Author's note: Welcome to the final part of Sakura's journey, where the excitement once again begins. I'm thinking that this one will be shorter this time, and maybe this time I'm right.
I'll reveal who's next in the adventures in the ending note.
Okay, let's begin.
Chapter Ten: The Power of the Stars-part three/final.
Meanwhile, having lost track of Eli, Mickey knew he had to make all haste in finding Sakura in hopes to protect her. He still had no idea what the boy he briefly fought against meant earlier, nor did he have the time to find out. But it seemed that things were a little tricky today.
"What is it that bothers you so?" a familiar voice spoke behind him.
Mickey turned around and saw once again the pirate who was one the side of Bahamut, one of the warriors of Chaos.
"Barbossa!" Mickey exclaimed.
"Regardless of what you have learned about your companion, you swore to protect her." Barbossa stated. "That vow was enough to lead you to your crystal... Or was it an imitation as well?"
Mickey looked down, unable to come up with an answer to that one. He hated to admit it, but the Pirate was right. Still, he was still supicious with him, and asked, "Why are you telling me all this? Aren't ya supposed to be on Chaos' side?"
"There are more to appearences and people than meets the eye, lad." Barbossa said, "There's never a guarantee in coming back on the path you left. But passin' on to the path you choose next, that's dead certain."
"Well..." Mickey began, "I guess you can't judge a book by it's cover, huh?"
"Not everyone would think like us, lad." The pirate agreed.
The warrior of Cosmos shrugged, then said, "I'd better go and help Sakura. She needs me." and begins to walk off.
"Your world must be a treasure, aside from your opponent." Barbossa spoke for the last time, before teleporting away.
Mickey paused on the Pirate's words, but when he turned to face him again, as usual, Barbossa was gone. The young mouse sighed, grumbling to himself, "We're never gonna beat Bahamut at this rate." then said in determination, "But I've got a friend to keep safe!" and with that, he ran off to find Sakura.
In the meantime, Sakura and Cloud continued on their journey, and had fought against several Diminias along the way, but neither of them were going to give up. They had to find Mickey, Sakura's crystal and meet up with the rest of the warriors of Cosmos to defeat the warriors of Chaos and Bahamut once and for all, no matter what it took.
With determination, both of them entered another gate, this time, on the tower that resembled to the one in Japan in Sakura's world, and were walking, until they heard Eli's laughter, and stopped, seeing the boy teleport in front of them, his sun-staff in his hands.
"We meet again, Sakura." Eli smiled, then noticed Cloud and added, "Oh? Another one who is also used. How appropite." causing both Sakura and Cloud to glare at him.
"Eli! What have you done to Mickey?" Sakura demanded.
Eli replied, "I'm certain that he's just fine. Why don't you join me right now?"
Sakura shook her head, summoning her star staff, declaring, "I'm not like you!"
"You should be. You doubt is what makes you weak; falling slowly into the darkness." said the Clow Reed incarnation.
"I've found a future that I want to protect." Sakura states. "No matter how strong my powers become... I will never lose sight of my friends!"
Eli simply laughed at this, saying, "Is that so? Well, in that case..."
Suddenly, Sakura and Cloud both felt pressence behind them, and when they quickly turned around, Pete teleported in, declaring, "Let us take over and get rid of everything!"
The large cat then summoned magic and blasted at Cloud who quickly drew out the Buster Sword and blocked the attacks, despite the straining of the powers.
"Cloud!" Sakura cried out in shock.
"Boo-hoo! Losing your friends, eh?" said Pete, "Now...what will you do? Will you both surrender to our powers? Or will you-"
"Why don't you look for yourselves? The three of us will ride it out!" a familiar voice cuts him off, and to Pete's dismay, the magic brooms that caught him earlier were back and held a tight grip on on. "H-hey! N-Not again! Ow!" just as Mickey rushed in, in his sorcerer's form and glaring at his own arch enemy.
Sakura felt relieved to see her friend again as she cried out, "Mickey! You're alright!"
Mickey glanced at his friend, relieved that she was safe and had met up with Cloud, and smiled, saying, "I made a promise that I'd protect you, didn't I?"
He and Cloud both looked at each other and nodded, before Mickey turned to Sakura and ordered, "Sakura, leave Pete to the two of us!" before the two male warriors of Cosmos went up to Pete who flinched despite having escaped the brooms again, but now had to fight against Mickey again, and this time, fight against Cloud as well, which, in the normal fighting rules, was cheating.
"H-hold on!" Pete muttered, acting scared, "Now, let's not get carried away." holding his hands up in defence.
"Shut up!" Cloud snapped.
Sakura nodded at Mickey, and replied, "Right. And I'll handle-" before turning to Eli who smirked at her bravery.
"Your powers will never match against mine. You will never overcome me!" Eli declared, summoning up his powers, ready to fight.
