The View from the Future
Chapter 3
When I look back on it now, I'm kind of happy. I was there to witness my sister's first kiss with her true love. But I didn't care about that at the time. I was more concerned over the fact I was losing my sister, and losing her to a mortal. I spent the next day or so venting my frustrations out on the bugs. So much so that for a while, Yggdrasil was bug free. Well at least for 4 hours. Of course that was Yggdrasil only. The Ultimate Force was on a separate sub system. That meant it could crash without affecting the whole. Crashing a system is easy to do....unfortunately.
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Urd stared at Skuld for several minutes.
"You sure you want to be here? After last time...."
"I'm sorry I blew up your terminal alright." said Skuld, "I didn't bring any bombs today."
"I hope not. Peorth didn't believe a word I said about why my terminal was in several thousand pieces." Urd gave Skuld another look. "Are you absolutely sure you want to be here."
"JUST PUT THEM ON SCREEN!"
"Alright alright."
Urd type in a few commands. On the screen appeared Belldandy and Keiichi. They were walking along a boardwalk, heading towards a hotel with the Motor Club.
"What are they doing?" asked Skuld.
"I dunno. I can't pick up any sound. Must be the location." Urd picked up her cup of coffee and took a sip.
And promptly spat it all out when a familiar person came into view.
"WHAT THE HELL IS SHE DOING THERE?!?!"
Sayoko Mishima had arrived again.
"Umm Urd?"
"Not now Skuld." Urd watched as Sayoko began to approach Keiichi, "Uh oh. I think she's gonna get it."
"Urd!"
"Not now Skuld. I want to see what the Ultimate Force is gonna do to her this time!"
"It's not gonna do anything."
"Huh?" Urd looked over to see Skuld stalking a white fuzzy six legged bunny. "Oh a bug." 'Dammit!'
Skuld leaped at the bug, bringing her hammer down on the spot the bug sat. The bug quickly jumped away and began to lead Skuld on a merry chase around the room.
Urd sighed and looked back at the screen to see Belldandy and Keiichi looking up at her confused.
"Yeah yeah I know. 'What happened?' "
Within minutes the phone beside her was ringing.
'Hello?.. Sis?'
Urd smiled at the image on her screen.
"Why, if it isn't my little sister Belldandy!"
'Urd.. I think the Ultimate Force is down.'
"What's that? The Ultimate Force is down?" Urd acted surprised. Skuld stopped chasing the bug to give her a glare for lying again. "Skuld is chasing down a bug in the system." Urd waved her hand and Skuld resumed her pursuit of the bug.
'Do you know when it will be back up?'
"Sorry, I don't have a clue when it will be fixed. It's just a sub system anyway. You should be fine."
'I...I guess so. Well...'bye then.'
"Bye."
Urd chuckled as she hung up the phone.
"You know lying is bad." said Skuld, "Why did you lie to Onee-chan?"
Urd turned and looked over at Skuld. "Do you want her to know we've been spying on her?"
"WE?!?!"
"Yes WE!" Urd glared, "You've been watching this as much as I have! Now get that bug!"
Skuld growled and then went after the bug.
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I spent the rest of the week chasing down that bug. Just as soon as I got it, another would show up, all within the Ultimate Force system. That was weird. Usually they would hit multiple systems. To hit only one system would either mean that system was really screwed up or....someone introduced them into the system. This proved to be the case. And was I shocked when I found out who. Because of the debugging emergency, I hadn't gone back to the apartment in 5 days. When I was finally released, I arrived home to find it empty. No Urd in sight. I checked her room and found it..well...lived in, but no Urd. I had decided she must have gone off to spend the night with a god. I thought she had already gone through them all, but maybe she missed a few. However this belief was shattered by a phone call.
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The apartment phone rang.
Skuld walked over and picked it up.
"Hello?"
"Skuld?"
'Great..Peorth.' "Yes. What is it Peorth? I've been chasing bugs all day."
'"I know." came Peorth's reply, "I have some bad news for you."
Skuld paled. She hated bad news. "What?"
