Hunt For The Mystical Medals
Disclaimer:
Detective Conan is owned by Gosho Aoyama
Kamen Rider OOO is owned by Ishimori Productions
The various guest characters appearing in every arc are owned by their respective owners.
Okay...50 chapters have passed, and this fic is still kicking! I'd like to thank the readers who read, and offered reviews here. Many thanks! I really appreciated it, and I'm more than inspired to continue this story so that you readers would enjoy it to your adventurous hearts' contents. I promise to deliver good plots so that you'll be glued to this Detective Conan fic.
Now then...a new arc, but please take caution that this arc would be at least...GRAPHIC. This plot is based on the 2010 Dutch horror movie, "The Human Centipede", though I've tone down most of this plot's part, but I also added some detective elements since I find the plot...intriguing.
Also, for the first time, the "Detective Boys", aka the "Junior Detective League", will be the main stars of this story arc and Ankh will be FORCED to assume Conan Edogawa's form and hence Ai Haibara will be involved here as well as they embark on a mission to solve this bizarre case. Read below to see why.
In the previous arc, three things have happened:
O – Kazari pulls of a rather daring robbery and sole a loot-ful of cellphones and escaped without trouble, and this cause both Heiji Hattori and Kogoro Mori to look into this case, which Shiho and Kyuji also joining in after seeing the victim's description of Kazari on sketches she provided, though police investigating the case refused to believe the cashier's alibi.
O – While all of this is happening, Kyuji gets embroiled in a quarrel between to younger tens which led him to a fight with Gameru and his Yummy, and there Shintaro Gotoh arrives, reluctantly giving Kyuji, who transforms into O's, the Lion Medal to give him an advantage. O's uses this to drive the Greed and his Yummy away.
O – Ankh, on the other hand,has fallen into a trap perpetrated by Kazari and Uva, losing some Core Medals in the process yet he managed to escape and is greatly weakened. After managing to get the two tens to settle their differences, and solving the cellphone theft, Kyuji and Shiho figured that Ankh got into trouble and persuaded Kougami to loan them some Cell Medals to heal Ankh. There they searched and fought the Yummy which O's uses the Lion Medal's power to destroy it, much to Ankh and Kazari's surprises.
At a forest located at Hiraizumi, which is a town located in Nishiiwai District, Iwate, Japan. It was the home of the Hiraizumi Fujiwara's for about 100 years in the late Heian era and most of the following Kamakura period. The scene zooms towards a mansion-like house and from the outside you can hear a young girl's scream as furniture are heard crashing. Then the scene shifts quite far where a young elementary schoolgirl burst out of the house, crying while running for her life as she is escaping from someone.
Anything Goes by Maki Oghuro
(Opening Song from Kamen Rider OOO)
(You count the medals 1,2 and 3
Life goes on Anything goes Coming up OOO)
ira nai mota nai yume mo mi nai
furii na joutai sore mo ii kedo
(kokkara hajimaru The show we're waiting for
Count the medals 1, 2 and 3 )
unmei wa kimi hanattoka nai
kekkyoku wa susumu shika nai
(michi naru tenkai Give me energy Count the medals 1, 2 and 3)
daijoubu. ashita wa itsu datte hakushi (Blank)
jibun no kachi wa jibun de kimeru mono sa
OOO! OOO! OOO! OOO! Come on!
Anything Goes! sono kokoro ga atsuku naru mono
mitasa reru mono o sagashi te
Life goes on! honki dashi te tatakau no nara
makeru ki shi nai hazu!
Now, readers...count the medals! The medals that O's currently have are...
Set 1:
- Taka Medal
- Misago Medal
Set 2
- Lion
- Tora Medal
Set 3
- Kamakiri Medal
- Batta Medal
51: Saiko geka-i, Ketsuraku Kizzu, Ningen no Mukade part 1
The scene zooms in moments later at it shows that the young schoolgirl, who is a primary student from mainland Tokyo, is running away from someone and you can see fear in her eyes as she desperately seeks escape from her pursuer while trying to seek help to save her, and it is then showed that she mentally spoke that she must get help from police to save her fellow classmates, who are also held prisoners, and she knows that she is the only one who can save them. She then came to a stop as she saw that the path she is about to take is a downhill course yet she decided to risk it as it leads towards a national road, and this is her only chance to get help.
"There's no other choice…I've got to get there and seek help…my classmates' lives are at stake and only I could save them…!"
