Ah My Goddess Fan Fiction / Hellsing Fan Fiction / Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Daimakaicho Ranma ❯ Ah! Enter Goddess' part I ( Chapter 6 )

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By: Tuisto

Daimakaicho Ranma

Chapter six: Ah! Enter Goddess'!

Part I

It was a bright sunny day in the Nekomi Tariki Hongan Temple where a trio of sisterly goddess' resided on earth, and where currently the heavenly aroma's wafting through the house from the kitchen were signaling yet another culinary delight being prepared by the middle sister, Belldandy was rousing the eldest goddess Urd from her alcohol tinged slumber.

Sitting up in her purple canopy bed, Urd smacked her dry lips sleepily as her stomach made its presence known by grumbling loudly causing her to smile embarrassedly to herself and to quicken her morning ablutions, so with literal supernatural speed she was washed, coifed and dressed in a tight fitting purple mini-skirt, a red blouse that was bordering on `tube-top' and a cheetah pattern mini-jacket, this was not to mention all of the gold bangles and baubles, and was soon making her way down the hall to the dining room so as to not miss the unveiling of yet another culinary masterpiece… But before she reached the sliding door she heard her sisters talking animatedly… more specifically she heard Skuld griping over something… so to be the proper big sister, Urd held back to… well… spy is such a nasty word… on what dear impressionable Skuld may be talking about.

After a few moments of listening to Skuld prattle on, Urd was getting bored and was thinking that she might as well go in and await Belldandy to serve breakfast, when what she heard Skuld say venomously through the paper-door caused all the color to drain from her tanned face and her jaw to drop.

…“I can't believe that Halflingcould be so… so… agh!”…

Urd was no stranger to prejudice of course, she'd often enough heard both Infernals and Celestials whispering about “that Halfling” when she was around… but to hearthat from her dear little half sister was such a deep blow…

`I'm not going to cry…' Urd thought to herself as she turned around sharply to settle her nerves, only to run right into Keiichi who was looking at her concernedly.

Finally after several awkward moments Keiichi asks “Urd… are… are you okay?”

“It's… that is… it's um nothing... just not enough sleep you know…” Urd said dismissively and with an obviously false stretching-yawn for emphasis.

Keiichi didn't buy her act for even a second and said “Urd… really what's wrong? You looked so lost for a moment there… I'm your friend… you can tell me if something's upset you…”

“Like I said… it's nothing… I just you know… overheard Skuld say something about a Halfling… no big… ” Urd said looking uncomfortable and trailing off into a mumble.

An odd look crossed Keiichi's face as he then curiously asked “Urd… what's a `Halfling'?”

Urd let out a small strangled laugh and said dismissively “Oh that… it's just what… well I know it sounds silly… but it's what some gods and demons call other gods or demons whose parents are one god and one demon… you know mixed and all that… a silly nothing like I said… Now come on, I'm sure that Belldandy is waiting…”

Urd was just turning to head into the dining room trying as hard as she might to clear her head of unpleasant thoughts when Keiichi's hand grabbed her by the shoulder, and with a surprising strength he turned her around and looked right into her eyes… What Urd saw there she couldn't clearly identify… it was almost like anger.

“Are you saying…” he paused to take a deep breath “… did Skuld call you this `Halfling' word?” Keiichi said with a frown.

Urd opened her mouth to say something… but then clicked her mouth shut, then she sighed and then with none of her usual animated vigor she turned her head to look at the still closed door and said “Keiichi… just drop it. It's nothing. I've heard it all before so I just tune it out, so just leave it alone `kay?” with that Urd made to head for the door.

But before she could reach the door, Keiichi brushed past her and barred her path saying “I may not know a lot of things Urd, but I know how words can really hurt, and Skuld's crossed the line with this!” Then Urd's image of the calm quite easy-going young man standing before took a serious blow as with great force he slammed and the sliding door open with a loud bang and shouted “SKULD!...”

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Skuld was not having a good morning… she didn't have much of a good night either as her room was adjacent to the dining/living room where the TV was… and were all through the night Skuld had to listen to Urd hoot and holler… and then all the moaning and words like “harder!” and “faster!” emanating from those later night TV shows that Urd watched kept her awake until way way past her bedtime.

So with reddened sleepy eyes Skuld had tiredly walked into the dining/living room… and saw the complete and absolute mess that Urd had left the room in from her late-night activities. From the empty beer cans on top of the dearly precious television leaving nasty smelly sticky rings, to the Urd-shaped ring of empty plastic junk-food baggies littering the floor.

But what she saw next truly drove Skuld into a conniption fit as she saw her beloved older sister come out of the kitchen to set a hot covered platter on the table, but then sigh and bend over to start picking up the litter on the floor… Belldandy, the First Class Goddess Unlimited and star of the Goddess Relief Agency picking up Urd's TRASH!?

Outrage was the first thing to really hit Skuld's mind as she saw her sister diligently cleaning up a mess that was not her own, and finally Skuld managed to shout “Onee-sama! What ARE you doing?”

