Summary: "It's all over". The void card is captured, everything is restored again, Syaoran and Sakura are a couple, everything is back to normal. For now. But who ever knew that so much evil could rest in one person's heart. THE final battle is about to begin…
Disclaimer: Neither Cardcaptor Sakura nor its characters belong to me. It is owned by CLAMP. The songs that I have used do not belong to me either.
Italic- Thoughts/ Dreams
Bold- Something really important
CAPS LOCK- Someone really mad/worried
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Chapter 8: The Sakura Cards
Tomoyo and Syaoran were on Cerberus' back as he and Yue flew around Tomoeda searching for where Sakura's power was mainly coming from. Wait a second… "Hey Syaoran?" Tomoyo asked. "Yeah." "Yue said that the reason Touya and Fujitaka disappeared was because of the Void card right?" "Yeah." "But when the Void card was captured wasn't it turned into a different card?" "Yeah the Hope card but what does that-" "Well then what happened to Touya and Fujitaka? They couldn't have disappeared because of the Void card." "Haha. Well Yue, it looks like you're getting old." Cerberus mocked with a big grin on his face. Yue glared at Cerberus shotly but then continued to search for Sakura. "I don't know what you're talking about. I said the ERASE card, not the Void card." Yue explained, trying to cover up the fact that he made a mistake. "Now you're a liar too? Clow Reed wouldn't be too proud of that." Cerberus was having the time of his life making fun of Yue, seeing as to how he was usually the one being made fun of.
"Hey what's going on?" Tomoyo questioned, pointing to the ground below them. What they saw was Meilin fighting the Fight card. "Déjà vu much?" Syaoran asked, and Cerberus alongside Yue flew towards the ground to see what was going on. "Meilin, are you okay?" Tomoyo asked with a hint of concern in her voice. Meilin only looked up and continued to fight with the Sakura Card in Penguin Park, once again. When she turned around she was met with a kick in the face that sent her flying across the park, hitting her head on one of the smaller penguins. Syaoran was about to help her out when he felt someone pulling on his arm. It was Tomoyo. "Tomoyo, now's not the greatest time what is it…eh?" Syaoran had never looked so shocked and confused in his life. He turned around to see a giant Yamazaki attempting to run away from an astoundingly fast Chiharu. Somewhere else they saw Mr. Terada flying with Rika in his arms, and somewhere else they saw Naoko walking on the side walk reading a book, but her shadow was dancing around. "The Fight, the Big, the Dash, the Fly, and the Shadow. All works of the Sakura Cards. What the hell is going on?" Syaoran asked in complete bewilderment. "The Sakura Cards are really messed up right now. Oh Sakura where are you?" "EHHHH???!!" Syaoran turned around again to look at Tomoyo whose eyes had shrunk to little black beads. "What happened to Cerberus and Yue?" She opened her hands to reveal a pinky-sized Yue and Cerberus. "The Little Card happened to them." "Oh great." "Do you hear that?" "Huh? Hear what?" "Some kind of squeaking sou- AH! YOU BIT ME!" "IT WAS THE ONLY WAY WE COULD GET YOUR ATTENTION!" "Oh. It was you guys making the squeaking sound." "Well while you guys sip tea and eat biscuits, I'm going to go and help Meilin," Syaoran stated and then was off into the park." "So what where you trying to get my attention for anyways?" Tomoyo asked into her hands. Normally she would look like a crazy person but due to the circumstances, she didn't look that bad. "Well," Yue commenced, "we have two things to be concerned about, however they somewhat tie together. One is that either Sakura is being possessed and she's using of her Cards which are destroying the city, or someone, or something else is controlling the Sakura Cards on its own. That's one issue. The other one is that we don't know how many cards are roaming loose, or where they are damaging, but we do know that they are spreading quickly, meaning that something needs to be done, and it needs to be done soon." "You have a point Yue, but something that you said doesn't make sense. The Clow Cards were created to only obey their master. Now that they are Sakura Cards, they have to obey her, so it's practically impossible for anyone else to control her." Cerberus countered. "Yes that is true but at the same time when all this began to happen no strange aura was around the home and we were there until Touya and Sakura's father disappeared, so it's practically impossible that the cards could have left the house in the first place." "Hmm. True." "So at this point and time we need to leave our options open and assume that anything is possible right now. The only way we can answer our question is if we find Sakura, and that will be even harder now that the cards are loose, we are too small to be of any use, no offense but Tomoyo can't really do very much to help," "And the brat and that other girl have gone off somewhere." Cerberus finished. "None taken. Well, can you guys sense Sakura's magic still?" Tomoyo inquired. "We were before. It was faint, but it was there. Now that the Sakura Cards are going off everywhere though, it's hard to tell which direction to go because we can sense it everywhere. "Well this is just peachy. Let's just find Syaoran then and continue looking fo-" "No. We don't have time for that. The situation is getting worse the longer we do nothing for." Yue remarked. "Yea but you said it yourself. I can't do anything and neither can you in the form you're in." "Well if we find Sakura then we can stop whatever's going on, go back to normal. And save the day before breakfast." "What time is it anyways?" Tomoyo scrimmaged around for her cell phone. "2:38a.m." "Well then let's get a move on. Syaoran can find us when he's ready." Tomoyo looked back in the direction Syaoran headed towards. Don't do anything stupid. And they began to walk towards Tomoyo's middle school.
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"Element: Wind!" Syaoran yelled as the wind came through his sword. The blue figure put up its arms to defend itself but the wind was too strong and it was pushed back against a tree. Meilin looked up at Syaoran and smiled, but only went on continuing to fight with the Fight card. She must have been fighting this thing forever. Isn't she getting tired? "Meilin if the reason you're putting up with this so long is because you want to prove yourself from last time I get it. You're strong. You don't have to do this. I know you don't like her very much right now but let's help Sakura out, like old times. Remember? I know you don't dislike her as much as you say you do." He put out his hand towards her smiling. "And don't worry about our conversation earlier. We can talk about it later. But let's go." Meilin paused and looked at Syaoran for a moment, smiled again, then continued to fight. What is going on? "SOMEBODY HELP US!" came a cry from the distance. It was faded but still relatively clear. Tomoyo was yelling for help. He didn't want to leave Meilin by herself, but she seemed to be carrying herself well. "Meilin. I've got to help Tomoyo and the others. Are you coming?" The fight continued, indicating that he was being ignored. "Okay…well…stay in this area then. We'll come get you later." Still no response. So he ran towards his friends, leaving his cousin to fend for herself.
TBC…
[Author's note: I know that the chapters have been pretty short, but towards the end of the story I'll try to stretch them out, and add some more suspsence. :D]
