Skuld’s Nightmare Ended

			Written By Leonardo Castro

	Story – Prologue

	Skuld was holding Valdon’s hand above the rift, 
gripping as hard as she could. Her other hand holding 
on to a rock ledge that prevented them from falling in. 
She wished she could use her goddess powers, but she 
couldn’t. The rift drained all forms of magic.
	As she and Valdon hang there, an assortment of 
Gods and Goddesses rush to their rescue. 
Unfortunately, Skuld hold on the rock was slipping. She 
had three fingers on the ledge.
	Valdon saw this and did what he thought was 
honorable and good. He broke free from Skuld’s hold 
and fell into the rift.
	Skuld scream in horror as Valdon plunged into the 
swirling rift and didn’t surface. She stared at the swirling 
rift for a few seconds. Then she tried to jump in.
	Fortunately or unfortunately, depends on the 
person’s point of view, Belldandy and Urd grabbed her 
hand that was on the ledge. Skuld try to break free but 
failed. Soon the other gods and goddess grabbed her 
and pulled her up.
	She tried to break free of their grasps and jump 
back in the swirling rift, but she couldn’t. Eventually, a 
war god knocked her out to prevent her from ending 
her existence.

	Skuld woke up screaming. Her blood-curling 
scream woke up the whole neighborhood. Urd and 
Belldandy were there, already comforting.
	Nineteen years did little dull a goddess’s nightmare 
become reality especially on the anniversary of that 
nightmare.
	Skuld’s screams soon turn into tears. She clung to 
Belldandy and cried into her shirt. “Every night, I wake 
up and realized he not sleeping next to me and I know 
it my fault. Stupid magic, stupid useless magic.” Skuld 
cried.
	Usually Urd would snap if Skuld said that last 
remark. But not today: not on the thirty of August. The 
Anniversary the day Skuld rejected her magic and 
threw everything she knew into science. The 
anniversary when Skuld’s magic failed.
	For Skuld’s sake, Urd hope this one time that 
science will succeed where magic has failed. Maybe 
then Skuld’s living nightmare will end.

	Later, at the Tendo Dojo…

	“Boy I got a job for you.” Genma bellowed. 
Ranma paused and then shot a glare at his father.
	“What is it this time, Pops. Last time all those 
Americans were chasing after us.” Ranma said fuming 
as he remembered his last job.
	“How should I known those were terrorist we were 
working with?” Genma asked. He really didn’t know.
	“Probably when they asked me to built a huge 
bomb could have been a clue you idiot.” Ranma 
huffed.
	“And you did it too. Without that plutonium they 
were getting for us.” Genma said. He didn’t know what 
that mean, but the terrorists paid them extra and offer 
to buy Ranma from him. Lucky for him that Ranma will 
never know that he did sold him to the terrorists.
	“I was eight years old. How can you let a eight 
year old built bombs.” Ranma asked.
	“You were doing it before we met them. You did 
blow up that house the terrorists were aiming at.” 
Genma said.
	“You threw the bombs into that house thinking it 
was marbles. IT NOT MY FAULT YOU IDIOT.” Ranma 
yelled as he lunged at his father.
	After a ten minutes beat up the panda session, 
Ranma learned he was going to work in restoring items. 
His first assignment was to fix some poor sap’s bike.

	Keiichi was concern. He knew it was “the day” that 
Belldandy and Urd had told him about. This being the 
second time it happen. Thankfully, he and the 
neighborhood invested in earplugs.
	Keiichi didn’t like to see any of the goddesses sad. 
And, by the way Skuld looked, she might have hanged 
herself at the end of the day. That’s why he totaled his 
motorbike on purpose.
	He thought if Skuld got to do those weird 
experiments on his motorcycle and somewhat fix it, 
then she will be no longer depressed.
	But that back fire. Now Skuld was depressed and 
he no longer had a motorcycle. He was a having an 
expert checking on it. He what to find out how long it 
would take to repair it.
	And Skuld added some fancy enhancements and 
parts to his motorcycle, he didn’t recognized them. He 
hope that it was foreign motorcycle parts, and the 
expert would recognized them.

	“Hello. Is anyone home?” Ranma called out in 
front of the temple. What kind of people lives in an old 
temple, Ranma wondered?
	A young lady opened the door. He felt that he 
met her somewhere. “Hello, I am Ranma Saotome. I’m 
here to see about a bike problem.” Ranma said as he 
remembered we he was.

	Belldandy looked at the mortal in front of her. He 
had a familiar presence she hadn’t few in quite a while. 
It was as if she knew him somewhere.
	“Hello, I am Ranma Saotome. I’m here to see 
about a bike problem.” The young pigtailed man said.
	Belldandy blinked twice before realizing she was 
being rude. “Hello, I’m Belldandy. Please come in Mr. 
Saotome.”
	“Please, just call me Ranma. My baka lazy panda 
father is Mr. Saotome.” Saotome said with a smirk.

	Keiichi was sitting by his motorcycle when 
Belldandy came in with the machine expert. “Hi, I’m 
Ranma. So this is the problem.” The expert said.
	“I’ll have it fixed in no time.” Ranma said after 
studying the remains of Keiichi’s motorcycle.
	Keiichi looked at the parts of his bike. No way this 
going to be fixed anytime soon, he thought.
	He looked back at Ranma and saw the pigtail 
youth pull a tool box out of thin air and leaped upon 
the remains of Keiichi’s bike.
	A dust cloud developed around Ranma and 
Keiichi’s bike. The sounds of metal clanging against 
metal, and screws being driven in.
	Keiichi noticed a stray hand reaching out of the 
dust cloud, searching for something. The hand latch 
onto some components that Skuld had left lying 
around.
	Keiichi was about to say something when he 
caught the look on Skuld’s face. She was looking at 
Ranma in surprise, then of pure joy.
Skuld whipped out a weird high-tech laptop that 
Keiichi never seen before and started to type at neck 
breaking speed.
That when Ranma finished. Keiichi noticed two 
things wrong. It had no wheels on the motorcycle and 
it was hovering a good three feet off the ground.
“One hovercycle fixed and ready for action.” 
Ranma said. He felt proud of himself now. Lucky that he 
saw how one of these looked like from one of Hiroshi’s 
manga, Ranma thought to himself.
“Um. It was a motorcycle, not a hovercycle. I don’t 
think those exist on Earth yet.” Keiichi said. Keiichi briefly 
wonder if he accidentally called Heaven again.
Ranma looked embarrassed. “Free upgrade.” 
Ranma said. 
Then Keiichi look towards Skuld to see her reaction 
to a normal guy doing same things she does. He was 
surprise at what he saw.
Skuld looking at Ranma in joy with tears brimming 
at her eyes. She mouth the word, “Valdon.”

To be continued…

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