Chapter 8: The courtship of Zarah.
Belldandy's, Urd's, Skuld's and Keiichi's mouth were still gaping when the reader of this fan-fic decided to start reading this chapter.
"Wha... What are you talking about?" Urd stammered. "I don't like any surprises like this."
"Yes, I know this is a little surprising. I never even knew my mother herself, let alone that she has a sister like you," replied Zazu.
"Sorry, but I don't believe this. If your talking crap to me boy, I swear I will give you a shock of your life," threatened Urd. A ball of lightning appeared on her right palm.
"Calm down, Urd. I would like to hear what he has to say," Belldandy said.
"Yes, please listen to my explanation first. I hope you will find it interesting," continued Zazu.
"Fine, you can try to lie all you want! But you can't convince me!" taunted Urd.
"Geez, like mother, like daughter. She is still partially a demoness in her heart," replied Zazu.
"What! How did you know about this?"
Zazu began his long story, from the part where Hild and Kami-Sama had two daughters, until when he himself discovered his true identity.
"Well, that's a nice story, but you can't convince me. I've been living for 250000 year already, how you expect me to believe something like that?" Urd crossed her arms.
"Fine," Zarah suddenly butted in. "Show me your angle, Urd."
"What?" Urd replied.
Zarah's remark stroked Zazu's mind with an idea. He added, "Show me your angle, and you will understand much more later."
"Big sister, you need to convince yourself that you don't have a sister, right?" Skuld added in. She was not convinced too.
Hesitating for a while, Urd finally submitted to their request and summoned out her angle, World of Elegance. The angle floated out from Urd's back, and stunned Zarah on the spot. World of Elegance looked like a mirror image that has been split into two, but with each side in a total contrast towards each other. For example, one of her hands was black, while the other was white.
"Okay, start lying," Urd added.
"I don't need too," Zazu replied.
Zazu summoned Angi-Dev out, which appeared with black silky wings, fully spread open behind him.
Urd's, Keiichi's, Belldandy's, and Skuld's mouth were ajar again for a few seconds.
"Impossible, I taught that I was the only hybrid throughout the entire time of my life. How could my mother keep this from me? That demoness!!!," evidently, Urd doesn't like her mother much.
"Calm down, big sister," Belldandy said, grabbing Urd's hand. "Give her time," Belldandy continued, speaking to Zazu and Zarah.
"You are such a pathetic goddess, Urd. Can't you just accept the fact?" Zarah suddenly cut in.
That snapped Urd out of her trance. She threw a lightning bolt at Zarah immediately afterwards.
Of course, Zarah replied with a fireball herself. The resulting impact from the two forms of energy blew half the dining hall apart.
Belldandy immediately grabbed Urd's hand, while Zazu did the same the Zarah.
"No one calls me pathetic!" Urd shouted at Zarah.
"Well, you are, because you are blinded by your own history and believes!" replied Zarah.
"Stop this hostile act immediately!" Belldandy shouted. Evidentially, she was well practiced with controlling feuds. Belldandy formed a powerful barrier to prevent the hostile females from lashing at each other further.
(While they were fighting, note that two characters in the story wasn't given much attention)
Angi-Dev was admiring World of Elegance. To him, she was the most beautiful angle he had ever seen. (It was his first anyway) He admired her contrasting complexity of the left and right portions of her body. They were so uniquely matched to each other. And with such a hot body to go with it!
World of Elegance was thinking of the same too. She had rarely seen male angles, because Urd rarely summoned her out when she was busy having fun with the gods. She wanted to know Angi-Dev more. Perhaps if she showed a 'little' more of 'some' of her parts, she'll get him to be hooked to her.
World of Elegance extended a tendril out towards Angi-Dev, which he tried to touch it. Angi-Dev tried hard. If he could reach her, he could communicate openly with her then. However, Urd was too far from Zazu that World of Elegance couldn't reach Angi-Dev.
Skuld noticed the incident that was happening between Zazu's and Urd's angles.
"Ahem!" Skuld said loudly. "May I have everyone attention please?"
All sentient beings turned toward the young goddess.
"See what Zazu's angle and World of Elegance are doing."
Of course Zazu and Urd couldn't see what was happening behind their backs, but the others saw it perfectly well.
World of Elegance had extended a tendril towards Angi-Dev. He was trying desperately to touch it with his wing, but not successfully.
"Do you know what they are doing?" Keiichi asked Belldandy.
"I'm not sure, but I think they are attracted to each other. Cases where angles are attracted to each other are rather unheard of," replied Belldandy.
"Move closer both of you," ordered Skuld.
Zazu moved closer to his aunt, until they are nearly at arms distance.
Then something enthralling happened.
Angi-Dev had touched World of Elegance. In the beginning, it was only his hand. But as time passes, World of Elegance and Angi-Dev seemed to have shifted into cloudy forms of themselves. The two groups of clouds began to touch and interact with each other. 'Wisps' or 'clouds' from one angle flowed and mixed around with 'clouds' from the other angle. It was like looking at a white cloud and a black cloud that accidentally collided with each other.
Angi-Dev and World of Elegance were having the time of their lives. Millions of conversations flow between the two angels within the matter of seconds. Angi-Dev learned all about World of Elegance exploits with her master. From the time how World of Elegance felt when Urd shunned her off, to how trapped she felt when Urd turned into the lord of Destruction, and how she felt when she was singing beside Urd. Angi-Dev didn't have much to tell World of Elegance, but he was all for her.
The whirling forms were mixed together for nearly half an hour. Eventually, Angi-Dev and World of Elegance materialized into their solid forms. Both of them are smiling and eyeing each other after the incident.
"Interesting, do you think they like each other?" Zazu asked Zarah.
"How in the world I know what is the meaning of like?" Zarah replied back.
