Disclaimer - I don't own any OMG stuff. Author's Note-Sorry it took so long to post this.

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Keiichi felt the ooze seep into his brain. Just before slipping into unconsciousness, he thought, 'I'm so sorry Bell, I tried my best. Please forgive me.'

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Belldandy snapped awake. She knew Keiichi was close. She had known that he was coming. Just when she could feel him the strongest, he had stopped. Just stopped completely. She had heard his mind racing and as he was almost there, he stopped. So suddenly that she felt all the life draining from him. His voice brushed her mind gently. "I'm sorry Bell. I failed. Forgive me." His voice faded and she felt his sprit, the part that made him human, leave. Tears dripped down her cheeks. The dark lord roared with laughter. "So much for your hero now." He shouted. "So much for the legendary God." He spat in her face. "He died. Just passing my first defense. What a weakling. The god died." He collapsed on the floor, he was laughing so hard. "I wouldn't be so sure about that," a low voice said from the doorway.

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Keiichi knew he was dying. He had felt a piece of him slip away. When it snapped. The barrier that held him snapped. He jumped out and felt refreshed. As if the part that had left had been holding him down all along. He heard a low cold laughter in the archway and he felt Belldandy's tears even though she across the room from him. He leaned in the doorway. He saw who was laughing and joking to Belldandy's expense. A cold glittering rage filled him and he spoke. "I wouldn't be so sure about that."

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The dark one froze on the floor, shocked. He turned his head slowly as he gazed unbelieving at the figure glaring at him in the doorway. His eyes examined the person that had spoken. He was tall, his black hair pushed off his face by a glimmering headpiece, revealing three markings emblazoned on his forehead. A cloak whipped around his body as if a wind was blowing it. His eyes, now glaring, were dark and filled with rage, all directed at him. A small gasp took the stranger's eyes off him for a moment. The figure strode calmly past him to the woman, now shackled to the wall. "Belldandy," he whispered, "Are you all right? Has he hurt you?" "I'm fine now that you're here Keiichi," Belldandy replied. The dark one, Naki (he named himself remember?) watched, stunned, as Keiichi ripped the shackles off the wall, using pure muscle. Belldandy fell into his arms. "Here, let me get that for you," he said as he snapped the collar in half. Belldandy sobbed in his arms, All the while as her hands ran over his body as if making sure that he was real. Naki just stared at the broken collar on the floor. He had poured both magic and the strongest alloys into that collar. The strongest god wasn't able the break the anklets that enslaved them to him and this collar was made of materials more than twice as strong and this stranger had broken it with his bare hands. Who was this? The one who had gone through the barrier had died. He had seen it through Belldandy. And no one else had gone into the barricade, so who was this? Keiichi stroked her hair as he tried to comfort the sobbing woman in his arms. Her clothes were torn and gaping wounds shone cruelly through the tears. He picked her up and laid her gently on the floor. She whimpered when she felt him let her go but became relaxed as she felt magic swelling around the two of them. Sparks of blue and gold scurried down her body, seeping into her cuts and bruises and magically healing them. Belldandy could feel Keiichi's fingers softly stroking her temples as she felt a beginnings of a transporting spell encircling them, right before the room around them melted and replaced itself with the room in their house, in which Belldandy normally slept. "Keiichi" she murmured, reaching out her hand to cup his cheek in her palm. Keiichi raised his hand to press hers against his cheek. She tried to speak again but was stopped by Keiichi's finger, which rested, against her lips. "Shh. Sleep now. I'll explain later," he whispered, reaching down with his finger to touch her temple. "Sleep now," he said, helping her into a dreamless sleep with his magic.

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Author's note: So what do you think so far? This isn't the end at all. Naki has just lost the upper edge, that's all but there will be more. Also, reviews help the story along. It helps to know that some one is reading this. So please review and tell me what you think