Belldandy looked to Skuld and smiled serenely as she said as she continued to pick things off of the floor “Oh, just tidying up a little before Urd and Keiichi come to breakfast.”

“But… BUT its Urd's mess let her clean it up!” Skuld quickly spluttered out.

“Oh, it's really nothing Skuld, I'm sure Urd had good reason to leave a little mess, see it's almost all gone now …” Belldandy said kindly as she then started to take things off the top of the television then wiped it off with a damp cloth to get those sticky beer rings.

“Good reason?! Little mess?!... But you shouldn't have to do this at all!...” Skuld screeched, then said venomously “…I mean… I mean… I can't believe that Halfling could be so… so… agh!”

A gasp is the only sound in the room after Skuld's outburst, she then looked to Belldandy, the source of the gasp, to see her knocked to the floor on her shapely bottom with wide eyes and a hand partially covering her opened mouth… what was worse was the effect that look on Belldandy's face had on Skuld, as it was the same kind of look Belldandy might give someone that said they kicked puppies for the fun of it.

Too late Skuld realized exactly what she said was one of the No-no words, and with wide eyes she clasped both her hands over her mouth.

“Skuld…” Belldandy began breathlessly “… why… why did you say that?”

Skuld fidgeted for a moment under Belldandy's surprised and disappointed gaze then said nervously “Onii-sama… I didn't mean… but… but you shouldn't have to do these things… but Urd just expects… and… and…”

Belldandy sighed as Skuld trailed off incoherently, then said “Skuld… Skuld look at me…” she paused until she had Skuld's attention “… I know that you think Urd is just… well… thoughtlessly rude sometimes, but I've known her far longer and better then you have…” she paused as Skuld took a seat next to her then said “… Skuld think for a moment, how would you feel if our mother Freya had to leave you forever and you were told you couldn't see her again?”

Skuld looked absolutely stricken at the though then cried out “That's awful! I don't know… but how could you even say something like that Onii-sama?!”

A look of sorrow flashed across Belldand's face for a moment, and then she said in a strained voice “Because Skuld… this was before you were born so you wouldn't know… that happened to Urd the day before I met our half-sister for the first time. And even though Urd seems so bold and brash… I think she's still hurting on the inside, never feeling like she belonged as a great many gods resented her being in Asgard… more-so now after The Lord of Terror…” she paused with a sigh “… and yesterday with her mother coming here didn't help any… So I know and I… we that is… let her do as pleases her…” she trailed off not needing to say more as Skuld look guiltily at the table top.

Just as a sinking feeling was beginning to settle into Skuld's belly, the sliding door to the room was suddenly slammed opened with a loud bang and there stood Keiichi with Urd behind him he then shouted angrily “SKULD! Get Up and Apologize to Urd NOW!”

“W-what?” Skuld croaked out in absolute surprise.

“Something about a certain “Halfling” I believe was said… Skuld now what might that something of been?” Keiichi asked heatedly.

“H-how much did you hear?” Skuld said looking down ashamed

Before Keiichi could say anything Urd stepped forward into the room and said blandly “He didn't hear anything squirt… I heard it all though…” as a look of shame began to grown on Skuld's face Urd continued bitterly “… of course my Halfling hearing may not be as good and pure as yours… so I might of misheard you… did I Skuld?”

Skuld was looking intently at the floor not meeting Urd's gaze as she mumbled something.

“What was that Skuld? I didn't hear that.” Urd said not too kindly.

Finally Skuld looked up showing her face with quivering lip and teary eyed and then stammered “Urd… Onii-sama I mean… I'm… I'm… sorry… so sorry…” Skuld trailed off as tears started to roll down her cheeks.

Only a moment later, Urd bent down in front of Skuld and grasped the younger girl by the shoulders and said with a warming voice “Hey kiddo… don't cry… it's okay…”

“You're not mad?” Skuld said timidly.

“Of course I'm mad… but never at you Skuld… I'm mad at people that say things like that, BUT really mean and believe it, But you know why I'm not mad at you?...” Urd paused as Skuld shook her head “…it's because I know you don't mean things like that, it's just not in you. And I know, I'm your Big Sis' after all. But you gotta' promise me something Skuld…”

“What? Anything Onii-sama.” Skuld asked with conviction as she used her sleeve to dry her cheek.

“You gotta' promise me you'll never ever say that again. Promise?”

“I promise, never again!” Skuld said almost in her usual happy tone with barely a trace of a hic from her slight earlier crying.

“Uh-uh-uh… you gotta' made it count kiddo…” with that Urd hooked her pinky finger “… pinky promise or it doesn't count.”

Skuld quickly caught on and with a slight smile hooked her own pinky finger with Urd's and said “I pinky promise!”

Now smiling Urd messed Skuld's raven locks of hair and said kindly “Squirt, you look like a mess… how `bout you go get cleaned up then we'll have breakfast okay?”

