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 6:
Searching for the Orchid
(Date and Time: Wednesday, 11th July, 17:38; Location: Somewhere in the middle of the forest, near river Gauja)
"So that's basically it." Karin finished telling everything they can know: about a drug, Edogawa Conan, Sleeping Kogoro, the Black Organization, FBI, cases, deaths. The whole thing.
"How did he survive all that?" Fred asked, bewildered.
"You got me. I don't know. I do know that he won't stop at anything, especially if Ran is involved. Oh that little orchid is the most important thing for him." Karin said.
"Orchid?" Velma asked.
"'Orchid' in Japanese is 'Ran'. My aunt said that when we first came, remember?" Karin reminded.
"I can't find a way to go over!" Shinichi yelled out. The tracker kept going ahead, but the problem is that the river is right in the middle of their way and there are no ways of getting over it, at all. Unless you swim threw it, but the current is too strong for that.
"The best way over it is to jump, but no one can do that." Velma gets closer to the river. Shinichi looked ready to yell in frustration.
(Location: Far away from the river)
Wild Animal finally got to his cave and placed Ran on the cold floor. He tied her up quickly and shoved her closer to the wall.
"Let me go." Ran growled.
"He, he, he. You wish." A deep voice replied and he walked around a bit. Then he began to look in Ran's eyes, with his own blood red ones. She felt her spine freeze in fear for some reason, as she looked into them.
'Maybe this is why they say Devils Eyes.' She thought in fear.
"I will enjoy sacrificing you later." He says.
"Sacrificing? For what?" Ran asked.
"For the ceremony. I must do it, in order to live." Wild Animal answers and leaves.
'Ceremony? With a sacrifice? Co-cou-could victims be part of this ce-ce-cere-ceremony?' Ran thought in fear. She tried to break free from her bonds, but they didn't even budge. She took a look around the cavern for anything helpful, but the cavern entrance is bit above her height, meaning this is an underground cave and nothing here could help her at all. The only light she had was the setting sun, but even that won't last long.
"Hey guys! I found something!" Daphne called out and brought what she found: Ran's scarf.
"Ran. She must've thought we will need this to find her." Shinichi takes the red cloth. Suddenly, Scooby felt 2 identical scents. He sniffed a little and found the first source of the scent: Ran's scarf. The other one must be her own scent.
Karin said they couldn't get over the river, yet the Wild Animal could. Humans can't, but he wasn't a human. He's a dog. There's a chance and he might make it. Scooby quickly grabs the scarf, starts running towards the river and jumps over it: landing safely over the river.
"Scooby Doo!" Shaggy called out.
"Ri'm rere!" Scooby calls out.
"He got over!" Fred ran closer to the river bank.
"He's a dog: they have better skills of jumping them us. He could find Ran and save, if I can't." Shinichi thinks out loud.
"Not a bad plan, for now, anyway." Fred mumbles.
"Scooby! If you can at least get Ran away from Wild Animal, I'll give you a whole box of Scooby Snacks!" Velma calls out.
"Scooby Snacks?" Scooby asked and wagged his tail.
"You heard it Scooby. Find Ran!" Shaggy called out, "But I rather stay away from the thing."
"We all would, Shaggy. But we don't have a choice. He's got one of ours and we have to get her back." Karin tells him, by then Scooby is already following the scent, quickly. His 'Feeling-Bad-Things' Sense is tingling and it is never tingling at anything good.
Ran is trying to break of the rock, the cloth, that her hands are tied to, is tied on. But she couldn't even make it crack.
"No reason to try dear. It all will be soon over for you, just wait for the moon to shine above me." Wild Animal came inside the cave.
"Why are you doing this?" Ran quietly asked.
"If I wish to stay immortal, I must do several sacrifices in special nights, in special decades." He explains, as he takes out a large knife.
"What special decades?" Ran asked.
"Only those decades, the Arozus Cometh comes to Earth and shall grant a long life to the one who does the ritual sacrifice of the Araraziam cult. Legend has it that the Araraziam King, Arozus, ruled the planet, millions of years ago. When he became old, he went to a wise witch, who told him about a special cometh granting life to him, if he does the correct ritual of blood. He succeeded and became younger and more powerful; sadly, he must do this ritual almost every 40 years to remain young. When he almost missed one time, he nearly turned to ash, meaning he know exists only because he kills. To stop him, his people rebelled against him and he was unable to do the ritual again, thus turning into ash. The called it Arozus Cometh, to strike fear in any soul and to remind how evil he was." Wild Animal explains.
"Demo…if the ritual can be done so easily, why isn't there a lot of immortals?" Ran asked.
"Because, there is a specific ritual of blood that was lost for years. I was once a young promising archeologist in 1901, I found the relics and remains of the Araraziam cult. When I studied their ancient manuscripts, I discovered the only page with the ritual on it. Only copy remaining and I used that knowledge to figure out the correct time of the cometh and figured out that this is the best spot to do it. Poor little Latvia, they don't know that this is only for the sake of my search for real eternal life, since this only makes my life longer, but not eternal." Wild Animal explained.
"Demo…if you were a person…how did you…became this?" Ran asked.