"Well, what I meant by they liked each other is that when both of them begin to develop fondness towards each other. It is not the normal condition when two people meet and just say hi to each other. It is more than that," Zazu tried to explain.
Belldandy added in, "It's the beginning where two people begin to think about each other more than usual. For example, you begin to think about what he thinks about you, how is his life faring, and etc."
"Well in demonic terms, like means that you develop a 'wanting' towards the other companion. You want to dominate your partner to give yourself something, either in terms of companionship or pleasure. It is far fetched from your terms," Zarah said.
"It's more than that Zarah, when you like someone, you began to think what you can do to make your partner feel happy or comforted," Zazu replied.
"But I want pleasure from the one I like," Zarah defended herself.
"The meaning of 'like' is more than that, you should see what humans do more often," Zazu continued.
"Well, it's all Greek to me," Zarah ended the conversation. Indicating she was not interested in the topic further.
Angi-Dev squirmed, when he felt the frustrations emitting from his master.
"Well," Zazu sighed. "Aunt Urd, I don't know how to convince you further."
"I'll think about it," replied Urd. "It's all new to me. Speaking about that, maybe you want to know your 'aunt' more tonight?" She eyed mischievously at Zazu.
"Er, no thanks. I'm having someone else in my taughts." Zazu replied.
Then chaos came again.
"Hahaha! Big sister, you are such a loser!" Skuld laughed at Urd.
"What?" Urd began fuming.
""Even your angle got a companion compared with you now. Hehehe."
"You Brat!"
That triggered another round of explosions within the temple.
(Focus to Sebarah)
"Ah... Earth. Still so uncorrupted," Sebarah said as he exited out of his traveling mechanism, grocery bills.
"Eek!" a woman screamed when something popped out at her face when she was reviewing her bills.
"Nothing better than something to refresh my body after teleporting," Sebarah said, eyeing the helpless woman evilly.
The woman's screams were heard by her husband, which was murdered immediately. After having his time while the heartbroken woman was crying and stupefied, he sent her to join her husband in the afterlife.
"Ahhh, just what I need before I began my hunt."
He went off to pick Zarah's demonic trail. In a short time, he picked up her scent, which was insanely alluring to him.
It wouldn't be too long before he found her.
(Focus back to Zarah and the rest at the temple)
Zarah teleported Zazu away from the temple because she was bored with all the 'fireworks' that is happening at the temple. It was all noise and chaotic, something which she didn't like much. How she wished to be in the Alps again. She cringed when she remembered that her favorite place was burned up and riddled with scars from the recent battle with Mars.
After wishing goodnight with Zazu, Zarah went to her head thinking of the recent events that had happened recently.
What Belldandy and Zazu said didn't make much sense to her at all. You like that particular demon because he has special qualities that make you attracted to him. Why in Vanagdrassil would you help someone just because you like him? You don't owe that demon any favors by simply just liking him. So why bother with it?
What did Zazu mean by helping someone that you like? Did he mean that that particular demoness would like him if he helps her? She definitely wouldn't develop an attraction to Zazu if he decided to be the knight shining armor coming to rescue her.
On second taught, make that the suicidal knight in shining armor. He was definitely plain stupid to defend her against Mars when he doesn't even knew his true abilities. Why in the world would he risk his life just to rescue someone like her who gave him nothing except problems and pain?
A smart demon would simply run away to save his ass.
Yet, Zazu's not a pure demon. He was a breed of demon, god and human. Sometimes, his undemonic attitude really pissed her off, yet sometimes she felt his attitude to be comforting.
That hug he gave that day....
Zarah suddenly shook her head hard.
Sigh, him again. Why her thoughts always accidentally end up with Zazu? This was probably the tenth time she wondered why her taught ended up with him. He must have brain washed her when she was weak at that day when he hugged her.
"Arrgggghhh..." she shook her head again. "He is too stupidly damned innocent to do that!" she said out loud.
"Oops..." she hoped that Zazu on the other room beside hers wouldn't hear it.
"Huh?", Zarah suddenly was puzzled. Since when did she worry whether Zazu heard her offensive remarks at him or not?
Beings that are not demonic in nature are so hard to predict. They use their brains too much on every single thing.
Finally, everything snapped into her mind.
"Zazu..." her eyes went unfocused. "You idiot, how could you like a demoness like me?"
"After all the terrible things I did to you. Why? I definitely was pushing you away from me."
"I think I want more comfort from him..." Zarah said.
"However, I think I should wait until he comes yapping to my lap like a dog before I should even consider to give any affection to him." However much Zazu liked her, she was still a demoness.
The next few days of university life was normal to them both. Zazu tried to start a few conversations with Zarah, which she sometimes replied.
However, what Zarah wanted from Zazu (pleading for her affection) ended up completely the opposite.
Zarah had many problems with the people around her. She heard many students were gossiping a lot of bad things behind her back, and nearly none of them came to approach her. What she heard was she is a selfish person, unfriendly, loathing and many other negative things.
Not that she minded it much, because that's what she should be.
But the worst thing is when she had to cooperate with several other students to do a specific project assigned by her lecturer. The students refused to share anything with her. How could they do that! She knew that the students were sharing information among themselves, but why they deliberately refused to share the information with her?
Belldandy was another problem. Every time she wanted to play a trick at someone or simply release her anger on some student that she hated, Belldandy seemed to sense her doing and would be coming with a counter spell to her spell every time. Not to mention the more powerful goddess blocked her efforts to steal the students' notes and memories so that she could simply copy them to her book. She needed them to pass up to the lecturer that was way dumber than her.
Zarah often received mental projections from Belldandy saying that she should 'earn' her own marks by studying them herself.
But she is earning her own marks! She has to copy them from people's minds and notes by herself!
In the end, Zarah went to Zazu many times asking him to share his notes with her. (She couldn't concentrate in class). Other than that, Zarah often asked him about the lifestyles of human females so that she won't be suspected that she was something out of the ordinary human being. Sometimes, she also asked him why the humans in her class tend to develop those kind of offensive thoughts about her.
