Disclaimer: I do not own Oh! My goddess.
A/N: This is taking place after the last story, about sixteen years later. So I hope aver one enjoys.
-------- Intro and chapter 1 -----------
Walking home after school, a young girl about the age of sixteen. As she makes way up the hill to the temple where she happens to live at with her parents. Looking up the hill the young girl started to think to her self.
"I am Anata Morisato. I live with my mom and dad. When I meet new people and I tell them my name they look at me funny. You see Anata is not a Japanese name. It's Babylonian. It means Goddess of the earth. I know about my mom and my Aunts and how they are all Goddess. So I was raised in some wired ways. When I first found out what my name meant, I thought that my Mom and Dad were going to something different until last week..."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* flash back a week ago ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
After getting home from a long day at school, Anata slipped her shoes off. She was shocked that there was no one there, not a sound. Normally there would be her Aunt Urd and Auntie Skuld fighting over the TV, or over the Play Station. It's always something with those two. Her father normally would getting home from work about this time too, but he was not there. And as for her mother, the most perfect mother in all the world would be there to greet her at the door. But not to day.
"Mom!? Dad!? Is any one home!? Aunt Urd!? Auntie Skuld?! Hello!!!!" Anata yelled as she was setting her back pack down and looked over at the stack of mail beside the door. Picking it up she started seeing if any thing has came for her.
"Bill, Bill, ads.. SCORE! Birth day present. I wonder who it's from?" setting the other mail down, she started to rip the box open to find an other box, but this one wrapped up in wrapping paper.
"Man. it's wrapped. I' need to wait." Anata said as she placed the box on the table, she walked on out the back door out to the forest behind the temple.
As she walked through the forest, the sounds of singing was started to grow, fallowing the sound. Anata came to a clearing where she found her mother and two Aunts. In the past she would try to sing with them, but could never carry a tune if her life depended on it.
Belldandy has been teaching her the Goddess ways, ever since she was old enough to do so. But being that Anata is half human her abilities are limited and how much power she can exert. Still she can levitate objects, fly around. And thanks to her Aunt Urd, she knows how to mix potions. but nine times out of ten they end up a puff of smoke and nothing happens.
When the singing stopped, the three Goddess turned and looked at Anata.
"Oh, Good after noon dear. How was school?" Belldandy asked as her angel smiled and went and retracted back in to her back.
"Some old, same old." Anata said as she gave her mother a hug.
"I have cake in the kitchen, but it's for after dinner." Belldandy said as she reseaved her daughters hug.
Across town Keiichi is in side whirlwind trying to get Chihiro to get something.
"Come on Chihiro, you said that it would be here by now."
Standing there in front of the counter, waiting for Chihiro to go in to the back of the store, Keiichi is starting to get a little annoyed.
"You know it was really hard to get hold of." Chihiro said as she typed away on her computer.
"Look you said that you can have one by Anata's birthday."
Still typing away, Chihiro's eyes light up. "Here it is. It's still in the back in the crate. One sec and I'll get you the keys."
Still waiting Keiichi takes a seat there next to the counter. Then Chihiro came back with an envelope.
"Here you go Kei, the keys to a 1996 BMW K1. Complete with side car." Chihiro said as she dropped the keys in to Keiichi's hand.
"Sweet. Thanks Chihiro."
Back at the Temple, Belldandy is setting the table for dinner, setting the table around Anata as she doses her homework.
"Anata dear please pick your things up, so I may finish with the table." Belldandy asked with five plates in her hands.
Picking up her things, Anata floated off to her bedroom. When she got there she placed her things on the small desk and she sat on the floor. Turning the page to her book. Anata let out a sigh.
"Man homework sucks.."
Jus then the sound of her father's car pulling in the back of the temple could be heard. Jumping up, Anata ran out of her room to see her dad. Running to the door she found her dad there just about to take off his shoes.
"About time your home, I've been waiting to take the CRF450's out to day?" Anata asked as she stood there with her hands resting on her hips.
Just then Belldandy walked to the back door to greet her love.
"Welcome back home; Have a good day at work?" She asked after giving Keiichi a long kiss.
"Ick not in front of me please." Anata protested.
"You will feel different about shoeing affection for the one you love when you find that one special person that completes you." Her mother said while smiling.
Then Keiichi added. "Not until you're twenty-one."
Looking at his daughter Keiichi saw that she was still waiting for his answer about taking the dirt bike out.
"Sorry but not today. We have a birthday party for you and all these presents." Keiichi answered.
"Fine, what ever." Anata said as she stormed back in to the kitchen, clearly pissed.
When Anata was out of the room, Keiichi whispered to Belldandy.
"Do you think she knows?"
"She has no idea. But you know if she had asked me I couldn't lie." Belldandy replies.
"Has she asked?" Keiichi had to know. Some times it could be really easy to get information out of her.
Belldandy only smiled and replied. "She has not asked the right questions."
Keiichi smiled. Then the two of them walked in to the kitchen. There at the table Anata sat still pissed and Skuld Now thirty-two years old and haply married to Sentaro and with an eight year old son of her own. And Urd now.. Well no really knows how old Urd is now. But she is still single and loving it.
"Skuld is Sentaro and Matagu going to make it here tonight?" Belldandy asked as she served some rice to Skuld.
"Sentaro said that they won't be able to make it for dinner but the party they will be here." She replied as she picked up some chop sticks.
"So sixteen years old? Getting old there kiddo." Urd asked before taking a sip of sake.
Finishing chewing some fish, Anata took a drink of some water before replying. "Not as old as you are.."
Just about choking on her peace of fish, Urd took a big gulp of her sake. "Hay now, watch it. I'm twenty-nine years old."
Every one looked up from their plates and looked at Urd. Urd then looked back at everyone. "Alright, alright. but I'll never tell how old I am."
Picking up his glass, Keiichi said something under his breath. "You probably don't even know."
"I heard that." Urd said as she chomped down on to another peace of fish.
All through out dinner every one picked fun at the other. After dinner every one gathered in the living room for opening presents.
Picking up the present she had got for Anata, Skuld hands it to her.
"Here this one is from Sentaro, Matagu, and myself." Skuld said with a smile, and she looked over at Sentaro and their son who they both had a smile.
Ripping the wrapping paper off, Anata's eyes light up. ""Cool, a five CD player stereo system. Thank you Auntie Skuld, uncle Sentaro, Matagu.
"Glad you like it." Sentaro said.
"Yah you can hook that thing to the TV in your room and have surround sound." Matagu added.
Placing the huge box off to the side, Anata waited for ant thing else.
"Here this one is from me." Urd said as she handed a box.
Ripping the wrapping paper off, Anata looked at the box. And read out loud what it was. "My first Goddess chemistry set.. Thank you Aunt Urd."
"Now you and I can make all sorts things together." Urd said as she poured her self more sake.
"Now here is my gift to you." Belldandy said as she handed a box that looked like a board game.
Shaking the box lightly, Anata gave her mother a questioning look. "What is it?" Anata asked.
Giggling, Belldandy answered only by saying. "Silly, you need you need to open it."
Taking the wrapping paper, and there in her hands is a ruins set.
"Thanks.. Mom. What is it?" Anata asked, as she examined the box.
"With this you, with practice will be able to for see future events." Her mother answered as she placed her tea cup on the table.
"Kind of like a ouji board?" Anata asked.
"Not as crude but yes." Belldandy answered back.
"Okay. Thanks mom.." Anata said as she place the gift from her mother to the side with the other gifts.
"You're welcome dear. Maybe you and I can try them out sometime. Now what is this one?" Belldandy said as she picked up the box that came in the mail earlier that day.
Shrugging her shoulders, Anata recalled finding the box with the pile of mail. "I don't know."
"I bet it's something from Dad, He's always sending stuff and forgetting to label it." Skuld said as she too took a closer look at the box.
"Well go on open it and see what you're grandfather sent you." Urd said as too examined the box.
Opening the box, Anata found a camera. It was an older camera not digital, it used film. "Wow look, it even has film."
Trying out the camera, Anata aims the camera at her mother and two aunts snapping a pitcher.
"This is kind of cool; I'm going to take this thing to school in the morning so I can take pitchers of all my friends." Anata said as she placed the camera on the coffee table there in the living room, but when she put it there on the table. She didn't notice that she had placed it on the table where the linze was pointing to the ceiling.
"Well speaking of school, Sentaro and I need to get Matagu home. He needs to get up early tomorrow. His school is going on a field trip." Skuld said as she looked over at Sentaro.
