Chapter 6 ~ One Wish ~ "The Temple and NIT"
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Okay, Guys, What you think so far? Yes, part of this IS based off of OMGod! But it's been so long since I've read them. (All of them, mind you..but it's just been a while). Another thing. Those of you that have read it all, do you want more Kyo, Calesta, or Akuma? And now Iím going to do a bit of a poll, cause I can't decide, who should like who.. An ArieKyo, AkumaArie, with a bit of MaraCalesta? heh.. I can be evil! ^_^ Well, I guess that I want to know if you guys like it..and if you have any suggestions as to it being better! Well, Now that thatís all said..
Urd: Yeah! get on with it!
Arie: Aw..gee, Urd, Iím getting there.
::Urd rolls her eyes and Arie sighs::
Skuld: Leave her be!
::Skuld and Urd start to bicker::
Belldandy: Oh Dear!
Arie: Well, on to chapter six! ^_^
~ Arie Tarou
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Arie stared out of the window, of the attic. Looking around the room, it was of a good size that she could at least walk around without hitting her head of the roof. And with the few windows around the room, it brightened it up, Except for the fact that it was empty. With the Help of Belldandy, Skuld, and Bambei-Ultra-Clean helping out, it was cleared of cobwebs, dust, and old trunks. Except one.
"It looks familiar, leave it." Belldandy and Skuld just stared at her, and shrugged.. Brushing her hand along the wooden top of the medium sized chest. *Why do I know this... why IS it familiar?*
Arie looked around the bare room. Closing her eyes, she pictured the room white, with dark blue trims and wooden floor. Opening her eyes, she saw what her thought that she saw. "My, that's a handy trick."
"Hello?" Skuld poked her head up the stairs that poked out from the floor.
"Hey Skuld, come on up!"
Skuld climbed up the rest of the stares and then sat on the floor beside the chest.
"So! When are you going to open it?" Inspecting it closely, she saw that it wasn't just any old lock that kept it shut.
"Do you know HOW to open it?"
Arie shook her head, "No, I don't. I really wasn't going to worry about it too much till I set up the room." Skuld looked around the room, "It looks so much more brighter in here with the white! What's your hobbies?"
"Hobbies? Oh! That!" Arie thought for a moment. "I don't know, I like to sing, and listen to music, but other then that, I'm not sure." Skuld cracked a smile.
"Well, don't worry, I'll be right back." Just as Skuld was about to disappear down the stairs Arie called after her.
"Skuld?"
"Yes?"
"Can you find me a bed?" Skuld smiled at her.
"You bet!"
"Thank you." And with that Skuld disappeared. Turning to the corner where the chest sat, she looked over at it. Sitting down in front of it, she waved her hand over the latch.
"O chest of old, and chest of wood, here you masters voice, and open you secrets to me."
Arie then heard a click, and pushing her hands on the lid, she lifted it up to find a small box, a few clothes her size and a diary, or journal. Picking up the box, she shook it and heard coins jiggling inside of it. Opening the lid, she found a small fortune in notes and pounds, and a little note. "You didn't think that I'd leave myself anything, right? ;)" Arie smiled, and placed back the box on the silk clothes. Pulling out the journal, an envelope fell out.
Ripping it open, she read;
"You may be thinking, why me? and Why this? Well, dear, this is you, this is your life, and what you were born to be..."
Arie was then interrupted as Belldandy came up the stairs with a load of blankets for a bed. Arie pushed the letter back into the chest and closet the lid with out Belldandy seeing.
"Here you go. I don't know how you would have made you bed back in..well your other home, but do you want me to teach you how to make one here?" Arie nodded and then Belldandy started to pull out sheets just as Skuld brought up a mattress and then left down the stairs, mumbling about Bampei acting up. Shrugging it off, she helped Belldandy with the bed making. Looking around the room, Belldandy commented.
"It looks much different in here, with the white and the blue." Arie smiled.
"Thanks, Bell-Chan." Arie looked down and started to play with the fold of her Kimono. "Belldandy?"
"Yes?"
"I know how you and Keiichi met, sort of, but is there another time we.. er.. you were here?"
Belldandy looked at her, and then looked out the window just as a bird settled down on the windowsill.
"Your right in thinking that we were here before I met Keiichi. Actually, I met Keiichi when we were very young. And I lived on the Earth plane for 2 weeks, playing as children do. But then we made a promise.." Belldandy paused and whipped away a tear, Arie put a hand on her shoulder. Belldandy got a bit of reassurance by the gentle touch and continued on. "But I promised to wait for him, but it wasnít allowed, and I had to erase his memory."
