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 5:
Kidnapping
(Date and Time: Wednesday, 11th July, 10:37; Location: Johansson House, Kitchen)
After that attack from last night, the gang is still a little shaken, since they never had to be so close to something that wanted to kill them, just because they were near it. Since Shinichi and Karin don't really trust the police, they made the others stay quite about the attack. And also because there is a chance that when they take their fingerprints, the police might find some matching ones in their stations. So for now all they could do was try and get ready for the Festival of Colors that was closing in.
That was until this was announced: (I'll make it in English for you guys)
Festival of Colors Temporary Cancelled
For the while until the attacks on people will stop, the Festival of Colors, that everyone oh so waits, will be temporary cancelled. Ones the mayhem of the attacks are stopped, it will start.
The police inspector Winters has only said that this all is a work of a psychopathic serial killer, but he will not tell any more about this killer.
The information gathered by the eyewitness's state that it is the work of the same killer, who killed people in the 70's, the Wild Animal (Shaggy and Scooby shivered in fear), although is it true or not, is not yet told. Still, this is a high possibility, since the magazine, Sestdiena (Saturday) reporter Anna Kalinin, has taken the case in her own hands and she said that she will find out is it or not the Wild Animal.
For the time being, it is advised that everyone try to stay with big groups and not to follow people that could be the Wild Animal.
"The police didn't show even the slightest care about that guy killed near the caves and now they're doing the 'we care' thing? This is ridicules!" Fred throws up his hands.
"Welcome to Latvia." Karin says, as she reads threw the articles for something that would give them a hint about the Wild Animal. (She is wearing a white shirt, white jeans and a pair of black sneakers, along with a black jacket)
"What now? We only came here for the festival, not a crazy case that is way out of our league." Daphne says.
"It may not be your main goal to come here," Shinichi (dressed in a white button up shirt, dark blue fancy jacket, blue jeans and his sneakers) begins and everyone looks at him, "But never say out of your league. I dealt with a secret crime syndicate mostly by myself, but I did stop them. They were though, but I beat them. Out of my league? Right in my league. You guys only worked with paranormal cases, you got no experience in real cases with criminals, so you may think it is out of your league, but don't. Even Ran is able to do some proper detective work." Said girl blushes a bit. She is wearing a brown long loose sleeved shirt, simple blue jeans, brown sneakers and a red scarf/neck tie around her neck, which was a present from Shinichi on their 1st date. (I am such a ShinRan fan)
"Kudo has a point. It doesn't matter if you think you don't have real experience, what matters is that you think you can still give a try and try to solve this. That's the difference between a real detective or solver, in your case, and a lazy guy in a uniform." Karin tells them.
"Karin's right. We never did solve a thing of this caliber. We only think this is out of our league, but if we worked hard enough this could become part of our league." Velma says.
"Oh great. First we have to solve crazy mysteries and now we will have to add murders to it? This is just crazy." Shaggy whines.
"Reah." Scooby nods.
"C'mon you 2. We at least could help them solve this." Fred said.
"But is it a good idea: to go and hunt down the Wild Animal?" Karin's aunt, who was dressed in a grey sweater and white pants, sat down at the breakfast table.
"Someone has to do it. If not us, who?" Ran asked.
"Hey, are you feeling okay?" Karin asked her aunt. She did look a little pale and had some sweat on her forehead.
"I'm fine…it's just that…I don't like this idea. You could get killed." She points out.
"I don't know about them," Shinichi motions to the gang, "But we got enough close calls with death to know what it means."
"But you shouldn't. If you do have soled evidence it is Wild Animal, give them to the police and let them investigate this." Katherine tells them.
"They won't try to solve this. Wild Animal probably counts as dead, but he is still alive. If we won't catch him, more people will die for the sake of his blood thirst." Karin tells her.
"And we can't let that happen. I don't know how he manages to survive till this day, but I know that he will soon stop this." Shinichi gives a look.
"Then let's get going!" Fred gets up and leaves. The others followed, except for Shinichi. He went upstairs to his room.
(In Shinichi's and Ran's room)
Shinichi was looking threw his bag for something very important.
"I know I put it here. Somewhere. Ata!" He finds what he was looking for. It was a black box, the size off an A4 format paper (Standard one) and about the length of a shoe box. He opened to find his old Conan things, but for his size: the glasses, the belt, the earring/phone, the bow tie and everything else. There was even a smaller white box containing 3 different colored pills: red, white and black.
"Should I? No, Ran wouldn't like it, but I think I'll keep these with me." Shinichi puts the things the box contained either in his pockets, on him or in that red fanny pack, Ran makes him wear, and quickly leaves to catch up on the others.
(Time: 11:15; Location: Middle of Cesis)
"Ugh! Where is Shinichi?" Ran looks at her watch. It was decided that they look threw the forest to find something about the Wild Animal, but Shinichi didn't come and now they are waiting for him.
No one noticed that Scooby was sniffing the air again. He smelled something familiar in the air, but he couldn't tell what it was, but that someone from last night is near – that he can. Scooby started to follow the scent as he got close to the bush that was next to his bush from last night's attack.
