*cough**cough* (Catz cleared her throat and was ready to write an essay)
Okay, I have always wanted to try to write a story with a different technique, so I hope you guys wont have many problems with understanding this chapter. ^_^
Well------read for yourself, and I very sure that you Conan fans know exactly which character is talking here!
Enjoy the fic! =^0^=
Chapter 23
"I Knew It!!"
I ran.
I swear I had never ever run so much in my life before. My legs were aching, and my heart beat so violently I thought any second now, it is going to jump out of my mouth and I am going to drop dead.
Sweat and blood covered my body. It was kinda gross. I know for sure that Kazuha wouldn't like to see me like this-if only I can get out of here alive.
Kudou were in front of me, and Hakuba behind. They were running for their lives too. I guessed they were about as tired as I was. But the adrenaline were pumping into our bodies, it made us run,
I never knew human can have so much energy when they are desperate.
We were trapped in this freaky mirror maze with a mad woman chasing behind us. Not to mention she had a gun and she have no problem with shooting at us with it.
I could smell smoke. The freaky woman also set the mansion on fire.
I know that the mirror maze was underground, but sooner or later, there is a chance that the fire will spread into the maze and if by that time we are still in the maze, that would be the end of us.
The thought made me panic. I ran faster and faster, ran past Shinichi. Okay, I didnt just ran past him, I pushed him.
"Hey watch it!" he roared.
"Shut up Kodou, you dont know where the hell you are going!" I roared back, but my voice were hoarse and my throat were dry as hell. It stung my throat just to speak.
Hakuba came up to us, coughing. "left turn." He pointed down at the long corridor. "We are close to the room." he was bending over, trying to catch his breath.
"How do you know?" Kudou and I asked, unwilling to listen to anyone right now.
"JUST TURN LEFT, BLOODY HELL!!" roared Hakuba. His head expanded bigger than average.
Kudou and I decided it was best not to argue with Hakuba when he is angry, so we walked, when we were about to make a left turn, the gun fire at us again. We ducked instinctively, as if we were fast enough to avoid a bullet.
"How the hell does she do it?!" I said. "We just cant lose her in here, can we?!"
"She knows where we are because you kept on talking!" snapped Kudou at me.
I wanted to argue back, but decided not to in case what he said was true.
Kudou and I are still angry at each other. I am not sure why though.
Kazuha and Ran are safe, I hope. So I really shouldn't be angry at him anymore. I know we both have a bad attitude and are unwilling to say sorry. But why the hell should I say sorry?
He called me a loser, a jerk and even punched me in the face. Yeah, I did punched him first I know, but he shouldn't called me a loser in the first place.
After Toyama and Ran escaped, Kudou and I were still bickering with each other, glaring at each other and Hakuba had to keep on stopping us.
I guess it was his attitude and my attitude. Our personality. We are two very different people. Kudou seemed to be a very proud and confident person. He is polite, caring (sometimes), and I will admit he is clever.
But he also likes to act cool. Especially in front of Ran.
Me? I do what I like, say what I like and do things my way. If I dont like someone, I will let them know.
One thing for sure though, we are both unwilling to admit when we are wrong about something. Especially when we thinks the other person is at much fault as ourselves.
I know him too well. We been through a hell of a lot together. We helped each other out so many times, we saved each other lives-----but I aint going to say I'm sorry. I guess this is a guys things.
Wait---something cought my eyes--------
"Here it is!" I shouted. I saw the light, sun light, lit up the ground. Loads and loads of broken glasses.
Then the ground shook. Literally.
We stumbled all over the place, and the loud crashing sound were all around us.
Sand, stone and mirrors collapsed, smoke and dust rose up to our faces. A rush of hot air blew into us, made it difficult to breath.
"The place is coming down!" shouted Kudou.
He was right about that, the whole maze was falling apart. I dont know how and I dont know why, but it must have something to do with us entering the codes. There was all sort of secret doors, traps and mechanic in this maze.
This place was designed to self destruct, along with who ever took Pandora.
With out thinking twice, we all entered the room and ran to the spiral stairs. The stairs were narrow so we had to go on one by one. With great difficulty, we climbed the stairs on all fours. I looked up.
