The slayer ran through the streets occasionally double jumping over a building, as he got Bell away from the Hostess of Fertility where a presumably enraged Loki familia would be looking for him and Bell. The slayer then stopped abruptly as he placed bell on his feet as they got a good distance away from the restaurant. Bell wore a face of nausea and confusion as to what had happened in the span of fifteen seconds, before he then shut his eyes and started breathing heavily to calm both his nerves and stomach. The slayer looked at the boy, who he had abruptly grabbed and took him away from the familia who member he had just embarrassed, and placed a unsure hand on his back to comfort him after going around thirty miles per hour in his arms.
"Mister slayer," Bell asked finally opening his eyes but still breathing heavily as the slayer removed his arms from his back. "please never do that again to me." The slayer looked at the boy before he slightly nodded and gave a thumbs up.
Bell then took another minute to silently recuperate before he then looked at the slayer, who was holding his super shotgun, and gave slight cough to show he could travel again. The slayer took notice of this and accompanied him back to the church, his super sotgun still ready if the Loki familia attacked either of them. This was a silent trip once more as the two hastily made there way back to the church so Bell could turn in for tonight.
"We still need to be prepared for the loki familia they want revenge for yesterday." Vega told a bloodied Bell as they arose from the dungeon with a much worse haul then yesterday's dive. Vega had been warning Bell of an attack all the time in the dungeon, saying it would be easy for an ambush and unknown murder to occur while they journeyed through the dungeon. But it was for nought the only thing that posed a threat to Bell was a decently large group of dungeon lizards that the slayer had mostly dealt with so Bell wouldn't be overrun, which lead to Bell having a large amount of blood splattered over him.
They now exited the dungeon as they arrived in the guild with many people looking at the two who both presumed to be that they were covered in blood. "There are showers to get the blood off over here mister Vega." The slayer simply replied with a nod as he moved to the room to get the blood off of his armour. He was once again reminded of hell and the demons, while in hell he didn't need to worry about scrubbing the blood off of his armour because it either evaporated when he got hit with a imp fireball or traversing through hells lava.
"There you two are." A voice behind the two spoke up as both recognised it to be Eina, much to Bell surprise and the slayers apathy to this interruption. "You both are needed for questioning about yesterday and what happened in the dungeon." She said to the both of them.
"But what did we do yesterday." Bell asked as he rubbed away a drop of blood that was falling into his eye.
"You both somehow getting the magic stones from the lower floors, and how no one has any record of him before two days ago." Eina informed Bell. "But go to the shower rooms and clean yourself." She said as both left to clean themselves.
"We'll might be able to obtain some information today about the dungeon, hopefully it will help us with our objective." Vega said in the Praetor's Suit inner coms to a uninterested slayer. The slayer thought the only way Vega would be able to gather some information about this place that would be useful was from a god, and the only god he could even remotely consider trustworthy was Bells god, who he barely even interacted with when they met. The slayer entered a stall while Bell walked off to another as he turned on the shower.
The slayer took little notice of the water that fell down his armour as absentmindedly scrubbed the blood off of armour contemplating when he could return back to hell. "I have been able to make a investigation on the dust the monsters become upon death." Vega began as the slayer continued cleaning himself. "The dust appears to have the energy very similar to hell plasma like in the stones but it has been diluted with something else. And looking at the Praetor Suit desighn it appears it can not as reliably absorb the ambient energy but when crushing the stone it get filtered directly into the suit and then your ammo." Vega finished his lecture to the slayer who continued scrubbing himself clean with most of the blood off now.
The slayer continued cleaning himself for around six minutes before he thought he was cleaned adequately and made his way out of the stall being greeted to multiple other adventures either having blood on them or just finished cleaning themselves. He then saw bell exit his stall using a towel for his hair as he made his way to the exit the slayer following.
The two exited and saw Eina who was discussing something with a coworker before she noticed them and walked over to them. "Alright you follow me now!" She ordered the two who followed her to a more secluded area of the guild where they only saw guild members walking in before they were both taken to a room where two others were sat. Bell had a nervous expression as he sat down on a couch while the slayer still stood next to the couch.
"Greetings there you two it is good to see that you both have come for our questions." The chienthrope, the slayer believed what they were called, on the left said while his companion wearing a feathered hat over his blonde hair smiled and nodded at them. "You two apparently had lower floor monsters spawn on the third floor yesterday." He began, "But it is an impossibility that it had happened there." He said before his companion finished his question.
"Where they actually on the third floor?" He asked the two with Bell responding with a simple "Yes." The blonde's eyes widened slightly before returning to normal. "You're free to go kid. We have no reason to ask more questions from you." He said to Bell. The slayer thinking it was over attempted to follow him seeing how the question was answered before a cough came from behind him.