As she slid down, it took her almost three minutes to reach the ground and there a passing car arrives and she stood in front to make the vehicle stop, and when it did, the driver's window slightly lowered and asked her why she did this.
"What are you doing, child? You could get killed with that stunt you're pulling…"
"Mister…I need your help! Take me to the nearest police station! There's this crazy doctor kidnapping me and my classmates! The doctor even killed our teacher and he's holding many other children hostage! Please, you got to believe me! I'm being chased and I'll be the next victim! Take me to the nearest police station or all will be too late!"
"Very well…hop in…theirs is one nearby from here…"
"Thank you very much!"
"No problem…"
As the schoolgirl, aged 10, quickly boarded the car, and as the scene slowly faded into black, a scream coming from the girl is heard, but due to the heavy downpour, and with no one else around, the girl is again captured.
"KKKKYYYYAAAAHHH!"
-x-
A few days later, the scene shifts to the Agasa house as Hiroshi Agasa is checking his PC so as to defrag unnecessary bad sectors and he discovered a file which Shiho checks by accident, which both found out that it contains the information on the Greeds' Core Medals, including Ankh's, while a separate file shows the Core Medals that Ankh is currently holding, which she noted that Ankh and Kyuji have collected some of them and Hiroshi wondered if Kyuji is capable of forming other combos besides the one based on Uva's Core Medals.
"My, my…so these are the so-called "Core Medals"…and they come in different colors…but didn't Ankh get to collect them when defeating those monsters…?"
"The ones that Ankh collected, Professor…are the Cell Medals…they act as "nourishment" and can be considered as "blood" of the Greed…once they run low on Cell Medals…they suffer weakness like anemia, similar to us humans if we suffer from hunger, thirst and loss of blood. The Core Medals act as the "vital organs" of the Greed…the more the Greed loses these medals…they'll risk slowly getting faded to nothing…"
"How many of these medals are there, Shiho…"
"Let me check…"
As they browsed the files, they saw that there are five blocks which in each one has the name of the Greed and the medals they currently have. When they clicked on the block where O's name is stored, they checked it out and saw the number of Core Medals he have:
Set 1:
- Taka Medal
- Misago Medal
Set 2
- Lion
- Tora Medal
Set 3
- Kamakiri Medal
- Batta Medal
Hiroshi wondered aloud what good will collecting the Core Medals do until Ankh came and tells him that as long as the other Greeds are deprived of their Core Medals, they will be slightly weaker, and it would give him and Kyuji the advantage in battles, though he noted that any of the four Greeds regain ALL nine of their Core Medals, it would be disaster of this world, hence the need for Kyuji to become O's and get the Core Medals from them at any costs.
At this time, the "Junior Detective League" came as they decided to pay them a visit. Hiroshi stood up and greeted the three children, all of them aged 10, and they are identified as Genta Kojima, Ayumi Yoshida, and Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya. The three children then greeted back and asked them if they have seen Conan and Ai, as they told them they haven't seen any of the two for several weeks now.
"Hi, Uncle Hiroshi…"
"Good day to you, Uncle Hiroshi…"
"Hello, sir…"
"Why, Genta, Ayumi and Mitsuiko…good day to you kids…what brings you all here today? It's raining today…"
"Well…since classes are suspended…we decided to pass by here…and we haven't seen Ai or Conan around lately…"
"Um…well…you see…"
Realizing that they couldn't reveal "Conan's" current situation, Hiroshi told the kids that Ai is returning soon from a family-related business while Conan is at overseas with his parents. Ankh mentally scoffed, having recalled that among the memories he accessed from Shinichi Kudo's mind, it also included Conan's time with the Junior Detective League, and he mentally loathed at the idea of working with the kids.
By then Kyuji Hino came down from his room and decided to turn on the TV to check on the news, just as a newsflash is broadcast where a reporter reported that another batch of schoolchildren from Tokyo disappeared during an excursion trip at Hiraizumi and were not heard from them since a few days ago. Everyone inside the Agasa house, except for Ankh, became alarmed by this as Genta pointed out that this is the fifth time that this has been reported and that about 65 of them vanished without a trace.
"Eh? Fifth time? How many kids in a group disappeared?"
