A/N: I rewrote this chapter. I hope it is better now. Majority of the author notes are still the same though. Enjoy.

I got into Percy Jackson books. Which means that I'll start planning a fic. I hope my old readers won't kill me over this…

One reason for writing this fic is to fit my characters into PJO world. These two might be familiar for some of you from my Dream or Not and Leap to Relatively Unknown fics. You don't need to necessarily understand Detective Conan manga in order to read this but I'll add some explanations to the bottom note. To old readers I tell you that this supposedly takes place after destroying the Black Organization and Shugo and Tsukiko were in process of retrieving Pandora to get it destroyed. But this has no impact on my other two fics.

Other reason was to test writing from the first person's PoV. I usually use the third person but since the PJO books are from the first person PoV I decided to try it here too, with Shugo/Clay.

But without further ado I let you read this first chapter. :D

Chapter 1: In which we fall from the sky

I knew how it began. I knew what happened in the middle. I thought I knew how it'd end. I was wrong.

My home world was lovely. My current world was fine. My next world… it was plain illogical.

I had hoped to find peace and safety after taking care of the Organization. A chance to live normal life with my sister. No. We were transported into a new world.

201X, September 28th, 3 kilometers in the air above Tokyo Bay

Electrical explosion rocked the room. A black haired girl coughed and waved smoke away from her face. She was around seventeen years old with greyish blue eyes. She was wearing grey jeans, dark blue t-shirt, black camouflage jacket and black combat boots. In her right middle finger she had a silver ring with large lapis lazuli that had gold sprinkles in it. The Lady Sky the stone was called.

I felt like asking her where she'd gotten it. Stolen it for some reason or other? Or just gotten it as a gift? But I didn't. I was too busy leading our way away from the smoking room. We had just short-circuited the control panels of the room.

"Hurry, Tsukiko! We need to get out of here before the whole place goes up." I told her. She was my sister. A year younger than I. My name was Shugo. We had chosen those names when we came to this world.

"Hai, hai…" The girl coughed and grabbed a pistol from the floor before sprinting after me. "Too bad there's no openable windows here!" She shouted over the rumbling of the blimp that we were inside at.

I adjusted my quiver on my shoulder and checked that the tsuru (Japanese style bow) I'd gotten from my mentor ten years ago was still there. Then I looked at Tsukiko.

"Well, that just means we have to make our own exit, right?"

There was a shift in her eyes and personality, and she grinned manically at me. "Absolutely." It was sort of disconcerting that my sister had an alternate personality. Two of them actually. One that didn't have a gender and was mastermind of killing off undercover members of Black Organization. Their name was Kage. And yes, even they killed off some of the BO agents personally. I shuddered at the thought. I didn't like thinking my sister as a killer even though it really wasn't her. It was still her hands that pulled the trigger. Anyways I still preferred Red Moon to Kage. Even though she was a show-off thief flirting with my best friend who was her mentor. Complicated matters. Too complicated really. But both Kage and Red Moon in a way kept my sister alive. This world was dangerous even if outwardly it looked just normal.

We ran through the corridors, trying to get to the outer structures of the blimp. There was no one else. The blimp has been on automaton all the time. It meant that there was no Black Organization agents hindering the operation Retrieve Pandora.

What was Pandora then? It was said to be a gem inside another that could be seen when the gem was held against moonlight and the Pandora would shine red through the outer gem. And when some specific comet came near earth once in 10 000 years, the red gem would shed 'tears of immortality'. A load of tosh if you ask me. But the Organization believed to it. And they were ready to kill anyone getting in their way when looking for the Pandora. Including our friend Kaito's father.(The same friend that was Red Moon's mentor. And Tsukiko's almost boyfriend.)

Well, now the Pandora had been found. The Organization got their hands on it from Black Market of all places and then stored it for safekeeping to this automated blimp. Idiotic if you ask me. We in the other hand came to retrieve it so Pandora could be destroyed. All of our friends were already gone while we had the clean-up duty.

"You just had to push the self-destruct, hadn't you?" Tsukiko groaned next to me. Apparently Kage had given the reins back to her. I grinned at my little sister.

"Of course. There's nothing more exciting than running away from a certain death, right?"