"That's right, Come on little man, get your shoes on." Sentaro agreed with Skuld as he got up off the couch. And looked over at Matagu. To only get a gone from his son.
"Aww But Dad. Anata said that she would play me a game of Grand Turismo 10."
Feeling bad, Anata came up with a bright idea. "I'll tell you what, This Friday, you just stay there at your school and I'll just come and pick you up and we'll come here and I'll play you then. And I'll beat you too."
"Okay, you're on." Matagu said feeling a little slightly better.
Just then a light from the camera, shied on to the ceiling, and the light that was on the ceiling a person came through. The three Goddesses froze in their place; there some one came through the light that they have not seen in a long time. A vary long time. There in front of them was Peorth.
"PEORTH?!" The three Goddesses said in unison.
"Why did I pick film? Of all things? Any ways. Oh look at all of you." Peorth said as she is still trying to get the winkers out of her cloths.
Keiichi on the other hand was standing there having flashbacks of the first time he ran in to her. "Umm, Peorth Please stay away from mine and Belldandy's room."
"What's wrong Kei? You think that I'm here to steel Belldandy's man." She asked back as she approached Keiichi. Then Belldandy stepped in the middle.
"Peorth what brings you here?" Asked Belldandy.
Smiling Peorth looked over at Anata, who was still trying to figure out what the hell was going on.
"Well Belldandy if you really want to know why. I'm here for her." Peorth answered as she pointed to Anata.
"WHAT?!" Every one yelled pointing at Peorth and over at Anata.
"That's right, you see for the past sixteen years, Yggdrasil's mainframe has been crunching numbers. And I'll admit that we forgot that it was doing that until we got a really loud "File done" over the P.A. System." Explained as she is still trying to fix her cloths.
Belldandy stepped in between Peorth and Her daughter. "Why has Yggdrasil been calculating data? And for sixteen years?" She questioned with protective mother mode in high gear.
"Anata, Dear? Tell me? What is the number one problem you have when you use any of your powers?" Peorth asked as she looked around Belldandy's head, directing the question to Anata.
"That's easy, I get really sleepy. That's why I don't use them that often or when I do it's not for vary long." Anata replied. As she still tried to figure out what the hell is going on.
"You see when a Goddess starts to get their powers they get a Point Limiter. Which limits the amount of power they can put out; well it seems that you have the oppasesit." Saying that, Peorth made her self at home as she sat on the couch. Hearing this Skuld is now getting a bit worried not only for Anata but for her own child.
"What about Matagu? He's half human too." Skuld asked.
"We really don't need to worry about your little one until he too is sixteen." Peorth answered back, but rather shortly and maybe a little bit blunt.
Hearing all this and taking his time thinking before asking his question and breaking his own little rule of not getting in the middle of heavenly matters, Keiichi went ahead asking what was on his mind. "Why sixteen?"
"Two reasons. One that's how many years it took Yggdrasil to come up with the answer." Raising her index finger, the raising a second finger, she continued. "Two, she should be strong enough to be able to handle her training up in the heavens."
"What? Hold up. I have exams coming up." Anata told Peorth as she stepped out from behind her mother to defend her self.
"Well I really need to get Matagu Home he has school." Skuld said as she dragged Matagu and Sentaro out of the temple. Leaving the Morisato's and Peorth. Peorth looked over at Belldandy with a complexing look.
"What's with her?" Peorth asked.
"She and Sentaro had decided when Matagu was born to raise him as human as possible." Explained Belldandy as she looked at her daughter and continued speaking. "But I and Keiichi decided to teach Anata."
"I'm sorry but I've been studying hard all this time in school so I can go to really good collage." With that said, Anata walked out of the living room. Leaving Belldandy, Keiichi and Peorth alone, when Keiichi heard Anata's door close he thin turned to Peorth.
"Look we thank you for what your trying to do, but if Anata doesn't want to do the training then that's alright with us."
"That's right." Belldandy added.
Getting the hint that she was no longer as welcome there in the Morisato house hold, and a light came out of the camera.
"Alright, But the offer still stands. If Anata changes her mind, Belldandy you can give her the phone number to the Yggdrasil main desk." With that, Peorth lifted up off the floor and vanished in the light from the camera. When Peorth was gone for sure Keiichi looked to his wife.
"What a birth day present."
Belldandy only remained silent, worrying for her daughter. At the other end of the temple, Anata was trying to study. But with the resent events was making that really hard. Sure how could she be a Goddess. Being half human and half Goddess, it just sounds crazy.
"This is dumb." Anata said as she closed her math book. And just then there was a knock at the door.
"I don't want to talk."
But Anata's words didn't stop her father. Looking up at her dad, Anata gave a look that told him that it would be best if he would leave her alone, But Keiichi being Keiichi wanted to make sure if his little girl was alright. and to give her birthday present.
"Okay then. You don't need to talk, all you need to do is to get in the car and lessen to your father talk. and maybe crack a smile at his jokes that don't make any since. Oh you might want to grab your helmet too." With that Keiichi left Anata's room and gathered his things. In the tea room, Belldandy was still deep in thought as she was trying to figure out why the heavens would wanting her daughter. Letting out a sigh, Belldandy took a sip of her tea. The she watched her husband walk past the door way to the living room with his jacket and car keys.
"Where are you going Keiichi dear?"
Stopping, Keiichi zipped up his jacket and look to Belldandy with a smile. "I still need to give Anata her gift from me."
Belldandy smiled and returned her attention to her tea. About five minutes later. Belldandy then watched Anata walk past the door way to the living room. Stopping in just about the same spot that her father did, Anata zipped up her jacket. Her long jet black hair was pulled back in a braid. Her hair is much like her mothers but only black like her fathers.
"Anata dear? Be careful."
Anata didn't answer; all she did was pull her long single braid out from inside her jacket. The she too walked out of the temple.
Stepping out the back door, Anata found her dad in the EVO that the family has had since before she was born. Seeing the headlights come on, she walked up to the car and opened the passenger side door and took her seat. After fastening her seatbelt she placed her helmet on the back seat.
Pulling out the back of the temple, Keiichi drove the car through the night time streets of Nekomi. Navigating through town Keiichi started talking.
"What a birthday eh?" there was nothing. "Well I don't normally get in the middle of heavenly matters.. Well I try not to anyways, but What ever you want to do I and you're mother will support you all the way." Keiichi sat there waiting for any type of response, but non came. "Well I'm going to tell you the same thing that my Father told me when I turned sixteen.."
"Umm Dad are you going to give me the talk?"
Keiichi froze. It was even still hard to talk about sex with Belldandy. But to give the "Talk"?
"What? No.. I would hope that it's not needed.." Keiichi still at a loss took a turn. Turning to the parking lot of whirlwind. And there in the parking lot was a motorcycle sitting under a street light. Pulling the car next to the motorcycle, Keiichi shut off the EVO and looked at his daughter.
"Happy birthday." Keiichi said as he pulled a set of keys out of his jacket pocket, and handed them to Anata.
Looking at the Keys, Anata looked at her father. "What the EVO?" she asked.
"No not the EVO, the motorcycle out side." He replied as he stepped out of the car. Anata soon fallowed and circled the motorcycle.
"Check it out.."
"It's a BMW K1. I got one when I turned sixteen. In matter of fact I had mine clear up until you were three. It was the only thing that would get you to sleep. I would place you in the side car and all I needed to do was to turn on the bike and in a matter of minutes you would be out cold. So I figured that this would be a great Sixteenth birthday gift." Explained Keiichi.
"Can I drive it?" Anata asked.
"That is why I got it for you. Try it around the parking lot and when you're ready just telling me and I'll fallow you home."
"But dad I don't have a license." Stated Anata.
Keiichi only shrugged his shoulders. "I thank after school tomorrow you can pass you're test. What do you think?"
Anata smiled and hugged her father, and then she ran back to the car to get her helmet. Hopping on to the bike, Anata turned the keys. And the bike started up. Waving at her father, Anata put the bike in to gear and pulled away from Keiichi.
Keiichi watched as his daughter, drove around the parking lot, getting the feel for the bike. He remembered how happy he was when he got his bike. He watched as Anata pulled up beside him.
"Dad I really want to take this thing out on the road. Pleeeeease..."
Keiichi smiled. "Go ahead, I'll fallow behind, just don't go over the speed limit."
Before Keiichi could even get back in to the car, Anata was out of the parking lot and half way down the block. Driving behind Anata, Keiichi was proud to see his little girl handle the motorcycle.
When they got to the temple, Belldandy was in the back yard waiting for Keiichi and Anata. Belldandy was so happy to see that bright smile back on Anata's face.
