I would like to dedicate this to my friend, Kibearu, for giving me the idea and for being such a good friend. Thanks Kib! Now on with the fic.
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Disclaimer: I dun own Cardcaptors or anything that appear in the series. I just write fics for my own entertainment.
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New Rivals, The Nai Phan Clan
After all the Cardcaptors left, one of the six figures, LaToya, heard that they were going to the mall. they then went to their ancestral house where they will discuss what they are going to do about the cardcaptors. The two boys went to their rooms while the girls were talking on how they were going to attack them.
"The cardcaptors are going to the mall tomorrow. You will attack them." LaToya said, pointing to Danielle. "Make sure that nobody without powers will see you. Remember, destroy her!"
"You can count on me, sis." Danielle sneered as she disappeared behind the door and went to her room, planning how she will attack the three cardcaptors.
*** (Ritchie) ***
Ritchie was walking home and as she was walking, she felt a presence near her, like someone was watching her. She shook her head to shake it off. It was the same feeling that she had when they were battling the Fright Card. She then took the card out and looked at it.
"Why did I receive a card? I'm not the chosen one." She ran towards her house and walked towards her room.
"It's either I'm sensing a powerful force or my mind is playing tricks on me." Ritchie thought as she plopped down her bed, still wearing her battle robe. "I'll just take a small break for now, then I'll practice my sword techniques later." She said putting her sword down hear her two necklaces: one that is similar to the Lasen Board, and another that would transform anything that she is wearing into her battle costume.
*** (Li's house) ***
Li was in his room looking at his Lasen board, thinking of what happened that afternoon, after they fought the Clow card. He then fell down on his bed, still wearing his battle robe.
"Great job, Li!" He scolded himself. "You don't even like to go to the mall that much, why the heck did you volunteer?" He then glance at his window and saw a vision of Sakura. He blushed and surprised look on his face. He then shook his head to clear it up.
'Grrrr!' he thought. 'I'm gonna have to tell her soon. This is driving me nuts! Well, at least Ritchie knows." He then let out a sigh and quickly jumped out of bed and went to the backyard to practice his sword moves.
*** (Sakura's house, her room) ***
Kero went straight to the television and played the video game, while Sakura jumped out of her spacey battle costume and into her normal clothes.
"Thanks for the costume, Madison," Sakura said, "but I think my closet is getting a little too cramped because of all the costumes." Sakura said pointing to her closet, full of her battle costumes.
"Sorry, I can't help it. I want you to look cute while capturing cards and besides I want Li to notice you." Madison smirked.
"Madison!" Sakura hissed.
"What did you say?" Kero asked, looking away form the video game.
Sakura glared at Madison and Madison giggled at Kero.
"Nothing Kero. I'm just planning my next battle costume for Sakura."
Sakura's glare softened.
"Oh," Kero said looking back at the game. "SCORE!" he then yelled.
"Oh yeah," Madison whispered, " I think Ritchie knows."
"Well, no need to hide it from her, but still, she is his cousin. I don't know if I can trust her with that." Sakura said.
"Well, just say the word and I'll tell her okay?" Madison said. "Oh shoot, I have to get home. See you tomorrow Sakura, later Kero."
"Bye Madison." Kero said, not taking his eyes off the game.
"Kero, what is with you and that game?" Sakura whispered under her breath.
*** Back to Ritchie ***
"Foxy, where are you?" Ritchie said, looking around the room.
A fox-like figure walked towards her.
"Hey Ritchie. What's up?" Foxy said. (In case you're wondering, foxy is a creature that Ritchie created with her magic. It's her friend.)
"Nothing much. I just helped Li and this girl, Sakura, capture a card today, but somehow the card went to me."
"Ah, so you met the chosen one." Foxy said, and was wondering why Ritchie was still wearing her battle costume.
"Yeah, she's nice. Though her battle costume is kinda over the top, if you ask me." (Please don't flame me, I just can't think of a good word at the moment)
"I see. Hey why are you still in your battle costume?" Foxy asked.
"Oh, I was about to go outside and practice my sword moves, wanna come?" Ritchie asked.
"Sure," Foxy smiled.
They both went to the backyard.
"Oh yeah, before I forget. They invited my to go to the mall tomorrow, do you wanna come?"
"How?" Foxy asked.
