Walking The Wrong Path

Untitled Part 11

"Sigh. Let's go Rochelle," he said not that she could even more by herself since she was still being carried.

The guard expected them to turn back, bt instead Bell proceeded to walk past the Guard and hopped over the fence.

"Hey you kid, come back, you're trespassing." The guard roared as he tried to hit Bell with his spear.

Bell dodged with ease and grabbed the blade by the tip.

"I ain't trespassing, I'm here to talk, not start a war, now piss off" he said with intimidation.

"You cheeky little," the guard started before, suddenly his world was turned upside down as he got flung sideways by bell. He crashed into the ground as he watched Bell simply walk up the steps into the familia home.

He walked in as if he owned the place. People looked at him funny but didn't do anything as him being here meant that he was let through the gates. But the guard suddenly burst in.

"STOP HIM. HE'S AN INTRUDER." the guard said.

A few people immediately jumped at him, some with their hammers. While, the others stayed back, realising who he was. They couldn't care less for the rest who attacked like fools. Bell moved through the people jumping at him dodging with ease until, someone with a naginata jumped right at him. their speed was impressive, Bell couldn't dodge this so easily, so he pulled out his black sword and blocked the strike. The ground beneath him cracked a bit, he let out a small smile.

"Hello Tsubaki..." he said calmly.

Tsubaki drew back and saw who it was, "B-Bell Cranel? You've become taller all of a sudden." she said confused as the guard went pale.

"T-t-the Dark P-Prince?" he stammered out. Bell smiled behind at him but it just sent shivers of fear to them.

"I wanted to have an important talk with Hephaistos, is she there?" Bell said.

"What? You want her to make you a weapon for your suicide battle with Ottar?" Tsubaki smirked.

"Close but not quite. It's more of a deal,"

"Well why do you have baggage then?" Tsubaki pointed at Rochelle, she rounded Bell to his backside, "oh my... what are these melons, they look like they are about to burst out of the shirt!" She commented.

"My lunch will burst out if he doesn't put me down," Rochelle peeped out. Bell weighed the possibilities and decided to use it.

"So Tsubaki san, you have two choices right now." he smirked, "either way, you let us go see Hephaistos sama, or she empties her stomach right here, in your manor," he said as Tsubaki started to get pale, Rochelle made a ough noise. This was enough to set off Tsubaki, who didn't want to face the wrath of her Goddess get mad at her for ruining the front reception.

Moments later Bell entered the office of Hephaistos. The room was empty as Hephaistos was in the forge, the clangs of hammers rung out of the room.

"Ever since his death, she spent more and more time in the forge." Tsubaki solemnly stated. The morale dropped down after Hephaistos turned anti-social, some blamed Welf for dying. Some blamed Bell for letting him die. Tsubaki couldn't lie, she had been part of them for some time in the beginning.

Enter Flashback

The days after it was announced that the Hestia familia was attacked, the mood in the Hephaistos familia was low.

"Goddamn it, she's our Goddess for fuck's sake, we can't let her go down this path," an angry dwarf slammed on the table.

"That Bell Cranel, we need to kill him. I heard he already joined another familia." another man grunted as a few people nodded in agreement.