She learned something humans called friendship there, where people shared a bond that was strong enough that people are willing to communicate willingly enough with each other without much hesitation. It was something very new to her. The only time she ever experienced that thing was with her sister in Vanagdrassil. Other than that, no one ever cared about making this kind of relationships with her over there.
So, is that's the term she should use with the relationship she have with Zazu now?
Somewhere deep inside her heart, she began to develop a 'wanting' for him. Zazu, the demon that was too innocent to be classified as a real demon.
"Sigh, I'm really a loser this time," Zarah said to herself. "I was the one approaching him."
(The weekends, two weeks on Earth)
"Erm, Zarah, are you interested to go out for me this Sunday?" Zazu asked Zarah on the night of Saturday. "You might be able to know more of the human lifestyles here so you will not accidentally show yourself as weird to other people," he made and excuse, hoping she will buy it.
"Isk..., stop using that stupid excuse every time you want to make a conversation with me or intending to ask me to go out," Zarah replied. "If you want a date, it's fine with me. I'm too bored in the apartment anyway."
That reaction shocked Zazu a little, but he recovered in time. "I'll take you out at 7am tomorrow. Is that fine?"
"Sure," Zarah replied.
That night, Zazu made a deep research about suitable places for them to go. He called all the friends he had made when he was on earth, including Keiichi and Belldandy, and enquired every single detail, from all the transportation services needed, all suitable places to eat, and every single minor detail he needed to cover. He accessed his 'special' account and withdrew a few million yen from it.
(The next day)
Zazu brought Zarah to a park near their apartment early in the morning. It was a rather large park, complete with amenities required for an enjoyable visit. It was quite some distance from their house, but they reach there by train in a matter of moments.
He took her to a jogging path surrounding the lake. It was peaceful and quiet as there are not many people there in the morning, and the air around the lake was cool and refreshing.
Walking around the lake, Zazu asked Zarah, "How do you felt when you were transferred to earth recently?"
"Well, I was not quite used to it. The innocence of the humans surrounding me, the 'friendly' environment as you call it, there are just too noisy and nice to me."
She sighed, and added, "Not to mention that Belldandy kept blocking my powers every time I was in the university."
"Well, she is a goddess after all; you can't blame her for trying to keep the serenity of the place in one piece."
"But I am a demoness!"
"We are the invaders, you know. She was here two years ago. How you felt if someone decides to disrupt your life when you are so used to your own surroundings?" Zazu corrected Zarah.
Zarah felt her temper rising, but she really didn't want to spoil the peaceful mood she was having in the park with Zazu. "Well, I guess you're right."
"Hey Zarah, other than Mara, do you have any other family members?"
"Well, both of us were left alone by our parents when I was just in my teens." That was around 40000 years old for her. "I loathe them for that, but I'm just glad I have Mara to support me when I was still young."
"Sorry to hear that."
"Yeah," she sighed.
"Did you still miss your military duties?" Zazu asked, changing the topic.
"A little," Zarah replied. "However, I never enjoyed all the battles I have fought throughout my entire life. Hurting and maiming gods and goddesses, nearly getting killed in return, the constant battles, it just something to fill my purpose in existence. I felt like I have no purpose and life by just joining the military to do all this offensive things. It felt like a terrorist group to me."
A short pause, then Zarah continued, "I'm just glad I'm enjoying the moment of peace now with you."
That brought a blush to both of their cheeks, and silence was in the air for a few minutes. They continued to walk around the pond. A flock of birds took off and flew away when they went near them. There were birds chirping, crickets cricketing, and many other noises around the park, making a peaceful orchestra that was pleasing to their ears.
A flock of birds flew overhead them, and made the sky darker. Zazu chuckled when a bird dropped its droppings on her. In return, Zarah grabbed and threw Zazu to the pond. She laughed out loud. Emerging wet from the pond, Zazu smiled and laughed too. He tried to splash some water at Zarah to get her back, but she quickly avoided, taunting him all the way.
Zarah was simply being plain nice that day. She cast a spell to dry his clothes off, then avoided from making any other unfortunate incidents.
They continued to walk, and then settled themselves down under a good- sized tree.
Zarah was sitting down beside the tree, while Zazu was lying down on the grass beside her. The wind blew quite strongly, and Zarah's short hair followed to the flow of the wind. It made her look absolutely beautiful upon his eyes.
"Well, this might not be the first time someone have said this to you, but you looked very beautiful today," Zazu said out loud, taking a crazy chance. He expected either a nice flow of words out of her mouth or some tongue-lashing that could make his ears hurt badly.
"Yes, I have heard many people said that to me, but I have never heard it from someone with an honest heart like you," she replied, smiling back at him.
Those words made his heart jump. Yes, sometimes if you don't take a crazy chance, you will never know what will happen. Zazu learned much about that now. He was too ashamed to talk or ask a girl out openly earlier in his life. He regretted all the opportunities he had wasted earlier in his life.
However, all the opportunities he wasted earlier gave a blessing to him now. Zarah.
He smiled and looked into the clear morning sky.
Later, he took her a buffet restaurant in a hotel. He gave his platinum visa to the waiter there, which gave them prime service to all its amenities. He was glad he misused the bank account that was given by his grandmother. He certainly cannot afford the charges of the hotel.
The food was very delicious. Zarah definitely showed her affection towards the food. She took huge chunks of barbecued meat, a large plate of rice, and practically every single dessert available in the restaurant. It embarrassed him a little, seeing her chomping down all the food at once, but he was glad that she was enjoying herself here. A romantic music was played on the background of the restaurant.
