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 7:
A Murder in Town
(Date and Time: Thursday, 12th July, 12:16; Location: Lido Restaurant)
The group was now getting ready to try and make a plan to stop Wild Animal, but trying to catch something like that won't be easy and they need immense planning. Shinichi's skills against battling the Black Organization and their plans, when he was Conan, really do come in handy. He suggested the best ways of luring him out and where to stage the capturing part.
"This one could work. The spot is open and wide." Shinichi pointed at a spot in the map.
"One problem: they're building something, was it a hotel, not to far from it. He could make a turn there." Karin points at a place probably 10 minutes away.
"Can't do near the river, he could escape with it." Velma points out.
"The caves?" Daphne suggested.
"Tourists." Karin reminded.
"Then why don't we try to lock him up someplace huge and hard to get out? Like an old warehouse or factory." Shinichi looks over the map.
"There is the old motor factory that was used in the 50's. It's abandoned and scheduled for demolition next week." Karin points at the outskirts.
"Perfect place. We need to leave soon, so that we can check it out and set a trap." Fred agreed about the spot.
"However, we need to be extra careful. If the thing is near, he will try to follow us." Shinichi looked over the crowd with suspicious eyes.
"I get a weird feeling." Ran quietly said.
"What about?" Shinichi asked.
"I don't know. It just says something will happen." Ran answered.
"Ran if that thing gets its hands on you, I'll catch it and kill it myself." Shinichi promises her.
"Or if you die, he will commit suicide to be with you." Karin adds, in a rather joking way, but still earns a glare from Shinichi.
"Relax Kudo. You really have to know how chill out at times." Karin replies back.
"Well sorry Johansson, but I got better things to do then listen to your idiotic comments." Shinichi shoots back at her.
"Like what? Ogle at Ran, imagining her with no clothes?" Karin asked, making Shinichi a bit red.
"Shinichi." Ran's voice sounded low and dangerous.
"Chotto! I never do that Ran! You know me!" Shinichi defends himself. Ran had the Scary look in her eyes, making Shinichi try and crawl away from it.
"You know, ever since you became buds with Kaito you have got few of his little traits." Karin notices, "Maybe you also got that not so nice trait that Aoko hate."
"Nani?" Ran asked angrily looking at the poor meitantei.
"Wait Ran! You know me, I wouldn't do that! I would never!" Shinichi desperately tries to defend himself from the wrath of Karate Ran!
"Before we maybe loose a member, maybe we should strategize the plan till the end?" Velma asked, trying to avoid the possible beating, "We got a spot. Now we need to take a look at it." The look from Ran's face went away, as she calmed down. Good thing too, Shinichi looked ready to die of fear from that glare.
'Sometime's I wish Ran didn't spend some moments with my mom to learn few of her little woman tricks. They got similar glares and not enough that her mom has a glare of her own. Hybrid-glare!' Shinichi shudders at that thought.
Just as they were ready to leave a scream came and a fat man (red shirt, blue jeans that looked old and too small on him, red and white sneakers) fell down on the ground grasping on his neck for something.
"Raymond! What happened? Raymond!" A young man (wearing a white T-shirt, black jeans and black sneakers) got next to the big guy and asked.
"Hold a second!" Karin and Shinichi ran towards the fallen guy and checked his vitals.
"Sorry, but he's dead." Shinichi states.
"What? No way! Raymond!" The guy screamed and wanted to try mouth to mouth.
"Hold it! He was poisoned!" Karin exclaims.
"What?" The man asked.
"The almond smell from his mouth indicates cyanide poisoning. If try that you might die too." Karin explains as she put a handkerchief to her mouth and nose and smelled the victim's mouth again. Scooby smelled some of that too, but got pulled back by Shinichi.
"Wait. The smell of cyanide almond is poisonous too. Even inhaling the smell that comes from the poison and stomach soup mix can kill a person." Shinichi explains and Velma writes that quickly down, while Scooby closed his nose and backed away from the body.
"Ran! Get the police! Nobody leaves the restaurant or you might get counted as the culprit!" Shinichi orders around, stunning the 2 people that were about to leave.
10 minutes later, the police come and they inspect the body, to find that both teen detectives were right: death by cyanide.
"Raymond Petrovski, 45, a tourist that has come to see the Festival from Liepaja." The officer reported about the victim.
"Far away from home." The inspector comments, (Liepaja is West-South of Latvia, about 200 – 300 km away from Cesis) before noticing the same kids from before.
"You again? It seems that death keeps following you kids." He says.
