Legal Disclaimer: Oh My Goddess and involved characters are owned by Kosuke Fujishima. This story is fanfic and thus no claim of ownership.
Playstation is owned by Sony.
MegamanX6, Felicia and Zangief are owned by Capcom and Sony.
Yadda yadda yadda.
Skulds Assistant
Written by Marc "Eucep" Tuijtelaers
Started 30th of August 2001
Last update 23th of May 2004
A few days ago I became very, VERY happy as I finally got the first OMG! DVD. It re-boosted my creative mind and I got to this story, which is in part based on the idea formed in Oh My Brother (with Christopher Angel) and Oh My God (by Brett Handy). I used some of their idea's behind the setting. This time tough it's a bit of a switch around.
The rest of the setting uses what I know about what happened after the UDP was destroyed. Including the appearance of Welsper, Hilde and Lind.
Having now read the manga from chapter 1 till 176 I am way more up to date. It has led me to change some of the setting I used to be more in place with the events that have happened
The story is written in a letter mode, the main character writes his experiences for his friends who he hasn't seen in a long time.
From: DebuggerMarcasgard.
To: SnorroHotmail.com
Dear crew of the Cyb, the Labyrinth and the Theeshuis and all my other palls.
By this letter I'll try to explain why I haven't been around for a year and didn't let anyone, including my parents, know what was going on. No I'm not dead and no I'm not (really) in trouble.
Everything in this mail is true, but to tell in advance, you cannot forward this mail or show it to anyone else as a: they wouldn't believe it, b: the mail won't let itself be forwarded/copied/printed/shown to anyone else.
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Well, it starts a day before I 'vanished'. On that day occurred the most important turning point in my life.
As usual I was minding my own business at home. I was in the middle of writing a 'excuse me' letter to the people of my last job for quitting as I had found a possibility for a better one, as far as it went I already was hired by my new employee. Soon I would be a military officer, well a non-commissioned officer at the Royal Netherlands Air Force.
Mom had just brought up a cup of tea while I worked on the last details of the letter. After a little chitchat she left to start dinner and left me with the just finished letter and a nice cup of Cinnamon-Darjeeling tea. I had just received an e-mail from a DebuggerSkuldasgard. with the subject 'Wish and stuff.' and I opened it, curious where it came from. It simply stated, "I'll be over in a flash." I really was in that, oh yeah mood then. That was just a bit to weird a comment for me. Yet alas, things got proven to be weirder then just what I assumed to be nonsense writing.
Suddenly the tea started to boil wildly and a column of light erupted from the cup. The most amazing sight I saw was when a 4" girl with black hair jumped out of the 'portal' and landed on the bed of my room. Then poof she turned into a 14 year old girl with a weird pink and red outfit with reminded me of a lab coat. Her long black hair was accented by a big yellow ribbon. On her back she seemed to carry along a 4 foot long croquet hammer. She smiled at me, one of the nicest smiles I know.
"Hi, I'm Skuld, I'm a Goddess and I'm here to grant you a wish." She apparently was in a bit of nervous mode, blabbing out as much information as possible in the shortest time possible. I later learned that this was because this was the first time she had to grant a wish.
"Uh, huh." Still had my touch for very short and meaningful answers. I was in a state of shock to say the least.
"Ello, anybody home in there?" She quickly stood in front of me waving her hand before my eyes.
"Ehrm, did you just say goddess, the goddess Skuld." Now my brain started working again and it especially went back to my reading a book about Norse mythology. "As in the Norn Skuld?"
She nodded. "Yep." She frowned a bit at me, apparently checking out how I appeared at that moment, which wasn't really that good at all. Especially my hair was a mess and I was in only a t-shirt, socks and boxers. I realized this, grabbed my pants and ran out of the room into the bathroom and cleaned myself up in less than two minutes.
Talk about bad first impressions, even for me an all-time low.
When I came back in she was busy at my pc, checking out the letter I just wrote and on the other monitor she was checking out the Internet page I had made as an introduction handiwork for my new employer, quite spiffy if you ask me.
"Sorry for the mess that I call a room." She looked up at me curious.
"What's so bad about a few components on the floor?" She pointed at all the computer parts that were scattered about. I swore she was actually enjoying such a mess.
"So what's this about a wish and you granting me it. Like don't you have to run around with Verdandi and Urd to predict fate for every newborn?" She was shutting down my computer as I said this.
"Belldandy, not Verdandi anymore, she likes her new name better. And Yggdrassil can take care of mortal fate well enough. And yes, you get one wish, any wish you want. Even tough it has to be approved by Kami-Sama."
