This Time Around

by Zentrodie

A uncontrollable force is changing the multi-verse to suit its wishes, but in an act of desperation attempts to leave one lone iteration of the world without the taint.

3. Chapter 3

Standard Disclaimer

Ugh...depression is a massive pain and time sink. Going through a bought of it and its not a fun time, but things are getting better. My nephew moved half the country away, and a buddy moved to a different country for two years, work is super stressful, and things are just off. But we persevere!

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This Time Around

Chapter – 3

Legs splayed, hand to her left nipple pinching it just like she loved, Urd's right hand was lovingly atop Keiichi's head. By the Valkyries he had talent for this, maybe he was a reincarnation of one of those warrior women, they had legendary skills in cunnilingus. In her room, Urd moaned and panted as Keiichi's tongue reached as deep as it could and rubbed against her bud. Finally, they were finally going to go all the way, and Urd was revelling in it. They had come close a time or two over the last three weeks, but Urd's plan was foolproof this time! Send Belldandy and Skuld out for ice cream, a guaranteed evening to themselves!

"Just like that, Kei-chan, you just keep...little to the left...oooh," Urd commanded her lover. Keiichi took instructions well, a little to well at times Urd thought. Be nice if he took charge, but she had to admit she was the veteran here, he was still a virgin. In the past she had had a few lovers, Troubador being the closest to this mortal in terms of affection. She wasn't used to having a man and going wanting as long as she had been this time around though. Feeling her climax building, a slow rumbling storm about to break, Urd raked her fingers deep into Keiichi's scalp, "Going to so repay you before we get to the main coarse Tiger." Urd was all about sharing and experimenting, in and out of the bed chamber.

If Keiichi hadn't been buried nose deep in Urd's flower she might have understood what he was saying. But all his attempts at talking did was vibrate Urd's sensitive flesh and her body went over the end. Spilling out a torrent of nectar, Urd's cry filled the room as World of Elegance exploded out of her back arms wrapped around herself as well, had to love the Goddess and Angel connection. Pulling away from his task, panting heavily, the mortal's face was dripping, "You, you alright?"

Cuddle now, hold and embrace her man in the afterglow, Urd needed to hold Keiichi right now before she returned the favor. Yanking him up her, pressing his naked flesh against hers, "Just give me a minute." She kissed his nose, then to spice things up licked it. Had to tease and taunt her man or he might get bored and move on to other ladies...not that she believe that. Losing her license wasn't so bad right now, even if it meant Belldandy spent a lot more time with him to keep the System Force from acting on the wish. "Want to try using one of my potions? I can tell you're a little worried," Urd's hand rubbed Keiichi's chest noticing how he had a very hairless chest, thankfully. Shyly World of Elegance returned to Urd's psyche.

"Just...you're so damn sexy, and I've heard guys don't last long their first time...I want this perfect," Keiichi confessed his shame. He would have looked away, but Urd kept her hand on his head, keeping him facing her. Not to waste the crazy rare moment, his hands dutifully massaged Urd's right breast keeping her nipples ridged, he was ever the apt pupil. It took two heavy petting sessions for Urd to knock that fear of touching her out, and it would never fully leave his mind it seemed. Gasping as Urd's hand grew tired of his chest and moved down and started stroking, "H-how much time you think we have til they get back?"

Crawling down over him, it was time to teach her favorite pupil about mutual oral pleasing, Urd giggled. It was so different with Keiichi, it wasn't like her other bouts of carnal bliss. The gods and spirits she was with before felt small and petty compared to this right now. Her heart was bursting at the idea of him touching her, and oddly she was craving to do the same to him! It helped that she knew it was doubly so for her man, Keiichi was quite easy to read once you knew the tricks. Urd had picked this day specifically. Keiichi could go about a week of her teasing before he took to the bathroom and the only porn magazine he had, hidden among his school books so Skuld wouldn't find it. Keiichi was a man, he had hormones, and they were pouring off of him.

"We have hours, you know how Skuld loves her ice cream. Its an all you can eat buffet. So you might want an energy potion, because we are making up for lost time," Urd said huskily. Hovered over Keiichi's member, it throbbed with anticipation as she blew on it. Silly human worried about so much. He wasn't hung like Sleipnir, but she didn't want that! Maybe Belldandy was right about this whole love being most important. Gasping as Keiichi took initiative unexpectedly and slipped a finger gently into her, "I have you to thank for my potions after all. Keiichi...I don't say it much...but I love you."

One hand on her lovingly crafted bronze cheek, Keiichi pulled her open just a little, "Things have been hard on you. Just doing what I can to make you happy. And I love you to." Keiichi rubbed his rough hands over her smooth skin and she bucked against him. Since their little talk weeks ago, Keiichi had been finding all sorts of replacements for her alchemy reagents. Things Urd hadn't thought of, never even considered, and they were working! It wasn't as easy before for sure, but that was half the fun now! Sticking it to the prudes that were likely mocking her for her lack of powers. Doing things that she wasn't supposed to BUT not violating any rules! And she had this mortal to thank for it. This tiny blip of a life in a vast sea of lives…

"Going to show you, never going to leave me wanting again," Urd licked her lips. Not the first time she went down on Keiichi, that was a morning surprise for him and he lasted a whole thirty seconds, Urd was going to savor this evening. Priming the pump, Urd did wish she could but a ward up just in case she got loud. It was what ruined their last 'almost crossing the goal line'. Skuld had heard and came thinking Mara had attacked again, when she saw a pantsless man she sicked her stupid robot on Keiichi...then Belldandy came to heal the damage. Keiichi nearly fainted from embarrassment. Running a finger along his member, "So does this little guy want some attention? Get him all nice and wet before he goes to his home?"

Opening the door to Urd's bedroom/lab Belldandy walked into the room with a blissful smile on her face and hands laden with ice cream containers. "Good evening you two would you like some...oh! OH my!" Belldandy gasped as she spilled the dessert on the ground. Most of the containers remained sealed and just rolled over, one did split open and just so happened to be the one on Keiichi's cloths pile. Back stepping to the door but not leaving, "I...um...thought you two..."

"Bell what the fuck!? Where is Skuld," Urd went from blissfully content to enraged in a nanosecond. Why did her damn sister always have to get in the way? Feeling Keiichi's member shrivel and got flaccid, Urd ground her teeth. Fuck! Fuck! FUCK! Not again. Rolling off her man, Urd got up and her foot came down on a container and it spilled all over her foot and floor. Stomping over to Belldandy who was oddly staring at Keiichi still, "Can't you read the mood? You're so much damn better at aura reading then me, but you can't tell what we had planned when I gave you those damn tickets?"

Crawling over to his clothing, Keiichi found his boxers and slid them on quickly. The sticky mess of ice cream made it look like he creamed his pants, but the joke was lost on the situation. "Urd, take a breath, alright? Remember what we talked about?" Keiichi grabbed his shirt and distastefully put it on. A mess, he looked an absolute mess, added to it Urd could see the wanting still in his eyes but the fire was doused.

Yes, yes her to quick to act to short to think troubles...it caused more than a few issues at the university. A bet with Sayoko a week ago nearly got Keiichi into a real mess, but thankfully Urd had won the little mini-fashion show. But this wasn't the time for peaceful, she wanted to make love to her man, he wanted to do the same, but her damn sister kept cock blocking! Stepping on more of the small containers, the smell of sugar mixed with her reagents and the pungent smell of sex in the room making a nasty miasma. "Not this time Kei-chan. Bell, I love you, but what the fuck is going on in that head of yours?" Urd's eyes were hard and narrow.

"I just wanted to share with you two is all. I...I didn't know you wanted us away so you could...could..." Belldandy's hand balled into a fist and covered her mouth. The damn sweet angenus act again! Belldandy just had to be pure and docile doll! And yet she was still eyeing Keiichi! Urd was right in her face, yet her sister was watching Keiichi slid into his pants.

Snapping, her frustration getting the better of her, Urd did not like what she was seeing or feeling. "STOP EYE HUMPING MY BOYFRIEND!" she screamed and gave Belldandy a small push out the door. Instantly regretting her action, the look of hurt on her sister's face was telling. Yanking Keiichi off the ground, she watched Bell run off. With a sigh, she rubbed the bridge of her nose and closed her eyes, "Fuck, I went to far again. Could you...could you go talk to her. Tell her I'm sorry, just...we were so close this time!" She hugged him with one hand.

"You sure you want me to go?" Keiichi rubbed her shoulder with his hand. Man knew her better every day, and was right about her wanting him to stay. He kept his body and its stains away from her though, sweet lovable doofus.

Pushing him gently out of the room, she gestured to the state of her room. "It smells like a candy shop had an orgy in it, I have to clean this mess up. And I can tell you're not going to want to continue with her in the shrine. Just remind her that you're mine, and when I get my license back she won't be spending all that time with you," she winked at him. Giving him a quick kiss, she swatted his butt to get him moving. Once he reluctantly walked off, dripping ice cream as he went, Urd shut the door.