She just smiled. "I suppose not." Tsukiko ran ahead of me, swerved to the right and made a sharp turn around a corner. I followed her. We had made it to the viewing platform with windows. Not slowing down at all, Tsukiko aimed her gun and shot a clean row of bullets that pierced the window in front of us.

"Geronimo!" She yelled and jumped feet first against the window. I followed the suit. The glass pane creaked and cracked under our combined weight and momentum before shattering and letting us fall out. Into a free fall.

We yelled. The adrenaline was bounding in my ears. Wind was rushing past us. Far away I could see Kaito with his hang-glider, flying away from the blimp. Sun was shining and making the red gem glitter in his hand. Pandora. It needed to be destroyed though. That jewel had cost lives of many, too many.

The free fall became faster and faster. Tsukiko was above me. Kaito was yelling something at us. I couldn't make out what it was. The blimp exploded and threw him off the course. Miraculously his hang glider remained intact. The Pandora slipped from his fingers though. It fell down and down and down… My eyes were fixed on it. It should be destroyed. It needed to be destroyed. I took my bow and nocked an arrow. My eyes followed the gem's fall.

"Shugo! You better hit it!" Tsukiko shouted but her voice was lost in the wind. I still heard it. I waited. And waited. I'd never missed my target. I was the best at yabusame and kyuudo for my age and better than most adults. My eyes had always been sharp and keen to notice details. My aim was impeccable. And I needed to succeed in this.

I let go of the arrow.

The bright red shards sprinkled the air. And past me fell another object. Tsukiko's necklace that had slipped from her neck. She'd gotten it from our other friend Akako who was a witch. A real genuine witch. It was hard to believe but in the other hand believing in Pandora was crazy too, yet people were killed because of it.

I felt someone's leg wrapping around my torso and then I felt a jolt in my stomach when my descend slowed down. Tsukiko had opened the paraglider from her backpack as soon as she'd gotten a proper hold of me.

"Ooh, I don't like this… I don't like this at all." She was muttering and wrapping now her arms around me too burying her face against my back. She was afraid of heights. Red Moon wasn't. "By the way Shugo… You better start praying whatever deities you believe in…" She told me then, to distract both me and herself. My eyes were still on the falling shards of Pandora that were glittering in the sun and falling to the ocean below us.

"Why?" I asked. I didn't have a good feeling about it.

"This paraglider wasn't meant for two people."

Snap!

One of the support strings keeping the paraglider in shape snapped. We plummeted down again. Tsukiko was screaming this time. I was staring at the ocean that was coming closer and closer to us. The necklace with fell in a faint splash. The remains of Pandora still rained all around us. A flicker of green light flashed beneath the waves, sending ripples. Red drops sunk into the ocean.

"Tsukiko… What was that gem again?"

"It's a green idocrase. Akako called it the Eye of Hecate." Hoshi gritted through her teeth while clinging on me with all of her might. "She said it can open gates."

"A gate home…?" I mused, before tugging my sister before me. She kept her eyes squeezed shut and then hugged me again. I urged her to let go of her backpack. It was useless now.

"I don't know! Is it really now the time?! We're dying!"

"…"

The Hecate's Eye and the shards of Pandora were shining beneath the waves. I smiled grimly. This was our chance. A chance to go home unless we died the moment we crashed on the surface.

"Tsukiko… Let's go to the next world." I smiled at my sister. She opened her eyes slowly and looked at me in surprise.

"Y-Yeah…"

We fell.

Was it limbo or space between worlds?

It was dark. Like space with all the stars around us. Gold dust brushing against us. It hurt and soothed at the same time. I watched Tsukiko as she was all I could really see. Behind her was two shadows. An androgynous teen and a young woman in her early twenties. Kage and Red Moon. They merged with Tsukiko. Her form glowed for a moment and the black hair dye she used (and I did too) just fell away. Like wind had blown grains of sand aside. The golden light pulsed around her form again and now she looked years younger, with her clothes even shrunk down.

Then whatever force had been keeping her afloat, just let go. Tsukiko fell again. Moments later I fell too. But while Tsukiko looked peaceful, my whole body was hurting.

Some shore

Waves crashed to the shore. Wind blew on my face, brushing sand away.

I groaned. My head hurt and my whole body was aching. The strangeness of everything came rushing back to me. The freefall, the limbo. And falling again. I squeezed my eyes shut and concentrated on my surrounding with my other senses.

