Warnings: OOCness, semi-OCs, lack of spellcheck, cursing

The Mythical Detective Mayura

XIV: Wings

Yamino threw Fenrir off and stood up. "Cerberus!" He said, partially to Loki and partially to himself.

"The three-headed guard dog of hell?" Loki whispered, eye twitching. This was way too weird. Where was Mayura when he needed her?

"Can't believe you betrayed us." Fenrir muttered, circling Yamino and Loki. "Can't believe that bitchy mortal picked me up and named me after a Norse god."

"Demigod." Loki corrected, earning himself a canine glare.

"I'm going to eat you both before I head over to Athena's place." Fenrir decided, and the tiny puppy grew into a hideous dog with multiple heads. He dwarfed the houses that sat on the side of the street.

"Let's start with the traitor's little helper." Cerberus said, aiming his main head's huge jaws at Yamino.

Yamino wasn't there. Cerberus bit into the cement sidewalk and spit out the heavy chunks.

Loki watched in disgust, horror and shock as the pieces of cement fell by his feet.

Cerberus was confused. "Where did you go?" He growled viciously, turning each head in a different direction.

"Here..." Yamino's voice reached the dog's ears. "Or perhaps here." The heads shifted to face the opposite direction.

"Stop moving!" Cerberus ordered, swatting the air with one enormous paw.

"Very well." Yamino appeared in front of Loki. The blonde's eyes widened. "How'd you do that? You can teleport?"

"Not exactly." Yamino said as Cerberus bent down to chomp him. He vanished again, reappearing behind the beast. "I'm just very fast."

Cerberus' heads growled and he brought his paw down on Yamino. The green-haired god flew into the air above him and landed gracefully by Loki again.

"Your shoes have wings on them." Loki noticed, trying to remember which god that was. Wait...

"Hermes? The messenger god?" He finally asked, suddenly thankful for his brother's mythology obsession.

Yamino smiled warmly. "Please wait a moment while I take care of Cerberus. He's usually quite gentle, if a bit annoying."

The great beast turned around to face him again. "Stop moving, Hermes. Your loyalty to Athena is the reason for this conflict. Now die without a fight."

The green-haired god shook his head. "I'm sorry, I can't acquiesce to your request."

He vanished again, reappearing with rope. He ran around Cerberus in a circle, tying his heads together.

The heads exchanged glances and broke free of the rope.

"Oh." Yamino hadn't expected that.

"Can't you use some purifying staff thing?" Loki suggested.

"No," the messenger god replied, "I don't have that power. I'm not usually confrontational."

"I am." Cerberus stomped on the ground beside Yamino, surprising him. He rushed away but one of Cerberus' heads grabbed him and held on.

The god struggled to escape but wasn't able to.

"You're first, then Apollo, then Athena." Cerberus said as drool dripped out of one mouth.

"My dear creature..."

Loki turned rapidly to the melodic singing. He had just imagined that...?

"Let the waves of love surround you."

Cerberus heard it too and even Yamino had turned to face the singing woman. The green-haired god then remembered something Mayura had given him in case of an emergency. He struggled to reach his pocket and took out the small vial. The singing voice became clear...rather, clearly congested.

"My deab cweabture, let your sbirit be camb..."

Cerberus' heads exchanged glances, trying to translate the tune.

"Dwabling Ceberdus, guardian aboved dall, closeb your eyes and gibeb into Morpheus as do we alleb."

"Who the hell is that?" Cerberus' main head asked.

As soon as he opened his mouth, Yamino tossed the vial in.

"It's water from the river Lethe." The green-haired god said with a smile as Cerberus' eyes began to drift to a close. "It'll put you to sleep."

"My deab cweabture, leb sweep overcomb you..."

The singing voice grew more nasally as Cerberus dropped Yamino and began to sway back and forth.

"Ceberdus," a very sick Mayura said as she finally came into view, "it's timb to remove your evil!" She took her staff and swirled it around. "Guardian, gate, hellfire, bones! Remember your duby as a guardian to Hell itselbf and stop this mabness!"

Cerberus glowed before turning back into the tiny puppy.

"Detective..." Loki watched the pink-haired goddess sigh heavily.

"Are you two obay?" She asked.

Loki nodded and remembered Yamino's earlier words about how much she cared for him. "Yeah. Thanks."

She nodded. "Always."

"What do we do with him now?" Loki asked, glancing at the puppy.

"He belongs to your brother, doesn't he? He should have no memories of Olympus...that is the fate of all the gods who are purified." Yamino frowned. "He's a normal dog."

Mayura twisted a strand of her hair nervously.

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Oh noes ;-; I edited this entire chapter a while ago, forgetting that 13 wasn't up yet. Uhm...here it is now!

Please review! It's easier now...even a few words like "I read it!" would make me happy.

Next chapter: More sin is collected and our plot thickens. This story isn't long, so we're heading towards the end!