A/N

This story was inspired by Danmachi: Duality Mind By: Necros underworld

I liked the were-rabbit concept, thought it worked really well for Bell. Apart from that, my story is completely different. No plagiarism here. Thanks Necros underworld for your inspiration. I hope you get back to your story too.

Curse of the Were-rabbit. Chapter 1.

Zeus looked at the sleeping Bell in the moonlight. Observing the change in the boy, he muttered to himself. "It's time. Farewell Bell and good luck." He closed the bedroom door gently and went to prepare. Zeus packed his things, wrote a small note and left it on the dining table, with a book and a few other items for the boy. He wiped a tear. His time with Bell had been very peaceful, but it could not last. The boy had matured now and the blood from his mother had awoken. It was time for Bell to spread his wings and Zeus had to prepare for what would come next.

Bell woke up. He was slightly groggy which was unusual for him, he was normally a morning person. Yawning widely he got out of bed.

Or tried to, when he went to stand up, he fell flat on his face.

"Ow" he moaned to himself, as he pushed himself up into a sitting position on the floor. Everything felt so weird. He grabbed the side of the bed and tried to stand up. His leg's felt very very strange, almost backwards as he tried to move. Something was very wrong. As his vision cleared, he caught sight of his own hand.

It was covered in white fur and long claws stuck out where his finger nails should be.

"What the?" he muttered to himself shaking his head as if he were half asleep still and seeing things, then "GRANDPA!". He shouted to get his grandfathers attention. Looking down at himself things were very different from the day before. Any part of his body that showed outside of his nightshirt was covered in white hair, no fur. A layer of fur all over him. His toenails had also changed into claws.

Freaking out quite a bit, he tried to stand again, only to find his knees now bent backwards instead of forwards. The joint in his knee had totally reversed.

"GRANDPA!" he called out again, trying to find his balance.

He grabbed a mirror from the bedside table to see his face.

What he saw utterly shocked him. His ears were gone, replaced with rabbit ears on his head. His hair was longer, but not by much. But his face. His face was radically different.

Again, covered in white fur, his mouth had extended forward like an animals muzzle. Two large saber fangs came out of his mouth all the way down to the bottom of his jaw. He even had whiskers, which he found to be rather sensitive when he brushed them with his... hands? Paws? He wasn't sure.

"Am I a monster?" he asked himself looking at his reflection.

"GRANDPA!" he called again, wondering where the old man had got to.

He left his bedroom to go and find the old man finding walking was very strange and he had to steady himself on the wall to get anywhere at first. But the old man was no where to be found. He wasn't in the main room of the house, nor was he in his bedroom.

In fact, his bedroom was bare. Only a few possessions were left, all the clothes and his spare weapons were gone. It was as if he packed and left.

Starting to panic a bit, Bell returned to the main room of the house. Their little cottage was tiny. A small bathroom, two bedrooms and a living area which was kitchen and dining room combined, with a sofa to relax on, in front of the fire place.

At that moment, Bell noticed what was on the table. A pile of light armor, two daggers, a book and a envelope.

He walked over to the table to find the envelope was addressed to him.

"Bell" was all it said on the front.

The back had been sealed with melted wax and had a symbol stamped onto it.

It was the same symbol that was on the cover of the book. A lightning bolt.

Bell cracked the wax apart and opened the letter.

"Bell

This morning you will have found out what you really are.

You are the last, but one, of the Were-rabbits, which you inherited from your mother. Your race was cruelly wiped out by ignorant others, I could not stand to see the precious life of this world destroyed, which is why I have looked after you all this time. However, now you have matured and must seek your own path.

Go to Orario, become the hero you wish to be. Avenge your parents. The book contains all you need to know about them, the guild records will tell you how they died.

You will find yourself in the rabbit form whenever there is a full moon, day or night matters not. When it is not full moon, you should be able to change at will. Be careful! A Were-Rabbit is powerful, but your race was killed for a reason: Uncontrollable blood-lust. Do not get angry when in rabbit form, lest you harm those you care about.

