Tell Me a Story

This was inspired by a fic called Kaito's Fairey Tales in the Detective Conan/Case Closed section. Let's now take it another way…

Due to the nature of fairy tales, romance (or at least inclinations to romance) is plentiful – so be happy I chose this to work with.

Disclaimer: If I owned any of these characters (or Matantei Loki Ragnarok for the matter), this fic wouldn't exist.

Title adapted from a Gosho Aoyama one shot called Tell Me a Lie.


"Loki, do you know any good stories?" Mayura was staying over at the detective agency for a sleepover, and had dragged Narugami into staying over as well…even though he probably had a part-time job to do in the morning.

Loki knew lots of stories – stories of his adventures in Asgard, and stories of his time with his friends in Midgard. However, he decided not to tell any of these.

"Yamino! A hot chocolate, if you will," Loki demanded his son. As Yamino rushed off to do Loki's bidding, he began, "Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess called Daidouji Mayura." With that, Mayura – and everyone else - knew it wasn't going to be an ordinary fairy tale…

"She was extraordinarily beautiful – so beautiful even Freya would be jealous. However, it had been foretold by the royal advisor Heimdall that on her 16th birthday, she would prick her finger on a needle and die."

"Doesn't the traditional story have a spindle?" Narugami questioned. Loki silenced him with a finger to the lips.

"Who had given Princess Mayura this ugly fate? Why, none other than the kaitou Freyr!"

At this point, Yamino came back into the room, handing out hot chocolates to everyone. In between sips, he continued, "Of course, Freyr wanted his Yamato Nadeshiko and wouldn't let anyone else have her.

Unfortunately, even though the king and queen kept all the needles away from the princess, she still pricked her finger on one while learning how to sew. The gods, however, had decided to change the curse so that she would sleep for a thousand years, and so that's what she did. Human-loving Thor put everyone in the kingdom to sleep, so that Princess Mayura wouldn't suffer from loneliness afterwards.

While the kingdom slept, Loki had been banished to Midgard to prove his worth as a god. In order to do that, he got turned into a Midgard prince – because only a prince could break the spell." Mayura had already fallen asleep, so she didn't hear a word of this part.

"As he made his way up the castle, vines obstructed his way. With a little bit of magic, he conjured a sword and slashed them up.

Finally, he came across Princess Mayura. He cast an awakening rune on her and, as a result of Thor's magic, woke up the whole kingdom as well.

And with that, everyone lived happily ever after…well, except Freyr, since he didn't get his Yamato Nadeshiko." Loki mimicked closing a book like a storyteller would.

Narugami yawned. "Lame..."

"What do you mean, lame? The story had you in it!" Loki pointed out.

"Yeah, but there wasn't enough of me in it."


Thanks to my other fics, I might not update this one as frequently, so be patient...some of my fics have had hiatuses for over a year now.

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