Ah My Tsunami Muyo!

by Gaian Knight

The story of a mortal, and a goddess. Sound familiar? Try again. New stories in the pipeline, within the year.

1. The Mirror is also Water

Legal Tiff

I truly thank the efforts of AIC / Pioneer Entertainment for the grandiose environment and palate for a lover of this particular anime, Tenchi Muyo... This story combines characters from each of the Tenchi Muyo continuums, anime and manga alike, along with many original characters, set in an Oh My Goddess, version of a alternate universe, set thousands of years, into a bright future, of humanity. This 'is' a story, centered around an original character, and a series character. Your choice to keep reading, from here. However, if so done, do enjoy a story, from a warped imagination, of moi, regarding the best of all hope, for a future. And a fun story, woven from there.

I hope that this work meets with approval of fans everywhere, and as well as to the spirit that the human imagination can lead to... with a chosen palate.

Now, yet again...

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Ah! My Tsunami Muyo

Part One - The Mirror is also Water.

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-Where time, and a heart, stops.-

"Holy... heaven..."

His eyes are transfixed, with a pulse rate that threatens to stop stone dead cold. What he sees before him only adds to a sense of pure fantasy, along with a major flush of panic!

"Are you Aleaic?"

"...um... uh... um... mm... eh... I... ah..."

The form before him, floating like air was ground, all its own, simply a vision, simply. She only giggles.

...

-About an hour before-

"Ho hum." ...with a wipe of his dirty blond hair, and a sigh. "Man this sucks."

A nondescript mortal of the Sphere quips, saying this for the seventh time this evening, all the while still managing his studies for his chapter test in computer graphical computational algorithms. All in all, a boring as ever night, along with the fact that being stuck basically babysitting the Okayama dorm of Tekomi's Academy of Technology. This all truly despite, that even though the dormitory guard droid system does most of the work anyway, this particular mortal, still sits here, with said duty, anyway. Again.

The thinly veiled reason: Being a lower classmen, even two years into his studies, really compacts so much recycled waste matter, thus Aleaic Saloam Kerensky also considers for himself, yet again. At least the Sempai has been more than understanding with Aleaic's dedication with studying.

"Skinflint." He quips, his eyes blurred over his holotop unit. Of course she does, which is why this poor Sphere citizen (socially, nary monetarily,) has been stuck guarding this stupid, smelly, laundry bot malfunctioning, ozone infused, (yet suprisingly leak proof dorm, the last noted since it's pouring outside,) for only the past year!

"I think I get the boot program right about now." ...said lonely dope quips, before tapping a save key, on his holotop. A fit of boredom, causes him to plop to his back, on the stiff dorm floor, his legs folded under the rather beaten up, Kotsu table, one that the Dorm types he's shacked up with, haven't wrecked yet. This as he make a pointless review of his immediate situation, up as far.

Summary, sorta: A simple male Human Sphere soul, with dirty-blond hair down to his shoulders, nothing remarkable about him, right down to his poly-streen cotton-silk hybrid cloth, that seemed only more remarkable, for its ability to adjust to the current wearer's body temperature, and perspiration. Otherwise, despite being the byproduct of a particularly healthy society, of the stars, medical advancements out the shuttle load, medical, technological, or otherwise, his biology isn't all that remarkable either. All of luck it seems, more bad, too many times, than good, that his belly alone, hasn't atrophied. Or at least done something more involuntary, no thanks to too much take out. He even thinks... "That rehydrated pizza... ugh..."

He would have gone on like this, in his bored mind, but almost as if on cue, his stomach growls. "Gimme a retro-break... Why in the name of Kami, does one start being hungry when one doesn't move!" Such his tummy bellows at him again, and a mortal gives in to his inevitable hunger pangs. Trying to fight this, has netted him sheer heartburn, for it, in the past. (Course that was a day of a quiz on holo-memory-chips, a combo situation that would defeat even the best of antacid-aspirins.) 'But the cellular service is still quite efficient.'... thus one Aleaic decides to himself as he stands to head to the impromptu kitchen area. If one can call a microwave-rehydrator, a number of sorta clean meal prep units, and a hand heater-microbe-sanitizer, a kitchen. Maybe it's the half-full stasis-fridge, and the CPU (Cellular Phone Unit,) the latter he heads to. A hungry mortal then slides the holo-pad unit up, to his hand, looking at the standard holo-display of blue, green and white, usually only used for an act, that Alexander Graham Bell would recognize, some fifteen hundred, and forty-one years later. (Even the number display, hasn't changed much, in centuries. When something isn't broken...)

"Hmm... McyD, or pizza reconstituted out take." Al quips, taking a look at the usual Dataflap on the wall, near the CPU , as he scrolls the appropriate area cellular zone numbers, and compiles it into a set of savable memory grams, on the hololist, he creates, something Al usually forgets to use. Finally, out of plain hunger for such... "Burgers, that'll work! Just hope the dopes don't add the onions, this bloody time." Aleaic thinks out loud, as he starts to hit holo-numbers. Just as he does this, a lightning bolt strikes somewhere nearby, rather close by! This causes him, in his surprised state, to punch numbers he didn't even realize, a bit more randomly than he should realize, not to mention a bit too many at that, (which he doesn't realize either.)

"Jeeze! That one was close! Better check the Uninterruptable Power-Supply later before... oh... okay, ah!" ...he's interrupted by, as he receives an appropriate signal, an ordering automated jingle of some weird kind begins playing on the CPU, upon his ear.

"Huh? Did the joint change their waiting music? Weird, strange harp that... eh? Okay, I... I ah..."

": Hello, this is the Dimensional Relief Assistance Office, we're glad you called! We are sending you a Representative to meet you as soon as possible, in accordance to your desire. :"

A mortal blinks his hazel eyes. "Eh? What the...? H.. Hello? Is this the burger jo..."

A rather melodious tone, on the other end, making Al blush reflexively, then chimes back, over the call tone... ": We're sorry, but the primary method of transport is currently in use. Please wait until our Representative can reach you to assist, but be assured, you will be in contact soon! :"

"Excuse me, who did I just. I... wait..." ...a said mortal barely has time to mutter, before... ": = Caller Goddess Automated Bioroid #4517-OP/S = ... -click.- :"

For a good moment, Aleaic just stands there, dumbfounded, before he manages, "...uhhhhh... okay, what did I just do?" This as he finally realizes to look over at the displayed numbers he punched, in mindless reason! Not that the Cilimatized lightning strike, helped... or... anywho... "Huh... okay, must have punched a international code. CRUD, Sempai will freak if she gets the bill for THIS one!" ...he yanks at his shaggy mane, his hair like a blond, having has his hair, put through a quick flame thrower, or something, leaving his hair 'burnt' looking, into some kind of forever, that Sphere medical science, would likely enforce upon him. However a quick sly smile, plies across his mouth. "Hmm... -evil chuckle- ...hacking task to do list!" He says, smiling with a further evil grin. This all because Hacking into the Global Cellphone Server-Database, is a fun challenge anytime! Something the Dojo apparently, quite actually, appreciates him for. The same of even a few instructors... (...in private that is.)

He shrugs it all off, and then finally on a second, proper attempt, gets the appropriate burger joint. He orders the triple-cheese-decker to go, with basil fires and a apple-cherry cola. He just hopes the onions are off this time, which he implies heavily, at least three times to an annoyed sounding proprietor. And after a usual terse set of Dojo mate greetings, and whatnot, and one soaked delivery cy-bot unit later, two tries with his credit-unit chit-card to get the reader to work right, he ends back where his epic quest started. And to a quick realizing... "DAMMIT!" ..as they aren't as a result. He just snarls comically... "I am going to kill those 20-28086's for brains!"

Twenty as yet hungry minutes later, after flicking the onions into the recycler... (again of again..) and downing the entire meal with gusto, with a quick cleaning after, he is about to return to studying, when... -SLAM!- "YO! Little SOPHY!"

Aleaic, after feeling his heart again, only slightly turns to see his Sempai sidelong. A one brusque, blond female in a leather-jeans getup, more the kind for gym workouts, and one that could pass as a Extreme Powerhouse Wrestler, as even a male that is. She barges in with a pair of similar clad (bona fide) males, all dripping wet. All dripping mad as well! "Who the hell said you could mess with the Climatizers?" The said Sempai screams, as water runs down her drowned, messed up tresses. Aleaic just sighs and then turns around to face this different type of storm. One all too familiar to him, as of late. "Ah... oh... yeah, so you didn't like your shower then Tasha?" Aleaic says with a light tone, thickly laden with annoyance.

"Don't get cute Sophy! You killed off all of the wrestling matches, we had planned!" This Tasha hollers with more volume.

"Yeah dude!" Bellowing, one of the black haired flunkies. "Tasha here had a guy in a great headlock pin, when your damn stunt, made her slip! You genetic dope!"

Aleaic only hits the 'save key' for his homework, again, and stands defensively, in posture. "Pardon 'moi', but what makes you think I had something to do with all of that?" ...done with a flinging hand towards the window-hatch, now covered with a hazy, post-rain effect.

This is quickly countered, when a memory chip is then 'shoved' in his face as a response! This Tasha just quips, with all disdain included... "Even a Freshy could hack the signature code, of a hacker around here! That, and the code for a star sparkle, with a comet coming out of it, GIVES US A DAMMED CLUE!"

Aleaic winces, as he knows he's busted, not that he's very sorry for this. Not one bit. "Yeah, so it is my signature. So what." Aleaic finally admits, just before he adds his defense. One done with a growing tone of cracking anger... "But, well... you know..." ...Al then flings his arms wildly out! "..that's what you get for sticking me in here, all the blasted time!" Aleaic then plops back down in his study cushion, beside the table, before continuing. "Don't you think I get sick of sitting in this room almost every night? HUH? Don't you think I get sick of being in here, all the time, when not in classes? The security cy-bot unit, seems to get more respect, than I do! What about my feelings huh?"

"What about it?" Tasha says, wringing her mangled hair out. Her flunkies just looking at him, with everlasting disdain. Hardly a comical moment, as... "I see... you don't care. Peachy." Aleaic says with exasperation, dryly laden at that. Tasha then begins 'her' response. "Well Sophy, you aren't exactly the most sociable person on campus. Heck! You should be grateful your social embarrassments aren't out on full display, for everyone to make fun of every night!" Aleaic winces quite visibly. "HECK! More.." ...continues Tasha... "...you can't even land a girlfriend! What a joke, after two years! But that's what you get for being a foreigner, not a real surprise I guess. You'd think the human race would have gotten rid of genetic de-evolutions such as you by now." Tasha then leans closer for effect, on a shuddering Sophy... "So, you'd better remember who's giving you the place to stay Sophy, or you'd be the one in that unauthorized storm out there! Ungrateful, really..." Tasha stops, then turns, and walks over to a mirror on a wall opposite from the hatchway. She then asks while, continuing to fuss with her hair, as her flunkies simply thump onto the floor, giving Al the evil eye. "Oh yeah, any calls Sophy?"

Aleaic, after 'months' of similar, and sometimes worse, verbal abuse, finally snaps! He reaches over, and SLAMS the note-comp case down, causing the other three to jump! The next anger driven spiel comes out as, to the shock of the three listening... "I. Have HAD it with you! Sempai is an age-old honorable term, one you crush my face into, every time you see me! I never even get a real thank you, or anything such, for what I do for you!" Aleaic then reaches over, and grabs his own CPU, off of next to the holotop, and stomps over to the slide-hatch, smacking it open hard! "Just... just.. just GET someone else to be your bootlicker from now on! I'm meteor!"