"Urd has been exiled to the surface."
"SHE WHAT?!?!?" Skuld stared at the phone shocked.
"She was the one who crashed the Ultimate Force. It's back up now by the way."
Skuld slumped down to the floor.
"Do you know why she did it?" asked Skuld quietly.
"Not exactly. I do know she was with Belldandy and the mortal Keiichi Morisato when she received the notice."
'Damn it Urd.' thought Skuld. "Thank you Peorth."
"You going to be alright? I mean a kid like you on her own...."
"I AM NOT A KID!!!" shouted Skuld, "I'M A GODDESS! I CAN HANDLE BEING BY MYSELF!"
Skuld slammed the phone down on the receiver hard. She then looked around the now very large and quiet apartment.
"I can handle being by myself." she repeated quietly, as if to reinforce that thought in her mind.
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Urd had been watching them, cheering Belldandy and Keiichi on the closer they got, frowning and yelling when something tried to separate them. Apparently she felt she could do better with a more hands on approach then from the heavens. So she engineered the system crash in order for her to get a chance to go and meddle.
Now I was on my own. The only occupant of an apartment that was once the residence of three. I spent the next six months without even hearing from my sisters or even able to see them from Urd's Terminal. I was still being denied access to Yggdrasil, and Urd's passwords were instantly changed to keep her from affecting the system. I only heard bits and pieces of gossip from some of the other debuggers and from the other Gods and Goddesses.
Apparently Urd was taking on the job of Goddess of Love (Believe me, the REAL Goddess of Love was pissed when she heard). As if I wasn't worried enough about that mortal trying to seduce Belldandy, now I was worried about Urd helping him to do it! But the rumors didn't stop there. A Demon had also shown up. Demons are always bad news and the identity of this Demon didn't help things.
Mara, First Class Demon, First Class pain in the Ass (I told you, I'm a modern Goddess, we can swear too and in more languages then you can possible think of.)
Mara was an old friend of my sisters. Don't ask me how, it was before I was born. As a Demon, she had already disrupted at least 2 wishes, hence why she was now a 1st Class. So there was a glimmer of hope that she might wreck this wish too, forcing Belldandy to return. Publicly, I was cheering Belldandy on as no Goddess wanted to see a wish ruined by a demon. But privately, I wished Mara would succeed so I could have my Onee-chan back. But she didn't succeed. In fact, she was failing so badly it was actually funny.
After 6 months of being on my own, I couldn't take it anymore. Being alone in that big apartment was driving me nuts. I mean, yeah I had friends in the debugging department. But friends can't replace family. I missed Belldandy.
What?
Alright.... I missed Urd too.
So I decided to go down to earth. I checked to make sure that the other debuggers were available, regardless what Urd thinks, I'm not the only one, and then I left the heavens. Unfortunately, my aim was a little off.
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Skuld burst from her portal and floated up towards the ceiling.
"HELLO!" she cried out, "I'm here!"
Silence met her call. Skuld began looking around.
"Umm...Hello? Anyone home?"
Movement caught her eye. Skuld turned to see the mortal sitting in the tub of water she had just teleported through. She stared at the mortal, her eyes traveling downward until..
Skuld's eyes went wide.
"GAHHHHHHHHHHH! YOU PERVERT!!!"
Skuld brought her hammer crashing down on the mortal's head, instantly knocking him out. The sliding door then opened.
"Keiichi what the hell are you..." Urd straightened up and stared. "Skuld?"
"What's all the commotion?" Belldandy came to the door and peaked in.
Skuld heart leaped.
"ONEE-SAMA!" Skuld flew right at Belldandy and grabbed her in a hug.
"Skuld!" said Belldandy happily, "When did you get here?"
"Just now." replied Skuld, she then turned back towards the tub, "But did you know there's a guy in your tub?"
"Huh?" Belldandy glanced over at the tub. The unconscious Keiichi was slowly sliding under the water.
"AHHHHHH! KEIICHI!" cried Belldandy.
