In The Beginning.
(Part II)
Setting the phone down on the coffee table, I pondered who it might be on the other line. However, no amount of pondering could have prepared me from what I heard next.
"Oh Kami-sama, what do I owe this unexpected pleasure" I heard Urd say on the phone.
My heart leaped into my throat when I heard this. Kami-sama! The Kami-sama, the creator and ruler of all things, the alpha and the omega, on my telephone! My throat was dry, and my hands were soaked, understandably so, considering who was on my phone.
My head was spinning, but I heard bits and pieces of Urd's conversation with Kami-sama. "Protection?" "Mistake?" "Danger?". The last one was the one that caught my attention. Danger? The most dangerous situation I had been in before meeting Urd was running low on root beer and potato chips, but I had a feeling that was all going to change.
I heard the indistinct click of the phone hanging up and following the muttering of a distraught Goddess. I cleared my throat to get her attention, unfortunately, whatever seemed to be troubling her was really doing a number on her, as she ignored my coughing until I finally just asked what was bugging her.
"You have to come with me to Japan" she said matter of fatly, in a voice that offered no room for question. My heart skipped a few beats at that news; slightly I considered the health problems that I might run into later on with the constant shocks I had been receiving that night.
"J-j-apan?" I stammered. "I have to go to Japan?"
"Yup" she said as if it happened everyday. "I'll give you 20 min to pack but then we have to go.
"20 minutes!!" I practically shouted. I was thinking perhaps a few days or even a week, but 20 minutes, that's impossible. "I can't go to Japan!" I started to rant. "I have a life here, I have a girlfriend, I have friends and family, I have my schooling!" However, none of this seemed to faze her.
In fact, I doubt that she heard a word I said, she seemed too pre-occupied with pacing around my living room in heavy thought.
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"What the ****!?" Urd silently cursed to herself, if the Almighty had been around to hear that she would most likely be facing another license suspension. There were a lot of misconceptions about what Kami-sama liked and disliked, but dirty words was certainly one of his dis-likes. Once a God had actually sworn at kami-sama, for a decision that he disagreed with. That God was sentenced to 40,000 years of janitorial duty in Yggindrasil, a chore normally preformed by mindless sentient beings created by Kama-sama for many trivial duties.
"Why do I have to bring him to the temple!?" Just when everything was finally going right, Keiichi and Belldandy are closer than ever, Skuld has even stopped threating to Skuld-bomb Keiichi every time he so much as touches Belldandy.
She continued to breathe heavily in frustration as she looked around the room to try to take her mind off things. The room seemed like a typical middle-class urban home, with a fairly oversized TV as the focus point of all things, a green lazy-boy chair and a colour coordinated couch statistically placed around the boob tube. Under her feet lay a green rug with a decretive design and beneath that was a hardwood floor with imperfections in the surface.
"Umm." came a uncertain voice from behind her, despite the fact that she expected him to speak up sooner or later, it didn't prevent her from being startled and snapping her shoulders in response to his intrusion.
"Miss Urd.." Urd twinged at this, not just for being called something so formal, but the implication of the single life, of course this was not an inaccurate assessment, but how could some mortal like this know that someone as beautiful as her was unmarried, and unattached. Of course she knew that he had no idea of her martial status, albeit it still pained her slightly. ".there are some items I wish to take that might be a bit hard to carry on a plane."
Urd started to laugh at this. A plane? Her? It was downright funny. Why would she use such a pathetic form of transportation?
Chuckling slightly at his naivety, she said to him "Don't worry about the space issue, gather everything you want to take and bring it to me, and I'll send it ahead of us, and we are not taking a plane to Japan" she paused at this, although knowing that he would find out eventually what median of transportation they would be taking, she decided to not tell him for now.
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Wandering around my room, arbitrarily picking up things that I thought might be useful on my trip, it started to sink in the severity of my situation. Japan? I'm surprised that I had not wondered how long I was supposed to be there. Not to mention my server fear of planes. My mind was racing at this point; I was never one for change. After being torn away from all my childhood friends due to family problems I never again wanted to experience the loss of losing everyone that I knew and loved in a heartbeat. Of course I knew that I wasn't losing everyone, but I was quite unsure of how to stay in contact.
I looked around my room for what I knew would be the last time for quite a while. Trudging up the stares with bags in hand I approached Urd with a sense of caution. She seemed like a cat caught in a cage, ready to strike at any offensive movement.
