A/N: Welcome to another chapter of Cardcaptors: At World's End! I'm glad you're liking this so far, fellow readers. I will try my best to make this as exciting as possible. In the meantime, let's continue on.
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).
CH2: Not so happy reunion.
1798: One Month after the events of "Sailor Moon and the Dead Man's Chest"...
It was night in the city of Singapore. What lights there were came from the moon as it filtered through the fog which hung low on the water. There were reds and gold's from the lamps which hung on houses that lined the bridge streets, and the occasional firecracker were the only other lights which served to break up the shadows.
But in the most deserted part of Singapore, one that only those who would be setting up part of the plan on a quest like no other man on this day and century would even consider until just one month ago when a previous adventure ended up failure, a portal of light opened up in the darkness of night, creating a doorway of time, just as Sakura, Ash, Pikachu, Sailor Moon and the four other Sailor Scouts stepped out, having arrived at where they were supposed to reunite with their companions. As Sakura and her friends paused in their steps, the Return Card's power of Time-Travel closed behind them, leaving the eight of them remaining in the past until Sakura uses it's power once more.
The group looked around in the most darkest part of the city, though at first they were unaware of their location as of this moment. The smells of Singapore varied little from night to day, even if the light of the city did. The musty smell of wood, fungus and water were a perpetual odor that the people had come to live with. This odor was mixed with the scent of fish and spices, and of humanity which always seems to mix in places such as this.
"Where are we?" Sakura asked in confusion. The abandoned chinese writing was familiar as she had visited Hong Kong in her first year as a Cardcaptor in the future, but other than that, the place itself was very unfamiliar.
"I thought we were gonna meet up with the others where they would be." Ash muttered in confusion, unaware that Pikachu was the only one who seemed to recongise this place, but it was different compared to what the small Pokemon had seen before.
Sailor Mercury then pulled out her mini-computer before tabbing the side of her earrings that brought out her scanner mask, before calculating their whereabouts. After a couple of one-hand typing, she then announced softly to her friends, "It appears that we're in Singapore, and there's a large number of East Indian Trading Company soldiers patroling the streets." before shutting off her mask and putting away her computer into her fuku pockets.
"Singapore? Why here?" Sailor Moon asked, dumbfounded. She then remembered something and turned to the Pokemon Master of the group, asking, "Hey, Ash. Didn't you mention something about some kind of map that was needed to get you and Grovyle out of the Locker in the future?"
"Yeah, there was." Ash realised, before frowning apologetically, "But...for some reason, I can't remember. It's like when we were all in the Caribbean with Jack, Will and Elizabeth."
"Really? You can't remember how that happened?" Sakura asked, worriedly.
"Maybe it's something to do with the interference of time and that we're not allowed to tell anyone in the past about Ash's experiences because it would cause problems." Sailor Mercury theoried, much to everyone else's dismay and annoyance.
"That's just great. Now what do we do?" Sailor Jupiter groaned.
Ash placed his arms behind his head before suggesting, "I guess we'll just have to look around and find them without getting caught by the East Indian Trading Company."
Sailor Moon sweatdropped at this suggestion, before pointing out, "That's easier said than done, Ash. It'll be like looking for a needle in a haystack without getting scratched by a flock of chickens." though the last part was in a hint of sarcasm, which made her friends fall to the ground(anime-style) by this.
As the rest of the group stood up, Sailor Mars placed a hand to her forehead, sighing in exasperation, "You have the worst sarcasm ever, Sailor Moon."
"And what you be searching for?" A strikingly familiar voice spoke from their right, causing Sakura and her friends to immediately turn to the source of the voice.
Stepping from around the corner into the abandoned part of Singapore, was a man whom the Sailor Team recongised as someone in the future, but here in the past, was a good five years younger in appearence even though it looked more like only two, and whom Sakura recongised as a man who was as though he never died at all. He may have been well into his forties, but his manner of holding himself and the style of his walk indicated that he was by no means defenseless and could probably quite easily defeat several challengers who were half his age. He dressed with more style and flair than the other pirates would be present, which marked him clearly as one who had had more fortune at sea.
Captain Barbossa gazed his eyes at the familiar eleven year old girl who stepped back with caution, though she tried to steel her eyes, coming face to face with the man who kidnapped Elizabeth Swann and Madision. "Sakura Avalon." Barbossa greeted, as though he was half pleased to see her again.
