CHAPTER 7:

THREE YEARS OF WAITING

Shinichi had thought that he was going to die, when he was trapped beneath the snow caused by the avalanche. But at the last moment he was dug out, in his state he had no idea, who it was but he was just grateful that he was found alive. Those thoughts only lasted till the time it took for him to recover from hypothermia. Afterwards he just wished that he had stayed buried in the snow, because the one, who had rescued him from the avalanche, was a member of the black organization.

Shinichi was introduced to the dark side of the world. He had wanted to run away but remembering what Haibara had told him about the organization he was forced to stay and endure extreme torture imaginable. He was starved, kicked and whipped all done by the person wearing Ran's face. They trained him with three other people, he was taught how to place bombs, in such a way to ensure maximum destruction, how to poison people, how to torture them to extract the information, how to hack in the computers and find the important information without leaving a trace behind, and how to shot the sitting, as well as the moving targets. Anyone who missed his mark had his hands placed on the hot stove. In fear of his friends and family being killed he did what they said.

At last he was ready to be inaugurated in the ranks of the black organization. He was asked to choose a wine and he chose Moonshine, in order to not lose hope and in remembrance of the thief that was now only a beautiful memory he had left. Three others besides him chose Aqua Vitae, Firewater and Blue ruin. Aqua Vitae were partnered with Kir and Firewater was partnered with Blue ruin. Since he had shown more aptitude to control the situation from behind the scenes he was given his own office and usually asked to create perfect plans for abduction of other peoples, so that they won't be suspected, as well as perfect killing plans and he was often asked to sweep a look at the crime scenes to make sure that nothing remained about them behind, and that other innocent people were condemned for the crimes that they committed. He didn't want to, but he knew better then to rebel openly.

Vermouth met him after he was in the organization for about six months and had laughed at his misfortune. He also had to clean the mess created by Gin and Vodka. At one time he had to work with Kir her partner Aqua Vitae, and Firewater as well as his partner Blue ruin, in which he was the leader. Sometimes during night, he thought he could still hear the cries of the victims; it hurt him to hear their pleas for mercy still he had hardened his heart and killed them.

It was during that time that he learned through Kir that Aqua Vitae was a CIA officer, and Firewater and Blue ruin were FBI officers sent to work undercover. And he was introduced to them as Edogawa Conan a detective and told about his unfortunate luck that had landed him with the black organization. They all knew that he was more than he appeared to be and was someone else because Interpol did not have any records by the name of Edogawa Conan, but they remained silent.

For one year they continued to work for the organization, loyally, diligently and vigilantly. Always cautious of their surroundings, knowing that one wrong step and they would get a bullet in their back. They made their name in the organization, so that everyone knew that they were loyal only to the organization. Before they made their move and together with a little help of Vermouth began to plan the downfall of the organization.

Moonshine knew that they couldn't ask for help from the outside, because that would increase the chances of a leak and chances of the plan going awry, and they didn't know who to trust. So alone with five others he made a foolproof plan to make sure the organization would go down and stay down. He also made back up plans and made sure that no one in the organization would know about them, being the traitor.

Many times he just felt so lost that he wanted to give up, but he also knew that he just couldn't give up. He was glad that at least he had some people besides him, helping him to bring down the organization. Still he sometimes wished that it was all over and wondered why he continued fighting them; especially when he had lost all his faith in this bitter strive, against them. Sometimes he thought that he had heard the victims screaming his name, crying for revenge. He felt as if he was losing his mind, he felt haunted, even in his dreams.

It took almost another two year for their plan to bear fruit. They went quietly from one room of the organization's main base, to another. From one hideout to another: placing bombs and timing them correctly, so that they would blow up together. Moonshine was in charge of placing the bombs in the organization's main computer base. They succeeded in placing the bombs, but before they could blow the whole place up, they were discovered and had to fight with Gin, Vodka, Chianti, Korn, Snakebite and Bourbon, before they could execute the plan. Moonshine managed to kill Snakebite and Vodka as well as greatly injure Gin before he had to escape and Kir managed to kill Bourbon. Aqua Vitae killed Korn and Firewater killed Chanti but both lost their lives as well.

Vermouth managed to kill the boss; they both had been the only survivors of the well-known organization Crow 40 years ago, which had mysteriously been vanquished one night, during auction. It was before the start of the revolt that Vermouth had told Moonshine the truth about the organization. The boss had rebelled and with the help of the drug that once inhaled, would make your worst nightmare into reality. All the members that breathed in that drug, started killing themselves and only Vermouth and the boss survived, that was also the reason why the boss held Vermouth in such high regard because she had been the only one who had been able to fight off the drug. He was also the one that had run off with the ancient scripture that contained the key of finding the Pandora, but when he had been unable to decipher it, he had started funding the research for finding ways to immortality.

After managing to escape Gin Moonshine went back in, to hack into the boss computer and got the information about the other hideouts of the organization, in other countries and about Apotoxin 4869. He barely made his way out before the building went up in flames, he was still blasted away because of the bomb explosion, but he forced himself to walk, he didn't know where exactly, except that his heart was feeling a sort of a pull, so he followed it.


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