A/N I do not own Ah! My Goddess I only wish that I did! This is only my second fic for Ah! My Goddess and it has been started before my first one The Proposal has been completed. It also could be the third of a trilogy for me as I've not decided yet if I want to do an alternative wedding fic for Bell and Keiichi. I'll keep you all posted on the development of that idea.

Please rate and review, constructive criticism is always welcome.

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Prologue.

It has been two years since Belldandy and Keiichi got married, and life at the temple has got back to normal... well as normal as it ever really got.

Bell and Kei are still very much inseparable despite Mara's' best efforts to break them up, and are enjoying married life together; Keiichi has finished his education and is now teaching at NIT as Bell is been herself and looking after everyone at the temple.

Urd is still a heavy drinker, however she has managed to successfully hold down a job at the local ice-cream parlor for the last nine months, something that gets on Skuld's nerves since Urd never brings any ice-cream home  for her.

This brings us nicely onto Skuld who is now a sweet sixteen year old. During the two years since her big sisters wedding to Keiichi has gone from tolerating him to liking him ever since he faced off with a demon to stop her been killed. She however refuses to change her source of income and a quick look in the garden behind the temple shows why as it is littered with motor vehicles that she has won at the video arcade when their old owners couldn't afford to pay Skuld what they owed her.

Megumi after finishing her college diploma moved to Tokyo only coming to visit he brother and sisters in-law during the summer.

The lord drops in from time to time and everyone suspects that he is rather anxious to be a Grandfather although when he has been questioned on it he always replies that the only reason for his visits is that he wants to make sure that Keiichi is treating his Daughter with the respect that she deserves.

Peorth pops in and out of their lives occasionally getting on Bell's case as to when she's going to have a family because she likes having kids around and want the chance to help in the training of her best friends kid.

No one has heard from Mara since she was at the wedding, however she can't be far away.