"Trick or Treat"
An Oh! My Goddess Fanfic
By Demosthenes
Note: All Ah! Megami-sama/Oh! My Goddess
characters belong to Kosuke Fujishima, etc. I'm just borrowing them.
Skuld was bored. There was
nothing to do, and there hadn't been a bug in the system for hours. Belldandy,
her older sister, had gone Earthside to grant a wish of some mortal.
"Belldandy
doesn't deserve that dopey job. Mortals are fine on their own, I'm sure,"
she thought with a sigh. And most of the other gods and goddesses treated her
like a kid, and she always hated it. She fingered her hammer, ate a few bowls
of ice cream, and then was hit with insight.
"I've
got it!" she shouted to no one, and her voice resounded off the huge
machine-tree. "I can go Earthside! Kami wouldn't mind if I wasn't gone
too, long. Plus, I haven't been there in ages. It'll be a refresher! I'm such a
genius, I really AM!" she smiled, and walked over to her bath. As a
goddess, she didn't need baths, but she could use the water to transport
through. She put her foot in, and then remembered the first rule of entering
the mortal plane. Always generate a three-dimensional form when in the
mortal plane. Otherwise, you would just be an invisible force (a
common prank of junior gods is to scare the superstitious humans that way).
She
messed around with molecules until she came up with her familiar form. Black
hair, darker than a crow's wing, stretched down with the occasional cowlick,
but she smoothed that out as much as possible. She then concealed her
bug-squashing hammer, opened the portal, and stepped in.
Skuld
didn't have a preference to the portal went, as long as it was pleasant and she
could exit the portal without anyone watching, so she had no idea where she
would end up. Exiting always required some skill, but she managed, and popped
her head up, and looked around as she floated out. It was quite dark wherever
she was, and nice and cool, with trees and houses covering most of the field of
vision. She looked around, and saw a few people coming down a...
"Road?
That's what they call them, right?" she looked around some
more, and then heard someone coming around the corner of the road, and she
hastily closed the portal in the puddle on the sidewalk. Seconds later, a boy
in very weird clothing, and a helmet came into view. He seemed about Skuld's
age (she was really immortal, but took the form of a 12-year old), had messy
brown hair under the helmet, and was about a half foot taller than her.
"Hey,
nice costume. What are you supposed to be?" the boy asked, smiling in the
very dim light of an electric streetlamp.
"I
am ... um," she look around and saw some of the other children walking
about. They were all wearing costumes as well. "This must be that American
holiday, Halloween." She silently thanked her '1 Mortal Culture'
teacher. "I am Skuld, a Norse goddess." she said with a smile.
"And you are?"
"What
a coincidence, I'm a Norse god too ... I am ... THOR, GOD OF THUNDER! But I've
never heard of a goddess named Skuld before ..."
She
now recognized the hammer he was carrying, however fake it was.
"Damn,
why does Thor get all the recognition?" she asked herself.
"Oh, Skuld is the Goddess of the Past. Very beautiful and clever, they
say."
"Oh,
okay. Do you want to go trick-or-treating with me? We might get some more candy
before curfew."
"Sure,
fine with me." Skuld replied, pleased at how well she was passing off as
human.
"Hey,
where's your bag?" the boy asked, puzzled.
"I
... er, dropped it. I can't find it now." she said with a very fake sigh.
"Here,
I have an extra one." he unfolded a paper bag, and gave it to her.
"Thanks.
Where should we go now?" she asked, trying not to act too clueless.
"Well,
let's start over there," 'Thor' said with a jerk of his thumb. "We
can move down that street then."
"So
what's your name?" she asked him.
"Oh,
my name's David, but everyone calls me Dave. You?"
"My
name is ... Belldandy." she said, saying the first name that popped into
her head. She couldn't use Skuld, obviously. They walked up to a door, and Dave
knocked on it. A middle-aged woman opened it, and Dave shouted 'trick or
treat,' and the lady gave them both a few pieces of candy. They thanked her,
and walked on. Skuld tore of the wrapper of one of the small bars and popped it
onto her mouth. It was wonderful. Not as good as ice cream, but quite rich. "I
could get used to this!" she thought with a smile.
The pair went from house to house until their
bags were almost full of goodies. They talked and laughed, traded some of their
candies, and generally had a good time. As they approached the next house, a
large white one, Skuld noticed that David got a bit whiter.
"What's
wrong, Dave?" she asked.
"It's
... nothing. Just some bully lives here." he said nervously, toying with
the hammer.
"Don't
worry, he's probably trick-or-treating with his friends." Skuld said with
a smile as they walked up to the house.
"That's
what I'm afraid of." he muttered as he knocked on the door. No answer. He
knocked again.
"Hm,
no one's home, Bell. Let's go." Dave concluded, trying to act brave.
"Alright."
she said, although she felt something was seriously wrong. They walked toward
the gate when a twig snapped behind them. Dave whirled around to see a bunch of
bigger boys is black Grim Reaper costumes. He started walking the other way, and
turned his head just in time to see another group of boys.
"Tax
time!" the lead one shouted, and the others sniggered. "Time for you
and your girlfriend your treats, that's our trick."
"No."
David said weakly.
"What,
has Dave decided to stand up for himself? Or is it the girl?" he said with
mock interest, and the others chuckled.
"Let
us leave." said David quietly.
"I'm
sorry, but I can't do that Dave." said the leader in a monotonous voice,
and the other's started cracking up.
Skuld
had no idea what that meant, but she was mad. "You idiots better let us
leave!" she said, pulling out her long hammer. The gang pulled out their
fake scythes, thinking that this was hilarious. David, not wanting to look
stupid, held out his hammer. There was silence for a moment, and the leader
lunged forward, pushing Dave, and -- *THWAK!* He fell, holding his head.
"Anyone
else want to mess with us?" said Skuld defiantly, holding her hammer out,
and the robed boys slinked off, leaving their leader to stumble back into the
house with an injured head.
The
two walked on in silence.
"Thank
you ... a lot." said Dave.
"No,
thank you. You were the one that initially stood up for me, I just had
to help." She paused, thinking about what would her father do if she was
on Earth too long. "Y'know, I need to go home, but I hope to see you
again. Thanks for a wonderful night, Thor." And she kissed him on the
cheek, before she ran off.
He
was shocked, but managed to shout out, "Good-bye, Skuld!" What he saw
next he didn't tell anyone, because he knew they wouldn't believe him. Skuld
ran and disappeared, right above a puddle.