Smashing her face into a pillow she screamed into it long and hard and loud. The muffled sound did little to comfort her. Her scream went on for what felt like ages, but it pettered out and she chucked the damn pillow at her shelf in anger. Damn it, double damn it! "If I had my fucking powers I'd just...just..." she didn't know but something. Create a small pocket dimension for them to go shag in, put up a ward to keep people out, or put Belldandy in a small logic puzzle to get a damn moments peace without her! "Love you Bell but at times I wish I had the CD of the Gods and could just bind you for a little while! Always perfect, always loved, and now always in my way!" Urd kicked at the containers.

Ice cream was everywhere, and Urd was not somebody to clean. Again if she had her powers she'd just magic the shit away, but now if she wanted the smell away it was elbow grease. "To hell with that, let Bell clean it tomorrow," Urd opened a window to let some fresh night air in. Faintly she could hear Keiichi and Belldandy talking, they must be outside on the deck...great. "When we finally do get started, going to break his hips, heal them, and break them again!" Urd did not do frustration well, and her level was a new height. In the past if she got the itch, their were easy scratching posts to be found with no questions asked...it felt wrong to consider that now.

"A drink, I need one," Urd mumbled dumbly. Heading to her shelves, she grimaced at her little pillow throw's damage. One of the jars Keiichi got for her, some rare plant he found, was cracked and the ground herb spoiled. Just great, when it rained it poured didn't it? Opening the cabinet where she kept her good stuff, Urd saw that goofy looking bottle Megumi got for her and a lot of empty other bottles. Some cheap saki, vodka, a bottle of mead, and not much else. Grabbing both the dumpy bottle and the sake she shut the cabinet and crawled to her blanket. Did she put her cloths back on or just sleep in the nude...nude. Keiichi would come to wake her up in the morning, ask if she wanted to go to classes with him as he always did. Give him a nice thrill in the morning before turning him down, repayment to Bell for shouting at her.

Propping some pillows against the wall, she had a small army of the things, she leaned against it and drank from the saki bottle. "This just sucks. I can't do half of the things I want, and I'm making him go out of his way to help me," Urd felt the stupid depression coming back. It came like the tides, high and lows. Keiichi said he didn't mind helping her with her alchemy with his finding things she could use, but what good did that do when she ruined it! Belldandy claimed she didn't mind filling in for her when she wanted to stay home, but Urd was starting to think it wasn't purely selfless. Head listlessly falling down, "How long till its permanent and I'm back running the system?"

"You don't have to be powerless you know," a voice said long after Urd finished her bottle of saki and was well into drunk territory.

Head bouncing from side to side, hunting for the high pitched and nasally voice, Urd saw she was still alone. "Who is it? Who's there?" Urd slurred just a little as her buzz descended into full blown drunkenness.

From the crook of her legs, a place Keiichi had been two hours ago by the clock, "Me, I'm here. Been trapped in this gourd for a long time. Thinking we can help each other out. You want your powers back, I want out. Scratch my back, I scratch yours." The voice was coming from inside that stupid looking bottle.

"And who are you my dear little bottle of booze? And why shouldn't I just toss you in the trash. Nobody does nothing for free," Urd grabbed the bottle by its long neck and waggled it back and forth. For a moment Urd thought that she wasn't just having an odd dream, a booze created hallucination, but then laughed it off. Ugly ass jar couldn't be talking to her!

Laughing a little, the urn didn't sound worried about Urd's threats, "You can call me Hakushon if you have to give me a name. And all I say is, you have two sides to draw from my dear bronze skinned demon. If the light won't have you, why not go to the dark. They would never shun you for having a little to much to drink, from wanting to have a moment of passion, or if you wanted to force that Mishima girl to watch you have that guy she wants to fuck lavish your delicious pink insides."

"My demon side...I do have that..." Urd stopped waving the jar about. Staring deeply into its stupid face, she held its bottom swell with both hands now. It was what everybody said would happen didn't they? Urd the disgrace, the half breed, the stain on side of light. Standing up, the bottle switching to just one hand, Urd went back to the window and listened again. Still talking, banal things like school and Skuld's new favorite flavor...boring stuff. She was losing out on some hot and sweaty action because Belldandy was feeling lonely and Keiichi was easing that.

Dressing quickly, Urd nodded...yes this was a good idea! Nobody said a demon had to be evil right? She'd just be careful is all! Yeah! Get her powers, get Keiichi, and they'd face the future together! What could go wrong! Stealing out of the temple, that stupid robot would pick up the change and attack before she could do anything, Urd was three sails to the wind and high on the romantic notion of Keiichi and her against the worlds! "Alright jar, what do I need to do to get this started?" Urd asked once she was far enough away. Never one to think of the big picture, or of the distant future, Urd listened and soon her powers were back and flooding her with power.

"At last the Lord of Terror is revived!" Mara called out triumphantly startling Urd and making her drop the gourd. Oh fuck, what did she do now?

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Belldandy was a little worried, but not overwhelmingly so. Urd stepped out the night before and was still gone just a little after lunch. Now if Urd hadn't done such things in the past Belldandy would be much more worried. Urd however had taken off to blow off steam from time to time, and after last night's little tiff it wasn't unexpected. Last night…Belldandy's hand stopped taking notes alongside Keiichi and found herself stealing a peek at his lower half. An odd feeling welled up within her, a sense of being naughty that she never had before. She had seen him again, seen her sister too, and that image was seared in her mind.

"How if you carry the Y and substitute it with…" the professor droned on with his calculus lesson. Belldandy smiled sweetly when Keiichi yawned and shook his head to keep awake. Reaching into her bag, she found a small treat for him and handed it over. For a brief moment their hands touched and a warmth spread all the way down her spine. Not for the first time, Belldandy wondered what would have happened if she hadn't taken Urd up on her offer those months ago, would Keiichi and she…

Doing his best to follow the moderately difficult math problems, Keiichi's pencil wrote down formulas as he snuck bites of Belldandy's little treat. Smiling at her, he had this way of thanking her with his eyes that Belldandy cherished, Keiichi's eyes widened as the caffeine in the granola bar hit his system. Wide eyed and bushy tailed, he kept his attention back on the class until it ended. Once dismissed, Keiichi stood up and stretched his arms over his head, "Thanks for that Belldandy-san, you're a life saver. I'd have fallen asleep without it."

"It is no issue at all Keiichi-san, just something I read about and wanted to try," Belldandy bated at him gently. Joining the other departing students, Belldandy did her best to stay close to Keiichi but not over stepping her bounds. But it was odd to see couples holding hands as they walked, it looked so lovely to do. Enjoying the sun on her skin as they entered the quad, "Would you like to have lunch now, Keiichi-san? I have some with me, and eating out here would be quite refreshing."

Scanning the quad for people, Keiichi frowned just a little before nodding to Belldandy. "Sure, thanks for everything you've been doing to help. But are you sure Urd is fine? She's never been gone this long without at least calling or sending a note," Keiichi followed Belldandy deeper into the greenery. Holding up a branch that blocked her way, Belldandy curtsied as she went before him and they found themselves in a lovely semi-circle of trees and bushes. Nobody around, just them and the animals.

"You should know, that when she gets frustrated or does something she is upset by she needs some time alone. With the System Force affecting you before she couldn't go far, but with her license and with me covering," Belldandy trailed off. Sitting down on the grass, it was well maintained and was actually soft to sit on. Pulling out a few sandwiches and a thermos of tea she poured a cup. He was so caring to worry about Urd, truly a man worthy of a wish. Just a shame Urd wasn't doing her due diligence on it. Handing the first triangle of sandwich over, "Once she has calmed down she will be back. Likely she is back at the shrine already."

Taking a bite of the offered food, Keiichi moaned contently. "Delicious as always, Belldandy-san. And I know she gets…huffy…when frustrated," he shifted in his seat and looked away from Belldandy, "or embarrassed. Just not used to her being…gone." An odd sadness pervaded the man, looking off down and out of their little grove at the other students going about their lives. Jumping a little as Belldandy took his hand with both of hers, "Sorry, Megumi says I worry too much, just can't help it I guess."

"It as an endearing trait to be worried for others, do not feel sorry for it," Belldandy reassured him. His hand was warm and inviting, so much so she was reluctant to release it but did when he pulled it away to continue eating. Chatting about safer things, Belldandy couldn't refute the fact her mind was constantly going back to last night and what she walked in on. They were…they were about to…her face blossomed into a royal red. "K-Keiichi-san, I know we spoke about it. That sister was just frustrated about being interrupted. But…do you…are you upset with me?" Belldandy didn't want to get in Urd's way, she wasn't 'eye humping' Keiichi, and she wasn't lonely. But her mind did wander.

