Summary: This, is the story of an adventurer named Bell Cranel. Bell isn't your normal day adventurer either, no, he is in fact, an unblessed one. No one would accept him into their familia, due his weak looking self. Leaving Bell with one last option to secure his dreams. Watch as Bell becomes the first unblessed adventurer to enter the dungeon. Tread carefully young hero...The gods are not with you here.

Disclaimer: I do not own DanMachi or any characters from the light novel. Please support the original release by buying the manga, the Light Novel, and the anime when it's available. Look on google play if you wish to buy the light novel, like I did. I do however, own this story idea, and any new original characters or monsters I use.

Author's Notes: To anyone who doesn't know, yes Bell is afraid of Ais Wallenstein. Yes instead of being in mad love with her, he is absolutely terrified of her. I thought of it as a new refreshing Idea.

Well, onto the story. You repost in the wrong neighborhood. Go back to tumblr you self-diagnosing ass. Speaking of ass...Bell gets more ass than a toilet seat. Now get outta my swamp because I'm a smash mouth all star! Okay I'm done now.

Character quote of the day: "I can't fight my way out of this one. I have to rely on my other skill set...Singing. Grandfather, your advice hasn't failed me yet so hopefully this will work on these Lamias. Well if snakes can be charmed by music...God I hope this works." ~ Bell Cranel


Story: Somebody Up There Likes Me

Chapter Six: I Need a Weapon


I turned to look at the silver haired werewolf. Well, I might have been scared, but not because I saw a ghost. No that was definitely a banshee. I had decided not to say anything because I didn't want to start a fight over something stupid, especially in such a nice bar. That was run by crazy women who could very well kill me. Yes a smart decision on my part. Though that didn't stop me from glaring over at the prick as I bit into a piece of bread angrily. I continued to listen to the Loki familia as they drank. I then heard…

"Too bad Ais isn't here! I wanted her to tell me about the story!" The Werewolf grinned with drunken amusement as he leaned forward in his seat. I was pretty sure he had one drink...And he was this drunk already. The man could not hold his liquor at all. Almost like a dog.

The elf raised an eyebrow at her drunken comrade. "What story are you talking about?"

"You know the one when those Minotaurs escaped!" My eyes widened and now I had stopped eating. I had just found out how that Minotaur got to the fifth floor. It was running away from the Loki Familia! I had a brush with death today because they let a Minotaur get away. Well that explains it. "I wanted Ais to tell me how she ended up killing that last Minotaur on the lower fifth floor. You know: Ghost Boy!"

'There's that nickname again.' I growled mentally. Boy someone needed to set his facts straight.

"You mean what happened today. When the group of Minotaurs attacked us on the lower seventeenth floor, and ran when we fought back?" The Elf asked as if making sure they were talking about the right thing.

The werewolf looked like an eager puppy, "Yeah, yeah, that one! They managed to get by us by some miracle and ran up to the upper floors. We had to tear after them, and we were so damn tired too!"

Wait, so if he already knows the damn story...Why would he want to hear it from Ais? It sounds like he already knows what happens next. Was he trying to ruin me already or something, because he was sure loud about it. It was like he was trying to make a scene, or he really couldn't hold his alcohol. He had no control of himself and it showed.

"Yeah and that 'adventurer'! That damn newbie kid got himself cornered like a lil' bunny. Shaking like one too! He looked like he was about to explode!" The werewolf laughed, "Man he just took off like a racehorse when the thing was killed, never seen someone move so fast!"

The table busted out laughing while the people around them were trying not to laugh. Some people had even started to connect the dots and were looking at me. Wait, that's not good. Oh sweet merciful gods. This idiot was going to ruin my already growing reputation. I had to put a stop to this.

"It was so pathetic. It's been a real long time that I've been that disgusted that I could cry."

"Oh I'll give you something to cry about." I muttered to myself. There was a pounding in my head, anger was building up inside of me. I really want to punch this guy's teeth in, but I know for a fact that he is a way high level then me. I didn't want to get my ass beat in front of all these people. Yet...I was slowly losing it. For some reason it seemed that my anger was getting more intense as of late for some reason. I can't explain it, but it did start happening after I had seen that Jackalope when I fought Doluk. I still had no idea why I had seen it, but I did know that it was somehow connected to that surge of power somehow.

"You say something Bell?" Syr inquires but I didn't respond. That animal guy has my full attention. My hands were twitching. "Bell is it okay if-"

"Yeah go head." I said absentmindedly. I heard her say 'thank you' happily. I didn't know why because I was focused in on that werewolf.

"Like what the hell was he doing down there anyway. If you're going to cry like a little bitch, you shouldn't be down there in the first place."

'What!' I believe I heard something in my head snap. Now that was too much.

"He the kind of guy that give us adventurers a bad name." Getting some nods from his other companions.

I stood up abruptly which made the chair screech across the floor. The sound startled Syr and gained some attention from the tables around me…"Sorry." I muttered.

"Shut your mouth already, Bete. It's our fault that a Minotaur ended up on the upper floors. It's not that boy's fault, he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Learn some respect, and stop drinking. That and everything you have said was wrong so far, that's not what Ais told me."

Would you look at that, the elfess is sticking up for me. How nice of her, however…"Hey, how much I owe ya?" I asked the bartender/owner who was watching me closely.

She looked thoughtful for a moment, I could tell she clearly saw something was wrong with me. I did look pretty upset. "The pasta, the salad, bread, and the drinks, two thousand three hundred vails."

"Sounds goo- wait what salad? Drinks?" I looked behind me and saw Syr eating from a bowl and a drink of some sort next to that. She waved at me once I noticed her knowing that I had caught her red handed. Oh, now that's rich. So that's what she asked me when I wasn't paying her any attention. That crafty girl. If I wasn't pissed at the wolf I would be laughing at how much I was played. I tossed a little bag to the bar tender. "Keep the change." The bag had about five thousand five hundred vails inside.

"Wait Be-" Syr was stopped in mid sentence for some reason. It was Probably the owner who stopped her. She didn't want Syr to get into trouble. In fact I think Mama Mia knew what I was about do. I was surprised she didn't stop me. Maybe she thought I would have more sense then to start a fight in here. Well, I made my way over to 'that' table.

"Quiet hag! I wanna hear the story from Ais. Not some elf that wants to act all prideful." The dog blurted out.

The elf looked to be getting upset but sighed, "I swear you're about three arrows short of a quiver."

The werewolf blinked at that then shrugged not understanding what she meant, "What does that even mean?"

Before she could answer, I spoke up, "It means you're stupid."

"Thanks!" The werewolf smiled at me for telling him what the saying meant and he rounded on the elf, who looked slightly astonished that I was standing there. She knew that I had overheard everything that was said about me. "Hey you called me stupid, hag?" Once he said that he quickly realized who was standing next to him. His head snapped back into my direction so fast that I thought he broke his neck. His eyes were wide for a second before a grin came to his lips, "Oh look! It's ghost boy! I was just talking about you!"

I faked an amused smile at the name, "You seem to be able to hold your liquor as well as a newborn puppy." That drew in a few laughs, but I didn't care about that.

He blinked in surprise at me just opening up on him before he did to me, "What?" I could tell the happiness of his drunken state was leaving him. The third feeling that drunk people usually feel was coming onto him. Anger. It was also easy to see that I was very upset by the look on my face. I may not look very intimidating, but that wasn't going to stop me.

"I mean you have barely finished your first drink and you'll all over the place. I mean you weren't even there yet you have full recollection of the whole event. Does that not seem odd to you?" I asked rhetorically, "I didn't think alcohol could make someone so delusional?"

"Whatcha' trying to say?" He growled standing up from his seat looking down at me. I Held my gaze with the taller male. I fought a towering monster, a couple of inches meant nothing to me. Not when I was this mad. He might be a higher level than me, but I could careless at this point.

"What I'm saying is, you shouldn't start rumors that aren't even true, because you weren't there. I ran by you on my way out of the dungeon after fixing a mess that was caused by your party. I killed that damn Minotaur and I'm tired of telling people that. Yet I highly doubt you care about the fact that four people almost died, myself included."

The wolf laughed out in disbelief as did a few others. "You!" He barked out a laugh, "You ran away like a little bitch!" He pointed at me, "There is no way you killed a Minotaur. You're a no level, not even a level one adventurer. I can't believe it, and if you and those other adventurers are that weak you shouldn't be down there! You low level adventurers gives us bad names." The low levels in the bar were openly glaring at the werewolf and anyone else who had some decent morals. Yet there were some high levels nodding in agreement with him.

"Yeah and you calling me weak because I'm just starting out." I started, "While you started out just as weak or weaker as I did when you became an adventurer. Tell me more about how that isn't the pot calling the Kettle black? You believing in it or not still doesn't prove that I didn't kill a Minotaur. There is more than one way to kill an opponent, using your bare hands on everything isn't the only way." I argued back, I wasn't losing any footing in this heated debate. I was going to win against this asshole.

"Alright, loser tell me how you killed it." He grinned digging his index finger into my chest. What did he think that was going to prove by saying that?

"Bete that's enough!" Came the voice of the green haired elf. "Don't cause a fight in here!"

Bete keep his finger in my chest while his head snapped into the direction of the elf, "Shut yer yap!"

I slapped his hand away from me, "First of all, don't touch me, mutt." He snarled at me but I continued, " Second of all, don't call ladies hags or tell them to shut their mouths. No wonder why you're single." That one burned and I could tell that it did. The look on his face didn't help his case either.

"Yeah and so are you." He snapped back at me.

I leaned in with a cocky smile, "I'm fourteen, what's your excuse? Oh and to answer how I killed the Minotaur; gravity is a bitch."

"Oh I get it now!" Came some random elf customer from a table next to them. "Now it makes sense."

