Disclaimer: Oh My Goddess belongs to KÅsuke Fujishima
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Chapter written by Ceroxon. Betaread by HotelKatz,
-oOoOoOo- This is a short fanfic for christmas, inspired by the "What if" fanfic of Hotelkatz.
Skuld has invented a tv who permit to people to see the reality "if something was different. For example "What if Urd grant the wish of Keiichi instead Belldandy?" In the Mara's lair, Hild, Mara and Mokkurkalfi spy the goddess for see the stories, for the fun.
Now it s Keiichi's turn to ask a question to the machine.
"What if Belldandy was a princess? " The boy asked.
"Keiichi, I, Skuld and Bell we are princesses. The supreme princesses since we are the daughters of Tyr, the Daitenkaicho who rules the skies. In my case I am even Nifflheim princess of my mother's side, in theory," Urd smugly answered with a smirk.
"I meant more in a 'fairy tale' style, " Keiichi clarified.
"Oh what a lovely idea." Bell said before adding "I want to see it too."
"Someone he has a better idea? Where do you wants see something else?" Lind asked.
No one answered, so Skuld threw the question and the TV screen, once again, was showed an image.
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Once upon a time, a beautiful kingdom, where everyone was happy.
Why everyone was happy? Because the kingdom was ruled by the nicest and prettiest of princesses, Princess Belldandy.
She had been nicknamed 'the compassionate princess', since so she was nice.
And why we said she was nice? Because every day, all day, the princess was doing everything possible to comfort people who were suffering, so much so that her subjects were happy. All of her subjects.
As there were more than unhappy people in the kingdom, the princess had instructed her General, Lind, to fetch the poor people abroad and bring them to her so she could comfort them.
General Lind, a very beautiful woman, almost as beautiful as the princess, so constantly went on missions to neighboring kingdoms, ruled by princesses not nice at all. among others like in the realm of a princess called Mara, who was not very nice.
In the past, Princess Mara and Princess Belldandy had been childhood friends. However, the Princess Mara saw that the poor people were the price of her happiness. How can you be a true princess, if any other girl is as happy as you? What interest was it to be princess if it is not you were the happiest?
Mara was not really bad, but spent her time trying to be the happiest princess, instead of dealing with her people.
The people of Mara was not more unhappy than another. Taxes were not excessive. Slavery did not exist. The crops were healthy and they did not suffer major epidemics.
However, the people of Mara was in the image of their ruler: they were jealous of the people of Belldandy. Despite this, there had never been a war between the two kingdoms, for all inhabitants of the kingdom of Mara hoped that one day they would be taken to be taken to the countries of the compassionate princess.
There was an annual competition to find out where General Lind 'kidnapped' the inhabitants of the kingdom of Mara to present to her princess.
Mara was often very jealous and angry because of that, but she had never attacked Belldandy. For when Mara was really unhappy and she was going to rebuke Belldandy, but the latter had always been there to comfort her.
Nevertheless, General Lind had no trouble obtaining the princess all the poor people she wished for her to comfort them, so much so that the poor are left even capture them, often with all their families, and even their whole village.
The years passed and one day, the princess was old enough to marry.
Yes, but WHO she could marry?
Many princes came to find since they were all charmed by a nice and pretty princess.
These princes had many qualities. A good education, some were smart, some strong, some nicer than average ... As the princess was very nice, she always found their qualities ... .. Even when they had not.
However, whatever their qualities, they all had a 'big failure': they were not unhappy.
As they were not unhappy, the princess could not console them and that was her greatest desire.
Some princes were pretending to be unhappy, so that the princess is interested in them. When that happened, they found a smile and the princess was more interested in that. Then they became really unhappy, then the princess was interested then new to them all over again.
It was truly a vicious circle and the princess was the first to be sorry about this situation ... .. So she tried to console herself ... She does not always happen.
"Oh cruel fate. Does not exist in the world an eternal unlucky person I could spend my whole life to console?" she lamented before her mirror.
Fortunately the princess had a sister. A sister who loved her very much and secretly tried her best to find the rare bird. The eternal unlucky.
Alas, it was not easy, because even when they managed to find a real unfortunate person, they found the smile upon learning that he was perhaps going to marry the princess, so he was not unhappy.
The sister, named Urd, did not despair and continued unabated research, sending all applicants to see the princess. At least, it was said, she could forget her loneliness for a while, consoling the unfortunate.
Finally, one morning, while ransacking the reports handed her by her spy chief Peorth, a good old friend, a profile caught her attention.
It was about an unlucky person who seemed to run into all conceivable trouble. It was so obvious that people were begging to become the gravedigger. So they thought, no one will die in the country.
The sister had to bring the young man with her for an interview. It was useless, the mere sight was enough to convince her that he was surely the eternal unlucky.
Yes, but how to be absolutely sure? She had to put him to the test. Then she decided to invite/kidnap him to dinner without telling him why. It was better that Belldandy discovers it by herself.
When Belldandy came to dinner, without even knowing that a boy would be present, she was instantly hooked. The boy had such a nice black eye who only wanted to be treated and a beautiful puppy dog eyes who only wanted to be consoled.
