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Chapter 24
---(Goddess of the earth Universe)---
Later that evening Raziel, Yu and Yu's mother all sat in side the inn. Of course after explaining away the damaged hot spring to the owners, and hide the fact that there was a body of a girl in the water.... But when the owners left the springs Raziel and Yu had found that Natsuki's body was gone, but they had thought that she wasn't really dead and some how made an escape. But there was more pressing matters to deal with and that was the fact that Raziel's little secret and his family's secret was fast one it's way being found out.
".... Please mom you can't say anything to anyone." Yu pleaded.
Mrs. Asakawa just sat in front of her daughter and Raziel with her eyes closed and in complete silence.
"Mrs. Asakawa... One of the biggest rules has been broke and that was to let the out side world know about our powers.... Even my sister Anata... Yeah my sister Anata didn't break this rule. As far as I know anyways. Please don't tell any one about what you've seen." Raziel said.
But still Mrs. Asakawa didn't react to anything that was said to her.
"Mom?" Yu asked starting to worry what her mother might do. "Do you think that shadows did something to her?" Yu whispered to Raziel.
"I don't know... I'm still kind of new with these shadows; If Kou was here he could tell." Raziel replied back in a whisper.
Raziel and Yu looked closely back at Mrs. Asakawa. Then suddenly Mrs. Asakawa opened her eyes making the two teens jump back slightly.
"It makes so much since now...." Mrs. Asakawa said making Yu give her a questioning look.
"Mom?"
"It make since now, everything. After looking back on it all, I knew that Belldandy was different. Sure when I met her in the park, and we started to talk.... " Mrs. Asakawa trailed off as she put everything together in her head. Then she looked at Raziel.
"I think that my mom has lost it....." Yu whispered. Raziel only nodded.
"Raziel tell me this much...." Mrs. Asakawa asked.
"Okay."
"I remember how you made every effort to make sure that nothing happened to Myself and more immortally my little girl here. I'll keep you're secret and your family's." Mrs. Asakawa said. "Raziel I know that you are a good kid and I'll keep this secret, but as for you Yu sweetie. I guess I need to talk to you about the negative effects of having sex at your age."
"Mom we've had that talk before." Yu said with a deep blush.
"We have, but I over heard you telling Raziel here to how did you put it? Oh yes... 'Stop squirming.' Oh yeah I head that." Mrs. Asakawa said.
Yu went as pail as a ghost.
"Raziel we'll leave your room now. I hope that you can get some rest." Mrs. Asakawa said as she stood up, Raziel then also stood up.
"I was going to ask the owner if I can help with repairing the damage in the hot spring." Raziel said as he slid on some shoes.
"But I was the one that knocked the divider down, Yu and I should be the ones to help." Mrs. Asakawa said.
"Well that's an other rule, if damage was caused while in a battle with a demon... Or something.... I've got to help repair things." Then with that Raziel went out of the room leaving Yu and her mother still standing there.
---- (Son of Urd universe) ----
Mean while Mini Raven was sell keeping a watchful eye on Anata as she started back home after a long days work. She was still unaware of the fact that Mini- Raven was watching.
"You know I still don't think that he's all that stealthy." A Mini- Lyn said. "I think that Raziel could do better."
"Sssssshhhh!!!" Mini-Raven sounded as he watched on from a bush that was some ten feet away from Anata.
Mini- Fiona giggled. "He is trying, that has to count for something."
"Sssssshhhh, she's coming." Mini-Raven said.
"I still think that My Raven is cute when he puts a lot of effort in to doing things." A Mini- Aoi added.
"Even I can do better then he is....." Mini-Lyn added.
This made the Mini-Raven turn around, with a pissed look. "WILL YOU TWO SHUT UP! I'm DOING MY JOB!!!!" Mini-Raven yelled as loud as he could. "Aoi, can you please......" Raven said as he placed his index finger on to his lips telling Aoi to be quite but a lot nicer then he had just told Mini-Lyn and Fiona. Aoi Smiled back at Raven, then Mini-Raven looked back to where he last saw Anata. But to his surprise Anata was kneeling down in front of the bush.
Mini-Raven, Lyn, Fiona and Aoi all froze when they saw that Anata was there right in front of them.
"So Who put you four to spying on me? Or should I just take a wild guess?" Anata asked.
"Umm..." all four replied .
"I'll take the wild guess... Peorth right? Sis?" Anata asked looking at her Mini-sister.
Fiona only nodded. "Raven was really the one that was told to watch you... We were more along for the ride."
Anata looked around her to make sure that no one was around. "It's all clear. You four can... grow up now."
Then with a puff of smoke Raven, Aoi, Fiona and Lyn were all back to normal size. "Look Peorth wanted me to watch you. I'm not doing this for fun." Raven said.
"Fiona and I were just hanging out and were looking for something to do..." Lyn said.
"You know if you wanted to watch me all you had to do was hang out at Whirlwind. And in normal size too." Anata said.
Fiona quickly shook her head. "And have the chance of having Chihiro pit us to work? No thank you, I'm not one for slave labor."
"Sure the pay sucks big time, but it's something." Anata said.
"Well I'm more in to the umm.... Five finger discount area, if you get what I mean." Raven said as he held his hand up in front of him wiggling his fingers.
"Raven! I thought you were to give that up?" Aoi asked, with a hint of disappointment.
"Well the whole Evil, and being a demon makes those types of habits hard to put down." Raven said.
Aoi closed her eyes to gather her thoughts. "I guess so...."
"Why don't all of you come home with us for dinner?" Fiona suggested.
"Yeah that would be fun." Anata said.
'Let's see I'll have Belldandy's cooking over that instant crap I have back at the crypt.' Raven thought to him self. "I'm up for that."
"But Raven I can always cook for you. I know that you're not that good at it." Aoi said sweetly.
"That's okay Aoi; I can't ask you to cook for me.... I can get by." Raven said sounding much more kinder then normal.
"Gag me with a wooden spoon; he's just looking for a chance to have Lady Belldandy's cooking." Lyn said then he made a gagging motion.
"No... I'm shocked." Fiona said. "That was...... Well sweet. Sweet is the word that I'm looking for right?"
Anata nodded.
"And it came from Raven...... Shocking." Fiona said again.
Raven then shot a glare at the others. "I can be sweet any time I want, Hell I'm oozing of sweetness."
Aoi, Fiona and Anata let out a sigh. "And yet they're short lived." Aoi said.
"I sure miss how sweet Kou can be, he can be sweet even in his sleep." Anata said as she started to go in to a dream like state. As was Fiona and Aoi.
During this Lyn and Raven stood there watching the three girls stand there in their cream like state. Then Raven jabbed Lyn in his side.
"Did we miss something here?" Raven asked.
"I think so? But I think that it's better that we don't ask." Lyn replied.
Raven nodded.
---(Goddess of the earth universe)---
Out side, Raziel quietly worked on the wall taking the drill Raziel screwed an other screw in to the bamboo pole and in to a two by four. 'Whose voice was that?' Raziel asked him self. 'Telling me to kill her... it's strange.....'
