Chapter 1: Wanna Be Friends?
FTP: Thank you shortchannel4 for your comment. I'll be doing my best in writing this fic. And now let's see whats up in the Morisato household.
Belldandy: Oh dear
Keiichi: Better pack my valuables
Skuld: Disclaimer, author owns only concept of story and OC's. Off to my imminent doom.
A constant buzzing penetrated her brain although her landing had been softened, no doubt the intervention of Amaterasu. The girl would always be the one getting hurt if it was to aid her precious friends. When she came to though she registered a couple of things.
Firstly it should be noted that under all circumstances Urd's screaming of indignation was annoying in every and any moment for Skuld. Secondly, Belldandy was staring at her, weirdly, granted that the pair of goddesses had been catapulted into the Morisato household and had done some good damage but they could always repair it with magic. Thirdly, when she got up Belldandy was shorter and last but not least the immense knowledge that ran through the girls mind at that moment was so overpowering she was nearly pushed to her feet had it not been for Amaterasu who caught her in the nick of time.
"Su...?" this was when she noticed, her friend was Skulds age physically but now her hourglass figure and her long snowy white her that even hid her ears told the goddess of the future Su had grown far too much.
The wolf goddess merely gave a smile as if warning of what is to come, it didn't register in Skulds mind she had also been hit by her invention which was a piece of junk she was starting o regret ever making. For the first time Skuld wished she had not invented a machine.
"Holy Goddesses of Yggdrasil, what happened here?" the french drone hit the water goddess like a hammer straight to the head. Of all the people it had to be the first class goddess Poerth to come and check things, behind her was Lind the stoic Valkyrie which made things even worse. The worse part was that they were staring at her
"Why is Skuld big, the main computer is fine, why is she big!?" she cried losing a little bit her supposed french accent.
'Huh?' the black haired teen frowned before looking down at her body and there she found a pair of things that should not have been developed for a while.
Urd practically gaped at her having been to busy cursing Melody to step on a lego barefoot to notice the change. Keichi was seemingly trying to escape remembering his last encounter with older Skuld although he did notice something was different. Skuld and her friend seemed to be in their late teens, seventeen or so no older. Yet there was something in their eyes, something powerful.
"Aw shit," the teen mumbled figuring out what happened before eying the white haired goddess aiding her in standing.
'She wasn't hit directly, she immediately stepped behind me to catch me, could it be we're...?'
The group settled down in what remained of the Morisato dining room, the television had been completely smashed and the table was a wreck but with a snap of Skulds finger everything was back to normal. Everyone just remained gaping at her for w while excluding the surprised Belldandy and Lind who showed reactions on a smaller scale.
"What? Did you think I'd remain the cute little sister forevermore?" Skuld smirked at the group before taking Amaterasu to her room for a change of clothes. In a few minutes that it took for them to change, Skuld in a pair of jeans, a black t-shirt and a shirt jacket that reached below her chest while her friend simply wore larger versions of her previous goddesses and even Keiichi had figured out it was probably just an excuse for the pair to catch up. When they came back Skuld was smiling serenely and her friend seemed to be, at least, at ease.
"Okay I'm starting, how come you're older?" Poerth asked pointing at the pair keeping her index finger trailed at Amaterasu whom merely raised a brow, "And who told you to come here?"
"Skuld's machine and me," Su replied with a shrug before the water goddess took over cutting off Peorth's anger at the sarcastic reply.
"I received a message from Yggdrasil asking for a machine that could flash forward the time of goddess', obviously i thought it suspicious but I'm a child that likes challenges so I did build it...but it shouldn't have worked..." Skuld sighed, "That is if I wasn't the goddess that magically built robots and such,"
With this she glared at her sisters but let the subject of their keeping her ability a little secret drop. They thought of her well being and no matter how they went about it the wrong way they still meant to do good.
"Okay, what about that Melody?" Urd joined in the discussion.
"Class zero, goddess helper, Melody, we met years ago, when I was even younger..." Skuld murmured clearly not happy with this subject. Amaterasu placed a reassuring hand on her shoulder and continued.