"I can put you in a small bag and you can pretend to be a stuffed toy." Ritchie suggested.
"Well, okay. It's been a long time since I met a new person anyway."
"Oh yeah, Li is coming to. I heard him ask if he can tag along." Ritchie giggled.
"Li is going to the mall? This I gotta see. Okay, I'll come." Foxy said, almost bursting out of laughter.
Ritchie then practiced her sword moves for 30 minutes then promptly went to bed.
*** Li Showron's House ***
Li just finished his sword routine and went back to his room.
Why am I loosing it? How can I tell her?" He asked himself before he collapsed in his bed. "And I still can't believe that I volunteered to go to the mall. Well, she's there, so I guess it's worth it."
He then walked towards his closet and changed into his normal clothes. He was folding his battle robe and grabbed his hat when he felt a presence around him.
"What the? Is there a powerful force around here somewhere?" Li tries to shake the feeling off and the feeling promptly faded. he then grabbed his sword and to his surprise, he saw a vision of Sakura once again. He blushed a bit and placed his sword in a place where it wouldn't fall off. He then walked towards his bed, jumped on it and was in deep thought.
"Man, I have to tell her soon." Li thought as he pulled the covers of his bed. "Looks like I'm gonna get tortured at the mall tomorrow." Li let out a sigh as he turned off the lights.
*** Sakura's House ***
Sakura was almost asleep while Kero was still playing with her video games.
"YES! Prince Zylon beat that guy!" he yelled.
"Kero, just save that please. We are going to the mall tomorrow and if we're lucky, I might buy a new game okay?"
Kero looked at her and quickly saved the game. "Okay, I'm ready to go to sleep and go to the mall tomorrow." Kero said turning off the light.
*** 9:00 A.M. Saturday ***
Madison wakes up and gets ready to go to the mall. She took a quick shower and dried her hair and that took her 30 minutes, and she picked up her clothes, which was a white shirt and crimson red overalls. She then tied her hair in pigtails and went to eat breakfast. She ate quickly and phones Sakura.
"Hello?" Sakura asked.
"Are you ready to go yet?" Madison said.
"See ya," Sakura said hanging up.
Meanwhile... Li was in his room, covered with a towel because he just finished taking a shower. He then picked up his clothes, which was an orange polo shirt underneath a dark blue sweater and khaki cargo pants and running shoes. he then glances at his sword.
'I'll bring it...just in case.' he thought as he turned it to a key (I'm not sure if he turns it to a key or ball but I'll just say it's a key for now) and put it in his pocket. It was now 9:30 and he went downstairs to eat breakfast. He was planning to leave at 10:00.
*** Sakura's house 10:00 ***
"Hi Madison. Come in." Sakura greeted.
"Are you going to bring Kero to the mall?" Madison asked.
"I think so. He wants to buy a new video game." Sakura replied.
"Well, that's Kero for you. If he isn't giving you advice about the Clow cards, he wants something that is related to a video game." Madison giggled.
"Well Sakura, let's go." Kero said.
"Into the bag then." Sakura said. Kero then flew into her bag as they headed out the door.
*** Playground 10:15 ***
Ritchie was already there since ten o'clock, and she was waiting with a fox-like creature. Five minutes later Li arrived and said, "You're a little early."
Ritchie smirked. "And I thought you were 'Mr. Punctual'."
Ritchie was wearing a baby blue tank top with a blue over-top with grayish-white pants that has a short skirt overlapping it a bit. Her hair was in a ponytail and she had a hairpin that looks similar to her sword.
"Where are they?" Li asked.
"I dunno. I don't know them that much yet." Ritchie said.
"Are you really going to the mall, Li?" A new voice asked.
"Huh?" Li turned around to see whose voice he just heard. "Oh hi Foxy." He said.
Li then talked to Foxy since it has been awhile since he last saw her while Ritchie was smiling at the two friends. Foxy promptly went back to Ritchie and back into the bag she was hiding in when she heard 2 female voices that was often interrupted by a male voice.
As the figures approach, the figures revealed Sakura, Madison and Kero. Li looked at his watch and said, " About time you two got here. You're late by two minutes."
"Be nice!" Sakura said.