Orario has many were creatures such as yourself, you will be accepted there, but outside of the city, people are ignorant and may attack you. Avoid villages and towns when in rabbit form.

Find a pretty goddess and join her familia! Build your harem! Avoid Freya, Soma and Apollo.

Once you have avenged your parents, I will seek you out again.

Good luck! Your grandfather, your God. Zeus.

P.s. Your claws are retractable."

"ZEUS!" Bell shouted out loud. "HE WAS ZEUS?!"

Bell felt a bit overwhelmed. Not only had he woken up in a new body this morning, he just found out that the man who had looked after him was a god! A god all this time! A pervert god, but still a god!

Another thought hit him. "My parents!", he tried to grab the book, but his claws got in the way. "Oh yeah." Holding his hand up, he looked at his claws wondering how they worked exactly. He didn't know how to retract them, so he tried imagining it. Surprisingly, that worked. His claws disappeared into his fingers. Wait, that didn't make sense! How would they fit in there? Flexing his fingers with curiosity, he didn't understand. Magic perhaps?

He picked up the book and looked at it. It looked expensive. Bound in black leather, which had been stamped with the title and a symbol. The stamps had been filled in with gold leaf and the edges of the pages had been coated in something looking like gold. With the book closed, the edge of the pages were not white, they were gold.

The title was "The chronicles of the Zeus familia" and the symbol was the same lightning bolt from the wax seal.

He opened and read the contents page. Skipping past the history he found the section he was looking for. "Familia members and members family." Skipping to the page listed, he found another list. This was an index of the Familias members names, with a page number next to them. He skimmed down the entries until he found the two he was looking for.

Vincent Cranel Page 266 Anastasia Cranel Page 268 Cranel Family Page 270

He skipped to the first entry, his father.

There he was! There was a picture of him. He couldn't tell his height from the picture, but what he saw was a slim young man with black hair, the same shaggy style as Bell himself and piercing blue eyes. He was dressed in full plate armor and carried a massive clay-more.

He read the text next to the picture. "Vincent Cranel. Human. Level six vanguard fighter. Age thirty three. Place of birth: Orario. Height: 5'11"

"Wow dad was level six?"

He flipped the page and for the first time in his life, he saw his mother.

Tears ran down his face as he looked at her picture. Bell had never remembered his parents at all, he'd only known his grandfather his entire life.

She was so beautiful. Long snow white hair, just like his but straight all the way down to her hips, the same burning red eyes as his. She was dressed like a mage in an elegant battle dress, holding a staff. Her face reminded Bell of himself, from this moment on, whenever he looked into a mirror, he would see her face.

"Anastasia Cranel. Were-rabbit. Level five Mage. Age twenty eight. Place of birth: Unknown. Height 5'6."

"Wow, mum was a mage!"

Tears still flowing, he turns to the final entry.

"Cranel family. Patriarch: Vincent Cranel. Matriarch: Anastasia Cranel. Children: Persephone Cranel, Female. Age 2, Bell Cranel, Male, Age 3 months."

Bells world dropped away from him. He had a sister? Was she alive? Where was she? Why had grandpa never told him this? Is that what he meant by 'last but one' in the letter? Was she still alive?

"Persephone. I will find you. I must find you." Swearing his life on it, Bell felt rather depressed. He had no idea where she might be, but if anywhere Orario would be the best place to start. Avenge his parents, find his sister, become a hero. Bell was more determined than ever now.

He decided to leave right away. He could read the book as he traveled to Orario, it would take about two weeks to get there so he had plenty of time.

Standing up, he stretched and tried to get used to walking with his knees being backwards. He was a little unsteady at first, it was a very odd sensation to try and walk like this, but he got used to it quickly.

After a moment, he thought about it. His legs compressed down like springs when he crouched. He tried jumping.

That was a mistake, he flew right into the ceiling and hit himself on the head, falling back down face first.

"Ow" he muttered to himself as he got up off of the floor.

