FTP: I'm warning there will be numerous OC's some aren't important, others are crucial. I was just thinking what if there are different classes of goddesses and there is a lowest slave class. Then this story came to mind. So let's see where it'll take us shall we?
Skuld: WHY ME?
Enter the Wolf and Revolutionary
"Red, I feel my soul on fire, black, my world if she's not there," her lips moved on their own the black haired teen tinkered with a new order Yggdrasil had asked her to work on,the thought of why something like this that had been buzzing in her head for a while now kept her tense, "Red, the colour of desire, black, the colour of, despair?"*
"OHHHHH," the teasing tone in the older woman's voice hinted Skuld was not going to be allowed this moment alone, and her work would remain unfinished. She sighed at the thought, Skuld was so used to Urd by now she wasn't even surprised when she magically appeared out of thin air to burst her inner reveries. The goddess of the future was shocked to find herself singing something like that, it almost felt ill foreboding.
"Urd, what do you want?" she mumbled pushing the floating white haired goddess with the palm of her hand pressed to her face.
"Oh I never heard you singing so passionately before," Urd cooed pinching her sisters cheeks who merely swatted away her hand, this caused the older sibling to raise a brow, Skuld this calm was unheard of.
"Have you and Sentaro finally kissed or something," the final blow was delivered to obtain a crimson shade of embarrassment on water goddess' cheeks, this made Urd nudge her in the ribs as she grinned broadly expecting juicy gossip, "Come on you can tell big sister,"
"The words just sprang to me, I guess I liked the song more than I thought," she replied rotating apart Urd could only call a strange and triangular piece of metal stuff.
"Perhaps there's a meaning to your song, goddesses do not randomly sing songs," Belldandys wise words echoed the bad feeling Skuld felt rising from the pit in her stomach. She clenched her fist dropping her work and looked at her sisters with a soft and rather forced smile she was walked out of the room murmuring something about meeting Sentaro.
A giggle ensued, but as she turned to check if it had been Urd or Belldandy, knowing fully well it was, the woman drowned in black smiled down at her like her old friend used to. Skuld could see Belldandy agitated stance and Urd shouting obscenities but her attention was fully focused on the intruder.
"Mel-ody?" she spoke breaking the
"W-w-what are you doing here?" the strangled words left Skulds mouth in a soft whisper.
Clad in unfamiliar red jeans, with a matching vest and a black shirt the girl in front of Skuld was like a complete stranger to the goddess. Keichi sighed figuring some other goddess problem was about to hit the morisato household head on. It was strange to see a pretty woman in such normal attire thinking she was a goddess, stranger even is how the marking on her face were only on her cheeks and of a purplish colour, was it an example of fashion in the heavenly planes? Yet he didn't expect what would happen next.
"I just came to see ya old friend, you've kinda grown as well, ish…" the girl chortled.
"Hahaha want me to explode you?" Skuld responded snickering with the girl.
The girl grinned waving to the sisters and gave even Keichi a small nod, who thought the polite goddess should give a few tips to her fellow heavenly creatures. She passed a hand over her oak black hair and exhaled noisily looking at Skuld happily.
"You should have told us it was your friend Skuld, scared the shit out of me!" Urd growled pushing her sister's head down
"Skuld?" her sisters asked as the girl kept looking warily at the brunette.
"Melody, answer me, what are you doing here?" her eyes trailed after the girl as she entered Skulds room picking up the object she had just been tinkering with, "Goddesses of your level are not allowed to come out of purgatory!"
"The forbidden region?! Skuld what is going on?" Belldandy questioned.
"Just wanted this!" Melody sang lifting the object that seemed to be one of Skuld's usual bombs. She ignored the rest and focused her attention on Skuld.
"That thing is junk, it won't work and why would you need something Yg-" Skuld's eyes widened and she gritted her teeth seething.
"You figured it out, we hacked Yggdrasil to ask this of you, although its unfinished, no limitor huh?" the girl smiled.
"Come with me, help us kill the goddesses!" the girls obsidian eyes closed in an innocent smile that caused the present to pale.
"I thought so, there are other ways Melody!" Skuld pleaded but the girl shook her head and gave a sad and tired smile. An exhausted and revengeful light sprang from her eyes as she spat.