"But doesnít he know now?"
Belldandy shook her head. "No. He did once, but because it broke a strong bond, it almost killed him, so I had to erase it completely. He knew that he knows something, but he doesn't know what it was.. and itís sort of like deja-vu, but to him, it's all a dream."
Arie nodded, and waited for Belldandy to get her voice back. ìBut we were her before. much before I met Keiichi. You and I use to play here with Urd. well, hit from Urd.
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"Bell-Chan, Arie-Chan? Where are you?" Urd called through the bush. Arie looked at Bell-Chan from her hiding spot, and Bell-Chan looked back. Giggling, she knew that Urd-Chan would never find them.
"Belldandy! Arie! Come now, or else Kami-sama will get mad! Your suppose to meet up with your mentors!" Urd called. Arie watched as Bell-Chanís eyes went wide. She didn't even look up in the tree where Arie was hiding, and she ran out to meet Urd.
"Urd! Oh!.. Kyo-san, how are you?"
--Kyo-san?--
Arie didn't dare look out of her hiding spot to see if it really was him. She didn't want a mentor, she could do it herself! all alone! She needed no one!
'..Do you?..'
Arie looked around...--who said that?--
"Arie!" Urd called. Arie tried and failed miserably in trying to not make a sound as she tried to find out who said that. "Arie! get out of the Tree! I see you!"
Arie sighed, and then floated out of the tree, Blue hair and all. It was easier to tell Bell-chan and her apart if she kept her blue hair. Besides, Kyo liked it blue. Arie turned to the girls, as she saw Belldandy Urd and Kyo smiling at her. Arie sighed and then headed back to the temple, as Urd started to hound on her about how she kept her hair, and how she was covered in twigs and dirt.
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"ARIE!" Belldandy help Arie sit up as she held her head.
"Thanks Bell-chan. Iím okay, really I am." Belldandy looked her over with concern.
"You sure? Cause one minute you were listening, and the next you were fainting to your feet. What happened."
Arie paused before continuing. "I remembered a ...well.. something that happened when I was here. I know that I was here before." Arie stood up, with a bit of a wobble, and then headed to the window. Belldandy followed.
"I remember hiding in there, in the trees from Urd." Arie pointed to the bush of trees behind the temple, straight out past her window. Belldandy just stared out there.
"Oh?"
Arie shook her head, "I don't know.. sometimes they come in rushes, and thatís when I faint. I think. other times it's like a deja-vu. I don't know." Arie shook her head and then sat back down on the bed, Belldandy turned around and leaned on the windowpane.
"I know that I was here before...but it's so.."
"..Weird." Belldandy finished. Arie looked up at her, Maybe it won't be so bad.
They heard a yell from downstairs. "Belldandy, your supper is burning!"
Belldandy's eyes went wide with horror and ran down the stairs. Arie Got up and followed, although, not as fast cause her head was still spinning.
Reaching the kitchen she found Urd and Skuld sitting at the table, and Keiichi coming in through the doorway from the front, and Belldandy humming happily as supper had not burned.
"Have a seat, Arie!" Skuld said, motioning to the seat beside her. Arie smiled, and headed in as Belldandy, with he help of Keiichi, brought in the dinner.
Arie just stared down at the chopsticks as everyone started to dig in.
"Don't you know how to use those?" Keiichi asked, as he was between her and Bell-chan. Arie shook her head.
"Not really. I tried once, but it took me forever to eat, so I picked up a fork."
Arie looked up and say everyone with wide eyes and dumbfounded looks. And with a blush and a sweat drop, she picked up the chopsticks and smiled.
"Well, there's no time like the present to learn, right?" She said, a bit too cheerfully.
The rest of the meal continued in a loose fashion, and with the help of Skuld and Keiichi, she finally was able to use them properly.. for the next meal. When the meal finished, Keiichi started to pick up the dishes as Urd disappeared off as soon as possible, Belldandy picked up some knitting needles and Skuld just sat there, fiddling with a few gadgets.
"Here, let me help you." Arie started to pick up a few plates.
"No, itís okay, I got it." Arie just ignored him and started to bring in plates, chopsticks, and one fork. Keiichi just shrugs and kept brining in cups and anything else that was sitting on the table. Filling in the sick, Arie started washing the dishes, as Keiichi pulled on a towel to dry them.
"So, how was your fist day here?"
Arie shrugged, "Odd."
"Odd?" Keiichi looked at her with a raised eyebrow, causing Arie to sigh.
