From: ph111-dz@violet.berkeley.edu (david mou)
Newsgroups: alt.manga
Subject: AMG ascii-dojinshi part A
Date: 25 Jul 1992 09:58:45 GMT
Organization: studio 3x3, a.b.
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu

I started writing this in the hope that maybe some part of it will be used in
TK's dojinshi.  As it gets unnecessarily long, it also become harder to 
change, or even pause.  I have about 20 - 30 pgs of materials here, and 
part B will probably be another 20 pgs or so.  As a dojinshi candidate this
thing needs major trimming.  Now if I can find someone crazy enough to draw 
it..  ^_^



[As if you're wondering, I'm stuck on the first line already.]



[Skuld approaches sleeping Keiichi with a 10 dimensional megaphone.]

Skuld:  Goood morning!!

Keiichi:  Wuuuaah!!  Oh, Skuld, it's you.  You're up early.  Isn't today 
Sunday?

Skuld:  You don't remember what today is?  It's a very important day.

Keiichi:  Eh?  ..... let's see.  Bell's arrival anniversary isn't until next 
month, and we just celebrated Urd's.  Birthdays....mmm... Megumi's isn't 
until Christmas time..... Zzzzzz....

Skuld:  You're such a nice person.

[Bending down to kiss Keiichi on the lips, then suddenly looks upward.]

Skuld:  Ah, ONe-sama!

[Belldandy standing in front of the doorway.  Her expression is that of a 
mixed concern, love, and a little apprehension.  She holds a breakfast 
tray.]

Belldandy:  Did you tell him?

Skuld:  Well, no... he fell back asleep.... aahh... that wasn't anything.... 
I... I'll be going to make the present for Keiichi-san.

[Skuld jumps into the tea cup.]

Belldandy:  Keiichi-san.  Why is there so few of you to go around?

[Keiichi tosses and turns... as if he's having a bad dream.  Belldandy
sings a prayer to calm Keiichi down.  After this exertion, Belldandy 
dozes off as well.]

[Urd emerges from Keiichi's computer screen.  She looks around, checks to 
make sure Belldandy is asleep, the sneaks to Keiichi's bedside.  She holds a 
pill in her right hand, and with her left she pops Keiichi's jaws open.  As 
she is ready to put the pill in, Keiichi's eyes open.]

Urd:  Woops.

Keiichi:  I'm not eating anything from you.  I'm not doing anything you say.  
I'm not going anywhere with you.  And I'm not getting seduced by you.  Now 
go away.

Urd:  And is that the right attitude to talk to a goddess?!  Morisato 
Keiichi-kun, do you know what today is?

Keiichi:  I don't know what today is!  Why is everybody hiding something 
from me?!

Urd:  Actually ... [Urd looks around] ... today is the day Marller plans to 
strike.  Since you're the most likely target, we figure we better get you
protected.  Now, take the pill, it'll help you resist bad influence.

Keiichi:  Then how come I don't believe you?

Urd:  Pleeeze.....

[Keiichi shakes his head.]

Urd:  NOW TAKE IT BEFORE I SHOVE IT DOWN!!

[They look back.  Belldandy is awake and is looking concerned.  Skuld is 
holding a grenade.]

Belldandy:  Big sister.  Please don't lie, especially today.

Keiichi:  WHAT'S GOING ON?!  Will somebody tell me something?!  ......  Oh 
God!  Is God coming today?

Belldandy:  Well, no.... actually today is.........

[Voice from outside.]

Dorm gang:  MORISATO!!  WE'RE HERE TO CELEBRATE YOUR BIRTHDAY!!

[Keiichi looking stunned.]

Keiichi:  Birthday?  May 26 is my birthday!  Is that all... hahaha  ha.....  
!!  TODAY IS MY TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY!!!!!  I'm a man today!!

Keiichi - Oh damn!  I was planning to take Belldandy out today.  Talk to her 
about our future, and maybe.... [gulp].  Now how do I get rid of these 
two.....?