"Barbossa." Sakura responded in return, uneasily. It was still hard to believe that Jack Sparrow's enemy was standing there, alive and well as though the former Captain of the Black Pearl was never shot in Isle De Murta. "What are you doing here? I thought you died." She asked, deciding that now was the time to learn how Barbossa really came back to life.
"Aye, I have." Barbossa nodded in agreement, "Though there'd be an agreement given secret." before questioning, "As for you, young missy. What brings you back here, and who are your own little crew?" gesturing at the rest of the Sailor Team.
"Well, to start off, I'm Sailor Moon." Sailor Moon spoke up this time, trying to pretend like this is her and the others' first meeting with Barbossa. Well, techniquely, it was their first time meeting the past-self of one of their own allies. She then introduced her four guardians, "And this is Sailor Mars, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Venus."
"My name's Ash Ketchum, and this is my best friend, Pikachu." Ash introduced himself and his Pokemon who felt sensed a difference compared to Barbossa standing before them and his future-self in the 20th Century.
When the introductions were made, Barbossa's mouth curled into an somewhat amused smirk as he took a few steps closer to the group as he said about Sailor Moon and the others, "Ah. So you are the so called Sailor Team whom was there when Jack Sparrow and my ship were devoured by the Kracken. You came back with miss Avalon in a way to retrieve them both, perhaps?"
"How do you know?" Sailor Mars asked, a little surprised.
"And why are we all here in Singapore?" Sailor Moon added.
Before Barbossa could answer, he and the children and Pikachu from the future heard a soft chime of music behind Sakura and her friends, all of them looking into the same direction as a small old wooden chinese cart was slowly pushed by a cloaked figure in a large hat. The music was coming from a music box, turned by a familiar small monkey who was wearing a miniture version of the chinese hat. On the roof top of the small cart was a familiar yellow and blue parrot who squaked, "Wind the Sails!"
When the long dark dressed and cloaked figure raised her head, Sakura felt powerful imitation that she thought her heart would burst. The rest of the Sailor Team, however, their eyes widened in shock and disbelief as they recongised the dark-skinned woman with black hair and voodoo like appearence.
"Tia Dalma?" Ash asked in disbelief. Mentally, he was quickly freaking out and panicking. What was the creepy Voodoo lady friends with Captain Jack doing here?
"Pika?" Pikachu echoed, just as surprised as his trainer.
"Sailor Moon. Ash Ketchum." Tia Dalma greeted mysteriously. "I 'new you woul' return to rescue Jack Sparrow."
"Who is she?" Sakura blinked, confused and a little more uncomfortable than before.
"The enchantress who ressurrected me." Barbossa answered. "To lead on the venture to rescue Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' Locker."
This made Sakura and her friends gap in further astondment, glancing back and forth between Barbossa and Tia Dalma a few times before Sailor Venus pointed at both of them and vise versa, "Wait a minute. Are you saying that she brought you back to life so that you can lead us, Will and the others to save Jack from the locker?"
"Whoa..." Ash muttered, before leaning back a little as though he and Pikachu both wanted to keep distance from Tia Dalma as much as possible. 'She's more creepier than I thought if she can bring dead people back to life. No wonder Jack and Barbossa didn't want to talk about it in the future.' He thought to himself, to scared to even whisper his thoughts.
"That doesn't explain why we're in Singapore." Sailor Moon pointed out.
"Yeah, and where are Will and Elizabeth?" Sakura added, glaring at Barbossa as though accusing him should anything had happened to two of her friends.
"Elizabeth Swann should be where I would to meet her as we speak. And Master Turner is to require the key in locating the entrance to Davy Jones' Locker; The navigational Charts." Barbossa explained. "It's all part of the plan to go through peacefully, so to speak."
He and Tia Dalma both then told Sakura and her friends about how the remaining crew of the Black Pearl-Gibbs, Marty, Cotton, Pintel and Ragetti were to retrieve their weapons from underneath the place where Barbossa and Elizabeth were to meet with a fellow Captain, Sao Feng while Tia herself would disguise herself to hide from the enemies with the Monkey and the Parrot to act to add on the disguise, as the other main reason for this was to retrive a temporarely new ship and a crew since they were only able to get here via jumping on board one ship to another for the past month since Jack's death.