"Don't worry Sakura," Ritchie interrupted as she elbowed Li playfully, "He's just kidding around." Li was giving Ritchie one of his infamous glare. (oh he looks so cute when he does that =) )
"Well, let's go." Madison cut in.
Ritchie grabbed her knapsack were Foxy was and she popped her head out so she can see where Ritchie was going... well, at least seeing it backwards.
Lurking from under the shadows, Danielle saw her targets were about to got to her trap that she set up.
"Soon, cardcaptor, soon." She sneered, as she disappeared and then reappeared at the entrance of the mall. All she has to do now is wait for the cardcaptors to arrive and her plan was ready to go.
As the four friends walked towards the mall, Sakura saw the fox-like creature. Out of curiosity, she was staring at it for a while.
"Hi!" It said suddenly, scaring Sakura. "So you're the cardcaptor. Nice to meet you."
"R-r-r-Ritchie, d-do you know that your bag talks?" Sakura asked nervously.
"What?" Ritchie turned around to face Sakura. "My bag doesn't talk. Oh, you must've met Foxy, that's what." Ritchie looked at her bag and winked at Foxy. "Don't worry, I'll introduce you later." Ritchie smiled.
Sakura began to calm down. "Okay, let's go in."
*** Inside the mall ***
"Perfect. They're here." Danielle said. She then went to the air conditioner and threw some powder on it which distributed it to all the corners of the mall.
As they entered, they saw some people were holding their heads cause they were about to sleep. Some people were already on the floor sleeping and snoring.
Li took a step back. "What's going on?" Li asked. Sakura was looking around and she saw Madison about to collapse.
"Madison!" She yelled running towards her friend catching her before she collapse on the floor. Once that happened, both Li and Ritchie sensed a presence around them. Both of them ran around but was still close to their friends. While they were looking around, laughter enveloped the whole mall.
"Kero, what's going on?" Sakura asked looking up from Madison.
"You can't escape from me! Only the ones with power are the ones who won't fell the sleep powder that I distributed in this mall!" A voice cackled.
"Show yourself!" Li snarled turning around and then suddenly remembered his Lasen board. "This should show where she is. Force of light with ancient spin! Send for the Magic power within! Force know my plight! Release the light!" He chanted.
The Lasen board began to glow and it shot a ray of light straight towards the fountain.
"Let's go." Li instructed.
"Wait. We can't leave Madison here." Sakura protested.
"Don't worry about it. Foxy, stay here with Madison. Try to revive her and catch up with us later, okay?" Ritchie instructed.
"Okay. Don't worry Sakura. I'll protect her." Foxy said. "Now go and see who's doing this. Go! Go!"
"Sakura, get your staff ready!" Kero instructed.
"Right!" Sakura said. "Key of Clow. Power of magic. Power of light. Surrender the wand. The force ignite. Release!" Sakura said, now holding her wand.
"Come out!" Ritchie yelled as they arrived at the fountain.
"As you wish," the voice said, jumping down from the second floor and landed near the fountain in her knees. She then stood up and revealed...
"Meilin?!" Li, Ritchie, and Sakura yelled in surprise, seeing her in her battle costume.
Kero then looked at this little girl and yelled, "Heads up!"
Meilin lunged up and attacked the three cardcaptors with a staff with a large blade on top.
"Meilin, what are you doing?" Li asked. Then it finally hit him. The Meilin that he knew didn't any powers. Once realizing that, he did a back-flip to gain some distance away from this girl.
"You're not Meilin!" Li bellowed. "Meilin doesn't have any powers. You're an impostor!"
Meilin giggled. "Very good young wolf, very good."
"What?" Ritchie said as she saw Li facing Meilin, who was now transforming to a young woman wearing a fitted yellow Chinese dress, with slits up to her waist and she was wearing pants similar to Ritchie's battle costume. Her outfit matched the pendant that she had on her choker.
"My name is Danielle from the Nai Phan clan, young cardcaptors." she said. "You will be destroyed." She said pointing to Sakura.
"Nice battle costume." Madison said as she finally got revived and caught up.
"Madison, you're okay!" Sakura cried as she ran to her friend and giving her a hug.