"Well, to tell you the truth, I'm really 15, but.. well, it's just Odd. The foods so different from what I use to eat, the language is different.."
"Which your doing really well with." Keiichi pointed out, causing Arie to blush and look down at the pot that she was scrubbing.
"..Th..Arigatou." Arie looked for something to say as Keiichi started to stack the plates.
"Well, it's just...odd." Arie finished lamely. Keiichi just nodded.
"Understandable. It was odd when Bell-can and I first started out here." He looked around the temple walls with a reminiscing sort of look, and a quick of a smile on his face.
"You really Love her, don't you?"
Keiichi just nodded and blush. Arie knew his unknown secret.
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Giggles filled the walls outside the Temple. Arie just watched from the window after her sister. She was to shy to say hi to her new friend, but she watched over her.
*yeah, He saw the Light, Arie! I couldn't believe it!! He wasn't suppose to see the light, but he did!*
Arie remembered the night when they had first arrived. The lay across the floors in their bed, and Belldandy kept going on about that boy..Keii..chi... ALL night!
*Why did you disappear? You were right beside me, but when I looked you weren't there, and Keiichi was there. I don't mind that, it's just that you would really like him, and he's so much fun to play with!*
Arie stared out of the window as Bell-chan, and a young Keiichi tumbled out of the bushes chasing butterflies. They looked so happy. Arie just watched them as Kyozetsu appeared behind her.
"What you looking at?" His voiced caused her to jump and she turned to him.
"Oh! It's you, Kyo, I didn't hear you."
"Of course you didn't, I'm sneaky!" He gave her a playful smug look. And she just poked him.
"Yeah, yeah. If only it were that simple."
He just smiled at her.
"So, you didn't tell me what your looking at." He came over to the window. "Whoa! is that Belldandy playing with a Mortal?"
Arie nodded, "Yeah, and she really likes him."
Kyo noticed a little twitch in Arie's eyes as she said that, but ignored it as a if it was a figment of his imagination.
"So, have you actually met him?"
"No."
"Why Not?"
"I Dunno." Arie shrugged, and Kyo just watched. He was only about a year or two older then Belldandy and Arie, but he had a real liking for the younger twin. Although, she WAS his best friend.
"Well, I'm Here cause Kami-Sama wants you two back."
"Really? When?"
"Tomorrow."
"So Soon? Bell's not going to like that." She looked down as she saw Bell-chan and Kei-san link pinkies. Kyo just shruged. and with that he stepped back and disappeared to Heaven as Arie watched the two below.
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Arie just watched Keiichi as he spaced out. She knew that he doesn't remember, and never will, the two weeks that he spent with Belldandy when he was only 7. Belldandy knew, she knew. But it was a punishment.
Arie smiled. She remembered how she got mad at Kami-sama for making her sister cry. He didn't get a hug from her for a whole week.
..Kami-Sama...
Arie just washed the dishes, and missed Keiichiís question.
"Pardon, I missed what you said."
"I said, 'Are you interested in going to school?'"
"School?..."
"Yeah, Belldandy goes with me to the University, NIT. And I was wondering whether you going to." He paused as she stared at the suds.
"I..I...I don't know." She was only 15, and how would she get accepeted..and...
ìI know that itís sudden, but itís second semester in a month, and it should be easy to get you in, with the help of Belldandy, of course.
"But...I'm only 15, not even finished high school."
"But, your Arie. She's the same age as Belldandy, and Bell's super smart, so should you, right?"
Arie just blinked at him, Sweat drops forming around both heads.
"Uh..yeah.. Maybe."
"Well, just think about it."
Arie nodded.
"Why did you suggest it, anyways?"
He got a bit of an evil smile and then sobered up before she could really think on it.
"Well, Belldandy's renown in our school, and with you around, it might get a few of the males to leave her and me alone and go after you."
She just glared at him, "Thanks, K1."
"I'm just kidding, really." he scratched the back of his head as Arie set down the last pot for him to dry.
"Well, actually, there's this girl that is totally obsessed with topping Bell-chan, and well, I thought the this twist will be interesting. And also to get the guys to leave me and Bell and I alone." he picked up the pot and started to dry it.
"Oh." Arie emptied the sink. "Well, we're done. I guess that I'll think about it. It's an Idea, but I don't know if I'm going to pass anything."
"There's nothing, but try, right?"
"Yeah.. maybe." And with that, she smiled at him, and then left the room thinking on the idea before Keiichi could catch her to thank her for the help.