Taking another screw Raziel was about to drill another screw in to the bamboo when he heard someone come in to the springs. Looking up it was Yu, she was in a robe and was hugging it close to her body.
"Um Yu the hot springs are out of order for a couple more hours." Raziel said with a smile.
"I just wanted to talk.... Is that all right, you do seem a little lost in your own thoughts." Yu said back.
Raziel smiled and put the drill down. "Sure I can use the company."
Smiling Yu walked over to where Raziel was sitting at. "Are you alright, I mean you haven't said much since.... Well you know."
"It just takes a lot out of someone...... I'll be okay." Raziel said. "But as for what happened just before that.... Sorry that I you know...... You just surprised me and......"
"It's okay..... There's plenty of time for that some other time." Yu said with a giggle. "What are you doing after you get done with this?"
Raziel shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know...... There was a small town about three miles from here, I'm sure that there's something to. Are you up for that?"
Yu nodded. "Sure, I should be ready to go when you get done."
Yu then got back up and went to the door to the springs, before she left Yu turned back around and smiled. Raziel smiled back and went back to work. Taking another screw he picked up the drill and screwed the screw in to the bamboo again, and then he heard someone walk in to the water over in the woman's side of the springs.
Standing up, Raziel walked over to the remains of the wall. "I'm sorry, but the springs are out of order for a couple of hours."
"Oh Raziel-Chan. Over here." A voice called out from behind him.
Slowly turned around Raziel found that Hild was there and was covered by large amounts of steam. Quickly covering his eyes Raziel started to back up and out of the springs.
"Grandma... What are you doing here the springs are closed to repairs." Raziel said.
"It's okay, I have a two peace on, you have already walked in on me and you grandfather. I don't want to traumatize you more." Hild said as she stood up out of the water and walked over to the side of the springs that Raziel was at, and sat back down. "I have always enjoyed hot springs... I should come to this please more often."
"What are you doing here anyways?" Raziel asked as he started back to work.
"I just thought I'll check on my grandson and see if I'm going to be a great grandmother here soon." Hild replied.
"Grandma..... "
"I know, I know. So what's been going on here?" Hild asked as she looked around at the damage.
"As if you don't know?" Raziel replied as he got the next screw ready.
"True I do already know. I just wanted to know how you are dealing with all this." Hild asked. "Is there any Sake around here?" she asked her self as she looked around the edge of the springs.
Walking over to where Yu's mother had left the bottle of sake and handed it to his grandmother. "I'm fine..... In fact when I get done here, Yu and myself are going to take a walk over to a town that's some three miles from here." Raziel replied. "And with Natsuki......" Raziel paused and thought about it for a moment and looked up over at his grandmother. ".... Gone there is really nothing we need to worry about."
Hild said there in the steaming water slowly sipping at the sake. "I see...... So you are okay with what happened?"
Raziel stopped again and looked over at Hild. "I guess I am...."
Placing the small cup of Sake down, Hild stood back up in the water and walked over to Raziel. "Raziel sweetie, just make sure that you are really feeling alright with what's happened."
---(Son of Urd universe)---
Dinner had started at the Morisato Temple once again like it had for several years. Everyone had gathered at the table.
"Raven.... Would you like the leftovers?" Belldandy asked as she placed out some more food on to the table.
Looking up from his plate with a little bit of fish hanging out from his mouth. "Sure...."
"Mrs. Morisato this is the best." Aoi said as she had some more food. "Some time can you teach me to cook as good as you do?"
"The reason why the meals I prepare are so good is not because that I am good at cooking. No, it's because of the love I have for those I prepare the meals for." Belldandy replied as she helped her self to some more meso.
Anata and Fiona looked up and looked over at their mother first and then at each other. "Wow mom that deep...." Anata said. "I love Kou a lot and will I can't cook if my life depended on it."
This made Raven look up from his food again with a questioning look. "What? You mean that not all goddesses can cook?" He asked. "I thought that it was like a requirement or something."
This then made Urd and Skuld look up from their own meals. "Look I try sometimes. Granted my extent of cooking nothing more then add hot water and let set but it's the point that matters." Urd said.
"I try too, but it's nothing like Belldandy's cooking and far better the Urd's." Skuld added.
"I'm working on it too." Fiona said. But this made Lyn look up.
"And you're doing a great job at it." He said.
Mean while in the Empress's palace, there was a lab that was deep with in the palace. In the center on this lab was a tube that stretched from the floor to the ceiling and it was flooded with a light green fluid with someone with in the tube.
"How much longer?" The empress asked.
Looking over from a computer work station, a light blue Evangelion with dreadlocks that went to about the middle of it's back answered. "The reanimation process is coming along smoothly, but it will be late in to the night before she awakens."
The Empress looked back at the tube, at the skeletal frame of something. Not an Evangelion, but that of a human. Its eyeless skull starred back at the empress.
"It won't be long before you rejoin us in the land of the living.... Then you can have what you desire...... your revenge."
"My lady... we're about to start with the application of muscle tissue."
The empress nodded and turned for the door. Just before she reached the door she turned to the tube where Natsuki floated. She watched just as a layer of muscle started to form on the skeleton.
Back at the temple and some three hours later. Raven, Lyn and Aoi had all gone home and Fiona and Anata were hanging out in their room. Turning the page to a magazine, Anata looked over at Fiona. And remembered what Chihiro had said about her going to some where to pick up something.
"Say sis what are you doing in the morning?" Anata asked.
"Nothing much, why?" Fiona replied.
"Well Chihiro said that she needed me to drive out somewhere to get so part. She said that I can see if you wanted to come along with me. So want to come?" Anata asked.
Fiona thought about it for a moment. Then shrugged her shoulders. "Umm..... Okay. Why not."
"Okay I'll wake you up then in the morning." Anata said as she started to set her alarm clock. Giving them enough time so they can both get ready in the morning. "Well I getting some sleep..... Good night."
"Good night sis." Fiona said back then the light started to go out through out the Morisato temple, all except for the dim glare from the TV in the living room.
But as the night went on not all in the Morisato temple was sleeping well. Anata was tossing and turning. Her covers where all over the place. She would roll over to her side and with a death grip, take hold of the Futon then she would roll back over on to her back with sweat dropping from her fore head. With in her dreams she was seeing someone who she thought was dead....
Anata's dream
"Natsuki what are you doing in my head!!" Anata shouted as she looked around the darkness, trying to find the source of the laughing.
Still hearing the laughing, Anata turned to where she thought that it was coming from and quickly fired a Force bolt in to the darkness, but nothing.
"Dame it!!! You're dead!!!" Anata screamed. "How can you be doing this??!!"
Just then a set of bright red glowing eyes opened up just in front of Anata. Then the dark lightened up just enough to let Anata see her self looking back at her.
"What the hell!!"
"Mmm Sister... it's been a while no?" Natsuki asked with a wicked smile.
"Don't you dare call me sister." Anata yelled as she pointed at Natsuki. "You hear me! Don't you dare!"
Natsuki only laughed more.
Getting even more made, Anata tried to reach for Natsuki's neck. But her hand only went through Natsuki.
"Not real..... You're just a Dream......" Anata said to her self trying to rationalize what was going on. "You are dead....."