"How sentimental, but enough talk. It's time to finish you off!" She grabbed one of the plants by it's stem, pointed it in front of her and it turned to a whip. Since Sakura separated from Madison, Danielle targeted her with the whip, and you can hear the crack of the whip. Sakura covered her eyes , Ritchie and Li shook their heads to the side and closed their eyes. Madison placed two defensive hands in front of her and waited to feel the unbearable scratch from the whip. Madison slowly opened her eyes when she didn't feel anything and was surprised to see a translucent red dome, that was created by Foxy.
"What's that?" Sakura asked as she saw the dome.
" I just created a small barrier for Madison. Now go on and get her!" Foxy ordered.
Li and Ritchie took out their key and pin and transformed it to their swords. Now all three cardcaptors are facing Danielle. A girl was in the middle holding her staff and the other two that was beside her were holding swords in a defensive position.
"Oh gee. I'm overpowered. I think I 'll just go home to my mother." she said with pure sarcasm in her voice.
"You'd better!" Ritchie snarled as she lunged at Danielle.
"No! Don't!" Kero yelled as he tried to stop her but it was too late.
Ritchie got a running start and tried to jump on top of Danielle when suddenly she raised her hands and the water fountain shot down on her. Danielle casually put down her hand as she saw Ritchie crashing down to Li.
"Oof!" Li groaned as Ritchie crashed on top of him.
"Sorry about that Li," She apologized using her sword to support herself as she was standing up.
"Are you guys okay?" Sakura asked looking really concerned at L, bringing her hand out to help him up. Li blushed and took her hand.
"Thanks Sakura," He smiled.
The three cardcaptors plus Madison, Foxy and Kero quickly turned their heads as they heard a crack of a whip. Danielle was standing there, ready to attack. Both her pendant and her hand that was holding the whip were glowing. She then aimed the whip at Ritchie, wrapping it around her and quickly pulled the whip back, which caused Ritchie to go flying in the air and crashing in the nearby table. (Ouch!)
"Ritchie!" Sakura and Li yelled as they saw their friend crash to the table.
"You'll pay for that!" Li yelled picking up his sword.
"Let me attack first Li!" Sakura cut in. "Arrow card. Release and dispell!" Sakura's staff promptly turned into an arrow and Sakura targeted Danielle's arm.
Danielle was watching all this and decided to take them all down. She raised her hand, the one with the whip and shot it down at Li. She was about to hit him when... TWANG!!! Sakura released the arrow and it hit it's target, Danielle's arm. Even though it was a small gash, Danielle's wound was oozing blood like crazy, and you can actually tell how much blood she was loosing by looking at her sleeves. Her yellow top was turning kind of orangey and she used her free hand to put pressure on the wound to stop it form bleeding.
"You insolent little fool!" Danielle shrieked. She then created a small energy ball with her right hand and aimed it at Sakura.
"Sakura, watch out!" Li said jumping in front of her and deflecting the energy ball with his sword. He then looked at Sakura, who was holding her bow in front of her, kinda like in a defensive position. She then looked up at Li.
"Thanks," Sakura whispered.
When the energy ball was deflected towards her, Danielle jumped out of the way and was furious.
"Enough of this! You two will p-" Danielle was cut off as she stared into space but still at the direction of the cardcaptors then coughed up some blood.
After being thrown at a nearby table, Ritchie was knocked out for about a minute. When she regained consciousness, she wiped off some blood from her mouth and she saw Danielle fire a blast towards Sakura but Li jumped in front of her and deflected Danielle's attack with his sword. The shot went back to Danielle but she dodged it. When Ritchie saw that Danielle was walking towards both Li and Sakura, She decided to attack while the attacker, Danielle, was busy. Ritchie then stabbed her from the back and the sword went and cut through her heart and out of her chest, which caused Danielle to stop talking in her mid-sentence. Ritchie then pulled back her sword, which was now covered in blood.
Danielle turned around and faced Ritchie, holding her chest, where the open wound with the blood gushing out, was.
"All I wanted was the cards..." Danielle gasped holding her wound before collapsing to the ground.
Li and Sakura was staring at Ritchie, who slowly realized what she had done, let go of her blooded sword, and fell down on her knees, almost crying on what happened but didn't because Danielle's first words where echoing in her mind.
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" My name is Danielle from the Nai Phan clan," the vision said. "Nai Phan... Nai Phan... Nai Phan...." It kept on echoing on Ritchie's mind.