Handing back the empty cup, Keiichi reclined on the grass and gazed up at the cloudy sky. Overcast with the threat of rain since they sat down, a fast moving front by the feel. "Not upset with you at all. It was an accident, we should have locked the door, or something," Keiichi didn't sound as non-pulsed as he wanted to come off. What more could they have really done to prevent Belldandy's entrance into the room, no inner locks in the shrine, putting a sign up saying 'Lovemaking in progress' would have been up Urd's alley but not Keiichi's. He was delicate emotionally, much like herself Belldandy noticed.

If he said so she'd accept it, she feared him disliking her of him finding her an annoyance that needed to be sheared off like an unwanted boil. But it was time to come to the crust of the issue, the biggest worry she had, but had to ask. "Keiichi-san, if Urd loses her license," which was possible if she stayed away to much more, "your wish was for a goddess like her…the System Force mandates…"

"She'll be back, license or no I have faith in her," Keiichi nodded to himself. Helping Belldandy pack up what little mess they made, Keiichi gave no hint of doubting Urd. That was the type of guy he was. Checking his watch, he winced and groaned, "I better get headed over to the shop. After we won that mini-bike race the guys have been wanting to try something bigger. Did you want to come? Urd was able to go over just about all the campus without the System Force triggering."

Feeling something odd on the air, an evil stench that may be an ill omen, Belldandy hugged herself tightly as the wind blew. "If it is not an inconvenience to you. And have you given any consideration of Skuld-chan watching you work from time to time. She is quite taken with you and your motor club," Belldandy loved that. It was joyous to have not only Urd happy but Skuld as well with how things were at the shrine! Like a big happy family. Urd and her as the wives, Skuld as herself their sister, and Keiichi as…Belldandy found her joints locking and she came to a halt.

"Something wrong?" Keiichi stuffed his hands into his pockets as he turned to her. Shivering a little, with the clouds came a cold breeze that ate at the pleasant day. Shrugging his shoulders as Belldandy started walking again, "As for Skuld coming to watch me work, I've no issue with it. But she has to agree to only offering help that we can actually use. Some of her designs are dangerous for me. She likes to add more power than necessary." All around them, people took notice to the drastic change in weather and hustled off. Games of Frisbee cancelled, study groups broke up early, and all around an uneasy vibe.

Did she just think of herself in a group relationship with Urd and her boyfriend? Belldandy's heart started pounding in her chest, was that what she wanted? The feeling was both wonderful yet terrifying in equal measure. Something about Keiichi just felt perfect for her, but she wasn't…she wasn't the type to butt into something. Urd and Keiichi were happy together, who was she to tip that balance. But if Urd DID lose her license, Belldandy was going to have to step into the role as wish fulfiller or some other Goddess would be tasked! All the things she heard when Urd tried to keep quiet, what she walked in on, what she saw around them now…did she want that? Belldandy swallowed hard, an ice cube of uncertainty lodged deep inside her, but was shifting.

"I'll tell her about it, and to keep her bombs at the shrine. And about what I tried to ask before," Belldandy found her courage oddly dwindling. What if Keiichi didn't WANT her to take Urd's place, even if just in the system? Would he ask her to leave, would this happiness vanish? Nearing the motor club, signs posted everywhere had images of both Urd and Belldandy on them in their motor club outfits, Belldandy had to know. "If Urd loses her license, for whatever reason, would you be opposed to m-me taking over. From a system perspective only…not that I could ever replace or-or…" Belldandy found herself unable to steady her breathing. She was just asking from a system perspective!

Nearly falling over, Keiichi whirled about and opened and closed his mouth a few times without making a sound. Actually slapping himself, he nodded, "You're talking about the whole system force thing right. Urd won't have to leave, it's just for your system? Th-then yeah that'd be…be fine." He had a small bit of red in his cheeks, and he couldn't look at her, but he was at least sounding calm.

"Y-yes, it would be a shame for your wish to get nulled after you did so much to earn it," Belldandy found playing with her fingers helped. Keiichi opened the door to the club for her and she saw Sora pouring over some text book. He accepted her though. If it came down to it, Belldandy would take over for Urd. But Urd would get her license back, this suspension wouldn't stop her sister! "H-Hello Hasegawa-san, a lovely day isn't it?" Belldandy felt her power surge and her body was light as air!

Nibbling on her eraser, Sora looked up and grinned, "Ah, Belldandy-san and Morisato-senpai! Glad you're both here, the Duo are running about with some new great idea of theirs. Better be careful. No Urd-san today? She's been missing for awhile now." Pulling out a folded piece of paper, Sora handed it to Keiichi, "Their orders for you, I tried to look into it, but it's beyond me. Just like these physics questions"

"Urd-chan and Belldandy-san had a small fight yesterday, she's off blowing off steam," Keiichi couldn't have missed the odd look Sora gave him. Guy's girlfriend and her sister have a fight and he's with the sister? That just begged a question or two, but Sora wasn't the asking type when sober. Reading the note, Keiichi grumbled, "Great now I have to make a three wheeler!? At least they didn't bet Urd as a prize this time, getting sick of that. Though I think his real goal is…" Keiichi refolded the paper and both humans looked at Belldandy.

That ill sensation was back, no a full-fledged demon sense, but something Belldandy wanted to check out. "I have to use the facilities, I'll be in to watch you work in a minute," Belldandy excused herself and hustled to the small restroom in the club. Overhearing Sora asking a few probing questions to Keiichi about 'Why is Belldandy here and not Urd if they fought? What did they fight over?' guess Sora just didn't want to ask while the elephant was in the room. And as much as Belldandy wanted to know the answer, she had more important things to do. Diving through the mirror, she emerged out of a large mirror in the quad in full goddess regalia. Masking herself so people wouldn't see her, she sensed the taint on the wind.

Tapping into nature and her own powers, Belldandy flew about campus finding small pockets of darker energy. Bothersome, they were all in places that were in view of Keiichi's classes, or places they had been over the course of the day. Somebody was watching them? First guess was Mara, Urd's quasi-friend just kept causing issues for them. Flying down to a high tree, a squirrel jumped to her hand and gave its squeaky update. It had seen something that felt wrong, but the figure was on the edge of the zone of engagement for the System Force. But if Belldandy could just see it, maybe it was just a corrupt earth spirit that needed healing! Flying across the quad, just a little too fast to be a breeze, her hair whipped about as she caused a few people to feel the massive breeze. Landing just before she'd trigger a response, Belldandy landed, and came out of hiding while turning back to the outfit Keiichi and Megumi chose for her.

"Oh hey Bell, what brings you here?" Urd asked sitting by a fountain. In her hand was a coffee, Urd was the picture of relaxed and calm. A few pedestrians couldn't help but stare at the two campus queens together. Waving at her sister, Urd sipped her drink and beaconed Belldandy to come over.

Thank Father Urd was here, Belldandy felt a weight fall off her chest. "I cannot come closer, it's too far out. But I'm glad to see you. We've been worried since you left yesterday. Left before I could apologize for intruding," Belldandy could only ask for forgiveness, it had to be given and never taken.

"I forgot about that, never paid it much mind in the past. No wonder the suspension happened," Urd tossed her coffee into a trash bin and sauntered over to Belldandy. Arms outstretched, going wide for a hug, "So what did you two talk about today? He's not freaking out is he? One little night out and I bet he's worried I'm gone."

Embracing her sister, Belldandy gave her a good squeeze, hugs were something she enjoyed very much. Running her fingers along Urd's platinum tresses, "He has nothing but confidence in you." Confidence in friends and family was imperative. When a sensation of weightlessness washed over her, Belldandy didn't understand it at first. She felt as if she was flying, but Urd didn't have her powers so it wasn't possible. Opening her eyes, Urd's smile was still there but just a little different, "Urd?"

"You noticed? I'd be upset if you didn't," Urd flew a few centimeters off the ground. Just enough to keep Belldandy from resisting, not enough for people to notice unless they were right up there to see it. Bringing Belldandy across the threshold and over to the fountain, Urd sat back down with a little laugh, "How's it feel to violate the System Force's decree? Finally a dark mark on my dear sister's file, even if it's only temporary. How was asking him to replace me?"

Urd had powers? But how? Belldandy just stood at Urd's side and alternated between here and where she had been standing before. Urd triggered the System Force, but why? Taking a step away from Urd and closer to the motor club, "What are you talking about Urd? You know it would be either me or somebody else if you…you…how?"

Leaning on Belldandy's shoulders, Mara mocked directly into ear, "You're not talking to just a Second Class Goddess anymore, Urd has been reborn as the Lord of Terror! And she is going to increase our market share so much! And you…." Mara got cut off as Belldandy slammed a ball of wind into her stomach sending her flying away.

