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Keiichi paused in his thoughts, and looked down.
Oh. It's just my body.
Pause.
NANI!Keiichi Morisato lay on the ground in stasis. Keiichi Morisato hovered above him, staring and tearing his hair out.
This isn't happening. This isn't happening. I must be dreaming again. Floating out of my body is as likely as a person dropping out of the sky.
Mara thudded down a meter away, knocking out. A faint spiritual presence floated out and stayed unmoving in the air.
…Mara's a demon. Doesn't count.
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Belldandy speeded up. She knew something was wrong, the auras she was feeling did not seem right. Keiichi-san…Keiichi-san…
She didn't register the lack of a hammer-wielding sister.
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Skuld got to her feet, shaky from the impact. Why me…She felt her conscious swimming. I have to concentrate. Or Onee-sama…Onee-sama…
She steadied herself, and walked off into the sunset. Pity the lamppost was due east.
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Peorth shook herself, and looked up. A hole in the roof. Turning to her side, she scanned the area. A tile. Another tile. Another tile. Just how fast did I fall? Incantations dancing on her lips, she let her aura extend itself out, sweeping the place. A bedroom. I can feel imprints of a person…close…familiar…Keiichi?
Peorth stood up. At least she reached her destination. Now for dinner.
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Keiichi felt himself loosing grip on his form. Am I…vanishing? I can't afford to disperse…I can't…no… Belldandy…
He steadied his mind, and tried to concentrate. There must be a way…there must be a way…Keiichi Morisato, average guy with vertical challenges, was faced with the question of his life. What can you do, when you are out of your body, loosing a grip, and there's a demon soul floating nearby unconscious?
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Belldandy feared the worst when she saw Mara's and Keiichi's bodies lying motionless on the ground. Approaching Keiichi's slowly, the goddess bent down and shook the still person slowly. Then faster. And faster still.
Keiichi-san…wake up…please…The shaking erupted into a hysterical fit of near-throttling and sobbing.
Keiichi-san! Keiichi-san! KEIICHI-SAN!
Belldandy hugged the unmoving figure tightly and burst into tears.
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Bel-Belldandy? Belldandy! Can you hear me? Belldandy!xxxxxx
Keiichi-san…why…was it…Mara?xxxxxx
Belldandy! I'm here! Belldandy! BELLDANDY!
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Belldandy felt a surge of emotion well up in her, and turn skywards to calm herself. A first class goddess must never falter. A first class goddess must be able to carry out her task with precision and dedication. A first class goddess must never fail the patron. And Keiichi-san…Keiichi-san…isn't just a normal patron.
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Where am I? This feeling…soul…Gack.
Mara was not a happy demon.
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Belldandy registered two souls in mid-air. By goddess protocol, resurrection would be the method to go. What Belldandy could not decipher, was which soul belonged to Keiichi. She could do any of the following. Randomly select souls, and risk violating protocol. Leave souls to disperse, and lose Keiichi and Mara. Spend time to tap into the souls, and risk them to disperse. Time was the essence.
Keiichi-san…come back…Belldandy began the resurrection process.
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Imagine a kitchen sink, complete with those fancy wire-baskets to hold soap. Imagine bits of dinner swishing around and around, coming back together at one point with the help of a great force of suction.
Keiichi Morisato felt his senses kick in, and he knocked out.
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A demon is trained to avoid goddesses and gods when the situation demands it. Mara, demon first class, could easily see her own power on an all time low. I'll set that aside now. Bigger matters to attend to.
Mara warped out of that area the moment she regained her composure. A power recharge would follow.
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Keiichi was not having a good day. Considering he had just woken up after being hit by Mara, what came after was not a nice way to say "Hi, welcome back".
"KEII-KEIICHI! Wu-wut the…"
"NANI!"
"Keiichi-san…"
"…Keiichi? KEIICHI?"
He got up, and gave a quick smile. This only caused three goddesses to cringe and one goddess to smile back.
"Gomen, gomen. I got knocked out by Mara and…"
A triangle-marked goddess grabbed the closest mirror and shoved it at Keiichi's face. The lad blinked.
"It's not that. Explain THIS."
It's one thing to know that you've just been in stasis for a couple of hours. It's another thing to know that you've just acquired a pair of streaks on your forehead and a star on the right cheek.
Pause.
Keiichi Morisato, assistant at Whirlwind Motorcycles, partial-student of Nekomi Technical Institute, Demon First Class Unlicensed, took the chance to knock himself out by hitting the floor with a thud.
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Nuffink much to say at the moment. Updating will probably be once, or more, a week. Somebody prod me if I fail to meet up with that deadline.
Cheers!