Sun wasn't shining on my face. The wind was a bit cold against my skin. My feet were wet and waves were splashing against them. I could feel cold sand beneath my fingers and practically everywhere else too. There was some distant noise from traffic and occasional seagull but not much else. I finally blinked slowly before opening my eyes fully. My limbs felt heavy and so did my eye lids. I just wanted to close them again and sleep despite my discomfort.

"You are finally awake." A girl's voice stated from my right. She was speaking in English instead of Japanese. Why? I recognized the voice but couldn't quite place where I'd heard it. Maybe it had been years ago… What I'd seen in Limbo came to me and I turned to look to the direction of the speaker. It was a young girl in her preteens. Sandy-blonde hair fluttering in the wind and greyish-blue eyes gazing at the sea. Just like…

"Tsukiko?" I asked and almost choked on my own words. My mouth felt like sandpaper. I coughed a couple of times. "…-that you?"

"Yes… I think this body is around twelve years old. And yours is around thirteen." She stated, still not looking at me and just gazing the sea. Grunting, I heaved my upper body up so I could lean against my elbows. I felt like I had just been stampeded by a herd of elephants. I winced at the sensation and brief pain flashing in my head. I was about to place my hand on my forehead in the vain hope to steady my head and also my thoughts, but then my eyes fell on the figure lying on the sand on my sister's other side. A boy who resembled me slightly (I suppose, I hadn't seen myself yet) and… who wasn't breathing. His hands were resting on his chest with a violin held in them. He wore a simple chocolate brown hoodie and blue jeans with sneakers. His blonde hair formed a stark contrast against dark and damp sand beneath his head.

"Who…?"

"Silas Terran. He died fifteen minutes ago. Fifteen minutes ago you weren't breathing." Tsukiko told me. I stared. What? "When we came here, you were… very weak. I met with Silas and… the shards of Pandora that washed to the shore with us transferred his life on you. Everything he had left. Otherwise you wouldn't have survived… Or that's what this is telling me."

The 'this' was the Eye of Hecate that's hanging around her neck again. I glanced at the sand around us and indeed, there was little grains of red among the light brown. Pandora was destroyed now. It wouldn't hurt anyone anymore.

"We made it through then? Are we… where?" I tried not to think the dead kid on the beach, trading his life for mine. How was that even possible, Pandora or not.

"This is another book world. I found where we are." She was fiddling with her phone that had been inside a waterproof bag during the entire operation. I idly wondered how she had internet connection but then the stuff transferring through the worlds wasn't even remotely logical. "I checked popular mangas, cartoons, comics, movies, tv-shows and bestseller books. One name was missing from the popular authors list." Tsukiko looked down at me with a calculating gaze. "It was Rick Riordan."

I blanched. That was bad. Quite bad. The world of ancient gods and monsters. I forced out a laugh. "At least it isn't Twilight, right?"

"True." My sister chuckled before turning to look at the other boy. "I talked with him before the Pandora reacted. He is a violinist prodigy, living in an orphanage after his mother died when he was nine years old. He is… was fourteen but when he was ten he was diagnosed with leukemia. No suitable bone marrow transplant has been found so he had been making the best he could about his situation. He was a demigod though he wasn't aware of it. Otherwise the monsters would've hunted him down. Well, I pieced together the clues and sort of told him though. Silas believed me and used both his powers and life in general to get you up and about. Meaning that you are a demigod now too. The legacy was passed on."

"That's…" I tried to find suitable words for that rabid-fire information my sister shot at me.

"When the Pandora began the process, Silas gave his full permission to you to live his life." Tsukiko stated seriously. "Don't feel guilty, please. Silas understood he was beyond saving and… He was happy to join his mother in… well, I guess Underworld is the correct term in this world. Now, if we were in Supernatural…" The joke fell short and she looked at me again, eyes brimming with sadness. I looked down and realized that my feet were still in the water.

"Why me? Why not you?"

"Apparently travel through dimensions with Eye of Hecate was too hard on normal human body. Mine is a bit different thanks to Red Moon and Kage but it still took its toll on me." The tone of her voice told me that she didn't feel like discussing about the toll with me. But I could guess. Just like Red Moon and Kage had been protecting her before, they'd saved Tsukiko in the Limbo too. They'd merged, making my sister stronger.

