- Disclaimer: Matantei Loki Ragnarok belongs to Kinoshita Sakura.
Ah, My Loki-sama!
written by Kurosu
- Chapter Eighteen.
"Hyoo~raaaah~!" came Narugami's voice, and a single slice of Mjollnir took out the lot of overgrown roots, preventing Yamino from being harmed. It was a perfect, dramatic entrance from the god of thunder, saving his best friend's kid in the nick of time, and he stood proudly, with Mjollnir now on his shoulder, next to Yamino, "Heh, a jaki was under out nose all this time?"
"Apparently," Yamino sighed and then panicked, "Ah, where's Daidouji-san?" He was worried that the mortal would discover their identities and then kick them out of the house, not that that would really be the reason he would choose, but considering the destroyed property would put any rational person into a frenzy.
"Oh, sensei's taking a nap," he shrugged. Yamino sweatdropped, thinking he most likely knocked Daidouji unconscious, and the god continued to grin, "Have to keep him out of trouble, right?"
They glance over to Freya, who had her chainsaw, cutting through all the branches and roots that dared to attack her, wearing a rather sadistic smile, as she enjoyed dishing out pain, "Hehehe... you want more?! I'll give you more! The pain of breaking a goddess' heart! AHAHAHA!"
She began to radiate a golden light around her, which seemed to give her oodles of power, swinging the chainsaw around her madly, "DIIIIIIIIIIIIE!"
The two sweatdropped, leaving the hard part to Freya, while they dealt with the main part of the tree that appeared to have housed the mischievous spirit. Yamino summoned his power to shield them from further attacks as he escorted Narugami closer to the trunk, and when they were right at the base, the large root kicked against the barrier, cracking it just a bit. Yamino strengthened the shield with more of his power, allowing Narugami to charge up Mjollnir with his wickedly cool lightning powers - what a show off.
At least it took less time to charge it now, compared to the last time, and with a fierce battle cry, Narugami impaled Mjollnir right into the sacred tree's trunk. The lightning zapped through every inch of the tree, letting the branches and roots withered till it returned to normal, though having a huge tree suddenly falling over in the yard wasn't very normal.
And boy, would they have a lot of explaining to do, when Daidouji woke up.
Loki was able to avoid the few spurts of water that targeted him, because he loathed water, being the god of fire, while making his way to the girl. He paused, watching the giant Gullinbursti taking the hit of water to protect Mayura and kept rolling away from the blast of water. It would've been a hilarious sight, the boar rolling right over Freyr's form too, but getting to Mayura was more important, and he quietly thanked the magical boar.
Fenrir had resumed his original form, towering over the fountain, and opened his jaw and clamped it over the large water spout, but that did not stop it from shooting more water, directly into the wolf's mouth. The strength of the blast forced him to unclamp his jaw from it, almost hurling him into the air.
A flood of water gushed out from the fountain, leveling the trees, and soaked the earth like a huge sponge. Everyone was slowly caught up in it, but Loki managed to grab Mayura before she was swept away by the current, which luckily flowed right into the chasm created earlier. They swam to a fallen tree and pulled themselves out of the water, sweatdropping when they saw Freyr on Gullinbursti, ordering him to swim against the current so he could smite the evil fountain.
Ignoring the buffoon, Loki inspected the girl, "Are you all right, Mayura?"
She nodded, attempting to wring out her hair of excess water, and it had become too quiet between them, so she glanced over to him, catching him openly staring at her. Her wet, soaked form from top to bottom, a lovely image engraved into his mind, for some unexplanable reason, but it was very inviting in a way.
Loki-sama?" she called hesitantly, an unreadable emotion flickered in his eyes briefly.
He snapped out of it and met her eyes, steadily, "Hm?"
"Um, maybe we should do something about this?" she waved her hand around them.
"Ah, yes," he coughed, "Of course."
He stood up and waved the giant Fenrir over to them, and he gave her a final look that told her to stay in this one safe spot. She only pouted in response and turned away, sulking at his silent demand. He grinned and hopped onto the wolf's back, wondering when they started to converse without words, not that it bothered him, but it was just the opposite. The strange warm feeling in his chest felt nice, at the thought that she understood him from just an expression.
He looked over to her once more, and she was staring in his direction, worry etched all over her face and posture. Having caught his eyes, she leaned forward, shouting, "Be careful, Loki-sama! Fenrir!"
