The Test of a God.

04/07/10

By: Pierre R. Wheaton

Welcome to The Test of a God. This is my second fan fiction piece based on the Ah, My Goddess franchise. This piece is intended to be a sequel to "The Song of the Goddesses." It is set one week after the events in "Song." All the usual disclaimers apply here. (Don't consider the plot of this work part of the AMG canon, the characters of this work are the property of Fujishima-sensei, but the plot of the work is mine, I expect the AMG fanboys to rip this thing to shreds, blah, blah, blah.) This is very different territory for me because this piece will look at Keiichi as he learns to live with his newly acquired God powers. Also Urd will play a much larger role than she did in "Song" and Marller and Hild also make their debuts in this fanfic. As you well know, very little attention is paid to the role of Gods in Ah My Goddess. As such, there is little information to go on in terms of what Gods do in the Ah My Goddess universe. I am writing this piece under the assumption that gods are treated similar to goddesses in terms of licensing, training, powers and so on. As the old saying goes, when you assume you make an "ass" out of "u" and "me". That being said, boldly I go into the unknown.

Be forewarned, the first chapter will be a bit steamy, those of you not used to seeing Kei and Bell in this light may want to move on to the second chapter. I don't get explicit. I have way too much respect for Fujishima-sensei's characters to drag them into the world of hentai, but those of you who aren't willing to think of a horny Belldandy who is not under the influence of an Urd-potion might be a bit disturbed by these events. But anyway, Enjoy.

©2010, Pierre R. Wheaton.

Chapter 1

Monday. One week after the Events of The Song of the Goddesses.

Despite being a newly minted Second Class God who was no longer subject to human frailties and weaknesses, Keiichi Morisato felt like he had run a marathon and then had been ordered to crawl around the world on his hands and knees. The reason for his divine fatigue was laying in his room next to him and sharing his futon. It took the form of one Goddess First Class, Second Category, Unlimited License, who's name was Belldandy. Keiichi had found out over the past week, what happens when a goddess's sex drive has been unlocked.

After he and Belldandy had returned from Heaven where he had been rewarded with Godhood due to his exemplary service to the divine realm over the years in a hearing that was supposed to have determined the fate of said goddess after she disobeyed a direct order from Kami-sama, Keiichi and his goddess got busy making up for lost time in the love department. It turned out that when a goddess's sex drive was unlocked, her desire for satisfaction was insatiable.

While Bell continued to be the warm, sweet, kind goddess that everyone loved while in public, when she was alone with Keiichi in his room, in his bed, she became a highly passionate and skilled lover who took as much delight in pleasuring Keiichi sexually as she did in fixing his food. She insisted on making love multiple times a day, whenever the two had a spare moment.

While Keiichi was excited that he and Belldandy had finally overcome the fears and trepidations that held their relationship back for such a long time, and he had total reassurance from Kami-sama that they would never be separated, all this love-making was definitely wearing him out. It's not that he didn't enjoy it, far from it, he just wanted a break to catch his breath. And this night and day personality change from Belldandy was freaking him out.

It was after a particularly aggressive session that Keiichi laid the law down. The two were laying on his futon. Sweat was pouring off of their naked bodies as the energy from their love-making was dissipating.

"Belldandy?"

"Yes, Keiichi, my love?" Belldandy answered, her voice husky with lust. She glowed as her goddess powers reacted to the frenzied activities of a few minutes ago.

"Bell, I really do love you.", Keiichi said, "And I love that we are finally giving each other what we've been longing for since we met, but I think that maybe we need to slow down a little."

Bell looked at him slightly confused. "Are you not satisfied with our love-making? Am I not giving you the pleasure you desire?"

"Yes, I mean no...I mean...I am totally satisfied with what we are doing. I have never felt anything like it before. It's so intense, and I can feel our powers surging as we do this, but you're wearing me out, Bell. I don't know how much longer I can keep up with you." I never want to stop making love to you, but can we just not do it every spare moment?"

Belldandy sat up and looked at Keiichi "Well, how often should we make love?"

Keiichi thought for a second, "What about once a week?"

