Conan's POV:
Where am I? What am I This place, it
I felt that my eyes openend slowly, my vision became a little better.
"Little boy, are you alright?"
Little boy, am I a little boy? I'm seventeen for gods sake.
"Can you hear me?"
My vision became crystal clear, I saw that a police officer bended over me and had a very concerned look on his face.
"Where am I?" I mumbled.
This pain I feel, it feels like hell.
"You are at Tropical Land, an amusement park."
Ah, that's right, that's the place I escaped to. I betrayed the Organization. Well, betrayed? They would've killed me anyway. I was just a pawn in their play, right? And pawns could easily be replaced.
With normal members, that would be true. But for me? That's a different story.
"I'll call an ambulance, stay here."
I saw that the officer running away. I helped myself to my feet, I had to get out of here.
Then I saw it, my mirror reflected in the window. I was a seven years old? How could that be?
I'll get an answer to those questions later. First I have to find someone trustworthy. But who?
Then it clicked in my head. Maybe good old Professor Agasa would still be at his home in Beika.
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Heh, Professor Agasa's house is still the same. When was the last time I was here? Four years ago?
There I saw him, I could say for sure that he didn't lose weight, that's for sure.
"Professor Agasa?" I asked.
"Yes and who might you be?"
So, did he forget about me? That can't be.
"I'm Shinichi remember, Kudo Shinichi."
"That's ridiculous, kid," Professor Agasa spat. "I haven't seen Shinichi in years and I know for sure he's seventeen years old now."
"You have to believe me," I said desperately. "You remember about the drug right? APTX 4869? We talked about that a few years ago, didn't we?"
"Alright, come in, then we can talk about this a little more."
I knew this Professor for a long time, he was the only person I knew outside the Organization. It was funny really, I met him by surprise and it was very easy to talk to him. Especially about things that didn't matter to the Organization. Something like a father or something.
It took me some time to make the Professor believe that I was Shinichi, but after I told him some embarrassing things about him, he finally believed me.
"So Shinichi," the Professor began. "What happened with you?"
"I'm not really into the mood to tell you that now, Prof."
"Alright, but could you at least tell me how you shrank to a seven years old?" He asked.
I smirked. I knew I had to tell him this at some point.
"You remember I mentioned the APTX 4869 earlier, right?" I asked.
He nodded.
"I sort of betrayed the Organization and decided to commit suicide."
I saw that the Professor was shocked.
"Why would you do that?" He asked.
"Different reasons, I'm not in the mood to talk about those reasons."
The Professor was still in shock, I decided to continue my story.
"I took the medicine that my fiancee was developing, in the hope that it would kill me, but as you can see, it didn't kill me, it made me shrank."
There was some silence. It looked like that the Professor didn't know what to say.
"What do you want to do now?" He finally asked.
"I don't know," I sighed. "I'm playing with the thought to destroy the Organization, then I would be at peace I guess."
The Professor nodded, it seemed that he understood me.
"I would advice you to take an alias," Professor Agasa said. "It would be really stupid to let the Organization know that you are still alive."
That's true, it would be really stupid if I gave Gin the message 'hooray, I'm still alive', I could just shoot myself then, that would be a way more pleasant death.
"Professor, are you in here?"
I couldn't place this voice. The voice had a beautiful sound.
"Who's that?"
"A high school student from the neighborhood," Professor Agasa answered. "Nice girl."
That was an understatement, the girl I saw entering the room was quite the looker.
"There you are," the girl said. "I was looking all over the place for you."
"I was talking to this boy," Professor Agasa answered. "Some relatives of me dropped him here."
I saw the girl studying me, it made me uneasy. I never had many girl looking at me, only one actually and thinking about that hurts me a lot.
"You are so cute," the girl squealed. "My name is Ran, what's your name?"
Eh, yeah good question. Now I had to be quick, what alias was I going to take? I looked around, detective books all over the place. I liked them. Finally I got myself a name.
"My name is Conan," I finally answered. "Edogawa Conan."
"Yeah, Conan-kun's parents dropped him of at my place," Professor Agasa took over. "Perhaps you could do me a favor, Ran-kun?"
I looked at the Professor. What was he going to do?
"Yeah, if I can handle it." I heard Ran answer.
"Could you take care of Conan-kun for me?" Professor Agasa asked. "It would be really nice for Conan-kun to have sister figure like you."
What?! Professor what are you saying?
"I guess," Ran answered. "I only have to ask my dad for approval, I'll call him."
Ran walked out of the room, most likely to find a phone in this place.
"What's the meaning of this?" I demanded.
"Calm down, Shinichi," the Professor answered calmly. "Ran-kun's father is a private detective, he could be a good start to start looking for the Organization."
Yes, he was right. If I would be living with a private detective, then I would be able to find some leads. This was not a really bad idea. I heard Ran coming back to the room we were in.
"My father said it was okay," Ran said. "But he didn't sound very sober to me."
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Ran and I were walking home, she had her hand in mine. I would be lying if I said that it didnt feel comfortable.
"So Conan-kun," Ran finally broke the silence. "Do you have a girlfriend."
Ouch. Painful topic. I had a girlfriend, moreover a fiancee. While the Organization was not exactly happy when it came to romance, ours was somewhat accepted.
"No, girls are gross."
"That's what you think now."
Before Ran could talk any further, there was a man who litterly jumped out of a building. I heard him scream about some case he got involved in. The fact that it had something to do with black got my interest.
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Normal POV:
"Have you looked everywhere, Vodka?"
In a car, a Porsche 356A to be exact, a tall man with long silver hair and a large man dressed in black, were looking for something or rather someone.