"Mom?! Did you know about this?" Anata asked as she was taking off her helmet, and undid the braid in her hair. Letting her long black hair down.
"Anata when you asked about what your father was getting you asked things by name." she smiled and took Anata's helmet and the three of them walked back in the house.
It was already getting late, Anata had school in the morning, Keiichi has work and Belldandy.. Well she dose really what ever she wants to do during the day, but that normally spend time with her sisters.
Getting back in to her room, Anata flipped on her TV and there of all people was Peorth. Looking back at her.
"Bout time you turned this thing on. So have you changed you're mind?" She asked through the TV, with her arms crossed her chest.
"I told you. I'm not going any where." Saying that, Anata started to reach for the power button on the TV when Peorth stopped her.
"Look. You don't know how important you having the proper training is, there are lots of things...." Being cut off by Anata shutting off the TV. Peorth sat there at her chair in Yggdrasil. She about punched the screen, Standing there Peorth was Pissed, Pissed beyond all belief.
"That little Brat!!!! She is making my Job really hard!" Storming through the great halls of Yggdrasil, Heading to the God's office. Yes Peorth is going to take this to the big man him self. As she walked to his office, she mumbled, cursed and threw a fit all the way passing other Gods and Goddess. Each on looking at Peorth trying to figure out what's wrong. They fallowed her to the doors of God's office, and watcher as she pounded on the great wood doors.
After a good five minutes of Peorth pounding, the doors opened and she stepped in.
"I'll hate to be the Lord right about now." One God said to a Goddess. The Goddess only nodded in reply.
In side the office, Peorth walked right up to the man's.. Umm I mean, To God's Desk and slammed her fist on the old oak desk.
"Sir. You're granddaughter Just REALY pissed me off."
Turning around in his really, really big office chair and scratched the back of his head. "Ahhh, Anata is the strong willed type. Like her mother."
Peorth then noticed that her boss is in a really good mood; rather one of two things has happened. One, he just got done watching "Who's line is it any way." Or two, he had just got in to his privet stash of rum. And Peorth was leaning towards the rum.
"Well I'm just thankful that it's just that and not her father's thick head that she got." Peorth said as she waved the reeking smell of booze in the air. "Can't you give her a zap of lighting of tell Belldandy to make her do it?"
Just then, Peorth head something from behind the large drapes that were at lest fifteen feet tall. "Sir? Is there any one in here with you?"
"What? No that is anyone. Now Peorth you have my blessing to.. Use some persuasion to get Anata to take her lessons. But please nothing too out there. Just enough to give a little kick in the back end."
"Yes sir." Turning back around there was another sound coming from behind the drapes, and this time Peorth was serten that some one else was there in the office.
"That's it! I know there is someone else here!" Moving the curtens out of the way from the great windows that over look the heavens, Peorth found the last person she could ever think of. "Hild?! What? Why? When?"
"Peorth-Chan! It's so wonderful to see you dear. Well I must go back. Bye Shmookie Poo." Hild said as she vanished in a big poof of smoke.
When the smoke cleared, Peorth had a shocked look. "What the hell was that?!"
"Well you see.." Peorth cut him off before he could explain.
"Hold on. Ick!!! You two in here, in the office, where the only thing in here is a desk. Holly crap! I touched that desk. Oh god I'm going to be sick. I'm going to go and do my job." Peorth then walked out of office with just about the most disturbing image in her head.
--------------- Back on Earth and the next day -------------
Sitting there ton a train, Anata is half asleep. Her friend next to her keeps on talking about what ever. Right now Anata could care less sleep is on the top of her list of things to do. At the other end of the same train car, is a young man. He stands watching Anata, taking notes of her actions. One thing he could not fail to notice is Anata's deep blue eyes. Just then the train jerked some and started to stop. He took his attention away. Fallowing Anata through the train station and the streets. The whole time Anata and her friend are unaware of their shadow.
"So Anata? What did you get for your birthday from you're parents and aunts?" Her friend Yu Asakawa asked in her normally cheerful mood.
Scratching the back of her head, Anata tried to keep a straight face. "Lets see I got a chemistry set from My Aunt Urd. And Auntie Skuld and Uncle Sentaro got me a really cool stereo system. My mom got me some rune set... And my dad got me a motorcycle.." Anata waited for her best friend reaction. She didn't need to wait long.
"What!!!! A motorcycle!!!!??? I bet you're dad got you something really cool like some sports bike, did he?" Yu jumped around and yelled, her friend just got something really cool. and she's not excited. Some one has too. "You got a motorcycle and you're not taking it to school? What the hell is wrong with you?"
"I wish, but I don't even have a license. But I'll be testing for that after school." Anata answered.
Still unaware of their shadow, the two friends walked on to the school grounds. Stopping at the gates, the man stopped and looked at all the other students walking on to the school ground. "Looks like I cant go in there. Every one has on a uniform of some sorts." Looking around, he vanished and reappeared perched high on a telephone poll. Crouching down, he closed his eyes. He has a lot of waiting to do.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Flash back eight hours ago ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Sitting there in a garden, a young god still in training sits reading a book. Peorth approaches him. "Are we doing our studying Kou?" Asked Peorth as she took a seat next to the young god.
"I failed the Wish simulator the other day. When I came through the TV some woman called me a pervert and slapped the daylights out of me." He replied as he glanced up from the book he is reading.
"What would you say if I told you there is a way that you can get that failing grade off your records?" She asked taking the book out of Kou's face.
"There is no honor in taking the easy rout."
"I didn't say any thing about it being easy." Pulling out an orb that showed a still pitcher of Anata, Peorth handed it to Kou. The first thing he noticed was her eyes. "Do you know what the Name Anata means?"
Kou looked upward for a moment then he looked back to Peorth. "I believe that it means Goddess of Earth. If my memory servers me right. Human relations was a class I took in my first year of training."
"Not bad. Do you know who she is?"
"I have not seen her before this day. Why?" Now Kou is getting interested.
"She is the Daughter of Belldandy and Keiichi Morisato.."
Peorth is cut off by Kou's question. "What, You mean Belldandy? Belldandy Goddess first class.."
Angry, Peorth interrupted his question as well answering it. "Yes, Yes, with no resections. Now any ways. We need her to start taking the training, but she has refused."
"Then if she has refused, why do you seek me?" Kou asked as he's trying to reach for the book Peorth had ripped from his hands just moments ago.
"For the past two years, Yggdrasil has been decting a dark energy slowly increasing. In the area of Anata, Belldandy, Skuld and Urd. Little do they know, the four of them are the front line deface against and invasion of the shadows." Explained Peorth. All while she's keeping Kou's book away from him to make sure that he's lessening.
Letting out a sigh, Kou handed the orb back to Peorth. "What is it that I need to do?" He asked.
"I need you to persuade her. You know give her a good reason to take the training that is being offered to her."
"And how do you propose I go about that?" Kou asked and he also took the book that Peorth took from him.
"Give a really good showing of you're powers, you know. Blow some things up, shake her up some. But do not hurt her in any ways shape or form. A mother's scorn is a wrath that I for one will like to avoid." Saying that Peorth handed Kou another orb. "Here take this. It will make a temporary pocket of an alternate reality for about one minute. That way there will be no damage to the area of the city." Peorth said. Then she got back up leaving Kou.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* End flash back ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Opening his eyes, Kou is still perched up on the telephone poll. "All this goes against my better judgment. I'm not one to attack someone so.." Kou pulls the same orb that has the pitcher of Anata and looks at it, looking in to her eyes. "Beautiful."
Putting the orb back in to his pocket, Kou looks over at a clock that's on a side of a building, it was going on three o'clock. He has been sitting up on that poll for almost seven hours. Just then the bell at the school went off, singling the end of the school day, and moments later hundreds of students walked out of the school. Standing up on the poll, Kou jumped down to the street, landing with cat like silence. And started to track his target.
Some ten feet ahead Kou Anata and Yu are walking.
"Man this sucks, I got to go to work today." Yu complained to her friend. "My boss is such a pain in the ass."
"Well you should try working with mine, Chihiro can be so childish. Some times I just got to wonder who's really running that place." Anata added.
The two stopped in front of a video rental store. "Well Anata good luck on your test. And if you pass it you better give me a ride in that side car."
Anata waved to her friend as she started back home. "I'll see ya later, and about that ride. I'll see about it after I pass." Waving once more, Anata continued on her way home.
