Captor's Choosing
By: Ultimos
Once again Sakura dreams, but this dream is different, for in this dream she is not alone…
Where am I, asked Sakura, why am I here again just as before, the voice came, only this time, it answered her question.
*You are here for a warning Sakura.* the voice came from all around her.
A warning? she said confused, A warning about what?
The voice became domineering, so much so Sakura was afraid to speak. *To warn you of your new threat! This threat has not yet shown itself, but it will, and when it does you and your friends will have to make a choice. You three alone can choose, and you must choose wisely or your whole world may be in peril. This choice even I cannot see, but you must look to the light in the dark, the cards shall be seen one in the other. Look for what must be if there is one, then you will know*
What do you mean? cried Sakura, I don't understand please! Who are you!
*That is not important,* said the voice softening now, *but you have been warned Sakura, look for what must be if there is one…* the voice faded into nothing.
Please come back! I don't understand! suddenly Sakura woke up in a cold sweat. She looked at her clock, and she was up fifteen minuets early. Sakura felt it best to keep her dream to herself this time, the voice said her three friends. It must be Madison and Lee. she thought.
She opened Kiro's drawer and gave him a dousing with some water. "HEY!" yelped Kiro, "WHAT WAS THAT FOR!"
Sakura stared at him angrily, "What do you think it was for!" she said, "You know the saying Kiro do onto others as you would have others do onto you so I did"
Kiro grumbled then went back to bed, "Well I am staying home today anyway, I am tired. You were talking in your sleep and kept me up!"
"Oh I am so sorry Kiro," she said, "You have a good sleep." Sakura ran downstairs to eat her breakfast and take off, but she found that she had company. "Hey Lee, hey Madison, what are you guys doing here?"
Lee looked at her sternly, "I have a feeling you have an idea Sakura. You had the dream too didn't you?"
Sakura tried to make like she had no idea what Lee was talking about, but Sakura can't fool Lee or Madison.
"I think we should be careful today Sakura," said Madison sounding worried, "Whatever this is it could be really dangerous."
"I agree," said Lee, "and you better take the cards with you too."
"Ok," said Sakura looking relieved that Lee agreed with what she was going to say, "I'll go get them."
Unknown to Sakura and her friends they were being watched. "Master are you sure it was wise to infiltrate the girl's dreams?" said Spinner Sun, "She could have figured out who you were."
Out of the shadows came Eli, "No chance of that," he replied, "Sakura is very talented, but in her dreams she cannot tell the energy of a tiger from that of a blade of grass."
"Maybe so," said Spinner, "but I still feel it was too much of a chance."
Ruby appeared from behind Eli, "Tell me would you rather we face this new threat or the girl and her friends?" said Ruby, "Besides, they have already dealt with it before, so they have a better chance anyway."
"Maybe so," repeated Spinner, "but I still feel that it was too much of a risk."
"I understand your concern Spinner," said Eli, "but I had no choice, Sakura and her friends are our best chance for surviving. So weather or not there was a risk, there was no other option."
Spinner simply growled in displeasure. "I will do as you say master," he grumbled "but I still do not like it."
"Well we will see how this turns out at the end of the day," said Eli, "for now I must go to school."
Sakura and the others were already at school when Eli arrived. Miss Mackenzie walked in with a big smile on his face, "Class I have a surprise for you," she said cheerfully, "the principle has decided to give everyone the morning off to play outside."
Everyone got up and ran outside as fast as they could, everyone that is, but Cape. Cape walked out slowly, like he had the weight of the world on his shoulders. Miss Mackenzie wanted to help, but she felt a strange energy, a dark energy, and felt it best to leave him be.
Cape went outside, and around back to where he was the day before. He took the same position, meditating underneath the big Cherry blossom tree. Suddenly a pack of students came around, they all ran over to him shouting and screaming.
They were all screaming, "Hey look! It's the guy who beat up Teoa's gang!!!" They packed around him, all screaming and asking questions. Things were getting really out of hand, Cape was very annoyed, and growing angry with all the noise.