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"..And here, if you put this on your head, any tune that you think of is recoded, and you can bring it up here." Skuld pointed at the monitor, "..and you can change it however you want." Skuld looked proudly over her new invention. The Music Box. Arie nodded, impressed, as she looked over the computer, Microphone and various instruments that now littered her room. There now was a bed and a nightstand in the corner, and the chest at the foot of the bed. By one of the three windows, and a white pearled screen of cranes and cherry blossoms that separated that area of the room, and then there were various instruments, like a flute, saxophone, clarinet, etc, all along the room, and a desk with a computer, state of the art, of course, and a piano and bells beside it. And then, in the middle, a little stage with a microphone on a stand, and two speaker one each side, and a monitor (not a TV monitor, but a stereo monitor..If your not into music and that sort of thing, itís just another speaker! ^-^).
"Go ahead and try it!" Skuld said excitingly, as she pulled Arie away from the PC to the mic.
"But...but..." Arie tried to decline as Skuld set the mic to the proper height, and the computer program that recorded the music from her brain waves.
Arie looked at the mike and raked her brain for a song, as little tunes filled the air of ones that she was trying to remember. Unknown to her, there was a audience at the base of the stairs to the attic of Belldandy, Urd and Keiichi.
Then one song** started to fill the air, and Arie closed her eyes, and pulled the mic out of the stand and then pulled it to her lips.
"Thinking through my memory, I feel that everything isn't how it should be. Like I knew you from a different time, but how can that be, when it's only your face Iíve seen.
Racing against time to remember what is lost, a mystery unravels by a blot, of ink thatís whipped away from the paper of a script.
Is it only a memory, or is it a dream, the thought of being with you a great extreme. If I could sell my soul to remove all those blots, and then I would know that you are the One.
Are you the one that Iím looking for, are you the One that I seek, Can this illusion of a dream break these chains of a life I that I can't see, of no one there for me. Are you the one?"
Arie put the mic back slowly opening her eyes, and blushed as Skuld just looked at her with wide eyes.
"...wow...Where did that song come from?"
Arie's blush deepened. "I don't know, itís just one that I've had in my head. Among others." She just stared back at the mic as Skuld turned back to the computer, and clicked on replay. The soft haunting tune filled the air, and Arieís voice the filtered through the room.
'So kawaii.." Skuld said as she and Arie continued to test out the quirks of the equipment.
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A Week Later:
Arie and Belldandy stood in the backyard as the afternoon sun blazed down on them. After about a week, Arie was given instructions, or 'reviews' in how to use her powers. And as usual, it came so automatically, that she had to be careful what she was thinking at times. There were a few burnt trees cause her mind had wandered about the thought of 'I wonder what would happen if a fireball would fly out of my hand..' And it went from there. She got everything that Belldandy was saying. She practiced flying in the air, transferring through glass. Though, she was careful that the entrance and the leave wasnít a watch. As it was pointed out, she travels through time that way.
"So, what's it like in the glass between going in and out?"
Belldandy just blinked at her.
"Well, I know that I've been through before, it's just that, well, I was closing my eyes."
"Well, if your scared, that's okay, but if you keep your eyes open, you're less likely to get lost."
"Oh."
She didn't concentrate on much. It just seemed that everything Bell-chan said she already knew. So, she just sat there, a tune filtering through her head, she then just up and left Belldandy and filtered into the trees beside them.
"Arie!?!" She could hear Bell-chan's voice call through the trees.
Finding a nice big tall tree, Arie flew up to the middle of the branch.
It wasn't as if she wanted to be rude or anything, but time to herself would be nice. She had spent the week avoiding Urd, helping Belldandy cook (till she kicked her out cause she kept messing things up), Spent time with Skuld and the music that filled her head, and then a bit with Keiichi. After a bit, Arie had agreed to try out school with him and Bell-chan in January. It was a quick week that seemed to Arie, unusual. The hair on the back of her head stuck up on end, and she knew that Calesta was near, but she never said anything to anyone. Belldandy's ward and Bambei kept Mara and anything else, but Arie knew that someone was watching her. Good or bad. Unknown to her, Calesta wasn't the only one watching her.
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**Titled "The One". Not sure of the tune, but it's close to "Rainy Day Man" from Sailor Moon, the first season.
Arie-Chan : So, thatis chapter 6, what you think?
Skuld: I love that song!
Belldandy: Who else is watching you?
Arie-chan: Well, when I get over the blushing for singing, Iíll work on chapter 7, and youíll see from there! ^-^
Skuld and Belldandy: Alright!