Later in the evening, Zazu took Zarah to a theme park nearby. Zarah, being the more daring one, decided to take every single ride that subjected the passenger to more than 2 times the gravity of the earth. They rode every single roller coaster ride, entered the ghost house, the rocking boat, and many more. Zarah extended her human senses the best as she could, and enjoyed every moment of it. She never knew that such delicate senses that were owned by the delicate humans could subject her to so much pleasure. Zazu, was very thrilled too, because he never had the chance to do that when he was studying in the previous university the last time.
Around 6 in the evening, Zazu brought Zarah to a boat ride on a lake near the park. As they paddle the boat through the river, they were encased by a think fog, which slightly drenched their clothes. The water was calm, clear and the environment was clean. They occasionally met other paddlers on the lake, but other than that, it was a nice, quiet environment for them both. There were only the sounds of the paddles splashing the lake, and occasionally the chirping of birds and insects. Zazu looked at Zarah's direction many times, and sometimes he will see her looking back at him, which they both smiled.
Later, they attended a romantic dinner beside the lake. During the nighttime, there was a parade of lights on the lake. Lights that make the shape of a mother swan and its 'kids' were paraded across the lake. The fantastic lights emitting from the swans, combined by their opposite reflections on the surface of the lake, made a dazzling view.
Finally, later in the night, Zazu took Zarah on a ride in the Ferris wheel. Looking from the very high angle, the view was spectacular with all the lights emitting from all the rides and the buildings there.
When their booth on the Ferris wheel was ascending, Zazu decided to take another chance.
"Zarah, what do you think about tonight?" He looked straight at her face.
"It was very nice, thank you," she smiled back.
With his heart beating at abnormal speeds, Zazu finally asked, "Erm... Zarah, since I've ever laid my eyes on you that day when you suddenly teleported in to the exam hall, I have developed a fondness to you."
Now it was Zarah's heart turn to accelerate. She turned her face to look directly at his eyes.
"I wish to sing this song that I picked up from Faye Wong, entitled 'eyes on me' to you. My version of it."
(Disclaimer: I do not own or make the 'eyes on me' song. Faye Wong originally sings the song and its copyrights belong to Squaresoft.)
My last night here with you,
Same old songs, just once more;
My last night her with you,
Maybe yes, maybe no.
I kind of like it your way,
How you smile, you place your eyes on me;
Did you ever know,
That I had mine on you.
Zarah so there you are,
With the look on your face;
As if you never know,
As if you never heard.
Shall I be the one for you,
That pinches you softly but sure;
If frown is shown then,
I will know that you are not dreaming.
(Zazu then hummed the entire middle tune from his memory, while Zarah was looking pleasingly at him)
So let me come close to you,
Close as I, wanna be;
Close enough for me,
To felt your heart beating fast.
And say there as I whisper,
How I love your peaceful eyes on me;
Did you ever know,
That I had mine on you.
Zarah so share with me,
Your love if you have enough;
The tears that you're holding back,
A pain if that what it is.
How can I let you know,
A more than the trust and the voice;
Just reach me out then,
You would know that you are not dreaming.
Zarah so there you are, with the look on your face,
As if you never know, as if you never heard;
Shall I be the one for you, that pinches you softly but sure,
If frown is shown then, I will know that you are not dreaming.
Zarah felt like floating. In fact, she is floating, a few centimeters above the chair.
The booth they were sitting was now at the apex of the Ferris wheel. With the best view around them at the night, the hardest words came from Zazu's mouth, "Erm... Zarah, would you be my girlfriend?"
Zarah felt a pang at those words, she wanted the word that might change her life forever, but something was holding her back. She simply couldn't open her heart again after she had shut it off from everyone else after a very long time. Her words stuttered, "I...I..."
KATHOOM!!!!!
A fireball landed on the joint connecting the Ferris wheel to its supports, and instantly melting the joint and dropping the Ferris wheel to the ground. As the ground was not perfectly level, the huge wheel began to row downwards.
Zazu watch in horror as couples began to scream and die as the booth the couples were sitting in was crushed when the Ferris wheel rolled over them. Zarah felt a 'funny' moment at the sight but was soon over came by rage when her moment of peace was ruined.
A figure hovering not far away was laughing at the scene.
Zazu pulled Zarah's hand and quickly flew out and applied a force on the opposite of the rolling direction of the wheel to stop it from rolling. Then, both of them slowly lowered the wheel sideways to the ground.
A very muscular demon approached them. He had very sharp and long claws, with slime dripping from the tips. His skin was red from the top of his head to the bottom, and oddly, he seemed to be naked, because Zazu couldn't see his armor at all.
"Hello, my dear Zarah, liked the display of death I give you?" words came out from the demon.
"Although it is very acceptable by demonic standards, you ruined my moment!" Zarah glared at him. "And your voice sounds like a horse that had his important parts kicked!"
Zarah fully extended her wings, intending to cull and mutilate him.
Zazu did the same; a gray and black sword appeared in each of his hands. Changing completely to a demon, he let the chaotic and cold power of Vanagdrassil to flow through him. He was in a very angered state. Zazu too, wanted to kick the living s**t out of the demon.
Sebarah simply flashed his talons out.
"Looks like you need to be disciplined, my dear. It would only take a moment, and you would soon be begging to (Censored a very extreme word) soon," he smiled lustfully at Zarah.
Zarah opened a portal behind Sebarah. Zazu and Zarah then rammed Sebarah through the portal.
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Note that I keep repeating Zarah's thoughts in these few chapters. The reason is that I 'think' that when a person is confused whether if he/she likes someone, he/she will keep thinking about it, thinking whether he/she should go along with it or reject it. That was what I'm trying to make in Zarah's mind.
I hope the lyrics of the eyes on me are correct. They were played from my memory, and there might be mistakes. It is taken directly from the game, so the first phrase is not in.
Yes, I gave gone on dates before, but I never had a girlfriend before. I hope the timing that Zazu told Zarah his feelings in the fan-fic were right.