"How?"

"He led the Minotaur over a drop in the dungeon. It died from the impact."

"Oh he must be pretty smart."

"Does that count as a kill?"

"Why wouldn't it?"

"Well he didn't kill with his own weapons so…"

"What are you talking about? He killed it!"

It seemed the whole bar was now discussing my actions and the defeat of the Minotaur. Yet it still didn't stop the two of us from glaring at each other. It looked like a fight was going to break out between us at this rate. A fight that I knew I couldn't win, and it was infuriating. The man gave me a smug look that almost made my rage boil over.

"Even if you did defeat a Minotaur, you were too weak to beat it yourself." Now that stung, "I bet you barely survived the incident." Was he throwing punches, because these words were hurting like hell! "I'll find out what really happened sooner or later, weakling. Disgusting trash." Yep, I threw all caution out the window.

I could not take this guy's ranting any longer. I said the the first that came to mind, "Well I'm certain trash doesn't have a brain to outsmart something as dangerous as a Minotaur. However I don't see you outsmarting anything, you look as dumb as you look."

It was at this moment I felt what seemed like someone standing next to me, they were close for some reason. Whoever it was had no idea of personal space. I guess I didn't notice the person walking up to us as we argued. The werewolf managed to give a blissful smile at the figure. "Ahh perfect timing. Hey Ais-"

I froze almost instantly. My blood had run cold as a shiver went down my spine. Ais, Ais Wallenstein was to the left of me. A redhead was to the right of us who looked interested in our conversation. I couldn't see Ais as she was just out of my vision. I slowly craned my head to gain a glimpse of the person I really didn't want to be there. Then, I saw her looking right into my eyes. Oh no. The banshee was here! I couldn't stay any longer. I had to get out of this bar, now, like right now!

She turned her head to look at the werewolf, and that was when I made my escape! I had spun around the redhead who was quite surprised by the sudden movement. "Excuse me beautiful." I said to the redhead excusing myself.

"W-what?!" The redhead stuttered in shock as her face match her hair.

As I found myself around the tomboyish girl. There was a couple meters between me and freedom. Then there was also the stunned Syr standing smack dab in the middle. Welp, time to improvise. I didn't slow down at all. Her eyes widened, thinking we were going to collide into each other. Oh ye of little faith. I wasn't that much of Klutz. I was told I was pretty light on my feet.

She shut her eyes for half of a second before I reached her. I grabbed her hands much to the surprise of just about everyone. Her eyes snapped open as her face flushed red only to realized we were spinning around like a couple on a dance floor. When the door to the exit was in reach I busted out of it like a dolphin from surface of the ocean. I managed to look back as I tore down the street. Then I saw that blonde haired girl standing right outside the door way. There also seemed to be an angry blonde demon that was waving around a sword being forcibly pulled back into the Hostess by a pleading Syr. Just what in the hell was going on tonight?

'My night was going so well too. Damn that wolf and his big mouth!' I thought before I sighed, 'I better get some sleep. I'll just figure something out tomorrow.' I saw a clock that was on the outside of a building. "Seven twenty that's it?"


"...I hope everyone enjoys the three day God's Banquet thrown by me, I am Ganesha! Now if you'll excuse me, I have a lot of preparations for this years upcoming Monster Feria event which will be coming up in three days! Make sure to be there! Oh and by that way, I am Ganesha!" The god of the masses was standing at the top of the balcony looking down at all the gods and goddesses. Ganesha was wearing a red and yellow elephant mask over his face. He has on an orange sash that goes over his right shoulder and wraps around his waist. a Gold rimmed, leather plate sits on his stomach, holding the garb together. He also sports white pants with dark brown under the knee boots -also with gold accents-. Ganesha has Gold jewelry to further cement the image of "show boat". His jewelry can be seen as a thick gold necklace and arm bands. He also wears gold rimmed gauntlets. The God of the Masses has long, shaggy, ash-brown hair. He was also standing around six foot three inches. He turned around and walked away with two of familia flanking him on both sides.

A short goddess watched him leave and quickly shrugged going back to what she was doing. Hestia had arrived pretty early to the God's Banquet that was hosted by Ganesha. The party started around one am which was standard for the God's Banquet. He held the banquet at the Ganesha Familia home which was a giant statue of himself. The god definitely had no sense of design since to enter the building you would have to go walk up stairs into the crotch of the statue. I bet you could guess the name of the home too. Yep it was called I am Ganesha! Yes that was a thing. The inside of the statue has golden stone walls and white and bronze pillars. There was a large dance floor should any god want to dance or mingle. The tables were covered in white table cloths. Foods of all kinds were sitting on tables, waiting to be devoured by the guest.

Ganesha was a very eccentric god. Just to show some of his traits: he was flamboyant, speaking in a loud voice and making poses. He even spent practically all of the Familia's money in making the Ganesha Familia home into a huge shape of himself, also naming it after himself. When protecting the citizens, reputation and position means nothing to him; he will even get Gods and Goddesses involved, if he so desires. Ganesha also has a habit of repeatedly mentioning his name, such as "I am Ganesha".

Hestia was currently sneaking up to the refreshment tables. She was wearing a light teal dress with a small blue jacket over that. The jacket and the dress failed to cover up much of her chest. She has her hair kept in the usual hairstyle she normally wears with her blue ribbons. To finish off her appearance was the white sandals on her feet. She wasn't just here to have fun like the other gods, no she was also on a mission for her familia too! She had to get them some real food, they deserved it. She popped her little head up over the side of the table making sure that no one was watching her. She nodded to herself seeing the coast to be clear. Taking a closer look at the tables and the various food assortments, she couldn't help but frown.

"Ugh, why does it have to be rich people food?" The loli goddess all but gagged at the sight. If there was one thing about rich people food...It was always so small. Yes the rich people ate mini foods. She took another look at the tables again, "They have mini-mini-foods too!" Yes that was a double mini. It was smaller than the regular sized mini foods. Seriously who thought that this was a good idea?

"I am Ganesha!"

"Well that answers that." The little goddess sighed tiredly. Foregoing the small foods she started stuffing food wherever she could hide it. She had to get some food for her familia, and herself, but her familia most importantly. Maybe.

What she didn't notice was the single eye watching her in amusement. The figure walked right up behind and coughed to let Hestia know that someone was behind her. The little goddess let out an eep of surprise at being startled. She turned to see a good old friend of hers. Hestia let out a large grin, "Hephaestus!" Hestia grinned happily seeing her friend.

Hephaestus was wearing that same old black eyepatch, a pair of golden diamond shape earring with red rubies in them, and a red dress that matched her fiery red hair. The dress was held up by two red straps that went over her shoulders and a very large white flower that split the dress right over the left thigh. On her feet are red high heels and on her hands are long white formal gloves. She looked quite beautiful tonight in that dress and actually looked to be enjoying herself and not stressed out as always. The last thing the little goddess saw was the black box under her arms.

"Hestia." The red haired goddess smiled down at her little friend, "It's good to see you so soon, but I'm not giving you any more money."

Hestia face faulted at that last part. She rubbed the back of her head, "I wasn't going to ask for that!" She declared.

Hephaestus gave her a clinical eye, "You sure?"

"Yes!" The little goddess whined at being treated like a kid.

Hephaestus lightened up a bit and decided to change the subject, "How have you been?"

"Well besides paying you off little by little, I have a familia now!" She said that last part with a lot of excitement.

The redhead blinked in surprise. She hadn't even heard that her friend had gotten a familia up and running. That was quite impressive in the amount of time she had done so. "Is that so?"

The little goddess nodded her head brightly, "Yep! I have three level one adventurers! I can't wait to watch over their growth!" That was when she decided to bring up the black box under her arms. "What's that for?"

The redhead was about to comment when all of the sudden the crowd of people looked up the stairwell and saw the most alluring woman to ever grace the Earth, descending down the sparking white stairs. The arua this woman gave off was radiant and charming to the eyes, you could almost see her glowing as if she was a star. Freya had entered the scene and everyone had taken notice of her. She was wearing a white silky dress that hugged her form like a second skin. The dress had a huge 'V' cut that was surround in a gold lining and design. It showed of much of her cleavage. The dress also showed a lot of her back. Unlike most dresses hers has sleeves that had openings on the shoulder areas and on the inside of her arms. Around her neck was a golden necklace that had three parts to it. The first part of the necklace was in a band like fashion that had purple, square cut gems in it. Under that was a thin, half circle golden piece that dangled. Under that was a larger half circle that had a circular purple gem hanging just below it. The two leaf like accessories in her hair had changed into a white leaf lined in gold. Two purple gem earrings shine brightly as the light reflected off them and white high heels.

"Speaking of the devil." Hestia heard the redhead mumbled as the goddess made her way to them. Hestia looked at her friend wondering why she had said that.

Freya had gracefully made her way to them. She was wearing a pleasant smile. "Hestia and Hephaestus, it a pleasure to see you again."

Hestia looked at the purple eyed goddess carefully, "Freya? What are you doing here?" Hestia thought that Freya wouldn't be here. She often skipped these kind of events and threw her own instead.

Even though she asked Freya, Hephaestus was the one to answer. "We were walking together before I had to depart and get her-"

"Ahh so you have them this time." Freya eyed the box very eagerly. She had been waiting for these for a while now. Now they were in front of her. "May I." That wasn't question, yet it didn't sound like a demand.

"Of course," She handed the black box carefully over to her. "They are yours after all. I hope they are to your liking."

Once the box was in the hands of Freya, she open the box. There inside the box laid two knives that looked exotic. The blades were kept hidden inside white scabbards lined in red and had golden screws in the top four holes leaving the bottom four holes empty. There was also Freya's emblem of the profile of a Valkyrie inside a bell, and Bell Cranel was written on the outside of the sheath. The handles of the blades were white with golden screws, and the circular gripping pads where the fingers go were red. She took one of the knives and gave the box back to Hephaestus. She pulled the blade from the sheath. The blade was also white and not only the bottom edge was sharp but the top edge on the front was sharpened as well.

