Disclaimer: I do not, nor have I ever owned "Oh My Goddess", though if I ever got a Wish of my own, that might be subject to change. ;)
Wishes Fulfilled, Ch. 2
by Evilprozac79
Her first instinct had been to run to the phone and call Heaven to find out what had happened, but Skuld rapidly shelved that idea, remembering the room with the woman inside of it. Jumping to her feet, she ran towards the girl's juice cup and dove in, teleporting back home. Had she stayed just a moment longer though, she'd have seen the room slowly begin to change, erasing all signs of there having ever been a child living there.
Eventually, it was as if Olivia had never existed...
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Appearing back at the Temple, breathlessly Skuld ran through out the home, hunting until she found Belldandy in the kitchen, humming to herself as she cooked. Only then did Skuld catch her breath, panting as she gasped out desolately, out of breath. "Onee-chan... I had my first wish... I think... I screwed it up!"
Turning to favor Skuld with her everpresent smile as she worked, Belldandy restrained her laugh, certain that it was nothing so bad. Skuld was probably over-reacting, panicking needlessly. Setting her knife down, she walked over to the freezer, opening it up and pulling out a small pint of ice cream, walking over to set it into her younger sister's lap. "Okay then, tell me what happened." She said as she picked her knife up and began to resume cutting vegetables for dinner.
Skuld graced Bell with a grateful look, tearing the icecream open and beginning to shovel it into her mouth as she told her tale about the wish. "And then she just exploded, Onee-chan! I blew her up!" Finishing up, tears flowed freely down her cheeks before she wiped them away with her sleeve. "I was so happy because Daddy let me do this, and instead, I killed a little girl who just wanted someone to love her!" She wailed, inconsolably. Not even ice cream, her favorite thing in the world, could help her. Looking down at it with narrowed eyes, she frowned, feeling like it had betrayed her.
"Skuld... I don't think you killed her. Father wouldn't let that happen, and if you think he wasn't watching you carefully through out the whole thing, you'd be mistaken." A voice drifted into the room from the side as Urd strolled in and sat down at the table, a look of concern on her face. She wouldn't admit it, but she'd been insatiably curious about how Skuld's first job went, so she'd eavesdropped from the hallway, just out of sight. "I mean, even you can't be that bad at it!" She added, just to try to show them more of the Urd they'd come to expect.
Deciding to cut the argument off before it began, Belldandy sighed and slipped away from her work to set her hand on her younger sister's back, giving Urd a disapproving look, causing the older sister to wince. "Despite her way of phrasing it, I agree with Urd. Father wouldn't allow such a thing. All I can suggest is that the wish worked as planned, and we just don't know how. But as Keiichi is so fond of pointing out, Father works in mysterious ways." Leaning down to ruffle Skuld's hair, she turned back to her food, humming softly as she set it into the oven to cook.
"I don't know... I'm still worried I sent that girl to Hell, or somewhere worse, like Wisconsin." With a sigh, she pushed herself to her feet before she moved over to the phone and picking it up, dialing Heaven. Surprised by the response to her call, not even given the chance to speak, she hangs it up and turns to look at her sisters, giving them a strange look. "Peorth said that Daddy was expecting this call. He said for me not to worry, the wish went through as expected, and that Olivia is going to end up with a very loving, if somewhat odd family."
Shaking her head and laughing softly, Urd slipped to her feet, moving towards the door in search of her sake. "See squirt? Not even you can screw that up!" Ignoring the dirty look Skuld gave her, she slipped out the room, her laughter following behind. Once she was out of earshot, Urd grinned, pleased with her sister. "I knew you'd be fine, you brat..." She said softly with an affectionate tone.
Picking her ice cream up, Skuld began to resume eating, feeling better, but still disappointed. She wanted to see the look on her first client's face as their wish proved to be everything they wanted and more. Instead, she had to see a scared little girl disappear from in front of her eyes. Dropping her spoon into the ice cream, she pushed it away from herself with a sigh. She slipped to her feet, grabbing the ice cream and tossing it into the freezer, looking over at Belldandy tiredly. "Sorry for skipping dinner, Onee-chan, but I think I'm just going to go to bed. I'm just not feeling so great."
Finished with the rice, Bell walked over to give her a warm hug, stroking a hand through her hair. "Of course Skuld. Get some sleep and some rest. You'll feel better in the morning, and I'll leave your left overs in the fridge for you to eat tomorrow, so don't worry about it, okay?" Smiling warmly, the taller girl gently pushed Skuld towards the door to the hallway, nodding her head towards it. "And I'll let you tell Keiichi about your wonderful first wish, tomorrow morning, okay?"
"You're the best, Big Sis..." Skuld mumbles, feeling her eyes growing heavy as the previous drain began to catch up with her, feeling exhausted now that her adrenaline was wearing off. Yawning softly, she walked down the hallway and into her room, flopping down on it. Only vaguely did she make note of Sigel taking her shoes and coat off of her before laying a blanket over her and turning off the lights, before the young goddess slipped away into dreamland.
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Having taken note of her first case, Skuld spent the next two and a half months carefully granting wishes to her clients, relieved that most of them seemed to be things like retrieving lost puppies or helping the children's parents stay married. It helped her relax and put the original incident out of mind, happy to be helping people and finding a simple pleasure in that. She was now able to begin to see why Belldandy seemed to have loved it so much, but was even more puzzled why her Onee-chan quit, forced to stay with Keiichi.
One thing she didn't like about the wish granting was that they caused her to eat more ice cream, to keep her power levels up. While that in itself wasn't such an issue, it had caused her to gain weight, and her lower power levels made her tired and crabby. It had gotten to the point to where Urd and Keiichi tended to avoid her once she returned from a wish. Shaking her head as she laid in bed, she argued that she wasn't THAT bad, just really not feeling like herself lately. Her mood had grown even worse when Father had decided just the day before that she was to stop granting wishes, for some arbitrary reason.
She frowned a little, reaching a hand down to rub her stomach, feeling it rumble, a little upset. A soft sigh slipped from her lips as she looked over at the clock on the shelf. It had been an alarm clock at one point, but that was boring, so she'd rigged it to explode on June 6th, 2006, in anticipation of a Demon attack. But the day had come and gone, unlike the stomach ache she was feeling.
After Skuld sat up, she realized that was a mistake, scrambling to her feet before she dashed madly to the bathroom, throwing up in the toilet. Roused by the commotion, Belldandy stuck her head in the door, looking confusedly at her little sister. "Skuld? Are you okay?" She knew that Goddesses shouldn't be getting sick, immune to all the mundane causes of nausea that mortals felt. Walking over to get a cup of water from the sink and offer it to her younger sister, she gathered up the sick girl's hair and held it out of the way. Pursing her lips in thought, she lifted her free hand and quietly cast a spell, worried that demonic magic might be at play here.
Hearing a gasp from Belldandy, Skuld looked up from the cup of water she had taken a drink from and raised an eyebrow at her middle sister. "What is it, Onee-chan? Is it a demon's spell? I've got a Skuld bomb with their name on it!" She said in a rush, eager for the chance to take her sickness and bad mood out on someone. "What sort of demonic disease do I have, Bis Sister?"
Belldandy could only shake her head and stare at Skuld in shock, her eyes wide with surprise. "It's not a demonic disease Skuld... It's morning sickness!"
Oooooh... Another cliffhanger! My next chapter probably won't be released this quickly, but I'll definitely be working on it and try to have it out as soon as possible. And I couldn't resist throwing in the Dogma reference!