"No sister, I'm vary much alive...... Well sort of......" Natsuki said answering Anata and correcting her self. "It didn't take long after Raziel had taken my life when I realized that was going on."
"Raziel.... Damn it Natsuki! If you want to come after me. You come after me, and leave others out of this." Anata said back.
"Raziel was a challenge.... But as for your lover, Kou he was no match" Natsuki said.
Hearing Kou's name and knowing what Natsuki was capable of doing set Anata into and instant furry. "If you harmed Kou so help me I'll kill you.... Again, and again, and again. No matter how many times the Shadows bring you back I'll kill you!"
"Our time will come..... Shortly."
End Anata's dream
Hearing her sister's tossing and turning Fiona sat up in her futon, and looked over at Anata.
"Anata... wake up." Fiona said, but only got a moan from Anata and her turning over to her side.
Getting up out of her futon, Fiona crawled over to Anata and lightly shook her. "Anata..... Wake up; it's just a bad dream."
Anata then said something in her sleep, but Fiona couldn't make out what it was. So she shook her a litter bit harder. "Come on Sis, you're freaking me out here."
Fiona then noticed that Anata was soaked in her own sweat. And really started to worry. "Anata......" Fiona said again and again shook Anata harder then before.
This time she woke Anata. She quickly sat up in her futon and at the same time slammed her hand in to the hard wood floor. "Natsuki!!!"
Fiona sat there a little frightened. "Anata..... Are you okay?"
Anata just sat there catching her breath, for several seconds before replying. "She's here...."
Fiona gave a questioning look. "Who? Who's here?"
"Natsuki...... " Anata replied. "She's here in this universe also... how I don't know but I know she's here."
Fiona sat there and thought about it again. "I thought Natsuki was your middle name."
"It is but it's the name of her.... Natsuki is something like a double. She is evil. And she is here....." Anata said. "I don't feel her, but I know she's here."
"Maybe you just need some sleep. Don't we have a long day in the morning?" Fiona asked as she walked over to Anata's side. But when she got there, Fiona noticed the spot where Anata had slammed her hand down at. "Umm Anata?" Fiona said, pointing at the floor.
Slowly Anata looked where Fiona was pointing at. Her hand had driven through one of the boards of the floor. She didn't even know she had done it. "Oops....."
Mean while back in the Empresses palace, walking back in to the lab. She had felt that Natsuki was awake.... But when she got back in to the lab she found that Natsuki was still floating there in the tube naked and with a breathing device in her mouth.
Hearing the door to the lab open the light blue Evangelion looked over from his work. "I'm sorry ma'am, but she hasn't awakened yet."
The Empress walked over to the tube and lightly tapped on the tube with her finger nails. "She's awake...... Mentally that is....." The Empress said.
Just then Natsuki's eye's snapped open. With in the tube, Natsuki saw a fuzzy image of something that looks like Raziel when he was in his different form.
Out side, the lab worker looked over his work then back over at the Empress. "Ma'am I'm draining the tube of its fluids."
The Empress only nodded. As she watched as she fluids in the tube started to drain away. Leaving Natsuki laying there on the cold hard floor of the tube then the glass lifted up off the floor. Natsuki then pulled the breathing device from her mouth. Her long hair covers most of her body. She then weakly looks over to the Empress.
"Who...... are you the one that...... is responsible for........ All this?" Natsuki asked.
The Empress nodded. "I am...." Then she looked over at the lab worker. "See to it that she gets cleaned up and some cloths."
"Yes ma'am."
"I have questions......" Natsuki said again with a weak voice.
"In good time." The Empress replied then she walked back out of the lab.
Once after the Empress was gone, the Lab worker found a towel and draped it over Natsuki's shoulders and offered his hand out to the girl there on the floor. "Come on lets get you cleaned up. I'm sure that stuff feels funny."
Looking at the armored hand, Natsuki pushed the hand back away. "I need no one's..... Pity." Natsuki said as she tried to force her self back to her feet. But only fell back to the floor with a loud thud.
"Well you're still weak and will need help doing even the most simple of tasks." The lab worker said again offering his hand.
Taking the hand Natsuki let her self be lead to a set of showers. As she walked along side the lab worker, she hugged the towel close to her body, but this didn't go by unnoticed by the lab worker. "Cold? I'm sure a hot shower will feel good."
Natsuki said didn't say anything for a moment. "If I wasn't in a weakened state I would have killed anyone that had offered any type of pity to me."
With a small smile the lab worker replied. "Well lucky for me that you're in that weakened state."
But one thing that the lab worker didn't know was that Natsuki was already planning out an escape.
"Here we go." The Lab worker said.
Then he started to set the water for Natsuki. "Tell me if this is good...."
Natsuki just put her hand in to the running water and withdrew it. "That will be sufficient."
"Okay...."
Crawling in to the shower Natsuki let the water run all over her.
She didn't let it known to this stranger, but she liked the warm water on her. It was relaxing, and helped her forget about the void that makes up the remains of the Shadow realm. When she has no body in the realm, there is nothing but dark and the voices of the collective thoughts of the Shadow. But now with the shower there was the only sound of the shower, and the water hitting the walls of the shower stall and the floor. The she heard the door to the room open up.
"I took the liberty of having your out fit remade. I'll just leave them here on the bench."
Natsuki didn't say anything. But she sat up in the shower stall when she heard the door close again, and balled her left hand in to a fist, hearing her knuckles crack and pop. Then she could feel her power surge. Then she looked over at the wall to the stall, then with the one swift punch. The metal wall was bowed out. Removing her fist, Natsuki slowly stood up, and stretched as she did black lightning surged across her body.
Stepping out of the shower, Natsuki saw her cloths and quickly put them on.
Out in the wall way the lab worker stood there leaning up against the wall. "She's probably fell asleep." The Lab worker said to him self.
Just then there was an explosion and the door to the room went shooting across the hall. And out stepped Natsuki. The lab worker just stood there not knowing what to do....
"Why?" He asked as he started to back away.
Natsuki looked over at him and started to walk over to him. Then she grabbed him by the neck and lifted him up off the ground with one arm. And just looked in to his eyes.
"What.... What are you going to do?" he asked.
Natsuki didn't say anything, but she threw the lab worker up against the wall, knocking him out cold. Then she started down the hall, moments later alarms started to go off.
In the Empress's chambers, she was awaken by the alarms and a knocking at her door.
"Come in." The Empress said.
Then in walked her personal aid. "My lady, an intruder is in the palace. We have troops dispatched, but she is powerful."
"I don't want her killed." The Empress said as she sat up. "Guide her to the Great Hall."
The Aid gave a quick nod and walked back out of the Empress's chambers.
"Well Natsuki-chan..... We will see what you can really do." The Empress said to her self.
"My lady, we have her in the Hall." A solder said.
Moments later the Empress was standing there at a huge wall, and she pressed a button. When she did the wall started to open up to reveal a huge window. And behind that window there was the great hall to her Palace. With Natsuki in the middle and six other white Evangelion around her.
"Stay back from me!!!" Natsuki yelled as she looked back and forth and all around her keeping an eye on the ones that were around her.
"Restrain her, Shock her!" One White Evangelion yelled to another.