Walking through a park, Anata passed some children playing in a playground. Just then a Soccer ball rolled to her feet. Seeing the children waving their hands telling Anata to kick them the ball back, she took four steps back giving her self some room to get some speed up. Getting a running start, Anata kicked the ball with all her force. The ball went flying through the air back to the area in the field the game was taking place. Smiling Anata started once again back home.
"Anata Morisato!" A voice called out from behind Anata. Spinning around to find a young man some twenty five yards away. Just then Anata watched as the man reached in to his long coat, pulling out something round and throwing it up in to the air. Watching it go high in to the air, then it stopped a dome formed out of it. Dropping around the two of them and making a space in another reality.
"What?! Where the hell are we!?" Anata Yelled and clearly frightened.
Kou didn't answer, all her did was reach in to his coat again and pulled out a Shinai and through it to the ground in front of Anata. When it hit the ground dust and dirt lifted up in a cloud. Anata looked at the kendo stick and back at the attacker.
"Look I don't know what movie you crawled out of, but I'm not ammoused. Now return me to the world I belong to!!" Pointing to her attacker, Anata took a step back.
"Anata Morisato, I'm not one to attack some one who's unarmed, so pick up the Shinai!" Kou said as he pulled out what looked to Anata like a small tube with a button on it. Pushing it the tube extended in to a five foot long staff and taking a fighting stance.
"I'm not looking for a fight, so you might as well just go back to where ever you came from." Anata said.
"Then you leave me no choice. Anata Morisato, prepare thy self!" Saying that, Kou leaped in to the air and started hover thirty feet above the ground. Then forming an energy bolt, Kou fired it missing.
Seeing the ball of energy coming what looked like it was coming right for her, Anata jumped out of the way, and grabbed the Shinai. And she too lifted up in to the air.
"Man I didn't do too good at Kendo when I had it in gym class.." Anata thought to her self as she met her attacked in mid air.
Blocking Anata's attack, Kou smirked. "Pathetic."
Placing his hand inches from Anata's chest, then a wave of energy emitted from his hand. Pushing Anata back to the ground with such a force when she hit the ground. A dust cloud plumed up in to the air.
There on the ground Anata had the wind knocked out of her. She lay there gasping for air, but with each breath, she was being chocked with dust.
Up in the air, Kou waited for the dust to clear. Just then he saw his clearing. Dropping back to the ground, with his staff pointing to Anata, but making him self miss.
On the ground Anata watched her attacker come at her. It was all moving in slow motion for her. The end of his staff coming closer and closer. There was only one thing she could think of doing. Waiting for just the right time, she waited for her attacker to get at just the right point. Then it came. Lifting her leg. There was another cloud of dust pluming up in to the air. Opening her eyes, Anata found the end of the attacker's staff planted inches from her head, fallowing the staff up wards, Anata found that her attacker was startling her food, and looking up more she found that her attacker has a rather painful expression.
With her knee up against her chest, Anata pushed back making the now incompasited attacker fall to the ground in to a fetal poshion. Getting up Anata walked with a limp to the staff.
"Ouch.. Why did God give me such pain?" Kou asked him self out loud.
Just then the dome that had formed around them sucked back in to the orb that Kou had through up in to the air. The it dropped to the ground. At the moment it the ground they returned back to earth. Still with the staff in her hand Anata walked up to Kou.
"You're name, what is it?" She asked as she placed the staff inches from Kou's face.
"My name is Kou, I'm a God in training. Oh God that hurt. " Kou answered as her rolled on to his back while still holding him self. "Causing such pain is not becoming of a Goddess."
"Who sent you?" Anata asked.
"Peorth. She wanted me to give you a reason to take the training." Kou answered.
Not liking the answer she got Anata was about to give Kou a good TWACK across the head with his own staff, but at the same time she was starting to feel bad for causing a great amount of pain.
"Look for someone that just attacked me, this goes against my better judgment. Why don't I help you to my house and you can rest there until you feel better." Anata said as she offered her hand to Kou.
Looking up, he sound him self looking in to her eye. Kou took her hand, and lifted him self up off the ground.
"So Kou is it? Tell me why it's so important that I take this training." Anata asked as she and Kou made their way to the temple. Along the way Kou explained the whole thing with the shadows and how he came about the little mission that failed.
Reaching the temple, Belldandy was at the door to greet her daughter and to her surprise a rather hansom young man.
"Anata good after noon, and who is your friend?" Belldandy asked.
"It was okay, until Kou here..." Before Anata found finish, Kou had walked up to Belldandy and kneeled on to one knee.
"Lady Belldandy, I was present when you gave you're talk at the mortal/immortal relationships class. It is an honor to meet you."
"Oh my I see you are from the heavens." Belldandy said as she looked at Kou and her daughter.
"Well I see you're feeling better enough to do that. What's you're form of teleportation?" Anata asked with her hands resting on her hips.
"Something called a TV. Why?" Kou answered.
"Here the TV is in the living room, when you get back tell Peorth to expect a call from me latter." Anata said as she took Kou to the living room and turned on the TV. "Oh and Kou, when you get back to you're place I would put ice on you're.. area." with that Kou gave a nod and was sucked in to the TV. When he was gone Anata limped back to her room.
"Anata dear what happened?" Belldandy asked.
Anata told her mother the whole story from inside her room. One part of Belldandy she was angered that Peorth would endanger her daughter. And the other half could see her reasoning. When Anata's story was done and she was changed.
"That's the just of it." she said as she tied her hair up in a bun like thing.
"What are you going to do?" Belldandy asked as she fallowed Anata to the front of the temple so Anata can wait for her father to take her to her driving test.
Looking over to her mother Anata answered. "I don't know right now I'm going to take my test. Wish me luck mom." Whit that Anata ran out to the front entrance of the temple.
"GOOG LUCK DEAR!" Belldandy yelled to her daughter.
Belldandy watched as Anata got in to the car and the car drove off down the street. Walking back in to the temple, Belldandy started to think about all that has been happening. And what her little girl was going to do. Will she start the training or will she refuse it. Either way she swore that she will stand by her daughter's disshion.
During the hour of so that Keiichi and Anata was gone, Belldandy cleaned the living room, hung the Landry out to dry, had a little chat with Skuld on the phone and started with dinner. All while thinking about Anata. Just as she started to set the table, the door busted open and Anata rushed in giving her mother a bone crushing huge.
"Mom, Mom I passed, I passed. Check it out!" Anata yelled holding out the nice shinny new driver's license.
"I'm so happy for you dear. I can remember when I stated to drive that was also about the time that.. Never mind. I so happy for you." Belldandy said. "You better get cleaned up, dinner will be ready soon."
"Umm mom? Can I get the phone number to this Yggdrasil place? So I can tell Peorth my answer." Anata asked.
"Why sure dear. The area code is 999-272-4048." Belldandy said as she wrote the number down.
Walking over to the phone Anata picked up the phone and dialed the number, after two rings Peorth answered the phone.
"Hello Goddess help desk, Goddess Peorth at you're service." Peorth greeted.
"Hello Peorth? This is Anata Morisato." Anata said.
"Ah yes, Anata I just had a talk with Kou. He's recovering well if you will like to know." Peorth said.
"Look Peorth, I've decided to go ahead with you're training. BUT only on the weekends. I do not want my school grades to slip. Is that understood?"
"It's understood." Peorth replied.
"Good. I guess I'll be meeting you Saturday. Good bye." With that Anata hung up the phone..
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* End the Week old flash back. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Sitting up on the roof of the temple, Anata looks out at the setting sun over the city landscape. Letting out a heavy sigh, Anata brings her knees up to her chest. There behind her, on the ground Belldandy steps out looking up at Anata.
"Anata dear, Dinner is ready." She called out.
Hearing her mother's calls, Anata stood up and looked out to the city. A gust of wind blew Anata's long black hair. "Look like life will get really interesting. Really interesting.." Turning around Anata looked to her Mother. "Coming."
Drifting to the ground, Anata walked in to the temple. The next day will prove to be interesting.
END CHAPTER 1.
A/N: This whole chapter is about how it all gets started. Anata is remembering the events of her birthday. So please tell me like? Dislike? Did you like the way I typed this story opposed to the script stile I normally do. Tell me if you like the other way better then I'll do the rest of the story my normal way. So any ways I really want to know.
FYI: The BMW K1 Is the same type of motorcycle that Keiichi has in the OVA and Manga. A Shinai is the name of a Kendo stick, and Anata's friend Yu Asakawa just happens to be the name of the Japanese voice over actor for Motoko from Love Hina. I was running low on names. And Kou is some one I made up for My Tenchi Muyo stories. So if you like him or would like to get a better idea about him read "In Coming Powers" and "The Calling."
