.((Finally-FINALLY-my real life friend YuukiHaruka, who is the one who introduced me to Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok in the first place, has reviewed. Sorry for the wait, but I refused to type this until they reviewed, so that's why it's late. To make up for it, this chapter is beyond long...it might take you a while to read it. It's more than ten pages on Word!
Anyway, this is the promised spoof chapter. Those of you who have read the first manga released in America will remember that the end included a short in which Loki was forced to go to the dentist (who turned out to be Verdandi), only to wake up after hearing his teeth would be extracted without anesthetic and realize it was a dream. I found it amusing, and it inspired this next chapter…
Review shout outs! CRAP, I POSTED WITHOUT THESE! Just deleted the chapter, reposting with review shout outs, I am such a moron!
Melissa Brandybuck: I personally prefer Loki's voice in the American version, the Japanese voice is a little too feminine. But it's all opinion. Thanks for the compliment about Loki's lines. Oh, and I'm glad you like the "awkward turtle moment."
Seven Midnights: You relate to Heimdall? Coolness. He isn't the type to bow easily to fate either, is he?
YuukiHaruka: Well I wasn't quite sure how to end it. So, I just went for humor, which I know I can handle.
Okays, onto the story! YARGH!))
Normally, Saturday mornings were relatively peaceful at Loki's house. Mayura showed up later than usual, Loki would allow himself to sleep in, and they tended to not get any cases until the afternoon. So, generally, they were nice, lazy mornings.
Not the Saturday after the incident, however.
And you know why not? Because Loki had been complaining of a toothache for a couple days, so Yamino had done what any good guardian of a child would do, much to Loki's horror: he had organized a trip to the dentist. And for all of his years and maturity, Loki possessed an overwhelming fear of dentists.
"I'M NOT GOING!" Loki shouted loudly the second Yamino opened his door to wake him. Loki was already awake, but not dressed, sitting in his bed and glaring at Yamino with a vengeance that would've made him look quite childish if the anger in his eyes wasn't so profound.
Yamino refused to be daunted by this: it was for Master Loki's own good! Instead, he just brought in Loki's breakfast on a tray, left it on the bedside table, and said "Master Loki, please get dressed. The sooner we get there the sooner your tooth stops hurting." He left without waiting for a response, realizing Loki would be in too bad a mood with him to give a polite answer.
Loki glared after his son for a minute before reluctantly picking up a piece of toast. He flinched upon biting into it. His tooth really did hurt more by the hour. But the dentist!?
The fact of the matter was that Loki actually did have a decent reason to be nervous. Long ago, he had made a deal with some dwarves to get some treasures. He made a bet with them, wagering his own head. Loki had ended up losing the bet, but he wasn't the god of tricksters for nothing. He saved himself by reminding the dwarves that, while he had bet his head. He had not bet his neck, so the dwarves didn't have the right to cut it. As such, he kept his head.
But the dwarves didn't give up so easily. One of them had tackled Loki, grabbed a conveniently place needle and thread, and sewed his traitorous mouth shut. Loki had, eventually, with the help of Siguna, gotten the threads out, but his mouth had hurt like crazy: it turned out the dwarf had done some damage to his teeth. So they went to the "scientist" among the gods, i.e. Verdandi, to get assistance.
And you know what? Dental procedures had been less than advanced way back then, even among the gods. The procedure had taken literally days, and had been very…very…VERY painful. Naturally, Loki had then gained a humongous dislike of the idea of dental work.
Dentistry was now more advanced, but rather than making Loki more comfortable with the idea, it had made him even more terrified. Because even worse in his mind than the various little wires and metal sticks that Verdandi had had to use way back when were the drills and hooks and scalpels used by the modern dentist. The idea of someone sticking those into his mouth made Loki sick to his stomach.
He knew, deep down, that Yamino had only the best of intentions, but Loki still had no plans of letting himself be brought to the most evil of evils besides Odin. So after forcing down some food and drink, he got dressed, shirking his usual jacket. Why? Mobility. He went to his window, opened it, and clambered out onto the tree outside it, intending to climb down and run.