Giving a quick nod, the one that was right behind Natsuki poked her with the cattle prod.
AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Natsuki screamed, and then she turned around and grabbed the cattle prod out from the hands of the one that poked her and gabbed it in to the stomach of the one that just poked her. Then the others charged in to help their fallen comrade. But Natsuki turned back around just in time to block the rod from the other that was just in front of her, but from the force that came down on Natsuki's stolen weapon, it was snapped in half. But that didn't stop Natsuki's rampage. Doing a quick spin, Natsuki threw one of the broken ends in to the cattle prod in to the face of an on coming White Evangelion, killing it before it even hit the ground. Then she turned to another attacking Evangelion and gabbed the other remaining half of the cattle prod in to the chest of her attacker. Then the other three remaining Evangelion dropped the cattle prods and drew swords and charged in after Natsuki. Waiting for the closest one to come at her, she watched as the sword came down, then just at the last second the grabbed the blade of the sword and forced the hilt in to the side of its head, then taking the blade Natsuki drove the sword in to the neck of the second. Then she turned to the last Evangelion. Then she drove her fist in to the chest. Then with great strength, she picked up the body of the last Evangelion up over her head and threw it across the room. Smashing it in to the window where the Empress was standing at.
"That is enough!!" the Empress shouted over a PA system. "When you calm down, join me in my chambers."
Natsuki didn't say a word all she did was sit there in the middle of the room.
---(The next day, Goddess of the Earth Universe)---
Waking up to the sound of birds chirping, Raziel turned over to see someone there next to him.
"Morning Raziel." Yu said with a sleepy smile.
Seeing Yu and hearing her voice, didn't click with Raziel right away. But when it did he sat up in his futon quickly. "Yu! What are you doing here?"
"I'm not surprised you don't remember...." Yu replied the she too sat up. "When we got to town, we found a small club there. I was able to talk you in to having something to drink."
Grabbing his head, the hazy memories of last night started to flood his head. "We didn't ...... you know."
"No..... In mater of fact I had to make sure that you made it back here. You know I thought that you being the Urd's son would be able to hold your booze better, but you passed out after one beer." Yu replied.
"Then why are you here in bed with me?" Raziel asked.
"Well after I got you to wake up, I helped you back here to the inn. Well to make it short, when in helped you here in to your futon. You kind of hugged on to my arm and so I just stayed here." Yu answered.
"What about your mom, Isn't she like going to kill me or something?" Raziel asked.
"Well we kind of came across my mom before we made it here." Yu said.
Raziel then covered his face with his hands. "Man this isn't going to be good....."
---(Son of Urd universe)---
Having gotten up to the blaring sound of the alarm, Anata waited fro Fiona to get out of the shower. She didn't get a whole lot of sleep, her dream about Natsuki was still fresh in her head and was for sure that Natsuki was alive and there in the same universe, but there was no proof about it.
Just in the other room Keiichi had waken up when he heard his two daughters walking around the temple. Looking over at Belldandy, Keiichi smiled and moved a stray hair out from his wife's face. 'I know I'll surprise her today....' He thought to him self.
Walking out of his and Belldandy's room, Keiichi came across Anata who was sitting quietly at the table in the kitchen.
"Sleep good last night?" Keiichi asked.
"Not really dad...... But I'll live." Anata replied.
"That bad?" Keiichi asked as he started to get something's out to start breakfast.
Anata only nodded and sat silently for a moment. Then..... "Bad what do you know about dreams?"
Stopping Keiichi turned to Anata. "Not as much as your mom, but maybe I can help?" he replied. "What's the matter?"
"Well I had this dream about a girl that's me..... She's evil. Something that the shadows came up with." Anata said. "Well a while back we fought and I.... I took her life."
"Guilt?" Keiichi asked.
"I don't know, but I had to. To save earth, but just last night I had a dream that she was back and here in this universe." Anata said.
Keiichi thought about it for a moment. "Well with what I know about dreams, I would keep an eye open for anything. Remember you're a Morisato, strange things happen to us all the time."
"The Morisato curse..... Or blessing, depending how one looks at it right?" Anata asked.
"Yep.... So where are you and Fiona off to this early?" Keiichi asked.
"I have work; Chihiro has me going some where to get something, she said I can bring Fiona with me so that's what we're doing."
"I see.... Well you two have fun." Keiichi said as he reached for the things that he'll need to make the tea. "Damn....."
"What is it dad?" Anata asked.
"I can't find your mother's tea... you know what can happen if she doesn't get her tea in the morning?"
"Yeah I know how she can get... Look there." Anata said pointing over by the coffee maker.
Taking a look, Keiichi came up empty handed. Just then Fiona came in to the room.
"I'm ready for the day, what about you sis?" Fiona asked.
Not wanting to be around when their mother found that they were out of tea, Anata quickly took Fiona by the hand and pulled her along to the door.
"Yeah, okay... come on Fiona. We need to get the hell out of here."
"Anata.... Wait!! Bye Dad!!.... Anata!!" Fiona yelled as she was dragged out of the back door and just about thrown in to the side car of the BMW.
"Anata what's with you?" Fiona asked as she strapped on the helmet.
"Dad can't find mom's tea!" Anata replied as she started up the bike.
Knowing what could happen if her mother didn't get her morning cup of tea, Fiona looked over at Anata with fear. "Step on it!!"
Back in the kitchen, Keiichi frantically looked around for the tea when he heard someone walk in to the same room. Not looking to see who it was he asked for some help. "Damn it I can't find Belldandy's tea, can you help?"
Belldandy stood there at the door. "What do you mean?"
Keiichi froze when he heard his wife's voice. "Umm I'll be right back I need to run to the store. Be back in a sec Bell." Keiichi said as he ran past Belldandy...... Well Even Belldandy needs something to jump start her day.
But mean while back in the Empress's palace, the Empress sat there in her chambers. She was at the edge of sleep when she heard the doors open. Opening her eyes, she saw that Natsuki was walking down the middle of the room.
"Ah.... I see that you can behave yourself." The Empress said.
"Who are you and why did you bring me here?" Natsuki asked.
The Empress was taken how much she sounded like Anata, and leaded forward in her seat. "My, My you even sound like her......"
"My sister and I are noting alike.... Now answer me!" Natsuki shouted. "Who are you and how did I get here?"
"All you need to know is how to go about getting that one thing you want above all..... Revenge." The Empress replied. "Here read this; it had the details of what I want you to do." The Empress said as she tossed a small data pad to Natsuki.
Natsuki didn't even give any effort in catching the pad as she let it fall to the floor. "I'm no body's poppet."
Then Natsuki started too left up off the floor and grabbed at her neck gasping for air.
"I know you are strong but you are not that strong... You will do as I say or the blackness of death is the only thing that awaits you." The Empress said. Then with a loud thud, Natsuki landed back on the ground.
"Death will stop the voices.... Of the shadows......."
"Maybe so..... But from what I've gathered, you can just be brought back." The Empress said then she stood from her chair. "Do this for me I will also grant you freedom from the Shadows and you can remain in this universe."
"What must I do?" Natsuki asked.
T.B.C.
