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Introduction
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Urd sighed as she watched the nursery from her time bubble. The baby with the goddess marking cooed in her arms. The baby girl that was below her choked on it's cries. A tear slid down her cheek. She couldn't save this one. It was against her orders.
Why did he have to give me this assignment? Urd shifted the baby goddess in her arms, Even though it saves the life of this goddess, from a time that I don't even know. I looked; this goddess has no birth date, but today.... but...the year...But this innocent baby...this human baby....why?.........
Urd yawned as she glanced at the clock in the room below; 7 am.
She didn't understand Kami-sama's plan. She never did, but she knew when to follow. He asked for her specifically for this assignment, and that was a rare honour for a goddess, especially of her stature.
She watched as the nurse sighed, pulling a blanket over the baby's limp body as the cries desisted, and an annoying beep continues through the now life-less room.
Freezing time, Urd came out of her time bubble and walked over to the baby that was now dead on the cold table, blood drooling from it's mouth as a hideous rash covered it's whole neck, she guessed that its what killed the baby, choked as it comes out of its became taunt around its neck, crushing the tiny wind pipe.
Urd shuttered as she floated up the life less form to replace it with the babe in her arms. The live baby stirred and let out a small cry as she was placed on the cold table. The goddess markings already starting to fade from the potion that she was given from Kami-sama. (With instructions for her not to tamper with it either., which was followed by an eye-rolling Urd.)
With a thin thread of lightning, she cause a smaller burn to occur on the live baby's neck, and then added a small mark on her chest, right above the right breast as a sign. It was what looked like a winged angel, but in a few years the mark will not show, and no one would know but her (and Kami- sama, of course) who she really was. The wings mark immediately started to fade. Unless, of course, Kami-sama decided that it was time for Asgard and for Hell to know about this Goddess.
"Good luck, little one." Urd whispered as she quickly cleaned the blood from the baby that now disappeared to a different dimension. (most likely to be drowned cause it's dead...there was not even a soul that had formed within the baby, but Urd still couldn't help but feel heavy hearted over the whole situation.)
"May the gods and Goddesses watch over you, till you return to us once again." And with that Urd re-entered her time dimension, wiping the tears that snuck through her guard, as time started to continue and the solid beep started to create a rhythm of a healthy baby girl in the maternity ward at Surrey Memorial Hospital.
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Chapter 1 ~ One Wish
**15 years later**
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Noise of lunch hour filled the hallways as the bell rung for a second time. And student rushed to their lockers, chatting away with their friends as though only they existed. Ignoring the blonde haired girl that sat in the back corner with her nose stuck in a book. No one saw her, not one care as they all went on their way.
Looking up, Andrea soon saw that the classroom was empty of all students and her teacher was cleaning up her things and getting ready for lunch and her next class. Closing the cover of her almost finished book, she then headed to her usual eating spot; the Library.
Pushing open the doors, Andrea walked down the familiar hallway greeting the librarian and then headed to the little corner where she usually snuck in her lunch while she read away her lunch hour. Sighing Andrea pulled out her book from her backpack and then started to read away. She could not help but thinking how boring her life really was, and how much she wished to have someone there to talk to.
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Belldandy looked up from her knitting as the phone started to ring. Setting the needles down and setting the yarn so that way it didn't roll away, She stood up and headed towards the ringing phone. Reaching down to pick up the receiver, and answered with her usual cheerful welcome.
"Hello, Morsato residence."
"..." (What I can't tell you what he's saying!)
"Lord!" She listened to the voice on the other end, nodding her head slightly. "I understand." And with that she put the phone down, just as Urd walked out of her hobby room into the hallway.
"Who was that?" Belldandy started at the phone. "..Bell..?!"
"I have to answer a wish." Urd stared at her.
"But I thought that you can't do that until your done with this wish to Keiichi?"
Belldandy shook her head, "It seems that duty calls." She turned to Urd and smiled with a laugh behind her eyes. "Please Keichii-san know where I am if he beats me home, k?" Urd nodded as Belldandy transformed into her goddess uniform. And with a blink, a streak of blue disappeared through the mirror, leaving Urd to her own thoughts as an explosion threw open the door to Skuld Lab.
Ignoring the cough in from the other room, Urd couldn't help but wonder, "If she could answer wishes, why start now? If she can't, Why this time?"