"A small side-effect, I can assure you. But it only appears when the sun starts turning red, then I must change or I will turn into dust as well, and when the moon sets, I must change back. Makes the whole werewolf thing look a lot better then my condition." Wild Animal explains and sharpens the knife, "Let's get started, shall we?" Ran was trying to get farther away from him, as he advanced.
In the forest, not to far away, Scooby running towards the place Ran's scent came from. Sadly her scent gradually began to disappear. Must be because she was on him and his scent was starting to dominate over hers. But he can't let his friends down. They're counting on him!
Scooby remembers how Velma once read a book: When you concentrate hard enough, you can increase one of your natural abilities: smell, hearing, senses. That could work! He sits down and starts to concentrate on Ran, maybe that will help, but it isn't.
'Rhat ris rer rcent?' Scooby asked himself and smelled orchids. He sniffed around to find it is the scarf smelling like orchids. Ran's scent is orchids! Then he started to concentrate about orchids and was able to smell her.
'Rooks rike rit rorks on rogs roo.' Scooby thinks and runs to her.
"Now…DIE!" Wild Animal is ready to cut her right off, when suddenly he gets hit by something big, heavy and alive…Scooby Doo.
"Scooby-inu-san!" Ran exclaims when she sees him.
"What? A dog? You will be my next sacrifice!" Wild Animal launches right at Scooby, but running away from monsters all these years have paid off and Scooby dodged the attack, while running to ran and trying to untie her hands. Wild Animal got his head stuck in the rocks: "I shall get you and kill you both!"
Scooby manages to untie her and they both get out of the cave just in time, as Wild Animal gets out himself.
"Rhis way!" Scooby tried to run faster, but it looked like Ran couldn't, so he tries to slow down, while all his senses are screaming: RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN FASTER OR WE'RE DEAD!
They could hear a girl's scream coming from the cave, they stop to look at the hole in the ground and see blood shedding around.
"He…he…he…he had another…waiting in case…something went wrong. O Kami." Ran sobbed at the thought of someone else perishing at its hands. Scooby manages to pull her away so that they can get back to the others.
(Date and Time: Thursday, 12 July, 01:25; Location: Johansson Estate)
Shinichi used his Super-Shoes to hit a rock, which chopped the tree down for the 2 to get over the river. Ran just fell in his hands and didn't say much, it was Scooby doing the tale telling.
Right now, they were trying to get over the entire thing. When Ran was back to herself, she told them about the legend and ritual Wild Animal told her.
"So he could anyone?" Fred asked, in shock.
"Hai." Ran replied.
"Oh great. We could be walking on the street with the thing and we don't know about it!" Shaggy exclaimed.
"Relax. If anyone would live that long in the same city, I doubt it will go unnoticed. He could only be currently showing off as a tourist for the Festival." Velma guessed.
"If he is, then we got a hell of a search party to do." Karin comments.
"But how do we stop him?" Daphne asked.
"He needs sacrifices to live, what if we somehow manage to stop the next one and end this Wild Animal for good?" Fred suggests.
"Even though we might get chopped up too, that sounds more like a plan." Shinichi mumbles.
"Great. Tomorrow we'll go and stop him. I mean, later today." Fred corrected himself, when he saw the time. The others shook their heads, and then went to bed.
(Time Skip: One hour later)
Shinichi was sleeping soundly, when he heard someone saying his name: "Shinichi. Shinichi."
He opened one of his sapphire eyes and saw Ran right in front of him: "What is it Ran?"
"Can I…can I like sleep with you? In the same bed, I mean." Ran whispered.
'She still must be scared from the attack. Reminds me of the time with the bandaged man, when I was Conan.' Shinichi thought, "Sure, just don't scream and hit me in the morning when you wake up." Ran nodded and climbed into his bed. She felt safe when his hands hugged her closer to him and was able to sleep.
"Well old pal, that was a heel of a trick you pulled: jumping over the river and saving Ran. You should get a medal for that." Shaggy told his friend.
"Reah, a Scooby Snack rone." Scooby says.
"That would be perfect," Shaggy agrees and yawns, "Sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite."
"G'night." Scooby said and fell asleep.
"They will get what is coming for them." A shadowy figure says and quickly leaves the estates territory.
The TVMIML Note:
There! Happy? Ran is alive, she is safe, I love ShinRan.
Yes, I made Scooby a bit braver. I had too, he was perfect to find Ran.
(In the HQ)
I one the bet last time and Fred has to do what I say now for a week. A little deal we made during the last minutes of the game.
"Little faster with the cleaning." I order him. Today he has to clean the entire HQ, from top to bottom.
"Won't you kill him that way?" Daphne asked, looking at Fred, who is wearing a pink apron.
"No. It would kill him, if I made him clean my dad's weapon room, though. Where are the rest?" I asked.
"They went out for a pizza night." Daphne answered.
"Why didn't you go?" I suddenly get it, "You wanna see if you can have some time with Fred. I get it."
"What?" The read head asked.
"It's cool, it's cool." I walk away, having a feeling.
"What do you mean? Musy, get back here. Musy!" She starts following me.
From Fred Jones: Will anyone help me? And what did she mean by that?
Oh Fred, you have much to learn about us girls. Tune in next week for another chapter! (Sends and air kiss) G'night everybody!
From Shinichi Kudo: You have to stop watching Animaniacs.
Shut up, I like them.
~The Veronicas Music Is My Life