Tricksters and the Girls That Keep Them in Line

A funny little drabble where some of my favorite Tricksters meet and talk. From multiple fandoms with little to no explanations as to how they met each other. And of course we also have the girls that keep them under control talking together.

Be warned, all the tricksters are very egotistical at the best of times and this is not the best of times.

Featuring two very beloved OCs of mine: Coyote and Katie! A little background on the two 'cause I love them so much. Katie is a (Black. Not important but nice to have everything clear and outlined in my head) nineteen year old sophomore in college, in Santa Fe New Mexico. She is studying something really boring, like Business. She's kinda poor, (college kid, duh. And because she has determined to pay for her entire college education herself.) and works as a waitress in a seedy restaurant. She will not take crap from anyone, and just wants to be left alone to pursue her carefully planned out successful career.

Coyote is the Native American guy (this is important) who seems to have made it his mission in life to annoy her. He also always just dumps his crazy problems in her lap. So why does Katie always help him, even when he deserves his comeuppance? She wished she knew.

To make matters worse, Coyote is not only annoying, but also a shapeshifter.

You guessed it, he's Coyote. THE Coyote. The Coyote of myth and legend.

Oh boy, life will just not leave Katie alone, will it? Or myth either, for that matter.

So there you are! Sorry if I bored you with that but I just really love them! So enjoy! If you steal Katie and Coyote from me I will find you. Somehow. And you will feel pain. A lot of pain.

Otherwise they are all that I own!

Loki sipped from a teacup and carefully observed the other people in the room. It had really been a mistake deciding that today of all days was the right day for Patty to try magic. On her own. Away from his observation. Because the next thing he knew she was calling him and asking (very politely, of course, she was Patty) if she could bring a few people to his apartment. And now here he was, staring at these…people.

A young man, Native American, with a low, loose ponytail, was the most normal one of the lot. He was wearing jeans, a T-Shirt, and seemed very disinterested in all the proceedings. Currently he was eating a donut (provided by Patty) and looking at his phone. Loki felt that he might like him, if they had met under different circumstances.

Then there was an absolutely massive Polynesian fellow, wearing, of all things, a grass skirt. A giant fishhook was propped on his chair (Loki sincerely hoped the chair would not break, it dated from the sixteenth century and was imported from Italy). He was arguing with his tattoos. Which were apparently sentient. OK.

And then there was the Draconaquis. Who Loki suspected might be insane.

If it was up to him he'd just throw the lot of them outside and tell them to be on their merry way. Or send them back to their home worlds if he was feeling merciful.

But Patty had asked him to be nice, so nice he would be.

And after all, it could be worse. Patty could have brought versions of himself into his comfortable dimension.

He cleared his throat and set the teacup down. "So…if you have names, I would be very gratified to hear them."

The Native American guy looked up from his phone. "Coyote. The great."

Loki blinked. "Coyote. As in THE Coyote?"

Coyote grinned. The smile had a decidedly wolfish aspect to it. "The one and only." He looked back at his phone. He shook it a little. "Respond, woman!"

Eventually he sighed and put it down. "Oh, never mind."

Coyote gestured to the grass skirt clad one. "The guy having his daily existential crisis is Maui. The freak show is Discord."

Discord sniffed. "As the only Draconaquis present I resent that!"

He began looking around Loki's tastefully furnished apartment. "Have you ever thought about redecorating? A few lava flows would do wonders for this room!"

Maui suddenly looked up from his tattoos. "Do not mention lava in my presence!" He stroked the fish hook. "It's still too soon."

Discord snapped his fingers. And the floor turned to lava.

Several things happened very fast. First Maui jumped up, grabbed his hook, and turned into a beetle that hovered fearfully on the ceiling fan. Coyote yelped and made a flying leap to the counter, landing on it, shifting to an actual coyote and sliding around, scratching it horribly. Loki jumped on the safety of his chair, which was somehow withstanding the lava, and glared at Discord, who was chuckling to himself and floating randomly in the air.

"Much better!" He gloated.

Well two could play at the snappy fingers game. Loki snapped his fingers and the lava disappeared. Coyote shifted back to a normal human, still sitting on the counter, and Maui came off the ceiling fan and back into his chair, glaring at Discord with human eyes.

Loki was about to open his mouth to pronounce an eternal curse on Discord when Coyote interrupted.

"Look, I know we got off on a bad start, thanks to some people here," he looked meaningfully at Discord, who pointedly looked away, "so maybe we could start over. And discuss non-combative subjects. Because if we fight Katie is going to blame it on me and kill me. Or worse." He cleared his throat. "OK. I'll start with the first topic: shapeshifting. Can we all do it and to what extant? I, for example, am capable of shifting into a variety of forms, but I prefer this one, because I am drop dead gorgeous, and the coyote one."

Loki rolled his eyes. "Being a master of magic, I can of course shapeshift. But taking on other humans' faces is much more fun."

Coyote nodded. "Fair. I've done it a few times."

"As have I!" Discord piped up.

Everyone gave him a look. He sniffed, but at least waited his turn.

Maui nodded. "Yeah, I can only do animals."

"Wait." Coyote said. "That's what you actually look like? No magic involved?"

Maui grinned. "Yep. This is all me, baby."

Coyote cocked his head. "You sure you aren't using The Rock's voice?"

Maui was shocked. "No! Of course not! And I'll have you know people have died for less, mortal!"

Coyote leaned forward. "Think you forgot that nobody in this room is mortal, Maui. I'll have you know I'm very hard to kill."