He then looks back, at three rather surprised, gawking faces, that didn't expect such a reaction, from their dorm mate, as he adds... "Oh, and I accidentally made an international call. Enjoy the bill!" ...smacking the door shut, leaving three surprised dorm mates in Al's wake. Gape jawed at that. However a moment later, Tasha just makes a good chuckle... "Bout time I got him mad. Might make him more fun. Heh..." ...this the flunkies just blink twice at, before Tasha adds, smoothing her soppy blond hair... "He'll be back."

...

After a tirade filled rant heading down two floors, bypassing few faces, (the few that did, steered well clear,) Aleaic finally bursts through the dorm doors, unto outside, and heads down a side alley to avoid anyone else! A good while later, the (somewhat) agitated, colorfully laced, mortal language, drifts over to the campus overlook, unto where an excellent view of the Sea of Japan, is.

The sun long having since set, fading dusk of view however, is glinted by the silver hulls of the two Terran Union space stations, still being glazed by sunlight, high above. Along with, the constantly viewable Terran Orbital Ring, could be seen, partially agleam of sunlight, down nearer the area of the sunset, off the horizon, up to about a good third of the way up, before 'night' joined the terrestrial version. The rest of its titanic stretch running high overhead, unto the afar rear, a string of running lights, and multi-colored more, caressing the entire length. The sight of easily visible, past patchy clouds that are clearing quickly, of shuttles, planetary traffic of an advanced civilization Some rising from Earth, along blazing contrails, that taper off, others, gleaming of reentry processes. Larger gleaming objects, denote Sphere Military warships, and commerce vessels, the former the obvious on constant vigil, the latter, waiting for loaded cargoes, to head for destinations, throughout the Human Sphere. This sight by one mortal alone, reminds of the earned measure, of humanity's place, amongst the stars.

A view that also helps calm down this mortal, in an age he felt lost in. This as he wanders on lonely whim, memories that come, unbidden once more, as he heads towards the sound of an ocean. Towards footsteps of memory.

...

A truly celestial figure, heads for the Program Gateway, that will lead her, to her next assignment.

One she's been waiting for, for a long, long time.

She just reaches the Program Gateway, an attendant goddess of brown hair, just looks up, from her harp console station, and nods. "The disruption to the target gateway zone, on the mortal plane, has been cleared up."

The teal tressed lass of beauty, nods, and then comments out, vocally. "I am ready to depart, Head Administrator."

A 'disembodied' voice, of a female format, as shimmering in tone, as the two prior, just remarks back. "- Good luck Alpha Class. All recording program enchantments, will activate, upon your departure. -"

The apparent Alpha, just sighs, then 'nods' verification back. This prior, to suddenly... "Big Sister!" ...of a younger sounding voice, of the Alpha, that causes the called for, turn back to acknowledge. "Yes Beta goddess?" ...this in turn, her own professional tone, causing the younger 'version', of apparent family, to balk back. "Sister! You 'are' going to come, right back? Right?"

The first goddess, just sighs, looking at her sister, the same hair pigment, adorning them both. Such done with effect, of no question. The same of the query, that the first remarks back. "~ I have no reason to presume, that my mission will turn out, unlike any other. ~" ...this as she looks up, from her ravishing little sister, up past the opulent, open aired pavilion, (of size,) to the pearlescent glory, that is Jurai Core. Heaven over the Terran Earth, and so much more, beyond. As such, everything glows, perfectly. Here every day, and on ever as such, ever since time began. As far as the current slate of goddesses goes, anyway. Such that the Alpha just nods, remarking... "Yes, and when I come back, we can go to the Goddess Mall, with Brother."

"Or just us two." ...the Beta quips dryly. The Alpha just shakes her head, more than she intended. The Beta however then remarks... "I'm worried, because I know about that debt."

The Alpha blinks at the sibling Beta, and is about to ask, when the Gate operator, then remarks. "Alpha Tsunami, the Relief Office informs, that the mortal Client, is in position. The confirmation call, is being sent."

Tsunami, as mentioned, looks back to nod, before she returns gaze, to a slightly whimpering looking Beta goddess. The Alpha goddess then leans over, and caresses her sister's face. "I'll be right back Sasami. I promise. Alpha goddesses of the System, cannot lie, after all."

Despite this, really despite this, Sasami just stares back with pink eyes, ones that also 'equals' her sisters. This in turn, Sasami 'sees' something, and then quips back. "Why don't I believe you."

That one, made the operator goddess nearby, jerk her celestial melon up at!

...

Life certainly hasn't been easy, as 3417 hasn't been a peachy year for young Aleaic. This as his latest episode, seeming part of a personally believed curse, one that leaves another indelible mark. Such as a mortal continues his lonely waltz, upon unwanted memory lane.

Aleaic, the youngest of six children of Terrai and Jeain Kerensky, with Hikara, Caladeni, Alusair, Luriena, and Keturia, all elder sisters of his, each already has faced obstacle after harsh obstacle, mainly to keep up with the believed, (and self imposed actually at that,) expectations of a Terran Ambassador and a Family always seemingly doing great things. A brother under this, moreso, as part of a Family line, with such history behind it. The name Kerensky itself even, wasn't of the vein of Russian ethnicity, just simply a name that had lasted well since the ancient terran days of war, of a War named: World War II. A history there alone, of days of humanity's immaturity, verses the vein of these supposedly 'enlightened' days. Such that a Family name attested, that this one male mortal, wasn't living up to. (Such this mortal was more than certain, at present of.)

A long childhood-teenagehood summarized to current tales of memory, a part of his earlier tirade, comprises unto the work he did in Pre-College in Coral Springs, Florida, in the American Union territories. All done with plenty of impressive demonstrations at Comp-fairs, in his four years of pre-college days, got him noticed by several very prestigious high-tech campuses. But despite even the prestigious American Union MIT a calling, amongst another calling, Aleaic thought an expansion of horizons was needed (wanted,) of details of the exotic, was wanted more. This all of course prior a Father and Ambassador of the Human Sphere, imposed upon a son, more 'important' veins of Family importance. Certainly not one to hate his family. More, he loved them all dearly. Aleaic however was more of a 'rebellious' vein, that the lack of experience, attested to his proceeding course of action. As such, after much private searching (a tricky deal there alone, what with several nosy sisters to keep off his back,), he settled upon a simple looking technical academy called: Tekomi Academy. A place where he thought his technical and 'exotic' tastes could be quenched and quelled. (That and the rumors of mecha being openly used, wasn't a bad attractant either. More on that later.) Beyond this however, he had no real plan, other than to study, and hope he just had a fun time of life, for four years. Two years into such however, as this previous evening, 'attested'...

The road, as mentioned early on here, hasn't been easy in the overall adjoining. This is mainly since first and foremost, centuries of the great 'global community', hadn't alleviated all the natural restrictive tendencies of this particular culture. Didn't help when his translation unit malfunctioned, on day one, of his arrival, in the Nipponese Territories, causing his escort driver, to get them both lost, due to a rare chance problem, of language snafus. (Not all Terran souls, apparently liked using Standard Sphere English, the 'language' of the Human Sphere.) On top of this, Being called a Gaijin by his Sempai on the very first day, basically told Aleaic of his place on campus, all but outright! A lot of less than appealing stories, chain together from there, as he'd been essentially basically relegated to bottom of the social food chain. The mixed social signals, from being a part of a Family, he was trying to distance himself from, overall, didn't help matters. This all also truly despite having proven his technical ability, along with having more than demonstrated mecha piloting proficiency, even so far as to attaining Gamma Class piloting status, only two steps below official military rating classifications. Apparently social effects were more important, than proven ability, from his point of view, so exposed. It made his viewpoint, become introverted. Attempts to break out of this mold, weren't helped by his Dorm mates, and a Sempai that kept treating Aleaic, 'as' social fodder. A less than enjoyable atmosphere, all around. This unbeknownst, as Tasha was more than aware of Aleaic's status, but rather than pamper that, she kept challenging him, trying to bring out 'more' in this Gaijin, without realizing what she was doing to him. Less social incarceration there, to her point of view, rather trying to understand the situation. A sense of 'embarrassment' as a result, led to the current situation, that led to this point.

Not that Aleaic ever had much use for the social landscape, the Sempai system basically seemed to apparently benefit those with power, to basically bully the lower classmen, as he'd seen, too many times, across the campus. (An old human trait/habit. Even after thousands of years of 'evolution'. Sorta.) But it also didn't help none whit, of Aleaic also basically more or less, being shunned by the general campus populace, (though to a lesser extent of the foreigner classmates,) as such the result has made life more than difficult for this foreign exchange student, leaving only his studies to prevent a total meltdown of hacking proportions! At least there he excelled, as much as his mindset allowed him of 'luxury'.

At the very least, the instructors appreciate good students, though to a point, even there, as far as the above social shunning appends. The only time he got huffy, at any of the teachers, was when one haughty teacher, political minded, gave Aleaic an 2.7 grade, at the end of one trimester. That Aleaic made sure, was corrected, with triple checked, double backed up holo-chip recordings, of all of his work, and test results, shown before the campus Headmaster. No teacher dared make the same mistake, after this. Tasha, for one, thought it was the 'break through' point, that her demanding ways, sought for. The social chain ranking, didn't change much, despite. Aleaic himself, was still too introverted, on his own, reasons never fully understood.

But it could have been easier, without question. Yet despite all, being the son of a respected Terran Human Sphere Ambassador has certain advantages. Ones primarily unused at this point. Aleaic was told from the start, for one thing, that he'd be allowed to hold an off campus residence if he wanted to, said of one not used since Aleaic didn't relish complete and total isolation. Having his own Skiff hover unit, wouldn't have been his problem, transportation wise. Instead, isolation, and being labeled a 'rich preppy', didn't particularly suit him either. Hearing such of rumors, in the dorm, confirmed this, for Aleaic. As such, he didn't use as much of that as possible, wanting to make his own way, as it all were, (almost to a true fault even,) and not have things 'too' easy for him. (A dichotomy he let make life harder for him, than it should have up to this point. Sphere Humans and their pride driven egos.)

But now, after what he'd been saddled with this night, exile didn't all seem so bad, in spite of everything. Aleaic did respect his Sempai (relatively,) as somehow, it all was not like he'd been forced to become a total Cinderfella of a sort for the Dojo. There 'were', somehow, good times, his last birthday, an example, mostly burned out of memory, due to Sake. It's just all the rest of the nights, (and days,) of being basically caged by mild discrimination, over protective segregation, and all such covered over with a thin (if suffocating,) film of rules and expectations of the Dojo, and a campus beyond, that all caused him to get a sense of revenge this evening. Aleaic therefore had hacked into the local section of the Global Climatizer Network: The global system that controlled the weather and climate patterns, of a particular region under a particular Systems control, which dealt with the needs of Geo-agriculture and population demands, as well as to equalize the distribution of water, upon a still rather crowded world. (Still about four billion plus core Terran souls, overall, even with influencing colonization practices, towards new Sphere colony worlds and all.) The Climatizer system was also an automated one, with this particular local Climatizer section located on campus for the Weather Department of the campus. It usually meant studies in global cilimatized patterns, could be studied, under detail, verses ones of colony worlds, that were still under natural processes. Was useful, to prepare colony worlds, for preparation, for Climatization preparation, via prefab units of Climatizer Networks. However in this case, it was a weapon of a social dillweed. This as of demonstrated case, when Aleaic hacked into the local weather Climatizer, and set it for a good ten minute downpour, such it all was for after being told for the thirty-seventh night in a row, to watch the dorm. This all was basically a useless/pointless/etc... envoy, such especially when the campus security cy-droid system, along with the campus sensor system, was nearly impenetrable in the first place! (Noted, by case example, when Tasha forgot her keycard, one class day, and tried to sneak in a window, to retrieve her study material. When bored campus cops have something to go gene-ape about...) That, combined with the fact that the entire area hadn't seen a true crime in FIFTY years, outside of DUI's and such minor crud.