"Ehrm, who is Kami-Sama, or do you perhaps mean Odin?"
She nodded. "One entity, many names."
"Wow, a wish, gulp. Eh, gimme some time to think." I sat down on my bed and did some long thinking. After about ten minutes Skuld obviously was starting to get bored. She looked young, acted young, and acted a lot like my little niece Tamara so I turned on the tube and the Playstation.
"Care for a game while I think." I held up MegamanX6 and Pocket Fighters.
She grabbed Pocket Fighters and inserted the disk. "Thank you." She grabbed the controller and handed me the other one.
After a few bouts it became apparent that even tough I was more experienced with the game, she had the advantage with divine senses.
"So why are you from up there granting wishes?"
She was thoroughly whacking me up using Felicia, while I used Zangief. "Because Yggdrassil is taking care of just about all the tasks we had we got some new tasks. Like granting wishes to worthy mortals."
"Worthy mortals, what makes me 'worthy'?" I wondered. "It's not like I truly did anything to deserve such a thing as far as I know."
"As far as I know you simply are worthy, even tough Urd said that you suffer from the K1-syndrome."
I decided to ignore the last remark, not really understanding what it meant. "So you and your sisters are all granting wishes?"
"No, it's actually Belldandy's task, but she is occupied with another task now, so now I or Urd get the job when other deities aren't available. Bell was really good at the task, but I'm completely novice at this and Urd just screws up everything..." And Skuld continued with a short tirade about her sisters good and bad sides, near to none of the latter about her sister Belldandy. "... So this morning I got a call from Kami-sama that I was to grant a wish.
"Sounds cool." I finally snagged her into a clothesine attack, but in mid pummel she managed to worm herself out of the attack. "What kind of wishes do you gods and goddesses get? I hope none involved secret ultimate world-domination."
"Nope, the ultimate force won't allow such things, but we have some pretty strange ones regularly. Most of them tough wish for riches or chances for big riches..." She went on with several of the weirder and funnier wishes and the way the ultimate force, the force that enforces wishes and the power of the gods, worked until she ended up with one of the more recent ones, one granted by her sister Belldandy. "... and then this Baka Keicchi wished for a girl like her to stay with him forever."
That one got to me. "So he managed to get involved with one of the probably prettiest girls in existence and get a happy immortality at the same time. Lucky bastard. But is he really so bad, I don't think he can be if he got a wish in the first place."
Her eyes widened. "I-Im-Immortality?" The wish now fully rang in her head and she realized the truth. Then the cries came out a lot, she cried a very long time. All the time muttering "It's not fair, it's not fair." I laid my arm around her to comfort her. It helped a bit, she cried a bit less, but she looked really miserably. Luckily that even tough I'm fairly big I never appear threathingly, otherwise I probably would have been ashed right that moment.
I felt rather awkward, touching a goddess that intimate, tough it was more like when I had to comfort my lil niece when she was being bullied. "Ahw, come on Skuld, if your sister is happy with him, doesn't she deserve that happiness. Aren't you happy when she is happy too. If you were nice to him you would probably gain a friend for life you know and with you that is a very long time. With a bit of luck in a few years he cannot stay on earth anymore as he probably doesn't age to insure happiness with Belldandy, so he'll have to move with Belldandy to your home. At least I presume that the ultimate force works both ways."
She looked up at me with watery eyes. "Do you really think so?" I nodded. "That we can go home?"
It took a bit and I smiled. "Yup."
Holding her for a while I allowed her to calm down, she really needed it, but from her face I could tell she suddenly had a lot to think about. At least this way I knew that a goddess like Skuld isn't omniscient. (Know everything divine power.)
A few minutes later I came back to the issue at hand. "I really cannot come up with a wish. I could go for riches, but I rather work for my happiness. Same goes for my looks and getting a perfect girlfriend and so. Secret powers allure me, but they'll distance me from my friends and family. So all in all, there really isn't anything I could come up with other than this." I raised my voice.
"I wish for you to get my wish instead, the only wish I will not allow is one that would cancel Keicchi's and Belldandy's one." I just smiled at her. She had a look of utter confusion on her face.
I had noted before that she had a triangle symbol on the front of her head, but now it started to glow in a light blue and a beam of light shot from it up into the air. It seemed to leave a hole in the roof, but it closed as the beam stopped. She sat on the floor now and looked at me. "Your wish has been approved." This wish probably ranked eleven out of ten on the weirdness scale for her.
"You have a long time ahead of you so you have more use for a wish than I do."
"..."