"I'm sorry but you can't leave yet." The chienthrope said addressing the slayer who looked behind at the two before he silently sighed and walked back next to the couch. Bell had walked out of the door by now and looked back to see what was happening. "This has nothing to concern you now. We only have questions to do with him." The guild member said as Bell uneasily closed the door to the room, the slayer walking back next to the couch.
"Your free to sit down you know." The blonde said to him a smile plastered on his face. The slayer stared down on him as he reluctantly took a seat. "Now that's settled, we both want to know. Who are you?" The blonde asked him as Vega replied for the slayer.
"Vega, Blazkowikz." Vega responded to the two, with the slayer rising a brow at the surname his companion had chosen.
"So then mister Blazkowikz how come the guild has no record of you?" He asked again, the slayer curious why it was only him asking the questions.
"I have already said to Eina that I entered the dungeon at the dead of night and no guild members stopped me from entering the dungeon." Vega responded to the two with the blonde nodding to it.
"Your questions have all been truthful so far. Somehow." He said and muttered the last part under his breath. "So our questioning is not as long as we intended, but we still need one last piece of information. What familia do you belong to? We need it so we can make your adventurer documents." He said staring intently now at the slayer.
"I belong to the same familia as mister Cranel, the Hestia familia." Vega lied to the two as the chienthrope was writing the answer down and the blonde smirking.
"We'll see if it is true, but I suppose you can leave now. We will bring you back for more questioning mr Blazkowikz." The chienthrope said as he stopped writing on his piece of parchment. The slayer then left as the chienthrope turned to his companion. "So he was actually telling the truth for all of them, Hermes."
"Apparently so. But I had a nagging feeling at the last bit. I only heard the Hestia familia had one member." Hermes replied back. "And during all my travels I have never heard of the surname Blazkowicz or anything close to it." He continued . "He is a enigma, but hopefully I can find more about him." He finished.
The slayer exited the guild with Bell already going back to meet his goddess, he hoped Vega didn't make a wrong choice by saying he was in the boys familia. He walked through the streets again actually looking at his surroundings in his temporary imprisonment on the planet. While the structures were not as complex or impressive as Argent D'Nur he could appreciate the architecture of the city, which gave him a moment of clarity as he remembered his second home before it fell to the corrupted Maykrs and the hell priest's betrayal. His anger then rose again at this thought and he once more clenched his fists as he noticed he was now in the more destitute part of the city were the Hestias familias church was.
The slayer entered it, as he once again saw the ruins of the church, and the door to the basement being open slightly. The slayer entered as he descended the stairs only hearing it to be silent. Once the slayer reached the bottom he saw the diminutive goddess on her sole members back a annoyed expression on her face before she started to hit the boys back eliciting a few gasps of surprise and pain from the boy.
"Are we interrupting something." Vega asked surprising the goddess who fell of Bell back onto the floor.
"Ohh mister slayer how was your questioning." Bell asked innocently to his partner.
"Wait, what questioning." Hestia shrieked climbing out from the floor.
"Well me and mister slayer had a run in a few lower floor monsters yesterday and the guild wanted to know the validity of it." Bell answered to his goddess.
"WHAT." Hestia shrieked as she looked to her only child. "Why didn't you tell me about this when you came back Bell." She asked indignantly.
"Well it kind of slipped my mind. But that was reason was the reason we earned so much Valis yesterday." He said, which lead Hestia to mutter 'slipped your mind.'
The slayer stopped caring about what the two were saying as he made his way to the couch sitting down on it, thinking of what he should do for the rest of the day as he saw Hestia start talking to Bell about something. Their talk continued for around two minutes more before both went to do something, Bell going to count today's earnings from the dungeon and Hestia preparing to go somewhere for the night.
"HELLO ONE AND ALL, THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING." Ganesha shouted out to all of the gods that were attending the party he held and one particular divinity gorging herself, orwas grabbing as much food as she can for her broke familia. While Hestia continued doing this a voice behind her spoke up "Good evening to you Hestia." Prompting the diminutive goddess to squeal at the sudden interruption and looked up to see who was talking to her revealing it to be Freya.
"Freya." Hestia said, muffled by a piece of food dangling out of her mouth.
Freya then responded to the diminutive goddess, who had now finished eating the food dangling out of her mouth "sorry you busy."
"I'm always to busy to deal with you." Hestia responded causing the smile to go from Freyas face, before she regained it after recovering from what Hestia had said.
"That is the kind of thing that make me like you so much." Freya replied to Hestia.
"Well at least you aren't as unbearable as some people." Hestia said as she began frowning at the rapid approach of Loki, who excited called out "It's Freya, and cherubie." Loki muttered out the last part seeing who Freya was talking to.
"Well, hello Loki." Freya said greeting the goddess.