"Yeah, some say we must be relatives to Shinigami/Death God." Shinichi comments.
"What do you want?" Inspector asks them.
"What we want is to join in and solve this. Or you want the press to hear that the Cesis police are against the help of 2 of the Golden Detectives?" Karin inquires. He grumbles and thinks it over: 2 of the best detectives of the world in the same place. That could help him get a better publicity and a chance to get famous on his own later.
"Fine, but try not to get yourselves killed." He says and leaves to find out where the poison was. Both teens put on the white gloves and go to search for evidence themselves.
"Gang, I think we should also try to solve this. It could show us how good we are at such things." Velma suggests.
"Help solve a murder?" Shaggy asked.
"Well, we have to see if we can do it at all." Velma argues back. With that point, the others agreed and they tried to find out something. They do know now that the victim only had 4 bites of his lunch when he died and the food he bought was fish fries, fries, chocolate cake and a cocktail and the bites were taken from the fish fries, but the poison wasn't there. The person who rushed to him was his best friend: Andy Muzikant and he accompanied Petrovski to the festival. Petrovksi is a cable worker, while Muzikant is a clerk at a shop in the Origo mall.
"So you just came along for the Festival?" An officer asked.
"Yes, I had no idea this would happen. Who killed him?" Muzikant asked.
"Well, you are one of the suspects and I cannot tell you more." The officer writes something down.
"Wait, you don't think I killed Raymond? We were best buds!" The guy argued.
"Sorry, but I cannot tell you more." The officer leaves.
Karin and Shinichi talked to a lot of people about the victim and checked threw some of the papers they could get openly and then looked threw the ones they shouldn't secretly. They looked over the evidence again and they knew that the friend somehow did it, but the problem is that Petrovski ordered, took and carried his own food, meaning Muzikant couldn't have slipped the cyanide in the food, unless he went to the toilet, but he didn't.
'There must be something I'm not seeing. No one can poison a person so invisibly...' Shinichi thinks it over.
'There must be a trick involved…' Karin thinks, 'But what kind of a trick?'
"This looks impossible. Unless he did suicide, I think we got nothing." Fred looks over the notes Velma took.
"There must be something we are not seeing. We have to look better." Velma was sure of it.
"Looks like Petrovski had a weak heart. He always took medicine in 3 hours." Scooby's ears perked up when one of the officers spoke to the ME.
"Time release capsules, to be precise." The ME added.
'Redicine? 3 rours? Rime release?' Scooby thinks it over, till he got an idea.
"Rhat re rook rhe roison?" Asked Scooby.
"How, like, would he do that?" Shaggy asked, looking up from the notes.
"Rime release reart redicine." Scooby points out. Then it clicks together for the gang.
"Of course! If he took the medicine, not knowing it's really cyanide, the capsule would dissolve and he would die." Velma explains.
"Then it can only be the best friend." Fred says.
"But do we have enough evidence?" Daphne asked. The problem: possible no evidence. They did say to try and get the confession out of the culprit, but then again he plays the innocent friend so good, it could be impossible.
"Shinichi. Karin. Looks like they figured something out, but they don't know if what they have is good enough." Ran reports what she heard to the detectives. She was sorta named the little spy to see how they were doing with the case, since they never done anything like this before.
"I had a feeling I might need these." Shinichi shows a bag of red pills.
"Wait that's…" Ran recognizes the color.
"I know, but that is the best we got. The white ones are with me, relax." He takes her face in his hands and looks into her eyes.
"Just don't disappear for long." She whispered. Shinichi nodded, took his bag and quickly left for the bathroom.
"Relax Ran. He was always with you. Doesn't matter how he looked, since you always know he is with you." Karin reminded the now sad girl.
"But what can we do? We don't have enough…" Daphne began to say but a, "Ahh! How cool is this!" came. They looked at the source to see a little boy around 8 with hair similar to Shinichi's, thick lens glasses, a blue jacket, white shirt, red bow tie and light blue shorts with red and white sneakers standing at the door.
"Are you a real inspector? Are you, are you?" The little boy asked.
"Who are you?" The inspector asked.
"My name is Conan! And I always wanted to be law enforcement. I think it's really cool!" The little boy, Conan, exclaims.
"You do? Well, I can tell you this, it takes time and hard work to become an inspector!" The inspector proudly states.
"Eh? How cool! Nani, nani? Is this a murder? Ah! Who's the culprit?" Conan runs around a bit.
"Little boy, you shouldn't be doing this! This is a horrible thing. Nothing to be fascinated about." The inspector takes and puts Conan away from the crime scene.
