Ah My Goddess Fan Fiction ❯ Ah! A demon from God!? ❯ Ah! What's that Up in the Sky?! ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter 2

Ah! What's That in the Sky?!

 

“Urd-san, I'll ask you once more; Where is your sister? Time may not be on our side.”

Urd was still dumbfounded by the fact that a first-class guardian had been sent to Earth. She still hadn't processed the fact that he was asking for Belldandy and was just staring blankly at Seiryu. “I…she's out. She'll be back later.”

“That is not sufficient. I need to speak with your sister.” Seiryu started to walk past Urd and out into the hall when Skuld came running through the house yelling in an obvious, uncontrolled panic.

“ONEE-SAMA!! Something is about to fall on our house!” As she passed the doorway Seiryu was standing in he grabbed the girl by her shoulders.

“Skuld-san, what are you talking about? What is about to fall on your house?”

Now Skuld was shocked by the new stranger and his manners. `Skuld-san?' She thought to herself, `who is this guy?' She quickly reclaimed her mind and began to panic over her previous announcement again.

“I was looking through my new Super Telescope that I made and I saw this thing in the sky…”

“It's called the moon you silly girl.” Urd said looking very unimpressed by Skuld and her new invention.

“NO! It was falling! Fast! I calculated it to be descending to Earth at almost seven times the speed of sound. If it hits this shrine, nothing will be left!” Skuld began to cry as she thought about how sad Belldandy would be when she came home to a crater.

“Skuld-san, how big is the object and how much time do we have left?”

“Um…I think we have about an hour before impact. And I roughly estimated the object to be about 1.7 meters in diameter.”

“Wouldn't it incinerate in the atmosphere?”

“It doesn't look like it. The object has markings on it that seem to imply some kind of special program on it. It's protected from reentry as well as impact.”

“How can you tell that from here?!” Urd yelled when she realized Skuld had just said she had made something that allowed her to read something thousands of miles away.

“Duh! I said it was a SUPER Telescope. Skuld's special Banpei-kun: Super Long-ranged Viewfinder mode Mk 4.” Skuld gloated over her invention and her own genius, completely forgetting about the impending doom for a moment.

“You were going to spy on Belldandy and Keiichi weren't you?” Urd crossed her arms across her chest and glared at Skuld. While Skuld did her best to seem taken aback by the comment and claimed her innocence of the crime in question, Seiryu moved towards the door.

“Urd-san, I need you to find Belldandy and bring her back to the temple. I am going to see what I can accomplish as far as slowing the object goes. Skuld-san, I need you to try to determine what that thing is specifically. Alright?”

The two feuding sisters gave nods of acknowledgement and watched as Seiryu took off into the evening sky. Urd ran into her room and grabbed a broom before running out the front door and heading for the only place she could think of that Keiichi might have taken Belldandy. After all, Keiichi was not the most original thinker in the universe. He would go places he knew about, which made him easy enough to find…

 

Keiichi and Belldandy stood in front of the Cathedral again watching the sunset as it drew closer to the horizon. Keiichi had built up enough courage to actually wrap his arm around her and was currently more content than he had been in a very long time. Belldandy had shifted herself closer to him and begun to fiddle with the necklace Keiichi had bought her. A soft smile seemed to be permanently locked onto her face as she watched the twilight overtake the sky and the first stars of the evening came out.

“I like this. We should come out here more often, Keiichi-san.”

“Me too. I think that would be a wonderful idea if we could escape Skuld long enough.” Keiichi unconsciously tightened his hold on her as he began to laugh about how Skuld usually acted when they were about to go out. Belldandy just laughed along with him and slid her arm around Keiichi's side. Keiichi didn't really react to this the way he did normally. Instead, in a sudden surge of courage, she turned and faced her strait on. “Belldandy…”

“Yes, Keiichi-san…?” Belldandy actually moved toward Keiichi slightly.

`Man, if I don't do this now, something is going to happen and ruin the moment. I can feel it. We haven't actually really kissed yet, at least not while we were both aware of what was going on. I gotta do this!' Keiichi moved his other hand and found Belldandy's, meshing his fingers with hers and smiling when he felt the ring he had given her for Christmas rub against his finger. “Belldandy…I…have something I have been wanting to do for a while and if I don't do this now, I'll never have the courage to try it again!” Keiichi's face turned slightly red and Belldandy's did likewise.