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Sorry for the typo's guys, it's what happenes when you go back and forth from different computers and one disc... *sigh* ~Arie
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Okay, Guys, What you think so far? Yes, part of this IS based off of OMGod! But it's been so long since I've read them. (All of them, mind you..but it's just been a while). Another thing. Those of you that have read it all, do you want more Kyo, Calesta, or Akuma? And now Iím going to do a bit of a poll, cause I can't decide, who should like who.. An ArieKyo, AkumaArie, with a bit of MaraCalesta? heh.. I can be evil! ^_^ Well, I guess that I want to know if you guys like it..and if you have any suggestions as to it being better! Well, Now that thatís all said..
Urd: Yeah! get on with it!
Arie: Aw..gee, Urd, Iím getting there.
::Urd rolls her eyes and Arie sighs::
Skuld: Leave her be!
::Skuld and Urd start to bicker::
Belldandy: Oh Dear!
Arie: Well, on to chapter six! ^_^
~ Arie Tarou
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Arie stared out of the window, of the attic. Looking around the room, it was of a good size that she could at least walk around without hitting her head of the roof. And with the few windows around the room, it brightened it up, Except for the fact that it was empty. With the Help of Belldandy, Skuld, and Bambei-Ultra-Clean helping out, it was cleared of cobwebs, dust, and old trunks. Except one.
"It looks familiar, leave it." Belldandy and Skuld just stared at her, and shrugged.. Brushing her hand along the wooden top of the medium sized chest. *Why do I know this... why IS it familiar?*
Arie looked around the bare room. Closing her eyes, she pictured the room white, with dark blue trims and wooden floor. Opening her eyes, she saw what her thought that she saw. "My, that's a handy trick."
"Hello?" Skuld poked her head up the stairs that poked out from the floor.
"Hey Skuld, come on up!"
Skuld climbed up the rest of the stares and then sat on the floor beside the chest.
"So! When are you going to open it?" Inspecting it closely, she saw that it wasn't just any old lock that kept it shut.
"Do you know HOW to open it?"
Arie shook her head, "No, I don't. I really wasn't going to worry about it too much till I set up the room." Skuld looked around the room, "It looks so much more brighter in here with the white! What's your hobbies?"
"Hobbies? Oh! That!" Arie thought for a moment. "I don't know, I like to sing, and listen to music, but other then that, I'm not sure." Skuld cracked a smile.
"Well, don't worry, I'll be right back." Just as Skuld was about to disappear down the stairs Arie called after her.
"Skuld?"
"Yes?"
"Can you find me a bed?" Skuld smiled at her.
"You bet!"
"Thank you." And with that Skuld disappeared. Turning to the corner where the chest sat, she looked over at it. Sitting down in front of it, she waved her hand over the latch.
"O chest of old, and chest of wood, here you masters voice, and open you secrets to me."
Arie then heard a click, and pushing her hands on the lid, she lifted it up to find a small box, a few clothes her size and a diary, or journal. Picking up the box, she shook it and heard coins jiggling inside of it. Opening the lid, she found a small fortune in notes and pounds, and a little note. "You didn't think that I'd leave myself anything, right? ;)" Arie smiled, and placed back the box on the silk clothes. Pulling out the journal, an envelope fell out.
Ripping it open, she read;
"You may be thinking, why me? and Why this? Well, dear, this is you, this is your life, and what you were born to be..."
Arie was then interrupted as Belldandy came up the stairs with a load of blankets for a bed. Arie pushed the letter back into the chest and closet the lid with out Belldandy seeing.
"Here you go. I don't know how you would have made you bed back in..well your other home, but do you want me to teach you how to make one here?" Arie nodded and then Belldandy started to pull out sheets just as Skuld brought up a mattress and then left down the stairs, mumbling about Bampei acting up. Shrugging it off, she helped Belldandy with the bed making. Looking around the room, Belldandy commented.
"It looks much different in here, with the white and the blue." Arie smiled.
"Thanks, Bell-Chan." Arie looked down and started to play with the fold of her Kimono. "Belldandy?"
"Yes?"
"I know how you and Keiichi met, sort of, but is there another time we.. er.. you were here?"
Belldandy looked at her, and then looked out the window just as a bird settled down on the windowsill.
"Your right in thinking that we were here before I met Keiichi. Actually, I met Keiichi when we were very young. And I lived on the Earth plane for 2 weeks, playing as children do. But then we made a promise.." Belldandy paused and whipped away a tear, Arie put a hand on her shoulder. Belldandy got a bit of reassurance by the gentle touch and continued on. "But I promised to wait for him, but it wasnít allowed, and I had to erase his memory."
