Chapter 5

Chapter 5 - Outburst

-¦A few days before the storm¦-

Bell has just returned to his/their? house and saw his grandpa resting on a rocking chair with his eyes closed. Bell, seeing that his his grandpa is resting, walked quietly to the door but before he could open it, he heard a voice from his left.

"Oh, you're here Bell. Where have you been? I was looking for you earlier." his grandpa said.

His grandpa has grey hair and moustache, he wore a white long-sleeve with the sleeves pulled up to his forearms and a blue overall with brown leather shoes.

"Ah! Grandpa. I was exploring the woods earlier and I met this super strong, amazing man! He saved me from being attack by a wolf monster..." Bell started telling his grandpa what happened and described how he saw Gilgamesh and his figure while fighting.

"Hey, grandpa. Do you think I could be a Hero one day, just like those in the books you read for me and that man?" Bell asked innocently with hope in his eyes.

His grandpa stared at him for a moment before smiling and caressing his hair which made him squint his eyes.

"Of course you can. Everybody is a hero of their own story. You just have to make the best of it and work hard. Not all heroes have a story, some got forgotten in history, while some gets remembered as legends. If you want to be your own hero, just be yourself."

Bell, having heard his grandpa's words, has his eyes glowing brightly with determination inside them. He started to imagine himself fighting monsters to save the people, but that didn't last long before he heard his grandpa's somewhat lecherous laughter.

He returned from his imagination and saw his grandpa looking at lewd drawings of different races while having a drool.

Bell once again is reminded of his grandpa's lecherous behavior and sighed to himself. Even though he is still young, he has been influenced by his grandpa so his mentality is somewhat...

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Several days later, in the afternoon, Bell is sleeping in his room while his grandpa can be seen outside their house with his eyes glowing with yellow and bluish white sparks occasionally appearing.

Suddenly a massive amount of aura assaulted the sky and instead of dispersing the clouds, it instead gathers them and it expands throughout the whole forest.

Raindrops started falling in the sky and after a few minutes, lightning crackled in the clouds followed by a loud thunder but strangely, Bell is still soundly sleeping. If you look closely, you could see a subtle glow enveloping the house in a spherical manner and is preventing the raindrops from approaching the house.

The lightning and thunder continuously spread to the whole forest and the rain lasted for a few hours before Bell's grandpa's aura started to calm down and the storm slowly dispersed leaving in it's wake several uprooted and broken trees sprawled out in from of him.

Bell's grandpa took a deep breath and sighed before walking back to his recliner and closed his eyes.

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Cú spent a long time soaking in the lake just relaxing his body. After coming out of the lake, he dried himself up before wearing a new set of clothes similar to his stage 3 counterpart(I'm not gonna go into full detail on this one).

He walked away from the lake and decided to stroll around the forest because why not.

Because of Cú excellent sense of direction from when he was young, he didn't need to worry about getting lost and just wander about inside the forest meeting many wild animals, of course there are some hostile ones but he quickly dealt with them the moment they showed signs of hostility. He could have just approaced gently but Cú's body didn't allow that so he could only sigh at his misfortune.

Along the way, he tried many experiments that were bugging his mind about. He has this suspicion about his ability to transform when he turned into Cú Chulainn the first time.

When he was looking inside the treasury of Gate of Babylon, he found Gáe Bolg and the moment he touched it, he turned into Cú Chulainn in the real world.

He wanted to try and see if he could transform into other servants while using their weapons or anything related to them as catalyst but it doesn't seem to work for the time being.

There are a few possibilities on why it doesn't work, one; it has a cool down period, two; you need to be in a specific situation or environment to transform while using the catalyst, three; he could only transform into a selected few servants and he needs to find out which servants he could transform into.

He hoped it was the first possibility because he really wanted to try and transform into several servants that he likes.

Though if he could, he would like to transform like using a class card because he still miss his previous appearance. His previous appearance isn't bad, in fact he is really handsome. If not for his introverted personality and his slim figure, he would have been popular.

He tries to remember his previous look the last time he saw it, Medium-length platinum blond hair, 6'7 height, slim figure. He is not malnourished, just thin. Though he can't help but imagine himself being fit in his mind.

*Shingggg*(A/N: Hahahahaha XD)

Suddenly his body got covered in bright light and he couldn't help but close his eyes. After the light died down, he immediately looked for any signs of changed but sees that he is still in Cú clothes and Gáe Bolg is still with him, the only thing that changed in him is his height which he noticed is taller than before.

He was about to return to the lake again but his body was overcome by a heavy feeling and his mind shut down as he falls to the ground.

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Sorry for another late upload.

I uploaded a chapter on December 29 but I don't know where it went so I had to rewrite the whole thing.

I was also supposed to upload a new chapter a couple days back but we ended up celebrating the new year on an island in the Philippines and I ended up sick so I uploaded late.

Anyway, thanks for reading and share your thought about this chapter and the novel itself to further my skills in writing.