It was a long way up, the stairs weren't exactly strong, and it wobbled everytime another wall collapsed in the maze.
"The ceiling." Gasped Hakuba. He was in front of me and Kudou.
I looked hard at the ceiling, it was dark and dust were every where. But something was moving, and I realised there was a person looking down at me.
It was me.
The ceiling were made of mirrors too!
"Sir Norferk must be obsessed with mirrors" I mumbled.
I also noticed I looked terribly ---well, wounded and dirty. Blood covered half my face, along with dust and sweat. My clothes was all dirty and ripped. Scratches and cuts were all over my body.
*Oh~ I wont be able to move for another two weeks after this!* I thought.
Then again, Kudou and Hakuba looked about the same, dirty and wounded.
It was when we were about half way through the stairs I asked the question what was in everyone's mind.
"How about Alice?"
Hakuba stopped and looked down at me. "---------if she cant get out of here, then the policemen can retrieve Pandora when this is over."
We went silent.
If she dies, the police can always dig out her body and find the Pandora later. If she gets out of here alive, then we might never get Pandora back.
It aint right. But what else could we do?
Hakuba looked extremely sad, I think we all did. We felt guilty. We shouldn't, really, after all, the woman killed so many people. Her family.
But------------------------
We kept going.
Sun light, shone into my eyes. I half closed my eyes, trying to adjust and get used to the light.
After several hours in the dark, I found it difficult to open my eyes when the light were so bright.
We were on top of the stairs, Hakuba struggled and pushed himself. He reached for the large hole above him, the only exit. He grabbed the edge of the hole with his hands. With a grunt, he lifted himself up.
I came up to him and gave him a pushed on his legs.
He was out.
Second later, his head appeared above me and reached down to give me his hand. I grabbed his hand and with the rest of my strength, I tried to lift myself up.
Hakuba grabbed me roughly and with my legs kicking at the air, I was out of the room.
Kudou didn't help me.
I really just wanted to collapse and sleep for about a year or two, I was too overwhelmed to do anything right then.
I was on top the of mansion.
I was outside.
It was a very BIG area, with several impressively large chimneys at the middle. Smoke were rising out of there too.
The exit was a few meters away from the chimney, other than that, it was just a big, empty space.
There were short walls built all the way around the mansion. But they were only about few feet high, anyone could jump over easily.
I could see the dark sea, the orangey sun, the purple and blue sky. I saw the green hills and dark green forest that surrounded the hotel.
I also saw the fire that slowly creep up around the hotel.
Fire was spreading fast. Black smoke slowly covered the sky.
I coughed and cursed. In less than a few minutes, the fire would swallow us.
I walked slowly to the edge of the mansion and looked down.
Black smoke rose up from the windows beneath me and rushed into my face, it stung my eyes, I covered my face and tried to see from the gaps between my fingers.
It was a LONG way down. I could see the wet, green lawn.
The grass must be soft and thick, but I am pretty sure it wont stop the gravity from killing us when we jump down from the top of the mansion.
I jumped away and turned a pair of watery eyes to look at my friends.
Hakuba was helping Kudou to get out of the maze, he pulled hard, and finally, Kudou was out.
I didn't help him either.
Both of them panted, sitting on the ground and looking exhausted.
"Thanks for the help, Heiji!" said Shinichi bitterly, staring at me.
"You are welcome." I replied. Then I looked at them. "Well, all we have to do now is jump."
"Jump?!" Kodou`s eyes went big and round. "We finally got out of the maze, because we wanted to live. Now you suggest we all suicide together?"
"What else can we do?!" I asked.
"Anything but that!"
"You are such a pain in the---"
"Wait!! Shut it you two----I remember----" muttered Hakuba, he stood up, looking around him. He seemed to be a bit confused, trying to figure out where we were.
Kudou and I just stared at him.
He then walked slowly to the west side of the mansion. He lean over to look down, coughed because of the smoke, and seconds later, he let out a happy shout.
"I KNEW IT!"
