- Disclaimer: Matantei Loki Ragnarok belongs to Kinoshita Sakura.
Ah, My Loki-sama!
written by Kurosu
- Chapter Six.
Loki, in his original form, stared at the form of Daidouji, still passed out from his over dose of wasabi, now resting in the common room. Yamino had originally freaked out when he found Daidouji's body in the kitchen, thinking that Loki had just killed a mortal with his lethal cooking, and that was why the son never allowed his father anywhere near the kitchen, not that it was needed when they were gods in Asgard, with servants.
But being on Midgard now, Yamino had to be more careful with Loki around, because the moment he took his eyes off the trickster god, trouble would ensue.
Yamino was busy cleaning up the mess in the kitchen while a bored Loki kept the unconscious man company, hoping that he would wake up soon because he doubt Mayura would be happy to find her father in such a state, especially when it was his fault in the first place.
Loki found a black marker and started to doodle on the man's face, just as Narugami finally made his appearance, walking in to the room and sat down on the other side of Daidouji, crossed legs and thinking, as if nothing was out of place in the world. Without looking up, the blonde god could sense something was on his friend's mind and had an inkling of what it was about.
"I've been meaning to ask, Narugami," he started, with a flick of his wrist, he finished drawing a distinguished moustache with a sunshine on the man's cheek, "Where is Mjollnir?"
"Yeah, I was just thinking about it," he nodded. "When father threw me out, I must've lost it on the way down here."
Loki gave him a flat expression, "Odin literally kicked you out of Asgard?"
He shrugged, "It was last minute. Heck, I didn't even get a chance to pack! That's why I'm broke and have to stay here with all of you!"
"You think I was prepared to stay here on Midgard?" he glared and sat back. He checked his coat pocket and pulled out a golden ring, grinning, "At least I got this before I left."
It was Narugami's turn to glare, "Oi, isn't that father's ring?"
"Please, he has thousands of them. He won't notice one missing."
Mayura was happily on her way home, swinging her arms back and forth, until something fell on her head. It bounced off her noggin and fell into her awaiting hands, and the girl stared at the wooden sword, rubbing the bump on her head. Puzzled, she gazed up to the skies, where the object had apparently fallen from. She examined the weapon, finding nothing out of the ordinary about it, looking like any other bokken in Japan.
Her eyes lit up when she saw a name engraved on the blade part of the sword: Mjollnir.
"Ha, what a funny name," she laughed and then turned the blade to the other side, finding another piece of important information, "'Property of Thor' - haven't I heard that name before?" Thinking about where she had heard the name, she carried the sword with her, holding it at her side like a samurai of old. She pretended to unsheathe it in a quick draw, only to create a wide, dangerous arc...
"OUCH!"
... smacking a poor passerby just to her right.
"Ah I'm sorry!" she turned around to apologize, and her eyes nearly popped out of her head, being faced with a huge, bald man with a scar down the side of his face and tattoos running from his neck down to his arms and torso. Now he had another mark across his face, the impression of a bokken clearly visible. The two other thugs behind him were just as huge and badass-looking, all glaring at the helpless, school girl.
"Really sorry?" she squeaked out, clutching the wooden sword for dear life.
"Sorries ain't gonna cut, li'l gurl!" Not all bad guys talked like this, but it just sounded funnier in Mayura's head if they did, if only she actually took her dangerous situation more seriously. "I gots some dam'ges on me, an' yous gonna pays for it!"
She tried not to laugh, but they sounded hilarious, like a comedy trio impersonating a group of yankees. Though she did shrink a bit when they towered over her, intimidating her with their giant sizes, "Yeas, yous gonna pay for me bro's med'c fees!"
"Ano," she winced, her cheeks red from holding in her giggles, and dug through the pockets of her skirt to find any money. She was able to pull out a few coins and some candies she had gotten from the principal and showed her open hand to them, "Let's see..." she counted the coins, "That's um, 350 yen... and um two pieces of chocolates and a bubble gum!"
She smiled to them, "Chocolate'll make you feel all better!"
