It was a beautiful morning, the sky was clear, the birds were singing, and… Mayura was late to school once again.
"Oh, no, I'm going to be late if I don't hurry up!" Mayura exclaimed as she took a toast from the table and ran out of the door of her house. "Bye Dad! I'll see you later!"
"Mayura take care and remember to call whenever you're going to be late!"
"Yeah, yeah…"
Mayura's father sighed at the sight of his daughter running to school, "She has surely grown a lot, even though I do not approve of her going to that detective agency."
"Okay class today we have a new student in our classroom today," the teacher announced.
"I wonder who could be the new student," Mayura murmured.
"Please come in," the teacher said to the student outside the classroom.
Everyone turned to look at the purple haired girl who entered, she was really pretty and every guy held their breath.
"Could she be… no she couldn't be, or could she," Narugami murmured at the sight of the girl.
"Her name is Spica Angrboda, and she will be joining our class starting today, now where should you sit? Ah, yes there is a place just next to Daidouji; would you care to sit next to her?"
Without uttering a word Spica walked to the sit the teacher had mentioned. Mayura felt Spica's gaze on her, she didn't know why that girl was looking at her with such intensity.
This girl is making me nervous and I do not know why, Mayura thought.
Angrboda? Could she really be…? Narugami was really unsettled by the presence of this new girl.
Later when school was over and Mayura was in Loki's house she told him about that new girl.
"I was so uncomfortable with her sitting next to me, she didn't utter a word not even when I tried to be polite and ask her from where she came from," Mayura said while taking her cup of tea from the table.
"What is the girls name?" Yamino asked.
"Umm… let me think… I guess it was Spica Angrboda," Mayura answered thoughtfully.
"Angrboda! Could that girl be?" Fenrir asked Yamino.
"Spica?" Loki said thoughtfully.
"Loki-kun do you know that girl?" Mayura asked because Loki was really thoughtful since she mentioned the girls name.
"No, I don't think so," Loki smiled at Mayura.
In that moment Narugami barged in Loki's office, "Loki, we need to talk!"
"Ah, Narugami-kun, what brings you over here?" Mayura stood up.
"Eh, Daidouji, what are you doing here?"
"What do you mean, 'what are you doing here'? I always come to Loki's house after school," Mayura replied.
"Oh, yeah I forgot," Narugami smiled nervously. "Glasses come over here for a moment," Narugami said.
"Y-Yeah," Yamino replied.
"I need you to take Daidouji to the kitchen and distract her with something, so I can speak with Loki," Narugami whispered to Yamino.
"Fine, I'll take her to the kitchen," Yamino whispered back, still a bit nervous from being so close to Narugami. "Eh… Mayura-san, would you like to eat some cake in the kitchen?"
"Yes! I love the cakes that you make Yamino-san," replied Mayura.
"Cake?" Fenrir who had been about to fall asleep broke from his doze at the mentioning of cake. "Wait for me!" Fenrir yelled at his brother and quickly ran out the door.
A sweat drop appeared on Loki and Narugami's forehead. "Fenrir is sure full of energy when it comes to food and sweets," Loki said.
"Yeah," agreed Narugami, but right then he snapped back to reality remembering what he had come to do. "Loki, Angrboda has come to Earth."
"Are you sure?" Loki asked, "Just because she has the same name as…"
"I'm positive Loki, she looked exactly like her, same purple hair and eyes, same quietness that can make nervous even the most shy of people, and same huge appetite; I saw her eat more than I do!" Narugami exclaimed.
"What do you think she came to do here?" Loki asked.
"C'mon Loki, you're not so slow are you? She obviously found out that you're in love with a mortal!" Narugami rolled his eyes at Loki.
"I'm not in love with Mayura," Loki said turning into a light shade of red.
"Whatever you say Loki," Narugami said, obviously enjoying Loki's expression.