Bell quickly said "No! at least twice a week." By the tone of her voice, she was not going to budge from that position.

Keiichi knew that once Belldandy set her mind to something, she never moved from it. Arguing with her was pretty much impossible. "All right, twice a week, but I choose the days. Deal?" He put his hand out so they could shake on it.

"Deal!" Bell crowed happily and then grabbed Keiichi and pulled him down to the futon for another session of seduction.

After about an hour, when Bell had finally had enough and was sleeping quietly. Keiichi put on his clothes and staggered back out into the Tea Room. There he saw Belldandy's older sister, Urd sitting at the low table drinking a cup of sake.

"My, my, my, haven't we been the busy little beaver." Urd said smugly. She was in seventh heaven that Keiichi and Belldandy had finally moved their relationship to a more mature level, and she was quick to take the credit for it despite having very little to do with making it happen. "You look like something Velsper dragged in. Sit down and have a drink with me. It'll make you feel better." Keiichi grabbed a sake cup and poured himself a shot and sat down across the table from Urd. She took a drink and looked at Keiichi saying, "Well, how's the first week of the rest of your life as a God going Keiichi. How does it feel to be truly divine?"

Kei responded "It feels quite different in many ways. I don't get hungry even though I can eat a horse. I can drink as much sake as I want and not feel a thing. I'm not too cold, nor too hot. I see things in a totally different way now. I can see and feel different dimensions. I feel full of power, although I have yet to really learn now to use it. My mind works so differently from before. I can calculate math problems in a second that would have taken me minutes. I wish I would have at all this energy and power when I was in school, I would have aced all my classes. But at the same time, I feel totally connected to Heaven. Yggdrasil is always just a thought away. It's a bit overwhelming at times. Now I can understand how you goddesses feel all the time."

Urd looked down at her sake cup and said "Belldandy and I will work on helping you develop your powers. And you'll eventually get used to the way things work as a God, but how about you and Belldandy? Have you noticed anything different about her in the last week?"

Keiichi said "Yeah, when we're alone and making love, she's so aggressive and forthcoming. It's totally the opposite of her usual personality. Normally she's so shy and loving and warm, but when we're alone, look out, it's like she becomes a completely different person. And she wants to make love all the time, whenever we're not doing anything else, she's always dragging me off to my room to make love. I'm not used to that especially from Belldandy"

"Well, Keiichi, that is what happens when you unlock a goddess's sex drive. She becomes insatiable. She can't get enough. Think about it, Keiichi. You know how Belldandy handles her emotions. She puts them out there for all to see and she also puts those same feelings into everything she does. That's her personality, Keiichi. All or nothing.

"And now that she knows that she will always have you by her side, and that she can completely give herself over to you without having to check her feelings, you shouldn't be surprised that she comes over as strongly as she does. The first time you two made love, I felt the energy that your coupling produced all the way into Nekomi City. It was a powerful magical force that literally knocked me out of my chair. You two had some seriously pent-up desires that needed to be released. What you are experiencing now is Belldandy at her most powerful.

"She didn't feel ready to proceed with becoming more intimate with you because she was not sure that you could handle her in your human form, and also she was not quite sure about how you felt about her. You're a strong person Keiichi, but until you became a God, you would not have been able to withstand an unrestrained Belldandy.

"And now that you finally manned up and told her how you felt about her in front of Kami-sama himself and all of the goddesses in Heaven, she now knows that there is nothing standing in her way from giving you all that she has for you. I have to give you credit, Keiichi. You have a flair for the dramatic. It took you forever to tell Belldandy you loved her, but you couldn't have picked a better place or time to do it."

Urd finished her sake and stood up from the table. "Eventually she'll settle down, but you might was well expect that when she wants to get together with you, she's going to throw everything she has at you."

Keiichi said "Just curious. Had Belldandy decided to become intimate while I was still human, what would have happened?"

Urd walked around to Keiichi's side of the table, stood behind him, leaned over and put her hands on his shoulders. She whispered in his ear, "You wouldn't have lasted five minutes. But rest assured, it would have been the greatest five minutes in your entire

life." She tapped him on the shoulders twice, turned, and as she walked out of the room, she said "See you later, Keiichi. By the way, Bell's a much better lover than Peorth, but neither of them could hold a candle to me." She winked at him and left the room.

