A/N: Here's the next chapter, like I promised.
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).
CH1: Realization.
When she was called for breakfest in the grand dining room, Sakura got dressed, brushed her teeth, brushed her hair and was ready for the day. Joined by her best friend Madision Taylor and their other friend Rini, the trio, along with Kero, joined up in the room where Rini, along with Serena, Darien, Shrek, Fiona and Donkey had their first dinner with Darien and Fiona's parents, King Harould and Queen Lillian. The said group, along with the rest of the Sailor Team-Amy, Raye, Lita, Mina, Ash Ketchum, Pikachu, Misty, Brock, May, and Max-along with their new friend and member of the team, Puss in Boots, and their Fairytale gang friends, and even Dragon and her and Donkey's five new mutant Dronkey babies, were gathered around in the room.
Well...Dragon's head sticked out from the window since she was far too big to fit into the Castle, but hey, she still counted. Even Team Rocket trio Jessie, James and Meowth were here as well. It's only been 8 hours since the defeat of the evil Fairy-God-Mother, and the King himself returning to his true form; a Frog but was still loved. Prince Charming and Sailor Fake Moon both disappeared after the wedding ball. Though Sakura and her friends didn't get much sleep, none the less, they felt refreshed now that Serena cleared some of her inner sins and restored her relationship with Darien. For what, Sakura, Madision and Kero still didn't know.
"Morning!" Sakura greeted warmly, while Madision and Kero greeted their 'morning' as well.
"Well, good morning, Sakura, Madision and Kero." Queen Lillian greeted kindly.
"Morning, guys!" Serena and the rest of the team greeted.
Ash smiled as Sakura, Madision, Kero and Rini joined them in their seats, and he greeted the former three, "Hey guys. Managed to get some sleep?"
Despite the lingering rawness of terror from her nightmare, Sakura still smiled as she replied, "Other than a nightmare I had last night, I slept okay."
"By nightmare, do ya' mean the fight against the Nasty God-Mother? Or a natural one?" Meowth asked, sarcastically as he actually looked rather grumpy, before giving out a loud yawn.
Everyone else glared at him, both at his sarcasm and his rudeness at the table first thing in the morning, before most of them decided to turn their attention back to Sakura who also decided to ignore Meowth, while Jessie and James both pretended to not listen, but they and Meowth, despite the lack of sleep, did anyway.
"A nightmare? How bad was it?" Madision asked, a little worried.
"Well, it wasn't enough that I'd wake up screaming." Sakura admitted, before closing her eyes as she shivered a little, adding, "Though it was really scary and horrible, and it actually felt real..."
"Do you want to talk about it later, Sakura?" Serena asked, concerned. Only 8 hours since the battle and already she instantly felt that something else was happening that had Sakura having nightmares straight away.
The eleven year old Cardcaptor hesitated. As much as she didn't want to tell her friends at the breakfest table first thing in the morning, there was something about that dream that was extremely important and she couldn't help but sense...some kind of disturbence lingering. That dream was a warning. At least, that's what it felt like.
Softly sighing, Sakura shook her head, answering, "No. I think...it's best that I'd tell you now." before turning to gaze at the two royals of the castle and apologetically requested, "If you both don't mind, your majesties."
"Well...of course not." Harould said, finding it unsual as something as Sakura wanting to talk about her nightmares to her friends.
"If you need comfort, we're all here." Lillian added.
"Thank you." Sakura nodded, before turning back to her friends who waited, and then sighed before beginning. She told them about the haunting images of many people being condemed to death, whether they were pirates or not, laws that were suspended. Everyone else in the room were absolutely horrified to hear something like this, and even Sakura was shuddering when she discribed what she's seen in her sleep.
"That's awful." Brock muttered, and no one disagreed with him.
"Who would do such a thing?" Lillian thought, disgusted by the men responsible, even though she and Harould were not fond of pirates either. But hanging people who didn't do anything wrong only by just muttering the word pirate? That was the most evilest they could think of.
Sakura nodded, continuing, "I could also hear the singing the people who were about to die too. It sounded like...a song that no one's heard of before."
"A song?" Serena asked, blinking. Sure she knew a pirate song that-that Elizabeth Swann taught Captain Jack Sparrow who told her and the others this back in the Orange Islands here in the present. Serena had forced herself to think about that, while the guilt still lingered of what happened before Jack's death in the past before he was somehow revived and the Black Pearl restored. Suddenly by thinking this and combined with Sakura's dreams, she realised she had a feeling she knew where this was going.