"Umm.Miss Urd" I said rather tentatively. ".there are some items I wish to take that, might be a bit hard to carry on a plane" She started to laugh at this statement; however I failed to see what was so funny about it. "Don't worry about the space issue" she said in-between her chuckles, gather everything you want to take and bring it to me, and I'll send it ahead of us, and we are not taking a plane to Japan"
Not taking a plane to Japan? Of course the fact that she was a Goddess seemed to evade my mind at the moment. "Then how do you plan on getting us there?" I stated out of confusion rather than anger.
"Don't worry about that" Urd replied "Just put all of the stuff you want to take in a pile in this room and leave the rest up to me"
Doing as I was commanded I threw a suitcase full of clothes onto the floor, and then placed my laptop computer on top of it.
She looked at me with an eyebrow raised. "You are bringing your computer?" she said as if it was the most unusual thing she has heard all day.
I glared at her slightly and she seemed to get the message.
"Ok" she said "Let's sends this stuff to Japan"
The air grew warm and light suddenly started to appear from her hands. She started to chant in an almost sing song voice words that I could not understand. Then I noticed that everything I had placed down in the living room was gone, before I had time to let my eyes get back into their sockets from shock, I was grabbed by the arm and pulled towards a now glowing T.V. set.
"You're not going to do what I think your going to do are you!?" I barley had time to finish the sentence before she turned back and winked at me slightly before pulling in with her. It was the strangest sensation that I had ever experience in my life. It was like being pulled at a million miles per hour, but it didn't have the same effect that acceleration on planes or in cars has. The experience could only be described as falling from the sky at terminal velocity but sideways instead of down. Vivid colours surrounded me and from what I could tell I was being led down a series of interwoven paths and hallways.
There was a bright flash and suddenly I was on solid ground again. There was a sunbeam coming in from a half open window and it portrayed directly into my eyes. Moving away from the beam of sunlight I looked around the room to try and understand where I am and what had just happened. The room seemed to be of Japanese style, not something I would have known just by dropping it, but knowing I was supposed to be going to Japan, and being in a room that I had never seen before, I assumed it was of Japanese style.
I blinked a couple of times to ensure that my eyelids were still intact, then, slowly, I stood up. Staggering slightly from a head rush, I put my hand to my head to steady myself, not that it would really make a difference if I was to fall over, and it just seemed like the thing to do.
The roomed seemed to be some kind of a bedroom and glancing down to where I had been laying, I noticed a futon. Despite the confusion of my recent memories, it seemed that some time had passed since my departure to my arrival.
I barely had time to think about this when I heard a door behind me slide open.
"Oh you're awake." said a soft angelic voice. I spun around as quickly as my body would let me. There I saw the most beautiful woman that I had ever seen, she had long auburn hair that descended down to her ankles, her smile was kind and gentle and her eyes seem to radiant kindness and compassion.
"You passed out the second you arrived, so we brought you to this spare bedroom so that you could rest, after all that you've been though we figured it would be better than trying to wake you" she replied to my unasked question.
"Umm.thanks.I think" I replied, a bit confused as to what exactly was going on. "If I may ask, who are you?"
She bowed curtly and apologized for not introducing herself sooner, I attempted to assure her that it was alright, but she proceeded to tell me who she was. "My name is Belldandy; I am a Goddess, like the woman you have already met."
My shock must have shown it self, as she laughed slightly. Two Goddesses, in less than 24 hours, this was a little too much for me.
"Come on" she said. "I'll show you around and let you meet the rest of the family, and then we need to discuss your wish."
I would have responded to her, if my attempts at speech had not been cutoff by the sound of running and then a girl, who could not have been older than 13 burst into my room, seeming quite angry.
"What the hell is another male doing here!" she screamed louder than I thought possible for a girl her size. "It's bad enough Keiichi and elder sister are together, now another man has to live with us!"
This girl, whom I would later call Skuld, was actually a very nice and intelligent person; she has many great qualities that would make her eventually a wonderful woman and Goddess. However she had a few sore spots. One was men living in the same house with her, the second, as I would find out in a few seconds, was being called a kid.
"I'm sorry if I have somehow offended you little girl, I am ---. The rest of my sentence was cut off from the look of horror on Belldandy's face, and the look of anger on the girls.
"Please Skuld, he didn't know any better" Belldandy tried to coax Skuld.
"DON'T EVER CALL ME A LITTLE GIRL!!!" in the blink of an eye a hammer appeared in her hands from no where, and she started charging at me.
Now, in my rather short life I had seen many things, and with my years of playing video games I had leaned to react fast. However the only thing I could to was to put up my arm to prevent this hammer swinging girl from hitting my face.
I was about to be shocked again, as when the hammer came down, instead of it hitting my arm, I suddenly fell through the floor and re-appeared on the other side of the room.
The girl dropped her hammer in shock; Belldandy seemed just as shocked as I did. So I did what any normal person would do at this point. I passed out.
