For your Thanksgiving pleasure, Wax Wolf presents:

Sweet Temptation

A short fanfic by Taper Wickel.

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It was a quiet fall day at the temple.  Skuld rushed busily about with
her new HyperLeafBlower 3472.3, a leaf blower so powerful, it shunted
tthe fallen leaves into another dimension entirely.

Unfortunately, the inhabitants of that dimension were less than
pleased about the sudden influx of biomass.  Adding to the
unfortunateness was the fact that this dimension was an aspect of
Hell.

Hr'thgon, demon prince, shook the leaves off of the bony protrusions
on his back.  "I will have vengeance!"

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"Want some ice cream, little girl?" the demon leered, waving the cone
slowly back and forth before Skuld's face.

It was simple for him to find the leaves' origin; the dimensional
weakness generated by the leaf blower was unique and easily traceable.
He recognized Skuld from a newsletter that he'd subscribed to,
"Goddesses to Look Out For".  It had conveniently listed her weakness.
All he had to do was lure her into the warding circle he'd drawn, and
her powers would be bound -- and he'd be free to punish her in ways
best left to the imagination of Torquemada.

Skuld knew this red-skinned beast was a demon, she knew he was evil,
she knew he meant her no good... but... oooh, ice cream.  Yummy ice
cream.  Cold and sweet and good.  Oooh.  She took a step closer, and
then another, nearing the edge of the circle.

And lightning lanced out of the clear, blue sky and fried Hr'thgon,
banishing him to his home dimension and erasing the circle, leaving
the ice cream cone hanging momentarily in midair.

Skuld caught it before it could fall.

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Hr'thgon swabbed himself with Damned Bactine.  (Words spoken by humans
have power, especially when there's a lot of emotion behind them.) 
"What did I do wrong?"

T'mmar, the demon prince of the next dimension over, shook his head.
"Look, Hr'th, this Skuld kid's out of the Norse division of Up There,
right?"

"Right..."

"And she's got two older sisters, right?"

Hr'thgon checked the newsletter.  "Right.  Urd and... Verdandi? 
Belldandy?"

"Well, come on.  Three sister goddesses, with those names..."

"Oh.  Crap,"  Hr'thgon said.  "You mean they're the Norns?"

"Exactly.  Face it, Hr'thy, you messed up.  You forgot one of the most
important rules of the demon business."  T'mmar smirked.  "Don't tempt
fate."

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Coming soon from Wax Wolf, gods willing:

Powerpuff Sammy.  

-- 
Jeffery "Taper" Wickel                            jtwickel@nyx.net 
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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
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