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The bug chapter 4
I heard two sets of footsteps run up the hall and what was clearly Peorth's voice yelling something like: "Urd!!! Come back here!!!!! You can't drink sake!!!! It will affect the bug and your present condition!!!!" I chuckled, as I knew exactly what would happen.... 3....2....1.....
Urd flung the door open, a huge grin plastered on her face, yelling "I'm back!!!!" and slamed it shut behind her as quickly and violently as she had opened it. She then proceded in locking the door with one of the spells among the huge quantity of her useless ones. Peorth began to bang on the door and Urd was laughing a very hysterical and very contagious laugh. Soon, I found myself laughing too and we were able to stop only when Peorth had abandonned any hope of lifting the lock-spell and returned to the living room.
"Mara, do you prefer the very very very very very very sensational super strong one or the best extra extra extra out-of-the-ordinary strong one?" She quetionned, regaining her breath.
"...what's the difference?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.
She frowned, observed closely the bottles, opened them both, smelled the content, then... "I don't know. It's just written that way on the bottles." She shrugered.
I chuckled again. "Then, I'll take the very very very very ... first one you said."
She giggled as she handed me the bottle. "I drink to our friendship." She said, raising her bottle in mid-air.
"To our friendship..." I answered, mimicking her movement.
We drank until the alcohool knocked both of us into a deep slumber.
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When I woke up, the first thing I saw was Peorth floating over me, her face too close to mine for comfort. I blinked a few times to see if I wasn't imagining it all, and it seemed like I wasn't. She didn't seemed to notice I was awake, as she apeared to be staring at my forehead. "Err... Hi?"
"Oh! Hi, Mara." She said as she glanced down at my eyes to confirm I really was awake before returning to picking on my forehead.
I frowned, very uncomfortable and anger bulding in me. "......May I ask : What the HELL you're doing?"
"Examining the demon marks on your forehead, dear." She gave me a little slap on the head. "Now quit frowning, it only makes the job harder."
I sighed, but relaxed. Looking around, I saw I was in some kind of lab.
"Don't move your head." She slapped it harder, absorbed in her work.
"Ow! You could ask KINDLY, you know???? Goddesses are supposed to be KIND." I complained, rubbering my head.
"Sorry." She offered, making eye contact for the second time. I stuck out my tongue at her. "Geez... You're as childish as Skuld."
"I am NOT CHILDISH!!!" Skuld protested. I could see the kid, from the corner of my eye, scanning my body with the same machine she used yesterday, all the while giving ocasionnal death glares to the older goddess.
After about ten minutes, I was starting to get really, I mean REALLY bored. "Will it take much longer?"
"I don't know, it depends." She said as she took a pair of needle-like pliers and continued picking at my marks.
"On what?" I said, wincing when she'd hit a soft spot.
"Skuld, have you found the bug yet ?" She turned to the dark-haired girl, avoiding my question.
Skuld frowned, scratched her head, crossed her arms and sighed. "It seems to have died during the night. We'll have to get it out of her body."
"Great..." Peorth rolled her eyes before scowling at me. "You knew it's harder to extract it if it's dead, do you?"
"Now I do." I smirked, but she was not amused.
"You know what killed it faster and is making the job harder?" Her left eye twitched.
I gluped, not amused anymore by the angry goddess. "...No?"
"THE SAKE!!!!!!" She roared, still floating over my head.
And I actually laughed at her. "So _that's_ what the riot was about." I despairately trying to regain my composture.
Peorth patiently waited for me to stop gigling before continuing. "Mara, all the cells of your body and the atoms of your demon marks are normal. I don't understand what could've convinced the bug to switch from Urd's body to yours..."
I stared at her with a somewhat blank expression. "And what am I supposed to say?"
"I know what caused it all!!!" Belldandy cried happily, storming into lab, Keiichi on her heels. We all stared at her eyes wide open, for it wasn't very often we saw Belldandy in such a level of exitement. She then blushed and cleared her throat. "I meant: I found what we've been searching for." She stated calmly.
We were still staring at her.
"You all know about the pact that was made between gods and demons: You are not allowed to take a life, even on the other side."
"Yes." Peorth said and I nodded.
"To avoid any transgression, we installed the 'Doublet' rule. When still kids, a god and a demon are brought in that same room, the one forbidden by both sides, to create a 'blood link'. Every god and every demon have to do it at one time of their lives. The room, being outside of time and dimention, after the kids exit the room, every one forgets who is who's Doublet... " Belldandy said.
I could almost see a light bulb above Peorth's head. "Yes, and if one of the two kid dies, the other will die too. And since no one remember who is who's doublet, every one is to respects the rule. So you think..." She continued.
"I think Mara is Urd's doublet." Belldandy finished.
"That would explain why she collapsed every time Urd did and why she was suffering from the bug before she even caught it...Urd was about to die.... so Mara was to...." Skuld added.
"And why the bug transferred itself! It thought it was the same body!" Peorth concluded.