Which he would've if Yamino hadn't inherited too much of Loki's intelligence. Because he had thought of this possibility and was standing as the bottom of the tree, looking up at Loki with a look on his face that implied he found this to be a bit immature. Loki yelped and practically fell out the tree in surprise. Was he really that predictable?
"Master Loki, get back into your room before you fall!" Yamino was quick to call out. "We're leaving in half an hour!" he then said after Loki grudgingly climbed back through the window. If he saw he venomous look Loki shot him, he ignored it, and went back inside.
Loki waited a second to make sure Yamino really was back in…then climbed right back out of his room and down the tree, feeling a slight bit guilty about betraying Yamino's trust until he remembered Yamino planned to bring him to the dentist and was therefore a bigger traitor. He bolted.
A few minutes later, Yamino checked Loki's room to make sure Loki wasn't trying anything else. It took very little time for him to spot the still open window and realize Loki had escaped anyway. "Oh, come on!" he muttered to himself, not sure whether to be mad at Master Loki for being so childish or at himself for not predicting this.
He went downstairs quickly. "Master Loki got out," he announced to the others, who all looked a bit startled by this. "I'm going to have to look for him. Fenrir, could you come too?"
"Why?" Fenrir asked casually, obviously not planning to cooperate.
"Because you could track him by scent, which would make this a lot easier."
Fenrir faked thinking about it, and then shook his head. "No, if Daddy doesn't want to go to the dentist, then I'm not helping you bring him there."
"But Big Brother-"
"I said I'm not going, so I'm not going!" Fenrir barked, interrupting. "You get Daddy by yourself; it's your entire fault this is happening anyway!"
Yamino restrained his annoyance and gave up on Fenrir. "Spica?" he said questioningly, hoping she might help. She shook her head. "Ecchan?" Again, a shaking head.
Yamino sighed. "Fine, I'll go look for him myself. I'll be back later. Fenrir, stay out of my room."
"Or what, you bastard!?" Fenrir called out after him. Yamino didn't respond and left.
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Several blocks away, Loki was standing at a street corner, contemplating his next move. Where should he go to avoid Yamino and, therefore, the dentist? He didn't feel that just wandering about was too good an idea, seeing as there was too much of a chance that he might accidentally run into Yamino. He didn't expect Yamino to have too much help from the rest of the family, but even alone, he was bigger than Loki and therefore capable of just picking up Loki and carrying him, kicking and screaming, to the dentist's office if he thought that was the only way to get Loki there. Which it probably was.
He could hide somewhere. But with who? Not Narukami, he had no idea where he was working now, and besides, he might betray Loki to get him back for some of the well meant taunts and pranks. Mayura was definitely out, seeing as she was the one who had suggested the dentist to Yamino in the first place and would therefore definitely be on his side. Reiya, perhaps…no, if Kori found out, she'd eat him alive.
Kori…
Now that was a possibility. She knew the reason behind his fear of dentists and might be sympathetic to his case. Plus, her siblings had liked him, or at least the ones he'd met, so he could find more assistance there. Yes, Kori was the best person to go to in search of a safe haven.
He just hoped Yamino hadn't thought of this already and headed him off, like with the tree that morning.
Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Yamino had not thought of it, and was still searching for Loki. But he had no idea where Loki would have gone. Not for the first time, he mentally cursed Fenrir for being so stubborn and refusing to help, as much to irk Yamino as to assist Master Loki. His nose would've made this so much easier!
But, as the luck of the gods would have it, Yamino would not have to go solo much longer.
He had started at a walk, but was now almost running, more than a bit annoyed with this turn of events. As such, when he turned a corner, he unceremoniously ran smack into someone, knocking her down and falling down himself. "Sorry, my fault," he said instinctively, only then noticing the identity of the one he'd run into…
"Miss Megumi!" he exclaimed, this being his second oddly well timed encounter with her. She seemed a bit startled herself, but she smiled at him warmly.
