And so, several hours later, after much commotion the two stood there before Misao Daidouji as they concluded their tale and the truth.
"So, you see, Papa… Um…" Mayura wasn't looking in his eyes, but instead to her feet. The entire time she had spoken to her father, with Loki by her side, she tried desperately to retain that chipper demeanor, which Loki noted, wavered inconsistently throughout the talk. Her father was quiet for some time as he stared at the two, with eyes that did not see them.
"So this is why," was all he managed to say after he gave the two a considerable amount of thinking.
"Eh?" Mayura looked at him in surprise, a spark of light glinting behind her red eyes.
"This is why you didn't inherit the Daidouji sixth sense like myself and those before me. You were really some... goddess. And I knew there was something off about you, you daughter-snatcher!" Misao pointed an accusing finger at Loki who merely laughed nervously. Daughter-snatcher? It's been ages since anyone has called him that. He grinned to himself. Misao sighed and sat back into his chair and then eyed Mayura wearily.
"This doesn't change the fact that you're still my daughter!" He said finally. Mayura's expression brightened considerably and she latched herself onto her father, crying 'papa! Oh papa!' Loki smiled and turned on his heel to excuse himself.
"See you tomorrow, then, Mayura?" He looked back to her. She gave a small nod with a 'mhm!' and he was gone, happy to see Mayura finally returning to her normal bouncing bubbly self.
Fortunately, as Mayura had hoped, the next school day went by with little complications. She was nervous that something would happen due to her new found powers but so far everything was as it should be. The only difference was Narugami-kun. The way he looked at her now… she couldn't get it out of her head; it was as if she was this new person to him.
"Oi! Daidouji!" He called out to her as she was on her way out of the school gates, catching up to her before she left. "Are you going to Loki's?"
"Of course! Perhaps there are some mysteries that need to be solved!" She laughed, as she was actually hoping that maybe Loki could help her with this new identity.
"Great! I'll come with ya." He smiled widely, as Mayura smiled back. Drats! She was hoping Narugami-kun had a part time job he would be doing. She really needed to get in control of these powers before something happened…
The two walked together, chatting lightly. When they arrived there, Narugami excused himself to talk to Loki privately, which left Mayura to Yamino.
"Yamino-san~ This snack is so wonderful! It's like magic, the way you're able to make such delicious foods!" Mayura was happily munching into the food, much to Yamino's delight.
"Ah, thank you very much, Mayura-san!" He smiled. Suddenly there was a loud sound that came from the study upstairs which caused the both of them to stop and peer up the stairs. Fenrir looked up from his food, as well.
"Ah… perhaps I should see if Loki-kun and Narugami-kun are okay…" Mayura said, nervously smiling and edging herself up the stairs.
"She's Sigyn, Loki?! Does she know the truth, about all of us?" She could hear Narugami's frantic words spilling out from under the door. Suddenly the door open and she was face to face with Loki. She smiled sweetly and he beckoned her inside. Mayura stepped in lightly and took a seat on the couch, big eyes looking up to Narugami.
"Is something wrong?" She asked in concern. Loki shook his head no and Narugami flopped himself onto the couch.
"The cat is really out of the bag this time, isn't it?" Narugami sighed. "Do you remember me, Daidouji?" Mayura looked at him and then laughed.
"Narugami-kun, of course I do!" She said with giggles. Narugami's face lit up. "You're so silly, we just walked from school together not but twenty minutes ago!" She was still giggling as Narugami slumped his head down and Loki smiled at that pair.
"No… not like that. I mean…" He looked at Loki who silently nodded. "I mean like Loki! He's a god, you know that now." Her giggling stopped and she looked to Loki and then to Narugami.
"Narugami-kun you're…" She paused to let the name come to her mind. "Thor…" The name caught her by surprise and she looked up into the eyes of the god of thunder, her fellow god. He smiled softly to her and sat back down. Loki was grinning slyly the whole time. This was getting to be much too fun for him; he should bring more friends for Mayura to remember.
"Narukami-kunn~~" Loki cooed from the desk, causing both Mayura and Narugami to look at him confused. "Want to help me get Mayura used to being a goddess?" He grinned a very mischievous grin indeed. After knowing the trickster for far too long, Narugami saw signs of trouble and decided that the best thing to do was get as far away as fast as possible before he ended up on the receiving side of Mayura's new found powers controlled by Loki. The next thing Mayura knew, Narugami was bowing himself out of the room, and house, saying something about a part time job.
Mayura noticed, belatedly, that she was left alone in the room with Loki, who had seized the opportunity. There was a soft movement on the couch next to her and she turned to be nearly nose to nose with Loki.
"Um… Loki-kun…" Her eyes were bright with curiosity and her cheeks flushed pink. She briefly looked into his eyes and then quickly away to her hands resting on her lap. A larger hand moved to hers and held them.
"Mayura, don't worry." She looked up to see him smirking, mirth and mischief glinting in his green eyes. "Think of it as another mystery that needs to be solved." Her face burst into a large smile as she nodded her head. He laughed and then grabbed her hand, pulling her up. "Alright then!" He went to the desk and brought out a notepad and a pen.
The rest of the afternoon was spent with Loki teaching Mayura about runes, their significance and powers. He was grateful that although all of this was seemingly foreign to her, because of her past life, it came to her was relative ease. Of course, because Mayura was still her own person, she did struggle here and there. The sky was dark as black when she had finally mastered the basic understandings of the runes and a simple spell which was related to them. She beamed and bounced, as Loki put away the writings. Yamino came up with some freshly baked desserts, which Mayura was all too enthusiastic to eat.