"Urd it can't be true! You wouldn't!" Belldandy wouldn't accept it! Urd wouldn't…couldn't…her hands went slack as Urd flew into the air and nodded. She had, Urd had embraced her demonic heritage. Something, she had to do something! But what, Father would punish, Skuld was to weak, Keiichi would worry…but she had to tell somebody! Rushing back to the club, she wasn't shocked to see Keiichi running towards her, the Force in action, the club's new event was a man/woman tandem race and if Urd wasn't around she'd have to ride with him.

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"So it's got a simple engine but can only drive straight, it takes the co-pilot to actually control turning. Means the driver and co-pilot have to have absolute trust in one another," Keiichi explained to his audience. Skuld paid attention, seemed interested, but something troubled the younger goddess. Keiichi understood that worry well. It had been another full day without Urd coming back, and Keiichi wasn't enjoying Belldandy's explanation. Getting on the bike and starting it up, it rattled and vibrated harder than necessary so he'd have to tune it up more. Patting the side-bed, "Get one, I'll go slow so you can understand better."

Getting on uneasily, Skuld strapped her shoe in and grabbed the handle. "You won't make Belldandy be your co-pilot will you? You'll wait for Urd?" Skuld peered at the slowly moving ground. Keiichi wasn't sure if Belldandy told Skuld about Urd's current status, or if Skuld just had his hope she'd return. He drove out of the temple grounds slowly and got to the crossway. Skuld slowly leaned over the side of her perch and the bike started to lean enough to get onto the road. Gasping loudly, "Wow it really is turning with my weight. So impractical, why would people ever need something like this when you have the steering column?"

"It's for the challenge. A lot of our races are more about challenge than just design. Which is why too much power isn't always a good thing. Next time you work on the engine, keep that ground in mind alright?" Keiichi winked at Skuld hoping she understood. He had opted to let Skuld help him, kept his mind from thinking too much, but she did what he feared. Power, more power, and even more powerful engine designs were pouring out of the girl's mind, and they just would have been impossible to use. Turning the bike around, he had to go overly slow as Skuld was fearful of leaning too much, Keiichi took it back into the temple and his little garage.

As they slowly went up the drive, Skuld nodded as a serious expression came over her. Nodding, "I see now. If the engine went to fast the co-pilot wouldn't be able to react fast enough. I understand now. Still…have Urd do it and not Belldandy. You two are closer anyway." Never did Keiichi doubt the favoritism, but it was cute in a way. Skuld cared about Urd, never doubted, but she adored Belldandy with abandon.

Ruffling her hair, his gloved hand making a mess of it, Keiichi laughed low as Skuld smiled then pushed him away. Must have realized it was more a childlike action as Skuld stuck her tongue out at him as she stumbled away. Rolling off the perch, the young goddess went ass over teakettle and flashed the mechanic her choice in underwear, yup still a child. Looking away, "Yeah that is the plan. We have a couple weeks before the next race so I'm sure she'll be back."

"Good, I don't think Belldandy would be safe on this, no offense, not her type of thing," Skuld quickly righted herself. Fixing her gown, giving Keiichi a deep and probing stare, did he see, and when happy he hadn't started towards the temple proper. With a small yawn, "Going to see what sis is up to, maybe a nap after. I've not been sleeping, something is bothering sis since Urd went off with Megumi. You tell that brute of a sister that I still want a rematch of our robot duel." Thus spoken, the whirlwind that was the Goddess of the Future sought the comfort of her older sister.

Shutting off the bike, Keiichi climbed off it and grabbed his tools. To hot now to work on, but he could at least peak and poke at where the vibration was coming from. "Lord of Terror…she's always a terror when drunk," Keiichi laughed a little at that. Belldandy had told about her encounter with Urd and Mara after he told her about the bike race. One that Skuld would soon learn Belldandy really wanted to be part of. Lightly touching the engine with his glove, it was still to warm, he just fell on his butt, "Rather have her with me though, I know how dangerous Urd can get. Belldandy…who knows." Urd was a risk taker, he'd knew how to react to keep up speed and how far Urd was willing to push to win. The younger sister, Keiichi had a good read on the girl but not nearly as well as Urd.

"I only know that if I'm in a race, I'm in it to win. And I know you'd not hurt me if you can help it," Urd wrapped her arms around Keiichi's waist. When he tried to twist in her grasp, she put her hand under his chin and kept his mouth shut. Making clicking noises, "Keep quite or that stupid robot will sense me faster. How about we make a trial ride on this thing, have a nice long talk, yes?"

Just two days of her being gone left Keiichi overjoyed to see her again. Nodding against her finger, he almost called out her name, but knew Banpei's penchant for missiles. "Going for a small ride with the column on! Trying to find the problem with the engine?" he yelled towards the temple. Belldandy or Skuld, the voice to faint to hear said something close to 'Alright'. Kick starting the bike again, Keiichi gestured to the bike and then the platform, let her choose. When she got on the platform and put her ass in the air, he rolled his eyes, "You're a tease you know."

Wiggling her derriare suggestively, "Having thoughts I should be worried of? This is just a trial run isn't it? Or are you going to take me somewhere and have your way with me?" Urd winked, it would have been fully consensual, as she gripped the handle. The engine flared to life, and the two were rocketing out of the grounds, letting the bike sing. Taking turns so close to the ground she was millimeters away from scraping it, Urd had full faith in Keiichi to keep her safe. Calling out wildly once they were out of earshot, "I love this thing! Stop being such a baby and really let it go. Wind in my hair is fabulous!"

"My lady asks, what else can I do but obey," Keiichi teased with their little servant game. Really letting loose, they sped down the road, Urd controlling the where as he supplied the speed. Without having to steer, Keiichi kept watching Urd, she was a little different. More outgoing. More daring. And with her new outfit, Keiichi had to swallow as it was definitely very different than her original goddess garb. Noticing they were going deeper into the woods and higher up into the mountains. Calling out over the wind, "Do we have to worry about the System Force?"

Leaping off the bike, flying in front of it, Urd gave Keiichi a good show of her new outfit's tightfitting features. "We don't have worries anymore. Once I get these new powers under control we'll do anything, see anything, and have anything we want," she reached up to the sky and that was when Keiichi noticed the different markings on her face. Flying closer to Keiichi, she tugged him off the bike, but caught it before it could crash into a tree. Shrinking the bike, she playfully dropped it down her exposed clevage. Waggling her finger at him, "You'll get it back later. Or if you want it now, you'll have to get it yourself."

Pinching his nose as he felt a flush rushing towards it, Keiichi had to look away. Urd wasn't holding anything back, and was going full out seductruce. "You can keep it for now. But I'll want another ride before…" Keiichi didn't know. What was happening, what was really happening? Urd showed up, took him away from the temple, and now she was talking about all these things. Walking into the cave, Keiichi frowned a little, "You've been staying here? Its…"

"Empty, yeah I know. But I've just got these powers so I'm not fully in charge of them. Feel a little overwhelmed by them," Urd confessed as she snuggled up close. The cave wasn't that deep, fifteen feet at max and only seven feet tall. Walking over to a lump on the ground, covered in a blanket, Urd kicked it, "Mara, you need to take a walk. Keiichi's here and we need to talk." Yanking the blanket off, revealing the startled and waking Mara, Urd did a small show with the blanket indicating that it wasn't just talking she had planned.

Rubbing her head, Mara crawled over to Keiichi and gave him a feral grin, "So you're here now? Finally! Now she might actually take this role seriously and stopped playing around and sulking in the cave. Mortal, hope you've got a strong stomach, things are going to get wi-AH!" Mara screamed out in pain, compliments of a very strong lightning bolt complements of Urd. Charred and smoking, Mara took that hint and crawled out faster.

Hoping into the air and sitting on it, Urd's love for floating was back, she rolled about like a cat. "She speaks to much some times, most of the time. But I know you have some questions. So what's on your mind, Kei-chan?" Urd gazed at him while upside down. Her cape spun around her, drew in tightly around her hips. Picking up that odd bottle of booze Megumi got for her, she waggled it at him.

"Well, tell me about this Lord of Terror business? Last I knew you lost your license, now you're sneaking around with Mara? Belldandy is talking about transferring my wish away from you, you're gone for two days, and now this?" he gestured to the cave and the gourd. Oh how Keiichi had wanted to understand this extra-plainer business, but he just didn't. All he knew he loved Urd, they were struggling but make it work with her alchemy without her powers, and after the blowup at Belldandy things went crazy.

Grabbing the fringes of her cape, Urd drew it back in a very Dracula pose, eyes popping over the top of the silky adornment. "A prophecy, a bronze skinned demon will awaken as the Lord of Terror. My half-blood heritage is what allows this power to flow through me. I'm the most powerful love goddess! I don't need those stuffy gods and goddesses anymore, and I don't need the standard demon either! I'm unique and on my own, we're on our own. Mara is just trying to use me, but she can't. And I'm not trying to hurt Bell is all. She'd try to 'save' me from this. As for the wish…I'm still with you right, and you're still with me?" Crawling over to him, hands right in the gap of his cross legged feet.

