- Disclaimer: Matantei Loki Ragnarok belongs to Kinoshita Sakura.


Ah, My Loki-sama!

written by Kurosu

- Chapter Nine.

Loki was busy rushing to Mayura's dangling form, leaving Narugami and Yamino to deal with their ominous surroundings. Still without a clue to the kidnapper's identity, the sound of the doors shut grabbed their attention. Narugami ran to them and tried to pull them open, but it was completely shut tight. He stepped back, noticing the shadows of the room climbing the walls, a magical seal trapping them within the space.

Narugami, with Mjollnir in hand, fully alert, stepped back, scanning one side of the place while Yamino checked the opposite side, both making their way to Loki and Mayura.

The blonde god jumped high into the air to Mayura, but a falcon flew by, forcing him away from the girl. He had blocked the attack and landed on the ground again, glaring at the recognizable creature still flying through the air, and it finally landed on the left arm of the one man- err, boy that would dare pull this crap.

"Heimdall, you..." Loki growled.

"Welcome, Loki," he smiled, his features slowly twisting in to semi-insanity.

"What the hell, Heimdall!" Narugami shouted at him, waving Mjollnir in a disapproving manner, "Why did you come to Midgard looking like a kid?"

Yamino glared at Narugami, "Mayura-san is more important!"

"You think I wanna look like this?!" he yelled back, having ignored Yamino's comment, and pointed to Loki, "This is all Loki's fault!" He began to tremble as he spoke about his horrifying ordeal that caused it all, anger welling up inside his small body, "If it wasn't for Loki stealing my right eye, I wouldn't be in this mess! I wouldn't be stuck with half my powers, in this pitiful body of a child!"

He roared, his hatred and negative energy filled the space, even scaring his pet falcon away, and the building shook from the madness. The aftershock continued, Mayura's form swaying in the air, worrying Loki of her safety. He didn't want to fight Heimdall with her stuck in the middle of the conflict, so he would have to try reasoning with words.

"I don't have your eye!" Loki stated.

"YOU DARE LIE TO ME!"

It looked like he wasn't going to convince him otherwise, but Mayura's safety was still first priority to him. "Even if it was true," he was quickly losing patience, but he had to remain calm and keep the situation from escalating into a battle, "there's no need to involve her in this!"

"You can blame yourself for that, Loki! You dragged her into this mess!"

Those words hit a sore spot because he knew it was very true. If it wasn't for her wish, he wouldn't be on Midgard bringing his problems with him to her, but there wasn't anything he could do about the wish itself. He was running through several plans in his head, but each scenario would get Mayura injured.

He suddenly felt a weight on his shoulder and looked, finding Narugami's hand there. His friend smiled, "Deal with Heimdall. We'll take care of Daidouji."

Loki had been too focused on trying to save Mayura alone, that he had forgotten his allies of family and friends by his side. He would definitely take care of Heimdall, himself. He jumped into the air and landed on the same beam as his rival, who took a step back in surprise. The look on Loki's face was of determination, unforgiving for putting the girl in harm's way, and it worried Heimdall a bit.

"Don't you care about her?!" he pointed to the girl hanging right below them.

"And that's why I will end this quickly," he smiled, raising his hands up, his power over fire dancing within his palms.

Heimdall gritted his teeth, furious at his rival's confidence, and summoned the darkness, black lightning cracking around his fists, and he ran forward. If one were to look at the overall picture, the scene of battle did appear a bit odd, an adult pitted against a child - was that even a fair match?

Of course it was! Remember, Loki was still on probation so his powers were as limited as Heimdall's own because of his missing right eye. So at this point in time, both were pretty much evenly matched despite their difference in size, but then Heimdall could fight dirtily too, anything for his precious eye!

The falcon returned, swooping back at Loki's head, and started to peck at his noggin with his beak, only for the god to grab the annoying bird and throw it aside. It was a perfect distraction for Heimdall to run up and kick Loki in the shin, which only earned him a 'you've got to be joking' glare - when did they stoop so low as to get in childish antics? Even the stupid bird didn't let up on pestering Loki, who was forced to jump to another beam to get away from it, and Heimdall followed, laughing at how pathetic the god looked.

Now Loki was pissed, no one was going to make a fool out of the trickster god, and to make that point, he snapped his fingers and lit the falcon on fire. The bird's eyes budge out of its sockets, being fried in midair, and he went plummeting to ground zero with a thud. Heimdall, appalled at the defeat of his poor pet and only friend, pointed to the despicable god, "You... You hurt my dear Gjallar!"


