Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction ❯ Ah My Tsunami Muyo! - The Human Sphere Saga ❯ Part Eight - (Version 8.6): Binded Consequences ( Chapter 13 )

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The actions within v8.6 will cause a decision that will change Dimensional kind forever. This before the Upgrade ends. The first story since Spring 2004, but not the last.

Anime/Manga: Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Comedy / Adventure / Action / Sci-fi / Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 02.07.2008 | Pages: 43 | Words: 38.0K | Visits: 178 | Status: Completed

~ Heaven and Hell

Heaven and hell

why such opposite?

we live everyday splitting the two

why make two places for us to go

everyday is a struggle

trying to complete the balance within

there is no happy medium

no middle ground between the two

everyone sees them different

one man's heaven is another's hell

and vice versa for others

I just don't see a difference

each is what you decide it is

no more or less who you are

what you have read and been taught as a child

means almost nothing as you age

for the older you become

the wiser you get to the world

find its all lies

all the fluffy white clouds

and the eternal fiery damnation

so what really is heaven and hell?

stop reading and take a quick look around you......

go ahead.....found it yet?

The answer to this question

you can disagree

but heaven and hell is life!

(Heaven and Hell - Lee Pilleteri)

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(Ah My Tsunami Muyo! - Part Eight (Version 8.6): Binded Consequences.)

A number of high capacity transmission dish-towers lined around him. The stiff breeze of the ocean from the west, cutting towards the south from there, shown it's effects on this slightly gray day, as well as through those same dishes and tower uplinks that were a good node for what seemed to be a datastream replication center for part of the local area. Aleaic smirked at the nice `scenery' he found himself in.

“Romantic place you two chose.”

“~ All the better to meri you by, my neb. ~”

Aleaic just stops and looks at Inryoku. “Uh, enough with the dead language stuff.”

Inryoku just glowers back. “~ You say my medew is of such displeasure!?”

“Eh? Wha..!? Look, if the readers or I can't understand you, then what's the point!?!”

The goddess of Gravity just huffs. “~ Maybe I'll practice my spells on your waist bottom line instead, Se!”

A sound of crystal chandelier like giggling stops the tiffy they both have, as Kalacakra steps her tongue in. “Now now adelfi, crushing him won't acquire our terma.”

Al just eyes the Time goddess `just' as uneasily. “You both should just become language professors, instead of accosting me.”

It was Inryoku's turn to actually physically restrain her short fuse of a sister. “~ Settle Netjret, settle! ~”

“~ Putting up with this one already tries me.. eh? ~”

Inryoku blinks and looks around. “~ What is it Senet? I... eh? ~”

Both just stand there, missing a certain someone just then. They both realize and teardrop to their annoyance.

“~ Thnitos. ~” ..an impatient goddess all but snarls.

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A mortal scampers down from the rooftop trap he had found himself. “Heh, anyone expecting a strange double date type episode can forget it! Hup hup hup..” ..as he scampers down the stairwell from the roof. Trying to avoid any more of this soap opera he was stuck in.

He smirked however, knowing...

*ZIP!!!*

..that.. aww crud. “MAN!!”

“~ Nice try Neb. ~”

“I don't like to... woo, dizzy..! *plop!* ...teleport.”

Kalacakra just huffs, cooling down her spell finger. “~ Then refrain from such praxeis, blepe understand?”

“Understand.. at least.. I heard there.”

A mortal manages to wrench his body back up, as well as regain feeling in it, as Inryoku just saunters over and leans down unto him, (revealing `enough' through her celestial garb to make Al look elsewhere.) “~ Can we start again? I'll even talk to your level. ~”

“Yes yes, I know about what I need to do to resolve all this. I know a `heck' of a lot, you should know.”

“~ Educate us then mortal. ~”

Al cocks an eye at Kalacakra, then Inryoku. The latter remarks.. “~ We `can' refrain from reading your mind, so you can believe. ~”

“I've been Tsunami's through two lifetimes now. It's not changing for `anyone'. Wishes or nor. You both can't possibly bring me anything I could want now.”

He's semi surprised when he sees both goddesses react to the suddenly direct mode Aleaic takes. It's more than just the words that they hear, as the `feel' quotient is indelible. Kalacakra huffs through this. “~ Still does not restrain you from your Wish of mode. The two are coded to your word string, as is our residence here until they are spoken. ~”

“Four Wishes in one lifetime!? Come on ladies of goddesses! Even `I' know now this is too much!”

Al then feels a `light' amount of weight on his melon, so as Inryoku takes a turn. “~ One has to wonder about that indeed. And so you say, you know so much more now than you ever expected to. ~”

Al mulls that in his mind. This stuff never just went in small circle like that. “I know Tsui has a debt on you both. One I'd like to see null and void.”

Kalacakra huffs one octave higher annoyed. “~ Adynatos. Toso adynatos. ~”

“Lords...”

“~ You were to be `ours'. We were no less noting of whom you `were', than you yourself have learned. You have no idea what you meant to us all back then. We `wanted' to..... to... ~”

Al cocks his eyes as Kalacakra. “No need to hold back on my account.”

“~ Silly mortal Neb. You wish you knew. ~”

“Doubt I ever will.” Al cracks out. Nearly gets his head so cracked by Inryoku's elbow.

By the time he wobbles to his feet.. “~ You left one story untold back home Neb. Just what you did to earn a trip back through Father's great works on below. ~”

Al gulped at that. “No, I'm not ready to know how I died back then. Not `that' much detail anyway. I don't need to get bad ideas in my head, not during times I'd prefer stable and all.”

The Time goddess cocks an eye at this, and looks back. “You felt something to come. Just like back then.”

Al just grits through teeth of comic annoyance. “Can't you stop with the insight crud!?” ..and adds more level tone. “Not always learning all things, at all times, is a proper thing.”

The Twins eye each other, and then of Kalacakra's voice. “~ He even sounds the same. ~”

Al ponders that, when he feels a pair of dangerous arms encircle him. “H.. hey! PDA already owned lady!”

“~ Oh if only. ~” ..he feels a `dangerous' voice, and equally so breath unto his right ear. “~ What we could have had.

What we can still have. ~”

Al blinks a bit. “Did you tone just change a.... huh?”

The next thing he notices, is a plop of a humanoid body. He gulps as he sees Kalacakra's body suddenly on it's side. He also notes the sleeves of the goddess he presumed was Inryoku's, are different. The fact that they have a different, slightly toned skin tone. The smell is also different.

And then the chill to his spine.

“{~ What we will have indeed. ~}”

That was `not' Ryoko.

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“~ I can't believe they'd go `that' far. ~”

“~ What part of Heaven you think they came from Sis? ~”

Twin heads of teal just trade a look, as Tsunami just sighed. “~ Acknowledged such may be. Still, Beloved should not have been accosted so directly. Even fooling him it may seem. ~”

Sasami just gulped, as she wondered if she was over her head with her Ascension, given the now situation apparent. She quipped back. “~ Would they go `that' far for their ends? ~”

Tsunami looks back again, her tresses fluttering as speed took her. “~ You just told me where they came from. Rumor mill reached even your lobes. ~”

Sasami nodded, and looked to the south. Somewhere, Ryoko and Tenchi were searching elsewhere. The north had Kiyone and Mihoshi searching. The manpower managed to be kempt to just this level. They all hoped it wouldn't require `further' methods.

Tsui just whispered. “~ Please be safe beloved. ~”

She then stopped, as soon as she felt Sasami suddenly stop. “~ Sister? ~'

“~ Tsui... I just `felt' him. And something else. ~”

Tsunami wondered only just long enough to connect her Network to Sasami's. They both then felt it. She linked to `all' the goddesses of ally at once. “~ Guys! I just felt demonic activity! It's strong waves of nothing less than Alpha level!! ~”

“~ Go quick Sister! We'll catch up!! ~” .. “{~ Yeah, move quick!! It might be Nagi again!! ~}”

Tsui and Sasami just flat out poured speed on, and prayed hard from there.

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“{~ They fall so easily when they least expect it. ~}”

Al scrambled away from the quite sharp claws that nearly clasped him at the neck. Not that they intended to hold him. Aleaic scrambled back and saw why, as he managed a bare decent crouch stance, and looked at some rather new eyes to him.

The ones looked back, for the moment, curiously.

“{~ Go ahead, I can wait. ~}”

The mortal cocks his eye. He looks around, and sees the Twins apparently knocked out. “{~ They are not dead. They are not our target. ~}”

Aleaic then considers..

“{~ I would warn you not to call for them. Not that they'll refrain long. Not if you wish them to live in your stead. ~}”

He growled, but knew trying anything with a quite obvious Demon, wouldn't net him much `anywhere'. Given what he knew enough of them. Of this one he did not know.

“{~ Haruna. ~}”

“Having fun doing that?”

The Demon just rubbed her chin. “{~ Not so short sighted, just as the Boss informed. The history and story follow you in all you think and feel. ~}”

“So what now? If this is his way of thanking me for back then, fine. Consider yourself done and all.”

“{~ What? And not tempt you with a most wholesome offer? It's a rarity I am privileged to give. What considering whom you are, and where you just came from earlier. ~}”

“Say what now? I don't...”

“{~ And still slower than you should look at times. Don't you want to see `our' realm too? ~}”

“No.”

Haruna slit her eyes. The emotion equaled the word.

The moment was a standstill. For a moment.

Aleaic then imparts. “Are we done then?”

The next thing he could notice, was that things were getting darker, his senses softened, his pores dilating with his eyes. Things began to feel weird. Speech began to waver with his mind. The mind started see things the eyes were not sure of. And they became less sure and things darkened.

Those blood rose vines were effective at their job.

“{~ Are you sure you won't reconsider? ~}” ..the voice turning more.. “~ I'd never hurt you, you know my word for that. ~” ...beloved.

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“Lady Washu.”

“~ I know, I know. ~”

Terrai could be interested in just how fast Washu was typing., (faster than friction should make such safe,) but his eye was on what Washu was trying to focus on. There were no others. Misaki, having been with the others here at the time, when Tsunami made her broadcast, shooed everyone else (literally everyone else left at the residence,) out when they all became too worried to keep quite.

Such didn't help Washu's or Terrai's steely nerves.

Not that Terrai near Washu was helping her either.

“~ Dear sir, if my venture an opinion. ~” ..as she whirl-clacked away, quite nearly pounding at the holo-top, something quite hard to accomplish. “Aye milady?”

“~ Your son makes my life hard. And since I make my living, making every last bit of my technology defeat such things, I am livid as a result. ~”

“Can I promise then I'll have him present for you to scold later?”

Washu stops typing for a moment. “~ Well... ~” ..and holds a pinky out. “~ ..it'd have to be a special promise. It's a girl's thing. ~”

Terrai moans and `actually' conducts `such' a motion. Washu blinks. “~ Wow. You do put up with many things. I didn't think you'd.. ~”

“Little Washu.”

Washu spins and speed-clacks away. “~ I hear ya. ~”

After a moment more of Washu's celestial magic, technology driven.. “I'd do anything for my family.”

“~ Yeah. You and me both. ~”

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“{~ I feel uneasy. ~}”

Tenchi slops off some `hybrid'-goo. “~ Doesn't mean you had to sneeze one me! ~” Ryoko just chuckles. “{~ Sorry, being talked about gets to my Network I guess. ~}”

“:: ~ GUYS!!! ~ ::”

Their momentary halt speeds back up like a charged spatial bolt in an ion storm! Ryoko however snapped.. “{~ That was Mayuka, what...? ~}”

“~ Where are you daughter?! ~” ..Tenchi barked, the words carrying through the Network. “:: ~ Just left the residence! We have bigger problems! ~ ::”

They both were told, and stopped again in midair! “{~ SAY WHAT!?!? ~}”

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*One minute or so prior..*

“Can we stop worrying about brother at `some' point this trip?”

Jeain just dragged a hand through her hair. “I doubt it.”

The family was outside. Misaki kinda overdid it when she shooed everyone out of the lab. Right out of the main residence altogether in fact! “~ I think I got air friction burns. ~”

Misaki just snips back to Mayuka. “(~ Washu's focus was tantamount. ~)”

“~ So was my tea. ~” Yosho moans lightly, as he was already out of the lab, by the time Misaki when pushy. Yet he ended up outside anyway! Keturia was helping the aftereffects with a wet rag to his stained robe tunic. Misaki and Ket actually had a bit of a stare down at that.

The Kerensky sisters (Cal and Alusair,) wait as patiently as they can at the gardens, annoyed at how happy Ket is at the moment, as far as she can be in this situation. She looks up and quips.. “I told you this stuff is too common for Bro. I'm surprised I hadn't seen more of this.”

“~ There was that time you were a hover car. ~”

Ket stops and widens her eyes, as do Cal and Alu slit them. “Oh really now?” ..the latter tune out in simult, as Ket eyes Yosho. “I think you need to remind me.”

“(~ Given whom did a... ~)”

Yosho coughs, not that it saves him from Ket's stare, as far as Misaki's meddling intended.

And then Mayuka picks up a rock on a whim. “~ This is not decency I say. ~” ..in a huffed tone, and just lobs it in a general direction, not realizing her strength of annoyance. She wanted to be helping her parents out with the search. No one seemed to pay heed as this was essentially frustration for them all, despite the banter.

They `all' paid heed when the rock did something `completely' different.

*FWOOSH!!!*

“What the heck was that!?!?”

