elf had squealed in embarrassement, she couldn´t believe what her beloveds said. Apparently it was really nice when she got nice and friendly after a little scolding. The difference between the scolding and being nice was her personal charm.
One evening when Lefiya had a sleepover and Haruhime was with the Takemikazuchi familia, she felt really bad about all how she acted towards Bell before. She had asked him if there would be any way how she could make up for it, she would do everything that he wanted her to do.
She had knelt on the bed, looking so defensless and vulnerable, so innocent and pure...yet Bell´s eyes wandered to a certain part of her body...
Maybe...maybe this awakened a naughty side in Bell, he did ask for something.
His eyes were glued to Lefiya´s thighs.
Bell followed his desires and enjoyed a long lap pillow afterwards, while Lefiya gently stroked his hair. That she as an elf allowed him willingly to do something like that...she felt like a true Erolf.
Little did they know, that at this evening, the Astrea familia had something to laugh. Alfia and Filvis were both more than just worried and quarreled slightly because of it.
Filvis thought that her cute little sister was in danger, because she would sleep next to a beast! And Alfia argued that her beloved son was in danger, because the baby bunny would be sleeping next to a "lonely girl"...Alfia called most of the members of this familia like that.
It was hard for both to accept that Bell and Lefiya would sleep in one bed! Alfia didn´t even dare to think about the things that might happen then!
But both didn´t need to be worried, all they did was to cuddle and sleep.
When it came to different personality traits that attracted her lovers like Lefiya had them, it was the same with Haruhime. Bell and Lefiya were really attracted to her gentle and kind nature, but also when she got serious and determined. And for Bell, he was always so nice and chivalrous, yet Haruhime and Lefiya felt something tingle deep inside them, felt their hearts throb when he acted really manly and grim.
When a situation happened where Bell would grab one of them by their waist and pull them towards him to protect them with his sword, it felt really nice. And let their knees get weak.
And just in case Bell would then go a step further and steal a kiss from them, they would only become more happy.
Neither Lefiya nor Haruhime ever thought it would feel so good to become weak in Bell´s arms, to lose against the charm of a man. But it did, as good as when they cuddled with each other.
After a few minutes, Takemikazuchi and Miach returned to the group.
"We asked them if they saw an old, probably handsome man that is good with the ladies. They said there was someone with that description in town."
"Ahm..." Bell looked a bit embarrassed, but it fit his grandfather.
"And where?"
"They said they don´t know where he is now. Only that he left the town in the direction of the old ruin that is close by. An abandoned temple or something similar."
"Could that be my grandfather?"
Takemikazuchi smiled. "Only one way to find out, Bell."
So instead of going into the town, the group moved on, the guards said the ruin would be hard to miss. And indeed, on the other side of the town, about five minutes on foot away, was a small forest. There was a path between the trees, leading deeper into the forest.
"According to the guards, monsters don´t come here for some reason, apparently it has something to do with the ruins."
"Are the ruins magical?"
"They don´t know, only that the ruins had always been here. Even the elders in town got told by their grandparents that the ruins were always there."
"What kind of ruin is it? An old fortress? A castle? A temple?"
"They don´t know it, they rarely go there, to not disturb the peace of the ruins. As far as their stories go, a strong monster lived here a long time ago."
"Could it be that it still lingers here somewhere? Maybe this presence is what keeps the weaker monsters at bay?"
"This is a possibility, but they never saw any kind of monster here, so if that would be the case, the monster had to be asleep or something similar."
"Hm...can we hurry a bit? In case the old man they talked about is my grandfather, I don´t want him to get in danger."
"Of course, but remember your grandfather has a lot of experience and is not that weak. Monsters outside of the dungeon are much weaker than those inside, so he could probably defend himself against a smaller one or at least get away."
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The narrow path through the forest was obviously not used very often. Tree roots and small bushes grew here and there into the path. They moved around the plants, there was no reason to chop them up just so they could walk this way.
It was important to leave forests like these alone, whether there was anything lurking in these ruins or not.
Even though it was only a light forest, it was thick enough to hide the ruins. It took them almost half an hour of following the path before they noticed anything other than forest.
Mikoto was the first to notice something different.
"This is a piece of wall."
She had stopped next to an overgrown rock. Now that it was brought to the others' attention, they saw it. The rock was too straight to be naturally formed, it really looked like a piece of a wall.
They looked around, here and there were other small pieces of walls. Haruhime´s ears and tails twitched when she crouched down next to a different piece.
"Is that a part of a pillar? It´s round."
Chigusa came and looked at the piece too, while Ouka moved a bit away and found another round piece behind a few bushes.