"Well, it's been my pleasure to meet you. Hmm, maybe you care for dinner, nah, mom wouldn't believe who you are..." Not really wishing to look directly into the eyes of the goddess I looked at some stuffed toys I still had on my room from my baby time. They were moving around on their own. "Errr. Skuld, did you do that?" I pointed at the stuffed rabbit walking around in front of me on the ground.
She snapped out of her own shock and saw what was happening. "No, it's a bug, caused by your highly unusual wish." Something that really made me question what she was talking about.
Her eyes went from playful to hunting mode, well not physical, but I noted a difference. She grabbed the hammer from her back. "When I find it I'll whak it good. Ah, there it is."
She charged at a being that looked like a cross of a rabbit and a spider. Cute and revolting at the same time. It scampered away, but Skuld gave chase. Down the chairs through the hallway and the kitchen into the garden. Of course alerting my parents of her presence, not much tough as they too were bugged, experiencing several flowers who were walking around due to the bug. I too went down to see her hunting that thing, but it dodged every blow of her. I ran over to the shed and took out the wooden sledgehammer my dad used for hammering down poles into the ground to make fences. At 40 pounds it is a lot heavier than Skulds and thus slower, but it has the same length and I had the advantage of surprise. My reasoning proved true as Skuld was chasing the bug it didn't pay attention to me when I brought down the hammer on its head. I heard a little squeal and saw a small poof of smoke as Skuld's hammer hit on top of the sledgehammer, conveying it's debugging power on the larger hammer.
Immediately the plants rerooted themselves and the only weirdness left was me and Skuld smiling at each other with hammers on our shoulders and my parents looking as if they had seen ghosts (close tough).
Skuld placed a hand on my shoulder and smiled. "Thanks, you know, I really wished I had an assistant like you around." Then she and I both gulped. She had used the wish word.
I could only utter "Oh, no." before the feeling hit me. An unknown energy (Yggdrassil, the tree/computer which houses existence itself) flowed through me.
According to dad I was engulfed in a purple hue and I started to float. On the front of my head I felt a weird tingling sensation as a beam like with Skuld shot from the front of my head into the sky. A few seconds later I felt the energy subside, tough not completely and I sat on the ground looking up at a once again confused Skuld. (I seem to have a knack for confusing people.)
My parents also were on the ground and looked at me agawk. "Is that you?" I turned around and looked at myself in the pond, I looked and I fainted.
Playstation is owned by Sony.
MegamanX6, Felicia and Zangief are owned by Capcom and Sony.
Yadda yadda yadda.
Skulds Assistant
Written by Marc "Eucep" Tuijtelaers
Started 30th of August 2001
Last update 23th of May 2004
A few days ago I became very, VERY happy as I finally got the first OMG! DVD. It re-boosted my creative mind and I got to this story, which is in part based on the idea formed in Oh My Brother (with Christopher Angel) and Oh My God (by Brett Handy). I used some of their idea's behind the setting. This time tough it's a bit of a switch around.
The rest of the setting uses what I know about what happened after the UDP was destroyed. Including the appearance of Welsper, Hilde and Lind.
Having now read the manga from chapter 1 till 176 I am way more up to date. It has led me to change some of the setting I used to be more in place with the events that have happened
The story is written in a letter mode, the main character writes his experiences for his friends who he hasn't seen in a long time.
From: DebuggerMarcasgard.
To: SnorroHotmail.com
Dear crew of the Cyb, the Labyrinth and the Theeshuis and all my other palls.
By this letter I'll try to explain why I haven't been around for a year and didn't let anyone, including my parents, know what was going on. No I'm not dead and no I'm not (really) in trouble.
Everything in this mail is true, but to tell in advance, you cannot forward this mail or show it to anyone else as a: they wouldn't believe it, b: the mail won't let itself be forwarded/copied/printed/shown to anyone else.
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Well, it starts a day before I 'vanished'. On that day occurred the most important turning point in my life.
As usual I was minding my own business at home. I was in the middle of writing a 'excuse me' letter to the people of my last job for quitting as I had found a possibility for a better one, as far as it went I already was hired by my new employee. Soon I would be a military officer, well a non-commissioned officer at the Royal Netherlands Air Force.
Mom had just brought up a cup of tea while I worked on the last details of the letter. After a little chitchat she left to start dinner and left me with the just finished letter and a nice cup of Cinnamon-Darjeeling tea. I had just received an e-mail from a DebuggerSkuldasgard. with the subject 'Wish and stuff.' and I opened it, curious where it came from. It simply stated, "I'll be over in a flash." I really was in that, oh yeah mood then. That was just a bit to weird a comment for me. Yet alas, things got proven to be weirder then just what I assumed to be nonsense writing.
