Finally a day of rest I got after nearly a week of needing healing severely… every hour or so. If you ever were to talk about severe training, go talk with the powers that be. They aren't the paragons of their job without a reason. The last day I even got to see how the Valkyries train of which Lind is a member, a friend of Skuld and the rest. The reason that Skuld now got her own angel again.
It was quite the sight to see them all work so hard in doing their training, it was scary, especially as I saw a few of the wounded be moved off to be taken care off. If those were just training wounds, how bad could fighting with real bad asses be. The most startling bit was the end kata's where one of the lead Valkyries showed her full prowess. I think she was showing off though. She was standing before a mountain, think a lone mountain on a flat land the size of the pyramid of Cheops. As I stood with my current instructor (Athena still) I looked on in awe as that Valkyrie just took her spear and threw it as powerful as she could. And what power it was that the spear ended up going through the solid material all the way, flying out the other way and making the top collapse. The really scary part was that the spear was not an enchanted or magical item at all, just plain wooden spear…. and the mountain, was also very much solid rock.
Yet at that moment as that Valkyrie came over to gloat, Skuld popped in with a big smirk while she looked at her. While Skuld never finished her path of the Valkyrie in this incarnation of her, she still had some skill and reputation left in heaven. And she was not about to let some snob goddess who isn't even of her own pantheon get the best of her. Competative that she is indeed. Of course she drew me in on this one.
As we headed to the same mountain she talked to me on what to do. As I heard her I just looked in disbelief at her, but my fear was wrong it proved. One of the other goddesses nearby let a huge block of rock hover up into the air between me and Skuld. Both of us took plain wooden mallets, yeah… I really got nervous at that moment, though a few others looked up at the size of my mallet as I was given one suited for my strength. The item was far larger then myself. Anyway. Skuld started some strange hymm, using her song magic I believe at that point to invoke a battle prowess in those around her, which in this case was directed at herself and me only. I felt my muscles rapidly explode as energies used over a whole day were rapidly gathered and focused on a single point. There was a countdown in Skulds norse language and at the resounding of the word for three we both slammed our hammers into the large rock (think a small truck). I didn't know how she managed to do it, but the invoked strength in us both made our hit truly and utterly pulverize the rock to sand.
As I stood rubbing sand out of my hair Skuld was already busy gloating with some of the Valkyries. I shook my head as I looked at Skuld busy, then as I turned my face found the first of many times that it was wedged between two very soft breasts. Which made my face beet red and someone else very embarrassed. I looked up then at the face of Lind, the two angel warrior, pretty much the most powerful Valkyrie in existence. Major gulp time as she frowned at me while I backed off.
Luckily she was more controlled then any of the others there, she merely send me and Skuld off. Even if I was a defender, I wasn't a warrior like the Vakyries and she factly stated that I should not expect to ever reach their skill levels. It was not needed. And after me recalling all of their training couldn't do anything but agree. Besides, it was time for me to go back to earth to rest, recover and work with Urd on spells.
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Once at home after all that excitement I sat with Skuld outside, not only recovering from having been beaten to crap (I by that time no longer called it training but torture time), but also from having had a severe case of gass due to Urd's failed magic. Skuld was sitting right next to me, tired herself from the day just like I was. Both relaxing in the bit of sun left for the day, but soon I found Skuld dozing off leaning against me. I smiled as I really enjoyed that, such closeness with Skuld. Yet a big turn point was given right then and there as Skuld lightly talked in her sleep. I listened and found her to call out a name I didn't know, one she said with a lot of happiness in her voice. Sentaro. Yay for me for getting some hopes up I'd say. The next day I heard from Sigil that Sentaro was pretty much Skuld's human boyfriend.
Oh yeah, Sigil, talk about Skuld's creation skills there, her second living robot she made. Where Banpei is a bit expressionless, Sigil is all about expression. Made from a greeting robot she is a robot with a full human look. Unless she uses her rocket fists or her other inhuman gadgets, one could not see her to be a robot. And I get the distinct feeling that Banpei is utterly in love with Sigil, but they just don't want to tell me. Well Sigil doesn't want to tell me for I still cannot understand Banpei's bleeps.
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I think nearly the entire next day that most I did was moping around while working on my magic books. Quite upset with the revelation of Skuld already loving someone. I could wish finally for something, but it was unlikely to happen in the first place. It took quite a while before I actually went out to be with others again that day. Actually most of that week I was very unsociable now I think about it.
At the end of that week Skuld said she was going out to cheer on Sentaro in a race. It peeked my curiosity so I went along with Skuld to see the guy. To my shock it was pretty much a Keiichi clone. She doesn't see it nor the rest it seems, but I see it anyway. I found it even typical when I saw him.
