Best of Luck, Tantei-kun
MagicConan14 here. This is the story that gave rise to Elementals' Kingdom.
Disclaimer: I don't own any characters in this fanfic except Kaito/ Kid and Shinichi's alter egos. All I own is the story.
Note: Shinichi hasn't had APTX in this fanfic.
For Best of Luck, Tantei-kun and Elementals' Kingdom, there's generally the same idea. Normally, fallen archangels would be not granted the power of flight, but these ones are different… Stealing Stars had a similar idea, and the names are being reused here.
Kaito was sorting through ancient stage magic relics when his eyes fell on a scroll bound by a gold ribbon.
He opened it to reveal a concentric circular diagram with patches of grey on it. The patches kept on rearranging themselves, until finally there was the shape of a bat covering most of the circles. Creepy… he thought sarcastically.
Meanwhile, Shinichi was roaming the night skies.
His wings expertly caught the breeze as he watched the city sky for any criminals or Kid, although the latter would be highly unlikely to appear. Kid hadn't had any scheduled heists in a month.
Like a bat, or a bird of prey, he silently sped towards the ground, missing by a centimetre, and then landing right in front of Kaito's mansion – a white stone building with two stone gargoyles on pedestals at the front, giving it the appearance of a haunted house. Surrounding the manor was a black fence that looked exactly like the one around the Kudo mansion. The windows were slightly larger than usual. Folding up his wings, he rapped his fist against the door three times, where Jii let him in, mistaking him for Kaito in disguise. (Shinichi had asked him if he could see Kaito, and that was kind of confusing to him, but he just thought Kaito was getting too much into character.)
He discovered Kaito crawling prostrate, his shoulders quivering considerably as he tried to get to his bedroom. 'It must have been the curse of the scroll that's making you act this way,' he murmured to his spiky-haired doppelganger. 'The scroll of the fallen archangels.'
He explained as he picked up the shivering Kaito and hefted him to his destination, 'The scroll is enchanted with a spell – one that reveals your true self. This means you're a fallen archangel, like me. Am I correct, Ember?'
What does that name Ember have to do with anything? Kaito thought, his vision blurring as he kept shivering. It's so familiar it sends a chill up my spine every time I hear it, yet I'm not called Ember…
Or am I?, a voice inside his head, slightly lower than Kaito's and a little more menacing, whispered to him as he began to glow. His transformation had started.
The peaceful Kuran came out of his shell – Shinichi – as the full moon shone on him and Kaito.
As the transformation finally ceased, the two revelled in the moment …the brothers hadn't seen each other for thousands of years. Kuran, the ice archangel, was a masked figure with an ice-blue cape similar to Kid's, pure white bat wings – like Shinichi had - and a midnight blue coat with colourful bands of fabric sewn on to the sleeves, matching pants and a white shirt. Ember, the fire archangel, was adorned in a gold version of a Kid outfit with matching bat wings.
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