Hestia grimaced as she now had to talk to Loki. "Oh great what are you doing here."
"Sweetie you know me, I'm doing whatever I want. I'm loki." She simply replied to Hestia, who hastily coughed to cover her shock.
"Actually this is perfect. I've been meaning to ask you something." Hestia began to loki wearing a smirk.
"Yeah what is it peewee." Loki responded smugly causing Hestia to wear a look of annoyance.
"I mean it's just a rumour, but did one of your familia member get easily defeated by a guy in green armour." Hestia asked to a now angered Loki.
"Excuse me but you shouldn't be talking about baseless rumours you goblin." Loki said furiously to Hestia as the two then pushed there heads against each other's.
"You to kids get along so well." Freya interrupted the two, causing them to instantly reply with "No we don't." Freya then continued, now only addressing Loki. "And loki, I can't help but notice you seem to be looking a little different today then usual today." Causing Loki to rise her head up to Freya, making Hestia lose her balance and fall to the floor.
Hestia stayed motionless on the floor for a few seconds hearing Loki say about showing her up before she thought of what she should respond to. "Hah thats real funny Loki." Hestia said rising her head from the ground, "Cause I'm having a good old belly laugh myself." Hestia started to say, with Loki responding with 'No don't'. "Seriously, you showed up to the party, with no boobs." She finished with a smirk on her face and her words echoing in Lokis mind.
Hestia started laughing her head off at this and repeating 'no boobs', and Loki face growling more irritable by the second by Hestias comments and guffaws.
Bell sat on the bed as he finished recounting the amount he and the slayer earned earlier today. The slayer was noticeably irritated when he woke up, with him descending to the basement and Vega told him to accompany them to the dungeon. He complied with the two and followed before Hestia had awoken and spent most of the day in the dungeon only returning when the sun was setting. He looked over to the slayer once more who stood standing agains a wall arms crossed standing rigid still, he'd risen from his seat when goddess had left and paced around the room before he went to where he stood now.
This was then interrupted as the slayer moved away from the wall and looked over to Bell and pointed to himself and the stairs. Bell watched as the slayer walked out of the basement and wondered what he would be doing now.
The slayer had grown to bored and irritated by the constant downtime outside of the dungeon, he was missing jumping up at cacodemons and pulling out the eyes, or using his super shotgun to turn a hell knight or a revenant into paste. He also was constantly reminded of his first home as well, back when he was just a soldier, with a normal life accompanied by Daisy. But that was all torn away in a instant.
He was brought to the UAC mars base for punishment for attacking his senior officer, and the day that changed everything.
He shook the thoughts out of his head as he looked at the pitch black road around him, as he saw Vega had created a objective for him which simply said 'Map out the city'.
"I believe it would be wise of us to map out the city for later use." Vega said to the slayer, "Seeing as you seem quite irritated unless your are actively doing something, I took the liberty to create the task for you." The AI finished. The slayer's mouth slightly curled up. As much as he was annoyed by Vega constantly bringing up how he wanted answers for his questions, he was glad he had the AI with him. Be it because of Vega was able to communicate with others, and how he was able to make the slayer feel calmer and for something to do.
Back at the party, Loki was now pinching Hestia on the cheeks and dragging her around in the air. This had drawn practically every god present to view the one sided bout, and placing bets on it.
This then stopped as Loki dropped Hestia to the ground and started walking away saying "I'll let you off easy today." She said to Hestia who grabbed onto her cheeks calling back to her, "You know Loki, your chest is so flat I might mistake you for a guy next time I see you."
Loki now in tears shouted back to her, "Ohh, shut your fat face." Before sighing with frustration.
"You two are at again, I see." A voice said to Hestia who then perked up at this recognising it to be, "Hephaestus." She said to the newcomer. "I'm so glad you're here. I've missed you." She finished to the red haired goddess' arrival.
"What you missed me." She said uninterested before leaning down to be eye level with hestia. "Let me be blunt, if it's money your after, you're not getting a single Valis from me."
Hestia then looked inflamed at this, "'Scuse me. But do I look like the kind of goddess who'd stoop so low to go fishing for handouts from her best friend."
"You know, you got a lot of nerve saying that after you freeloaded off of my familia." Causing Hestia to gasp in shock at this and recoil back as Hephaestus continued her verbal beat down.
Hestia then stomped her foot on the ground. "Okay so maybe I used to do that but not anymore, because I have my own familia now." To a unimpressed Hephaestus.
"Oh yes that Bell person right. The silly little boy with the white hair and red eyes. Well at least you have a member now." Hephaestus said to Hestia who perked up once more.
"Not anymore. Bell has someone now helping him while he goes into the dungeon." Hestia proudly boasted.
"So he just got a supporter. I thought it ould be you recruited the guy that injured Loki's child." Hephaestus said uninterested.
