Disclaimer: I do not own Ah! My Goddess. So get off my back about the legal crap.

(Hay that last part rimes.)

Chapter Three

Across Tokyo, Anata and Sara had just rounded the corner in to one of the several shopping destructs. Anata looked in to all the shops as she and Sara walked down the street. Not paying any attention to what Sara was doing, Anata didn't even see Sara stop. Slamming in to Sara's back. The two about fell over.

"Hay wake up." Sara said as she regained her balance.

"Sorry. I'm just not used to a big city like Tokyo. It's a bit over whelming." Anata said.

"Where did you live before moving here?" Sara asked.

"Kou and I lived out at Nekomi, what about you?" Anata said.

"Me? I'm from the US; my parents said that I should get closer to my roots, so they hooked me up with an entrance exam." Sara said, as she stopped at a vending machine. She then looked over her shoulder as she started to deposit the money. "Would you like something to drink?" Sara asked.

"No thank you." Anata replied.

"So what are you majoring in?" Sara asked as they continued walking down the street.

"I haven't declared my major yet." Anata said, looking down at the ground.

"Don't worry, I didn't chose a major until my second year. Just take your time and try out some different classes, and find something you like." Sara said.

"I can do that?" Anata asked.

"Sure, but the school really doesn't like people doing that. Well here we are." Sara said.

Looking over to her right, Anata found her self standing right in front of a Blockbuster video store.

"What! You work at a blockbuster?" Anata asked.

"Yep, but like I said. The hours suck and the pay is crappy, but it pays the rent and gets me food." Sara said. "Come on Lets see if I can set you up with a job."

At the other end of the city, Kou was just finishing up some shopping from the market. As he walked back to the apartment, he happened to stop in front of a small book store to readjust the weight from the bags of food.

"I can use something to read." Kou said as he walked in to the book store.

Walking through the store, Kou came across several things to read. He passed several Manga books, magazines and novels. He looked through the books, coming across Romance, Sci-fi, Fiction, and even some books on philosophy. Stopping in that section, Kou started to look through those books, he stopped at this one.

"The art of war....... Humm......... I can never know when it's going to be useful." Kou said to him self as he took the book off the shelf.

Taking the book to the front, Kou placed it on the counter top. He stood there and waited and waited and waited. After a good fifteen minutes of waited Kou looked over at the bell that was off to the side; there behind the bell was a sigh that said. 'Ring for service'.

"Ring for service....... Well I don't want to seem rude but I need to get this food back home before it goes bad." Kou said thinking out loud.

Ringing the bell and waiting a moment or two more an old man came out from a back row of books.

"I'm sorry sonny, I didn't hear you. What can I do for you?" the old man said.

"No I'm sorry for bothering you sir; I just wanted to get this book." Kou said.

The old man looked at the book and back at Kou and at the book again and again at Kou.

"You in collage?" The old man asked.

"Yes sir......." Kou replied. 'Well kind of.........'

"There's not many young people around that gets books like this." The old man stated.

"Yes sir." Kou said.

"I know that collage students are always looking for work." The old man stated.

"Yes sir......." Kou said not knowing where the old man was getting at.

"As you can tell it's hard for me to keep this place running on my own, so I can use some help." The old man said.

"Okay......" Kou said still a little confused.

"I can see that you are a good person. And I'm vary picky who I have working for me. So what do you say?" the old man asked.

"Did I just miss something?" Kou asked.

"No I just offered you a job." The old man replied.

"Really?" Kou asked.

"If you like you can start tomorrow." The old man said.

"Wow Thank you sir. What time do you want me here?" Kou asked.

"How dose one o' clock sound to you?" The old man asked.

Some hour later, Kou was back at the apartment happily putting the food in to the fridge, as he did Anata had just came through the door with a big smile on her face.

"Guess what." Anata said as she dropped her things and walked over to Kou, wrapping her arms around him from behind. "I got some good news."

"What will that be?" Kou asked.

"I got a job over at some video rental place. Sara helped me out; I'll be working with her." Anata said.

"Well this is a good reason to celebrate. I also got a job." Kou said.

"Really where?" Anata asked as she started to dig around the bags of food.

"At this book store not to far from here. I start tomorrow." Kou replied as he took a bag of chips out of Anata's hands before she could open it.

Giving Kou a small dirty look Anata reached for another bag of chips. "So what's for dinner?"

"Not chips." Kou replied as he took that second bag of chips from Anata. "Stir fry and Ramen and some rice balls"

"That sounds good." Anata said.

"I just need to finish putting away things before I get started." Kou said with his head in the fridge.

Anata waited to make sure that Kou couldn't see. As he was putting something away, Anata swiped a grape from the sack the had the small vine.

"This is if you want Grapes instead." Kou added with out looking out from the fridge.

Turning around so not to be looking at Kou, Anata chewed up the grape as fast as she could. Once she was done she turned back around to only come face to face with Kou.

"No, Stir fry and Raman with rice balls will be great." Anata said trying to sound innocent as possible.

"That's good then." Kou said.

"Oh umm Kou?" Anata said with a small voice.

"Yes." Kou said as he started to pull some pots and pans out.

"Sara told me something that you might need to know." Anata said.

"Really? What's that?" Kou asked.

"You remember last night?" Anata asked with a blush.

"Of course I do, why?" Kou asked now wanting to know.

"Well as Sara put it the walls are made of paper." Anata said.

Kou stood there thinking for a moment or two before it hit him.

"Wait? You mean that........."