"Oh, hello, Yamino!" she said to him, the first warm greeting he'd received that morning. "This is surprising. What are you doing, running around on a Saturday?"
"I could ask you the same thing," Yamino commented, standing and then helping Megumi to her own high-heeled feet. He blinked: it was Saturday and she was in her secretary outfit? "And why are you running in your work outfit?"
"Oh, I wasn't supposed to go into work today, but I got messed up and went anyway. I'm so scatterbrained sometimes! Anyway, once I found out I didn't need to work; I decided to hurry home, so Shinji could go out with friends like he probably wants to instead of watching the younger ones. So, why are you running around?"
Yamino explained his situation with Loki and the dentist, and received a smile and an understanding nod from Megumi that really improved his mood. "I know what you mean; you should try getting Midori to go to the dentist! Once, she went out and bought some toy handcuffs and handcuffed Shinji and I to our beds while we were sleeping the night before so we couldn't take her. We're just lucky Kori found where Midori hid the keys!"
"If it were anyone other than Midori you were talking about, I wouldn't believe you," Yamino commented. Megumi giggled. "Anyway, I should go now and keep looking."
"I'll help you!" Megumi exclaimed suddenly. She smiled amusedly at Yamino's surprised expression. "I still don't think I paid you enough for helping us that time. Besides, Midori usually takes a walk on Saturday, so if Loki runs into her…"
"He gets an ally," Yamino finished, less than pleased with the idea of dealing with both Master Loki and the ridiculous Midori on his own. "I suppose you should help, but only if it's not too much trouble…"
"It's not. C'mon, let's get going."
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"Kori, please!" Loki said, practically begging. Kori had not, as he'd hoped, been sympathetic to his plight. Well, she was, but she was with Yamino in that she thought he should just calm down and go to the dentist, which was happening over Loki's cold unmoving corpse if he could help it. "Just let me hide out here!"
"No, you're tooth will get worse if you don't get it looked at!" Kori said firmly, pushing him out the door of the apartment. "I know you don't like water, so don't make me get my brother Yuki, he's got a water gun and he's not afraid to use it!"
Loki thought he'd prefer being wet to the dreaded dentist, but the threat made it clear that Kori was most certainly not going to help.
Okay, time for strategy B! Loki thought to himself. Kori had been at his back, pushing him down the hallway towards the elevator, which they were almost at. He quickly whipped around and grabbed her outstretched hands, to her surprise. "Kori, please, have some mercy!" he begged, his pleading green eyes looking directly into her startled blue ones.
Still holding her hands, he pushed closer to her, leaning so his face was mere inches from her own, which was blushing bright pink. "C'mon, just let me stay at your house for a little while…I'll be good…"
Kori swallowed, and Loki chuckled to himself internally. He had her right where he wanted her! Gently, he released her hands and took her shoulders, pulling her close enough that their faces were practically touching. "Just for today…?" he whispered with a smirk that had always made his wife more sympathetic to him. "Siguna…?
For a second, it seemed that Kori was completely smitten. Then the elevator pinged and the door opened, and Kori came back to her senses. "Not today, my dear!" she shouted with a scowl that made it clear she would not be manipulated, and she flung Loki into the elevator. She then ran in herself and restrained her once husband, who was attempting to escape. Holding back by the arms, she prevented him from leaving the elevator until the doors closed.
"Kori! Please!"
"No!
"Even if I-"
"No!"
"What if I-"
"No!"
"You know I-"
"No!"
"But Kori, you-"
"No!"
"I'll do something-"
"No!"
"Even if-"
"No!"
"But I can't-"
"Loki, you are going to the dentist!"
"NO!"
In short order, she was dragging him out by the back of his shirt on the first floor, while he wildly tried to free himself from her clutches and repeatedly screamed "NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!" at the top of his lungs, all previous maturity gone as if it had never been.
