Story Title: Detective Scooby-Doo and the Cesis 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 3:
Information on the Wild Animal
"So, what do we have to do?" Fred asked, excited a bit. That body did freak him out, but to solve who did it, he had to get over with it. Besides, it would be stupid if he wouldn't be able to get over with it, if a teenager can, even if this teen has seen a LOT more bodies then he has.
"Distract the police. Don't know how but do it for at least a minute." Shinichi said and went closer to the body.
"You hear the guy." Fred turned to the others.
The police officers were about to put the sliced body in the black bags, when suddenly someone started screaming.
"What's that?" One asked.
"Let's check it out!" The other one ran to see who was screaming and why. When they left, Shinichi ran up to the body and looked for something that he needed to find. When he found it, he made a knowing smirk: "I see. It is true." Then he ran away quickly, before anyone saw him with the body.
Shaggy and Scooby were the ones making those screams. Ran was on watch to see if the police was coming. When they were she said: "They're coming!" And they stopped and began to look around the cave, like nothing ever happened.
"What? I could have sworn the screams were coming from here." One of them said.
"Maybe drinking that vodka this morning wasn't a very good idea. Let's go." The other said and they left.
"Great they also started drinking in the mornings." Karin muttered. Before anyone could ask what she meant by that, Shinichi came in the cave.
"Did you find what you wanted to see?" Velma said.
"Hai. The killer always left a special mark on his victim's bodies. It looks like a mirror-reversed R." Shinichi said.
"I." Karin said. Everyone looked at her and explained: "The mirror-reversed R is actually the Russian letter, or word, for I, Я."
"Я? That could mean something about him. Like the ripped body could be showing how he feels." Fred guessed.
"That means we are dealing with a psychopath." Shinichi theorized.
"Psychopath?" Scooby jumped in Shaggy's arms.
"I ron't ran't ro rie!" Scooby cried.
"Then be quite. Those type killers will kill anyone who knows about them, so you better stay quite." Karin added.
"But how are we going to catch him?" Daphne asked.
"First: we nee clues to tell us more about him." Fred said.
"You call them clues, we call them evidence. The best place to look for evidence is the crime scene, but first we need to find it." Shinichi states.
"But…the body is there." Velma says and points at the direction.
"Maybe, but that is not the real scene. There is a lot less blood around the body, then there should be." Shinichi explains.
"With so much cuts, there was bound to be a puddle, but this is too small. Another thing you checked, right?" Karin said.
"Yup and now we only have to figure out where is it and take a look at it." Shinichi looks at the river.
"Any idea how to find it?" Daphne asked when suddenly she hit her foot with something. She looked at it and screamed.
"Daphne! What's wrong?" Fred ran to her and she pointed at something. It was a bloody butcher knife. The rest of the gang jumped back.
"You guys sure are chickens." Karin adds and looks at it.
"The blood is dry," she sniffs the knife, "It has the same weird aroma that the body has. This is the murder weapon." Shinichi nods: "Wonder what the inspector will say."
"What do you mean 'still an accident'?" Shinichi exclaims.
"Just because this has the same blood type means nothing. There are only 4 blood types in the world. Anyone could have gotten cut with it." The Inspector left again.
"Teme." Shinichi muttered.
"You said it." Ran agreed.
"I cannot believe this guy! He has a body and the weapon! What else he needs to do the case?" Fred threw his hands up in frustration that was also getting to him.
"Looks, like we got to figure this one out ourselves." Velma said.
"But…we, like, don't know how to solve murders." Shaggy says.
"Reah." Scooby agreed.
"But we got 2 of the bets detectives in the world. They could teach us." Daphne said.
"Good idea!" Fred agreed, "Could you?" He turned to the 2. They looked at each other, before nodding.
"Okay, first off: you must always know this: if you see something that could count as evidence, don't touch it with your hand, when it is naked. Use a tissue or a glove." Shinichi gives them all a pair of special white gloves the police use.
"Why?" Fred asked.
"To keep your fingerprints off of the evidence of course! You don't want to be a suspect, now do you?" He smirked at that question. Velma wrote that.
"Second off: you must have a quick mind and a keen eye. The mind for putting pieces together, but you already got that from your mysteries. The keen eye to stop small details that could help you put the pieces together. This is 2." Karin adds and Velma also writes that down.
"Third is your deduction. You must make it perfect so that it will go with the truth." Shinichi says.