Freya looked up at the redhead goddess, "What kind of blades are these? I have never seen this type before."

"It's the Ka-Bar Bull Dozier Knives." Hephaestus started her explanation, "It's weight is eighty-five of a pound; blade length at six and a half inches; overall length is twelve and one eighth inches. Edge angle is at twenty degrees, shape is a clip, the grind is hollow; handle material is of course zytel/kraton. Though the most interesting thing about the blade is what's made out of. Its a CPM S-one hundered and ten-V which is a high alloy martensitic stainless tool steel produced by the Crucible Particle Metallurgy process" This was all said in a matter of factory.

Both goddesses that weren't smiths just blinked at her. She sighed, "The blades are very strong and will most likely last longer than he will. They are some of my best work, especially with what you wanted them to be able to do."

"And to active them?" Was Freya's next question as she raised one of her thin eyebrows. Hephaestus motioned for to come to her which she did.

"You will have to put your blood on them, and then have the person put their blood on them as well. The magic spell on knives is a blood bond. Your blood actives them while his blood will bond them to him. Should he join your familia his stats will also connect to the blades too. The blades also locate each other should one be lost or stolen." Hephaestus the goddess of smiths whispered to her.

Freya then sheathed the blade and put it back in the box delicately with the sister blade. "They are beautiful, perfect even. Yet they are still not as perfect as the soul wielding them." She gave a large pleased smile, "You have out done yourself." She complimented as she took the box for herself. A man wearing a nice suit came over and collected the box from the goddesses. Hephaestus recognized the towering man as Ottar. "Take that back to the tower, I'm almost done here."

"Yes my goddess." The man bowed his head and walked away from the goddesses.

"Thank you Freya." The redhead accepted the praise easily. Yet she knew very well that Freya's smile was a true one. She was generally happy with the weapons she had made.

"There is nothing to be thanking me for." She waved, "I give compliments when compliments are due."

"Those are some very impressive knives you made, Hephaestus!" The little goddess cheered at her friends work which also brought the attention of Freya on her.

"Hestia it's been too long. I heard that you have a familia now." Freya striked up the next conversation, one that she was a little bit interested in. Freya always did her research on other familias. She had to be ahead of competition. The more information the better.

The loli goddess looked up to the taller one, "Ah, yeah I kind of have a small familia at the moment. I have three adventurers under me right now. Two elves and a human."

"How did you manage to inquire them?" Freya asked just enjoying the light conversation.

She puffed out her chest with pride, "They had stumbled upon me and saw my amazing self and had to be a part of my familia."

A grinning red haired goddess laughed as she joined the group of three. She crossed her arms under her chest with a look of mischievousness. "Or you just happen to stumble upon them by accident after being denied the whole day by everyone else you asked and since you found them they joined you out of ease."

"Loki!" Hestia pointed out the new goddess with anger.

Freya looked at the new arrival with a smile of sorts as she inspected the trickster goddess attire. Loki was wearing a strapless black dress that showed off her back and chest. The dress also has a nice red ribbon around the stomach. Around her neck was a necklace that had three silver balls hanging down that got larger as they descended. She has party gloves on her hands a gold ring on her left pinky finger, a thin gold bracelet on both of her wrists, earrings with a large green emerald lined in gold. Her hair was in a nice bun which was held in place by a golden crown with diamonds.

"Hestia, I wasn't expecting you to show face here. You know, since you have such a small wardrobe, two to three outfits at best, right?" The goddess of tricksters pointed out with a smug look.

Hestia didn't miss a beat after the harsh insult and threw her own. "Loki, I'd say it's quite surprising to see you wearing that. Where's the red suit? Finally realize that you're not a man?"

The two goddess smacked their foreheads together clearly showing their disdain for each other. Hestia and Loki were leaning forward, Loki much more than Hestia glaring right into each other's eyes.

Freya watch on with amusement and decided to bring up something that had to addressed. "It may be a little late for this, but you look quite different today, Loki."

Loki bent back up to Freya's level, "Yep, I thought I would try my best to put Hestia to shame, if she showed."

"You do look quite lovely tonight." Freya gave a sweet smile to Loki showing how sincerer she meant her flattery. "The dress suits you very well."

Loki's smile dropped for half of a second as she looked at the goddess of beauty. 'She must be in a really good mood today. She would have just said that I looked different and that's about it. I wonder what's got her in such high spirits? Or why she is even here? She has skipped out on these events for five years now. Hmm...' Loki quickly ended her pondering and she smiled at Freya's praise, "Why thank you, Freya."

Freya put a hand under chin and then said, "It has been a long while since you have worn a dress, decades in fact. It shows off your figure quite well so have some more self confidence in yourself."

Once again Freya had stunned everyone again. She was always like this, trying to show everyone's self worth. She always knew what to say to turn someone as red as a tomato. Yet Loki had the feeling that it was almost like a backhanded compliment. Loki thought that it might show just too much of 'it' off, especially that area that was a very sore subject with her.

Then Hestia saw the perfect opportunity to get back at Loki thanks to Freya, "Yeah it might just show off her…" She pointed at Loki, "Flat chest!" The landmine has been triggered!

Now a crowd was surrounding the four goddesses. Freya just smiled, Hephaestus face palmed, Loki flew backwards at the insult, and Hestia had a smug look on her face. The gods were cheering for a cat fight, some were even placing bets! Did someone say they had ten thousand vails on loli big boobs?

Loki was quick to act out in violence! She grabbed the little goddess by her cheeks and lifted her off the ground, "Look at your chubby cheeks! I think you might have gained a lot of weight!" The little goddess was struggling in the redheads grip.

"You're just jealous that a plank of wood has more lumps than you!" Hestia barked back.

"How about I'd just rib them apart! That way we'd be on the same playing field!" She said deadly enraged.

"Don't be angry at me just because I have something you will never have, flaty!"

"Your as fat as cow!"

"You are as flat as a piece of paper!"

Loki ended up dropping the little goddess on her ass as she marched away from them with tears brimming her eyes. Loki had been defeated once again. The loli goddess rubbed her sore red cheeks. Freya, saw this as the perfect time to make her leave, "This had been a very...entertaining night." She commented lightly. "Alas, I have much to do back Babal. If you'll excuse me." She excused herself before walking away.

Freya had left the ballroom completely after grabbing her black cloak again and threw it over herself. Once she was out of eyesight of everyone and in a dark alleyway a lustful grin spread across her face. 'Oh, what I have planned for you...My little Bell~'


I had been making sure not to go around the Hostess of Fertility for a couple of days now, I had even seen Syr waiting outside for me for three days now. I had felt bad for not coming over and explaining why I had left her so unexpectedly. I didn't know how to explain it to her so I had been working over my story to explain why. I had finally found an acceptable excuse(the truth) and I wanted to apologize for not coming to see her soon. Today however she hadn't been out there waiting for me, no it was a cat person. The cat person has brown hair and brown eyes with cat ears and a tail. She was wearing the Hostess of Fertility's uniform. She was sweeping dust and leaves away from the shop.

When she saw me she stopped and waved at me excitedly. I looked at her for a couple of second and finally approached her. She seemed eager to tell me about something. When I got close was when her personality did a one eighty. "You're the jerk that dumped Syr!" She declared rather loudly.

I blinked owlishly at her, "What?" Was my simple reply. I didn't know I was dating Syr at all. How could I have dumped her? "What are you talking about?"

Before the catgirl could say another word, a hand went over her mouth as an elfess stepped out of the Hostess of Fertility. The elf was extremely beautiful with sky blue eyes, golden blonde hair, and skin as white as snow, on par with a fairy. She made me wonder if I had wandered into a fairy tale. She was wearing the Hostess of Fertility's uniform. "Arnya, please don't go around blurting out Syr's business."

Wait minute...That was the blonde demon waving the sword around isn't. Yep, everyone in this bar was scary. I managed to smile weakly at them, "Um, speaking of Syr...Is she here? I was hoping to apologizes for leaving her clueless last night." I told them truthfully. Arnya spoke up after the elf removed her hand, "Syr went out, she left this!" She handed me what looked like a wallet. I looked up at the catgirl, clearly confused. "You need to make sure she gets that. She's going to need that for the monsters."

I, my mouth was open and just shook my head in disbelief, 'What is she even saying! She didn't explain anything! Monsters, what monsters, where the heck is Syr!' I turned to look at the elf and she sighed, tiredly.

"What Arnya is trying to say is that Syr went to the Monster Feria. She left her wallet and we want you to return it to her." The elf explained. Well okay, now I know what they wanted me to do. Yet I still had questions.

"What is this Monster Feria?" I inquired about the event that I hadn't heard off. This was expect since I was new to Orario.

The catgirl raised her index finger as she had a smirk on her face. "The Monster Feria is a large festival that the members of the Ganesha Familia tamed monsters in front of a large crowd of people in the Colosseum! It's become a rather large event." She finished the explanation. Now that was explanation unlike the first one!

The elf decided to add on the explanation, "Ganesha Familia is known for their monster tamers. They tame all kind of monsters, from the easier ones seen on the lower floors to the harder ones on the deeper floors."

"Alright, I think I got it." I nodded in understanding. "Well I guess I'm off to see Syr! Later, and thanks for the explanation. I don't believe I got your names?"

"I'm Arnya Fromel!" The catgirl cheered.

"Ryuu Lion, Cranel-san." The said respectfully.

"Well it was nice meeting you guys, thanks again!" I called to them and took off to find Syr. I know I had something I had to do. I will return this wallet! You can count on me Syr. I'll get it back to you in a flash. With that those thoughts in mind I increased my speed. I had to find Syr!