Was there anyone in the city who would be willing to help him!?
The answer was yes, as he discovered shortly after Kori managed to push him all the way outside the apartment complex. Because who should head over in their direction but the little green monster Midori!
"Hi hi hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!" she exclaimed in a voice that would've been sweet if it was less high pitched.
Kori was surprised. "Why are you home so early?"
"I dunno, the author didn't mention it."
Somewhere not too far away, the fourth wall cracks a little bit.
"Are you two playing a gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame?" Midori inquired, curious and apparently in the mood to join in.
Loki opened his mouth to tell her that it wasn't a game, only to shout in pain when Kori poked his cheek on the side of his mouth the sore tooth was on. "Loki needs to go to the dentist," Kori informed Midori.
The green girl's smile vanished and she shuddered. "Oh, I hate that game! All those drills and hooks and picks and oh, it hurts Midori so!"
"That's only because you don't sit still!" Kori told Midori quickly, sensing Loki was now going to be even less willing to see the dentist, if that was even possible. "Now, we have to find Yamino so he can take Loki to the dentist."
Loki, unable to think of any other plan, gave Midori a pleading look. His plea was heard. Midori decided to help. Of course, Midori's help was…less than helpful.
"MI-DOH-RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" she shrieked, and she pulled a manhole cover out of thin air and beaned Kori on the head with it. Kori released Loki, wobbled a little, and then fell down, unconscious, and before Loki could react, Midori snatched up Loki and ran off, giggling madly and making Loki feel that maybe he'd chosen a fate worse than the dentist.
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Within fifteen minutes, Loki and Midori were hiding in the middle of town, in what Midori assured Loki was the best possible hiding place: the sewer. Midori repeatedly poked her little green head up to survey the street, but Loki was more concerned with clinging to the ladder and not falling into the dirty water below. He had escaped Yamino for now…was he capable of escaping Midori later?
Not for the first time, a car ran over the manhole cover Midori still had on top of her head. "Ouchies!" she shrieked as it gave her a good clonk. "That hurt…"
"Midori, I find your hiding place a bit…questionable," Loki admitted, starting to feel claustrophobic and worrying that, if Midori got too hard a head blow, she might seriously hurt herself or fall. Plus it smelled bad down there.
"Don't worry, Midori hides here all the time!" she assured him, smiling and revealing green braces. Midori probably had to go to dentists and orthodontists often. She probably did hide here a lot. But what on earth had inspired her to come down here in the first place…?
Loki was sure if he asked he'd regret it. He knew better than to ask. This was Midori, asking her something like that might scar him for life. He should, under no circumstance, ask what had possessed her to hide out in a sewer under a busy street in the first place.
"Midori, where did you get the idea to hide here of all places?"
Darn, he'd gone and asked.
"Oh?" Midori blinked, her face lit by the sunlight streaming in from two holes in the manhole cover. "Oh, I came here while they were fixing the hole the guy with the flying pig made"
"Flying pig?" Loki repeated, all too sure of whom that had to be.
"Yeppers!" Midori said, grinning again. "He pops out of here all the time, but the first time he broke the whole road. Now he does it sometimes but he doesn't break the road. Midori saw him break the road the first time but no one believes me!"
"Why not…?" Loki asked, again feeling that he might have been better off if he'd kept quiet.
"Because the man on the flying pig is the Phantom Thief Frey! Can you believe it? The Phantom Thief Frey! Midori wouldn't believe it if she hadn't seen it! But I did. So I do."
Loki had only just realized how annoying it was listening to Midori's chatter when it echoed off the sewer walls and made it seem like there were two of her. Speaking of echoes…he thought he heard someone talking…and the rev of an engine or some such…and the snorting of a pig…
Oh, no.