"And anyway if she did find out that I'm here because of Mayura, and it's not because I'm in love with her, shouldn't she be after me and have come here first and not gone to school?" Loki said.
"You have a point there, but what if she has something planned," Narugami said.
Loki knew that it was uncommon of Narugami to be worrying so much, especially because he knew of Loki's motive on staying in Earth. "Fine Narukami, I want you to keep an eye on her, and just in case, I want you to protect Mayura."
"Yes, no matter what, I won't take an eye from that girl and I'll protect Daidouji… since she's so important to you," Narugami couldn't help on adding that last part just to annoy Loki.
"Narukami!" Loki yelled.
"Loki-tama, but what Narugami said is true…punyan," Eechan said floating to land on Loki's head.
"What are you saying Eechan?" Loki asked his shikagami friend.
"I can't tell you what I mean if you don't find it out by yourself," Eechan explained.
"So you won't tell me until I figure it out on my own?" Loki asked.
However, when Eechan was going to answer to that Mayura came rushing in holding Fenrir on her arms. "Loki-kun, Loki-kun, we've brought you some snacks!" Mayura said in her cheerful voice.
"I figured that you would like some sweets and tea at this time, if that is right with you, Loki-sama?" Yamino asked from behind Mayura with a trey of strawberry cheese cake and tea.
"Yes, thank you Yamino-kun," Loki smiled at his youngest son.
"Daddy, Daddy, could you give me some?" Fenrir asked from Mayura's arms.
"But nii-san you already had two cakes in the kitchen, you could get sick from eating all of that," Yamino said to Fenrir forgetting completely that Mayura was there.
" 'Nii-san'? Why do you call Fenrir 'nii-san'?" Mayura asked Yamino.
"Well…that is…er…because…" Yamino was working really hard on finding an excuse to his careless expression in language towards his elder brother, who we all know, but Mayura doesn't know, that is the little puppy in her arms.
"It's that Fenrir reminds Yamino so much of his brother that he started calling him like that," Loki said quickly, too quickly in fact.
What a lame excuse, Narugami thought.
"Oh, I see, so Yamino-san misses his brother and since Fenrir reminds him of his brother so much he calms him like that?"
But I guess that lame excuse works with Daidouji very well, Narugami thought again smiling at Mayura's naïveté.
"Yes, that's it Mayura-san," Yamino said after serving Loki and Narugami's tea. "Now I have to go clean the kitchen, if you excuse me…" with that said Yamino left the room.
"Oh, no! I promised Papa that I would help him with the temple today!" I have to get going!" Mayura said really worriedly.
"I'm going to be late to my job!" Narugami said stressed preparing himself to leave.
"Mayura, I'll walk you home," Loki said as he stood up.
"Thank you Loki-kun," Mayura smiled at Loki's proposal.
Then the trio left, well it will be a trio for Mayura, but it was actually a quartet because Eechan was still on top of Loki's head when they left his study. However on their way out Fenrir joined them. Moments later they were saying good-bye to Narugami, who apparently got a new job at a fast food restaurant.
When they arrived at the steps of the Daidouji temple, Mayura saw someone coming down the steps…
"Tha-That's Angrboda-san," Mayura murmured shocked from seeing her coming down the stairs of her temple.
"That's the girl you told me about?" Loki asked.
"Yes," was all Mayura could answer before the girl came completely down the steps and stopped in front of them.
Spica Angrboda was definitely the person everyone, except well, the mortals, that they had been thinking about.
"Daddy that's-" Fenrir began but then stopped when the girl looked down at him.
Then as if nothing had happened the girl walked away from them without uttering a single word.
Yep, that's definitely Angrboda, but what on Earth is she doing here? Why is she even going to Mayura's school? And why did she pretend that she didn't know us? Could she have been sent by Odin to get rid of me? Loki had so many questions and no one to answer him, well, not now.