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"You haven't seen the last of me," Danielle uttered, "My sisters will get revenge for me!" With those final words, Danielle's necklace began to glow and it suddenly exploded as it's owner died. Danielle then slowly turned into ashes (how? I dunno) and it began top glow in the wind.
Still stunned at what she did, Ritchie was help up by Li and Sakura.
"Hey, are you okay?" Sakura asked, deeply worried about her friend.
"I'm fine." Ritchie replied in a somewhat rough voice. She just keep on hearing the words "Nai Phan" over and over again. She then grabbed tome tissue that she found in the nearby table that she crashed into, and wiped her sword with it. She transformed it back to a hairpin and stood there emotionless.
Madison arrived with Foxy back in the water fountain, after leaving the three cardcaptors to fight. She was wondering what happened to the girl that they were fighting was.
"She's gone. Ritchie, well, she killed her." Sakura said, hesitating to say it.
Foxy then jumped into Ritchie's arms.
"Are you okay?" She asked.
"Yeah, I'm alright." Ritchie replied.
Then they heard someone groan. Li then turned his sword into a key quickly and put it in one of his pockets.
"Let's split for now guys. The people are waking up." Li interrupted them.
"Let's go then," Madison said, "I know this place where they make the best pizza."
Ritchie finally smiled. "Let's go then." She said.
"Let's just go to the mall later, you know after lunch." Sakura suggested, to which everybody agreed.
All of them went to the pizza parlor for lunch and after eating, they went back to the mall and stayed there till 5:00. Sakura bought a new game for her and for Kero, Li bought a pine green sweater, Madison bought a couple of video camera tapes, while Ritchie just bought a couple of CD's. They promptly went back to the park to talk for a while.
"Well, that was a unique experience at the mall," Ritchie commented, "thank you for inviting me."
"Anytime. Anyway, I loved Foxy's company. She's kinda like Kero in a way." Madison said.
"That girl said that she was in a clan. What was it? I didn't quite hear her." Li said.
Ritchie's face became serious once again. "That girl said that she was apart of the Nai Phan Clan, I heard that name before. You have some of Clow Reed's old books, don't you Li?" She asked.
"Yeah," Li replied.
"Look up some information about that Nai Phan Clan. Sakura, I think you should ask Kero about them a little later." Ritchie said, seeing Kero is busy talking with Foxy.
"Let's go Foxy," She said, as she grabbed her bags and began to walk away.
"Wait! Where are you going?" Sakura asked.
"Home," Ritchie replied, "I'm going to see if I can get more information about the Nai Phan Clan."
"Hey, how about this," Madison cut in, "You three search on Nai Phan Clan tonight and we'll discuss it at my house tomorrow?"
"Sure. What time?" Both Li and Ritchie asked.
"Same as today, ten to ten-thirty. You know where I live, don't you Ritchie?" Madison asked.
"Yeah, I do. I'll see you guys tomorrow." Ritchie turned around with her bags, and slowly disappeared in a distance, while her friends were watching her.
"Well, I got some reading to do." Li said, breaking the silence, "I'll see you guys tomorrow."
"Bye Li. Come on Sakura. Let's go home." Madison said.
"Yeah, I wanna play that new video game that you bought." Kero said.
Madison and Sakura just giggled as they headed of to Sakura's house.
*** Nai Phan's Ancestral Place ***
LaToya was looking at the energy crystal ball that has a pyramid of power.
Three yellow orbs at the bottom, two green orbs in the middle, and one blue orb on top.
LaToya then saw one of the yellow orbs explode and it surprised her a bit.
"The cardcaptors must've defeated our sister. We need to get rid of her allies!" she hissed.
"Leave it to us, dear sister," a girl with a yellow pendant said.
"We'll take care of the pest." A boy with a green pendant added.
"Very well." LaToya said as her pendant began to glow. "Get your plan ready. I want revenge for our sister." LaToya cackled and the three cardcaptors heard it and it sent chills in their spines, but they ignored it because they thought they ad more important things to worry about.
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Well, there is the second chapter. What do you think? Is it okay? Does it need improvement? I'd love to hear from you. This is just my second try at a Cardcaptors fic so be gentle with your criticism. I'll try to submit the next part real soon.
Here Alwayz,
Ritchie Waterfighter
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Disclaimer: I dun own Cardcaptors or anything that appear in the series. I just write fics for my own entertainment.
