Soulless
Disclaimer: DC/Case Closed is not a fantasy manga. That should be enough evidence.
Chapter 1~The Princess's Tale
"There once was a village girl who was very kind and helped out the village regularly. Her parents were old, so she searched for a solution to old age. One day she thought she found the answer, water from a magic well. She had tried it on some mice, and shown it to them. Before her parents could test it out, though, a visitor arrived and found out."
"Word spread through the village she lived in. Soon, the king heard about it. He and his servant travelled for many days to see whether the rumour was true. When they arrived, they found the havoc the girl had caused…the village people had died from drinking the water, except for a few. This included the girl who had started all this madness."
"The king hunted out the girl and the few villagers who weren't dead and forced the truth out of them. In the process, he heard about all the other deeds she had done, and forgave her," Princess Ai told the servant.
"Is this story true, your highness?" the servant enquired.
"I wouldn't know, servant. This story has been in our history books for ages."
"Are you talking about fairytales again, your highness? You're living in one… " the jester started, but was cut off by the princess.
"Was that meant to be a joke, jester?"
Little did the jester and the servant know, there were a king and servant from an invading land spying on them… "Let's get someone to disguise themselves as Kaito Kid and then we can take the princess's soul as a warning to her parents. Once that's done we can steal the King and Queen's souls, one at a time, and then we can take over!"(Cue the evil laugh if necessary…)
Chapter 2~Soulstealing
No one had wanted to be the fake Kid, so the king had to do that part himself. Using a grappling gun, he pulled himself into the room where the princess was. Princess Ai was about to scream when suddenly, a white gloved hand clamped over her mouth. The servant rushed to get the king and queen, but by the time he pulled open the door, his peripheral vision told him the spell was underway. Once the soul stealing spell was started, there was no way to stop it. The jester tried to get the false thief's attention, but he was ignored. The fake thief escaped through the window while the jester and servant lamented acting too late.
Chapter 3~Quest for the Soul
"Why didn't you protect the princess?"the king roared at them.
"We tried to but we couldn't," they moped.
"Kid was doing a soul stealing spell, meaning he must still have her soul. You two will have to go find it. For not protecting the princess, you're fired anyway."
The jester and servant got thrown out of the castle, along with the unconscious princess. A blonde teen was tossed out after them. "Don't keep yer 'awk in 'ere! Yer fired!" someone yelled, obviously directed at the blonde.
"Who're you?"the jester queried the new arrival.
"I'm Hakuba Saguru, former co-carer of the messenger pigeons. My father's friend, the other carer, was fed up with me for keeping Watson with the pigeons."
"Guess you're a mess with your messenger pigeons now…" the jester muttered with a smirk.
"This is no time for jokes!" the servant interjected with a piercing glare.
"Anyway, I'm Kuroba Kaito, former court jester for the royal family."
"I'm Edogawa Conan, former servant to the king. I've never told this to anybody before, but now that we're going to be travelling together, you should know that I was prince before the current king invaded."
The character listing goes like this (so far):
Princess Ai/ Haibara Ai
Servant Edogawa Conan/ Prince Kudo Shinichi
Jester Kuroba Kaito/ Kaito Kid (real)
Pigeon Carer Hakuba Saguru
Invading King Gin/ Kaito Kid (fake)
Minion Vodka
The good king and queen are new characters which don't have names yet.
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[This is an edited version of the original. For this one, I put the surname first, but usually in my fanfics the given name comes first.]