“{~ Dammit!! ~}”

On pure whim as well, Minagi in her usual flare of crisping everything she could lay a claw on, in the name of sheer boredom of waiting for end results, decided to pick up another stray leaf, and crisp it. This happens `just' as Mayuka's thrown rock reaches, and the slight moment of a weakened spell shield along with. The rest just collapses the charade like a fragile card house, and the rest..

Nagi just sneers. “{~ And I `told' you..... ~}”

“(~ Inside! Now!! ~)” Misaki has time for, just as Nagi and Minagi both just abandon their stake out post! “{~ Just move and.. ACK!! ~}”

Nagi just Hex whips Minagi back viciously.. “{~ You can be their prisoner in my place! ~}” ..and shoots off in the last direction she was looking. Towards the corruption in progress.

Minagi wildcat growls, but then sees a Gray Angel approaching, and decides she's not for explaining things either. She zips off in a random direction, and Mayuka follows without waiting. As Mayuka is informing Tenchi and Ryoko, Misaki rallies what is left of the home guard to keep some semblance of a home to defend.

“(~ Where the heavens did Achika get to already. ~)” Misaki looks around, uncertain what else can happen next.

Yosho tries to connect with her Network on hindsight of those words.

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..to find nothing awake to comprise a `signal'.

“~ N... No... Nobu... yu... ~”

A red cloak swathed over the downed goddess, as her Stun Spell, just before she heard the commotion outside, and saw the Hex shield collapse, along all with. The mayhem along with, and then the contact attempt my Yosho...

“:~ They make it too easy. ~:”

...and she was still connected to Achika at that.

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“{{~ Having fun? ~}}”

Haruna just made a shush sound, as Sayuka leaned over her Brooch-mate's shoulder, her raven hair stands draping over, as she watched Seduction in all it's horror. “{{~ Funny, I would have pegged him more resilient as a mortal. ~}}” ..this as Aleaic lain on his side, overcome by the slow caress of demonic perfection.

The eyes told it all, glazed over, seeing what was not there, just under the thin film of eye fluids and cell walls. Haruna just waved her hands ever slowly, as her work continued. Sayuka just nodded, and knew time was on their side.

“{{~ They found the two failures. Such can be used to barter time. ~}}”

“{{~ Have fun. ~}}”

A stark swirl of Hex dust leaves Haruna alone to her ever so sweet task. After learning all she could about this target, she wasn't going to take this one, with anything less than relish.

Which was where she lain unprepared for what becomes of her `own' vision next.

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“{{~ They will fail Master. ~}}”

Kagato didn't look back. “{{~ And I am told this now because.? ~}}”

Yakage just folded his arms. “{{~ The tactics of the situation require more direct force, than the two Agents are trained for. Plus if intelligence on the target's recent activities, from Agent Minagi's and Agent Nagi's reports of any worth of spit, then they are not prepared for the device the mortal wears.

I fear we have wasted resources. ~}}”

Kagato smirked. “{{~ Tell me not of it. If they managed to succeed against so many guardians, then I myself would have gone instead. Instead, it was Word of the Master that wanted this conducted. ~}}”

Yakage blinks. “{{~ MASTER!? Logic is defeated then here! ~}}”

“{{~ Agreed. I sense something else is afoot. I... wonder, as a result. ~}}”

Yakage blinked at that. Kagato tried to remain neutral, but it was apparent that the sending of his two top current Agents, was a matter of internal decision that even Kagato's station was cut out of the loop on. He'd only gone along with this all, due in great part to Master Mulhorand's 'insistence' for all this to occur. Since then, the whole thing felt it was being steered by a certain Brother.

Kagato then whispered. “{{~ Something is 'about' to happen. I wonder if my opposing numbers on High know any better. ~}}”

Yakage just blurts. “{{~ Then call it all off! We may put ourselves at extreme strategic risk. ~}}”

“{{~ No. Worse than that. ~}}”

“{{~ But... ~}}”

“{{~ You go explain it to Lord Mulhorand then. Be my 'preferred' guest. My mind has been blackened for one cycle. Go, please. ~}}”

Yakage did 'not' go. Kagato just fluttered off and moaned silently to not being rid of him in said attempt.

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Sayuka only took a few steps, and sensed the enemy was coming in very close now. Sight added would be in moments. She would buy her Sister time. She put her hands in a sort of pyramid hand clasp of sorts, as she began to chant her Hex.

“{{: I am the one that brings hearts to sunder. Heed my call, and extend by time, the will of my demand, by grasp of the element of sight, and twist it unto Breaking! Do such by my seethe against the Enemy! :}}”

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Mihoshi suddenly stopped. “~ Did you feel that Kiyone? ~”

“~ Yeah, it's was over there! Come one. Fast!! ~”

The Clutch-mates race towards what looked like a mirage effect, along one roof of a nearby superscraper building landing. Tenchi and Ryoko see and react to the same.

Sasami almost went with too. “~ Not yet Sister. ~”

“~ Pardon? ~”

Tsunami waited a moment, sensing something wrong on the get go. Sasami would have shot off after again, despite the restraint, but then Tsunami calls out.. “:: ~ I need to know what you see on arrival guys! Ryoko you most of all. ~ ::”

Ryoko, about a half bird-step behind Tenchi in speed, hears, and then realizes. “{~ Yeah, I think I hear ya. Tenchi? ~}”

“~ Yeah. ~”

They all race to arrive at once.

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Sayuka smirked, seeing them all come. “{~ This is too easy. Just like the other two. ~}”

When they arrive...

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Washu saw the demonic waveguide take effect, and then the 'open-mike' from Tsunami a few seconds after. The status of her tactical-hologlobe display showed where everyone was, even as she was focusing on a related matter.

Namely.

“I better get out of your way Washu.”

Washu nodded, and the elder Terrai left. Just as the door to the lab was shutting, just at the point her crab clatter-bell was sounding off, she 'felt' something odd. “~ Eh? ~”

She looked back, but lost the feeling as the door closed. She would have prodded further, but..

“:: {~ Sleep Hex!! ~} ::”

Washu shot her head back at the new mind link call, as she felt Ryoko become groggy. She would have grown concerned, except in the instant after.. “~ Oh my, he sure has a lot of power untapped. ~”

She didn't feel a similar effect, just on the other side of the Lab door, avoided by that door being closed 'just then'.

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*Plop*

It was the last. She then heard the door inside the residence open, and she moved quickly to position herself. Such was how Terrai reached the main foyer, and then on the looking, saw.. “Wha...? Jeain?

JEAIN!!” ..and started to rush outside.

And all so as willingly as 'before'.

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As soon as Tenchi and Co. arrived at the apparent rooftop, they suddenly were assailed by a Network vial attack, one with a simple purpose. Ryoko caught it and shouted it over open 'comm', such as what Washu heard, just before the four of them began to become outright sleepy!

On an adjacent rooftop, almost directly level to the northeast, Sayuka couldn't believe her luck!

“{{~ The Hand too!? If I being 'him' to Lord Kagato, I..... ACK!!! ~}}”

Her Possession Portfolio had one nasty trait to it. She could possess any being that had a natural function attached to it. Walking, sleeping, eating, whatever. If an equal biological had a bodily function, she had ability to control others through it. Dimensional of on high and nigh below alike included. And such she expected her remote Sleep Hex field to at the very least, incapacitate the celestial enemy long enough, for Haruna to complete basic Seduction over the Mortal client. She could then allow Sayuka to do her dirty work, and enjoy the results from there.

That was, until first, she saw just how much unknowable power Tenchi really had, as he from afar just literally burst forth his Code energies, and shredded the Sleep Hex like it was nothing! Sayuka just gulped at the marvel of such power. “{~ The stories are true! ~}” ..as a simple exertion of the Angelhawk was 'all' that was needed to save his goddess friends!

And just as she saw this, she felt something SCREAM on in from above!! “{{~ WHAT!!? ~}}”

“~ I HAVE HER LORD TENCHI!!!! YAAAAAAAAAA!!! ~”

Such was how Ayeka entered the fray, as Tsunami directed.

Not that the 'aid' of the second hurt on incoming.

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Sasami actually was amazed. “~ How did you know Sis? ~”

“~ Beloved always said to use out of the box thinking. That plus tactical courses in Heaven can pay off. ~”

Sasami watched, as Tenchi's exertion defeated the warning Ryoko gave, all of which helped Tsunami garner a better picture of who they were up against. The influx of date from everyone's Network 'senses', began to give Tsunami a clue. All of that was real time transferred for Washu to work with, hence all the typing and lack of much talk with.

Washu then sent it fast. “~ Got it lover girls. The Possession Network is confirmed. ~”

Sasami just felt cold. “~ They never go alone. Sayuka and Haruna. ~”

Tsunami then asks. “~ Washu, what about the Twins? ~”

“:: ~ No response. They may have been blindsided. The last mind waves put them near your current area. ~ ::”

Tsunami then snaps. “~ I need them localized guys! Fast! ~”

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Ryoko 'and' Kiyone just clacked and cracked their respective 'weapons' ready. “{~ Someones about to have a bad day. ~}”

“~ Which way? ~”

Tenchi is sensing, but then sees Mihoshi move on her own whim. “~ Maybe over therrreeeeeeeeeeeeEEEE!? ~” ..as 'only' Mihoshi could have ended up tripping on a small metal clasp cover, for an electronic fibercable line never used since the building was constructed, the one they are on anyway. As it is, it proves fortuitous an act, as she falls over.. “{~ Not again girl, can't you... ~}” ..and Mihoshi's weapon discharges from behind her somehow, between Ryoko and Kiyone, and rebounding off three metal chrome edgings, and back towards that opposing roof top!

“{~ Wha.. OW!! ~}” ..as Sayuka is clipped in her right shoulder! The mirage Hex she was also using collapses! Kiyone, Ryoko and Tenchi look as Ayeka's attack lands nearly a second later! (You were wondering what number 'two' was in this setup. There ye go!)

“{{~ How... does she DO that!?!? ~}}”

“~ I.. wait.. nevermind that! ~”

Tenchi agrees and leaps off fast!! “~ We have to help Ayeka!! ~”

By the time Sayuka recovers from the twin unanticipated assault, she sees Ayeka set to attack, and the other four Dimensionals on their own approach! Tsunami's use of practical 'pawns' now bears fruit, to Possessions utter dismay!

“{{~ SISTER!!! ~}}”

“{~ AUUGGHHHH!!! ~}” ..Sayuka and Ayeka suddenly look, as a second mirage Hex shatters, and it;s author stumbles out with all signs of a MAJOR migraine! One that... “~ Oh my! She looks like her head is on fire! ~”

Sayuka just bonds over and catches her writing Sister, and both leap away out of sight for a moment!

Tenchi arrives and shouts. “~ What happened!?! ~”

“~ Uncertain! ~” ..as they all head over and find...

“~ Goodness! ~” ..again to Ayeka's surprise, the others the same on seeing.

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Haruna had him.

All he felt was a world of swimming roses, scent of enamored love, and echoes of a voice he knew so well. He knew he was dreaming, and the dream felt as wonderful as always. Always those loving eyes, that exquisite body, the scene where he felt comfortable within it.

The need to grasp his heart as only her own. Laying under that tree, and looking at the forehead of...

Something was wrong. Her head, it's skin. The cloth, the feel, things were off as just one iota was not as 'exacting' as his memory saw it all. Haruna had him, up to the point he saw one light skin tone pigment too 'dark' to be proper. He didn't know why. But as 'soon' as he felt that, in that one sheer simple moment, the 'rest' of it started to shatter apart!

Haruna didn't know what she did wrong. She used everything she knew about Tsunami in her scenery scape. She used all 'her' knowledge of his one love to this purpose. And all 'too' quickly, that one unexpected deviation just crashed the whole illusion. She didn't get it! Her knowledge of her enemy was..

“I know 'my' Tsunami in more detail than you know. You are not her!”

Haruna didn't understand it. The voice just snapped back, and unknowingly, the Band's affinity to his emotional state just amplified the end result effect from there! Just as Sayuka was enduring her 'problem', Haruna suddenly was assailed by the rejection the Band gave power to conduct!

She shot out of her Seduction Hex, to a universe of white pain! She didn't even know her head was 'burning' of emotional shock overload, until she started to recover a minute after Sayuka got them both away!

“{{~ Where...? ~}}”

“{{~ We both blew it. The first attempt was a disaster. The intelligence was WRONG!! ~}}”

Haruna just pushed Sayuka away at that. “{{~ Do not yell, my mind is not solid enough! ~}}”

Both just seethed at each other for a moment, as both realized they were demoniacally hosed! Sayuka just snarled and had only one answer for that. “{{~ Allies unto me!! ~}}” ..with a clenched left fist!

Suddenly, four Abyssals form around her with summoned haste! Haruna looks and sees. “{(~ We'll need more direct methods not used often. ~}}”

“{{~ Allow me, I have a seething vengeance to wrought. ~}}”

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“~ Ughn... bin sedjer. ~”

“{~ Serves you both right. ~}”

Kalacakra looked up and groaned. “~ Bin re. ~”

“~ Pou.. Ti symbainei edo? ~”

“~ You both got knocked out by the Demon Agents of Seduction and Possession. Call yourselves lucky. ~”

The Twins eyed each other, as Kiyone's quick explanation just leaves a 'bad' taste in their mouths. Tenchi and Mihoshi looking, then look back as a mortal moan echoes out. “Okay, those sake parties 'really' need to stop.”