Lefiya moved a few steps backwards and let her eyes wander around.
"This looks a bit like an access path or a small boulevard."
There were basically two lines of small walls left and right, with a few pillar pieces between them. So it looked like a stoney path, that led somewhere.
Bell went and stopped next to Lefiya.
"Hm, I have seen things like these in one of my books."
"You did?"
"Yes, old temples had such boulevards that led to them."
"So you think the ruin could be an old temple?"
"Maybe. Grandpa often told me stories about old temples and fortresses that were in the lands."
Nahza remained next to Miach, holding her bow and an arrow in her hands, just in case. Mikoto was next to Takemikazuchi, a hand on the hilt of Zansetsu.
The group moved on, Bell moved at the front. Without doing it on purpose, they formed their usual dungeon formation, with the gods in the middle of the group.
They found what they were looking for almost suddenly.
At the end of the small boulevard the trees were larger and denser, climbing plants hung down here, together with the bushes they obscured the view, creating a kind of curtain. These climbing plants had white and slightly light blue flowers, but they were still closed. Now that they were seeing them in such large numbers, the group noticed that these vines were everywhere in the forest, but only here and there.
Miach and Takemikazuchi became pretty quiet for some reason.
Bell held a hand on Silence´s hilt, while he used the other to carefully moved the climbing plants that hung down out of the way.
It really was as if the trees, bushes and vines were forming a kind of curtain. Behind the plants there was a clearing where only grass grew, which strangely looked a little bluish.
In the middle of the clearing stood the ruins, a half-ruined temple.
A very old temple.
The temple was about four times the size of their old home in Orario, about as big as a certain abandoned church in Orario. And if Bell's knowledge didn't deceive him, it had a style that looked familiar.
"Why is there an Olympian temple out here?"
The others followed Bell through the plant curtain and saw what he meant. Haruhime noticed the style too, from her old books.
"It really is an Olympian temple, the pillars and roof give it away."
The door that led into the temple was also made from stone and wasn´t completely closed. Only a few of the vines grew on the walls and the roof of the temple, no other plant. As they looked closer, they noticed that the vines didn´t grow on the temple, but out of it. It seemed that the source of the vines was inside the temple.
Lefiya pointed towards the door.
"Someone walked to that temple not too long ago."
"You can see that?" Haruhime´s ears twitched one time.
"Yes, the grass lookes like someone walked on it."
"You really have good eyes."
"Well I grew up in a forest, you have to learn these things there."
Haruhime smiled. "I really want to see your homeforest one day."
Lefiya returned the smile. "You will. Oh..."
"What is it?"
"I just...ahm...I wonder how I will tell my family...that I have two people in my heart..."
Haruhime chuckled. "We will help you with that."
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Huuuuuuuh...
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All of them looked up when they heard a noise coming from the temple, it was something like a moan.
As if there was something inside the temple.
Bell´s expression become serious. "Grandpa.."
His right hand rested on the hilt of Silence while he walked closer to the door, Welf and Lena were at his sides, Daphne and Cassandra formed the rear guard.
Welf and Lena put their hands on the door and looked at Bell, who glanced over his shoulder to the group, before he nodded. The two pulled the door open, then Bell moved slowly inside. .
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The temple looked bigger from the inside than from the outside, but apparently that was often the case when it came to temples. It was indeed an old Olympian temple, there were a few broken stone benches here, but not much else. In the middle of the floor was a crack, from there grew the vines that went intot he forest. At the end of the temple was a small altar, above it was a symbol carved into the wall.
A crescent and a bow.
The symbol of the Goddess of the Hunt, Artemis.
"Eh? Is this a temple of Lady Artem-"
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Huuuuuuuuh...Huuuuuuuuh...
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The moan was there again, it came from behind the altar as it seemed.
When Bell made a step closer, he saw fine movement.
At first it looked like something small was crawling over the floor, then he saw that it was fog. Fog came from behind the altar and they heard the moan again.
Just to be sure, Bell put his other hand on the hilt of the silver sword.
Mikoto moved slowly to his left side.
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""Huuuuuuh...""
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Bell´s lips curled into a light smile, which the others couldn´t see from behind. There were two voices now that moaned. It couldn´t be a ghost or a monster, since he knew one of the voices.
When he moved a bit further forward, he saw something behind the altar. It looked like...horns. And hair, slender shoulders...as if someone was crouching behind the altar.
"Huuuuuuh..."
The figure that crouched behind the altar moved slightly, Bell thought he saw a hand held next to the head, it was this figure that made these moans.