"But doesnít he know now?"
Belldandy shook her head. "No. He did once, but because it broke a strong bond, it almost killed him, so I had to erase it completely. He knew that he knows something, but he doesn't know what it was.. and itís sort of like deja-vu, but to him, it's all a dream."
Arie nodded, and waited for Belldandy to get her voice back. ìBut we were her before. much before I met Keiichi. You and I use to play here with Urd. well, hit from Urd.
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"Bell-Chan, Arie-Chan? Where are you?" Urd called through the bush. Arie looked at Bell-Chan from her hiding spot, and Bell-Chan looked back. Giggling, she knew that Urd-Chan would never find them.
"Belldandy! Arie! Come now, or else Kami-sama will get mad! Your suppose to meet up with your mentors!" Urd called. Arie watched as Bell-Chanís eyes went wide. She didn't even look up in the tree where Arie was hiding, and she ran out to meet Urd.
"Urd! Oh!.. Kyo-san, how are you?"
--Kyo-san?--
Arie didn't dare look out of her hiding spot to see if it really was him. She didn't want a mentor, she could do it herself! all alone! She needed no one!
'..Do you?..'
Arie looked around...--who said that?--
"Arie!" Urd called. Arie tried and failed miserably in trying to not make a sound as she tried to find out who said that. "Arie! get out of the Tree! I see you!"
Arie sighed, and then floated out of the tree, Blue hair and all. It was easier to tell Bell-chan and her apart if she kept her blue hair. Besides, Kyo liked it blue. Arie turned to the girls, as she saw Belldandy Urd and Kyo smiling at her. Arie sighed and then headed back to the temple, as Urd started to hound on her about how she kept her hair, and how she was covered in twigs and dirt.
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"ARIE!" Belldandy help Arie sit up as she held her head.
"Thanks Bell-chan. Iím okay, really I am." Belldandy looked her over with concern.
"You sure? Cause one minute you were listening, and the next you were fainting to your feet. What happened."
Arie paused before continuing. "I remembered a ...well.. something that happened when I was here. I know that I was here before." Arie stood up, with a bit of a wobble, and then headed to the window. Belldandy followed.
"I remember hiding in there, in the trees from Urd." Arie pointed to the bush of trees behind the temple, straight out past her window. Belldandy just stared out there.
"Oh?"
Arie shook her head, "I don't know.. sometimes they come in rushes, and thatís when I faint. I think. other times it's like a deja-vu. I don't know." Arie shook her head and then sat back down on the bed, Belldandy turned around and leaned on the windowpane.
"I know that I was here before...but it's so.."
"..Weird." Belldandy finished. Arie looked up at her, Maybe it won't be so bad.
They heard a yell from downstairs. "Belldandy, your supper is burning!"
Belldandy's eyes went wide with horror and ran down the stairs. Arie Got up and followed, although, not as fast cause her head was still spinning.
Reaching the kitchen she found Urd and Skuld sitting at the table, and Keiichi coming in through the doorway from the front, and Belldandy humming happily as supper had not burned.
"Have a seat, Arie!" Skuld said, motioning to the seat beside her. Arie smiled, and headed in as Belldandy, with he help of Keiichi, brought in the dinner.
Arie just stared down at the chopsticks as everyone started to dig in.
"Don't you know how to use those?" Keiichi asked, as he was between her and Bell-chan. Arie shook her head.
"Not really. I tried once, but it took me forever to eat, so I picked up a fork."
Arie looked up and say everyone with wide eyes and dumbfounded looks. And with a blush and a sweat drop, she picked up the chopsticks and smiled.
"Well, there's no time like the present to learn, right?" She said, a bit too cheerfully.
The rest of the meal continued in a loose fashion, and with the help of Skuld and Keiichi, she finally was able to use them properly.. for the next meal. When the meal finished, Keiichi started to pick up the dishes as Urd disappeared off as soon as possible, Belldandy picked up some knitting needles and Skuld just sat there, fiddling with a few gadgets.
"Here, let me help you." Arie started to pick up a few plates.
"No, itís okay, I got it." Arie just ignored him and started to bring in plates, chopsticks, and one fork. Keiichi just shrugs and kept brining in cups and anything else that was sitting on the table. Filling in the sick, Arie started washing the dishes, as Keiichi pulled on a towel to dry them.
"So, how was your fist day here?"
Arie shrugged, "Odd."
"Odd?" Keiichi looked at her with a raised eyebrow, causing Arie to sigh.
