5Disclaimer : I do not own Ah! My Goddess, nor do I own Killer Klowns from Outer Space
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"Keiichi!" Belldandy screamed once again as she rushed over to the beemer and began to use a healing spell.
Chibi-Hild slowly walked over to Belldandy, who didn't seem to remember that most healing spells don't work on the dead.
"Belldandy…" Chibi-Hild gently said as she neared the Beemer. She waved a finger about, cleaning the goddesses and herself of the acid pie filling. She left it on what remained on Keiichi and the beemer, as she didn't want to see what the acid pie filling did to him. When Chibi-Hild saw that Belldandy was standing over the beemer and was too focused on trying to heal Keiichi, she loudly said, "Belldandy! That spell can't heal the dead!"
Belldandy quickly looked at Chibi-Hild with a wild glare, one that would have made even Lind back away and get into a defensive posture. Chibi-Hild, being who she was and what she came from, merely narrowed her eyes.
"Belldandy, please calm down! Once you've gathered yourself, call the Daitenkaicho and ask to rewind time and place a few Valkyries to stop them! Y'know, like we planned!" Urd shouted as she hugged Skuld and turned her away from looking at the beemer..
Chibi-Hild and Belldandy continued to glare at each other, until the latter sniffled for a moment before she leaned against the beemer and slid down as she began to cry.
Chibi-Hild then walked back to Urd and then began to use a few spells that merely created sparks and flashy lights to get Skuld's attention. Urd kept on looking between Skuld and Belldandy before Chibi-Hild said, "I'll keep a watch over Skuld, you go help Belldandy."
"You better not-" Urd growled before Chibi-Hild gave her a pointed look.
"Tonight has not been a good night for any of us, so I'll be a good girl," Chibi-Hild said before Urd made an annoyed huff and walked over to Belldandy.
"Bell…" Urd said before she got tackle-hugged by a crying Belldandy. Urd blinked a few times before she began to rub Belldandy's back.
After some time, Belldandy's sobs began to slow and she managed to calm down.
"I'm… I'm... I'm sor-" Belldandy uttered as she began to stand up before Urd interrupted her.
"Look, this has been one really lousy night. Just calm down some more and then call. Let's have one good thing come out of this, alright?" Urd said as she sat up.
"Y-yes…" Belldandy replied as she helped Urd up. Urd nodded before she walked off to Chibi-Hild and Skuld. Belldandy took a deep breath before she walked to the nearest Park ranger's office. She stared at the phone for a few minutes before she sat down and reached for the phone. She muttered to herself, "You can do it, Belldandy. Just one phone call and this horrid night will never have existed."
Her fingers curled and uncurled, just above the phone's numberpad for a few moments. After taking another breath, she began to dial.
"~Hello, who is this?~" a heavenly voice asked.
"This is Belldandy, first class Goddess, unlimited. I wish to speak with the Daitenkaicho," Belldandy said.
"~Alright, please hold,~" The voice replied.
A few seconds later, Tyr's voice asked, "~Belldandy, how is everything?~"
Belldandy sniffled for a moment before she answered, "Not as well as I hoped. It'd been pretty bad…"
So Belldandy then began to explain what had happened that night.
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"… And then Keiichi was killed in his sleep, with Sayoko killed on the space ship. So I think we need to time travel and prevent the Klowns from reaching Earth. Perhaps we can send a squad of Valkyries to intercept the ship?" Belldandy asked.
A few moments pass as Tyr thought about Belldandy's story and her request.
"~Since the Klowns were bugs who've somehow evolved sentience, it might be a good idea to prevent them from reaching Earth, especially since quite a few races have visited Earth from the moment you made a contract with Morisato…~" Tyr's voice said.
Before Belldandy could respond, there was an odd beepong from the phone.
"~Hello? Everyone still on?~" Hild's voice asked. Belldandy looked outside at Chibi-Hild, but the latter was still trying to entertain Skuld.
"~Hild? I thought-~" Tyr's voice asked, sounding quite surprised.