"But.... Shouldn't Urd be her own Doublet?" Keiichi asked out of nowhere.
Peorth stared at him blankly. "Why would she be?"
"Well, Urd being both Hild and Kami-Sama's daugter, I think both sides have some interest in seeing that she doesn't get killed, because well... because, I surely wouldn't be stupid enough to kill my master's daughter." He said, scratching the back of his head. "Plus if she had one, her Doublet should be half god and half demon too, shouldn't he?"
"He's right...." Peorth turned to Belldandy. "He's right!!!"
"I thought so too, so I asked Father if Urd has a doublet. He said that she chose herself to be a goddess and she had to be conformed to the rules, whatever they were."
"What does that mean?" Skuld asked.
"It, means that _every_ god and _every_ demon has a doublet, whoever they are. Therefore, Urd has one. It's not because she is who she is that she is spared the risks of dying with her doublet. It wouldn't be fair otherwise." Belldandy said seriously. "To the systems she's nothing more than a goddess like any other."
"That means your theory still stands?" Keiichi asked. "Mara and Urd?"
Belldandy nodded.
"Great! So I can go now? " I said sitting up.
"No." Skuld answered, getting me to lie down again.
"You still have the dead bug inside you, it hasn't been erased." Peorth explained.
I sighed. "How do I get rid of it?"
"For something that dangerous, it's really simple. One of us use the 'ghost' spell and take it out." Peorth said.
"You mean that one of you is going to 'ghostify' your hand, get it in my body and take out the bug?" I made a face. I really, really didn't like the idea of a ghost hand going through my body.
"It's supposed to work that way " Belldandy acquiesced.
"Anything else?" I asked hoping it was all.
"There musn't be any fabric, because the ghost hand can only pass through what's alive. The ghost hand will be able to pass through your body and still be able to touch the bug because it's not alive. Not anymore. Again, since your cloth are not a alive, a ghost hand can't pass through it." Belldandy explained.
I gluped and asked the question I was afraid to ask. "So where is the bug?"
Everyone turned to Skuld who blushed and pointed somewhere just below my bellybutton, but just a little over my private spot.
"And one of you is supposed to go get it... Can't I get it myself?" I repeated.
Peorth, who was blushing too, shook her head no.
"We'll make it this way: the first person who says something, or make any noise, even a sneeze, will have to go get it." Belldandy smiled.
Dead silence.
"Hello! Did I missed something? Can I help?" Urd happily said, entering the lab.
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To be continued. Muhahahaha
I feel evil.
The bug chapter 4
I heard two sets of footsteps run up the hall and what was clearly Peorth's voice yelling something like: "Urd!!! Come back here!!!!! You can't drink sake!!!! It will affect the bug and your present condition!!!!" I chuckled, as I knew exactly what would happen.... 3....2....1.....
Urd flung the door open, a huge grin plastered on her face, yelling "I'm back!!!!" and slamed it shut behind her as quickly and violently as she had opened it. She then proceded in locking the door with one of the spells among the huge quantity of her useless ones. Peorth began to bang on the door and Urd was laughing a very hysterical and very contagious laugh. Soon, I found myself laughing too and we were able to stop only when Peorth had abandonned any hope of lifting the lock-spell and returned to the living room.
"Mara, do you prefer the very very very very very very sensational super strong one or the best extra extra extra out-of-the-ordinary strong one?" She quetionned, regaining her breath.
"...what's the difference?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.
She frowned, observed closely the bottles, opened them both, smelled the content, then... "I don't know. It's just written that way on the bottles." She shrugered.
I chuckled again. "Then, I'll take the very very very very ... first one you said."
She giggled as she handed me the bottle. "I drink to our friendship." She said, raising her bottle in mid-air.
"To our friendship..." I answered, mimicking her movement.
We drank until the alcohool knocked both of us into a deep slumber.
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When I woke up, the first thing I saw was Peorth floating over me, her face too close to mine for comfort. I blinked a few times to see if I wasn't imagining it all, and it seemed like I wasn't. She didn't seemed to notice I was awake, as she apeared to be staring at my forehead. "Err... Hi?"
"Oh! Hi, Mara." She said as she glanced down at my eyes to confirm I really was awake before returning to picking on my forehead.
I frowned, very uncomfortable and anger bulding in me. "......May I ask : What the HELL you're doing?"
"Examining the demon marks on your forehead, dear." She gave me a little slap on the head. "Now quit frowning, it only makes the job harder."
I sighed, but relaxed. Looking around, I saw I was in some kind of lab.
"Don't move your head." She slapped it harder, absorbed in her work.
"Ow! You could ask KINDLY, you know???? Goddesses are supposed to be KIND." I complained, rubbering my head.
"Sorry." She offered, making eye contact for the second time. I stuck out my tongue at her. "Geez... You're as childish as Skuld."
"I am NOT CHILDISH!!!" Skuld protested. I could see the kid, from the corner of my eye, scanning my body with the same machine she used yesterday, all the while giving ocasionnal death glares to the older goddess.