“Okay Okay already!” Skuld said as she tried to fix her now wildly messed hair as she ran from the room.

A strange smile was on Urd's face as she watched her littlest sister run down the hall, then she turned to look at Belldandy who was smiling at her, Urd then asked confusedly “…What?”

Belldandy smiled sweetly and said “Urd, I'm proud of you.”

“Feh… that was nothing she didn't mean it, and I've heard worse… but I tell you now, when I find the gods she heard that kind of thing from I'm gonna'…” Urd trailed off as she illustrated her point by punching one hand into the palm of the other several times and smiling cruely.

Belldandy almost giggled and said “I'm sure they'll see your point Urd…”

It was at this point that Keiichi who had been standing back watching spoke up looking lost “Wait a sec here… I'm confused… what just happened anyway? I mean Skuld called Urd a name… and Urd you were all non-chalant at first but then got mad about it… then Skuld was crying… and you, Urd, forgave her? I… I just don't get it.”

Urd chuckled slightly and said “Silly Keiichi you don't need to understand, it's just that…” Urd paused; then Urd and Belldandy spoke in an eerie unison “…We're sisters!”

It was at this point that Skuld came rushing back into the room to see Keiichi do a massive face-vault into the floor… a sight that had all three sisterly goddess' giggle lightly at the odd sight.

With his face still firmly planted in the floor, Keiichi mumbled out with muffled speech “So when's breakfast again?” which only caused a new `bout of giggles from the sisters.

Just as Belldandy, with a lightened mood, stood to finish bringing out breakfast, Banpei with his wood staff in hand ran past the still open door, beeping madly on his mad-dash down the hall.

“Oh my, Banpei's in quite a hurry, do you suppose Mara is here Urd?” Belldandy asked naively with her hand cupping her cheek.

Urd snorted unladylike and said “Well… it's awfully early for her to be out doing something stupid…” Urd paused as she stood “… better go see what it is this time before the tin-can gets to her though.” Urd ignored Skuld's trailing indignant shouts at calling Banpei a tin-can as she and Belldandy, with Keiichi trailing curiously, walked out to the back deck of the temple house to only see Banpei moving his head side to side scanning the back-yard with his staff raised defensively, and no sign of Mara… or anyone else.

Curious, Belldandy was about to ask Mr. Banpei what the matter was when there was a small purple streak in the distant tree tops, the purple streak then zigged through more tree tops coming closer, the purple streak then zagged through more not-so-distant tree tops its destination now obvious as the temple.

With her gaze firmly tracking the zooming purple streak Belldadny said with a tone of worry “Urd…”

“I see it Bell…” Urd said back quickly as she took a defensive stance and raised her right hand where a crackling sphere of purple and black energy quickly formed.

Off in the rapidly decreasing distance the purple streak seamed to blur a bit, then it vanished abruptly leaving the three sisters to blink-blink, and just as Skuld had begun to reach into her blouse for a scanner there was suddenly a blurring distortion in the air only a meter in front of them that quickly resolved itself into the shape of a little old bald man in a purple martial artists Gi kneeling in front of them.

Just as Keiichi was about to ask who the heck the guy was, he saw Belldandy cringe and pull her left arm protectively over her bosom, Skuld whipped out her debugging hammer, and Urd quite suddenly had a blazing red aura around her whipping her white hair in an ethereal wind as she screamed “HAP-PO-SAI!!!” and then readied to throw her Urd-blast.

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Lizasa Lenaoko was starting to get frustrated as he searched for the three earth bound goddess'. Finding them wouldn't be so hard if only he could contact Yggdrassil but for some reason he still couldn't get through to anyone in the Spirit Relief Offices, this left him with only being able to feel for them with his spiritual senses, which in truth wasn't terribly difficult as it was more or less like looking for high-powered searchlights in the night sky, the problem though was finding the exact point that the light originated from. So here he'd been doing small-range teleports that was maxing-out the limit on his power, and then tree-hopping and running with pure martial artists' skill trying to zero in on the three nova's of power he could feel in the general area.

`But where are they!?' He thought to himself in annoyance as he hopped his way through yet another stand of trees. He then zigged to the left to glance down at some inconspicuous shopping area, not seeing any sign of them there he then zagged to the right through other trees to peer off in the distance at some non-descript post-modern school campus, sighing in building frustration he zigged again through more stands of tree and saw an expansive Temple Courtyard Complex on top the area's predominant hill which caused him to mentally slap himself and think `A temple! Lizasa you dummy, you're losing it, of course they'd be at a temple!'

With renewed hope he powered up for yet another short distance teleportation and fazed out of the tree tops to reappear the next moment right in front of three beautiful women radiating power.

What luck he actually teleported right to their feet!

He was just about to prostrate himself and make introductions as well as his plea before the goddess' when he saw a red aura blaze suddenly around the white haired goddess as she screamed “HAP-PO-SAI!!!” as she looked ready to throw an ominous energy ball.