Bell was about to say something when he noticed a pretty big figure moving to his left, a figure with a familiar shape. For him it was obvious what happened here, since he knew his grandfather very well.
The big figure on the left side moved forward, but Mikoto immediatelly noticed the movement and drew Zansetsu in a quick movement.
"Who goes th-!"
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"YOU DARE TO RAISE YOUR WEAPON AGAINST A GOD OF OLYMPUS?!"
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Lightning crackled and thunder roared as the figure became fully visible. It was a very tall, muscular, old man. He had long, white hair, an impressive beard, wore only sandals and a tunic in the olympian style.
His hands had balled into fists as he strode forward. Lightning flashed around and shot out of his fists. His face was contorted into a mask of anger, his eyes glowed blue and small lightning flashed from them.
The man's voice was like a rumble of thunder, his cry like a clap of thunder.
Every mortal in the room felt extreme goosebumps rush across their bodies. The feeling that followed made their hearts pound strongly to the rhythm of the thunderclap, their knees became weak and some even staggered back slightly.
Takemikazuchi and Miach were completely unaffected and Bell only staggered slightly, a wild grin on his face, he had felt this before.
The man before them was more than obvious a god.
A god of lightning, thunder and storms!
Zeus!
The King of Olympus!
Cassandra almost collapsed, Daphne could barely support her. Luan collapsed to her knees while Lily had to use her spear for support.
When there was even the slightest sign of danger, Lefiya had immediately stood in front of Haruhime. Just like Ouka before Chigusa.
Mikoto's Zansetsu trembled in her grip, she was on the verge of collapsing to her knees.
A long bolt of lightning flashed from the thunder god's hand and struck his right foot...
"YIIIAUUUTSH!"
When Zeus yelled out, his voice sounded normal, without the reverberation and power of the divine. He dropped something from his hands, the lightning went out, and he hopped on his left foot while holding his right.
"That huuuuurt!"
The strange feeling that they all had vanished too.
Bell´s face lit up. "Grandpa!"
He had already let go of the hilts of his swords and jumped forward. Zeus´ expression also became happy, he let go of his foot and opened his arms to catch Bell, both laughed, happy to see each other again. Now it got obvious how tall Zeus was, he was easily over a head taller than Bell and way more muscular. And...very handsome.
Mikoto still staggered slightly, but it got better when Takemikazuchi stepped to her side and put his hands on her waist.
"Are you okay, my dear?"
"Y-Yes..thank you. What was that?"
Nahza too looked a bit pale, she leaned against Miach´s chest.
Miach frowned. "Zeus, I would appreciate it if you wouldn´t release a bit of your Arcana for such a prank."
Zeus laughed loud, still hugging Bell.
"Ah don´t be like that, Miach! I didn´t see my beloved grandson for months now! Allow me a bit of fun!"
The others finally were able to stand upright again, slowly getting the situation.
Lena shivered. "Wuuuaah...so this is what it feels like when a god releases Arcana."
Zeus grinned and winked to the amazon. "That was only a tiny bit of Arcana, just enough to scare people a bit. To increase my voice and let out a bit of divine aura, nothing that would send me back to heaven."
Mikoto still looked shocked. "And the lightning?"
Takemikazuchi crouched down for a moment and picked up two special stones.
"Let me guess, magic items?"
"Jup! One of my boys made them in the past for me. Helps to impress the Ladies! They just produce a bit of lightning, nothing harmful. Was the idea of Bell´s father actually."
"You let one of your children create such an item just for that purpose?"
"Hey, I want to have fun on the surface. And it works really well."
Haruhime looked confused. "How did Bell´s father came up with this idea?"
"Oh, he was one of my favorites, we both got along really well, we were one of the same mind."
Lena grinned. "So Bell´s father was a pervert too?"
Zeus laughed. "Exactly, young Lady. A true master among perverts!"
Bell didn´t look that happy when he heard that.
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"Huuuuuuh..."
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Zeus still grinned as he turned to the altar. "You can stop and come out now, the show is over."
A figure rose up behind the altar, it was a young woman. A very unique, young woman.
She had dark brown hair along with heterochromatic eyes, the left being blue and the right being gold, and two pairs of horns on her head. The pair of horns on the right and left of her head were twisted like those of a billy goat, the other looked more like small antlers about ten centimeters long and rose above her head.
Similar to Zeus, she wore sandals and an Olympian toga. But unlike the god, her upper body was fully covered, while his chest was mostly exposed.
"Did I do well, Grandfather?"
"Yup! You did perfect, Talvi!"
The young woman smiled happy and walked towards the old god.
Bell looked perplexed from Zeus to the girl and back to Zeus again. "Grandfather?!"