[L'Impeto Oscuro-KH3D:Dream Drop Distance]Sakura summoned the fly card, which grew angel-like wings on her back, and she and Eli, who didn't need wings to fly, flew up and began their struggle in the arts of magic to see who would be victorious. Sakura flies through the air as Eli hurls balls of energy at her. She evades them. They crash into the wall behind her, producing several explosions. Eli takes to the air after Sakura, continuing to launch balls of energy at her while she continues to avoid them or destroy them.
"Is that all you got?" Eli taunted, as he then causes several balls of energy to converge on Sakura from several directions at once. Surrounded, she uses the shield card and flies away at the last second. The balls of energy collide and explode. Eli wasn't impressed since his prey managed to escape for now.
In the meantime, Sakura lands on one of the outside ledges of the Tokyo Tower where the Final Judgement was placed. She leaning against the metal post, fatigued, but she knew that she shouldn't give up, because everyone was counting on her.
"You should give up, Sakura." Eli's voice spoke as he suddenly teleported a few feet in front of her, his hands were now glowing in red, frowning deeply at her.
But Sakura was ready this time, and she wasn't going to give in. Mickey and Cloud had both taught her to stay strong, and never give up. She had to cast aside her doubts, just as her friends did, and now it was her turn to fight in a huge battle.
"I won't let you...get away with it!" Sakura declared.
Just as Eli blasted a red blast of magic, Sakura summoned up the shield card again to protect herself, before calling up her most useful card she had ever since she first became a Cardcaptor, chosen by Kero and had ever since had her courage growing through out the journey.
"WINDY!" Sakura shouted, summoning the powerful Wind-Guardian card, and as the cards can now read and connect with her heart and mind, the cards knew what she wanted them to do in order to win this fight and all over fights.
The Windy flew towards Eli who smirked, and prepared to defend himself, but to his shock, the powerful card slipped through his own protective shield and then surrounded him like chains and a cage, as he exclaimed, "What!? This is not possible!" as now he was defendless, but it wasn't over yet, as he managed to fire a flaming spell at Sakura who gasped and had to jump out of the way just in time to avoid getting hit.
Despite that Eli could not move, he could still use magic. Sakura knew she had to be extra careful. Then she had another idea. Pulling out another card, Sakura exclaimed, "FREEZE!" just as Eli was about to attack again.
But to Eli's horror, the Freeze card did it's work and froze his hands and his staff, now trapping him, and to his dismay, Sakura won the fight and thus, the battle was now over. [End L'Impeto Oscuro]
The cards then weared off and Eli was free, but he knew that he lost the fight, though he glared at Sakura who stood her ground in case he tried to attack again. But he simply said, "Don't think this is over yet, Sakura."
With that said, Eli disappeared in a sparkle of lights, just as Pete was thrown right into the air and blasting off, having lost to his enemy-again.
As Sakura sighed in relief, Mickey and Cloud, having both also won, approached her, with Mickey calling out her name.
"Sakura!" Mickey said.
"You okay?" Cloud asked.
Sakura smiled in relief, "Mickey! Cloud! What a relief!"
Just then, in a sparkle of light, which was familiar to both Mickey and Cloud, an object formed in the air, floating in sparkles, much to Sakura's surprise. It looked like a new StarCard, but made of glass, and Sakura's eyes widened as she realised what this meant.
"Is this...my Crystal?" she asked in disbelief.
Mickey smiled proudly, "What did I tell you? I knew you'd find it."
Surprised, yet now relieved and happy, Sakura held out her hands underneath her crystal, and allowed it's power to absorb itself into her body, and smiled. She looked at her two friends and said, "Thank you."
Mickey chuckled, while Cloud nodded, then the older man said, "But there's no time to rest. Remember-the others are still on their journey."
The other two nodded in agreement, and Sakura replied, "Yeah. The real fight is up ahead. We'd better join the others. Let's go!"
As their crystal search journey had finally come to a close, the three heroes moved on, now in hopes to reuight with the rest of their comrades, return to Cosmos and use the power of the crystals to defeat Bahamut and the warriors of Chaos once and for all and save the reality.
As they walked on, Sakura was thinking to herself, 'Wanting what you want most can either be good or bad. But having a dream gives a person strength. And that strength, in turn, will always lead to another dream.'
And not only that, but she had two friends with her, one who had gained his courage, and another who had come to realise that even he can help others, almost like split pieces of Sakura's heart, because the three of them had a few things in common, and now, it was time to return to the Sanctuary.
The girl feared to act
because of the fate she possessed.
But meeting her companions
gave her a future she could believe in,
and that belief became her crystal.
The trio sets out to meet their other comrades-
to share new dreams,
and turn them into a future to believe in...
Sakura's journey is now over, and she, Cloud and Mickey can finally rejoin Cosmos. Next time, we check in on Rick's adventures in his search for his crystal, and fighting against the one thing he really hates the most; Mummies.
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