- Disclaimer: Matantei Loki Ragnarok belongs to Kinoshita Sakura.
Ah, My Loki-sama!
written by Kurosu
- Chapter Twelve.
"Oi, sensei!" Narugami called, walking in to the main shrine building, after making his rounds of the perimeter of the family estate. He found his master in prayer at the altar, and after he was done, Narugami continued with his thoughts aloud, "It's getting late, and those two aren't back yet.
"They could at least call."
He quietly wondered if Mayura got into trouble again, but then, Loki and Fenrir were with her, so she should be fine, unless Loki used up his powers again and turned into a child. It was a possibility, one that he would rather not think about when it concerned his friends, but if Heimdall had come down from Asgard and tried to kill Loki, then there was a chance that someone else could do the same.
He frowned, thinking how stupid Loki had made so many enemies in Asgard because of his mischief and pranks when he was bored, but on Midgard, he believed that Mayura outranked him in that area, having attracted more trouble than he thought any mortal could ever do. But he noticed that the girl was not any danger as of late, being the conflict with Heimdall had been the most recent one.
Speaking of said god with a missing eye, Heimdall had been quiet too, and Narugami wondered if he was plotting something. Loki had stood by his words, having reiterated many times that he never saw Heimdall's eye, much less knew anything about it.
"That's it," Daidouji's voice brought Narugami back to the present, "I'm getting that girl a stupid mobile phone."
A rather odd realization considering it was the modern era where everyone had a phone, just like they had a website detailing every inch of one's life from going to the bathroom to getting a poll on what to wear to the handsome doctor's office. Okay, he would just stick to a simple phone for now and worry about the details of his daughter's life in the public eye for another time - praying that such a site did not exist.
Daidouji had every right to be worried about his daughter at that particular time of day, but he should actually feared the company she was in.
The giant, bronze statue of the god Ebisu had come to life, slowly moving each leg like a baby taking his steps for the first time in his life. A tad hilarious on watching the large god walking like a toddler, and all Mayura and Koutaro could do was watch with a sort of fascinated horror. It felt like a twisted play on the horror genre, where the surviving teenagers - a boy and a girl - were left to defeat the monster or serial killer in the end, but this particular story had a god and his son involved.
And Loki wasn't going to have another guy take his climatic spotlight, nor the girl. He grabbed Mayura and whispered quickly, "I need you to take Kakinouchi out of here."
"But-" she was hesitant, not wanting to leave Loki alone to deal with the thing, even if she had no powers to help him.
"I'll be fine," he reassured her, "I just can't have him seeing any more than this."
She nodded and ran to a semi-paralyzed Koutaro, grabbing his hand, telling him they had to leave and call the police, not that she planned to, but she just needed an excuse to get him away from the scene as Loki had requested of her. In a way, it was her own way to protect Loki and his secret.
When the two mortals were out of sight, Loki focused on the moving inanimate object. Having setting his sights on the blonde god, it began to waddle in that direction, and Fenrir, still by Loki's side, tried not to laugh at the enemy's movements, 'Da-Daddy, that thing... aha, it looks, ha, so funny."
As if it had heard Fenrir, the statue began to shake with anger, causing the surrounding area to tremble along with him, but Loki was able to remain on his feet. He used his powers to create an enclosed sphere of fire around the statue, but with one stomp of its foot, the water on the ground blasted into the air and put out the flames. The astonished look on the god's face was an understatement, never had anyone been able to extinguished his mighty flames before, even with mere water, but when one thought about it, he was on Midgard with half his powers, so yes, anyone - even a mortal fireman with just spit - could put out the fire of the once powerful, trickster god.
'Oh no, daddy, your fire!'
"EBISU SMASH!" roared the statue as his large fist came crashing down on Loki, who jumped out of the way in time. His fist had missed the god, but it slammed right in to the floor, causing another large tremor, and the walls began to shake, whatever was still standing was now crumbling to the ground. Another fist came down, and Loki snatched Fenrir into his arms and rolled out of harm's way, and the remains of the ceiling came tumbling down on the statue.