Zeus laughed. "Ah no need to be worried or jealous, Bell. I will explain everything."
Bell eventually let go of his grandfather, Zeus stretched out his arms and smiled bright.
"Welcome everyone! In one of the small temples of Artemis!"
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"You really grew up a lot, Bell. You became strong and muscular, quite handsome I must say. But that is no surprise, you´re my grandson after all!"
Zeus leaned against the altar in the middle of the temple. It wasn´t dark in here, the light was quite nice.
"And it looks like you didn´t change at all, Grandpa."
"Ahahaha! What did you expect? I´m a god, we don´t really change!"
Zeus winked and pointed his hand to the young woman at his side. "Allow me to introduce you, this is Talvi. Talvi, this is my grandson and his friends."
"A pleasure to meet you." She smiled bright.
Bell smiled. "Hello."
"I met her while I traveled a bit. She is really interested in new things and wanted to see Orario and the dungeon badly. As you all can see Talvi is special, she was born this way. Sadly that´s why she travels alone, most people don´t really like her appearance. So I asked her if she wants to travel with this old man for a while."
"You´re really nice, Grandpa."
"Of course I am! Remember what I told you Bell, always make the Ladies happy! By the way, I had her call me Grandfather, to travel a bit in secret, so that people don´t realize right away that I´m a god."
Talvi smiled. "I´m really thankful to Grandfa-..Lord Zeus, it was nice to travel with him. He even gave me this fine toga."
Bell looked from Talvi to Zeus.
"Grandpa, why did you have a toga for women with you?..."
"Hey, don´t look at your Grandpa like that! You´re almost like your Mom now! Anyway, I had one because I prepared a gift."
"A gift?"
Zeus pointed at a few large bags in a corner of the temple.
"Since I would meet you, I prepared some fine, olympian clothes! As my greeting gift for these two lovely, young Ladies over here! And one for your Mom."
Zeus nodded to Lefiya and Haruhime.
Both blinked. ""For us?""
"Jup."
Zeus left the altar and stepped to the two, he bowed down one time, in a perfectly elegant manner. "Nice to meet you, young Lefiya, young Haruhime. I read so much about you two in the letters that Bell sent me. At first I thought you two had to be fellow goddesses, so much did he praise you."
Both blinked again when they heard that and looked to Bell, who looked away a bit flustered. Zeus exaggerated a bit, but that was just his nature.
"And I have to say, you´re even more beautiful than he said! Young Lefiya, you easily rival the former High Elf Queen Celdia! Just like Bell said, that short hair really suits you. And you young Haruhime, you are so lovely that I could cry! Bell was right about your tails, they look like a golden waterfall!"
""Mmmh!""
Zeus easily managed to let both blush strongly, he winked to Bell.
Then the thunder god turned to the others. "And so many promising, young people. I heard much about all of you from Bell and what I saw in the wargame impressed me very much."
Zeus went from one to the next, giving them a few praises, he ordered Ouka to strike a few poses with him, since both were so muscular. Miach and Takemikazuchi made sure that Zeus didn´t even try to flirt with Mikoto or Nahza.
Talvi let her eyes wander from one to the next, fascinated by the new people. And surprised that no one seemed to be disgusted by her horns. Her eyes stopped at Haruhime´s tails, she couldn´t fight her curiosity and came a bit closer.
"Excuse me, Ms. Haruhime?"
"Yes?"
"Why do you have five tails? I heard beast people only have one, were you born this way? Like me?"
Haruhime shook her head, her tails twitched, then they rose up.
"No, I only had one at first, some time ago then this one split, I had three, it happened two times again, I still wonder why."
Talvi smiled. "They´re really pretty. Like in this one story of the far east that Grandf-..Lord Zeus told me about."
"He did?"
"Yes, while we traveled together, he told me so many stories! It was really fascinating! I hope I can see some of these places too one day, like Orario!"
"Do you have a familia? Maybe..."
Haruhime glanced to Zeus.
"Mh-mh. He said it wouldn´t be a good idea to get his blessing, I should find a nice familia in Orario, with a gentle god."
Haruhime noticed that Talvi glanced to Miach for a moment.
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Zeus eventually came to Welf. "Nice to meet you, Bell told me a lot about you two."
"Two?"
Zeus nodded, then he gently knocked against Welf´s chest. "Don´t wanna come out?"
There was a rushing sound, like a fire blazing. Flames flickered over Welf's shoulders as Ursu manifested from his back. As usual, it was just her upper body.
"Oh!~~ Now that´s a pretty, young Lady! Really looks a lot like Hephaistos when she was younger!"