"Well that explains something at least." Sailor Moon thought, finding this plan to be both worrying and clever.
"Well then, I'm going with you to meet up with Elizabeth, Barbossa." Sakura decided, "I just don't trust you around her." unaware that Sailor Moon's eyes shifted uncomfortably.
"I'll go too. Just in case." Ash voulenteered, before saying to Pikachu on his shoulder, "Pikachu, you stay with Tia Dalma, Cotton Parrot and the Monkey."
"And the rest of us will meet up with Mr. Gibbs and the crew." Sailor Mars concluded, already forming the plan, with the others, even the slightly reluctanted Sailor Moon nodding in agreement.
Even though this was a slight change of plan in Barbossa's part, he decided that it wasn't that much of a change as it was the same. Just added members of this quest, and a group of eight from the future, none the less. So he agreed as did Tia Dalma before they all split up; Sakura and Ash followed Barbossa through the hidden parts of Singapore while avoiding the soldiers patroling Singapore, Pikachu joined Tia Dalma, Jack the Monkey and Cotton's Parrot hidden to avoid in being recongised, and Sailor Moon and her four guardians easily located Gibbs and the four other members of the Black Pearl crew, hiding in the waters to make their way into the tunnels.
But not before Ash handed his weapon to Sailor Moon who hit it in her fuku pockets, just in case something went wrong. The former though, still kept the future-self of Jack's Magical Compass in his shirt pockets since he knew it was best to keep it with himself. Sakura in the meantime, dismissed her magical staff and turned it back into the key which hung around her neck so that anyone else who would see this think it was just a piece of jewerly she didn't want to part with, or a good luck charm.
It didn't take long for Barbossa, Sakura and Ash to follow the lead, in which they could hear a familiar woman's singing before it was cut off by a chinese man's voice singing it. As the trio made their way towards the streets below, they found Elizabeth Swann herself, now dressed in a man's chinese clothes after having made port from a tiny boat on a small dock. In front of her, where three chinese men, one of them being Tai Haung who was speaking to her with a salacious glint in his eyes, "A dangerous song to be singing, for anyone ignorant of it's meaning. Particularly a woman, particularly a woman alone."
This was Barbossa's cue, as he spoke to get the group's attention, making his way down the steps, with a relieved Sakura and Ash behind him, "What makes you think she's alone?"
The chinese men, gazing at Barbossa, knew that the Pirate Captain would be treated with respect. Still, Tai Haung questioned, while also gesturing at both Sakura and Ash, "You protect her and those two children?"
He had turned away from Elizabeth to address Barbossa, which proved to be a mistake. Swiftly, Elizabeth had drawn a knife and had it pressed against Tai Haung's throat. "And what makes you think I need protecting?" She hissed coldly, wanting to make him pay for his earlier comments, as well as making it clear that she needed to man to protect her. Unfortunately, in her effort to assert her independence, Tai Huang's two companions had pulled out their pistols and had aimed them at Elizabeth.
"Uh, Elizabeth? I wouldn't have done that if I were you." Ash pointed out, feeling that this reunion was extremely awkward.
Barbossa was ever one to be the true gentleman during the times of hot-headedness. "Your master's expectin' us," he said to Tai Huang with a gentle smile, "And an unexpected death would cast a slight pall on our meeting''. This sentence was intended as much for Elizabeth as Tai Huang, and she got the message. She released Tai Huang and his companions lowered their pistols.
Though Sakura had wanted to hug Elizabeth since she missed the older woman, it would have to wait, because before anyone else could say anything, a sudden shout from above drew their attention to the street. They saw that the East India Trading Company was on the move again, a patrol had just turned the corner of the street and was coming towards them. Tai Haung gestured hurriedly for Sakura, Ash, Elizabeth and Barbossa to follow him beneath the sewers to safety. With hardly a moment to spare, the four followed the Chinese pirates into the dark tunnel. The Company soldiers passed over the tunnel, never having seen the small gathering of outlaws or a group of children from the future of 200 years.