Cape stood up slowly and everyone backed up. "Now listen to me, because I am only going to say this once," he said softly, "either you all leave me alone or you will all wind up like those guys I beat up yesterday! Now GO AWAY!'
Everyone got up and ran as fast as they could to get away. Cape simply sat back down calmly and returned to his meditation, but Miss Mackenzie had seen the whole thing, and she was afraid. What is this dark power within him? she thought, It seems so powerful, but he holds it back. He seems to be afraid of it himself, but how can he be afraid of it unless he knows what it is.
Cape looked over at her, his eyes seemed to pierce right into her soul, suddenly Miss Mackenzie could hear him in her mind. Leave me alone, he said, I don't want you to get hurt because of me so just forget everything you are wondering and just let it go. The only thing that can come of it is your getting hurt or maybe worse so please just go, go and forget.
Cape returned to his meditating, and Miss Mackenzie left, but her steps were fast and full of fear.
Sakura and Madison were sitting on the swings enjoying the beautiful weather, when they heard some kids talking.
"That Cape guy is a weirdo if you as me," one said. "Yeah," said another, "I thought he was a cool guy for beating up Teoa and his gang, but then he freaks out when we go there to congratulate him."
Sakura and Madison exchanged glances then went to see if what they heard was true. They went to the back of the school to see Cape meditating by himself as he did the day before, when they saw Miss Mackenzie on the other side of the school yard looking over with fear in her eye.
"Is something wrong Miss Mackenzie?" asked Sakura, "You look like you saw a ghost."
"It's nothing Sakura," she replied calming herself, "I just got a scare that's all."
"A scare?" asked Madison, "From what?"
"It's nothing," repeated Miss Mackenzie, "just go and have fun. Oh and Sakura?"
"Yes?" she replied.
"Be careful around that new student, he may not be what he seems."
Sakura gave her an odd look then ran off to meet Madison. "I am going to see Cape," said Madison, "to see if he is the one who scared Miss Mackenzie."
"Ok," said Sakura, "I'll come to."
They were about to go around to the back when they heard Lee. He was already there and questioning Cape, "Who are you really?" he demanded, "and why are you here? You are not what you seem and I know it. There is no way that a normal person could have done what you did yesterday, so tell me, who are you and what do you want?"
Cape simply stood up and looked Lee in the eye, "No Lee," he said, "you listen to me. I have no need to answer any of these questions but I will answer some. Who I am is none of your business for now. What do I want? Simply to be left in peace, to have friends and to mostly," Cape breathed in heavily and yelled right in Lee's face making him fall over, "TO BE LEFT ALONE!" Cape starred down at Lee and put out his hand to help him up. When Lee got up Cape said, "I am sorry, I just have things to take care of before I can let myself have friends, I'm sorry." Cape sat back down to meditate again, but this time he had a tear fall from his eye.
When Lee came back around Sakura and Madison asked him what happened. "Nothing," he said, "he is just someone who is scared and needs someone to help him, who it is…" Lee was silent.
"Yes," said Sakura, "who is it he needs?"
"I don't know," replied Lee, "he is afraid of everyone here. He seems to be afraid that if he opens up that he will hurt people. I think the three of us should try to help him."
"Why all three?" asked Madison.
"Because," said Lee, "if he wonders why we can just say that we are trying to repay him for helping us yesterday."
"Good idea," said Sakura, "but let's wait till later. He stays for three hours after school to meditate, so we can talk to him then."
"Ok," said Lee and Madison.
Once again Eli was spying on them, This should be interesting, he thought, but let's see how interesting I can make it. he smiled evilly and walked to the power terminal near the tree where Cape was.
Cape got up and went behind the tree where Eli couldn't see him. Eli went to cast a spell on the terminal, but Cape grabbed him quickly. Eli was in shock, he could not believe that Cape had snuck up on him so easily. "Listen to me," said Cape sternly, "I know who you are, and what you plan to do." Eli was very afraid, he had no idea what to do or say. "I said listen, sot to wonder," repeated Cape, "if you ever hurt Madison, Sakura or Lee I will find you, and you will pay." Cape leaned over to Eli's ear and whispered, "Because I know your limits Clow Reid."
