After setting out from the Manor, Gareth took me to the local pub that the members of the Loki Familia frequent.
(This isn't the Hostess of Fertility, that place hasn't been made yet by this time so they just go to various Pubs that they find)
"Oiiiii! Hayden!!! You finally made it!" Loki said with with a wide grin as she sloshed a pint of beer in her hands.
Luckily for gods living down in the mortal world they can get drunk just like everyone else, of course Loki is more the wine kind of girl but she doesn't mind a nice pint of beer from the pub when need be.
It wasn't just Loki, Finn, Dane, Bara, Noir and Riviera were all here as well with me and Gareth joining and a few other Familia members I wasn't all too familiar with.
"Mmmnnn Celty, let me feel your brea-" *THWACK!* "OW! What the hell Riviera?!" Loki complained as a staff slapped her right upside the head.
"Stop being such a pervert already! Your acting like a lecherous old man!" Riviera complained but just like a brat Loki just blew her a raspberry before downing her mug.
"Your just jealous that I have my own Warframe and you don't!" She said before she began to boisterously laugh, well until Riviera began to hit her with her staff some more in order to beat more sense into her.
"Don't mind her, Loki is just Loki, anyway what you wanna have, though I hope you can stomach some liquor now since you leveled up so recently!" Gareth said slapping my shoulder as we came up to the bar counter.
"Give me some of the strong stuff." I said as the bartender nodded with a smirk before pulling out a tankard before filling it with Ale and handing one to me and Gareth.
He grinned and took it before holding it up, "Here's to our newest Familia member reaching level two in record breaking time!" He shouted out as everyone cheered in response.
Then we all began to drink what we had before us while Loki herself began to get all giggly and laughy like.
Though I guess with leveling up my alcohol tolerance had significantly increased from before since even though this was some really strong Ale I wasn't even slightly drunk, but maybe my Void powers were helping detoxing my body as well.
So everyone began to celebrate me leveling up while the upper management and myself of the Familia were more interested in hearing about our battle with Sköll.
"Interesting, but Loki from now on you can only go out into the dungeon with a few of us with you in a dungeon dive alright?" Finn said, after all if I wasn't their when Sköll attacked, Loki and Riviera not having access to the Void Tongue and Requiem attacks would have most likely have died.
However it was clear Sköll only appeared because both me and Loki were there at the same time, Wally is a known asshole but he is also fair when it comes to these things as it's not 'interesting' to needlessly torture people by not being able to put them in situations where they can save themselves.
Unless they are Orokin specifically, but that's because the Orokin forcibly stoled a bit of his power, which I don't know how that was possible but in 1999 he said with such visceral fury that they had 'cut into his flesh' and the only known thing that they took was one of his fingers which was used on the Zariman to make it possible for them to void jump from the Origin System to the Tau System.
But because of Orokin arrogance and Wally's Mischef ultimately caused the Zariman Incident to happen as a result.
"So kid! How was it? Fighting a Divine beast, even if what the elf says is true and it was nearly a fragment of its power?" Gareth couldn't help but ask.
"Frankly? It was pretty scary, if Loki and Riviera weren't their for back up I don't think I would have gotten out of there in one piece." And that wasn't a joke as Sköll was like a high level multi-staged boss fight back in Warframe, which I could have dealt with on my own I would have definitely gotten hurt as a result.
"Speaking of which, you guys don't mind if I keep a pet do you?" I decided to ask which made everyone, besides Riviera and Loki, raise an eyebrow.
"I mean…. I don't have a problem with it…. But there must be a reason why your asking." He said though he felt his thumb begin to twitch making him get a bad feeling about this.
"Well you see, the thing is-" Though before I could continue.
*Bang!* "Alright people party's over! The Zeus Familia is calling this pub for themselves!" I hear a voice call out which sounds oddly familiar making me turn to look and see who it is.
"Oh hey guys look! It's those two pathetic Pass Paraders that got their asses handed to them in the dungeon!" I called out as I noticed the red haired Renard and the Black haired Garner.
Hearing this those on our side who were starting to get nervous couldn't help but begin to laugh at them, especially Loki who was full on drunk and laughing her ass off.
"The fuck you say to me you little shit?!?!" Renard absolutely furious shouted out at me as I finished drinking my ale before putting it down.
"Oh what's that? Your hearing going bad on you already or something?" I said holding up my hand to my ear as I began walking up to him as I activated Transference which makes it look a new set of armor just suddenly morphed over me in everyone else's eyes in an instant.
(Transference is near instantaneous, so they don't see that fade out of existence and the Warframe taking the Operators place, unless they are a high leveled adventurer who would be able to see it themselves.)
"You…" Renard growled out when he saw who I really was before his eyes.
"Yes, me, the guy who put you two in your places, now you and your friends are all here to try and ruin the Loki Familia's personal celebration, and that shit…." I say cracking my neck and knuckles while staring down the group from the Zeus Familia.
Not only me but the rest of my Familia, excluding the higher ups who were just watching for now, all began to stand up and stand behind me.
"…. Ain't gonna fly for me and the rest of us here, now are you little shits gonna run with your tails between you legs back to mommy and daddy? Or are we gonna have to get serious?" I said staring them down as Renard clenched his fists in anger.
"Hey you bums, what's the hold up? These assholes not leaving yet?" Suddenly a deep voice from an older man could be heard as those of the Zeus Familia moved to the side as a mountain of a man entered the pub.
"The Shark"
"This isn't good"
"Why is this asshole here?"
I could hear all these whispers behind me which made a few behind me step back at the sight of him.
As I looked at this tough looking thug of a guy I knew what I was looking at.
I was now staring down a Level 3 Adventurer of the Zeus Familia, Hertz 'The Shark' Zolland.
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