(Part II)
Setting the phone down on the coffee table, I pondered who it might be on the other line. However, no amount of pondering could have prepared me from what I heard next.
"Oh Kami-sama, what do I owe this unexpected pleasure" I heard Urd say on the phone.
My heart leaped into my throat when I heard this. Kami-sama! The Kami-sama, the creator and ruler of all things, the alpha and the omega, on my telephone! My throat was dry, and my hands were soaked, understandably so, considering who was on my phone.
My head was spinning, but I heard bits and pieces of Urd's conversation with Kami-sama. "Protection?" "Mistake?" "Danger?". The last one was the one that caught my attention. Danger? The most dangerous situation I had been in before meeting Urd was running low on root beer and potato chips, but I had a feeling that was all going to change.
I heard the indistinct click of the phone hanging up and following the muttering of a distraught Goddess. I cleared my throat to get her attention, unfortunately, whatever seemed to be troubling her was really doing a number on her, as she ignored my coughing until I finally just asked what was bugging her.
"You have to come with me to Japan" she said matter of fatly, in a voice that offered no room for question. My heart skipped a few beats at that news; slightly I considered the health problems that I might run into later on with the constant shocks I had been receiving that night.
"J-j-apan?" I stammered. "I have to go to Japan?"
"Yup" she said as if it happened everyday. "I'll give you 20 min to pack but then we have to go.
"20 minutes!!" I practically shouted. I was thinking perhaps a few days or even a week, but 20 minutes, that's impossible. "I can't go to Japan!" I started to rant. "I have a life here, I have a girlfriend, I have friends and family, I have my schooling!" However, none of this seemed to faze her.
In fact, I doubt that she heard a word I said, she seemed too pre-occupied with pacing around my living room in heavy thought.
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"What the ****!?" Urd silently cursed to herself, if the Almighty had been around to hear that she would most likely be facing another license suspension. There were a lot of misconceptions about what Kami-sama liked and disliked, but dirty words was certainly one of his dis-likes. Once a God had actually sworn at kami-sama, for a decision that he disagreed with. That God was sentenced to 40,000 years of janitorial duty in Yggindrasil, a chore normally preformed by mindless sentient beings created by Kama-sama for many trivial duties.
"Why do I have to bring him to the temple!?" Just when everything was finally going right, Keiichi and Belldandy are closer than ever, Skuld has even stopped threating to Skuld-bomb Keiichi every time he so much as touches Belldandy.
She continued to breathe heavily in frustration as she looked around the room to try to take her mind off things. The room seemed like a typical middle-class urban home, with a fairly oversized TV as the focus point of all things, a green lazy-boy chair and a colour coordinated couch statistically placed around the boob tube. Under her feet lay a green rug with a decretive design and beneath that was a hardwood floor with imperfections in the surface.
"Umm." came a uncertain voice from behind her, despite the fact that she expected him to speak up sooner or later, it didn't prevent her from being startled and snapping her shoulders in response to his intrusion.
"Miss Urd.." Urd twinged at this, not just for being called something so formal, but the implication of the single life, of course this was not an inaccurate assessment, but how could some mortal like this know that someone as beautiful as her was unmarried, and unattached. Of course she knew that he had no idea of her martial status, albeit it still pained her slightly. ".there are some items I wish to take that might be a bit hard to carry on a plane."
Urd started to laugh at this. A plane? Her? It was downright funny. Why would she use such a pathetic form of transportation?
Chuckling slightly at his naivety, she said to him "Don't worry about the space issue, gather everything you want to take and bring it to me, and I'll send it ahead of us, and we are not taking a plane to Japan" she paused at this, although knowing that he would find out eventually what median of transportation they would be taking, she decided to not tell him for now.
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Wandering around my room, arbitrarily picking up things that I thought might be useful on my trip, it started to sink in the severity of my situation. Japan? I'm surprised that I had not wondered how long I was supposed to be there. Not to mention my server fear of planes. My mind was racing at this point; I was never one for change. After being torn away from all my childhood friends due to family problems I never again wanted to experience the loss of losing everyone that I knew and loved in a heartbeat. Of course I knew that I wasn't losing everyone, but I was quite unsure of how to stay in contact.
I looked around my room for what I knew would be the last time for quite a while. Trudging up the stares with bags in hand I approached Urd with a sense of caution. She seemed like a cat caught in a cage, ready to strike at any offensive movement.
"Umm.Miss Urd" I said rather tentatively. ".there are some items I wish to take that, might be a bit hard to carry on a plane" She started to laugh at this statement; however I failed to see what was so funny about it. "Don't worry about the space issue" she said in-between her chuckles, gather everything you want to take and bring it to me, and I'll send it ahead of us, and we are not taking a plane to Japan"
Not taking a plane to Japan? Of course the fact that she was a Goddess seemed to evade my mind at the moment. "Then how do you plan on getting us there?" I stated out of confusion rather than anger.