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Ok, so Keiichi and I didn't get off on the right foot. But look at it from my view, I just arrived and wasn't expecting to see Keiichi...all of Keiichi. Even now years later I still blush thinking about that day. After Belldandy pulled Keiichi from the tub and was off making sure he was still alive, Urd grabbed me and pulled me into her room.
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Urd released Skuld arm.
"What are you doing here?"
Skuld frowned at her. "Why am I here? Why are YOU?!"
"I've been exiled. What's your excuse?"
"You got exiled for crashing the Ultimate Force." replied Skuld, "Just so you could come down here and mess with Belldandy and that mortal!"
Urd crossed her arms, "His name is Keiichi and you owe him an apology."
"An apology?!? For what? He's stealing my sister!"
"You whacked him in the head as if he was a bug. That's why you're going to apologize."
Skuld crossed her arms and looked away from Urd. "Hmmph!"
"Belldandy would expect you to apologize."
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Urd knew me too well. She also knew Belldandy. So did I. I also knew Urd was right.. again. So a short time later, I found myself apologizing to Keiichi. And Keiichi, being the guy that he was, forgave me. He introduced me to Megumi, who apparently had been outside when I arrived because she asked me where I had come from since she didn't she me enter. The look on Keiichi's face was classic when I said I had come from the bathroom. Well I couldn't lie about it now could I?
That was also when I got my first taste of mortal food. It was fantastic, not exactly food of the Gods, but then again, after eating that for a few years, it gets old pretty quick. Mortal food was never the same, because they were always making it from scratch, it could change because of ingredients or how long it was cooked, you get the idea. And finally getting to taste Belldandy's cooking after eating Urd's for several months, as well as my own attempts, I was in heaven, figuratively, not physically.
Unfortunately, this great experience in mortal food ended rather quick for me when Keiichi and Belldandy started acting 'cute'. I swear, a diabetic went into sugar shock from how they were acting. This really upset me because things had deteriorated more then I had thought. Belldandy was acting more like a mortal then a Goddess. I ended up breaking down into tears right there. Keiichi and his sister left the room, leaving Belldandy, Urd and myself.
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"Please Onee-chan," pleaded Skuld, "Please come back with me."
"I can't Skuld." replied Belldandy, "I have a contract with Keiichi."
"But that contract shouldn't have been accepted!" shouted Skuld, "It's too weird. Why do you have to live here with a mortal? And then Urd got exiled, I'm up there all by myself and.."
"Oh so that's it." said Urd, "I thought that was why you were here. You're lonely."
"It's not like that." muttered Skuld, "Besides, you haven't got the right. You can't even go back if you wanted to! That's why you'll always be a Class 2!"
"You little Brat!" shouted Urd, raising her hand. Lighting began to flash in her closed fist.
"Oh Yah wanna fight?" snarled Skuld, pulling out a Skuld Bomb.
"STOP IT!"
Urd and Skuld turned to look at the third Goddess in the room. Belldandy look sadly at her sisters.
"I'm sorry I made you lonely Skuld," said Belldandy, "But..I'm not here simply because of the contract. This is a promise that I must uphold. As long as Keiichi wants me by his side I want to be there."
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Ok..it was even worse then I thought. Basically, it would be like Mara coming over to me and saying "Hi Skuld! I'm your long lost sister!". But I didn't have long to dwell on it. A commotion from outside caused the three of us to go out and look. Outside Keiichi was standing next to a monster of a man and a guy that looked like a punk rocker, except I don't think punk rocker's used spark plugs for ears. Also outside was a piece of slime that called himself Toshiyuki Aoshima. It didn't take me long to reach that opinion of him. As soon as he saw Belldandy, he began to say things that made even Urd gag. He was just so sure he was god's gift to women. The male ego is just incredible.