Well... wouldn't anyone else be miffed off, just a bit? (Go ahead, curse all ye like with this bloke. Or deride him. He's been used to it.)

...

Of course, Aleaic knew that he'd eventually get yelled at by both the Headmaster, and Sempai Council of the campus, which meant that off campus bit was looking truly healthy right about now. This is as regret finally begins to replace fuming, with Aleaic ending his jaunt at the best point of the Campus, for relaxing, viewing, and such student downtime activities. "I need to stop being trouble." ...Aleaic admits to himself finally, the cycle ending like this usually, and eventually. He just walks over to his usual cool down, memory longing spot of choice: Ambassador's Outlook. A nigh perfect place to stop, to see the entire campus, the stars, the sea, the celestial works above, you name it. It all just was an excellent place to relax and stare into literal space. Here, a statute of the founder of the Academy, some two thousand years past, stood in the center of a crystal orifice, with demarcated within, a current holographic projection of the Terran Human Sphere's shown reach, of seventeen star systems outside of Sol System. The graphic showing the glory of the reach of humanity, much of which was accomplished by his much long lived, and loved Father, only seven hundred plus years. (Sphere Medical science works wonders indeed.)

This place among none other, helps calm down this frazzled teenager of eighteen stressed out years, and five months. It's here that Aleaic agrees on something, for the umpteenth time this campus year. "Being a Sophomore sucks singularities."

Aleaic then sighs, and stops finally, to sit at a usual spot, plopping down with disdain, his mind focusing on sound around him. This with the sea at his back, such easily seen with a turn of the head. It doesn't hurt, as he looks around simply, that he's alone either, more likely due to the storm he created.

"Heh. Zeus has nothing on me. Or is that Odin?" ..put with a heavy chuckle. This he thinks, then... "Or Almighty... um..." ...before he stops, with a shake of his head.

And then for the next few minutes, he just sits there, letting the cool sea air flow around him, not even caring if a natural lightning bolt, hit him at that moment, the effect would be warranted, he thinks. It had been a moist and warm day, with enough mugginess, that the current cool air was calming. The stars above despite the Orbital Ring, were clear as crystals, more to the calm feeling. It was enough to lose one into a slumber by.

-Breeeeeeeeeep... Breeeeeeeeeeeeeep...-

"Eh? What, already?" ...or was... He sighs... "No rest for the wicked it seems. -Brup- "Yes. Aleaic the dope speaking."

": It's about time we found you. :"

"Huh? (It's that number again..? What the download?)"

The same chiming tone of voice, from before, responds... ": Sorry for the delay. That storm you caused, prevented us from sending your Representative to meet you, as per normal conditions. It's good that we waited, you're in the right spot now! Please remain where you are. :"

Aleaic looks bemused, looks at the CPU, and then figures he's being scammed or something. "Ah.. Ahem... H... hey! How'd you get this number?"

": Don't worry about the details sir. We thank you for choosing the Dimensional Relief Office! -click- :" The rather cheery voice answers back, before closing the line. Course this make a mortal blabber, beside himself! "Huh? Hello? HELLO! Hey!" ...before he looks at his CPU, blinking twice quirkily. This all before Aleaic then immediately tries to trace the number, off his holo-CPU display, but hits a string of cell call, and datastream blocks! "Blast it! What is this? How'd they know...? Who... Must have been a trace..."

As he continually tries to trace the call back... (...he doesn't realize yet, that a growing glow field is forming in the sea just behind him...) ...as he just blanches in blank frustration! "Huh... I bet that Sempai found that number and is playing a practical joke! Ha-ha, good one! Ya lil big..." This he is knowing full well, cell conversations are usually recorded, such that hacking them to send a prank call, is all too easy! He growls in trying to trace this back without realizing... (...while the glowing field begins to start churning the water heavily, making it rise...)

"Man..." Al quips, as he turns to Scanning his the cell log files, but still constantly hitting cell blocks after repeated tracing attempts, all but now punching at his CPU, with his fingers! "Ha-ha! Dang little scuzzy-heads. Too clean a trace for this. This all must be funny to those bulkheaded dorks. Peachy... just.. ..eh?" ...as finally... (The churning has started to foam at quite a heavy rate, the noise is quite loud! And with it, a heavy teal glow, and rising chime, begins to emit out, this all combined is what finally nabs Al's attention...)

"...wh... wha.. what...? " Al squeaks, as he barely stutters his head in turning it, but notes all too clearly, of details forming! (Like who wouldn't!) This as... (...seeing the area below him begin to 'rise' above him, in a column of teal glowing, spiraled cone of water.) Aleaic staggers to his feet, to look fully upon.. (...the mass and detail, rousing, and twisting up more and moreso. A rising magical chime, along with, that takes all sense away!) Aleaic notes there are.. (...lines of teal-blue light surrounding it, as well as similar colored sparkles, all almost ethereal in nature!)

Of complete note, the sight quite UNNERVING in mass and height! Aleaic judges with his mind at its wits end... "YIPE! The summoned a waterspout! Those idiots! WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Just then, the swirling 'cone' explodes out, as a flood of teal light flares all over the outlook, sparkling and luminous over everything for a good hundred meters! All with bouncing, glowing teal sparkles, forcing Al to cover his eyes with his arms! Slowly then, as the 'show' fades away, Al has to take a moment to readjust his overloaded senses, with head shaking, as the first thing that he notes upon lowering his arms, is a -giggling- sound. And then a hazy image to his eyes, one that seems to be... be... 'floating'... in the air and over... over...the water.?

"What the... HECK?" Aleaic says, as he begins to note more and more detail, until the detail becomes far too much to believe! Aleaic is frozen, as is his breath, as he can only stare, at the most illogical sight in his life... and... the most... "(Gorgeous...)"

Then the first immortal words are spoken... "Are you Aleaic?"

"Holy... heaven..."

His eyes are transfixed, with a pulse rate that threatens to stop stone dead cold. What he sees before him, only adds to a sense of pure fantasy, as well as a major flush of panic!

"Are you Aleaic?"

"...um... uh... um... mm... eh... I... ah..."

The form before him, floating like air was ground, simply a vision, simply. She only giggles.

"I... I... I am... who... w... who are...?" He blathers, to the point of forgetting to breathe. At least he catches this, as the vision then flings it's long mane of thick, lavish, luxurious... ah teal... (TEAL?) -ahem..- ...teal hair, a shower of sparkles fly from her glowing mane. It's a 'very' good effect, as the floor drops out from somewhere in Aleaic's pounding heart, all such that he somehow remains standing, all despite well right to faint. But such, him doing so here, would have been a crime to him.

The beautiful entity, then serenades, with her melodious voice... "My apologies, I am the Representative you requested for. I am the Alpha Level High-Dimensional Goddess: Tsunami." -tip toe 'landing'- "I was sent by the Dimensional Relief Assistance Office, to grant you a Wish."

Aleaic barely registers this, as he 'does' note that this... this.. Tsunami, person... thing... something, speaks like the air was embraced by her words, and then caressed like a truly precious thing. Aleaic meanwhile, keeps stumbling for words.

"...uh... w... wish? A wish? Wish? Who... wha.. who are you?"

"Tsunami, Goddess Alpha Level." ...cutely, and simply said back.

"I, n... no, I mean 'who' or 'what' are you, and... and... and.. where are you from? Wha.. who... are... wooo... head rush."

Another giggle of shimmering gold sounds out, as Al gasps for breath comically. Tsunami then patiently replies, as she floats simply, off her toe 'standing' spot... "I think you are confusing yourself. If you wish to know, I come from the Dimensional Relief Assistance Office, in the System Oversight of Jurai Core. And I was sent by a proper summons you created by calling our Cell-Line Center."

"Y... you are?" He fights a titanic struggle to refrain panic, including his impulses of flight! In doing so, as a side, unintended result, he is rewarded by his eyes literally scanning over this... uh.. goddess, one clothed in a scheme of mostly white and teal colors. Of such detail noted 'simply':

Tsunami's core attire is centered upon a rather intricate breastplate, of a glowing white gold of some sort, set below a split collar line, which is also split, both running down in a 'V' to where the cleav.. uh, area, is. All of a kimono like setup, as a base to derive sight upon. This is edge laced and covered, by a thin film of silk, draping down across, and under the elegant breastplate. The glowing breastplate is designed seemingly like a depiction of trees, with countless tiny leaves, with a large Teal gem on the right plate portion. A run of more pearlescent sheer silk, runs from the jewel, towards somewhere in the back. (Probably a nice back too... uh... ahem.) This area alone however, is indicative of the rest of the 'scenery'. (This as the 'leaves' in the breastplate, are apparently 'moving' like some holographic scenery! The... tree... too... yipes!)

The slender arms, (that seem to Aleaic to be a silk of its own,) are covered by white, light robe sleeve coverings, also set in rather impressive silks, with teal-blue edgings that seem to be inlaid with gems of some resplendid kind. The sleeve-slip-coverings are split in twain, along the centerline each, letting the arms move freely from the hence, silky the arms themselves tressed in a light, sheer pearlescent silk sleeves, similar of silken makeup, to the one covering the cleav... uh, area. The hands are gloved, similar to the arm length coverings, but with the delicate looking fingers openly shown, both hands of which are adorned with glowing jewelry, of golds, silvers, and gems, all primarily of diamond, and sapphire makeup, accenting the 'scenery'. (To a mind blown Al, it's all as such now.)

The lower dress portion below the abdomen, is similar to the arm coverings, with the hemline at the ankles, and split along the centerline as well, allowing similar freedom of movement for the legs, these also wrapped in pearlescent sheer silk as the arms and cleav... uh... area. The hems are all lined with silver and gold writing, the language, both serene, and incomprehensible, all rather than in jewels. Indeed, what the script is, is beyond a heaven struck Aleaic! The waistline is set with a indigo silk sash, with a similar bow in the back, with pair of silken indigo lengths, that literally flow in the wind to the left of Tsunami, along with her mane. (See below, dear lords.) Just above the silken sash, is a second 'V' line, revealing.. un... well, skin. (Al also notes a glinting diamond in her navel, which almost makes a dopey mortal 'crack'!)

But the clothing are not the only attraction, as Tsunami's slender form is crowned with a beautiful façade on top. The hair is a gorgeous silken teal-blue, glowing with an internal light of no seeable source, setting apparently the theme color for the replete attire. They are in a set of two minor ponytails both along the hair baseline, framing a larger, center-high ponytail, all and each held by intricate braid clasps of silver with blue gems, 'linked' together, with a gleaming silver chain, in between each. The hair also has a small glint of silver, running along the top right portion of her hair. The clasps take the light from around, and lens flares it, like off of jewelry, in a jeweler's display case, or of such mind sopping effect.

From there, are the eyes, ones most easily drawn to. They are of a deep, warm pink, gleaming and glistening with the light of the campus behind Aleaic. (All of which by now, has been OBLITERATED from his formal conscious.) An added interesting note is the two blue dots above her silken, teal eyebrows, as well as two small triangles set below the edge of the eyes, just above the cheeks, also blue in color. Of said striking effect, is the fact that the two dots are also glowing, not to mention along with the rest of her body and form, also glowing from 'whatever' that just is causing such! All like Heaven is her, in presence before Aleaic now. Such his mind echoes to itself.