“{~ Sure, blame me again why dont'cha. ~}”

Ayeka helping Aleaic sit up. “~ Seems proper as ever. ~”

Just then Tenchi feels and pulls him and Mihoshi back! “~ Incoming! ~” ..as the Teal Twins literally smack down onto the roof, and comically tumble Ayeka away before she can react! “~ Holy jeeze! ~”

“~ Beloved! ~ / ~ Sensei!! ~”

“Ack!! Aw, hello there! Ohh!”

Tenchi and Kiyone just teardrop, as Mihoshi acts all cute at the reunion, and Ryoko just laughs at Ayeka's resultant butt and back position. “{~ HAWHAW! That was worth it all! ~}”

Ayeka just grumbles and considers things goddesses get reprimands for normally.

This of course then adds to the mix. “~ Such timing netjret. ~”

Sasami just turns from mugging Al with Tsui, and snaps. “~ You two are in no position to say anything on the matter! Look at what your methods nearly caused!! ~” ..this Tsunami looks up and responds. “~ Sister, it is alright. ~”

“~ Sister? ~”

“I'm okay. That demon broad didn't count on this.” ..Al quips with a pat to his Band. The celestials look off kilter. “~ What is with that thing? ~” Tenchi remarks. Al instead quips to Tsui. “I never knew knowing your shade of skin under a tree would make such a difference.”

Tsui blushed as much as Sasami did. Ryoko even gave a whistle. “{~ Wow. You 'do' know Tsunami on all levels. ~}”

Al is helped up. “Better, what with two lifetimes to learn with.” ..this Tsui just gloms, though Al gives comment too. “Sasami has a smoother texture though.”

“~ Oh? ~” Sasami quips, Tsui smirks, the others save the Twins seem comfortable.

And then...

“:: ~ Mothers! Father!! ~ ::”

Ryoko looks back toward the east. “{~ They're close! ~}” ..just before she's suddenly shoved forward! “~ INCOMING!! ~” ..as a strong Hex bolt smacks into the rooftop near them! Two more follow, as suddenly a two prong demon assault takes place!!

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He felt his mind shudder, and then go numb. The last time Terrai felt like this...

Before he could even complete that train of faded thought, his mind was captured all too readily, just as the Hypnosis Spell Program was designed to do, this as he 'hovered' about an inch off the ground, being held by some invisible field, authored by the extension of a hand at the back of his neck. Not even touching either, as the red clad being looked ever confident that the next phase of the coming Abscond Rift.

She looked with disdainful eyes, under her blood red cowl, as a long strand of dark teal hair fell as long as the rest unseen did within her cloak. The finger was straight enough to cut as of a sword, but the intent was far darker in nature.

“:~ Heed me slave. I acquiesce enough time to conduct a message from the Master.

By mind unconscious, bring the mortal at the center of all lives here, by the two weeks end as promised. And there and then, Eden will be preserved for you both, at our side. By this intended reminder, I am done in grievance conducted. ~:”

Terrai echoed out of a mind lost. “Y.. yes Goddess Nioke.”

The named author most dire then twitches a finger. “:~ Done we are. Your mind and others here will feed demonic sleep fade, instead of the truth, for their complaints. We are done slave. ~:”

The elder's body falls to the ground.

Nioke is gone by the time the first moans of waking grip hold over the afflicted.

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Aleaic never knew he could see the city of Tekomi in this furiously fast a manner in all his life!

Tsui and Sasami of course got him away from that first counterstrike, and ended up down at street level. Course then Nagi shot in with her own chance and grabbed Al, and ended up somewhere in the industrial cyber park, before Ryoko shot in, and somewhere in the genetic tree museum park, Sayuka nabbed him. Tenchi got Al back near the space tether tower near city center, but got nabbed by Minagi over at the biologics zoo complex. Kalacakra and Inryoku got their turn over at the holo-entertainment center, but Tsui got him back near the agricultural hyper-freeze storage zone. Didn't save him for long as Nagi nabbed him back over the mini-starport. Ayeka and Mihoshi got to him next near the hydroponic gardens, but Mihoshi of course ended up causing him to be lost and caught off a snazzy rebound (if hard on Al's hiney,) by Haruna. As Ayeka growls at Mihoshi, Kiyone swoops in to save the day for Al about the local space hero's museum. Course the day is a 'short' one as Sayuka nabs him about ten meters away before they even leave the museum grounds. Sasami makes good her own intentions, with a full body glom save just before the hovertrain magnetron rail yards. Sasami however was too focused on the glom to prevent them both from hitting an signal grid overhang. Minagi takes advantage as she tries to get Al over the seediest part of Tekomi, the manga emporium (hentai and manga are indistinguishable these days for all real part.) Tsunami just stops that attempt, and grabs Al near a stack of harem manga.

Al however didn't get far, as Tsui caught sight of some heavy duty romance novels, and got a 'wee' bit distracted. Nagi took advantage, but didn't get far either. In fact Al soon found the whole lot of pursuers distracted here for 'some' reason.

Al scooted away. “Never thought shojo would save my life.”

At least he got outside before Kalacakra nabbed him. Wait.. what!?!

“What are you doing!!?”

“~ Keeping you safe for my.. ACK! Ferno afton piso!!!”

Minagi was sure fast. “Not sure if you saved me or not with that one.”

“{~ Don't flatter yourself. I'll just flatter you FLAT! ~}”

Al just groans. “Why all this for my crapola of a soul?” ..which kinda made Minagi stop some. “{~ Are you serious? ~}”

The next thing Aleaic feels is the arms of Tenchi. “Uh.. this is slightly unsettling.”

“~ Tsunami and Sasami were trading romance notes. Live with it! ~”

Al got a good view of his workplace in the Network Server farm complexes, before he felt rougher arms in the form of Nagi and her rather large 'suit' of armor or such, that comprised her outfit, or whatever it was. Al made light of this.. “Why do you look like an oversized soft drink can?”

“{~ Make insults of me will you!!? ~}”

Al freaks, and is saved in the nick, as Mihoshi appears and helps him avoid a nasty Hex shock! “DANG! Nice save.. ah.. huh?! I hope you paid for all those girl!”

“~ But they all looked fun to read SenssseeeEEEiIIIII!! ~” ..as she can't handle Al, and fifty-four romance manga (paid for, shoplifting is not condoned in this fic,) all at once! They end up crashing nice and rough back in the middle of the park!

Kiyone and Ayeka just bemoan. “~ At least she took the brunt of the crash. ~” .. “~ Lord Aleaic has put up with much today. ~”

Tenchi zips by, but stops when he sees.. “~ Why are you girls carrying boxes? ~”

While both goddesses stutter and all that for a lame explanation, Al plops up with some 'nice' grass stains. Everywhere on him. One nice green sheet he was on his front side. “I'll feel that tomorrow.”

Tenchi then senses, and about reacts to the sudden arrival of Sayuka who.. “{{~ Pardon me! ~}}” ..crashes in and nabs Al, while scattering Mihoshi and all those manga to the four winds! The demon however only gets as far as the tree line, when Mayuka finally arrives with some Class-two help! “:: ~ CHARGE!!! ~ ::”

God/Goddesses and Demons alike nearby hold their ears, as Mayuka snaps up ol Al and cradles him like a.. “~ You'd make a good plushie. ~”

“What?! I can't hear ya! I lost my hearing!”

“~ I'll drop ya. ~”

“Heard that one.” ..Al teardrop sweats a load. He then realizes the arms 'changed' again. “~ I have you Nen! ~”

“Inryoku!! I wasn't in demon hands!!”

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Washu just looked at the holo-readouts dryly. “~ At least no one is indian giving here. ~” ..though she wonders if just using the Cabbits to port the poor sod would be better off now. And then because she knew better, what with all that aerial activity and all, and a populated city and all, the security force frequencies began sounding off.

Washu just remarks. “~ I should save Kiyrosa's voice pattern here for Kiyone later. ~”

“:: All Tekomi security units on alert! Strange air to ground activity has been reported, along with strong explosions, at several points around the city! All Security-SWAT units on alert one and deploy at all city rally points! Local standard units advise on further activity as they... ::”

Washu kept teardropping meekly, as almost on top of each other, crashing down on Kiyrosa's hotmike with..

“:: What is all this?! I keep seeing things zipping across the sky and making everyone out here freak! ::”

“:: I just saw one! They nearly clipped a CPU distribution antenna line!! ::”

“:: Over here on the 310 south district! Something just hit something else and.. WHOA! Right over my hoverunit! ::”

“:: 10-317! 10-317! Wait.. was that the right code?!! What do we call this all in as!? ::”

“:: I think they're people or something! Wait, one just stopped with....... WHOA... babe city here! ::”

“:: Watch it!! One of them... crap! One of them blasted at another with something that doesn't... can't be.. from her arms?!?! ::”

“:: Unit 5092!! Some guy fly over me with some weird sword here!! He's after someone... by the seven years, I can't explain this!! ::”

Washu just moaned. “~ Isn't this just a peachy mess. Might need Misaki's help for this one. ~” ..and at that, she on mentioned reflex, hits a holocam for an external residence view to garner Misaki's attention. And 'that' is when Washu sees to her horror filled shock, everyone of consequence remaining in the residence, starting to barely rise.

She all but rushes mad and crazy outside as she reaches Terrai, the first person she comes across. “~ What happened!?!? ~”

“Ugnnhhh.. I... I'm not sure.”

“(~ I think... sleep Hex. Demon.... ~)” ..Washu hears Misaki moan out, as the genius sniffs the very air, and seems to confirm demonic spell energy. She however cocks an eye. “~ But the demons are all gone from here. ~” ..she then looks over. “~ Achika. ~” ..and leaps up to go find the Destiny goddess.

And so doing drops Terrai's head nonchalantly and quips through the pain after. “Hardly... elegant... ugh.”

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Aleaic was getting worried now. Soon after Mayuka got him, things got a trifle serious, when Sayuka grew enraged at all the missed attempts. “{{~ You wretched fools perturb me!! ~}}” ..and seared off a heavy Blast Hex! Mayuka (with Al's pulling aid,) dove down and avoided the blast just in time. Ryoko just snapped on quick arrival.. “{~ Bitch! What'd you do that for!? ~}”

“{{~ These games are delaying our Quota for Lord Kagato! ~}}” ..and unleashed several more Blast Hexes, which Ryoko equaled in fury, a temporary stalemate.

Tenchi then yelps! “~ Daughter look out!! ~”

Mayuka just barely sees in time to avoid the group of Abyssals that ram in and try to catch her and Aleaic both in one swipe! She careens and manages to drop Al behind a set of recycler containers. “~ Stay her please! ~” ..and pulls out her Scepter to counterattack with!

“Oh no prob.” Al manages to jitter out, as things suddenly start turning dire.

Sayuka's and Ryoko's standoff, is attempted to be relieved, as Tenchi shoots in to assist, but runs headlong into a still miffed Nagi for the other night, Ayeka and Kiyone race to aid, but they get caught up by another group of Abyssals, as Minagi over does her own Blast Hex and clips Mihoshi, when she was instead trying to distract her! Mihoshi falls, but hits a signal dish on another roof. Her holocube discharges somehow from it, and causes strange data bit character streams to race out from the dish, and attack everyone at once!

The Twins trying to find Al, get caught of in this, and the fight Haruna brings with her, choosing them to vent her own fury upon. Tsunami and Sasami, after watching again, try to intervene with a twin water wind spell strike, to freeze the air to settle everyone, end up garnering the ire of some Abyssals instead!

All in short moments, everyone of consequence are fighting for their lives, as spells and wave of energy shoot across much of the Tekomi skyline!

Al meanwhile need not fear (if even thought of,) of any security unit arrival, as they race all over town trying to identify something they can't understand! Holo-news crews also race around on hover-skiffs and copter units, though the amount of fire power being blared off makes even the most brazen of newshounds back away, as it was like a small scale war in progress here. The citizens that witnessed all this either hid or ran, few were brave enough to witness all this without some kind of shaking trauma of the mind so burned.

However, one mortal of note that managed to hold his ground, was finding it hard to do so as the battle progressed. Seeing battle just as ferocious as the one as back on the Genesis Plane, and this time he was the focus, and not the one trying to retrieve one. He shuddered at such a horrid thought as Tsunami landed near him.

“~ Don't worry, we'll protect you Beloved! ~”

“But.. this isn't right for just over 'me'.”

“~ We don't have a choice. ~” Tsui actually retorted to him, before launching up to engage Haruna. The initial blow alone was quite painful for each to bear, Aleaic could all too easily tell, the same more on the faces of both his allies, and enemies alike. “This isn't right.” ..with his head shaking back and forth more and more. “This isn't right.”

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The feeling was mutual.

“~ Gravitational disruptions are causing new Bug ports in several areas of Outer Zone processing layers. I'm reading a seven percent drop in System to Dimension Three efficiency! ~”

“~ Reroute archival memory to stabilize and inform affected sections to vacate to safe zones immediately! ~”

Brentai nodded as Tokimi then barked. “~ Stay ahead of this all this time guys, and inform Hell Core to knock it off while were at it! ~”

“~ They won't listen Administrator. ~”

“~ Remind them of it. ~” Tokimi just bared fangs at San. The Operator just queeps. “But I just work here.”

To be certain, all the disruption caused by the Terra based battle was not being kind on Hell Core either. The more it continued, more gravitational disruption was registered on both Systems. And even Kagato on his end wondered if.. “{{~ Is this whelp we are after worth all of this? ~}}”

Yakage has a solution. “{{~ Shall I just head out and kill him? ~}}”

Kagee actually looked anime thoughtful there. “{{~ While I imagine self insert detractors would not mind such a quick end for the author's character, I behooves us little in the end. He'd just end back up in Heaven's clutches. We need him as a mortal soul intact to be corrupted. Otherwise what's the point in what we do.