[The school gang crashes into the room.]

Everyone:  Morisato!!  Would you invite us!

Keiichi:  Aaahhh!!

Urd, Skuld:  Well.....

Belldandy:  [deep breath]..... E V E R Y O N E !!

[The room quiets down.  Everyone protecting their eardrums.]

Keiichi - oh thank you Belldandy.

Belldandy:  I'll go make some food for the party.

Gang:  Thank you very much!!

[Keiichi is being carried out of the room with his quilt.  His hand reaches 
out, mouth forming a silent "Help me!"]

[Mini-Marller looks down from the overhead light.]

Marller:  Heheheh... so they don't take my ultimatum seriously.

[Belldandy prepares her specialities in the kitchen, when suddenly she turns 
around.]

Belldandy:  Marller!  I can feel you.  Come out!

[Marller jumps down from the ceiling, grabs Belldandy by her bosoms.]

Marller:  Long time no see, Bellu-chan.

Belldandy:  Please don't touch me there!

[Belldandy tries a spell to break free, which seems to have no effect.]

Belldandy - Why?

Marller:  You don't remember what today is?  It's a very special day.

[Still touching Belldandy sensitive places.]

Belldandy:  [Ah!..] Today's.... [hump] Keiichi-san's birthday [aaah... Ah!]

Marller:  Heh heh heh.  Has it been that long, or have you been too busy to 
look up lately?  A thousand and twenty three cycles completed, and tonight 
the Swing of Misfortune will reach it's apex.  Remember what happened sixty-
nine years ago?

Belldandy:  [Ah...] ... no.... can't be

Marller:  That's right, today is my birthday too.... and I'm unwrapping my 
present, NOW.

[Belldandy - Aaaaaaah.........  Scene white out.]

* * *

[Marller lying on the kitchen floor, undressed and smoking a cigarette.  
Belldandy is next to her, partially dressed and sobbing.]

Marller:  Aw shut up!  I'm sure it's as good for you as it's for me.

Belldandy:  ...[snif]...Keiichi-san....

Marller:  Well, sorry to do this after so much fun, but a devil's gotta do 
what a devil's gotta do.  Bell-chan, it's been nice knowing you.

[Marller starts a powerful spell.]

[Out from the boiling broth comes Skuld, holding her new creation that looks 
suspiciously like an oversize hair dryer.]

Skuld:  Stop, you..ouch..demon, you...wuuh...monster, you .... yeek.... 
fiend.  Or in the name of my...ouch, ouch, hot, ouch.... Handy-Dandy Demon 
Pacifier I'll .... ouch.... send you back to hell.

Belldandy:  Skuld, watch out!  She's too powerful!

Marller:  Go ahead, shorty.  Perm my hair!

Skuld:  SWITCH ON!

[Skuld's toy blows a puff of hot air which, if anything, gives Marller a nice
perm.]

Marller:  Hah!  Doesn't even sting.

Skuld:  You just wait!!

[First spoons, and then forks, chopsticks, pans, pots, and the rest of the 
kitchen utensils converge to Marller.]

Marller:  What the...!!

Skuld:  Ha!  My beautiful HD^2P is a Localized Satanity Regradient 
Transformer, one which proportionally converts positive or negative fortunes 
into sign consistent space-time gradient, causing free objects to fall 
according to the local geodesic paths.  And in a moment when the negative 
gradient accumulate to a critical mass, the escape velocity becomes 
infinite and .....

[Before this author runs out of imagination, Marller uses her spell to break 
free.]

Marller:  D A M N E D !!  (spell)

Marller - never thought I have to use that dangerous spell.

Marller:  That was a good shot, shorty.  Now it's my turn!!

[Urd slams the door open.  She has wine and kitchen utensils attaching to her 
body.]

Urd:  I told you not to build anymore of these useless toys!!

Marller:  This is great!  Three mice in one trap.  Now I can finish you all 
off at once!

[Urd whips out a boombox from behind her back.  She's still talking to 
Skuld.]

