- Disclaimer: Matantei Loki Ragnarok belongs to Kinoshita Sakura.

Ah, My Loki-sama!

written by Kurosu

- Chapter Seventeen.

"Freyr, get down from there before you fall and break your neck."

As much as Loki disliked the idiot's personal description of him, he couldn't be a heartless god and not warn him of the dangers that befell a person standing at such a tall height, with little coordination in his body. Of course, his warning came too late, when Freyr lost his balance, during his attempt to fling his index finger out to point at the boy, and went splat to the ground, right next to Mayura, who gasped and bent down to him.

"Kami-sama, are you okay?!"

"Mayura, step away from him," Loki urged, "You might catch his idiocy."

Freyr, of course survived the fall because he was just a lucky god, lifted his head and glared at a grinning Loki. Within seconds, he was on his feet again, whirled his cape to the side with all the drama of a stage diva, and pointed his finger at the boy, "You! Freyr shall not be deceived by your disguise as an innocent child! Freyr sees the truth to your evil deeds!"

"Don't worry, fair maiden!" he declared, without batting an eye in Mayura's direction but knowing that she was there and needed a righteous god's protection, "I shall protect you from this philandering beast!"

She blinked at him, "Eh, you're not Loki-sama's friend?"

Loki sweatdropped, "Mayura, please..."

"WHAT?! NO! NEVER!" he yelled, aghast that someone had lumped him into the same friendship circle as the devilish playboy. Wanting to set the girl straight before dealing out punishment against the immoral god, he turned to her with the determination and will of an iron wall... that suddenly crumbled under the innocent, penetrating gaze of one beautiful maiden of perfection that was apparently Mayura.

Freyr was speechless, staring dumbly at Mayura, who continued to blink at the strange god, and she thought the ones she already collected were abnormal. She looked over to Loki, who was frowning at the awe-struck god, not liking it one bit because he knew Freyr's expression very well, and asked, "Was he that offended by what I said?"

Loki opened his mouth to reply, but Freyr beat him to it again, grabbing Mayura's hand excitedly, "My Yamato Nadeshiko!"

"Argh!"

Kazumi, hiding in a tree, slapped a hand to his forehead at what he just saw Freyr do, grabbing the mortal's girl hand, and from the ecstatic look on his face, he knew that what the idiot god was thinking. After he had spotted Loki and Mayura by the park, he knew it was time to get Freyr in on the act and suggested he stop Loki from corrupting young women and then save his sister.

But watching the events unfold for the past few minutes, he wasn't sure if Freyr was going to pull through for him. So much for his plan on getting his revenge on Loki, but if he continued thinking along this path, he could still see Loki suffer... when his mortal girl ditched him for another god! The humiliation would hit his pride, and then Kazumi could then nail him with a punch afterwards and demand for his eye, or more violence could ensue.

"Oh my god, Heimdall, you are a genius!" he prided himself with the idea, though referring himself in the third-person was another story, "Dammit, Freyr." He was already picking up bad habits from the god, and they had only been in each other's presence for two hours on Midgard. (And damn the writer for adding in that stupid phrase, because he was not one to use it!)

The ground began to shake, and Kazumi grabbed onto the tree trunk, wondering what was going on. His eye wandered over to the group again, where the earth had split open, making a direct path towards Freyr and Mayura.

The girl's hand slipped from his grasp as she fell backwards, and Freyr's face contorted in to agony at being parted from the embodiment of his perfect, dream girl! The image of sparkling stars and blooming roses - so clichéd - when he first laid eyes on her now cracked, shattered to pieces, being wretched from her touch and thrown into a spiraling black hole. (What a drama queen.)

A fault line surged in between Freyr and Mayura, physically separating them, but Loki, returned to his real form, had caught Mayura before she hit the ground. Of course, this was the result of those daring to intervene in between Loki and Mayura and their lovely bond together, even gods couldn't fight against what the sacred wish system had created - that would be blasphemy!

Fenrir stood alert beside them, as they stared at the really wide gap in the earth, where its length just stretched from the middle of the street all the way into the park, and Freyr, who seemed to be stuck on the other side. The quake appeared to have stopped at this point, and Freyr was back on his feet again, shaking angry fists in the air in Loki's direction, shouting nonsense.

"How dare you Loki! Taking Freyr's important people! First, Freyr's beloved sister, Freya! And now, Freyr's Yamato Nadeshiko!"

