Battle Field: Earth
Chapter One: Enter the Jackal
By: Sci-Fi Raptor
Disclaimer: I don't own Ah My Goddess or its characters, but I do have rights over Gabriel, Michael, Satan and Talia. My versions of the aforementioned entities of course… I think it works like that, but if it doesn't, then );
Notes (may be long since I am trying to be a little more professional with this one, so if u want to skip, look for the for the story start. However, you may be confused in the story if you skip it, but it is only a suggestion):
I'm assuming that since Kiechii seems to live so close to NIT, he lives in the city Nekomi. I don't really know if it exists or not, but if it doesn't, we'll pretend it does for this fic.
Okay, for the thing that I start each section with, the first line is the greater geographic location, the second is time and the last is local location. Mostly, I wont have the third since I don't know all the places in the Ah!/Oh! My Goddess area. I'm doing this since I'll be jumping around time and space a lot and a lot of people complained about that in my previous fic… Anything in bold notes some kind of change in scene (change in time or place) or perspective.
This fic will be severely influenced by Onegai Teacher, and possible GTO. And of course, Mechwarrior/Bettletech. And of course, the Ah! My Goddess world will be used as a template. This will not be an alternate universe, but a different continuation of the manga series somewhere in volume 27. Some things may be slightly different.
A or something in superscript is a cue for you to look at the bottom of the chapter to see some kind of extra information. I will do this either to explain what something is, or to explain something about the line noted on.
About ages, Skuld will be 15-16 human years in this story. I don't really know how old she is in the manga in volume 27, but she looks old enough to be 15-16. Everyone else is whatever age they are at volume 27. I think I kinda butcher Skuld, but I did my best to keep everyone else the way they ought to be.
Oh yeah. Peorth and Welsper have taken a nice long holiday…
Enjoy! 3 ( =
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When she is crying, she looks so small.
When she is embarrassed, she is so cute.
When she is mad, I don't know what to do with her.
But, because she is like that, I...
I, suppose that I...
Please God, let me be with her! I will do anything! I will even give it up for her…
Nekomi, Japan
June 2002
A Local Park:
"And it's all downhill from here!" Sentaro said, thankfully, as he finally pedaled his bike to the top of the hill.
"I don't see what's so great about it…" Skuld said, boredly, standing on the bars screwed on to the bike's rear wheel.
"You'll see," Sentaro said quietly. A devilish smile appeared on his lips as he kicked the bike forward, causing the bike to roll down. Little by little, it gained momentum, until it reached a point on the hill where it was steep enough to cause it to accelerate greatly.
"Whoo Hoo!!!" Sentaro screamed at the top of his lungs from the adrenaline rush.
"Ahh!" Skuld screamed in fear, surprised that the mere twenty-meter (about 60 feet) hill could cause one to go so fast. She held on tightly to Sentaro's shoulders instinctively, so that she wouldn't fall off.
"Didn't I say that this was great?" Sentaro said to Skuld as they reached the bottom of the hill.
"I still don't see what's so great about it!" she screamed, trying to be heard over the wind whipping at her head, causing her hair to go all over the place. "Why are we still going so fast?" Skuld asked suddenly, realizing that Sentaro should have applied the brakes so that they could maintain a safe velocity for them to be able to make the curve ahead.
"I don't know! I'm not getting any feedback!" Sentaro admitted.
"Now you tell me!!!" Skuld screamed. She looked at the rear brake and saw the wire that was supposed to pull it's pads move back and forth as Sentaro rapidly pumped them, but saw that the pad wasn't moving.
"Your brake is broken!" Skuld yelled to Sentaro as they got closer and closer to the curve. If they didn't slow down soon, they would hit the concrete wall of a bathroom that was sensibly put a few feet from it.
Seeing that he could do nothing to stop in time, Sentaro braced for impact. In a split second, he felt a sudden jolt pull him back, and he felt himself pulled out of his seat. A moment later, he was on the ground on his butt. Then he heard his bike crash into the wall.
"What happened?" Sentaro said confused, surprised that he wasn't splattered all over the wall right then and that Skuld was holding onto his shoulders so tightly.
"Who knows?" Skuld said, letting go and shrugging. Quicker then the eye could see, though, she snatched a feather out of the air before he could notice.
"Anything hurt?" she asked concerned, seeing that he had bruises all over his legs.
