And on to the next part since I don't yet feel like writing. Might as well
do something productive while I'm here:

    Fate and Destiny: Part Three

    Infirme Conscius

A debilitated conscience, eh? :)

    ------------------------------

    Keiichi regarded the rolled up futon that had been shoved into the
sidecar warily.

someone warily shoved in the sidecar? Remarkable (Probably ought to be
'warily regarded'

Otaki had found it... somewhere.

Heh. I know that feeling.

    Nodding decisively, he hefted it onto his shoulders. "Okay," he
muttered, "I'll use this, and give mine to Megumi."

Such nobility. Makes me want to smack him. People like him throw the 'moral
standards curve' out of whack, and make people like me at the lower end look
bad. :P

    "Ack!" he managed, falling to land awkwardly, the futon clutched
protectively to his chest.

Horrifyingly, it clutched him back.

    "Wait!" Megumi cried, nearly dropping the futon. "We want a certain
movie!"

    Skuld nodded, presenting Keiichi with the open magazine, and
pointing to a picture. "We want _this_ movie!"

Excaliber. :)

    Sighing, Keiichi looked at the magazine, and something deep within
him seemed to stir. "I've seen this movie..." he murmured to himself,
looking at the pictures. "Haven't I?"

Probably a porn that has Urd in it. :)

    And below her, as though in response to calling his name as she
meant it, a faint response was felt.

But in truth, it was only gas.

    He blinked, nodding. "Mara? What... what are you doing here?" he
asked, eyes narrowing, and the memory of a certain run-in at a
hot-spring rising to the fore.

    The demoness stalked forward, oblivious as normal to her scantily
clad state.

You haven't mentioned what scantily clad item she's wearing. That might
help.

    "You're him!" she said slowly, a wicked smile coming to her lips.
"You're the Once and Future King, aren't you?"

And Keiichi pulled off his mask. "That's right, Mama. It's me, Elvis. Got a
chili doughnut on you, by chance?"

    The name sent a hot flash of confusion and... anger?... welling up
within him, and he shook his head. "No..." he said slowly, struggling to
find his tongue, fighting off something deep within that fought,
writhing inside him... trying to surface. "I'm not..."

Mara: Then you must be The Lady.

Keiichi: Now you got it.

    He shook his head, his hands falling to his sides and his vision
dimming as a black aura seemed to seep out of him, suffusing the area
with shadow.

You are moving things along quite quickly.

    "You..." came next, the power... rippling... and changing its
formation forcibly, reshaping the very fabric of reality by force

two 'force/ibly' close together. I'd change one.

    "ME!" he roared, throwing his hands wide, as the power launched
upwards -- more energy in that single burst than all of humanity had
utilized in all of their existence, and all of it, seeking HER out.

My. He doesn't believe in doing things half-assed, does he?

    In a quavering voice, she whispered, "If I am destroyed, then
Belldandy will be, too."

    He stared at her, then nodded slowly. "As it would be... as it would
be... l

Keiichi: Guess I'll have to satisfy myself with dismembering you.

eave me now." With that, he turned his back on her, striding

towards his motorcycle in the still empty street, while she sank to her
knees, gasping for breath suddenly.

    Who was he? Her master? He couldn't be... could he? But... that was
not the Lord of Terror, either. It was something else... something
equally dangerous.

Fate or Destiny? :)

    Megumi and Skuld looked at Belldandy quizzically, Megumi asking,
"Who are you talking about?"

    Urd answered in Belldandy's stead. "Nothing you should need to worry
about, Megumi..."

Yeah. Right. Irony there.

    Keiichi came to his senses when he was nearly home again, dazed and
tired, feeling something heavy -- yet comforting -- pulling at the back
of his head. He pulled into the temple, shivering slightly at a faint
resistance as he drew to a halt. The wards, he supposed, though he
wasn't certain why he would think that, and it had never affected him
before...

Heh. That could be bad.

    She accepted it, taking his hand and leading him into the temple.
"Thank you, Keiichi... Did something happen?"

    He shrugged, glancing at Skuld as she stared at him in confusion. "I
don't know... I don't _think_ so... but... heh, my hair got long again."

Keiichi: Didnt' grow tits this time, though.

    "Yeah," he said in apology. "I didn't mean to take so long, sorry."

    She waved her hand dismissively, starting the cassette player in the
same motion. Keiichi sat carefully, sitting slightly nearer Belldandy

nearer to (I think)

    To Keiichi, the movie seemed vaguely familiar, though every time he
tried to pinpoint _where_ he remembered it from, it slipped away,
elusively. His patience began to wear thin as the movie progressed,
largely annoyed with himself over his complete lack of memory about
something that should have been so familiar.

Got to admit, I get the same way with the names of people that elude me.

    Still, the girls were completely absorbed in it, seemingly
enthralled by the events that bored him so. The main character -- Arthur
-- got a magic sword from a woman in a lake, fought his enemies, and
established a great kingdom.

His dreams were of helping to destroy some Kingdom on a Moon and some blonde
and her flunkies trying to stop him. They failed, of course, but he was
drained and had to go to sleep after that.

    He dismissed that for the moment, as the movie slowly improved --
when things began to go wrong for Arthur.

Heh. I would say this is as bad a sign as it gets. :)

    Keiichi rolled his eyes at that. "It ended the way it was supposed
to. I mean, stories can't _all_ have happy endings."

"Like yours!" he shouted as he unleashed a torrent of energy and turned all
the girls into ash.

    "Well," Megumi began thoughtfully, "he'd bring about social reform,

Obviously someone hasn't seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Now that's
closer to what would have happened. :)

and try to make the world a better place." She nodded, as Skuld wormed
her way around to peer at the pair of them, confused. "From there, he
would expand his empire, brining

bringing

    "Ugh!" Keiichi retorted, "Can't you come up with a better argument
than 'he's a good person'? I mean, seriously, you know what they say --
'The path to hell is paved with good intentions'.

Does that mean the road to heaven is paved with bad intentions? :)

Things are moving right along. We'll see how much more I get to as the night
wears on.

D.B. Sommer


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