Loki and Ais were in a nice two story cafe. They were on the top floor in wait for a certain someone. Loki was sitting at the table messing around with her wine cup. There was a set of red flowers and green grass in a small vase on the plane brown wooden table. There was two glasses of wine, one for Loki, and one for the missing party. Loki was wearing a white button up, long-sleeved shirt. She has rolled up her sleeves to be one-thirds up, a ponytail which was tied with a black piece of cloth, long black pants, a belt with a gold buckle, and black loafers.

Ais has a sleeveless white blouse, the white blouse has a gold line at the above the chest area, gold lining at the bottom, and several gold stars going around it at the bottom. She has on a brown leather harness for her sword, a purple skirt with white ruffles at the bottom of it, light pink thigh high socks, and black shoes.

They were waiting on-

Loki smiled seeing the person she had been waiting on. The woman was walking towards them wearing her black cloak. "Ah Freya," Loki gave a welcoming smile to her fellow goddess. Loki noticed that Freya seemed to be in a hurry for some reason. Loki didn't comment on it at all.

"Why did you call me here?" Freya asked, clearly wanting to get to business.

Loki wanted to talk to Freya for a bit longer, but it seem that Freya obviously had something going on today. "I see that you have become a lot more lively as of late. You have been outside of Babel more in these last weeks than the last four months combined. Why is that?"

Freya's eyes narrowed as a smile twisted on her lips. "So you have taken notice, I'm honored that you such a close watch on me. Though I will say that something has caught my eye."

Loki frowned, she knew what that meant. Freya was always that kind of girl. Loki sighed before bring the wine cup up to her lips. "You found another man."

Freya small smile widened greatly, "Were it so easy?"

Loki tilted her head at the goddess's words, "We've known each for a long time Freya. I think I would have found out your ways by now. Did you take a liking to some familia's child again?" There was a smug look on Loki's face as she said that. She raised her glass to her face read for another swig.

Oh Freya was going to making her choke on that smugness. "No actually," Loki put her glass away from her mouth for a second at hearing Freya deny her claim. She shrugged her shoulders and started to take a drink, now Freya was going to let her have it. "But you wearing a dress all of sudden was quite odd. Did some man call you beautiful?"

The effect was almost instantaneous, Loki started to choke on her beverage. Her eyes were wide and Freya's grin was extremely large and mischievous seeing her red eyes looking at her. Did she forget who she was dealing with? There was a superior look in her facial features. "Was I wrong?"

Loki didn't know how to respond to her, how had Freya found out? Did she know, or did she make a blind guess and she had given it away? She need to change the subject. She didn't want this goddess to know anything. Wait, she could easily say-

"Excuse me Beautiful." No! Why was she remembering that now of all times!? Why?! She needed to say something or Freya would start asking too many questions! But what to say to her?

"P-please," Damn it she stuttered! "I have Ais-" She reach for the blond girl next to her only to receive bop on the head. She put both hands on top of her head covering it, "Why Ais!?" She whined.

"Don't touch me like that." Was the blonde girl's reply.

Loki pouted at her familia child, 'Why does have to be so cold.' Loki thought. Oh crap, Freya was still here. "Well enough about me, why not tell me about this new interest of yours?" Loki was pleading to have the topic changed. Less she thought about that Bell Cranel the better. It's not like she looked him up to see that he was a familialess adventurer with quite the impressiv- What was she thinking!? 'Stop thinking about him, stop thinking, stop thinking about Bell Cranel. It's not like he and I-I...I'm a mess.'

Well Freya took the bait, but since that smile was still on her face...She already knew everything. Freya was excellent at reading people. "When I said no," Loki leaned in hoping to hear more on what she was going to say. "I meant he wasn't in-" That was when Freya saw something blur in the streets below. A familiar shade of white hair zooming through the crowd.

Ais had also noticed the blur as well. 'Why is he always running?'

Freya stood up and quickly apologized for leaving so soon. "I'm sorry but I'm going to have to cut this little chit-chat short. I'll be taking my leave." With that said Freya left the bar in a hurry. She had plan to set in motion. She could not be late.

Loki sighed as she watched the cleaver goddess dash out of the cafe. She had dodged an arrow with that one. Then she notice that Freya hadn't touched her drink and she frowned deeper, "Why am I always paying for everything now days?!" She turned to Ais, "I need a hug Ais." Ais saw no problem with that and gave the redhead a hug, until Loki tried to grabbed her ass. Loki found herself rubbing her head again. "I deserved that." The redhead muttered from the floor. Even though it may not look it, Loki was pondering Freya's last words. 'You meant he wasn't in...? In what?'


"Okay where the heck is she?" I muttered to myself keeping an eye open for her. I had even slowed down to asked people if they had seen her. No luck so far, but I couldn't give up! I had to find Syr. I had a mission to complete. That and I had no idea where the target was. Where on earth could she be?

I clicked my tongue in irritation. Well if she wasn't in the streets, than she might be...At the Colosseum! Man I'm an idiot sometimes. That should of been the first place I went to. Ahh, who knows. I might have run into her on the streets. That and these street were quite crowded.

There was all types of people mingling about. It wasn't going to be easy to find Syr in this crowd-

"Bell?"

I heard my name and quickly turned to the source to see Eina. "Oh Eina! What are you doing here?" I asked the half elf. Standing behind her was a short human girl standing in around four foot nine inches. She has pink hair and pink eye and was wearing the Guild uniform too.

Eina smiled at me, "We are going to the Monster Feria. The guild usually helps monitor over the event. We help inform people of the monsters that are at the event."

"Like what floor level they are on, their special abilities, what they eat, all sorts of cool stuff." I looked at the girl. She blinked not knowing why I was looking at her. "Yes?" She said a little nervously.

"Ahh, you never introduced yourself." I told her. I had no idea who she was.

"Oops," She blushed in embarrassment, "I'm an assistant at the Guild. The names Misha Flott."

I smiled at her, "It nice to meet Misha, I'm Bell Cranel." After I introduced myself to Misha, I decided to move the topic of discussion, "So I guess that you guys are heading to Colosseum too?"

"Yep!" Misha answered almost easily.

"Bell you're going to the Colosseum as well?" I nodded to Eina.

I nodded, "Well a friend of mine left her wallet back at the restaurant so I'm going to return it. She was going to the Monster Feria. Do you know a Syr Flova by chance?"

Eina scratched her chin in thought, "Yes," She realized the name, "I know her."

I smiled at her answer, "Have you seen her today?"

Eina shook her head, "Sorry Bell I haven't seen her today." I became a little dejected at her answer, Eina was quick to cheer me up however. "Well maybe she's already at the Colosseum?"

I smiled at her reassurance, "Yeah, I think you might be right." I turn away from them. I managed to catch Eina shoot Misha a glare. I don't why though.


"I heard a commotion...Down...He…" The Ganesha familia member tried to finish what she was trying to say, but it was really hard to do so when some of the other Ganesha familia members that were place down in the monster holding cells...Were all laying on the ground moaning. That and the whole area had been darkened thanks to all the lights being blown out. The monsters seemed to be less noisy too, not trying to escape for some reason.

Her name was Ami Kanza. She has short, straight, chestnut hair that covered the her forehead, and her ears. Nice green eyes that showed awareness. She was wearing the usual outfit of the familia, minus her mask. The outfit was a white sleeveless shirt, a dark brown sash over the shirt, dark brown arm bracers, khaki baggy pants that were tucked inside dark brown boots.

She made her first mistake when she step further into the room. She rushed to the closest member of her fallen comrade. She took a knee next to the male, she was quick to flip him over and what she saw was...He was drooling and has a goofy look on his face. Now that she really started listening to everyone that was moaning on the ground, it didn't sound like they were moaning from pain. No, they were moaning in pleasure. She took off his mask to see his eyes glazed over. She sniffed the air and finally realized what they were all experiencing...The air didn't reek of monsters, no it smelt of sex.

She was quick to stand up, and turn to run out the room. She had to let Lord Ganesha know of what had become of his…

When she face the large wooden door that led into the holding cells there was a figure standing there right by the door. Ami couldn't see what the person looked like thanks to the black cloak covering them. The figure pushed the large door close with one hand, she would say that again, one hand! That door was heavy son of a gun. This person had just shut it with ease. The figure had closed her escape route and now she had no idea how she was…

The figure closed the distance between them so fast that she didn't even have a chance to scream for help or draw her weapon. The figure placed one hand right above her eyes. "Succumb to your desires." The spell was cast and the girl let out a blissful moan as she fell. Her whole body fell limp as she hit the floor. She became like the rest of her familia, having one of the best wet dreams ever.

The figure grinned at their handy work. They were surrounded by the moaning members of the Ganesha familia, all had fallen victims to their charms. "Hmm, that was easier than I thought it would be." The figure went around looking at the different types of monsters, before they found a very large one, the largest in fact. A twisted smile befell their face. "You will be perfect."

They put their closed hand through the bars, "Look into my eyes." The demand was soft but the creature did as it was told. Red eyes met purple ones. They opened the palm of their hand to reveal a single lock of grey hair. "Find the person that this belongs to...and destroy them and the male they are with." They unlocked the cage door and the beast did the rest. It let out a battlecry and stormed off to the wooden gate that led to the outside of the Colosseum. Its chains rattled around freely behind it. She then released all of the other monsters too. Giving them the job of causing a disruption.

The figure watched the beasts dashed off. Then they started chuckling before breaking out in full blown laughter, "Oh Bell. Show me your all. I want to see your power for myself. Show me everything you have to give to face this new challenge." Freya knew she couldn't linger here too long. She made her departure a couple of second after the beasts had smashed through the gate. "Now the tricky part begins." This next part of plan was going to take some thought. Now 'she' had to get the knives to Bell. Freya had already made them active, now 'she' had to do her part.


