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ON THE SPIRAL
Chapter 5Mayura was sitting on the couch, watching nervously as Loki „studied" Heimdall's lifeless body. The boy seemed to be asleep, with a peaceful face, but Loki-kun looked worried, and he seemed to seek any possible proofs of a possession.
Actually, he was thinking how much dramatization he could act out and decided not to exaggerate. There was a little chance that Mayura would grow suspicious, but it could be only later, since now she was only scared and concerned.
"There is no visible trace... Maybe I was mistaken. He probably just passed out from shock and will soon wake up. That kind of strange event could affect his delicate nature." Said Loki with a worried voice. Since Mayura could see only his back, she didn't notice a wide, malicious grin when he said those words.
"But, Mayura, I must warn you. Don't talk with him about my speculations. It'll all work out soon and until that happens, he will stay here in the mansion. It's now necessary to keep an eye on him." he exclaimed and the girl nodded, considering it as the most reasonable solution.
"You must be good friends, though you don't quite show it often. Before this incident I've never seen you together" She said tentatively, expecting a denial or quite the opposite, but to her surprise, Loki didn't say a word. He only gave her a pensive look and proposed to leave Higashiyama-kun to rest.
"We are not friends, Mayura, we are as far from that as you could think of. And I find it somehow... sad." he explained it inwardly, not saying it aloud.
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"Did you succeed" asked Yamino-san, in a low voice. Mayura was in the garden, so she couldn't overhear anything, but he enjoyed keeping appearances of a mystery. He was probably slightly infected by this "fushigi mystery" virus Mayura had brought.
"Yes. Everything's gone right." Replied Loki, looking a little spaced-out. He was pondering many things, and outcomes weren't so incredibly good. He shrugged it off angrily.
Why was he so affected by a simple lie? He didn't want to lie to Mayura, but it was the only way to make things fine. The other solution was telling the truth, but it was inadmissible. He couldn't reveal his secrets, his true identity; those should have been left in peace and surely not told to Mayura.
Why?
Because... he somehow felt it was such a stupid reason but it was because she might have never trust him again. When he was lying all the time, deceiving her in so many ways, when it all happened could she really still depend on him, if she'd know the truth?
The answer was probably negative, and he just couldn't risk losing her trust. She was just a mortal girl, sometimes very annoying and irresponsible but she somehow meant so much to him.
...
Loki moaned and suppressed the sudden urge of hitting his head against the wall. Instead of that, he clenched his fists and tried to calm down, which wasn't easy.
This Heimdall was passing the limit.
Through past days he tolerated this abusive jerk with all his whims, affronts, caustic remarks and monkey tricks. He served him with food, gave him a room with a big, convenient bed and even managed to not yell at him. He's been angelic!
But this was too much. Heimdall was sitting in his spot, behind the large desk, with his legs nonchalantly resting on the said desk. He was eating oranges and throwing peels everywhere. In other words, he was absolutely defiling Loki's room, more, he knew it and enjoyed it.
One of the books silently flied towards Heimdall's head, to eventually hit it violently. Then various objects began to aim at his poor head, including the couch. The God of Schemes screamed horrified and dived under the desk to save his precious life from attacks of the furniture.
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Mayura sighed and knocked. She wanted to see Loki-kun so badly but she wondered if her presence was only a burden. He seemed so aloof lately and he obviously had some troublesome things to deal with, apart from Higashiyama-kun.
The other obvious thing was that he'd never asked help and he'd tried to cope on his own. He was very independent, even too much. To come think of it, he acted unlike other kids his age, and his attitude was mature. He was more responsible and serious than she was, and she really couldn't tell why.
Maybe something terrible happened to him and because of it, he was pressed to mature faster. His parents could be dead or left him, that could be a reason. But again, he didn't seem to be a person easy to hurt and break, even if his parents would have vanished.
Whatever it was, now she had other things to take care of. For example those screams, sounds of heavy objects hitting something and ugly curses. She pushed the door but it was locked.
"Loki-kun! Loki-kun, what's happening?!" she yelled and knocked harder on the door.
"Nothing, Mayura! Higashiyama-kun just..."
Heimdall crawled out of the pile of books and gasped, giving Loki a look promising serious harm. The Trickster God ignored him, stunned by a sudden realization.
"What a perfect timing..." he muttered and shouted "Stay back, Mayura! Higashiyama-kun is not himself at the moment. I can't let you in, it's too dangerous."
Few books soared into the air and headed towards the wall, hitting it with a loud "thump". It would make a good audible image of battle for Mayura. Then a sudden, sharp pain stung his body and he fell on his knees, gasping for air.
When he saw his arm slowly but firmly growing longer and the same with legs, the answer was obvious. He started changing right at the moment.
He couldn't get a more perfect timing. He winked at Heimdall, who sat watching his sworn enemy's struggling, a bit startled.
"I guess it's time for our little play, Heim-chan" he said with difficulty
"Repeat it!!" yelled Heimdall, immediately standing up.
On the other side of the door, Mayura's eyes widened. She heard Higashiyama-kun's yell and he sounded very, very outraged. Maybe Loki-kun wasn't joking about his friend being not himself anymore.
"Loki-kun, is everything alright?!" she screamed, fully aware of how idiotic this question was. From various "thumps" and yells she could guess it wasn't.
