%Blabber warning - shouldn't be so much next chapter%

Dagron somehow got the very, very weird idea to write a Zelda – Detective Conan crossover.

Not knowing where to put it (how many people go to the crossover section?) she thinks the best place to put it is in the DC/CC section, since Hey! DC/CC fans are more likely to recognise Zelda characters than the other way around :c)

Dagron ponders a moment: "Eck don't tell me that Zelda characters have different names in the US?!" %Dagron gets GLARED at by Funimation% "Ah, ha, just kidding!" %sweatdrops%

Ooookay

Disclaimer (why do English fanfics have disclaimers and not the French ones?!):

Detective Conan and Magik Kaito are Gosho Aoyama's and his alone! (Hear that Funi'?) %Dagron gets clobbered xx% er,... and... Zelda is... Nintendo's-.... %faints%

DC character name changes I know of and that you'll need to know for this chapter (for those who aren't lucky and don't get to know the original names):

Er... Phantom Thief Kid = not appeared yet and probably won't have a real name change.

Hakuba Saguru= Not likely to appear (only one or two eps, around ep 300 was it?)

Koizumi Akako=even less likely and all three are really Magik Kaito cast...

Oh well, I promise Conan will appear next chappy.

(And if anyone would be as kind as to share the Funi' names of Eri Kisaki (Ran/Rachel's Mom) Akemi Miyano (I know her borrowed name Masami Hirota was changed to Michelle, but I am curious to know what the guy with long hair called her at the end of the ep where she appeared) and of Shinichi's parents (I think they appear somewhat this week) I would be most happy, since I'm really curious about all these name changes! Wonder when someone will post a fic with "Harley Hartwell" instead of Heiji written :cp)

Oh and reviews are REALLY helpful, because they give me insight on how bad/good I write. I'm too in the writing to be a good judge myself.

%End of the ratbag Dagron's Blabber%

The Lion's Ruby

By Dagron

Chapter 1: Of ruby and rupee.

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The trees in the park were rustled gently by the wind as he landed in their midst, silently letting his paraglider slide back into hiding. His moonlit face smirked at the thought of the police officers all running and cursing after a decoy Kid. He chuckled softly remembering the face Hakuba, one of the most clever detectives he knew of, had made when he, Phantom Thief Kid, had outwitted him by both getting the stone he sought after and somehow landing the half British detective under the famed "Dog-pile on the Bandit".

He sighed, taking the jewel in question out of one of his numerous secret pockets. It was a very rare ruby, its color akin to golden and translucent, the Lion's Ruby. Looking up towards the full moon in the clear sky above his head, he held the jewel up high.

His eyes opened wide as something he hadn't really expected happened.

"It's glowing... I can't believe it's actually glowing!"

He let out a whoop of victory, and did some sort of jig with his feet, before pausing, suddenly unsure...

"But wasn't Pandora supposed to glow red?!"

Suddenly the golden shining light of the stone intensified, the hand he was holding it with felt it start to vibrate. With a yelp he dropped it to the floor, and jumped to the top bough of the closest tree. There he looked down at the ruby, which was now surrounded by a twirling glow. The glow widened, as he looked on. He wondered whether the sorceress Koizumi Akako would be able to somehow explain this phenomenon to him; if he cared to ask of course...

With a flash of light, the stone blinded him, as he heard something like a roll of thunder followed by the dull thuds of heavy objects landing on the grass.

Once the light had subsided, and he had regained his eyesight, he discovered several lumps that looked like people... Several very, very Weird people.

"That's it!" He grumbled to himself. "No more Ginger Ale for Me before a heist..."

And with a puff of smoke, the magician thief vanished, leaving the ruby and the lumps/people undisturbed.

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When Link awoke, he felt as if he'd been knocked out by a Stafoss. A painful thing such a headache is. He rubbed his hand against his forehead, muttering under his breath. When he opened his eyes, all he saw was that they seemed to be in some sort of clearing surrounded by trees. Slowly standing up, he looked around. It was night. Boy he hated not knowing where he was when it was dark. He noticed that he wasn't alone though, and smiled.

He poked the seemingly sleeping form closest to him.

The unmoving lump groaned in response. "Wake up princess." He whispered. The girl turned her face to face him, blinking through her eyes that wouldn't see him just yet.

"Link?" She asked. The seventeen year-old boy smiled. "I'm going to see if I can wake the others."

And with that, he started prodding the sleeping forms that lay around, each groaning in turn as the minds swirled back to consciousness.

To his delight, the sky was starting to brighten, announcing that morning was soon to come. He would be going of to find wood and food soon. He was glad his headache too had gone, but he somehow felt as though he was forgetting something. He shrugged, and went towards the thickest clump of trees in search of dry twigs and fallen branches.

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Around twenty minutes later, in the slowly brighter morning, Link, Zelda and their companions were gathered together around a tiny twig fire.

Apart from the Hyrulian Princess and the Hero of time, there could be found:

-Impa, the princess's sheikah body-guard and sage of shadow.

-Saria, Link's childhood friend and sage of the forest.

-Darunia, the sage of the fire's son, named Link after Link.

-The Zora princess, sage of water, Ruto's cousin, Ruthan.

-The sage of Light, Rauru.

Each and every one of them was baffled as to how they had found themselves in the clearing without their knowledge.

With a sigh, Zelda, also known as the sage of wisdom, decided it was time to put things straight.

"Okay. So none of us know how we got here. But I think we all remember being in the same place before we arrived here, right?"

"The castle!" Answered Ruthan brightly.

"We were organizing an emergency meeting as to the escape from the temple of time of the evil lord Ganondorf." Recalled Impa.

"There was a crack in the pedestal of the Master sword and a magic rupee lying on the floor." Added Rauru, helpfully.

"And when I took the master sword out to check in on the light kingdom, Ganondorf wasn't there." Explained Link.

"You then called on an emergency meeting of the sages..." continued Saria.

"Or a relative of their choice..." Goron-Link rectified, pointing to Ruthan and him.

"And before all the sages had arrived..." Zelda said.

"The magical rupee left behind glowed." Her six companions finished her sentence.

"Indeed." Said the princess. She pulled the rupee in question out of her pocket. She had found it lying on the grass not far from where she had woken up.

"I believe this stone has something to do with how we magically found ourselves here."

"Where ever "here" is..." commented Link dryly. He was pretty confused at how few branches he had been able to find under the trees, and at the total absence of edible berries, fruit, roots or even game that he could recognise.

He somehow wasn't convinced that they find themselves somewhere in Hyrule at all.

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