"~I can't see you, but I can still talk with you. Only reason I haven't until now is because I'd rather not use something so impersonal like a telephone," Hild's voice interrupted. "Anyways, I think both of you are being a bit shortsighted.~"
A few seconds passed. Belldandy looked surprised and horrified as various thoughts ran through her head.
Apparently, similar thoughts ran through Tyr's head, as he angrily uttered, "~You can't possibly think of weaponizing-~"
"~Oh, no! I'd never weaponize anything so unpredictable!~" Hild's voice responded. "~I was merely commenting on how shortsighted the two of you are on thinking that the Klowns immediately headed to Earth the moment they traveled into space.~"
"~Oh… Oh…. Ooooohhhhh…~" Tyr's voice uttered, with a tinge of horror entering his voice.
Belldandy's eyes grew a bit wide as she began to think of how long it takes to travel into space, as well as remembering a comment that Urd made.
'Urd said that the ship's innards were in a space warp… It… It takes a lot of time to develop a device to do something that can do that for a ship, if one isn't a god or demon...' Belldandy thought.
"~So while my mini-self on Earth was making a few deals, I and a few other demons were tracking the past of the Klowns' ship. We've tracked about 200 years or so and it seems like tonight wasn't their first excursion to Earth. I'm willing to have a few of my side work with your side to remove these bugs from the timeline,~" Hild's voice explained. "~I just want you and Belldandy to make a few concessions…~"
"~What are they?~" Tyr's voice asked, sounding both still horrified and suspicious of Hild's motives.
"~First, I want my deals that have been made tonight to remain untouched by any changes in the timeline,~" Hild's voice cooed.
"What deals were they?" Belldandy asked.
"~My mini-self made a large amount of deals at the orphanages in Nekomi, saving the children there from the Klowns,~" Hild's voice answered. "~Tyr, you haven't become so heartless that you'd tear children away from their new homes, just to spite me?~"
"~...Sometimes I dislike how you act, Hild..~" Tyr's voice muttered, sounding a bit angry.
"~As for for the second and final concession for tonight,~" Hild's voice said, barely hiding a chuckle. "It's a simple one for Belldandy…"
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One month later…
Nekomi was back to normal. No one, save for gods demons, and other supernatural beings, remembered anything about the night with clowns, cotton candy, popcorn and rubber balls. A few did have a slight phobia for a time about anything colorful and relating to the circus, but even those fears would vanish over time.
Belldandy had finished waking everyone up at the temple and was going to put the finishing touches on the breakfast she was making. She smiled as she thought, 'Things are almost back to normal. Skuld's improved a lot and she's smiling a lot more, just like before.'
Keiichi walked into the dining room with a yawn. As he sat down, he said, "Good morning, Bell. I hope you had a nice rest."
"I did. I hope you did as well," Belldandy cheerfully replied from the kitchen. "Do you have anything planned for today?"
Keiichi scratched the side of his head before he remembered and replied, "Ah! I was going to test some things Chihiro was planning on selling in Whirlwind."
"That's nice! I'm a bit surprised I wasn't told, though," Belldandy said as she brought in Keiichi's portion of breakfast.
"I guess she has something else planned for you?" Keiichi asked as Belldandy placed his breakfast in front of him.
Before Belldandy could say anything, Urd stumbled into the room before she stretched and yawned. Belldandy grew a bit annoyed, but was thankful that Keiichi's back was facing Urd, as the eldest Norn had forgotten to wear a bra, going by how her bosom jiggled a bit more than normal.
"It's too early…" Urd muttered as she vaguely wandered over to the table and sat down. She then rested her head on the table and began to fall asleep. Belldandy shook her head before she went to get Urd's and Skuld's breakfast, as the youngest was never far behind Urd.
Just as soon as Belldandy walked in and placed the two plates on the tabled, Skuld walked in, humming some song she heard on on the radio.
"Good morning, Skuld. Do you have anything planned for today?" Belldandy said as she placed the plates on the table.
"Well… I was planning on going to see Sentaro, since he has no school today," Skuld answered.
"And you, Urd? Do you have anything planned today?" Belldandy asked as she went to get her breakfast, pausing to see what Urd's answer would be. As she slowly sat up, Urd waved a hand around and created a Chibi-Urd, one that looked like how young she looked when she met Shohei.
