Silentlane491- I do not own detective conan or magic Kaito. They are owned by Gosho Aoyama.
Chapter 8 Legends in the darkness
"All right gentlemen. Shall we go over the plan again?" Akako asked. The boys nod. "We make are way to Aokigahara to stop the dead lord. Conan and Pandora should be able to interfere with the dead lord's power by being near him, it's the reason way he hasn't come to face you yet." Akako leaves and comes back with a something wrapped up in cloth. She pulled the cloth blanket off and reaveled a broadsword. The blade shine brightly, a silver hilt that looked like dragon wings, and lastly a black handle with dragon head on the back end of the silver hilt.
"Whoa..." Kaito was shocked at the sight of the sword.
"This is the the moonlight dragon sword. The hilt is made of ironized dragon bone and the blade is enhanced with powerful holy augmentation magic." Akako hands him the sheath and the blade belt which is attached to the sheath. Kaito puts on the belt and places the blade into the sheath. Akako then hands Conan a dirk. The dirk and a pure white shining glow to it, the handle and hilt was gold.
"What's this? He asked.
"This is a holy weapon called the walking dead's bane. If you stab or slash any undead foe, they will be destroyed." She explained. "With these weapons, we have a chance against the dead lord. However, we will have to fight through hoards of reavers, zombies, ghouls, skeletons and whatever other horrors. We will have to be very careful, he could have set up wards to shield himself from Pandora's power."
"With that we are all set, so how are we going to get to Aokigahara?" Kaito asked.
"We use the zero shift gate." Akako explained.
"The zero shift gate?" Conan tilted his head. "What's that?"
"In scientific terms, it's a teleporter. In fact, many magic or ESP users can perform zero shift, but ESP users have a easier time performing this skill." Akako explained. "It took me three months to get it prefect."
"It will work, right?" Kaito pressed. Akako stared flatly at him.
"Ye of little fate... There is no worries, I made the right preparations. Now... Let's go." Akako grabs her scythe. She was dressed in her witches attire with a cloak over it, while Kaito was in his street clothes. A simple jacket and black pants. The three of them made their way to her backyard and saw the zero shift gate. It was a circle of rune stones with a twelve foot Obelisk in front of it. The obelisk was covered with magic rune writing on it.
"I take it this is the ZSG?" Kaito asked. Akako nods.
"Yes, I have imprinted the coordinates into the obelisk. Once I active it, we will be at Aokigahara. But it's a one way trip since there's no zero shift gate at the other end." Akako told the two make shift warriors. "Are you ready?"
"Wait, what if we get hurt?" Kaito asked.
"I do know healing magic, it's not strong, but it will help us live. But healing magic won't be enough to heal us completely, that's why I have healing salves that will sooth the body." Akako said, calming down Kaito.
"Alright... Let's get this way too real D&D quest over with." Kaito joked. Conan chuckled.
"D&D?" Akako tilted her head.
"It's a fantasy role playing game, a very long role playing game." Conan explained breifly.
"Hmm... I see... Get ready." Akako began chanted. The obelisk marking began to glow and the circle lit up with a blue light. "It's set, go in once the other has been successfully transported to the other end." Conan goes into the gate first, he disappears in a bright blue light. "Okay Kaito, you're clear." Kaito walks into the gate and soon disappears in a blue light. Before Akako left, a large black wolf like dog make its way to Akako. "Garmr, watch over the house with Igor." The black dog bow its head. "Protect the house with all your might friend."
"Of course milady. All intruders will be met with my hellfire!" The hellhound howl which revealed fire in its maw.
"Thank you." Akako stepped into the gate and she disappears in a blue light.
Aokigahara (8:00PM)
Conan, Akako, and Kaito stood inside Aokigahara. They weren't where they needed to be, but Akako began to lead them with a guiding spell. "So, where is this dead lord?" Conan asked.
"At the other end of this guiding spell. Please be quiet Conan-kun, we are in enemy territory." Akako said. Conan nods and follows Akako. As they made there way deeper into the forest, they heard growling. "Reavers..." The three ready there weapons for battle. A group of five walking skeletons armed with rusty swords come out of the dark forest. "Oh, just walking bones." Akako shrugs. "Force!" Akako releases a pulse of concentrated air towards the group and takes them apart bone by bone.
"You're not even scared of them." Conan muttered.
"There just walking bones, nothing to worry about." Akako huffed. As they traveled deeper they fought with zombies.
"I got it!" Conan slides under the zombie and climbs up it's back, then he stabs the walking dead's bane into its neck. The zombie started to steam and burn from the inside.
