Ah My Goddess Fan Fiction ❯ The Secret of the Fae ❯ True Colors ( Chapter 2 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

Chapter 2 - True Colors

When Keiichi woke up he walked into the dining area to find Megumi,
Urd, and Skuld sitting talking animatedly over breakfast. Belldandy
walked in shortly after Keiichi had, carrying a bowl of rice. For a
moment Keiichi thought last night's events had all been a dream.

But visions of that were quickly crushed by Belldandy suddenly crying
again upon seeing Keiichi. Skuld and Urd both seemed determined not to
do the same.

"What is it?" Megumi asked, both concerned and frustrated.

"Belle, Skuld, and Urd have to go back home," Keiichi explained.

Megumi's mouth fell open. "Why?"

"There was an emergency," Belldandy explained.

"I'm so sorry," Megumi said.

Belle nodded and forced a smile.

"When do you have to go?" she asked.

"Tomorrow," Skuld answered.

Megumi bowed her head. It seemed silence was the norm now as it once
again fell. Suddenly Keiichi noticed something about Belldandy.

"Belle, your hair. It looks darker today," he said, looking at her
hair strangely.

Belle took her hair in her hand and took it to her eyes. Her eyes
bulged out slightly. She flung her hair back and sighed. "I didn't
think this would happen."

Keiichi looked at the other goddesses, whose hair was also changing
slightly. Urd's was becoming darker as Skuld's was becoming lighter.
They seemed to understand as well. Skuld felt her ears and upon
finding they were normal sighed with relief.

"What's going on?" Megumi, almost used to suddenly being completely
confused, asked.

"It's sort of a strange story..." Urd said.

Megumi rolled her eyes. "Never mind," she said. "I'll just go
shopping. See you all later," she got up and grabbed her purse and
left.

"Well, what is going on?" Keiichi asked.

"We're...changing," Belle tried to explain.

"Into what?"

"Our Fa--" Skuld began, but she was interrupted by a blinding light
that suddenly appeared before them.

A shadowy figure could be seen in the light and as it appeared the
form became more defined. Finally, before them stood a tall, thin
woman with flowing golden hair. She wore a green, sinuous dress. She
also had golden wings that jetted out from her back and pointed ears.

"Hello," she said sweetly.

Keiichi glanced at the other three, who looked only slightly
surprised. "Hello Sirona," Belldandy said flatly.

Sirona nodded. "I have come for you."

Belldandy, as if sensing Keiichi's utter mystification, whispered into
his ear. "She's the Faerie Princess."

"We aren't supposed leave until tomorrow," Skuld said, staring at
Sirona strangely.

"Your father has changed his mind. You need to come with me now,"
Sirona explained.

"They are n--" Keiichi began

Belldandy interrupted however, "What is going on Sirona?

She fell silent for a moment. "It's the Elves."

"The Elves?" Urd asked, quite surprised. "Why are you at war with
them?"

"They feel the Faeries are too powerful," she explained.

Throughout all of this Keiichi simply stared at Sirona. She seemed
tired, he only now noticed the slight bags under her coral eyes.

"I can't say I don't agree," Belldandy said severely.

Sirona didn't seem to hear her. She was now looking at Keiichi. "Who
are you?" she asked politely.

"Keiichi Morisato," he said.

"He's the reason we're here," Skuld said, looking at Belldandy and
Keiichi, who were sitting close by each other, with slight disgust.

Sirona seemed to understand perfectly. But she didn't seem to want to
dwell on it. She looked at the three Goddesses again. "I see you have
begun the transformation already," she noted, looking at their
slightly changed hair.

They nodded in unison.

"While it's time for the transformation to be competed for you to go
back with me."

They nodded again. Belldandy got up first, and Urd and Skuld followed.
They stood there silently until at once they began chanting in a
language Keiichi had never heard before. They stopped suddenly and a
bright green light engulfed Belldandy, while a bright blue one did the
same to Skuld, and a bright orange to Urd. They began to levitate
upward, stopping a few feet off the ground. Each then started spinning
quickly around before stopping abruptly. They now became bright white
lights themselves, the original colored glow still there. Keiichi now
saw they were sprouting wings and their ears were pointing, just as
Sirona's. It all stopped and they were all back on the ground.
Keiichi's eyes bugged out of his head as he took in the three
goddesses.

Belldandy now had jade hair and wings to match. The wings were
luminous, spreading far out from her body. Her eyes had also changed,
now a deep emerald. She also currently wore a light green dress that
looked identical to Sirona's. The other two goddesses had gone through
similar changes, Skuld's dress, hair and wings now blue and Urd with
orange. He shook his head and rubbed his eyes, opening them to find it
was all still the same.

"Keiichi we have to go..." Belldandy explained. "it's time."

Keiichi could only nod.

Urd, Skuld, and Belldandy walked next to Sirona. Sirona began mumbling
in the same sort of dialect as Urd, Skuld, and Belldandy had before.
The blinding light returned and Sirona stepped through, followed
closely by Skuld and Urd who both looked back at Keiichi and the room
sadly. When they were gone Belldandy flung herself on Keiichi.

"I will come back for you," she could barely get it out through all
the bawling. "I will come back..."

"Go," Keiichi said as firmly as possible, but in his heart he wished
the complete opposite.

She got up and whimpered slightly before stepping into the light
again. And then Keiichi sat, completely alone and still quite
confused.