I had finally gotten to the Colosseum and saw the towering stone building with the many arches. There was so many different stalls selling different kind of things, like food, toys, and other goods. My eyes were wide with amazement. It was truly a beautiful sight. "Yes, Bell this is where the monster festival is held every year." Eina explained, "Our booth is usually near the gate over there." She pointed the booth out to me.

"We'd be happy to answer all your questions, I think?" Misha questioned herself not reassured that she would be able to answer my questions. "All this walking is making my feet hurt." She complained. That was something else that I had found out about the girl. She complained a lot. I shook my head and Eina groaned.

"Man this looks fun, everyone seems to be having a blast!" I said eagerly before I realized why I was here. "Well it's been nice walking and talking with you ladies, but I have to find Syr. Later!" I waved to them and started my search for Syr.

"Good luck!" They both chimed in as I departed from them. Then I managed to see Eina start grilling the pink haired girl. Eina said something about acting professional. Then it seemed Misha had her own comeback, something around the lines of: "You're just trying to impress your crush!" Eina had flat out denied it with a red face. Wait, my sense of hearing was good, but definitely not this good. Was this a common thing? Did all adventurers start increasing their senses like this? Maybe Eina would know, but first, I had to find that mischief causing girl.

I looked at all the crowds of people moving towards different stalls, sitting under the trees and eating, and some people were listening to music being played by some local bands. The smells of the freshly cooked stall food. It was truly a nice scene to see. I spent fourteen minutes searching around this area.

I wasn't lucky at all, no Syr. "Okay where is she?" I asked myself. I sighed deeply when nothing came to mind. 'Er, maybe Eina had better luck then I did.' I decided to head over to the booth that Eina had pointed out. As I moved with crowd, I saw her. I saw Syr standing at the booth talking with Eina. Syr was wearing a nice white, blue and silver spotted sundress, her hair in the usual manner, a white purse in her arms, and silver sandals. I went up to the booth, "Syr-chan!" I smiled seeing the person I had been looking all over for. A couple of hours now that I thought about it.

The girl spun around with a blush hearing my voice, "Bell-kun?" She smiled a bit seeing me. "I heard you have been looking for me." She told me and I saw Eina waving at me. She must have informed Syr that I was looking for her.

I scratched the back of my head, Syr was just too cute to day. That and page forty-nine in the 'Harem Masters Handbook' said to take notice of all changes in a girl's appearance. You know, I'm going to change that damn name of the book. I'll simply call it: 'The Guide' from now on. "Y-yes! I was looking for you, but I have to say you look beautiful today."

Her face had become crimson hearing me giving her such a blunt comment to her appearance. She was quick to come up with something that threw me off guard, "What? Are you saying I'm not beautiful the rest of the time?"

'Shit! I forget who I was dealing with! Page forty-nine also said to be careful with the mischievous ones!' I ranted mentally, how was I going to come back from that? 'Wait! I got it!' I thought. I gave her my best confused stare, "No, I would be lying if I ever said or thought that."

Once again her red face was redder than mine, "Ah-er," She started to stumble over words but caught herself, "Why are you looking for me?"

"Well there are two reasons actually." I started off seriously but I was cut off by Syr.

"Two reasons?" She question, it was clear to see her confusion. 'It looked like she hadn't expect that answer. It seems to me she only expected one reason. I guess Eina told her about the wallet.'

I nod at her question, "The first reason is because I had run into some of the staff at Hostess of Fertility. They told me you left this…" I pulled her wallet out and gave it to her. "...Your Wallet. They wanted me to return it to you. I couldn't say no."

She put the wallet in her purse and hugged me tightly. I returned her gesture with a light pink dusting on my cheeks, "Thank you! You're so sweet!" She let go of me with a bright smile on her face. "To think you would come all this way to give it to me."

I just grinned, "Well of course I would, I wouldn't want you to miss out on your plans." I admitted honestly. "You only get so many days off." Her eyes widened at that tidbit of information. Her already bright smile became comparable to sun. She must have realized I put more thought into this than just return Syr's wallet. Now came the hard part.


Syr was on cloud nine at the moment. Everything had been going to plan. Yet, she thought it was going far more better than she could have hoped. Bell was standing in front of her. He looked so handsome. He had such a kind and caring face. He was making her day so far. He called her beautiful, and was able to dismiss her teasing easily. She had hoped he would become a stuttering mess, but he hadn't. Though she wished he did because he looked so cute when he did. Though what he had said was also unexpected.

"I would be lying if I ever said or thought that."

It made her blush and hot under the collar. He could be too smooth for his own good at times. Yet he continued to surprise her. Even in his explanation of him returning her wallet, which she knew perfectly well as did Mama Mia, she left it on bar counter on purpose.

"I couldn't say no."

Why was he so good at these little one liners that were driving her up a wall? She was going to go mad if he kept this up. Oh did he stop there? No, no he didn't. Even after the hug he still continued his verbal alcohol.

"Well of course I would, I wouldn't want you to miss out on your plans."

He was so thoughtful. Here she thought he was just going to return it to her just because he was asked to do it. Nope, he wasn't that much of a simpleton. Sure he was easy to persuade into doing things, gullible even, yet he was thoughtful which he continued to show by:

"You only get so many days off."

This fourteen year old was off the damn charts. Now she was openingly giving him one of her largest smiles. The tomato red face that he was currently showing told her what he thinks of my smile. She wanted to give Bell the knives that mother wanted him to have. But first, she wanted to hear what Bell's second reason was for him to find her. She didn't think Bell would have a second reason. Right when Bell was in middle of his explanation of the second reason. There was a large crash, people started screaming, and Bell had stopped what he was saying. 'Damn it! Not now!' She didn't even care about the silverback that was gunning right for her. She wanted to hear what Bell wanted to say.


"Anyways, I have a second reason for why I'm here." I started. I could see Syr's curiosity peek, she was excited to hear what I was going to say. I before I could continue I heard what sound like large footfalls moving closer to us. I shook my head to rid me of the sounds, that didn't work so I just continued with what I was about to say. "Well...I kind of want to apol-"

A loud crash stopped me short of what I was about to say. The booming of the large wooden gate busting open to reveal the largest ape I had ever seen. "That's a Silverback!" Eina cried out. A Silverback is a large monkey monster that is covered in white fur with silver fur down the middle. It has great arm strength, and glowing red eyes. It has metal gauntlets, chest armor held in place by leather straps, metal armor guarding the legs, and a metal helmet of sorts on its head with a bit in its mouth. "Bell you can't fight that thing yet!" She warned me, "It's from the eleventh floor!" She added.

'Well that's not good.' I thought to myself.

It sniffed the air once and its head snapped right in the direction of Syr. The girl took a step back in possible fright. It roared out a muffled roar thanks to the bit and charged for her. I was quick to act. I grabbed the girl by the hand and took off with her. I had to get her out of here. It was a good thing I brought my weapons and gear with me. "Bell?! W-what's going on?!" Syr yelled out.

"I don't know, but that thing is after you, and I won't let it get to you!" I shouted over a screaming crowd. This thing was ignoring everyone else around but Syr and me. I had no idea why.

The thing was hot on our heels too! I could hear it footfalls getting louder. I had to lose this thing, and lose it now. "It gaining on us!" I could hear the sounds of things being crushed, screams, the crashing of stalls being knocked over. Total chaos had ensued.

"I know! We need to lose it!"

"Go left! It leads to Daedalus Street!" Syr informed me. Daedalus Street is a wide residential area for the poor class located in between Orario's east and south east Main Streets. It was designed by an eccentric man known as Daedalus and is complex due to the multiple planning done to it. It is rumored that one will never find their way out once they enter, and is often called the other dungeon.

I turned us left, following Syr's instructions. I went through a couple of alley ways that she told me to go down. The sight that I found was not one I was expecting. There was so many building built on top of each other all varying in color, bridges that connected to different levels, high walls, random drops into canals, stairways that led nowhere and everywhere, and no one was in the streets. "Good Gods. This place really is another dungeon."

"Don't worry, I'm from this area. I know it like the back of my hand." Syr said next to me. There was something I noticed right away, she wasn't panting or sweating. That was a little odd since she said she was the only regular girl at the Hostess of Fertility. Maybe there was more to her than I had first thought.

A howl broke me from my thoughts. I looked up and saw the large creature looking down at me. "Ahh shit…" I didn't like cursing but this was the right time to do so.

She looked up and saw what I was seeing, "...Bell-kun?"

I jumped into action, "I saw him, I'm going to pick you up."

"What? But wouldn't that slow yo-"

I watch as the beast got ready to jump down on top of us. "Syr-chan, just trust me on this one." I was much stronger now. I knew I could easily carry her. I just felt it in my gut. I knew I could do this, I only needed Syr to believe in me. Will even if she didn't I was still going to carry her regardless.

Syr just looked at me, "But-" The silverback jumped from the roof.

"Damn!" I yelled. She flinched at my harsh tone but I didn't care. I swooped her off the ground, carrying her in my arms. I could see her shocked look on her face. She did think I was going to pick her up like I did. My feet started running for an alleyway, it was time to lose this thing in this man made maze known as Daedalus street. We were getting out of this. Either we escaped this monster, or even if I have to slay this monkey, I was getting out of here alive with Syr. There was no other option. We were not going to die. There was a loud crash behind us as the creature landed in pile of crates that were next to us. It grabbed a barrel and threw it at us. I managed to veered off to the right, avoiding the wooden splinters as the barrel shattered against the wall.

"We need to lose thing now!" I urged her. "You know you way around these parts. What's the best option?" I was looking to come up with a plan and Syr was the key to that plan.