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New Rivals, The Nai Phan Clan
After all the Cardcaptors left, one of the six figures, LaToya, heard that they were going to the mall. they then went to their ancestral house where they will discuss what they are going to do about the cardcaptors. The two boys went to their rooms while the girls were talking on how they were going to attack them.
"The cardcaptors are going to the mall tomorrow. You will attack them." LaToya said, pointing to Danielle. "Make sure that nobody without powers will see you. Remember, destroy her!"
"You can count on me, sis." Danielle sneered as she disappeared behind the door and went to her room, planning how she will attack the three cardcaptors.
*** (Ritchie) ***
Ritchie was walking home and as she was walking, she felt a presence near her, like someone was watching her. She shook her head to shake it off. It was the same feeling that she had when they were battling the Fright Card. She then took the card out and looked at it.
"Why did I receive a card? I'm not the chosen one." She ran towards her house and walked towards her room.
"It's either I'm sensing a powerful force or my mind is playing tricks on me." Ritchie thought as she plopped down her bed, still wearing her battle robe. "I'll just take a small break for now, then I'll practice my sword techniques later." She said putting her sword down hear her two necklaces: one that is similar to the Lasen Board, and another that would transform anything that she is wearing into her battle costume.
*** (Li's house) ***
Li was in his room looking at his Lasen board, thinking of what happened that afternoon, after they fought the Clow card. He then fell down on his bed, still wearing his battle robe.
"Great job, Li!" He scolded himself. "You don't even like to go to the mall that much, why the heck did you volunteer?" He then glance at his window and saw a vision of Sakura. He blushed and surprised look on his face. He then shook his head to clear it up.
'Grrrr!' he thought. 'I'm gonna have to tell her soon. This is driving me nuts! Well, at least Ritchie knows." He then let out a sigh and quickly jumped out of bed and went to the backyard to practice his sword moves.
*** (Sakura's house, her room) ***
Kero went straight to the television and played the video game, while Sakura jumped out of her spacey battle costume and into her normal clothes.
"Thanks for the costume, Madison," Sakura said, "but I think my closet is getting a little too cramped because of all the costumes." Sakura said pointing to her closet, full of her battle costumes.
"Sorry, I can't help it. I want you to look cute while capturing cards and besides I want Li to notice you." Madison smirked.
"Madison!" Sakura hissed.
"What did you say?" Kero asked, looking away form the video game.
Sakura glared at Madison and Madison giggled at Kero.
"Nothing Kero. I'm just planning my next battle costume for Sakura."
Sakura's glare softened.
"Oh," Kero said looking back at the game. "SCORE!" he then yelled.
"Oh yeah," Madison whispered, " I think Ritchie knows."
"Well, no need to hide it from her, but still, she is his cousin. I don't know if I can trust her with that." Sakura said.
"Well, just say the word and I'll tell her okay?" Madison said. "Oh shoot, I have to get home. See you tomorrow Sakura, later Kero."
"Bye Madison." Kero said, not taking his eyes off the game.
"Kero, what is with you and that game?" Sakura whispered under her breath.
*** Back to Ritchie ***
"Foxy, where are you?" Ritchie said, looking around the room.
A fox-like figure walked towards her.
"Hey Ritchie. What's up?" Foxy said. (In case you're wondering, foxy is a creature that Ritchie created with her magic. It's her friend.)
"Nothing much. I just helped Li and this girl, Sakura, capture a card today, but somehow the card went to me."
"Ah, so you met the chosen one." Foxy said, and was wondering why Ritchie was still wearing her battle costume.
"Yeah, she's nice. Though her battle costume is kinda over the top, if you ask me." (Please don't flame me, I just can't think of a good word at the moment)
"I see. Hey why are you still in your battle costume?" Foxy asked.
"Oh, I was about to go outside and practice my sword moves, wanna come?" Ritchie asked.
"Sure," Foxy smiled.
They both went to the backyard.
"Oh yeah, before I forget. They invited my to go to the mall tomorrow, do you wanna come?"
"How?" Foxy asked.
"I can put you in a small bag and you can pretend to be a stuffed toy." Ritchie suggested.
"Well, okay. It's been a long time since I met a new person anyway."