Quickly, he turned and waved at us, pointing down at something. "Look!"
Kudou and I went up to him and looked.
There was a pond beneath us, it was a big pound and it seemed to be very deep.
The pond was very full after the big storm last night.
"I noticed the pond when I was surveying the whole building. I thought this pond was way too close to the mansion, and I wondered why.
Now we know! It was designed to be closed to the mansion so people could jumped down and escaped the building before it collapse!"
Kudou and I just stared at Hakuba.
"You mean you want us to jump 30 meters down into the water?"
"Yeah."
"Bloody hell Hakuba! We are not Olympic divers!"
"How else are we going to escape the building?!" he asked. He has a point.
The three of us stood there, contemplating. I could feel the cold and hot wind blowing into my face. The fire will reach the top of the mansion in just a few minutes.
I looked up into the sky, between the black smoke, I could see the sun. It getting higher and higher into the sky, how long have we been here? Cant be more than a few minutes.
I felt dizzy and tired. So tired----------
I thought of Kazuha.
What is she doing now? Is she safely out of the mansion? What if she is still in the mansion, what if she didnt get out in time?
Will I ever see her again?
Something was in my throat, and my eyes went watery again. I think it was because of the smoke---------I dont know--------
I have to jump, I want to see Kazuha again.
I am not going to die here.
I turned and looked at Kudou and Hakuba. They had watery eyes too. Was it because of the smoke?
"GIVE IT TO ME!!"
A scream went off behind us.
We didn't even need to look back to know it was Alice.
*She is still alive?!* I thought, amazed.
She pointed the gun at us, hands shaking. She was tired and dirty, but she didnt have as many wounds as us.
We were close to the edge of the building. She stood next to the exit, there was about eight, nine meters between us. If only we can---------
"Dont even think about it! Move away from the edge, otherwise I will kill all of you right now!" she ordered.
Reluctantly, Hakuba and I moved away. No chance of jumping off the building then.
Shinichi didnt move.
Alice then glared at Shinichi. Anger and hatred were in her eyes.
"You! Give it to me, now!" she shouted.
Shinichi bit his lips. I could tell that he ran out of ideas. But he is a stubborn person, refusing to give up.
After a few seconds of silence, Shinichi finally opened his dry mouth.
"I havent got the diamond any more." He said calmly. "I lost it."
Alice looked at him with disbelieve. So did Hakuba and I. Then Alice barked a laugh.
"And you think I will believe that?!"
Shinichi reached into his top pocket, and I noticed it was flat. I saw him put the blue gem into this top pocket when we were in the maze! He really lost it! What an idiot!
Hakuba and I had our mouths wide opened with shock. Alice saw our expression, and she realised it wasn't acting.
"AHH!!" she screamed with frustration, panting, face paled. She grabbed her head as if was going to explode.
We all just stood there, watching her, not moving. Waiting to see what she is going to do. To us.
After a few seconds of silence, she raised her head slowly, eyes staring at us with hatred.
A cold smile appeared on the corner of her lisp.
"I WILL kill you, but I am not going to let you die so quickly by shooting you, Kudou." She smirked.
"You will suffer before you die------Get back into the maze!!"
"What?!" I shouted.
"GET BACK IN THERE!" she roared. "Otherwise I am going to kill your friends!"
"You are going to kill us anyway!" I said, and looked at Kudou. "Dont listen to her!"
Shinichi`s face was pale, but he didn't move. *I rather she shoot me than go back into that maze.*
I could tell that was what he was thinking.
"Dont move, Kudou." Said Hakuba.
None of us moved, we just stood there and waited. I watched the fire spreading quickly all around us.
It was so hot. All I could hear was the wind howling and the sound of fire burning.
That was the longest, hardest silence in my entire life so far.
I was holding my breath.
Alice laughed. "No? Then this is what you will get!"
she pointed the gun at Hakuba, and fired.
I watched in horror as Hakuba fell to the ground.
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To Be Continue----------------------------------------------------
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I will upload chapter 24 very soon (and thats a promise!)----in the mean time, comments please! =^_^=
I also got some really nice emails from some of you, so this is just my chance to say a big THANK YOU!!