"But what if we're missing something and we can't get it?" Fred asked.
"Then you must make the culprit tell the truth." Karin explains.
"How?" Shaggy asked.
"Simple, Watson. They are confident that you won't figure it out, so they will try not to say the thing you need, but in truth, their confidence makes them perish. One lady killed her husband with a brick that was on her balcony, then she made it look like suicide. I stated a lot of thins that she knew how to answer till I said that there has been found blood on the brick, and she says to that one that she already switched the bricks. Her confidence was her mistake." Shinichi tells them.
"Confidence – bad for the culprits. Got it." Fred says.
"These are the main things for anyone to know. Then there are a lot of info about history cultures, people and etc that you should know. But that works only when something has to do with the past." Shinichi says.
"So this is for begginers?" Velma points at her notes.
"Correct. The more professional you get the more able to solve cases you are, but you are mystery solvers, so you do know a ton of things. Not exactly for murders, but still it does work. We only need something about those cases from the 70's." Karin nods.
"Maybe your aunt can tell us something." Daphne guessed.
"That could do." Ran agreed on that.
"That Wild Animal from the 70's? I remember those cases. Horrible ones." The aunt says, as she puts the tea cups and cookies on the living room table.
"Do you know any detail at all?" Shinichi asked, getting to the point.
"I doo know some details. But that was years ago and I can mistake something." She says.
"Try to remember." Karin pleaded. Her aunt sank into her memories about those cases: "About 20 other bodies were found similarly to this one today and they all had the Russian 'I' on the bodies. Дикое Животное or Wild Animal got his name by the way the bodies were ripped apart. He always attacked at night and did everything fast and horrible. The ones that saw him say he has red demonic eyes and a very wild look. He also snarled like a beast and roared at the full moon before going on the hunt."
"D-d-d-d-demon-n-n-n-nic re-e-e-ed ey-y-y-yes?" Shaggy and Scooby asked, while shacking in fear.
"Those could have been contact lenses." Shinichi points out.
"But it is said that they shined like bloodied fire of hell itself." Karin's aunt recalls, making Ran grab onto Shinichi in fear.
'She can beat the heck out of anyone, yet she can't stand ghosts and legends.' Karin looks at Ran with a hint of annoyance.
"If Shinichi didn't have a point, we would have been searching for someone with red eyes." Fred says.
"Then lets look at this from a logical point. The bodies were all kids and they were all ripped to pieces. I am guessing this should be a rather strong man or the victims were all asleep, but seeing how the hands on the bodies were dirty as if they were trying to catch something, I say they were conscience at the time." Shinichi recalls how the fingers looked.
"That's horrible!" Daphne says.
"It is possible for the killer to be insane, since he mostly works at full moon nights, like a werewolf." Karin also adds.
"True. Is there any clinic for psychopaths near?" Shinichi asks.
"The only ones I know are in Daugavpils and near Riga." Karin thinks about it.
"And each of those are few hours away from here." Shinichi adds, getting a nod from her.
"What do we do now?" Velma said, looking at Fred.
"We should look for anyone that knows a bit more details. Thank you Mrs. Johansson." Fred says and stands up.
"Don't mention it." The elderly woman smiles. Just as the rest exited, she stopped her niece form leaving: "Karin, I think you should stop. No one has captured the Wild Animal. What chances do you have?"
"I'm not scared first off and I got friends that can back me up." Karin replies and quickly leaves.
"This won't be good. He might catch you." Katherine looks out the window sadly, to see the lines of the moon shining in the blue sky, which is slightly turning orange as the sun begins to set.
"He starts hunting at this time." She looks at the sun and locks the door.
(Switching the image to the gang and the 3 kids running to the city for information, with a shadow of a dark demonic red eyed wolf like beast looking at them from behind in the bushes)
The TVMIML Note:
So, how was it? Good? I hope so.
"Why are you making this story a murder one?" Shaggy asks.
"The title is 'Detective Scooby Doo and the Cesis Murder Mystery'. Duh, it will have murders in it." I reply.
"Rut rhy ro rcary?" Scooby asks, "Rand rhy do I so rarely ralk?"
"First off: I thought this will be interesting. Second off: I can't copy your speech that good, I'm only 10!" I yell at them.
"10!" The both faint.
"What's their problem?" I look at the readers, "Anyway, review, review and review. Or I might not write any more."