AN: Asgardian mermaids are terrifying and ugly and look nothing like what we think. But Loki wanted to be mischevious...again.
"Why are we in Midgard again?"
"Thor wanted to impress the mortals."
"Why are we in Midgard again?"
"I want to play a joke on them."
"There it is."
Midgard-this particular bit of it, anyway-is warm and humid and seems to consist of trees and sand and not much else. A crab scuttles by, snapping its claws at her nose as it goes, and Fenrir is reminded that she hates the beach.
"There."
She looks. He's pointing at a shark fin and she knows right now that whatever his 'joke' is, it is a bad idea.
"No."
He ignores her, because he always ignores her, and sends out a pair of green hands. They grasp the shark and tug it to shore, thrashing and snapping all the while.
Once it's within wading distance, he goes to it and makes a few gestures. The shark vanishes in a cloud of green smoke.
"What did you do."
"What a surprise some lucky man is going to-oops."
WHAT. WHAT DID HE MEAN BY 'OOPS'.
"This usually works...this is unfortunate."
She looks.
He's turned the front half of the poor thing into a woman, curvacious and long-haired, but the back half is still all shark. If there were such a thing as a beautiful mermaid, he's made one.
"What did you do?"
"I was trying to make it a woman. The spell should wear off by tomorrow night, but I can't figure out what went wrong..."
Before he can puzzle it out, the thing drags itself-herself?-to the water and vanishes. Not ten minutes later, it's washed against a rock as a fishing boat makes its way by.
"Lads! Look 'ere!"
"Now look what you've done."
If she was hoping they could go home, she is sadly mistaken. Loki has sent the green hands back into the water and come up with a clownfish.
"Leave it alone..."
"It wears off."
Whatever. There's no hope for him.
Twenty minutes later, at least five of the things are flipping about in the shallows and he steps back, spreads his arms, and intones, "Be free!"
One-another shark-smacks him with its tail as it makes its way back into the sea. Serves him right.
"Well?"
"Now we sit back and watch the fun." He gestures to the little boat. "This should be interesting..."
THE END