Kon'nichiwa! Sapphire Nightshade here! Happy 4th of July! ^-^ Short chapter today. Sorry, but I didn't really feel like writing.

Just recently looked up a Japanese nursery rhyme called Nanatsu no Ko, or Seven Children. It was mentioned in Case Closed and I wanted to hear the tune. Yesterday I couldn't get it out of my head.

So, next chapter!


Chapter 8:

"D-dark!" Daisuke yelled.

"What?" Conan-kun said.

"O-oh no," a familiar voice exclaimed, "That wasn't supposed to happen!"

"Huh?" Daisuke whirled around toward the voice and saw, "Dark?!"

Dark looked down at himself, as if making sure he was really there. His face was pale from fright and surprise. Then he started glowing. Literally, not metaphorically. "N-no! Th-this isn't good!" he said.

"Dark!" Daisuke started to run toward him but a hand on his shoulder stopped him. He turned around and saw Satoshi.

"You might get caught in it, too," he said.

The glow enveloped all of Dark's body. And then it was gone, leaving hundreds of sakura petals to float down. Dark was gone.

"No!" Daisuke yelled as he broke free from Satoshi's grip and ran to the falling sakura petals.

"What's the matter?" a new voice behind them asked.

Everybody turned to see a fragile-looking girl with short, soft, light-brown hair and emerald green eyes. She was looking at Daisuke.

"Wh-who are you?" Daisuke replied.

"The 'Deceiver's Fortune'," she said, as if it was obvious.

"Why? Why did you take Dark away?"

"He was needed in another dimension."

"What?" everyone else said.

"For that is my power: to send others to other worlds and dimensions."

"Did you send him to the same world as Krad?" Satoshi asked.

"'Krad'?" she asked. "Do you mean the white angel? I'm afraid I cannot tell. I hear the need and send the appropriate person. I do not know where it is that the need comes from, only that it is for good."

"B-but," Daisuke said, "I can't be myself without Dark! It's like there's something missing."

"Huh?" she asked, cocking her head in confusion, "I thought you were bothered with the black angel, like he," she pointed to Satoshi, "was with the white angel. And besides, that world needed him."

"Then you should've sent both of us!"

"I'm sorry, but complaining about the past will not change anything."

"Then can you send me over to get him?"

"Hm, if I can look into the latest call, track it down . . . maybe, I might be able to send you there. But you will need your own means of getting back."

"Can't you transport yourself along with us?" Daisuke asked.

"I-I could," she replied, "but I do not belong there. I belong in a different world."

"Yes," Satoshi replied, "you belong in our world."

"Yeah," Daisuke said, nodding his head once, "and we can bring you back once we rescue Dark."

"Well . . . if you say so," the Deceiver's Fortune replied. She held her hands out toward them and all three of them began to glow. After a few seconds, they disappeared in a flurry of sakura petals.

Conan had been frozen in place ever since he saw Dark transform into Niwa-san, and then seem to slip out of Niwa-san. Now he was left alone on the rooftop to go over what just happened, and decide if it was real or not.


Wow, reviewing it makes it seem a lot shorter.

Well, looks like the story will be longer than it was originally meant to be . . . I won't know if I'll be writing or not tomorrow. I need to think it over. I have no idea what the next world will be like, and I want it to be something original.