Grabbing the light armor on the table, he dressed in the underclothes it came with. Black shirt and leather trousers, simple garb for an adventurer. The light armor consisted of a leather vest with a small breast plate to go over it, shoulder guards and shin guards. Pulling on his boots, he found his claws on his toes made it rather difficult and in fact, he couldn't fit his foot in them anymore, the claws were too big. Although he could retract them, they would be useful with kicks. Grabbing one of the daggers, he removed the toe part of his boots, allowing his feet to fit and his claws to be extended if needed.

Slipping his boots on, he dressed the rest of himself and went to look in the mirror

What an odd site looked back at him. He looked like a giant rabbit dressed in armor. "Well, I guess I AM a giant rabbit dressed in armor." He thought as he looked at himself.

He strapped the two daggers to his waist and started to pack a backpack for the journey.

The only personal item Bell had was a copy of the Dungeon Ortoria, which he put in his backpack along with the 'Chronicles of the Zeus Familia' book his grandfather had left for him. Packing as much food as he could, he filled his water canteen and prepared to leave the house for the final time.

As it was no longer a full moon once he reached Orario, Bell was back in human form again.

Currently Hestia was sitting on his bottom and applying her Falna.

Bells back glowed the moment the blood drop hit his skin and he could feel Hestia making small motions on his back with her fingers.

He can hear her muttering to herself as she goes, but its too incoherent for him to make out what she is saying.

Suddenly she shouts "BELL!"

"Yes?" He responds politely.

"Your not human!" She shouts, freaking out a little.

"Ahh, sorry. Didn't think to mention it." He replies honestly, it had slipped his mind. He hadn't been in Were-rabbit form for over two weeks now. Bell had found that he was in Were-rabbit form for nine days. It began three days before a full moon and continued for the three days after.

"I thought your race was extinct!" She shouts hysterically at him.

"They are, only me and my sister remain. I think."

"You have a sister?" asks Hestia.

"I'm not sure. The book says I have an older sister, but I have never met her. I don't know if she's alive, but the letter Zeus left me implied that she was."

"Wait? What? Zeus? How do you know Zeus?" Hestia screams again.

"He raised me goddess. He left when I first changed into a Were-rabbit saying it was time I walked my own path. I still have the letter and the book he left me if you want to see."

"I do want to see, but lets get your status done first." Hestia replies as she puts a piece of paper onto Bells back to copy his status.

"Bell.. your status is... well, see for yourself."

Hestia got off of Bells back and allowed him to sit up before handing him a sheet of paper.

Name: Bell Cranel Race: Were-Rabbit Age: 14 Level: 1 Strength: I 0 Endurance: I 0 Dexterity: I 0 Agility: I 0 Magic: I 0

Race Abilities:
Were-Rabbit: Can change between human form and Were-Rabbit form at will, unless under the influence of the full moon.
Blood-lust: When in rabbit form, rational thought is reduced. If angered, a berserk state may be entered.
Curse of the Were-Rabbit: The Were-Rabbit cannot be in human form during a full moon. Exposure to the moon is irrelevant.
Magic:
None Skills:
Liaris Freese: Fast growth as long as feelings last. The strength of the effects correspond with the level of the user's feelings. As a side effect it makes the user immune to charms. Current motivation: Heroic Desire, Vengeance.
Development Abilities:
None

Bell looked at the paper in his hands.

"Liaris Freese?" He asked, looking at Hestia.

She just shrugged as if she didn't know what it meant. "Don't ask me, your the one with the skill. Something drives you Bell, more so than other children. It shows as your skill."

Then she smiled at him.

"Show me show me!" she grins.

"Show you what?" Asks our classically ignorant hero.

"Your rabbit form silly!"

Bell sighs and pouts.

"Please!" Hestia begs him. "Pretty please!"

Shaking his head, he gives in to his goddesses demands.

"OK, but... like it says on the sheet, I have blood-lust in that form, so please be careful. I don't want to hurt you by mistake."

Hestia nods with a serious face. "I understand Bell, ill be careful."

Bell sighs again. Then, he closes his eyes and flips the switch in his mind. It had taken him a while when traveling to figure it out and he couldn't even try during the first nine days. But it was the same as retracting his claws. All he had to do is imagine himself in the other form and it just happened.