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Andrea sighed as she slid off her bed, pulling off her earphones. Looking out the window, swirls of November snow fluttered under the bright streetlights. Stretching out her legs, she then headed to the bathroom. She really didn't feel like doing her homework for the weekend. So as usual she pulled out the latest book. It wasn't that she was bored or anything, she just loved to read. It seemed that anything of the written word took her away to a place far from here.
Far from a boring life of no dreams and school. In the books she could live out their life, the characters feelings, and thoughts, all the while growing her own. She could fall in Love with the Prince, or the lowly stableman, or the cutest to the sweetest guy in town. And then be swept off her feet as the feelings are returned. She could have adventure of running for her life cause some one wanted to kill you cause you saw something that you weren't meant to be shown. Or to be the world's greatest detective and solve the murder that has everyone but you baffled.
No, she didn't read because she was bored, she read because she felt that there was something missing that she found through the eyes of the writer.
Glancing at the clock in her room, and reading 2:54, she yawned and sleepily wandered into the hallway. '...You really need to go to bed on time, girl, or else your teachers will start sending letters home saying that you sleep in class too often...' reprimanded the voice in her head.
'Yeah, I know...but it's out of habit now!' She thought back.
'That's no excuse and you know it!' Andrea pushed open the bathroom door, unsuccessfully stopping a second yawn. Looking in the mirror, she failed at first to notice the slight differences in the mirror, or just dismissing it for the late night. It was about 3 am, after all!
Rubbing she eyes, Andrea took a second look and blinked her eyes and then rubbed them again. The image that she saw was just like her, but didn't move like her, as if she was looking at a painting of herself, only it wasn't her.
Looking closer into the mirror the image blinked and then started to look a little startled as well, only the Andrea in the mirror had some sort of markings on her face, and a blue shimmery dress, unlike anything that she had ever seen, and her hair was much longer, but still the same colour. Reaching a hand to her face, she saw the image do the same, touching where the supposedly markings were. Then the sudden image leaped forward, startling Andrea to the back wall, and the image fully came out of the mirror, only to float a few inches of the ground, and smile. Andrea, being careful to be quiet, slid to the floor and looked up at the familiar image of her, ...only not her.
"Hi! I'm Belldandy!" The girl said in a whispering singsong voice. Letting off a warm smile and a calming sense of peace. "I'm here to grant you one wish."
"WHA..?!?" Andrea quickly clamped her hands over her mouth. She did NOT want to wake up her parents, they would KILL her if they found out she had stayed up late reading again. She then brought her voice down to a whisper. "What? Who are you?....What are you?"
The girl giggled, and the repeated her self, adding a few bits here and there, "I'm Belldandy, Goddess First Class, and I'm here to grant you one wish"
"Why?"
"Because, you are one of very few that qualify for a wish."
Andrea was totally confused. 'Is this for real? A Goddess?? As if there was such things.' Andrea looked up at Belldandy, slightly skeptical, 'but then again. One wish, eh? Gee, if I could have one wish. a friend would be nice, like one that I could trust, or maybe for my sister to be nicer....wait that doesn't work...I don't think. what else could I wish for?' Belldandy floated to the ground and sat across from her in the small bathroom. And she waited as Andrea thought through everything that she ever wanted. '..an adventure...a friend....an interesting life....God! I don't know..Wait a minute?!!'
"You thought of one?" Belldandy looked into her eyes, quizzically. Andrea nodded. Looking over Belldandy, Andrea could just feel the love and warmth all over the girl, as if she could tell her anything. And she didn't even _know_ her! Collecting her thoughts, Andrea thought of how to word her wish.
"I wish...I wish..." Belldandy looked at her pleased that she would fulfill another dream of a girl.
"I Wish..that I could have a twin sister, just like you."
Without a moments hesitation, a bright light shone from the markings on Belldandy's forehead, and she started to float up. Tilting her head up, a brilliant light beamed froward as a great power filled the room, scattering everything that was not tied down, creating what seemed like a vacuum, or a whirl wind in the tiny bathroom. Andrea covered her eyes as her sisters powdered make-up showered her face. Hiding from anything else, she didn't open her eyes up until the thundering noise stopped. She didn't even think of her parents, as she looked upon the face of Belldandy. All she could see was confusion and a bit of fear as she whispered, "Wish approved." Looking down at Andrea, she could see curiosity flow from her eyes.
"Oh dear!" She whispered, although not quietly enough for Andrea not to hear.
"What is it?"
"..Do you have a phone?"