"Going to see Shohei. Life's too short to wait for a second chance sometimes," Chibi-Urd cheerfully said, as she was more awake than her mainself. She grabbed a slice of toast from Urd's plate and walked away while eating it.
Urd looked up and glared at her smaller self as she muttered, "Maybe I should look into enrolling her into school… That'll teach her to steal food from me…"
As Belldandy came back and placed her breakfast on the table, she remarked, "Perhaps we should look into getting Skuld enrolled as well! It might help her down the line."
"Big sis!" Skuld whined.
Not liking the high-pitched whine, Urd glared at Skuld for a moment before getting a cat-like smile on her face. She then playfully said, "Maybe we should look into getting her into the same school as Sentaro?"
Skuld quickly shut up and gained a blush on her face, making Urd think, 'Point goes to Urd.'
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After Keiichi, Chibi-Urd, and Skuld left the temple, Urd watched as Belldandy walked into Keiichi's room. Now that she was more awake than at breakfast, Urd followed after Belldandy. she watched as Belldandy picked something off the floor.
"Keiichi forgot his wallet, didn't it?" Urd asked.
"It seems so. I'll bring it to him in a few moments," Belldandy quietly replied as she opened it up and checked out a business card that Keiichi placed in there so long ago and kept it there.
"Don't worry, Bell. We'll find a way to get Hild to let you get it back. It'll just take us some time," Urd said as she rubbed Belldandy's shoulders while Belldandy read the business card.
"I know…. I'm just feeling… A bit antsy about what I accepted, as you put it a week ago?" Belldandy replied. Urd nodded.
The card read,
Goddess Relief Office
Belldandy
Goddess, Second Class, Unlimited.
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Note's from HotelKatz :Notes from HotelKatz : The title, 'Coulrophobia' was thought up by Nena Camadera of the Goddess Relief Office forum.
So this fic is done. Now to answer a few questions before they've been asked.. Will there be a sequel? Yes, but not anytime soon. Will it involve Klowns? No. What will the sequel involve? I do not know at this point and time.
And now for the Author's notes that were once in the first chapter before they were removed because they took away from the first chapter's enjoyment.
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While I was waiting for September, I had a few other ideas for Halloween fics.
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One was an expansion of the monster girl version of Ah! My Goddess. No, not the one that's already a fic, the one that was a short scene in chapter 11 of the What-if fic. It had Belldandy as a Frankenstein's monster. Had I decided to write a fic that used that scene, Urd and Hild might be Vampires, Mara might a succubus, Skuld might be a mummygirl, and Peorth could become a werewolf. The kind of Mummygirl that Skuld might have become would be like the one in Okayado's Deadline Summonnr.
As for Belldandy, Skuld, and Urd being sisters in that fic, they wouldn't be in a genetic sense, but would become sisters in an emotional sense after time passes. The reason this fic wasn't chosen was the one I'm currently writing seemed more like fun. So maybe next year?
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Another idea for a Halloween fic I had come up with was a Ah My Goddess with Franken Fran crossover. Franken Fran is a manga that gets gory. The main character, Fran Madaraki, is someone who is friendly and well meaning, but gets terrifying when she decides to save someone with an operation. There is no cost big enough in her eyes to save a life. She will save lives, even if she has to make their quality of life so horrible, that death is infinitely preferable, in order to save them.
As for the plot of the fic itself, Mara enchants one of Fran's sisters to break up Belldandy and Keiichi's relationship. Unfortunately, the one she enchants is Gavrill. Gavrill is a murderous psychopath who can transform her body to however she sees fit, including eating people in one bite. She also withstood a small scale nuke that destroyed an island and was annoyed by it at best. So there would be a lot of death and swearing in this potential fic.
The reason this fic wasn't chosen was I didn't feel like I was skilled enough to write it. Were I ever to write this idea into a fic, I would give warnings at the top of each chapter for any time a character dies, if the vulgarity goes over a certain limit, and how gory it gets. I will not sucker anyone into reading something they are not prepared for. I don't like it when it happens to me and therefore, I will not do it to anyone else.
