Ah! The Elements that are among us!
Chapter 1
Freyja, the Goddess sat in her chair high above the floor that looked over Yggdrasil,
Heaven's main computer. The sound of electronic humming vibrated through the
Chamber, mixed with the sound of musical chimes as buttons were pushed or scanners
were being used.
"Just another day on the job." Freyja thought to herself, it wasn't the fact that she
hated her job. Her job was very important; she was the System Administrator for the
entire Yggdrasil System. It was her duty to make sure that the System was always
running efficient, and productively.
As she sat there watching the other Goddess around her working, she also reflected on
their jobs as well, all the jobs on the floor where important. Freyja also knew that it
would be impossible for her to do all their jobs by herself, and she was proud to have all
of the goddess work with her. There were three other goddesses that helped Freyja
maintain Yggdrasil. They sat in front of it, always with a keen eye, alert to any problems
that it would have. Their names were Chrono, Ere and Ex and these Goddesses were
considered the best in heaven for this duty. With these Goddesses, Yggdrasil had
reached a maximum percentage efficiency that is required only of the best. Any problem
that had affected the Yggdrasil would easily be fixed and never really caused a problem.
Freyja looked on as Chrono, Ere, and Ex continued to work on maintaining Yggdrasil. An
alarm began ringing from below, form Chrono's station,
"System Error!?" She said out loud. Freyja head turned a little bit, breaking her train of
thought. She stood up and said, "Where is the Error?"
"Still searching Miss Freyja!" Ex said, a few beeps later and then Ex said, "It's coming
from the Hermod's Program!"
"Try to restart the Program!" Freyja called from above, Chrono was already on it, a few
beeps and than a buzzing sound came up, "Unable to restart the Program!"
"Miss Freyja! I have identified the problem. There is a connection problem in Grid A-32L6!
I'm bringing it up on screen." Ere called up.
Freyja turned towards a computer screen that had appeared before her. Connection
Three on the Grid was flashing red.
"We are losing connection Two, Four, and Six, in the same Grid." Ere added. With that
Freyja tried to restart the program herself using an authorized code that she had, but
she got the same message, it was unable to restart the Program. Freyja then turned to
another Goddess that was scrambling to help restart the Program and said, "Asyer! Go
down to the Grid and try and restart the Program manually! If we get it restarted before
you get there, we will inform you." Asyer got up and said, "Yes, Ma'am!" as she left the
Control Room.
Freyja then turned to the Three Goddesses in front of her, "Okay, we need to re-secure
Lines Two, Four, and Six. Ere and Chrono, I want you on that. Ex, try and reconnect Line
Three, we need to make sure whatever this is doesn't get into the
Yggdrasil main-frame. That's our main concern right now!"
The three Goddesses turned to their stations, and began to fulfill the orders. Freyja
turned and looked into the connection problem, and ran a scan to make sure the
connection problem was not spreading to the Yggdrasil main-frame. The scan reported
that the problem was contained, 'Thank Goddess for that.' Freyja thought to herself, and
she continued to monitor the situation from her position, three lights still glowed orange,
but they where still holding, one was red. With the combination of lights and alarms that
mixed in eyes and ears it was enough to almost put Freyja in a trance. She was racking
her brain for any kind of a solution to this Problem. Freyja knew the Yggdrasil and the
Hermod's program better than most Goddesses, and she also knew the Grid that was
affected; it was a Grid that held very-sensitive items about Goddesses, and other
important things. There had never been a lost connection problem before, and she was
already stressing out over this problem.
"Miss Freyja!" Ere's voice form below that snapped her out of trance. "We've lost
Connection Two and Four!" Freyja turned to her screen, and now had three red lights
flashing, and only one orange, 'Where is Asyer?' She thought to herself. After two more
minutes of failed attempts at getting the connections to restart, a telephone rang
behind her. Freyja picked up the phone, "Freyja!"
"Miss Freyja! This Asyer, I'm sorry that it took me so long, but I found the Grid. We have
a problem! Connection Lines numbers Two, Three, and Four were severed, but six is
barely hanging on. I can replace the connections but it will take some time." Asyer said
over the receiver.
"Do what you have to do and get back to the Control Room." Freyja said. She hung up
the receiver, then turning to Ere, Ex and Chrono to gave out the next set of orders,
"Restoration of the Lines are in Progress. Ex, I want you to scan all the connections
make sure there are no more surprises. Ere, scan the Grid; make sure everything is still
where it was last time we scanned it. Chrono, look for access codes, I want to know
who got in, and what was accessed." The Three Goddesses went to work; soon the only
color that showed on the screen was green, showing that all the connections were
replaced.
Ere, Ex and Chrono worked feverishly to complete their tasks that were set out from
Freyja. It would take a few minutes for the scans to be completed. As they worked
Freyja sat on her chair, setting up a report that she knew she would have to make. After
a few minutes of waiting and a minute after Asyer had returned to the Control Room.
The first scan report came from Ex.
"Miss Freyja, the scan shows there are no further problems in the Hermods Program."
Freyja breathed a sigh of relief at the news. Ex jumped into the scans with Ere and
Chrono. The sound of scanning continued to flow upwards to Freyja's ears and her mind
was not in the trance that seemed to disturb her thinking process only a few moments
ago. Freyja continued to watch the floor, wishing that she would not hear anymore
news from the three Goddesses below her; she watched their as hands seemed to flow
over the controls.
"Miss Freyja! Scan is completed." Ere spoke up. Freyja looked at the screen that
appeared before her. Four files were flashing red; Freyja's heart seemed to escape out
of throat with her last breath. A fourth file flashed an orange color, along with the red
files. She pushed on one of the red files; it read "Belldandy, Goddess First Class.
Information Incomplete!" Freyja turned to a phone that was situated behind her chair,
but as she was about picked the receiver, Chrono called up.
"Miss Freyja! We found the Access Code!" her heart seemed to skip a beat for a
moment. She actually went down to the floor, and stood over Chrono and watched as
she pulled up the codes. Ex, Ere and Asyer were even watching the codes that were
coming up in front of all of them.
"The code appears to be a Tumbler Code, it's linked to the main binary code we have in
Yggdrasil's Main Computer. I'm still trying to register the codes, see who they belong to."
Chrono said. With that Ere, and Ex jumped in to help her, in a few minutes a new screen
popped up.
"What!" Freyja thought to herself as she saw the new information that appeared in
front of the five Goddesses.
"The Hermod Program's most restricted area was accessed by a Tumbler Code that is
registered to Third Class Land Spirits!" Asyer said out loud.
Freyja turned away from the four Goddesses and went back to her station, and walked
over to the phone she was going to pick up before, but this time she did. She held the
receiver to her ear and waited.
"This is Freyja! Yes! Yes, it was in Hermod's Program! It was accessed with a tumbler
code. Yes! We registered the codes, and they all are registered to Land Spirits-Third
Class. Yes! There are some files that are missing information! Yes, I will prepare a report
and….understood! I will prepare the report and give it before the Council." Freyja put
the receiver down, and turned to the four shocked Goddesses that were looking at her.
"Asyer! You are in charge until I return; I must report this break-in of the Program to the
High Council." Freyja said, as Asyer nodded to her. Freyja turned, closing a report in her
hand, and walked out of the Control Room.