Maui snorted. "You're just a skinny little twerp. I could crush you just by breathing on you."

Coyote made a big gesture, encompassing the whole strange gathering. "That's kinda the point, isn't it? We're tricksters, one and all. We have brains and magic, not brawn. Unlike you."

"Now that you mention it," Discord said. He was tapping his chin with his lion paw. "Does he really qualify as a trickster? Look at him! All that disgusting muscle! And that hook!"

Maui looked at his hook. "What about my hook?"

"Do you get all your magic from that?" Coyote asked.

Before he could reply, Loki was lifting the hook, examining it. "Yes. He does."

He showed it to Coyote, who leaned over it eagerly. "See the markings? Clearly runes, enchanting the object upon which they are inscribed with shapeshifting properties."

Discord gasped melodramatically. "He's a fake!"

Loki, Coyote, and Discord gasped. Maui was glaring at them.

"I'm not a fake! The gods chose me!"

"If you're not a fake," Coyote caroled, "then why did your voice just crack?"

"YA-HOO!" Maui launched himself through the air, and soon a fight broke out.

Meanwhile, in the Other Room

Patty held out a plate of sugar cookies.

Moana, Katie, and Fluttershy all took one.

Katie bit into hers, eyes closed, face serene. "I haven't had one of these in forever." She said, mouth full of cookie.

Moana bit into hers hesitantly, her eyes going wide at the flavor. "I didn't know something like this could exist!"

Fluttershy had already eaten hers when Patty looked her way. "Oh, may I, if it's not too much trouble, have the recipe? Pinkie would love these."

Patty smiled. "Of course, it's no trouble! I always carry copies just in case someone asks for one!" She handed an index card to Fluttershy, who didn't really look like she knew what to do with it.

Patty sat down, putting the plate of cookies within easy reach. "And now for some serious talk! I think I finally figured out why my magic brought you all here!" Katie, Moana, and Fluttershy leaned forward in rapt attention.

Patty took a deep breath. "Dimension crossing magic seeks parallels, something to latch onto when hopping between realities. Which is why it's easier to access worlds where another version of you exists, and stuff. But I denied the magic that possibility today, and so it reached to find another parallel."

Patty started to go off on a tangent. "Actually, Loki says that eventually I'll be able to pick which world, or at least which type of world, I connect to. But for now I guess the magic just chooses what's easiest or something?"

She noticed the blank stares the others were giving her. "Anyway the parallel that exists between our worlds is tricksters. We're connected by tricksters."

They all thought for a moment.

Katie said. "Fluttershy and me, sure, we got tricksters, but does Maui really count?"

Moana shrugged. "I guess. He shapeshifts and lies a lot." "

But does he solve problems by trying to outsmart people?" Katie pressed.

Moana shook her head. "No, not really. He usually prefers smashing it until it ceases to be a problem." She smirked. "Of course, that usually makes the problem bigger."

Fluttershy looked up. "What was that sound?" They all stopped talking and listened.

Patty groaned. And they all said at once, "I told him to be nice!"

Patty opened the door. Loki and Coyote had apparently ganged up on Maui and Discord, who were for some reason working together. But the Maui/Discord duo did not have the upper hand, as they were currently tied to the ceiling fan. Coyote was pointing a venomous snake at their heads.

"Any last words before you board the train to Pain Town?" As they were gagged, they could of course not say anything. Coyote shrugged. "Suit yourselves." He moved the snake closer and closer to their faces.

Katie sprang into action first. "COYOTE!" She yelled. "PUT THE SNAKE DOWN OR I SWEAR I WILL EXPOSE YOUR TAX FRAUD!"

Coyote dropped the snake. Loki hit the floor instead of the snake.

Patty gasped. "LOKI! C'mon, I asked you to be nice! I was gone for only five minutes, was it that hard?"

Loki rubbed his head and glared at Maui and Discord. "You don't know what these two are like, Pat."

Fluttershy had already flown up and undone the ropes. Moana bonked Maui on the head with her oar.

"OW!" He yelled. "What was that for?"

"For not making an effort!" She bonked him again.

Fluttershy just sighed. "Oh, Discord." Her voice sounded so disappointed.

He just crumbled. "I'm sorry! Oh, Fluttershy, please forgive me! I'll never do it again, I promise!"

Fluttershy shook her head. "Since we're probably not coming back here, that's not much of a promise."

"OK." Loki said. "I have had just about enough." He turned to Patty. "Have you finished chatting? May I send them back?"

Patty smiled. "You can send them back? Really? That's great!"

The girls all piled into one big group hug.

"Keep a watchful eye on your demi-god." Moana said.

"Oh!" Patty replied. "He's not a demi-god. Technically, he's not even a Norse god, he's a Frost Giant, and anyway it's inaccurate to call them gods, Asgardians or Aesir is actually better and…" She stopped. "None of that was really necessary, was it?"

Moana just smiled and hugged her again.

Then Loki snapped his fingers, and they were all gone. Loki sighed and surveyed the wreckage that his living room had suffered. Luckily nothing that couldn't be fixed.

Patty stood there, chin held in her hand, thinking, then she lit up.

"I got it. I know why they were all brought here!"

"Oh?" Loki asked. He picked up a table. "Why?"

Patty just smiled and shook her head. "Nothing. No reason."

Aww…I hope it was at least a little funny and cute.

And I swear the nest chapter of Breakfast With Mr. Loki is coming out soon.

I might do more of this crazy group, I'm not sure.

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