Chapter Seven: Bear napped.
"So when are the girls coming out?" Jiro asked he looked at the guy next to him.
"They should be finished soon." The said guy replied. His name is Leo and he is the owner of the club that the girls were singing at that night.
"Anyone with them?" Jiro looked at Leo. Leo nodded.
"Three guys and a girl." he answered. Jiro turned back to the club.
"Bear's not going to be happy." Jiro had been at the soccer match that afternoon, he thought he could get them after the game, but Li and the rest had turned up at half time.
"They're not going to let the girls out of their sight." He said.
"That was a great performance." Meilin said as the girls came off stage.
"I think I will employ them full time at one of my clubs." Li said to Eriol and Sam who nodded. Sakura, Tomoyo and Caitlin came over to the guys.
"So?" Asked Sakura and the girls hugged their guys.
"It was great." Li said.
The girls smiled at their men, enjoying their company after a great performance. Eriol signalled for drinks to be brought to their table and they sat back and enjoyed the music and the atmosphere.
Just as the lights swung their way and everything was multi-coloured theire was a huge explosion as entrance blew up. Rubble and debris rained down as smoke and dust billowed into the club, blinding everyone.
Sakura, who had her arms up to protect her face, squinted through her arms and saw dark shadows of numerous men as came running out of the smoke, followed by a huge man, Bear.
"Why hello Xiao Lang. It's a pleasure to see you." Bear smirked. Shayla hid behind Meilin and Tomoyo hid behind Eriol since they didn't do too well with hand to hand and they didn't have guns. Sakura and Caitlin faced him as everyone in the club ran outside.
"I want those two." He said, pointing at Sakura and Caitlin. The guys got out their guns. Li and Sam handed one each to Sakura and Caitlin.
"You're not gonna have them." Li said as Bear's men headed towards them. Dark, menacing shapes blending in with the darkness around them. Meilin took Shayla and Tomoyo out the back way. The rest fought.
"Get your grubby hands off me!" Caitlin yelled, kicking a guy away then pulled one off Sakura, they had gotten separated from Li, Eriol and Sam, and they had run out of bullets. A guy came in a grabbed Caitlin from behind, the other picked up Sakura after giving her a wallop to the back of the head that made her see stars.
Bear looked at Li, Eriol and Sam. "Thank you I have my trophy prizes now." Bear smirked and then left.
Li, Eriol and Sam killed the remaining men in the club. Sam tried to follow them out of the club, but he was stopped by the remaining men aiming their guns at them.
"We have to get them back." Li said eying the men warily. They were the only ones left from the group. Bad odds.
"We can't now. We have to find them first." Eriol said glaring back at Bear's men. They stared back tucking their guns back in their pockets before they retreated, melting into the shadows.
A sound behind them made them look behind them as Meilin, Tomoyo and Shayla came back in.
"Where are Sakura and Caitlin?" Tomoyo asked.
"Bear took them." Was Eriol's reply.
Shayla walked over to Sam and slapped him across the face. "You should have protected her!" She spat furiously.
"We'll get them back." Li stated firmly and walked out of the club.
"This is one of the one's that blew up your train." Kat said and pointed to Caitlin. She and Sakura were chained in the middle of the room, hands chained above there heads, and feet chained to the floor.
"And glad to do it too." Caitlin spat. Kat slapped her across the face.
"Don't touch the other one Kat. Make sure that one feels a lot of pain." Bear said as he turned to Caitlin. "We'll show you; this is for blowing up my drugs." He said and left the room.
"What's so special about me?" Sakura asked.
"Your Li's girl." Kat snarled and picked up a whip. She walked behind Caitlin. "So big sis, let's see how strong you really are." Kat purred and cracked the whip across Caitlin's back. Caitlin bit her lip at the searing pain.
"Not a screamer hey? Well we just have to see about that." Kat said and whipped Caitlin again and again. On the third whip she howled in pain.
"How are you going to get them back?" Tomoyo asked Eriol. They were watching Li and Sam train.
"Gonna go in and get them." He said. It's the day after Sakura and Caitlin got kidnapped and Li stayed up all night to try and find where they were taken. But it was like that had disappeared into a mist. Their was no sign of them any where. Even his informants couldn't get anything.
"I've got to go teach Shayla now." Eriol said and went out to the front. Li stopped training and went inside.
"So you know what you're doing now?" Eriol asked Shayla nodded. He had been teaching Shayla how to ride motor bikes for an hour.