But the final stroke is the smile, warmest he'd ever seen, with lips stained in a silvery pink, and one of said smile, that could melt six FEET of ploycarbonite diamond infused navel... UH... AHH, tritanium! Um, the smile, yes, it is starting to become as hypnotic as the voice it inhabits. A few gemmed bracelets and an encrusted necklace of silver and sapphire rounds out the...

...the...

...beauty.

For outside eyes that could have been watching, Aleaic doesn't realize that he's been looking Tsunami over for the last five minutes! All apparently while drinking (maybe drunk even,) in every little tiny morsel of detail, even down to the slip-on booties, set the same as the gloves, with silver and teal-blue alternated, colored toenails. The right most one even has a diamond embedded in it, though how is beyond Al.

Tsunami, for her part meanwhile, has calmly noted all this, as she allows Aleaic to basically eye grope her.

Until... "Enjoying the view?"

"Huh? HUH! OH GODS!" -spins around, blushing Volcanically!- "(OH MY GODS! HOW COULD I DO THAT TO HER! STUPIDSTUPIDSTUPIDSTUIPD!)" Aleaic, realizing his 'folly', is basically close to shearing his hair out, along with head attached to it! "(Mom would KILL me if she saw me doing that!)"

Tsunami however, for her part, only giggles again, though much more than she expects to.

Something about this mortal immediately interests her. Probably why she allowed him to look her over for so long. As this was all occurring, no one else has come by yet, as a Prevention Aura Spell, standard practice in a First Contact situation, was in effect. That way, only the intended, contacted party, would get the chance to receive a Wish. Actually, anyone else that happened to be nearby at the time, could technically have the opportunity to receive this Wish, but certain 'added' protocols are used, to prevent the Wish from being used by the wrong party. But this is a seriously rare occurrence, as usually the contacted party is alone in these circumstances.

Usually, in Standard First Contact cases, the Wish is sent to those that have something special, and unusual about them, ones that have gone through unusual circumstances. If there wasn't something special attached to these, as far as Jurai Core was concerned, then why would Wishes even be allowed to be granted? Ilks of both good, and ill, were of consideration here. Beyond however, lay with the reservations, that lay with the Wish System, itself. The long history of these particular mortals, throughout recorded time, hath shown a tact for greed and less than savory decisions. The Wish therefore is meant to give those that show better than average auras, or souls that are relatively immune to using a Wish in a poor manner, or usually anyway, the chance to a better place in the world for themselves. Or at least to grant them something special in their short lives. (Even for lifespans in the half-millennia, compared to immortality.) The Wish System has seen much adaption, to a world that once only made sticks, for weapons, that now made even the heavens, shudder at the rising complexity, inherit. However, despite it all, situation like this one, for whatever reason, still was why the Wish System existed. Why Jurai Core still attended to the desires of mortals, that had much potential. Why a goddess now, was before a numb struck mortal. The details, were more in the wish, and the eyes that looked Tsunami over, with such... detail.

In this circumstance however, Aleaic was noted 'special' from the start, moreso than the norm. Usually the chosen Contact person gets the idea, relatively immediately, and the fact that this Aleaic not only didn't get the picture, as well as the fact he was apparently more interested in her, or just too in awe of what's happening, told of an aura that would and could use the Wish in a most unique manner. She therefore let him have his time, she didn't mind to her own amusement, one quite genuine.

Aleaic meanwhile though, was too worried about self admonishments, finally calming down enough to turn around and face the one he believes he insulted somehow. "Oh man, uh.. woman! I'm so sorry for what I did... I just, well... was, well... I... um..." Al stutters while making a stance of a repenting sinner, or something such. He then bonks his own noggin, with a quick... "I'm sorry!" ...bow.

"I see... -giggle- ...well, Father did choose our end formats. It's only natural for our Creator to give such desires and reactions to his children, as he sees fit. Besides, how you looked at me is by far the most flattering I received yet. Sometimes it's less so." Tsunami finishes, with a dry look that looks more serene to Al than intended. A mortal then stammers again.. "But.. I... heh... if you say so... haha... hahaha... WAHAHAHAHAHAH.. eh? (This ain't right! What am I DOING?)"

"Talking to me, I thought."

"Huh?" Al blink-quips out in surprise. Tsunami just looks at her Client simply... "You thought: 'What are you doing?' I assure you of this."

Aleaic's eyes widen. "You... you... read my... oh my." Aleaic shakes with growing trepidation. Even with all that marvelous Sphere technology, pure Psychic ability, isn't natural a function to encounter. Tsunami relays however, as if it was nary any such to speak of. "Yes, we Dimensionals have such an ability. We employ it to help Clients, in any way we can. It's common among us Dimensionals, if such is an ease to mind."

"Uh... yeah... uh... uh... kay." Aleaic finally catches all of this, and puts 'faulty' memory chip into slot B. "(I see, this is some kind of joke. No, that dammed burger! I knew those fries had something funny about them!)"

"Pardon?"

Aleaic's panic sense finally gets the better of him.. "O... o... o... ohkay... y... y... you just stay there, I'm... uh... going to check with someone, yeah, I... uh, you just stay... there. Yup... right... there... and..." As Tsunami sees the mortal, backing up more and more, until he screams down the sidewalk, back to his dorm!

"Oh. Oh my... this one's going to take some work." Tsunami flicks a locket of hair from her left cheek, and giggles. She then starts to follow simply enough.

...

-Thirty seconds later... (yeah, 'that' fast!)-

-WHAM! SEVERE PANTING!-

"Huh? Hey Al! hey!" Hiwa says, as Aleaic quickly SCREAMS upstairs! "Jeeze! These weird foreigners.." Hiwa says, looking back at her study Padd.

...

-HUFFHUFFHUFFHUFF- (Done with an occasional, manic yelp, or laugh of the insane! All down a hallway, with a few faces looking bewildered, as he passes manically!)

...

Tasha finally finishes drying her hair out.. "When I get my hands on that dang Sophy again, I'll..." -SLAM! WHAM! LOCK!- "What the?" Tasha blurts, as Aleaic is suddenly seen laying on the closed hatch door, panting like an EXAUSTED marathon runner!

"Okay pal, what the heck took you so long, to come back crawling." Tasha starts as per usual, with a smirk. One that disappears on hearing... "Did... -HUFF- ...you... -WHEEZE- ...send her?"

Tasha smacks her hands to her waist, looking back with a frown. "Hey! I'm asking the questions Sophy!"

"Did you send her?" Al says too hard, and about gags...!

"Hey!" One of the flunkies remain, holding a semi-cold one. "Don't yell at the Sempai!"

Aleaic sigh-groans, stands erect, and straightens up. "Okay, I'm sorry. For the yelling. The hacking of the weather. The fact that this place stinks but I deal with it 'ANYWAY'!" Al blurts, before flopping his arms to his sides, then adding... "But can you tell me who that woman you sent is?" ...and then said arms, both at the hatch!

Tasha and the flunkies look at each other, then back at Aleaic, all speaking as one. "What woman?"

...

Hiwa just blinks, seeing the trailing off form of a female she'd never seen before... "Who is that?"

Tora, also nearby, just blurts in blinking disbelief... "And why did she ask for..."

...

"-SPUTTER!- What WOMAN?" Stuttering... several incoherent... sentences, but then recollects his train of though. "The teal hair! The sweet honey voice! The glowing physique! The sexy clothing! The... uh, well... more well fitting than sexy, or both... but still..."

Tasha closes up near Al, and shoves a hand in his face! "What are you blabbering about Sophy? You been hacking under a pillow again?"

Al looks blankly pip eyed at his Sempai, with a disbelieving look. "You... don't know...?" Tasha then has a frazzled look. "KNOW WHAT?"

"Uh... um... well... I... uh... ah..." Aleaic becomes rather confused, and starts to fidget with his fingers.

At that moment, a knock on the hatch gets everyone's attention in the room. "Uhhhhh..." ...Aleaic warbles out. "(It can't be!)"

"Answer the door Sophy!" Tasha orders, a bit more than exasperated, turning back to the mirror. "Stupid Gaijin."

Aleaic very gingerly complies, and opens the slide door, and then promptly falls flat on his butt from terrified surprise! "Oh... oh... oh no..." Standing/floating before him, in the hatchway, is the surprise of his life and evening! "The information seems correct, Client Aleaic does live here."

"(She FOLLOWED ME? AY YIYI!)" Aleaic panics! (Duh.)

Tsunami all too serenely floats through the hatch, and has the hatch close behind her. "Now, about that Wish."

"Now wait I..." Aleaic the Stunned tries to respond. The glorious entity then pokes a gemmed finger, upon Al's nose. "It's 'your' privilege, that you received this honor Aleaic. I cannot complete my task until I convince you, my cute little agent."

"Agent? What agent? ME?" Tsunami giggles some more, as Aleaic is beside himself!

Tasha and the flunkies meanwhile, look AGASHT! While Aleaic was flattened by the sight before him, these three are crushed by the spectacle! "You... you mean 'that' woman?" Tasha stammers out, she doesn't know what to think. "Uh... -gulp- y... y... yeah.." Aleaic stammers, just as badly.

"What a quaint place, plenty of room I must say." Tsunami quips, looking around curiously, her flowing regalia just dropping the jaws of the flunkies.

Aleaic just groans. "(This ain't right...)" ... "What isn't right Aleaic?" Tsui blinks back.

"Huh? I... uh... um..."

"GOLDBAGGER!"

"Eh?" Tsui and Al say simultaneously in shocked surprise, as Tasha looks like a pressure valve, on the brink! "You... little... too bit... Gaijin!" ...her eyes like two ready to pop gene-splice-tomatoes, or something... "All this time, playing off on our hospitality! And now, after everything we did for you!" Tasha then suddenly STOMPS past the two, to the hatch, and shoves it back open! So hard, that the hatch cracks on its siding! "YO! We got a Goldbagger here! WE KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THEM, DON'T WE?"

"(Isn't that goldbricker?)" ... "I wouldn't know." ... "Err..."

This starts a growing tremor, one that enters the room in a massed rush of bodies from out of nowhere! And in 'short' order as they chant 'goldbricker'. Aleaic doesn't even have time, to consider a copyright incident is occurring, before...

A: "Hey!"

A: "HEY! Wait a minute!"

A: "Whoa!"

A: "YIPE!"

A: "Let me get.."

A: "HEY! THAT'S MINE!"

A: "Let me go!"

A: "Don't you touch that!"

A: "YEEK!" ... T: "Oh... hello..."

A: "Hi... uh... LET US DOWN!"

T: "Where are they taking us Aleaic?" ... A: "Uhh, I don't... HEY! NOT THAT TOO!"

-SMACK! SMASH! CRASH! CRUNK! THUMP! WHOMP! PLOP!-

-THUNK!- "And call when you get a new place Sophy!" -SLAM!-

"Uh..." ...an iMortal looks around, anime wackily, from his butt posture!

"And we're outside again." Tsui blinks as well.

"Um... yes... I guess... yeah, you're, um... right.. yeah..." Aleaic, along with a confused goddess, with ALL of Al's possessions; are now outside, the contents stuck in futuristic, poly-steel storage containers.

"I think I got kicked out."

"Oh. How rude."

Aleaic blinks, and realizes he's been carrying Tsunami all that time, blushes 'heavily', and finally lets her go. "Sorry." ...letting her float from his grip, to then stand himself, Tsui reactively helping there. Tsunami then straightens out her attire, causing Aleaic to look away, as her navel glints from the street hoverlights. "You mortals are strange creatures." ...a goddess summarizes, straightening her jeweled braid clasp. Aleaic notes a anew silver-blue glow coming from it, than noted before, as well as sight of an unseen before pair set, from the secondary ponytails.