Keiichi gulped and mentally digested all that Urd had to say.

Chapter 2.

A few minutes after Urd left, Belldandy walked into the Tea Room. She was dressed in a long blue robe, and as usual, she looked gorgeous, even right after waking up. "Good Morning Keiichi" she said brightly as she kissed him on the cheek. "I trust you had a good night's sleep?, I'll have breakfast ready soon."

"Ok, Belldandy." A few seconds later,

"Bell?"

"Yes, Keiichi?"

"I'm sorry if I came across as a bit of a jerk back there."

"Why are you apologizing, Keiichi?"

"About my wanting to slow down our 'romantic activities'."

"What are you talking about?" Bell asked quizzically.

"Well, Belldandy, this last week has been so crazy for us. You've been so passionate and so aggressive about our love-making, and I'm still not quite used to the way you're coming on to me. I'm used to you being kind and gentle, but when we're alone and being intimate, you become so driven and obsessed. It's like I'm in love with two different people. Plus the fact that I'm still trying to get the hang of all these God powers. These changes that have come over us lately have been so disruptive to our lives, that maybe I was being too harsh on you when I told you we should slow down a little."

Bell walked over to Keiichi, sat down across the table from him and looked into his eyes. She spoke softly, "Keiichi, I'm sorry if I have come over too strong. I should have considered that this is a difficult time for you. I should have considered your feelings. I was selfish, and I beg your forgiveness.

"But, I just wanted you to know how much I love you, and how much I want to give all of myself to you, just as I want you to do the same for me. I have finally crossed that last obstacle that kept me away from truly showing you the total depth of my love. And when you told me that you loved me in heaven before My Lord and my fellow goddesses, the feelings of joy and happiness washed over me like a mighty flood. I finally heard the words that I have been waiting to hear from the man that I love. And I was so excited to give you what you wanted most, that I got carried away. I understand now that maybe it's best if we slow down so that you don't have to feel so overwhelmed."

Bell lowered her head as if she was expecting Keiichi to punish her. But he walked around the table and took his goddesses hands. "Belldandy, your apology has been accepted, although there was no need to apologize in the first place. We have a lifetime to love each other, we will make this work, just as we always have. And by the way, I've changed my mind. We can make love as much as you want. Just take it easy on me, okay?" Belldandy put her arms around Keiichi, held him tight and said "I can live with that." After a minute, she released him and said "Okay, it's time for breakfast. Is there anything special that you want?"

Keiichi said "Other than you, no. Surprise me. Also is it possible, if you don't have anything planned that we can start working on teaching me about my powers. I feel kind of useless being in a temple full of goddesses and not being able to pull my weight magically."

"Yes, Keiichi, Urd and I can help you with your powers. Bear in mind, that It won't be easy. It takes a long time for Gods and Goddesses to learn how to control their powers and you shouldn't be disappointed if you aren't successful the first time out. But with your focus and drive, you should catch on very quickly." Belldandy got to her feet, gave Keiichi a little wave and walked into kitchen to start breakfast.

After breakfast, Keiichi, Belldandy and Urd went out into the courtyard to assess Keiichi's powers. Bell started out. "The first thing we have to determine is what is your dominant element. Every God and Goddess has a particular element in which their powers work best. My element is Wind, Urd's is Fire/Electricity, Skuld's is Water. What Urd and I will do is test you in all four major elements, and whichever you have the most success in will be the one that is your dominant element."

Urd stood in front of Keiichi and said. "The first element we'll try is Electricity/Fire. I'm going to ask you to try and generate a ball of electricity. That is the most basic electrical spell. If you can do that easily, then we'll know that your powers are biased towards Electricity/Fire. The first thing I want you to do is to hold your hands out, and use your mind to see a ball of electricity forming in you hands."

