Hello everyone. I can use this moment to officially stop the rumors that I had vanished off the world somewhere. Anyway I am so sorry that it has taken this long to update and post the story school, work and lets face it life has an interesting way of getting in the way of things we really want to do. So here we go another chapter in the story of Njord. Can the Goddess Figure out what is wrong with Njord before it is too late. Find out….now.

Disclaimer: All original characters of 'Oh! My Goddess' belong to Mr. Kosuke Fujishima and are under copyright of Dark Horse Comics. Njord and Loki and other characters as related are of my own invention and not associated with Oh! My Goddess.

Chapter 6

The following week pasted like all the others have, except that the house empty by at least two people. Peorth had returned to heaven with Lady Erda, both were looking at the files of the Oil Rig disaster to see if they can find anything to point to foul play, but so far nothing came up. In a telephone call from Peorth, an analyst of the document came back as negative to the affect of discrepancies in Njord's signature. Peorth told them that she and Lady Erda will continue their best but so far things were not looking to good.

Njord on the hand disappeared shortly after breakfast on Monday, and was not heard from until Wednesday Afternoon. According to King Aryer's messengers, he was in the archives of the kingdom looking over every previous order he had given. No body knew what he was looking for, only Njord. Njord was quiet as he came home to help deliver an order for Chihiro on Thursday, and on Friday Morning he vanished again only this time he went back to the oil rig and looked over its skeletal remains for clues.

Sunday Morning came quietly, as Njord came back to the house, but he sat on the porch trying to figure things out. Belldandy came out with a tray of cups and a steaming kettle of tea. She poured him a glass, but he did not take it from her like he always had, the glass just sat next to him.

"What's happening to me?" Njord whispered after a week of silence.

"I don't know." Belldandy just said, she didn't take a sip of her tea either. She looked at her friend and mentor with a deep feeling of concern and worry. "The Almighty didn't say that he would revoke your powers did he?"

"No." Njord whispered he reached down and took a sip of his tea; it was a simple lemon flavor. "But what I don't like is the fact that I'm not in control of this. I am responsible for everything that happens in my jurisdiction and if something goes a miss, I need to know what happened, and…." Njord shiver uncontrollably. "Its one thing for a spirit to go off the deep end…but it's another thing when I do it, and I can't remember."

"Njord." Belldandy said and turned her head to him with a smile and said, "You said, you can't remember it, and so many people are here to help you." Her smile drop a little bit and she said, "So let us help you."

Njord looked into her eyes and could see the desire that she wanted to help him. Njord blinked and turned away from her as he opened his mouth and said, "No."

Belldandy's heart froze as Njord continued, "This is my responsibility and I will deal with this on my own." Njord stood up after taking a big gulp of the tea, draining it and thanked her for the tea and said, "I need to get some rest."

Njord slept in the attic all day as the Goddess below discussed what Belldandy had discussed with Njord. She told him that he had been looking for clues around King Aryer's archives and the Oil Rig itself. She told him about her offer from them to help in his investigation and that he turned them down.

"He's being a jerk about this whole thing!" Skuld uproared after Belldandy told them what Njord said, "My big sister can find anything. We can help him in the search, I can get my memory scanner and we can put it on Njord's head and figure out what's going on."

"Hang on Robo-girl." Urd said, placing her hand on Skuld's head, "I think that we're running into this way too fast, he's trying to find out what happening to him if all the evidence points against him, when he thinks it never was him. Maybe we should just let him work on it on his own, after all that's what he wants."

"What can he figure out on his own?" Skuld expressed in her already angry tone. "Heaven can't figure it out, and all his signatures are the same, so he needs help."

"Hey, maybe he's just running scared." Keiichi chimed in after listening to both sides of the discussion.

"What do you mean by that, Keiichi?" Skuld asked sounding totally unconvinced as Urd and Belldandy looked at him for an answer.

"Well, what I mean is." Keiichi started to explain. "He just had a major disaster happen that was caused by him and yet he doesn't remember it. So maybe inside of him he's panicking and the only solution that he can think of it that it's his responsibility to figure it out on his own."

All the goddess looked at Keiichi as Belldandy nodded and said, "I think that's it."

"But he's got heaven and we're backing him up then why not use us." Skuld said in a point blank question.

"Njord can be both prideful and stubborn, and until he needs our help I think that the only thing we can do is support him in that venture." Belldandy spoke up and both Urd and Skuld just nodded. Njord who lay awake to hear the discussion closed his eyes and fell back to sleep, the pain in his neck cringed a little bit.

As the night progressed, Njord again tossed and turned with the pain in his neck getting tenser. Finally after a few minutes the pain subsided for Njord, and he turned over to get some more sleep. But he only closed his eyes when the pain came again, this time with more ferocity than it did before, and once again he passed out as the pain became too intense for him to handle. When he woke up, his eyes were once again cloudy, and he heard the same voice again.

"They now know someone will hear them." The gentle voice whispered to him inside his mind.

"I will hear them, and I will be their arm." Njord whispered as he left the attic.

"But they will not heed one strike, the human race needs something drastic to shake them out of their apathy." The voice told him as Njord smiled and as he vanished out of the house he smiled.

"I know what I can do."

Njord vanished into the calm night air just as he had done before; but out in the forest two men emerged looking into the sky. The men were twins and both were medium built with eyes were black the night. Both men had on their foreheads were small black dots. Above each of their eyebrows where two different marks, on the right was a blue triangle; on the left was a red compressed diamond.

"Well there he goes." One man said to his brother.

"I'm still not convinced." The other whispered to his brother.

"Dammit Vali, your prismatic attitude is starting to piss me off." The man said and pushed his brother on his shoulder.

"Look Narif, you and Hel are convinced, but all it takes is one of them to catch on and that's it." Vali said to his brother trying to calm him done. "Plus I am not willing to risk any plan based on a banished demon trying to keep three goddess and now two Elements in the dark. It's suicide!"

"Where you there after the rig, did you see the aftermath?" Narif said to his brother into his face. "Njord and heaven couldn't figure it out, everything's going to plan and who knows what might happen tonight, they could strike him down." Narif said sounding hopefully.

Vali stood in the middle of a working circle he and Narif used to get the forest and after a light encircled around them he said, "I'll believe it when I see it." And with that he and Narif vanished from the forest with Velsper sitting in the middle of the house using his powers to keep everyone asleep and their minds clear.

Thank you again for reading, I appreciate all the support you all give me and I hope you continue to enjoy the story as much as I enjoy writing it.