"Ahem, yeah I guess so. I think... uh... anywho." Aleaic rings his hands, in nervousness and uncertainty, as he tries to think of a way out of this mess. He looks around, wondering if this ruckus would bring campus security units or such.

However, Tsui brings attention back. "Ahem... now, may we begin?" Al looks back, sighs, and turns to listen, with no way out apparently. Tsunami goes into a cheery but basic instructor 'mode'. "Now, I, as your Representative, must inform you of a few certain rules, that way there is no inherit confusion."

"Too late." Aleaic says in unfocused sarcasm, but surrenders to the situation, and crosses his arms to listen. Tsunami crosses her gloved hands before her abdomen, and proceeds...

"Now. First: This Wish is accorded to you, by the grace and oversight of Jurai Core in Heaven, gifted to allow you, anything your heart desires. And in so doing, allows you the chance to experience your fondest dreams."

Al nods. (Blankly...)

"Second: It should be noted that while you have no set time limit, you are required to engage the Wish before I can depart. I cannot leave until you do so, even if you must be 'persuaded'."

Al cocks an eye. "Persuaded?"

"Let me finish." Tsui injects, as Aleaic continues to look neutral. "This is all just too weird."

Tsui, of haunting tone... "It is my ability and duty, to show evocative ways, to allow you to decide upon your wish, if you do not have a ready request at hand."

Al only looks. (Blankly #2...)

"Third: You are only limited in the nature of the Wish, so as long as it doesn't contain effects detrimental to another person of immediate note, and/or that causes said effects to make a separate subject act out of norm, or in an illegal manner set by the laws of your world. You are also refrained from detriment to yourself and to this World as well. Besides, destroying your world would make a MESS of the System!" Tsunami finishes by mock 'disgust' with her arms, which Al thinks of otherwise. (Poor bloke.)

"U... um... yeah, fine. A... anything else?" Al quickly recollects himself.

"Just one. Um... you're... not one of those... 'types'... are you?"

Aleaic's eyes, turn into two black dots. "Types?"

Tsui looks cutely pensive... "You know, those, um... less than savory... um.. well... you know... S&M and all... " ...finishing with pointing her fingers together.

Al realizes: -BINK!- "NO I AM NOT!"

"Oh, you aren't! Very good! The task will be much more reasonable then!" Tsunami claps her hands, and hops once cheerfully. Aleaic just feels something in his head sputter and pop, like a firecracker fizzling. "(Weird... um... oops.)"

Tsunami ignores that, and then takes a look behind her at the large pile of containers, and rubs her palms cutely together. "You need help with those I presume?" Before Aleaic can respond, Tsunami suddenly creates a black opening of some kind, with a raise of her arms, above their heads, one that causes all the containers to rise and disappear into it!

"Wha... -GIRL'S SCREAM!- MY STUFF!"

Tsunami pats her hands, and smiles sweetly to Al. "Don't worry my Client, I put them in a Subspace Storage Unit. They're safe in there, until we find you a new place!" Tsunami sweetly smiles.

Al stammers again. "Is... is that... that Wish stuff you talked about?"

"Oh..." -giggle- "...that one is a freebie. Shalt we?"

Aleaic looks in awe at his new benefactor, as she floats off, all the while... "Never order the fries."

...

-On the road, adventurous at that.-

It's been an hour for the duo, and Aleaic is quite bluntly stumped, or even quite 'possibly' lost. The instructions his Father left him, for finding a place of forgotten previous mention, got trashed by the EMP from one of the lightning bolts from his 'storm'. (Well that one bolt, 'was' close. The bun streak attested to this, on the hover-vehicle.) ...and now he's been basically searching vainly for any sign, of a place called: Shrine. So far... nada, zippo and zilch.

"Man." Looking at the map grid of Tekomi, in his Gelphi Skiff, a small two seater that Aleaic had semi converted into a mobile comm-vehicle. (Little Al has a fetish for communications equipment. Techy freak) The advantage being that it can access ANY GPS-Delta IV Satellite, as well as any unscrambled Comm signal, (and even a few scrambled ones he hacks into, just to listen.) The GPS display doesn't show names of buildings outside of town, and the datarod had that extra info. Well, not everything is perfect. At least the equipment was better shielded against EMP bursts, which is strange, when one thinks about it. "I'll be a hacked program, I can't figure where to go now." Aleaic sighs and wipe-drags his face.

"I can help."

"Huh?" He looks at those haunting rose pink eyes, and then looks down quickly, with a blush. Tsunami responds simply, with an everlasting smile. "You seemed so determined to find this place you mentioned, I didn't want to interrupt. Is this what is known as: human ego?"

Aleaic chuckles.. "Uh... yeah, I guess it is." Aleaic then slumps into his quite cushy seat. Tsunami does the same in her similar seat, just to imitate.

"Well... I can find it for us." Al looks up again, at those captivating eyes.. "Really?" Tsunami smiles sweetly in return. "Sure... another 'freebie'." ...said with another perfect giggle.

Aleaic nods and chuckles, then opens the vehicle hatch, and looks at the goddess. "Something tells me I'm going to start to stack up a large 'tab' here." Just before he then gets out. Tsunami steps out of the hover vehicle as Aleaic does. "Where you going?"

Fishing in his pockets for his credit chip card.. "Actually, I'm thirsty. Want something?"

The benefactor smiles warmly in kind. "Sure."

...

-clunk...

...clunk.- "Here you go."

Aleaic hands a can of cola to Tsunami, whom sits on a lighted bench, one that glows from below, within its own structure framing.

"Thank you." Tsui nods cheerfully, Aleaic bows in kind, then sits, and then opens and takes a good guzzle of the Japanese version of cola. This one tastes like a barley mix. Sweet, though thick... "-urp- Excusez-moi."

Tsunami begins to laugh upon Al's all too humanic sound, quite heartily, a bit more than Aleaic expects. Though yet somehow, the sound is rather soothing to hear. Tsunami, after settling back down, fumbles with her can, and manages to open it. And after a gentile drink, 'inspecting' the taste, before she looks at a Client, who has finished his drink, and imparts, with a soft closed eye smile upon her facade. "It's too bad there aren't more mortals like you. Ones that speak their souls out, and still keep their humor at the same time. Despite the gray in your heart, that much I can sense, it is strong and refuses to be truly snuffed out, and one that can still think of others in any case." Tsunami says, which makes Aleaic more self-introspective in look this time.

Tsunami then looks at the darkened sky, full of stars... "I'm glad, that I was chosen to grant your Wish."

Aleaic looks at his benefactor uncertainly, and makes a decent front to question this conception. "Really?" ...is the 'front' he uses.

In response, a soft hand takes Al's, if for an instant, his eyes WIDENING for this moment. "W... wow.... uh... yeah, I guess so.." Aleaic feels the hand like it was make of a softness, not even the gods could imagine, which was pushing the 'logical' thought. But he then looks more genuinely logical, as he considers the goddesses wardrobe. "Um... say, uh, how come you wear that get up?" Tsunami looks down, releases her grip, and stands, looking at her attire, swaying it side to side. Al quickly concentrates on his empty drink, rather than stare again. "What? My wardrobe? Does it offend you?"

Aleaic SPITS and shoots his head back up! "Oh nonononono... I just mean... I... um... as, well, beautiful as you look in that, it's also gotten us a few more looks than I'd care for. Like you said about mortals, and, um... all that." Aleaic looks thoughtful for a moment, then... "M... maybe, um, something less conspicuous. At least, um, until we reach... uh, where ever this place is."

Tsunami nods appealingly with understanding. "Sure, another one on your 'tab' then." Tsunami giggles, and simply returns to the vehicle, placing the 'cola' on the hood, and then, with another raise her twisting arms...

"(What is she...?)" -FLASH!- "WHOA! Tsunami?" Aleaic falls flat, and staggers/stumbles back to his feet! "Yes?" Tsunami says as she pokes her head up over the vehicle top. Al stops and... "Holy..." ...immediately can tell a difference, and this time Al can't hide his staring. "...oh..."

Tsunami has done as 'requested', and now wears simple blue jeans, a white laced silk blouse with a white rose pattern upon a sheer material. White socks over the pants cuffs, white sneakers of the normal fashion of the area, and a simple teal and white jeans jacket, embroidered with the word 'Goddess Tsunami' in several places, elegantly at that. The amount of jewelry is consistent though. The hair is in a ponytail, with a silk, white bow in it, the ends flowing like the sash previously did, still with the silver-blue device in her tresses. Tsunami then deliberately spins herself around to be better judged, knowing what she is doing to meek Al. "Preferable?"

"Wow." Catches himself better of staring this time, more to the amount of detail this time, (less that is,) rather than actual self-control.

"I'm pleased you approve. Now, shall we?" Said, as Tsunami retakes the cola, leaving a dumbfounded Aleaic standing by the park bench.

"Maybe those Fries are worth it. "

...

-Summary of the night... In a word: spirited...-

Much of the night passed without finding their goal, mostly because Tsunami decided to play with Aleaic a little bit, which got the mortal, semi-suckered into a night tour of Tekomi itself. They even ended up grabbing a late night sushi snack along the way, the purveyor seeing Tsunami, and nearly forgot to take Aleaic's order off of the hibachi grill. Al 'saved' that one in time.

Then, as the tour proceeded, through the futuristic city, as they pass a human made river, park side, Tsunami found of all things, an open air pavilion with a cluster of trees, one that the cool wind was calmed by. A slow song played over unseen speakers, embedded in the trees. A small fountain was at the rear of the pavilion. When the heaven to earth sent goddess saw all this, she immediately hauled Al with her, and for a short time, forgot the reason she even came here. In fact, Aleaic saw that Tsunami was so happy, that a mortal forgot that he was with a goddess. Then, because the mood implied it, as well as a prophetic song, most romantic plied the air, Tsunami and Aleaic caught themselves up in a small waltz. Aleaic, never having taken a formal dance step without his mother's guidance, managed such grace with his newfound partner. Tsunami of course is beyond perfection in her twirls and dips. After a short time of this though, once the music changes, they both realized what they were doing. They both break away after staring at each other a tic too long, and...

"S... sorry..." Aleaic blurts...

"That's... that's okay." Tsunami blushes, as equally...

Aleaic smiled very calmly, and then bowed. Tsunami giggled, and curtsied in kind. Then for a small while after, they sat at a park bench and talked like two friends reacquainting themselves. Aleaic talked about his goals, somewhat hashed in planning, while Tsunami spoke of her duties, refraining from details, other than of a Heaven, Aleaic already 'knew' was beautiful. Tsunami blushed further, when she heard this.

Afterwards, they perused the local shoppes, basically window shopping. The wares from many worlds, beyond Earth, was of amazement, to a goddess's eye. Al on the other hand, had to catch his own, as they passed a number of clothing and jewelry stores, the fact being he kept visualizing Tsunami in any item or garment he saw. Tsunami 'noted' this... "Why thank you." ...she said several times. Aleaic just stutters each time... "But... I... I didn't..." This only makes Tsunami giggle rather hard. Al just sighs dejectedly for being caught. (Prior to the smile anyway.)

The one near a wedding boutique, Aleaic tried to skedaddle past quickly, but Tsunami 'saw' that too. (Especially the hourglass gown.)