"Yeah, and I could even remember the lyrics too." Sakura added.
"If you don't mind me asking, what did it sound like?" Shrek asked, finding himself curious.
Sakura shrugged, knowing that she wasn't that good of a singer. Singing was definitely Madision's talent. Still, she cleared her throat, and began to sing as correctedly as she could, "~The king and his men,
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.~"
Despite that singing wasn't her real talent, everyone else were admittedly surprised on how good she was doing at her try. Even Madision gazed at her best friend, surprised and proud. Kero's mouth dropped open, comically at the girl he'd chosen as a Cardcaptor coming up to two years ago.
"~Yo ho all together
Hoist the colors high
Heave ho, thieves and beggars
Never shall we die~" Sakura continued to sing.
Until Serena and Ash both unexpectedly continued for their friend and the second chosen one of Earth,
"~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~"
"Yeah, that's it!" Sakura exclaimed softly, surprised, as where her two companions and everyone else until the Sailor Team, minus Puss, and even Team Rocket suddenly remembered where they had heard the song before.
After an awkward moment of pause, Mina then hesitatedly gazed at Sakura before asking her, "Uh, Sakura? Who...who was in charge of the...Noose part?"
While stunned that most of her friends knew about the song as well, Sakura remembered the name after a moment or two of thinking, before giving out her answer that both shocked the group and also confirmed their suspicions, "I heard one of the guards calling him...Lord Beckett."
The Sailor Team cringed, recongising the name. They glanced at each other worriedly with twinges of guilt and sorrow, not to mention anger which only confused Sakura, Madision, Kero, Puss, Harould and Lillian, before Serena and everyone else gazed back at the trio before them with saddened and guilty looks.
"Yeah, we know that guy." Ash eventually braved. "The leader of the East Indian Trading Company."
Sakura, Madison and Kero's eyes all widened. The name of the East Indian Tradinng Company was heard when the three of them first time-travelled to the Caribbean at Port Royal just a few months ago, considering how this year was the Legendary Long Year. Commordore Norringtion questioned their friend Captain Jack Sparrow due to the implanted "P" on the man's skin about that. Hours before Captain Barbossa and his cursed crew attacked Port Royal to find the final piece of the Azec Gold which both Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann had.
But then...when did their friends in front of them, save for Puss(who was just as confused), learn or meet the leader of the Company itself?
"We should've told you sooner, Sakura." Serena fidgeted uncomfortably, as she remembered, given how Lord Beckett had a bad reputation of being cruel and that she and her friends learned about him wanting to kill Jack Sparrow. "The thing is...in the past, Lord Beckett wanted you, Will and Elizabeth dead due to helping Jack escape."
"Wait, you mean you met them too?" Sakura asked, shocked.
"Hold your horses, Meat-Ball head!" Kero demanded, as he flew towards the others, before waving an angry arm at the other chosens, asking with an angry vain squeezing on his head(anime style), "When the heck did you meet them and what the heck's goin' on around here!?"
"Kero! Calm down." Fiona told the Guardian Beast in false miniture form. "It's a long story, and it's both confusing and overwhelming."
"And uh..." Serena began, with a sweatdrop, "It's sort of the main reason why I haven't really been myself lately, even during the Honeymoon."
Serena and her group then proceeded to tell Sakura, Madision, Kero, Puss, Harould and Lillian everything that's happened before the Honeymoon. Ash, Misty, Brock, May and Max started off with how they met the now immortal crew of the Black Pearl which was the start of the situation on how they knew, how Jack and the said crew helped them with the Darkrai crisis(which Ash still feels guilt over Darkrai's death), as well as Team Nappers, with Beckett himself being the leader due to him having been reborn as a sick joke even though Beckett himself died once again after things returned to normal due to Darkrai's death, and then after the Orange Island adventures which involved fighting ghostly pirates from Jack's past, how the Sailor Team, except for Shrek, Fiona and Donkey, had travelled back in time due to both Serena and Ash having had the vision of Jack's death by the Kracken and had attempted to prevent though it would risk changing the future, met Davy Jones and everything they, Will and Elizabeth went through, and how in the end the Sailor Team failed to keep Jack from being eaten by the Kracken and had been forced to return to the Present.