A/N: This is taking place after the last story, about sixteen years later. So I hope aver one enjoys.
-------- Intro and chapter 1 -----------
Walking home after school, a young girl about the age of sixteen. As she makes way up the hill to the temple where she happens to live at with her parents. Looking up the hill the young girl started to think to her self.
"I am Anata Morisato. I live with my mom and dad. When I meet new people and I tell them my name they look at me funny. You see Anata is not a Japanese name. It's Babylonian. It means Goddess of the earth. I know about my mom and my Aunts and how they are all Goddess. So I was raised in some wired ways. When I first found out what my name meant, I thought that my Mom and Dad were going to something different until last week..."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* flash back a week ago ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
After getting home from a long day at school, Anata slipped her shoes off. She was shocked that there was no one there, not a sound. Normally there would be her Aunt Urd and Auntie Skuld fighting over the TV, or over the Play Station. It's always something with those two. Her father normally would getting home from work about this time too, but he was not there. And as for her mother, the most perfect mother in all the world would be there to greet her at the door. But not to day.
"Mom!? Dad!? Is any one home!? Aunt Urd!? Auntie Skuld?! Hello!!!!" Anata yelled as she was setting her back pack down and looked over at the stack of mail beside the door. Picking it up she started seeing if any thing has came for her.
"Bill, Bill, ads.. SCORE! Birth day present. I wonder who it's from?" setting the other mail down, she started to rip the box open to find an other box, but this one wrapped up in wrapping paper.
"Man. it's wrapped. I' need to wait." Anata said as she placed the box on the table, she walked on out the back door out to the forest behind the temple.
As she walked through the forest, the sounds of singing was started to grow, fallowing the sound. Anata came to a clearing where she found her mother and two Aunts. In the past she would try to sing with them, but could never carry a tune if her life depended on it.
Belldandy has been teaching her the Goddess ways, ever since she was old enough to do so. But being that Anata is half human her abilities are limited and how much power she can exert. Still she can levitate objects, fly around. And thanks to her Aunt Urd, she knows how to mix potions. but nine times out of ten they end up a puff of smoke and nothing happens.
When the singing stopped, the three Goddess turned and looked at Anata.
"Oh, Good after noon dear. How was school?" Belldandy asked as her angel smiled and went and retracted back in to her back.
"Some old, same old." Anata said as she gave her mother a hug.
"I have cake in the kitchen, but it's for after dinner." Belldandy said as she reseaved her daughters hug.
Across town Keiichi is in side whirlwind trying to get Chihiro to get something.
"Come on Chihiro, you said that it would be here by now."
Standing there in front of the counter, waiting for Chihiro to go in to the back of the store, Keiichi is starting to get a little annoyed.
"You know it was really hard to get hold of." Chihiro said as she typed away on her computer.
"Look you said that you can have one by Anata's birthday."
Still typing away, Chihiro's eyes light up. "Here it is. It's still in the back in the crate. One sec and I'll get you the keys."
Still waiting Keiichi takes a seat there next to the counter. Then Chihiro came back with an envelope.
"Here you go Kei, the keys to a 1996 BMW K1. Complete with side car." Chihiro said as she dropped the keys in to Keiichi's hand.
"Sweet. Thanks Chihiro."
Back at the Temple, Belldandy is setting the table for dinner, setting the table around Anata as she doses her homework.
"Anata dear please pick your things up, so I may finish with the table." Belldandy asked with five plates in her hands.
Picking up her things, Anata floated off to her bedroom. When she got there she placed her things on the small desk and she sat on the floor. Turning the page to her book. Anata let out a sigh.
"Man homework sucks.."
Jus then the sound of her father's car pulling in the back of the temple could be heard. Jumping up, Anata ran out of her room to see her dad. Running to the door she found her dad there just about to take off his shoes.
"About time your home, I've been waiting to take the CRF450's out to day?" Anata asked as she stood there with her hands resting on her hips.
Just then Belldandy walked to the back door to greet her love.
"Welcome back home; Have a good day at work?" She asked after giving Keiichi a long kiss.
"Ick not in front of me please." Anata protested.
"You will feel different about shoeing affection for the one you love when you find that one special person that completes you." Her mother said while smiling.
Then Keiichi added. "Not until you're twenty-one."
Looking at his daughter Keiichi saw that she was still waiting for his answer about taking the dirt bike out.
"Sorry but not today. We have a birthday party for you and all these presents." Keiichi answered.
"Fine, what ever." Anata said as she stormed back in to the kitchen, clearly pissed.
When Anata was out of the room, Keiichi whispered to Belldandy.
"Do you think she knows?"
"She has no idea. But you know if she had asked me I couldn't lie." Belldandy replies.
"Has she asked?" Keiichi had to know. Some times it could be really easy to get information out of her.
Belldandy only smiled and replied. "She has not asked the right questions."
Keiichi smiled. Then the two of them walked in to the kitchen. There at the table Anata sat still pissed and Skuld Now thirty-two years old and haply married to Sentaro and with an eight year old son of her own. And Urd now.. Well no really knows how old Urd is now. But she is still single and loving it.
"Skuld is Sentaro and Matagu going to make it here tonight?" Belldandy asked as she served some rice to Skuld.
"Sentaro said that they won't be able to make it for dinner but the party they will be here." She replied as she picked up some chop sticks.
"So sixteen years old? Getting old there kiddo." Urd asked before taking a sip of sake.
Finishing chewing some fish, Anata took a drink of some water before replying. "Not as old as you are.."
Just about choking on her peace of fish, Urd took a big gulp of her sake. "Hay now, watch it. I'm twenty-nine years old."
Every one looked up from their plates and looked at Urd. Urd then looked back at everyone. "Alright, alright. but I'll never tell how old I am."
Picking up his glass, Keiichi said something under his breath. "You probably don't even know."
"I heard that." Urd said as she chomped down on to another peace of fish.
All through out dinner every one picked fun at the other. After dinner every one gathered in the living room for opening presents.
Picking up the present she had got for Anata, Skuld hands it to her.
"Here this one is from Sentaro, Matagu, and myself." Skuld said with a smile, and she looked over at Sentaro and their son who they both had a smile.
Ripping the wrapping paper off, Anata's eyes light up. ""Cool, a five CD player stereo system. Thank you Auntie Skuld, uncle Sentaro, Matagu.
"Glad you like it." Sentaro said.
"Yah you can hook that thing to the TV in your room and have surround sound." Matagu added.
Placing the huge box off to the side, Anata waited for ant thing else.
"Here this one is from me." Urd said as she handed a box.
Ripping the wrapping paper off, Anata looked at the box. And read out loud what it was. "My first Goddess chemistry set.. Thank you Aunt Urd."
"Now you and I can make all sorts things together." Urd said as she poured her self more sake.
"Now here is my gift to you." Belldandy said as she handed a box that looked like a board game.
Shaking the box lightly, Anata gave her mother a questioning look. "What is it?" Anata asked.
Giggling, Belldandy answered only by saying. "Silly, you need you need to open it."
Taking the wrapping paper, and there in her hands is a ruins set.
"Thanks.. Mom. What is it?" Anata asked, as she examined the box.
"With this you, with practice will be able to for see future events." Her mother answered as she placed her tea cup on the table.
"Kind of like a ouji board?" Anata asked.
"Not as crude but yes." Belldandy answered back.
"Okay. Thanks mom.." Anata said as she place the gift from her mother to the side with the other gifts.
"You're welcome dear. Maybe you and I can try them out sometime. Now what is this one?" Belldandy said as she picked up the box that came in the mail earlier that day.
Shrugging her shoulders, Anata recalled finding the box with the pile of mail. "I don't know."
"I bet it's something from Dad, He's always sending stuff and forgetting to label it." Skuld said as she too took a closer look at the box.
"Well go on open it and see what you're grandfather sent you." Urd said as too examined the box.
Opening the box, Anata found a camera. It was an older camera not digital, it used film. "Wow look, it even has film."
Trying out the camera, Anata aims the camera at her mother and two aunts snapping a pitcher.
"This is kind of cool; I'm going to take this thing to school in the morning so I can take pitchers of all my friends." Anata said as she placed the camera on the coffee table there in the living room, but when she put it there on the table. She didn't notice that she had placed it on the table where the linze was pointing to the ceiling.
"Well speaking of school, Sentaro and I need to get Matagu home. He needs to get up early tomorrow. His school is going on a field trip." Skuld said as she looked over at Sentaro.
"That's right, Come on little man, get your shoes on." Sentaro agreed with Skuld as he got up off the couch. And looked over at Matagu. To only get a gone from his son.