As if summoned, from down below who should suddenly come barreling up at Loki and Midori at blinding speed but Frey himself, riding Gullinbursti and unable to see the human (and godly) obstacles in his way because his vision was obscured by two giant bags of vegetables he'd bought. And so he collided with the two, sending them flying, once again causing Midori to hit her head on the manhole cover, and forcing them all out of the sewer. Loki and Midori went careening into an alley way nearby, thankfully not getting hit by any cars. Frey barely noticed he'd hit anything and just went flying on his way home, hoping that if he made Heimdall a good enough meal the god of schemes would finally start speaking to him again.
Loki would have shouted after him, had he not caught sight of two people down the road, running toward the noise. Yamino and Megumi! Crap! Quickly, he grabbed the semi-conscious Midori and dragged her into a hiding place behind a conveniently placed dumpster that actually smelled a bit better than that sewer.
"Wow, it sounded like there was a crash or something, but there's no damage I can see!" Megumi said half to herself. Yamino nodded, but seemed more concerned with looking around to see if maybe Loki had been the cause of the noise and was, heaven forbid, injured in any way. Fortunately, he didn't glance in Loki's direction.
Midori sat up, shook her head to clear it, and looked where Loki was looking. Her eyes lit up and she grinned wider than ever when she caught sight of Yamino. Without any warning to the god of mischief, she flung him back into the wall and bolted for Yamino. "MI-DOH-RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" she shrieked, and when he instinctively turned to the sound, poor Yamino found himself being mercilessly attacked by a small, hyperactive child in green. When he came back to his senses, he was on the ground, and Midori was sitting on top of him.
"Midori luvs you, oh yes she does!" she cooed, apparently content to stay right where she was, despite the obvious discomfort and embarrassment it was causing Yamino, who doubted his face would ever stop being red. Fortunately for him, Megumi grabbed her sister by the arms and hauled her off, allowing Yamino to stand up and back away from the girl a bit.
"Midori, that's rude!" Megumi informed her sister, rather flushed in the face herself. "Apologize, please!"
"Oh, hi hi hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, Older Sister!" Midori said as if she hadn't even noticed her, which was a distinct possibility. "What're you doing with teh luv o' mah life?"
Megumi had to take a second to get over what Midori had just called Yamino, and then answered truthfully. "We're looking for Loki before he finds you."
"So you can take him to the Satandentist," Midori commented, mixing the terms "Satanist" and "dentist." Loki, still watching from behind the dumpster, made a mental note to remember that.
"So you've seen him!" Yamino shouted, realizing Midori wouldn't know this if she hadn't met up with Loki recently.
"Yup, he tried to get Kori to let him hide at our house, but she wouldn't let him. So I got him away from her."
"You hit her with something, didn't you?" Megumi asked, facepalming.
"Yeppers!"
Loki, meanwhile, was trying to refrain from screaming at Midori. What was she doing!? She was going to give him away!
"Where is he now?" Megumi inquired.
Midori smiled in an I-know-something-you-don't-know fashion. "I'm not going to tell youuuuuuuuuuuu!" she informed her sister happily.
"Will you tell me?" Yamino asked, and Midori seemed to consider that. "Please?" he asked, and Midori appeared to cave in, to Loki's horror.
"I'd be glad to tell you…" she started. Yamino and Megumi's faces lit with hope, and Loki wished he had someone to pray to for mercy.
"…But I don't know no more!" Megumi and Yamino's faces fell, and Loki took back the plea: it looked like he was actually getting along fine!
"What do you mean?" Megumi skeptically said to her sister.
"I mean we was hiding and then the Phantom Thief Frey came from nowhere on his flying pig and sent us flying and I don't know where Loki went after that 'cause I got knockeded out."
"Midori, what have I told you about making stuff up?" Megumi asked in a tired sort of voice. "I mean, flying pigs?"
"Actually," Yamino said, coming to Midori's defense, "Phantom Thief Frey likes taunting Loki quite a lot for some reason, and he really does have a flying pig."
Megumi stared at Yamino. "You mean it?"