"Well, to tell you the truth, I'm really 15, but.. well, it's just Odd. The foods so different from what I use to eat, the language is different.."
"Which your doing really well with." Keiichi pointed out, causing Arie to blush and look down at the pot that she was scrubbing.
"..Th..Arigatou." Arie looked for something to say as Keiichi started to stack the plates.
"Well, it's just...odd." Arie finished lamely. Keiichi just nodded.
"Understandable. It was odd when Bell-can and I first started out here." He looked around the temple walls with a reminiscing sort of look, and a quick of a smile on his face.
"You really Love her, don't you?"
Keiichi just nodded and blush. Arie knew his unknown secret.
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Giggles filled the walls outside the Temple. Arie just watched from the window after her sister. She was to shy to say hi to her new friend, but she watched over her.
*yeah, He saw the Light, Arie! I couldn't believe it!! He wasn't suppose to see the light, but he did!*
Arie remembered the night when they had first arrived. The lay across the floors in their bed, and Belldandy kept going on about that boy..Keii..chi... ALL night!
*Why did you disappear? You were right beside me, but when I looked you weren't there, and Keiichi was there. I don't mind that, it's just that you would really like him, and he's so much fun to play with!*
Arie stared out of the window as Bell-chan, and a young Keiichi tumbled out of the bushes chasing butterflies. They looked so happy. Arie just watched them as Kyozetsu appeared behind her.
"What you looking at?" His voiced caused her to jump and she turned to him.
"Oh! It's you, Kyo, I didn't hear you."
"Of course you didn't, I'm sneaky!" He gave her a playful smug look. And she just poked him.
"Yeah, yeah. If only it were that simple."
He just smiled at her.
"So, you didn't tell me what your looking at." He came over to the window. "Whoa! is that Belldandy playing with a Mortal?"
Arie nodded, "Yeah, and she really likes him."
Kyo noticed a little twitch in Arie's eyes as she said that, but ignored it as a if it was a figment of his imagination.
"So, have you actually met him?"
"No."
"Why Not?"
"I Dunno." Arie shrugged, and Kyo just watched. He was only about a year or two older then Belldandy and Arie, but he had a real liking for the younger twin. Although, she WAS his best friend.
"Well, I'm Here cause Kami-Sama wants you two back."
"Really? When?"
"Tomorrow."
"So Soon? Bell's not going to like that." She looked down as she saw Bell-chan and Kei-san link pinkies. Kyo just shruged. and with that he stepped back and disappeared to Heaven as Arie watched the two below.
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Arie just watched Keiichi as he spaced out. She knew that he doesn't remember, and never will, the two weeks that he spent with Belldandy when he was only 7. Belldandy knew, she knew. But it was a punishment.
Arie smiled. She remembered how she got mad at Kami-sama for making her sister cry. He didn't get a hug from her for a whole week.
..Kami-Sama...
Arie just washed the dishes, and missed Keiichiís question.
"Pardon, I missed what you said."
"I said, 'Are you interested in going to school?'"
"School?..."
"Yeah, Belldandy goes with me to the University, NIT. And I was wondering whether you going to." He paused as she stared at the suds.
"I..I...I don't know." She was only 15, and how would she get accepeted..and...
ìI know that itís sudden, but itís second semester in a month, and it should be easy to get you in, with the help of Belldandy, of course.
"But...I'm only 15, not even finished high school."
"But, your Arie. She's the same age as Belldandy, and Bell's super smart, so should you, right?"
Arie just blinked at him, Sweat drops forming around both heads.
"Uh..yeah.. Maybe."
"Well, just think about it."
Arie nodded.
"Why did you suggest it, anyways?"
He got a bit of an evil smile and then sobered up before she could really think on it.
"Well, Belldandy's renown in our school, and with you around, it might get a few of the males to leave her and me alone and go after you."
She just glared at him, "Thanks, K1."
"I'm just kidding, really." he scratched the back of his head as Arie set down the last pot for him to dry.
"Well, actually, there's this girl that is totally obsessed with topping Bell-chan, and well, I thought the this twist will be interesting. And also to get the guys to leave me and Bell and I alone." he picked up the pot and started to dry it.
"Oh." Arie emptied the sink. "Well, we're done. I guess that I'll think about it. It's an Idea, but I don't know if I'm going to pass anything."
"There's nothing, but try, right?"
"Yeah.. maybe." And with that, she smiled at him, and then left the room thinking on the idea before Keiichi could catch her to thank her for the help.