"He's really been possessed! Mayura, bring Yamino-kun here, quickly!"
The girl obeyed, trying to kick off nasty images of Loki-kun being cut, tortured, strangled, burnt alive and killed in the most brutal ways the evil demon and she could imagine. She was so scared by her own imaginations that tears started to stream down her cheeks and she couldn't catch her breath. She'd willingly curl up in the dark corner and wait until Loki-kun would come to reassure her that he was fine.
Strange, usually she wanted to fight evil ghosts and cursed armors, but now she didn't feel like doing so. She was horrified by the possibility of spoiling it all, and this time Loki-kun wouldn't rescue her. She had to save him, and what if she'd fail?!
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Loki watched his grown body with relief. This wasn't even so painful! Well, maybe it was.
"Heimdall, now just act strange. I don't know, yell for no apparent reason, laugh hysterically, say odd and evil things... Pretend you're a big bad guy and so on, ok?" said Loki with a wide grin, eyeing him.
The Guardian of Bilrost snickered and quickly shook his head. "No way. I hate to make fool of myself."
"Heimdall, there was an a g r e e m e n t!"remarked Loki coolly, but he seemed a little unnerved. The table began to shake dangerously and soared into the air. It looked very pretty decorating the space inches beneath the ceiling, but Heimdall had other things to do than enjoying the view, since the said piece of furniture was exactly above his head. If this would, for example, fell and hit his head... He gulped. A very nice, heavy and wooden table...
"Fine. But you'll have to pay me." He smiled sweetly, with pure innocence in his eyes.
"Are you blackmailing me?!" bowled Loki, and the table made a loop.
"Sort of. But I really don't see any other way right now. So what's your decision?" Heimdall chuckled cutely and managed to make a spiteful blink in his eye less visible. "I can't and don't want to feed on watermelons for the rest of my life."
"That's your problem." Murmured Loki angrily "Discuss this with Freyr. But anyway, how much do you want?"
"I suppose 100$ will be alright, though I may change my mind. Oh, don't make wry face, it's not much and I know you are not stingy..."
Loki closed his eyes and whispered something highly impolite.
"Now listen to the details" he drawled out.
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Mayura searched everywhere but Yamino-san was nowhere in the mansion. He disappeared just when he was needed. She moaned and decided to return to Loki-kun's room; maybe he already kicked this demon's ass.
When she entered the hall, a loud, ear-splitting scream made her eyes widen again. It had to be Loki-kun's voice, but it sounded somehow odd and yet familiar. Very alike to that foreign stranger's one...
"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO ME?!?!"
She thought it wasn't the best time to ponder such irrelevant things- Loki-kun was definitely in trouble. That yell made her heart sink from horrible fear.
"What does it mean?! I want you to... WHAT DO YOU MEAN SAYING IT'S IRREVERSIBLE?!"
Mayura was prepared for breaking the door, but since the door was already lying on the floor in pieces, there was no need for that. She looked up and saw Higashiyama-kun standing on the desk and laughing maniacally. He glared awfully and almost choked from laughing (he exaggerated a bit with acting devilishly). Then, her eyes wandered to meet Loki-kun's terrified gaze.
She stared.
"L-Loki-kun..?" she uttered in shock.
When he nodded helplessly, her jag dropped and asking about anything was far beyond her abilities at the moment. There was a good reason for that though, since the last time she saw Loki-kun, he was about ten years younger than now.
The grown "version" was astonishingly alike to the handsome stranger she met some time ago, while searching Loki-kun when he vanished mysteriously. But that fact slipped somewhere, and she didn't pay much attention to their resemblance.
She quite often imagined how good-looking would Loki-kun be in future, but this outcome exceeded all of her wishful thinking. He was just... beautiful.
"What... happened?" she asked, still rather drowning in her overjoyed admiration than concentrating on the situation.
"He! Changed! Me! Into! An! Adult!!!" burst out Loki, glaring daggers at Heimdall, who strangely stopped laughing.
"That's not an end yet, Loki! Don't get confident only because my spell went so horribly WRONG! I am going to destroy you, how I planned! Fear me!" he shouted and jumped on Loki, pinning him to the floor.
"Blah, blah!" replied Loki with irritation and managed to fight him back.
Mayura merely gazed at the wall, her eyes shimmering happily. She failed to be concerned about various yells, threats, and even small explosions coming from the battling two. Even when Loki-kun waved his hand against her eyes, she simply nodded her head, and continued to dream.
"Hey, Mayura? Help me with Higashiyama. I think I kicked this pesky demon out of him."
"Wonderful. Miraculous. Excellent. Beautiful. Awesome. Fabulous. Extraordinary. Stunning. Splendid. Astonishing. Brilliant. Let me kiss Higashiyama-kun, I have to thank him!" she stammered.
Loki's eyes widened as he whispered "Ooops.."
This meant only one thing: trouble.
TBC.
That's it with the Plan. I hoped it wasn't very predictable but when Bibliomaniac said it directly in the review I somehow lost my confidence... I hope I didn't disappoint you... I planned this chapter from the very beginning of writing the entire fic and I thought it was good...
Anyways, please review. I want to know if you still like it, or not.
