Story Title: Detective Scooby-Doo and the Cesis Nightmare Murder Mystery!
Story By: The Veronicas Music Is My Life
Disclaimer: I own only own my OC's, the fictional story and the festival. At least I never heard of such a festival before.
The words: The bolded words in () are Author Notes;
English; Japanese; 'Thoughts'; 'Latvian';
Thoughts are done in their native language
Summary: When on another vacation, the gang meets a group of 3 kids from another country, who happens to be the famous Japanese High School detective – Kudo Shinichi, his childhood friend, Mouri Ran and the countries own detective, Karin Johansson, as they stumble upon a mystery that is taking turns way above norms both sides can imagine. Can Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, Velma, Ran, Shinichi and Karin solve this before it is too late?
Chapter 2:
Shocking News
"Want moore boys?" Karin's aunt asked. Right now, it was morning, breakfast time, and everyone was enjoying some good Latvian breakfast.
"Yes please!" Shaggy and Scooby handed her their plates.
"How much can these 2 eat?" Ran asked, as they got their 5th portion of omelet.
"A lot." Fred, Daphne and Velma answered to that.
"Don't worry. My aunt really likes it when people adore her cooking." Karin says.
"Good thing she does." Shinichi adds as he finished drinking some juice, "We better get going Ran. We better see where what is during the day so that we don't get lost during the night." Shinichi gets up. (Shinichi was now wearing blue jeans, with a dark blue sweater and the same red and white sneakers he wore yesterday). Ran nods and follows him (Ran is dressed also in a pair of blue jeans, but she has a white top, with a white jacket over it and white sandals).
"I better get going too. I got old friends to meet. Later." Karin quickly leaves (Karin was dressed in black jeans, red top, black sandals and a black jean jacket).
Later, the gang also went to see Cesis. It was amazing.
"This city is so beautiful." Daphne sees another fountain.
"I'll say. They also have a popular tourist attraction the only thing they have in the Baltic's: the caves." Velma said.
"What's so special about those caves?" Shaggy asked.
"These caves are the only ones who are big, old and famous. For example: Velna ala or in English Devils Cave…" Velma read.
"Devils cave?" Shaggy and Scooby started to shiver.
"There's no devil in there. Anyway, Devils caves are hundreds in Latvia and they all are under protection as nature objects. All of them are located at the river Gauja and Cesis happens to be the closest and best known place to get near them." Velma read. (I haven't been in Cesis for few years, so I'm a little rusty about the caves)
"But why did they call them the Devils caves?" Fred asked.
"It's part of their mythology. They believed that those were made by devil." Velma explained.
"Well that makes sense." Daphne said.
"Let's take a look at these devil caves." Fred said and, while pulling Shaggy and Scooby, they went to the closest caves.
Meanwhile, Shinichi and Ran were having a great time at the park. They first looked around the great flowers, the statues, then they had some ice-cream, which fell on Shinchi's shirt, making Ran laugh a bit, and now they are enjoying themselves sitting in front of a lake with swans in it.
"Ahhh! So beautiful!" Ran saw a swan couples get together.
"Swans are meant to be beautiful, Ran. But not as beautiful as you." Shinichi says, making her turn red: "Shinichi!"
"Hey, it's true." Shinichi laughed at this. (That's right folks: Shinichi and Ran are together! I am a crazy ShinRan fan and I can't be cured)
"Let's go or people will think we are weird." Ran got up and ran away.
"Oi, oi! Ran! Wait for me!" Shinichi started to chase her.
Another meanwhile, Karin was looking threw the newspaper to find out something about that case, she read yesterday.
'It can't be a coincidence. I read something about it when I was little in those old news reports. It should have something more.' She thought, as she finally found what she was looking for: an old newspaper cut out from the 70's about a serial killer. (The paper will be translated for you guys in English, cuz I doubt any of you speak Latvian)
Still unknown who the killer is, the Wild Animal has murdered already 20 people by brutally cutting them up till the level they can't be identified. From what the militia (The Russian police that was also in Latvia when it was occupied and turned into a part of the Soviet Russia) was able to find out: that killer is a male about 25-35-45 years old, with mental problems.
All of his victims are residents of Cesis, from the age of 10 to 17 and are supposedly having well positioned parents, but the last is unknown as the victims haven't been identified yet.
'So that's it, huh? This was written in 1973 and nothing has ever been told about this killer being captured. Looks like he is back.' Karin took the book to copy the article and do a little more investigation on this.
"Wow! Look at the size of these things!" Fred started to take pictures of the caves.
"This is how big the devil was?" Shaggy asked as he started to shiver at the possible size.
"It's just a name Shaggy. Besides, it's also said here that these caves have some sort of healing water here." Velma read in her guide book.
"Too bad they don't have a burger stand here." Shaggy said, as Scooby rubbed his stomach.