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"..And here, if you put this on your head, any tune that you think of is recoded, and you can bring it up here." Skuld pointed at the monitor, "..and you can change it however you want." Skuld looked proudly over her new invention. The Music Box. Arie nodded, impressed, as she looked over the computer, Microphone and various instruments that now littered her room. There now was a bed and a nightstand in the corner, and the chest at the foot of the bed. By one of the three windows, and a white pearled screen of cranes and cherry blossoms that separated that area of the room, and then there were various instruments, like a flute, saxophone, clarinet, etc, all along the room, and a desk with a computer, state of the art, of course, and a piano and bells beside it. And then, in the middle, a little stage with a microphone on a stand, and two speaker one each side, and a monitor (not a TV monitor, but a stereo monitor..If your not into music and that sort of thing, itís just another speaker! ^-^).
"Go ahead and try it!" Skuld said excitingly, as she pulled Arie away from the PC to the mic.
"But...but..." Arie tried to decline as Skuld set the mic to the proper height, and the computer program that recorded the music from her brain waves.
Arie looked at the mike and raked her brain for a song, as little tunes filled the air of ones that she was trying to remember. Unknown to her, there was a audience at the base of the stairs to the attic of Belldandy, Urd and Keiichi.
Then one song** started to fill the air, and Arie closed her eyes, and pulled the mic out of the stand and then pulled it to her lips.
"Thinking through my memory, I feel that everything isn't how it should be. Like I knew you from a different time, but how can that be, when it's only your face Iíve seen.
Racing against time to remember what is lost, a mystery unravels by a blot, of ink thatís whipped away from the paper of a script.
Is it only a memory, or is it a dream, the thought of being with you a great extreme. If I could sell my soul to remove all those blots, and then I would know that you are the One.
Are you the one that Iím looking for, are you the One that I seek, Can this illusion of a dream break these chains of a life I that I can't see, of no one there for me. Are you the one?"
Arie put the mic back slowly opening her eyes, and blushed as Skuld just looked at her with wide eyes.
"...wow...Where did that song come from?"
Arie's blush deepened. "I don't know, itís just one that I've had in my head. Among others." She just stared back at the mic as Skuld turned back to the computer, and clicked on replay. The soft haunting tune filled the air, and Arieís voice the filtered through the room.
'So kawaii.." Skuld said as she and Arie continued to test out the quirks of the equipment.
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A Week Later:
Arie and Belldandy stood in the backyard as the afternoon sun blazed down on them. After about a week, Arie was given instructions, or 'reviews' in how to use her powers. And as usual, it came so automatically, that she had to be careful what she was thinking at times. There were a few burnt trees cause her mind had wandered about the thought of 'I wonder what would happen if a fireball would fly out of my hand..' And it went from there. She got everything that Belldandy was saying. She practiced flying in the air, transferring through glass. Though, she was careful that the entrance and the leave wasnít a watch. As it was pointed out, she travels through time that way.
"So, what's it like in the glass between going in and out?"
Belldandy just blinked at her.
"Well, I know that I've been through before, it's just that, well, I was closing my eyes."
"Well, if your scared, that's okay, but if you keep your eyes open, you're less likely to get lost."
"Oh."
She didn't concentrate on much. It just seemed that everything Bell-chan said she already knew. So, she just sat there, a tune filtering through her head, she then just up and left Belldandy and filtered into the trees beside them.
"Arie!?!" She could hear Bell-chan's voice call through the trees.
Finding a nice big tall tree, Arie flew up to the middle of the branch.
It wasn't as if she wanted to be rude or anything, but time to herself would be nice. She had spent the week avoiding Urd, helping Belldandy cook (till she kicked her out cause she kept messing things up), Spent time with Skuld and the music that filled her head, and then a bit with Keiichi. After a bit, Arie had agreed to try out school with him and Bell-chan in January. It was a quick week that seemed to Arie, unusual. The hair on the back of her head stuck up on end, and she knew that Calesta was near, but she never said anything to anyone. Belldandy's ward and Bambei kept Mara and anything else, but Arie knew that someone was watching her. Good or bad. Unknown to her, Calesta wasn't the only one watching her.
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**Titled "The One". Not sure of the tune, but it's close to "Rainy Day Man" from Sailor Moon, the first season.
Arie-Chan : So, thatis chapter 6, what you think?
Skuld: I love that song!
Belldandy: Who else is watching you?
Arie-chan: Well, when I get over the blushing for singing, Iíll work on chapter 7, and youíll see from there! ^-^
Skuld and Belldandy: Alright!
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Sorry for the typo's guys, it's what happenes when you go back and forth from different computers and one disc... *sigh* ~Arie