**Hello readers! This is the song that inspired the character Loki to a degree...It's coming much more into play as I write. I will give it to you as a link.

The song is called 'Youth' by Daughter.

Here's the link:

youtube-.-com/?#/watch?v=VEpMj-tqixs

The last letter of the link is a lower case 's'.

Enjoy Chapter 55! :)**

Chapter 55: Loki vs. Junichi

Loki was waiting for Eiji to arrive.

It was 9:45, and he hadn't gotten over to the castle yet. Loki was about to grow impatient, when Eiji came running to the castle, and Hiro was with him.

She smiled. "Of course he did."

They both looked sluggish, and like they didn't want to move. Loki felt them there, but pity wouldn't help them. She felt sympathy, and even empathy...

She did not pity them.

Pity was for the weak and unworthy... They were not either one of those things.

She smiled. "Hiro , you came too? Good... I'm sure I'll be able to train you just as well."

She nodded. "What do you train in..." She asked. It was more monotone than anything, but at least she was trying.

Loki looked up thoughtfully.

"Just about anything you could think of. You specifically? Well, bludgeoning weapons, and defense. When you fight, you seem to flail wildly about, leaving yourself open. You have a giant club you can lift, it could be used to block heavy attacks."

Hiro felt slightly offended at the flailing wildly comment, but she knew that Loki had a point.

"Perhaps I could help in that area?" Junichi offered.

Loki sighed. "What did you have in mind?"

Junichi grinned.

"Let's spar, and you'll see what I have in mind..."

She nodded. "Sounds fair, show me what you've got."

She immediately ran toward him, throwing him off guard. His mistake? Expecting a clean start from the battle hardened Loki.

Loki's mistake? Expecting that Junichi was to caught off to defend himself.

She went for a blow with a kick under the chin. It was soft enough not to kill him, but hard enough to show him she was serious.

He readied his stance, using her momentum and strength to slam her to the ground.

He slid back.

She stood, and laughed. "I've never seen that fighting style... Okay, you've peaked my interest."

Hiro and Eiji gaped.

He completely floored Loki on the first move... This was going to be a battle of epic proportions.

He smirked. "So I've peaked your interest then? Does that mean we can wrestle too? I've got some pretty good holds." He said with a wink.

Hiro laughed.

Eiji turned red. "Oh no... He's going to learn that those comments end painfully..."

Loki fumed. "Why you ARROGANT PIG HEADED SON OF A WHORE!"

Loki's mistake? Losing her temper and falling into Junichi's game.

Junichi's mistake? Thinking she would fight blindly while angry.

She ran toward him, feigning a haymaker punch.

He went to grab it, and she grabbed his arm instead, slamming his chest down with her foot.

She pulled him up a second time, and repeated.

Loki's mistake? Repeating. He grabbed her foot as it was coming down, and used it to slam her face into the dirt.

He slid back, coughing.

"Son of a-! Ow..."

She stood, and blood poured out of her mouth. Hiro averted her eyes.

She spit out a back molar.

She was angry. "Now you've REALLY PISSED ME OFF!" She yelled.

He cringed at that. "Oh... Shit. Are you okay?"

She walked up to him, and held out her hand.

He took it... His mistake.

She put twisted his arm behind his back.

"No I'm NOT OKAY! HOW'S THIS FOR A HOLD!?"

He pushed his entire body back, causing them to fall. She let go, sensing possible injury to herself.

He kept his distance. "I could do better." He smirked.

She glared at him. "I'm going to hurt you."

"She's serious... So you know." Eiji commented.

Hiro sighed. "Really?"

Eiji looked down. "What? It's true..."

This battle had made them feel, if anything, more entertained.

Junichi was funny, even when his nose was broken...

Which it was, at Loki's next move.

She did a flip behind him.

He spun around, and looked behind him.

She slid silently behind him again.

Sensing this, he turned around just in time to get a hard punch to the face. His nose bent to the side, and she laughed, sliding back.

"And I thought you were ridiculous before!? I'm not even using weapons."

He glared. "Neither abm I." He said. His closed of nasal path making him sound utterly ridiculous in the circumstances.

She laughed.

He rolled his eyes. "Oh fuck off..."

She smiled. "I bet you'd like to see that, right?"

Both Hiro and Eiji were red. Eiji was slightly green...

To hell with the brain bleach... My innocence is ruined.

Junichi smirked. "Bmaybe later, would you like to bmake an appointment?"

Her eye twitched. "Did you just call me a proustite?"

He laughed. "If the shoe fits."

She ran at him... Her mistake.

He ran forward, and did a palm strike, sending her own force, plus his to the ground, causing a slight hole.

Eiji and Hiro were in shock. Loki had just been beaten by Junichi.

He held out his hand. "This is over. Adn for the record? No, you're dnot a prostitute."

She grabbed it, and stood.

She laughed. "You really are good! Okay then..."

She gave him a side glance.

"You better not have meant that prostitute thing... Or I'll cut your dick off, and feed it to you as a steamed sausage."

Both Eiji and Hiro cringed at that. Eiji tightened his legs slightly, shifting his arms in front of his body...

Junichi nodded, he was slightly more pale.

"Well, rest assured, it was only to bmake you angry. No truth to it... Excuse bme while I get bmy dnose fixed, adn find a brass cup to sleep with..."

Loki busted out laughing.

"You do that then!"

Hiro shivered. "Even I'M not that brutal..."

Eiji shivered as well. "I think its a good thing..."

Loki looked at them.

"So, who's ready to train?"

They both stepped back.

Loki gave an incredulous groan...

"Oh LORD! It won't kill YOU!"

Eiji gave a side glance.

"You know? There are fates much worse... Sausage comes to mind."

She rolled her eyes. "You are so overdramatic... Hiro! Would I do that to Eiji!?"

She looked down, and stayed silent.

She gave a flat look of near disappointment.

"Seriously... How did I get this horrible reputation...?"

They trained for most of the day, and Junichi even returned to help Hiro with her part of it.

It was an up looking day for Eiji and Hiro at least... Loki was smiling, but she felt lost... She was smiling because they needed encouragement, and it was all she could do not to slip.

She was breaking, and both her and Freya knew it.