Andrea nodded, "Yeah, downstairs in the kitchen." Belldandy then grabbed her hand and then pulled her to where she had indicated. Placing the phone at her ear, she typed in a long series of numbers, *'Gee, I hope that that's not long distance!'* and then she started to whisper into the phone, and nodded a few times and then hung up. Looking at Andrea, she looked confused, but kept her composure.
"Who was that? Who did you call?" Andrea asked.
"That was Kami-sama, or if you prefer 'Lord'."
Too confused over the whole situation, Andrea decided to just play along...it's got to be a dream!
"And what did he say?"
Belldandy pause for a second, "That I have to bring you to Asgard, to the heavenly Courts."
Shaking her head, she itched a spot on her forehead, and then nodded to Belldandy.
"Asgard? Where's that?"
"That's heaven." Andrea thought for a moment, and then spoke.
"I will go with you. But can you answer me this?" Belldandy nodded. "Is this a dream? and if it isn't...how is this real?" The other girl thought for a moment.
"I'm afraid that this isn't a dream. But I don't know how to prove to you that this is real." She paused for a second and then continued. "I know that this may be a big step, but what you know of this life (using her eyes to indicate the house and everything in it) may cease to exist for you. I know that if it wasn't in the Lords plans, the wish wouldn't be approved, but..." She shook her head. "I don't know how to answer this, but Kami-sama would know." Andrea nodded.
"I'll go. Just let me leave a note." Belldandy nodded, although not seeing it even worthwhile. Walking over to the junk drawer beside the fridge, she pulled out a scrap piece of paper and a pen and a broken pencil. Putting the pencil back, Andrea scribbled the pen on a corner of the paper only to find that it works. She then left in on the dining room table, and then followed Belldandy back to the bedroom.
"Wait! I can't leave looking like this!" Andrea pointed out to her sweat pants and tanktop that she usually wore to bed. Rushing back into her room, pulling on a pair of dark blue jeans, and a white shirt over the tight blue tank top that she was already wearing and then wrapping a fuzzy blue scarf around her neck out of habit from the winter season, she walked back to the bathroom. And with that, Belldandy took Andrea's hand, and then leaned into the mirror. Andrea closed her eyes as she was sucked into the bright light.
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End of Chapter 1
* * *
Introduction
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Urd sighed as she watched the nursery from her time bubble. The baby with the goddess marking cooed in her arms. The baby girl that was below her choked on it's cries. A tear slid down her cheek. She couldn't save this one. It was against her orders.
Why did he have to give me this assignment? Urd shifted the baby goddess in her arms, Even though it saves the life of this goddess, from a time that I don't even know. I looked; this goddess has no birth date, but today.... but...the year...But this innocent baby...this human baby....why?.........
Urd yawned as she glanced at the clock in the room below; 7 am.
She didn't understand Kami-sama's plan. She never did, but she knew when to follow. He asked for her specifically for this assignment, and that was a rare honour for a goddess, especially of her stature.
She watched as the nurse sighed, pulling a blanket over the baby's limp body as the cries desisted, and an annoying beep continues through the now life-less room.
Freezing time, Urd came out of her time bubble and walked over to the baby that was now dead on the cold table, blood drooling from it's mouth as a hideous rash covered it's whole neck, she guessed that its what killed the baby, choked as it comes out of its became taunt around its neck, crushing the tiny wind pipe.
Urd shuttered as she floated up the life less form to replace it with the babe in her arms. The live baby stirred and let out a small cry as she was placed on the cold table. The goddess markings already starting to fade from the potion that she was given from Kami-sama. (With instructions for her not to tamper with it either., which was followed by an eye-rolling Urd.)
With a thin thread of lightning, she cause a smaller burn to occur on the live baby's neck, and then added a small mark on her chest, right above the right breast as a sign. It was what looked like a winged angel, but in a few years the mark will not show, and no one would know but her (and Kami- sama, of course) who she really was. The wings mark immediately started to fade. Unless, of course, Kami-sama decided that it was time for Asgard and for Hell to know about this Goddess.
"Good luck, little one." Urd whispered as she quickly cleaned the blood from the baby that now disappeared to a different dimension. (most likely to be drowned cause it's dead...there was not even a soul that had formed within the baby, but Urd still couldn't help but feel heavy hearted over the whole situation.)
"May the gods and Goddesses watch over you, till you return to us once again." And with that Urd re-entered her time dimension, wiping the tears that snuck through her guard, as time started to continue and the solid beep started to create a rhythm of a healthy baby girl in the maternity ward at Surrey Memorial Hospital.