“Well then, if Keiichi-san has a wish, I am always more than happy to grant it.”

Keiichi's began to slowly close the gap between them and Belldandy had closed her eyes. Keiichi could feel a light, warm breath on his lips and closed his eyes as he moved to finish the bold move he had started (bold for him anyway).

“Belldandy! Belldandy, we need to…ohhhh…” Urd cut off her calls as she spotted the couple overlooking the ocean in mid-kiss. “YES! FINALLY! TOOK YOU LONG ENOUGH!”

`And he didn't even have to be unconscious or anything this time…' Urd began to dance with her broom in mid-air when she remembered that she was going to have to ruin the moment and started over to them. She waited till she was within ear shot and let out a little cough to announce her presence. Belldandy was actually the one who seemed to be the most surprised by her sister's arrival. She suddenly broke away from Keiichi's face and stared, wide-eyed at Urd.

“Ah, Nee-san, I didn't know you were there. W-what brings you out here?”

“Well, we have a guest at the temple and a rapidly approaching problem in the sky.” Urd said, wanting to laugh at her little sister for seeming so panicky about being caught in the state she was.

“What's the problem, Urd? And what do you mean a guest?” Keiichi began to look worried. After all, it was hard enough to be alone with Urd and Skuld there, it was doubtful that he would want to hear that they had another guest.

`Please tell me that it isn't Peorth again…'

“We'll talk about it back at the temple. We need to get back as soon as possible. Belldandy, can you levitate Keiichi's motorcycle?”

“H-hai.” Belldandy still seemed flustered. She started a hasty shuffle towards the bike and Urd threw an arm across Keiichi's shoulders.

“Ha Ha! So, how was it? Aren't you glad you finally got that taken care of?”

“Urd, who was the guest you were talking about? You still haven't answered that one.” Keiichi attempted to hide his embarrassment with a non too skillful subject change.

“Don't worry so much Keiichi, just get on that bike and we will discuss it back at the temple, ok?” Urd put on an innocent face and began to push him towards Belldandy who was putting on her helmet. Keiichi finally gave up and walked over to the bike. Urd remounted her broom and waited for the couple to get themselves airborne.

“Belldandy, are you ok? You seem to be really nervous.” Keiichi had caught Belldandy having a lot of trouble with the strap on the helmet and had to finish it for her. He had never seen Belldandy flustered, but he was pretty sure he didn't like it.

“Hai. I'm fine. I just was not expecting Nee-san to come and find us…like that.” She began to stare at the ground.

“Hey, don't worry. She just came at a bad time.” At the same time, Keiichi now found himself worrying that perhaps Belldandy regretted what they had done now. Keiichi seated himself on the bike and waited until he felt Belldandy seat herself. Her arms wrapped around his chest and hugged tightly.

“Keiichi-san…”

“N-nani?”

“Thank you for the date. I enjoyed it very much.” Keiichi could sense the warm smile return to her face even without looking. It put his mind at ease to know she was just embarrassed at being caught by her big sister and that she did enjoy the moment they had shared.

“Ready Keiichi-san?”

“Hai! Let's go.”

Belldandy began chanting and the motorcycle began to lift off the ground and give chase to the goddess on the broom in front of them. While he was still enjoying having this time with Belldandy, he now had many other things on his mind: Who's the guest? What did Urd mean by problems in the sky? What is Skuld going to do when she finds out we couldn't pick up the ice cream because Urd called us back first?...I'm probably going to die tonight then…

 

 

Skuld had been researching the symbols since Urd left and the more she found out the worse the situation got. The object appeared to be a Legendary Demonic Weapon that was used to convert positive energy to negative energy. The weapon had long ago been hurled into space to keep it away from the earth but something had now summoned it back.

“Oh no! This just keeps getting worse. I don't know what can be done about this. I don't have time to make anything that could slow it down enough and I don't think my bombers will be strong enough to divert it's course.”

Urd threw open the front door and ran strait back to Skuld's room with Keiichi and Belldandy in tow.

“Skuld,” Urd said as she slid open the door to Skuld's room/lab, “what's the story? What is that thing?”