Eli looked at him with such fear that he had never known before, "Who…who are you?" he stuttered.
Cape grinned at him, "Your worst nightmare." Saying that Cape let Eli go, and Eli ran away as fast as he could. Even if he is Clow Reid, he thought, I will not let him hurt them. I will never let anyone hurt them.
The rest of the day went by without incident. After school Eli left very quickly, he returned to his home to watch what would happen, but he was afraid to. For he knew that everything he did, everything he said, Cape knew them all.
Spinner and Ruby came in, still in their earthly forms. "Is something the wrong master?" asked Spinner, "You seem very distressed."
"Yes," said Ruby, "did something happen?"
Eli grabbed his key, "I call upon the day and the night ancient powers release your might, RELEASE!" He looked over to Spinner and Ruby, "I command you," he said, "return to your true forms, Spinner Sun and Ruby Moon!" the two were swept up in a magic wave, Spinner went from a stuffed toy like being to a large panther with the wings of a butterfly. Ruby went from a common human to an oddly dressed being, again with the butterfly wings. "More happened then I expected, "he said, "it appears that this is more of a threat then even I can know."
"WHAT?!" both Spinner and Ruby shouted.
"But master," said Ruby shyly, "if you cannot know, then how can we hope to survive."
"I don't know," replied Eli, "I just don't know."
It was one hour after school, Sakura had just finished her chores and was going to meet Madison and Lee at school to talk to Cape, when she ran into Uea and Kiro Baros. "We are coming with you," said Uea, "just in case something happens."
"Yes," said Kiro, "so many strange things have been happening lately that we cannot take the chance."
Sakura sighed, "You two are paranoid you know that," she giggled, "we will be fine, I am taking the cards with me. Plus if things go really bad we have Cape there."
"Cape?" said Kiro, "who is he?"
"A new friend from school," she answered, "he is amazingly strong, so he can help us if things get bad." Sakura kept going, even though Uea and Kiro didn't like it.
"We may as well go home," said Uea, "there is nothing we can do now."
"What are you talking about!" exclaimed Kiro, "We have to follow her!"
"No," said Uea, "I don't know why, but I feel that even if things do go very bad, she will be fine."
Kiro sighed, knowing he could not win the argument, "Fine," he said, and they both returned to their earthly forms and went home. Though Julian was wondering how he got in the middle of the road.
Sakura got to school and Madison and Lee were waiting. "Took your time," said Lee, "did you bring the cards?"
"Of course," said Sakura with a smile.
"Then let's go," said Madison, but what they found is not what they expected.
What they found was not Cape meditating as before, but Cape sitting at the tree crying. They were about to go see what was wrong when Sakura felt it. "Stop," she said, "there is something wrong here." They looked closer and saw that Cape had a very dark aura around him, and it seemed to be hurting him.
That's when they heard him, "Please no," he said, "don't make me do it again. These people are nice to me, they want to help me, and I don't want to hurt them." Cape seemed to be pleading with the darkness around him.
"What is going on?" said Madison, "This is really scary."
"Don't worry," said Lee, "as long as he doesn't know we are here I think we are fine."
Suddenly Cape stood up and looked right at them, "RUN!" he yelled, "THEY WANT YOU!" Cape seemed to be fighting his own body, trying to keep his arms and legs down. "Please," he said, "RUN!!"
Madison looked at the tears running down his eyes and she wasn't afraid anymore, she walked right out and looked at him. It didn't take long for Lee and Sakura to realize the same thing Madison had, he was afraid and in pain, if they were going to be his friends they had to stay with him. Even if it meant they were in danger. "We will not run!" said Madison, "Whoever they are, if they want us tell them to come themselves! We want to be your friends Cape, so let us help you."
"Yeah," said Sakura, "you helped us, now it's our turn, that's what friends do they help each other."
"Whoever they are," said Lee, "we can face them together."
"You don't understand!" said Cape tearfully, "the only way they will leave me alone, is if I kill you and take them the clow cards."
All three of them looked shocked, they could not believe that whoever they were wanted the cards. "How can they use them?" asked Sakura, "I am their master and only I can control them."