Belldandy's, Urd's, Skuld's and Keiichi's mouth were still gaping when the reader of this fan-fic decided to start reading this chapter.
"Wha... What are you talking about?" Urd stammered. "I don't like any surprises like this."
"Yes, I know this is a little surprising. I never even knew my mother herself, let alone that she has a sister like you," replied Zazu.
"Sorry, but I don't believe this. If your talking crap to me boy, I swear I will give you a shock of your life," threatened Urd. A ball of lightning appeared on her right palm.
"Calm down, Urd. I would like to hear what he has to say," Belldandy said.
"Yes, please listen to my explanation first. I hope you will find it interesting," continued Zazu.
"Fine, you can try to lie all you want! But you can't convince me!" taunted Urd.
"Geez, like mother, like daughter. She is still partially a demoness in her heart," replied Zazu.
"What! How did you know about this?"
Zazu began his long story, from the part where Hild and Kami-Sama had two daughters, until when he himself discovered his true identity.
"Well, that's a nice story, but you can't convince me. I've been living for 250000 year already, how you expect me to believe something like that?" Urd crossed her arms.
"Fine," Zarah suddenly butted in. "Show me your angle, Urd."
"What?" Urd replied.
Zarah's remark stroked Zazu's mind with an idea. He added, "Show me your angle, and you will understand much more later."
"Big sister, you need to convince yourself that you don't have a sister, right?" Skuld added in. She was not convinced too.
Hesitating for a while, Urd finally submitted to their request and summoned out her angle, World of Elegance. The angle floated out from Urd's back, and stunned Zarah on the spot. World of Elegance looked like a mirror image that has been split into two, but with each side in a total contrast towards each other. For example, one of her hands was black, while the other was white.
"Okay, start lying," Urd added.
"I don't need too," Zazu replied.
Zazu summoned Angi-Dev out, which appeared with black silky wings, fully spread open behind him.
Urd's, Keiichi's, Belldandy's, and Skuld's mouth were ajar again for a few seconds.
"Impossible, I taught that I was the only hybrid throughout the entire time of my life. How could my mother keep this from me? That demoness!!!," evidently, Urd doesn't like her mother much.
"Calm down, big sister," Belldandy said, grabbing Urd's hand. "Give her time," Belldandy continued, speaking to Zazu and Zarah.
"You are such a pathetic goddess, Urd. Can't you just accept the fact?" Zarah suddenly cut in.
That snapped Urd out of her trance. She threw a lightning bolt at Zarah immediately afterwards.
Of course, Zarah replied with a fireball herself. The resulting impact from the two forms of energy blew half the dining hall apart.
Belldandy immediately grabbed Urd's hand, while Zazu did the same the Zarah.
"No one calls me pathetic!" Urd shouted at Zarah.
"Well, you are, because you are blinded by your own history and believes!" replied Zarah.
"Stop this hostile act immediately!" Belldandy shouted. Evidentially, she was well practiced with controlling feuds. Belldandy formed a powerful barrier to prevent the hostile females from lashing at each other further.
(While they were fighting, note that two characters in the story wasn't given much attention)
Angi-Dev was admiring World of Elegance. To him, she was the most beautiful angle he had ever seen. (It was his first anyway) He admired her contrasting complexity of the left and right portions of her body. They were so uniquely matched to each other. And with such a hot body to go with it!
World of Elegance was thinking of the same too. She had rarely seen male angles, because Urd rarely summoned her out when she was busy having fun with the gods. She wanted to know Angi-Dev more. Perhaps if she showed a 'little' more of 'some' of her parts, she'll get him to be hooked to her.
World of Elegance extended a tendril out towards Angi-Dev, which he tried to touch it. Angi-Dev tried hard. If he could reach her, he could communicate openly with her then. However, Urd was too far from Zazu that World of Elegance couldn't reach Angi-Dev.
Skuld noticed the incident that was happening between Zazu's and Urd's angles.
"Ahem!" Skuld said loudly. "May I have everyone attention please?"
All sentient beings turned toward the young goddess.
"See what Zazu's angle and World of Elegance are doing."
Of course Zazu and Urd couldn't see what was happening behind their backs, but the others saw it perfectly well.
World of Elegance had extended a tendril towards Angi-Dev. He was trying desperately to touch it with his wing, but not successfully.
"Do you know what they are doing?" Keiichi asked Belldandy.
"I'm not sure, but I think they are attracted to each other. Cases where angles are attracted to each other are rather unheard of," replied Belldandy.
"Move closer both of you," ordered Skuld.
Zazu moved closer to his aunt, until they are nearly at arms distance.
Then something enthralling happened.
Angi-Dev had touched World of Elegance. In the beginning, it was only his hand. But as time passes, World of Elegance and Angi-Dev seemed to have shifted into cloudy forms of themselves. The two groups of clouds began to touch and interact with each other. 'Wisps' or 'clouds' from one angle flowed and mixed around with 'clouds' from the other angle. It was like looking at a white cloud and a black cloud that accidentally collided with each other.
Angi-Dev and World of Elegance were having the time of their lives. Millions of conversations flow between the two angels within the matter of seconds. Angi-Dev learned all about World of Elegance exploits with her master. From the time how World of Elegance felt when Urd shunned her off, to how trapped she felt when Urd turned into the lord of Destruction, and how she felt when she was singing beside Urd. Angi-Dev didn't have much to tell World of Elegance, but he was all for her.
The whirling forms were mixed together for nearly half an hour. Eventually, Angi-Dev and World of Elegance materialized into their solid forms. Both of them are smiling and eyeing each other after the incident.
"Interesting, do you think they like each other?" Zazu asked Zarah.
"How in the world I know what is the meaning of like?" Zarah replied back.
"Well, what I meant by they liked each other is that when both of them begin to develop fondness towards each other. It is not the normal condition when two people meet and just say hi to each other. It is more than that," Zazu tried to explain.