Looking on during the race at him and at Skuld, I quickly saw how deep it already was. I really didn't want to mess up such a relationship and felt actually quite bad for feelings I had earlier that week of wanting to break up the duo. It would have been as bad as splitting up Keiichi and Belldandy. I left only shortly after meeting him, wanting to leave the two to their own.
As I got home though at the temple, I got asked by Urd to return to heaven immediately as something important needed to be done still. Confused I asked for an explanation as I was told I didn't need to go back for a while.
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Once up there I was met by Sif who had been given the task to bind me to my doublet. Doublet you may ask. Well it's simple. Ever wonder why there is no war of the gods and demons or such ever occurring on earth. That is due to a failsafety that the Oni-hime and Kami-Sama had made up. The Doublet System means if one god dies, a demon dies. If a demon dies, a god dies. Not knowing who is linked to who makes this quite the interesting system.
Now the fun part is, I really don't remember from that point to the point I was back with Sif anymore as that is part of it all. I apparently met with a new demonic spirit and was linked to him with my life. Nice to hear that isn't it?
And just as I was going home, the weirdness factor was upped a step more. Not knowing what had happened though this is how it happened from my viewpoint.
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As I landed on earth I felt a sickening presence near the temple, one far worse then with Mara. It made me scared somewhat, but I quickly changed to my uniform again and readied my hammer to go investigate the demonic presence I felt. Well demonic wasn't the right word for it, for what I saw is not even deemed demonic, this was a being of entropic nature. As a note, demons do not like the concept of destruction of everything, they are for misery and evil.
What I saw was pretty much a grotesque looking human with a single eye as the head, believe me, had I been human still I'd barfed from the mere sight. It was overlooking the temple from a distance. I noticed a magic field before him, probably hiding his presence from the goddesses, but from the side I could detect him. Unfortunately, he also detected me. He just shortly looked at me and I froze in fear, but then poof. The being was gone. I swore it grinned at me as it vanished. Likely it did.
I told that evening about what I saw, but none of the goddesses had an idea what it could have been as it was unfamiliar to anyone. Even searching the database gave nothing. We shrugged it off in the long run as having seen a disguised nightmare spirit. Boy, were we wrong.
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A few weeks passed by, normal life had formed again during which I learned a lot again, though it was far less rigorous then the months before. It was also then that I had to prove for the first time that I was able to do what I needed to do.
Then, as I reached home with Keiichi and Bell after a day away we were in for a nasty surprise, very nasty. The entire temple was demolished to the ground. No, make that non-existant, it was just a clear field of sand and nothing more within the walls of the temple complex. Skuld and Urd soon joined us as they returned from heaven. Skuld in her biggest panic as she couldn't detect Banpei and Sigil anymore.
It was quite the sight to see them all work so hard in doing their training, it was scary, especially as I saw a few of the wounded be moved off to be taken care off. If those were just training wounds, how bad could fighting with real bad asses be. The most startling bit was the end kata's where one of the lead Valkyries showed her full prowess. I think she was showing off though. She was standing before a mountain, think a lone mountain on a flat land the size of the pyramid of Cheops. As I stood with my current instructor (Athena still) I looked on in awe as that Valkyrie just took her spear and threw it as powerful as she could. And what power it was that the spear ended up going through the solid material all the way, flying out the other way and making the top collapse. The really scary part was that the spear was not an enchanted or magical item at all, just plain wooden spear…. and the mountain, was also very much solid rock.
Yet at that moment as that Valkyrie came over to gloat, Skuld popped in with a big smirk while she looked at her. While Skuld never finished her path of the Valkyrie in this incarnation of her, she still had some skill and reputation left in heaven. And she was not about to let some snob goddess who isn't even of her own pantheon get the best of her. Competative that she is indeed. Of course she drew me in on this one.
As we headed to the same mountain she talked to me on what to do. As I heard her I just looked in disbelief at her, but my fear was wrong it proved. One of the other goddesses nearby let a huge block of rock hover up into the air between me and Skuld. Both of us took plain wooden mallets, yeah… I really got nervous at that moment, though a few others looked up at the size of my mallet as I was given one suited for my strength. The item was far larger then myself. Anyway. Skuld started some strange hymm, using her song magic I believe at that point to invoke a battle prowess in those around her, which in this case was directed at herself and me only. I felt my muscles rapidly explode as energies used over a whole day were rapidly gathered and focused on a single point. There was a countdown in Skulds norse language and at the resounding of the word for three we both slammed our hammers into the large rock (think a small truck). I didn't know how she managed to do it, but the invoked strength in us both made our hit truly and utterly pulverize the rock to sand.
As I stood rubbing sand out of my hair Skuld was already busy gloating with some of the Valkyries. I shook my head as I looked at Skuld busy, then as I turned my face found the first of many times that it was wedged between two very soft breasts. Which made my face beet red and someone else very embarrassed. I looked up then at the face of Lind, the two angel warrior, pretty much the most powerful Valkyrie in existence. Major gulp time as she frowned at me while I backed off.