Chapter 24
---(Goddess of the earth Universe)---
Later that evening Raziel, Yu and Yu's mother all sat in side the inn. Of course after explaining away the damaged hot spring to the owners, and hide the fact that there was a body of a girl in the water.... But when the owners left the springs Raziel and Yu had found that Natsuki's body was gone, but they had thought that she wasn't really dead and some how made an escape. But there was more pressing matters to deal with and that was the fact that Raziel's little secret and his family's secret was fast one it's way being found out.
".... Please mom you can't say anything to anyone." Yu pleaded.
Mrs. Asakawa just sat in front of her daughter and Raziel with her eyes closed and in complete silence.
"Mrs. Asakawa... One of the biggest rules has been broke and that was to let the out side world know about our powers.... Even my sister Anata... Yeah my sister Anata didn't break this rule. As far as I know anyways. Please don't tell any one about what you've seen." Raziel said.
But still Mrs. Asakawa didn't react to anything that was said to her.
"Mom?" Yu asked starting to worry what her mother might do. "Do you think that shadows did something to her?" Yu whispered to Raziel.
"I don't know... I'm still kind of new with these shadows; If Kou was here he could tell." Raziel replied back in a whisper.
Raziel and Yu looked closely back at Mrs. Asakawa. Then suddenly Mrs. Asakawa opened her eyes making the two teens jump back slightly.
"It makes so much since now...." Mrs. Asakawa said making Yu give her a questioning look.
"Mom?"
"It make since now, everything. After looking back on it all, I knew that Belldandy was different. Sure when I met her in the park, and we started to talk.... " Mrs. Asakawa trailed off as she put everything together in her head. Then she looked at Raziel.
"I think that my mom has lost it....." Yu whispered. Raziel only nodded.
"Raziel tell me this much...." Mrs. Asakawa asked.
"Okay."
"I remember how you made every effort to make sure that nothing happened to Myself and more immortally my little girl here. I'll keep you're secret and your family's." Mrs. Asakawa said. "Raziel I know that you are a good kid and I'll keep this secret, but as for you Yu sweetie. I guess I need to talk to you about the negative effects of having sex at your age."
"Mom we've had that talk before." Yu said with a deep blush.
"We have, but I over heard you telling Raziel here to how did you put it? Oh yes... 'Stop squirming.' Oh yeah I head that." Mrs. Asakawa said.
Yu went as pail as a ghost.
"Raziel we'll leave your room now. I hope that you can get some rest." Mrs. Asakawa said as she stood up, Raziel then also stood up.
"I was going to ask the owner if I can help with repairing the damage in the hot spring." Raziel said as he slid on some shoes.
"But I was the one that knocked the divider down, Yu and I should be the ones to help." Mrs. Asakawa said.
"Well that's an other rule, if damage was caused while in a battle with a demon... Or something.... I've got to help repair things." Then with that Raziel went out of the room leaving Yu and her mother still standing there.
---- (Son of Urd universe) ----
Mean while Mini Raven was sell keeping a watchful eye on Anata as she started back home after a long days work. She was still unaware of the fact that Mini- Raven was watching.
"You know I still don't think that he's all that stealthy." A Mini- Lyn said. "I think that Raziel could do better."
"Sssssshhhh!!!" Mini-Raven sounded as he watched on from a bush that was some ten feet away from Anata.
Mini- Fiona giggled. "He is trying, that has to count for something."
"Sssssshhhh, she's coming." Mini-Raven said.
"I still think that My Raven is cute when he puts a lot of effort in to doing things." A Mini- Aoi added.
"Even I can do better then he is....." Mini-Lyn added.
This made the Mini-Raven turn around, with a pissed look. "WILL YOU TWO SHUT UP! I'm DOING MY JOB!!!!" Mini-Raven yelled as loud as he could. "Aoi, can you please......" Raven said as he placed his index finger on to his lips telling Aoi to be quite but a lot nicer then he had just told Mini-Lyn and Fiona. Aoi Smiled back at Raven, then Mini-Raven looked back to where he last saw Anata. But to his surprise Anata was kneeling down in front of the bush.
Mini-Raven, Lyn, Fiona and Aoi all froze when they saw that Anata was there right in front of them.
"So Who put you four to spying on me? Or should I just take a wild guess?" Anata asked.
"Umm..." all four replied .
"I'll take the wild guess... Peorth right? Sis?" Anata asked looking at her Mini-sister.
Fiona only nodded. "Raven was really the one that was told to watch you... We were more along for the ride."
Anata looked around her to make sure that no one was around. "It's all clear. You four can... grow up now."
Then with a puff of smoke Raven, Aoi, Fiona and Lyn were all back to normal size. "Look Peorth wanted me to watch you. I'm not doing this for fun." Raven said.
"Fiona and I were just hanging out and were looking for something to do..." Lyn said.
"You know if you wanted to watch me all you had to do was hang out at Whirlwind. And in normal size too." Anata said.
Fiona quickly shook her head. "And have the chance of having Chihiro pit us to work? No thank you, I'm not one for slave labor."
"Sure the pay sucks big time, but it's something." Anata said.
"Well I'm more in to the umm.... Five finger discount area, if you get what I mean." Raven said as he held his hand up in front of him wiggling his fingers.
"Raven! I thought you were to give that up?" Aoi asked, with a hint of disappointment.
"Well the whole Evil, and being a demon makes those types of habits hard to put down." Raven said.
Aoi closed her eyes to gather her thoughts. "I guess so...."
"Why don't all of you come home with us for dinner?" Fiona suggested.
"Yeah that would be fun." Anata said.
'Let's see I'll have Belldandy's cooking over that instant crap I have back at the crypt.' Raven thought to him self. "I'm up for that."
"But Raven I can always cook for you. I know that you're not that good at it." Aoi said sweetly.
"That's okay Aoi; I can't ask you to cook for me.... I can get by." Raven said sounding much more kinder then normal.
"Gag me with a wooden spoon; he's just looking for a chance to have Lady Belldandy's cooking." Lyn said then he made a gagging motion.
"No... I'm shocked." Fiona said. "That was...... Well sweet. Sweet is the word that I'm looking for right?"
Anata nodded.
"And it came from Raven...... Shocking." Fiona said again.
Raven then shot a glare at the others. "I can be sweet any time I want, Hell I'm oozing of sweetness."
Aoi, Fiona and Anata let out a sigh. "And yet they're short lived." Aoi said.
"I sure miss how sweet Kou can be, he can be sweet even in his sleep." Anata said as she started to go in to a dream like state. As was Fiona and Aoi.
During this Lyn and Raven stood there watching the three girls stand there in their cream like state. Then Raven jabbed Lyn in his side.
"Did we miss something here?" Raven asked.
"I think so? But I think that it's better that we don't ask." Lyn replied.
Raven nodded.
---(Goddess of the earth universe)---
Out side, Raziel quietly worked on the wall taking the drill Raziel screwed an other screw in to the bamboo pole and in to a two by four. 'Whose voice was that?' Raziel asked him self. 'Telling me to kill her... it's strange.....'