The female fire spirit moved a bit closer to Zeus, eyeing the god. She couldn´t resist, took one of her hand claws and slightly poked at Zeus´ chest for a moment, before she...giggled.
Zeus took Ursu´s hand and kissed the back of it. "Nice to meet you."
If something like that was possible for a fire spirit, Ursu blushed, made a strange sound as if fire tried to squeak, then she hid behind Welf´s back, only glancing at Zeus.
"Hah! I didn´t lose my touch! Still able to make the ladies flustered!"
"Oy, don´t try to flirt with Ursu!"
"Hoho? Jealous?"
"Of course! She is precious to me!"
Ursu looked even more flustered when she heard that.
Zeus grinned. "Hah! You would´ve been perfect as one of my boys! I bet Hephaistos also really likes you, when Ursu reacts like that."
"Bell! Do something about your grandfather!"
Zeus laughed. "Hah! I like you! I will look forward if Ursu will become stronger when you´re getting stronger, maybe she can take on a humanoid form one day."
"Eh?! Can spirits do that?"
Zeus shrugged his shoulders. "Sure, I mean Gnomes do that."
Welf didn´t think about that, he looked over his shoulder to Ursu, who tilted her head in curiosity.
"So, now that I greeted everyone, shall we go outside? Don´t want to disturb Artemis´ temple too long or she will get angry, I tell you she can feel that when someone is inside her domain."
"Grandpa, why is there a temple of Lady Artemis here?"
"All kinds of hunters prayed to Artemis over the centuries. A woman hunted a strong monster a few hundred years ago and eventually managed to slay it in this forest. In order to thank Artemis and to present the prey to her, the woman and her troop built this small temple here. This isn't all that unusual, there are some small temples of Artemis all over the country. They saw it as a sign that when the temple was finished, that floor plate broke and the vines started to grow. You have to know these are moonflowers, they are connected to Artemis. Actually, they can only grow naturally in much warmer areas, but you can find them everywhere around the Temples of Artemis. Just like eagles can usually be found near my temples or all kinds of medicinal herbs at Miach's."
Miach nodded to confirm what Zeus said.
Haruhime slightly clapped her hands. "Is that the reason why the medicinal herbs that Nahza planted grow so well in our home?"
Miach shook his head. "Maybe, even when it isn´t a temple."
Lefiya smiled. "It is the same with the flowers at our home, Lady Astrea said they have a connection to her."
Zeus nodded. "That´s also the reason why Demeter can grow such a crazy amount of vegetables so easily, since she represents fertility."
While they went outside, Talvi couldn´t help but look at Lefiya.
"Is something wrong?"
"Oh, I´m sorry...you´re the first elf that I ever saw."
"Ah, no problem then. And you´re the first...ahm...what exactly are you?"
Talvi smiled. "Someone once called me a chimera person. There were lots of different beast people among my ancestors. And even when that normally isn´t possible, it seems that their different genes mixed in my body and this was the result."
Talvi pointed at her horns and antlers, as well as her eyes.
"So you´re a kind of beast person?"
"I think so, apparently I have more than thirty different blood types or so inside me."
"Is such a thing possible?!"
"I think so. Lord Zeus said I´m unique in the whole world and I should be proud of this. He said that he would introduce me to his grandson, since he doesn´t care about the race, only that I´m a girl."
Lefiya and Haruhime went stiff when they heard this.
"What did Lord Zeus mean with...introducing you two?"
Haruhime nodded, agreeing with Lefiya.
Talvi waved her hands and smiled wryly. "Don´t worry, I heard that you are his girlfriends, Lord Zeus didn´t mean it in a romantic way. But he said if someone in the world could accept what I am, it would be Mr. Bell."
This let both smile and they nodded.
"This does sound like Bell."
"Absolutely."
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When they went outside, Zeus waved to Bell, Lefiya and Haruhime, while Talvi went with the others, Zeus wanted to have a talk with Bell and his girlfriends.
They sat down on the gras a bit away from the group.
"So, now that we are just us four, I would like to greet you two a bit more personal. Nice to meet you, Haruhime and Lefiya."
The old man smiled.
Haruhime sat in the usual far eastern way. "Nice to meet you, Lord Zeus."
Lefiya looked a bit shy. "Nice to meet you, Lord Zeus."
"Please call me Grandfather or Grandpa."
""Huh?!""
"Well you are both Bell´s girlfriends and you will surely one day marry or exchange an oath. So you will become my granddaughters-in-law."
"Oh ah..."
"Ahm...eh..."
Both looked at each other, not knowing what to say.
"But...calling a god that..."
