Secrets of the Shrunken Ones

Chapter 2: The Shrunken Teens

Shinichi was frustrated. Very frustrated. He had just told the police how he ended up unconscious after witnessing a gun smuggling and they just started laughing at him. Not to mention, they looked ridiculously tall and always called him 'little kid'. Then he had snapped and told them he was a junior in high school and they laughed even more. What was wrong with them?

Then there was this strange girl, who still hadn't spoken a word. She just stared at the floor her long, wavy dark brown hair almost hiding her face. Her sky blue eyes seemed to be deep in thought as she stood two meters from him. She had a light green t-shirt that was like a dress on her and looked about twenty sizes too big.

Why would she wear that? Wait a minute, why was she his size? She was a little girl! Then he recalled the last hours events within a second. A bad feeling filled him as he turned around to see a mirror behind him. His reflection stood there stunned and frozen with horror. He was a little kid. His mind halted for a while as he stared at the too-small-boy-to-be-him in the mirror.

This was not possible.

Shinichi's brain didn't register the other reflection that had showed up beside him. The girl looked into the mirror and scowled at it. Then she fastened her belt under the 'dress' and did the same with her shoes after rolling up her pant legs. Shinichi watched this realizing the girl was probably in the same situation as him. She turned away from the mirror and faced him.

"We should probably run", she glanced at the officers.

It took a while to register her words, but Shinichi's mind turned back into gear. He looked at one officer sideways trying to figure out what he was saying.

"I'm worried. No one has come looking for them"

They talked for a minute and then someone brought up a creche. Shinichi felt his body tense up. They wanted to make them go to a creche? That wasn't good. Not good at all. They had to get away.

Right when he got that thought finished he grabbed the girl's hand and yanked her into a sprint.

He was not going to wait for a ride to a creche of all places.

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Her lungs were burning, but not as badly as in the shrinking process. This was crazy! (And she thought 'crazy' too often) She was running away from the police with the Heisei Holmes* who would soon become Edogawa Conan. This whole thing was crazy even without the 'running-away-from-the-police' -part. She was still wondering a little if she would wake up in her own bedroom after the run. The pitter patter and the feel of rain told her not.

Her legs wouldn't be able to carry her much longer.

"Could we- take a- break?", she managed between quick breaths.

Shinichi was pretty worn out too. He was breathing almost as hard as her and the police seemed to have lost them.

"Fine", the boy leaned against a wall panting heavily.

The girl practically fell into a sitting position beside the boy. They stayed like that for a good while to let their overexerted bodies steady themselves.

"So the poison turned us into kids, huh?", the girl huffed.

"So it seems", Shinichi replied bitterly.