After meeting with Gibbs and his small group, Sailor Moon and her group followed their lead and eventually swum into the waters before finally found the sewer gates that lead into the Bathhouse as Gibbs told them to go. As silently as they could and waiting Ragetti's signal, the group, with Tia Dalma, Pikachu and the animals above them with the small cart, began to saw their way into the steel of the gates, with a little bit of help from Sailor Mars' fire abilities to melt it without burning it down.
Eventually, they made it through. Thanks to Sailor Jupiter's strength, they pulled the grates out before crawling their way towards their destination. Well, Marty didn't have to crawl because he was a dwarf and only had to lower his head a little, so he was lucky.
Sakura, Ash, Elizabeth and Barbossa followed Tai Haung and his companions through the crowded streets of Singapore. Within the interior of the city, the patrols of the East India Trading Company soldiers were virtually nonexistent. This naturally meant that more illegal activities went on and more in the open. And it was at the bathhouse of Sao Feng, located at the very heart of the city, where the blackest of deals were struck, or broken.
"Have you even heard anything from Will?" Sakura asked to Barbossa, trying to hide the concern in her voice that she felt since waking up in the morning from her vision in Far Far Away in the future.
If Barbossa was concerned by the fact that Will had not shown up yet, he did not show it. That, or in Sakura's opinion, didn't care. "I trust young Turner to aqquire the charts and you three to know your place in the presence of Captain Sao Feng."
While Elizabeth didn't seem all that impressed, and Ash trying to hold in the urge to blurt out the fact that he once knew an descendent who was the same in personality, or so Jack had told him during the Darkrai and Team Nappers Crisis in the Ameria region, Sakura tried to hold back the whimper of fear, asking again, "Is he that scary?"
"He's much like myself, but absent my merciful nature an' sense of fair play."
Sakura softly groaned in dismay by this with a nervous sweatdrop, thinking to herself, 'Great, another Barbossa, but a lot worse.'
Tai Haung turned into a side street, populated by merchants and prostitutes. He stopped before a massive, round door and knocked upon it three times. A small spy-hole opened in the door and Tai Haung spoke something in his own language. The spy hole closed and a second later the doors opened. Small rivulets of steam floated out, as Tai Haung gestured for the two of them to step inside.
They did and the mighty doors closed behind them with a muffled thud. The eyes of Sakura, Ash and Elizabeth darted around them, but neither of them could not see much besides fog and the wooden partitions that separated the bathhouse from the outside world.
The three of them and Barbossa were then asked to remove their weapons by Tai Haung who stood in front of them and blocked them from the front door which led into the Bathhouse. Both Barbossa and Elizabeth did so, handing over their swords, pistols and daggers, while both Sakura and Ash told them that they had no weapons, even though Sakura's main weapon was her key, but she didn't reveal this or her Star Cards she carried in her pockets of her new battle costume, and Ash left his Pokemon besides Pikachu in Far Far Away. All he had at the moment where his clothes and the Compass which was hidden in his pockets.
But as this was done, Elizabeth, thinking that there was nothing else, made to step forward only to be stopped by Tai Haung's hand while the man questioned to Barbossa, "Do you think because she is a woman along with a little boy and a little girl we would not suspect their of treachery?"
Barbossa seemed to be taken aback, before smiling rather ingratiatingly and saying, "Well, when you put it that way." which made Sakura sweatdrop in exasperation by the man's words.
Sure Barbossa was nice manners, but after what he did to Jack, Will's Father, Will himself and Elizabeth, Sakura wasn't willing to forgive and forget. But for now, she was forcing herself to accept that he was their only hope in rescuing Jack. That didn't mean Sakura had to like it. If anything, she was more worried about Jack and the Black Pearl and how to get both back.
Tai Haung turned his attention back to Sakura, Ash and Elizabeth. "Remove, please."
"We don't have any weapons at all, sir." Ash replied, holding his hands up. Sakura nodded in agreement.
To their surprise, though, Elizabeth, who was greatly annoyed, removed her outer vest, revealing about ten small pistols that she had hoped to smuggle into Sao Feng's bathhouse unawares. She removed the pistols, the holsters and a miscellaneous bomb which she had hoped to sneak in under the wire, too.
That seemed to be the end of it, but than, as if remembering something, she reached behind her, and with some effort, withdrew a massive blunder bus(which dumbfounded Sakura, Ash and even Barbossa, the trio glancing behind the woman to figure out where Elizabeth had managed to hide the blunder bus, though they couldn't see before returning to their original position) and added that to the pile.
