Keiichi Morisato watched silently as his girlfriend served tea and snacks to what appeared to be nothing more than an eleven year old girl and Skuld. Urd was busy on the phone conversing with the Almighty. Belldandy smiled and got up, taking the empty serving tray and left. Keiichi quickly moved to intercept as she exited the room.
“So what is she?” he demanded bluntly.
Belldandy looked bemused. “Excuse me?”
“What is she? I don’t see any Goddess or Demon Markings. Some sort of Spirit? A Ghost? An Astral Projection?” Keiichi pressed.
Belldandy smiled, “She’s an eleven year old girl Keiichi.”
“Hah!” Keiichi scoffed. He looked at her with narrowed eyes, “She came with Urd through the TV set. And there’s that ... thing with her. Yeah, toys have gotten a lot more sophisticated and stuff but I haven’t seen one yet that eats and drinks food ... like that thing does,” he jerked an accusing thumb at Kero whose head had quadrupled in size and now resembled a wedge as he swallowed a slab of cake. Keiichi watched as Kero chewed a few times and swallowed and accordingly his head shrank back to it’s normal size. He turned to gaze accusingly at Bell, “Don’t tell me she’s just a normal eleven year old girl.”
“I said she was a eleven year old girl,” Bell admitted, “I never said a thing about her being normal.”
* * *
“Why Xellos?” Pluto hissed with narrowed suspicious eyes.
“That’s a rather large question there Puu-chan,” the purpled haired priest drawled, a finger tapping thoughtfully on his cheek.
“I am speaking about the Child,” Pluto snapped, “Why are you so eager to aid her?”
Xellos’ cheerful mien turned serious and he opened his eyes to gaze levelly at Pluto. “Do you really want to know Guardian?” he asked in a sober and utterly formal tone of voice.
“Of course.”
“I will pass on this information to you only because I trust you will understand the gravity and seriousness of this and you will not disclose it,” Xellos said solemnly.
Pluto gravely nodded.
“Very well,” Xellos said. He glanced over his shoulder as if suddenly nervous of potential eavesdroppers. He leaned forward, closer to Pluto and beckoned her with his hand. Despite herself she leaned towards Xellos as well.
Pluto perked her ear as Xellos whispered, “That’s a secret.”
* * *
Schneider took a swallow of wine and made a face, “Tastes like horse piss.”
If he had known that Urd was going to leave and take all of the good stuff with her, he would have made sure to have liberated a few bottles for himself. Not only that but she had stuck him with the Bitch-With-The-Staff-Up-Her-Ass, the Fruity Loon, and was completely sober to boot.
He sighed and then took another swallow.
Maybe if he was lucky, he could get drunk before the brat and Urd came back and—KLANG!
Schneider’s head snapped up and his arm was already weaving a series of glyphs when Pluto came stalking down the alleyway muttering. He lowered his arm and then reconsidered his decision after he got a good look at her as she brushed past him muttering something about namagomi.
Schneider pursed his lips thoughtfully and finally shrugged. A little further he saw a pair of legs sticking out of the wall. Xellos apparently had gotten on Pluto’s bad side. Again.
He briefly considered freeing the Mazoku but wondered why should he bother anyways. It was not as though Pluto could really hurt Xellos.
Pity too, Schneider thought to himself as Xellos’ arms extracted themselves from the hole and felt around to find the edges and pull his body free.
Xellos was a foot shorter now, his upper body was compacted almost accordion-like as he tottered backwards on his legs. He grabbed his head with both hands and pulled it upwards, stretching his body back to it’s original height. He grinned once he was finished and dusted himself off. “Puu-chan has no sense of humor,” he confided to Schneider.
Xellos tilted his head back and forth, “Hey, I think she got rid of a crink in my neck!”
“Fruitcake,” Schneider muttered and took another swallow of wine as he wondered again how he had been tricked into doing this.
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