"Oh yeah." Anata replied to Kou before he could even ask the question. "Everyone heard us more then likely." Anata added.

Kou stopped preparing dinner and looked over at Anata with a worried look.

"She said not to worry it's more a future reference." Anata said.

"That's not what I really worried about." Kou said.

"Then what are you worried about?" Anata asked.

"I ran in to one of the other tenets. Leo I believe he said his name was. But he said some about the lover's song, I don't know he was really an odd one." Kou said.

"So you met Leo? Sara told me that he was a little off." Anata said.

"Little is an understatement." Kou muttered.

Meanwhile, up in the heavens Oryema was just finishing up some of the countless work assigned by none other then Peorth. Leaning back in his chair Oryema let out a sigh.

"I'm glad that I'm on my last couple classes before I become a full fledged god. I don't know how much longer I can take Peorth giving me all this work." Oryema said looking over at the huge stack of papers that towered over him. "This is crazy."

Letting out another sigh, Oryema just had to finish just one more thing then he will be done for the day. Then back again the next day everything will start back over again. Just as he was about to press the send button on the computer something stopped him.

"Oryema........" A voice said.

Hearing his name being called, Oryema looked around the small class room that he sat in.

"Who's there?" Oryema asked.

Finding no one there in the room, Oryema only shrugged his shoulders and got back to work. "Maybe it was something I had for lunch......." Said to him self.

"Oryema." The voice said much louder.

Hearing his name being called again, but Oryema only thought it was his head playing tricks on him. He shook her head and got back to work, pressing the print button. As he waited for his copy of the paper work, as he stood there by the printer he started to feel odd. Like something was in side of him.

Just then the demon alarm sounded all through out Yggdrasil. Then Oryema's eyes flashed a deep red. He looked up from the printer.........

"Understood.........." Oryema said before he walked away the printer and out of the room.

In the control room, Peorth stood looking over what was going on.

"I want to know how in the hell did a demon other then Hild get this far in to the heavens with out setting off any alarms!" Peorth yelled.

"We don't know Ma'am; it just popped up out of no where! We're trying to triangulate its location...!" Ex yelled back.

"Someone tell me something!" Peorth said.

"Found it! The demon is located in the education sector of Yggdrasil and is heading to the main lobby!" Ere said.

"Right! Chrono dispatch security units to the lobby!" Peorth ordered.

"Yes ma'am." Chrono said.

In the halls of Yggdrasil, just before the main lobby. Several Gods and goddesses stood waiting for this demon to appear.

"I think it's some type of drill." One God said.

"Seems that way." Another god said.

Just then an explosion blew a wall apart just ten feet down main hall. Hara, now part of Yggdrasil security forces looked down the hall in to the thick smoke. Through the smoke two red eyes broke through the smoke.

"Here it is!" Hara yelled.

Just as he yelled that, Oryema came through the smoke. Shocking Hara.

"Oryema? What are you doing?" Hara yelled.

"I don't know. But if you wish to keep on breathing stand aside!" Oryema said. His voice distorted and warped, sounding like it was evil talking and not Oryema.

Just then from behind Hara some gods started to fire force bolts.

"NO! Stop! He's still one of us!!!!" Hara yelled.

He watched in horror as the force bolts went right past him. Then each of the force bolts seemed to bounce off some type of field that covered Oryema.

"Don't shoot. I know him; just let me talk to him." Hara said.

Hara walked in to the hall that Oryema was still slowly walking down.

"Oryema? My friend, what has happened to you?" Hara asked as he approached his friend.

"I don't know! Just stand aside!!!!!" Oryema yelled as he swung his arm.

By some unseen force, something knocked Hara to the side of the hall. Making it spider web out in all directions, just as he did that the other gods and goddesses fired off some more force bolts at Oryema. Again he started to walk down the hall the connected to the main lobby. And again each force bolt was stopped by a field of energy.

"I said get out of my WAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!" Oryema yelled. Making a shock wave out of his own voice. The wave traveled down the hall, making the marble walls expand and collapse back in on it self. And knocking the gods and goddesses out of the way in the lobby.

Hara watched as Oryema walked past him. Grasping his sword, Hara looked at it and at his friend. Looking back at his sword. Standing back up, Hara drew his blade and placed it on the ground and took the sheath with him as he limped down the badly damaged hall. Coming up behind his friend Hara was just about to hit Oryema on the back of the head. But before the wood sheath could hit its target, Oryema turned around and stopped the sheath whit his bare hand.

"I said stand aside." Oryema said before he broke the wood sheath with a slight twist of his wrist. And wit his free hand he punched Hara right square in the chest sending him flying across the lobby; right in to a stone column.

Then walking to the desk in the center of the lobby, Oryema took his fist and punched the control panel. Then a red light seemed to expand around the panel, on the screen just to his right. Yggdrasil code flashed on the screen. Then the teleportation system that stood behind the desk activated. On the systems were on, Oryema turned to the mirror and stepped through. Leaving the lobby in shambles.

Back in the control room, Ex tracked the teleportation.

"Where is he going?!" Peorth asked as he hung over Ex's shoulder.

"I'm still tracking him!" Ex said.

On her screen, a dot that seemed to weave through the maze of teleportation systems, all while Ex typed.

"Got it! He teleported him self to the Tokyo area. What ever program was used it really messed up the tracking systems. I was only able to find him by tracking his running program in the system." Ex explained.

"Great job, Chrono get me Anata Morisato. She's in that area now." Peorth said.

"Right away." Chrono said.

T.B.C.