Ever the annoyance of our ways, but ever the reward. ~}}”

Yakage however sensing, quips. “{{~ You should know as well as I, that particular mortal is too strong willed for us to acquire. Not even Master could withstand him. ~}}”

“{{~ 'Them'. A focus makes all the difference. ~}}”

“{{~ So we should be mindful if we try to take the mortal with 'her' ever nearby. Like even we don't know. ~}}”

“{{~ How someone can be 'that' willing to subject themselves like that for an insipid mortal baffles me. Still, we do not withdraw in the face of our enemy Yakage. So tell that Administrator on high to make like so much else other kind waste matter of her kind.

We see no consequences for conducting this battle. ~}}”

Kagato froze, feeling he just said words that make for 'bad' karma. Demons paid heed to such things, as wisely as Dimensionals do. “{{~ Could it be 'this' is what Master intended? ~}}”

“{{~ What? ~}}” Yakage demanded, but got nothing.

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“~ Ohhhhh, my Nobuyuki. ~”

Achika fluttered her eyes open, trying to actually kiss who she thought it was in her state of delirium. One could imagine how much shock she had on opening eyes and seeing that red floral of crab endowed red hair.

“~ Nice to see you too. ~”

“~ EEEEEK!!! Washu!!?! ~”

“~ Well, at least you're awake again. ~”

Achika was about to have a huff, but then flooding memories then clicked in. “~ I... I was alone here, and then felt.... I think it was a demonic Hex. Eh? Where's Sensei!?!? ~”

Washu cocked her eyes. “~ Thought you two weren't on speaking terms. And of.. ~”

Achika settles to a knee sitting position in her usual kimono. “~ My children all can take care of themselves. My ire with Sensei was upon losing a second daughter to him too quickly. I should have know better than delay the truth. Still, none of that matters if.. ~”

Washu holds up a hand. “~ The others found him in time. ~”

On peg of that, gravitational energy discharges make them both look generally towards Tekomi proper. Washu even jitters. “~ Pretty serious fighting over there. ~” ..as then.. “(~ Washu! Achika?! ~)”

“~ We're fine. ~” Washu answering for a still groggy Destiny goddess. Misaki just races up. “(~ We need to stop this. I can feel System disruptions due to the fighting from here. Population panic will likely result as well. ~)”

Achika then worries out. “~ If they find out where we all live. ~”

Washu and Misaki gulped at that. Save for Misaki (for the moment,) the rest were quite not wanting to leave their Sensei's side. The desire against leaving was all mutual, and it all 'was' impugned on the fate of the mortal named Aleaic. The name Aleaic and the name Sai were indistinguishable to them now. And after so much happiness here because of the famous love here, leaving him behind enforced would be a second breaking of their worlds to them.

Sai had no less a relationship with this particular family group, than Aleaic has 'now'. The fate of coincidence was 'not' overlooked by the Dimensional lot here, of the all but Kerensky in surname.

Hence why the fighting was so determined and brazen at present. Washu just sighed. “~ That boy is a royal pain to love. ~”

Misaki smiled softly at that, just before the LAST thing they three expected to happen starts to occur. Misaki's, Washu's, and Achika's forehead Sigils began to glow fiercely! “~ What? ~”

“~ This feels weird. ~”

“(~ It... it CAN NOT be!! ~)”

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Keturia and Caladeni were no less amazed when Yosho's Sigil began to glow just as brightly! “You putting on a show love?”

“~ Not of my own accord. ~” ..this as he then starts to feel something incredibly odd.

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Aleaic couldn't stand seeing this continue.

Somehow the feelings he should have for his celestial allies that were protecting him, were not as strong as they should have been. More, he was worrying somehow just as 'much' for the demon lives that were trying to accost him so brazenly. Despite all he saw and knew at that moment of seeing Tenchi and Tsui fight off blasts from Nagi and Sayuka, he could not separate the feeling of friend from foe. It was a bad time for cultural philosophy, but that seemed where his mind drifted.

For all he saw, because of him, they were actively trying to kill each other. Seeing his friends do that was too much to bear, and somehow knowing whom the demons were in of themselves as high level beings (in a lower sense,) didn't deserve a fate just as bad as the Human Sphere and Gardon had been conducting unto each other. Were not these higher level beings supposed to be better than this?!

“{~ Watch it Sensei! ~}” ..as Ryoko manages to block a 'strike' by Haruna, before it all returns to all out warfare, for all it seemed. Aleaic just couldn't stop feeling of continued worry at seeing all this. “(Is.. is it because of me they're fighting just as badly as we human do? Are we not also supposed to move past this crud, and not require such methods to resolve anything?

Especially over a fool like ME!?!?)”

About half the Dimensionals paused, when Al's thinking mind overrode his fear in favor of worse ones he considered. “(If not for me, would this all not degrade to a point that brings them down from the heights they belong!? If not for me, would the eye of killing not swamp their eyes?! The same that my Father said was not of benefit of our civilization in this day and age!?

If that is the case, how do I make them stop fighting! Pacifism be damned! We're all supposed to be BEYOND all this!!! I want this stopped! NO ONE needs to die here because of me!)”

Tenchi was taken aback by the thoughts, which actually seemed to halt the fighting all of a sudden. “~ Sensei... ~”

Minagi, of demon note not as in nominal vein of her other kin present, considered the same thought also. A partial reason amongst her 'failures' that ended her up in this place of a world plane. She looked around her, and then started to drop. Inryoku of note saw this and reacted.. “~ Oh no you don't! ~” ...and drops her obsidian body down as both land near the mortal of note! Minagi realizes and seethes. “{~ It's not what you think! ~}”

“~ Prove it!! ~”

Tsui of real note about reacts in abject fear! “~ Beloved move!! ~” ..as does most the others.

Aleaic however reacts as the faster one for once, and sees in Inryoku a 'what if' he nabs his mind upon on an instant! Before Minagi and Inryoku can react, Aleaic lunges and grasps his arms around both of them! Flooded emotions defeat to the shock of everyone Dimensional wise watching, as Al shouts out. “I Wish you Dimensionals wouldn't fight like this ever again!! EVER!!!!”

Tsunami gasps, as Inryoku realizes a Wish just was called for, and to her own shock her forehead Sigil suddenly erupts alive, and stabs a glowing beam of blue light into the sky!!! “~ NEFER NEB!!! ~”

And as if this wasn't enough... “{~ Minagi, what are you DOING!?!? ~}” ..as the demon Agent realizes her OWN Sigil markings are activating!! “{~ I'm not doing this!!!! ~}” ..just before her Sigil flares and lanced thin red static bolts everywhere, tracing out.. “{{~ That is a Contract Mandala!! What IS she doing!?!? ~}}”

Tsunami watching could only guess what every one else could, but sensed.. “~ A triggered.... ah! ~” ..she then feels her own forehead brighten to her stunned feel. Suddenly Celestial and Infernal alike feel it, as does the remainder at the residence, and far 'beyond' them in the greater Heavens and Hells alike in all too short order!

Aleaic though notes the strange mesh of energies and quips. “Maybe this isn't a peachy spot to be.”

“~ Serves you mortal! ~ / {~ What she said!! ~}”

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Tokimi had never seen anything like it. “~ Someone give me a clue here. ~”

San, Brentai and Byte were too focused on their own Sigils to pay attention properly. 'Everyone' in Heaven was, as Tokimi just managed to look 'past' her own weirded out Network, and see the status screens for the Core just go haywire. At least it seemed as such. She noticed primarily the goddess files and Networks were being updated. As if a large scale file update.

She just smacked her Comm panel upon her seat rest. “~ High Council respond! I need a Core Access emergency file... ~”

“::[~ Be calm, the matter is being resolved as desired. ~]::”

“~ Father?..! ~” Tokimi wonders at that, just as a goddess from somewhere blurts suddenly. “~ I just felt a demon... wait... no... what is..? ~”

Tokimi then started to feel the same. A blurb of an instant. With enough such reactions around her, and reports of the same throughout Heaven...

“~ Oh my goddess. ~”

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The reports seemed to be mirrored in Hell itself. Kagato began feeling a conclusion he couldn't possibly consider imagining.

A crushing slam that broke his office table of obsidian, 'clean', with... “{{~ MASTER!!?!?!?! ~}}”

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The Infernals and Celestials looked at each other. The intent of their battle just ended up determining them it so seemed. Inryoku of note just whispered in Al's jittery ear. “~ What.... what did you do? ~”

“Um.... no clue lady.”

The next panel scene just shows Minagi trying to keep Inryoku from strangling Al. “{~ Whoa! Whoa there goddess! Even I know goddesses can't kill mortals! I mean... JEEZE stop lunging! ~}”

Al is only saved when Tsui and Sasami land and impede further lunging. Not that Al expects it, or gets consideration the same when Tsui looks back incredulously for once. “~ Beloved... I... what have you done? ~”

The words he wanted to say, evaporated under that many stares of immortal make. He turned away remarking.. “Don't... just...”

Tenchi and Sayuka of note just looked at each other.

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Ket just patted Al's shoulder. “Bro, you 'really' know how to screw up things.”

The lack of a response made Keturia cut short her joshing. Aleaic instead asked. “Just what did I do Washu?”

Washu looked back, and wish she didn't. The Lab had never been as crowded. “~ I dunno. It was apparently your Wish. ~”

“{{~ A Wish? He had another one? ~}}”

The celestials looked back at the interspersed group of demons uneasily, as Ayeka quipped to Haruna. “~ If you must care to know, yes Demon. ~”

Ryoko just snickered. “{~ Nice to not be called the Demon here for once. ~}”

“~ I'm still ever uneasy about you too. ~”

Their growling was cut short by Mayuka of course. “: ~ Mother's please. ~ :”

Kiyone just quipped. “~ I think we're going to have to change your Portfolio to Voice here soon. ~”

Sasami just pressed to the matter. “~ Washu, did we all feel what we all 'felt'? ~”

Washu can actually only guess. “~ We, a demon and a goddess or god each, may have felt the essence of an opposing demon or god and goddess. But I only know one Being that can answer that. ~” ..her voice leveled off with. She wasn't trying to come up with anything with any of her celestial technology either. Instead, she looked over at Terrai for a 'bite', whom knew the game of diplomacy well enough to then divert a question to ask.

Such as how Terrai asked Aleaic.. “What did you do my only son.”

Al still didn't answer, Terrai sensing deep introversion taking hold, pegged harder. “Son.”

A breeping noise startled everyone in the chamber, Washu turning to flick a holo button. “~ Land of the meek. ~”

“:: ~ Council wants the mortal in person, now. I've not been told why. ~ ::”

And then everyone went from startled to bewildered, as Washu responded to Tokimi. “~ Not even you? ~”

“:: ~ Just get Aleaic here! My ass is being rode hard on this one! ~ ::”*Tokimi screen image snap-off!*

Cal just said it best. “Boy Bro just does not like being stared.”

Alu worst.. “Can I have his music datafile collection?”

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Of the Kerensky's that were allowed, Ket was just as freaked out at 'being' in Heaven, as Al was on his first time here. “I 'am' still alive right?”

“~ Be assured as many times I say as needed. ~” Yosho remarked, as he lent as guide, after she was told she could come to be a witness for Aleaic as he was led to a very visible hearing, that beheld the attention of two Realms.

As if Aleaic's anxiety wasn't horrid in level already, as he stood in that 'same' Council chamber that nearly tore him from Tsunami, not too terribly long ago, if at least terribly memorable to boot. This time however, he didn't feel much comfort from the others nearby. The so called Kerensky Dimensionals did not feel so loyal to their mortal, all of a sudden. If anything, they couldn't describe 'what' they were feeling.

Al just gulped. “Some one just erase me now.”

“^~ Ever the coward it still seems. ~^”

That didn't help.

Worse, when in that gleaming chamber of ancient make of mode, beheld 'other' than Celestial presences here. “{{~ I should save us all the trouble anyway. ~}}” ...as Aleaic endured the stare of Kagato in full anger. All too easy to wilt under.

“{{{~ Restrain Servant of my Hand. Now. ~}}}” ..the voice of the Brother that was also present. It was expected one other was in attendance easily as well. Kagato just twirled and snarled. “{{~ For the present moment. ~}}”

A 'mind' just gabbled it's presence to settle down the minds witnessing, as the Father imparted. “::[~ Come to Order of the matter at hand. ~]::”

Everything settles down, as the Father then asks. “::[~ Is the information all compiled as Asked? ~]::”

“}~ Yes Father. The information however cannot be.. ~{“

“{{~ What is it?! ~}}” Kagato demanded impatiently.

“[~ We do not answer to you. ~]”

“{{~ Does not the wench of the mind over there know as well already!? ~}}” ..a striking finger of claw pointed at Washu. Washu however just stabs back. “~ Only if I knew the nature the Wish took. ~”

“Why?”

Eyes look again, but nothing else comes out. Even Ket grows wondering. “(What's holding him back so bad? It's like he's...)”

Aleaic kept feeling all those times as a child, being stared at by so many people for things that never should have gone so wrong. It was like every time, ever y single time he ever did something, ten times more people noted him, stared him down, and chided all the bit harsher, for sins another wouldn't be so scrutinized by.

And 'here', of all possible places, for an age old phobia to be rearing it's ugliest head of all.

He never even realized When The Father asked first, and then prodded a second. “::[~ My mortal child in soul, your ear we have? ~]::”

“You fight like we do.”