Urd:  As you get older, you'll learn how to solve problems with more elegant 
solutions.

[Urd press play on the boombox.]

Marller:  Hah!  That's not going to work this time either.

[.... as Marller taps her feet and snaps her finger.]

Marller:  New Order!?  Now that's a cheap shot, Urd!  You'll pay for this!!

[Marller blasts off, followed by a trail of utensils.]

Skuld:  Big sister.  What does Marller mean by the Pendulum of Misfortune?

Urd:  Yeah, I've heard about the thousand twenty-four cycles too.  Although 
I never paid attention to it.  (Only Belldandy goes to all her classes.)

Belldandy:  Well, it's like this..... HEY!  WHY DIDN'T YOU TWO DO SOMETHING 
WHEN MARLLER WAS HAVING HER WAYS WITH ME!?

Urd, Skuld:  Because I thought you were in no immediate danger.

[Flashback - Skuld listened in her Wall's Ear with a headset, while 
furiously working on the converted hair dryer.  Skuld:  What is Marller 
doing to my sister?]

[Flashback - Urd was in a room full of drunken people, including Keiichi.  
She stuck her head into the living room TV set, saying "Iiiizo, iiiizo 
(that's good, that's good)".  One guy on the floor said, "Hey, how do you do 
that?"]  (Japanese kitchens have TV sets)

Belldandy:  [sigh...]  The Universe as we know it is filled with cases of 
dualism.  We have matters and anti-matters, positive and negative charges,  
Bosons and Fermions, leptons and hadrons.

[Skuld:  Shouldn't that be leptons and quarks?  Urd:  Oh shut up!  You think 
a physicist wrote this?]

Belldandy:  As for people, we have the good, and then we have the bad.  We 
also have the fortunate  people, and then we have the unlucky ones.  Of 
course the lucky ones don't always have good fortunes, nor do the unlucky 
people never get a break.  Their lives are dictated by the cycles of their 
fortune stars, which determine the swing of the Pendulum of Fate.

[Urd:  Oh my head hurts.  Skuld:  Then stop drinking so much!]

Belldandy:  Most fortune stars in heaven are binary systems.  Born from the 
same galactic womb, one gives blessings whereas it's twin administers 
mishaps.  Each system has it's own period of rotation, but sometimes two or 
more systems become in phase and align themselves with Earth and give a 
stronger impression of destiny.  When a large collection of fortune stars 
align, we call it the Swing of Fortune, or conversely, the Swing of 
Misfortune.  Sixty-nine Earth years ago we had a hundred and twenty-eight 
misfortune stars aligned, and that event was punctuated by the birth of 
Marller.  The Swing of Misfortune will reach it's greatest peak in fifty 
thousand years, and we must act now before the situation gets out of 
control.

[Urd:  Why do I have a feeling things will get worse before they get 
better?]

Belldandy:  Fortunately, if Marller wants to become the true heir of 
Darkness, she still lacks one key element.....

[Skuld:  Oh oh, now I have the same feeling too.]

Belldandy:  ..... before the full moon reaches heaven's apex tonight and 
completes the final cycle, Marller must present to Darkness a sacrifice.  
Someone who is like her, but opposite.  Someone who epitomizes virtue and 
good fortune.  Someone who will give her the final thrust of power to break 
her power barrier.

Urd:  Hmm.... that means someone will have to be a guy, and a darn guy at 
that.

Skuld:  Let me see ... [whips out her pocket holy-calculator] .... the 
person who is born with one hundred and twenty-eight positive aligns in the 
last two hundred years has the birthday May 26, 1972.

Urd:  There is no way Marller can find someone who satisfies all these 
criteria in this town before midnight.

Urd, Skuld:  Ah Ha ha ha ha ha ........ eeh?

Belldandy:  DAI HEN!!  (Oh no!!)

End Part A



(P.S.  Just for the record, 5/26/92 is not a Sunday.)


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                    So much to do.... and so little will.