"Go away!" A female voice, in Latvian, whispered. Scooby ignores that and grabs the female, pulling her out of the bush.
"Let me go! Let me go! You mutt!" That woman shrieks.
"Scooby!" Shaggy runs to his best pal and pries him away from the woman.
"I'm sorry miss. He doesn't really do that." Shaggy apologizes and then looks at the woman. She was in her late 40's, really blond hair, which anyone can tell is fake, curled up as a hat, deep cynical blue eyes, tan slight wrinkled skin, she was wearing a bright pink business suit and a notepad in her hands.
"That's okay. I wanted to get someone to buy me a new suit anyway." She made a cold smile.
"Let me guess: Anna Kalinin, the magazine Sestdiena reporter." Karin said.
"Correct. How did you know?" She asked.
"Simple: Anna Kalinin, also known as the Cold Queen, is working to find out about these killings happening in Cesis. Giving the fact that from the last time you showed up on the news, that was about 2 months ago, you had the same style, dark blond hair, which I guess you colored to make it brighter or to hide your, now appearing, grey hairs. You also are known to make harsh snotty comments to people that you only see." Karin explains.
"I see. You know me well miss…Karin Johansson, the detective from Riga. May I ask you few questions?" Anna takes out a notepad and tries to smile nicely.
"Some call you Anna Skeeter, since you are almost a live copy of the J.K. Rowling Harry Potter series character, Rita Skeeter. So no, I don't want to be lied about." Karin rejects her. Anna looks mad, before she turns and walks off.
"Phew rou!" Scooby closes his nose.
"What is it Scooby?" Velma asked the Great Dane.
"Roo ruch rerfume." Scooby tells her.
"Perfume? I didn't smell a thing." Daphne thought about it.
"Me neither." Fred agreed.
"Dogs have better sense of smell then humans has. They can smell poison wrapped in bags, drugs in suitcases, blood from afar and things that we won't smell, but even small amounts for us they will smell like it was too much to wear for a person." Shinichi tells them, as he walks closer.
"Rit ras rere rast right." Scooby tells them.
"Last night? Right before it attacked?" Ran asked and Scooby nodded.
"She must've been another person that was lucky enough to hide." Karin guessed.
"Or…she is Wild Animal." Shinichi says.
"Wait, what do you mean, Shinichi?" Ran asked.
"She maybe have been somewhere hidden, but then, why didn't he look for her too? Why were we the most important prey? Scooby was able to smell her perfume here and last night, if she wasn't here hiding, she is Wild Animal." Shinichi theorizes.
"That makes sense. But…where can we find her?" Velma asks.
"Wild Animal technically lives in the forest. Maybe there?" Karin points at the forest line.
"Maybe I should've kept my mouth closed." Karin got another twig out of her hair.
"C'mon! We have a monster to catch!" Fred called out.
"Murderer to catch." Velma corrects him.
"He's still a monster." Fred shrugs and walks deeper.
"If we keep walking like this, we'll get lost and won't be able to find a thing." Daphne complains.
"Split up?" Fred suggests.
"The same way, we did for the info hunt." Shinichi tells them.
"No/Ro way/ray!" Shaggy and Scooby shake their heads.
"Then you can come with me and Kudo." Karin crosses her hands.
"Okay/Rokay." They both are now standing next to her. With no further problem, they departed and started to look for something.
(Fred and Velma)
They searched near the river, but were unable to find a thing. However, they did feel like they were watched.
(Karin, Shinichi, Shaggy and Scooby)
The 2 tantei, were dragging the duo along, since they got scared of some wolf howls. Something started to bug Shinichi and it was visible. He kept looking around, but was unable to see what was so bugging him.
(Ran and Daphne)
Something followed them from afar, which they didn't notice, since, besides looking for Anna, Daphne was giving some fashion tips, while Ran was explaining certain karate moves that will do for Daphne.
"So, I just have to kick straight and hard?" Daphne asks.
"Exactly. A sloppy kick will make its quality go down, but good speed in it, will make it more effective. Hyah!" Ran chopped a fallen tree branch with a simple kick. The thing that followed them, backed down in fear.
'Is this she? The female that attacked me? I must get her.' It thinks.
"Amazing! I would really want to learn that." Daphne exclaims.
"Like they said yesterday: I'm the captain of the karate team, but they also forgot to mention that I am the city's karate champion." Ran proudly states.
"Wow! You are simply amazing! You look good and you kick butt! Shinichi is such a lucky guy!" Daphne tells her.
"And I'm a lucky girl. He might be a serious, un-curable Holms maniac, but he has a heart of gold. He will find justice in the places he sees that have lost it, he is strong and reliable. He also saved my life so many times." Ran blushes a bit.
"If only Fred was like that. He just doesn't seem that cool, like Shinichi." Daphne sighs.
"Hattori-kun, our friend from Osaka, also ahs a girlfriend. He is like Shinichi, but he's more of a hot-blood guy, with good kendo skills. Shinichi only does soccer. That saved his life a lot of times, especially when he got caught in the avalanche." Ran looks down a bit. (The avalanche was in movie 15: Detective Conan: Quarter to Silence)
"No way! How did he survive?" Daphne gasps.