Keiichi held his hands out and visualized a ball of electricity, he focused his mind on the space between his hands and concentrated intensely on making the ball appear. After a few seconds, his mind's eye could see a ball of white-hot electricity forming. It was glowing in his hands, sparks flying off and the smell of ozone hung in the air. Urd asked him "Do you see the ball?" He said "Yes, I do. It's very bright and powerful." Urd responded, "That's good, now what I want you to do is to continue to concentrate on that ball of energy and visualize it becoming an algorithm like a computer program." Keiichi continued concentrating on the ball and slowly it unfolded itself into an program, one of immense difficulty, harder than any programming language he'd seen at Nekomi Tech. "Urd, I'm not sure I can solve this program, I've never seen code like this before."

Belldandy gave encouragement. "Keiichi, you can do this. It looks hard, but you can solve this. It's the most important part of the spell. Let your mind do the work. Visualize the code being compiled, this is how you will make what is in your mind appear in reality."

Keiichi turned his mind's focus on compiling the spell's programming. At first, the spell started compiling easily, but as time went on, and the code became more and more complex, Keiichi's concentration began to waiver. He felt a pain in his mind that intensified as the multi-layered code compiled faster and faster. It looped and branched back on itself in indiciperable knots.. Decision trees flew by faster and faster with more complex variables. Three, five and ten-dimensional variables combined to make the program almost impossible to compile. He struggled to keep the code flowing together as his head continued to hurt more and more. The pain escalated to beyond tolerable and his face screwed up and turned bright red but still he pressed on. Time seemed to slow to a crawl as the lines of the program continued to compile. Keiichi started to feel the ball of electricity forming above his hands. He could feel the heat and the sparks prickling his fingers. The ball continued to take shape and form, while the pain kept on assaulting his mind. Just as he reached the final lines of the program, the pain was too much for him to take and he broke his concentration. The ball of electricity dissolved into thin air and he collapsed to the ground breathing heavily. All his strength left him and the pain in his head subsided abruptly, but he felt that if he could have just held on for a few seconds longer, he could have completed the spell. Defeated, he lay in the grass trying to regain his strength while Urd and Belldandy rushed to his aid.

"Keiichi, Keiichi!" Belldandy cried, "Are you all right?" as she ran to his side. She knelt down in the grass and cradled Keiichi's head in her lap. "Urd!" she said, "He's burning up!"

Keiichi groaned and said with a mixture of weariness and dejection, "Yeah, I'm OK, I wish I could have just held on a little longer. I was almost there."

Urd looked at the both of them. "Hmph! Even a simple spell like that should not have knocked you off your feet."

Keiichi sputtered, "THAT WAS A SIMPLE SPELL?, It almost took my head off."

Urd said, "Yeah, that's the first spell that a young God or Goddess learns in the Fire/ Electricity element. The difference being that it's easier to learn spells like that one when you are young, because your mind is much more pliable and able to withstand the stress. In your case it's gonna be a lot harder for you because you're coming into your power at a much later age. Your mind is much more set. It's not impossible for you to catch up, but it's apparent to me that Fire/Electricity is not your dominant element."

Belldandy put her hand on Keiichi's forehead and he could feel his strength returning as she sent healing energy into his body. "When you feel better, we'll try the water element, Keiichi. Just relax and let me take care of you, OK?" She looked down at her man and smiled at him. "For a first attempt, you did very well, don't despair, we'll find your dominant element."

Keiichi put himself in his goddess's capable hands and said "With you helping me, Bell, I know we can do it." And he drifted off to sleep.

Chapter 3

Tuesday Morning

The next day, Belldandy, Keiichi and Urd returned to the temple courtyard to try the water element. Only this time instead of creating a ball of fire, Keiichi was asked to create a waterspout in the koi pond. He used the same procedure as before. He visualized a waterspout in his mind, converted it into a program and started to compile it. The waterspout came easier to Keiichi than the ball of fire, but in the end, he still was not quite able to finish the spell. His concentration had wavered at the very end just like before. But he did take more confidence from his efforts. He tried twice more to make a waterspout, but while he came close both times, he couldn't complete the working. The pain of such intense computation had repeatedly tripped him up. While Kei was dejected at his lack of success, Belldandy continued to offer encouragement.

