ùUsual Blabber Corner.ù
Had nothing better to do then type this chapter up. ;cp
Ganondorf is a real pain, he doesn't need to show up that his name has already -Darkened- the tone. See new original character.
On a brighter note, here comes Akako in the flesh. I think I can have some fun with her. (giggles thinking of the plot in her head.)
Anyways, hope you enjoy this chappy ;cD
And thanks for your reviews Terra89 and Fyliwion :c)
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Chapter 6: The three rupees.
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Ran was the first to return to the living room. Conan arrived at approximately the same tame as Glink, Ruthan and the Detective Boy threesome came squealing in from the garden.
Akako's entrance was noticed.
She glided in on Kaito's footsteps. All the boy's, minus Kaito and surprisingly Link, blushed upon seeing the dark-haired beauty.
Zelda, Ran and Ayumi shared Kaito's 'not impressed' look, while the others simply looked on in curiosity.
Once Agasa and Haibara had returned, ('And not a moment too soon! Thought Kaito,) the young magician introduced his classmate.
« Okay guys (and ladies), this here is Koizumi Akako. Koizumi, meet the 'gang'. »
You would probably think a gentlemanly future stage man like him could have done a better presentation…
But that was without counting on the fact that Akako liked to rule the stage.
« Pleased to meet you, » she said, sitting herself down in the chair previously occupied by Kaito. « And welcome, » she added, nodding to the Hylians. They weren't that hard to pick out.
The Queen was seated on her Throne, surrounded by her counsellors. She smiled.
She quickly reassured them, she did not need to be told their names, (she didn't want to be bothered remembering them,) and rapidly came down to business. Ignoring the children's whispers of 'old witch' (and swearing interiorly to get back at them for it,) she slumped a pile of paper onto the table.
« Here is some information on the Lion's, Mermaid's, and the Centaur's rubies , » she said.
Link and Zelda, being the closest to the table, stared at the sheets.
« What… language is it in? »
Akako stared back at Zelda.
« In Japanese. »
« Can't read Japanese, » stated Link, shaking his head.
« But you speak it! » Went Ran, astonished.
« We speak Hylian, » said Rauru.
Both newcomers and locals blinked.
« Riiiight, » intervened Akako. « Anyway, I'll summarize it for you. »
To make a long summary short, the three rubies Koizumi had named were all supposedly magic stones, believed to peak in power every 333rd full moon.
« Last night, » she said, « was the second night of the full moon. It is understood that each of these stones is active only one separate night. »
They pondered the thought.
« You mean… » started Ruthan, hesitantly, « That to go home, we must find the rupee out of the two others that will peak this evening? »
« That's what seems most likely, » she answered. Zelda stared at Akako.
« The second night of the full moon? » asked the princess. The witch nodded.
« You don't mean… » started Impa.
« No… It can't be… » added Rauru.
The locals were confused by the looks of terror the elder Hylians were exchanging.
« It can't be what?! » demanded Conan. He did not like the feeling of this.
Link stood up.
« You remember, » he said, « that we mentioned a man escaping from the sacred realm where he had been imprisoned… » The teenage boy pointed at the Lion's ruby. « We found that Rupee as only clue as to where he'd gone… But if what you… » he nodded at Koizumi, « have said is true… »
« It is very likely that Ganondorf has arrived here the first night of the Fullmoon. » Finished Impa.
Both Saria and Glink let out a small cry of anguish.
« What… What has this Ganondorf done? » asked Agasa. The locals had been made very nervous by the newcomers' reactions.
When Zelda had finished sketching out the ambitious Gerudo thief's rise and fall from power, they understood, perhaps not totally, but sufficiently, why the thought of Ganondorf free caused the Hylians so much worry.
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Ichigo Tsuki moaned, as he gripped his head. He was a skinny man in his late twenties. His shallow face and prominent forehead were topped by a scraggy mop of dark oily hair. His eyes, usually glassy from his excessive drinking, were now skitty with terror.
« They don't believe me. They don't want to believe me. The bastards! He killed him… » A sob escaped from his constricted throat.
« Ihara's Dead!!! »
With an excess of reckless fury, he stood up and hit at the door against which he had been leaning. Tears of frustration rolled down his sunken cheeks. He slumped back down to the floor and curled up into a sobbing form.
The events of the night before last kept unrolling again and again in his mind.
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Heiji Hattori picked up the mobile phone that was on the table, beside his personal computer. He pressed the call button, but then he remembered that he was a bit short on credit. He put the mobile down and, taking his printouts and notes with him, he went to use the house phone. He sighed as he leaned against the wall, waiting for the other person to answer the phone.
« Come on, Kudo… » he muttered. Kazuha and his mom were in the garden, and he was hoping to avoid annoying questions.
CLICK « Hello? »
'At last!'
« Hi Kudo! » Heiji's thick brows formed a frown when he noticed the noisy background he could hear through the receiver. « What the…? »
« Don't ask. » answered the lilting child's voice at the other end.
Conan was not impressed by Kuroba's act of 'Changing the Hylians into suitable clothes.'
… Especially since he had the nagging suspicion that the 'Suitable clothing' had been mostly borrowed from the Kudo household. He had also noticed Haibara lift an eyebrow on seeing Rauru's and Saria's new get-ups. He went on…
« What have you found? » Conan tried hard to ignore the newcomers' cries of enthusiasm and Kaito's loud « Prestos! »
Heiji smiled dryly.
« On your Lion's ruby, your Hylians or your weirdly dressed comrades? »
« Don't go there. »
Heiji chuckled.
« Well, I keyed in the words Hyrule, Hylian and all I found was fantasy or videogame websites. Nothing fancy on the Lion's ruby either. I don't think you're interested in pricing value or Voodoo… They do say that the Phantom Thief Kid stole it last night though. Oh! There was a mention of 'Hyrule' in a case two nights back… »
« Two nights ago?! » Conan's tone of voice sounded urgent.
« Er, yeah. Some drunkard and his mate. The drunkard, by the investigator's opinion, found a way to put himself on fire. His mate swears that some tall red head, dark skinned guy in leather came around and got into a fight with the victim. He says he said something like 'Tell me how to get to Hyrule from Here!' The victim, the mate says, didn't comply so the 'thug' killed him with some fancy trick before stalking off. »
The line went silent for a while.
« Oye! Can you at least fill me in on what your case is? I mean I've had to put up with a lot of Kazuha's nagging while doing this research! »
« Give me a minute will you? » Conan didn't wait for an answer. He went around the coach to discreetly ask Zelda for a description of Ganondorf. When he came back to the phone, Heiji was fuming.
« Look Hattori, I don't understand much about this case at the moment. Can you give me the details of the 'witness' and his description of the murder? »
Heiji was puzzled.
« Wooh, you mean you think this guy is telling us the truth?! »
« Why not? »
« Saying that some giant freak used Fireballs and bolts of lightning to murder someone doesn't make me very convinced. »
An exasperated sigh was heard.
« I know. Just give me the details will you? »
« Sure, but you owe me one! »
Hattori, after giving the details, didn't wait to cut the connection.
Conan looked with an air of dejection at his miniature phone, (that few had noticed him using.)
'In the name of Holmes, I sure hope there's some logical explanation to all this.' He liked the idea of flying fireballs and lightning bolts just as much as Hattori did: Not at all.
He put his phone away and was glad when the professor Agasa, seeing as it was already lunch time, offered to get them all some sandwiches to eat.
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