Neither Detective Conan, Magic Kaitou nor Elfen Leid are not mine, y'foo. You been Disclaim'd!
Summary: When Lucy is shot on her escape, instead of Kamakura, she washes up on Beika's mostly deserted beach. ELxDCxMK's lovechild.
On Pairings: (Onesided(?))Lucy/Nyuux?/KotahxYuka(Onesided(?)) / ShinichixRanxConan(Onesided)xAi(Onesided(?)) / KazuhaxHeiji / (Onesided)AkakoxKaitou(u Kid)xAoko / Others to be added
Warnings: Mild to excessive violence, language, some nudity. Slight hints of ecchi and shoujo. (In the spirit of poking fun at you all xP)
Sulphur; "...-nonmetallic element occurring widely in nature in several free and combined allotropic forms. It is used in black gunpowder, rubber vulcanization, the manufacture of insecticides and pharmaceuticals, and in the preparation of sulfur compounds such as..."
The sun burns hot on tanned grains of sand on Beika's beaches on Saturday. The air is tangy with the sharp, strong smell of salt and the ocean water is thankfully cold, glittering like thousands of broken jewels on the white-frothed surface. The beach is mostly empty and a teenage girl wonders why; it's a beautiful day for spring. She assumes most people are too sleepy in their beds.
"Ran! Ran-chan!" Sonoko cups her hands around her mouth to shout, and when she sees she's caught the girl's attention, she gestures. Shining water is lapping against her narrow hips. Sonoko has short blonde hair, a gold tan and an expensive bikini that advertises her family's (Suzuki) wealth. She motions to the sea around her. "C'mon Ran! Get in!"
Ran Mouri smiles apologetically at her friend. "Sorry, I'm waiting for Conan-kun." She herself is sitting on a smoothened beach towel, knees bent with her milk-white arms clasped around them. Her chin had been on her knees and she'd been thinking of an absent friend with a cocky smile she'd once found annoying. Now she misses it because it'd meant Shinichi was alright, that she was alright, that the world was put back together again and she could stand straight. 'Come home Shinichi', she thought sadly. He'd been gone almost a year.
Her hand shaded her eyes and she looked around. "Where is that little midget?" Sonoko wondered aloud. The rowdy gang of Conan's friends had been the ones to tug her into the water anyway and where now splashing each other in the surf. But the four-eyed shrimp and that creepy quiet girl were gone and only tiny footprints pressed in the sand showed they had traveled further down the coastline. Sonoko wanted to excuse Ran into the water; not only was Sonoko determined Ran wouldn't get a better than her by sunning herself on the sand but she recognized the look in Ran's soft violet eyes and wanted to cheer one of her only real friends up. This called for drastic measures.
"Raa-aaaan," Sonoko complained in her whiniest voice. Sonoko was alot more like how a child should act than Ai-chan was.
Clear violet eyes swept down the beachside and picked out pinpricks of Conan's black hair and the red swimsuit Ai was wearing. 'At least they're still on the beach,' Ran thought wryly. Last time, they'd wandered off the beach and plopped back into the parked car'ssweaty seats. Ran sighed and smiled at this memory and then got up, stretching. She'd just scorned people who just lay limp on the ground. Here she was, sullen and sitting on her beach towel like a naughty boy on time-out.
"Coming Sonoko!"
'Just you wait Shinichi Kudo; when you come back, I'll be smiling and strong!'
Ran dusted the sand grit off her shins and raced to the ocean, wavy brown hair lashing behind her and her heart warmed by the sun.
Conan sneezed and cupped his nose a second too late. Ai Haibara looked over at him with amusement coloring her hard gray eyes and her hands laced behind her back. "You know what they say Kudo-kun," the girl smirked. "Someone's spreading an unkind rumor about you."
They were padding down the shore with sugary sand sticking between their toes. A good distance away from the others, Ai had started playing "hide-and-seek" with the rest of the Detective Boys to start it and when Conan tracked her, she'd pretty much kidnapped him away "to let him assist" in poking at sea specimens scuttling from the waves. The rest of the Detective Boys, Conan had looked back to note with slight irritation, were now playing around in the surf with Conan and Ai forgotten. 'I hope they don't do that for any criminal investigations,' "Conan" thought, a little twitch in his eye. He didn't really need their help for these, but they sometimes pointed out odd things that helped him piece the case together faster. He kind of understood kids liked to play but Conan still got annoyed by their silly antics sometimes.