The blonde god pretended he couldn't hear Freyr's yelling, cupping a hand to his ear, "What? I can't hear you, Freyr! You'll have to come over here and tell me!" He laughed at the steam coming out of Freyr's head.

"Did he just shout Freya's name?" Mayura asked, still in Loki's safe arms.

"Ah," Loki nodded, "Freyr is Freya's brother."

"I would never have guessed!" she blurted out.

"Really?" he looked at her with a raised brow, smirking, "Even by their names?"

"Hrrm, Loki-sama is so mean!" she pouted.

He leaned down to her face, tugging on one of her cheeks, grinning, "Even so, I should get a reward for saving you."

"You want more ice cream?" she asked curiously.

He looked thoughtful for a moment, having let go of her cheek, and traced his thumb across her chin, right below her bottom lip, "Hmm, maybe something much sweeter."

'Daddy, daddy!'

Loki sighed, trying not to look irritated with the interruption from his son, "What is it, Fenrir?"

'That idiot is doing something over there!' the puppy pondered, 'Is he glowing?'

Mayura pulled out of Loki's embrace as the two straightened and stared across the the gap, eyes squinting to see that, indeed, Freyr was glowing, waving what appeared to be some kind of wand, letting a shower of bright sparkles of moon and stars fall around him. Within a few seconds of magical glory, Freyr shouted loudly, "Gullinbursti! I choose you!"

At his command, a rather large boar came tumbling from a pocket dimension in the sky and landed on his own summoner, causing Loki and Fenrir to wince at the excruciating pain under the weight of the giant boar. The animal scanned the area but couldn't find his owner, "Bwee?" He finally looked down and noticed the hand holding a wand and got up, off his master, "Bwee bwee~ee~!" The piggy sounds were something akin to an apology.

"Ah amazing!" Mayura cried, "He's a magical bishounen!"

Then said magical bishounen god hitched a ride on his pet boar, who scurried across the earth with his stumpy legs, rushing towards the edge. Mayura held her breath with anticipation, eyes glued on the duo, as Gullinbursti ran across the gap, like he was soaring through the air, and landed on the other side, in front of the group.

Freyr, from atop of Gullinbursti, smiled smugly at totally impressing his Yamato Nadeshiko with his powers and magical awesomeness as the better god, but Loki stood with a hand on his waist, wearing a deadpanned expression, "Really, Freyr? You couldn't just fly over here?"

"..."

"Freyr-sama was totally cool!"

Mayura flailed her arms excitedly and ran up to Gullinbursti, inspecting the boar from top to bottom in amazement, and Loki was far from amuse and mumbled something like 'idiot show off'. A happy Freyr hopped to the ground and patted the boar for a good job done, twirling the magical wand in his other hand like an expert, but it eventually became so complicated that the wand smacked him in the head.

"As clumsy as ever," Loki noted dryly.

"Gyah! Loki!" Freyr pointed the wand rudely to the god again, "Freyr challenges you to a battle! To save Freya and Yamato Nadeshiko from your evil clutches!"

"..."

Meanwhile back at the Daidouji home and shrine, Yamino was bringing a tray of hot tea towards the side building of the shrine, where he had carefully placed Freya in to her room, and he wondered if she would be all right. She snored away just like Narugami would, finding it rather ironic with the goddess of beauty and love, but of course, this being a place where the gods of Asgard had gather, the peace didn't remain very long.

Before he had even reached the door, Freya burst through the door, screaming for Loki, but seeing as it was just one of Loki's son, she glared at him.

Yamino smiled nervously, "Freya-san, I made some tea for you."

"Where's Loki?"

"He hasn't returned yet."

Frowning, she stomped pass him because she was so pissed that she was ditched for a mere mortal and slammed a fist into a large tree, a very large sacred tree of the shrine. Then the tree began to glow, engulfing the small area within its pure light. In seconds, the light faded, and Yamino and Freya could see again, and it was not a pleasant sight. The large tree had been completely uprooted, using its own thick roots as feet and legs for movement and its leafy branches as dangerous, flailing arms.

It began attacking the two in the vicinity, several branches piercing the ground where Freya had stood. She had spun to the side to avoid getting hit, while Yamino had blocked a branch with the tray, after dropping the teapot and cups to the ground. He grimaced at the broken porcelain collection that he had just acquired by mail that morning and turned a pair of fierce eyes at the tree.