As if a pile of random debris was going to stop this huge beast, and it only took five seconds for the pile of rubbish to explode in all directions, Loki's deliciously handsome face getting a nick in the process. The statue let out a rumbling roar as it stood, pounding its fists against its chest - like one mimicking from a King Kong movie. It had no one to blame but its stupid self for the destruction it caused, that inadvertently hindered its own freedom.
A focused Loki tried to form a plan to defeat the thing, and he knew he had little time to do it, if Mayura had not been able to convince Koutaro from calling the authorities. He had to move fast before any casualties could befall the mortals, but with his flames not working and Narugami wasn't around - no time to make contact with the others - he could only rely on the one thing he had.
'Daddy...'
He looked down and saw Fenrir staring up at his face, the puppy eyes wide and horrified that the minor injury was bleeding. "I'm fine, Fenrir," he tried to console him, "It's not serious."
But the dog was still staring at the crimson line, oozing a bit of precious, immortal blood, unconvinced of this travesty. His blood boiled, the thought of his father being hurt was unimaginable, but to actually witness it was unforgivable. How dare that hunk of metal dare to raise a fist and slam two down at his beloved father. That thing was going down, Fenrir style!
Loki watched his son's eyes glaze over and the power of a demi-god seeped out of him, a dark aura enveloped them in a flash, and when the god opened his eyes again, Fenrir was no longer in his arms. Instead, Loki found the real form his eldest son in all his glory standing before the Ebisu statue, like five times bigger than that fat, metal junk, practically encompassing the main exhibit hall. Even the low height of the ceiling wasn't enough, the gigantic wolf of darkness had to cower a bit, but that didn't phase the statue at all, being so tiny in comparison, almost like a bronze ball that Fenrir was about to play with.
Fenrir growled and opened his mouth, revealing several rows of sharp teeth, before he chomped down on the statue, snapping it within his mouth, like he had just eaten a really tough, three-day old meatball left by the trashcan.
Loki, sweatdropping, had no choice but listen to his son chew and grind on the statue, and probably lost his appetite during the whole ordeal. What surprised him even more was Mayura's appearance, holding what appeared to be a dolphin figurine or paperweight, "Loki-sama! Fenrir! I've..." she stared up to the ceiling, "come..." Her eyes enlarged, "to..." and the arm holding the figurine dropped to her side, "help?"
The god would've laugh if it wasn't for the supposedly serious problem they were in, that Fenrir was trying to take care of. He walked over to her and sighed, "I meant for you to stay safe too. Where's lover boy?"
She crinkled her nose in confusion, turning to him, "Lover whaa...? Oh, you mean Koutaro-kun. He's fine."
"He didn't call the police or anything?"
"Oh he was about to, but I stopped him." He raised a brow, wondering if she knew how to use her feminine charms to convince the boy otherwise, and that thought disturbed him. She continued speaking, lifting up the figurine with a sheepish smile, "I had to put him to sleep."
Oh yes, the image of Koutaro being knocked out by Mayura was quite humorous, and he just had to laugh and pulled her in to a hug, kissing the top of her head with much relief. With a slight blush, she mistook his action as a tiny reward for doing a good job.
Her voice brought him back to the other aspect of their situation, "Um, so what is going on here? And where's Fenrir?"
He looked up to the giant wolf, "That is Fenrir."
"Wow!" was all she could say, and he had to admit that he originally thought she would be running away, scared and horrified at his son's appearance, but she took it rather lightly. But he shouldn't have been surprised at all. She had accepted all of them willingly, knowing who they really were, what kind of immense powers they possessed, and not caring what problems they could impose on her.
She was definitely a rare mortal.
"Is he... eating something?"
Loki sweatdropped, "Yes."
"What is- Oh where's that crazy statue?"
He was quiet, but his silence said it all.
"Oh..."
The two watched the giant wolf swallow something, believing it was the statue he had eaten, but then Fenrir spitted something out and yawned. It hit the floor with a tiny splat sound, and Loki and Mayura hurried to see what it was, and it turned out to be a blue, glowing, shapeless spirit. The girl bent over and poked it with a finger, causing it to move and float in to her face.
"It's kinda cute," she grinned, letting the thing dance within her palms.
Loki frowned and summoned tons of flames into his hands, the fire swirled into a tall funnel within his hand, slowly crafting in to a delicate item of magical properties. Eventually the flames dispersed, leaving a tall container with a corked top in his hand. He uncapped it, snatched the spirit from Mayura, stuffed it in to the container, and closed it tightly. All of this done before his godly strength died out, and he shrunk into his powerless state of a child.