Suddenly the tea started to boil wildly and a column of light erupted from the cup. The most amazing sight I saw was when a 4" girl with black hair jumped out of the 'portal' and landed on the bed of my room. Then poof she turned into a 14 year old girl with a weird pink and red outfit with reminded me of a lab coat. Her long black hair was accented by a big yellow ribbon. On her back she seemed to carry along a 4 foot long croquet hammer. She smiled at me, one of the nicest smiles I know.
"Hi, I'm Skuld, I'm a Goddess and I'm here to grant you a wish." She apparently was in a bit of nervous mode, blabbing out as much information as possible in the shortest time possible. I later learned that this was because this was the first time she had to grant a wish.
"Uh, huh." Still had my touch for very short and meaningful answers. I was in a state of shock to say the least.
"Ello, anybody home in there?" She quickly stood in front of me waving her hand before my eyes.
"Ehrm, did you just say goddess, the goddess Skuld." Now my brain started working again and it especially went back to my reading a book about Norse mythology. "As in the Norn Skuld?"
She nodded. "Yep." She frowned a bit at me, apparently checking out how I appeared at that moment, which wasn't really that good at all. Especially my hair was a mess and I was in only a t-shirt, socks and boxers. I realized this, grabbed my pants and ran out of the room into the bathroom and cleaned myself up in less than two minutes.
Talk about bad first impressions, even for me an all-time low.
When I came back in she was busy at my pc, checking out the letter I just wrote and on the other monitor she was checking out the Internet page I had made as an introduction handiwork for my new employer, quite spiffy if you ask me.
"Sorry for the mess that I call a room." She looked up at me curious.
"What's so bad about a few components on the floor?" She pointed at all the computer parts that were scattered about. I swore she was actually enjoying such a mess.
"So what's this about a wish and you granting me it. Like don't you have to run around with Verdandi and Urd to predict fate for every newborn?" She was shutting down my computer as I said this.
"Belldandy, not Verdandi anymore, she likes her new name better. And Yggdrassil can take care of mortal fate well enough. And yes, you get one wish, any wish you want. Even tough it has to be approved by Kami-Sama."
"Ehrm, who is Kami-Sama, or do you perhaps mean Odin?"
She nodded. "One entity, many names."
"Wow, a wish, gulp. Eh, gimme some time to think." I sat down on my bed and did some long thinking. After about ten minutes Skuld obviously was starting to get bored. She looked young, acted young, and acted a lot like my little niece Tamara so I turned on the tube and the Playstation.
"Care for a game while I think." I held up MegamanX6 and Pocket Fighters.
She grabbed Pocket Fighters and inserted the disk. "Thank you." She grabbed the controller and handed me the other one.
After a few bouts it became apparent that even tough I was more experienced with the game, she had the advantage with divine senses.
"So why are you from up there granting wishes?"
She was thoroughly whacking me up using Felicia, while I used Zangief. "Because Yggdrassil is taking care of just about all the tasks we had we got some new tasks. Like granting wishes to worthy mortals."
"Worthy mortals, what makes me 'worthy'?" I wondered. "It's not like I truly did anything to deserve such a thing as far as I know."
"As far as I know you simply are worthy, even tough Urd said that you suffer from the K1-syndrome."
I decided to ignore the last remark, not really understanding what it meant. "So you and your sisters are all granting wishes?"
"No, it's actually Belldandy's task, but she is occupied with another task now, so now I or Urd get the job when other deities aren't available. Bell was really good at the task, but I'm completely novice at this and Urd just screws up everything..." And Skuld continued with a short tirade about her sisters good and bad sides, near to none of the latter about her sister Belldandy. "... So this morning I got a call from Kami-sama that I was to grant a wish.
"Sounds cool." I finally snagged her into a clothesine attack, but in mid pummel she managed to worm herself out of the attack. "What kind of wishes do you gods and goddesses get? I hope none involved secret ultimate world-domination."
"Nope, the ultimate force won't allow such things, but we have some pretty strange ones regularly. Most of them tough wish for riches or chances for big riches..." She went on with several of the weirder and funnier wishes and the way the ultimate force, the force that enforces wishes and the power of the gods, worked until she ended up with one of the more recent ones, one granted by her sister Belldandy. "... and then this Baka Keicchi wished for a girl like her to stay with him forever."
That one got to me. "So he managed to get involved with one of the probably prettiest girls in existence and get a happy immortality at the same time. Lucky bastard. But is he really so bad, I don't think he can be if he got a wish in the first place."