"I can do it by myself now." She said and Eriol let her do a lap of the drive. Sam and Li came outside watching seriously. Sam was carrying Caitlin's gun case.
"What do you want?" Shayla spat. Sam just looked at her then to the gun case in his hand.
"You can put that back in Caitlin's room before I staple it to your ass." She said. Li just looked at her and walked off.
"Well I was going to teach you how to use it, but oh well." Sam said and turned to go back inside.
"You can leave it here and Eriol can teach me." Shayla snarled. Sam put the case down and left.
"Ok back to training." Shayla said after Sam had left.
"Shayla I don't appreciate you abusing Sam. He didn't do anything wrong." Li said he had called her into his study after dinner. Shayla had a knife with her and was spinning the handle around her finger. She loved to cook, that was one thing that her and her sister shared with their father, but at the moment she was getting seriously close to using it on the man sitting across his desk from her.
"Well he's really annoying me." She eventually replied as she watched the movement of the knife in her hands. Li came around the desk and stood between her and the door.
"Just ignore him, that's not a big problem. We'll get them back." Li said. They both turned as Sam came into the room.
"Hey Shayla, how's training?" Sam asked. Shayla leapt out of the chair and flew at him with the knife, but when she reached Sam, the knife was gone. Li twirled her blade in his hand as she turned around to stare at him. Li looked back at her and she stuck her tongue out at him and left the study.
"She'll get over it when we get them back." Li said and Sam nodded
"God I hope so. I keep on having to look over my shoulder just to make sure she's not creeping up on me."
Shayla was pacing back and forth in her room.
"Sam makes me so mad." She fumed. Tomoyo and Meilin were in her room with her.
"Why?" Tomoyo asked and Meilin giggled at Shayla's furious glare.
"The overprotective little sister is very pissed off." Meilin said while giggling.
"Nah ya reckon?" Shayla replied sarcastically. "Something about him annoys me."
"How can he annoy you?" Tomoyo asked.
"I think he might be a pervert." Shayla replied seriously and Meilin burst out laughing.
"He's not, he's Li's best friend for God sake!" Meilin said.
"All the more reason for me to be concerned." Shayla replied and Meilin stopped laughing and got up and stormed out of the room.
"I don't think she took that too well." Tomoyo said. Shayla groaned and stamped her foot in frustration before pacing again.
Later that night Sam made sure to stay as far away from Shayla as possible, save the peace and quiet. He walked down the dark hallway and as he walked past the library, a ferocious growl was aimed at him. He backed up and looked warily into the library.
"You shouldn't walk around in the dark, cos you don't know what may be lurking around." Shayla chided sceptically. Sam raised his eyebrow.
"Meow." Shayla purred and made a cats claw at him with her hand. Sam stepped back warily. Next thing, someone comes up behind him and taps him on the back. Sam jumps a foot in the air, terrified. He turns to see Meilin.
"See I told you, you'd better watch out, because of the things that lurk in the night." Shayla taunted. Shayla and Meilin were talking again because Shayla apologised to Meilin about her remark bout Li.
"Always the cynic aren't we Shayla?" he asks.
"Mmmm, maybe. But unlike Meilin, I don't lurk . . . I hunt." She shot him an evil smile that sent shivers up his back.
"Caitlin taught me well, don't you think Meilin?" Shayla asked. Meilin turned to Sam.
"I'd be careful if I were you. They're both as bad as each other." Shayla and Meilin walked off laughing.
Sakura and Caitlin are still chained up. Caitlin's passed out and Sakura is disillusioned from lack of food and water. She is remembering back to before going to the club
Li walks into his room to find Sakura sitting on his bed in her costume : Short black skirt, lace up boots to knee height and a pink top that covers the front and ties up at the back and around the neck.
"See I told you Tomoyo would pounce on me." Sakura said smiling.
"I think you look beautiful." Li said. He walked over and sat beside her on the bed.
"We're all wearing the same; Shayla's wearing blue, Tomoyo's wearing purple and Caitlin's wearing green."
"I still think you look beautiful." Li said and kissed her neck.
"It doesn't hurt as much when I'm with you." she said. He looked into her eyes.
"I promise to look after you, always be there for you to protect you." Li said. Sakura smiled and kissed him on the lips.
"I hope so. I'm going to hold you to that." she said and kissed him again.
"I am holding you to that Xiao Lang." Sakura whispered through dry and cracked lips as Caitlin stirred and became conscious.
"Man I wish this was a dream." she said and Sakura nodded.