“It's a Mass Energy Converter. It will take all of the good energy on Earth and turn it into pure dark energy. Did you find Onee-sama?” On cue Belldandy entered the room and walked over to Banpei who was looking out into the sky.

“Skuld, what's going on?” Belldandy kneeled behind the robot and looked into a small opening in the back of his head. Inside she saw an image of a round object falling.

“What about the Guardian, have you seen him again yet?” Urd said peering over Skuld's shoulder to look at her calculations.

“No, nothing.”

“Who is this?!” Belldandy suddenly scooted away from Banpei and allowed Skuld to look through the magnifier. She saw Seiryu flying around the side of the sphere and trying to get a good grip on the grooved surface. He began to pull on it in an obvious attempt to slow its fall.

“Banpei! Velocity reading!” The little robot beeped in response and displayed several calculations showing that the falling object was slowed to mach 6.3. “Darn it! It's not good enough. It has to slow down to less than mach 1 or it will still demolish the temple.”

“Damn!” Urd started back out of the room. “I'm going to go up there and help him!”

“Wait, he's doing something!”

Skuld watched as Seiryu flew in front of the generator and began to chant a spell. He held his hand out toward the generator and a bright blue flash consumed the sky around the falling rock. When the light faded Skuld let out a shout of surprise and backed away a little. Where once there was a stone sphere was now a large ice crystal.

“I get it! By ruining the aerodynamics of the stone it will slow down and change where it lands! Genius! Banpei-kun, estimate point of impact.”

A beam of light shined across the yard to the shrine wall across from Skuld's room. Far enough from the house that if it could be slowed down it wouldn't damage the house and wouldn't come close to breaking the earth's crust. “Well, now we just need to slow it down.”

A loud thud came from the yard and Seiryu was seen kneeling just off the porch. He stood and looked to the crowd in Skuld's room.

“Ah, Goddess Belldandy. You've returned.” I will be with you in a moment. He looked back into the sky and pointed a something that resembled a very large snowflake. His outstretched fingers acted like they were slowly closing around something and a strained look came across his face. Belldandy stepped out of the house and stood next to the Guardian, looking in the same direction he was.

“Belldandy, would you mind lending me your assistance?” Seiryu said as his knees began to bend under an unseen pressure. Belldandy nodded and summoned Holy Bell to her. As they both began to chant a strong wind picked up and began to swirl around her.

“Winds come to my aid and hold off the evil that threatens this world's happiness!” Belldandy thrust her hands into the air and the wind she had conjured followed her directions and rushed strait upward, carrying a cloud of leaves with them.

The now visible ice ball slowed dramatically as it approached the ground and finally slammed down on the wall of the temple grounds, sending shards of stone flying in all directions and causing several objects on shelves in Skuld's room to fall to the floor. A cloud of ice and dust flew into the air and blotted out the already darkening sky. As the dust cleared, Keiichi could be seen holding up Belldandy and Seiryu had dropped to his knees with his hand still stretched towards the crash site. Finally, Seiryu breathed a heavy sigh of relief and stood.

“Well, was that not exciting?” he turned and smiled at Urd and Skuld who were still in the house before kneeling before Belldandy and Keiichi. “Please, allow me to introduce myself Belldandy: I am Guardian First class, Combat limited; Seiryu. It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance and to have a chance to work with you.”

Belldandy stared at Seiryu for a long time without saying anything. She seemed as shocked, if not more so than Urd had been.

“A Guardian First class? Why, whatever are you doing on earth?”

“I'm sorry Belldandy-san, but my mission is classified. Suffice to say at the moment that part of my reason for being here was to assist you with an imminent danger. However…” Seiryu looked at the frozen crater that had been left by the generator, “It would seem that it has been taken care of already. Still, I don't think I should leave yet.”

Urd had crossed the yard and dug the stone out of the icy mess that had been left and pulled it out onto the ground before deciding to sit on it and watch their new guest. She finally decided to speak up after Seiryu began talking about “feeling that the threat had not yet passed.”

“You've done more than enough already. Why don't you take this thing back to heaven and let Kami-sama destroy it? We can fix a little hole in the wall.”

Seiryu stood and walked over to Urd, looking her over as well as the object she was sitting on.