* * *
Chapter 1 ~ One Wish
**15 years later**
* * *
Noise of lunch hour filled the hallways as the bell rung for a second time. And student rushed to their lockers, chatting away with their friends as though only they existed. Ignoring the blonde haired girl that sat in the back corner with her nose stuck in a book. No one saw her, not one care as they all went on their way.
Looking up, Andrea soon saw that the classroom was empty of all students and her teacher was cleaning up her things and getting ready for lunch and her next class. Closing the cover of her almost finished book, she then headed to her usual eating spot; the Library.
Pushing open the doors, Andrea walked down the familiar hallway greeting the librarian and then headed to the little corner where she usually snuck in her lunch while she read away her lunch hour. Sighing Andrea pulled out her book from her backpack and then started to read away. She could not help but thinking how boring her life really was, and how much she wished to have someone there to talk to.
* * *
Belldandy looked up from her knitting as the phone started to ring. Setting the needles down and setting the yarn so that way it didn't roll away, She stood up and headed towards the ringing phone. Reaching down to pick up the receiver, and answered with her usual cheerful welcome.
"Hello, Morsato residence."
"..." (What I can't tell you what he's saying!)
"Lord!" She listened to the voice on the other end, nodding her head slightly. "I understand." And with that she put the phone down, just as Urd walked out of her hobby room into the hallway.
"Who was that?" Belldandy started at the phone. "..Bell..?!"
"I have to answer a wish." Urd stared at her.
"But I thought that you can't do that until your done with this wish to Keiichi?"
Belldandy shook her head, "It seems that duty calls." She turned to Urd and smiled with a laugh behind her eyes. "Please Keichii-san know where I am if he beats me home, k?" Urd nodded as Belldandy transformed into her goddess uniform. And with a blink, a streak of blue disappeared through the mirror, leaving Urd to her own thoughts as an explosion threw open the door to Skuld Lab.
Ignoring the cough in from the other room, Urd couldn't help but wonder, "If she could answer wishes, why start now? If she can't, Why this time?"
* * *
Andrea sighed as she slid off her bed, pulling off her earphones. Looking out the window, swirls of November snow fluttered under the bright streetlights. Stretching out her legs, she then headed to the bathroom. She really didn't feel like doing her homework for the weekend. So as usual she pulled out the latest book. It wasn't that she was bored or anything, she just loved to read. It seemed that anything of the written word took her away to a place far from here.
Far from a boring life of no dreams and school. In the books she could live out their life, the characters feelings, and thoughts, all the while growing her own. She could fall in Love with the Prince, or the lowly stableman, or the cutest to the sweetest guy in town. And then be swept off her feet as the feelings are returned. She could have adventure of running for her life cause some one wanted to kill you cause you saw something that you weren't meant to be shown. Or to be the world's greatest detective and solve the murder that has everyone but you baffled.
No, she didn't read because she was bored, she read because she felt that there was something missing that she found through the eyes of the writer.
Glancing at the clock in her room, and reading 2:54, she yawned and sleepily wandered into the hallway. '...You really need to go to bed on time, girl, or else your teachers will start sending letters home saying that you sleep in class too often...' reprimanded the voice in her head.
'Yeah, I know...but it's out of habit now!' She thought back.
'That's no excuse and you know it!' Andrea pushed open the bathroom door, unsuccessfully stopping a second yawn. Looking in the mirror, she failed at first to notice the slight differences in the mirror, or just dismissing it for the late night. It was about 3 am, after all!
Rubbing she eyes, Andrea took a second look and blinked her eyes and then rubbed them again. The image that she saw was just like her, but didn't move like her, as if she was looking at a painting of herself, only it wasn't her.
Looking closer into the mirror the image blinked and then started to look a little startled as well, only the Andrea in the mirror had some sort of markings on her face, and a blue shimmery dress, unlike anything that she had ever seen, and her hair was much longer, but still the same colour. Reaching a hand to her face, she saw the image do the same, touching where the supposedly markings were. Then the sudden image leaped forward, startling Andrea to the back wall, and the image fully came out of the mirror, only to float a few inches of the ground, and smile. Andrea, being careful to be quiet, slid to the floor and looked up at the familiar image of her, ...only not her.
"Hi! I'm Belldandy!" The girl said in a whispering singsong voice. Letting off a warm smile and a calming sense of peace. "I'm here to grant you one wish."