"It's more like a nightmare. For you anyway." Kat said from the door. Kat walked over to Sakura.
"How do you feel? You know you won't be going to the funeral in two days. It's not nice is it?" Kat taunted Sakura. Sakura struggled to get out of the chains, so did Caitlin.
"You two should stop doing that. You can't get free." Kat said laughing and left.
"Li better come soon. If he doesn't come soon, I'm going to haunt him for the rest of his life." Caitlin said.
"I'm going to beat you to it." Sakura said, going white, she hated ghosts.
"It's ok, there's no ghosts around here and don't worry. I'm sure Meilin's kicking Syaoran's ass right now to get us back." Caitlin said. Sakura gave a little giggle.
"I just wonder what Shayla's doing to poor Sam while you're not there." Sakura said making Caitlin groan.
The next the day, Li was banging on Meilin's door.
"Meilin get up." Li yelled through the door waking everyone who was still asleep.
"Xiao Lang, it's five am, go back to bed." Meilin shot back sleepily.
"I've found them. I've found Sakura and Caitlin." Meilin jumped out of bed and ran and opened the door. Shayla, Sam, Eriol and Tomoyo had opened their doors and were in the hallway.
"Get ready people, we're going for them tonight." Li said and went down stairs. Tomoyo and Shayla were jumping up and down, hugging each other, Eriol patted Sam on the back and Meilin ran back into her room to get ready for that night.
Li, Eriol and Sam were in one car, Meilin, Tomoyo and Shayla were in the other. They were on their way to get Sakura and Caitlin back. There were two bikes and another car behind them. They pulled to a stop when they got close enough so that they wouldn't be seen.
"Alright people, get into your groups and you know what to do." Li said. Everyone nodded, and the groups headed out.
Li took out another guard. He smashed his fist into the side of the bastard's face and watched him crumple to the ground.
"Ok Meilin, Shayla. I think it's safe to go in now." He said and Meilin opened the door, looked around and then walked inside .
"It's about time you lot got here." Caitlin said wearily. Despite how weary she was, she managed a small smile.
"Caitlin!" Shayla yelled and ran to her sister, and hugged her.
'Same old Caitlin, it doesn't take kidnapping her to keep her down.' Shayla thought.
"Ouch, watch it Shayla." Caitlin yelled.
"She was whipped." Sakura said wearily as Li was unlocking the chains. Shayla moved behind her sister and Meilin started to unlock the chains.
"It was Kat wasn't it?" Shayla demanded, looking at the whip cuts that criss-crossed her sister's back. If they weren't treated shortly, they would get infected.
"Yes it was little sister." Caitlin replied.
Sam ducked around another corner. He waited a moment and then signalled to the others.
"It's clear." He said.
"We're not having any luck." Tomoyo said.
Eriol and Sam nodded.
"We've found them." Li said over the radio. Tomoyo sighed in relief as she hugged Eriol and Sam smiled. Then they headed back the way they had come.
"No Bear or Kat?" Li asked. Everyone shook their heads.
"That was too easy. It's like they wanted us to find them." Li stated worriedly. Just then the building they were just in exploded. A cloud of fire billowed into the air and debris and rubble splattered the pavement.
"Alright people, let's go." Li yelled. Everyone got in the cars they had come in. Sakura and Caitlin were out in the other car and they floored it back to the mansion.
"Why does it seem to be only me that comes in here?" Caitlin said. They were in the recovery room. Caitlin was getting her back washed, and Sakura was waiting to be checked.
"Just luck I guess." Wei replied smiling as he gently washed her back. Li and Sam walked in.
"So? Asked Li.
"What?" asks Sakura.
"Any ideas to why Bear let you go so easily?" Li said.
"None." Replied Sakura. Li turned to look at Caitlin and she turned to look at him.
"Nothing comes to mind." She said and cringed as Wei hit a sore spot. Sam went and sat by Caitlin. Li nodded thoughtfully and left the room.
"How's her back?" Sam asked Wei.
"Should be fine in a couple of weeks." Wei replied.
"Weeks?! It can't be weeks." Caitlin said. Wei finished her back and went to check on Sakura.
"Give it up Caitlin. You have to let it heal this time." Sakura called from the other room.
"My foot's fine thank you very much." Caitlin yelled back.
"Kawaii!" Tomoyo said coming into the room with her camera.
"Get out of here Tomoyo." Caitlin spat.
"I'm just checking up on you." She replied smiling.