Anyway, after the King of Slime had left, Belldandy and the others went to the street to see the monster and the punk rocker off. While they were at the street, I took a look at the blueprints they had left behind. On the blueprints I found the plans for a twin cylinder motorcycle. Now there are very few things that annoy me (SHUT-UP URD!), but one of the things that really bugs me is an ugly blueprint. Just the fact that someone create a bad design is just..evil. Almost as evil as machines that do absolutely nothing. I believe that every machine must have a purpose and have an excellent design. So I pulled out my handy calculator and went to work correcting the blueprint. When I was done, I held it up in reverence. Equations all perfectly added up and design errors corrected, I was looking at perfection. My bliss lasted until I noticed Keiichi and Megumi next to me. Suddenly I realized that in my desire to fix a bad design, I had just helped Keiichi! The person that was taking my sister away, the man I was going to remove from her life, I had just helped. I was pissed. So I yelled at him and walked away. As I approached the door, I heard Belldandy apologizing for me. I froze. What did I do? HE is the one keeping her from returning home! I missed what they had said after that, but I did catch one phrase clearly. Keiichi had said "Well, she is just a kid..."
That did it. I was really mad now. He was going to get it. Unfortunately... I couldn't toss a bomb, Belldandy was right there. So I tossed the only thing available, my pen. It got some nice air after ricocheting off Keiichi's head. I shouted that I was not a kid, and then went in did the childish thing of sticking my tongue out at him. Nope....not a kid at all.
For the next several hours I remained out of sight. I watched as Keiichi and Megumi built the motorcycle, while Belldandy and Urd watched and assisted when necessary. Actually, Belldandy didn't help with the actual assembly, she brought out food a refreshments. As I watched, I began to realize something, Belldandy was enjoying herself. The way she made the food, the way she talked to and helped Keiichi. It really upset me to see it. I've come to realize what it was now. I was jealous, jealous that Keiichi was beginning to take over Belldandy's heart, when before it was just me and Urd. I know that it was not that way now, but at the time, I felt like I was being replaced. But how did Keiichi feel for Belldandy? Remember, all the goddesses I knew would not even think of being this way with a mortal, for fear of the Judgment Gate. And of course I remembered the stories of those Goddesses that were tricked by those power craving mortals. I decided to get to the bottom of it. There had to be a reason why Keiichi wanted her here on the surface.
And I wanted to know what it was.
Chapter 3
When I look back on it now, I'm kind of happy. I was there to witness my sister's first kiss with her true love. But I didn't care about that at the time. I was more concerned over the fact I was losing my sister, and losing her to a mortal. I spent the next day or so venting my frustrations out on the bugs. So much so that for a while, Yggdrasil was bug free. Well at least for 4 hours. Of course that was Yggdrasil only. The Ultimate Force was on a separate sub system. That meant it could crash without affecting the whole. Crashing a system is easy to do....unfortunately.
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Urd stared at Skuld for several minutes.
"You sure you want to be here? After last time...."
"I'm sorry I blew up your terminal alright." said Skuld, "I didn't bring any bombs today."
"I hope not. Peorth didn't believe a word I said about why my terminal was in several thousand pieces." Urd gave Skuld another look. "Are you absolutely sure you want to be here."
"JUST PUT THEM ON SCREEN!"
"Alright alright."
Urd type in a few commands. On the screen appeared Belldandy and Keiichi. They were walking along a boardwalk, heading towards a hotel with the Motor Club.
"What are they doing?" asked Skuld.
"I dunno. I can't pick up any sound. Must be the location." Urd picked up her cup of coffee and took a sip.
And promptly spat it all out when a familiar person came into view.
"WHAT THE HELL IS SHE DOING THERE?!?!"
Sayoko Mishima had arrived again.
"Umm Urd?"
"Not now Skuld." Urd watched as Sayoko began to approach Keiichi, "Uh oh. I think she's gonna get it."
"Urd!"
"Not now Skuld. I want to see what the Ultimate Force is gonna do to her this time!"
"It's not gonna do anything."
"Huh?" Urd looked over to see Skuld stalking a white fuzzy six legged bunny. "Oh a bug." 'Dammit!'
Skuld leaped at the bug, bringing her hammer down on the spot the bug sat. The bug quickly jumped away and began to lead Skuld on a merry chase around the room.
Urd sighed and looked back at the screen to see Belldandy and Keiichi looking up at her confused.