"Sorry to prove you wrong Hephaestus, but Bell is exploring the dungeon with the green armoured knight." Hestia proudly announced causing Hephaestus to splutter on her drink.
"Please Hestia don't lie, there's no way you would've recruited that guy." Hephaestus responded.
"Well I haven't been able to recruit mister Vega to my familia, but at least he's helping it out." Hestia said proudly.
Freya continued watching Hestia and intently listened to every word she said about the now named Vega. She then smirked as she spoke up at this revelation that he apparently was not in her familia. "So Hestia you're saying he's not in your familia."
"Yeah, I have no idea what familia he's in but he's been real help to us." Hestia said as she then caught on to Freya's sudden interest in Vega. "But I'm sure his god wouldn't be to happy with you trying to take him." Hestia said a little to hastily.
"You needn't worry it was only a passing interest, but I think I'll be leaving now. And I'm sure all the men had enough time to take me all in." She finished as a cacophony of mumbling was heard and the crowd dissipating from around them.
The slayer trekked through the city, with Vega staying silent as all his processing went to mapping the city, as he occasionally avoided a passing group or the construction of something that included either a elephant faced person or something monster related. He then heard something called 'Monsterphilia' by a group of people passing by, and assumed this was what it was for. The slayers wandering continued for about an hour before he arrived at what appeared to be a seedier area then the rest of the city.
"I assume this would be the red light district of the city." Vega said to the slayer as both saw many scantily clad women going up to men and enticing them to join them. "You are free to leave this area, I doubt you'll ever want to be here. Unless you'd want to have coitus with any of the prostitutes." Vega finished, the slayer unsure if this was an attempt at humour once more, but he did turn around and leave the area to find a place more interesting then the red light district.
Freya sat on her throne as she overlooked Orario once more. She had just returned from the feast and was now looking out as she easily spotted the beacon that was the mans soul. She stared transfixed on it once more making sure that he wouldn't use her divine mirror on him or use her discerning eye and stare at him for two long.
She heard Ottar approach her and then knelt down behind her throne as she continued to observe the newly dubbed Vega wander through the city and stopping at the entrance to the red light district. "Lady Freya we have found something about the green armoured man." He began to freya who saw him walk the other way of the district. "His name is 'Vega Blazkowicz' and apparently is in the Hestia familia." Freya then smiled at this. Hestia had revealed that he wasn't in her familia during the feast and now something was contradicting her statement.
"Where did you get this from ottar." Freya asked her familia's captain.
"A guild report from earlier today had both his name and familia, and was all true with Hermes being present." Freyas eyes then widened at this. Hestia had been the one who had lied, which was strange. If he was in her familia, she would've boasted it to Loki that she had a member that had, easily dispatched of her child. Freya grew more curious as to who the slayer was. "But it was not the most interesting thing about the report." Ottar said before continuing, "Somehow multiple lower floor monsters had spawned on the upper floors. It is impossible but it has been verified by Hermes."
Freya smiled at this, "If you see his soul Ottar you'll see that is the least outlandish thing that is to do with him." She finished as she finished watching him.
The slayer continued his exploration of Orario, before something happened as he then felt a wave of pure Argent wash over him, his suit sensors picking it up and Vega instructing him where it is. "Seven meters below ground, two kilometres away."
The slayers built up rage then exploded out as he pulled out his super shotgun and cocked it a wild grin plastered over his face. "I believe there was a way to access the sewers twelve feet behind us." Vega said as the slayer then turned around and ran to the great as he then punched through it. The slayer fell seven meters down to the sewers as he then started sprinting full speed through the sewers disturbing the sludge and muck as he then attempted to find the source of Argent.
Now he was once more the Doom Slayer and now it was time to rip and tear through hell once more. He checked the distance bar Vega had made and saw he was rapidly approaching the source. The Doom Slayer journey then stopped as he saw the source of the Argent.
Only an infinitesimal rift had appeared and only one imp had been able to crawl out of it. The slayer looked unimpressed as then changed to his pistol which the imp took notice of and looked at him. The moment the imp saw him it screeched out as it then hopped away and lobbed a fireball at him, which the slayer easily avoided but allowed the imp to enter a pipe to small to allow the slayer to enter, and the Hell rift closed on him somehow. The slayer then ran to the pipe as he tried to shoot at the imp that escaped and heared a satisfying squeal when one if his shots connected.
"Stop shooting the imp has fled into another pipe," Cega began "we will need to track down the imp but it will be difficult witn the Praetors suits capabilities but they are semi sufficient at locating the imp." Vega said as he then started to track down said imp, as the slayers fury grew to new heights as the imp had escaped.
Sorry if you think this chapter is sloppy but I'm jet lagged out of my goddamn mind writing this chapter.