Eventually, after weariness starts to set in, for a mortal, and getting back on the now rather deserted road, they pass by the old quarter, away from the main domes of the Tekomi city arcologies, before heading out to the more secluded hills to the east. At one point along their course, Tsunami had Aleaic stop the Skiff near an overlook along a road, and then surprised him by the goddess tending to a wounded bird sparrow, one that had fallen from above its tree perch. Aleaic was impressed to say the least when the small creature was healed very easily, and released back into the tree, it had apparently been sleeping in. Aleaic needless to say, felt quite honored. "Wow." Tsunami surprises Aleaic, however in turn, when she then says.. "Thank you for allowing me that. I appreciate that very much." Aleaic in turn... "But to be so generous, like that. I mean, I should say thank you!"

Tsunami just blushed again, the words making her think... "(Just... maybe...)" ...as Al gets them back on the road.

But, eventually, Tsunami got note of Aleaic's growing impatience, after three hours of this, mostly from sleep deprivation, as such, she uses a Homing Spell, one that led them to an area rather high into the southeastern Tekomi hillside area. Ultimately, they come upon a large area, populated by a number of somewhat abandoned buildings, tucked into the forests of mixed pine and bamboo. The structures seem to have a strange and ancient religious look to them, Aleaic quickly notes. When they pass the Skiff around a ledged corner, Al notes the look of decay upon not only the structures, but the minor structures, of an old temple complex, as even the stonework, upon the ground, as a look of grand age. A great deal time has passed through these hills apparently.

When they finally stop, in the middle of this aged courtyard, Aleaic gets out, and is surprised at the sight around them. "Here we are." Tsunami imparts, as she pulls herself out of the hover-vehicle. Aleaic looks around, and begins to profess anew awe. The place is very old, and such can be felt in the air. "Wow... is this the place?" Aleaic says, taking detail of the age of the buildings, everything in a state of disrepair. "It's... it's an old Shrine is it not? Wow. I've read holobooks about these places. But I thought they all were planetary monuments, or something?"

"It's what you asked for, right?" Tsunami asks, like a appraiser selling property. (Well, not 'that' bad...)

"Uh.. ..yeah, yeah I guess so. I... yeah, sure, this can work. Yes... th... thank you..." Al simply agrees to, rather than be a hassle, such is his flaccid state. The air of the Shrine is so quiet and peaceful, though a chill is beginning to retain more. It almost seems magical to the senses. Tsunami however blushes rather dearly when Aleaic thanks her, though Aleaic though misses this, as he's too engrossed, peering into the darkness, of the scene around them. Then he looks back past the hillside out, easterly so, with Tekomi splayed out, in all its alit glory. "Man... jovi-whoa... quite a long distance out of town... man." ...this as Aleaic takes a few steps towards the edge of the hill, an overlook with a spectacular view of the city and much of the Prefecture below, a space elevator rising from it. A calm moment for the city otherwise, seemingly played out, for this moment. Even the half moon reflecting off the sea, along with the Orbital Ring can be seen better, rising far above, and 'below', upon the reflected ocean, This all even includes a late night launch of a supply shuttle, further off the northern coastline. The city below sparkles like so many jewels glinting. A mask of a few clouds play above, hinted by the moonlight. It's a scene to be captivated by. Such that Aleaic calls out, like an awed kid... "Wow... this is just amazing! Do you see this view, Lady Tsunami?"

"Yes I do." ...the goddess says, stepping up next to the left of her client, holding her hands in front of her below her waist. For a bit, they just stare, one finding comfort, being near another, more than she intended. As Tsunami looks on, she then feels the need to serenade the sight before them both. Such her tone becomes, of memory... "Thou our Father was correct. There 'are' shores that cannot be touched, even if the hand managed so, because many shores will always be too far away. If you see the universe in this manner, then you will understand how vast this universe is. And how special."

Aleaic hears this, and takes one of Tsunami's hands out of reflex, his heart pounding, mind racing... "(Gods, her hand is so soft.)" ...as Tsunami gasps at the unexpected act. Aleaic adds, rather bravely, he thinks later... "My... my own father... said something similar to me just before I left for college here. Maybe your father knows my father." Aleaic chuckles, about to let go of her hand, but it's gripped tighter suddenly, in turn. A goddess responding, serenely, smiling, a tear forming... "Maybe our Father does. All mortals are children of his in one sense or fashion of another. Maybe he indeed knows you too."

Aleaic continues his spiel of blushes at that, he looks away nervously suddenly, the held hand, causing him to strike up the courage to speak his heart. "If he does, um... thank him for... ah... letting me meet you. Tonight has been something I want to remember, very much." ...such that Tsunami counters Aleaic's blush, all the while Aleaic trades looks between the view, and Tsunami, as he speaks his next peace. "Heck, you even got me to get away from that darned Dojo dorm! I guess I wasn't happy there." Al looks down pensively, then introspectively. "And, what more, with your kindness, your generosity, your, um... well.." Aleaic, trying to dance around the more sensitive areas of compliments, though his thoughts come across clearly enough to Tsunami. Such that he is then suddenly notes Tsunami making a soft sound of... "Huh? Milady?"

Tsunami is quietly, yet openly smiling/crying/laughing/etc, all the while griping Al's left hand with both of hers. Aleaic worries of scaring her somehow despite, in asking... "Hey... are... are you okay?"

Tsunami in turn, wipes a few crystal tears away, before she speaks. "I'm sorry. It's that.. well, I usually only get compliments after a Wish is granted.. I... I never have received such kindness 'before' a Wish has been granted, and it is not like I ask for, or even care for such attention or lauding. So, I'm... overflowing my emotions. I feel so happy." Tsunami looks with her pink, glistening eyes at a heart struck Aleaic, who can't describe the feeling, he is having. One that bubbles more up, with a goddess adding... "Truly, that you'd give me so much thanks for only the smallest, slightest of things. And even more, giving me so many gazes, looking longingly at me. All like... I was a special person to you."

Al grips Tsunami's hands more as he implores. "You are!"

Tsunami is surprised to hear this. "Huh?" ...as Aleaic looks at both hands, holding his left own, and then looks into her eyes, finding himself 'stronger' in soul, just looking at them. Such comes of his longing commentary... "You 'are' special. My... my mother says everyone is born with something special to give. And you... you, that I've seen give more, in one night, more than from any others, I've ever seen! I... I know I'm hardly worthy of even this attention, especially all for just one night, and yet..." Al looks level at Tsunami, all too calmly, a mind opening beyond realization... "I know you are special to everyone on this world. I... I just.. only wish, wish that... maybe..." Aleaic looks down, and unwittingly opens his heart completely. "Yes?" Tsunami says, her heart racing, as she seems to almost expect the words coming. She holds her breath, like it was meant to witness this moment for her.

Aleaic, meanwhile, speaks without fear. (As well as lacking foresight.)

"I... I wish... I had a love... like yours, with me... .forever." ...Al nods to himself, smiling, his heart is quite calm.

Tsunami's mind however, shifts gears, letting go of his hand. "You mean that? That is your Wish?" ...as she comprehends this. Aleaic though does NOT even realize yet, in responding.. "Yes... yes I do." ...still looking down, when... "Then..." ...Tsunami smiles, and starts to concentrate. "...that is your Wish. I shall fulfill it."

"I... -BINK!- ...huh? WHOA! WAIT!" Aleaic shouts, suddenly realizes his 'mistake'! "WAIT!"

It is already 'far' too late, and Tsunami's eyes close, as her forehead sigil suddenly focuses into a single point of bright light, one that stabs straight into the cool night sky! This all causing the clouds overhead to suddenly part, revealing a ring of pure blue light, within which another world can be somewhat discerned! Many teal-blue glowing ethereal code lines, flow along with the primary beam, giving the entire effect an unbelievable scene! As the Wish Program becomes connected to the System of Jurai Core for appending and processing, the winds around the hillside bluster quite forcefully! Aleaic has to cover his eyes for the umpteenth time that evening, both from debris, and the light, this all the while pleading to a deafening wind that this was a mistake! "Common! Stop already by gawd!" One not heard, and one not necessarily believed as such.

In added procession, Tsunami's simple garments meanwhile, become awash in a glow of teal light, as more sparkles and ethereal lines surround, and play out, across, and about her format! At the height of the program code transfer, her form is slightly arched backwards, her arms pointing down, with her wrists/hands cusped downward, and fingers slightly curled inward. Her mane flows very serenely.

Yet.. finally.. as the mini-maelstrom dies down with the radiance display, the core beam gently descends from the sky back to its originator. At the end, for a moment, she is so serene. Majestic all the same.

Aleaic however... "Wha... what... wh... wha.. what.. just happened?" Aleaic is almost a sight of panic, having forgot that his charge has such abilities, it takes a supreme/titanic amount of willpower to prevent a screaming retreat.

..but that passes with 'realization'. "Oh man... d... don't tell me... oh Lords..." His breathing as shallow as his mind can comprehend by, without fainting. (Which is close.) Tsunami then finally settles to the ground again, landing with the tip of her right, white sneaker, with a most warm, calm look on her face. Then her eyes flutter open. She gulps a tic, but then sighs. Tsunami then looks at the 'freaked' out Aleaic, with an unexpectantly pleased smile.

"Well. I am happy to inform you, despite the unusually large nature of your Wish, that it has been granted and accepted by the Dimensional Relief Office!"

Al's brain makes a cake pan smack sound, as he facevaults! "...uh... wha... what.. what exactly does that mean?" Aleaic asks, acting dumb, hoping in vain it's not what he thinks it is.

It 'is' in vain.

"Silly, you Wished for me to be with you forever. It has been granted." Tsunami then curtsies in completing a transaction, apparently satisfactory to her giggling chimed graces.

"But.. I said..." Aleaic's brain mush jolts with acceptance, that the damage is done. "...for... someone... like... uh... you... 'you'... you? You! You! Ah... ah... ok... I... see... ok... I'm sorry."

"Why are you sorry?" Tsunami asks openly. Aleaic just blabbers out, yanking at his head. "I.. heh.. don't have a clue... -head scratching..- ...are, are you sure it's... it's for... real?"

Tsunami only nods, responding by retaking Aleaic's left hand. This time there is something added to the touch, with goddess words included... "As real as my touch is.."

Aleaic gulps wide eyed, not sure what to do next. "Y... y... yeah." ...this as he begins to register the new reality, that is upon them both. Just then, the wind picks back up naturally, the night air this time has a sharper, colder feel to it. "BRRRRR... guess the Climatizer can't do anything for thermodynamics, at this hour."

Tsunami actually shivers as well, surprising the mortal, whom hears her response. "Yes, it's quite cold. Let's head inside."

The two manage find their way inside the closest of the dilapidated structures, which has the look of a disused residence. After Al wrestles the slide hatch open, and a customary, (if pointless,)... "Anyone here?" ...both souls end up in a barren, somewhat disused living room area, part of which has a lower floor depression that isn't clearly seen, by the tired mortal. Both look about again, as the feel of age is quite apparent, as well as the creaks and groans of the superstructure. Smells of age along with, mildew easily apparent. Further off the left, a higher apparent area, with an embedded wall table, and a dining area. More left, a very warped and buckled looking stairway can be seen. The darkness itself, on its own, is a relatively stifling, but doesn't seem utterly unfriendly. They both manage their way in, Tsunami floating off the floor, looking around. Aleaic tries to feel the new surroundings, as he tries to get his night vision, and takes a step forward...

...and fails... -SLAM!- ... too late unto his unrealized, tired state, and accidentally dumps past the depression edge, falling flat on his face!

"...ow..." ...catch that 'unfriendly' part. =^^=

"Oh my!" Tsunami cries, realizing too late, of her own slight fatigue, before reactively rushing over to help Al up! Both only manages to heft Al's swirling head onto her lap, Tsui in a kneeling position in conducting this. She worriedly remarks... "Your nose is broken! It's bleeding! Let me help!"