"C'mon, Keiichi, I know you can do it!" She ran up to him and enveloped him in a big tight hug, as if to send some of her energy to him. Keiichi returned the hug with one of his own, holding and loving his goddess. He didn't want to let go until Urd stepped in between them. "OK, you two. There's plenty of time for that later on. Let's try the wind element."

This time Belldandy asked Kei to make the wind chimes near the entrance of the temple ring by creating a gentle breeze. But unlike the fire and water elements which strained his concentration to its limits before besting him, raising the wind spell was easy. The problem was that once he got the spell going, it became too powerful and instead of a gentle breeze, it became a gale force wind that ripped half the shingles off the temple roof and blew Urd across the courtyard. It took a mighty effort by Belldandy to quiet the winds and return them to stillness. He tried once again to raise a breeze and was able to do it, but he could not modulate the wind's intensity and he lost control of it again. Belldandy and Urd quickly ordered him to stop before he caused any more damage.

A visibly shaken and none too happy Urd shook out her hair, pulled Belldandy aside and said "Keiichi can obviously raise wind spells, but can't control them. Maybe this is his secondary element rather than his primary. There's only one element left, Earth."

Belldandy added "Earth spells are very hard to learn. They require a lot of concentration and control. They're even harder than Fire or Water spells. There are not many Gods or Goddesses that have mastered the Earth element. If Keiichi can't handle them, the best we can do is help him to learn Wind spells."

Urd agreed and after allowing Keiichi to rest, they walked him over to a large, heavy rock that was sunk into the ground. Belldandy said "Keiichi, I want you to make this boulder float into the air. As I said, don't be discouraged that you can't do..." She was suddenly stopped short and gaped in surprise as Keiichi was not only able to levitate the boulder but had effortlessly floated it around the courtyard as if he was doing it for years. Urd and Belldandy looked at each other dumbfounded. Keiichi was moving the boulder with no stress at all. He barely needed to concentrate in order to make the massive rock do his bidding.

Urd said "Well, it looks like we found his primary element." Belldandy agreed.

She then ran up to Keiichi who was still floating the rock in midair, by then he was rotating the rock and flipping it over as if he was a giant tossing a pebble.

"Keiichi, that's wonderful! You are awesome! How were you able to do the spell so easily?" Belldandy asked excitedly.

"I don't know." Keiichi responded. "I just visualized the rock rising in the air as you and Urd told me, and as soon as I saw it in my mind, the code unfolded and compiled just like that," He snapped his fingers for effect. He then lowered the rock to the ground softly and with total ease. He didn't even look winded or tired. Urd sauntered up to him. "Good job, Keiichi. I am impressed. Then again, you are a bit of a rockhead. " she said while rapping her knuckles against Keiichi's head playfully. "So it's just as well you'd be inclined towards Earth spells."

"Shaddup, Urd!" Keiichi grumbled only half perturbed at Urd's mild insult. "So what does all this mean?" He asked.

Belldandy answered, "Well, it means that you have the capability to use magic on any kind of object that is of the earth itself. Rocks, dirt, mud, plants. Anything that is found of, in, or under the Earth can be influenced by Earth Magic. Once you get strong enough, you could even create a volcanic eruption, or cause plants to grow quickly. You could shape and mold rock, the possibilities are endless. And considering that you are also capable of at least raising wind spells, with some work, you can combine those elements for some interesting uses." Belldandy seemed delighted at this latest development. "That you were able to show such an impressive command of basic Earth Magic in your first attempt is incredible."

Keiichi felt ten feet tall when Belldandy complimented him on his success, but Urd quickly brought him back down to earth. "Keiichi, sorry to rain on your parade, but even though you have done an outstanding job so far, you still have a long way to go before you can match up with Belldandy and I. We've been at this for far longer than you've been alive, and there's still much that even we don't know. You're going to have to buckle down and work hard to become stronger in your spellcasting, and it will only get harder, so I suggest we get to work getting you up to speed. After all, Marller is still out there and even though she's a lousy excuse for a demon, she can still kick your butt. And since she hasn't attacked us in a while, that just means that she and Hild might have something up their sleeves, so we need to be ready." Keiichi and Belldandy agreed with Urd.