Sakura gazed at Elizabeth questionly, only for the latter to lightly shrug. Ash in the meantime, gazed up at Barbossa, silently pointing at Elizabeth with an incredulous look, and the man only smiled in amusement with a look that said he had no idea himself either. It also amused the Captain that the ten year old boy seemed rather comfortable while keeping on his guard at the same time around him. The lad was brave, he had to admit.
That done, she seemed to think that was that, but Tia Haung had other idea. He stopped her once more and said, "Remove, please." Elizabeth looked at him in shock than down at her clothing. Tai Haung grinned, obviously enjoying her discomfort and embarrassment.
Sakura and Ash on the other hand, were horrified as while the former covered her face with her hands, Ash facepalmed himself, groaning in dismay, "One of my worst nightmares." referring to the fact that he didn't like to see any...well, naked part of girls, for a few good reasons.
1: It would anger and totally embarrase the woman he was seeing naked. And 2: Ash himself would blush so red in the face that his eyes would start hurting and traumatize him for life. It was already bad enough to have dressed up like a girl more than just three times since he became a Pokemon Trainer.
A large weighty attendant led Barbossa, Sakura, Ash and Elizabeth into the main bathhouse. Elizabeth was in the process of self-consciously trying to pull down her shirt lower over her bare legs since forcefully removing her pants, and both Ash and Sakura proceeded to ignore the fact that their friend wasn't wearing any. But any thought of modesty suddenly vanished when they first stepped into the bathhouse.
The bathhouse was made up of various tubs and vats, all of them filled with scalding hot water. Steam rose from the pools of water, where grungy and naked men sat, trying to relax away the stiff necks and old wounds of long sea-faring days. Sakura and two of her friends were doing their best to ignore the uncomfortable astmosphre around them and Barbossa.
The attendant then stepped aside and directed Barbossa and his group to walk past him. The four of them, reaching the dais. There, they stopped and waited. Two female attendants were putting the last touches to Sao Feng's apparel. When they were finished, they stepped away, and a large cloud of steam arose from the pipes beneath the bathhouse floor and Sao Feng turned, revealing his face to Sakura, Ash, Elizabeth and Barbossa.
Many years of scars and such stunned Sakura and Elizabeth, while Ash mentally flinched. Yeah, he could tell that this was Sao Feng alright.
Barbossa bowed elegantly. Sakura, seeing this, quickly gave a cursty. Ash, seeing this, gave a small bow himself. He and Barbossa both glanced behind them and Sakura and waved, somewhat impatiently at Elizabeth to follow suit. Elizabeth quickly bobbed a short curtsy. Barbossa would never have bowed to anyone else. The fact that he did so with Sao Feng must mean that he was one man that Barbossa would show the proper respect, too, meaning that Sao Feng was someone to be careful with.
"Captain Barbossa," Sao Feng greeted, indicating that he knew the fellow captain, if only by reputation. "Welcome to Singapore."
Barbossa straightened and nodded respectfully. Sao Feng turned to one of his attendants and stated, "More steam."
The attendant, a young, beautiful Chinese girl who looked to be no older than eighteen nodded and pulled on a rock which was attached to a rope, a signal for the steam vents below to be released.
Beneath them, Sailor Moon and her group were peaking around the corner of the steam room, where many of the workers, including a large weighty man, were working, and shovling coal into a fireplace. Sailor Moon wanted to move, but Gibbs stopped her by taking a hold of her arm, as he whispered harshly to both her, and more directly to Ragetti, "Not yet! If things don't go the way we want, then we're the only chance they've got."
Realising that he was right, Sailor Moon stayed in her place, waiting for the right moment.
Back above in the bathhouse, Sao Feng waited until the air was heavy with thick mist before advancing down the dais and addressing Barbossa directly. "I understand that you have a request to make of me."
Barbossa, who didn't really like the word "request", thought to put it a different way. "More of a proposal to put to ye. I've a venture underway and I find meself in need of a ship and a crew."
Sao Feng stepped back and seemed to consider this thoughtfully, "Hmm, it's an odd coincidence."
"Because someone else asked for the same thing earlier?" Sakura asked, curiously, with Ash slumping slightly as he somehow knew that this wasn't the case.
"No." Sao Feng responded.