"Of course I'm still with you. But what does this mean for my life? Are…are we leaving Nekomi?" Keiichi stuttered a little and pulled back just a smidge. He didn't want to leave college until he was finished learning, but somehow he doubted Urd considered that. No, she had a glaze over her, she wasn't sounding herself. Urd before today was dramatic and with flourish but still had a smidge of self-restraint, this Urd had none of that. Swallowing hard as Urd inched closer and closer, now cheek to cheek with him, "What about your sisters, are we leaving them?"

An annoyed twitch spasmed over Urd's body, pushing him onto his back, she hovered over him. "We don't need to leave, but you won't have to study anymore! We'll have anything and everything we want on tap! We'll rule this place, just you and me. Bell…I don't know if she wants to take you from me or if she's just confused. Those bitches at your university…who cares about them!? Why worry about getting some piece of paper when I can get you any job you want, hell why get a job when we won't need money! Just you and I, a paradise of our own making…just…let…go…" She started pulling his top off with each word.

"Where is the fun in cheating?" Keiichi asked stunned at Urd's comment. He never wanted to cheat to get what he wanted, there was no point in it. Grasping Urd's biceps, she let herself be stopped, gazing deeply into her eyes he could see the doubt there, the fear. "You don't want this do you, jumped to deep into the pool and don't know how to get out," his lips curled up a smidge. Same old Urd, just with a new wrapper. Always trying to appear as bombastic and confident, but masking a soft core. This demon thing, he bet she didn't do it sober or with a clear mind. Now that it happened, she was trying to find a way out of it without messing things up, but she didn't want to do it without him. Letting go of her, Keiichi drew her in close, "What am I going to do with you?"

Bucking just a little, Urd whimpered, "Anything you want, everything I want." Laying prone on him, she didn't move after little offer. Just taking in deep shuddering breaths, nether confirming or denying Keiichi's claim. "Cheating isn't fun, you have that right," Urd shucked just a little. Propping herself up using the gourd, Urd sat on Keiichi's waist and set the jar right on his chest. Shaking her head, "Silly mortal thinks he understands so much," her sad smile told much.

"Urd get away from Keiichi-san right now! You're not thinking properly. That urn, it hosts a terrible demon! Set it down and let me deal with it," Belldandy brazenly called as she rushed into the cave. Holding an arrow in her hand, it floated as if she had a bow, her own crest looked as if it changed slightly since the last time Keiichi saw it. Blinking rapidly at the rather intimate position they were in, Belldandy just swallowed, "Are you…she didn't do anything bad did she?"

Oh great, when things were finally starting to shift for the better this had to happen! Keiichi liked Belldandy, but damn did she have terrible timing for things. Did she have some sort of radar that chimed whenever Urd and he were about to have a moment? Keiichi tried to sit up, but the urn kept him firmly on the cave floor. "I'm fine, Belldandy-san, Urd-chan and I were taking about what was going on. You can relax, everything is…is…" Keiichi tried to say but felt the air change. Charged, positively charged with electricity and a growing darkness. Urd, she was going to do something stupid again. Overreact again!

"Can't you give me two hours alone with him Bell? Just two hours? I think it's you who isn't thinking properly! Now if you're going to do something with that arrow I suggest you do it now or I'm going to…" Urd goaded. Leaning back to throw, Urd shied behind the urn as she moved, but Belldandy was faster. The arrow flew with skill and accuracy of a Goddess First Class, only the target was intercepted.

The sound of clatter and shattering of the urn filled the small room. "Finally! FINALLY! I'm free! No more simpering goddesses or demons! No more playing the fool!" a ball of purple light erupted in laughter. "Thank you for freeing me with your anger and jealousy little girl. Maybe…maybe I'll let you watch what I've planned! As for you mortal, I'm feeling like being a man again so you'll have to do!" and like that the light plunged into Keiichi's chest.

For a moment Keiichi felt a strange euphoria as the light entered him, then he found his consciousness pressed deeper and deeper away. He could still experience his senses, but he had no control over his body, damn he wished he knew what was going on!

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What was going on? What was happening? Why had she done what she had done? Urd had so many questions, and very few answers for them. Flying alongside of Belldandy towards the shrine, she dodged random blasts from behind. Keiichi, what did her impatience and gullibility do to him? More important, how was she going to free him from this thing? Overhead the sky was getting darker and the clouds started to sprinkle down on them with occasional bolts of lightning. Fitting, the weather was reflecting her mindset.

"Bell, about everything…I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me," Urd said out of necessity. The moment that urn was destroyed and that being possessed Keiichi, Urd felt as if a veil had been pulled from over her eyes. Still, she couldn't deny she had full control of herself, just her mind was so muddled as if she was powerfully drunk. 'I was drunk, drunk on power I guess,' Urd thought as she waited Belldandy's response.

Deflecting another bolt away from them, Belldandy kept close to Urd but her eyes behind them. Strained from her usage of power, "I understand, that urn held a very powerful demon. One capable of switching from body to body, and created before the Dublet system was in effect. It must have done something to you." Belldandy would forgive anybody for anything, Urd ventured. In a deft display of skill, Belldandy wrapped her arms around Urd and took a ninety degree nose dive towards the temple. "Skuld! Hurry to me, it is as I feared!" Belldandy called out to the youngest of them.

Standing in the middle of the temple grounds, her odd robotic man at her side and loaded with new add-ons, Skuld yelled up at them. "I knew it! Urd you need to stop causing so many problems! Where is Keiichi?" she asked. Her hands danced over a keyboard connected to some gadget of hers, all of which were wired up to Banpie. Laughing madly, her addiction in full sway, "Get out of the way, Fire all anti-demon missiles now!"

"What is she talking about!?" Urd cried out as Belldandy shoved her away. Landing on the ground with a thud, guess Belldandy wasn't playing around, Urd's thoughts were jarred and disconnected. Rolling to her back, she watched a salvo fly up into the sky and was haft tempted to destroy them. If they hurt Keiichi, Urd would never forgive herself. This was HER fault, he should haven't to pay for it. Still feeling her demonic power flowing through her, weakened with her lack of conviction, "Say something or I'll burn them from the sky!"

Pushing Urd's hand down, Belldandy shook her head as Skuld's tech flew above them. The fireworks were amazing and filled the sky and illuminated all of them. "After you met with me, and Mara said your new name, I researched. I asked Skuld-chan to make something that would only affect it. We need to purge it from Keiichi-san, to get it to be deleted or switch bodies again," the urgency in Belldandy couldn't be denied. Shielding Urd from the blast, Belldandy kept Urd sitting on the ground.

"Your seal, you've broken it? Bell…why?" Urd noticed Belldandy's changed sigil. The diamond was split showing her sister's unbound state, something that was forbidden without permission. Trying to get up as the sky cleared, ready to catch Keiichi if he started to fall, Urd found she couldn't get free of Belldandy's gently hand. Grunting as she continued to try, she still had to be herself, "Bell let me up, let me help if those missles didn't work."

Cheering from the sidelines, Skuld danced about and rubbed against Banpei. "I knew this would work! Some ancient mummy isn't stronger than my technology! And you two haven't said where Keiichi was, wasn't he with Urd? Thought that was how you said you'd find them," Skuld was still blessedly stupid at exposing people's hidden secrets.

Standing up, Belldandy for a rare occurrence had a smidge of annoyance on her face or it was a trick of the light. "I knew he'd be with you, that you'd come for him. So…I put a tracking spell on him," Belldandy confessed. Not slacking on the defense, she kept her eyes skyward on the cloud of smoke and dust from the explosion. Creating a large ball of wind she sent it to disperse the dust cloud, "I was worried about you, about him. I fear this isn't…"

A beautiful pillar of light descended from the cloud before Belldandy could remove it and struck the temple. At first nothing happened, it just washed over them with its horrid radiance. A moment after, the temple was eradicated, blowing outward from the beam. Rubble and shrapnel everywhere, Belldandy putting up a shield to ward off injury to herself and her sisters. In the rubble they could all see familiar shapes of their possessions and furniture, only warped and destroyed. A tea set that Keiichi bought for Belldandy, the fridge that held Skuld's ice cream, and…

"My reagents…all of my reagents…do you know what he had to do to get those for me!" Urd raged. Ducking under Belldandy's hand, her sister stumbled once the support was gone. Urd was on her feet and started flying towards the dispelled cloud. Drawing back a force bolt she was seconds away from becoming the real Lord of Terror, but stopped. "No fair…get out of his body! Get out now!" Urd was able to pull back her blind rage.