Taking another screw Raziel was about to drill another screw in to the bamboo when he heard someone come in to the springs. Looking up it was Yu, she was in a robe and was hugging it close to her body.
"Um Yu the hot springs are out of order for a couple more hours." Raziel said with a smile.
"I just wanted to talk.... Is that all right, you do seem a little lost in your own thoughts." Yu said back.
Raziel smiled and put the drill down. "Sure I can use the company."
Smiling Yu walked over to where Raziel was sitting at. "Are you alright, I mean you haven't said much since.... Well you know."
"It just takes a lot out of someone...... I'll be okay." Raziel said. "But as for what happened just before that.... Sorry that I you know...... You just surprised me and......"
"It's okay..... There's plenty of time for that some other time." Yu said with a giggle. "What are you doing after you get done with this?"
Raziel shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know...... There was a small town about three miles from here, I'm sure that there's something to. Are you up for that?"
Yu nodded. "Sure, I should be ready to go when you get done."
Yu then got back up and went to the door to the springs, before she left Yu turned back around and smiled. Raziel smiled back and went back to work. Taking another screw he picked up the drill and screwed the screw in to the bamboo again, and then he heard someone walk in to the water over in the woman's side of the springs.
Standing up, Raziel walked over to the remains of the wall. "I'm sorry, but the springs are out of order for a couple of hours."
"Oh Raziel-Chan. Over here." A voice called out from behind him.
Slowly turned around Raziel found that Hild was there and was covered by large amounts of steam. Quickly covering his eyes Raziel started to back up and out of the springs.
"Grandma... What are you doing here the springs are closed to repairs." Raziel said.
"It's okay, I have a two peace on, you have already walked in on me and you grandfather. I don't want to traumatize you more." Hild said as she stood up out of the water and walked over to the side of the springs that Raziel was at, and sat back down. "I have always enjoyed hot springs... I should come to this please more often."
"What are you doing here anyways?" Raziel asked as he started back to work.
"I just thought I'll check on my grandson and see if I'm going to be a great grandmother here soon." Hild replied.
"Grandma..... "
"I know, I know. So what's been going on here?" Hild asked as she looked around at the damage.
"As if you don't know?" Raziel replied as he got the next screw ready.
"True I do already know. I just wanted to know how you are dealing with all this." Hild asked. "Is there any Sake around here?" she asked her self as she looked around the edge of the springs.
Walking over to where Yu's mother had left the bottle of sake and handed it to his grandmother. "I'm fine..... In fact when I get done here, Yu and myself are going to take a walk over to a town that's some three miles from here." Raziel replied. "And with Natsuki......" Raziel paused and thought about it for a moment and looked up over at his grandmother. ".... Gone there is really nothing we need to worry about."
Hild said there in the steaming water slowly sipping at the sake. "I see...... So you are okay with what happened?"
Raziel stopped again and looked over at Hild. "I guess I am...."
Placing the small cup of Sake down, Hild stood back up in the water and walked over to Raziel. "Raziel sweetie, just make sure that you are really feeling alright with what's happened."
---(Son of Urd universe)---
Dinner had started at the Morisato Temple once again like it had for several years. Everyone had gathered at the table.
"Raven.... Would you like the leftovers?" Belldandy asked as she placed out some more food on to the table.
Looking up from his plate with a little bit of fish hanging out from his mouth. "Sure...."
"Mrs. Morisato this is the best." Aoi said as she had some more food. "Some time can you teach me to cook as good as you do?"
"The reason why the meals I prepare are so good is not because that I am good at cooking. No, it's because of the love I have for those I prepare the meals for." Belldandy replied as she helped her self to some more meso.
Anata and Fiona looked up and looked over at their mother first and then at each other. "Wow mom that deep...." Anata said. "I love Kou a lot and will I can't cook if my life depended on it."
This made Raven look up from his food again with a questioning look. "What? You mean that not all goddesses can cook?" He asked. "I thought that it was like a requirement or something."
This then made Urd and Skuld look up from their own meals. "Look I try sometimes. Granted my extent of cooking nothing more then add hot water and let set but it's the point that matters." Urd said.
"I try too, but it's nothing like Belldandy's cooking and far better the Urd's." Skuld added.
"I'm working on it too." Fiona said. But this made Lyn look up.
"And you're doing a great job at it." He said.
Mean while in the Empress's palace, there was a lab that was deep with in the palace. In the center on this lab was a tube that stretched from the floor to the ceiling and it was flooded with a light green fluid with someone with in the tube.
"How much longer?" The empress asked.
Looking over from a computer work station, a light blue Evangelion with dreadlocks that went to about the middle of it's back answered. "The reanimation process is coming along smoothly, but it will be late in to the night before she awakens."
The Empress looked back at the tube, at the skeletal frame of something. Not an Evangelion, but that of a human. Its eyeless skull starred back at the empress.
"It won't be long before you rejoin us in the land of the living.... Then you can have what you desire...... your revenge."
"My lady... we're about to start with the application of muscle tissue."
The empress nodded and turned for the door. Just before she reached the door she turned to the tube where Natsuki floated. She watched just as a layer of muscle started to form on the skeleton.
Back at the temple and some three hours later. Raven, Lyn and Aoi had all gone home and Fiona and Anata were hanging out in their room. Turning the page to a magazine, Anata looked over at Fiona. And remembered what Chihiro had said about her going to some where to pick up something.
"Say sis what are you doing in the morning?" Anata asked.
"Nothing much, why?" Fiona replied.
"Well Chihiro said that she needed me to drive out somewhere to get so part. She said that I can see if you wanted to come along with me. So want to come?" Anata asked.
Fiona thought about it for a moment. Then shrugged her shoulders. "Umm..... Okay. Why not."
"Okay I'll wake you up then in the morning." Anata said as she started to set her alarm clock. Giving them enough time so they can both get ready in the morning. "Well I getting some sleep..... Good night."
"Good night sis." Fiona said back then the light started to go out through out the Morisato temple, all except for the dim glare from the TV in the living room.
But as the night went on not all in the Morisato temple was sleeping well. Anata was tossing and turning. Her covers where all over the place. She would roll over to her side and with a death grip, take hold of the Futon then she would roll back over on to her back with sweat dropping from her fore head. With in her dreams she was seeing someone who she thought was dead....
Anata's dream
"Natsuki what are you doing in my head!!" Anata shouted as she looked around the darkness, trying to find the source of the laughing.
Still hearing the laughing, Anata turned to where she thought that it was coming from and quickly fired a Force bolt in to the darkness, but nothing.
"Dame it!!! You're dead!!!" Anata screamed. "How can you be doing this??!!"
Just then a set of bright red glowing eyes opened up just in front of Anata. Then the dark lightened up just enough to let Anata see her self looking back at her.
"What the hell!!"
"Mmm Sister... it's been a while no?" Natsuki asked with a wicked smile.
"Don't you dare call me sister." Anata yelled as she pointed at Natsuki. "You hear me! Don't you dare!"
Natsuki only laughed more.
Getting even more made, Anata tried to reach for Natsuki's neck. But her hand only went through Natsuki.
"Not real..... You're just a Dream......" Anata said to her self trying to rationalize what was going on. "You are dead....."
