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Do I have to say this? Disclaimer in chapter one! -.-
Name correspondences off my hat:
Conan=Conan Shinichi=Jimmy
Ran=Rachel Ayumi/Genta/Mitsuhiko=Amy/George/Mitch
Agasa Hiroshi=Agasa (where's my first name?)
(At night)Kaitou Kid= Phantom Thief Kid= Kuroba Kaito (during Day time)
Koizumi Akako= Magic Kaito character
Haibara Aï = Sherry = Shiho Miyano = Not appeared yet! :cp
Now, I'm done with the multiple-identities.
Oh, and Ruthan's mine... Although he caaan do as he pleases...
Just like Baikal and Akira (other OCs) have been doing in my French Fic. Half sorry for such a late update... Those two guys (and Ran) were too busy keeping ME busy in my French fic... Although...
Only a couple more chapters and that one's done! Yeah ! That would be my first ever Completed multiparter hahaha:cD And I'm so thrilled at the idea of what might hit my French readers in the back of the head XD
Huhum
And sorry if I like poor Agasa's lab and explosions getting along so much o.o I guess it might be a little mean...
Enjoy! (Do tell me if these chapters are getting too long... Although the more the merrier some might say!)
Oh review response: Thanks Anica106 :c) and sorry for confusing you. I assumed that the reason I'd never heard of a Booker before was because it wasn't a name used a lot in my area o.o (although an englishy name in France would be hard to just drop upon) And thank you Eiri-san1 - I enjoy having fun ;cD
Ack, they strip the arrows in between which I put thoughts and my multiple % separators XD nooo!
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The Lion's Ruby
By Dagron
Chapter 4: The witch's advice...
%please stay%
The first thing they did once inside was to get all the newcomers seated in the living room. Conan and his three friends helped by fetching some more chairs, while Haibara went to get the professor. Ran decided to make some tea and Kaito offered to help, considering bringing through teacups for fifteen people to be the best occasion to show of his juggling art. Of course, he didn't warn Ran before hand, having simply insisted on lending a hand.
The Hylians fidgeted and exchanged comments on what they had seen so far of the country named Japan. Soon the Detective Boys had brought enough chairs through, and settled to wait for the Professor and tea, Genta, Mitsuhiko and Ayumi, in their friendly childish way inquiring about the world of the three smaller newcomers.
Kaito soon arrived carrying, er, sorry, juggling with apparent ease the fifteen tea cups. Conan and Ran's nervous glimpses at his handling the cups where accompanied by Oohs and Aahs from the others.
Alas Kaito's show was soon interrupted as everyone jumped upon hearing the noise of glass breaking. Kaito rapidly stopped juggling and plonked the cups onto the table, counting them in the process. Nope, all were there and none were broken. The noise must have come from somewhere else in the house. That theory was confirmed by Haibara's shouts of "Professor!" and the boom of a small explosion coming from somewhere near the back of the house.
Link, Zelda and company were soon greeted by the sight of the owner of the house. Professor Agasa, as most of you already now, was a portly man of similar birth to Rauru's. He wore a somewhat better for the wear white lab coat on top of his normal everyday attire. His bushy moustache and hair, usually white, were grey with soot. On the whole, he looked friendly enough, although his smearing black marks across his forehead did nothing to help his exterior. The Detective Boys giggled. Conan and Ran sighed once again, and Kaito had the grace to only look curious. Haibara shook her head in resignation before heading to the bathroom to get a facecloth for the professor.
"Haha...Well, welcome to my home," said the Professor. "Ai tells me you people were in some kind of fix, and I'm inclined to believe her. My name is Agasa Hiroshi, shall we begin?"
The professor sat down on a free chair, inviting one of the newcomers to start their tale. Zelda, being the princess, politely waited while the professor thanked Haibara and proceeded to wipe off most of the soot from his face, before introducing herself and her friends.