"Aww But Dad. Anata said that she would play me a game of Grand Turismo 10."
Feeling bad, Anata came up with a bright idea. "I'll tell you what, This Friday, you just stay there at your school and I'll just come and pick you up and we'll come here and I'll play you then. And I'll beat you too."
"Okay, you're on." Matagu said feeling a little slightly better.
Just then a light from the camera, shied on to the ceiling, and the light that was on the ceiling a person came through. The three Goddesses froze in their place; there some one came through the light that they have not seen in a long time. A vary long time. There in front of them was Peorth.
"PEORTH?!" The three Goddesses said in unison.
"Why did I pick film? Of all things? Any ways. Oh look at all of you." Peorth said as she is still trying to get the winkers out of her cloths.
Keiichi on the other hand was standing there having flashbacks of the first time he ran in to her. "Umm, Peorth Please stay away from mine and Belldandy's room."
"What's wrong Kei? You think that I'm here to steel Belldandy's man." She asked back as she approached Keiichi. Then Belldandy stepped in the middle.
"Peorth what brings you here?" Asked Belldandy.
Smiling Peorth looked over at Anata, who was still trying to figure out what the hell was going on.
"Well Belldandy if you really want to know why. I'm here for her." Peorth answered as she pointed to Anata.
"WHAT?!" Every one yelled pointing at Peorth and over at Anata.
"That's right, you see for the past sixteen years, Yggdrasil's mainframe has been crunching numbers. And I'll admit that we forgot that it was doing that until we got a really loud "File done" over the P.A. System." Explained as she is still trying to fix her cloths.
Belldandy stepped in between Peorth and Her daughter. "Why has Yggdrasil been calculating data? And for sixteen years?" She questioned with protective mother mode in high gear.
"Anata, Dear? Tell me? What is the number one problem you have when you use any of your powers?" Peorth asked as she looked around Belldandy's head, directing the question to Anata.
"That's easy, I get really sleepy. That's why I don't use them that often or when I do it's not for vary long." Anata replied. As she still tried to figure out what the hell is going on.
"You see when a Goddess starts to get their powers they get a Point Limiter. Which limits the amount of power they can put out; well it seems that you have the oppasesit." Saying that, Peorth made her self at home as she sat on the couch. Hearing this Skuld is now getting a bit worried not only for Anata but for her own child.
"What about Matagu? He's half human too." Skuld asked.
"We really don't need to worry about your little one until he too is sixteen." Peorth answered back, but rather shortly and maybe a little bit blunt.
Hearing all this and taking his time thinking before asking his question and breaking his own little rule of not getting in the middle of heavenly matters, Keiichi went ahead asking what was on his mind. "Why sixteen?"
"Two reasons. One that's how many years it took Yggdrasil to come up with the answer." Raising her index finger, the raising a second finger, she continued. "Two, she should be strong enough to be able to handle her training up in the heavens."
"What? Hold up. I have exams coming up." Anata told Peorth as she stepped out from behind her mother to defend her self.
"Well I really need to get Matagu Home he has school." Skuld said as she dragged Matagu and Sentaro out of the temple. Leaving the Morisato's and Peorth. Peorth looked over at Belldandy with a complexing look.
"What's with her?" Peorth asked.
"She and Sentaro had decided when Matagu was born to raise him as human as possible." Explained Belldandy as she looked at her daughter and continued speaking. "But I and Keiichi decided to teach Anata."
"I'm sorry but I've been studying hard all this time in school so I can go to really good collage." With that said, Anata walked out of the living room. Leaving Belldandy, Keiichi and Peorth alone, when Keiichi heard Anata's door close he thin turned to Peorth.
"Look we thank you for what your trying to do, but if Anata doesn't want to do the training then that's alright with us."
"That's right." Belldandy added.
Getting the hint that she was no longer as welcome there in the Morisato house hold, and a light came out of the camera.
"Alright, But the offer still stands. If Anata changes her mind, Belldandy you can give her the phone number to the Yggdrasil main desk." With that, Peorth lifted up off the floor and vanished in the light from the camera. When Peorth was gone for sure Keiichi looked to his wife.
"What a birth day present."
Belldandy only remained silent, worrying for her daughter. At the other end of the temple, Anata was trying to study. But with the resent events was making that really hard. Sure how could she be a Goddess. Being half human and half Goddess, it just sounds crazy.
"This is dumb." Anata said as she closed her math book. And just then there was a knock at the door.
"I don't want to talk."
But Anata's words didn't stop her father. Looking up at her dad, Anata gave a look that told him that it would be best if he would leave her alone, But Keiichi being Keiichi wanted to make sure if his little girl was alright. and to give her birthday present.
"Okay then. You don't need to talk, all you need to do is to get in the car and lessen to your father talk. and maybe crack a smile at his jokes that don't make any since. Oh you might want to grab your helmet too." With that Keiichi left Anata's room and gathered his things. In the tea room, Belldandy was still deep in thought as she was trying to figure out why the heavens would wanting her daughter. Letting out a sigh, Belldandy took a sip of her tea. The she watched her husband walk past the door way to the living room with his jacket and car keys.
"Where are you going Keiichi dear?"
Stopping, Keiichi zipped up his jacket and look to Belldandy with a smile. "I still need to give Anata her gift from me."
Belldandy smiled and returned her attention to her tea. About five minutes later. Belldandy then watched Anata walk past the door way to the living room. Stopping in just about the same spot that her father did, Anata zipped up her jacket. Her long jet black hair was pulled back in a braid. Her hair is much like her mothers but only black like her fathers.
"Anata dear? Be careful."
Anata didn't answer; all she did was pull her long single braid out from inside her jacket. The she too walked out of the temple.
Stepping out the back door, Anata found her dad in the EVO that the family has had since before she was born. Seeing the headlights come on, she walked up to the car and opened the passenger side door and took her seat. After fastening her seatbelt she placed her helmet on the back seat.
Pulling out the back of the temple, Keiichi drove the car through the night time streets of Nekomi. Navigating through town Keiichi started talking.
"What a birthday eh?" there was nothing. "Well I don't normally get in the middle of heavenly matters.. Well I try not to anyways, but What ever you want to do I and you're mother will support you all the way." Keiichi sat there waiting for any type of response, but non came. "Well I'm going to tell you the same thing that my Father told me when I turned sixteen.."
"Umm Dad are you going to give me the talk?"
Keiichi froze. It was even still hard to talk about sex with Belldandy. But to give the "Talk"?
"What? No.. I would hope that it's not needed.." Keiichi still at a loss took a turn. Turning to the parking lot of whirlwind. And there in the parking lot was a motorcycle sitting under a street light. Pulling the car next to the motorcycle, Keiichi shut off the EVO and looked at his daughter.
"Happy birthday." Keiichi said as he pulled a set of keys out of his jacket pocket, and handed them to Anata.
Looking at the Keys, Anata looked at her father. "What the EVO?" she asked.
"No not the EVO, the motorcycle out side." He replied as he stepped out of the car. Anata soon fallowed and circled the motorcycle.
"Check it out.."
"It's a BMW K1. I got one when I turned sixteen. In matter of fact I had mine clear up until you were three. It was the only thing that would get you to sleep. I would place you in the side car and all I needed to do was to turn on the bike and in a matter of minutes you would be out cold. So I figured that this would be a great Sixteenth birthday gift." Explained Keiichi.
"Can I drive it?" Anata asked.
"That is why I got it for you. Try it around the parking lot and when you're ready just telling me and I'll fallow you home."
"But dad I don't have a license." Stated Anata.
Keiichi only shrugged his shoulders. "I thank after school tomorrow you can pass you're test. What do you think?"
Anata smiled and hugged her father, and then she ran back to the car to get her helmet. Hopping on to the bike, Anata turned the keys. And the bike started up. Waving at her father, Anata put the bike in to gear and pulled away from Keiichi.
Keiichi watched as his daughter, drove around the parking lot, getting the feel for the bike. He remembered how happy he was when he got his bike. He watched as Anata pulled up beside him.
"Dad I really want to take this thing out on the road. Pleeeeease..."
Keiichi smiled. "Go ahead, I'll fallow behind, just don't go over the speed limit."
Before Keiichi could even get back in to the car, Anata was out of the parking lot and half way down the block. Driving behind Anata, Keiichi was proud to see his little girl handle the motorcycle.
When they got to the temple, Belldandy was in the back yard waiting for Keiichi and Anata. Belldandy was so happy to see that bright smile back on Anata's face.