"Oh yeah, Li is coming to. I heard him ask if he can tag along." Ritchie giggled.
"Li is going to the mall? This I gotta see. Okay, I'll come." Foxy said, almost bursting out of laughter.
Ritchie then practiced her sword moves for 30 minutes then promptly went to bed.
*** Li Showron's House ***
Li just finished his sword routine and went back to his room.
Why am I loosing it? How can I tell her?" He asked himself before he collapsed in his bed. "And I still can't believe that I volunteered to go to the mall. Well, she's there, so I guess it's worth it."
He then walked towards his closet and changed into his normal clothes. He was folding his battle robe and grabbed his hat when he felt a presence around him.
"What the? Is there a powerful force around here somewhere?" Li tries to shake the feeling off and the feeling promptly faded. he then grabbed his sword and to his surprise, he saw a vision of Sakura once again. He blushed a bit and placed his sword in a place where it wouldn't fall off. He then walked towards his bed, jumped on it and was in deep thought.
"Man, I have to tell her soon." Li thought as he pulled the covers of his bed. "Looks like I'm gonna get tortured at the mall tomorrow." Li let out a sigh as he turned off the lights.
*** Sakura's House ***
Sakura was almost asleep while Kero was still playing with her video games.
"YES! Prince Zylon beat that guy!" he yelled.
"Kero, just save that please. We are going to the mall tomorrow and if we're lucky, I might buy a new game okay?"
Kero looked at her and quickly saved the game. "Okay, I'm ready to go to sleep and go to the mall tomorrow." Kero said turning off the light.
*** 9:00 A.M. Saturday ***
Madison wakes up and gets ready to go to the mall. She took a quick shower and dried her hair and that took her 30 minutes, and she picked up her clothes, which was a white shirt and crimson red overalls. She then tied her hair in pigtails and went to eat breakfast. She ate quickly and phones Sakura.
"Hello?" Sakura asked.
"Are you ready to go yet?" Madison said.
"See ya," Sakura said hanging up.
Meanwhile... Li was in his room, covered with a towel because he just finished taking a shower. He then picked up his clothes, which was an orange polo shirt underneath a dark blue sweater and khaki cargo pants and running shoes. he then glances at his sword.
'I'll bring it...just in case.' he thought as he turned it to a key (I'm not sure if he turns it to a key or ball but I'll just say it's a key for now) and put it in his pocket. It was now 9:30 and he went downstairs to eat breakfast. He was planning to leave at 10:00.
*** Sakura's house 10:00 ***
"Hi Madison. Come in." Sakura greeted.
"Are you going to bring Kero to the mall?" Madison asked.
"I think so. He wants to buy a new video game." Sakura replied.
"Well, that's Kero for you. If he isn't giving you advice about the Clow cards, he wants something that is related to a video game." Madison giggled.
"Well Sakura, let's go." Kero said.
"Into the bag then." Sakura said. Kero then flew into her bag as they headed out the door.
*** Playground 10:15 ***
Ritchie was already there since ten o'clock, and she was waiting with a fox-like creature. Five minutes later Li arrived and said, "You're a little early."
Ritchie smirked. "And I thought you were 'Mr. Punctual'."
Ritchie was wearing a baby blue tank top with a blue over-top with grayish-white pants that has a short skirt overlapping it a bit. Her hair was in a ponytail and she had a hairpin that looks similar to her sword.
"Where are they?" Li asked.
"I dunno. I don't know them that much yet." Ritchie said.
"Are you really going to the mall, Li?" A new voice asked.
"Huh?" Li turned around to see whose voice he just heard. "Oh hi Foxy." He said.
Li then talked to Foxy since it has been awhile since he last saw her while Ritchie was smiling at the two friends. Foxy promptly went back to Ritchie and back into the bag she was hiding in when she heard 2 female voices that was often interrupted by a male voice.
As the figures approach, the figures revealed Sakura, Madison and Kero. Li looked at his watch and said, " About time you two got here. You're late by two minutes."
"Be nice!" Sakura said.
"Don't worry Sakura," Ritchie interrupted as she elbowed Li playfully, "He's just kidding around." Li was giving Ritchie one of his infamous glare. (oh he looks so cute when he does that =) )
"Well, let's go." Madison cut in.