"You must understand there is a system in Yggdrasil that it based on monarchy, every goddess has a task, from the highest class the S class of legend till the very bottom classes," the girls tail flicked in tension before stilling touching the floor.
Lind nodded before raising a hand to interrupt the girl, "That we know but what does that have to do with anything?"
Skuld smiled sadly, "It has to do with everything, class zero is also known as something else in Purgatory, the god servants,"
Keiichi raised his hand at this silencing the goddess of the future who frowned and gestured for him to speak up. What he had to say made the youngest of the room smile, it seemed someone was getting closer to understanding as the goddesses clearly were still blind.
"You mentioned purgatory, and belldandy said it was forbidden so how is it related?" he asked intelligently although his feeble attempt at masking his rising fear was gone unnoticed. He lay cross-legged and trembling while the rest either floated or leaned against the wall, Belldandy instinctively placed a hand on his shoulder to calm his nerves which as always was very effective.
"It's just were the class zero reside, so their suffering goes unnoticed," came the whispered reply, no one knew who spoke if it was Skuld or Amaterasu but it was filled which such anger that it send shivers even through Belldandy.
'Powerful,' that was the one thought on the presents mind, whatever the pair became in the future they were surely dangerous.
"You see heaven is not such a paradise as everyone thinks, the talented will claim praise, the not so lucky will have their share as well but children are cruel no matter what race they are..." Skuld was smiling but something in keiichi's heart was tearing apart at the sight of a saddened goddess. The chocolate brown eyes he had grown accustomed to did not shine with youth no more, he had seen this expression in Skuld only very few times and every time it appeared it was gone in a few seconds leaving him to remark that the child was stronger than anyone gave her credit for.
"Sisters, Peorth and Lind, you as well Keiichi, let me tell you about what lies in serve for the not so talented and the lowest of classes," Skuld raised her arms in front of her, "Or rather let me show you...all you need to do is close your eyes,"
With a nod everyone in the room instinctively obeyed the girl and for a moment their minds went completely blank before the images of a grassy meadow filled their minds.
A small girl with tattered clothes covered in black and red splotches wiped at her nose angrily as a gang of gods and goddesses the same age left running off while laughing as if they had been having the time of their life.
"That's Skuld!" Keiichi roared noticing the black hair and egg like markings on her face as a chorus of hushes responded to his loud statement around him he could see all the goddesses floating with .He finally noticed he was floating himself and they were observing a memory, Skuld's and probably her friends as well.
The young Skuld tried to get up but her knee had been scraped badly and her attempt ended up with her falling flat on her bum.
"Why didn't you tell us your classmates hit you?" Urd growled understanding the implications of the scene.
"So I could feel even worse about myself, so I could become the child that hid behind her sisters?" she spat angrily before pointing at the figure approaching her younger self.
"Hey?" a girl skidded to a halt by Skuld and helped her up, noticeably was the par of ears and the bushy tail that made her recognizable. She herself was seemed worse for the wear.
"Sorry..." the child Su mumbled as she carried Skuld on her back.
Skuld buried her face into the girl's hair and shook, her voice was muffled but audible, "No they separated us, maybe they're not as stupid as we thought,"
"But you're a goddess destined for great things, I'm just a herding goddess why would they target you?" Amaterasu stopped shaking with rage both at her weakness, she was the only goddess in her class who had yet to transform into her animal form. Not to mention she was the only wolf, she was different, but Skuld was supposedly one of them.
"it's because I'm an easy target," Skuld replied in a whisper.
"Then why not it more difficult for them?" a voice echoed up above in the branches of the tree they were under.
A goddess with purple markings on her face grinned evilly and waved at the pair.
"A those white markings on your face, and blue, a herding goddess and a 'pure' one," the girl, who seemed to be around fourteen in human age, jumped down in front of the younger ones and greeted them with an extended hand, on her back they could now clearly see there was a child a few years younger than them. The child had beautiful blonde hair and eyes the colour of sea green.
"i'm Melody, and this is Symphony my little sister, wanna be friends?" the innocent smile that the girl gave off was the same that the woman did a few hours before yet there was the missing element of hate.
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