"Your all done!" Kaito shouted and performed a horizontal slash, followed by a clockwise spinning slash, then a counter-clockwise spinning slash. The sword he was using had standard range and amazing power. He killed five zombies with that combination attack. The three battled there way deeper into the forest.
"Die once more, Ketsueki barē! (Blood ballet)" Akako spun the scythe over her head, then performed a powerful clockwise spinning slash that killed seven zombies. The scythe was covered in blood and now glowing blood red.
Normally fighting people twice his size was extremely difficult, but being short worked just as well as being tall. For one, it was harder to hit him and vice versa. He was only up to the zombies knees, and he couldn't deliver killing blows to the zombies.
'I don't like this... I know there dead, but haven't they suffered enough.' Conan thought.
'They will keep suffering if we don't defeat him.' Pandora said, then yelled. 'Zombie, to the left!' Conan jumped back to dodge a grab. The meitantei jumped and planted his dirk into the zombie's heart. With that one dead, the party of three traveled deeper.
Mouri Detective agency (10:00PM)
"What do you mean you have no idea where Conan's at!?" Ran shouted at Megure. The police, the detective boy, Kogoro, Sera, Saburu and Ran have been searching for Conan all over the city. Ran knew that Conan was in danger but she couldn't find him anywhere.
"I'm sorry Ran-kun, but we couldn't find him today, we'll try again tomorrow. All we know is that Conan was about to be kidnapped, but the kidnapper crashed and Conan escaped. But it seems some took him and escaped in a way that is completely impossible." The worst part is that the kidnapper is dead so they couldn't interrogated the kidnapper.
"Don't worry Ran, we'll find him." Kogoro said with a concerned tone.
"Why does this keep happening..." Ran walks into her room and lays down. Her cell starts to ring and Ran picks it up and answers it.
"Moshi Moshi?"
"Ran, how are you, I heard that the brat got kidnapped! Are you okay?" It was Sonoko.
"I'm not okay Sonoko... Conan-kun is gone, I don't know what to do..." Ran sighed.
"How about we talk for a few, maybe we can talk about your husband."
"Sonoko!" Ran scolded.
At Agasa's house. Ai recovered some of Conan's blood at the scene, she picked some up and began to look into it with a powerful microscope. It was odd, so she grabbed a vial of Conan's blood with the APTX 4869 and mixed the two. She saw Conan's new blood was melding with the infected blood, but a closer look with her microscope revealed that the new blood was destroying the APTX.
"That's not possible..." Ai gasped lightly. "From the look of things..." Agasa enters her little lab.
"Ai-kun, what's wrong. It's late and you have school tomorrow." Agasa scolded lightly.
"It's Kudo-kuns blood. It's destroying the toxin." This shocked the professor.
"What!? So he'll be back to normal?" The old man asked.
"It will take some time. Also, it seems that his immune system have been enhanced."
"Enhanced?" Agasa titled his head.
"Yes, enhanced... I'll have to look into it more when they find him." Ai stared at the blood sample.
Aokigahara (10:45PM)
The three traveled into the heart of Aokigahara, after slaying reavers, skeletons and zombies. The three arrive at the lich's den. It was a small clearing with a pentagram and torches in key spots. "Here we are, it's boss time!" Kaito readied his blade. A robed man walks out of the darkness and smiles.
"Ah, history repeats itself. The seed of the magician, the stone and a witch." The lich looked down at Conan. "I see you changed your look Pandora, are you ready to return to your home?"
"This place is not my home, my home is in the stars." Pandora said using Conan's voice.
"You have no home of your own, you are a tool. Now be a good tool and let my control you!" The lich yelled and readies a spell. "ARISE!" Skeletons rise from the ground and charge.
"FORCE!" A pulse of invisible force pushes and breaks a three skeleton to pieces. Kaito kicks a skeletons head off and kicks another. Conan moved quickly to the lich.
"HAH!" Conan lunges toward the lich and stabs him with his dirk.
'Look out!' Conan pulls out his knife and gets away from the dead lord.
"Rūtobaindo!" Tree roots rise from the ground and wrap around Conan's legs. Kaito uses his moonlight sword to free Conan. "Kasai dengeki!" A volley of purple fireballs fire towards the two. Kaito slashes three out of the air before taking one to the stomach. Conan dodges most of them but takes one in the leg. The burn slowly starts to heal, Akako heals Kaito with her magic and the three charged at the lich and begin to attack.
