Battle Field: Earth
Chapter Two: The Calm Before The Storm
By: Sci-Fi Raptor
Disclaimer: See chapter one.
Badr, Arabia
Sometime in the early 600's:
The two armies stood poised for battle under the scorching Arabian sun. One wore white robes while the other wore black. As if because of experience, a group of vultures circled high above, ready to swoop down at the soonest opportunity.
One lone man on horseback left from each army and approached the center of the soon-to-be battlefield.
"Lets see where your God is now!" said the Arab in black.
"God is great!" the white robed Arab retaliated. Unknownst to the two, as they were leering each other, a pair of invisible entities was quarreling in a similar manner just a meter above them.
"Demons will own you Gods!" the demon above the black robed Arab said.
"Just see and try!" the Goddess said, glaring at her.
The Arabs below them finished the customary leering and went back to their respective sides, followed by their invisible companions. In a view that could see beyond seeing, an army of Gods and Goddesses floated just above the white robed Arabs, just as the Demons and Demonesses floated just above the black robed Arabs.
Within moments of their return, the signal for attack was given and the four armies charged for the attack. At first, the black-robed Arabs and their Demon companions were winning, but the tides turned when the Angel who had no God or Goddess started crying…
Nekomi, Japan
July 2002
Morisato Residence:
"Belldandy…" Keiichi said, worried.
"Oh, sorry, what were you saying?"
"Are you okay?"
"I'm sorry, I just spaced out for a bit."
"Even so, that was a long time for you to be out like that. Maybe you should rest? We can finish this tomorrow," he said, referring to the racing bike that they had been working on for the last few weeks. Keiichi had somehow been enrolled into the "Off Road 2002" championship and he had a week till the race.
"Sorry…" Belldandy said, apologizing again.
"Its alright," he said, smiling at her. "Just don't push yourself."
"Thank you," Belldandy said, giving him a warm smile and headed for her room. On the way, she took a peek into Urd's room.
"You felt it too, then?" Urd said, knowing what Belldandy was about to ask.
"Yes," she said in a serious manner.
"I'll report it to Yaggdrissil," Urd said, making her way to the phone. In a few seconds she made a connection.
"Hello, this is Urd. I want to report an anomaly in the zone around Japan," she said.
"Hold on for a moment please," the operator replied and disconnected. Within seconds the signal was back, but it was someone else.
"Records indicate that there was indeed an anomaly but it was caused by a glitch that we have already fixed, so there is no need to worry," the new voice said.
"Oh, is that so?" Urd said, not really believing him. "Well, thank you for the reassurance," she said, hanging up.
"So, what was it?" Belldandy asked.
"A glitch," she simply said.
"Is that so," Belldandy said.
"They're hiding something, I'm sure of it," Urd said.
"Only the Almighty has the power to do as such, so surely it must be for our protection. There are very few cases when we can lie. Please let it go, Urd," Belldandy said in her innocent fashion.
"Sure," she said, her fingers crossed. Belldandy continued on to her room and lay down for a while.
"Now, to see what the big secret is," Urd said to herself as she quietly left the temple. She teleported through the nearest TV and went to the place closest to the signal source. What she found shocked her.
There was nothing. No signal, that is. Everything was… normal. Maybe it really was a glitch? Urd thought to herself. As a bullet train whizzed by, she thought she felt it again, but decided against it, since it was impossibly weak to be a signal of higher origin (meaning outside our realm, such as where Urd and the gang come from).
She stayed a while longer, trying to follow its ambient energy, but it was so spread out and dissipated that she ended up going through the same street three times. After a long day of searching, Urd finally gave up, bored of the fruitless repetition and went back home.
She was greeted by Belldandy with an almost stoic face. I'm gonna get it, Urd thought, grimacing.
"Did you find anything?" she asked instead of scolding Urd as she normally would have.
"Nope," she said sighing.
"Alright. Just leave this alone from now on, okay?" she asked.
"Sure," Urd said and flopped on the couch and started watching TV.
It must be more serious then I thought… Belldandy thought worriedly as she saw Urd watch TV without any worries at all.