"Secret." Ran winks playfully.
'Now's my chance.' The thing jumps and tackles Ran on the ground, while roaring.
"AHH! IT'S THE WILD ANIMAL!" Daphne screams loudly.
The others hear her scream of horror and start running towards the source.
"Get off of me!" Ran kicks it hard and rolls away from it. Then she gets in her battle pose and attacks it with all her strength in a single punch, but it ducks it and hits her right back.
"Ran!" Daphne screams in horror. Ran then tries to do a kick right at its head, but it evades and hits her back in her stomach, hard enough for her to loose conscience. Daphne gasps in horror, before looking for something that could help. She grabs a tree branch and whacks it against its head, but the thing didn't even move. He grabbed Ran and ran away.
'Shinichi…save me…I'm begging you.' Ran pleads in her mind, as she feels the wind, somehow.
Shinichi runs with all the strength he has towards the place he thinks the girls are and hears this in his mind: 'Shinichi…save me…I'm begging you.' Ran.
"Daphne-san!" Shinichi exclaims and runs closer to the shocked red head.
"Where is Ran?" He looks around, but can't find her.
"Wild…Animal…took her." Daphne replays shackingly and falls backwards in Fred's hands.
"Nani? What do you mean by that?" Shinichi screams angrily.
"Kudo. She couldn't stop. Ran is the strongest of all of us. If Ran couldn't what chances did she have?" Karin tries to be the voice of reason for him, but all he could is see something's in red and think: 'He's got Ran. He's got her. And I couldn't make it fast enough to save her.'
"Damn!" He hits the tree that is next to him, hard.
"Don't worry. We'll find her." Velma says, trying to sound positive, but it was visible: it didn't react to him anyway.
"Kudo. Is that one of those Conan glasses you have?" Karin notices a pair of thick lens glasses sticking out of the fanny pack.
"Didn't you give one of those to Ran when we came to the Riga Autoosta, but the sunglass version?" Karin asked. Shinichi then got it: Ran still had them on her, since the weather was promised to be very sunny. She still has the glasses, with the tracker.
"That's right! The tracker!"
"What tracker?" Fred asked, but Shinichi already got the glasses and turned on the tracker. The antenna came out and the left lens chanced to a map like one.
"Ran is about 4 km away from us. Let's go!" Shinichi starts running.
"Wait, can you explain this to us?" Daphne asked.
"I'll do it, but first let's follow him, before we loose him too." Karin tells them and they all start chasing Shinichi.
'Just wait Ran. I'll save you. I swear I will.' Shinichi promises and runs.
'Just wait Ran. I'll save you. I swear I will.' Ran hears in her head.
"Shinichi." She quietly whispers and gets her left hand to untie her neck scarf to find a good spot to put it on for the others to follow her. Just before it jumps over the river, she hangs it on a tree branch, hopping it won't fly away.
TBC
The TVMIML Note:
That was evil, but it was necessary. Will Ran survive or not, we will see later.
Yes, I kept the gadgets he had as Conan. I really like those and I couldn't say no to them.
(In the HQ)
A loud day. Karin was paying her music loudly, Daphne was trying her luck against Ran in a dance showdown, Shinichi was showing off some old case files to Velma, Fred was watching the girls and the Shaggy/Scooby duo were having their 5th foot tall sandwich. I was sitting at the computer making the next chapter.
"Hey Musy! Wanna join in?" Fred calls out.
"No thank you. I must make a sudden turn, which will stay a secret." I replay.
"Are you what? Chicken, cuz that is those 2 job."
"Hey/Rey!" Shaggy and Scooby protest.
"No, but I got a lot of things to do." I tell him.
"You are scared that they will defeat you." Fred announces.
"He's digging his own grave." Shinichi whispers to Velma. I snap my pencil, which I really like to fiddle around when thinking, and stand up to him: "I'll dance off your sorry butt, even if it kills me."
"Let's see the, shall we?" Fred gestures to the dance machine, as the 2 girls get off of it.
"Let's." I snap my fingers and, with the help of the Poof of Smoke, I appear in black tight jeans, short, tight black top and a comfortable pair of black Nike sneakers. Then we both jump on the machine and start the challenge.
"He's a goner. You can't beat her at dances; she's got enough energy to last for straight 24 hours." Karin tells them, bewildered.
"Wanna make a bet?" Ran asks.
"Oh Ran, your dads gambling is kicking in to you." Shinichi laughs at her and ends up KO'd by her.
"Don't joke." She tells him.
"Fred." Daphne clearly bets.
"Musy/Rusy!" Shaggy and Scooby bet.
"I'll do…Fred." Velma thinks.
"Musy." Karin puts her money on the table.
"No money, something better." Ran intrigues them enough, for Shinichi to get up.
"For what?" Karin asked.
From Mouri Ran: This will be fun! And I won't tell them what to do, in case of loosing, till the right time!
That's right, she won't even tell me! I better win, if I want t see what will happen. Hold on Fred Jones, you're going down!
From Fred Jones: You wish Musy!
I like a good challenge. Later folks!
~The Veronicas Music Is My Life