Serena, however, did not mention the real truth for the cause of Jack remaining behind onboard the Black Pearl or Elizabeth's betrayal of forcing Serena(as Sailor Moon) away from saving Jack which had lead her to run away back to Earth before calming down thanks to Ash due to his experience of going something similiar had King Mickey not met him before learning about Mickey's true idenity after meeting Sora, Donald and Goofy while searching for Riku and Kairi.
Once Serena and the others were finished, the hearts of Sakura, Madision and Kero ached yet swelled of both grief and relief. Grief because of Jack's death by the Kracken. Relief because he had been revived and made immortal along with his crew and that the Black Pearl somehow resurfaced.
"Um, not to point fingers or be rude here," Harould spoke up, "But...this Jack Sparrow fellow...he's a pirate."
"And a good person." Ash added with a nod, "Besides, the only reason why Beckett made Jack a pirate in the first place is because he was only doing the right thing by freeing the slaves Beckett wanted to use and hurt."
"Your friend became a pirate because of the good he was doing?" Lillian asked, shocked, as was her husband who was speechless, before she shook her head, saying, "Well, if you ask me, this Lord Beckett is more cruel than any other man I've ever met or heard of."
Serena shuddered, remembering Lord Beckett in the past, "Believe me, Mom. He's a lot worse than he actually sounds."
"Even worse," Brock remembered, grimly. "He even used the heart of Davy Jones to try and take over the world."
This was met with silence as the group suddenly realised something very important and the Sailor Team glanced at each other in shock and realization. Amy then said, now remembering, "Of course. This is what Jack and the crew had been trying to tell us: We were there when all of this unfolded, because of our futureselves meeting their past selves. It's a Time Paradox."
"A Time what?" Donkey asked, blinking in confusion.
"Time Paradox that was meant to be." Rini realised, "That's what Luna-P told us in the Orange Islands when Grovyle, Piplup and I got our memories back of our time in Deltora."
"So, everything that's happened in the past all started here in the future?" May asked, shocked when she and the others came to a correct conclusion.
"So our future-selves told the past selves of our friends about all this and their future-selves told our past-selves in their own way to keep the Time-line in tact?" Raye realised, before muttering in disbelief, "This is complicated."
The more Ash thought about it, the more he came to realization, as he said, "Actually, I think it makes sense now that I think about it. If none of this happened, then everyone in the future would disappear."
"And then it would cast Earth into darkness." Darien realized with a concerned frown.
That's when the Sailor Team realised, given Sakura's vision and now that things had settled down enough for them to concentrate on the task they promised to do once the Honeymoon was over, even though it was delayed due to the Royal Wedding Ball, the time has come for them to travel back in time once more and finish what they started; to aid Will, Elizabeth and the Crew to rescue Jack and the Black Pearl and put an end to Lord Beckett and Davy Jones once and for all, and only then, the nightmare of the two villians would end here in the present for everyone.
As Sakura had been thinking about the situation, her heart still ached that she wasn't there for Jack when he needed her the most and felt that it was her fault for being unable to protect him. While she was still shocked to discover that he was still alive and here in the present, immortal, she'd come to realise that she didn't want him or the crew to disappear if the time-line changes. Clutching her fist and making up her mind, Sakura gazed up at her friends, declaring bravely, "Well then, I'll go and save Jack in the past."
"Huh?" Everyone else asked, surprised and confused.
"I wasn't there when Jack died, and I feel horrible for it." Sakura began, before continuing with determination, "But Jack, Will and Elizabeth are my friends, and I want to help them stop Davy Jones and Beckett for good. I don't know how yet, but if it's true, then I have to go back and save them."
Everyone else were stunned by Sakura's words of bravery and determination. Despite Harould and Lillians concerned expressions, especially since Sakura is only eleven years old, and despite the worry the rest of the group were feeling, Serena, remembering her guilt and realising that this may be her chance to both protect Sakura and atone for her failure, nodded before declaring, "Well then, Sakura, I'm going too. I have to set things right. Besides, two Cardcaptors are better than one, right?"
This was due to the fact that Sakura was the true Cardcaptor and Master of the Star Cards, while Serena herself was Sailor Moon, Princess Serenity, a Pokemon Trainer mentored by Ash, and a Cardcaptor of the Moon Cards that were originally clones of the Clow Cards that were created by Xenula in the Realm of Darkness back in America months ago.
"I'll go too!" Ash declared, with determination, standing up, with Pikachu leaping onto his shoulder to join him and the other two chosens of Earth. "Jack once told me that he owed me for saving him once when he and the others, including my best friends saved me and Grovyle from the Locker months ago in the Ameria Region. I didn't get what he meant back then...but now I do."
