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His light footsteps pitter-pattered down the wooden floorboards of the deck, down the cement staircase, and into the dark basement, where Kaito Kid's prize was located.
The basement was mainly dominated by the vastness of the singular vault, the lead-lined doors and extensive locks lined every inch of it. He checked the locks, and smiled. None of the locks actually held the door locked except one, and that was easy to crack! Apparently President Takashi just left Kid a lot of decoys to slow him down, but he knew that Kid, with his wiliness and intelligence, would find the correct lock and crack it open in no time.
He picked the lock, and then slipped silently into the vault. Inside, there was a single pedestal with a glass box on it. He chuckled in satisfaction as he noticed the numerous sensitive laser lines scanning about the room. "The President sure loves to play with her food before eating it," he noted, then skipped expertly across the lasers and arrived in front of the short ceramic pillar. "Yet I know Kid would hop over this obstacle just as easily as I can."
He looked up at the Angel of Destiny contained within its glass prison. The doll-like object had its eyes closed sweetly in eternal sleep, and its hands were straight, yet life-like, filled with the innocence of a young child. Its snow white wings extended behind it, as graceful as a swan, making it look all the more beautiful. Yet Conan was perplexed at this: Kid would only steal jewels, but what made this doll so special that he had to take it too? There was something fishy about the heist. He could point it out to Kogoro and Inspector Nakamori, but they would not believe him anyway.
"I wish I could be Shinichi as and when I like, then maybe when the time comes for this sort of situations, I can at least be helpful to the investigation."
"You can, if you want to."
Conan turned at the sound of the sweet, yet eerie voice, given that there was no one else in the vault except him. He looked hard at the doll, and then chided himself. "Things like that don't exist. I'm getting paranoid."
"No you're not."
There was that voice again! He went up to the doll, and stared at it curiously. The doll seemed to move a bit, and it opened its round eyes and looked back at him, and smiled with pure, blissful innocence. "I can grant you your wish, you know. You can be Kudo Shinichi again, as and when you want."
Conan almost popped his eyes out when he heard the doll speak. "I must be dreaming," he thought, then spoke to the doll. "So...you say you can grant my wish? That I can be my old self again?"
"Of course. I can grant you that wish, and many more if you want to." The doll's smile widened a little; it looked really cute and sincere.
Conan's heart jumped with glee and relief, and he cried "Yes, yes! I want the wish, grant it please!" He hopped up and down in excitement, begging the doll to grant him his dearest wish.
"But it comes with a price, child. Let me out of this box, so that I can grant you your wish."
"I'll do anything! I'll do anything!" he impulsively lifted up the heavy glass box, and set the doll free. It spread its snow wings, and fluttered around the vault once, twice, before coming to a stop in front of Conan's face. "Thanks a lot! Now I'll grant you that wish!"
Conan nodded happily.
The next thing he knew, there was a bright flash of white light, and then everything faded to black.
It was one in the morning, just like he had stated on his warning letter. He had already knocked out the secretary Mr Nekobi, and taken on his identity to get close to the Angel of Destiny. Now he was just outside the vault, and someone had helpfully undid the single lock that held it shut. He snickered with arrogance, and swung the door open in triumph. "I wonder where Tantei-kun is. He sure is taking long to show up," he said to himself.
The mighty lead-lined door creaked heavily open, and out fell the midget detective! Kid almost squealed in fright, then remembered his poker face and masked his emotions under the confident face once more. He poked at the child, and seeing that he was out cold already, he laughed out loud. "In your face, Tantei-kun! You're sleeping during my heist! Oh, what would I give to see your face when you wake up and find that it's all over?" He chortled again, and picked up the unconscious kid. He carefully placed him back into his cabin, on his bed, and then went down to the basement again.
He peeped into the vault, and saw that the lasers everywhere. He slipped through them easily, and swiftly made his way to the box that held his treasure: the Angel of Destiny.
He dropped his disguise, and reached for the box with a gloved hand, when....
"FREEZE!"
He turned around in pleasure, and saw the inspector pointing a gun at him, a pair of handcuffs in his other hand.
"Nice to see you today, Inspector Nakamori. Tell me, how's my favourite idiot coming along now?"
"You'll be arrested today for all I care," growled Inspector Nakamori. "And you've trapped yourself effectively too. Piece of cake, this heist."
Kid swivelled around, and lifted up the glass box. "No can do, inspector. I'll just get the..." he stopped short, staring at the pedestal.