"Er, there are lots of trick walls we can use to block its path to us." She told me hoping that I understand what she meant.

"Just tell me what I have to do-"

There was a bang that echoed throughout the alleyway, and a large shadow flying overhead. My eyes widened as I saw a wooden cart sent flying over us. "That thing just threw a cart at us!" The cart smashed into the opening of the alley just ahead of us. It had landed on its side and was blocking us from getting by it. The only way around that thing would be to climb- 'No, there is another way.' The way I was thinking about was using a trashcan as a step then using the wall to kick off from and over the cart. I had to pick up my speed for this and time it just right.

Syr noticed my speed picking up, "Bell? Bell what are you doing?" Her voiced sounded worried.

"I'm gonna jump it."

"Have you gone mad?"

"Watch me."

"Were not going to clear that!"

I didn't reply to her. I just kept on moving, I knew what I had to do. The cart was right in front of me and Syr's grip on me tightened. I launched my self high with my right foot and my left foot landed on top of the metal trash can. I put a lot of power into my left and pushed myself higher into the air. I twisted my right foot to hit the wall and when it did I pushed off. I extended my left foot and the front part of my foot landed just on top of the wheel. That was enough to let me be able to clear the cart.

Once I was up and over I could see people looking at us in bewilderment. I had to warn them of the dangers but I could hear the monster's footfalls, I took off again and shouted, "Gangway!" Seconds later, the cart was broken in half as the monster charge right through it. The two parts of the cart went flying across the street. When people saw that silverback, they all dived for cover.

Syr had stopped giving directions and I had been forced to navigate Daedalus Street on my own. I had no idea where the heck I was heading! I kept on running and running. Taking every right or left turn I saw. I was jumping over crates, dodging things thrown at me by the silverback, zipping past clotheslines, and when I turned a corner...That was when Syr had spoken up.

"Wait Bell! This leads to a dead end!"

Just like that, I had realized that I had been leading myself to my own demises. I stopped when I got to the wall that was blocking my path. I let Syr down and turned to face the silverback that had turned the corner. It saw that it had us cornered. "Syr."

She gulped before saying my name questioningly, "Y-yes Bell-kun?"

"Stay behind me." I instructed her determined to stop this thing. She didn't reply but I wasn't really looking for one. I took out my last two knives. I had three, but one was lost to the Minotaur. I had to be careful with my weapons this time around. Eina had warned me about this just a couple of minutes ago.

"Bell you can't fight that thing yet!"

Watch me. I'll fight this damn thing, and I will win. I might still be on the sixth floor, but I was not going to let that stop me. I have to win! I have to protect Syr! No not have, will protect Syr. This thing wasn't going to touch her. I wouldn't let it happen.

"It's from the eleventh floor!"

Tell that to someone who cares. Eina should know me by now. I always risk my neck for others, so would this time be different? I was going to win and prove to everyone that I'm an adventurer, that even a no level like myself, can kick anything's ass! I'm Bell Cranel, and I'm not going to die here!

Me and that ape were facing off, red eyes meeting red eyes. I moved first and started running at it. It in turn used its long arms to flip a trashcan that was next to it at me. I moved my body to the right of it. The trash and the trashcan all missed me. I then saw a massive fist coming right at my face. Being light on my feet, I spun around it and stabbed my knife upwards.

I watch as my knife bent as the tip hit its underarm, before the blade snapped off the handle. My eyes widened in horror, 'Not again!'

I stalled for half a second, that was all the time the silverback needed to get the upper hand on me. Using its other hand, it slap me away from it. It hurt like hell. It felt as if a bull drawn wagon had slammed into me. I felt as if I was going to black out. I flew into the air before-


She watch on as Bell was slapped away from the silverback and right into the stone wall. He impacted pretty hard if the loud smack was anything to go by. He looked like a ragdoll that was thrown by a toddler. Syr cringed at the sight. She watched on as the weapon, Bell's last working knife clatter on the stone pavement. Freya was right about those weapons he was using. They were holding him back, quite a lot. They did nothing for him. Hmm, what to do? 'I guess I should have given him the knives sooner.' That hindsight was something else.

She couldn't let the silverback kill Bell. No, he was to- Oh never mind. The silverback was heading for her. Er, did Freya send the silverback after her? Syr frown in annoyance, "Probably." She muttered under her breath. Well that would at least stop the silverback from outright killing him first. Then how was she going to handle this. Maybe Bell wasn't knocked out completely? If that was the case, then a good act like she had been doing the whole day would be good. A well place scream could get him up and on his feet! Syr would have to admit though that Bell was very light on his feet. She was impressed with his nifty footwork. The way he had jumped into 'save' her. He was just so cute! That and he was pretty strong if he could run with her the way he did. Not that she was heavy, but to still be as fast and nimble-

'Oops...The silverback is in front of me.' Syr put on her best fearful look. She was about give a scream off as the silverback reached for her, but something stopped her. Bell was now in front of her and he stabbed his last blade into its wrist. The other blade didn't work, but somehow this one did?

Syr's eyes widened in astonishment, 'How is that possible?! He was just on the ground twenty-seven yards behind it! What's going on?' Those were just some of the thoughts of the grey haired girl.


I felt a crap ton of pain again. I couldn't see anything. I must of blackout at the pain of hitting the wall so hard. I couldn't move anything, I was stuck here. Damn it! I had to move, or else Syr was in danger.

"Come on! Get up! Start moving!" I yelled at myself. I needed to kickstart my body again. I had to move! I needed to move! I have to get up! I have to fight!

"MOVE DAMN IT!" I screamed desperately trying to get a hold of myself. I then felt 'that' again. It was that anger surging through me. I could feel the power just awakening from darkest corner in myself. Then just as I was about to try and wake myself again, two large red eyes opened in front of me. It was the only thing I could see in this void of darkness. I knew those eyes! I had seen them before. They were there when I fought Doluk. Why was I seeing it again? Or better question, why wasn't it revealing itself like last time? Why was it hiding, just looking at me. Those red eyes, just stared blankly at me. It was watching me closely. I wanted to say something, but it closed its red eyes and I started to have control of my body again.

My eyes started fluttering open, I blinked a couple of times to get the blurriness out of my vision. I could make out a large, hairy white figure standing over a blue- That was the silverback standing over Syr! I had failed to pro- No there was still time left! I sprung to my feet fighting through the lingering pain. I saw my last remaining knife on the ground in front of me. I wasted no time picking it up and sprinting right at the silverback. I noticed Syr's blank look on her face, she wasn't moving. She must of frozen in fear! The creature reached for her, that was when Syr's face became fearful. That was also the last straw too. I felt rage building up inside of me again.

I had become faster and beat the hand to Syr. I impaled my knife right into the beast's wrist. I didn't have time to pull it out. It let out a whine but it was quick to grab me around my waist with its large left hand. It hoisted me up high in the air until my head smacked into something. I recoiled in pain. Whatever hit me in the head did so right above my left eye. I couldn't open it all the way now. I saw the monster ape cocked its right fist back.

I looked around for something. I looked up to my left and saw what had hit me. It was a lit lantern. 'Perfect!' I ripped the lamp from its place and threw it at its face. The ape had no time to dodge the incoming projectile. The lantern shattered right in the silverbacks face. It lit the monster's head on on fire while the hot glass cut into its face. It dropped me to the floor as it cried out in agony. This was the time to escape. I wasted no time as the beast tried to put the fire on its head out. I grabbed Syr bridal style, and hightailed it out of there. I looked left then right, "Which way?!"

"Left!" Syr quickly told me. As we were running down the alleyway I couldn't help to see signs with arrows pointing in one direction.

"What are those?" I asked Syr.

She looked at them for a second before a relieved smile crossed her face, "The people are trying give us directions!" She notified me.

"That nice of them," I smiled too, it was good to see the people of Daedalus Street trying to help us. "Where does it lead?"

"I don't know honestly." She said voicing her uncertainty, "But we should follow it." Then a booming roar filled the air. It was already back on us. I turned the corner to see a dead end.

"The arrows are a lie!" I shouted.

Syr shook her head, "No look!" She pointed out a person stand at the top of an arch above the wall. He waved us forward so I kept running for the wall and to my amazement the wall opened up for us and let me through. It was like a secret passage.

"This place really is a maze!" I laughed despite the situation.

Syr looked up at me, "It was meant to be Orario's last stand should it ever be invaded. There is so many of those trick walls, bridges, and dead ends. They were meant to trick the enemy." Syr enlightened me of the real meaning of Daedalus street. Well that's always good to know. Syr is one smart cookie, I already knew she was tricky but it seemed there was more to her too.


Ais had just cut the kobolds arm off and spun around the clawed right hand that it swiped at her. After she had done that, she had cut the beat down the middle effortlessly. She flicked the blood from the weapon and sheathed it.

She and Loki had been planning on going to the Monster Feria. Then when they got there a bunch of the monsters seemed to have escaped from the Colosseum. Ais had taken the opportunity to slay them as they ran around attacking people. It seemed that she had killed them all. Though it left her with a lot of questions.

Loki jumped at her and hugged her around the waist. "Oh that's how may favorit does it!" She gushed. "The way you beat all those monste-" Ais cut her off with a bop to the head as her hands went north to her chest. "So cold…" The redhead goddess mutter from her spot on the ground. Loki noticed a half elf running up to them from the Guild, "Yes?"

Eina looked down at her, then at Ais, "Thanks for helping out. The Ganesha familia sends their thanks, and says that you will be reward for your service for protecting the people." Ais nodded, while Loki continued to stare. "I believe you killed all the ones here."

Ais tilted her head, "How many escaped?" Came Ais's question.

"Ten, the silverback is still at large and is giving chase to Bell Cranel-" Eina was cut off by both women.

"Where!?"