He felt the change and opened his eyes. He immediately adjusted his legs, which were now rather uncomfortable in the human sitting position on the sofa. So, he sat with his feet up on the sofa instead. Wearing only his trousers, he looked exactly like a sitting rabbit. Nose twitching and whiskers twitching in the air.

Hestia squealed with joy at seeing the giant rabbit. "KAWAII!" she shouted at the top of her voice.

She moved to pet Bell on the head, but he started growling.

"Grrrrrrrr" a low growl rumbled from Bells throat and he looked at Hestia in anger.

Hestia shrank back in fear, pulling her hand away.

"Sorry goddess." Bell said in a much deeper voice. "I'm very irritable when I'm like this, please don't touch me."

"But your so adorably cute!" Hestia called out from behind the pillow she was hiding behind.

Bell flipped the switch and changed himself back.

"Cute perhaps. But very dangerous. I got attacked by bandits several times on the way here. There were no survivors. I didn't mean to kill them, but the full moon was out. The blood-lust of my race is very real. Please be careful around me when I'm like that Goddess. Ill try and stay in the dungeon as much as I can when it's full moon."

Aiz runs. She was chasing a Minotaur that had escaped them and was now on the lower floors. Dreadfully afraid it would be her Familias fault if any low level adventures got killed, she ran as fast as she could chasing the beast that had run away.

She could hear the Minotaur roar up ahead of her. That was bad, it meant that it was attacking someone.

"AWAKEN TEMPEST" she shouted and enveloped herself in her wind to increase her speed.

Chunks of rock flew behind her as she cracked the floor with every footstep, small whirlwinds sucked up the dust and splintered rock as they trailed behind her. Vortex's that had been created by the sheer speed of her as she ran.

She heard the roar again and began to panic. If only she could get there in time.

When she arrived, she stopped. Shocked at the image in front of her.

A giant humanoid rabbit was fighting the Minotaur. It didn't look like a dungeon monster, it certainly wasn't an Almiraj or a needle rabbit and it was also wearing armor and clothes. However, it was a giant humanoid rabbit and it was shredding apart the Minotaur with it's claws. In fact, it wasn't fighting the Minotaur at all. It was more like a cat playing with a mouse it had caught.

She stood there stunned, not quite understand what she saw exactly. Her mind struggled to understand what she was seeing.

The rabbit seemed to get bored with its prey and went for the kill. It feinted around the Minotaur and leapt onto its back.

Grabbing one of it's horns to hold onto the rabbit reached its head down under the Minotaur's chin and ripped it's throat out with two massive fangs she saw in it's mouth. The rabbit howled with joy at the kill and sunk it's fangs into the jugular vein of the Minotaur.

The Minotaur just stood there, trying to scream through it's ripped out throat.

The rabbit, with blood-lust in its eyes gulped down the blood from the throat of it's victim with relish.

Finally the Minotaur died and vanish in a puff of black ash.

The rabbit dropped to the floor and sat on it's.. hind legs? The knees were backwards for sure, Aiz could understand that. Sitting there it howled it's victory again, then it's eyes snapped to Aiz and it stared at her.

Aiz was frozen. Was this a monster? Was it some beast kind in a berserk rage?

She was standing there with her sword drawn, but didn't move. She just watched.

The rabbit started to growl at her.

Aiz frowned and decided to go for the kill, whatever this was, it was very dangerous and couldn't be left in a state of blood-lust like this.

As she went to strike, she heard Bete shout out.

"AIZ! DON'T!"

Bete quickly ran in between the two.

"AIZ. STOP!" he shouted again and turned to block her.

"Bete. What are you doing? It's a monster!"

Bete shook his head. "He's not a monster. He's like me, I can smell it."

"What?" Aiz asks, rather confused.

"Just put your sword away, he should calm down if your not a threat."

Aiz did as she was told and sheathed her sword.

Bell had been growling this whole time, but it was a low slow growl. "Keep back." It said.

Bete nudged Aiz to get her to back away and gave the rabbit some distance.

"You rational enough to talk tomato faced rabbit boy?" He shouted at Bell, once they were about twenty feet away.

