Two chapters in one day! Because I have my story all planned out now....I'll finish this!!! (Charges to finishing line)
A few days later......
The resolution he had made earlier had lasted...for five days.
As he ran to the professor's house, he thought about what he was going to tell the man and his friend.
"Hmm...Say Professor, is there anything I should know about- ah wait, that's too cheesy. Um...Professor, I just found that I can...Ehh, too direct. What should I do? How should I ask him?" He ran potential questions through his head, playing each situation out in his head before deciding whether he should ask it that way.
When he reached the front door, he still had not thought of a possible query. He sighed to himself, and turned the shiny metal doorknob of the main door.
"Professor? Are you home?"
He peeked around the door, expecting to see the plump man standing behind his worktable doing some project. Instead, a young girl with light hazel hair that reached to her shoulders stared at him in the face. He jumped at her sudden appearance.
"Ha-Haibara, Don't scare me like that!" he cried in shock, then quickly recomposed himself as the girl chuckled, "What's wrong, Kudo? Don't tell me you can't take a little scare?"
"No, it's just that..." the child's voice trailed off for a few moments, and then he snapped back to earth. "It's just that I have a lot of things on my mind now, so don't scare me like that, will'ya?!" he ended with his voice on its loudest note; Ai backed a few steps away, with a sorry look on her face.
"Okay okay, I get it. Now, you wanted to see Professor Agasa, right? He's not in right now, so you'll have to talk to me instead." She waved her hands in front of her chest, signalling him to calm down.
"Okay..."Conan's head dropped a little as he realised he could not confide in his friend. "Let me come in. I need this chat to be private, and you must not tell anyone what I say."
Ai's voice lowered. "Is it about them again?"
"Eh? Er...No. Not exactly. Just let me in, I'll tell you everything."
Ai stepped aside to let him in.
"...So you see, a couple of days earlier, there was this heist as announced by Kaito Kid, right? Well...I went to check out the Angel of Destiny, and then I sort of...er...struck a deal with it. Yeah, it could talk. Don't ask me how! And then it said 'yes, I will grant you your wish', and then I fainted. When I woke up the next morning, Kid's heist was over, the Destiny gone and I could..."
Ai cut in, "You what? You struck a deal? What was it about?"
"Erm...I sort of wished that I could be Kudo again and whenever I like, and it somewhat agreed...yeah."
Ai's smoky grey eyes grew rounder and rounder by the second. "Then?"
"Then...er...when I woke up the next morning, I found that I could manipulate water."
Ai stood up. "You're pulling my leg, aren't you? There's no such thing as superpowers, everyone knows that! And of all people, you actually believe in supernatural occurrences?!"
"Th-That wasn't what I meant! Look, I'll show it to you! I can really do it!" He concentrated on the glass of orange juice that Ai had left on the table, and made it rise up slowly, before plopping it into another cup. Then, he looked at Ai pleadingly, "See?"
Ai poked nervously at the juice, then turned to her friend. "The Angel of Destiny, you say? I think I've seen that in one of the professor's books; I'll go take a look." She strode over to the bookshelf, ran her slender finger along the spines of the spines of the books, then picked out a dust-covered tome. She flipped it open, coughing as the dust flew into her face like tiny mites, then finally said, "Here. Angel of Destiny."
Conan went over as Ai began to read the text out loud. "The Angel of Destiny, or sometimes just Destiny, is said to have mystical powers of wish-making. It is rumoured that anyone that bonds with it will be granted five wishes, and that the person must use all five before the next shooting star that passes the Earth, or the bond would last forever." She closed the book.
"Well then, what do we do now? I don't know where the Destiny is, so I can't find it."
Ai stared hard at him. "You have it."
"What?"
She went over and poked Conan's chest. "I said, you have it."
"But...I don't! If I did I would have it in my pocket or something right? And I wouldn't be asking you for help either."
Ai sighed, then took a stick and prodded the other child's chest. "You do. Go take an x-ray now, if you don't believe me."
So, Conan went over to the professor's worktable and picked up a portable body scanner, then scanned himself. When the results came out, Ai picked it up and shoved it in his face. It showed him...No, his skeleton, and a patch of whitish stuff around his chest area. He took off his glasses and squinted hard at the patch; it somewhat resembled a little doll.
The doll was wedged into his chest.
His hand ran instinctively up to poke the spot, and looked at Ai. "That would explain why I can suddenly play around with water. But it hasn't granted my wish. Is it broken or something?"
Ai took him forcefully by the shoulders. "How did you make the water rise?"
"I did it...with my head?"
"Then try making yourself change with your head!"
"B-But I can't!" protested Conan. "It would never work!"
"How do you know if you haven't tried?"
He sighed, defeated, and then concentrated hard on himself. "Change, change," he kept repeating to himself. But nothing happened.
Just then, a knock came on the door. Ai went to answer it, then came back with Professor Agasa.
"Hey Shinichi, you wanted to see me?" he asked in his usual gaily tone.
"I did, but Haibara has already answered my questions."
"Oh. Okay then." He smiled at the both of them, and said, "There's someone that wants to see you, Shinichi."
Conan blinked, then asked, "Who?"
"ME, of course!"
That awfully familiar voice, with that unmistakable accent, the speaker could only be....
"Hattori!"
The Osakan sprung into the room and landed lightly on his toes. "Hiya, Kudo! What's going on today?"
"Not much. It's just me and Haibara-kun talking..." Suddenly, he felt a spasm in his chest. He gripped it tight, and started breathing in and out rapidly.
"K-Kudo?" Both Ai and Heiji chorused together in surprise and worry.
Conan flinched as another spasm shook his heart, and toppled to the floor. The three others rushed to help him up, and almost took their hands off him; his temperature was shooting sky high. He screamed as he felt the needles sink into his chest painfully, then finally blacked out.
When he woke up, he was lying on the sofa in the professor's house. The three were seated around a table, munching on cookies. Heiji looked up as he came round, and said with his mouth full, "Yo, Kudo, want to have some cookies too?"
"N-No thanks." His voice sounded strange in his throat, and he tried standing up. His legs trembled for a second, then gave way under his weight. He fell to the floor with a huge crash.
Professor Agasa and Heiji quickly helped him up, and put him back onto the sofa again. "Don't move, you need more energy from what you've just been through," cautioned Heiji.
He looked down at his legs; they seemed too long, too lanky. His own legs were usually short and thin. He felt...too tall. Then a thought snapped into his head.
"It...It worked?!"
Ai looked up at him, with the I-told-you-so look she had on her face. "Yes, Kudo. It worked, see? I knew it."
Shinichi immediately felt better, and he got up. "Wow! My wish really did come true! Now I can be myself whenever and wherever I like!" He dashed to his house picked up his bag and ran off to school to visit his friends and teachers. "I'm off," he told the others.
As he watched his friend speed off, Heiji turned to Ai. "Now...Tell me what just happened. You gave him the antidote again?" The professor looked at her questioningly.
Ai mentally slapped her forehead. "Stupid Kudo...Leaving me here to explain like this...."she thought.
There you have it! Next chapter, I'll introduce someone...who's had his eyes on the Destiny for a very long time..... =)
~Angelglitched