Eina flinched at the response, that was rather loud and unexpected. "I heard they were heading for Daedalus street. Th-" They were both gone. Eina just blinked a couple of times. "That happened."


I ended up ditching my brown jacket hoping to get some more time for us to get away. My black long sleeve undershirt was hugging tight me. I had followed the arrows that led us to an open courtyard. I looked around trying to find a good exit but Syr got my attention. "Bell, there is something I need to say. It's been bothering me for awhile now."

I let her down, "What's wrong?" I asked worried for the girl.

"That silverback-" I put a hand on her shoulder.

"It okay, we'll get-" I heard that roar again. It was closer than I thought. I turned around to see the wall that the people had open for us to get inside the courtyard was shutting. We were running out of time.

"No we won't." I turned to her. She was looking at me seriously, "That thing seems bent on trying to find me. It has our scent, it's not going to stop until it gets to us."

"Damn it." I muttered. I knew that too, I just didn't want to be the one to say it. That thing has been following us and seemed to find us every time we thought we got away. It was always on us. The only way we were going to get out of here is if I got a weapon. "I need a weapon." I really did. I turned away from the girl and observed the wall shutting completely.

Syr smiled at me, "Well you're in luck." I turned to her with a surprised expression. "She pulled out a black box. This was left at the Hostess of Fertility. We believe someone wanted you to have it."

"Me?" I asked curiously. "Why do you have it?"

She looked down at the ground, "Well, it came the day after you came to the Hostess. I was hoping you would come by the Hostess so I could surprise you with it. When you didn't come back I decided to hold onto it. Then today I brought it with me in case I ran into you." She was blushing a bit as she told me that. I took the box from her and opened it to see a pair of beautiful blades in the box. My name was crafted in the casing as was a emblem of a familia that I had a suspicion was watching me. This only solidified my reasoning.

If they wanted me to have this…"Their gorgeous."

"They are..." Syr agreed as she looked over them with him. We broke out of our thoughts when another ringing roar sounded from the other side of the wall. "That sounds close..."

"Yeah a little too close." I unattached my old blade holsters and attached my new ones. When I looked up, I saw big hands gripping the top of the wall. Then I watched as the silverback's head peeked over the wall. Those angry red eyes glaring at me. I also notice that the white fur around its head was blacken by the fire. Some of its face was pink, cut from the glass, and raw from the fire burns. Looking closely at its right hand, I saw that it had my jacket. "Syr, find a hiding spot."

"R-right," She started to move away, but stopped, "Be careful Bell."

I smiled at her, trying to be reassuring, "Don't worry, I'm not going to lose." That was easier said than done. She ended up hiding behind a pillar that was supporting an overhang. Now that she was sort of out of harm's way. I could feel at ease. My attention was back to the ape.

The silverback let out a battlecry as it pulled itself over the wall. It land ten yards away from me. The best was about sixteen feet tall. It chains rattled against the stones of the courtyard. My mind started picking out two major weak spots where the heart, and the face. The face was weakened thanks to the glass and the fire. The heart was where the magic stone laid. The creature then ripped up my jacket, right in front of me. "Oh okay now it's personal." I unsheathed my new knives. It was time to rock and roll.

The silverback charged right at me. I stood my ground and waited for it to come to me. Then it did something that I wasn't expecting, it took to the air, leaping right at me. It wanted to flatten me under its weight. That was not happening. I rolled to my right as it came down. The earth splintered under the impact of the beast. I dived in for its right leg, hoping to slow this guy down. I didn't need him jumping every five minutes.

I had to back off as the right arm came flying at me. As did the chain! I fell down to the ground and avoided the metal whip of death. My eyes widened when I saw its foot coming down towards me. I rolled to the side, dodging the stomp. When the foot came down, I was still on my belly and lashed out with my left blade as I divided it into its large foot. This blade cut deep down into the flesh and caused the monster to cry out in pain. I pulled the blade out, but I didn't just pull it out, no I sliced it out clean though the foot and cut two of its five toes off in the process.

I got the hell out of there as the thing started rampaging around Smashing into buildings around it, putting cracks and holes into them. It then cut right back at me, it clubbed its hands together and smashed them down in front of me. The earth literally shook as stumbled backwards. The beast saw this as the opportunity it wanted and pressed the attack. I was stuck dodging the blows as I was forced on my heels.

The inevitable happened, I lost my balance and I couldn't dodge the chain. It struck me right in the shoulder. The power behind the metal whip was enough to launch me off my feet and into a wagon of hay, dropping one of my knives as well. Well at least the landing felt nice. My arm however was out of its socket and my shoulder was on fire. "OH FUCK!" I screamed out in pain. Man I was going to have to set myself too. I had tears pouring out of my eyes as I was gritting my teeth. I put my left knife away, I needed to get something to thinking about as I set it. It would make it easier to set my arm back in place, but not any less painful. 'Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck a fucking duck you piece of shit-'

The loud pop of my arm going back into place sounded around the courtyard, as did my scream of agony. "OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD!" I was rolling around in the wagon crying like a newborn. I managed to sit up, gripping my arm. I started trying to move my arm around, but I stopped when my eyes caught the sight of that ape looking down at me. It raised its hands in the air. I scooted back as far as I could go in the back of the wagon until my back hit the piece of wood that block off the driver seat. The arms came down right in front of me. The back of the wagon was forced down and the front of the wagon went flying up. I was sent flying right at the head of the monster.

I decided to attack as I flew over its head. I pulled out my left knife, I cut right into its ear and the metal helmet thing. I didn't pay the shrieking sound of the beast wails no mind. No I was bracing for another, harder impact of the stone covered ground. I felt like a ball as I bounced off the ground. When I had finally stopped skidding across the ground, I was on my belly again and my whole body felt like it was on being stung by a thousand bees. I knew I was scraped up from that. I could feel the blood leaving me in my knees and elbows. I could feel my right arm now so that was a good sign.

I looked up to see the ape turning towards me, holding its ear. I looked down and saw half of an ear on the ground. The metal helmet was also on the ground too. It spit out the metal bit as it glared at me. It pounded its chest a couple of time as it let out a roar much louder than before now that the bit was out of it mouth.

I then saw my other blade, lying on the ground fifteen feet to the right. I hopped to my feet and took off for the knife. The monster ape ran right at me. It reached out for me, I dived for the blade. My hand felt the blade in my hands, the silver backs hand had missed me by a hair. Yet once again, that damn chain didn't. My leg got caught in it, tangled in metal rope. The beast threw up its hands and I became untangled and sent flying into another damn wall. My back slammed in the stone wall. I slid down from my spot of collision and my head drooped a bit as my breathing became ragged. I was panting, trying not think about the pain. Yet it was all I could think about. I tried to stand up but I almost fell flat on my face. I caught my balance thanks to my left hand and my right knee. I tried again. I failed again.

"Come on! Stand up Bell! You got this!" I yelled at myself, panting between each word. I tried again and made it to my feet. My legs were shaky from my own weight, barely able to support myself. The silverback didn't waste anytime and dashed at me on all fours. I grunted in response and spit some blood from my mouth. "Alright, I'm cutting those damn chains off." I pointed my right blade at him, "Then your damn head." I pulled the left knife from its home.

I followed after its lead and rush at him too. Granted, I was slower thanks to the beating I had received. It threw a left punch at me. I left my feet and landed on its fist. I ran up its long and bulky arms arms. I cut the chain off of the gauntlet and kept on my climb of the beast, dodging its arms as the monster swung them. Trying to get rid of me. I didn't have much time before this thing got lucky and nailed me, I had to make this quick. I stabbed into its neck and used that to spin around and land on the opposite shoulder. Once there I jumped down and on the way down I cut the last chain off. I had managed to cut off the chains that been give me the most trouble in this fight.

I landed on the ground and started backpedaling. Trying to get some distance. The ape however wasn't going to allow that. Its gritted large white teeth were bare at me. This thing had become relentless and just plain unpredictable. It would throw a punch, a kick, another kick, another kick, punch, fist club, punch again. I was growing tired of this. I hadn't been able to land another hit on it yet.

The reach this damn thing had was insane, I couldn't get close. Then it made the mistake of trying to stomp me flat again. I lunged under the beast as the foot came down. I was quick to stab right into the ape's calf. I pulled out just in time to see a large arm coming right at me. "Dam-"


Syr had seen everything that had happened, it was epic, and it was painful to watch. She actually covered her ears when Bell had to reset his arm. If Bell was in a familia, he probably wouldn't be have this much trouble. That and all the hits that silverback had gotten on him was slowing him down incredibly. While Bell was extremely fast for a no level, he was only about as fast as a mid level one adventurer. Which was an incredible feat in itself, but still didn't compare to the raw power of the silverback.

Yet she had a feeling that she forget something very important, something that she couldn't for the life of her remember. Everytime she looked at Bell, that nagging feeling kept popping up in her head. This feeling had only came up right after she had given Bell the...THE KNIVES! 'Oh good one Syr! You forget to tell him that he needed to put his own blood in the knives to activate them!' Her hands were gripping at her grey hairs, 'Good one me!'

She had been so caught up in the moment. She had forgot probably the most important thing. If those Knives were on...That silverback would have been dead right now. Oh no, it was never that easy. Now Bell looked like a wagon wreck! Though he was kicking that things ass. The silverback's once white fur was now black and red. Bell looked beaten up but didn't have a lot of blood pooling out of him like the silverback did. His clothes were taking a beating and she could see what was underneath.

Ah he was okay. He didn't have abs or anything. He was only fourteen, nothing really had developed yet. If he kept up the adventurer job she was sure it would pop up in no time. Well if he lived that long. Still Bell had a very nice face, perfect even. There was also that smile of his that could make even Freya weak at the knees. Ahh he was just so cute like a little rabbit! That and he was so sweet too! Er she was getting away from the important topic.