Conan took his glass-less glasses off and rubbed his nose with the back of his other hand. "Isn't that if someone's thinking of you?" he asked, shooting a look back at her that was accompanyed by a faint smile. Ai smirked back in response but it was a little softer around the lines of her lips this time. Showed how far she'd come since she first glided into Conan's endless routine of murders and intense clue-hunting."It all depends on the interpretation Kudo-kun, like many things do in the world. The chances between them seem more in favor of someone smearing the name of the Great Detective of the East, considering how many people have grudges against you for locking them in prison..."
"You never look on the bright side when it considers me, ne Haibara?"
Ai was walking in front of him, straight shoulder-length auburn swinging over her red-strapped shoulders. Even though her face wasn't in his direction, he could actually hear the smile in her calm voice. "I'm just realistic Kudo-kun, and you do have an unhealthy habit of angering unbalanced people." Gin's face, a cruel face with cold green eyes glaring under the rim of a black hat, flashed into mind, but Ai didn't shrink away from it for once. Here, surrounded with the warm sun reflecting on the glassy water, with Kudo-kun as her friend by her side, and precious people close enough behind them... she felt safe and even happy. The thought startled her into a short laugh.
"I also have a habit of putting them away and keeping people safe" was going to be Shinichi's retort, but Ai's laugh stopped him at "I also". He had to smile too. He could understand how she felt because he never thought he could feel so happy and secure while the Black Organization still slunk around the corners of their lives. He thought that until he saw Ran smiling at him with no sadness to cloud her eyes and her slender hand curled around his much-smaller one, and then he knew it wasn't true. At least the "happy" part.
Conan bumped into Ai, who was standing still and gazing out to ocean with her eyes glued to some piece of limp, buoyant seaweed that blazed in the sun's glower. He was concerned instantly. "Haibara, what is it?"
She seemed remarkably calm and paused to take time and sort her thoughts. "I don't want to alarm you, but it looks like your curse struck again, Kudo-kun."
'Curse...?' Conan wasn't aware he'd asked aloud until Haibara nodded. Her gray eyes were still stuck to the seaweed. It was only when she pointed that Conan saw the bright seaweed was actually hair and could spot the vague suggestions of limbs floating in the water.
Ai sighed.
"Another corpse, Kudo-kun. Please get with the program."
Yeah, it's short. Hush you. Just the beginning.
Okay I'll be straight up; I'm only on the ninth episode of Elfen Leid right now and I can't access any more right now. But I have had it spoiled pretty well, I'm just watching to be ejamikated so I sound like I know what I'm talking about. Don't worry; I won't go theorizing on random things. Well. Yeah. Actually I might O.x
Author's Corner
On another note, I have no idea what to pair the characters up with. And to be honest, I really don't care too much. I'm one of those rare fangirls you'll find who likes all the characters regardless of gender, alliance or actions. So no, I won't bash Ran/Kazuha/Ai/Aoko/Akako/random pizza girl, stop asking. So I'll let you guys decide the pairings, 'kay? You lucky dogs you. I really don't mind any pairing.
Haibara feeling warm and tingly inside? I really hope she feels that at least sometime, because she deserves it. Me myself have actually experienced that sensation. I called it "true happiness" and now understand why some people associate feelings with the heart(which I used to think just pumped blood. God figure). I actually felt something very warm and bright in my chest because two old and very precious friends of mine reconciled to me. My other friend thought I was on drugs because I was beaming for no visiable reason and humming.
You'll probably never know how much I struggled between this and ELxKH. My reasoning for that was if the Organization was scoping out the lab Lucy was kept at and saw her, wouldn't they become interested why she was there, locked up and experimented on? It was very tempting actually. I'll write a one shot/maybe series on it later; It's kind of festering in my brain...
Please rate; update in two-four days.