"You're a mean inspector!" Conan exclaims.
"Why does that boy look so familiar?" Fred asked.
"Rinichi?" Scooby asked, when he sniffed the little boys scent.
"Shinichi? Where?" Shaggy looked around, when finally noticed that the Asian boy is missing.
"Ro. Ronan ris Rinichi." Scooby points at the little boy.
"C'mon Scooby. Unless he shrunk, he couldn't be that little boy." Velma states.
"Wait, didn't he tell us about his Conan days? As a little kid?" Shaggy just remembered.
"So it is him!" Daphne looks at the little boy better.
'Nice acting Kudo. Looks like the lessons with your mom actually paid off. Maybe you should've taken them sooner, before I met with you.' Karin thinks, as she looks at the acting of the shrunken Kudo.
"So you 2 are best friends, right?" Conan asked, innocently.
"That's right…we were." Muzikant replays.
"Eh? Then you know all his habits, don't you? Including his…" Conan lets his glasses shine, "Heart troubles." Then the 'friend' starts looking nervous.
"Aww, he's trying to help us." Daphne smiles at the little boy, "And he is absolutely adorable."
"About the heart medicine. He is also trying to make the police get it. Nice one." Fred sees the thoughtful look on the inspectors face.
"How do we prove his guilt?" Shaggy asked.
"The same way the Golden Detectives do." Velma types threw her PDA and it shows the Golden Detectives (Kudo Shinichi, Karin Johansson, Hakuba Saguru, Hattori Heiji) both as posing pictures for the press, during the investigation and during the deduction session. They look bold, confident and secretive about it. She even found some old video footage from cases that were caught on tape. Even there they looked awesome, with that confident pose, correct deduction and great way of showing the trick, they really do deserve the title 'Golden Detectives'. She heard Fred mumble something about them having their own style and him don't, as they looked at one video with Hattori Heiji solving a case.
"Hey, isn't that Shinichi's friend from Osaka?" Daphne asked.
"That's right. The Great Detective of the West of Japan. Shinichi is the Great Detective of the East Japan. Hakuba is the Great detective of Britain and Karin is the Great Detective of Baltic States." Velma tells her.
"Kind of heavy title, don't you think?" Shaggy asked.
"Oh relax. The fans named them like that and they took it. After all, they need some cool names to be remembered." Velma replays.
"So, what about it? You know about the problems?" Conan childishly asked.
"Yeah, he sometimes had me carry the medicine for him, in case he forgot. He had a weak heart after all." Muzikant answers, with a nod.
"Then you have some on you?" Conan asked, "If you were a friend, you would have kept the medicine close, in case he needed it, which was probably before you went inside this place." Conan made a guess.
"Get me security footage!" The inspector exclaims and his men went to find the footage of the moment.
"No reason inspector, because he is the culprit!" Fred exclaims and points at Muzikant, before whispering, "Am I doing well?" The rest of the gang just thumb up for him.
"Looks like they decided to do our style." Karin says, as she holds her hands crossed in front of her chest, with her eyes closed and a confident smile placed on her face.
"You have to admit, he did it dramatically." Ran nods, with a smile.
'So, let's see what you got Fred. Your first deduction.' Conan looks with the corner of his eyes at the blond man.
"You gave Raymond a poisoned medicine before entering in a time release capsule, thus killing him when it dissolved," Fred started, "You probably changed all of the medicine for cyanide in case he decided to take it on his own."
"Meaning only you had it on you. He either forgot or you misplaced it for him, you were the one who gave him the poison." Velma adds.
"Proof? What proof do you have? If I had any poison on me, I think the police would've found it by now." Muzikant defends himself, while looking worried. That's the thing they didn't think off.
"Perhaps the bathroom could provide us with the answer." Karin says and goes to…the men's room.
"Hold a second!" The inspector exclaims, as she goes in and then quickly comes out.
"This was in the trashcan." She gives him a package of pills and a small box.
"This is the medicine." He looks threw it.
"You gave him the poison, then you went to the bathroom to wash your hands, I guess, then you then, maybe even a bit before, you threw out the other tablets before he died, and joined him back to show yourself unable to get anything poisoned, thus probably naming someone else the culprit." Fred guesses. Muzikant stares at the ground, before falling this his knees, "That's right. That's exactly what happened."
"But why did you kill your best friend?" Daphne asked.
"Because he killed my sister!" Muzikant exclaimed, "He was dating her for a while, before one day I found her hanging in my apartment. The police wrote it off as it looked: suicide. But I knew it was more, she was normally sunny and happy, but lately she became all depressed and sad. Only weeks later I learned that she was struggling with money since HE took all her money away for gambling and drinking! She was his ATM and he didn't care!"