"I am Zelda, princess of Hyrule. These people here..." she indicated her companions in order. "Are Link, hero of time and saviour of Hyrule, Rauru, the guardian of the temple of Time and sage of Light, Impa, the sage of Shadow, Saria, sage of the Forest, Goron-Link, son to the goron leader and Ruthan, the Zora King's nephew."
- Riiight...- thought Conan, - So she is a princess. I don't quite get the sage things though. - The Detective Boys simply blinked, before asking Saria in aparté whether being a sage was a cool thing or not. Haibara simply stayed stoic as Ran proceeded to introduce her self and the children.
"And you are?" inquired Agasa upon noticing Kaito.
Stepping proudly forward, Kaito proceeded to introduce himself in amongst a shower of confetti, letting a few doves fly out from within his sleeves.
"I am Kuroba Kaito, teenage magician extraordinaire, would be Kaitô Kid stalker and accessorily witness to these peoples' arrival."
"Ah that explains the tea cups then." Commented Conan dryly. Kaito returned the sarcastic look. Haibara muttered to herself something about hoping he would clean up his own confetti.
"Ah yes," said Zelda, ignoring Conan's sarcasm. "Do tell us what you saw when we arrived at... Beika Park, that's what you call it?"
With a nod, Kaito began to tell them his story. No, he did not tell them of how he had fallen upon his father's secret cove and picked up his mantel. He told them the strict truth: he, Kuroba Kaito, a normal Highschool grader who just happened to be stalking Kid last night, managed to keep up with the thief until Beika Park. There, he watched as the wondrous magician (that he knows he is, whatever Aoko might have to say about it), lifted the Lion's Ruby, that night's heist, up to the moon. There, the pretty jewel started shining and, after the thief had gallantly dropped it to the floor, (he wasn't going to admit that he freaked out,) the light started swirling until it reached it's climax. Said climax at which the light became blindingly bright the length of a thunder clash (which apparently had not been caused by a passing cloud, there being none), before returning to normal leaving only the sound of people thudding down to the grass below.
"After that, Kid left, so I decided it was time I went home to bed. Swirly bright jewels aren't really my cup of tea." He finished, putting described cup to his lips.
"Wow, that's really weird!" exclaimed Mitsuhiko. Ruthan enthusiastically seconded the freckled boy's opinion.
"Do you think it might be some kind of magic stone?" asked Genta, his voice filled with excitement.
"It sounds like one," answered Goron-Link, whom the detective boys had already nicknamed G-Link, or Glink, saying that his name then made the same sound as he did when crunching on rocks. (They had -luckily- managed to dissuade him from biting a chunk out of his mug.)
"That's so cool. What do you think Ai?" chirped Ayumi, while Saria simply hummed her approval behind her.
"Well, there's definitely something abnormal about that jewel. Of course, it could be one of Kaitou Kid's tricks too, although that does seem unlikely."
Her comment was answered by gasps of uncharacteristic shock.
"What?!" she asked, swirling her face towards the others.
"Ha- Haibara! Your eyes! They're..." mumbled Mitsuhiko.
Conan too then turned to look at Haibara's eyes. He gasped at what he saw. Her eyes, usually a cusp of emerald green und turquoise blue were glowing, an unusual bright red.
Link too, started, as he had just noticed Kuroba's eyes change colour too. They had changed from their tranquil marina blue to a flickering violet. He shuddered.
Impa, who had been deep in the thought, looked up. She had a guilty tremor as she took in the facts. She took a deep breath, and as suddenly as they had first, Haibara's and Kuroba's eyes changed color once again.
"What's wrong with my eyes?" Haibara asked, annoyed at not understanding what all the fuss was about.
"Ah! There back to normal!" stated Ayumi.
"Your eyes glowed red! So weird! Can you do that again?!" wondered Genta. For all response he got a level glare and the most disbelieving look Haibara had yet had to give him.