"I think it's best that the eight of us go, because there's no way I'm staying behind." Raye declared, with Amy, Lita and Mina nodding in agreement with silent gestures that they were going as well. By eight, she meant the four of them, Serena, Sakrua, Ash, and Pikachu.
"Only eight?" Donkey asked, sounding disappointed.
"How come the rest of us can't go?" Misty asked.
"Because we're going up against Lord Beckett and Davy Jones. It'll be safer." Raye pointed out, before adding, "Besides, we can't risk in getting all of you into this again, especially with the Kracken probably on the loose."
"Actually, I think I remember the Kracken ending up dead after it ate Captain Jack." Ash pointed out, "So I think we'll be okay for now."
"Even though I don't like this but I know there's very little choice, how can you actually bring him back from the dead?" Harould asked, with Lillian nodding in agreement.
The young Pokemon Master smiled before pulling out the familiar Compass that was over 200 years old from his pockets and held it out, "Nothing like the old magical Compass can do."
When Sakura, Madison and Kero gazed at it, their eyes widened again, as Sakura realised, "That's Jack's Compass! How did you...?"
"After Darkrai, Davy Jones and Beckett were defeated here in the present in the Ameria Region, Jack gave it me because he thought it was better off with us." Ash explained, gazing at the Compass that once belonged to the Pirate Captain of the Black Pearl, adding, "He also decided to go modern and use a Pokegear to travel around Earth."
"After 200 years? Sure took him a while to ditch that broken thing." Kero muttered, with a skeptical expression. "It's probably just a keepsake since it doesn't work."
"Kero!" Sakura scolded.
"There's more to the Compass than you think, Kero." Max said to Kero with a knowing smile. "It came in handy more times than you can count."
"Anyway, I think I have an idea on how we can get Jack back." Ash added after putting away the Compass in his pockets of this clothes that he wore in his adventures in the Houen Region and back in Kanto during his journey against the Battle Frontier. "First, we have to meet up with Will and the others." as the others nodded in agreement.
"Right." Sakura nodded, "I can use the Return Card to take us back in time to where we can meet up them wherever we need to go."
"But how are going to get to the land of the dead or bring Jack Sparrow back to life, senors and senoritas?" Puss pointed out with a shrug, "You need someone who knows how to plan this and clearly know exactly where you're going."
"That's easy." Lita answered, placing her hands on her hips with a knowing smile. When those who didn't know gazed at her questionly, she continued, "Captain Barbossa, since he back came to life too and redeemed himself as we learned from him and Jack."
The name Barbossa hit Sakura, Madision and Kero hard with shock and in Sakura's case, a strange sense of relief but horror. Captain Barbossa, the pirate Captain who kidnapped Elizabeth and who had died by the single shot Jack saved for ten years from Jack himself, was revived and like Jack, was now immortal as well, and an ally!?
"What!? Barbossa!?" Sakura exclaimed, before shaking her head francily before crossing her arms that formed an X that said no, as she denied since the last thing she wanted was to confront one of her previous enemies, "There is no way! Anyone but Barbossa!"
"Oh yeah, I forgot." Serena slumped, sheepishly at the reminder. Barbossa was to Sakura as Jack was to Serena; a disliked man that annoyed girls like Serena and Sakura to no end. And as far as Serena could tell, Sakura wanted nothing to do with Barbossa, while Serena herself had began to accept Jack as a friend now, and they were going to rescue his past self to ensure his revival and eventual immortality.
Apparently everyone else remembered too, because Ash said apologetically to the dismayed Cardcaptor, "Sorry, Sakura. But we don't have a choice. Barbossa's the only one we can count on in taking us to where Jack is, despite the rivally those two had over the Black Pearl. Besides, he has an important part in this."
While groaning at the fact that she would have to face Barbossa again, Sakura sighed, realising that Ash was right. Whether she liked it or not, Barbossa was their only hope if they wanted to get Jack and the Black Pearl back in the past. Resigned to this, Sakura nodded, "I guess you're right."
Just then, Ash's stomach gurgled so loudly that everyone else sighed while the young Pokemon Master blushed in embarrassment while covering his stomach with his arms, knowing that it demanded for food and he had to agree. Lillian chuckled at this before suggesting, "Well, you can't go on another adventure with your tummies rumbling. Let us all have breakfest first."