"Eh, Loki-sama! What was that for?"
"It was a jaki, an evil spirit," he informed her and ignored her mumblings of 'it was too cute to be evil,' already in a bad mood from being dropped unwillingly in to his child form. As if to make him feel better, his son's own powers disappeared, and the wolf figure shrunk too, but the pair did not expect to see the results of Fenrir's powerless state as being so...
"Oh my god!" Mayura shouted and covered her eyes with both hands, "Fenrir is naked!"
The wolf demi-god blinked and looked down at himself, expecting to be a cute, little puppy again, but no, Fenrir had turned in to a handsome, young man - much like his sexy father because awesome genes run in the family - without any clothes on. "Eh? What?! I'm not cute anymore!" he whined in a loud, audible human voice.
Loki stared at him, deadpanned, "I don't think that's the problem, Fenrir." He sighed and turned to the girl, who still had her eyes covered, "Mayura, do you mind getting him some clothes? From the gift shop?"
She stuttered out an affirmative reply before tripping her way out of the exhibit in search of clothing for the poor puppy-turned-human Fenrir.
Like all evenings and night time hours, Daidouji was beginning to get used to all the new faces that had appeared at the steps of his home, and now seeing Mayura and Loki had returned with yet another person, he just waved them inside and closed the door. At first he had thought it was all a dream until his daughter glomped him, attempting to explain the horrible situation with the stranger.
As the few of them who were awake - excluding Narugami who could sleep through anything (even Ragnarok) and Kazumi who didn't care - sat down, Yamino looked very nervous, able to recognize his own brother in his human form as Mayura introduced the young man to the Shinto priest, "Yamino Ichirou."
Sure Ichirou might sound like the typical Japanese name, hardly creative, but if one were to pick out the kanji behind the name, it would be 'one wolf' - good job, Mayura.
The man stared at the youngster in front of him - well, he wasn't that young, maybe mid-twenties - but the surname was obviously familiar, and his daughter continued, telling them that they coincidently ran in to Yamino's older brother, who had just been mugged of all his belongings, even the clothes on his back, and so that was how it all came to be that day. She added that her father was such a kind man that he would allow poor Ichirou a night's stay at their place.
Yes, of course, how could he go against the powerful will of his daughter, especially when she was so adamant on accepting strange men in to their home. And he wondered where did he go wrong in raising the child.
Ichirou, who hadn't said a word, yawned loudly, stretching his arms in to the air, showing off the t-shirt that had a large, cartoony-looking fish on it with the words, Mysterious Water World, underneath it. They all stared at him as he scratched his nose adorable, like he was still a puppy swatting something from his snout, and curled into a ball, his head falling comfortably on to Mayura's lap - already a habit of his to sleep there.
Yamino's eyes almost popped out of his head, watching his brother snooze away, and sweatdropped when he looked over to Daidouji's furious expression and a quiet Loki turning away, trying to not care about what was happening. Mayura put up her hands in pure defense against her father, attempting to calm him down, while trying to pull herself out from under Ichirou's head, but as she moved, his hands automatically encircled her and grabbed her bottom, hugging her back to him as his pillow.
Everyone freaking out was an understatement.
And the night was long and arduous.
Notes: Lol... I don't know what to say. I keep laughing every time I imagine Fenrir turning human. Poor Mayura-papa!
Here's our list of gods so far with their human identities and their powerless states, lol, which was inspired from the Code:Breakers series:
1 - Loki is Loki, and err, Jashin Loki. He turns in to a child.
2 - Jormungand is Yamino Ryuusuke. He turns in to a small snake.
3 - Thor is Narugami Tohru. He falls asleep, and nothing can wake him up. I haven't tried food yet, lol.
4 - Heimdall is Higashiyama Kazumi. He becomes transparent, like a ghost, but can still do regular things, like eating, drinking, peeing...
5 - Fenrir is Yamino Ichirou. He turns human, a naked human - yum.
Only a few more gods to go, and the plot revolving around the jaki is slowly forming! Dundunduuun! Thanks for reading and reviewing! -kuro.