"Yeah yeah I know. 'What happened?' "
Within minutes the phone beside her was ringing.
'Hello?.. Sis?'
Urd smiled at the image on her screen.
"Why, if it isn't my little sister Belldandy!"
'Urd.. I think the Ultimate Force is down.'
"What's that? The Ultimate Force is down?" Urd acted surprised. Skuld stopped chasing the bug to give her a glare for lying again. "Skuld is chasing down a bug in the system." Urd waved her hand and Skuld resumed her pursuit of the bug.
'Do you know when it will be back up?'
"Sorry, I don't have a clue when it will be fixed. It's just a sub system anyway. You should be fine."
'I...I guess so. Well...'bye then.'
"Bye."
Urd chuckled as she hung up the phone.
"You know lying is bad." said Skuld, "Why did you lie to Onee-chan?"
Urd turned and looked over at Skuld. "Do you want her to know we've been spying on her?"
"WE?!?!"
"Yes WE!" Urd glared, "You've been watching this as much as I have! Now get that bug!"
Skuld growled and then went after the bug.
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I spent the rest of the week chasing down that bug. Just as soon as I got it, another would show up, all within the Ultimate Force system. That was weird. Usually they would hit multiple systems. To hit only one system would either mean that system was really screwed up or....someone introduced them into the system. This proved to be the case. And was I shocked when I found out who. Because of the debugging emergency, I hadn't gone back to the apartment in 5 days. When I was finally released, I arrived home to find it empty. No Urd in sight. I checked her room and found it..well...lived in, but no Urd. I had decided she must have gone off to spend the night with a god. I thought she had already gone through them all, but maybe she missed a few. However this belief was shattered by a phone call.
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The apartment phone rang.
Skuld walked over and picked it up.
"Hello?"
"Skuld?"
'Great..Peorth.' "Yes. What is it Peorth? I've been chasing bugs all day."
'"I know." came Peorth's reply, "I have some bad news for you."
Skuld paled. She hated bad news. "What?"
"Urd has been exiled to the surface."
"SHE WHAT?!?!?" Skuld stared at the phone shocked.
"She was the one who crashed the Ultimate Force. It's back up now by the way."
Skuld slumped down to the floor.
"Do you know why she did it?" asked Skuld quietly.
"Not exactly. I do know she was with Belldandy and the mortal Keiichi Morisato when she received the notice."
'Damn it Urd.' thought Skuld. "Thank you Peorth."
"You going to be alright? I mean a kid like you on her own...."
"I AM NOT A KID!!!" shouted Skuld, "I'M A GODDESS! I CAN HANDLE BEING BY MYSELF!"
Skuld slammed the phone down on the receiver hard. She then looked around the now very large and quiet apartment.
"I can handle being by myself." she repeated quietly, as if to reinforce that thought in her mind.
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Urd had been watching them, cheering Belldandy and Keiichi on the closer they got, frowning and yelling when something tried to separate them. Apparently she felt she could do better with a more hands on approach then from the heavens. So she engineered the system crash in order for her to get a chance to go and meddle.
Now I was on my own. The only occupant of an apartment that was once the residence of three. I spent the next six months without even hearing from my sisters or even able to see them from Urd's Terminal. I was still being denied access to Yggdrasil, and Urd's passwords were instantly changed to keep her from affecting the system. I only heard bits and pieces of gossip from some of the other debuggers and from the other Gods and Goddesses.
Apparently Urd was taking on the job of Goddess of Love (Believe me, the REAL Goddess of Love was pissed when she heard). As if I wasn't worried enough about that mortal trying to seduce Belldandy, now I was worried about Urd helping him to do it! But the rumors didn't stop there. A Demon had also shown up. Demons are always bad news and the identity of this Demon didn't help things.
Mara, First Class Demon, First Class pain in the Ass (I told you, I'm a modern Goddess, we can swear too and in more languages then you can possible think of.)