It was that instant that he realized that Happosai's reputation must've preceded him, and that appearing before three womanly goddess' in the form of the highly-perverted martial artists master may not have been the wisest move…

Slowly he began to back away, shaking his hands in a defensive manner and said weakly “Now, now let's not do anything rash, this isn't…”

“Silence!” Urd screamed “Honolulu, 1972, you took my bikini top… While I was wearing it!” she shrieked, then calmed oddly “…I'm going to enjoy smiting you!” with that she threw her Urd-blast at the wrinkled pervert who dodged it… barely.

“Wait! Wait! It's not what you think!” He screamed as he landed from the dodge, only to feel an odd chill run up his spine, and looked up to the sand-blond haired goddess' frowning face.

Belldandy frowned looking down at the perverted little gnome and said “You're not nice!” as she swung her arm, causing a torrent of wind to lift the faux-Happosai into the air and forcefully smash him into a tree.

As Keiichi was gaping at the spectacle and Belldandy for saying that someone -wasn't- nice, there was the cry of “Nasty old man, take this! Skuld Bomb!” followed by an explosion that rocked the temple courtyard, but as the dust settled there was no sign of Happosai until there was a cry of “Hotcha!” followed by Happosai saying condescendingly “Little girls shouldn't play with such dangerous toys!”

As Skuld whirled around behind her she saw the nasty old pervert… holding ALL of her Skuld-bombs! `How'd he do that?!' was an absent thought until she saw a flash of bright pink lace in the middle of all of her bombs in the perverts arms.

Too late Lizasa also noticed the bit of pink as Skuld's training brassier in his grasp as well as all of her little dangerous toys as he thought `Oh shit… I've beenposing asHapposai far too long…'

Urd standing just a few yards away saw the whole exchange, but when Happosai took Skuld's weapons and inadvertently her bra, Urd began to quake and seethe with anger as she hissed in her mind `He actually touched Skuld! How dare he!' As hate replaced rational thought Urd raised her hand and called out “World of Elegance! Come forth!” with that said an ethereal beauty of contrasting white and black arose from Urd's back glowing with the true determination of an avenging angel, Urd then called out “World of Elegance, Heavenly Fire!” as she said it the angle smiled cruelly as she held one arm forward and pulled the other back as a bow and arrow of holy flame sprung forth in her hands, and no sooner had the arrow of fire formed than Urd's angel released it at Happosai.

Belldandy had also seen the exchange, and her frown deepened as she saw the not-nice pervert holding Skuld's little bra, and without calling out the attack with her usual prayer, she flung both arms wide sending a blast of highly pressurized magical wind at Haaposai from the opposite direction of Urd's flame attack.

With the on rushing attack of magical flame from Urd to his front and the magically charged torrent of wind at his back from Belldandy, the faux Happosai cursed to himself as he realized that he could not dodge the two simultaneous attacks, so in a last ditch effort he drew himself together into a ball, and pushed out as much energy as he could into a protective barrier to take the brunt of the heavenly blasts, he also absently whined to himself `This is gonna' hurt…'.

As the dust and debris from the attacks at the intruder Happosai subsided, The three goddess and one human were rather surprised to see the occupant of the small crater not be the perverted little gnome Happosai, but rather a rather tall bishonen man sitting cross-legged with gray hair that was blasted into a wild sooty tangle and dressed in a once very fine grey hakama that now bore many tears, burns and soot, but what truly caught their attention were the blue Asgard marks adorning his face.

With a small mushroom shaped cough of black soot from his mouth Lizasa Lenaoko said "Are you all quite done?" Seeing all the goddess nodding numbly he muttered "Good" as he then passed out, falling over backwards.

As they all approached the crater, Keiichi was the first to find his voice as he said “Who… who is he?”

Urd looking down at the unconscious man kicked him lightly in the abdomen, getting no response from that, she then muttered "…Haven't a clue…" Urd then noticed a flash of pink in the slightly opened flap of the mans hakama coat, reaching down to pluck it out of the man's coat she pulled out a surprisingly intact pink brassiere and handed it over to a red-faced Skuld saying “I believe this is yours…” she then paused smirking and said "… but it's not like you have anything to fill it with anyways, so I don't know why you bother..."

With an even brighter red face than before Skuld cried out “Urd no Baka! Take that back!”

To which Urd replied in a mature and dignified fashion by sticking out her tongue and pulling down her eyelid and saying "Make me squirt!" And so the chase of younger goddess to elder goddess was once again on…

Back at the crater Keiichi asked Belldandy, while thumbing down at the unconscious man "So, what do we do with him?"

Belldandy bit her lip in worry and replied "I don't know why he did it… But pretending to be that awful, awful man certainly wasn't a nice thing…" with that Belldandy seemed to have an idea and rushed back into the house and moments later returned with a steal bucket of water so cold that condensation was rapidly forming. Keiichi was about to ask what the bucket of water was for when he noticed a slight smirk on Belldandy's lips... as she threw the buckets icy watery contents onto the unconscious man.