Yamino shrugged. "I don't get it either. Anyway, it looks like Midori can't help us find Master Loki. We should look somewhere else."
"Okay." Megumi turned to her little sister with a firm look on her face. "Midori, if you see Loki, don't help him again, just get us, okay?"
"Okie dokie artichokie!" Midori announced, doing a goofy left-handed salute. Yamino and Megumi ran off. Midori stood there for a while, and then turned back to Loki with a triumphant smirk. "How'd I do? Midori is good at lying!"
"Yes, you are!" Loki agreed, laughing and coming out of hiding. He'd have laughed louder, but his mouth was as sore as anything. "But did you have to tackle Yamino like that? You could've hurt him."
"Yamino" Midori repeated, looking pleased and dreamy. "Oh, what a pretty name"
She didn't know his name? Loki thought to himself, a bit startled, but come to think of it, he hadn't heard Midori use his name before…what an airhead! At least she was on his side.
"Whatever," Loki said. "We should find somewhere else to hide in case they double back." Midori opened her mouth. "And no more sewers!" Midori closed her mouth again. "Okay, then…where to go…" Loki considered.
Midori opened her mouth as if to say something and closed it again a few more times. "No more sewers?" she asked.
"Absolutely not," Loki confirmed. Midori then shrugged, obviously out of ideas. "Then Midori can't think of nowhere to go except the abandoned building, but we can't go there, 'cause it's not abandoned no more."
"What?"
"Yep, Midori's seen a hawk flying in and out and a guy with purple hair hanging out in one of the windows. He scares Midori, so Midori doesn't go there no more."
She knows where Heimdall's hideout is!? Loki thought incredulously. There was, it seemed, more to Midori than the silly green girl that met the eye. But that would have to wait. "Right, so maybe it's best if I go one way and you go after Yamino and Megumi in the other way and just keep them from finding me."
"How?"
"I don't know, surly you can stall them, you thought of a brilliant lie before! You're such a smart girl, Midori; I know you can do it."
Loki's natural charm did to Midori what it had done to so many others: it had Midori eating up his words. "You can count on me! Mi-doh-riiiiiiiii!" she shouted, and she ran off after her sister and her crush.
Loki waited until she was out of sight. Then, smirking to himself, he turned around…
And the smirk was wiped right off his face when he almost walked into Kori, who had popped up right behind him looking none too pleased. Dang, I should've known it wouldn't be so easy!
"Sweet talking innocent girls?" Kori asked in a voice so cool it froze even the god of fire right in his tracks. "Really, Loki, one would think you'd be above that."
"That wasn't sweet talking," Loki told Kori, knowing he could very well be screwed in she was in too bad a mood with him, and feeling a bit guilty about the head blow she'd received for his sake. "I was just flattering her a little so she'd listen. It's not like she'd be less than eager to go at Yamino again."
"That's another thing!" Kori shouted, making Loki flinch. "You're sacrificing your son so you won't have to go to the dentist!"
"What do you mean, 'sacrificing?' Midori's not gonna eat him!" Probably. "Besides, he has Megumi with him; she can handle your sister."
"You encouraged her to lie."
"She did that on her own! I actually wouldn't have expected that of her. Sticking close to the truth to make it believable, keeping a straight face, I'm rather impressed…"
"You're not helping your case, Loki, my dear," Kori said to him in a tone made of pure ice and venom that he hadn't heard in years, not that the time had made it any less piercing. She continued. "You're the great god of fire and chaos. You killed that horrible troll when it was chasing the human boy. You tricked giant after giant. You got the gods all of their finest treasures. You endured unimaginable suffering…and now you're running from a trip to the dentist!?"
"Um…yes?"
Kori facepalmed. She couldn't always comprehend how silly her husband was at times. Even though she loved him with all her being, he drove her crazy every now and again.
"Hey, you know something?" Loki announced out of nowhere. "You're really pretty when you're angry. Have I ever told you that?"
"That doesn't work on me!" Kori told him, but she was blushing madly.