"No, Aniki," Vodka replied. "He seems to have disappeared, he's dead I guess."
"I guess," the man, Gin, replied. "However, I am not certain of it yet, I will be when I see his dead body."
Gin lighted one of his cigarets.
"Did you get anything out of that woman, Aniki?" Vodka asked.
"No, she's of no use to us," Gin replied.
"What are we going to do now?" Vodka asked.
"I have one more test to make sure that Port is dead," Gin said. "And because he loves crime scenes a lot, I guess we have to make a big one he'll never pass out for."
"What do you have in mind, Aniki?"
"We'll make Hirota Masami steal a billion yen," Gin grinned evilly. "After that we'll kill her, it will lure out Port, if he's still alive, and torment Sherry even a little more before we kill her."
"Where's Sherry now, Aniki?" Vodka asked.
"She's locked up," Gin replied simply. "That little event that happened to her and Port after their screw up made her weak, that she lost Port devastated her and when she loses her sister, it will break her."
Gin's face became more evil every second, Vodka could tell that Gin was really enjoying himself.
"I'll enjoy the moment that I kill her with that broken face.
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Conan's POV:
The case was nothing special, it didn't involve the Black Organization at all, the detective father of Ran, Mouri Kogoro, was nothing special either.
The Professor made some useful tools for me to use, like a voice changing bowtie, a power-enhancing kick shoes and a stun-gun wristwatch. Those would come in handy at sometimes.
The worst part of this all however, was that Ran made me go to Teitan Elementary, a school for little kids. Some of those students, Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Genta made me part of some lame club that they call the Detective Boys.
When I came home one day, things were starting to change.
"What's wrong?" I asked.
"My father got a little case," Ran answered. "But it's not a big one. What was her name again?"
"Some girl named Hirota Masami or something!" I heard Kogoro yell.
Hirota Masami? That was a name that rang a bell. I've heard it before. But where? The only thing I'm sure of is that it' has to do with the Organization.
It turned out that Hirota Masami was looking for her father. When we found him and checked up on him a day afterwards, he was dead.
And as it turned out, Hirota Masami disappeared. She was nowhere to be found, some other detective was also looking for her and the case had something to do with a really big man.
However, after we found the giant man, it turned out that he as well, was killed. I saw a female worker in the lift and she looked very familiar. Too familiar.
It turned out that Hirota Masami was a hoax, she was someone who had stolen the billion yen and that was probably for the Organization. Soon I found her, along with two people I really didn't want to see.
"A appreciate your efforts, Hirota Masami..." I heard Gin say.
Gin's voice gave me the creeps, at this moment I felt helpless, just like last time.
"Or should I say Miyano Akemi?"
Wait, WHAT?! Miyano Akemi, no... she couldn't be!
"May I ask you one thing?" Akemi asked. "You gave me these sleeping pills to put the giant to sleep."
To sleep? He was killed, not asleep.
"But the moment he drank it, he started cauging up blood and couldn't move," Akemi continued. "What's the meaning of that?"
"Those are our ways," Gin smirked. "Now about the money."
"It isn't here," Akemi yelled. "We had a deal, remember? You would let me, my sister and her fiancee go free when I finished this job."
"Can't do that," Gin smirked. "Your sister and her fiancee are traitors, did we forget to tell you that?"
"What?" Akemi gasped. "So that means you used me?"
Gin pulled out his gun and pointed it at her.
"I'll ask you one more time," Gin said icily. "Tell me where the money is, this is your last chance."
"You're naive," I heard Akemi say. "If you kill me now, you'll never know."
"You're the naive one," Gin answered. "Our guesses are getting close to the mark."
Gin smirked even more evil and pulled his trigger.
"I told you once, didn't I?" Gin said. "That was your last chance."
The shot kept ringing in my ears. No, it couldn't. She can't die, she's the only thing...
When I looked again I saw that Gin and Vodka had left, Akemi was lying on the ground heavily bleeding and breathing.
"Miyano-san!" I gasped out.
"What are you doing here?" Akemi said. "How did you know I was here?"
"I followed you with my transmitter," I eplained. "Because you looked way too familiar for me."
"What," Akemi gasped out. "How do I look familiar to you?"
"Because I know what my sister-in-law looks like.
I saw Akemi's eyes open wide. With her last bit of power she looked in my eyes.
"Are you..." I heard her say.
I nodded.
"I'm Kudo Shinichi, better known to you under the name Port."
"I'm glad," Akemi said. "Glad that I could see you one more time."
"What?" I screamed. "Come on, you're going to make it."
"It's too late voor me, Shinichi," Akemi coughed out. "Please, the billion yen is on my desk in my hotelroom, please get it before they do."
"Hold on, you can make it!" I yelled. "There's an ambulance on it's way."
"It's too late now," Akemi said weakly. "Please save my sister."
"What?" I gasped out. "Shiho's alive?"
"For now..." I heard her say with her last pieces of air.
She was dead. If I found Shiho, how was I going to explain this?
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Shery's POV
Day three.
When are they finally going to kill me?
How long do I have to suffer in this room?
Can't they just kill me.
Bring me back to Shinichi.
Let me see my sister one more time.
"Did you hear?" I heard someone talking. "Gin really did kill Miyano Akemi."
What? No!
She's dead?
Not only Shinichi, but my sister too?
My pocket, I have one more APTX4869 left.
I took the medicine, it burned me, it burned me to death. At least, that's what I hoped for.
However, I shrank. Shrank to a girl of 7 maybe 8 years old. Now I can escape.
Perhaps if I was mentally strong enough to stay alive, then Shinichi is maybe still alive too.
I have to find him.
He's the only one I have left.
TO BE CONTINUED...