Cape cried in pain as he spoke, "Not if you are killed." he sobbed. Suddenly the shadows around them seemed to move, they almost seemed alive now.
"What is happening?" asked Madison terrified, "How can shadows move?"
Lee looked even more terrified than Madison, "Are you one of them?" he asked Cape desperately.
"No," he said feeling relieved, "to them I am but a pawn, they saved me and said I owe then one service, then I could be free, and I could keep my powers." Suddenly they all realized that his body was in his control again.
An evil voice came from the shadow of the tree, "You have done well servant," it said, "you have found the master of the clow cards for us, now you are free." A hand reached out of the shadow and took Cape's cloak from him.
"Thank you," said Cape relieved, "but can I please ask one thing of you?"
"What is it?" said another voice from Madison's shadow.
"Please, just leave them alone," he pleaded, "They were kind to me and I don't want to fight you to keep them safe, because you know I will, and I know that you have given me my powers so no longer control them."
Dozens of voices came from the shadows, all of them laughing at him. "And what makes you think we cannot defeat you little boy?" laughed the first voice.
"Something you told me Grand Shadow," he said calmly, "the one who knows not his own limitations, is the most dangerous one of all."
The voices kept laughing, "Maybe so, said the Grand Shadow, "but your limitations are obvious. Your pitiful knowledge and imagination are your limits human."
Suddenly Cape laughed and he ran to Madison and Sakura, "Thank you for helping me." he said.
"But we didn't do anything," said Sakura.
"But you did," replied Cape, "by being here, you gave me a reason to fight the shadows. I fought them to keep you three safe, because you wanted to be my friends. And please, my name is Neo."
Neo turned to face the shadows and laughed, "You may think I am pitiful but I am even stronger then you!!" and before the shadows could react, Neo sent out a wave of light, destroying three of them in one shot.
"Sakura you must now chose," said Neo, "you must either fight these shadows with your friends here in danger, or let me fight alone. The choice must be made by the three of you, so please, choose wisely."
Sakura did not know what to do, she looked to her friends and they both nodded. The choice was obvious, so now it's time. The choice is made, and must be done.
By: Ultimos
Once again Sakura dreams, but this dream is different, for in this dream she is not alone…
Where am I, asked Sakura, why am I here again just as before, the voice came, only this time, it answered her question.
*You are here for a warning Sakura.* the voice came from all around her.
A warning? she said confused, A warning about what?
The voice became domineering, so much so Sakura was afraid to speak. *To warn you of your new threat! This threat has not yet shown itself, but it will, and when it does you and your friends will have to make a choice. You three alone can choose, and you must choose wisely or your whole world may be in peril. This choice even I cannot see, but you must look to the light in the dark, the cards shall be seen one in the other. Look for what must be if there is one, then you will know*
What do you mean? cried Sakura, I don't understand please! Who are you!
*That is not important,* said the voice softening now, *but you have been warned Sakura, look for what must be if there is one…* the voice faded into nothing.
Please come back! I don't understand! suddenly Sakura woke up in a cold sweat. She looked at her clock, and she was up fifteen minuets early. Sakura felt it best to keep her dream to herself this time, the voice said her three friends. It must be Madison and Lee. she thought.
She opened Kiro's drawer and gave him a dousing with some water. "HEY!" yelped Kiro, "WHAT WAS THAT FOR!"
Sakura stared at him angrily, "What do you think it was for!" she said, "You know the saying Kiro do onto others as you would have others do onto you so I did"
Kiro grumbled then went back to bed, "Well I am staying home today anyway, I am tired. You were talking in your sleep and kept me up!"
"Oh I am so sorry Kiro," she said, "You have a good sleep." Sakura ran downstairs to eat her breakfast and take off, but she found that she had company. "Hey Lee, hey Madison, what are you guys doing here?"
Lee looked at her sternly, "I have a feeling you have an idea Sakura. You had the dream too didn't you?"
Sakura tried to make like she had no idea what Lee was talking about, but Sakura can't fool Lee or Madison.
"I think we should be careful today Sakura," said Madison sounding worried, "Whatever this is it could be really dangerous."
"I agree," said Lee, "and you better take the cards with you too."