Rauru coughed politely, indicating that it was best to return to the safe conversation of the Lion's Ruby.
"Hmm," went Zelda. "The Lion's Ruby you say?" Gingerly she took the said mineral out of her pocket and laid it on the table.
"As for our part of the story, we did not know the name of this stone. We simply found it laying on the floor, just outside Ganondorf's empty prison. It was our only clue as to how he had escaped from the secret realm, and we were gathering so as to discuss it. Before..."
She waved her hand in the air, as if to describe the swirling light and teleportation that followed.
"But now that you mention it, I do believe this could be the Lion's Rupee."
"Ah yes..." said Impa. "I do recall you telling me of it, when we talked about the legends your father passed down to you. You said something about it being part of a set of three, not unlike the spiritual stones, keys to the secret realm. Not much else though."
Kaito groaned at this.
"What's wrong?" asked Ran.
"I am so going to regret this..." Kaito muttered to himself. To the others' profit, he said more loudly:
"I believe I might know of someone with good knowledge of such 'magical' stones." Wryly, he continued. "Just give me five minutes, I'll go call her."
Without waiting for an answer, he strode out towards the front door.
"Ah, that reminds me, I left something on in my lab, I should go check it out." The professor stood up with these words.
Haibara stared up at him with a shocked look in her eyes.
"You didn't... !"
And, as if to mock her, the third explosion of the day sounded from behind the house. With a slight apology, both scientist and protégée hurried towards where the boom had come from.
The detective boys sweat dropped a little. Ruthan looked up towards Impa.
"Can we?" With a nod, Impa agreed, and Ruthan and Glink darted out to the garden to play, closely followed by the local child brigade. Conan blinked as he looked at Saria.
"You're not following them?"
She shook her head, smiling, humming something close to a 'no'.
"Oh well." Conan stood up to help Ran gather up the cups and mugs, as she carried the tea tray to the kitchen, thus leaving the newcomers, minus two, alone to talk.
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- I don't want to do this; I really don't want to do this. - thought Kaito desperately as he stopped by the gate, searching his pockets for something unknown. A few rainbow coloured hankies and confetti later, he held up something that looked vaguely like one of those transparent rubbery medicine pills that you feel like squeezing. For those who read Full Metal Alchemist, aka Hagaren, it might look like one of them philosopher stones. Of course, it was neither, but Kaito still looked at it as if it could bite. He recalled what had happened in class the previous day.
Although his mind had been whirling about in excitement, at the thought of the upcoming heist, he was studiously keeping up his act of boredom. It was afternoon break, and Aoko had gone off to chatter with Keiko. He'd finished playing tricks for the day, and was patiently waiting for the bell to ring.
"Hey..."
- Ooh bugs bunny... - It was the local witch and class top model, Koizumi Akako. She'd be nice enough if...
"I hear Kid is going to a rather special heist tonight."
...If she didn't keep going on about him as if he was Kid. He knew he was, she knew he was... But he was damned if he'd admit it. Oh, and there was the little matter of her hitting on him which kind of irked him too. Hell, she'd tried to kill him because of it!
"So?" he answered, wishing she wouldn't bend her head in that way.
"If he hears anything about that query of his being part of a set of three, I do think he should call upon me."
"Ha! And how would he do that?" He didn't like the sound of this. Koizumi's hunches, the one's that had her bugging him before a heist, were usually accurate. Although why she tried to help him, he had no clue, probably something along the line of her conquest of the whole male portion of humanity.
"With this..." she plonked a little blob on the table. It was solid, but the red fluid inside flopped around, as the exterior complied.
"He just needs to be outside and to squeeze it hard in his palm, and I'll be there in a jiffy."
"You're not serious..." But the dark-haired beauty had already whisked herself off to her desk, leaving just in time for the bell to ring.
And now, Kaito was really considering using the stupid thing.
After taking in a breath, he mentally counted to five and...
... Squeezed!
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