"They don't deserve it Skuld, they all ignored your letters , our pleas, you're the only one who has ever looked at us class zero as more than trash!" the angry look soon faded from the girls features which turned to an ugly smirk.
"Are you mad child!" Urd growled regaining her senses after listening to the teen who could be no older than seventeen in human years.
"it is folly, the Valkyrie would destroy you," Belldandy warned.
"heh," the girl snorted walked back to the goddess of the future looking disdainfully at Skulds sisters, "Their attacks would be a warm summer breeze compared to what you shitheads made us feel,"
With her hand on Skulds neck Melody pushed their foreheads together, "You know what it means being shunned because they think you have no skill, how many times did you lie to your sisters about your bruises when you were just bullied by your upperclassman?"
Urd and Belldandy mouths formed an 'o' as they saw their sister twitch at the comment.
"That's how I met you and Skuld, Melody," a growl resounded as the pair was pushed away from each other.
"Another…wha?! T-tail?" Keichi exclaimed at the sight of the silver haired girl who was the same age as Skuld. Standing at a height intermediate to Skulds and Melody, being just ahead taller than Skuld, the girl had a snowy white and fluffy looking tail jutting out from the base of her back. A hole had been made in her black jeans to allow the appendage freedom. Various chains adorned the girl's clothing including her short jacket of a navy blue colour. Her waist was exposed and Keichi thought she must be part of the Valkyrie unit looking so ferocious and with clothes so light that seemed to allow mostly movement.
"A herding goddess?!" Urd gasped.
Keichi raised a brow and Belldandy immediately informed him, "it is a goddess responsible for the protection of the souls of the dead at least until they arrive to their destination"
"Destination?' Keichi murmured.
"Secret," Urd winked before anyone else could speak, 'they usually follow a goddess they deem fit to be their partner, got various other jobs like aiding that goddess, there's even a rite involved,"
"Pretty much considered pets much like the class zero slave class," Melody provided.
"They are associated with animals, many are half cat or half dog, half mammals of the sort, very strong physically, heightened senses, quite adequate for their jobs due to the high demon rate of attack on defenseless dead souls," Urd finised while the wolf girls snowy white ears twitched downwards a couple of time yet she remained silent.
"They're also known as grim reapers human boy-san," Melody provided, "Although you've also always been special right Amaterasu? The only wolf grim reaper,"
A flick of the tail was the only response.
"You already chose to aid the goddesses Su-chan, let Skuld de-," the angry look in Skulds eyes was not what the girl had expected.
"I stand with Su, this war is folly and useless bloodshed!" Skuld voice brimmed with determination and warning, her eyes lit up in a way that the sisters had never seen them, as if commanding and stern. This was the goddess of the future speaking and the aura emanating from the girl made everyone minus the wolf girl step back.
Melody shook her head and in one never-ending second before Skuld could formulate the words to stop her Melody activated the machine, "I guess it's useless then, bye bye Skuld-chan,"
A flash of white light blinded the group and before anyone could register anything the girls were gone, a gaping hole was fumin in Keichi's house once again. Skuld and the goddess Amaterasu were gone while Melody seemed to be pushed back leaving a marked line were the girls feets had tried to anchor to the floor. The girl had seem to have undergone a transformation.
"That stupid child! Did she build an aging machine," Urd slapped her own face in disbelief while Belldandy called for their younger sister.
"Nope, its rather a time machine although the Yggdrasil will probably only allow us to know our future sparingly, hmmm attacks and spells but I don't know what will happen tomorrow, I see," the re-aged Melody grinned, her face had lost any sign of youthful roundness replaced by a wicked sort of beauty. There wasn't much difference since Melody had already been on the verge of adulthood, she was now a few cms taller and a tad more voluptuous.
"Red the blood of angry men, black the dark of ages past, red a world about to dawn, black the night at endless dawn!" she sang before disappearing into thin air.*1
*; she's singing marius's part of red and black from les miserable
*1; she's singing Enjorlas part of the les miserable 'red and black'
Symbolism here is pretty much that Skuld has hope and believes in love and bonds but her friend might be losing that hope and believes in a war that she considers much needed. The why of this war will be explained in chapter 1. Although I've given some hints.