Most listen, Aleaic creeps further out. “You fight as badly as we do, us humans. I... I don't understand.... why.”

“~ It's the nature of our War over Souls Sensei. ~” Tenchi calls out from behind, floating over to face. Aleaic however argues that with.. “And that is an excuse to fight of 'me' of all beings, in a manner that befits nothing but tragedy to everyone else that is my better?!

My soul is worth killing you each over like you were fully trying to!?”

“{{~ If you no backbone for it. ~}}”

“And yet I was the target, either way! I got that message well enough today!!” ..this even Kagato was silenced unto.

Tsunami then comes forth, Sasami and Achika watching rather than anything else. The Alpha asks. “~ Do we know the actual effects of the Wish? Even I would like to know what occurred. ~”

“{{{~ Preparation for Times to come after us. ~}}}”

“(~ Of what manner!? ~)” Misaki struck out. And in kind... “}~ It would seem demon code and celestial code have exchanged on a single demon to single celestial basis. The protocols regarding active life functions seem to be the main code exchanged.

It... no... I still cannot believe this. ~{“

“::[~ Such you will so do as of now. The plan was foreseen by my Brother and I, and triggered off the heart of one that represents the Times to come, after us as my Brother Mulhorand has said.

As of now, an Infernal soul, and a Celestial soul are hostage exchanged to the desire of the mortal to not see us annihilate each other in the name of a War that he sees little need in. ~]::”

Kagato all but BLARED in Aleaic face! “{{~ You wished for WHAT!??! ~}}”

Tenchi gulped, as did about half of Heaven, as much as three-fourths of Hell grinded their fangs.

Aleaic just quipped back.. “I...... I couldn't stand you killing each other. I don't know why, but you all don't deserve that.”

Kagato reeled under the thought of compassion. Tenchi just asked. “~ What? Compassion for guys like him? ~” .. “{{~ I feel nigh insulted at such. ~}}”

Al pressed anyway, despite emotions in turmoil.. “I can't explain it. Heck, you guys can sense better what I 'feel' of it all, but... well.. it's been like this ever since Tsunami and I did that reinil... la... that Super ReBoot Program thingy. Bringing reality back to normal and all that. Before that I remember everyone and thing being just... gone.

Ever since then, I don't see anything in the term as an enemy. In fact I 'won't' see demons and goddesses as enemies. Not of me or each other. I don't even want to explain why either. I mean trying to even see you all fight each other, when I've seen everyone destroyed at once, all at once, just is something I won't tolerate anymore.”

“{{~ Nice sentiments. But this does not allow ye right to choose our destinies like this. ~}}”

“~ Chosen what? ~”

Kagato looks back at Washu. “{{~ You know 'what' I mean. ~}}”

Washu just folds her arms and looks plainly with one eye open. “~ Sure you do. Our lives are just 'so' over because of not being able to kill each other without a consequence to one of your own attached now. Sure, guess we should all just put 'I quit life' signs and ask got ungodly compensation packages. I want my Goddess 401K plan all squared away.”

Kagato just grumbles as Tenchi then asks. “~ Father. Is this the full and true case? ~”

“::[~ Acquiesced as such. A Celestial cannot take a demon life without cost to another celestial, known or nor. This as the Wish was interpreted to accord by. ~]::”

Aleaic somehow didn't blame Kagato nearly strangling him there and then, if not for Tenchi managing to hold the Demon Hand back. “{{~ Afflicted as so by the will of a putrid mortal!?!? ~}}”

“Must I..”

“{{~ Aye, you said of your importance. Now I wish was reduced in so KIND! ~}}”

“I only worded a Wish enforced upon me. This Council so demanded such, did it not?!”

“(~ So it was. ~)” Funaho's voice plied out, decently amused at the imposition. Al dragged further. “If this is all so impossible to conduct, be of all means rescind my words. Such I do not mind. I was not of asking for another Wish anyway. I HAVE what I want as it is!!”

Tsunami of note found easy reason to blush, yet the words came from a uneasy source. “{{{~ If twas to be so, then I would not have played my part in activating the closest Demon to ye, as to be of Mutual Contract of the Wish accorded in equal agreement. ~}}}”

Tsunami 'did' then gasp. “~ So there 'was' determined coincidence in a Wish Program and Contract Mandala being activated simultaneously! ~”

“::[~ We have so planned it for what 'is' to come. This is a foretold Plan we fore took in the days when we as Brothers recognized the Times of our completion here. We neither of us can no longer see evolutionary need of assistance or guidance for our respective kin, as mortal kin such as those present are near ready to learn their own final steps to equal our kin's own.

Soon, we must depart to begin works on new Existences and realities that the ones here are far beyond past. Evolution has come into our minds, and as such I treat the kin of mortal as a voice to be respected as my own.

Such is why 'We' allowed the Wish to be conducted and Formatted proper. ~]::”

Al just gawked in disbelief. “You used my Wish to interpret your needs?”

“::[~ Yours. As you have said, you seem to care of deep note for 'both' sides of the equation. The compassion is not misplaced by any relative measure. ~]::”

Kagato 'had' to asked on top of such. “{{~ How could you possibly care for one such as I, that conducted manner most ill to your very loves. And yes we know of the Ascension mess that has occurred. ~}}”

Aleaic didn't have a problem answering that. “After this long, knowing how all such played out, I see it all as confirmation of how far I wanted to go to be with my one true love. I 'got' to crash the Heavens and beyond to attain her. I'll do it again every time if you wish to test me.”

Kagato just ended up rubbing his chest, were that old 'scar' remained. “{{~ Nay, the manner of pain was more than I care to relive. ~}}”

Tenchi smiled broadly for some reason.

Aleaic just queried back. “How could you take my word so dang seriously though? My word is not 'yours'!”

“::[~ For the moment. But as one of the authors of an action that only I Myself have partaken in, how dissimilar are we to each other in these days of my Prepared Leave? To come will be a matter that resolves this one issue more than all is prepared for.

Nevertheless, prepare ya 'all' must for changes that remove boundaries of what is 'higher', 'lower', and in between of socialized mind. As such, you word is of same to respect for others to learn from here. As it is, I must ask 'you' how you would like this result interpreted. ~]::”

Aleaic gulped, as Keturia leaned over. “Wit till I tell dad about 'this' one.”

“Bring Advil.” Al moans, and then looks up at the shining field of glow that allowed itself to be seen without blindness. “How mean you Great of most Honorable?”

“{{{~ The Wish and Contract emplace us all at your Word to be melded together by one apiece into life and death, under duress of combat you wish avoided between us, of my Brother's kin and I. How of what manner should you that restrain us so powerfully in voice, consider us to conduct the manner of these chains? ~}}}”

Aleaic could NOT believe what he was dealt with. One actual aspect of Two entire realms under his word, to build rules upon. If there had been ever a moment such as this a mortal had relevant memory to, he sure wish he had framework of it.

“::[~ Such does not exist in this Reality. ~]::”

“Maybe another?”

“::[~ Not for you to access I fear to tell. ~]::”

“Uhuh.”

Aleaic looked back at Ket, then the open eyes of Tsunami, the awed of Sasami, the plain waiting of Tenchi's, and a myriad of emotions from his other immortal near all but name kin. He then looked at the openly confused eyes of Ket. “No help there.”

“Wait till we get back, so much lesser 'there'.”

Al gulped and looked away (a host of chuckles and giggles along with all about.) he then thought what that all meant, the apparent rules of what he heard of all what was happening now. He started just blurting out, thinking out loud to construct something by. “So... one god or goddess and one demon are linked? Um.... cannot kill one without another going with. They should not know whom is linked to whom, to ensure security and preservation of life, but knowledge of the rule or whatever, should be kempt as if legend or... maybe some guideline no one thinks about, nor really should. Yeah.

Everyone should forget whom they think they know they are linked to. The idea to stress is if you guys want souls so bad, you need to make it all more worth the challenge, and not go to a length to kill by. NO mortal is worth the death of that we believe is religion to us. I can't see my Tsunami be forced to kill a demon anyway for my sake. I don't see the whole point in 'doing' such a deed at all anyway.

If we as humans, Gardon too I guess, maybe more beyond not met yet, want to really evolve, we need to be shown something by those that have charge over us, and set the example that lends to steering away from a course that should be avoided at all costs. I don't think it's Pacifist, I 'see' the need to fight for what matters if it comes to it. But how can anyone consider themselves evolved, if base actions meant for animals still ply our lives too much, under all dimensions and their circumstances.

It takes too much work for a living being to become whom they are, and the chances they are given. Death takes ALL of that away. It's such a waste, I cannot see the point in it. Not if I have an inkling of the truth of what lies beyond death, with those that live with me now so willingly. If that be the case, where is the line anymore between life and death for us now, my own human kin, to have a point where a death means anything? Only by end of ones truly natural life, with accomplishment most satisfying, should a life end by. If such needs to happen at all anymore.”

Aleaic finally stopped. He ran his hands stiffly unto the marble railing, the sold and diamond inlay runs rubbed as tough as he emotions felt there. He wondered if his own Father sounded like this, at times when he needed to sway his human kin, at the times needed to end the wars with the Gardon.

Heh, what would the Gardon think of all this? Religion between two entire civilizations probably wouldn't conform to all this. Human Sphere knowledge of Gardon spiritualism was mainly based on knowledge it was polytheistic, but not much else was know in decent detail.

But to finish what he was intending at hand. “I think we just need to sleep this all off. It should all be a forgotten dream that persists.”

“[~ Is there a name to add to something so unfathomable? The matter even affects us on High. ~]”

“::[~ My Brother and I acknowledge it, we no less are binded by it as well. ~]::”

Aleaic just quips. “Boy, if my old classmates could see me 'now'.”

“~ They still need a name. ~”

Al looks at Tsui then. “What? I need to do everything?”

“~ Come now, it's your responsibility bequeathed unto you. ~”

Aleaic blinked, and the considered something, akin to his 'Sai' heritage Knowing it was then mind read, he removed consideration for another far put off time. He instead remedied what was needed, and.. “Well.. what to call it... Doublet System? Nah, too obvious. Pairing Exchange?Nah. The Gun unto Soul method.

Phht... I know, the Ball and Chain Plan!”

Al just got bonked in the head with a red feather rather hard, as Washu huffs along with Infinite Facet. “~ Oh yeah, 'that' will live into endless perpetuity! Great one! ~”

Al chuckled as he rubbed his wincing head, before he noted the Twins. Inryoku and Kalacakra just as interested as the rest. Aleaic then blurted out... “Fated Twins.” ...and such was all. The Father just remarked. “::[~ So it is Written. So it is Done. ~]::”

Al just shivered out in kind. “Someone humble me out the arse after all this?”

He didn't like the sound of Washu and Ryoko chuckling venomously behind him. Tenchi just quips dryly. “~ Well you asked. ~”

“{{~ Too cruel for even I to contemplate. ~}}”

Aleaic just then clapped his hands. “So, I guess this also takes care of that Wish idiocy I never wanted. If you guys would 'never' send me another goddess to make a Wish for 'ever' again...”

“}~ You are not relieved of such responsibility. ~{“

“What?”

“[~ You are still accorded one Wish from the Twins. The task is not compete. ~]”

It was ALEAIC that had to be restrained, as Tenchi and Sasami just kept him from racing out over the railing, to a thousand meter or so drop. And since mortals can't fly... “WHY YOU IMMORTAL TWITS ON A MEMORY STICK!! I DON'T WANT ANY MORE WISHES!! BANE! CRUEL! FOUL MOST UNCOUTH!!!”

“~ Will you.. ow! ..will you settle down Sensei love!! Jeeze he can struggle! Quit it!! ~”

Even Mulhorand was taken aback. “{{{~ To believe one of mortal would react to what a Wish can offer. We 'have' seen all we can of this Existence Brother. ~}}}” ..this The Father just only laughs decently at. Certainly no need to levy a penalty or anything on the mortal named Aleaic, what with knowing what dealing one last Wish still entailed.

It would be a fitting resolution at that.

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Course Al was one step ahead of one other potential problem, one he was meaning to inflict upon his Sister. “Yosho, I think Ket is ready to have a day at the Beach, would she not?”

Yosho uncharacteristically brightened up to the idea, though Ket was restrained as Aleaic had been at the time he had gone. “Are you core motherboard fried Bro? What would Mother and Father think? Hmm?”

Tsui at his side giggled as much as Sasami to the other side of Aleaic, whom imposed as always. (In fact of manner as he got from Tokimi even.) “Of nothing. I think it was high time you not refrain yourself from all that Heaven offers as enjoyment. You should not be as moral as I was whence I came here.”

Mihoshi quips at this. “~ I don't remember you changing from such a mode, Sensei. ~”

Al ignores the giggles he gets, and instead retorts upon what Ket says.. “I don't think I should make our parents worried Brother. You know how they are.”

“Aye, and hence you will not need to worry of them for at least a two day for each of one on Terra. Or something like that.”

“~ It fluctuates sometimes. Could be five days to her one. ~”

“Uh.. nice to know Washu.”

While Washu just hums 'genius' nearby, they all standing near the portal gateway center that would lead Al and his immortal kin back to the hardly promised land. As if Ket was jittery enough being here at all in their Father's stead.. (Terrai, well, you know..) ..she then blanched at the thought of going through whatever Aleaic did during his wonderful adventure here. (Again as it turned out.) “You think I'm going through what you did after all that emotional brouhaha you did after you went nutz back there?”