With a slight nasal blockage sound, blood loss affecting his muggle brain, he manages out... "Ish thish... owh... oun mwy tabb ash whell? Othwwie!"

Tsunami cradles Aleaic's head in her arms, seeing his face perfectly, and smiles. "No silly. This stuff is part of the Wish now, or.." Aleaic just simply waves his left free hand quickly. "Okhay, mwy noose hwurts tuu mush twoo arguu aniwuay." ...before seeing Tsunami use a wordless Healing Spell, to plug the worst of the damage, as only a slight bruise mark, soon remains. "Thwank ywou." Still a bit of nasal strain. One that makes Tsui giggle. "You're welcome. The bruise should be gone by morning." Aleaic though blurts out fast, managing past his shnozz... "N... nwo... nwo.. I... I.. mean... um.. thank you, even mwore than before." ...he then manages naturally, and truthfully... "For everything tonight."

Tsunami caresses the face of her new charge, and then pats it. "You should rest." Such that Aleaic doesn't argue with that, as he nestles down in Tsunami's lap, the last sight he has is of Tsunami's glowing face. He's not sure of either dream or reality.

Either way, it's heaven.

...

-At the edge of dawn.-

"(I shall create a place we can share together, one that allows me to make him happy.)"

At the edge of morning, of more than one kind, Tsunami: Certified Alpha Level Dimensional goddess, and now resident of Earth, begins invoking a Special Spell. One that brings old life back into the recesses of this majestic place, nestled into the tree encrusted hills. The Spell has no actual name, as it is more a Spell of the Heart. Spells like this one are always special.

As she begins, she winds her arms and hands in a special pattern and flex. ": By my well seal true name, air to ocean, by the power I am endowed with, ocean to earth, with the power to create hope, earth back unto air, by my power that is engraved by the light. :" -arms and hands out- ": Return these old hallows to a state that they may know second breath, life full with new memories to share within :". -arms wound, hands open- ": By my seal true name. Invoke the Past into the Future, become the Present, to shine forth again! :" ...unto as she finishes, her hands are aglow, pointed at the ground, cupped behind.

Then, by the hundreds, thousands even, ethereal lines and glowing beams of light from trees and bushes, anything that has greenery upon them, projects this light, and anything that they touch also give off light. The spell cascades off all this energy. The ensuing haze of light, energy of restoration, light that causes everything it touches, all causes everything said touched, to become young, and in good repair once more. The light becomes so bright, it seems to threaten to betray itself, by shimmering off the Orbital Ring, far overhead. But there is no such threat, as this light can only be seen by Tsunami alone. The Shrine grounds, plants, trees, structures, look like a thousand years were washed away. Maybe more. All for one reason, as her spell finishes.

It's like heaven was transplanted. Her mind says as so. "(This shall make him happy. I 'know' it will.)"

...

-Late morning. Probably afternoon.-

"Uhh... man... -heavy eye lids- ...where am I? -looking around sleepily- ...Sempai?" A sleepy headed Al-kun wrenches himself off his back, and looks around... "Wha... wh... wha.. WHOA!"

He looks around, wide eyed, as finds details, new ones, starting with himself in a bed! Not only that, but in a large room, one stocked with furniture already! He then sees all his containers along one side of a wall, nice and neat. He then removes the bed covers, double takes all around the room, and then remembers, checking his nose injury from last night, finding it is completely gone! Then realizes in added detail, he's been in a western style bed, rather than a floor matt! And that, this isn't the Dojo, at all of certain! "Whoa... that... that 'wasn't' all a dream was it?" Al speaks to himself, the flood of memories hit his waking brain matter. Including...

Just then, a gingerly smell of something wonderful waifs Al's repaired nostrils. "Wow. Something smells great!"

Aleaic fiddle-manages finds a bath robe, from one of the containers, to cover his shirt and shorts... (...'how' he's in those isn't though about...) ...meanwhile berating himself to set all his stuff up later, and heads down stairs, too curious to worry about hygiene just yet. He cautiously steps down the stairs, one's he swears (cleanly,) was a wreck last night, making him fear, he's in another's house! As such... "Hello?" he says, as he looks around, and sees the, about almost crisp, brand new living section. One complete with couches and a wallscreen unit, the other walls, adorned in simple, generic pictures. He finishes going downstairs, and is then seen by... "Well good morning sleepy one, you sure were zonked out last night." Tsunami, as she calls over from the kitchen doorway, when Al appears upon her gorgeous sight. Aleaic sees, and immediately knows it was ALL real the previous night! All he can do at first, is stare, and then rub his temple, which Tsui giggle at. Finally... "Yeah.." ..he quips, walking over, noting a Japanese-style kitchen aisle rug. "G... guess I did, and... Eh?"

Tsunami, in a simple cooking kimono, with a image of a large blue carrot on the front, her hair held back by a cloth sash, stands near a well polished dining table, one with a large breakfast feast upon it! "You... y... you can cook too?" Al sees in GAPE awe! What kind of fantasy was he in!

"Oh yes. It's one of my favorite pastimes." Tsunami cheerfully responds with, more than boisterous in describing. The mortal agency can only scratch his head, in honest reservation. "I... I'm.. not used to this."

Tsunami suddenly looks pensive, and pulls her towel to her chin. "Oh... did I err? I didn't think to ask if you wanted breakfast. I... just..." Aleaic reacts wide eyed, and acts swiftly, leaping over next to her, and taking her hands. "Nononono! This looks GREAT! REAL GREAT! This looks 'so' delicious! I'm just surprised, that's all." Aleaic nuzzles the silken hands for a bit, making Tsunami sigh contentedly. Tsui smiles and then kneads Al's right arm. "Go eat silly! You must be famished."

Aleaic bows to Tsunami traditionally like, which garners yet another giggle, and then he guides (rockets in like a bloodhound, actually,) himself to the table, looking over the incredible spread! Tsunami notes the look in Aleaic's eyes, and is pleased to watch. Aleaic however is unsure of where to begin! There's so much! So many delicacies! So much to smell! Woohoo! But before he chooses anything, he looks up at Tsunami.. "What about you? Haven't you eaten?"

Tsui nods her head unto simply... "We goddesses don't actually require human nourishment, though, I already tried many of these dishes out, as I made it. So do not worry, and eat!" Tsunami says, more concerned with Aleaic's appetite.

"Okay, sounds like a professional chef's habit though." Al chuckles, melded with a teal tressed giggle.

He then breaks down, and tries a sample of a tempura battered scallops.

The first bite: delicious. From there...

The second bite: delicious!

The third: delicious.

The sixth: delicious.

The tenth.

The sixteenth.

The forty-second.

The something after the umpteenth.

The something after the umpteenth, after the umpteenth.

Even the very last few bites, almost forced down rather than wasted, are the pretty much the same!

Tsunami takes note of all this, noting which ones give more pleasure than others, a few give off slight cringes, and she makes note. Some bring tears, and bear for special times.

Some, make Tsunami shed a tear.

Finally... "Oh... gods. -sound of patted tummy.- ...that was soooooo good!" Aleaic moans of culinary ecstasy. Tsunami is beaming like the sun, impressed with the mortal's appetite. "I'm so happy you enjoyed it."

"Enjoyed it? I couldn't stop myself, it was all so good!" Al says, managing to look over the 'damage' he gorged upon. "I even kept drawing myself even to the weirder stuff, and they tasted better than the stuff I 'recognized'! Other than the Thai noodles that had a 'wee' too much spice, and I survived that pretty well. I should add a bit of spice to my diet, before I 'have' to go on one that is." -chuckle... urp.- "...oops... Excusez-moi."

"I'm glad, it makes me happy to see you happy." Tsunami looks cutely at Aleaic, whom looks self conscious of this. "It does?"

"Yes." She makes sure to stress this last, albeit in a gentile and convincing manner.

"Then I'm happy that you are." Aleaic counters, again, Tsunami giggles. Aleaic then burps again. "Sorry. I'd better learn to control that. Sorry. Sorry."

Tsunami finishes giggling, and then looks longingly at her mortal, as he rubs his belly simply. She considers, then asks anyway... "Can I ask you a question?"

Al looks over. "On a full stomach? Guess I'll hazard it." Tsunami openly laughs this time, Aleaic finds it captivating, until when the laughing finally subsides, and she looks into his eyes once more... "I wanted to ask, did you mean what you Wished for last night? Did you really mean... for me... to stay here with you?" Tsui looks with glistening eyes. (Yeah, 'that' kind...)

Aleaic has to lay on his back to think, he's so full. But the answer isn't very long in coming. "You are the first person, outside my family and rather tiny friendship circle, to come into my meager life, and to help me. Even... touch... me." Al rolls his head in Tsui's direction. Her gaze helps what he tells next. "Yes. I 'truly' meant what I said." Aleaic then pries himself back into a sitting position, up so as to meet to meet Tsunami's gaze.. "I really and truly meant for you to be with me, if not the words, the intent and heart spoke them. Always and forever." Al finishes, surprised he could say something like that, but with no regret. Kinda felt like another person was talking, within him.

Tsunami's next smile is flooded with satisfaction. "Then I shall make sure I fulfill the Wish, with everything that I have to give." ...this Aleaic hears, but interrupts as he makes a counter query. "But. I have to ask now..." Al starts, looking uncertain... "Pardon?" Tsui remarks back, noting Al's feelings. It makes her smile. Aleaic looks introverted suddenly, fidgeting again. "Did I just do something really selfish? Am I keeping you from helping others now?"

"You mean, did you..." Tsunami blinks. Aleaic continues on despite. "I mean: Was it fair for me, a dopey arse mortal, to make you stay here? I... I mean... what did you think, when I said that? It must have been very selfish. And now you can't help anyone else now. Am I a bad person for doing this, to you?" Al finishes, looking up again.

Tsunami is rather taken aback. Rare in her experience, is it, that a mortal responds in such, after a Wish is granted. Course, it's just as atypical for a situation like this, so it's valid, one supposes. But then, Tsui smiles instead, and decides on a 'way' to impress a proper answer for Al's worried question. "Can you lean in close, I want to answer that question properly."

Aleaic blinks, and just shrugs, and manages to comply, making sure to be quite close to help her out. His sense of trust doesn't realize better. "Okay. Fire away." Not realizing any better even before... 'Heaven' is the response. A heaven filled with warm fire. The impulsive kiss Tsui gives Al, is one that melds with his lips, and surprises him, with a fire that he cannot describe, nor can he break away from. Nor does he dares to.

But not from frozen fear.. but from bliss. "(Sh... she's... kissing me? Wo... w!)" He realizes belatedly, as a cool chill runs down his spine, as the 'fire' continues. Tsunami then begins to pull into the kiss further, letting in emotions she's forgotten that existed, to sweep through her. So much so, that she puts her hands fully around Al's head. The 'eternity' takes all of two minutes, thirty seven seconds, in its entirety. It's almost a pain to break it, but somehow, both know it's time to.

"Thank you." Tsunami says in a dreamlike state.

"Uhhhh... .uh.. anytime. " Also quite piqued, his mind a mush.

"I'll remember that." Tsui accents in return.

Aleaic then regains his composure, and draws away a bit, as a flood of emotion hits him then and there! "W... wha... did we just... I mean.. I'M SORRY... I...!"

Tsunami reverses this trend swiftly, with a soft finger on Al's lips. "You did nothing I didn't impose on you. I only gave you the answer to seeked. How you interpret the answer is up to you, and how we will spend life together."

"I... I see..." Aleaic breathes out, and then chuckles innocently. Then... "Well... then I suppose I'd better earn my part in it all, at the very least.." He then evaluates himself. "After a bath."