"What's wrong? Not taking it today? Or are you too scared?"
"Nakamori." Kid faced the inspector, his sapphire eyes aglow indignantly. "The doll's not here. I see I have wasted tonight's show."
"But that can't be!" the inspector cried, then went over to look for himself. Sure enough, the doll was gone! All that was left of it was an empty little cushion, where it used to sit. "No-No way!" he shouted at Kid. "It was here before we locked the vault! There was no one that could have taken it!"
There was a moment's silence, and then Kid spoke. "I'll be off." With that, he exited the vault.
Back in his room, Kaito quickly stuffed his uniform into his suitcase, taking utmost care not to let anyone see any traces of it. He crammed his monocle and mantle into his hat, and placed that into his rucksack.
"The doll, gone! This trip has been a waste. Who took it before I did? Who...." His thoughts spun to the detective lying on his bed.
"Tantei-kun?"
He searched the child for his treasure, and then sighed in defeat. It was not on the child. Someone had taken it. He hoped it was not anyone from the organization that was responsible for his father's death. Then, he quickly picked up the sleeping child, and placed him into Kogoro's cabin.
When Conan awoke, the sun was shining high up in the sky. He sat up, the chorus of seagulls whizzing around outside the window. He cursed, as he could not recollect the events of Kid's heist. "I must have missed it...and the chance to arrest him!" He stuck up a solitary finger at an imaginary Kid, the universal hand signal for vulgarity.
He looked around him. The room was clean; the only luggage in the cabin was his. Where had Ran and Kogoro's briefcases gone? He rubbed his chest. It felt sort of...weird. Like there was a foreign object wedged into his ribcage, squashing up his heart. He ignored it; it was not even painful anyway.
He went out to the decks, and saw Ran napping on a chair under a rainbow-coloured umbrella. "Ran-neechan," he said to her, "Good morning."
Ran rubbed her midnight blue eyes, and looked at Conan sleepily. "Conan-kun, you're awake. It's already two in the afternoon, go get yourself some lunch from the kitchens, alright? We'll be arriving in Tokyo at three. "
Conan froze. Two in the afternoon? Had he really slept that long? He went back to the cabin and packed his luggage, thinking about the things that happened just before he blacked out.
Suddenly the ship rocked violently, and a fishbowl on a nearby shelf started to tip...tip...and fall over! The poor goldfish inside swam around frantically, trying in vain to save its home. Conan looked up and tried to grab the bowl before it reached the ground, but his fingers just brushed the side of the bowl.....he braced himself and clinched his fists, waiting for the crash.
There was none.
He opened an eye, and stared in wonder.
The bowl had frozen upside down in midair, the goldfish swimming around in it, relieved. The water was not spilling out of the upside-down bowl – instead, it stayed within the glass enclosure, without a single drop leaking out! Conan poked the bowl nervously, thinking that the bowl might crash. "Don't crash, don't crash..."he prayed silently, "go back up to the shelf and stay there..."
The bowl flipped itself the right way up, and flew over to the shelf. It descended slowly onto the wooden surface, and then landed with a soft thump. The goldfish bubbled in awe and curiosity, before swiftly hiding into its little fishbowl cave. Conan stood up straight, marvelled at what just happened, and decided to try it again. He focused on the fishbowl, willing it to rise.
But the fishbowl did not move an inch. "There must be something wrong," he thought, and tried focusing on something else: the water. Once again, he willed it to rise up.
The water swirled around in the bowl for a while, then slowly, but Conan was sure of it, the water rose up, taking the little fish with it! It bubbled around in laughter and excitement as he put the water back into the bowl.
He could manipulate water! That was a cool trick he'd done, or was there someone else behind it? He practised on his water bottle; that followed his commands too. He smiled in satisfaction, and then tried moving the fish. "It has water in it, because it drinks the water in the fishbowl," he reasoned.
The fish rose out of the water, its expression clearly one of surprise. Conan hastily put it back and gazed in wonder and awe at his hands. Manipulating water was totally cool, and it had got to be the best thing that had happened to him as Conan in a while.
Soon, the cruise ship docked at Tokyo, and the three of them stepped onto Japan soil once more. Conan kept his new ability sealed in his mind, and he decided to keep it secret as well. It would be a good surprise if he could use it in cases or something.
Lousy place to stop, but my hands just can't go on. Hope you guys lke the new chapter!