"Don't worry about that" Urd replied "Just put all of the stuff you want to take in a pile in this room and leave the rest up to me"
Doing as I was commanded I threw a suitcase full of clothes onto the floor, and then placed my laptop computer on top of it.
She looked at me with an eyebrow raised. "You are bringing your computer?" she said as if it was the most unusual thing she has heard all day.
I glared at her slightly and she seemed to get the message.
"Ok" she said "Let's sends this stuff to Japan"
The air grew warm and light suddenly started to appear from her hands. She started to chant in an almost sing song voice words that I could not understand. Then I noticed that everything I had placed down in the living room was gone, before I had time to let my eyes get back into their sockets from shock, I was grabbed by the arm and pulled towards a now glowing T.V. set.
"You're not going to do what I think your going to do are you!?" I barley had time to finish the sentence before she turned back and winked at me slightly before pulling in with her. It was the strangest sensation that I had ever experience in my life. It was like being pulled at a million miles per hour, but it didn't have the same effect that acceleration on planes or in cars has. The experience could only be described as falling from the sky at terminal velocity but sideways instead of down. Vivid colours surrounded me and from what I could tell I was being led down a series of interwoven paths and hallways.
There was a bright flash and suddenly I was on solid ground again. There was a sunbeam coming in from a half open window and it portrayed directly into my eyes. Moving away from the beam of sunlight I looked around the room to try and understand where I am and what had just happened. The room seemed to be of Japanese style, not something I would have known just by dropping it, but knowing I was supposed to be going to Japan, and being in a room that I had never seen before, I assumed it was of Japanese style.
I blinked a couple of times to ensure that my eyelids were still intact, then, slowly, I stood up. Staggering slightly from a head rush, I put my hand to my head to steady myself, not that it would really make a difference if I was to fall over, and it just seemed like the thing to do.
The roomed seemed to be some kind of a bedroom and glancing down to where I had been laying, I noticed a futon. Despite the confusion of my recent memories, it seemed that some time had passed since my departure to my arrival.
I barely had time to think about this when I heard a door behind me slide open.
"Oh you're awake." said a soft angelic voice. I spun around as quickly as my body would let me. There I saw the most beautiful woman that I had ever seen, she had long auburn hair that descended down to her ankles, her smile was kind and gentle and her eyes seem to radiant kindness and compassion.
"You passed out the second you arrived, so we brought you to this spare bedroom so that you could rest, after all that you've been though we figured it would be better than trying to wake you" she replied to my unasked question.
"Umm.thanks.I think" I replied, a bit confused as to what exactly was going on. "If I may ask, who are you?"
She bowed curtly and apologized for not introducing herself sooner, I attempted to assure her that it was alright, but she proceeded to tell me who she was. "My name is Belldandy; I am a Goddess, like the woman you have already met."
My shock must have shown it self, as she laughed slightly. Two Goddesses, in less than 24 hours, this was a little too much for me.
"Come on" she said. "I'll show you around and let you meet the rest of the family, and then we need to discuss your wish."
I would have responded to her, if my attempts at speech had not been cutoff by the sound of running and then a girl, who could not have been older than 13 burst into my room, seeming quite angry.
"What the hell is another male doing here!" she screamed louder than I thought possible for a girl her size. "It's bad enough Keiichi and elder sister are together, now another man has to live with us!"
This girl, whom I would later call Skuld, was actually a very nice and intelligent person; she has many great qualities that would make her eventually a wonderful woman and Goddess. However she had a few sore spots. One was men living in the same house with her, the second, as I would find out in a few seconds, was being called a kid.
"I'm sorry if I have somehow offended you little girl, I am ---. The rest of my sentence was cut off from the look of horror on Belldandy's face, and the look of anger on the girls.
"Please Skuld, he didn't know any better" Belldandy tried to coax Skuld.
"DON'T EVER CALL ME A LITTLE GIRL!!!" in the blink of an eye a hammer appeared in her hands from no where, and she started charging at me.
Now, in my rather short life I had seen many things, and with my years of playing video games I had leaned to react fast. However the only thing I could to was to put up my arm to prevent this hammer swinging girl from hitting my face.
I was about to be shocked again, as when the hammer came down, instead of it hitting my arm, I suddenly fell through the floor and re-appeared on the other side of the room.
The girl dropped her hammer in shock; Belldandy seemed just as shocked as I did. So I did what any normal person would do at this point. I passed out.