"Do you wish me to help?" Tsunami perks her head up!

-BLINK!- "Yack! Um... ah... uh, let's do that part another time! I fear my self control is hashed right now!"

Another chiming giggle... "As you wish sahib." Aleaic cocks his head. "Sahib? Uh kay." Al quips, as he about-faces to the stairs. Tsunami giggles into the kitchen with several plates. Al realizes, turns around to ask... "Um, did you want help with those dishes. Eh?" ...which is replied, with a push to his back, by Tsunami... "Nay. Thine to your task, and mine to myself." Aleaic quickly gives in and heads upstairs.

Ignoring thoughts he's in some weird dream of playing house and all, Aleaic manages to find the new lavatory upstairs, along with a large, Japanese bath type theme. One complete with a 'well' stocked set of toiletries. The latter Al wonders while bathing: "How they all got there?"

A clean three-quarters of an hour later, and Al returns downstairs to find Tsunami absent. He looks around wondering, but then hears some soft singing outside. And there walking out, Al hears the sound of a singular, harmonic heaven chorusing the air... (Insert: 'Saint Sasami Song here.') ...one hummed to the tune, of wind passing by. Even some hover traffic that passes by, can't muss this up.

Aleaic ends up simply sitting at the bottom of the entrance steps on the residence porch, and watching Tsunami sing, while she is doing a light bit of sweeping. Several small birds are perched about her, even one on her broom tip. The tune is so melodious, Aleaic feels younger somehow, just hearing it. Finally... "Exquisite." Aleaic imparts with a whisper, his eyes watering again. Tsunami looks over. "Thank my Mentor. My voice was crafted by her." She adds with yet another giggle.

Aleaic laughs in tune, and then steps up nearer to her. The birds flutter away, but Tsunami doesn't heed mind. Al starts with a thought. "(She's so happy.) Well, such a fine craft. But only the user actually crafts it, not the teacher."

"You sound like a priest." Tsunami giggles, Aleaic however thrusts his chin up. "Almost, Ambassador's son. -BINK!- HOLY!" Al says with both of his hands smacking his skull! "I almost forgot! I have to call Mom and Dad, about all of what happened! And... well..." ...thinking carefully... "...almost all of it. I doubt a goddess would be believable information at this point. Or smart to blurt out anyway."

Tsunami giggles. "A logical train of thought. I'd have trouble believing myself either, if I didn't know myself."

This time, Aleaic laughter stabs the air. A simpler chorus. One easily joined.

...

-Late afternoon-

"My Sister is WHAT?"

": She's coming to meet you Little Aly. :" ...the voice belongs to the Mother: the nigh always cheery Jeain, especially when Aleaic calls.

It took a full hour just to catch up on the last two years apart, (three months only, really, if you count that impromptu motherly visit.) ...as well as to digest gossip and information between both sides of the globe. (Mostly her side of it.) And that wasn't even including the previous nights events, along with news that Al has a girlfriend. (Best way to describe it. Tsui blushed on hearing that pronouncement.) Aleaic could almost hear the rancid gossip going on back in Coral Springs, right now. But the news that he had finally taken on Father's offer of an off campus residence, made Jeain just as happy, something about learning real life, in the real world finally. (If his mother only knew.) And then the news that Keturia was arriving in Tekomi on a surprise visit (i.e. Inspection for Father probably.) ...sometime today, definitely DROPPED Al's tiny world into a singularity!

"Um... and... um, when am I supposed to greet her?" Aleaic asks, nervously scratching his head, with Tsui 'listening' in the background, giggling where noted, like now.

": Anytime now. She should have gotten in on the Orbital Bus, around 0900 your time zone. Assuming the Quasar Line wasn't procured again. :" Aleaic could only laugh, as the mentioned Line was a primary trade and travel route along the Mother planet's 'Great Circle Route', just in between atmospheric and outer space. And also one usually 'procured' by the Terran Military, out of the blue. That had happened right when Al had left home to come to Tekomi. A progenitor of ill things that came later.

"I can hear Sis ripping heads off now, if that happened.. -hearing a tone.- ...dang... ah, guess my cell call zone allotment is about up! It's been great to hear you mom!"

": You too dear, and 'you' take care of that new 'treasure' of yours. And I don't mean the house! :"

"Heh, I will mom. I love you, and see you around."

Aleaic then endures the dreaded 'phone-kiss' tirade, all the while knowing Tsunami is 'listening', giggling even more. He fights off the usual facial flush and extricates from the cellular, as the allotted cell time expires. (Too long, and world distance phone rates, go WAY up. Some things don't change, it seems. Don't ask about inter-planet packages.)

Al turns and looks droopy. "Mom can be loving at times, albeit overbearing all the same."

Tsui laughs at this description. "I think it's cute." Al groans playfully. "You would."

"So I get to meet your Sister right?" Tsunami stands gracefully, Aleaic looking up, with a reserved, meek nod. "Looks like. And I'll probably get the rough download from her, knowing how much like Mother she is."

"Then I can get pointers." Tsui giggles, as she turns to the large, open pane windows. Aleaic places the CPU back into its charge hook-slot, and looks over at the teal super model outshining beauty. "Can I ask you a question?" Tsui turns back. "Yes?" Aleaic nods with his neck to the living area about them. "Where'd all this stuff come from? Sis might get suspicious when she sees it all." Aleaic says worriedly.

Tsunami though smiles slyly, her arms held before her. "Just tell her that it was all here, when you arrived. You said your Father had said you wanted an off campus place to live." Tsui says with a wink. Al looks in awe, and claps. "Dude. Devious."

Tsunami smiles more normally. "Flatterer."

"And the food? Uh... nevermind, same thing right?" Tsui giggles. "Aye." Aleaic then sighs, smiling despite... "I feel spoiled already." ...before just then, a nature call comes calling. "Oops. Guess I'll be in the lil boys room."

"Okay. You need help there too?"

Aleaic's 'response' sends Tsunami laughing hard into the kitchen. Aleaic extricates/excuses himself upstairs, groaning, and 'makes good' his task, all the while thinking... "How will Sis know where to find me? I'm still not sure this place is the right place. Probably get as likely a visit from the local security constable, as my Sister."

After finishing, and cleaning up, he heads down to the kitchen, following the smells of cooking. This time, a much lighter meal is being cooked. Soup from the smells alone, even a bit of baking. "(Wow! What can't she do?)"

"(- I'm not aware of such. -)" Al -urks- at that, and continues on, into the kitchen. But he doesn't 'find' Tsunami, not surprising he supposes, but then the sound of a chime distracts him.

"I'll get it!" Tsui calls out.

"Okay!" Aleaic shouts back to the living area. "(Hope that's my Sis, and not my 'other' worry.)"

Aleaic decides to set up some fruit drinks, he finds in the large refrigerator, and is about finished, when sounds of girlish chatting pings the air. Al judges... "Yep. Sis alright. Could make friends with a crogitiy in five minutes flat." ...and from there, Al's about to go out with the drinks, when a strange, yet heavy chime sound strikes the air! "Eh? I thought she got the door... eh?" ...as a light plays across his peripheral vision., from.. "HUH?"

As Al puts the drink tray back down on the counter, he notes a vortex of light splays out, from the open pot of Miso soup! One that starts to bend over and strike the floor, and... and...

Something is materializing from the light!

Aleaic almost blows his brain cells with what he's seeing! This as a second Dimensional being suddenly has appeared... OUT OF THE SOUP! A teal-blue haired, young girl finishes materializing, and notes Al's stammered query of... "Wha... wha.. wha.. wha... who... who... who... whooooOOOOOooooo are... are you... you?"

As this new being looks the mortal over, she asks... "Who are... eh? Oh! You must be the one my Big Sister Contracted with! I think the file picture looks right."

Aleaic though tries to look thoughtful, rapid blinking all the while, despite his confusion, then realizes. "Con... con... contracted? You... you must mean that... that Wish thingy! Oh I see., hehe..."

"You ARE the one! How COULD you!"

"Eh?"

-CLANG!-

The next thing Al knows, a spatula is plastered to Al's face. The nose is broken again, and he then promptly falls hard to the floor with a thick -THUMP- sound!

"Ow."

Two other forms enter the kitchen rather swiftly after hearing the ruckus, and... "Sasami?" Tsunami looks in surprise! "Big Sister Tsunami!" the latter responds, with a gushy glom to boot!

"You followed me?" Tsunami asks, looking into an eerily childlike version of herself. Sasami whines back... "I was lonely and worried."

"Sister?" Says a third voice, one Al definitely knows. One that then spikes up, with a teasing... "Ahhhh! I see I'm seeing something interesting to record here, after all." ...one that happens to have a vidcorder with her. Aleaic looks up, with dizzy eyes, and sees a slender sisterly figure, dressed in a simple leather-jeans suit, a partial T-shirt, of the local Florida Soccer club that she hangs with, snazzy techy self-strapping white sneakers of the day, and a long brown ponytail, one that hip angles as much as the owner does, at the hip, this as she looks down at a stricken brother, with amber eyes.

"Ow! Owth... whad tha... ow...!" Aleaic speaks with a blockage, his nose REALLY hurting! "Hi Keturia... ow... owie."

Tsui notes this, and chides back at... "Sasami. That wasn't very nice." ...with admonishment for this, 'Sister'? Sasami reacts back, morose..."But... but he 'stole' you from us! I told you, I didn't believe you." Sasami speaks, tears of worry dropping out. Tsui just smiles back, lightly correcting... "That's silly Little Sister. I've contracted to someone special. He didn't 'steal' me Sister." Tsui as such looks calmly at Sasami. Sasami however... "But, what about..." Sasami pleads a bit too much again.

Tsunami resultantly then looks sternly at Sasami. "Sasami, settle yourself. You broke Aleaic's nose you know?"

From Al's splayed vantage point, Sasami, looks all of a mirror reflection of Tsunami, except for the size and apparent age difference, as well as the presence of two triangles on her head, rather than circles Tsunami is adorned. A more conservative goddess attire adorns Sasami, rather than Tsunami's attire was, her equally lavish mane set in two low ponytails, with a braid down the front of her left ear. The accouterments though are just as glamorous as Tsunami's are, though being an elder sister there has privileges.

Aleaic meanwhile, is helped up by Keturia, whom is pinching Al's back, mainly done so in egging on, as she kneels down... "You have some explaining to do Little Bro." Keturia speaks, placing an arm on Al's head.

"Uhhhnn.. I gwuess I doh, down't Iy." Aleaic, quips, gingerly patting his bleeding nose.

While Tsunami imposes Sasami to drag out an apology, Aleaic nods, with a resultant head rush from blood loss, and thinks to himself.

"(Life just got even more interesting. Owwie.)"

(End Part One)

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Author Notes: If you're read on to this point, congratulations, reading makes your smarter every day. That and welcome to my final revamping of this story line series. Well, more of a cleanup, and then the beginning to adding new stories over time, for a series I have had still in my mind, ever since I left if behind to do other things.

Those that have read my Valkyrie Knight series over in the Ah My Goddess! section of this site will get to read the benefits of my hopefully improved storyline capability. And the intent to finish this one as I saw it go towards all along.

And yes this was SI originally. Time however seems to make me at least feel it's not this anymore. Now I just want to tell a good story in this unique way. And as said, finish this as intended too. Hopefully this will carry through reading the cleaned up chapters I have done already, and further beyond. This is for the Tenchi and Ah My Goddess! Fans out there everywhere, since even after all this time, the two series are my core 'bible' as far as anime enjoyment goes. This is still my attempt to do them both service.

Have fun with future chapters.