"Haruhime is right...that would be rude..."
"Bell calls me Grandpa too."
"But you raised him."
"You know each other for years, we just met you."
Zeus looked a bit down and sad. "Oh...I understand..."
Bell knew exactly what Zeus did right now.
"Uuh..."
"Mmmh..."
Haruhime and Lefiya blushed, they didn´t want to make Zeus sad, he was an important person for Bell after all.
Haruhime gulped. "G-Grand..father.."
For her it was easier to say than for Lefiya, since she was from the far east, it would´ve been the natural thing to do later.
Lefiya looked to the side when she mumbled. "G...Grandfather..."
Zeus beamed all over his face. "Hah, to have two so lovely and beautiful granddaughters-in-law makes me a happy man."
Then Zeus pulled two of the bags to him.
"I made this for you, Haruhime. And these ones for you, Lefiya. It´s old olympian fashion for various occasions. I can assume you they fill fit perfectly."
Both looked at their bags.
"Thank you, Lord Z-...Grandfather, but how were you able to make them fit perfectly?"
Zeus smiled. "I saw you during the wargame, I have an eye for the body of women."
Suddenly, Haruhime´s tails shot up and she covered a part of her body and Lefiya´s, while both clutched their hands to them, looking abashed.
"Ah I didn´t mean it in any naughty way, I just wanted to give you a present when we meet for the first time."
"Oh."
"Mh..."
Both looked at each other again.
"Is there...something we could give you in return?"
Lefiya nodded, agreeing with Haruhime.
Zeus grinned. "Well you could try something on, you can go inside the temple to change. I´m sure Bell would love to see these outfits."
They noticed how Bell looked at Talvi´s outfit for a moment, then he glanced to Lefiya and Haruhime.
"Bell..."
"Would you like to see?"
He just nodded, not even hiding his excitement.
"Then wait here please."
"Mh."
Haruhime and Lefiya got up and took the bags, but Zeus interrupted them before they could leave.
"Oh and if you want to return the favor, I´m looking forward to great-grandchildren."
Haruhime and Lefiya looked shocked.
Bell shouted embarrassed. "Grandpa!"
The two nearly fled into the temple.
"Grandpa?"
"Hm?"
"You´re a genius, I love you."
Zeus laughed. "I even made a few for your Mom, but I doubt she will wear them, even when I made them black and goth style."
"You really seem to have a hand for fashion, Grandpa."
"Na, I just like to see beautiful women in nice outfits. And since no one wanted to wear the olympian style anymore, I thought "Fine, I´ll do it myself.", you know?"
"I will give Mom the outfits you made, but I don´t know if she will be willing to wear them."
Alfia would be willing, because it was Bell who asked her to try them.
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"Hyaaa!"
"Eeek!"
"I-Isn´t that way too short?!"
"I agree!"
Haruhime and Lefiya had tried the first tunics, now both tried to pull the hem of the skirt a bit further down, they only covered about twenty percent of their thighs. Haruhime had even more problems, since this tunic didn´t have a hole for her tails, so they pushed up the skirt from behind, it was quite the naughty sight. They then found a note that said "For sleeping in summer".
"Oh.."
"That..makes sense I guess..."
Haruhime blushed a bit when she noticed something.
"Haru?"
"Ahm...ah..."
"What´s wrong?"
Instead of answering, Haruhime put her hands for a moment onto her own chest.
Lefiya glanced down at herself, now it made sense which spot Haruhime covered with her hands, the cloth was really thin...
"Mmmh...it´s a bit cold in here." She covered the two spots too.
"Y-Yeah.."
Both turned around, then they tried the next piece of cloth.
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"Woah...you look both so stunning...absolutely beautiful!"
Both smiled when they heard Bell´s praise. They now wore long olympian style togas, thankfully these ones had thicker cloth in the chest area. Zeus had made a few of these for them, with various lengths. Two were long but had a cut that would reveal their legs when they walked, showing their thighs, because Zeus knew that Bell loved thighs. Both decided the only one who would ever see this except for themself was Bell.
They saw that there was also a small bag next to Bell, Zeus made something for him too.
Zeus grinned when he saw how interested Lefiya and Haruhime looked at Bell.
"Bell come on, don´t let your girlfriends stay here like that, go and change too, I bet they wanna see this."
Bell looked up, both nodded eagerly. So he did what they wanted and went inside the temple to change.
Lady Artemis, I hope you can forgive me for changing my clothes in your temple.
His toga of course looked different than the ones from Haruhime and Lefiya, his chest was mostly free, only one half was covered by the cloth.
Haruhime and Lefiya both reacted in the same way when Bell came out again.