Al just queeped. “Well...”

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The Father was just finishing laughing, when Aleaic's emotional state got the better of him again. (Ala a certain glowing contraption of annoyance on his right wrist.) He was still struggling well enough just as he and Father felt it first, a split second before everyone felt and noticed how 'shiny' he became. This as the Band just made his body nice and glowy.

Al just quips ever annoyed. “Oh you have got to be kidd... *ZING!*'

“~ Beloved! ~ / ~ Sensei!! ~”

Tenchi smacked his head in grinding annoyance, as did most everyone else that knew better. The rest including Kagato just looked on agape! “{{~ Is 'that' what the reports say of this? ~}}”

“~ Not enough I bet. ~” Tenchi moans. Washu then quips as Achika of note next to her look incredulously. “~ Tokimi, you got my new Tracing Program I uploaded yesterday? ~”

“:: ~ On it. What a pain. ~ ::”

Achika just gleeps in disbelief. “~ How in two lifetimes can he be such a... a.... ERGH!! ~”

One teal tressed goddess of note, giggled at the respective memory. “~ Sai was, all that indeed. ~”

Sasami just smiled, not needing to add to the annoyed faces around. Tsunami however noticed, and looked up on reflex feeling. “~ Father? ~”

The great dark and light auras of the Brothers were gone.

----

He was already up and trying to yank the Band off.. “You're not helping me!!” ..and soon promptly gave up to save tearing his arm off with it. Such was the Band all but sealed down to his very DNA. He instead looked around, and wondered.. “Where in Heaven have you taken me this time bud?” ..as he noted a decently heavenly scene, with a bluish 'background' to the scape he was in. It seemed more astral or ethereal, though, as the 'clouds' looked more like hazed and stretched out masses of wisps, as if looking out at the surface of one of the Sol gas giants that were regularly farmed. The cloud formations seemed consistent.

He hoped the wind speed was the same though. Frightful thought.

This all encapsulated what seemed a supremely open air pavilion, a purely heavenly version, with walks ways of white and gold, that seemed to be too thin to carry even their own weight, and of those of the swirling extensions of... something... that seemed to wind about gently like serene branches. The whole of the area was just as 'free floating' as that Pandemonium Gate place had been. The walkways seemed designed to look like the gilded structure of elegance was a limited expanse to walk about, all this surrounding in bare note, a small glowing point that just... glowed. Could be the light source here, but Aleaic dare not consider too much.

As it was, the place was a suffused and peaceful place that didn't even want to let sound do much, as of 'peacefulness' was imperative here. Such as the few steps Aleaic took seemed to not want to echo at all. He considered stomping to test that, but then felt that was improper. The mortal just then walked a bit around, and noted there were three horizontal plane 'rings' that comprised apparently, the walking areas of this place. As he progressed, he noted that there were very barely noticeable 'panels' that floated without heed in midair, and tried to approach them, but they faded on such approach.

After enough looking around. “Now where 'am' I?”

He felt Him, and knew it arrived, but took a moment to let Aleaic settle his nerves, before He spoke. “::[~ It is, the one place even I cry in. ~]::”

Aleaic gulped, and looked back. The same form and format Avatar that Tenchi spoke to on Earth below, was presented unto him. Aleaic quickly bowed, returned and then bade off, as the Avatar walked past him. Al remarked.. “You would cry here?”

“::{~ I that gave all form, give also the same function I use. Emotion is as of me, as it is you. And here, one I rarely heed, is professed here for reasons few can understand fully. For it is here, that my own children made, come when they should not die, yet so do. ~]::”

Aleaic froze in cold realization. “You mean this place is...”

“::[~ 'Our' lain of Final Rest. Aye. Here, the death of a goddess of god comes to their final resting. But only those that were of a service to Heaven, that it would break the worlds we care for, if they knew.

For here, only the noblest of deed lain at the Altar, bare and full, are given proper measure to their sacrifice. Here are our heroes of the dead immortal. The breaking of the word that gives us blood to the bloodless life.

And here I weep for my kin, as their action begets them sublimation back into my Essence. From there, I choose their reward, and come after the next life that merits as proper as their previous life had been. ~]::”

Aleaic couldn't avoid the next feel. “You mean that...”

“::[~ Come and see yourself. ~]::” ..Father's mighty Avatar spoke, and walked towards an unremarkable area of this impossible place. Father professed as he led the stumbling mortal. “::[~ There are thankfully few. The death of an immortal is a rarity before even deaths of galaxies. I wish it were rarer than the life cycles of universes. However there are natures of deaths, few not so noble as your Mentor Trakalin allowed, that see a greater number of death of my children, that are brought here. ~]::”

Aleaic allows himself to be led to a spot Father stops at. The Father then gestures an arm to what seem three very visible rectangles of crystal clear glass or diamond, pyramided together. The script of gray blue is too archaic and unrecognizable to the mortal, before Father then 'wipes' a hand across them. “::[~ Such as these three you should fully well know in heart now. Such as the reason for your journeys begotten of that trinket adorning your wrist.

There were nigh fewer than others, more noble to our cause, that gave their lives to be rested here. Their base code essence is what makes these markers possible. Know their names, for save for yours, they have not changed since incarnate time of their passing. ~]::”

Aleaic looks, and feels his stomach drop out, knees snap stiff, and mind blank into zilch, as he sees the three names not able to be said..

:: ~ Sai of Codeline Kerenska ~ ::

:: ~ Michellia of Codeline Kerenska ~ ::

:: ~ Paus of Codeline Kerenska ~ ::

Somehow, he knew those last two names. As nothing else he knew. “Are... are they...?”

“::[~ Sai's original parents. You should know then of altered name adopted by more than mere coincidence, of the family name you adorn 'now' in cherished love. ~]::”

“You... no way. You mean Sai's parents 'started the Kerensky Family line!??!”

The Father murmured acknowledgment. Al decried obviously of.. “But... that was over two thousand years ago!!”

“::[~ You underestimate how long Lord Sai lived as my Servant of the System, by Portfolio earned. The memory you know, was abbreviated by much, as was aided by the temporal differential between our dimension and your current one. Code stream time and mechanics operate such that there was maliable time to be had to set up what I foresaw what was to come.

Accept you shalt, that your gods of parents, were the ancient ancestors that beget the line that you now live to oversee the new Age to come. You will be needed, come time of understanding, to uphold all you hold dear, when my time of departure comes. ~]::”

Aleaic was then allowed a small measure of time to absorb this impossible truth. He didn't even realize two teal tressed souls were behind him again, allowing this moment. Eventually Tsunami/Sasami heard as much as Father did.. “Where... where are they now?”

“::[~ Of my Council, the very ones you fought of verbal note against, and heard even today in my Holy Chamber. Their placement was well earned I assure. ~]::”

Aleaic slumped to his knees. “Oh..... man.... Jovian to the overwhelm me max.”

Al then heard the light giggles he knew so well.

And then just to press.. “Can I...”

“::[~ Meeting them you shalt not. Yet at least. The time for such will come, for a time when you meet them as what you wish them not to be. Sense you must, what I warn you of now. ~]::”

Father then swipes his arms wide and powerfully, his hidden face struck omnipotently, as the gilded moselium is then force shown it's crystalline markers. Dozens are shown, as Father imparts imposingly. “::[~ Know thus, that there is a schism of even those closest to me, of a kind that is of direct threat to the intention of my overreaching goal. There is a revolutionary mind of those too ancient and unwilling, to see past their own superiority, and consider equal measure to kin, such as you. Most that comprise, are of the dead that were not as noble, or unfortunate plain, meshed with even those here that expired in nobility, yet had mind to consider mortals as chaff.

Know this, when you know time is right. That you, and your chosen allies, must stand as a united front, to prevent what they see, as what was proper action by Trakalin. They see too blindly, what you see too truthfully. You must be cautious my mortal child, this enemy will be too cherished to you, but have no qualm conflicting to an end of Infernal, Mortal, 'and' Celestial alike!

Of this, I ask, near nigh beg of you to rectify unto them, a will that I will not intercede in. For 'this', is the Final Test of Ascendance, your ilk, and of my own, Brother of mine added, all must face, before I can Depart. Know, despite all cost, you cannot attain help greater than of Council you call befriended.

You will all know of whom I Speak, when time is right. ~]::”

Aleaic was shaking as dearly as Tsui and Sasami were now, as The Father demanded of his only true beg to ever give. “::[~ I Beseech you to save my lost kin, and Bring them all to final Paradise, together! ~]::”

Too much to say in those words, and not need be said, as Mortal and Celestial in presence endured, before all settles down. Aleaic shuddered, and dare thought if this was all what those Ancient Biblical stories, of such moments were like.

He didn't envy them, if he could ever hope to know.

And yet such a secular feel was not the point, as his racing heart eased. “Are.... are we already on... our own.... then?”

Father looks down at his huddled, pious, yet mindful kith, and replied. “::[~ Oh my Son of many Sons, one as singular, as there are many I call equal of. You already are grown past my ken. You Stand as I always do.

The rest will stand with you after I am gone. The story is entirely yours to make now. I am no author of any hand to write by now. Lesser I have, for the past thousand mortal years even, since you grew years to rival my celestial children. You each, are ready for without Me. ~]::”

Aleaic gulped, and looked back, and traded a 'what do we do now' look, just before they realized He... was gone.

Possibly before them, for the last time.

And there, in that moment all three were huddled, they just looked at each other. And then...

“~ Thanks Sensei love. Really, I mean that. ~”

“*Sigh most thick* No problem.”

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“Another nice time of it I see.”

“I don't plan this mom, I swear.”

“You planned my daughter's incarceration.”

Al didn't argue the giggles and stares he got, as calming drinks were passed around the living room. A late evening end to what seemed a day to remember for the entire hold. Save for certain details of the... the...

“What was that place we were at anyway?”

“~ 'Final Rest' dear. The words should have been clear enough to you. ~”

Terrai chuckles at the migraine Al gives off of vibe. “'Clear' would till be too cloudy a word in comparison.”

“The task you have mentioned seems of great enough importance, even if we of kin and your elder has not been told all you have to say.”

Aleaic looked meekly at his own father. “For now. I'm still digesting it all myself.”

“{~ As will we it seems. Hate to know who you got me saddled with. ~}”

“~ We're not going to know. ~ Tenchi spoke up. Ryoko blinked at that. “{~ You sure hot stuff? It's likely even you know who you are stuck with. ~}”

“~ It doesn't matter. We'll wake up and that will be that. I actually don't mind the method Sensei's Wish took. ~”

A disgruntled murmur from Inryoku didn't seem to agree with all this. Mihoshi just asked. “~ But this essentially changes the way we've dealt with Hell Core. Jurai Core will need to change a 'lot' of parameters to mesh with the Soul War. ~”

“I don't know...” Al quipped out, but trailed off. “~ Beloved? ~”

Off Tsunami's prod, Aleaic professed. “The way The Father put things. If this evolution thing goes as I can only guess He would consider it, then the War you had been fighting might be really moot. Even more so given how long us humans live any more. Are we too at the cusp of immortality in some measure?”

Terrai couldn't believe he'd hear this kind of talk from his own Son. “You once would complain about wanting to even hear politics and philosophy from me. Now you rewrite the same for our governors above?” ..this the elder looks at Jeain. “That's not our son, I tell you.”

“So much for our tax exemption rebates.”

Al just grumbles something better left uninterpreted. He also then remarks. “I only wanted them to stop fighting.”

“And you used a tool to do it with. I know your look of eye as well as my own.”

Al gulped and looked only a moment with the goddesses and Avatar around the living room, before he looked away in shame. Inryoku just grumbled. “~ I feel so used. ~”

Kalacakra however strutted. “~ Not I Adelfi. ~”

Aleaic heard that and growled to even a mother's startle. Al got up and stared dryly at the Time goddess, and then promptly stomped out. Kiyone just leans in. “~ I don't think he wants your Wish. ~”

“~ Well I can't control that now! Agathos Ouranos! ~”

Somehow the stares returned unto her didn't seem understanding. Jeain already notes two teal goddesses heading out, as does another mother amongst the group.

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*..it is a nice Beach.*

“Yosho dear?”

“~ Mmm? ~”

“I'm not comfortable.”

Yosho looks over, as Keturia is essentially glocked over, gawked over, and just plain stared at by a literal mass of gods. (That goddess to gods ratio 'did' have quite a few numbers of the latter to be had.) Course there were enough uber curious goddesses for their own various (some unhealthy,) reasons, to aid the bland distress Ket mentions. Yosho just looks again, and quips. “~ I guess then it's not just Sensei then. He'll be interested to know. ~”

Quite a few gods scurry away at how HARD Ket smacks her retort back with.

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It was a semi cool night, the clouds obscuring most of sight of the Orbital Ring. Not all nights could be perfect, even with Climatization. Still, enough hover traffic, and launch contrails could be noted at a distance. Aleaic however wondered how much of the action earlier this day (still 'one' to be miraculously sure,) would be on the minds of the local citizenry.

Those ancient Constable worries came creeping back up.

“~ If such occurs.. ~” ..a voice as welcome as ever into always.. “~ ...we can dissuade them by simplistic needs. ~”

“For now.” ..the mortal remarks, Tsui smiling, as Al continues. “They'll had the right to know, when the time comes. This whole civilization will. This world among all others alike, Human, Gardon, or nor. When the time comes, yes.

For now, let them wonder and mull.”