Flying before her with a smug look that she had never seen on his dopy face, was a very different Keiichi Morisato. Hair spikey and long with a tail that went down below his feet, clad in a V-cut leather jacket and slacks that exposed his rather muscular chest, the new pilot of the body just tsk'd the Norn of the Past. "Forget something my dear? You want to hit me, go ahead do it! Destroy this body, wreck it, and carve off its bits and pieces. Why don't you?" he flew closer to Urd. Reaching out he gripped her chin with his thumb and forefinger, smiling.

"Don't touch me," Urd grunted but didn't fight off his encroachment. What could she do, this was her fault. The man she loved, this tiny and fragile mortal, was being held hostage because she didn't want to work to get her suspension overturned, that she didn't want to wait or find a different way to be productive! When 'Keiichi' started to lean in, she did smack him away, there were limits she would allow. Through gritted teeth, "What do you want, what will it take for you to leave him?"

Belldandy flew up to them, and gasped at the red swatch of color on 'Keiichi's' cheek. Urd hadn't held back, hit him full force, and the body was showing the results of it. "Yes, Keiichi-san is an innocent. Please leave his body, do not make us use force," Belldandy voice didn't do threats well. Flanking the man, the two Norn's were taught wires of anticipation.

"Innocent? My dear girl you have no idea do you? His thoughts…the things he wants to do to you," he turned to Urd with a lusty expression. Waving his hands in a pantomime of Urd's form he clicked his tongue. With a long whistle, "Though with a body like that, maybe it isn't unexpected. But the thoughts he has about you are NOT innocent. Painting you white, having you dominate him, dominating you…he has a check sheet of all the nasty little things mortals do and you're right smack dab in the middle of them. Still think he's innocent?"

Oh gods not now, not now! Urd couldn't help it, the giggles overtook her and she snorted as she covered her mouth. One finger pointing at 'Keiichi' the other trying to keep her yuks from getting to loud. "Yes! A million times yes! Having those ideas is exactly what I WANT him to have. If he wasn't thinking of his girlfriend like that I'd be doing my job poorly! And I promise you, whatever he's thinking…I've it doubled. Go big or go home," she was still chuckling. So her darling little Kei-chan was keeping a few secrets from her, going to make good on them after this was over! And this 'all powerful chess master' was trying to use their feelings as some cudgel? Maybe they'd have to update the record, this guy wasn't that smart.

"W-what about me?" Belldandy eeped out meekly as the winds whipped around her combat attire. Urd and 'Keiichi' both turned mechanically towards the Norn of the Present with incredulous expressions. Of all times to ask 'what does he think of me', neither had thought this was the right time.

Recovering first from the oddity, 'Keiichi' flew down quickly to Skuld and pointed at the downed and disabled Banpei. "What I want is for this one to make me a tenth-dimensional super scythe. Make that for me and maybe I'll leave your little man. And if you are so…forward…as you claim. Maybe I'll let you get a taste of him then?" he did not have the suave voice he wanted.

"But a scythe like that could be used to…to…" Belldandy flew down with 'Keiichi'. Keeping a distance, but standing between Skuld and him, she protected her sister. Putting a wall of force up, Belldandy was starting to become a trifle frantic.

Drawing back in a traditional mad genius cackle, "With a scythe like that I can destroy the universal super string and destroy all reality! I will fulfill my purpose as the Ultimate Destruction Program! And if you DON'T make that scythe for me…" Picking up one of Skuld's hammers, displaced in the destruction of the temple, he gave his head a good solid smack. Blood insantly started flowing from the wound and dripping down his chin.

"Skuld, make the damn thing," Urd said cutting off whatever Belldandy would have said. Her sister's wonders if Keiichi lusted after her aside, Urd wasn't going to put Keiichi's wellbeing in Belldandy's hands. Bell likely would sacrifice the mortal for the greater good, it was the 'right' choice to make, Urd was about doing what was 'right'. Sauntering over to this 'Destruction Program', Urd was starting to make some connections. It wasn't a true demon, why it didn't fear the dublet system after all. But it was naïve, it wasn't as bold as it pretended to be, and she saw a part of Keiichi was represented in it. Moving in such a way that caused her top to tear as she walked, giving a massive view of her bountiful flesh, Urd had a plan.

Turning in disbelief from Belldandy to Urd, 'Keiichi' was bewildered with joy. "I knew it. You ARE the Lord of Terror. Watch it all…all…" his eyes went wide and he unconsciously licked his lips. Leaning over to get a better view, the Program did not fully know or remember what it was to be in a body. But it was getting a quick crash course right now. Shaking his head hard, trying to tear his gaze away, he was almost successful, "W-what are you doing? You can't tempt me like that. Just trying to distract me."

"Oh it's not a distraction. She's already making that thing for you. But you're in my lovers body," Urd continued to sway as she approached him. While not officially 'lovers' yet, Keiichi and she had gotten damn near close to it. And if this Program had access to Keiichi's memories, it would see those few oral and hand sessions that were the preludes. Pulling down her collar, showing right up but not including the crest of the mountain, "Thinking we can have some fun while we wait for her to finish. Not cheating if it's the same body right?"

Rushing to her side, Belldandy grabbed Urd's hand and pulled it away and undid the subtle tease. "Urd! Now isn't the time or-or place for such things! We have to…to…not that!" Belldandy was more flustered than the program! Pushing Urd just a little away from the Program, Belldandy was fully red-faced and her eyes didn't focus on one point. Poor pure Belldandy, seeing such blatant showing of Urd's didn't know what to make of it. Chastising her older sister, "And it would be cheating. Keiichi-san is more than just a body…"

"Did you two need some time alone to talk?" the Program mocked the pair. Standing right beside of them, he grabbed both by head and jokingly pushed them closer forcing the sister's to brush lips. Laughing loudly as they shoved apart from one another, Urd loved Belldandy but even she didn't want that type of relationship with a family member, the Program followed Urd and not Belldandy. Wrapping an arm around her shoulders, "If…if you're wanting though. I could keep you with me after I fulfill my purpose. His memories, thoughts of you…I'm intrigued."

Working it was working, this Program was getting off tangent and getting distracted! Spotting her next step on the ground, one of those computer disks Keiichi and Skuld used to save things on. It was close enough to him, that if she…idea go! Putting her hands on his shoulders, Urd spun around with him, "If you promise to keep him safe, and to let him out from time to time. What do I have to lose?" That's right, feel those breasts press up against that exposed chest of yours, Urd could feel his heart rate spike! Leaning heavier on him, her foot deftly pluck the diskette off the ground with her toes, just barely. But how to get it into her hands with him focusing on her…chance! "Bell, you want in on this? If reality is going to be unmade, you, Skuld, and I could keep him company for eons," Urd offered.

"WHAT? Both…all three of…of you?" the Program gasped aloud and looked over at Belldandy. Said Goddess of the Present just stood there gob smacked. Drawing her hands up to her chest as the Program gave Belldandy a nice once over, she shied away and just swished her head back and forth.

While he was distracted, Urd bent her leg up high enough, leaning heavier into the distracted man, and nicked the disk. With no place else to hide it, her Lord of Terror garb didn't really have pockets, Urd dropped it down her exposed top. Feeling the plastic slide down a poke painfully into her belly, Urd had her plan. "Why not Bell, it's this or nothing. Consider this my peace offering for what I've done. I won't let Keiichi die, not because of something I caused. Skuld, well she's just a little kid so she won't get in the way," Urd kept pushing the envelope. Keep the program off guard and smack it with the disk and force him to change bodies."

"I'm not a kid," Skuld much like Belldandy just had to have the worst timing, "I already finished the scythe! Could a kid do that?" Holding a very unwieldy looking farming implement, Skuld rubbed her cheek against the staff and praised her genius.

Pushing away from Urd, the Program yanked the scythe from her unexpected hands and held it high above himself. "No offense, but I doubt you're being serious. Even if both of you were serious…I will fulfill my purpose! Now the universal super string!" he yelled out. The hand not protectively cradling the weapon, pointed out and a beam of blue like lanced out to a spot above the rubble. At its epicenter a large loop of what appeared to be a simple piece of string, but the power radiating out from it was enormous.

"Urd, Father will never allow this to happen, he'll strike him down," Belldandy called out over the winds radiating out from the string. Gale force billowing gales came in waves off of the foundation for all of Midgard.

As if on demand, both older goddesses saw the skies light up as the Program approached the string. This wasn't the system force, this wasn't a standard bolt of lightning, it was a blast from the creator. Urd flew into action, if Keiichi was going to die, she was going to go with him, penance for her hand in this matter. Wrapping her arms around him, hugging the body that hosted the soul of the man she loved, Urd was not expecting to feel her sister's arms wrapping around her. "What? Bell what are…" Urd could only ask before the bolt hit.