After about ten minutes, I was starting to get really, I mean REALLY bored. "Will it take much longer?"
"I don't know, it depends." She said as she took a pair of needle-like pliers and continued picking at my marks.
"On what?" I said, wincing when she'd hit a soft spot.
"Skuld, have you found the bug yet ?" She turned to the dark-haired girl, avoiding my question.
Skuld frowned, scratched her head, crossed her arms and sighed. "It seems to have died during the night. We'll have to get it out of her body."
"Great..." Peorth rolled her eyes before scowling at me. "You knew it's harder to extract it if it's dead, do you?"
"Now I do." I smirked, but she was not amused.
"You know what killed it faster and is making the job harder?" Her left eye twitched.
I gluped, not amused anymore by the angry goddess. "...No?"
"THE SAKE!!!!!!" She roared, still floating over my head.
And I actually laughed at her. "So _that's_ what the riot was about." I despairately trying to regain my composture.
Peorth patiently waited for me to stop gigling before continuing. "Mara, all the cells of your body and the atoms of your demon marks are normal. I don't understand what could've convinced the bug to switch from Urd's body to yours..."
I stared at her with a somewhat blank expression. "And what am I supposed to say?"
"I know what caused it all!!!" Belldandy cried happily, storming into lab, Keiichi on her heels. We all stared at her eyes wide open, for it wasn't very often we saw Belldandy in such a level of exitement. She then blushed and cleared her throat. "I meant: I found what we've been searching for." She stated calmly.
We were still staring at her.
"You all know about the pact that was made between gods and demons: You are not allowed to take a life, even on the other side."
"Yes." Peorth said and I nodded.
"To avoid any transgression, we installed the 'Doublet' rule. When still kids, a god and a demon are brought in that same room, the one forbidden by both sides, to create a 'blood link'. Every god and every demon have to do it at one time of their lives. The room, being outside of time and dimention, after the kids exit the room, every one forgets who is who's Doublet... " Belldandy said.
I could almost see a light bulb above Peorth's head. "Yes, and if one of the two kid dies, the other will die too. And since no one remember who is who's doublet, every one is to respects the rule. So you think..." She continued.
"I think Mara is Urd's doublet." Belldandy finished.
"That would explain why she collapsed every time Urd did and why she was suffering from the bug before she even caught it...Urd was about to die.... so Mara was to...." Skuld added.
"And why the bug transferred itself! It thought it was the same body!" Peorth concluded.
"But.... Shouldn't Urd be her own Doublet?" Keiichi asked out of nowhere.
Peorth stared at him blankly. "Why would she be?"
"Well, Urd being both Hild and Kami-Sama's daugter, I think both sides have some interest in seeing that she doesn't get killed, because well... because, I surely wouldn't be stupid enough to kill my master's daughter." He said, scratching the back of his head. "Plus if she had one, her Doublet should be half god and half demon too, shouldn't he?"
"He's right...." Peorth turned to Belldandy. "He's right!!!"
"I thought so too, so I asked Father if Urd has a doublet. He said that she chose herself to be a goddess and she had to be conformed to the rules, whatever they were."
"What does that mean?" Skuld asked.
"It, means that _every_ god and _every_ demon has a doublet, whoever they are. Therefore, Urd has one. It's not because she is who she is that she is spared the risks of dying with her doublet. It wouldn't be fair otherwise." Belldandy said seriously. "To the systems she's nothing more than a goddess like any other."
"That means your theory still stands?" Keiichi asked. "Mara and Urd?"
Belldandy nodded.
"Great! So I can go now? " I said sitting up.
"No." Skuld answered, getting me to lie down again.
"You still have the dead bug inside you, it hasn't been erased." Peorth explained.
I sighed. "How do I get rid of it?"
"For something that dangerous, it's really simple. One of us use the 'ghost' spell and take it out." Peorth said.
"You mean that one of you is going to 'ghostify' your hand, get it in my body and take out the bug?" I made a face. I really, really didn't like the idea of a ghost hand going through my body.
"It's supposed to work that way " Belldandy acquiesced.
"Anything else?" I asked hoping it was all.
"There musn't be any fabric, because the ghost hand can only pass through what's alive. The ghost hand will be able to pass through your body and still be able to touch the bug because it's not alive. Not anymore. Again, since your cloth are not a alive, a ghost hand can't pass through it." Belldandy explained.
I gluped and asked the question I was afraid to ask. "So where is the bug?"
Everyone turned to Skuld who blushed and pointed somewhere just below my bellybutton, but just a little over my private spot.
"And one of you is supposed to go get it... Can't I get it myself?" I repeated.
Peorth, who was blushing too, shook her head no.
"We'll make it this way: the first person who says something, or make any noise, even a sneeze, will have to go get it." Belldandy smiled.
Dead silence.
"Hello! Did I missed something? Can I help?" Urd happily said, entering the lab.
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To be continued. Muhahahaha
I feel evil.