Meanwhile, Narugami was trying to get Mayura down, but he couldn't even get close enough. There was some sort of barrier that surrounded her, and even with Mjollnir, he couldn't nick it at all, but he refused to give in, attacking it from all directions, while Yamino, wearing a flat expression, did not look amuse at all. He pushed up his glasses and sighed, knowing that thinking was not the swordsman's strongest asset.

Even with Heimdall's strength cut in half, he was able to maintain the barrier without much concentration, which meant that he had additional assistance from beyond the own powers. Yamino swept his eyes around the warehouse, noting the boarded up windows, tightly sealed doors, with the only few light sources being small holes through the roof and Loki's flame attacks.

Yamino hit a fist to his palm in epiphany, "Ah, he must be using the natural darkness!"

He turned to the busy swordsman, still whacking away with a series of kiai, verbally expressing his fighting spirit by shouting (nonsense) with each strike of the sword, "Hiyah! Raah! Ghee! Hiyah! Rata-ta-ta-ta~!"

The glasses-wearing demi-god sweatdropped and shouted to him, "Narugami, summon your lightning powers! It should shatter the darkness!"

He stopped, floating in midair, and looked down at Loki's son, "That's pretty smart, Megane!" He grinned, still drifting in front of Mayura's unconscious form, holding Mjollnir with both hands, and tried to focus, and Yamino, below, tried not to laugh because the thunder god looked constipated when he was concentrating his powers, channeling it through the wooden sword.

"Here we go!" he growled, pulling forth all his powers, making the sword glow with power, "MJOLLNIR! SHINE FORTH, THE POWER OF JUSTICE! THE SHADOWS OF EVIL SHALL NOT PREVAIL! HO~RYAAAAH~!"

"He's being overly dramatic," Yamino sighed, "But I can't tell if this is a shoujo or shounen series anymore."

At its wielder's command, the sword illuminated brightly, its rays of pure light and energy reaching every corner of the warehouse, even blinding the other two gods in the middle of their own fight. With his powers at the peak, Narugami swung the flashy sword down, smashing it in to the barrier. The shield was still trying to hold his attack, sending sparks of electricity in all directions, wwo powers antagonizing each other.

"Dammit!" Narugami struggled some more, "I said... HO~RYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH~!"

"Will that really work?" Yamino wondered doubtfully.

The strength of his shout re-energized him and his faithful Mjollnir, and together, they overcame the force of darkness, their light of justice shattered the evil barrier trapping the innocent maiden. The wild leftover lightning zapped him and the rope tying the girl in place, luckily avoiding her person, and her body fell. Yamino rushed under the falling girl and caught her in his arms.

With the two powers going into overdrive, still crashing against each other and bouncing all over the space, Yamino summoned his own protective barrier to keep Mayura safe. He had little power, being only a demi-god and nothing comparable to full-fledged ones, but it was enough to protect those important to him.


Indescribably pissed, Heimdall pooled his remaining powers and whatever was left of the darkness contained in the warehouse in to a giant ball of black lightning in front of him. This was going to be his final trump card against all of them, and he didn't care for the consequences of his actions on Midgard. He had come too far to turn back or give up at this point. Yes, he maybe a tad suicidal in this method, but that wasn't the point at all.

For the memory of his right eye!

He sent the giant lightning ball the looked more like a black hole-like nebula thingie directly to Loki, wanting to annihilate him first, but Loki was a god of awesome and epic proportions and just had great luck on his side. His shield of pure flames, burning at impossible levels of heat that didn't even exist on earth, pushed back against the black lightning, which continued to press against his barrier. He masterfully controlled his flames, ordering chains of fire to emerge from the shield and wrap around the ball, attempting to hold it in one place.

He couldn't destroy it with just his powers alone, and in seconds, he caught a flash of light come from below. He smirked when a still radiating Mjollnir pierced into the black ball, and he quickly sent a wave of fire over the dark abomination, creating a thick barrier around it just as the power of Narugami's weapon exploded from within the dark energy. The aftershock of the many powers of the gods colliding at one point shook the whole warehouse, the ceiling and roof and walls began to crumble around them.

The whole neighborhood could feel the tremors, the citizens believing it to be a sudden earthquake and not the conflict of several gods, and in a few days, a destroyed warehouse would be counted as collateral damage from a natural disaster.

When all was calm once more, in the middle of the fallen building, like a scene from a future apocalypse, Yamino's barrier flickered before it finally vanished, and he collapsed to the floor, next to Mayura's body. With a sudden poof, smoke appeared and disappeared just as quickly, and Yamino had been turned in to a small, light-blue snake.

From a nearby rubble of bricks and concrete, Narugami dug himself out of it and grabbed Mjollnir that had landed nearby. "So that's what a big bang feels like," he groaned before passing out into a deep slumber.