The boss guy - the one that was injured by Mayura - slapped the measly bribe away, unsatisfied by it, but he couldn't blame her for having so little asset to her name, because she was just a high school student! Any person with average common sense could tell they were taking advantage of this girl, but no one dared to go up against three huge thugs in the middle of broad daylight - where the hell were the police anyway?! There was a freakin' kouban - the neighborhood police station - right down the street.
"Yous know whats gonna make me feels betta?" he glared Mayura down while both thugs, in the background, bent down and picked up the chocolate candies and coins.
"Heheh, I could use these for pachinko."
"I'm kinda hungry too."
Hearing the lackeys content with their treasure, their boss turned around and yelled at them, "Yous idiots! Don't botha with chump change when wes can gets more from da gurl! We'lls force her home an' take all da val'ables!"
"Yes, boss!"
By the time they finished discussing their plan, aloud, they turned back to the girl, but she had already booked it down the street. She was smart enough to escape while they were distracted, being idiots after all, but the laughter she held in for so long was ringing out melodiously through the streets, and the thugs were not happy, believing that she was laughing at their stupidity, which was partially true.
All the laughing was tiring out her as she ran, and when she glanced over her shoulders, the three were amazingly catching up to her, and she panicked, attempting to run faster, "OH MY GOD!"
Loki realized that he was cursed with a strange seventh sense, aptly dubbed the Mayura-in-trouble-tingly sensation, that he learned to take seriously because what was more serious than an oblivious, clumsy mortal girl on the streets of Tokyo, alone! He knew something bad was bound to happen when he wasn't near her and wondered if this was the contract's way of keeping them together.
He was running out of the house, with a bewildered Narugami following him. Neither notified Yamino of their outing, leaving the young man to walk out of the kitchen upon hearing the front door slam. He shrugged if off, figuring his father wanted to get some fresh air after being cooped up in the house all morning.
"Why are we running?" Narugami asked his friend, who looked so determined, and the guy wasn't one to do strenuous activities if he didn't have to.
"Mayura. Trouble."
The brunette raised a brow at the two words, impressed that he could sense her being in danger from half way across town. Now if that wasn't a connection of souls, then he didn't know what was, forgetting that this happened because of a wish that the girl had made - or was it?
Loki was focused, following the white thread that would lead them to her, but he had to admit, he had never known anyone to get into so much trouble as she did and it was never boring with her. He smiled to himself and surprisingly ran faster, that seemed to snap Narugami out of his own thoughts and hurried too.
After a few streets and through several crowds of female admirers of the two, they managed to catch a glimpse of the girl running across the street, carrying her school bag and a wooden sword, with three large thugs pursuing her. Loki would've laughed at the funny sight, but he had to rescue a fair maiden first.
Mayura, about to collapse from all that running, thanked the gods that she had better sense than to join the track team, and with her brain no longer processing her surroundings, she made a terrible turn, right in to a dead end. The concrete wall stared back at her, and she turned around, pressing her back against it, at the sound of footsteps stomping down the alley way.
The three thugs looked more like giant gorillas coming to claim their stolen bananas from a village girl. What could Mayura do in this situation, when she was trapped, and the only escape route was behind her pursuers!
"LOOK!" she pointed behind them, "IT'S KINOSHITA SAKURA-SAMA!"
Being the fools that they were, they turned around, and Mayura charged forward, hoping to slip in between them, but the plan failed. The boss man grabbed her arm, gripping it hard to teach her a lesson not to make idiots out of them, "Yous brat!"
"Don't you know," came a voice above them, "that is not the proper way to treat a lady."
The four looked around, trying to find the source of the voice.
"Up here," came the sigh.
They obeyed and looked up, spotting a figure standing on the concrete wall, hidden dramatically by the shadows of the buildings, but Mayura just knew who it was, just by the way he confidently stood and the sexiness of his voice, "Loki-sama!"
Her face brightened when she saw him step out of the shadows, grinning down to her like super hot, delicious god that he was. She wanted to run to him and jump into her savior's arms, but the boss thug had a very good hold on her. She grimaced at the pain and started hitting him with the bokken, at her limit of annoyance. He grabbed the weapon from her and glared warningly.
Loki took this chance and jumped down, his right hand gathering fire into a giant ball. "I'm your opponent!" he shouted to Mayura's harrasser, and just as the man turned his way, Loki's shoe smashed into his face, and the god propelled himself into the air again, doing a flip and blasting one of the thugs with the fireball.