"Mom?! Did you know about this?" Anata asked as she was taking off her helmet, and undid the braid in her hair. Letting her long black hair down.
"Anata when you asked about what your father was getting you asked things by name." she smiled and took Anata's helmet and the three of them walked back in the house.
It was already getting late, Anata had school in the morning, Keiichi has work and Belldandy.. Well she dose really what ever she wants to do during the day, but that normally spend time with her sisters.
Getting back in to her room, Anata flipped on her TV and there of all people was Peorth. Looking back at her.
"Bout time you turned this thing on. So have you changed you're mind?" She asked through the TV, with her arms crossed her chest.
"I told you. I'm not going any where." Saying that, Anata started to reach for the power button on the TV when Peorth stopped her.
"Look. You don't know how important you having the proper training is, there are lots of things...." Being cut off by Anata shutting off the TV. Peorth sat there at her chair in Yggdrasil. She about punched the screen, Standing there Peorth was Pissed, Pissed beyond all belief.
"That little Brat!!!! She is making my Job really hard!" Storming through the great halls of Yggdrasil, Heading to the God's office. Yes Peorth is going to take this to the big man him self. As she walked to his office, she mumbled, cursed and threw a fit all the way passing other Gods and Goddess. Each on looking at Peorth trying to figure out what's wrong. They fallowed her to the doors of God's office, and watcher as she pounded on the great wood doors.
After a good five minutes of Peorth pounding, the doors opened and she stepped in.
"I'll hate to be the Lord right about now." One God said to a Goddess. The Goddess only nodded in reply.
In side the office, Peorth walked right up to the man's.. Umm I mean, To God's Desk and slammed her fist on the old oak desk.
"Sir. You're granddaughter Just REALY pissed me off."
Turning around in his really, really big office chair and scratched the back of his head. "Ahhh, Anata is the strong willed type. Like her mother."
Peorth then noticed that her boss is in a really good mood; rather one of two things has happened. One, he just got done watching "Who's line is it any way." Or two, he had just got in to his privet stash of rum. And Peorth was leaning towards the rum.
"Well I'm just thankful that it's just that and not her father's thick head that she got." Peorth said as she waved the reeking smell of booze in the air. "Can't you give her a zap of lighting of tell Belldandy to make her do it?"
Just then, Peorth head something from behind the large drapes that were at lest fifteen feet tall. "Sir? Is there any one in here with you?"
"What? No that is anyone. Now Peorth you have my blessing to.. Use some persuasion to get Anata to take her lessons. But please nothing too out there. Just enough to give a little kick in the back end."
"Yes sir." Turning back around there was another sound coming from behind the drapes, and this time Peorth was serten that some one else was there in the office.
"That's it! I know there is someone else here!" Moving the curtens out of the way from the great windows that over look the heavens, Peorth found the last person she could ever think of. "Hild?! What? Why? When?"
"Peorth-Chan! It's so wonderful to see you dear. Well I must go back. Bye Shmookie Poo." Hild said as she vanished in a big poof of smoke.
When the smoke cleared, Peorth had a shocked look. "What the hell was that?!"
"Well you see.." Peorth cut him off before he could explain.
"Hold on. Ick!!! You two in here, in the office, where the only thing in here is a desk. Holly crap! I touched that desk. Oh god I'm going to be sick. I'm going to go and do my job." Peorth then walked out of office with just about the most disturbing image in her head.
--------------- Back on Earth and the next day -------------
Sitting there ton a train, Anata is half asleep. Her friend next to her keeps on talking about what ever. Right now Anata could care less sleep is on the top of her list of things to do. At the other end of the same train car, is a young man. He stands watching Anata, taking notes of her actions. One thing he could not fail to notice is Anata's deep blue eyes. Just then the train jerked some and started to stop. He took his attention away. Fallowing Anata through the train station and the streets. The whole time Anata and her friend are unaware of their shadow.
"So Anata? What did you get for your birthday from you're parents and aunts?" Her friend Yu Asakawa asked in her normally cheerful mood.
Scratching the back of her head, Anata tried to keep a straight face. "Lets see I got a chemistry set from My Aunt Urd. And Auntie Skuld and Uncle Sentaro got me a really cool stereo system. My mom got me some rune set... And my dad got me a motorcycle.." Anata waited for her best friend reaction. She didn't need to wait long.
"What!!!! A motorcycle!!!!??? I bet you're dad got you something really cool like some sports bike, did he?" Yu jumped around and yelled, her friend just got something really cool. and she's not excited. Some one has too. "You got a motorcycle and you're not taking it to school? What the hell is wrong with you?"
"I wish, but I don't even have a license. But I'll be testing for that after school." Anata answered.
Still unaware of their shadow, the two friends walked on to the school grounds. Stopping at the gates, the man stopped and looked at all the other students walking on to the school ground. "Looks like I cant go in there. Every one has on a uniform of some sorts." Looking around, he vanished and reappeared perched high on a telephone poll. Crouching down, he closed his eyes. He has a lot of waiting to do.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Flash back eight hours ago ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Sitting there in a garden, a young god still in training sits reading a book. Peorth approaches him. "Are we doing our studying Kou?" Asked Peorth as she took a seat next to the young god.
"I failed the Wish simulator the other day. When I came through the TV some woman called me a pervert and slapped the daylights out of me." He replied as he glanced up from the book he is reading.
"What would you say if I told you there is a way that you can get that failing grade off your records?" She asked taking the book out of Kou's face.
"There is no honor in taking the easy rout."
"I didn't say any thing about it being easy." Pulling out an orb that showed a still pitcher of Anata, Peorth handed it to Kou. The first thing he noticed was her eyes. "Do you know what the Name Anata means?"
Kou looked upward for a moment then he looked back to Peorth. "I believe that it means Goddess of Earth. If my memory servers me right. Human relations was a class I took in my first year of training."
"Not bad. Do you know who she is?"
"I have not seen her before this day. Why?" Now Kou is getting interested.
"She is the Daughter of Belldandy and Keiichi Morisato.."
Peorth is cut off by Kou's question. "What, You mean Belldandy? Belldandy Goddess first class.."
Angry, Peorth interrupted his question as well answering it. "Yes, Yes, with no resections. Now any ways. We need her to start taking the training, but she has refused."
"Then if she has refused, why do you seek me?" Kou asked as he's trying to reach for the book Peorth had ripped from his hands just moments ago.
"For the past two years, Yggdrasil has been decting a dark energy slowly increasing. In the area of Anata, Belldandy, Skuld and Urd. Little do they know, the four of them are the front line deface against and invasion of the shadows." Explained Peorth. All while she's keeping Kou's book away from him to make sure that he's lessening.
Letting out a sigh, Kou handed the orb back to Peorth. "What is it that I need to do?" He asked.
"I need you to persuade her. You know give her a good reason to take the training that is being offered to her."
"And how do you propose I go about that?" Kou asked and he also took the book that Peorth took from him.
"Give a really good showing of you're powers, you know. Blow some things up, shake her up some. But do not hurt her in any ways shape or form. A mother's scorn is a wrath that I for one will like to avoid." Saying that Peorth handed Kou another orb. "Here take this. It will make a temporary pocket of an alternate reality for about one minute. That way there will be no damage to the area of the city." Peorth said. Then she got back up leaving Kou.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* End flash back ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Opening his eyes, Kou is still perched up on the telephone poll. "All this goes against my better judgment. I'm not one to attack someone so.." Kou pulls the same orb that has the pitcher of Anata and looks at it, looking in to her eyes. "Beautiful."
Putting the orb back in to his pocket, Kou looks over at a clock that's on a side of a building, it was going on three o'clock. He has been sitting up on that poll for almost seven hours. Just then the bell at the school went off, singling the end of the school day, and moments later hundreds of students walked out of the school. Standing up on the poll, Kou jumped down to the street, landing with cat like silence. And started to track his target.
Some ten feet ahead Kou Anata and Yu are walking.
"Man this sucks, I got to go to work today." Yu complained to her friend. "My boss is such a pain in the ass."
"Well you should try working with mine, Chihiro can be so childish. Some times I just got to wonder who's really running that place." Anata added.
The two stopped in front of a video rental store. "Well Anata good luck on your test. And if you pass it you better give me a ride in that side car."
Anata waved to her friend as she started back home. "I'll see ya later, and about that ride. I'll see about it after I pass." Waving once more, Anata continued on her way home.
