We were back at Orario in front of a big mansion it was painted white and yellow, overall a nice place to live in.
"This is our new home!" Hestia said pointing at the mansion.
"Woah! Really?" Bell said looking at the mansion with shining eyes.
"You really did extort apollo for all he had, not surprising, knowing that you blackmailed me into the Familia" I said.
"I didn't extort him! It was a gamble to which he agreed, so he knew what he was getting involved in" Hestia retorted at Calvin.
"Yeah..., so you have any idea about what emblem should we put in the entrance?" I spoke.
"What about the Cauldron and flame like the blessing" Welf said.
"We should put a Ring, signaling the bonds between the members of... the Familia...?" Lili said.
"A sword is the best answer to everything!" Mikoto spoke.
'She sounds just like Jinnei, great, another barbarian' I thought looking at her from the side.
'Speaking about emblems' I suddenly remember something.
"What if we put my family's emblem? The one that I have in my back-- !!!" I stop talking as I realize something that hasn't cross my mind since I got here.
I lift my shirt and draw Gram holding it behind me to see the reflection.
In my back there was only the God's blessing and nothing more not even a scratch or scar from past battles.
"What emblem?" Hestia asks curiously.
"Nothing" I respond pulling down my shirt and sheathing Gram.
'I should have known, and we spent so much god Damm time thinking about that emblem! It was really cool with the fever wasp and the decorations on the sides I wanted to add a crown to it but kala said that it was too much'
another thought pass through my mind 'does that mean that Kala and Ella's tattoo disappeared as well? I think she said it was some sort of 'magic' ink, well I doesn't matter now that I can't even use fever wasps anymore so I should change it to a... dragon with a crown? Yeah' thinking about how should I make the new emblem.
"Don't worry I have everything planned" Hestia brought me back from my thoughts.
She took out a paper and pencil from her Bossom and started drawing on it.
'Really, how does she do that? Is it some ability that female gods have?'
"Here this is going to be the new Hestia Familia emblem" she said showing us the paper.
It was a big bell and inside t was engraved a sword pointing downwards onto a fire.
"a bell?" Lili said looking at Bell " oooooh... I like it!"
"I think it looks good" Welf said.
"I think it represents you very well" Mikoto said.
"It looks cool, but why the sword? The goddess of family doesn't really represent battle" I said.
"Well just so you remember, your official adventurer's name is 'Sword Prince' and a sword in a fire means 'the way home'
(a little 'Dark souls' reference)
"You really gave me that name? I'll have to talk with someone at the guild later" I say with an irritated tone 'that name is even more lame than "little rookie"'.
"Anyways let's enter our new home, shall we?" she says going to the big double doors.
She opens it only to be greeted by Apollo!
"hyaaaaaah!... huh?" she screamed but stopped seeing that nothing was happening.
Looking at 'Apollo' she realized that it was just a statue, looking around the room there were a bunch of them each one with picturing Apollo in a different position and expression.
"Ugh, please dispose of this garbage" she said looking at us.
We just did it without question as nobody wanted to see that guy any more.
"Now, Familia, loot this place!" she said.
I just went looking for anything useful.
After looking around the rooms for a couple minutes I found a room that seemed to be a study of some sorts.
In it there was some valis and gems in the drawers, the wardrobe at the side had a glass door in there I found a cool looking bow and a 'special' sword.
Taking out the sword as I didn't need bows.
Looking at the blade it was split into segments 'oh... it's one of those' looking around the hilt of the sword trying to find a mechanism.
*click* *ssssshhhhhhring*
Pressing a button in the hilt the blade separated and turned into a 'Whip sword'.
"Ooh, so badass, I think Ella is going to like this" I say turning back the sword, putting it on a scabbard and wrapping it on my hip.
'Ella had one of these for a while, she liked them because it made the enemy bleed more' remembering the fight we had with that Assassin that had razor blades around a leather whip.
Looking around for something more interesting I found a safe that seemed to be made of that 'Magic metal' as I don't remember its name. (Damascus)
The safe was pretty small but treasure isn't always big, looking around in the drawers and paper stacks in the table searching for some sort of Key.
Not finding anything I stop and facepalm myself.
"Looking for the key was stupid; I could just use you" I say putting my hand in Gram.
Throwing the papers to the side and putting the safe in the table facing to the side as I don't want to cut the contents of it.
"Now let's test just how sharp you are" drawing Gram and aiming at the safe's door.
*swish*
Slashing downwards with some force Gram got stuck in the ground it seemed like it just passed through the table
*PAM*
Suddenly the whole table was cut in half.
"Oh... I guess I used too much force, well, I think that no one was going to use that" looking inside the safe the metal was 1 and a half inches thick which surprised me as it was so easy to cut.
Inside the safe there was a round red magic stone and a letter.
"What is this?" magic stones are like crystals but this one is just Red and smooth.
I take the letter and read it.
'The expedition was going well, we were going to the 30th floor, our stay in Rivira was quick as we didn't want to lose time.
We were a group of 25 everyone was in high spirits, as we were passing through the 25th floor the ambience changed, there were no monsters around.
And the dungeon seemed darker, some got alarmed and readied their weapons and searching for the enemy.
Suddenly a scream was heard we looked at the place to see a monster that was 2 meters and a half in height, had the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a snake, everyone thought it was just some lamia variant but it had a red stone in its forehead the more experienced adventurers held their guards while the other went attacking.
The monster suddenly sprouted wings from its back and started flying making the archers shot at it but couldn't hit it as it rapidly dodged and attacked those who were close to it.
Slashing around with her nails that seemed like claws and shooting beams of gas at the archers.
When we finally managed to put it down 8 had died at its hands and 3 archers had died before reaching the surface as it seemed like that gas was some sort of poison.
It only dropped the red stone in its forehead, in the guild they said that it was a Vouivre and that the one we found was most likely a Stronger variant of it and that they were extremely rare to find, I guess that's good as I don't want to fight one of those again.'
"Vouivre huh? Claws, looks like a snake, and wings? Seems like a dragon to me." I say looking at the red magic stone.
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oh? Actual lore in this fanfic? Impossible!
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Even if the last one was a bit harsh with the words, I get what he was trying to say.
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