"Ok," said Sakura looking relieved that Lee agreed with what she was going to say, "I'll go get them."
Unknown to Sakura and her friends they were being watched. "Master are you sure it was wise to infiltrate the girl's dreams?" said Spinner Sun, "She could have figured out who you were."
Out of the shadows came Eli, "No chance of that," he replied, "Sakura is very talented, but in her dreams she cannot tell the energy of a tiger from that of a blade of grass."
"Maybe so," said Spinner, "but I still feel it was too much of a chance."
Ruby appeared from behind Eli, "Tell me would you rather we face this new threat or the girl and her friends?" said Ruby, "Besides, they have already dealt with it before, so they have a better chance anyway."
"Maybe so," repeated Spinner, "but I still feel that it was too much of a risk."
"I understand your concern Spinner," said Eli, "but I had no choice, Sakura and her friends are our best chance for surviving. So weather or not there was a risk, there was no other option."
Spinner simply growled in displeasure. "I will do as you say master," he grumbled "but I still do not like it."
"Well we will see how this turns out at the end of the day," said Eli, "for now I must go to school."
Sakura and the others were already at school when Eli arrived. Miss Mackenzie walked in with a big smile on his face, "Class I have a surprise for you," she said cheerfully, "the principle has decided to give everyone the morning off to play outside."
Everyone got up and ran outside as fast as they could, everyone that is, but Cape. Cape walked out slowly, like he had the weight of the world on his shoulders. Miss Mackenzie wanted to help, but she felt a strange energy, a dark energy, and felt it best to leave him be.
Cape went outside, and around back to where he was the day before. He took the same position, meditating underneath the big Cherry blossom tree. Suddenly a pack of students came around, they all ran over to him shouting and screaming.
They were all screaming, "Hey look! It's the guy who beat up Teoa's gang!!!" They packed around him, all screaming and asking questions. Things were getting really out of hand, Cape was very annoyed, and growing angry with all the noise.
Cape stood up slowly and everyone backed up. "Now listen to me, because I am only going to say this once," he said softly, "either you all leave me alone or you will all wind up like those guys I beat up yesterday! Now GO AWAY!'
Everyone got up and ran as fast as they could to get away. Cape simply sat back down calmly and returned to his meditation, but Miss Mackenzie had seen the whole thing, and she was afraid. What is this dark power within him? she thought, It seems so powerful, but he holds it back. He seems to be afraid of it himself, but how can he be afraid of it unless he knows what it is.
Cape looked over at her, his eyes seemed to pierce right into her soul, suddenly Miss Mackenzie could hear him in her mind. Leave me alone, he said, I don't want you to get hurt because of me so just forget everything you are wondering and just let it go. The only thing that can come of it is your getting hurt or maybe worse so please just go, go and forget.
Cape returned to his meditating, and Miss Mackenzie left, but her steps were fast and full of fear.
Sakura and Madison were sitting on the swings enjoying the beautiful weather, when they heard some kids talking.
"That Cape guy is a weirdo if you as me," one said. "Yeah," said another, "I thought he was a cool guy for beating up Teoa and his gang, but then he freaks out when we go there to congratulate him."
Sakura and Madison exchanged glances then went to see if what they heard was true. They went to the back of the school to see Cape meditating by himself as he did the day before, when they saw Miss Mackenzie on the other side of the school yard looking over with fear in her eye.
"Is something wrong Miss Mackenzie?" asked Sakura, "You look like you saw a ghost."
"It's nothing Sakura," she replied calming herself, "I just got a scare that's all."
"A scare?" asked Madison, "From what?"
"It's nothing," repeated Miss Mackenzie, "just go and have fun. Oh and Sakura?"
"Yes?" she replied.
"Be careful around that new student, he may not be what he seems."
Sakura gave her an odd look then ran off to meet Madison. "I am going to see Cape," said Madison, "to see if he is the one who scared Miss Mackenzie."
"Ok," said Sakura, "I'll come to."
They were about to go around to the back when they heard Lee. He was already there and questioning Cape, "Who are you really?" he demanded, "and why are you here? You are not what you seem and I know it. There is no way that a normal person could have done what you did yesterday, so tell me, who are you and what do you want?"