"Shōmei ransu!" A bolt of condensed electricity pierces the lich stomach, Kaito cuts the dead lord a crossed the chest, Conan stabs the lich in the leg with his dirk then gets behind him and jumps high then stabs the lich in the spine. "This isn't going to end anytime soon, we need to destroy his wards." Akako explained. "I'll search for them, you two will have to deal with him." Akako pulls out a red jewel and runs off to search for them.
"Great, get ready!" Kaito readies himself. Just as the lich was about to launch a powerful spell at the two, three large colorful men run towards the lich. The leader of these men wield an spiked iron club the size of a human adult. With a mighty warcry and a powerful swing of the club, the lich was sent flying into the darkness smashing through the trees. "What the..."
"AHAHAHAHAHAHA! Now that was a powerful swing Oyabun!" The blue man cheered with a hearty voice.
"The fight isn't over nii-san, with his protection still active, he's invincible." The green one said.
"Nothing to fear, that witch will stop his magic. Hopefully that pompous bird boy helps her." The red man turned to meet the two humans. "I see you humans were having fun without us, I would have been angry if you killed him before I get a swing in!" The man was tall, almost nine feet tall. He was wearing a sash made out of a tiger pelt. The two others were the same height but wore loincloths. All three had sharp teeth and horns. The other two wielded a massive cleaver and a two simple iron clubs.
"You're oni..." Conan pointed out. The leader laughs.
"You're smart vessel." Conan flinched.
"To us, the red stone was a godlike figure and you took her from her home." The blue oni explained. "Normally we would have killed anyone that entered her home."
"But she called out to you and asked us not to attack you." The green oni finished.
"Why didn't you help him when he was shot by snake!?" Kaito asked.
"Because of the law! The laws of the yokai and oni live by in the modren human world is never expose yourself to a human unless he or she is of supernatural origins. Those who aren't must be swore to secrecy or killed." The leader stares at Kaito. "We'll have to talk later. We got company!" A large group of reavers and ghouls march out in front of him.
"LET'S DO THIS!" All three charge into the hoard and attack. The green oni used his mighty cleaver to cut the reavers to pieces, while the blue oni used his iron clubs to smash his enemies heads in and send them flying. The leader used his massive spiked iron club to send them into the air. "Now this is a fight, c'mon!" The red oni yelled.
"For to long you Youki have been a thorn in my side for too long!" The group heard the lich in the darkness. When the lich came out of the dark, his neck was broken, his right arm was dislocated and he has a small hole from Akako's lighting lance. "I will." He fixes his arm. "Destroy you all!" He fixes his neck and the hole in his stomach.
"Bring it on!" Conan and Kaito, with the oni's help charge at the lich.
Aokigahara (11:00AM)
In another part of the cursed forest, Akako has begun to destroy the wards that protect the lich, but she didn't know that the lich infused his protective magic in a powerful golem. The Akako's battle with the golem has began to a good start when Akako blew off one of it's arms with a wind spell.
"Kami sori-shi arashi!" An unknown and powerful spell was released. A powerful wind storm surrounds the golem and cuts it to pieces. "So, the time has come for the vile lich to fall to the depths of Yomi." Akako looks to the sky and sees a powerful yokai known as a tengu. This tengu was different. He had tan skin, razor sharp claw, wore a Gi and tabi sandles. He had a head of a bird and the body of a man. The tengu's most notable feature was his silver wings.
"Who are you tengu?" Akako asked.
"I am Kaze, leader of the Tengu. I have tasked my fellow kin to aid you in this noble battle." Four more Tengu appear each one wielding a powerful weapon. "Destroy the golems, they have the protective magic of the lich inside them."
"Yes leader!" With Akako and Kaze in the lead. The group destoryed the four golems with ease. But as they made there way to the last, they saw the reaver army is providing protection for the golem. "Nii-san! They are providing protection for the golem, it will take us to long to deal with them." One of the Tengu pointed out.
"Then maybe me and my children can aid you." A voice said in the darkness. Suddenly, a group of thirty massive spiders descended on the reavers. They started to maul them with their poisonous fangs and binding them with their webs. "Far too long that undead vermin has polluted the forest and harmed my children." A woman with pitch black hair, the back of it was wrapped up in a bun with two golden hair ties. Her eyes were colored black and wore purple Mascara on her eyes. She wore a pitch black kimoto, the kimoto was loose and hanged around her shoulders, it had spider web patterns etched on the sleeves and hem. The two most notable features were her retractable seven inch long nails and her eight spider legs on her back.
"Jorogumo..." Akako said with a hard glare. "I figured you would stay out of this fight."