During the dinner, he was perfect: he burned himself with the soup, bit his tongue when eating raw vegetables, planted himself in the bone of chicken in the puck and had a sudden sore throat in the frozen dessert.
The boy, whose name was Keiichi, really seemed inconsolable. Like so many before him, he thought his streak of bad luck had ended, since the princess was interested in him, and finally fool himself before her.
Belldandy was completely captivated by the living embodiment of bad luck. She was sure to have found the man of her life.
When the boy went home, slipping on the stairs of the castle, just missing to break something, Urd, who was as enthusiastic as her sister, proposed a final test.
"We will organize a party at the castle. A party with 100 guests. At this festival, you will prepare a cake with 100 shares. And this cake, you shall have a thicket of 1000 gold coins. Thus, each guest should have 10 gold coins in his hand, on average. Yet, if this boy is really as promising he seems... I bet you he will find a way to pull one share without coin," Said the sister of the compassionate Princess;
The idea seemed good, so Belldandy has put in place.
The day of the party, Keiichi was again 'perfect': he repeated his exploits during the meal, he skidded on the dance floor, tearing and pulling down the skirt of Queen Sayoko, coming from Mishima, a neighboring country and had a lot of incidents until the division of the cake.
The Princess and her sister stamped their feet impatiently. They were absolutely sure that the boy was going to pass the test.
But his bad luck was watching carefully. She knew that if Keiichi had a share without a single coin, he would marry the princess for sure. This would be a chance for him. This, his bad luck could not afford it, too, when it was his turn, Keiichi pull a share of the cake ...
"Cough! Cough cough! KOOOOOFFFFFF ! "He swallowed A gold coin (the only contained in its share) wrong.
Belldandy was very disappointed. Keiichi had failed the test. She wandered, inconsolably, even by herself, in her castle.
It was then that Urd had a revelation that she told her sister. "But finally, little sister, marry him. Anyone would be happy to find a gold coin, and he, he nearly died from it. Marry him I say to you, you'll never find better. "
"BUT IT'S TRUE!" Belldandy cried, overjoyed to have found her eternal unlucky.
The wedding took place ... After many adventures, Keiichi did everything he could to prevent his bad luck, but it was only strengthen the resolve of the princess.
She spent the rest of her life to comfort him, and he to be comforted.
They lived "happy and unhappy" and the story does not say whether they had children.
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On this, the screen turned off.
There was silence in the room. Everyone had something to say, but no one dared to speak. It was Keiichi who eventually broke the silence.
"Um. I imagined it a bit differently, but it was cute," the boy said.
"It was VERY cute," Belldandy added.
"Far too 'sweet' and childish for my taste. Even Skuld's Shojo manga is more credible. Well, at least I have a good role in this tale," Urd said.
"HEY! My Mangas are fine and great dear sister is fine in this story. Even as a human, that's how I always saw Bell. My only regret is that we do not talk about me," Skuld retorted.
"Peorth? Lind? Your opinion ?" Belldandy asked.
"I did not mind. Not only was I mentioned once in the story, but somehow I am not fond of fairy tales. The passage with Lind who kidnaps entire villages on the orders of Belldandy was still funny," Peorth answered.
Lind said, "Totally surreal. Already I do not feel the soul of a general, my place is in battle at the head of a team, not at the highest levels to make decisions. But curiously, I rather like the idea of conducting raids on other countries to help people. It is more rewarding than to conduct raids to harm enemies. "
Meanwhile, in the den of demons, Hild banged the bathroom door. "Ma-chan, I understand that you did not like this story but to throw up, don't you think you're exaggerating? "
"Majesty, that reservoir of good feelings really makes me sick. A whole country that radiates happiness. The only thing good about this sugar mountain ... .. it's Keiichi. His perpetual unhappiness makes me a little energy. Devil's devilness. I say Keiichi is 'good'. I already hit bottom but now I am digging. How can you endure this horror, majesty?" Mara replied.
After another knock, Hild said, "You too FOCUSED on Belldandy, you can not get to see the beauty of the thing. An happy country, but several countries are jealous. A compassionate princess, an eternal unlucky boy, and a devil princess. Belldandy and Lind who practice mass Kidnapping, Urd making conspiracies ... .. And you, Mok-chan what do you think? ".
Mokkurkalfi's reply was, "Me ? This is a horror tale for a demon child. As against the passage of Mara will be consoled with Belldandy ... .. ... Pfffrrrrrr PFOUHAHAHAHAHAHA."
"She's right. It's very humiliating. If one day, I ever become like this I implore you: kill me. " Mara's voice said,
"Whoa, watch your language Ma-chan. Well say it's because of your stomach ache, but pay attention. I would be right to force you to sign a contract to that. I do not want but there's other demons who might wish. Mok-chan, forget that idea and will give this pen and this sheet of paper in their place "ordered the Daimakaicho.
Ceroxon's note: this is an old tale from my childhood that I had enjoyed. While I continue to work on the 52 chapters (urgh) of the fanfic "Ah! My Space Goddess "a little short story seemed appropriate for Christmas.