Yamino swept his right hand in front of him, creating an arc through the air, and a wall of water shot into the air from the earth, slicing through several more branches targetting him. The ground beneath his feet suddenly rumbled, almost toppling him to the dirt, and many roots exploded into the air, shooting up from behind Yamino, with his back as its target.

Loki ducked, evading the giant shooting star that slammed into a tree behind him and disintegrated the whole thing, and sweatdropped. Mayura had held her breath when the battle had begun, squeezing the life out of poor Fenrir in her arms, but when the attack had missed the blonde god, she breathed again and so did the puppy, much to his relief.

It had happened in a few seconds when Freyr pointed the wand at Loki, and the shooting of bright stars and moons began, in the thankfully empty park with a major cleft in the earth, as if no one in the area had felt the strange physical disturbance. Well, because of the recent weird destruction in the district, many people thought it was best to not be out on the streets late, which was quite smart of these mortals and very convenient for the gods to wreck havoc on Midgard with less prying eyes.

Loki pivoted to the side, letting the crescent moon swoop by and nick a part of the fountain spout. Freyr, clearly upset, stomped his foot, "LOKI! Fight Freyr like a man!"

The god gave him a flat expression, "Says the god with a magical wand, blasting stars and moons at his opponent."

Freyr ground his teeth at the insult and transformed the wand into a large broadsword, which earned several more sweatdrops from the audience, and Fenrir grumbling in the background, asking why he didn't use a sword in the first place, even though there was no chance of winning for him because, 'Daddy will kick his ass back to Asgard!'

Mayura told him, "Oh, you're such a daddy's boy, Fenrir!"

"Bwee bwee!" came Gullinbursti's cheery voice, supporting his master. He was sitting next to Mayura as they watched the fight, "Bwee~ee~!"

'Quiet, porky! Don't make me eat you!'

The huge boar sweatdropped, glaring at the puppy who stuck his snout into the air haughtily, and Mayura wondered aloud, "But magical bishounen heroes always win, right?"

'Then what do you think daddy is?'

"Um..."

The girl thought about it, long and hard, while the fighting continued in the foreground, blasts of fire coming from Loki while Freyr would slice the elemental attack with the sword and then retaliate with his own wind magic, like this was an every day event. In a way, it had become just that when a god - friend or foe - would just drop down on earth, right into one's home, and the adventures had become endless.

Of course this battle was not enough, and Fenrir would not get an answer to his question because a light flashed from the water in the fountain, and then all the water shot straight into the air and rained down on them, putting out Loki's flames in the process, along with his interest in beating the crap out of Freyr.

"Hey, what's going on here?" Freyr, dripping wet now, looked about.

Loki brushed a hand through his hair, slicking it back from his handsome face, and sighed, cursing the stupid jaki for picking the terrible times to make an entrance, but this time, he believed that Freyr was at fault for disturbing the annoying spirit. Now that their fight had ended due to the interruption, he turned to Mayura and Fenrir, with Gullinbursti, who were all near the possessed fountain, and shouted for them to get away from it.

A surprised Mayura squeaked just as she stepped aside, barely dodged a pillar of water dumped down the old spot that she had stood. She tripped over her own foot in the process and went tumbling to the ground anyway, allowing Fenrir to hop out of her arms.

"Ah my Yamato Nadeshiko! I'll save you!" Freyr declared, running towards her, waving his sword haphazardly around, until another column of water fell on him.

All the while, Kazumi was still in his tree, watching the chaos happening in the park and enjoying every bit of it. He never thought a random jaki would cause so much trouble for them, and now with it attacking Loki and Freyr, it was like a blessing from the heavens to help him rid his enemies from existence.

If only he had some popcorn, it would make the viewing so much better.

Notes: Doh, it was getting too long again. I decided to add more jaki-ness - two this time - so this subplot will end in the next chapter. Freyr's not as funny as I had originally planned, but still works! I imagined him to be the god that fit perfectly (and sorta willingly for his beloved Yamato Nadeshiko) into the magical bishounen role with humorous results. He even has his own magical boar mascot, lol.

And when will I ever let Loki and Mayura have some private time, without any interruptions? Probably not for a few more chapters, lol! Thanks~! -kuro.