"It almost did last time," Loki couldn't resist reminding her.
Kori blushed more. "But in the end it didn't!" she shouted.
"You're right, it didn't," Loki agreed, sighing. "I should've just gone to Reiya's house, she'd've hid me…" Kori's blush turned into a flush of rage. "…but I didn't because I knew you'd be angry. Not that it matters, since you're angry at me anyway."
"Are you trying to make me more upset and confused!?"
"No, but I'm not trying not to," Loki told her with a shrug, and Kori had to seriously resist the urge to utterly throttle him. "All joking aside, Kori, the dentist freaks me out; you can't expect me to just go there!"
"No, I suppose not, but I can expect you to be a bit more mature about this whole thing!" Kori responded. "You're running from your own son!"
Loki had the good grace to at least flinch at that a bit. "He'll probably drag me to the dentist if that's what he thinks he has to do to get me there…"
"Of course!" Kori agreed. "Because he cares about you and wants what's best for you! If this keeps up…" She poked his mouth and he yelped at the burst of pain. "…than you won't be able to eat before long! You have to get it looked at!"
"But I'll panic!"
"You're already panicking."
"I'll panic more! C'mon, Kori, remember the dwarf thing? You know why this freaks me out so much!"
"I can assure you, Loki, that dentistry today-"
"Has all sorts of drills and pieces that are even worse! I do NOT want them being put into my mouth!"
"Loki, you're spiraling."
"I AM NOT SPIRALLING!"
Loki would've pushed his point further, had it not been for the hand that placed itself on his shoulder. He jumped, and slowly turned around to look into the eyes of his captor, who was kneeling down so as to look Loki in the eye.
"YAMINO!" Loki exclaimed, and his son, smiling in relief that he'd managed to find Master Loki, nodded. "How'd you…how'd you…?"
"Find you?" Yamino asked. "Megumi knew from the beginning Midori was lying. So, I talked her into telling the truth. Kori stalling you was just luck."
Loki couldn't help but toss Kori a dirty look. "You and your luck," he muttered, and she just smiled at him. He turned back to Yamino. "You still can't make me come, though."
Yamino sighed. "Master Loki…"
"NO!" And Loki knocked Yamino's hand away, raced past Kori, and ran away down the alley…
Only to suddenly have a manhole cover fly from around the corner and whack his face, the combined force of his running and its velocity throwing him to the ground, unconscious.
"OH, MY DEAR!" Kori shrieked.
"MASTER LOKI!" Yamino called out in horror at the same time.
"MI-DOH-RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" rang out Midori's apparent catchphrase, and her little green head popped out with a triumphant expression. "I gots 'im!"
"Midori!" Megumi's voice called out, as she was apparently chasing her sister. "I told you to slow dowOHMIGOD!" Because she had come around the corner, seen Loki, and realized what Midori had done. "Midori, what was that for!?"
"Crikey, he's a big'un!" Midori shouted in a horribly faked Australian accent as she poked Loki's unconscious form. "Lookit tha saize of 'im!"
"BIG SISTER!" Kori screamed, upset to the umpteenth degree. "What were you thinking!?"
Midori blinked, then said to Kori, in a tone that implied she thought it was the most obvious thing in the world, "I was thinking we can get him to the dentist a lot easier now, yup yup yup."
Yamino, Kori, and Megumi considered that, exchanged looks, and then picked up Loki and ran off to the dentist's office.
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A while later, The four who were still awake were sitting in the dentist's waiting room, obviously to wait for Loki to be finished with his appointment, which was going to start in about five or ten minutes. They didn't have to worry about Loki running once he woke up: Megumi happened to have a slightly larger than average purse and from it she had pulled what they had used to insure Loki stayed in the dentist chair.
"I'm really sorry we had to use up that entire roll of duct tape," Yamino apologized to his friend.
"Oh, it's alright," she said with a smile. "I've got another roll, see?" And she withdrew a second roll of silver adhesive.