Bell stopped growling and nodded.

In a blink of an eye, he shifted back into a human. His ears disappeared in a puff of black smoke.

Aiz blinked. There stood a young man, about fifteen years old. He had white hair, red eyes and was dressed for the dungeon. He was just an adventurer.

"Tomato faced?" He asked, looking confused.

"Your covered in blood." Bete and Aiz spoke at the same time.

Bell looked down at himself. "Ahhh, yeah. Sorry."

Bete gave him a look up and down. "So your a were creature like I am. What are you exactly?"

Bell looked back at Bete, seeing the ears and tail as well as the scent.

"I'm a Were-rabbit." Bell replied. "I guess your a Werewolf then?"

Bete just nods.

"What level are you kid?"

"One" Bell answers

"Hah! Nice work kid, you ain't a weakling are you?"

Aiz is shocked. She's never heard Bete give a compliment before.

Bete slaps his knee and laughs. "Level one and took down a Minotaur! How long you been at this?"

"Two weeks." Bell answers again.

Bete laughs even harder.

"Two weeks? Two weeks? Man, I almost wanna fight you, but I'm level six. It wouldn't be fair."

"What's your name kid?"

"Bell Cranel. Hestia Familia"

"I'm Bete, this is Aiz. Loki Familia" He nods in Aiz's direction.

"What... is a were-rabbit?" Aiz asks.

"He's like me Aiz, but I can only change under the full moon. Were-rabbits could all change whenever they wanted, until they were wiped out." Bete answers for Bell.

"Wiped...out?" The ever quiet Aiz asks slowly.

Bell nods with a grim face. "I don't know much about it, but apparently my race was hunted to extinction due to our blood-lust."

Aiz nods, having just witnessed such blood-lust.

"Well, we gotta get back to our familia Bell. See you around."

Bete turns his back without waving and starts walking away.

Bell is a bit shocked at the sudden change, but accepts it.

"Goodbye Bete. It was nice to meet you Aiz." He smiles at Aiz.

She blush's a little, then simply says "Yes." before turning and walking away.

As they get out of Bells hearing range, Aiz asks Bete a question.

"Bete... Did you just make a friend?"

Bete just laughs.

That evening at the Hostess of Fertility, Bell is there for the first time. This morning was the day he met Syr and she manipulated him into coming that evening.

He didn't mind though. Syr was pretty and nice to talk to, the food was good and he had earned a lot of money from killing the Minotaur that day, although he hadn't shared that story with Syr. He was trying to keep a low profile as it was for now. He knew that in about a weeks time he'd be stuck in the Were-rabbit body for nine days, so he was trying as much as he could to be normal for a while.

His heart had sunk a little when Loki familia walked in. The moment he saw Aiz and Bete step through the door, he ducked down to make sure they couldn't see him.

Syr noticed this odd behavior, but decided to leave him alone. Something seemed up, Bell didn't want Loki familia to know he was there for some reason and she didn't want to make trouble for him.

After about half an hour, Bete had gotten rather drunk.

"Aiz!" He called out. "Tell em about the tomato rabbit we met today!"

"Tomato rabbit?" She asked, confused.

"Yeah, that guy we met today, the Were-Rabbit. Bell Cranel!"

Syr looks at Bell sharply and sees he's trying to hide even more, pulling his collar up to hide his face.

Aiz just nods. "Scary." she said.

Bete slaps his knee and laughs.

"Ah ha ha ha, he growled at you!"

Finn looked up at this. Aiz found something scary?

"Tell us about this guy Bete, sounds interesting."

"Well, we met a genuine Were-rabbit today. I thought they were all extinct! Only level one! Been in the dungeon two weeks and the guy brutally murdered a Minotaur right in front of us! He ripped it to pieces! Scary thing too, he can change at will like all Were-rabbits could! He actually was a giant killer rabbit! Never seen anything like it!"

Bell risk a peek at Syr to see how she's reacting to this. She's looking at him in slight horror. He cringes down into his coat even more, utterly mortified.

Bete tells the story with great enthusiasm. The familia are shocked they have never seen him be impressed with anyone ever.