""Abs...""
This time it wasn´t only Lefiya that had a small fantasy.
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Haruhime stood in front of a small temple, wearing an olympian style toga, glancing over her shoulder down to the path that led to the temple, two figures walked towards her. A human and an elf.
"Oh, an old temple!"
Bell yelled out, grinning.
"Let me guess, you want to explore it?"
Lefiya tilted her head and smiled.
"Yes! It surely will be exciting."
The elf looked up to Haruhime, then she smiled in a special way.
"Hmmmm~~"
"Let us go, Lefi."
They walked side by side up to the temple.
What awaited them at the top of the hill, at the entrance of the temple...let them gasp.
The gate of the temple was closed and locked, in front of it stood a priestess, with her back turned towards them. Her outfit was pure white...as white as fresh snow...and evenly untouched. Golden hair fell down from her shoulders, two fox ears pointed out from a see through veil that was on her head, with holes for the ears,
her long, bushy tails moved slowly behind her.
"Oh my~~"
By Lefiya´s noise, Haruhime started to turn around, she smiled gently.
"Greetings travelers, what brings you to the Temple of Justice?"
""Justice?""
Haruhime nodded.
"Ahm...w-who are you?"
Haruhime noticed how Bell looked at her.
"I am the priestess, guardian of this Temple...I´d like to repeat my question...what brings you to the Temple of Justice?"
"Hear me, Piestess! It is us, the great adventuring duo! Bell Cranel and Lefiya Viridis...soon to be Cranel. We are on our journey to defeat vile monsters and bring peace to these lands!"
"Ah...uhm..."
Haruhime backed away a bit by Bell´s loud declare.
"Bell...let me talk to her...please..."
"Huh?"
Haruhime gulped when she saw how Lefiya slightly licked her lips.
Lefiya made a slow step forward, so that Haruhime could focus on her.
"Oh great priestess, please hear my request! My beloved Bell and I were sent out by the gods to defeat the monsters of the lands. But they are incredibly powerful. We were told that mighty artefacts are in old temples...artefacts given to the mortals to help them fight evil."
"There are indeed artefacts in this temple."
"Then...is there a way...that you would allow us...to enter?"
Haruhime´s expression changed, to a very serious one.
"No."
"No?"
"No."
"But...why not?"
"The entrance is forbidden for the unworthy."
"But...unworthy...us?"
"Of course."
"D-Do you realise that we are the heroes that all people talk about?!"
Haruhime´s expression was as if she was looking down on Lefiya...or an insect. She didn´t know why she looked at her like that in her fantasy.
"Do you realise that the entrance is forbidden?"
Lefiya lost her temper pretty fast.
"I-I demand that you give us a chance to proof that we are worthy!"
"I didn´t get a sign from the Goddess that you might come. The holy place of the goddess isn´t allowed to be disturbed."
"Really? But-"
"The entrance is forbidden."
"*Sigh* Okay...I understand what you are saying..."
Lefiya sighed again, then she got an determined look.
"Priestess! We a-"
"No."
"*Cough* Priestess! We are to enter the temple and use the artefacts to defeat the monsters! The land of the mortals is in danger and we shouldn´t waist even one second on our journey! Every demon that comes our way to stop us will be defeated, but we need those artefacts! Now open this gate! Or the monsters might overrun the mortal plane!"
Haruhime looked at Lefiya after her outburst for many seconds in silence.
"The entrance...is forbidden."
Lefiya started to shake and mumble for herself, clearly holding back her anger...and yet it looked like she was very attracted to Haruhime.
After half a minute of growling and mumbling, Lefiya sighed again.
"Okay...I thought I could get through you myself...if reason cannot be applied...unreasonable means must be taken..."
Lefiya turned her face to Bell.
"My beloved...Convince her..."
She didn´t need to say another word, Bell jumped forward and landed in front of Haruhime, who startled a bit.
"Mmmmmmm-hm!"
Bell put his right leg back and slightly put his left at an angle, flexing his muscles as he made a heroic pose...Lefiya looked at his mostly bare upper body unabashed.
His voice changed a bit, got more deeper and...alluring...flirting...a bit...indecent.
"Oooh...little...Priestess."
He smiled in his most flirty way and flexed his muscles again. "Beautiful Fox-Maiden..."
"Y-Yes?"
Haruhime´s eyes widened by Bell´s behaviour...it was...nice.
Bell leaned slightly forward to her, the gate was right behind her back, so there was not much room to back away.
"Why would you ever reject to let such heroes like us from entering your domain?"
"Uh..."
