Cardcaptors: At World's End.
A/N: As usual, writers block(even after I've been updating this, but since the fifth pirates film, the urge to do this was too much to resist), and to celebrate both ten years since the release of the third Pirates film and 19 years since the release of the Cardcaptor Sakura anime, I've finally decided to begin and post the third and final chapter of the Cardcaptor Sakura and Pirates trilogy even though I know I should do "Cardcaptors: The Curse of the Black Pearl" and "Sailor Moon and the Dead Man's Chest"(yes, I know it's a Sailor Moon/Pirates fanfic, but it's still part of the trilogy), I like to do this one first.
This is also set immediately after the events of "Sailor Moon Goes Far Far Away"(based on Shrek 2), like say, a day or two. Well, lets begin the Pirates adventure(and it's also my first Pirates of the Caribbean fanfic).
I do not own Cardcaptors, Pirates of the Caribbean, Sailor Moon, Pokemon, Shrek or Kingdom Hearts(Kingdom Hearts is only mentioned. None of the characters will appear in this story).
Prologue: The nightmare of the Song.
The act of cruelty of the East Indian Trading Company. The blindness the good were seeing by the one man who cared only for power and domination. Those who were the most innocent only to be sentenced to death even by just uttering the word 'Pirate'. By the fifth month of 1798, this was the age of evil, death, Law, imprisonment, forbidden freedom, forbidden innocence. Under the name of Lord Cutler Beckett, only power and law ruled the seas of the Caribbean, and soon...only Power and Law ruled the entire Planet, because the man, who he himself secretly was betraying his Majesty, the King of England, to achive his goals in utter madness.
The words echoed and haunted the minds of those who witnessed but had no choice. Innocent men, innocent women, and even innocent children, no matter how innocent they are, they were to be punished. Because in the eyes of Lord Beckett, they too were pirates and must suffer the price.
The words haunted one who would invision this inside a dream.
"In order to affect a timely halt to deteriorating conditions and to ensure the common good, a state of emergency is declared for these territories by decree of Lord Cutler Beckett, duly appointed representative of His Majesty, the king. By decree, according to martial law, the following statutes are temporarily amended: Right to assembly, suspended. Right to habeas corpus, suspended. Right to legal counsel, suspended. Right to verdict by a jury of peers: suspended. By decree, all persons found guilty of piracy, or aiding a person convicted of piracy, or associating with a person convicted of piracy...shall be sentenced to hang by the neck until dead."
It was far too much for the witnesses, but this was the change they had no choice but to accept, or else they too would suffer. It was far worse than the previous Law. Many people who had not gone anywhere near Pirates feared to even utter the word piracy, none would even be allowed the freedom to have anymore families and feared that War would eventually come. Some superstitous amongest men believed that the end of mankind was upon them should Lord Beckett continue his mad desire.
But little did humanity know, hope rised, and this was because of this single song, sung to Pirates, important Pirates, by a single young boy who's live about to be cut short.
The king and his men
Stole the Queen from her bed
And bound her in her bones
The seas be ours and by the powers
Where we will, we'll roam.
Soon, one by one and soon joined in unison, another prisoner, and soon all of the prisoners who remained alive, joined in to sing their final hope to free not only pirates of the world, but also non-pirates of the world.
Yo ho all together
Hoist the colors high
Heave ho, thieves and beggars
Never shall we die
Those who worked for the East Indian Trading Company were bewildered, and when the chanting of the song grew more rough, the soldiers, their rifles up, stepped back with caution, unable to figure out what was going on.
Some have died
And some are alive
And others sail on the sea
With the keys to the cage
And the devil to pay
We lay to fiddlers' green
This was the song of hope. One that isn't sung that often unless it was the case of emergancy. And right now, this indeed was. Those who were the important Pirates of the world, hidden from the world, only they would hear the song and condeem the most important task of the world.
But this was also part of Lord Beckett's evil plan that would test for the final battle that would decide the outcome for humanity.
Because the lord himself, seated nearby the Noose, was called by one of his employees, "Lord Beckett! They've started to sing, sir."
After a moment's pause, Beckett muttered, mentally very pleased. He can finally begin his goal to pursue and exterminate piracy from the world and gain control the world to slowly overtake all royals and leaders of the world to become the true ruler of the world.
The bell has been raised
From it's watery grave
Hear its sepulchral tone
A call to all
Pay heed the call
And turn your sail to home
1998-One Day after the Events of "Sailor Moon Goes Far Far Away"...
Snapping her eyes open wide at such the haunting song that repeated over and over in her dream, eleven year old Sakura Avalon gasped before she pushed herself upright in her bed of her bedroom, one of the guest rooms of the Castle of Far Far Away. Rubbing her eyes tiredly once she got her bearings, Sakura thought about the dream she had just witnessed, and shuddered, frightened of the nightmare. It was possibly the worst vision she had ever experienced since on the day she was chosen to become a Cardcaptor, that fateful day only just one year ago.
That dream, however...it felt so important. It was as though someone was calling out to her, speaking to her, pleading her to solve the crisis that needed to end, both in the past and here in the present.
Or maybe Sakura was just having nightmares based on bad memories. One thing's for certain for her, however...
This was only the prologue of one of her biggest challenges of her life.
TASHASAROUS Presents...
A Cardcaptor Sakura, Pirates of the Caribbean, Sailor Moon, Pokemon, and Shrek crossover...
CARDCAPTORS: AT WORLD'S END.
A/N: The Prologue of the new adventure. I was originally going to start on "Dirge of Cerberus-Sailor Dark Moon" next, but since the release of the new Pirates film and wanting to do this for quite sometime now, I've decided to start on this instead.
I shall see you in the next chapter.