Luckily she was more controlled then any of the others there, she merely send me and Skuld off. Even if I was a defender, I wasn't a warrior like the Vakyries and she factly stated that I should not expect to ever reach their skill levels. It was not needed. And after me recalling all of their training couldn't do anything but agree. Besides, it was time for me to go back to earth to rest, recover and work with Urd on spells.
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Once at home after all that excitement I sat with Skuld outside, not only recovering from having been beaten to crap (I by that time no longer called it training but torture time), but also from having had a severe case of gass due to Urd's failed magic. Skuld was sitting right next to me, tired herself from the day just like I was. Both relaxing in the bit of sun left for the day, but soon I found Skuld dozing off leaning against me. I smiled as I really enjoyed that, such closeness with Skuld. Yet a big turn point was given right then and there as Skuld lightly talked in her sleep. I listened and found her to call out a name I didn't know, one she said with a lot of happiness in her voice. Sentaro. Yay for me for getting some hopes up I'd say. The next day I heard from Sigil that Sentaro was pretty much Skuld's human boyfriend.
Oh yeah, Sigil, talk about Skuld's creation skills there, her second living robot she made. Where Banpei is a bit expressionless, Sigil is all about expression. Made from a greeting robot she is a robot with a full human look. Unless she uses her rocket fists or her other inhuman gadgets, one could not see her to be a robot. And I get the distinct feeling that Banpei is utterly in love with Sigil, but they just don't want to tell me. Well Sigil doesn't want to tell me for I still cannot understand Banpei's bleeps.
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I think nearly the entire next day that most I did was moping around while working on my magic books. Quite upset with the revelation of Skuld already loving someone. I could wish finally for something, but it was unlikely to happen in the first place. It took quite a while before I actually went out to be with others again that day. Actually most of that week I was very unsociable now I think about it.
At the end of that week Skuld said she was going out to cheer on Sentaro in a race. It peeked my curiosity so I went along with Skuld to see the guy. To my shock it was pretty much a Keiichi clone. She doesn't see it nor the rest it seems, but I see it anyway. I found it even typical when I saw him.
Looking on during the race at him and at Skuld, I quickly saw how deep it already was. I really didn't want to mess up such a relationship and felt actually quite bad for feelings I had earlier that week of wanting to break up the duo. It would have been as bad as splitting up Keiichi and Belldandy. I left only shortly after meeting him, wanting to leave the two to their own.
As I got home though at the temple, I got asked by Urd to return to heaven immediately as something important needed to be done still. Confused I asked for an explanation as I was told I didn't need to go back for a while.
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Once up there I was met by Sif who had been given the task to bind me to my doublet. Doublet you may ask. Well it's simple. Ever wonder why there is no war of the gods and demons or such ever occurring on earth. That is due to a failsafety that the Oni-hime and Kami-Sama had made up. The Doublet System means if one god dies, a demon dies. If a demon dies, a god dies. Not knowing who is linked to who makes this quite the interesting system.
Now the fun part is, I really don't remember from that point to the point I was back with Sif anymore as that is part of it all. I apparently met with a new demonic spirit and was linked to him with my life. Nice to hear that isn't it?
And just as I was going home, the weirdness factor was upped a step more. Not knowing what had happened though this is how it happened from my viewpoint.
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As I landed on earth I felt a sickening presence near the temple, one far worse then with Mara. It made me scared somewhat, but I quickly changed to my uniform again and readied my hammer to go investigate the demonic presence I felt. Well demonic wasn't the right word for it, for what I saw is not even deemed demonic, this was a being of entropic nature. As a note, demons do not like the concept of destruction of everything, they are for misery and evil.
What I saw was pretty much a grotesque looking human with a single eye as the head, believe me, had I been human still I'd barfed from the mere sight. It was overlooking the temple from a distance. I noticed a magic field before him, probably hiding his presence from the goddesses, but from the side I could detect him. Unfortunately, he also detected me. He just shortly looked at me and I froze in fear, but then poof. The being was gone. I swore it grinned at me as it vanished. Likely it did.
I told that evening about what I saw, but none of the goddesses had an idea what it could have been as it was unfamiliar to anyone. Even searching the database gave nothing. We shrugged it off in the long run as having seen a disguised nightmare spirit. Boy, were we wrong.
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A few weeks passed by, normal life had formed again during which I learned a lot again, though it was far less rigorous then the months before. It was also then that I had to prove for the first time that I was able to do what I needed to do.
Then, as I reached home with Keiichi and Bell after a day away we were in for a nasty surprise, very nasty. The entire temple was demolished to the ground. No, make that non-existant, it was just a clear field of sand and nothing more within the walls of the temple complex. Skuld and Urd soon joined us as they returned from heaven. Skuld in her biggest panic as she couldn't detect Banpei and Sigil anymore.