Okay, I have always wanted to try to write a story with a different technique, so I hope you guys wont have many problems with understanding this chapter. ^_^
Well------read for yourself, and I very sure that you Conan fans know exactly which character is talking here!
Enjoy the fic! =^0^=
Chapter 23
"I Knew It!!"
I ran.
I swear I had never ever run so much in my life before. My legs were aching, and my heart beat so violently I thought any second now, it is going to jump out of my mouth and I am going to drop dead.
Sweat and blood covered my body. It was kinda gross. I know for sure that Kazuha wouldn't like to see me like this-if only I can get out of here alive.
Kudou were in front of me, and Hakuba behind. They were running for their lives too. I guessed they were about as tired as I was. But the adrenaline were pumping into our bodies, it made us run,
I never knew human can have so much energy when they are desperate.
We were trapped in this freaky mirror maze with a mad woman chasing behind us. Not to mention she had a gun and she have no problem with shooting at us with it.
I could smell smoke. The freaky woman also set the mansion on fire.
I know that the mirror maze was underground, but sooner or later, there is a chance that the fire will spread into the maze and if by that time we are still in the maze, that would be the end of us.
The thought made me panic. I ran faster and faster, ran past Shinichi. Okay, I didnt just ran past him, I pushed him.
"Hey watch it!" he roared.
"Shut up Kodou, you dont know where the hell you are going!" I roared back, but my voice were hoarse and my throat were dry as hell. It stung my throat just to speak.
Hakuba came up to us, coughing. "left turn." He pointed down at the long corridor. "We are close to the room." he was bending over, trying to catch his breath.
"How do you know?" Kudou and I asked, unwilling to listen to anyone right now.
"JUST TURN LEFT, BLOODY HELL!!" roared Hakuba. His head expanded bigger than average.
Kudou and I decided it was best not to argue with Hakuba when he is angry, so we walked, when we were about to make a left turn, the gun fire at us again. We ducked instinctively, as if we were fast enough to avoid a bullet.
"How the hell does she do it?!" I said. "We just cant lose her in here, can we?!"
"She knows where we are because you kept on talking!" snapped Kudou at me.
I wanted to argue back, but decided not to in case what he said was true.
Kudou and I are still angry at each other. I am not sure why though.
Kazuha and Ran are safe, I hope. So I really shouldn't be angry at him anymore. I know we both have a bad attitude and are unwilling to say sorry. But why the hell should I say sorry?
He called me a loser, a jerk and even punched me in the face. Yeah, I did punched him first I know, but he shouldn't called me a loser in the first place.
After Toyama and Ran escaped, Kudou and I were still bickering with each other, glaring at each other and Hakuba had to keep on stopping us.
I guess it was his attitude and my attitude. Our personality. We are two very different people. Kudou seemed to be a very proud and confident person. He is polite, caring (sometimes), and I will admit he is clever.
But he also likes to act cool. Especially in front of Ran.
Me? I do what I like, say what I like and do things my way. If I dont like someone, I will let them know.
One thing for sure though, we are both unwilling to admit when we are wrong about something. Especially when we thinks the other person is at much fault as ourselves.
I know him too well. We been through a hell of a lot together. We helped each other out so many times, we saved each other lives-----but I aint going to say I'm sorry. I guess this is a guys things.
Wait---something cought my eyes--------
"Here it is!" I shouted. I saw the light, sun light, lit up the ground. Loads and loads of broken glasses.
Then the ground shook. Literally.
We stumbled all over the place, and the loud crashing sound were all around us.
Sand, stone and mirrors collapsed, smoke and dust rose up to our faces. A rush of hot air blew into us, made it difficult to breath.
"The place is coming down!" shouted Kudou.
He was right about that, the whole maze was falling apart. I dont know how and I dont know why, but it must have something to do with us entering the codes. There was all sort of secret doors, traps and mechanic in this maze.
This place was designed to self destruct, along with who ever took Pandora.
With out thinking twice, we all entered the room and ran to the spiral stairs. The stairs were narrow so we had to go on one by one. With great difficulty, we climbed the stairs on all fours. I looked up.
