"Why are there so many of them?" Tyr the God of War asked as he smashed his war axe into the skull of an ogre. 

"This is what, the fourth village?" Baldr wiped his sword on the lioncloth barely covering the ogre's privates.

Mist and Gunnr were carrying the dead men who fought into a portal leading to Valhalla.  

"Are you alright?" Brynhildr asked M, who was starting to shiver, not from the cold but rather from the hormones that were wearing out, leaving her extremely exhausted.

This was a side that M never showed anyone. With 3 pituitary glands, she could prolong her hormonal highs before, but she was weaker now without her extra two pituitary glands and could not keep this state for as long as before. 

"I... I'm exhausted. I don't think I can keep up at this pace" M said as Brynhildr put her arms around her. 

"Yeah, not many can match those two" Brynhildr said as they looked over at Thor, who was bashing the skulls of the defeated ogres flat, and Tyr who was randomly stabbing the dead ogres to make sure they were dead. 

This was the third village that they came to and were too late. Ogres basically killed everyone and devoured them, leaving the village in ruins. 

The previous two villages were destroyed by trolls like the second village, but they were two late unlike the first one.

"Why are there so many monsters?" Baldr asked

"I don't know, but we have to get to the other villages faster, before the villagers are killed" Thor said as he rushed off as Tyr rushed after him. 

"We'll go first. Are you alright here?" Brynhildr asked

"I will stay with M. I'm a magician, and not used for such a pace" Loki said

"You better not put your hand on her" Brynhildr warned

"I just want to talk to her, is that alright?" Loki smiled

"I'll be fine here Bryn. We'll catch up" M said as she nodded at Brynhildr

Brynhildr frowned but rushed off with Mist, Gunnr and Baldr after giving Loki a stare. 

M and Loki entered the most intact house they could find and started a fire in the fireplace. 

"Seriously, are you alright?" Loki asked as he offered M a blanket he found in the house as M seemed to be shaking uncontrollably.

"My body has overused my abilities. I will need to rest" M said

Loki looked at her, before he suddenly transformed into a female!

"What...what are you doing?" M asked

"You will be more comfortable if I'm a female, won't you?" Loki asked

M nodded her head. As a former man, M still felt weirded out if a man hugged her. That was why he easily accepted Brynhildr, because she was a gorgeous woman, even if she was 6 feet tall.

Loki himself was around 6 foot 2 inches, which shrank to 6 foot as a woman, the same height as M

This was much shorter than 6 foot 10 of Thor, or 6 foot 5 like Baldr or Tyr.

Loki's hair as a female turned blonde, making her look like a Valkyrie. 

"How did you do that?" M asked

"What? Shapeshifting? It's easy, want me to show you?" Loki asked

M nodded. As Matthew, he had asked Isis to teach him too. She was also a regular shapeshifter and also a God of Magic. 

As Loki showed her, she found Loki's magic very different to Isis'. They were very different, yet came out with the same results. 

M used dopamine in her brain to try to remember Loki's spell, but just after she tried to remember it, she started dozing off in exhaustion

She suddenly felt Loki moving nearer to her. 

"Wha..what are you doing?" M asked as Loki put her arm around M

"You can trust me. Take a nap" Loki said gently. 

M had so far found Loki to be quite trustworthy, unlike his reputation, or later reputation as the God of Mischief, or worse, God of Evil. 

Within minutes, M fell asleep. 

M suddenly woke up, and to her shock, Loki was on top of her!

She felt a thick, hard rod inside her pussy as Loki thrust in and out of her, laughing maniacally!

"No.. no!" she yelled fighting back, but found herself helpless and too weak to resist. 

He continued pounding into her, and as it was the first time she was fucked as a woman, it hurt!

Suddenly, M woke up and sat up instantly, and finding that being raped by Loki was only a dream. 

But it was then that she realized that that she was naked!

She looked around and saw Loki sitting naked in his male form at the head of the bed she was sleeping on!

"What are you doing? Why am I.. why are you naked?" M asked, getting off the bed 

"Just sit there, don't move! You said that you wanted to learn magic. For that, you need to be completely open to me, and that means we both have to be naked in front of each other!" he said

M didn't fall for that stupid reasoning and got angry, looking around for her clothes. 