"WHA..?!?" Andrea quickly clamped her hands over her mouth. She did NOT want to wake up her parents, they would KILL her if they found out she had stayed up late reading again. She then brought her voice down to a whisper. "What? Who are you?....What are you?"
The girl giggled, and the repeated her self, adding a few bits here and there, "I'm Belldandy, Goddess First Class, and I'm here to grant you one wish"
"Why?"
"Because, you are one of very few that qualify for a wish."
Andrea was totally confused. 'Is this for real? A Goddess?? As if there was such things.' Andrea looked up at Belldandy, slightly skeptical, 'but then again. One wish, eh? Gee, if I could have one wish. a friend would be nice, like one that I could trust, or maybe for my sister to be nicer....wait that doesn't work...I don't think. what else could I wish for?' Belldandy floated to the ground and sat across from her in the small bathroom. And she waited as Andrea thought through everything that she ever wanted. '..an adventure...a friend....an interesting life....God! I don't know..Wait a minute?!!'
"You thought of one?" Belldandy looked into her eyes, quizzically. Andrea nodded. Looking over Belldandy, Andrea could just feel the love and warmth all over the girl, as if she could tell her anything. And she didn't even _know_ her! Collecting her thoughts, Andrea thought of how to word her wish.
"I wish...I wish..." Belldandy looked at her pleased that she would fulfill another dream of a girl.
"I Wish..that I could have a twin sister, just like you."
Without a moments hesitation, a bright light shone from the markings on Belldandy's forehead, and she started to float up. Tilting her head up, a brilliant light beamed froward as a great power filled the room, scattering everything that was not tied down, creating what seemed like a vacuum, or a whirl wind in the tiny bathroom. Andrea covered her eyes as her sisters powdered make-up showered her face. Hiding from anything else, she didn't open her eyes up until the thundering noise stopped. She didn't even think of her parents, as she looked upon the face of Belldandy. All she could see was confusion and a bit of fear as she whispered, "Wish approved." Looking down at Andrea, she could see curiosity flow from her eyes.
"Oh dear!" She whispered, although not quietly enough for Andrea not to hear.
"What is it?"
"..Do you have a phone?"
Andrea nodded, "Yeah, downstairs in the kitchen." Belldandy then grabbed her hand and then pulled her to where she had indicated. Placing the phone at her ear, she typed in a long series of numbers, *'Gee, I hope that that's not long distance!'* and then she started to whisper into the phone, and nodded a few times and then hung up. Looking at Andrea, she looked confused, but kept her composure.
"Who was that? Who did you call?" Andrea asked.
"That was Kami-sama, or if you prefer 'Lord'."
Too confused over the whole situation, Andrea decided to just play along...it's got to be a dream!
"And what did he say?"
Belldandy pause for a second, "That I have to bring you to Asgard, to the heavenly Courts."
Shaking her head, she itched a spot on her forehead, and then nodded to Belldandy.
"Asgard? Where's that?"
"That's heaven." Andrea thought for a moment, and then spoke.
"I will go with you. But can you answer me this?" Belldandy nodded. "Is this a dream? and if it isn't...how is this real?" The other girl thought for a moment.
"I'm afraid that this isn't a dream. But I don't know how to prove to you that this is real." She paused for a second and then continued. "I know that this may be a big step, but what you know of this life (using her eyes to indicate the house and everything in it) may cease to exist for you. I know that if it wasn't in the Lords plans, the wish wouldn't be approved, but..." She shook her head. "I don't know how to answer this, but Kami-sama would know." Andrea nodded.
"I'll go. Just let me leave a note." Belldandy nodded, although not seeing it even worthwhile. Walking over to the junk drawer beside the fridge, she pulled out a scrap piece of paper and a pen and a broken pencil. Putting the pencil back, Andrea scribbled the pen on a corner of the paper only to find that it works. She then left in on the dining room table, and then followed Belldandy back to the bedroom.
"Wait! I can't leave looking like this!" Andrea pointed out to her sweat pants and tanktop that she usually wore to bed. Rushing back into her room, pulling on a pair of dark blue jeans, and a white shirt over the tight blue tank top that she was already wearing and then wrapping a fuzzy blue scarf around her neck out of habit from the winter season, she walked back to the bathroom. And with that, Belldandy took Andrea's hand, and then leaned into the mirror. Andrea closed her eyes as she was sucked into the bright light.
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End of Chapter 1
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