"Seriously, can you 2 ever stop thinking about food?" Daphne asked.
"Ahoy!" Shinichi called out to them.
"Hey Shinichi! Hey Ran!" Fred waved at them, "You came here too?"
"Yeah, we also thought to visit this place. It is a popular place you know and Hattori wouldn't let me live it down if I hadn't visited a famous place. He'd go all like: if it's said that Sherlock Holms put his foot here, I would come immediately." Shinichi tried to imitate his Osaka friend.
"Hattori? Hattori Heiji? The Great Detective of the West?" Velma asked.
"Yup. We're both friends and rivals." Shinichi answered to that.
"And both have a liking to joke around with each other." Karin suddenly appeared behind them.
"Gee, Karin. You know how to make appearances." Shinichi didn't show any amount of surprise, as if he knew she will appear behind him.
"I live to solve and please." Karin said and took a picture of them.
"Karin! My hair isn't ready." Daphne exclaimed.
"Sorry Daphne, but this will go on Draugiem . lv." Karin said.
"Draugiem . lv?" Velma asked.
"It's a Latvian site. Kind of like chat, they share thought in thought-groups, play a lot of games, listen to music, send messages, make galleries and do other stuff." Shinichi explained
"Wait, you can't put that on internet!" Daphne exclaimed.
"Any gallery in can be viewed only by a user and you can only become a user if you get invited by someone who is a member." Karin explained.
"But you won't dare!" Daphne pleaded.
"I can do that if I want." Karin said and took some more pictures. As they wanted to take a deeper look inside the cave, a scream came from the outside.
"What's going on?" Fed asked. Shinichi and Karin weren't loosing time and ran towards the source.
"Shinichi!" Ran followed him to the source. The gang also quickly followed the Asian girl. When they reached the place, Karin and Shinichi were already looking at something, as a man in his late 30's looked horrified at what he found.
"What's wrong?" Shaggy asked and Karin pointed at what. It was a dead body, fully ripped of head, blood all over, arms and legs separated from the torso.
Ran in panic grabbed Shinichi's hand, Scooby jumped in Shaggy's arms out of fear, while Fred, Daphne and Velma only looked in horror at the sight right in front of them. They have never seen anything like this in their lives (besides Ran).
"Someone call the police!" Karin screamed at the people.
"Wha-wha-what hap-p-p-p-pened to h-h-h-im?" Shaggy asked in fear. Shinichi and Karin answered with one simple word: "Murder."
Few minutes later the police came. They checked everyone and everything, the time of death was around the time of 11 – 12 last night, nothing to point at the culprit was around. And they signed this off as an animal attack.
"Keiji-san!" Shinichi protested, "This can't be an accident! The wounds and the way the arms and legs were cut off, proves that this was murder!"
"Listen, you might be a famous detective back home, but here, you got no authority. Even you Johansson! This was an accident, simple as that! Nothing to worry about!" The Inspector left quickly as he came.
"I can't believe they signed it off as an accident. It was visible that it wasn't an accident!" Velma said.
"That's the police of Latvia. They will take a look into this, if it is important, but something like this, they will say something about it being either suicide, which they can't in this one, or an accident by an animal attack." Karin explained.
"That's wrong. That's wrong. They didn't even look into this!" Shinichi started to walk around, angry.
"But we can't do a thing. They won't allow us." Velma said.
"We'll trick our way in." Karin smirked, as Shinichi said that.
"Kudo, you got an idea, don't you?" She asked.
"I did and I will need that thing you copied at the library." He said.
"How do you know I got anything?" Karin asked, surprised.
"Simple. You went to the library, which was first on your to do list after you read the article Velma told you to read last night for us, you are the only one of us that speaks Latvian, so it would make sense that you would go somewhere only you could go without anyone saying you got friends to visit. Also, it was sticking out the entire time of your bag." Shinichi pointed at the portfolio that was showing itself.
"Man, I can't outdo you no matter how hard I try." She handed him the file.
"But, it's in Latvian." Fred said.
"I'm only looking at the pictures." Shinichi showed them the picture of the Wild Animals murder from more them 30 years ago. The body looked identical to what they saw today.
"The same killer from all those years ago is back." Shinichi and Karin said simultaneously, making the others more scared then before.
TBC
The TVMIML Note:
That's the truth folks: the police in Latvia won't give a damn about something they can easily write off as an accident or suicide. That's how Latvia is. I'm surprised that we're still standing.
Well I do hope you guys enjoyed it, cuz I tried. It was a horrible murder for the gang to see the first time, I know, but it is normal in the world of Detective Conan, so yeah, we get something really scary: a serial killer. This should make the gang think over their ways of solving mysteries – splitting up isn't always a good thing.
Next week will be another chapter. If not, then wait another week. Once a week or once 2 in two weeks. This is how I go.
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