His smile widened, and he gave a wave of acknowledgement.
All right time to get down to business and deal with the annoying jaki, so he could return to Mayura's side and get his much deserved reward from her. Sure, his intentions and goals were less than heroic, but who could say no to a damsel in distress, right?
At least he wasn't dressing it up with fancy heroic words and false pretenses, unlike some delusional god, and his eyes trailed over to Freyr and Gullinbursti, who were still fighting the current up to the fountain. He was surprised the boar with short, stumpy legs made it that far. Fenrir was able to swim up to it in no time, just as an exhausted boar caught up to them.
The fountain attacked again, spraying water at them, not sure if the aim was to get them angrier at getting extremely soaked because it was a completely lame attack at this point. All Loki had to do was summon a barrier of fire, even if it was quickly extinguished, steam rising from the contact of two opposing elements.
Unfortunately, Loki had only protected himself and Fenrir, leaving a rather soaked and pissed off Freyr to glare at the two He pointed the sword at the blonde god, "You heathen!"
Loki shrugged, "If you want to impress Mayura, you might want to deal the final blow."
At the mention of the lovely Yamato Nadeshiko, Freyr turned back to the girl in the distance and blushed, and Loki just rolled his eyes at how easy it was to dupe the moron. "Okay!" he replied, "But Freyr is only doing it for Yamato Nadeshiko! Not because you told me too!"
He stood up on Gullinbursti and raised the sword high into the air and shouted, "LOVELY FREYR TRANSFORMATION!" At those magical words, the sword glowed again, pulsating a bright light, and in a flash, blinding all briefly even Mayura in the far distance, Freyr emerged from the light, reappearing in a more elaborate princely suit and longer, flowy cape.
Loki and Fenrir sweatdropped, embarrassed for all who were in the area having to witness such cheesy melodrama, even the jaki-possessing fountain had sweatdropped, but this wasn't just any normal transformation, it was a magical bishounen power up mode for Freyr that doubled his strength greatly - if anyone could believe that.
Then after several arm gestures and different poses, Freyr declared, "Freyr will smite the evil that plagues Yamato Nadeshiko's land!" He took a giant leap into the air, with the magical sword in both hands, raised high over his head, but the fountain wasn't going to go down without a fight and blasted more cold water at the hero, but it was Loki and his fire that protected him, as the sword came down on the park's beloved centerpiece. With it being stationary, there was no way it could avoid being destroyed.
The sound of the water fizzled against the flames, followed by a thunderous crash, and a thousand pieces of the fountain exploded into the air and eventually the water that had been flowing from the fountain stopped, and the rest of the water disappeared into the gap or absorbed into the earth. The once monumental water spout was now destroyed, empty and dry, and the neighborhood was going to be in an uproar the next day.
Loki walked among the rubble, attempting to trace the piece that contained the jaki, with the jaki container in his hand. He felt the lingering spirit and knelt down to pick up a piece of stone, and with a single tap, the jaki was pulled out of the object and stuffed into the container. All completed before Loki shrunk to his powerless state, along with Fenrir who had dropped into his naked human form.
The boy turned to his son, who just sat there rubbing the back of his head, and sighed, "We really need to do something about that."
There was a sudden poof, and Loki and Fenrir turned towards the noise, finding Gullinbursti had shrunk down to a tiny piglet and a de-transformed Freyr was staggering around like a drunk man, and eventually, he just tipped over, slurring incoherently about his precious Yamato Nadeshiko.
And just great, what everyone needed, a drunk Freyr in his powerless state.
At least he wouldn't mind missing a cape or some pants, to which Loki shrugged and motioned for Fenrir to take off the outer pieces of clothing to cover himself with, just in time for Mayura to rejoined them. She leaned over an intoxicated Freyr, "Ne Loki-sama, what should we do about Freyr-sama?"
"I'm sure they pick up trash in the morning," he grinned.
"Mou Loki-sama! That's mean!"
"Bwee bwee!" came little Gullinbursti's upset squeals.
"Aaw, you're so cute!" she cooed and picked up the piglet.
"Oi, Witch Girl!" Fenrir, now wearing Freyr's pants and cape - leaving the passed out god with boxers on - stomped over to her and puffed up his cheeks in anger, "You said I was the cute one!" He held out his hands to her, wanting to be held too, because there was no way that pig was going to replace his cute self, and he was so not jealous! Nope, not cute, lovable Fenrir! He had more pride than that, but if that dumb pig got in his way, he would just have pork for dinner.