"Well… so much for that idea," he answered getting a good look at his bike. "Looks like its really busted this time."
"Dummy! I meant you!" Skuld said, sweat-dropping.
"Huh? Me?" he answered, surprised.
"I knew it! They do exist!" a man said hysterically, pointing at Skuld. Everyone else just passed them by as if nothing unusual was happening, though some people were staring at the hysterical man.
"What was that all about?" Sentaro whispered to Skuld as the man started running away, screaming 'I saw one!' really loudly.
"Heh?" Skuld shrugged with a look of false confusion on her face.
"Well, I guess we better go home then," Sentaro said, getting up. "My bike is useless."
"Thanks Noble Scarlet," Skuld whispered behind her as she rose to follow him. A feathery wing quickly came out of her back and flapped, as if to say 'no problem,' and went back in even quicker.
"Hey, if you want, I can fix it for you," Skuld volunteered.
"Thanks!" Sentaro said. "But can your please leave the dents this time? It would really suck if they were gone again."
"No problem," Skuld said, smiling.
Nekomi, Japan
June 2002
Morisato Residence:
"Skuld! Your boyfriend is here!" Urd yelled from the front door.
"He's not my boyfriend!" Skuld instinctively hollered back. She quickly went to the front to meet Sentaro. Being that she didn't expect him coming over at this time, she was working on another of her inventions and had grease smeared all over her face. That is why when she greeted Sentaro, he greeted her back by snickering at her face.
"What do you want…" she said antagonistically. "I told you, you could pick up your bike tomorrow." He stopped laughing and put on a serious face (which was something that Skuld had never seen the carefree boy do before).
"Can we talk outside?" he asked.
"Sure," Skuld said and followed him to the back, under a tree. It was the beginning of summer, so the shade under the tree was definitely welcome, but will be obsolete when I finish the shade-o-matic Mark I, thought Skuld. "So Sentaro, what's up? You never said that you were coming over today."
"You know how I was telling you about how my dad was gonna get a promotion?"
"No," said Skuld.
"Well, he's been trying to get a promotion for some time now, and yesterday he told me that he got it."
"That's a good thing, isn't it?"
"Well, we have to move to America for his promotion…"
"So? We can still visit each other," Skuld said, not realizing America was almost on the other side of the planet from Japan. (Not that would really matter though, but it would be really weird if she popped out of his cereal or something like that, as in the similar case of when she first met Keiichi…)
Nearby shipyards
Three weeks later:
"Goodbye Sentaro," Skuld waved as the ocean liner bellowed that it was about to depart. "You better write!" she ordered. The last three weeks went by too quickly, Skuld thought, blinking back tears.
"Skuld, bye bye!" he waved back. In a few minutes the liner left port and was sailing below the horizon in what seemed like even less time.
"Don't worry Skuld, I'm sure you'll see him again," Belldandy said, putting a hand on her shoulder. Skuld looked at her older sister and saw her beaming a picturesque smile for support.
"Yeah," Keiichi agreed, holding Belldandy's hand. Skuld immediately slapped it away.
"Well, now we can go home," Urd said a few minutes later, yawning. The liner's smoke trail had long since cleared.
"It is quite a beautiful sunset, isn't it Keiichi?" Belldandy asked Keiichi.
"Yeah," Keiichi answered absentmindedly as the group walked along the boardwalk to the parking lot.
Kansai, Japan
July 2002
Kansai International Airport:
Gab smiled as he climbed down the stairs of a Boeing 747. Being cramped in that monstrosity for the last ten hours on a non-stop flight from Egypt to Japan was not very fun. When he finally touched the asphalt of the plane's parking area, he moved out of the way so people could continue unloading from the plane as he stretched. He looked up at the sky and watched a few birds twittering past.
Flashback
"Talon 00 to base," Gab said on the military frequency. "Mission complete, I am returning home." He activated his autopilot and looked around his canopy. He was still at a low altitude, so he could see the softly rolling savanna of the African plains. Since he had such great vision, he could see a lioness stalking a herd of unsuspecting prey to his West. To his East were a few birds flying together playfully.
Flashback End
His smile disappear as quickly as it came, making his face go back to its normal stoic appearance. He went through security and customs, retrieved his belongings and finally went to the nearest bullet train station. He waited on the platform until the train arrived and held out a piece of paper with directions he had been holding onto to make sure he was still heading the right way. On top of it, it's heading said Nekomi Tech…