It was a long way up, the stairs weren't exactly strong, and it wobbled everytime another wall collapsed in the maze.
"The ceiling." Gasped Hakuba. He was in front of me and Kudou.
I looked hard at the ceiling, it was dark and dust were every where. But something was moving, and I realised there was a person looking down at me.
It was me.
The ceiling were made of mirrors too!
"Sir Norferk must be obsessed with mirrors" I mumbled.
I also noticed I looked terribly ---well, wounded and dirty. Blood covered half my face, along with dust and sweat. My clothes was all dirty and ripped. Scratches and cuts were all over my body.
*Oh~ I wont be able to move for another two weeks after this!* I thought.
Then again, Kudou and Hakuba looked about the same, dirty and wounded.
It was when we were about half way through the stairs I asked the question what was in everyone's mind.
"How about Alice?"
Hakuba stopped and looked down at me. "---------if she cant get out of here, then the policemen can retrieve Pandora when this is over."
We went silent.
If she dies, the police can always dig out her body and find the Pandora later. If she gets out of here alive, then we might never get Pandora back.
It aint right. But what else could we do?
Hakuba looked extremely sad, I think we all did. We felt guilty. We shouldn't, really, after all, the woman killed so many people. Her family.
But------------------------
We kept going.
Sun light, shone into my eyes. I half closed my eyes, trying to adjust and get used to the light.
After several hours in the dark, I found it difficult to open my eyes when the light were so bright.
We were on top of the stairs, Hakuba struggled and pushed himself. He reached for the large hole above him, the only exit. He grabbed the edge of the hole with his hands. With a grunt, he lifted himself up.
I came up to him and gave him a pushed on his legs.
He was out.
Second later, his head appeared above me and reached down to give me his hand. I grabbed his hand and with the rest of my strength, I tried to lift myself up.
Hakuba grabbed me roughly and with my legs kicking at the air, I was out of the room.
Kudou didn't help me.
I really just wanted to collapse and sleep for about a year or two, I was too overwhelmed to do anything right then.
I was on top the of mansion.
I was outside.
It was a very BIG area, with several impressively large chimneys at the middle. Smoke were rising out of there too.
The exit was a few meters away from the chimney, other than that, it was just a big, empty space.
There were short walls built all the way around the mansion. But they were only about few feet high, anyone could jump over easily.
I could see the dark sea, the orangey sun, the purple and blue sky. I saw the green hills and dark green forest that surrounded the hotel.
I also saw the fire that slowly creep up around the hotel.
Fire was spreading fast. Black smoke slowly covered the sky.
I coughed and cursed. In less than a few minutes, the fire would swallow us.
I walked slowly to the edge of the mansion and looked down.
Black smoke rose up from the windows beneath me and rushed into my face, it stung my eyes, I covered my face and tried to see from the gaps between my fingers.
It was a LONG way down. I could see the wet, green lawn.
The grass must be soft and thick, but I am pretty sure it wont stop the gravity from killing us when we jump down from the top of the mansion.
I jumped away and turned a pair of watery eyes to look at my friends.
Hakuba was helping Kudou to get out of the maze, he pulled hard, and finally, Kudou was out.
I didn't help him either.
Both of them panted, sitting on the ground and looking exhausted.
"Thanks for the help, Heiji!" said Shinichi bitterly, staring at me.
"You are welcome." I replied. Then I looked at them. "Well, all we have to do now is jump."
"Jump?!" Kodou`s eyes went big and round. "We finally got out of the maze, because we wanted to live. Now you suggest we all suicide together?"
"What else can we do?!" I asked.
"Anything but that!"
"You are such a pain in the---"
"Wait!! Shut it you two----I remember----" muttered Hakuba, he stood up, looking around him. He seemed to be a bit confused, trying to figure out where we were.
Kudou and I just stared at him.
He then walked slowly to the west side of the mansion. He lean over to look down, coughed because of the smoke, and seconds later, he let out a happy shout.
"I KNEW IT!"
Quickly, he turned and waved at us, pointing down at something. "Look!"