It missed, more accurately, it was diverted to avoid erasing both Norn's and mortal. The force of the blast did shove all of them away from the string and to a heap on the ground. Looking down at the two women hugging him, the program laughed mightily. "Yes! I have the perfect body! The perfect…perfect…I feel like crap," the Program started to sound weaker. Body covered in bruises, both self-inflicted and from the last ditch effort from the Almighty, the program was not faring to well.

"Take my body then, just release him. I won't let him die, and Bell can't heal him while you're in there. Abetting you will get her license revoked. I won't fight you, I deserve this," Urd stood up and dusted herself off. Standing with hands outstretched, Urd didn't feel the disk anymore. She must have dropped it, or it fell after Father nearly ended all of them? She didn't know, she didn't care…this was her true punishment. "Bell look after him for me," this was what she deserved for acting without thought, of being selfish and impulsive, of hurting her family.

Laughing manically, the Program literally did a little dance before, "This is pointless for you, this body wouldn't survive the scythe being cut, but yours will. Thanks, and know he's begging you not to do this, BEGGING." Keiichi's body pulsated with the same purple light that emerged from the urn and rocketed out of his body and towards Urd, only to get intercepted by the disk hurled by Skuld.

"This is what you get for considering me a kid!" Skuld lorded over her fallen enemy. Picking up the diskette with a pair of pliers, she flipped the disk's switch to read-only. "And now what happens when I run you under one of my magnets?" Skuld joyfully erased the Program with great relish.

Sitting up, Keiichi scratched his head and continued to follow the massive amount of hair he now had. "What happened? Where am I? What is this?!" he cried out in utter shock. His only answer was Urd diving atop him and peppering his face with her amorous advances.

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Sitting cross legged and bewildered before the rubble that used to be his home, Keiichi hardly felt Urd leaning against him. He had just been possessed by a sentient computer program that wanted to undo reality, a new for him. He had just lost his home, another new thing. OH and the last new thing for right now was his body had been modified by said program. Lots of new things today, but a testament to how his life had changed since Urd came into it, he wasn't screaming stark raving mad. Yup, he was just a little in shock right now. Grabbing at the hair pooling around his legs, he just ran his fingers through it.

"K-Kei-chan, you going to say anything? You've been quiet since we deleted the Destruction Program," Urd poked his cheek. All of them were a little on the shell-shocked ticket at the moment, not every day you watch somebody stand before the fount of all physical matter with the intention of destroying it.

Turning to Urd, Keiichi's heart swelled in his chest to near bursting. This woman was going to sacrifice herself for him, hard not to feel something at that. Drawing Urd in close, she resisted a little at first but eased into it. He didn't mind that they had an audience at the moment, this had to be done. After he got his momentary fill, guy didn't want to upset his girlfriend's sisters, "Never do something like that again. You're worth more than me. I'm just some guy that likes motorcycles, you're an actual goddess. Universe needs more of you than of me."

"That is not true at all Keiichi-san. You are far more than just that. The world needs you just as much as us," Belldandy confessed in her saccharine tone. Walking about the wreckage of their home, she tilted her head and gave both of them a wide smile. Picking up one of her destroyed tea cups, it cracked and broke in her hand. Dusting off the remnant, "But I will agree that you shouldn't be so brash Urd. It worked out because Skuld-chan found that diskette, but if she hadn't…I never want to lose you."

After their little tongue match, Urd was oddly docile at Keiichi's side. With her arm around his waist, head against his shoulder, she was mush, "Big softy. You're supposed to be angry with me. Yell at me for being stupid. Not…not…" She just hugged him stronger, the reality of what she almost did must have been dawning on her as she just was much more timid.

"I guess we better try and contact Megumi or somebody about a place to sleep tonight," Keiichi leaned against Urd. Shoulder to shoulder, he felt intoxicated by her warmth. Picking up a hunk of wood, he chucked it at the pile. All his things destroyed, his home gone, and oddly enough his bike for the contest were all gone. "Can't sleep in a pile of wood. I'll have to try finding a new place for us. Did you want to wake Skuld-chan now or let her sleep longer?" Keiichi didn't want to move. The sun was setting and the clouds broken up above them, it was a beautiful sunset but he could feel the cold start to creep in.

Shoulder bumping Keiichi, Urd chuckled a little. Pointing at Belldandy, "You really do underestimate us Goddesses, Kei-chan. Putting that bundle of twigs back together is nothing for Bell. Especially with her seal undone." Her hand went up and traced her restored Goddess branding reverently. Digging her bare feet into the dirt, she wiggled closer to Keiichi and grabbed his hand. "Our home is here, my home," she muttered under her breath just loud enough for Keiichi to hear.

Arms going outstretched, Belldandy started talking in that language that Keiichi couldn't understand, but warmed him regardless to hear. As her chanting increased in pitch and tempo the shrine started to rebuild. Wood reknit together, furniture flew to its rightful place, and the land itself flattened and was made whole again. A sum of maybe twenty seconds was all it took for Belldandy to start and finish her recover effort. Flittering back to the ground, Belldandy turned to the pair with a small curtsy, "Shall we go inside? Everything is as it was before, with the sad exception of your reagents, sister. They will have lost their potency."

"I don't think my mind will ever see that and not be marveled by it," Keiichi had to rub his eyes. These two women were far beyond humanity, beyond him. Clutching Urd's hand tighter, he wondered for the umpteenth time why she stayed with him. With much reluctance, he got up and Urd joined him. Keeping in step with him, he found she was just as loath to release his hand when they got to Skuld. But she did as he bent down, picking up the slumbering Goddess of the Future, "What do we do with that scythe she made? And what do we do about my hair and um…clothing?"

Wrapping the long main around her hand, Urd playfully tugged on it, "I think you should keep it. Be nice to have a leash on you. Though I don't think I like you having silkier hair than me. It's not fair. As for the outfit…" Urd slid her had hand into V cut of the top and gave his chest a good fondle. If Skuld had not been in the way she might have tried straying down based on her look…it was a look Keiichi knew. It was one she gave him Sunday before this whole mess started.

"I better put her in her room," Keiichi found himself lost in that expression Urd was beaming. It wasn't hard to see what she wanted, this ordeal had been hard on them and they wanted to put the business to bed. A bolt of lightning however, struck not far away from them, and Keiichi saw it wasn't natural again. Well, unless lightning had the habit of doing no damage and leaving writing in a language that hurt his eyes to see. Not wanting to sound worried but failing, "A message, think its good news?"

The trio surrounded the pulsating blue sprawl of words, and the two that could comprehend it had two very different expressions. Urd's eyes went wide and she let out a loud wordless cheer. Belldandy however put her palm to her cheek and frowned just a little. "The system crashed due to the force Father used and reveal of the Super String. We're all confined to earth until it is fixed, and our powers limited. The System Force is down," Belldandy gazed over at Urd with that worried look.

"And why is she so happy?" Keiichi asked. Pointing at Urd, the Goddess of the Past was dancing about the field laughing and jumping. It was great to see her so happy, but not knowing the cause was a little distressing.

Rushing back to them, Urd hugged Belldandy since Keiichi was otherwise occupied. "I got my license back! It's probationary, but because of my 'selfless act' Father has seen fit to forgive me and give me another chance!" she thrust her hands up in the air. Giving Belldandy a series of increasingly fast spins, she let go of the Belldandy-top, and pranced up to the shrine. Throwing the door open, "Let's get smashed to celebrate! Bell, you can have a soda if you want to join in. The nightmare is over!" Vanishing into the temple, the lights turning on, Urd could be heard continuing her merriment.

"Guess she has a reason to be happy. This license thing was hard on her. But what about you, Belldandy-san. You don't look to chipper?" Keiichi shifted Skuld in his arms. Following behind Urd to the temple, his arms could hold a lot but Skuld was a dead weight. Notions about systems, forces, and godlike powers were issues he had to deal with but never suffer directly.

Staying at Keiichi's side, Belldandy's head was down crest, "It means our powers will be severely limited if not cut off. If we don't return home we might start having some issues. As for the System Force, it's what kept Urd and your wish protected. Without it, if somebody or something tried to…get between you they could succeed. And I must confess, I am ashamed of my actions during our encounter with the Lord of Terror. How much-how much do you remember of that?" Opening the door to Skuld's room, Belldandy moved out of Keiichi's way.

"Very little really," Keiichi laid Skuld down. Her arms around his neck refused to let go after she was put down. Muttering in her sleep, unintelligible words and sounds, yet her grip was iron. "Little help here? She grabby in her sleep?" he asked. With Belldandy gently prying Skuld's fingers off his neck, Keiichi stood over the young woman. She curled to her side and grabbed her blankets the moment they were pulled up. Leaving the room, "I don't remember much really. Just flashes here and there when he got distracted. I know what he wanted to do, I know Urd was messing with his head, and I remember Urd offering herself to take my place. Anything you think I should know that I missed?"

