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-Blabber Start-
Wrote most of this just tonight. It's been a while since I wrote so much in one go :c) Me happy.
Otherwise…
I am cruel.
Don't say I didn't warn you! -Looks guiltily away-
-Blabber End-
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The Lion's Ruby
By Dagron
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Chapter 11: The incident.
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« Conan? »
« Yes Ran? » answered the little boy.
« Aren't you looking for this witness? » his young guardian asked.
« Huh? »
« You were staring at Kuroba just now… » She explained.
« Oh! Haha… » He looked up at her, embarrassed, smiling nervously as he scratched the back of his head.
« Sorry, I was only thinking. » And before she could ask him what about, he ran ahead, shouting « Perhaps we will find this guy around the corner! »
Ran sighed, as Akako smirked.
« That's an energetic young man… » She said, looking mockingly at Kaito.
« Yeah, right… » he muttered.
His expression was serious as Conan Edogawa turned around the bend.
'He couldn't already be suspicious of me, could he?'
Conan was grinning.
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Gin and Ganondorf stared at their blade of enchanted grass. Right.
Either Rona was trying to trick them, or they were in the vicinity of not one, but two of the enchanted stones they were after…
And they only had one green compass.
Do note, you never ever want to put two tall commanding bad guys together and ask them to decide on which direction they both had to take. They would most likely argue for a while, go « What? Together! » and then decide that together sounded good, as a long as it was in killing -you-…
Rona was certainly not going to be nicely rewarded. And it didn't matter that they both chosen to start off together just because they were wary of the other.
Gin didn't like the idea of letting a lightning ball wielding maniac out of his sight. Who knows? He could end up trashing his Porsche. Gin was most certainly Not going to have any of that, thank you very much. He was for Organized crime, not vandalism. He was looking forward to sending this freak back home, or, if all else failed, eliminating him.
As for Ganondorf… Any man who dared talk back to him and give him orders, having seen what he could do to them was a man to keep an eye on. And it also irked him that he was as tall as him. Very few people towered at his height, and he generally made sure they didn't tower for long. He was feeling the urge to kill him, but had the feeling that Gin could be of use to him… Especially if he wanted to return to Hyrule.
Having no one in their vicinity to kill (without being caught), and having argued and argued, they decided to do what any intelligent person does when confronted with a difficult choice.
They threw a coin.
If it landed heads up, they were to go right.
If it was tails, they were going to go left, whether Ganon liked it or not.
Maybe it would have been better if they went right.
Maybe things wouldn't have gotten out of hand, and yet…
It landed.
Tails.
They went left.
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Shiver-
'Oh crap.'
The young girl stared wide eyed in front of her as she made sure she hadn't just imagined it.
-SHIVER-
No hesitation about that one. She needed to hide… Fast.
Haibara Ai, also known as Sherry, née Miyano Shiho, looked up at the Hylian princess and green haired Kokiri. They were both dutifully looking at the faces in the dwindling afternoon crowd. They couldn't have a clue about who she really was. They wouldn't understand why she wanted them to 'Go into a dark corner, and hide, right now'. She had to think of a decent excuse quick…
-SHIVERshiverSHIVER-
Okay… Scratch that!
« Zelda, Saria… Over here, quick! »
And dragging them by their hands, she pulled them over to a sufficiently cramped, dark, and gleefully inconspicuous looking shop door.
« What the…? »
« Shh…! » The two taller girls had the sudden impression that they really didn't want to ask just yet.
All three watched in strange fascination through the fuzzy glass pane on the door…
A man in a black suit, black hat and sun glasses walked past and stopped. He was looking this way and that, glancing at an intriguing small object in his hand. It looked like a greenish-brown arrow. It was turning.
Zelda noted, afraid, that it kept pointing towards her, and then behind the strange man.
The man suddenly blanched, jerked his head to look behind him, shivered visibly and ran off.
The girls stared vaguely as some sort of… Monster… walked past barely moments after, carrying a fiercely Pink… Thing…
Erm. Right…
Danger passed.
Haibara sighed with relief. Zelda stared at her. Saria looked behind her with a slightly bewildered air.
Someone cleared their throat.
« How may I help, young ladies? » It was the man behind the counter who addressed them. There were other men in the shop, and one or two nervous looking women. They were all staring at them.
Zelda couldn't help but blush, embarrassed, Saria was nervously hiding behind her.
Haibara looked around the shop for the first time since they entered…
She noticed the images on the walls, the weird objects for sale, and, ironically, a pair of handcuffs not far… Her cheeks reddened slightly and she quickly pulled them back Out into the now empty street, with a muttered 'Oops'.
She was glad her bangs were hiding most of her own embarrassment.
'Note to self… Don't ever do that kind of mistake again!' she thought fiercely.
She hesitated a moment about calling Kudo about the Vodka sighting… And then decided it was best not to. Saria and Zelda both had a slightly dazed look, and she herself wasn't too sure about the… Thing… they had seen after Vodka. She was glad the other two weren't asking questions, but the « what to do next » placed itself as an important issue in her mind…
Absent-mindedly pinching her nose (what the 'PardonHerFrench' was that dreadful smell!), she rehearsed various scenarios in her mind.
But she wasn't given the time to choose…
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« Kyaaaah ! »
The cry echoed out in the near-empty blind alley.
« Ayumi! »
« Don't move! »
The paper with the photo of Tsuki Ichigo fluttered down to the ground.
Link stared, disbelieving, at the man they had been looking for.
He didn't look like the man from the picture. Sure, he still had the greasy mop of hair, high forehead, sunken cheeks and red-veined eyes, but there was something different.
Tsuki's look.
His eyes were fill with madness! Link only recalled seeing such insanity in wounded foes and bosses. His sixth sense rattled at him. This was bad, he gripped his improvised bar-sword in his left hand.
The skinny man tightened his hold on Ayumi, something looking suspiciously like a knife terrifyingly close to the young girl's throat. They could hear him muttering under his breath. Ayumi bravely tried not to sob too loudly.
Damn him. The man was clearly off his rocker.
« Ayumi! » cried Ruthan, his blue skin tinged with the green of worry. Link held him back with one hand.
« What is it you want! » He said, trying not to make any sudden movement.
If only the man released his hold on his hostage slightly… He could try a rolling vertical attack and knock him out before any harm came to the child.
Tsuki grinned. « You know very well what it is I want… »
His face took on a traumatising look of mundane as he said what it was he wanted, his mad eyes the only indication of his unstable mental state.
« Revenge. »
He cackled. « Oh yes! Sweet, sweet revenge! »
'What? Revenge!' thought Link, puzzled. He had never even met this man before.
« Oh they wouldn't believe me at the station, would they? Hehehe… I'll show them. I'll show them justice! »
The madman's eyes seemed to focus on a point not far by his side. Link shivered.
« We'll pay them back… » He said. A faint echo could be heard…
« We'll pay them back! » The madman shouted louder.
At these words, Link saw his chance. Tsuki's hold on Ayumi had shifted, he leaned forward…
He was stopped by a cry by his side.
He stared wide eyed as Ruthan started to fall to the ground, a flash of rich blue seemed to appear from the fin on his head. Dumb struck, he turned to look behind. Something whistled by his head, another whistling sound cut through his cheek.
His thinking processes seemed to freeze on him.
He reacted more out of reflex than common sense.
He put his hand down to the ground and grunted. A blue shape formed around him and Ruthan, shielding them from further whistling sounds, which ricocheted against it's barrier.
He had activated the spell 'Naryu's love'.
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Dagron: Don't ask me about the shop thing, please don't-!
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Review Responses:
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