"Isn't she creepy? She stood there for like a minute and she didn't even smile or said a word in all that time, and then like nothing, she leaves!" Mayura was definitely stressed by Spica's presence there was no doubt about it.
"Well, let's keep going Mayura," Loki said coming back from his thoughts by Mayura's voice.
"Loki-tama are you okay? You seemed to have spaced out for a minute," said Eechan from Loki's head.
"Yes, Eechan I'm fine, don't worry," Loki replied and smiled.
"Eh… Loki, did you say something?" Mayura asked.
"No Mayura," Loki said.
I must be hearing things…fushigi mystery! Mayura thought.
Right now she must be thinking that she's hearing voices and she must be thinking "fushigi mystery" as always, Loki said in his mind and smiled. When they reached the top they found Misao Daidouji sweeping around the temple.
"Papa, I'm home!" Mayura said.
"Mayura wel…come…home," Mayura's father was obviously not happy at seeing Loki, his weird thingy that was always on his head, and the black puppy who seemed that he could understand what they were seeing. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING NEXT TO MY DAUGHTER?!" and the things that they knew he was thinking came true when he said that.
"Calm down Mayura-papa we were just escorting her back home, that's all," Loki said calmly.
"I don't understand why Mayura can't hang out with normal people instead of weird ones like you, and that girl that came over was strange also," Mayura's father said thoughtfully.
"What girl Papa?" Mayura asked.
"She came over and asked about you…" Misao said remembering
"Is Daidouji-san home?" asked the purple haired girl.
"No, I think she's at her weird friend's house right now, like usual, sometimes I wish she would stop going to that place." Misao answered.
Without another word she began walking towards the stairs.
"Aren't you going to wait for her?" Misao asked, but the girl just ignored him.
"Mayura, you should really consider finding more normal friends; and stop hanging around people like this kid so much," Misao told his daughter.
"Papa, I don't even know her! She's a new student in my class; I'm even surprised that she spoke to you! Now that I think of it… How did she know where I live? Fushigi mystery!" Mayura said and put on her swirl glasses.
"Well, Mayura, I have to go now, I'll see you tomorrow, okay?" Loki said to Mayura. Why would Angrboda be looking for Mayura? He thought.
"Okay Loki-kun, I'll see you tomorrow, you to Fenrir," Mayura smiled and gave Loki and Fenrir a hug.
Loki was in his study thinking about everything that had happened that day, how Narugami had come worried because he had seen Angrboda; how he said that he couldn't be mistaking because that girl looked identical and acted the same way that Angrboda did; how Mayura had explained the feelings that she had gotten from that same girl and how nervous she had been around her; and then that same girl had come in their paths while taking Mayura home. So much thinking was giving Loki a headache.
"Daddy, the person that we saw today was…" Fenrir couldn't finish.
"Was Mother wasn't she?" Yamino finished for Fenrir.
"Yes, she was," Loki said.
(A/N: Angrboda is Loki's wife and the mother of Fenrir, Yamino, and Hel)
"Do you think that Mother would want to do something against the Mystery Girl?" Fenrir asked.
"Nii-san why are you saying such a thing?" Yamino asked.
"Because I felt really bad when she was just looking at the Mystery Girl," Fenrir replied.
"I felt the same way… punyan," Eechan said floating from Loki's head and landing on a soft pillow.
"It's a good thing I asked Narukami to take care of Mayura while at school," Loki said mostly to himself than to his sons or Eechan.
"You were very smart on asking that from Narugami, Loki-sama," Yamino said.
"Yes, but the problem is that something could happen while she's on her way over here, so I'll need you Yamino to go with Fenrir and pick up Mayura after school until we discover what's Angrboda—or should I call her Spica—planning," Loki looked worried even though if any of them mentioned anything, he would surely deny it.
"Don't worry Loki-sama, nii-san and I will pick up Mayura-san from school, it may even be an interesting experience," Yamino said, "Right, nii-san?"