Mayura and Loki sweatdropped at a very determined Fenrir, hands still outstretched waiting to be hugged and cuddled, nevermind that he was fully human, and there was no way Loki would allow his son to be with Mayura in that form. And when in the nine worlds did Fenrir get to be so clingy to anyone other than his own father?
Loki sighed and spared Mayura a glance, as she compromised with Fenrir with a pat on his head, and he smiled, amusement dancing in his eyes at the sight of his other son, also, becoming fond of the girl. In so little time, several gods had fallen into her life, gradually bringing excitement and adventure to her every day, but he believed it was just the opposite.
She had been the one who had entangled herself in to their lives, somehow inching her way into their hearts, and he couldn't help but smile, now understanding why she had been chosen to have her wish granted, at the brightness of her soul shimmering in to the night.
"Ano..."
Mayura sounded so unsure, as the group returned to the house from their outing, hours later, to find Narugami had passed out into slumber, dozing away in the common room with a sighing Yamino in his snake form curling on the table top, and a somewhat familiar face of the young man - the short, blonde hair reminiscent of a certain goddess - sulking in the corner. At the sound of Loki's voice, the new face perked up and glomped himself on to the boy.
"Freya?" he blinked.
"OH LOKI!" he wailed, "Look what happened to me! I'm in this hideous form! You won't love me anymore!"
"..."
Um right, Loki just didn't feel that way about the blonde goddess at all, in either forms, but something must have also happened for the three of them to end up in their powerless states.
"Freya-sama?!" Mayura gasped, "Oh my god, what happened?! You turned into a handsome bishounen!"
Freya burst in to tears, wailing Loki and everyone to deaf, and somehow managed to tell them what happened to her that forced her in to the powerless state. More banshee crying ensued, forcing Fenrir, who had lugged the dead weight of a drunken god home, to drop said god to the floor and flee from the room. Not too far behind was Loki, grabbing the snake on the table to spare his son from the excruciating pain and pulling a befuddled Mayura out of the room, leaving Narugami to sleep through the whole thing.
Poor Freya continued to weep at the pitiful state of being a man, from using the rest of her powers to return the sacred tree to its former glory because it was the right thing to do for the Daidouji family.
"Freya?" Freyr managed to regain some consciousness, crawling over to his sister, and hugged her male form. Both siblings reunited and consoled each other.
And this was the scene that Kazumi had returned to, fuming after the pathetic ending where neither Loki nor Freyr were harmed in the conflict against the jaki.
"Ooh~ so we had a jaki all along!"
Mayura poked at Mjollnir still stuck in trunk of the shrine's sacred tree, pinning the spirit in place so it wouldn't cause anymore disturbance until Loki could capture it, which would have to be the next day when his powers returned to summon the jaki container. She walked around the tree, making sure everything else was all right with it, not wanting her father to worry when he woke up, but amazingly, Freya was able to return the site to normal.
"Hm, I wonder why they're suddenly popping up in Midgard," Loki thought aloud, rubbing his chin, with an alert Yamino seated on his head.
"Is it so uncommon?" the girl questioned.
"Ah well, the last time one appeared was twenty years ago. But for four to occur within a week, it's a bit suspicious." His eyes rose up to the night sky, and she stopped moving about and followed his gaze. "Something must have happened in Asgard, and I'm sure this is connected to the gateway being closed."
Mayura giggled, and he turned to look at her, a raised, curious brow. She smiled, leaning forward with both hands clasped behind her back, "You sound just like a detective, Loki-sama!"
"Oh?" he grinned, a hand on his waist, and a wink to the girl, "And what do you think a detective needs?"
She straightened her posture, mirroring his pose with a hand on her hip. She smiled and winked, holding up her two fingers in a victory sign, "A beautiful assistant!"
Notes: Phew, all right! There's the conclusion! *scratches her head* Does it seem rushed? I knew what I wanted to write so it took me a few hours to get it typed. Lol, so Freyr gets drunk and Freya turns into a guy, in their powerless state, which I thought was hilarious! *grins*
I think, the next plot might be the final one to close up the series, but we will see! Thanks! -kuro.