Loki, in his child form, was leaning against a wall when he regained consciousness. He looked at himself, not remembering that he had willed himself to change, but instead of worrying about it, he got up and hurried to his companions. He found the other immortals safe but in strange states as well, and checked on Mayura, who appeared to be waking up. She moaned, and he helped her sit up, "Mayura, are you okay?"

"Nn, Loki-sama?" she yawned, "I had the strangest dream ever!"

A sigh of relief left his mouth, but the girl could never let him have a moment of peace, squeaking in horror, "Oh my god! Kazumi-kun is a ghost?!"

Loki, confused, followed her pointing finger to a sulky Heimdall's form, which had lost any solidity to it, becoming more clear and transparent, like a ghostly apparition. The idiot couldn't have just died like that, because he was still a god, even with half his powers, so why was he walking around like a depressed ghost left to wander the earths with unresolved feelings.

"Eek, a snake!" she shrieked and scurried behind Loki.

"That's just Yamino," he informed, picking up his son and placing him on top of his head so he wouldn't get crushed by Mayura.

"What happened?" she finally looked around the destroyed warehouse and gasped, "Kazumi-kun is haunting the place he died in!"

"NO! I DIDN'T DIE!" the boy's ghostly form yelled, "Gods don't die so easily!"

Loki tried to returned to his original form, but he couldn't at all, "Heimdall, what's going on here? I can't turn back. And why is Jormungand like this? Even Thor has passed out."

Frowning and upset that he had to have the same fate as his enemy, he explained, "This is Odin's punishment for using our powers on Midgard. It's a powerless state that we're stuck in for 24-hours."

"Dammit, Odin!"

Having him exiled on Migdard wasn't enough, Odin just had to make things worse for him and all the other immortals, and most of them didn't even have their full powers.

"Wow," Mayura stared at them, amazed. Any normal person would've screamed and ran off, but this was the troublesome mortal who attracted anything from car accidents to godly kidnappers, not to mention she missed most of the good parts. "Gods are so cool! Even if all of you look so weak and helpless right now, heheh."

Yeah, that comment didn't go very well with Loki and Heimdall, whose forms were the only ones that could really glare at her. Yamino, curled up on his father's head, could only sigh at his sad state, and the girl, originally had been afraid of him, found him quite cute. Seeing him so sad, she couldn't help but try to cheer him up, "Don't worry, guys, we can get through this! Just 24-hours, right?!"

Heimdall watched Mayura lift Yamino up and look at him like he was the most fascinating creature on earth and then glanced at Loki, asking him, "Does she take anything seriously?"

The boy smiled, his eyes remained on the girl and the snake, "Beats your gloom and doom."


Later that evening, Daidouji had returned home, finding his shrine and house still in one piece, believing it was some sort of miracle, but these things were, most of the time too good to be true. He cautiously unlocked the front door to the house and stepped inside and discovered the place to be eeriely quiet. A deep fear nestled in his stomach as he took it slowly, slipping on the indoor footwear and padded across the threshold to the common room, where the faint sound of the television played in the background.

He was taken aback by the peaceful sight of the residents of the house. Narugami was flat on his back, snoring away, Mjollnir gripped securely in his hand and a blanket halfway kicked off his person. Mayura had dozed off on the couch, head propped up by an arm on the armrest, while on her other side, Loki leaned against her body for warmth, with another blanket covering them both.

On the table, a pizza box was left opened, two slices remained, and as he neared the group, he thought he saw one of the pizza slices move. He shook his head, thinking he was just imagining things, and walked to the television to shut it off. The kids must have had a long day too, so he let them be, and when he was leaving the room, he wondered where Yamino was.

Back in the pizza box, Yamino's snakey head popped out from beneath the pizza, and with a few more wiggles, he was comfortable enough to fall asleep underneath the warmth of the food. He barely got his eyes closed when the sound of a male scream erupted from the hallway, followed by a heavy thud. Yamino's head perked up, just as Mayura and Loki jumped to their feet.

The two hurried out of the room, stopping abruptly seconds later to see the unconscious form of her father on the floor. They silently turned to the transparent Heimdall holding a glass of water in his hand.

"What?! I was thirsty!"


Notes: Geez, that was more action that I expected. I haven't written any major action in a while - I hope it was satisfactory. And welcome, Heimdall! Poor Mayura-papa, thinking he saw a ghost, lol.

Anyway, next up will be... dundunduuuun~! Not telling!

Sorry if some of you wanted Love Me and More, but I'm on a roll with this story, so this has been all I've been working on, lol. Gomen! -kuro.