Mara was an old friend of my sisters. Don't ask me how, it was before I was born. As a Demon, she had already disrupted at least 2 wishes, hence why she was now a 1st Class. So there was a glimmer of hope that she might wreck this wish too, forcing Belldandy to return. Publicly, I was cheering Belldandy on as no Goddess wanted to see a wish ruined by a demon. But privately, I wished Mara would succeed so I could have my Onee-chan back. But she didn't succeed. In fact, she was failing so badly it was actually funny.
After 6 months of being on my own, I couldn't take it anymore. Being alone in that big apartment was driving me nuts. I mean, yeah I had friends in the debugging department. But friends can't replace family. I missed Belldandy.
What?
Alright.... I missed Urd too.
So I decided to go down to earth. I checked to make sure that the other debuggers were available, regardless what Urd thinks, I'm not the only one, and then I left the heavens. Unfortunately, my aim was a little off.
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Skuld burst from her portal and floated up towards the ceiling.
"HELLO!" she cried out, "I'm here!"
Silence met her call. Skuld began looking around.
"Umm...Hello? Anyone home?"
Movement caught her eye. Skuld turned to see the mortal sitting in the tub of water she had just teleported through. She stared at the mortal, her eyes traveling downward until..
Skuld's eyes went wide.
"GAHHHHHHHHHHH! YOU PERVERT!!!"
Skuld brought her hammer crashing down on the mortal's head, instantly knocking him out. The sliding door then opened.
"Keiichi what the hell are you..." Urd straightened up and stared. "Skuld?"
"What's all the commotion?" Belldandy came to the door and peaked in.
Skuld heart leaped.
"ONEE-SAMA!" Skuld flew right at Belldandy and grabbed her in a hug.
"Skuld!" said Belldandy happily, "When did you get here?"
"Just now." replied Skuld, she then turned back towards the tub, "But did you know there's a guy in your tub?"
"Huh?" Belldandy glanced over at the tub. The unconscious Keiichi was slowly sliding under the water.
"AHHHHHH! KEIICHI!" cried Belldandy.
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Ok, so Keiichi and I didn't get off on the right foot. But look at it from my view, I just arrived and wasn't expecting to see Keiichi...all of Keiichi. Even now years later I still blush thinking about that day. After Belldandy pulled Keiichi from the tub and was off making sure he was still alive, Urd grabbed me and pulled me into her room.
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Urd released Skuld arm.
"What are you doing here?"
Skuld frowned at her. "Why am I here? Why are YOU?!"
"I've been exiled. What's your excuse?"
"You got exiled for crashing the Ultimate Force." replied Skuld, "Just so you could come down here and mess with Belldandy and that mortal!"
Urd crossed her arms, "His name is Keiichi and you owe him an apology."
"An apology?!? For what? He's stealing my sister!"
"You whacked him in the head as if he was a bug. That's why you're going to apologize."
Skuld crossed her arms and looked away from Urd. "Hmmph!"
"Belldandy would expect you to apologize."
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Urd knew me too well. She also knew Belldandy. So did I. I also knew Urd was right.. again. So a short time later, I found myself apologizing to Keiichi. And Keiichi, being the guy that he was, forgave me. He introduced me to Megumi, who apparently had been outside when I arrived because she asked me where I had come from since she didn't she me enter. The look on Keiichi's face was classic when I said I had come from the bathroom. Well I couldn't lie about it now could I?
That was also when I got my first taste of mortal food. It was fantastic, not exactly food of the Gods, but then again, after eating that for a few years, it gets old pretty quick. Mortal food was never the same, because they were always making it from scratch, it could change because of ingredients or how long it was cooked, you get the idea. And finally getting to taste Belldandy's cooking after eating Urd's for several months, as well as my own attempts, I was in heaven, figuratively, not physically.
Unfortunately, this great experience in mortal food ended rather quick for me when Keiichi and Belldandy started acting 'cute'. I swear, a diabetic went into sugar shock from how they were acting. This really upset me because things had deteriorated more then I had thought. Belldandy was acting more like a mortal then a Goddess. I ended up breaking down into tears right there. Keiichi and his sister left the room, leaving Belldandy, Urd and myself.