Her eyes widened. "I-Im-Immortality?" The wish now fully rang in her head and she realized the truth. Then the cries came out a lot, she cried a very long time. All the time muttering "It's not fair, it's not fair." I laid my arm around her to comfort her. It helped a bit, she cried a bit less, but she looked really miserably. Luckily that even tough I'm fairly big I never appear threathingly, otherwise I probably would have been ashed right that moment.
I felt rather awkward, touching a goddess that intimate, tough it was more like when I had to comfort my lil niece when she was being bullied. "Ahw, come on Skuld, if your sister is happy with him, doesn't she deserve that happiness. Aren't you happy when she is happy too. If you were nice to him you would probably gain a friend for life you know and with you that is a very long time. With a bit of luck in a few years he cannot stay on earth anymore as he probably doesn't age to insure happiness with Belldandy, so he'll have to move with Belldandy to your home. At least I presume that the ultimate force works both ways."
She looked up at me with watery eyes. "Do you really think so?" I nodded. "That we can go home?"
It took a bit and I smiled. "Yup."
Holding her for a while I allowed her to calm down, she really needed it, but from her face I could tell she suddenly had a lot to think about. At least this way I knew that a goddess like Skuld isn't omniscient. (Know everything divine power.)
A few minutes later I came back to the issue at hand. "I really cannot come up with a wish. I could go for riches, but I rather work for my happiness. Same goes for my looks and getting a perfect girlfriend and so. Secret powers allure me, but they'll distance me from my friends and family. So all in all, there really isn't anything I could come up with other than this." I raised my voice.
"I wish for you to get my wish instead, the only wish I will not allow is one that would cancel Keicchi's and Belldandy's one." I just smiled at her. She had a look of utter confusion on her face.
I had noted before that she had a triangle symbol on the front of her head, but now it started to glow in a light blue and a beam of light shot from it up into the air. It seemed to leave a hole in the roof, but it closed as the beam stopped. She sat on the floor now and looked at me. "Your wish has been approved." This wish probably ranked eleven out of ten on the weirdness scale for her.
"You have a long time ahead of you so you have more use for a wish than I do."
"..."
"Well, it's been my pleasure to meet you. Hmm, maybe you care for dinner, nah, mom wouldn't believe who you are..." Not really wishing to look directly into the eyes of the goddess I looked at some stuffed toys I still had on my room from my baby time. They were moving around on their own. "Errr. Skuld, did you do that?" I pointed at the stuffed rabbit walking around in front of me on the ground.
She snapped out of her own shock and saw what was happening. "No, it's a bug, caused by your highly unusual wish." Something that really made me question what she was talking about.
Her eyes went from playful to hunting mode, well not physical, but I noted a difference. She grabbed the hammer from her back. "When I find it I'll whak it good. Ah, there it is."
She charged at a being that looked like a cross of a rabbit and a spider. Cute and revolting at the same time. It scampered away, but Skuld gave chase. Down the chairs through the hallway and the kitchen into the garden. Of course alerting my parents of her presence, not much tough as they too were bugged, experiencing several flowers who were walking around due to the bug. I too went down to see her hunting that thing, but it dodged every blow of her. I ran over to the shed and took out the wooden sledgehammer my dad used for hammering down poles into the ground to make fences. At 40 pounds it is a lot heavier than Skulds and thus slower, but it has the same length and I had the advantage of surprise. My reasoning proved true as Skuld was chasing the bug it didn't pay attention to me when I brought down the hammer on its head. I heard a little squeal and saw a small poof of smoke as Skuld's hammer hit on top of the sledgehammer, conveying it's debugging power on the larger hammer.
Immediately the plants rerooted themselves and the only weirdness left was me and Skuld smiling at each other with hammers on our shoulders and my parents looking as if they had seen ghosts (close tough).
Skuld placed a hand on my shoulder and smiled. "Thanks, you know, I really wished I had an assistant like you around." Then she and I both gulped. She had used the wish word.
I could only utter "Oh, no." before the feeling hit me. An unknown energy (Yggdrassil, the tree/computer which houses existence itself) flowed through me.
According to dad I was engulfed in a purple hue and I started to float. On the front of my head I felt a weird tingling sensation as a beam like with Skuld shot from the front of my head into the sky. A few seconds later I felt the energy subside, tough not completely and I sat on the ground looking up at a once again confused Skuld. (I seem to have a knack for confusing people.)
My parents also were on the ground and looked at me agawk. "Is that you?" I turned around and looked at myself in the pond, I looked and I fainted.