Ah My Goddess Fan Fiction ❯ The Secret of the Fae ❯ Unwanted Company (Edited) ( Chapter 3 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

Chapter 3 - Unwelcome Company

Keiichi sat for some time. He was waiting...he felt he couldn't leave,
he didn't dare move. He kept telling himself they'd be back soon,
maybe time moved quickly in this realm and in his time they'd only be
there for a few minutes. But minutes turned into hours and finally
Megumi came home. She hadn't bought anything.

"Did they go?" Megumi asked, already knowing the answer.

Keiichi merely nodded.

"What now?" Megumi asked after a long, uncomfortable, but not
unfamiliar, pause.

He shrugged. He never wanted to cry more than at this moment. His eyes
began watering but before a tear trickled down he heard a knocking at
the door. He jumped up with vigor, thoughts of Belldandy and the
others in his head. He opened the door and almost yelled "Belldandy!",
but before a word came out of his mouth he saw who was at the door. It
was his sempis.

"Oh hi sempis," he said, trying to sound happy to see them.

"Morisato!" the biggest said. "We came to see you and Belldandy!"

Keiichi almost whimpered at the name. "She's--she's not here right
now," he struggled to form the words.

"Morisato, have you been crying?" the same sempi asked.

"No, no of course not," Keiichi lied, holding back any further tears.

"Did we catch you at a bad time Morisato?"

"Yes, actually. Belldandy will be back any second and we have to go
out so I'll have to see you all later," he was still struggling with
his words, but his speech was no longer broken from withheld sobs.

The sempis nodded, looking at Keiichi curiously. "Well, we'll just see
you later then."

And the sempis left. Keiichi closed the door and sighed greatly.
Megumi looked at him, concern etched on her face. "Will you be okay
Keiichi? They'll be back..." she tried to soothe his worries but she
had no idea what was really going on.

Keiichi just nodded. All he wanted to do now was sleep...sleep for as
long as he could. Any conscious second without Belldandy was
unbearable. He walked not ten feet when he heard another knock at the
door.

"Why can't the sempis just leave me alone?" he mumbled to himself.

He opened the door. "Just go back to the dorms guys. I'm fine,
really."

But it wasn't the sempis. It was Keiichi's mother and father.

"Oh hi dad," Keiichi said, trying to sound happy to see him.

"Keiichi...you know how I feel about being called dad. Please call me
Keima," he said.

Keiichi smiled in a fake sort of way. "Sorry...Keima."

"We just saw your sempis," Keiichi's mother said.

"Really?" Keiichi asked, sweating slightly.

She nodded. "They said you looked flustered."

Keiichi highly doubted they said flustered, but his mother was always
using such language. "Really? I have no idea why they would get that
impression."

Keima Morisato frowned. "If something is wrong Keiichi you should tell
us."

"There's nothing wrong..." he lied. "Belldandy and I just have plans
is all. We'll be leaving shortly and I just can't have company right
now."

"Where is Belldandy?" Mrs. Morisato asked in a I don't believe a word
you're saying tone. She was very good at that.

"She's in the shower," Megumi said, finally coming out of hiding.

"Ah Megumi!" Keima said happily. "So nice to see you," and here came
the inevitable: "How's school?"

Megumi rolled her eyes slightly. "Dad I have plans as well....you guys
should really get going."

Mrs. Morisato found this rather rude and opened her mouth to scold her
daughter. But Keima was the first to speak. "Alright, alright. I get
you don't want your boring old parents around," he said sweetly.
"We'll leave."

Mrs. Morisato frowned greatly. "I expect a call tomorrow," she said.

The Morisatos left and Keiichi closed the door, more tired than ever.
But bed was still not an option as the same bright light Sirona had
come through appeared once again. Keiichi thought for a fleeting
moment that it was Belle and the others but was once again
disappointed. It was Sirona.

She smiled at both Keiichi and Megumi, who, not having seen it the
first time, was ready to scream. Keiichi put his hand to her mouth
before she could. "Don't worry...she isn't bad," he tried to calm her
fears but she just looked from him to Sirona wide-eyed and scared.

Sirona seemed confused. "Who is she?"

"She's my sister. She doesn't know anything about all this...she
doesn't even know what Belldandy, Urd, and Skuld really are."

Sirona nodded. "Well I have come for you and I guess now her. I was
told to bring the Morisatos, but I just thought they had made a
mistake. I mean, I didn't know there were two of you."

"Who's they?" Keiichi asked, his hand still to Megumi's mouth.

Sirona didn't seem to hear him. She was chanting under her breath in
that same strange language. Three bright lights appeared behind her.

"I'll give you two minutes to explain this to her. After that these
portals will close and you won't see your friends for a very long
time."

She disappeared into the middle light, leaving Keiichi with Megumi. He
took his hand away but she didn't scream. She was actually
surprisingly calm about it.

"What's going on Keiichi?" she asked, looking at her brother like a
scared child.

"Belldandy, Urd, and Skuld are not just regular girls," Keiichi began,
all to aware of the two minute time limit. "They're Goddesses. Only
not just Goddesses, they're also, well originally at least, Fae
Goddesses. And now there's a war in the Fae realm where they
originally came from and that's where they had to go. Now we're going
there," Keiichi tried hard to make it all make sense but even he
wasn't sure about all of it.

Megumi was now shaking her head. "And that is all true?"

Keiichi nodded. "And now we have to go. You can ask more questions
there."

He took her hand and pushed her, as she wasn't exactly willing to just
fling herself into some strange light portal, into the left light and
when she had gone he took one last look around and jumped into the
only remaining light. His former home swirled and disappeared behind
him as a new world began to form in front of him...