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"Please Onee-chan," pleaded Skuld, "Please come back with me."
"I can't Skuld." replied Belldandy, "I have a contract with Keiichi."
"But that contract shouldn't have been accepted!" shouted Skuld, "It's too weird. Why do you have to live here with a mortal? And then Urd got exiled, I'm up there all by myself and.."
"Oh so that's it." said Urd, "I thought that was why you were here. You're lonely."
"It's not like that." muttered Skuld, "Besides, you haven't got the right. You can't even go back if you wanted to! That's why you'll always be a Class 2!"
"You little Brat!" shouted Urd, raising her hand. Lighting began to flash in her closed fist.
"Oh Yah wanna fight?" snarled Skuld, pulling out a Skuld Bomb.
"STOP IT!"
Urd and Skuld turned to look at the third Goddess in the room. Belldandy look sadly at her sisters.
"I'm sorry I made you lonely Skuld," said Belldandy, "But..I'm not here simply because of the contract. This is a promise that I must uphold. As long as Keiichi wants me by his side I want to be there."
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Ok..it was even worse then I thought. Basically, it would be like Mara coming over to me and saying "Hi Skuld! I'm your long lost sister!". But I didn't have long to dwell on it. A commotion from outside caused the three of us to go out and look. Outside Keiichi was standing next to a monster of a man and a guy that looked like a punk rocker, except I don't think punk rocker's used spark plugs for ears. Also outside was a piece of slime that called himself Toshiyuki Aoshima. It didn't take me long to reach that opinion of him. As soon as he saw Belldandy, he began to say things that made even Urd gag. He was just so sure he was god's gift to women. The male ego is just incredible.
Anyway, after the King of Slime had left, Belldandy and the others went to the street to see the monster and the punk rocker off. While they were at the street, I took a look at the blueprints they had left behind. On the blueprints I found the plans for a twin cylinder motorcycle. Now there are very few things that annoy me (SHUT-UP URD!), but one of the things that really bugs me is an ugly blueprint. Just the fact that someone create a bad design is just..evil. Almost as evil as machines that do absolutely nothing. I believe that every machine must have a purpose and have an excellent design. So I pulled out my handy calculator and went to work correcting the blueprint. When I was done, I held it up in reverence. Equations all perfectly added up and design errors corrected, I was looking at perfection. My bliss lasted until I noticed Keiichi and Megumi next to me. Suddenly I realized that in my desire to fix a bad design, I had just helped Keiichi! The person that was taking my sister away, the man I was going to remove from her life, I had just helped. I was pissed. So I yelled at him and walked away. As I approached the door, I heard Belldandy apologizing for me. I froze. What did I do? HE is the one keeping her from returning home! I missed what they had said after that, but I did catch one phrase clearly. Keiichi had said "Well, she is just a kid..."
That did it. I was really mad now. He was going to get it. Unfortunately... I couldn't toss a bomb, Belldandy was right there. So I tossed the only thing available, my pen. It got some nice air after ricocheting off Keiichi's head. I shouted that I was not a kid, and then went in did the childish thing of sticking my tongue out at him. Nope....not a kid at all.
For the next several hours I remained out of sight. I watched as Keiichi and Megumi built the motorcycle, while Belldandy and Urd watched and assisted when necessary. Actually, Belldandy didn't help with the actual assembly, she brought out food a refreshments. As I watched, I began to realize something, Belldandy was enjoying herself. The way she made the food, the way she talked to and helped Keiichi. It really upset me to see it. I've come to realize what it was now. I was jealous, jealous that Keiichi was beginning to take over Belldandy's heart, when before it was just me and Urd. I know that it was not that way now, but at the time, I felt like I was being replaced. But how did Keiichi feel for Belldandy? Remember, all the goddesses I knew would not even think of being this way with a mortal, for fear of the Judgment Gate. And of course I remembered the stories of those Goddesses that were tricked by those power craving mortals. I decided to get to the bottom of it. There had to be a reason why Keiichi wanted her here on the surface.
And I wanted to know what it was.