The Journal of Conan Edogawa

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Chapter 11: Nightmare

Shinichi looked around. He was at Tropical Land but nobody else was there. "What's going on!?" He thought. He walked aimlessly around the park, trying to find some sign of life. His footsteps seemed to echo all around him.

As he walked, he noticed that everything seemed to get bigger and bigger. Soon, everything around him was so big that Shinichi felt like an ant. He rounded the side of one of the attractions and saw Ran with her back to him. He ran up to her and found that he only came up to the top of her shoe. "What the hell!?" He heard a cold voice from behind him.

"I've found you, 'Mr. High School Detective.' Now you're going to suffer for all the trouble that you've caused our organization." Shinichi turned around and saw Gin, who was enormous. Time seemed to slow down as Gin pulled out a gun. Ran turned around and her eyes grew wide. Gin pulled the trigger and the bullet sped towards Ran's head.

"I've got to save her!" Shinichi thought. He tried to push Ran out of the way but he was too small. All Shinichi could do was watch in vain as the bullet made impact, making Ran fall backwards. Her eyes met with Shinichi's, as if still believing that he would come to her.

"RAN!" Conan cried out as he sat up in his bed. It only took a couple of seconds for Ran to come running into the dark room.

"Conan!? What's wrong!?" She rushed to the side of the futon and looked the small boy over. He was drenched with sweat and was breathing quickly. His face showed something that Ran had never seen before. She could only describe it as…terror. "What happened?" She asked again calmly. Conan's eyes met hers and she could see relief flash through them.

"It was just a dream…She's alright." Conan thought as he took a deep breath. He looked at Ran and gave her a small smile. "It was nothing, Ran-neechan!"

Ran continued to stare at him. "He woke up screaming at one o'clock in the morning! There's no way that it was just nothing!" She sighed. "Did you have a nightmare?" Conan shook his head stubbornly. "That's just like Shinichi to be so stubborn!" Suddenly, Ran had an idea.

"R-Ran-neechan!? What are you doing!?" Conan demanded as Ran crawled into his futon and pulled the blanket over both of them.

Ran blushed but replied calmly. "I'm going to keep the bad dreams away!" She smiled and noticed that Conan's face turned red.

"Now I won't be able to go to sleep at all!" He thought. "Ran will kill me if she finds out that I'm Shinichi!"

"You know what? I'm scared," Ran admitted as she stared up at the ceiling. Conan turned on his side to look at her. He was surprised when he saw tears glistening on her cheeks in the moonlight.

"Ran…"

"I've always been worried about Shinichi since we were kids. I used to have nightmares that he would get eaten by a monster or something. It didn't help that he was always so reckless, running head-first into a case without even thinking. It's been years since I had bad dreams like that…but now I feel as if they're coming true." She turned and hugged Conan before he had time to react. "But I'm glad that you're safe!"

Conan slowly hugged Ran back. His small arms weren't long enough to meet but he could tell that Ran felt better. "Ran, I'm so sorry! Your dream really has come true!" They stayed like that for a while before Conan realized that Ran had already fallen asleep. "Crap! I'm so dead when this is all over!" He thought as his own eyelids became heavy. He smiled gently and drifted off to sleep.

Entry #11

Last night, Ran slept next to me. She said that it was to keep the nightmares away but I'm not so sure. She normally would just tough it out. I'm so glad that Ran doesn't know who I really am because I'm sure that she would have murdered me if she knew. She would probably think that I was a pervert or something.

That nightmare was horrible. I felt so small, insignificant, and helpless. I can't help but wonder if it's all true. I can't do anything the way that I am now. My life really is a living nightmare! I can't help but wonder if everyone would be better off without me around. But the worst part is that I'm still making Ran worry. I want to tell her everything but I know that if I do that, then she'll be in more danger. Even though I know that it hurts her, maybe even more than it hurts me, I would rather keep her safe. I don't know what I would do without Ran.

I need to wake up from this nightmare soon, for her sake.

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