Belldandy added in, "It's the beginning where two people begin to think about each other more than usual. For example, you begin to think about what he thinks about you, how is his life faring, and etc."
"Well in demonic terms, like means that you develop a 'wanting' towards the other companion. You want to dominate your partner to give yourself something, either in terms of companionship or pleasure. It is far fetched from your terms," Zarah said.
"It's more than that Zarah, when you like someone, you began to think what you can do to make your partner feel happy or comforted," Zazu replied.
"But I want pleasure from the one I like," Zarah defended herself.
"The meaning of 'like' is more than that, you should see what humans do more often," Zazu continued.
"Well, it's all Greek to me," Zarah ended the conversation. Indicating she was not interested in the topic further.
Angi-Dev squirmed, when he felt the frustrations emitting from his master.
"Well," Zazu sighed. "Aunt Urd, I don't know how to convince you further."
"I'll think about it," replied Urd. "It's all new to me. Speaking about that, maybe you want to know your 'aunt' more tonight?" She eyed mischievously at Zazu.
"Er, no thanks. I'm having someone else in my taughts." Zazu replied.
Then chaos came again.
"Hahaha! Big sister, you are such a loser!" Skuld laughed at Urd.
"What?" Urd began fuming.
""Even your angle got a companion compared with you now. Hehehe."
"You Brat!"
That triggered another round of explosions within the temple.
(Focus to Sebarah)
"Ah... Earth. Still so uncorrupted," Sebarah said as he exited out of his traveling mechanism, grocery bills.
"Eek!" a woman screamed when something popped out at her face when she was reviewing her bills.
"Nothing better than something to refresh my body after teleporting," Sebarah said, eyeing the helpless woman evilly.
The woman's screams were heard by her husband, which was murdered immediately. After having his time while the heartbroken woman was crying and stupefied, he sent her to join her husband in the afterlife.
"Ahhh, just what I need before I began my hunt."
He went off to pick Zarah's demonic trail. In a short time, he picked up her scent, which was insanely alluring to him.
It wouldn't be too long before he found her.
(Focus back to Zarah and the rest at the temple)
Zarah teleported Zazu away from the temple because she was bored with all the 'fireworks' that is happening at the temple. It was all noise and chaotic, something which she didn't like much. How she wished to be in the Alps again. She cringed when she remembered that her favorite place was burned up and riddled with scars from the recent battle with Mars.
After wishing goodnight with Zazu, Zarah went to her head thinking of the recent events that had happened recently.
What Belldandy and Zazu said didn't make much sense to her at all. You like that particular demon because he has special qualities that make you attracted to him. Why in Vanagdrassil would you help someone just because you like him? You don't owe that demon any favors by simply just liking him. So why bother with it?
What did Zazu mean by helping someone that you like? Did he mean that that particular demoness would like him if he helps her? She definitely wouldn't develop an attraction to Zazu if he decided to be the knight shining armor coming to rescue her.
On second taught, make that the suicidal knight in shining armor. He was definitely plain stupid to defend her against Mars when he doesn't even knew his true abilities. Why in the world would he risk his life just to rescue someone like her who gave him nothing except problems and pain?
A smart demon would simply run away to save his ass.
Yet, Zazu's not a pure demon. He was a breed of demon, god and human. Sometimes, his undemonic attitude really pissed her off, yet sometimes she felt his attitude to be comforting.
That hug he gave that day....
Zarah suddenly shook her head hard.
Sigh, him again. Why her thoughts always accidentally end up with Zazu? This was probably the tenth time she wondered why her taught ended up with him. He must have brain washed her when she was weak at that day when he hugged her.
"Arrgggghhh..." she shook her head again. "He is too stupidly damned innocent to do that!" she said out loud.
"Oops..." she hoped that Zazu on the other room beside hers wouldn't hear it.
"Huh?", Zarah suddenly was puzzled. Since when did she worry whether Zazu heard her offensive remarks at him or not?
Beings that are not demonic in nature are so hard to predict. They use their brains too much on every single thing.
Finally, everything snapped into her mind.
"Zazu..." her eyes went unfocused. "You idiot, how could you like a demoness like me?"
"After all the terrible things I did to you. Why? I definitely was pushing you away from me."
"I think I want more comfort from him..." Zarah said.
"However, I think I should wait until he comes yapping to my lap like a dog before I should even consider to give any affection to him." However much Zazu liked her, she was still a demoness.
The next few days of university life was normal to them both. Zazu tried to start a few conversations with Zarah, which she sometimes replied.
However, what Zarah wanted from Zazu (pleading for her affection) ended up completely the opposite.
Zarah had many problems with the people around her. She heard many students were gossiping a lot of bad things behind her back, and nearly none of them came to approach her. What she heard was she is a selfish person, unfriendly, loathing and many other negative things.
Not that she minded it much, because that's what she should be.
But the worst thing is when she had to cooperate with several other students to do a specific project assigned by her lecturer. The students refused to share anything with her. How could they do that! She knew that the students were sharing information among themselves, but why they deliberately refused to share the information with her?
Belldandy was another problem. Every time she wanted to play a trick at someone or simply release her anger on some student that she hated, Belldandy seemed to sense her doing and would be coming with a counter spell to her spell every time. Not to mention the more powerful goddess blocked her efforts to steal the students' notes and memories so that she could simply copy them to her book. She needed them to pass up to the lecturer that was way dumber than her.
Zarah often received mental projections from Belldandy saying that she should 'earn' her own marks by studying them herself.
But she is earning her own marks! She has to copy them from people's minds and notes by herself!
In the end, Zarah went to Zazu many times asking him to share his notes with her. (She couldn't concentrate in class). Other than that, Zarah often asked him about the lifestyles of human females so that she won't be suspected that she was something out of the ordinary human being. Sometimes, she also asked him why the humans in her class tend to develop those kind of offensive thoughts about her.