"That kids gonna go far I tell ya!"

Bete stops to drink, but as he draws the glass up to his face he pauses.

"I smell him." he mutters.

"Bell your in here! I'm sure of it!" He shouts out and start's looking around.

"Shit." Bell mutters to himself. Swearing for the first time in his life.

Sighing he stands up.

"Good evening Bete." He says and starts walking over to the Loki Familias table.

"Hey! Come join us!" shouts Bete, shocking the familia once again, who all glance at him in surprise.

"Good evening Aiz." He nods at the girl, who nods back.

"Good evening Loki familia. I'm Bell Cranel, Hestia familia."

Finn stands up and offer's his hand to Bell. "Hello Bell, I'm Finn Deimne, captain of Loki familia. I must say, you seem to have impressed Bete, which is something Ive never seen before. I'm very curious to know about you."

Bell shakes his hand, then gives a deep bow.

"I'm honored to shake the hand of the captain of Loki familia."

Finn laughs, then Bell is suddenly hugged from behind.

"Ahh" he jumps as Loki tries to grope his rear end.

"And that's Loki herself..." Finn says with a sigh.

"A..P p pleasure to meet you Lady Loki" Bell says totally embarrassed.

"Hmmm manners too. I like you kid, sit down with us for a bit, have a drink on me."

"Thanks.." Bell stutters out, then takes the only spare seat, between Aiz and Bete.

Bete slaps him on the back as he sits down.

"Good to see you again kid. Show em all your trick!"

"EH!" Bell gasps in shock.

"You want me to change, here? Right now?"

"Yeah, you'll be fine." Bete encourages him.

"But... it's dangerous." Bell has a worried look on his face.

Bete gets a serious expression for a moment, he puts his hand on Bells shoulder. "No kid. Your good. You know friend from foe, even under blood-lust. That's why you just growled at Aiz to warn her. If you were not in control, you would have attacked her. It's that simple. Finn and the Amazons will tell you the same."

Tiona, Tione and Finn all nod. They all have the berserk trait, they know what Bell is afraid of.

Finn speaks up. "Go ahead Bell. We'd all like to see it. And we know what going berserk is like, so we will be careful not to set you off."

Bell nods, although he's still reluctant.

Syr and Ryu have both moved to get a good look at this. Everyone in the bar is quiet and watching making Bell even more nervous.

He closes his eyes for a moment, then changes.

A collective gasp comes from the room as Bell becomes a humanoid rabbit, ears fur and everything.

Bell opens his eyes and the new perspective of the Were-rabbit kicks in. In his mind, he's surrounded by hostile that are staring at him. Staring is a threat, it means he's being hunted.

He starts growling, quite loudly while glancing around at everyone.

"Stop staring all of you and he will calm down!" Bete shouts causing Bells head to snap in his direction and growl even louder at Bete.

Bell hugs his knees and tries to keep the blood-lust under control.

Everyone looks away and he feels the pressure being taken off. He starts to calm and his growl quiets down.

He tries to look at the floor, as he would as a human, but his instincts are too sharp and won't let him, he keeps an eye for threats.

Aiz is fascinated by him.

Syr almost fainted at the change, so shocking it was.

"Sorry everyone." Bell says in the much deeper voice. "I'm rather... primal...when I'm like this."

He closes his eyes and changes back.

"I'm stuck like this for nine days each month, so I guess it's best you all see it now."

"I suppose that's the price you pay for being able to change at will." Bete comments.

Bell just nods. "I don't really know much about it, or my race at all. I only found out about a two months ago."

They spend the rest of the evening chatting away. No one knows anything else about Bells race, so the topic of the dungeon comes up instead and stories are told.

As Bell leaves, he goes to pay his bill to Syr.

She walks over to him with a smile as he stands at the bar and waves.

"Ummm... I hope your not afraid of me Syr..." Bell asks nervously.

She gives him a smile and shakes her head. "No Bell I'm not. I'm just rather surprised. Your far more interesting than I expected."

She smiles at him again.

Bell bids her goodnight and walks home. Oh well, his secrets out, but it would have been soon anyway.