"About 15 in each…most of them, girl scouts…it all started five weeks ago…and the police there tried to keep it low so as to try to solve the case without pressure…but the parents got frustrated and decided to tell the other prefectures about it and soon the police from other places, like in Tokyo, Adachi, Arakawa, Bunkyō, Chiyoda, Chūō, Edogawa, Itabashi, Katsushika, Kita, Kōtō, Meguro, Minato, Nakano, Nerima, Ōta, Setagaya, Shibuya, Shinagawa, Shinjuku, Suginami, Sumida, Taitō, and Toshima."
"This…this reminds me of the time I got embroiled in a situation at Africa…and kids were the hardest hit…I can't let something like THAT happen to what is happening right now…!"
Kyuji felt that he should do something as he recalled that he met a little girl from overseas in which she was killed and he is unable to save her. He glances at Shiho and she got what he wanted to say and she began to think of something to figure out who is behind the spate of disappearances, believing that they are kidnapped by some unknown group.
-x-
At the secret hideout, the scene shows that the Greed, in their human forms (save for Gameru who is still in his Greed form) managed to obtain a TV of their own, probably by stealing it, and there they are watching a program to help them understood more about the current era when they saw the news about the missing schoolchildren, which Uva scoffed at the information though he noticed that Kazari isn't around, and realized that the feline-Greed hasn't been around for days, almost a week.
"Bah! So human children goes missing…so what I what do I care?"
Gameru, seeing that no one else is watching, switches the channel and is now watching anime. Mezeru head turned at Uva's queries and there she told him why Kazari hasn't showed up as she saw him reading a news article two weeks ago about a third batch of schoolchildren disappearing at Hiraizumi and said he decided to check it out.
"Eh? Kazari went there, and that far? What good would that do?"
"I believe he needed to lose some steam…he's been bothered by the fact that someone else gave O's the Lion Medal and maybe he needed to find out who else is involved in the medal hunting…"
"So…we can do better and get to where the medals are found first…but still…Kazari is wasting time going away…but at least I won't be hearing his annoying tease…"
While Uva wondered why Kazari bothers himself over such a trivial matter, Mezeru told him to let Kazari do what he wants, as long as he leaves her and the rest alone, believing that he might have luck gathering Cell Medals and he might get luckier if he manages to defeat O's, which Uva accepted the fact and went to his quarters to rest up as rain suddenly poured down.
-x-
The scene then shifts to the forest of Hiraizumi, where a heavy downpour took place, and there the scene zooms in on a big, thick tree where Kazari, in his human form, is watching as he saw an unidentified man carrying two more schoolchildren from his car and drags them inside a house, which is the same house where a schoolgirl tries to escape from.
"Hmm...now this is intriguing...I guess I can kill time watching this scene..."
To Be Continued…
Okay...though not much action is seen, this is just a preview of what is about to take place and this is where the detective elements come in as the Junior Detective League are shown having interest in looking into the matter of children disappearing without trace, and Kyuji became somewhat determined to solve this case.
Now then, as I mentioned above, this arc is based on the 2010 Dutch horror movie, "The Human Centipede", and this is what inspired me to come up with this arc, but it wasn't easy to begin with, and I carefully studied this for about three weekends (3 Saturdays and 3 Sundays) before finalizing this into fanfic form.
It happened when I accidentally saw a centipede inside my bathroom and killed with an insect spray. Curious, I went to youtube and search for "centipede", where it showed various videos about this multi-legged insect, but then accidentally came across a movie trailer of the said movie. After watching it, I checked it on wikipedia, and there, after reading the plot, I became quite disturbed at the story.
Surprisingly, even though the movie's plot made me half-uneasy, I still re-read the plot of the movie, and after three weekends, I decided to include it here as part of my original story, but I toned down most of the parts so as not to cause "upset stomach" to the readers.
Of course, after re-reading the past chapters of this fic, I realized that the Detective Boys haven't made an appearance and decided to make them the semi-protagonists of this arc, and this would include Ai Haibara and Conan. Of course I decided to add Kyuji into the mix along with Kazari, so as to balance the story with horror themes from the movie, and action from O's.
Preview:
Kyuji goes with the Junior Detective League/Detective Boys to Hiraizumi to commence their search for the missing children with Ai and Ankh coming along, as he is forced to assume Conan's form. There they will prepare themselves for the dangers that await them.
Characters appearing in this arc:
Now then…a modified list of characters that appear in every arc of this fic so that you'll know which series (or in this case, film) they came from…
Detective Conan
- Genta Kojima
- Ayumi Yoshida
- Mitsuhiko Tsuburuya