Narugami appeared at the end of the alley way and charged to the group. He shouted to Mayura, "Daidouji! Throw Mjollnir to me!"
Mayura, now realizing that the sword, a property of Thor, truly belonged to Narugami, grabbed the sword from the boss, who was rubbing his injured face, and threw it to its rightful owner. The god smirked, feeling the familiar weight of the weapon in his hand, and was too obliging to test it out on Midgard against these hoodlums.
The only one that was left standing at the moment was the one thug that wasn't fireballed or kicked in the face, so he had the misfortune of facing off against Narugami, the god of thunder and other flashy and awesome stuff. Both, shouting out battle cries and rushed forward - one with a random metal pipe he had picked up from the alley because he wasn't going to face off empty-handed against the other with a wooden sword.
Narugami clutched the hilt of Mjollnir tightly as he charged to his opponent, dragging the blade of the sword across the pavement, creating sparks of lightning. He stopped short from the thug's reach and swung the blade, arcing upwards, wood insanely slicing through metal, followed by the blast of electrifying lightning that zapped the thug off his feet and unconscious.
With two down, Loki finished dealing with the boss man by shooting a fireball point black into the man's gut, sending him into the concrete wall. He sighed, glad that it was over, and turned to the girl at the center of the situation, with the intention of giving her a lecture on how to stay out of trouble, only to get caught up in her world. She threw her arms around his neck, taking him into one of her awesome, grateful hugs, where she was practically dangling inches from the ground because he was that taller than her.
Yeah, how could Loki stay mad at a cute girl throwing herself at him, so he just had to go with the flow and snaked his arms around her waist too, returning the hug, just silently thanking whichever god in Asgard was carefully watching over her - hoped it wasn't Odin, the jerk.
"Oi, don't I get a hug too?" Narugami grinned at the pair, resting Mjollnir against his shoulder, "I did help!"
Mayura pulled back and glanced at him, giggling, but Loki, frowned, refused to let her go to give the idiot a hug. He told the swordsman, "She found Mjollnir for you, so I believe that is a fair trade."
"Ah, but Loki-sama!" she smiled, her eyes bright and energetic, "You two were so awesome! Like superheroes! I felt like a princess being rescued, but then I missed out on the action! I want to shoot out fireballs and zap evil with lightning too!" She went on and on about how kickass they were, but all Loki could think about was: thank god she was just a mortal. Just imagining her running around the city blasting magic all over the place in the name of justice gave him a headache. He needed to put her on a tighter leash, or else he would get gray hairs like Odin.
Speaking of the god of all gods, a sudden lightning bolt hit the spot Loki and Mayura almost stepped over, as the former pulled the girl back, behind him. He looked over to Narugami, who shook his head, "Wasn't me!"
"Eh, there's some funny writing there," Mayura pointed, and the three bent over to examine the foreign characters. The two gods recognized their own ancient language, leaving the female mortal to puzzle over the writing. Loki frowned, crossing his arms in a sour mood, while Narugami laughed. She curiously asked the latter, because she didn't want to upset Loki even further, "What does it say?"
"Father told Loki to return his ring, or there will be consequences."
"What a tightwad," the blonde god grumbled.
Another zap of lightning added more words underneath, and that made Narugami laugh some more, but he translated it for Mayura, "'I heard that.'"
The girl stood up and gazed up to the skies, in admiration and awe, "That was so cool!" She waved to the skies too, "Hi, Odin-sama!"
"Mayura, don't add to his ego," Loki grabbed her wrist and dragged her out of the alley, with a still laughing Narugami in tow.
Notes: Lol, I think I had too much fun with this chapter. I really had forgotten about Mjollnir, so I had to squeeze it in. I just couldn't leave Narugami naked-I mean, defenseless without his weapon! Lol... *blushes and looks away*
I could just imagine Loki getting jealous over Mayura admiring Odin and his cool powers, lol. More so than over Koutaro, a mortal. Okay, seriously, I'll add the next god... *crosses fingers*
Lol, and yes, the "oh my god" is a running gag... which I thought was hilarious, but it'll get old soon. -kuro.