"Right…" I heaved myself on my feet slowly. "What's the date?"

"28th September 2004. The sparkler will be stolen around 21st December 2005." Tsukiko also got on her feet.

"We need new identities. Japanese names won't work here. Not with these faces." I spoke up then. We had been lucky that in the previous world we just needed to dye our hair and the backstory around us covered the rest. But here we were starting from the beginning. We knew the story but were still in the blind how to craft our own niche here.

"Nope. I'll take care of choosing them though, you shall type them into the register." Hoshi gave me a grin that screamed danger. I eyed her warily before glancing Silas' still form. And the violin case with a golden sun etched on the front of it.

"I want to honor him somewhat."

"…His name was Silas Terran. Terran like Clay Terran from Ace Attorney games." She was musing aloud now. "Clay was Apollo Justice's best friend and Silas definitely was Apollo's son…" She nodded to herself, making her decision. "You shall be Clay from now on. Surname and middle name I'll pick up later for you. Oh hey! I can call you Polly's boy now."

"Polly's boy? You realize that if someone hears, they'll think it's my mother's name or something…"

"Not at all. It can be easily explained away. Polly is popular name for parrots after all. We can simply say that we have very possessive parrot at home. Polly il pappagallo è il pollo." She giggled. Giggled. Tsukiko never giggled. Much less knew Italian.

"Is that you Red Moon?" I asked tentatively. The girl in front of me looked up in surprise. She seemed to be considering the answer for a moment but shook her head.

"The connections have been altered and the characteristics are slipping through." Was her almost stoic answer. I concluded that the merge wasn't complete yet. "But from now on I shall be referred as Thalassa."

"Another AA game name… Great." I groaned. This only made me want to play the game. "What about Kage?"

"Kage is gone already." The girl/woman answered and then shook her head rabidly again, like clearing her thoughts and focusing on her primary personality. "I'm not sure of the name I'll take yet. Though the surname will be Cykes."

"After Athena Cykes?"

"Or Metis Cykes."

We slowly began walking away from the shore, leaving Silas in his eternal sleep. Up ahead was the skyscrapers of New York City. It was time to start from the beginning. Again.

A/N: Alright... I probably should explain the references to you for now... Later on you don't really need to worry about them since I practically start from a clean slate. I just wanted to use Shugo and Tsukiko in this fic too.

1. Detective Conan: Manga series of which world Shugo and Tsukiko ended up earlier in their life.

2. Magic Kaito: Another manga series that is connected to the world of Detective Conan. Some characters are the same

3. Pandora: Mythical red gem inside another one that is said to cry tears of immortality when a certain comet passes close to earth. The gem can be seen when the outer gem is held against moonlight. Kaito was after it after finding out that his father had been killed because of it. Tsukiko assisted Kaito as Red Moon.

4. Kage and Red Moon: Tsukiko's side personalities so she won't go mad due everything she's trying to do. Kage is manipulator and planner fighting actively against Black organization with less than legal means. Red Moon is a thief who assists Phantom Thief Kaitou Kid in his hunt of Pandora. Tsukiko herself tried to live relatively normal life with connections to more legal branch of organization fighters(some of her friends plus the FBI). But as mentioned, they are fading away into Tsukiko's primary personality.

5. Black Organization: Goal unknown but they were evil and needed to get rid of.

6. Yabusame: Japanese mounted archery. It's very ceremonial and I recommend to watch videos of it but in general, it is only referenced to in the terms of Shugo's skill in archery.

7. Kyuudo: Japanese traditional archery.

8. Ace Attorney: There might be a lot of references to this game. At least with the names I'm picking up. I know that I said in the Leap that Tsukiko hasn't played it but maybe she'll get to know it sometime later...

8. "Polly il pappagallo è il pollo.": "Polly the parrot is a chicken." The reference comes from AA-game where Trucy Wright calls Apollo 'Polly'. I don't know how right this sentence is but as it's quite straightforward I doubt GOOGLE trnsltr messed it up too badly. Or then Tsukiko simply doesn't know Italian that well. :P

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But! I hope you review if you liked this and want to read more. You can also review to comment my writing in overall. And as you can see, I'll be giving them a year(and half) before the canon events begin. And if you want to know more about Tsukiko and Shugo, you can always read my other fics.