Secrets of the Shrunken Ones

Chapter 1: To Another World

Everything hurt. She couldn't even scream because of the pain. It felt like her body was on fire, bones melting from the heat. She couldn't see. Couldn't think. All there was was the pain. She knew it. She was dying. The pain felt endless.

Stop it!

Her heart throbbed making her jerk violently.

Just let it STOP!!

Her whole body screamed for it to end. For the pain to disappear.

STOP!!!

Another throb shot through her like an explosion. She didn't know if she had screamed. Didn't know if she had curled into a ball. Didn't know if she was clutching the ground beneath her. She didn't care. Her mind was shutting down. The pain didn't stop. It forced her to be claimed by darkness. She still tried to struggle against it before her consciousness slipped away.

...I don't want to die!

Her last thought faded into the darkness quickly and quietly. Then there was nothing.

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" -up!"

That was the first thing she heard, when her consciousness slowly returned.

Did I die?

"Hey! Wake up!"

Someone shook her shoulder.

Did not...

Relief flushed over her as she breathed in and out shakily.

"Are you alright, girl?", someone, a male, asked with concern.

She opened her eyes carefully finding a blurry figure of a man hovering over her. She wasn't exactly 'alright' but the pain was gone.

Thank goodness I'm alive!

Blinking slowly she tried to get the fogginess out of her eyes and after a little while she managed. The man over her was a police officer, who looked relieved seeing her awake.

"Does it hurt anywhere?", he asked.

She considered the question before shaking her head slightly. Nowhere hurt. Just felt... different. A red-white pill flashed in her mind and she jerked up too fast for her disoriented body. It shot a wave of dizziness and nausea through her. The officer worried and tried to keep her steady, but her mind was on the roll now. She felt different. The man's hands felt way bigger than they should. Her body felt smaller. Not mature. She swallowed hard, mind racing to the point it hurt.

Her clothes were baggy. Her hands were small. That of a child's.

Her heart thumped rapidly with the realization.

Gin. Vodka. Pill. Shinichi.

She remembered the way Vodka had pinned her to the ground. She remembered how Gin pushed the red-and-white pill in her mouth.

It was real.

She was in that world.

She was in that world and got turned into a child.

Her breathing sped up. What was even happening!? This just wasn't possible!! There's no way that just happened! It had to be a dream.

But it wasn't.

And she knew it.

Suddenly she just wanted to laugh at the ridiculousness of it. She had been thrown into another world, seen the Men in Black do their job, gotten poisoned and to top it all, hadn't even died from it, because she was one of those one-in-a-million who deaged from the APTX 4869. It was just ridiculous. She was shocked beyond belief and just wanted to cry and laugh at this stupidity.

The officer beside her was very worried by now. He took her shoulders gently and shook a little to snap the little girl out of it.

"Hey! Are you really okay?"

No reply. No reaction.

"She's probably in a state of shock. Let's take her with the boy to look at her for injuries", another male officer said while some of the police behind him were checking a little boy with baggy clothes.

A boy that looked very much like Kudo Shinichi, the High School Detective. Just a couple years younger. It was good that no one noticed this fact as the shocked girl and the confused boy were carried away by the police. No one knew what had happened. No one but the girl frozen by the knowledge.

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So, this was the first chapter. It's crossposted from fanfiction.net, but I'll make minor (and major) corrections here. First fanfic in Wattpad. First story in English. Hope you liked it! Tell me what you think and see ya next chapter, if this is worthy of your attention.

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