One crazy writer + Two big ideas = Three chapters in a day!
The birthmark on his hand started to glow with an amber hue. Sephron did a double take, staring at it in wonder.
"What's wrong, bro?"
Sephron looked up; it was his sister that had spoken. "My hand...It started glowing."
Saphira looked at it, and smiled happily. "It's the Angel of Destiny! It's been activated! Now all we have to do is find it, and then we can restore our once mighty power!" She hopped eagerly around her elder brother, chirping repeated 'Where is it's.
Sephron's eyes shone with their golden hue, twinkling with excitement, longing, determination and pure ruthlessness.
"Calm down, Saph. The Destiny's right in the capital of Tokyo, and I know just where to find it."
It was another bright sunny day in his life. He woke up, and saw that he had shrunk back to the small-kid size.
He sighed, revaluating the past day, which he had spent as Shinichi, going to school to say hi and get his homework, then walking Ran home and having dinner with her family, before going home to sleep. It had been so much fun, and he had never wanted it to end.
Conan stood up, and dressed himself in his usual clothes, then remembered that he could change back whenever he wanted to. He focused his mind on his body, willing himself to change into Shinichi again.
Suddenly he felt horribly weak, and fell back onto the bed. "Looks like this transformation thingy takes up a lot of energy," he mused, and then set off to do his dailies as Conan.
Later at school, Miss Kobayashi had a big surprise for everyone.
"Alright students, today we have a new student. Please welcome him into our class, alright?" she said Class 1-B, her sprightly voice penetrating the buzz in the classroom.
"Yes!" chorused the students gleefully.
Conan sat up in his seat. A new student in his class? He wondered who it could be.
The kid who came in was well-built; he had a shock of messy golden-yellow hair, his long thin fingers brushed away a lock of sunlight hair, revealing a pair of mustard-coloured eyes. He smiled shyly at the class, before introducing himself.
"My name is Yuuma Minoru."
"Yuuma?"
"He said his name was Yuuma?"
The class was suddenly alive once more with buzzing and chatter as they welcomed the new student. He picked up his bag, walked over to the empty seat behind Conan and sat down soundlessly.
"Hey, do you want to be part of the Shōnen Tantei-dan, Yuuma-kun?"
Conan turned around to look; it was Genta who had spoken. "So?" He was still expecting an answer. Conan peered at him through half-mooned eyes; it was just like them to ask this sort of question, trying to invite any student they see. Yuuma looked at Genta curiously, and then asked, "Well, what do you guys do?"
"Oh, we are the brave and clever Shōnen Tantei-dan! We solve mysteries, go on adventures, and meet lotsa new and interesting people! There's me, Kojima Genta, Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko," he gestured at the lean kid sitting in the next row, "Yoshida Ayumi," he pointed to the girl sitting beside Conan, "Haibara Ai and Edogawa Conan," pointing to the two of them in turn.
"Edogawa Conan, huh? That's a rare name. Not many people name their child after two mystery novelists." Yuuma smiled at Conan, a little trace of irony in his comment. Conan brushed it off, and replied curtly, "My dad is a mystery novelist, and I'm his son. See the connection?"
"Ah yes," laughed Yuuma, leaning back into his seat. "Okay then, little detectives. If you're as brave as you say you are, I dare you guys to spend tonight in the graveyard near the church!" He grinned with confidence, certain that they would shy away at once. Conan looked at Genta, who said, "Dare accepted!"
"What?! Genta, you know that place is haunted with the ghosts of the people who were buried there! We can't sleep there, who knows what will happen!" Mitsuhiko yelled at his friend in protest.
"But we would be able to prove whether there are any ghosts there, or if it was just a rumour, right?" Ayumi's cute voice pushed into the conversation. "It's our chance to prove to this guy that we're not called the Shōnen Tantei-dan for no reason!"
Genta and Mitsuhiko looked at each other and said, "Alright! We accept your case, Yuuma!"
Conan sighed. Kids would always be kids.
Later that night...
"Conan-kun! You didn't bring anything?"
The Shōnen Tantei-dan was at the graveyard, dragging along sleeping bags and supplies that would last them for about a month.
Conan stared at them, and then sat down beside a tombstone jutting out from the ground. "No, I didn't. Besides, I don't get up in the night to eat, unlike some people." He stressed the phrase 'some people', irritating Genta, who went off to unroll his sleeping bag with his nose in the air.
Yuuma stood at the gate of the graveyard, and shouted, "Alright! I'll leave you guys here, and I'll come back in the morning!" With that, he waved his hand and left, leaving the Shōnen Tantei-dan alone in the night.
"Okay everyone, let's get some sleep," said Ayumi cheerfully. But the other two members were already shaking in their sleeping bags; Genta's making a horrible racket with all the foodstuffs he had crammed into it. Mitsuhiko's head popped up from under the cover. "O-Okay, Ayumi-chan," he mumbled between shivers. "Le-Let's go to bed now, then we won't see anything that goes bump at this hour." He cuddled down under the covers once more.
"Huh. And they call themselves boys? I still am so much braver than them, and Ai-chan doesn't want to come," muttered Ayumi crossly, and turned to Conan, who was munching on some sandwiches. She joined them for a while, and then her eyes stared at something in the distance. Conan noticed, and asked, "Ayumi, is something wrong?"