She learned something humans called friendship there, where people shared a bond that was strong enough that people are willing to communicate willingly enough with each other without much hesitation. It was something very new to her. The only time she ever experienced that thing was with her sister in Vanagdrassil. Other than that, no one ever cared about making this kind of relationships with her over there.
So, is that's the term she should use with the relationship she have with Zazu now?
Somewhere deep inside her heart, she began to develop a 'wanting' for him. Zazu, the demon that was too innocent to be classified as a real demon.
"Sigh, I'm really a loser this time," Zarah said to herself. "I was the one approaching him."
(The weekends, two weeks on Earth)
"Erm, Zarah, are you interested to go out for me this Sunday?" Zazu asked Zarah on the night of Saturday. "You might be able to know more of the human lifestyles here so you will not accidentally show yourself as weird to other people," he made and excuse, hoping she will buy it.
"Isk..., stop using that stupid excuse every time you want to make a conversation with me or intending to ask me to go out," Zarah replied. "If you want a date, it's fine with me. I'm too bored in the apartment anyway."
That reaction shocked Zazu a little, but he recovered in time. "I'll take you out at 7am tomorrow. Is that fine?"
"Sure," Zarah replied.
That night, Zazu made a deep research about suitable places for them to go. He called all the friends he had made when he was on earth, including Keiichi and Belldandy, and enquired every single detail, from all the transportation services needed, all suitable places to eat, and every single minor detail he needed to cover. He accessed his 'special' account and withdrew a few million yen from it.
(The next day)
Zazu brought Zarah to a park near their apartment early in the morning. It was a rather large park, complete with amenities required for an enjoyable visit. It was quite some distance from their house, but they reach there by train in a matter of moments.
He took her to a jogging path surrounding the lake. It was peaceful and quiet as there are not many people there in the morning, and the air around the lake was cool and refreshing.
Walking around the lake, Zazu asked Zarah, "How do you felt when you were transferred to earth recently?"
"Well, I was not quite used to it. The innocence of the humans surrounding me, the 'friendly' environment as you call it, there are just too noisy and nice to me."
She sighed, and added, "Not to mention that Belldandy kept blocking my powers every time I was in the university."
"Well, she is a goddess after all; you can't blame her for trying to keep the serenity of the place in one piece."
"But I am a demoness!"
"We are the invaders, you know. She was here two years ago. How you felt if someone decides to disrupt your life when you are so used to your own surroundings?" Zazu corrected Zarah.
Zarah felt her temper rising, but she really didn't want to spoil the peaceful mood she was having in the park with Zazu. "Well, I guess you're right."
"Hey Zarah, other than Mara, do you have any other family members?"
"Well, both of us were left alone by our parents when I was just in my teens." That was around 40000 years old for her. "I loathe them for that, but I'm just glad I have Mara to support me when I was still young."
"Sorry to hear that."
"Yeah," she sighed.
"Did you still miss your military duties?" Zazu asked, changing the topic.
"A little," Zarah replied. "However, I never enjoyed all the battles I have fought throughout my entire life. Hurting and maiming gods and goddesses, nearly getting killed in return, the constant battles, it just something to fill my purpose in existence. I felt like I have no purpose and life by just joining the military to do all this offensive things. It felt like a terrorist group to me."
A short pause, then Zarah continued, "I'm just glad I'm enjoying the moment of peace now with you."
That brought a blush to both of their cheeks, and silence was in the air for a few minutes. They continued to walk around the pond. A flock of birds took off and flew away when they went near them. There were birds chirping, crickets cricketing, and many other noises around the park, making a peaceful orchestra that was pleasing to their ears.
A flock of birds flew overhead them, and made the sky darker. Zazu chuckled when a bird dropped its droppings on her. In return, Zarah grabbed and threw Zazu to the pond. She laughed out loud. Emerging wet from the pond, Zazu smiled and laughed too. He tried to splash some water at Zarah to get her back, but she quickly avoided, taunting him all the way.
Zarah was simply being plain nice that day. She cast a spell to dry his clothes off, then avoided from making any other unfortunate incidents.
They continued to walk, and then settled themselves down under a good- sized tree.
Zarah was sitting down beside the tree, while Zazu was lying down on the grass beside her. The wind blew quite strongly, and Zarah's short hair followed to the flow of the wind. It made her look absolutely beautiful upon his eyes.
"Well, this might not be the first time someone have said this to you, but you looked very beautiful today," Zazu said out loud, taking a crazy chance. He expected either a nice flow of words out of her mouth or some tongue-lashing that could make his ears hurt badly.
"Yes, I have heard many people said that to me, but I have never heard it from someone with an honest heart like you," she replied, smiling back at him.
Those words made his heart jump. Yes, sometimes if you don't take a crazy chance, you will never know what will happen. Zazu learned much about that now. He was too ashamed to talk or ask a girl out openly earlier in his life. He regretted all the opportunities he had wasted earlier in his life.
However, all the opportunities he wasted earlier gave a blessing to him now. Zarah.
He smiled and looked into the clear morning sky.
Later, he took her a buffet restaurant in a hotel. He gave his platinum visa to the waiter there, which gave them prime service to all its amenities. He was glad he misused the bank account that was given by his grandmother. He certainly cannot afford the charges of the hotel.
The food was very delicious. Zarah definitely showed her affection towards the food. She took huge chunks of barbecued meat, a large plate of rice, and practically every single dessert available in the restaurant. It embarrassed him a little, seeing her chomping down all the food at once, but he was glad that she was enjoying herself here. A romantic music was played on the background of the restaurant.