"Shall I walk you home, Mayura?" Loki inquired her, as she finished the last bit of the cake and was beginning to pack away her school bag.
"Oh, Loki-kun… If it's not too much trouble!" She smiled, which he returned with a far softer one.
"Of course it's not, come on, let's get you home." And the two left hand in hand for the shrine. When they reached the front, Loki leaned down and gave her a soft kiss on her nose and a wink. "See you tomorrow", he told her softly before he surrendered her to her father for the night.
The whole next day Mayura found herself doodling the runes and pictures of long ships, snakes, and wolves during her classes. At one point, Narugami noticed she had mindlessly doodled a hammer decorated in lightning bolts and smiled to himself. Her friends couldn't understand her new obsession with all these symbols and when questioned, she just played the fool.
And so, this went on for weeks. Mayura would skip her way to the detective agency where Loki would teach her more spells in order to contain and control her powers. Runes eventually took over her notebooks and she would sometimes even find herself taking notes in them rather than Japanese. She smiled and laughed to herself as she would translate back to her home tongue.
Loki was happy with the progress he saw in Mayura but couldn't help but notice that that was all she was getting used to. She still couldn't recognize Fenrir or Yamino and Loki found himself pondering why. More than once did he get a call from her father ranting and raving about how Loki was teaching his daughter dangerous spells, to which Loki only laughed and silver-tongued himself out of. One thing was for certain, as he noticed both within himself and Narugami, was that they were both relieved to be more of themselves around Mayura. Although, he also took note that both of his sons did not share the same ease and in fact, nothing had changed for either of them in concerns to Mayura.
The next time Mayura came over, Loki brought out a book of Norse Mythology and sat it down in front of her. She looked up at him with a look of confusion.
"Loki-kun!-" She began.
"We have a fushigi mystery that needs solving, Mayura." He sighed and sat down next to her. He opened up the book and flipped to the section 'F' and found the entry on Fenrir. He laid his hand over the text that explained the mythical beast so that she only saw the picture of the wolf.
"Tell me, Mayura… Who is this?" He studied her expression carefully to see if it would change based on what she saw. Instead, she merely looked at the picture blankly and then back up into Loki's eyes.
"Um… Loki-kun…" She had no idea. Loki sighed and then flipped to entries 'Freyr', 'Freya', and 'Jormungandr' but she didn't recognize any of them, at least in regards to the images. She simply shook her head and looked back up to Loki.
"I'm sorry, Loki-kun. Am I supposed to know these people? Did I know them?" She looked hurt by the fact that she couldn't recognize anyone despite the fact that she probably knew them once, long ago. Or even knew them now. At that moment the door propped open and a small black dog walked in.
"Daddy! The idiot won't let me have any snacks! Dinner isn't for another 30 minutes!" The small dog whined and Mayura's jaw was on the floor.
"He… He can talk?" Mayura was up and off the couch now, pointing down at the small dog, her red eyes open in panic. Fenrir sat down on the floor by her feet and stared up at her. Loki looked to her with an eyebrow raised.
"Mayura… Who is this?" He asked rather seriously as he pointed to Fenrir. The small dog looked from his father to Mayura and back again, confused. Mayura blinked at Loki.
"It's Fenrir?" She questioned, she knew who the dog was, that was not the issue here, he was definitely talking.
"Yes that is Fenrir, but can youremember Fenrir?" They were staring into each other's eyes, one trying to get the other to remember and the other lost. She closed her eyes and tried to recall any memories about a 'Fenrir'. Suddenly, her eyes lit up with recognition and she looked down to the little dog with a large smile.
"Fenrir! Oh, Fenrir!" She picked up the small dog and cuddled him in her arms. Loki watched the two, Mayura snuggling into Fenrir and Fenrir's look of shock.
"Daddy?" He questioned Loki, hoping for some sort of answer to the strange girl's now even stranger antics.
"Fenrir… do you remember Sigyn?" Loki purred, smirking at the dog whose eyes went wide open and looked at Mayura. "M… M…" Fenrir looked like he didn't know what to call Mayura, her name, the weird mystery loving girl, or… mom? Loki chuckled at his son's dilemma.
After a few minutes of cuddling, Fenrir decided it was best to go back down stairs to see how much closer dinner was to being ready. Mayura say down excitedly next to Loki, beaming up at him. He couldn't help but smile back, her giggles, her smile, it was all contagious to him.
"It's like a different world! All of these people I thought I knew who are different people. Ne, Loki-kun?" She sighed contentedly. He reached over and put his hand to her cheek.
"Yes, Mayura..." He whispered. Slowly, the two of them closed the gap between each other and, with breaths mixing and hearts pounding, they locked lips. Mayura started it off soft and gentle, little kisses placed after the longer ones, which only drove Loki crazy. He took it to the next level, experience and desire kicking in, he licked her lips, lightly nipping them, tasting her tongue with his. A different world for her, indeed. They finally stopped as the door opened and produced a Yamino, who informed them with a dark grin that dinner was ready and they might want to get down there to eat it before Fenrir does.
As Mayura skipped merrily down the stairs towards the food, Loki followed her at a much slower pace. He was thinking about her interactions with both Narugami and Fenrir. In both instances, Mayura had to be pushed a bit to remember. Loki sighed. He was going to have to do a lot more pushing.