Bell versus the Silverback.

Bell looked to be on his heels the entire fight. Only acting on the defensive, he was intimidated by the massive creature. 'That is nothing compared to Goliath.' Goliath was a massive monster rex, he was believed to be the first monster rex until Bell came around and blew a hole into that theory.

Then Bell had managed to stab the back of the calf of the silverback. Then Bell got swatted away like an annoying bug. Bell crashed right into a stack of crates and wooden planks that used to belong to an old gate. She couldn't see Bell any longer. If that blood next to the hole in the gate and on the gate was anything to go by...Bell was pretty much...close to death. 'All thanks to me forgetting to tell him.' Syr sighed when the silverback looked right over at her. She didn't really care for the damn thing, no she was far more worried about Bell. She needed to get him to a doctor or get a health potion or something. Though she couldn't do anything right now since people were watching the whole sence through their windows and roof tops. There was over a hundred people watching this event play out.

The silverback came to her, looking to rip her apart. Syr back up into a wall that was behind her. Its long arms trying to reach through the pillars. Thank the goddess that there was an overhang that was protecting her and making the silverback's job of trying to get her so much harder.

"GET AWAY FROM SYR!"

Then she felt some kind of liquid hit her face and arm. A loud painful scream came from the ape. Then a pinging sound ringed next to. Her eyes went wide when she followed the sound. Three feet away from her head was one of Knives she had given to Bell. It was dug into the wall and surrounded in a blood splatter. The knife had changed from when she had first seen it. The first difference came in the form of glowing red writing on blade itself. The second was that there was a white aura around the blade. Looking back at the the silverback with her wide eyes...She saw a hole in its left shoulder. Then she looked at what had thrown it. Syr was sure that her eyes were about to pop out of her head. It was Bell.

Though unlike before, Bell had changed. Bell was standing holding the side of the gate for support, his eyes were completely red like an animal. He was panting, his clothes were even more mangled than before and a piece of wood was sticking out of his shoulder. He pulled out the piece of wood and start moving towards the silver back. A white aura was surrounding him, much like the knife. There was something forming above his head, in the aura, horns? No! Those weren't horns, they were antlers. 'What is that?'

Then Bell became as fast a level two adventurer. That had blown her away. 'Amazing…'


There in front of me was a white rabbit. I was surrounded by black once again, yet I could clearly see it this time. It was just glaring at me with those red eyes that the jackalope had. In fact I think that it might just be the jackalope because they looked so similar. Yet I noticed something different about it. It didn't have antlers like the jackalope did.

"I don't understand why I'm always seeing jackalopes and rabbits." Was my subconscious trying to tell me something? Or was this some kind of spirit that had latched onto me? I didn't know the answer, I probably wouldn't find out what it was any time soon. The rabbit just kept on looking at me.

Then something happened. My knives that I had been given by Syr…faded into existence right above the rabbit. They slowly came down to its small head. I tilted my head in fascination as the weapons attached themselves to the top of its head. "Well you don't see that everyday." I muttered out in amazement.

The weapons slowly change into something else, antlers. The rabbit grew larger than before. In front of me was the jackalope that I have seen three times now. It seemed to have gotten larger since the first time I had seen it. I fully understood what the jackalope was trying to tell me now. 'Without my weapons, I'm like a defenseless rabbit. When I have my weapons, I'm like a jackalope, capable of harm.' Just like that the jackalope came at me again. It leaped up into the air at me.

I caught the large jackalope in my arms like I did before. I was then embraced by that power once more. The rage rushing over me was like a waterfall.

My eyes shot open as fought through the terrible pain again and stood up. I looked my body over as I clung to the side of a stone wall. I checked myself of my wounds. I had a piece of wood in my shoulder and my leg. "Damn it."

I pulled the one from my leg out first. When that was done as I was getting ready to pull out the one in my shoulder I caught a glimpse of the silverback trying to grab syr. That was when the rage really boiled over the surface. My bloody hands grabbed both knives that were on the ground below me. I didn't pay that much notice with the red writing on the blades showing up or the aura around them. I moved towards the hole in the gate and...

"GET AWAY FROM SYR!"

I threw the knife as hard as I could and grasped the wooden gate for support. I watched on as the knife went right through the bulky mass of the silverback's shoulder. It wailed and recoiled at the unexpected pain. I pulled out the piece of wood from my shoulder and start moving to it. I could feel myself getting angrier the closer I got to the beast. The more anger I got, the less the pain affected my body. I started running even though the pain was tell me to stop. The silverback had turned its gaze at me and start sprinting at me. Slower than it had been before. We charged each other.

I felt so much faster now, stronger even. I jumped up and over its fist and landed on its arm. I started cutting the arm apart. Deep gashes and cuts were appearing all over it as I went to work. This thing couldn't even touch me now. I was just too fast, and it was slowing down from all the pain. I landed on the ground a couple feet away from it, spun one hundred and eighty degrees and chucked my knife right at its face. It brought one of its hands up to block the weapon, but that didn't stop the blade. No it went right through the hand, to the face and out the back of the head splattering blood everywhere. The silverback fell a moment later. I stood for a couple of seconds before falling on my butt. I let out a sigh of relief as the anger disappeared.

Then a thunderous applause broke out.

"He killed it!"

"The monster's dead!"

"You did it!"

"Good job!"

"What a powerful adventurer!"

"He's a hero!"

"From zero to hero!"

"Just like that!"

"We are not starting that here!"


Freya had seen the entire show, from start to finish. He had done amazing and overshot her expectations once again. He was just growing so fast that it was a little sad that she would have to make a move for him sooner rather than later. A familia was going to snatch him after that display. He was just too good to be left alone. Well she could always steal him from the familia he would join and allow him to grow stronger, yet she wanted him for herself. She didn't want him growing too attached to a familia. It would make thing a lot more complicated.

Bell was just amazing, even being as fast as a level two adventurer. Whatever power that he possesses...It was extremely powerful than anything she had seen over the last decade. She had to uncover what that skill was and what it was doing for him. This had only proven to her that this was an exotic skill. That white aura around him had shown itself to her again. This time even going so far to give antlers.

Bell...Oh how she wanted him. He would be hers very soon. She was also getting the feeling that Bell knew that the Freya familia was watching over him. The way his eyes widened when he saw the emblem on the blades. He was smart and observant. He kept on impressing her. He was quite the bundle of surprises. She was feeling a little giddy just think about him and her. A lustful looked crossed her face. 'I think I'm becoming obsessed.'

She ended up sighing remorsefully, "All that could wait for a little bit longer." She had done what she had planned to do and her little girl had done a marvelous job. She was just as good as she was when it came to acting, she had done well. Those years of teaching her were paying off. 'You have made me proud, my daughter.'


"Ais wait up!" Loki pleaded as she followed after her blonde child. She was almost out of breath, all this running was getting to her. They had been running full speed to the fight, following the sounds of the silverback's wails and roars. They were running down an alleyway when thunderous applause broke out.

That made Ais gain more speed, much to Loki's dismay. Yet Loki kept running after her. She turned the corner and had to put on the brakes. She stop short of slamming right into Ais's back. Great, now she could catch her breath. She bent down and put her hands on her knees. She looked up just enough to see Ais's rear right in front of her, she grinned for a second and started reaching, "I finally caught up to- Hey!" She almost fell forward when Ais start walking closer to the scene.

Loki mumbled under her breath, she had just missed a grab of her firm her cheeks...again. Loki finally decided to follow after her and when she caught up, she saw him. Bell Cranel, had killed the silverback by himself. If the screaming of the people were anything to go by. Bell Cranel was a very interesting teen indeed. Then he smiled.

"Excuse me Beautiful."

Her face heated up again, "Damn you Freya for putting thoughts into my head."

"Goddess?" Ais spoke up letting Loki know that she had heard her.

Loki's face matched her red hair, "N-nothing! I didn't say anything!" She looked away from Ais. Ais only nodded before looking at bell with a perplexed smile. This boy was something else entirely.


The people were just going nuts and I was stuck in the middle of it. Everyone was circling me, cheering for me. I was looking around with a smile, overjoyed that I had managed to win and well...Live. I saw Syr covered in blood as she made way through the crowd. "Syr! Are you okay?!" I tried to stand but I was forced down by her as she hugged me tightly.

"I should be the one asking you that, not the other way around." She said letting go of me.

"What happened to your dress?" I asked.

"Oh you got blood on it." I cringed at the thought.

I managed to chuckle a bit, "Oops." She frowned, "I'm sorry." I drooped my head down in shame.

She raised an eyebrow at me than I saw her grin, 'Oh no.'

"Well you can make it up to me then."

'Noooooo!' I cried mentally. I should have known that it would come to this. I quivered as adrenaline wore off. "I-dtye...may…" Syr looked at my with a confused look as my vision started growing dark. Oh no, this had happen before. After the anger washes away...The pain pours on. I saw that worried look crossed her face as she said my name a couple of times, each time getting louder. My ears were ringing, my heart was pounding, my vision was going to shit. That was until I passed out in a sea of darkness. At least I didn't have to feel the pain as long as I did when I fought Doluk. This time it only took five seconds, not a whole minute.


Author's Notes: Happy Halloween everyone! I hope you all enjoy the longest chapter I have ever written. Yes this is my longest chapter. Anyway, I wonder what you guys and gals will think of all these new events? Review, favorite, and follow! I can't wait to hear your feedback. What is the connection between Freya and Syr? I guess we'll have to find out in the later chapters to come right? Enjoy the chapter everyone! Make sure to stay safe over Halloween. Oh and lastly, Kyuubi, did you just quote Master Chief, or John 117 from Halo 2? Yes, yes I did, I also quoted a ton of other shit too.