Walking through a park, Anata passed some children playing in a playground. Just then a Soccer ball rolled to her feet. Seeing the children waving their hands telling Anata to kick them the ball back, she took four steps back giving her self some room to get some speed up. Getting a running start, Anata kicked the ball with all her force. The ball went flying through the air back to the area in the field the game was taking place. Smiling Anata started once again back home.
"Anata Morisato!" A voice called out from behind Anata. Spinning around to find a young man some twenty five yards away. Just then Anata watched as the man reached in to his long coat, pulling out something round and throwing it up in to the air. Watching it go high in to the air, then it stopped a dome formed out of it. Dropping around the two of them and making a space in another reality.
"What?! Where the hell are we!?" Anata Yelled and clearly frightened.
Kou didn't answer, all her did was reach in to his coat again and pulled out a Shinai and through it to the ground in front of Anata. When it hit the ground dust and dirt lifted up in a cloud. Anata looked at the kendo stick and back at the attacker.
"Look I don't know what movie you crawled out of, but I'm not ammoused. Now return me to the world I belong to!!" Pointing to her attacker, Anata took a step back.
"Anata Morisato, I'm not one to attack some one who's unarmed, so pick up the Shinai!" Kou said as he pulled out what looked to Anata like a small tube with a button on it. Pushing it the tube extended in to a five foot long staff and taking a fighting stance.
"I'm not looking for a fight, so you might as well just go back to where ever you came from." Anata said.
"Then you leave me no choice. Anata Morisato, prepare thy self!" Saying that, Kou leaped in to the air and started hover thirty feet above the ground. Then forming an energy bolt, Kou fired it missing.
Seeing the ball of energy coming what looked like it was coming right for her, Anata jumped out of the way, and grabbed the Shinai. And she too lifted up in to the air.
"Man I didn't do too good at Kendo when I had it in gym class.." Anata thought to her self as she met her attacked in mid air.
Blocking Anata's attack, Kou smirked. "Pathetic."
Placing his hand inches from Anata's chest, then a wave of energy emitted from his hand. Pushing Anata back to the ground with such a force when she hit the ground. A dust cloud plumed up in to the air.
There on the ground Anata had the wind knocked out of her. She lay there gasping for air, but with each breath, she was being chocked with dust.
Up in the air, Kou waited for the dust to clear. Just then he saw his clearing. Dropping back to the ground, with his staff pointing to Anata, but making him self miss.
On the ground Anata watched her attacker come at her. It was all moving in slow motion for her. The end of his staff coming closer and closer. There was only one thing she could think of doing. Waiting for just the right time, she waited for her attacker to get at just the right point. Then it came. Lifting her leg. There was another cloud of dust pluming up in to the air. Opening her eyes, Anata found the end of the attacker's staff planted inches from her head, fallowing the staff up wards, Anata found that her attacker was startling her food, and looking up more she found that her attacker has a rather painful expression.
With her knee up against her chest, Anata pushed back making the now incompasited attacker fall to the ground in to a fetal poshion. Getting up Anata walked with a limp to the staff.
"Ouch.. Why did God give me such pain?" Kou asked him self out loud.
Just then the dome that had formed around them sucked back in to the orb that Kou had through up in to the air. The it dropped to the ground. At the moment it the ground they returned back to earth. Still with the staff in her hand Anata walked up to Kou.
"You're name, what is it?" She asked as she placed the staff inches from Kou's face.
"My name is Kou, I'm a God in training. Oh God that hurt. " Kou answered as her rolled on to his back while still holding him self. "Causing such pain is not becoming of a Goddess."
"Who sent you?" Anata asked.
"Peorth. She wanted me to give you a reason to take the training." Kou answered.
Not liking the answer she got Anata was about to give Kou a good TWACK across the head with his own staff, but at the same time she was starting to feel bad for causing a great amount of pain.
"Look for someone that just attacked me, this goes against my better judgment. Why don't I help you to my house and you can rest there until you feel better." Anata said as she offered her hand to Kou.
Looking up, he sound him self looking in to her eye. Kou took her hand, and lifted him self up off the ground.
"So Kou is it? Tell me why it's so important that I take this training." Anata asked as she and Kou made their way to the temple. Along the way Kou explained the whole thing with the shadows and how he came about the little mission that failed.
Reaching the temple, Belldandy was at the door to greet her daughter and to her surprise a rather hansom young man.
"Anata good after noon, and who is your friend?" Belldandy asked.
"It was okay, until Kou here..." Before Anata found finish, Kou had walked up to Belldandy and kneeled on to one knee.
"Lady Belldandy, I was present when you gave you're talk at the mortal/immortal relationships class. It is an honor to meet you."
"Oh my I see you are from the heavens." Belldandy said as she looked at Kou and her daughter.
"Well I see you're feeling better enough to do that. What's you're form of teleportation?" Anata asked with her hands resting on her hips.
"Something called a TV. Why?" Kou answered.
"Here the TV is in the living room, when you get back tell Peorth to expect a call from me latter." Anata said as she took Kou to the living room and turned on the TV. "Oh and Kou, when you get back to you're place I would put ice on you're.. area." with that Kou gave a nod and was sucked in to the TV. When he was gone Anata limped back to her room.
"Anata dear what happened?" Belldandy asked.
Anata told her mother the whole story from inside her room. One part of Belldandy she was angered that Peorth would endanger her daughter. And the other half could see her reasoning. When Anata's story was done and she was changed.
"That's the just of it." she said as she tied her hair up in a bun like thing.
"What are you going to do?" Belldandy asked as she fallowed Anata to the front of the temple so Anata can wait for her father to take her to her driving test.
Looking over to her mother Anata answered. "I don't know right now I'm going to take my test. Wish me luck mom." Whit that Anata ran out to the front entrance of the temple.
"GOOG LUCK DEAR!" Belldandy yelled to her daughter.
Belldandy watched as Anata got in to the car and the car drove off down the street. Walking back in to the temple, Belldandy started to think about all that has been happening. And what her little girl was going to do. Will she start the training or will she refuse it. Either way she swore that she will stand by her daughter's disshion.
During the hour of so that Keiichi and Anata was gone, Belldandy cleaned the living room, hung the Landry out to dry, had a little chat with Skuld on the phone and started with dinner. All while thinking about Anata. Just as she started to set the table, the door busted open and Anata rushed in giving her mother a bone crushing huge.
"Mom, Mom I passed, I passed. Check it out!" Anata yelled holding out the nice shinny new driver's license.
"I'm so happy for you dear. I can remember when I stated to drive that was also about the time that.. Never mind. I so happy for you." Belldandy said. "You better get cleaned up, dinner will be ready soon."
"Umm mom? Can I get the phone number to this Yggdrasil place? So I can tell Peorth my answer." Anata asked.
"Why sure dear. The area code is 999-272-4048." Belldandy said as she wrote the number down.
Walking over to the phone Anata picked up the phone and dialed the number, after two rings Peorth answered the phone.
"Hello Goddess help desk, Goddess Peorth at you're service." Peorth greeted.
"Hello Peorth? This is Anata Morisato." Anata said.
"Ah yes, Anata I just had a talk with Kou. He's recovering well if you will like to know." Peorth said.
"Look Peorth, I've decided to go ahead with you're training. BUT only on the weekends. I do not want my school grades to slip. Is that understood?"
"It's understood." Peorth replied.
"Good. I guess I'll be meeting you Saturday. Good bye." With that Anata hung up the phone..
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* End the Week old flash back. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Sitting up on the roof of the temple, Anata looks out at the setting sun over the city landscape. Letting out a heavy sigh, Anata brings her knees up to her chest. There behind her, on the ground Belldandy steps out looking up at Anata.
"Anata dear, Dinner is ready." She called out.
Hearing her mother's calls, Anata stood up and looked out to the city. A gust of wind blew Anata's long black hair. "Look like life will get really interesting. Really interesting.." Turning around Anata looked to her Mother. "Coming."
Drifting to the ground, Anata walked in to the temple. The next day will prove to be interesting.
END CHAPTER 1.
A/N: This whole chapter is about how it all gets started. Anata is remembering the events of her birthday. So please tell me like? Dislike? Did you like the way I typed this story opposed to the script stile I normally do. Tell me if you like the other way better then I'll do the rest of the story my normal way. So any ways I really want to know.
FYI: The BMW K1 Is the same type of motorcycle that Keiichi has in the OVA and Manga. A Shinai is the name of a Kendo stick, and Anata's friend Yu Asakawa just happens to be the name of the Japanese voice over actor for Motoko from Love Hina. I was running low on names. And Kou is some one I made up for My Tenchi Muyo stories. So if you like him or would like to get a better idea about him read "In Coming Powers" and "The Calling."