"No sister, I'm vary much alive...... Well sort of......" Natsuki said answering Anata and correcting her self. "It didn't take long after Raziel had taken my life when I realized that was going on."
"Raziel.... Damn it Natsuki! If you want to come after me. You come after me, and leave others out of this." Anata said back.
"Raziel was a challenge.... But as for your lover, Kou he was no match" Natsuki said.
Hearing Kou's name and knowing what Natsuki was capable of doing set Anata into and instant furry. "If you harmed Kou so help me I'll kill you.... Again, and again, and again. No matter how many times the Shadows bring you back I'll kill you!"
"Our time will come..... Shortly."
End Anata's dream
Hearing her sister's tossing and turning Fiona sat up in her futon, and looked over at Anata.
"Anata... wake up." Fiona said, but only got a moan from Anata and her turning over to her side.
Getting up out of her futon, Fiona crawled over to Anata and lightly shook her. "Anata..... Wake up; it's just a bad dream."
Anata then said something in her sleep, but Fiona couldn't make out what it was. So she shook her a litter bit harder. "Come on Sis, you're freaking me out here."
Fiona then noticed that Anata was soaked in her own sweat. And really started to worry. "Anata......" Fiona said again and again shook Anata harder then before.
This time she woke Anata. She quickly sat up in her futon and at the same time slammed her hand in to the hard wood floor. "Natsuki!!!"
Fiona sat there a little frightened. "Anata..... Are you okay?"
Anata just sat there catching her breath, for several seconds before replying. "She's here...."
Fiona gave a questioning look. "Who? Who's here?"
"Natsuki...... " Anata replied. "She's here in this universe also... how I don't know but I know she's here."
Fiona sat there and thought about it again. "I thought Natsuki was your middle name."
"It is but it's the name of her.... Natsuki is something like a double. She is evil. And she is here....." Anata said. "I don't feel her, but I know she's here."
"Maybe you just need some sleep. Don't we have a long day in the morning?" Fiona asked as she walked over to Anata's side. But when she got there, Fiona noticed the spot where Anata had slammed her hand down at. "Umm Anata?" Fiona said, pointing at the floor.
Slowly Anata looked where Fiona was pointing at. Her hand had driven through one of the boards of the floor. She didn't even know she had done it. "Oops....."
Mean while back in the Empresses palace, walking back in to the lab. She had felt that Natsuki was awake.... But when she got back in to the lab she found that Natsuki was still floating there in the tube naked and with a breathing device in her mouth.
Hearing the door to the lab open the light blue Evangelion looked over from his work. "I'm sorry ma'am, but she hasn't awakened yet."
The Empress walked over to the tube and lightly tapped on the tube with her finger nails. "She's awake...... Mentally that is....." The Empress said.
Just then Natsuki's eye's snapped open. With in the tube, Natsuki saw a fuzzy image of something that looks like Raziel when he was in his different form.
Out side, the lab worker looked over his work then back over at the Empress. "Ma'am I'm draining the tube of its fluids."
The Empress only nodded. As she watched as she fluids in the tube started to drain away. Leaving Natsuki laying there on the cold hard floor of the tube then the glass lifted up off the floor. Natsuki then pulled the breathing device from her mouth. Her long hair covers most of her body. She then weakly looks over to the Empress.
"Who...... are you the one that...... is responsible for........ All this?" Natsuki asked.
The Empress nodded. "I am...." Then she looked over at the lab worker. "See to it that she gets cleaned up and some cloths."
"Yes ma'am."
"I have questions......" Natsuki said again with a weak voice.
"In good time." The Empress replied then she walked back out of the lab.
Once after the Empress was gone, the Lab worker found a towel and draped it over Natsuki's shoulders and offered his hand out to the girl there on the floor. "Come on lets get you cleaned up. I'm sure that stuff feels funny."
Looking at the armored hand, Natsuki pushed the hand back away. "I need no one's..... Pity." Natsuki said as she tried to force her self back to her feet. But only fell back to the floor with a loud thud.
"Well you're still weak and will need help doing even the most simple of tasks." The lab worker said again offering his hand.
Taking the hand Natsuki let her self be lead to a set of showers. As she walked along side the lab worker, she hugged the towel close to her body, but this didn't go by unnoticed by the lab worker. "Cold? I'm sure a hot shower will feel good."
Natsuki said didn't say anything for a moment. "If I wasn't in a weakened state I would have killed anyone that had offered any type of pity to me."
With a small smile the lab worker replied. "Well lucky for me that you're in that weakened state."
But one thing that the lab worker didn't know was that Natsuki was already planning out an escape.
"Here we go." The Lab worker said.
Then he started to set the water for Natsuki. "Tell me if this is good...."
Natsuki just put her hand in to the running water and withdrew it. "That will be sufficient."
"Okay...."
Crawling in to the shower Natsuki let the water run all over her.
She didn't let it known to this stranger, but she liked the warm water on her. It was relaxing, and helped her forget about the void that makes up the remains of the Shadow realm. When she has no body in the realm, there is nothing but dark and the voices of the collective thoughts of the Shadow. But now with the shower there was the only sound of the shower, and the water hitting the walls of the shower stall and the floor. The she heard the door to the room open up.
"I took the liberty of having your out fit remade. I'll just leave them here on the bench."
Natsuki didn't say anything. But she sat up in the shower stall when she heard the door close again, and balled her left hand in to a fist, hearing her knuckles crack and pop. Then she could feel her power surge. Then she looked over at the wall to the stall, then with the one swift punch. The metal wall was bowed out. Removing her fist, Natsuki slowly stood up, and stretched as she did black lightning surged across her body.
Stepping out of the shower, Natsuki saw her cloths and quickly put them on.
Out in the wall way the lab worker stood there leaning up against the wall. "She's probably fell asleep." The Lab worker said to him self.
Just then there was an explosion and the door to the room went shooting across the hall. And out stepped Natsuki. The lab worker just stood there not knowing what to do....
"Why?" He asked as he started to back away.
Natsuki looked over at him and started to walk over to him. Then she grabbed him by the neck and lifted him up off the ground with one arm. And just looked in to his eyes.
"What.... What are you going to do?" he asked.
Natsuki didn't say anything, but she threw the lab worker up against the wall, knocking him out cold. Then she started down the hall, moments later alarms started to go off.
In the Empress's chambers, she was awaken by the alarms and a knocking at her door.
"Come in." The Empress said.
Then in walked her personal aid. "My lady, an intruder is in the palace. We have troops dispatched, but she is powerful."
"I don't want her killed." The Empress said as she sat up. "Guide her to the Great Hall."
The Aid gave a quick nod and walked back out of the Empress's chambers.
"Well Natsuki-chan..... We will see what you can really do." The Empress said to her self.
"My lady, we have her in the Hall." A solder said.
Moments later the Empress was standing there at a huge wall, and she pressed a button. When she did the wall started to open up to reveal a huge window. And behind that window there was the great hall to her Palace. With Natsuki in the middle and six other white Evangelion around her.
"Stay back from me!!!" Natsuki yelled as she looked back and forth and all around her keeping an eye on the ones that were around her.
"Restrain her, Shock her!" One White Evangelion yelled to another.