The man shot up rapidly with a slight, almost womanly, shriek as the frigid water hit him and then spluttered “What'dja do that for!?”

With a passively neutral face Belldandy looked down at the man she now realized was an Asgard spirit and with added power to her voice simply said, “Explain.”

Lizasa gulped audibly, then bowing low said “A thousand pardons Oh Great High Holy One, I have made a grievous trespass upon you. My name is Lizasa Lenaoko an assigned spirit working a mortal-wish case in Nerima. And the reason I'm here is because yesterday a boy/girl named Ranma was…”

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The Great Demon Leader Hild in all her dark glory stood high on the field of battle of the Kami-plane, sneering cruelly as she cast her gaze through the ranks of Infernal demons and spirits at her command and beyond them to the equally impressive ranks of Celestial warriors and at their center, the being of all-empowered light; Kami-Sama.

As both sides of the battlefield were quickly becoming restless, Hild's first general, a golden-skinned snake demoness approached and bowing on one knee before Hild spoke “You're greatness, the other Generals have reported that all legions are ready… your command?”

“Tell them to have patience Sith-chan… timing… remember all things come with proper timing.” Hild said patronizingly to the kneeling Sith.

“But Hild-sama, Lord Akibu worries about the movements of the Celestials left-flank commanded by Lord Celestine…” Sith said before being cut-off by Hild's red burning gaze freezing her.

With a cold smile Hild said “I told you to be patient Sith-chan… now watch, you might actually learn something.”

Hild then began stepping forward through the ranks of Infernals, demons and beings of darkness alike parting like a sea before their Dark Demon-Goddess, some were even worshiping on bent knee casting dark prayers at her as she regally strode forward, leaving arcs of lightning behind her footfalls.

Once at the front of her forces she once more looked up upon the source of awe-inspiring sweeping light, she then looked beyond the halo of Holy Light to the man underneath, the father to her child, Kami-Sama, and saw the look of sorrow and pity that marred his features. That look just seemed infuriate her!

Hild then closed her eyes and spoke in a calm level voice to Kami-Sama “You've subjugated us in all creation, you've demeaned me and my people by relegating us to the work you won't let your precious Celestials perform. And now…” she paused as her jaw clenched and her eyes began to glow red behind her eyelids “…And now you would dare make us lower and subservient to those… those… short-lived apes on the mortal plane!!” then her eyes snapped open revealing twin glowing red pools of hate that caused the Celestials on the fronts lines to step back from.

“…Kami-Sama, for my people this I cannot allow!” and with that a great thunderous cheer arose from the ranks of the gathered Infernals.

Kami-sama from on high then spoke in a gentle calm voice “Hild, you needn't take this action. You surely must consider the ramifications of this insurgency that I simply cannot allow… Please at least try to understand that these difficult decisions regarding our existences along with the mortals are critical to the…”

Kami-sama was cut off by a snort from Hild, then speaking through her sneer “Yeah… yeah, we've heard it before `critical to the further improving development of the universe'… but toiling away as slaves for the next 10 million years for the mortals beck and call… for gains we'll get little to no part of is unacceptable! So if the status-quo of our two kinds of the eons since the dawn of the universe is no longer `acceptable for the universe'… then I say the universe be damned!” And with that there was a great cacophony of cheers from all the Infernals and booing jeers from the Celestials.

Kami-sama visibly sagged and as the noise from the crowds died down said in a resigned voice “You and you're people… there's nothing I can do to dissuade you from this?”

“No… there are something's… such as forgoing this sycophantic meddling with the mortals, and admitting to equality of power between our two kinds…” Hild said back casually calm.

“Hild…” HE paused “…you know as well as I, that those choices are simple not possible. Be reasonable, surely there's…”

HE was cut off by an angered shout from Hild “NO! There's noting else!...” pause “…I must do what's best for my people. And this benevolent plotting of yours will only lead both our kinds to being slaves to the mortals at best… and a crutch to their weaknesses at worst. And for my kind… this is unacceptable.”

“There's nothing else to say then… is there?” Kami-sama asked resignedly.

Seeing Hild shake her head negative, He sighed and simply said “So be it” as then signal flares of magic light were shot up by both armies into the sky of the spirit-plane causing the assembled armies of The Light and The Dark to charge one-another in a brutal killing fracas.

Angels engaged up against Succubae, outnumbered 5 to 1, mercilessly decimating the succubae ranks with as much power and might their goddess' could spare.

First class demons were firing salvo after salvo of dark brimstone and hell-flame from their outstretched hands at the on rushing gods of war.

Goddess' standing in small circles; chanting, acting as conduits of magical force, firing-off great forces of the elements themselves like great siege cannons at the onrushing demonic horde.

Across the plain lay the fallen, Infernal and Celestial alike, with their dying gasps they simply faded off into motes of dissipating colored facets of lights, leaving only their empty clothes and idle weapons on the ground as testament.

