Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 17:35:14 +0800
To: ffml@fanfic.com
From: TimeRunner <keiichi@i-manila.com.ph>
Subject: [FFML] [fanfic][amg]What Wish?
Disclamer:=20
I don't own the characters, Fujishima does. I only own the story, and
I'm
not selling it, so suing me is pointless. Clear?
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
What Wish?
Okay, the opening is the standard for an AMG altverse....
Strange Interlude #1:
Oookay. Not sure what to make of this....
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"Moshi moshi!" greeted a perky female voice. "You have reached=20
the Goddess Relief Office! You are one of the lucky mortals who=20
managed to call me when I'm not in the shower, so I'll be generous
and=20
make a house call, just for you!"
Now _that_ sounds like a come-on line, if ever I heard one.... Is it
Urd?
"Do you happen to have some hot water nearby?"
Right. So, it's Skuld working this one. Cool.
"Are you just going to stare or are we going to get on with
this?" the girl said, and Keiichi got the feeling she was used to this
sort of attention.
*Hmmm.... I wonder what her angle is. The 'typical' shift is to have
her try to get K-1 to blow his wish on something other than Belldandy,
so that there's never any relationship, but this seems a little... off.*
"What do you mean you haven't found a place yet?" Skuld shouted
over the roar of the motorcycle engine. "We've been to five apartment
complexes already! The guy in the last on was happy to give me a
*Typo: "last one"*
room!"
"Of course he was! He was giving you his room! Do you know what
that means?" Keiichi yelled back.
"That means I would've had a nice bed to sleep in if you hadn't
pulled me out of there!" Skuld replied.
"You aren't from around here, are you?"
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"It means you seem a little..." Keiichi hesitated.
"What? What? A little what? Spit it out!"
Keiichi waved her off. "Hold your horses, I'm trying to put it
politely."
"A little na=EFve? Was that what you were going to say? A little=20
na=EFve?"
"I was going to say a little clueless, but yeah, that about=20
covers it."
*Heh. Nicely scripted argument.*
"Well, my 'hunk of junk' was doing just fine until you decided
to fix what wasn't broken!"
Skuld took off her helmet and nearly hurled it at Keiichi.
"What?! Now you're saying it's my fault?!"
"Who do you think I'm talking about?"
"HAH! We wouldn't be in this darn mess if you'd made your stupid
*You need a paragraph indent, here.*
wish like you were supposed to!"
For some reason, the God of the Heavens chose that exact moment
for it to turn a fire hose on Tokyo.
"It is deserted," Skuld called back from the back rooms. "This
was the priest's living quarters, behind the main prayer room." She
peeked back out at Keiichi, who was shivering. "Are... are you okay?"
*Okay, she seems to know what's going on, and why we're in an
altverse....*
"F-fine," Keiichi managed to say. "They didn't pack too many
clothes in there," he said, tilting his head in the direction of the
box of things his sempai handed him. "You look soaked to the bone
yourself," he remarked. He caught himself trying to make out her
figure through her wet clothes. He shook his head, took off his jacket
and offered it to her. "Put this on."
Skuld blushed slightly, but shook her head and refused. "I don't
need it."
Keiichi looked at her for a moment, then shrugged, placing it on
the floor. "I still think you need it more than I do, but... If you
need it, it's right here, okay?" Keiichi grabbed some clothes from the
*need it/need it: How about changing the second ref to: "If you change
your mind,"?*
box and headed for a back room. "I'll just slip into some dry
clothes."
*Oh, and another well-scripted dialogue. You've got these two down.*
Skuld sighed. "All right, all right! It's just that I prefer my
mecha over magic. Mecha is so much more tangible." She closed her eyes
and chanted, making gestures with her hands.
*Ooohh.... Skuld doing magick. Gonna look forward to this one!*
wood and stone
and the spaces in-between
speak of the story of your past
and your present
I arrive to offer the promise
of tomorrow
with these dreams I revive you, restore you
to not what you once were
but to what you might be
*Well-done AMG incantation, and nicely worded for the Goddess of the
Future.*
Keiichi sat in stunned silence for five minutes. He watched
Skuld sleep for another two, then spent yet another two pondering what
to wish for before he keeled over from the combined strain on his mind
brought about by shock, greed, lust, and a forty-degree fever.
Ooopsie! I'm looking forward to this, TimeRunner. I hope to see more
of it soon. In the meantime, my guess is that Skuld is actually trying
to _steal_ Keiichi. Not totally supported by the dialogue, but some of
the passages seem to be implying it, or at least hinting at a K-1/Skuld
relationship....
--Freemage
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