Cape simply stood up and looked Lee in the eye, "No Lee," he said, "you listen to me. I have no need to answer any of these questions but I will answer some. Who I am is none of your business for now. What do I want? Simply to be left in peace, to have friends and to mostly," Cape breathed in heavily and yelled right in Lee's face making him fall over, "TO BE LEFT ALONE!" Cape starred down at Lee and put out his hand to help him up. When Lee got up Cape said, "I am sorry, I just have things to take care of before I can let myself have friends, I'm sorry." Cape sat back down to meditate again, but this time he had a tear fall from his eye.
When Lee came back around Sakura and Madison asked him what happened. "Nothing," he said, "he is just someone who is scared and needs someone to help him, who it is…" Lee was silent.
"Yes," said Sakura, "who is it he needs?"
"I don't know," replied Lee, "he is afraid of everyone here. He seems to be afraid that if he opens up that he will hurt people. I think the three of us should try to help him."
"Why all three?" asked Madison.
"Because," said Lee, "if he wonders why we can just say that we are trying to repay him for helping us yesterday."
"Good idea," said Sakura, "but let's wait till later. He stays for three hours after school to meditate, so we can talk to him then."
"Ok," said Lee and Madison.
Once again Eli was spying on them, This should be interesting, he thought, but let's see how interesting I can make it. he smiled evilly and walked to the power terminal near the tree where Cape was.
Cape got up and went behind the tree where Eli couldn't see him. Eli went to cast a spell on the terminal, but Cape grabbed him quickly. Eli was in shock, he could not believe that Cape had snuck up on him so easily. "Listen to me," said Cape sternly, "I know who you are, and what you plan to do." Eli was very afraid, he had no idea what to do or say. "I said listen, sot to wonder," repeated Cape, "if you ever hurt Madison, Sakura or Lee I will find you, and you will pay." Cape leaned over to Eli's ear and whispered, "Because I know your limits Clow Reid."
Eli looked at him with such fear that he had never known before, "Who…who are you?" he stuttered.
Cape grinned at him, "Your worst nightmare." Saying that Cape let Eli go, and Eli ran away as fast as he could. Even if he is Clow Reid, he thought, I will not let him hurt them. I will never let anyone hurt them.
The rest of the day went by without incident. After school Eli left very quickly, he returned to his home to watch what would happen, but he was afraid to. For he knew that everything he did, everything he said, Cape knew them all.
Spinner and Ruby came in, still in their earthly forms. "Is something the wrong master?" asked Spinner, "You seem very distressed."
"Yes," said Ruby, "did something happen?"
Eli grabbed his key, "I call upon the day and the night ancient powers release your might, RELEASE!" He looked over to Spinner and Ruby, "I command you," he said, "return to your true forms, Spinner Sun and Ruby Moon!" the two were swept up in a magic wave, Spinner went from a stuffed toy like being to a large panther with the wings of a butterfly. Ruby went from a common human to an oddly dressed being, again with the butterfly wings. "More happened then I expected, "he said, "it appears that this is more of a threat then even I can know."
"WHAT?!" both Spinner and Ruby shouted.
"But master," said Ruby shyly, "if you cannot know, then how can we hope to survive."
"I don't know," replied Eli, "I just don't know."
It was one hour after school, Sakura had just finished her chores and was going to meet Madison and Lee at school to talk to Cape, when she ran into Uea and Kiro Baros. "We are coming with you," said Uea, "just in case something happens."
"Yes," said Kiro, "so many strange things have been happening lately that we cannot take the chance."
Sakura sighed, "You two are paranoid you know that," she giggled, "we will be fine, I am taking the cards with me. Plus if things go really bad we have Cape there."
"Cape?" said Kiro, "who is he?"
"A new friend from school," she answered, "he is amazingly strong, so he can help us if things get bad." Sakura kept going, even though Uea and Kiro didn't like it.
"We may as well go home," said Uea, "there is nothing we can do now."
"What are you talking about!" exclaimed Kiro, "We have to follow her!"