Suddenly a shockwave of power ripped through the fighting, causing both sides to falter and stumble slightly and as a collective looked up to the source of the wave to see a feminine being of the vacuous night-sky of darkness and twinkling stars, locked hand to hand with a masculine being of super-nova blinding light, both trading blows of arcing Holy white lightning and whipping tendrils of black tainted nothingness.

The sight of their respective leaders only spurred on the fighting… and the killing.

And the battle raged for time-unknown, neither side advancing.

“Seems we're well matched Husband Dear…” the feminine voice of darkness drawled as her will clashed the Makers'.

“Perhaps…” HE grunted noncommittally, but Hild knew Him all too well… was HE smirking?

Suddenly the chanting of several male gods rose in volume to almost drown the noise of battle, then to Hild's surprise Kami-Sama shouted “NOW Celestine!” as He disappeared from their struggle leaving Hild to stumble at the loss.

Only to then look up in the direction of Celestine as the circlet of seven brightly glowing gods ceased their chant and cast out the spell.

A ghostlike wall of silvery light interspersed with glowing bands of golden and blue holy script arose from the mists of the spirit-plane, and like a tsunami pushed out, but while it passed harmlessly over the Celestials who viewed it with awe, the Infernals were being mercilessly thrown back screaming in pain by the force landing in crippled heaps; Hild herself barely had time to ready against the force as it descended upon her. For an interminable moment the walls destructive power was stalled as it pressed against Hild's lashing aura of darkness.

With sweat forming on her brow, Hild was pouring as much of her power as possible into stopping the advance of the wall from further harming her people.

Just as it seemed that the edges of the silvery construct were beginning to fizzle-out, Kami-Sama reappeared behind the wall opposite to Hild, she glared at him as he simply shook his head in disappointment, and then placed his hands on the wall, opposite to her own. Immediately it strengthened and was re-empowered, and Hild screamed an unholy universe-piercing shriek as she was over-powered and was thrown violently back through the air as the wall of force redoubled its path of destruction over the ranks of the Infernals.

Moments… Eons later… it stopped with a jarring silence, and only Celestials and Kami-Sama were left standing.

Slowly HE approached Hild as she struggled to find the energy to glare at him, finally with a grave look he opened his mouth to speak…

“Abso-Fucking-lutely No Way!” a feminine voice rang out…

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With a starting gasping breath of air, Hild's eyes shot open to see a red-headed woman, with hands on her hips scowling at down her. She blinked again to see that she was indeed sitting in her private chambers in Helheim Palace of Niffleheim…

Now broken out of her past unpleasant reverie, Hild shook her head to collect her bearings and dispel the memories best left forgotten and said with her near omnipresent mirthful smirk “What was that you said Ranma-chan?”

“I said `Abso-Fucking-lutely no way am I wearin' this… this… dress!' Gah!” Ranma said hotly as she pulled at the hem of the slit of the cheongsam for emphasis.

For a moment Hild appraised Ranma “Why… it seems to be a very nice dress. Just not your style I take it?”

“No, no, No! Listen, not to sound ungrateful or nothin', `cause I really do `preciate you getting' me out from that guy…” she slowed to a pause and squinted her eyes tightly shut for a moment “… and then the whole brinin' me back.. even if I gotta' be a demon… BUT! There ain't no fucking way in Hell that I'm gonna' sit here and wear this dress you've stuck me in! An' that's that!” Ranma stamped her foot to exclaim this.

After Ranma's mini-tantrum Hild just stared at her… Then to Ranma's surprise began to giggle lightly, then Hild leaned forward and pinched Ranma's right cheek and squealed girlishly “You're so CUTE!” she continued “Why… come to think of it… I don't think anyone's ever been so candid right to my face! Marvelous, Ranma-chan!”

With Ranma rubbing her much-abused cheek, Hild continued “But to answer your… heh… demand. It's simply your choice to wear what you want. I didn't dress you in that dress…” she paused to lean up to Ranma's ear and whispered conspiratorially “…but I looooove the look, quite daring.”

Hild then made a grand sweeping gesture with her arms and proclaimed “This place… this realm… is where thoughts are made manifest, and where reality can be bent by will alone. The truth is dear Ranma-chan, you put yourself in that dress.”

“That's a lie! You're lying!” Ranma shouted back, not wanting to hear this.

Hild then `tsk'ed, then vanished from in front of Ranma!

Only to reappear behind Ranma, Hild's arms drapping over Ranma's shoulders, effectively locking the redhead in place as Hild squashed her bosom into her back.

From behind Ranma Hild spoke “Really Ranma… the only one lying here is you to yourself… your own subconscious during the descent into demonhood is what dressed you. And really, after all of the dresses… and even playboy-bunny outfits you've worn…” Ranma blushed like a tomato at that “… can you honestly… to yourself… complain about dressing femininely? Hmm?”

Ranma's shoulders slumped a little as she sighed out “Well… no… I guess. But…” she was cut off by another `tsk' from Hild.

