Fade to Darkness

Title: Fade to Darkness
Rating: M
Fandom: Detective Conan
Summary: Reincarnation only existed in fanfiction, yet Michael Leo Field was reborn as Akai Senichi, the younger twin brother of Akai Shuichi. However, his new life takes a dark turn; at the age of ten he is kidnapped and at twelve, he is forced to join the organization. [OC Insert as Akai Sibling] [Family/Angst/Drama/Crime]

Arc II
Chapter V
Snarl
Warnings: Forced Fighting, Animal Abuse

The four of them were returned back to their cell. The walk was pure agony and every single movement, no matter how big or small, caused pain to surge throughout their bodies. All of them curled up together, trying to preserve as much warmth as possible. Despite that, they all trembled in the cold atmosphere. Sleep was both a blessing and a curse to them. While they finally rested their aching bodies, their minds suffered from the nightmares of the hours spent in the lab.

The next day, all four of them were brought into the arena. Their still exhausted bodies protested but refusing to comply with orders meant death. "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Mad Dog Arena!" Though the speakers were the same volume as they always were, to them it sounded several times louder than normal. "We have a special treat in story today!"

'Special treat?' Senichi thought. 'Now that I'm thinking about it…all four of us were brought here at the same time. No! No! They're not going to make us fight each other, right? I can't kill these guys!'

"Cell J's DNA has been tweaked to make the fights even more exciting!"

'Our DNA was altered!?' Senichi gaped at those words. 'He's lying! He can't have done that! But…but we've been through so much tests. We were injected with so many serums and consumed so many chemicals. Thinking about it, it's not too farfetched of an idea to have our DNA slightly altered,'

"Let's see how they fair against their animal counterparts!"

The far gate was opened and four animals entered the stadium. All of them were agitated and hostile towards everyone around them. The handlers barely managed to escape to behind the gates and narrowly avoided the animals' claws and fangs. The four animals were a fifteen feet long black mamba, an arctic wolf, a white tiger, and a polar bear. All of them seemed seemed very aggressive.

"We have to fight those?" Harimanna asked.

"Yeah," Ahren gulped. "Brendan, Harimanna, stay behind us!"

"I don't know what the odds are," Senichi took a step forward. "But we'll try to weaken them as much as possible. You two will have to go in for the final kill," 'I hate this. I don't want to harm these animals! I love animals! But these selfish bastards are forcing us to fight them! I can't die here nor can I let the others die!'

"They said that they tweaked our DNA," Ahren recalled. "Let's hope it was for the better. I mean, it wouldn't be entertaining if we died immediately, right?"

Senichi and Ahren ran towards the animals, intending on keeping the beasts focused on them instead of the two younger ones. The snake let out a warning hiss and then lunged forward at incredible speed. But Ahren saw it in slow motion and managed to tilt his head away just enough so that the black mamba brushed past him. He successfully evaded the first bite.

"D-Did I really dodge a black mamba?" Ahren stuttered.

"Now's not the time to gawk!" Senichi grabbed the snake by its tail. 'They said animal counterparts. There are four animals and four of us. That means each of us has some sort of attribute to one of these animals. The thing is that we don't know which ones we are,'

The wolf lunged at Senichi whose hands were both occupied with the snake. Ahren punched the wolf who immediately recovered from the attack. Senichi tightened his grip on the flailing serpent that hissed angrily. The tiger and the polar bear both attacked the two humans, pinning them down to the floor and causing Senichi to release the snake.

'I need to move! I need to fight!' Senichi gritted his teeth together. 'I need power!' As if his pleas had been answered, he felt his hands change. They grew a bit bigger but it was his nails that were the largest difference. They extended and grew thicker, ending in sharp, slightly curved points. White fur covered the back of his hands. He could feel the same change happening in his feet. He didn't have time to ponder of the changes and kicked the polar bear with all his might. With Senichi's newfound strength, the bear was knocked off.

Senichi wasn't the only one who had gained power. The twins had gained a similar change as him, gaining claws and fur on their hands and feet. Ahren's one, on the other hand, was a bit different. He gained no claws but he did gain large fangs. His tongue was forked, indicating that he had been injected with the black mamba DNA. There were a few patches of scales that appeared on the skin around his face.

Nothing was holding Brendan and Harimanna back and it wasn't like Senichi and Ahren could handle all four animals on their own. Together, Cell J defeated the snake, tiger, wolf, and polar bear. Unable to resist the animalistic urge, they roared/hissed/howled, increasing the crowd's cheers. After their victory, they collapsed to the ground as their bodies returned to normal.

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They woke up back in the lab, several machines hooked up to them. "Good, you guys are still alive," The scientist grinned. "I thought that my subjects would die after only one fight. Fortunately for me, you guys survived,"

"What did you do to us!?" Ahren demanded.

"I merely gave you animal traits," The scientist answered as if it weren't a big deal. "Normal children fights were beginning to bore the audience. So, to bring back the excitement, I turned you guys in chimeras. J1, I gave you black mamba DNA. J2, I gave you wolf DNA. J3, you have tiger DNA. J4, you have polar bear DNA,"

"That's impossible!" Brendan said. "Humans with animal DNA? Nobody has ever done that!"

"I'm not a normal scientist," The scientist chuckled. "Of course, I've had many more trials than those wimps ever dared to do,"

'I have some polar bear DNA now…' Senichi stared down at his hands. 'My humanity…it's being stripped away. I…No, this can't be. I don't want this! I'm a hundred percent human! I'm not some kind of disgusting human-animal hybrid! I'm a human! I don't care if this hybrid power saved me! I don't want it! I don't need it!' But he could do nothing about it. He had numerous experiments conducted on him and the tiny pieces of animal DNA flowed inside his veins.

They won't be overpowered. The animals were not fully grown except for the black mamba, hence why with the strength of the animal DNA inside them, they were able to knock off the polar bear and tiger. There will be side effects from using their animal DNA.

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Lieutenant Myst:
I meant the Shinichi thing as a joke, sorry if you couldn't understand. As for this chapter, the poor kids! I'm going to murder those scientists for torturing them by giving them the same pain they gave the kids ten times harder *cracks knuckles*.

Skai:
Sorry, I thought you were genuinely confused. It's a bit hard to tell tones through writing. And yes, the poor kids. I disagree with you; ten times worse is not enough. Let's give them the same pain a thousand times worse!

Hiyori:
I am sad to read what Senichi and the other children went through T,T I hope they stay strong.

Skai:
Yes, it is quite saddening what they have to suffer, especially since they're so young. Once again, it only gets worse.