Finding Urd already sitting on the couch, television on to her soap operas, and two large bottles of sake and a long two litter of cola waiting for them, Belldandy shook her head. "Urd will tell you what you need to know. It might even be for the best that you not know some of what happened," she rubbed her arms as they sat on the couch. Urd being herself sat in the middle and made the two part. Looking timidly at the soda, "Are you sure this is a good idea Urd?" Belldandy closed her eyes and willed her seal back to lock.

"Of course it is! I've my powers back, Father forgave my stupidity, Kei-chan is his lovably self, and the future is ours!" Urd took another deep drink. Pouring booze into Keiichi's cup and soda into Belldandy's, she pushed the cups into their hands. "She gets drunk on coke, Kei-chan, can you believe that? Think I'd be dead if that happened to me. And I'm not talking my three sails to the wind drunk, my dear little sister gets HAMMERED" Urd roped Keiichi with her arm and yanked him against her chest.

Wanting to push away, but not knowing where to put his hands, Keiichi just let Urd have her moment. She'd dial it back soon, he hoped. While he was aching to scoop Urd up and take her to her room, it was wrong to do with Belldandy in the room. "Urd, how are you so tanked so fast?" she never got this blitzed so fast. The whole days' worth of teasing and taunting, pent up emotion, and wanting was crashing over him. Finding Belldandy looking at her beverage, "You don't have to drink with us if you don't want to, Belldandy-san." But to get drunk off coke, maybe gods and goddesses had odd issues after all.

"I can have one without to much issue," Belldandy said more to herself than to the others. Sipping her cup, her cheeks nearly instantly bloomed into the coloring of being buzzed. Urd of course cheered and kept up the tempo! Flashing through television stations, keeping their cups filled, Urd was a whirlwind of energy and merriment. Two hour into the celebration, Belldandy stood up, crawled between Urd and Keiichi and took both of their hands. Slurred and eyes half laden, "So glad…you two…happiness…a family here…" And she was out like a light.

The moment Belldandy was snoring cutely, Urd got off the couch and pulled Keiichi with her. "Took longer than I thought for her to finally pass out. Hope you haven't drunk to much to not perform. We have the night to ourselves, I'm putting a seal up around your room, and we are going to make good on all those thoughts you've in your head. Don't try to lie, the Program told us ALL about them…painting me white in your mind are you? Dirty boy," Urd lost a good portion of her drunken air. A trick, she had been playing both of them!

"You…you know about that?" Keiichi gasped as he lifted Belldandy off the floor. Laying her on the couch, he pulled the afghan his mother sent off the back and covered the middle sister. Having his few sexual fantasies known left Keiichi more than a little embarrassed. Scratching the back of this head, fidgeting nervously, "A-about that...I mean I don't REALLY want to do that. Just at times when you get so hard on teasing I get the frustrated. It's not like its something..."

Grabbing Keiichi's wrist, Urd just gave him a very withered look that broke into a cheeky grin. "And I don't want to throw you down on your futon and ride you into the sunset. Kei-baby...fantasies are just things we haven't asked each other about yet. So how about we start asking?" she said huskily. Gently goading the man from the living room, they turned the light off as they went, Urd was near running by the time they got to his room. Opening the door, she twirled around it leaving Keiichi standing there just mystified. Calling out, "Are you coming or did you want to do this in front of Bell?"

This was going to happen, it was finally going to happen. Keiichi didn't know how he felt about that. Sex was part of a relationship, he was in a serious relationship with Urd. If they did this, and she had to leave for some reason, what would he do? His body was frozen with that fear. To open himself up to this woman all the way, he was risking a big pain. How he felt when Urd was gone for two days was hard...but to go all in what would he feel if she had to leave for two years...two decades? What was time for a goddess?

Keiichi would have stood there debating if he should or shouldn't step into his room for ages, had Urd not grown impatient. "Kei-chan, you're over thinking things. I'm not going anywhere, I'm staying here with you forever. Even if the system is down, even if I could leave now and say to hell with your wish. I'm not going to. I'm here because I love you, so if you love me get your cute butt in here," she said somberly.

"How could you doubt me?" Keiichi asked as he stepped into the room. The very moment he crossed the door frame it shut. A light blue light surrounded the room for a moment then faded. Urd's hands brutishly thrust him to the ground atop his futon. Spinning him around, she tore off his little leather ensemble. Putting his hands up defensively, "Woe-woe slow down Urd, what's the r-rush?"

Already nude, Urd straddled him, knees on each side of his waist, "Never doubted you. I've waited for this for months, you've waited for this for months. Why give them a chance to ruin it for us again?" She leaned over him, her hair intermingling with his as she filled his whole world. Reaching under his pillow she pulled out a pill, "Was going to give you this the other day, glad I didn't. It would have ruined that night for sure. Say 'ah' and trust me."

"Ah" Keiichi closed his eyes and waited. If this was going to happen, he was going to trust Urd. He knew she had partners before, with how long she lived it and how she lived it was expected. No judgment, no trouble, he trusted her. When he felt her tongue enter his mouth and the pill fall down his throat, he swallowed it instantly. So what was it to be? What type of pill did she give him? Energy, pure, raw, and unbridled erupted from his stomach. Wrapping Urd in his arms, he spun her over, and broke their deep kiss, his member already throbbing and brushing against her thigh. Had he ever felt it so raw before?

Rubbing her thigh against his presence, "That for me, or are you just teasing me?" Urd batted her eyes at him. A tease all the way, of course she had to be, but a tease that delivered from time to time. Reaching down, she guided him and nodded, "Just a small push...one little push. Its on you." She left it to him, he had to do it.

What few times they were together in the past, Keiichi had felt that heat before, and felt that moisture, and didn't have to look to know she was ready willing and able. "Worth waiting for," Keiichi muttered as he thrust forward. Both Urd and he shuddered instantly at the penetration. She was a damn vice, gripping and squeezing him. Definitely different than foreplay, that was for damn sure.

"Belldandy was right, oh Father was she right," Urd barked out. Slapping her hands on the futon, her body shuddered. Sensitive minx. After another slap, she wrapped her arms around her man and kissed the side of his mouth. "N-never had a climax just from starting...small..." Urd saw Keiichi's eyes go wide and licked his nose, "small climax stupid. You're plenty big. You're just right for me." When Keiichi didn't move, she bucked two quick times to restart his mind.

Whatever Urd was talking about, Keiichi would ask later. When he did get an answer it was that Urd never had such emotions for one of her partners before. Love was not the spice to make the act worth it, the act was what gave sex meaning. Lasting a whole three minutes, Keiichi felt shameful as he knew he was bout to blow. "Urd, I'm going...I'm going..." Keiichi didn't know if she could get pregnant by him or not or what to do.

"One fantasy destroyed," Urd cried out ecstatically as she pushed Keiichi out just enough. He sprung up like a plunger released and released all over Urd's stomach, gout after gout. What had she given him? Even after he finished making a small puddle on her belly, he was ridged and ready to go. Rubbing his essence into her skin like a skin cream, "Don't think this is the end yet, it's my turn now." Urd gave Keiichi's shoulder a meaty slap and he fell onto his back. She was up an on him before his head had a chance to rest. Leaning back onto him, she shuddered again, "Going to be doing this...a lot Kei-chan...never enjoyed it like this before."

Feeling more than controlling his hands being lifted and placed on her breasts, Keiichi fell into repetition. "Never knew it'd be..." Keiichi stopped trying to talk. It would just be silly chatter, a virgin's gasping and pandering to a literal goddess of love atop him. Knowing how Urd liked her beasts handled, she was an excellent teacher, he did his best to bring out more moans and louder cries from her. Yes, sex was a wonderful thing, but she was more than this body...more than this act...but he would not hide from her wants of it anymore. Whatever Belldandy did to him to make him...sag...they'd overcome it.

The second time they finished about the same time, Keiichi felt he lasted much longer this time. Urd just rolled off him after he fired up on her chest again and positioned herself over his face. Time for a little taste test. Insatiable, he felt he was and knew she was. Months of being pent up, of waiting for this act, of officially saying "I'm yours." And it didn't end with just two times, they went again and again until they passed out in one another's arms. In the morning, they took a bath together, and Keiichi tried not to feel embarrassed the way Urd snuggled against him at breakfast. Her sisters had to know something happened, but they didn't say anything. A new dawn for them had come, a new page in their relationship, and they walked into it arm in arm.

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Authors Notes

And that was a very quick rendition of the story up to the Lord of Terror. Its different of course and it will keep going that way. Hope you enjoyed it, and the more up-front relationship that Keiichi and Urd have. Coming up next...Peorth starts having dreams.

Zentrodie