"No," said Uea, "I don't know why, but I feel that even if things do go very bad, she will be fine."
Kiro sighed, knowing he could not win the argument, "Fine," he said, and they both returned to their earthly forms and went home. Though Julian was wondering how he got in the middle of the road.
Sakura got to school and Madison and Lee were waiting. "Took your time," said Lee, "did you bring the cards?"
"Of course," said Sakura with a smile.
"Then let's go," said Madison, but what they found is not what they expected.
What they found was not Cape meditating as before, but Cape sitting at the tree crying. They were about to go see what was wrong when Sakura felt it. "Stop," she said, "there is something wrong here." They looked closer and saw that Cape had a very dark aura around him, and it seemed to be hurting him.
That's when they heard him, "Please no," he said, "don't make me do it again. These people are nice to me, they want to help me, and I don't want to hurt them." Cape seemed to be pleading with the darkness around him.
"What is going on?" said Madison, "This is really scary."
"Don't worry," said Lee, "as long as he doesn't know we are here I think we are fine."
Suddenly Cape stood up and looked right at them, "RUN!" he yelled, "THEY WANT YOU!" Cape seemed to be fighting his own body, trying to keep his arms and legs down. "Please," he said, "RUN!!"
Madison looked at the tears running down his eyes and she wasn't afraid anymore, she walked right out and looked at him. It didn't take long for Lee and Sakura to realize the same thing Madison had, he was afraid and in pain, if they were going to be his friends they had to stay with him. Even if it meant they were in danger. "We will not run!" said Madison, "Whoever they are, if they want us tell them to come themselves! We want to be your friends Cape, so let us help you."
"Yeah," said Sakura, "you helped us, now it's our turn, that's what friends do they help each other."
"Whoever they are," said Lee, "we can face them together."
"You don't understand!" said Cape tearfully, "the only way they will leave me alone, is if I kill you and take them the clow cards."
All three of them looked shocked, they could not believe that whoever they were wanted the cards. "How can they use them?" asked Sakura, "I am their master and only I can control them."
Cape cried in pain as he spoke, "Not if you are killed." he sobbed. Suddenly the shadows around them seemed to move, they almost seemed alive now.
"What is happening?" asked Madison terrified, "How can shadows move?"
Lee looked even more terrified than Madison, "Are you one of them?" he asked Cape desperately.
"No," he said feeling relieved, "to them I am but a pawn, they saved me and said I owe then one service, then I could be free, and I could keep my powers." Suddenly they all realized that his body was in his control again.
An evil voice came from the shadow of the tree, "You have done well servant," it said, "you have found the master of the clow cards for us, now you are free." A hand reached out of the shadow and took Cape's cloak from him.
"Thank you," said Cape relieved, "but can I please ask one thing of you?"
"What is it?" said another voice from Madison's shadow.
"Please, just leave them alone," he pleaded, "They were kind to me and I don't want to fight you to keep them safe, because you know I will, and I know that you have given me my powers so no longer control them."
Dozens of voices came from the shadows, all of them laughing at him. "And what makes you think we cannot defeat you little boy?" laughed the first voice.
"Something you told me Grand Shadow," he said calmly, "the one who knows not his own limitations, is the most dangerous one of all."
The voices kept laughing, "Maybe so, said the Grand Shadow, "but your limitations are obvious. Your pitiful knowledge and imagination are your limits human."
Suddenly Cape laughed and he ran to Madison and Sakura, "Thank you for helping me." he said.
"But we didn't do anything," said Sakura.
"But you did," replied Cape, "by being here, you gave me a reason to fight the shadows. I fought them to keep you three safe, because you wanted to be my friends. And please, my name is Neo."
Neo turned to face the shadows and laughed, "You may think I am pitiful but I am even stronger then you!!" and before the shadows could react, Neo sent out a wave of light, destroying three of them in one shot.
"Sakura you must now chose," said Neo, "you must either fight these shadows with your friends here in danger, or let me fight alone. The choice must be made by the three of you, so please, choose wisely."
Sakura did not know what to do, she looked to her friends and they both nodded. The choice was obvious, so now it's time. The choice is made, and must be done.