Later in the evening, Zazu took Zarah to a theme park nearby. Zarah, being the more daring one, decided to take every single ride that subjected the passenger to more than 2 times the gravity of the earth. They rode every single roller coaster ride, entered the ghost house, the rocking boat, and many more. Zarah extended her human senses the best as she could, and enjoyed every moment of it. She never knew that such delicate senses that were owned by the delicate humans could subject her to so much pleasure. Zazu, was very thrilled too, because he never had the chance to do that when he was studying in the previous university the last time.
Around 6 in the evening, Zazu brought Zarah to a boat ride on a lake near the park. As they paddle the boat through the river, they were encased by a think fog, which slightly drenched their clothes. The water was calm, clear and the environment was clean. They occasionally met other paddlers on the lake, but other than that, it was a nice, quiet environment for them both. There were only the sounds of the paddles splashing the lake, and occasionally the chirping of birds and insects. Zazu looked at Zarah's direction many times, and sometimes he will see her looking back at him, which they both smiled.
Later, they attended a romantic dinner beside the lake. During the nighttime, there was a parade of lights on the lake. Lights that make the shape of a mother swan and its 'kids' were paraded across the lake. The fantastic lights emitting from the swans, combined by their opposite reflections on the surface of the lake, made a dazzling view.
Finally, later in the night, Zazu took Zarah on a ride in the Ferris wheel. Looking from the very high angle, the view was spectacular with all the lights emitting from all the rides and the buildings there.
When their booth on the Ferris wheel was ascending, Zazu decided to take another chance.
"Zarah, what do you think about tonight?" He looked straight at her face.
"It was very nice, thank you," she smiled back.
With his heart beating at abnormal speeds, Zazu finally asked, "Erm... Zarah, since I've ever laid my eyes on you that day when you suddenly teleported in to the exam hall, I have developed a fondness to you."
Now it was Zarah's heart turn to accelerate. She turned her face to look directly at his eyes.
"I wish to sing this song that I picked up from Faye Wong, entitled 'eyes on me' to you. My version of it."
(Disclaimer: I do not own or make the 'eyes on me' song. Faye Wong originally sings the song and its copyrights belong to Squaresoft.)
My last night here with you,
Same old songs, just once more;
My last night her with you,
Maybe yes, maybe no.
I kind of like it your way,
How you smile, you place your eyes on me;
Did you ever know,
That I had mine on you.
Zarah so there you are,
With the look on your face;
As if you never know,
As if you never heard.
Shall I be the one for you,
That pinches you softly but sure;
If frown is shown then,
I will know that you are not dreaming.
(Zazu then hummed the entire middle tune from his memory, while Zarah was looking pleasingly at him)
So let me come close to you,
Close as I, wanna be;
Close enough for me,
To felt your heart beating fast.
And say there as I whisper,
How I love your peaceful eyes on me;
Did you ever know,
That I had mine on you.
Zarah so share with me,
Your love if you have enough;
The tears that you're holding back,
A pain if that what it is.
How can I let you know,
A more than the trust and the voice;
Just reach me out then,
You would know that you are not dreaming.
Zarah so there you are, with the look on your face,
As if you never know, as if you never heard;
Shall I be the one for you, that pinches you softly but sure,
If frown is shown then, I will know that you are not dreaming.
Zarah felt like floating. In fact, she is floating, a few centimeters above the chair.
The booth they were sitting was now at the apex of the Ferris wheel. With the best view around them at the night, the hardest words came from Zazu's mouth, "Erm... Zarah, would you be my girlfriend?"
Zarah felt a pang at those words, she wanted the word that might change her life forever, but something was holding her back. She simply couldn't open her heart again after she had shut it off from everyone else after a very long time. Her words stuttered, "I...I..."
KATHOOM!!!!!
A fireball landed on the joint connecting the Ferris wheel to its supports, and instantly melting the joint and dropping the Ferris wheel to the ground. As the ground was not perfectly level, the huge wheel began to row downwards.
Zazu watch in horror as couples began to scream and die as the booth the couples were sitting in was crushed when the Ferris wheel rolled over them. Zarah felt a 'funny' moment at the sight but was soon over came by rage when her moment of peace was ruined.
A figure hovering not far away was laughing at the scene.
Zazu pulled Zarah's hand and quickly flew out and applied a force on the opposite of the rolling direction of the wheel to stop it from rolling. Then, both of them slowly lowered the wheel sideways to the ground.
A very muscular demon approached them. He had very sharp and long claws, with slime dripping from the tips. His skin was red from the top of his head to the bottom, and oddly, he seemed to be naked, because Zazu couldn't see his armor at all.
"Hello, my dear Zarah, liked the display of death I give you?" words came out from the demon.
"Although it is very acceptable by demonic standards, you ruined my moment!" Zarah glared at him. "And your voice sounds like a horse that had his important parts kicked!"
Zarah fully extended her wings, intending to cull and mutilate him.
Zazu did the same; a gray and black sword appeared in each of his hands. Changing completely to a demon, he let the chaotic and cold power of Vanagdrassil to flow through him. He was in a very angered state. Zazu too, wanted to kick the living s**t out of the demon.
Sebarah simply flashed his talons out.
"Looks like you need to be disciplined, my dear. It would only take a moment, and you would soon be begging to (Censored a very extreme word) soon," he smiled lustfully at Zarah.
Zarah opened a portal behind Sebarah. Zazu and Zarah then rammed Sebarah through the portal.
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Note that I keep repeating Zarah's thoughts in these few chapters. The reason is that I 'think' that when a person is confused whether if he/she likes someone, he/she will keep thinking about it, thinking whether he/she should go along with it or reject it. That was what I'm trying to make in Zarah's mind.
I hope the lyrics of the eyes on me are correct. They were played from my memory, and there might be mistakes. It is taken directly from the game, so the first phrase is not in.
Yes, I gave gone on dates before, but I never had a girlfriend before. I hope the timing that Zazu told Zarah his feelings in the fan-fic were right.