"If things where that bad, why didn't she break up with him?" Velma asked.
"Why didn't Sherlock Holms fell in love with every women he saw? Why does a teenage girl wait for a boy's return, when she has a ton of them following her? Love and loyalty." Karin replays to that, also looking at Ran, showing she knows someone who waited long for their love and they didn't turn anywhere.
"Despite all the problems she had, she probably loved him, even if he only used her. I guess she found out about his disloyalty and ended her life, but you kept blaming him for it." Conan says.
"I was ready to think that she did it for another reason, when one day during an after party, he said…"
(Flashback)
"Too bad I don't have a chick like that to pay for me." The still alive, but heavily drunk Raymond said.
"What do you mean?" The bit drunken Andrew asked.
"That chick…Kitty, your sis, was a real gold mine. Paid everything for me. And she had no idea what I spent her money on." He then laughed about it, while Andrews face looked horrified.
(Flashback ends)
"That's what he said." Muzikant whispers.
"And you killed him for that." Karin adds.
"But even if it is revenge for a loved one, you cannot kill. It makes us no different from them." Conan walks loser to him.
"I didn't have another choice!" Muzikant exclaims.
"Yes you did. You just felt so sorry all the time, that you didn't see the other answer." Ran exclaims.
"Do you know what kind of courage I had to gather for me to do this?" He asked.
"Courage is a word of justice. It means the quality of the mind that enables one to face apprehension with confidence and resolution. It is not right to use it as an excuse for killing someone." Ran replays to that and Muzikant breaks down, before being taken away.
"Are all cases this sad?" Daphne asked.
"Most of them are." Karin says, as everything starts to get taken from the scene, "You just have to learn to deal with the sadness of the case and try to see threw the lies to make sure the one truth prevails. That's how we do it."
"Shinichi, now you should go and change back to your normal self." Ran says, looking at the little boy, when notices that he is going franticly threw his pockets, "What's wrong?"
"I think I left the antidote in my suitcase." Conan answers.
"Nani?" Ran asked.
"Oh man, my aunt said she will go to visit a friend in Madona for the day and I don't have the key." Karin realizes.
"I'm stuck as a kid again." Conan looks shocked.
"So what now?" Karin asked, sighing.
"Maybe we should spend out time right and go see the place for the trap?" Fred suggested.
"Either that or we wait by the house." Velma adds.
"Road trip." Karin picks and they quickly leave to get to the factory.
TBC
The TVMIML Note:
Sorry for being SO LATE, but with all the last minute tests, my music school, the Christmas presents, decorations, Christmas Special concerts I had to do with my friends of the ensemble I had no time.
Yes, the murder seems pretty easy, but for the gang I decided to go easy, plus I had no idea how to pull it off easy enough for them yet hard.
The Golden Detectives are the youngest and best detectives of the world. And these 4 are only the best known.
Looks like we will see the little detective for a while again. YAY for Conan!
(In the HQ)
"Aww! You are so cute as a little kid!" Daphne looks threw the childhood pictures of Ran and Shinichi.
"Just don't get them dirty. I don't want to shrink to take them again." Shinichi grumbles.
"Well you did shrink again. And you left the antidote in the house. How stupid you have to be to do that?" Karin asked.
"Don't provoke me Johansson, I could pull of the best murder of all times and never be caught." Shinichi threatens.
"Oooh, I'm so scared!" Karin mocks.
"Be quite." He says.
"Haha! I didn't know Ran had you wearing a panda pajama! You look so weird." Fred looks threw the pictures of Ran and Conan in panda pajamas. Bit embarrassed Shinichi leaves.
"That's right, save your pride and dignity." Karin calls at him.
"Don't make fun of him Kari. After all, he is the best of the best." I state.
"I am the best of the best!" Karin exclaims.
"In Baltic – yes. The world – no." I state. Growling, Karin leaves to her room, to save her pride.
"Detectives are so easy to hurt." I states.
"So true." The rest agree.
"Ruh? Re raw rou raked Ran?" Scooby asked when saw both her and Conan after a bath.
"Ah!" Ran exclaims and takes away the pictures.
"Scooby run. She could kill you for that!" I exclaim.
From Mouri Ran: I swear I hid it! How did it get here?
Oh Ran, if you only you knew. But I hope you wont or I'm dead. I will try to appear next week for the chapter. Until then, (Sends an air kiss) G'night everybody!
~The Veronicas Music Is My Life