Yamino was impressed. "What else do you have in there, anyway?"
"You name it, I've got it," Megumi said, smiling as though it was meant as a challenge.
Yamino took up on it. "Okay…screwdrivers?"
A little rustling in the purse. "Regular or needle nose?"
"Soy sauce?"
"Five packets!"
"Dental floss?"
"Waxed and unwaxed!"
"Nail clippers?"
"Three pairs. C'mon, challenge me here!"
"Tire repair kit."
"Right here."
"Bird seed?"
"Here we go!"
"A copy of War and Peace!"
"Actually…"
"Wow," Yamino commented as he took the book himself to get a better look at it. "I must admit, there probably isn't anyone else who packs their purse like you do."
Megumi grinned as she took back the book. "If it's not in my purse, you probably won't need it anyway," she said happily.
"That's not the best part" Midori told him, reaching in and withdrawing…a smaller purse. "It's a baby purse! Her purse is pregnant!"
Yamino chuckled a little. "Don't encourage her," Megumi scolded him as she took back the tiny purse, but she was smiling.
Kori was being uncharacteristically quiet, and kept tossing glances at the door through which the dentist's room or whatever it's called was, where Loki was. Yamino noticed that and patted her shoulder comfortingly. "He'll be fine, even if he is a little panicky," he told her.
She nodded. "I know. I'm more worried about the head blow. I hope he's okay when he-"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!"
"…wakes up," Kori finished.
"He sounds peachy to me," Midori commented as Loki started screaming again. Kori and Yamino exchanged looks. Loki was going to absolutely hate them for a while…
The screaming changed a bit as the appointment went on, getting louder or softer or more gurgley but never really ceasing except for Loki to take a breath. By the middle of the appointment, a little of Megumi's duct tape had to be used as a threat to make sure neither Yamino nor Kori went back there themselves to make sure the dentist wasn't really hurting Loki. Finally, an hour later, Loki's screaming stopped without warning, and they didn't know whether that was a good sign, a bad sign, or just a sign that Loki had passed out from lack of oxygen due to the screaming.
Thank every god that was out there, it was the first. A few minutes later, Loki came out of the back rooms, looking rather surprised and rubbing the side of his mouth as though he couldn't believe it. And he wasn't wincing in pain!
Yamino gave a relieved smile and Kori a smug smirk, both of which he just looked at and shrugged. He did, however, shoot the evil eye at Midori and Megumi. "A manhole cover? And all that duct tape? What is wrong with you people!?"
"I don't know" Midori told him happily. Megumi just grimaced a little and looked apologetic.
"So you forgive me?" Yamino asked hopefully.
Loki looked him over, and then shrugged. "I'll have to think about it."
Kori scowled at him. "Loki…"
"Okay, okay, you were right, I'm sorry I ran, I forgive you," he said, tossing his hands up in a gesture of defeat. Yamino looked beyond relieved. Kori just smirked again.
A dentist came out then, saying words that, despite how well this turned out this time, struck terror in Loki's heart.
"Sir, about your next appointment…"
(And lo, it is done! Wow. A whopping sixteen pages on word, not counting the Author's Notes I put in at the beginning and end! I do hope that makes up for my lack of updating.
Anyway, I've been thinking about making a companion fic to this one. It won't be a fic per say, it'll mostly be little drabbles connected to this fic but not actually part of the plot, like random flashbacks to the world of the gods or side stories like this one. What say you?
Comment on that in your reviews, if you please. Oh, and I've fleshed out Megumi and Midori's character a bit, and their relationship with the other characters (or at least with Yamino and Loki, seeing as they're the only characters they really interacted with). Commentary on that would also be vastly appreciated.
So, anyway, read (oh wait, you already did that part…) and review please! I promise the following chapter will not only go back to the actual story, but introduce, ta-da, another OC! Also, it'll have Narugami in it. Because I personally feel more Narugami tends to make everything a little better.
I bid you adieu!))