Tsunami, and Sasami behind listen, but the Ascended latter then speaks up when Al's mind turns to such. “~ We're not ready to accept an apology for what you did. We can understand it however. We'd wished for your mortal species to have the same done unto them. Unfortunately we don't have the same privilege that you do with the Wish Program System.

Having such done unto us is... ~”

“Rude.” Al quips, then sighs. “But it was the only thing on my mind at the time. Plus I 'know' it didn't need to be agreed to. Somehow if it all happened a few years prior or something, it wouldn't be agreed to.”

Tsunami just came up behind and spoke with her breath on Al's neck. “~ Father's Will extends to far reaching levels. We can discuss all such all evening and only have mutual headaches. Perhaps we should... oh? ~”

Tsunami blushes when Aleaic turns and hugs her. Sasami moans in great wanting of the same, as Al remarks. “Let's get our marriage done 'very' soon here! I can't take much more wondering if something 'else' will interfere with what is supposed to be 'our' lives. That debt is a pain too.”

Tsunami giggles. “~ Agreed. ~”

Sasami of course. “~ Where's my share of all that? ~”

Al looks and gulps. “Sorry, too habitual here.” Tsui just quips. “~ There's still tonight. ~” Al quips back as Sasami just gloms in on her own whim. “How the heck do I get used to this?”

“~ Asteio. ~” ..that pressing temporal 'voice' quips. The glare from the teal twins isn't heartwarming. Aleaic just growls. Kalacakra growls. It's just so comfortable. (So is sandpaper.) “Wishes such you know.”

Kalacakra just moans. “~ I have a duty to finish here you know! That Thea isn't off the hook either. ~”

Sasami: “~ I am of the same 'thea', lady. ~”

Scratch that, sandpaper on a cheese grater unit.

It gets so that Inryoku and then Kiyone emerges, the latter to just keep an eye out. Al tries to get away a bit by scooting to the open grounds in front of the residence, but the lot scoot with him. It didn't take long therefore.. “Jeeze!! I just wish you two would find loves as grand as Tsunami's and mine! Oops, and mine and Sasami's.”

Kalacakra gulped. Inryoku did no less. “~ What did you say Nen?! ~”

Al looks past his now apparently two great loves, and remarks. “The way you two are acting, and what this is all about, it's better you beget something as good as I got it! I 'really' wish you two would just find grand loves, and learn something or ten along the way doing it!” ..he even shouts out loud! “YOU HEAR ME UP THERE!?!? I WISH THESE TWO HAD GRAND LOVES ALL THEIR OWN!! I MEAN IT!! GAWD DANG BLESSED!!!”

Old female voice off in the distance: “Aw shut it! I want one myself, but I don't scream out my bejibbers for it!!”

Another 'voice' of old male somewhere as near: “I would if you'd let me hit on you like in the old days!!”

“I got knocked up twice because of the 'old days'! Get over yourself!!”

“~ Should we be hearing all that? ~” Kiyone eeps out, just before a familiar blue-light flares to everyone's vision, as it's finally Kalacakra's turn! Al sees and quips amazed. “Okay, guess I was heartful enough.”

Tsunami just smiles, the one that knows better, as Inryoku looks on uneasily, as the process takes a moment to complete. As it does, most everyone else that end outside. “So this is how it's done.” Caladeni remarks. Washu just shrugs. “~ Light and pizazz with meaning. ~”

The display ends serenely enough, which Kalacakra flutters her eyes open. “~ The... this Wish has been uploaded per your specifications Thnitos, I... eh? STOP THAT STUPID DANCING!!! ~”

Aleaic by now had just started spinning he, Tsui and Sasami around, the latter two just along for the wacky ride. “~ I feel dizzy! ~” ..ala Sasami.

“They're done! They are so done! They are DONE!!!” ..and stops spinning abruptly. Tsui and Sasami prove quite adept at balancing as Aleaic just snarls comically. “And I will NEVER have another Wish again!” ..he screams at his Band. “You hear me!”

Inryoku just quips. “So how does 'this' Wish work now?”

Al blinks and shrugs. “I dunno. Like how mine went, like I could predict a thang that's happened since that day.”

The Twins look at each other, but then note a Portal suddenly opens.. “~ Okay, your Terra meter is empty, time to go mess with another Plane or Reality. ~”

“{~ Yeah, no more speaking parts for you. ~}”

Kal: “~ Anamoni!! ~”

Inry: “~ I mesedj pen djed!! ~”

The Twins are unceremoniously dumped through Washu's Portal, with Kiyone and Ryoko (again, quite cooperative anymore,) the pushy assistants. The last thing heard is some kind of ancient lingo cursing that no one can really understand anyway. Ryoko just quips, wiping her hands proudly. “{~ They whine as much as Sensei does. ~}”

'Sensei' does not look amused. “You get next Wish then.”

“{~ Not allowed. Contracts either. ~}” ..and then promptly just goes Band-aid adhesive or something around Tenchi's neck. “{~ Not that I need it. ~}”

While Ayeka predictably.. well.. and Mihoshi... well, it's been a few years now. And Tenchi... wait, he already chose, WHAT IS THIS!?!

Ayeka/Ryoko/Mihoshi: “~ Habit!! ~ / {~ Habit! ~} / ~ Please stop already!! ~”

Tenchi: “~ Never ends. ~”

...um, anywho. Terrai and Jeain just come up and both pat Al's melon while Tsui and Sasami smile. And ala both.. “We don't envy you now.”

Al just sobs. “Thank you. Kind words ever heard.”

Al then notes.. “Achika?” ..as the noted Dimensional waves him over. He obligingly heads over, leaving Tsui, Sasami and Jeain to discuss wedding plans. (And Terrai moans at the hit his Inter-Sphere financial accounts will take.) The two eventually end up in Achika's room at the secondary residence. Which is of note.. “Why'd you come out here?”

Achika just turns around and huffs. “~ You did it again. Two lifetimes and I still can't stand it. ~” ..and spins back around. Aleaic gulps. “I'm sorry... wait.. what? No wait, I'm sorry first.” ..as he goes blank before realizing better. Achika just sighs and turns around. “~ You also didn't tell everyone the biggest reason for that first Wish today. ~”

Al had to weigh that thought for a moment. He shouldn't have. He instead remarks with two. “Tsunami... also that Pandemonium Gate.”

Achika looks back. “~ You did... wait... ~” ..as she delved into Aleaic's emotions quite readily for once. (More than usual for the immortal lot anyway.) She senses and speaks of... “~ You were split in that decision. ~”

Aleaic sighs and rubs his dirty blond locks. “Of course Tsunami was a major reason. Always will be. But... when I saw that place, the way it was made, I blessedly swear that I saw a dichotomy that demonstrated something that 'can' work for the larger picture.”

“~ Jurai Core and Hell Core. ~”

Al nods. “There was also something else. The time Tsunami and I did that ReBoot thing. Heck, it seems if there's a parallel to be had, it's Tsunami, and some static Heaven-Hell parameter that work in the same mesh, or something. Our love that can hold up, while your two realms existing in tandem with each other, 'allowing' that same love.

Selfishness and cooperation in the same mode. Maybe that's the point, I don't know. I just know.... your daughters. They don't need to fight... not for me or anyone else if we 'really' don't need to. To fight like that, seems to just risk me losing them in the end.”

Aleaic just slumps his shoulders. Achika just smiles. Aleaic then remarks. “If it were you and Nobuyuki, what would you do in our places.”

“~ Probably blow up or something. I have to pin him down half the time to have my way with him. ~”

Aleaic jitters his eyes blandly. “Oh great, and you after ME about my romantic foibles?”

Achika snaps a kooky finger at a mortal melon. “~ Twas not my idea to have my two daughter BOTH fall in love with you! Can't you be mean to one of them or something? ~”

Aleaic of course... “ME!!? I can't be mean spirited if I was possessed by one! You got them stuck together!?!? Huh? HUH?!”

“~ I only separated them because of Sai's death! I didn't think you'd hitch them BOTH up on me!! ~”

“Like they'll listen!?!?”

“~ Not.... not........ UGH... they listen. I should have foreseen this all better. ~” ..and walks over to plop onto her bed ala butt. Al half chuckles before he then hears. “~ I did it to let my daughter have a meaningful existence during the time you were gone from Tsunami's life. You have 'no' idea how hard your god's-death hit her. I... I took a course of action I thought would help distract her some. I also did something.... unanticipated. ~”

“Do you think I'm like this Sai guy?”

Achika looks up, cut off from explaining. The look in his eyes were shaky. “I still don't see myself as....”

The emotions came across clear enough, the effect of trying not to shatter stained glass while walking across it enforced. She went to her original words of intent, but with a more hopeful tone. “~ I separated Sasami into her own being, but did it not being able to fully separate their essences from each other. Of course I told them when both were old enough, but that ended up being only a couple of System days before your Wish came up. I knew Tsunami, and her plan. I think even Father knew what was coming.

I also saw what would happen, once Sasami found out about you. Heck, everyone in Jurai Core knew. ~”

Aleaic as expected, blushed like mad. Achika took full advantage. “~ You should see the holo-recordings the Core Administrators took. One of the top five most romantic Wish missions ever seen. I can bring it down sometime if you want. ~” ..with a wink.

Aleaic was a bit 'frozen' for a moment. “Um... maybe as a honeym.. uh.. wedding thing. Yeah. That. Woo yeah.”

Achika filed it away. She then pushed. “~ When I got the chance to come, I wanted to see who you really were. And after all this time, I know now. You and Sai 'are' the same. Everything. It's been since then that I realized what Sasami would feel because of my inability to fully separate them, that this day would come. ~”

“I'm sorry. I guess if who I am is to cause for this, then curse myself all ye want. I'm still not sure what to do. They seem too independent for me to see them as the same. I don't think I can do that anyway. I at a real lost how to handle all this right now.”

Achika mulled that for a bit, and then stood back up. “~ Well, for one you can know this. Their lives are linked because of their situation. One cannot live without the other. They are as to each other, as you made us goddesses unto a demon each. ~”

Aleaic got that message clear enough. “I don't think I could live without them... her... them... uh, either. I can't. Won't even.”

“~ Then the second, means no hiding the truth. One is both, so respect them both for all to see. I love my daughters both enough to know both need the same in respect. A mother 'does' demand such, you should know. ~”

Aleaic gulped at that. So much for half his plans to explain Sasami's current 'condition' to everyone. “The dressing up part as a Cabbit won't fly either.. eyyOUCH! Nope.. ow.. won't do. Got it, got it.”

Achika just rubs her right palm, as she then asserts. “~ Just be sure to remember both things. The link runs as deep between them, as yours had become with Tsunami twice. Who knows, you might even learn to like it all. ~”

Aleaic stands there for a moment, and then surprises Achika with a rather traditional bow. “Thank you. I think I understand my heart was too confused to handle all this. Having your confidence makes me feel more sound. I'm sorry still I made you angry.”

“~ You made me uneasy. Besides, marrying both my daughters off to a spacey brat isn't what I'd call comforting, wouldn't you say? ~” ...another wink. Al just twitches again. “For your pardon and beg, I'm only spacey for being a Compu-Nerdo. Which you have helped foster by the way. I should tell Nobu... mmmphh!”

Achika just smushes Al's face shut with a stiff hand. “~ Nu-uh. Nobuyuki's my gossip puppet! You got two to ply the trade. One you suck at by the way. ~”

“(This hand hurts you know... Owww!)”

Did the author mention they were on the second floor when Achika kicked him out the door and over the railing?

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Journal Entry - 26th April 3420

*Recording Terminal / Module 1279E* (This time for sure.)

*Happy humming dorky sound*

I love my family and all, but... THEYS IS GONE JOVI-BABAY!!

Yup, they left today. After breakfast. It was a teary sight. That or that fall last night still has my spine in a bind. Ow.. *shuffling sounds*

I know, I know. I still have to live up to the whole Placement bit. Might even be worth it all, if I dare believe my impenetrable Father. But still, I'd like to keep a 'bit' of time left of my old family life here. I think they are relieved not to have so many inquisitive mortals, most female and all at that, upping in their business and all. Can't blame them, what being one. (Hence my nominal treatment sometimes during Ryoko-Ayeka world wars and all.)

They're still a bit sore with me for.... for... uh, um... I'm not sure. Some twins word is on the tip of my tongue, but I can't remember why. The other's can't either. Been weird like that since we all woke up. (Surprised since what with Sasami and Tsui being... ahem.. oh yeah, that's why I'm back sore. Hehe.. uh..)

We also have one... um.. addition we...

Ryoko background voice. “:: {~ Don't you know the meaning of sharing!?!? ~} ::”

Minagi background VOICE!?!?: “:: {~ Calling the kettle black Agent? ~} ::”

Ayeka background voice: “:: ~ I can't decide which Demon to side with. ~ ::”

Yeah... that!! Sometime during the night, Yosho and Ket showed back up, trying to being civil and.. um.. their thang. Unfortunately we 'all' didn't know, probably save for Washu who SHOULD have known better, when the Demon Agent Minagi showed up, hence Yosho and Ket found her raiding the fridge!

The scream and a few blasts woke up up somehow. Just... somehow.

After the repair bots were done (I swear they complained all through their work, actual swearing too,) we found out Minagi was reassigned to us as a demon 'ambassador' or such, since I guess whatever I did last.. er.. yester.. whatever I did, it made the Infernal brass interested enough to send an amicable representative to live with us. I think Minagi and Ryoko were childhood friends or something, though with the way she'd been after me in the past, I'm still honestly reserved about it all. Minagi however promised my soul was off limits from now on, as long as I did not use the goddesses or Tenchi to interfere with the normal process of acquiring other potential souls.