“Uh-huh, no `buts' Ranma-chan…” Hild paused as she began idly to draw little circles with her fingers on Ranma's exposed cleavage, but before Ranma could protest Hild leaned in close and whispered into her right ear “…seeing you now… it really dose make me wonder though what sort of nasty little thoughts are running through that pretty little masculine mind of yours…” she paused feeling Ranma tense-up, her smirk grew a little wider as she then whispered into Ranma's left ear “… or should I say pretty little butch-dyke? Hmm?”

Much to Hild's amusement, Ranma practically teleported out of her embrace and with a beat-red face began spluttering denials as she also tried to cover her exposed cleavage with little success.

“Oh Ranma, Ranma, Ranma…. You're too easy…” Hild chuckled at the redheads' expense.

“Jeez, cut me some slack will ya'?...” Ranma said while regaining her composure “…And when can I get back to Nerima anyways?”

“Oh, are you in a hurry to get back to Nerima?” Hild asked naively.

“Well duh! Yeah I wanna' get back to get my revenge you know!”

“Ah yes… your revenge, tell me Ranma-chan, what did you have in mind?”

Ranma was silent for a moment, as if trying to decide on something, then answered “… I hadn't really thought that far ahead… I guess I'd beat on them till they stopped movin' I guess…”

Hild raised one delicate white eyebrow and asked incredulously “That's it?”

“Well, yeah, I guess. Why, you got a better idea?”

Hild

For a moment a smile crept its way across Hild's face as she said smoothly “Oh, I… might be able to think of… something…”

“Well???” Ranma urged Hild to continue.

Hild clucked her tongue and waged her finger at her saying “All in good time Ranma, you need to be patient. Think about it, at most your betrayers only have a few decades of life left… then their souls could be yours to do with as you please for eternity. So you have all the time you want to think of… things…”

Ranma looked at the white-haired woman in a sense of shock; then gulping said “I hadn't really thought about it like that I guess…”

“Yes… you need to learn to think less of the “Now” and more of the “To-Be”…” Hild said cryptically, then continued “… so think hard, what do you think will hurt them the most. Not just in the now, but in the forever?”

For a minute Ranma just looked confused, then replied haltingly “I… I don't really know…”

Hild smiled reassuringly and said “That's alright, there's always plenty of time, with witch I'll help… But right now…” she drifted off looking Ranma over “… actually, you look a little stressed, do you feel stressed Ranma-chan?”

In response, Ranma's cheek twitched.

“I'll take that as a yes, what do you usually do to burn off stress?” Hild asked, already knowing the answer.

“Uh… well when I'm stressed I like to spar ya' know… But what about gettin' back to Nerima?!”

Smirking, Hild said “You and Nerima this… and Nerima that… you're sounding like a broken record Ranma-chan…” she then paused to shake her head lightly “…but if it's that important to you…” she raised her right hand with a two-fingered boy-scout salute “…I, Hild Promise to Kami-Sama that after you do this one teency-eency-itty-bitty little thing for me I'll take you…” she paused again as a glint of mischief entered her eyes “… back to Japan. Do we have a Deal?”

For a brief moment Ranma scrutinized the rather eccentric white-haired woman, thinking to herself `how bad could it be?' So with a shrug of her shoulders she said “I guess so… Deal.”

Hild then clapped her hands together and squealed out girlishly “Excellent!” then looked away from Ranma and off into the darkness of the chamber and slowly breathed out an ethereal whisper of “Oh Maaaa-chaaannn…”

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As Mara was descending the stairs into her darkened underground lair… that is the old condemned department store on the outskirts of Nekomi, she was saying in a light tone while patting her stomach contentedly “Ah! I'm stuffed! As expected, even though that Belldandy's cooking skill is that of a first-class goddess. Eating bentou alone is nutritionally unbalanced… still the goddesses are pretty nice. She even told me I can visit whenever I want…”

Then Mara heard the most dreaded words possible to be spoken of “Welcome back!!” said by one pre-teenage looking girl, with her white hair up in pigtails, dressed in a child's pink minidress and pink tube-top…

“H-H-H-H-Hild-Sama!, what on earth are you…?!” Mara stuttered out in horrified surprise, skidding to a halt before the diminutive mistress of Hell.

“It's unfair that only you get to eat hot pot… that's why I also…” chibi-Hild said with a pout from her kneeling position as she poked Mara's super-intelligent lab-mice with chopsticks as they dangled over a boiling pot… quite alive and struggling against their shoelace bonds.

“My deepest apologies! I won't fail like this again!” Mara pleaded, now kneeling herself before the much smaller demon-Queen.

“I don't really mind. If you feel content, then I'm happy to…” chibi-Hild said with a kind guilting voice.

“By know means do I feel content…!” Mara flubbed-out.

“But you're full aren't you?” chibi-Hild asked in a curious tone.

“Th-that's…” Mara spluttered lamely.

“I'm hungry!” chibi-Hild shrilly complained suddenly, poking the three live dangling mice with her chop-sticks.