Kudou and I went up to him and looked.
There was a pond beneath us, it was a big pound and it seemed to be very deep.
The pond was very full after the big storm last night.
"I noticed the pond when I was surveying the whole building. I thought this pond was way too close to the mansion, and I wondered why.
Now we know! It was designed to be closed to the mansion so people could jumped down and escaped the building before it collapse!"
Kudou and I just stared at Hakuba.
"You mean you want us to jump 30 meters down into the water?"
"Yeah."
"Bloody hell Hakuba! We are not Olympic divers!"
"How else are we going to escape the building?!" he asked. He has a point.
The three of us stood there, contemplating. I could feel the cold and hot wind blowing into my face. The fire will reach the top of the mansion in just a few minutes.
I looked up into the sky, between the black smoke, I could see the sun. It getting higher and higher into the sky, how long have we been here? Cant be more than a few minutes.
I felt dizzy and tired. So tired----------
I thought of Kazuha.
What is she doing now? Is she safely out of the mansion? What if she is still in the mansion, what if she didnt get out in time?
Will I ever see her again?
Something was in my throat, and my eyes went watery again. I think it was because of the smoke---------I dont know--------
I have to jump, I want to see Kazuha again.
I am not going to die here.
I turned and looked at Kudou and Hakuba. They had watery eyes too. Was it because of the smoke?
"GIVE IT TO ME!!"
A scream went off behind us.
We didn't even need to look back to know it was Alice.
*She is still alive?!* I thought, amazed.
She pointed the gun at us, hands shaking. She was tired and dirty, but she didnt have as many wounds as us.
We were close to the edge of the building. She stood next to the exit, there was about eight, nine meters between us. If only we can---------
"Dont even think about it! Move away from the edge, otherwise I will kill all of you right now!" she ordered.
Reluctantly, Hakuba and I moved away. No chance of jumping off the building then.
Shinichi didnt move.
Alice then glared at Shinichi. Anger and hatred were in her eyes.
"You! Give it to me, now!" she shouted.
Shinichi bit his lips. I could tell that he ran out of ideas. But he is a stubborn person, refusing to give up.
After a few seconds of silence, Shinichi finally opened his dry mouth.
"I havent got the diamond any more." He said calmly. "I lost it."
Alice looked at him with disbelieve. So did Hakuba and I. Then Alice barked a laugh.
"And you think I will believe that?!"
Shinichi reached into his top pocket, and I noticed it was flat. I saw him put the blue gem into this top pocket when we were in the maze! He really lost it! What an idiot!
Hakuba and I had our mouths wide opened with shock. Alice saw our expression, and she realised it wasn't acting.
"AHH!!" she screamed with frustration, panting, face paled. She grabbed her head as if was going to explode.
We all just stood there, watching her, not moving. Waiting to see what she is going to do. To us.
After a few seconds of silence, she raised her head slowly, eyes staring at us with hatred.
A cold smile appeared on the corner of her lisp.
"I WILL kill you, but I am not going to let you die so quickly by shooting you, Kudou." She smirked.
"You will suffer before you die------Get back into the maze!!"
"What?!" I shouted.
"GET BACK IN THERE!" she roared. "Otherwise I am going to kill your friends!"
"You are going to kill us anyway!" I said, and looked at Kudou. "Dont listen to her!"
Shinichi`s face was pale, but he didn't move. *I rather she shoot me than go back into that maze.*
I could tell that was what he was thinking.
"Dont move, Kudou." Said Hakuba.
None of us moved, we just stood there and waited. I watched the fire spreading quickly all around us.
It was so hot. All I could hear was the wind howling and the sound of fire burning.
That was the longest, hardest silence in my entire life so far.
I was holding my breath.
Alice laughed. "No? Then this is what you will get!"
she pointed the gun at Hakuba, and fired.
I watched in horror as Hakuba fell to the ground.
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To Be Continue----------------------------------------------------
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I will upload chapter 24 very soon (and thats a promise!)----in the mean time, comments please! =^_^=
I also got some really nice emails from some of you, so this is just my chance to say a big THANK YOU!!