"I would have girl, but that lich and his undead minions have started to kill my children. As a kaa-san of over a thousand children, I'm a very busy woman." Jorogumo smiled. "It's been some time since I was on the field of battle, this ought to be fun..." She makes her way to the massive golem. "Baindinguu~ebu!" silver webbing released from her fingertips and spider legs. The powerful and adhesive webs bind the golem.
"Kobushi topikku!" A massive boulder smashes into the golem and destroys it. Akako takes a deep breath. "It's over, no doubt the lich is feeling the effects. Let's go." Akako, Jurogumo, Kaze and his tengu head back to the liches den. When they arrived they saw the lich was on the ground with Conan's dagger in the lich's chest, the dagger was covered in blood. "So it's over..." Kaito walked up to Akako.
"Hai, the guy was thrashing around and screaming that he lost his protection. Tantei-kun cut himself and smeared the blood on his dagger and stabbed him in the heart. So, can we go home?" Kaito asked with a yawn. The chief oni grabs Kaito and laughs loudly.
"What are you talking about! With his death, the forest is peaceful again! That means it's time to celebrate! Break out the sake and food brothers, it's time to fest!"
"Well hello Tsuyo, I see you're still loud as ever." Kaze taunted.
"Are you going to make fun of me, or are you going to join?" Tsuyo, the oni tribe leader glared.
"I shall bring the finist meats from our tribe." Kaze nodded to his tengu and they fly away.
"And I can have my children's webbing to catch some fish. Oh, it's been too since I had a party!" Jurogumo smiled.
"I'm sorry, but we have to go home." Conan explained. "Thank you for helping us."
"Glad to help ya kid, and remember, we'll help you anytime." Tsuyo waved. The three walk out of the forest. The secret creatures and spirits watch as the three humans leave Aokigahara. With the lich dead, these three will be hailed as heroes and legends, just the ones before them. The trickster hero, the scarlet witch, and the stone.
Mouri detective agency- 6:00AM
"Ran-neechan... Ran-neechan, it's time to wake up." Ran slowly opened her eyes and saw her young ward.
"CONAN-KUN!" She got out of her bed and hugged Conan tightly. "I'm so glad you're back!" She cried. After hugging each other tightly the two greet Kogoro and he calls the police. The police question Conan about what happened to him. Conan told them a lie about what happened to him. After lying to them, Megure and his team take his word and leave. "Now Conan-kun... I want you to stay home for a week, maybe two weeks okay."
"But Ran-neechan-"
"No buts young man, you need to stay home."
"But I'm really okay Ran-neechan! I want to see my friends!" Conan pleaded. "Please! I want them to know I'm safe!" Ran sighed in defeat.
"Fine, but you're not going to school today. You can meet them after school and I'll come with you. Understand?" Ran puts her hands on her hips. Conan nods. When school ended, Ran and Conan made their way to Agasa's home. Conan was greeted by his friends. Ayumi cried happily while Mitsuhiko and Genta we're happy that Conan was back and safe. Ai walked over to Conan and greeted him.
"Welcome back Edogawa-kun... I need to talk to you alone." She whispered the last part. As the group of children played with Ran in a four player video game, Ai dragged Conan into the basement. "What is happening to you!?" Ai glared at him.
"Wha-"
"It's you're blood, it's destroying the toxin on it's own." Conan sighed when Ai said that.
"Watch." Conan picked up a scalpel and cuts himself on the wrist.
"What are you... Doing..." The wound began to heal itself. "What the... That can't be possible..."
"It is... I'm immortal..." Conan told Ai.
"That's impossible!" Ai shouted in disbelief.
"Then how did my body heal?" Conan inquired. "You're a scientist, I'm sure you can figure it out." Conan was about to walk away when Ai stopped him.
"Hold it, we need to do a few test!" Ai grabbed his arm.
"Oh boy..." Conan sighed.
Translations
Rūtobaindo- Root bind
Kasai dengeki- Fire blitz
Shōmei ransu- Lighting lance
Kami sori-shi arashi- Razor death tempest
Baindinguu~ebu- Binding web
Kobushi topikku- Gaia fist
If the Translations are wrong then I'm sorry, I used Google.
A/N- I hope I can put something like that up on the top. My grandfather was one of the toughest men in my family. When he was sixteen he worked in a factory for seventy hours a week earning a dollar or two. He served in the Navy and in the army. He also collected hats, he had three thousand different kind of hats, he even appeared on the local news. He also would RV to the south and bring a new hat. I always joked that he would never die, he was so stubborn, very stubborn. When he died, he died beside my mom and dad.
In memory of my grandfather
James Richard Alexander
September 20th 1929 - June 8th 2013
Vetern, father, grandfather, and the strongest man I will ever know.