“Hild-Sama! Please wait, Hild-Sama!...” Mara protested.

“…I have a secret weapon that is really powerful! Please let me use it!”

“Ah Really?” chibi-Hild asked, her curiosity rising.

“R-Really!!! Look, this is it!...” Mara then reached back, and pulled back with a small decorative teapot “…This is the ultimate anti-goddess weapon, Soujinki! It'll round up all the goddesses who are the biggest threat to our share of expansion! It's really, really…”

“Try it.” chibi-Hild said.

“Eh?” Mara asked intelligently.

“Try it!” chibi-Hild commanded with force.

“Yes Hild-Sama!” Mara said as she fumbled with Soujinki.

Quickly bored of Mara's fumbling, chibi-Hild said “Hurry Up!” as she used her chopsticks and pushed the spout of Soujinki to Mara's lips, thus activating the weapon and pulling Mara inside the little teapot, like a vacuum.

Moments later came Mara's muffled plea from inside Soujinki. “Please hurry up and let me out!”

“What should I do?” chibi-Hild asked naively, now very amused.

“Pour hot water on it and rub it three times!!!” came Mara's cry from inside the teapot.

Moments later with Mara restored and the three little mice set free, chibi-Hild spoke “Sorry to tell you, but this thing has a big flaw…”

“Eh? But just now I…” Mara interrupted.

“…who would use his or her mouth to taste it?” chibi-Hild said, with the soujinki dangling from one little finger.

“Just as I thought… I guess it can't be helped. I'll teach you a trick.”

“Really Hild-Sama???” Mara exclaimed, a light of hope in her eyes.

“But…” chibi-Hild warned.

“Y-Yes?!” Mara asked with fear.

“…can you go buy me some oden from the convenience store? I want to try it for once, store manager Mara.” chibi-Hild asked sweetly.

“Nah…” Mara laughed out nervously.

“Don't laugh.” Chibi-Hild said in a no-nonsense voice.

“Okay!” Mara said quickly almost wetting herself at Hild's harsh command.

Mara was then about to stand to run back to the convenience store to get Hild her oden-noodles when suddenly chibi-Hild's eye's loose focus and she looks at Mara askance. It only lasted for a moment, then a broad smile spreads on the diminutive terror's child-like face as she raised her right hand to finger-wave to the seated Mara.

Mistaking chibi-Hild's gesture as a sign to go quickly, Mara waves her hands in defense and says “I'm going! I'm going!”

But before she could stand to flee chibi-Hild said with an evil undertone “Yes… yes you are…” and with that Mara was paralyzed as a cold wind swept through the room, and carried in the wind was the soft ethereal wail of “Oh, Maaaa-Chhhaaaannnn…..” as a portal of inky blackness swirled into existence under Mara's feet pulling her down.

The last thing Mara saw on this plane of reality was a smirking chibi-Hild waving her fingers at the sinking blond demoness, while Mara, with tears streaming down her face, wailed in her head “LIFE'S NOT FAIR! Waaaaa!”

- - - - - -

“Do you hear that? Ranma asked Hild, as mere moments ago Hild had let loose with that creepy windy voice thing; she didn't quite know what to expect next.

With an absent “Hmmm”, Hild looked to Ranma and asked “Hear what Ranma-chan?”

“I dunno' really… almost sounds like someone screaming while falling… you don't hear that?”

“Why, should I?” Hild said back easily, still smirking.

Ranma then looked up into the nothingness of the ceiling of Hild's chamber, and sure enough there was a blond haired woman screeching as she fell.

Ranma's jaw just fell open in shock at the sight of looking strait up into a blond woman's equally shocked face. Too late though did Ranma realize that she was looking STRAIT UP at the woman's rapidly falling face… from right below her… right in the landing zone.

So scant mini-seconds later there was the resounding boom of a face-to-face crash; leaving a tangle of blond and red-headed women in a pile on the stone floor.

“owie…” were the twin moans of pain from the pile of femme moments later.

And had anyone else been there, they surely would've sweat-dropped at the sight of the Grand High Demon Goddess, Hild, rolling on the floor, clutching her side and laughing her shapely posterior off…

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I know… I know… this update is WAY WAY past where it should have been. I'm sorry.

It's not even the whole chapter, as I keep trying to tinker the rest of this chapter to be PERFECT! But a portion of the chapter as an update is better than no chapters updates at all; wouldn't you agree? Don't answer that…

My REAL problem is that I've been obsessing over this chapter for I don't know how long. I unfortunately have the tendency to write whole sections, not like one little thing, and delete the lot of the text that offends me, then start over… and considering how little free-time I have to write… well let's just say that it's not a very productive way to produce new chapters from the deepest reaches of my imaginings…

I should also cite that the section of Mara and Chibi-Hild in this story is a direct verbatim retelling of episode 18 of season 2 of Ah! My Goddess.

Thanks for reading! See you soon (hopefully) for “Ah! Enter Goddess! Part II”