Haruhime´s eyes swam around...she didn´t know where to look at...Bell flexing his muscles in front of her...her brain started to heat up.
Bell´s arousing smile widened while he moved his right hand slowly along his upper body.
"Look upon my smooth skin.."
"Oh."
Her eyes widened more and she gulped...following Bell´s hand with her eyes...her knees got weak.
Bell grinned nasty and pulled the cloth of his toga a bit to the side, making a quick movement with his other hand, he held a small bottle in there and splashed it onto his stomach.
"My oiled abs..." He moved his hand along there.
Haruhime already got deep red, even Lefiya gulped.
"Oooohh..."
Bell continued, he pulled down the upper part of his toga, revealing his upper body completely, moving the oily hand along it.
"My well rounded biceps..."
"Hauuu..."
He leaned closer and his voice got even more...erotic.
"My chest muscles...pulsate with smoooth...velvety...beats..."
"Haaaaah!"
Haruhime´s eyes couldn´t widen more...Bell´s face was just centimeters away from her, she gasped and whinced...her eyes wandered along Bell´s body...she couldn´t stop herself from looking.
Bell dealt the killing blow...when Haruhime turned her face away, he placed the oiled hand at the wall next to her...and slowly turned her face towards him with his other hand on her chin.
"Little priestess..."
"Y-Yes?..."
"I want to...enter ...your...temple.."
He sounded more than just suggestive.
"The entrance...is...Kyaun!"
Suddenly, Haruhime´s body jolted upwards, Lefiya had moved to her and placed a kiss at Haruhime´s neck, right in the moment when Bell stole Haruhime´s lips.
"K-Kyuu~~~"
In her fantasy, Bell and Lefiya showered her head and neck with kisses, while they let their hands wander along her thighs.
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For Lefiya it was similar in her fantasy, she stood in a deep forest, a monster fell dead down on the ground.
She bowed slightly forward. "Dear hunters, I have to thank you for protecting our forest, we couldn´t have defeated the monsters without you."
In front of her were Bell and Haruhime, both smiling slightly.
"We were glad we could help."
"Indeed."
"Now, is there anything that you want as a reward for helping us? Whatever it may be, I will see if I can fulfill your request."
"Whatever you say..."
"Indeed...whatever..."
"Dear...hunters?"
Lefiya looked up when both came closer to her, in a few moments they stood on both sides of her, Bell behind her, Haruhime in the front.
"You are really lovely, my dear elf." Bell smiled amorous.
"And you have such a delicious looking neck..." Haruhime licked her lips.
"H-Hunters, what are y-Eeep!"
Lefiya startled, she felt Bell´s right touching one of her thighs.
"Mmh...what smooth, wonderful thighs."
"Auuu~~~"
Lefiya couldn´t stop the noise from escaping her lips as one of Haruhime´s hands carressed her other thigh.
"Wh-What are you d-Mmmmmh~~~~"
Bell put a hand on Lefiya´s chin, turned her face slightly to the side and stole her lips. Meanwhile Haruhime hugged her from the front, their soft bodies got pushed against each other. Since Bell tilted Lefiya´s face slightly to the side, Haruhime had free access to Lefiya´s neck.
"*Nom*"
"Mmmff~~~"
Lefiya would lie if she said it was unpleasant to feel her body get sandwiched between her two lovers.
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For Bell...his fantasy was a bit different.
""Bell...we love you.""
"And I love you."
He lay on the gras at his familia´s home, resting on Lefiya´s and Haruhime´s thighs. Both young women had faced each other, sitting on their knees, their legs entangled enough to create the ultimate pillow for Bell.
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Zeus noticed that the three young people were a bit lost in their own world for a moment.
He pointed with his thumb at Talvi. "Yo, Miach. Could one of you let Talvi join your familia? She really wants to go to Orario and see the dungeon. Can´t think of a better familia. Also, she may have been my Granddaughter only by name for a while, but that makes her kind of Bell´s sibling in a way. Gyaahaha!"
Miach felt the eyes of his followers on him, Talvi looked really hopeful.
Zeus grinned. "It would make her really happy. I told her a lot about Bell, she loves the old stories just like him. Come on, have a heart, Miach."
Talvi looked at Miach with puppy eyes. "I promise I will do my best! I always wanted to see Orario and the dungeon! Lord Zeus told me so much about Bell´s awesome familia!"
Miach looked for a moment at his followers, Nahza smiled a bit and nodded, she had nothing against a new member.
"Well this comes a bit sudden, but alright. I have nothing against it."
"Yeeeaaah~~~~~" Talvi jumped up and down, cheering and smiling happily.
Zeus grinned. "You´re a good man, Miach."