“Well, that's the problem. Yggdrasil went down just after I came down here. It may take a couple of days to get it back up and ready. Do you really not want me here, Urd-san?” Seiryu gave her something akin to a puppy-dog look and actually caused a blush to spread across Urd's face.

“W-well, I don't think it will be a problem since we just vacated a room.” Urd took this as an excuse now why Keiichi and Belldandy would have to sleep in the same room for a while.

“Ah, excellent! That will do just fi-” Seiryu stopped mid-sentence and toppled over causing everyone a bit of alarm. Urd hopped off the rock she was seated on and turned him onto his back.

“He has overused his power. Seiryu, how can we help you recharge?”

“Hot…”

“Hot?” Belldandy said as she approached Urd, “Hot what?”

“Seiryu, hot what?”

“Need…hot…water…”

“Hot water? Like a hot spring?” Keiichi said as he came up beside Belldandy.

“Aaa…”

At this point Skuld rushed over and began to complain about how far it was to the public bath, and how she didn't want to go all the way just to dump him in till he had strength enough to stand. “Can't we throw him into the bath here and make it really hot?”

“Actually, that just might work Skuld.” Urd said after looking thoughtful for a moment. “Keiichi, help me get this guy into the bathroom.”

Keiichi nodded and grabbed Seiryu's feet while Urd held his shoulders and began to back into the house carrying him.

 

Keiichi had left Urd with Seiryu in the bathroom by her request while she helped him into the “hot spring,” dumping him in, clothes and all. She sat next to the bath and kept an eye on him as he slowly began to perk up.

“Urd-san…”

“What is it?”

“Would you mind helping me wash my back?” He grinned at her and tried to shift a little. “I don't know if the water is hot enough.”

“It must be working if you have energy enough to flirt.” Urd smiled back at him and leaned against the side of the bath, “And, maybe next time.”

“Well, it was worth a try.” He shifted again, “I think I am strong enough to stand. May I see the room I was promised?”

“Hai, hai. If you like. Oh, and just Urd will be fine, no need for honorifics.”

Urd helped Seiryu up who dried his clothes with a quick wave of his hand and both headed down the hall to Belldandy's old room. Urd slid open the door and led him in.

“I'll bring a futon and some bedding in a little while if you'd like them.”

“I will be fine. This will suit me just fine.”

“Tomorrow we'll get you to a real hot spring so you can recharge. Maybe you can talk me into washing your back then.” Urd smiled and bade him goodnight before exiting the room and going back to her own room, making sure (of course) to spy on Keiichi and Belldandy as she went. She actually was content with what she saw this time.

Although they were not actually asleep yet, Keiichi was laying on his side facing Belldandy's back with one hand resting on her shoulder. Urd could still hear them whispering about the date and the kiss and decided that now, Keiichi didn't need her help with Belldandy anymore. He had finally become man enough to act for himself.

`Maybe things will start going somewhere between them now.' Urd frowned a little as she thought about not needing to spy on them anymore, `Hmm…I wonder what I should do now? Maybe it's time for me to pay a little more attention to Miss Urd's romantic life…'

A sudden thought about the mysterious Seiryu flashed through her mind as she closed the door to her room. With the thought, a sinister grin crept across her lips and she whispered to herself, “Yeah, time for Urd to find herself a man now too…”

 

Keiichi finished wrapping his arm around Belldandy and scooted towards her a little. She was warm, really warm. She fidgeted a little and moved herself closer and grabbed his hand that was draped across her shoulder.

“Keiichi-san?”

“Hai?”

“Can we go on dates a little more often, if it is alright with you?”

“Sure, Belldandy.”

She wiggled a little more and turned to face him, gave another warm smile, and leaned her forehead against his.

“Keiichi-san,” she leaned forward and kissed Keiichi, “Oyasuminasai.”

With that she curled up against Keiichi and started to doze off, leaving Keiichi with a rather triumphant grin and a warmth within him that he prayed he would never have to go without again.

“Oyasumi, Belldandy. Sleep well.”

 

 

And don't we HATE Keiichi for his rotten good fortune!? Oh well. At least he is acting on his feelings now. But what about Urd and this Seiryu guy? And what's Skuld going to do when she finds out where Belldandy has spent the last two nights?

 

 

 

Anyway…hope you liked this one, more are on the way. Please read and review! It makes me a happy monkey!