"Don't you worry Daddy, will bring the Mystery Girl safe to you every single day," Fenrir said wagging his tail.
"Thank you, Yamino and Fenrir," Loki smiled at his sons' attitude on wanting to protect Mayura.
"Loki-tama," Eechan floated back to Loki's head.
"What is it Eechan?"
"I would like to help too, even though Mayura-tan can't see me, I would like to help too because Mayura-tan looks really nice," Eechan said.
"Okay you may go pick up Mayura too," Loki smiled at his pink, soft, friend.
The next day, Mayura was completely surprised at Yamino-san and Fenrir's appearance at the end of the school day. All the girls were murmuring at how romantic it was that her boyfriend (Yamino) to come pick her up along with their puppy (Fenrir).
"Yamino-san, what are you doing here?" Mayura asked.
"Well, Fenrir and I were walking by and we decided to wait for you so we could walk together to Loki-sama's house," Yamino said.
Suddenly, out of nowhere a group of girls attacked both Mayura and Yamino.
"Hey, Daidouji-san, how did you get such a good looking boyfriend?" one girl asked Mayura.
"You're so lucky Mayu-chan," said another girl from the crowd.
"Hey, why don't you dump Daidouji and we go out?" Another girl asked Yamino.
"Aww… You have such a cute puppy; I want one like this one!" Said a girl trying to take Fenrir away.
Mayura, Yamino, and Fenrir grew sweat drops from the commotion of Mayura actually having a "boyfriend" as the group of girls thought.
"Wait…Yamino-san…is not—" but she was cut off by more comments and such nonsense.
"I think high school girls are dangerous either if they are mortals or immortals," Fenrir yelled out from being attacked by noisy girls who were hurting his hearing.
"Mayura-san let's run!" Without thinking, Yamino grabbed Mayura's hand and took hold of his brother and ran out of school grounds.
Once out of the sight of girlish squeals, they began walking towards the detective agency. Mayura sighed as they walked down the street. Today had been such a tiring day. Narugami had followed her all day and had kept her away from that weird girl. If she didn't know any better she would say that Narugami knows who the girl is and that, that girl would have a motive to do something to her, but as much as she had asked about why he was following her, he kept on changing the subject.
"Is something wrong Mayura-san?" Yamino asked after hearing Mayura sigh.
"No, it's nothing Yamino-san, it's just that today has been a really difficult day, that's all," Mayura said as they kept on walking.
When they arrived at the agency Mayura went straight to Loki's study.
"Hi Loki, any fushigy mysteries today?" Mayura asked, however not with her usual energy.
"What's wrong Mayura?" Loki asked noticing Mayura's lack of energy.
"Loki-sama, Mayura-san has had a rather exausting day today," Yamino said telling his father while serving some tea.
"Who wouldn't be exausted after all those girls going crazy because they thought that Yamino was Mystery Girl's boyfriend," Fenrir said still quite annoyed from those girls.
At that Loki coughed and Mayura turned to him, "Is something wrong Loki?" Mayura asked unawared of what Fenrir had said.
"Nothing's wrong Mayura, but I think I'll go with Yamino and Fenrir to pick you up tomorrow," Loki smiled.
"Pick me up? I thought that Yamino and Fenrir were just passing by when school ended," Mayura said clearly confused.
"Uh...that's right Mayura-san...Fenrir and I were just passing by, but we would like to go pick you up from now on," Yamino said with a sweatdrop formed, hoping that Mayura would leave it at that.
"Umm...okay Yamino-san, but please wait like around the corner, I'm pretty sure that the girls from my school would go even crazyer if they saw Loki, since he's so cute."
"Don't worry we'll make sure to wait for you around the corner," Loki replied, Mayura thinks I'm cute eh?
So that's it for this chapter, I'll try to upload the next one soon... probably when I get back to the U.S. since I'm in a foreign country right now for summer vacation. I promise to upload as soon as posible.
Thank you for reading this chapter.