Giving a quick nod, the one that was right behind Natsuki poked her with the cattle prod.
AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Natsuki screamed, and then she turned around and grabbed the cattle prod out from the hands of the one that poked her and gabbed it in to the stomach of the one that just poked her. Then the others charged in to help their fallen comrade. But Natsuki turned back around just in time to block the rod from the other that was just in front of her, but from the force that came down on Natsuki's stolen weapon, it was snapped in half. But that didn't stop Natsuki's rampage. Doing a quick spin, Natsuki threw one of the broken ends in to the cattle prod in to the face of an on coming White Evangelion, killing it before it even hit the ground. Then she turned to another attacking Evangelion and gabbed the other remaining half of the cattle prod in to the chest of her attacker. Then the other three remaining Evangelion dropped the cattle prods and drew swords and charged in after Natsuki. Waiting for the closest one to come at her, she watched as the sword came down, then just at the last second the grabbed the blade of the sword and forced the hilt in to the side of its head, then taking the blade Natsuki drove the sword in to the neck of the second. Then she turned to the last Evangelion. Then she drove her fist in to the chest. Then with great strength, she picked up the body of the last Evangelion up over her head and threw it across the room. Smashing it in to the window where the Empress was standing at.
"That is enough!!" the Empress shouted over a PA system. "When you calm down, join me in my chambers."
Natsuki didn't say a word all she did was sit there in the middle of the room.
---(The next day, Goddess of the Earth Universe)---
Waking up to the sound of birds chirping, Raziel turned over to see someone there next to him.
"Morning Raziel." Yu said with a sleepy smile.
Seeing Yu and hearing her voice, didn't click with Raziel right away. But when it did he sat up in his futon quickly. "Yu! What are you doing here?"
"I'm not surprised you don't remember...." Yu replied the she too sat up. "When we got to town, we found a small club there. I was able to talk you in to having something to drink."
Grabbing his head, the hazy memories of last night started to flood his head. "We didn't ...... you know."
"No..... In mater of fact I had to make sure that you made it back here. You know I thought that you being the Urd's son would be able to hold your booze better, but you passed out after one beer." Yu replied.
"Then why are you here in bed with me?" Raziel asked.
"Well after I got you to wake up, I helped you back here to the inn. Well to make it short, when in helped you here in to your futon. You kind of hugged on to my arm and so I just stayed here." Yu answered.
"What about your mom, Isn't she like going to kill me or something?" Raziel asked.
"Well we kind of came across my mom before we made it here." Yu said.
Raziel then covered his face with his hands. "Man this isn't going to be good....."
---(Son of Urd universe)---
Having gotten up to the blaring sound of the alarm, Anata waited fro Fiona to get out of the shower. She didn't get a whole lot of sleep, her dream about Natsuki was still fresh in her head and was for sure that Natsuki was alive and there in the same universe, but there was no proof about it.
Just in the other room Keiichi had waken up when he heard his two daughters walking around the temple. Looking over at Belldandy, Keiichi smiled and moved a stray hair out from his wife's face. 'I know I'll surprise her today....' He thought to him self.
Walking out of his and Belldandy's room, Keiichi came across Anata who was sitting quietly at the table in the kitchen.
"Sleep good last night?" Keiichi asked.
"Not really dad...... But I'll live." Anata replied.
"That bad?" Keiichi asked as he started to get something's out to start breakfast.
Anata only nodded and sat silently for a moment. Then..... "Bad what do you know about dreams?"
Stopping Keiichi turned to Anata. "Not as much as your mom, but maybe I can help?" he replied. "What's the matter?"
"Well I had this dream about a girl that's me..... She's evil. Something that the shadows came up with." Anata said. "Well a while back we fought and I.... I took her life."
"Guilt?" Keiichi asked.
"I don't know, but I had to. To save earth, but just last night I had a dream that she was back and here in this universe." Anata said.
Keiichi thought about it for a moment. "Well with what I know about dreams, I would keep an eye open for anything. Remember you're a Morisato, strange things happen to us all the time."
"The Morisato curse..... Or blessing, depending how one looks at it right?" Anata asked.
"Yep.... So where are you and Fiona off to this early?" Keiichi asked.
"I have work; Chihiro has me going some where to get something, she said I can bring Fiona with me so that's what we're doing."
"I see.... Well you two have fun." Keiichi said as he reached for the things that he'll need to make the tea. "Damn....."
"What is it dad?" Anata asked.
"I can't find your mother's tea... you know what can happen if she doesn't get her tea in the morning?"
"Yeah I know how she can get... Look there." Anata said pointing over by the coffee maker.
Taking a look, Keiichi came up empty handed. Just then Fiona came in to the room.
"I'm ready for the day, what about you sis?" Fiona asked.
Not wanting to be around when their mother found that they were out of tea, Anata quickly took Fiona by the hand and pulled her along to the door.
"Yeah, okay... come on Fiona. We need to get the hell out of here."
"Anata.... Wait!! Bye Dad!!.... Anata!!" Fiona yelled as she was dragged out of the back door and just about thrown in to the side car of the BMW.
"Anata what's with you?" Fiona asked as she strapped on the helmet.
"Dad can't find mom's tea!" Anata replied as she started up the bike.
Knowing what could happen if her mother didn't get her morning cup of tea, Fiona looked over at Anata with fear. "Step on it!!"
Back in the kitchen, Keiichi frantically looked around for the tea when he heard someone walk in to the same room. Not looking to see who it was he asked for some help. "Damn it I can't find Belldandy's tea, can you help?"
Belldandy stood there at the door. "What do you mean?"
Keiichi froze when he heard his wife's voice. "Umm I'll be right back I need to run to the store. Be back in a sec Bell." Keiichi said as he ran past Belldandy...... Well Even Belldandy needs something to jump start her day.
But mean while back in the Empress's palace, the Empress sat there in her chambers. She was at the edge of sleep when she heard the doors open. Opening her eyes, she saw that Natsuki was walking down the middle of the room.
"Ah.... I see that you can behave yourself." The Empress said.
"Who are you and why did you bring me here?" Natsuki asked.
The Empress was taken how much she sounded like Anata, and leaded forward in her seat. "My, My you even sound like her......"
"My sister and I are noting alike.... Now answer me!" Natsuki shouted. "Who are you and how did I get here?"
"All you need to know is how to go about getting that one thing you want above all..... Revenge." The Empress replied. "Here read this; it had the details of what I want you to do." The Empress said as she tossed a small data pad to Natsuki.
Natsuki didn't even give any effort in catching the pad as she let it fall to the floor. "I'm no body's poppet."
Then Natsuki started too left up off the floor and grabbed at her neck gasping for air.
"I know you are strong but you are not that strong... You will do as I say or the blackness of death is the only thing that awaits you." The Empress said. Then with a loud thud, Natsuki landed back on the ground.
"Death will stop the voices.... Of the shadows......."
"Maybe so..... But from what I've gathered, you can just be brought back." The Empress said then she stood from her chair. "Do this for me I will also grant you freedom from the Shadows and you can remain in this universe."
"What must I do?" Natsuki asked.
T.B.C.