Walking The Wrong Path

Working Hard

"Can I ask you guys to trust me?" Bell asked seriously. They all wondered what this was about.

"what are you on about Bell? Are you Ok?" Riveria asked a bit concerned.

"Just answer my question first, otherwise, we will go straight to the 25th floor," Bell said. Suggesting an alternative piqued everyone's interest.

"sure Bell, we trust you, assuming from the way you speak you will lead us to somewhere on this floor yes?" Finn asked. Bell nodded. he led them to a certain place, near a pond.

"Alright we will have to dive in, swim a bit and enter a certain cave on the other side," Bell instructed.

"what?" Riveria asked weirded out but Bell didn't respond and dove in, Finn gave the others a confused look but shrugged and dove in himself.

As they followed Bell, they could see a bit of light emerging from above the water on the other side, Bell jumped out and following suit so did the other 3.

"What is this place?" Gareth asked looking around.

"a cave," Bell replied plainly.

"We can see that, what's so special here?" Riveria asked. As she finished she heard footsteps, a lot of them, although they were quite muted, she and the other two heads took their weapons but Bell simply walked forward.

"yo guys, you here?" Bell called out to nothing.

"who are you cal-" gareth tried to stay but was interrupted by a childish shouting.

"BEELLLLL," a child like figure shouted out, the other turned and a blue vouivre monster, running towards Bell.

"Wiene, it's been a while, how are you?" Bell said as he crouched down and opened his arms. Wiene jumped on to him as Bell stood up and hugged her.

"I missed you," Wiene said with a smile.

"me too. Ah, guys don't worry these three are safe you can come out," Bell called out. After a second, a bunch more people rushed out. Well, rather than people it was monsters.

"Belluchi, it's nice to see you," a red lizard figure said. Riveria and the other two only stared in surprise, these monsters were talking...

"you too Lyd," Bell put Wiene down before turning to Riveria and the other two, who had wide open mouths, "these are my friends you guys, don't attack them." Bell said with a smile.

"Friends? They are monsters Bell... and how can they talk?" Finn asked shocked.

"Don't worry they won't bite, these are the race called Xenos, they are the secret of the dungeon sort of speaking, they are friends that I helped out. You know during the break of monsters in the surface, I was the cause of that." Bell explained.

"YOU were the cause of that?" Riveria asked flabbergasted.

"Well, it was more like he was in trouble, and we couldn't leave our dear friend to die so we took the risk and jumped up," Lyd joined in the conversation.

"as you can see they are intelligent, dare I say some of them are more humans than others," Bell said shocking the others.

"aww, thanks Bell that's real nice of you," Lyd pat his back. Ray soon flew down and came.

"Bell you came to visit us, you even brought your new friends," Ray said with a smile.

"yeah, we were going to floor 49, to slay the Balor, Asterius didn't kill it yet right?" Bell asked.

"yes, he's at the 65th floor right now, if I recall right." Ray said wondering.

"65TH FLOOR?" Finn exclaimed.