"Conan-kun, are there really such things like ghosts and werewolves?" she asked nervously.
Conan laughed, then replied comfortingly, "Of course not, silly. There's no such thing as ghost, werewolves or vampires. They only exist in fairytales."
"T-Then...What's that looming behind you?"
Her finger pointed to the gloomy landscape behind them. The full moon was shining high up in the night sky, but there did not seem to be any stars twinkling that night. The tombstones down the hill looked like giant teeth sticking up of the rugged ground, and there was a black shadow looming over one of the teeth. The dark silhouette had two pointy things on it; to Conan, they looked vaguely like...ears.
Suddenly, the shadow leaped at them, a lithe and limber creature, its hackles raised and its lips peeled back to reveal a set of razor-sharp teeth. Its tails swished dangerously from side to side, and its claws pawed at the ground, digging up a layer of finely shredded soil.
Ayumi hid behind Conan, trembling with fear for a second, then quickly ran to the duo shaking in their sleeping bags and let them out. They quickly packed up their things and dashed out of the graveyard and back home, screaming loudly all the way. Conan stood his ground, staring straight into the creature's deranged eyes.
The creature stared back, snapping and snarling loudly, then suddenly calmed down. It sniffed curiously at him, then slinked back into a sitting posture. It blinked twice, then said, "The Angel of Destiny?"
Conan almost tried to pinch himself. A creature like him, talk? He was going crazy. "Uh...no. I don't have it," he answered untruthfully.
The creature sniffed at him again, then laughed. It sounded like the call of a hyena, just eerier in the atmosphere. "You lie," it said, "I can smell it inside you, you know. Lying doesn't work on me, kiddo."
Conan did a double take, then giggled nervously, "I guess you're right. I can't fool your nose anyway."
The creature laughed harder at the compliment, then stood up on two legs and extended a paw to the child. "Name's Twin. I'm a Halfling, not a werewolf like what your friend that ran off said." His snow white tail swept behind him playfully, dusting up the grasses that lay before the stones. Conan stepped closer, felling a little easier, and saw why Twin called himself a Halfling.
Twin had a mop of long white hair, the same shade as his tail, and underneath was a human face with eyes that were a shade of translucent amber.
Conan shook Twin's hand, and introduced himself, "I'm Edogawa Conan. Nice to meet you, Twin."
Twin shook it vigorously, then set his paw down again. "So...Conan. What are you doing here with your friends at this hour?"
"Well...we were staying because of a dare that our classmate Yuuma made." Conan felt sheepish, he had to take the brunt of the blow for the other kids almost every time.
Twin's snow-coloured ears pricked up on his head, then relaxed once more. "I see. So to finish the dare, you must spend a night here, in this graveyard?"
"Er...yeah."
"Fine, come with me. Sleeping out here might just tempt some pesky birds to drop things on you, so I'll show you a little cave I sleep in. You can sleep there tonight, and since you have no blanket to shoo the cold, cold wind away, I shall be your blanket." He pushed Conan into a little indent in the ground, and curled around the young child.
"So, err...Twin. What do you know about the Destiny?"
Twin looked at him curiously, then started. "The destiny is a dangerous thing, yes, because of the magic it has. It grants wishes to the person that bonds with it, and if it is not removed before the next comet arrives, it will remain in the person that bonded with it; in this case, you. You have found yourself capable of a number of things that you could not do normally, right? See, that is the Destiny's work. It tries to give you everything you want, so that it will stay inside you, and never come out again. I don't suppose you have already learnt how to fly in your Angel form, no?"
"Er....No. What is an Angel form, anyways?
"Oh, it's when you transform into something or someone that is a representation of your true self, but has wings and can fly, and can also do all the unnatural things you can do, like controlling the flow of water and blood."
"What?"
"Yes, you can control blood as well! See, it is mainly water, is it not? Try moving my paw around."
Conan did as he was told, and the paw moved three inched slowly towards him. He released his grip, then breathed, "Whoa. That's way cool."
"You can do other things too. I'll teach you. "
And so, the two new friends continued into the night.
The next day, Yuuma came back to the graveyard, and found Conan still sleeping in his sleeping bag. He slipped through the gates, then woke the kid up.
"Yo, Conan. Wakey Wakey!"
Conan stirred, then sat up. "Yuuma-kun, is it morning already?"
"Yeah, sleepyhead. You've won the dare. Now let's get to school, shall we?"
Conan picked up his things and agreed with the boy.
Then, the two children went off to school together.
Kaito had been stood up.
He sat thinking in his room, the solitary light from the lamp beamed onto his table with the plans for the Destiny's taking. Outside, the stars twinkled and winked at him, and the moon scurried behind a cloud like a kid.
"They purposely hidden the Destiny somewhere, and if I don't find it soon, the stinky organization might get their unscrupulous hands on it," he thought.
He needed someone to help him. Someone that knew enough sorcery to locate the Destiny for him.
His thoughts started to focus on someone, and he snapped his fingers in realization. He got up, changed into Kid's uniform, and set off to get the person's help.
Minutes later, he arrived at Akako's house.
There. Fourth chapter up! now I'm gonna take a break...My finger smart alot.... T_T