Only as long as the soul in question is justified and all. Tasha sure doesn't deserve all that, amongst others I know. We came to an eventual, if terse compromise, that led to everyone too dang tired to care by then. 0237 Hours Tekomi Local is PUSHING it you know!

Some more sleep, and a good breakfast and all else I mentioned, along with another all day Ryoko sake fest, and things seem settled down. For the moment. I need to get going and reserve spots on the Quasar Line for next week, and all. It 'would' be nice to come back home, and show off my twin acquisitions. Senia's going to be... nah, not jealous. He was fawned over a lot as it is, if I remember. (Not jealous of him anymore for some reasons.)

I know Kiyone, Yosho and Ket-bozu will want to stay. Not sure about the rest. (I may need to really stress some things if they come. Not sure they want to come with.. eh? Now what are they doing?

*Sudden spike of happy chatter*

*End datarecording.. 1151.37..*

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Aleaic, ever the curious bloke, heads downstairs, and there quickly sees the large gaggle of celestial souls, as they gather around.. “Oh! Lady Funaho!”

The Council member of Insight and Intelligence, both of well deserved note, nods back. “(~ Sensei Aleaic, of well to see you again. ~)” She notes as Al comes down and bows. Washu then remarks. “~ She showed up a bit ago, but you know me and gabbing away with this goddess. ~”

“You and gabbing away with everything in the Human Sphere it seems too.”

Washu plans something uneasy for 'Sensei' later, given how much the others giggle/chuckle in agreement.

A rough grunt from Minagi makes Funaho look. “(~ So the report was true. ~}” ..whit the Gamma Agent just looks away upon. She'll need work.

“{~ Like some authors. ~}”

“~ As usual. ~”

Author: Har har, Ryoko and Washu...

Funaho then heard Mayuka ask. “~ Any word on if the Twins are out of our hair for good? ~” ..a question that seemed stuck in her mind since the previous night. Funaho in fact on Misaki's giggling cue, remarked. “(~ They have already indeed 'found' a pair of someones. But I think another related matter from their visit should be dealt with at last. ~)” ..and a look over at a blinking Aleaic. She hands over a celestial embossed Padd, and imparts.. “(~ You should be 'very' interested in this. ~)”

I sure didn't take long for Al's back to become warm, what with all the bodies that looked over his shoulder. (..a lot considering only Ket can't fly. Yet anyway.)

Al treats it all as per that original Report.

What he gets...

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*Another celestial as perfect a day ever.*

“~ Aniaros, ploy aniaros. ~”

Inryoku just flicked a ploy-crystal cup at her Twin. “~ That's not helping Netjret. ~”

Kalacakra grumbled as both were on hiatus for the interim while their official conduct of their last mission was under review. Not much to do while they waited. The celestial way was easily taken for granted for these two that craved action and more. Sitting around was not their style.

But when the order comes from Tokimi herself, the matter is 'not' argued. (The last goddess to do so hasn't been seen outside the System Wastelands. Bugs grow like Viruses or something there, or something like that. It wasn't pretty, leave it at that.)

This left the two goddess Twins to wait for an undetermined amount of time, for their review to be conducted. Given their last wait after a 'mission' took six months to come to order, they weren't expecting too much more this time around, other than more training holos. Al lot of them.

“~ Maybe we 'have' pushed it this time. ~”

Inryoku brushed her blinding white hair along her right forearm, another sign of boredom to be sure. She looked around at the other gods and goddesses keeping their distance, thought she saw two gods that looked familiar, but then noted Kalacakra was looking blankly into the far distance. (It was a marvelous multi-tiered landscape past the Outer Zones, to be sure.) The gravity goddess just quipped. “~ Soul bead for your thoughts? ~”

“~ That wish. How long do we have to wait? ~” ..set in a tone that was 'anything' but impatient. Inryoku just cracked back. “~ I think you need therapy sessions Netjret. ~”

The glare begotten just was shrugged off. Inryoku instead just rose and huffed, going apparently in opposition with her own usual cat like trait of patience. “~ I can't stand this, I'm going for a walk. ~”

Kalacakra just fluttered her hand to bade a 'whatever' farewell. She was in her wandering thoughts of what was likely to happen, because of the Wish, when a crash made her look. She did so, and realized someone familiar from a nearby Clutch abode was standing profusely apologetic, as he helped Inryoku up. “~ I am 'so' sorry Inryoku! I was... I have no excuse. ~”

“~ All the 'better' you don't, Guardinal Rajau. ~” ..as she stood and cleansed herself up with a simple spell, flustering off Rajau's helping attempts. Kalacakra actually giggled, at the sight of an old Clutch-mate friend from the early Mentorship days. A rarity that betrayed a memory. If only...

“~ Great going Rajau. You ever going to be smooth around the goddesses? ~” ..a red headed humanoid god remarked to his canine faced companion. Kalacakra felt her heart skip, as she remembered these two were gods from the Guardinal Classification, in the uniform of the Jurai Core Relief Special Services Section. The scar across the red head's right cheek told the god had seen more than a bit of action. The gravity goddess found it 'interesting', as she rose to back up to back up Inryoku, as the temporal Twin lambasted Rajau.

“~ A problem Senet? ~”

The red head gulped on seeing.. “~ Ah.. Alpha Kalaca... Kalac... K... uh.. ~”

The red head felt 'heavy' for a moment, what with.. “~ The name is Kalacakra!! One entire lifetime isn't enough to remember my NAME!??! ~”

Rajau just swiveled his dog face at... “~ You're as smooth as I am Kenneth. Go figure that. ~”

“~ At least I didn't smack into a goddess without looking. ~”

“~ One I'd remember the name of, if hovering over Hell Core's furnaces to remember by! ~”

“~ At least Inryoku is an easy name to remember! I got the hard one to name out on all those gifts I tried to send to her! ~”

“~ So 'that's' why all your gifts for returned every Core cycle! ~”

Inryoku and Kalacakra just held back. Seeing the boy-gods just tongue lash at each other as always, gave the two giggles. They didn't realize how rare an act this was for them 'both'. That changed about ten more seconds of this, when both blinked and looked at each other. Both nodded. What other explanation was there?

There was only one thing for it.

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Aleaic read...

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~ Addendum Rescinding Protocol: Current Earth date:

It should be noted that as accordance of the previous Addendum of Violation ,unto Accord Article 156,706-13Y Section 551-A/3, has been conducted to the satisfaction of the Council, if the manner so handled was as unexpected as any Wish Contract is conducted in operational vector. As such, threat of rescinding of the final Judgment of the Report, is null and void.

It should be noted the Wish in partake to the well being of the Representatives of the Portfolio's of Time Wheel Structure, and Gravity, has met with activation of personal affairs that meet the criteria of the second Wish. ~

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“~ They got hitched. ~” Mayuka noted. Al silently did a fist pump. He wasn't the only one.

The report continued:

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~ The matter of the first Wish meanwhile, is accorded to Secret status. From this moment on, mind will be difficult to conduct by, when considering this particular situation. New training accordances will be introduced over time to begin acquainting all Dimensionals of the nature of this matter. Dimensionals will be strictly warned in the meantime if demon contact is expected.

It is also noted that the central client in this matter, will no longer have his client soul registered on the Wish sub-archive listing. From here henceforth is this Father's Will, and will be obeyed without question. Safety of the System is as both paramount, as is the continued stability of the client's own Contract, and the full health of both is reasons why for this barring and delisting.

Finally, the Council wishes it's proper regards in the coming union of ones that have shaped even this Council in ways never anticipated. The union is hoped to bear greater fruit and multiply in the unseen future to come.

This is the Council's Will, guided by our `collective' Father and One Will. His will be thy truly done.

Signed: Council of Holy Wisdom, Jurai Core of the Great Tree of Existence.

Aye: (10)

Nays: (0)

Abstains: (1)

Co-Signed: Alpha Goddesses Funaho of Intelligence, and Misaki of Parents.

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Aleaic hadn't felt 'this' free in his entire life.

Tsunami never crushed him as hard. Sasami neither in retroactive.. well, ye know.

Funaho just blinks. “(~ Thy mortal has learned the meaning of love thy hurts. ~)”

Everyone (even Minagi,) have to smile in some format, as Aleaic looks to his permanent loves. “Any.. ugh.. more of.. -gasp-.. this, and... -CRUNCH!- ..I'll be one... -turning blue- ..with that Sai... -WHEEZE!!- guy again!!”

Tsui/Sasami: “~ We're so happy! ~”

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A mortal caresses the leaves of his old 'birth' tree, a simple apple tree. He didn't need to worry about it being healthy in this climate, what with the celestial help available. He just sighs, a flood of memories of the past few days flowing through him. Flow they did.

He didn't realize... “Dang.... wish.” ...before he then feels his back pressed upon lovingly, and his cheek caressed, a cool feel of light thermodynamics plying in the name of happy as Jurai Core emotions. He gave up trying to guess which one it... no... that perfume..

Isn't that the...?

“~ Human perfumes that you choose for me are my special signal. As is the Christmas gift of that sweater we share. Your very aroma keeps me warm when I so wear. ~”

Al chuckles. “Dare I ask you will ever wash or sonic cleanse the article?”

Tsunami looks thoughtful. “~ Your mortal religions of ancient mode gave the Shroud a significance, due to said article never having been washed either. At least not since it's last adorning. Significance is not meant by just aroma. However it's a personal thing for me nonetheless.

No less than this tree. No less than our very lives. And if you are worried, Sasami is currently selecting the culinary selection for tonight's dinner. ~”

Al smiles..

“~ She's trying out Harbineros. ~”

Al isn't.

“Tell me. Is sleep ever going to be a nominal course of act in my life ever again?”

Tsunami just hums and caresses Aleaic all about. Answers never were so clear.

And for awhile, they weren't disturbed. Something lacking for the last few days also got it's chance for once. Simple peace and adjoined comfort. That was all that was to it. No one and no thing interrupted, well into the slow melt of daylight into the dusk muse. No weather messed with, and not even a curious bird or pesky moth approached.

Smell of waifing food almost could, but such was the silent enjoyment both had, that the last hour they remained such, essentially passed them completely by. Even the universe seemed to leave them alone.

Eventually two others quipped from a barely lit foyer.

“(~ I guess our work has merit. To think their selfishness will save us all when the time really comes. ~)”

A more calm, 'intelligent' voice responded to the Parent Ayeka refrained normal approach. “(~ Have saved. I can't see anything less than what is already essentially so done. If they only knew what will come of their long lives together. ~)”

Misaki looked over. “(~ You've looked? ~)”

“(~ I've been 'informed'. We are Tasked my Sister, after the time we thought we would depart. We are the eyes and ears of a history no one can be prepared for. I am proud to be part of it. ~)”

Misaki takes a good, long stare at Funaho, her long cherished sister, and then nods. “(~ We'll need a historiographer then. ~)”

“(~ I have one in mind. Though she will complain, as will a Mentored present will. Airi will do that. ~)”

Misaki didn't laugh either. All would learn soon enough.

Dearly so by goddess.

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Washu: -SNEEZE!- “~ Wha the!? ~”

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-Later that night...-

“Uh... isn't it possible to have less than a lethal dose of capsicum?”

Ket: -leaning over- “Looks about right to me. What after your little stunt on me.”

Nobuyuki: “Why am I here? I was already eating.” -promptly 'Achika' stuffed.-

Achika: “Given food should be taken you know.”

Sasami: “Just eat guys. You'll all need it later.”

Tsunami: -eats a similar amount-

Tenchi: “Is this amount safe for even...” ..-Tsui humming/gulping sounds-... “..er.. us?”

All around the dinner table, a 'spicy' influx seem to be the flair. Aleaic gulps and tries to try some kind of Thai-Mex fusion dish of rice with 'quite' a few spices and meats in a half fried, half baked flair. The side dishes were meant to balance the main dish out some.

Yeah right. He takes one bite..

Washu: “~ So mortals 'can' spontaneously combust. ~”

Al and Ket make it through the side dishes that 'do' balance some 'part' of the main course. Course most are carbohydrates and high glycemic index count, even for this era.

The dessert was appropriately laced.

Whata way to end the chapter. (Cause 'these' lemons can't be squeezed here folks. Wooboy.)

Human Sphere wide upgrade complete. Time to install Add-ons.

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(End Part Eight (Version 8.6) ..)

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Author Notes: Not having done this story since 2004 means a 'lot' of time to think about the material I guess. At the very least it's given me time to improve my writing ability, and appreciate the fandom for this particular series I love so much.

For those that still love this anime series (Tenchi Muyo as a whole, even the Shin types out there,) the fandom will never die. (For us anyway.) I don't think it's the last for the series. And there's still room for us all out there, even in the current mess of popular anime. When it comes down to it, the fandom is as core as it is for Robotech and older series that have them.

Anywho, for those reading this on the Fan Fiction site, the proper formatting is better seen as intended, on the Media Miner fiction site. I wish the formatting problems would end, but I don't expect them too. As such, I still want a wide audience to read this, as I conduct future chapters. As such, I'll publish to both sites, but still point to MediaMiner as the site for the intended formatting to be displayed.

And those seeing names and back checking me on previous chapters I've recently edited, will see character names correctly. Expect a GXP influx into the series, along with OVA3 'understanding' worked in. can't go without some of 'that', to be sure.

So hand on to the hyper-boosters, the ride gets bumpy from here. (Whatever my warped mind comes up with along the way.) Have fun.