"No argument there, your majesty." Ash chuckled sheepishly.
"Well, looks like you're off on another quest, champ." Kero praised to Sakura, while a little worried and disappointed to not be going with his master who had come to be one of his dearest best friends. Plus, secretly between the two of them and Madision, as they were now offical members of the Sailor Team, they would have to count on Riku and Mickey to solve the mystery of Organization XIII since the Solar Universe needed the three of them with their friends of this universe.
Sakura nodded to her mentor and close friend.
"And I've made just the perfect outfit for you on your new journey!" Madision perked up happily, even though she was bummed to not be going back in time again or go with Sakura. She immediately pulled out a new battle costume that seemed fit to fight in. It was pink with gold lining and buttons, sleeveless with the skirt over the shorts, on the back of the top had a single wing design, long pink gloves that went up to Sakura's biceps, short boots that reached to her ankles and a matching hat.
Seeing her new battle costume Madision had made, Sakura swayed in disbelief before collasping to the ground in embarrassment(anime-style), while everyone else, save for Team Rocket who glanced at each other, chuckling softly.
As soon as breakfest was done, Sakura donned on her new battle costume which was probably, as she tried it on, her favourite outfit she's ever worn and thought that maybe she should wear this in her future adventures and battles from now on. It was comfortable and easy to move. In the meantime, Serena, Amy, Raye, Lita and Mina had transformed into Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Venus, though Sailor Moon's Heart Combat strangely glowed ever since the previous night, as did Rini's transformation locket. But they decided to worry about that later.
Ash decided to leave his back-pack behind, but still kept his cutlass that can extend from the small harmless stick by the touch of a botton he retrieved from the Ameria Region and thanked both Jack and Barbossa for the swordsman lessons which he then trained with Sora back in Japan on Earth a few times before Ansem's defeat. And of course, Ash carried his Pokemon in their pokeballs, while Pikachu continued to ride on his shoulder.
Soon the eight of them were outside in the Gardens of the Castle since it was the bets place to set off on their new journey back in time. Sakura was a little nervous, especially since she and her friends and one of her old enemies were going to figure out how to bring Captain Jack Sparrow and the Black Pearl back to ensure their future-selves would not disappear.
"Be careful out there." Shrek said with caution.
"Come back soon." Rini added.
"Right." Sakura and her assigned group nodded, before the Cardcaptor turned to her friends, asking, "Are you guys ready?"
When Sailor Moon and the others confirmed that they were ready, Sakura nodded before holding out her transformation Key, before chanting the magical worlds, her Sorceress Circle forming underneath her as always, the key glowing under her command, "Key of the Star, with Powers burning bright, Reveal the Staff, and shine your light! RELEASE!"
The key, under Sakura's command, grew bigger until it transformed into the familiar pink staff, which Sakura gripped and twirled around expertly before stood ready. She pulled out the Return Card and flipped it over her, slamming her magical Star Staff onto it, "Return!"
Since Sakura's powers upgraded since her time in Castle Oblivion with Riku and King Mickey, even though only Kero and Madision knew this, the Return Card along with the other Star Cards' powers were slightly upgraded as well. The Return Card magically opened up a portal, amazing the rest of the Sailor Team and others, with the Fairytale gang and Team Rocket going, "Oooh!" and "Ahhh!" in awe.
"Never seen the Return Card do that before." Sailor Moon admitted, amazed.
"It's a long story." Sakura replied, before turning back to the rest of their friends who were staying behind, saying, "Don't worry. We'll be back before you know it."
"Just in case you guys need help, we'll be right behind you." May called out to the eight of them, as Celebi was out of her pokeball and the pink-albino Time-Travelling Pokemon nodded in agreement.
"Thanks, May." Sailor Moon thanked, she and her group smiling to their friends before stepping into the portal of time that would take them not only back in time, but also back to Earth to where the past-selves of their friends were waiting. Once Sakura and her group stepped through, the portal closed behind them, and at Sakura's mental wish, the magic of the card carried her and her friends towards their destination.
To reunite with Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, Captain Barbossa and the remaining Black Pearl Crew in a place where the new and dangerous adventure would truly begin.
A/N: So the new adventure has began for Sakura and her group. Her battle costume is that from the original second Cardcaptor Sakura Movie, which, in the Sailor Moon Continuum universe, doesn't happen. See you in the next chapter!
Edited: 9/4/2018. Thanks for noticing the mistake, Guest.