"Someone thought you magic before, didn't they?" Loki suddenly asked

"How did you know?" M said, freezing in place to look at him. 

"You said you wanted to learn shapeshifting before you dozed off, and when you watched my magic, there was a sign of recognition in your eyes" Loki explained

M remembered about Isis the last time Loki showed her his shapeshifting.

"Magic... is the ability to make the impossible happen! The person who thought you magic, perhaps unsuccessfully... was probably a God like me" Loki said

M nodded, realizing Loki was more insightful than she gave him credit for. 

"The basic problem is this. Magic requires energy. People like me, or your... friend... are gods, and we innately contain energy in our bodies. You are mortal, and do not have such energy within you. At most, you are able to manipulate the energy from the earth, which is very scant.

Even dolts like my brother Thor, can manipulate the vast energy within him to generate lightning and give him the supernatural strength and durability. 

If it weren't for the energy, our powers will be like mere martial arts, where even mortals can learn and practice, using the power of gods" Loki explained

"I understand that now. But what does that have to do with both of us being naked?" M asked

"Oh, I just wanted to see you naked" Loki smiled

"You..." M was stunned, and was getting angry at the pervert

"I'm just joking. Stay where you are in that position. Although I can't teach you real shapeshifting, I will teach you something that perhaps can give you the same effect. This requires us to be completely open with each other, hence we are naked" Loki said

M frowned, but decided to trust him

"I saw that you can use...your mind to attack the trolls earlier. What else can you do with that ability?" Loki asked

"Yes... I can stimulate my pineal gland, giving me telekine..I mean allowing me to move objects with my mind. I also have limited foresight and can see ghosts when it is activated. But it takes alot of mental power, which is why my nose bleeds when I use it" M said

"Interesting. Your pineal gland.... it's here isn't it?" Loki asked, pointing directly between his eyes. 

M nodded. 

"Well, look here" Loki said, pointing at his pineal gland. M looked at it and suddenly, the whole area transformed!

They were back in the man hall of Valhalla, with Valkyries training everywhere and Brynhildr was talking to the Allfather Odin.

"How..." M asked just as everything shifted back to the abandoned, broken house!

"It's an illusion. If you cannot shapeshift, you can instead create illusions which do not require as much energy" Loki said

"Like hypnosis?" M asked

"Hypnosis is something that you perhaps can do with your... pineal gland too, but it only works against weaker minds. No, this is casting illusions. 

You need to direct your thoughts through your pineal gland into the same gland of your target! And you don't have to use it only from the front. The gland is in the middle of the head isn't it? There is no entrance to it from your front. You can aim your thoughts from the side, from the back, from above or below. It doesn't matter" Loki said

"Oh!" M said, as everything Loki said made sense. 

"Let me try" she said as she turned the environment around Loki to that of Egypt!

"Where is this? Is this the other gods you were with before?" Loki asked, looking around in amazement

"Yes. This is Egypt. I was the consort of Queen Isis, the Queen of Magic of the Egyptian Pantheon" M said, as Isis looked down at them from the throne. 

"She is... beautiful" Loki said as M released the illusion and everything reverted back to the broken house. 

"You're a quick learner. But you need to keep practicing. That illusion wasn't complete as I could see in the distance, the sight of the outside of the house. 

"Yes. I will do better the next time" M said

"Are you feeling alright to continue our quest? We will have to catch up with the rest" Loki said

"Yes... I'm ok now" M said, looking around for her clothes. 

Loki smiled as suddenly, he dispelled the illusion revealing that both he and M were dressed all along. 

"That was an illusion too?" M asked

"An illusion within an illusion... your opponent will not know what is real or not" Loki smiled

M smiled too and reached the door

Suddenly, she sat up, naked, and looked at Loki standing by the door, fully dressed. He had cast an illusion in and illusion, inside another one!

"I told you I wanted to see you naked!" Loki laughed as he walked out the door. 

M frowned and quickly got dressed and realized her underwear was missing!