"Or because you happen to have a ship and a crew you don't need." Elizabeth piped up from behind Barbossa, who shot her and Sakura the warning glance.
Ash sweatdropped as he pointed out to Elizabeth, "Why would anybody have a ship and a crew they don't even need?"
If Sao Feng was offended however, he did not show it. He just continued on in the same thoughtful manner. "The boy is right, because earlier this day, not far from here, a thief broke into my most revered uncle's temple and tried to make off with these." Moving towards an old man who was sitting stooped off to one side, Sao Feng took something from his hands and turned back to Barbossa. He held on an oblong piece of leather that was rolled into a tight scroll. It looked centuries old, but still as strong as they say when the secrets it contained had been put onto it.
Ash's heart froze in horror as he immediately recongised the design of it and mentally began to panic. Sakura, stunned by the scroll as she has never seen anything like it before, noticed that Barbossa's eyes went wide in an expression that she realised was muted shock. For the first time both Sakura and Elizabeth could remember, Barbossa began to look uncomfortable and they and Ash realized why. Will had been supposed to get the charts, while the four of them would secure a ship and a crew from Sao Feng. Barbossa had said it would be a simple task, and that they would be gone before the Chinese pirate found out he had been robbed. But, if Sao Feng had the charts, than what had happened to Will?
So, as calmly as she could, Sakura asked curiously, though she did want to know a little bit about it, "What is that, Captain Sao Feng?"
Sao Feng came forward, his tone a little less welcoming than it had been before. In fact, it now carried a hint of definite malice. "The navigational charts, the route to the farthest gate." He threw the scrolls to Tai Haung, who caught them, before turning to Barbossa. "Wouldn't be amazing, if this venture of yours, took you to the world beyond this one?"
'Been there, done that more times than I can count.' Both Ash and Sakura unknowingly thought at the same time. In Ash's case, he'd been into the Locker before in the future along with his travelling companions and friends, and then he and the rest of the Sailor Team ventured to other worlds to find Riku, Kairi and King Mickey as well as stop Maleficent and Ansem. In Sakura's case, she and Kero were helping Riku and King Mickey in Castle Oblivion. To both of them, the Fairytale world.
"It would strain credulity at that." Barbossa said, as he tried to sound innocent of any wrong doing, which was first to Sakura. Then she began to think; could it be trauma talking? The fact that he had died before and was then brought back to life? Was it the case that he really didn't want to die again? If that was the case, then Jack would be feeling the same effects and the two of them and their crew would become immortal once all this was over.
Sao Feng wasn't fooled, however. He turned his head to the side and nodded to two guards who had been standing by one of the bathhouse's numerous tubs, though this one, unlike the others was not for bathing. It contained ice cold water. At his silent command, the two guards hold of either end of a long pole that was laid lengthwise across the tub and pulled up from underneath the water a very familiar figure to more than one person in the room.
Sakura, Ash and Elizabeth's reactions were that of shocked horror, even though the three of them tried to keep their expressions still and not give away their mission. Will's eyes, however, immediately recongised both Sakura and Ash, wondering why they were back. Had they and Sailor Moon come back to help rescue Jack from the Locker?
Sao Feng in the meantime, had gone over to Will. "This is the thief." He said to Barbossa, Sakura, Ash and Elizabeth. "Is his face familiar to you?"
The four of them shook their heads. They thought that pretending ignorance would exonerate them while allowing Will to go free. It was the wrong choice. In the blink of an eye, a wicked looked wooden spike appeared in the hand of Sao Feng. "Than I suppose he has no further need of it." He turned back to Will, preparing to drive the spike into Will's skull.
Ash flinched, Sakura froze, and Elizabeth couldn't keep silent no longer and she let out a panicked cry before she could stop herself. Sao Feng didn't miss Elizabeth reaction. Instead of carrying through with killing Will, he shoved the spike into his belt. Will had served his purpose. He knew that Barbossa had been out to double-cross him. Now, he needed (and would) ascertain why. "You come into my city. And you betray my hospitality."
Ash gave a small nervous sweatdrop, swallowing the lump that formed in his throat. At this moment, he knew that he and his friends were in deep trouble.
A/N: The Singapore part continues in the next chapter. Sorry for the slight cliff-hanger. See you real soon!