Ritchie grabbed her knapsack were Foxy was and she popped her head out so she can see where Ritchie was going... well, at least seeing it backwards.
Lurking from under the shadows, Danielle saw her targets were about to got to her trap that she set up.
"Soon, cardcaptor, soon." She sneered, as she disappeared and then reappeared at the entrance of the mall. All she has to do now is wait for the cardcaptors to arrive and her plan was ready to go.
As the four friends walked towards the mall, Sakura saw the fox-like creature. Out of curiosity, she was staring at it for a while.
"Hi!" It said suddenly, scaring Sakura. "So you're the cardcaptor. Nice to meet you."
"R-r-r-Ritchie, d-do you know that your bag talks?" Sakura asked nervously.
"What?" Ritchie turned around to face Sakura. "My bag doesn't talk. Oh, you must've met Foxy, that's what." Ritchie looked at her bag and winked at Foxy. "Don't worry, I'll introduce you later." Ritchie smiled.
Sakura began to calm down. "Okay, let's go in."
*** Inside the mall ***
"Perfect. They're here." Danielle said. She then went to the air conditioner and threw some powder on it which distributed it to all the corners of the mall.
As they entered, they saw some people were holding their heads cause they were about to sleep. Some people were already on the floor sleeping and snoring.
Li took a step back. "What's going on?" Li asked. Sakura was looking around and she saw Madison about to collapse.
"Madison!" She yelled running towards her friend catching her before she collapse on the floor. Once that happened, both Li and Ritchie sensed a presence around them. Both of them ran around but was still close to their friends. While they were looking around, laughter enveloped the whole mall.
"Kero, what's going on?" Sakura asked looking up from Madison.
"You can't escape from me! Only the ones with power are the ones who won't fell the sleep powder that I distributed in this mall!" A voice cackled.
"Show yourself!" Li snarled turning around and then suddenly remembered his Lasen board. "This should show where she is. Force of light with ancient spin! Send for the Magic power within! Force know my plight! Release the light!" He chanted.
The Lasen board began to glow and it shot a ray of light straight towards the fountain.
"Let's go." Li instructed.
"Wait. We can't leave Madison here." Sakura protested.
"Don't worry about it. Foxy, stay here with Madison. Try to revive her and catch up with us later, okay?" Ritchie instructed.
"Okay. Don't worry Sakura. I'll protect her." Foxy said. "Now go and see who's doing this. Go! Go!"
"Sakura, get your staff ready!" Kero instructed.
"Right!" Sakura said. "Key of Clow. Power of magic. Power of light. Surrender the wand. The force ignite. Release!" Sakura said, now holding her wand.
"Come out!" Ritchie yelled as they arrived at the fountain.
"As you wish," the voice said, jumping down from the second floor and landed near the fountain in her knees. She then stood up and revealed...
"Meilin?!" Li, Ritchie, and Sakura yelled in surprise, seeing her in her battle costume.
Kero then looked at this little girl and yelled, "Heads up!"
Meilin lunged up and attacked the three cardcaptors with a staff with a large blade on top.
"Meilin, what are you doing?" Li asked. Then it finally hit him. The Meilin that he knew didn't any powers. Once realizing that, he did a back-flip to gain some distance away from this girl.
"You're not Meilin!" Li bellowed. "Meilin doesn't have any powers. You're an impostor!"
Meilin giggled. "Very good young wolf, very good."
"What?" Ritchie said as she saw Li facing Meilin, who was now transforming to a young woman wearing a fitted yellow Chinese dress, with slits up to her waist and she was wearing pants similar to Ritchie's battle costume. Her outfit matched the pendant that she had on her choker.
"My name is Danielle from the Nai Phan clan, young cardcaptors." she said. "You will be destroyed." She said pointing to Sakura.
"Nice battle costume." Madison said as she finally got revived and caught up.
"Madison, you're okay!" Sakura cried as she ran to her friend and giving her a hug.
"How sentimental, but enough talk. It's time to finish you off!" She grabbed one of the plants by it's stem, pointed it in front of her and it turned to a whip. Since Sakura separated from Madison, Danielle targeted her with the whip, and you can hear the crack of the whip. Sakura covered her eyes , Ritchie and Li shook their heads to the side and closed their eyes. Madison placed two defensive hands in front of her and waited to feel the unbearable scratch from the whip. Madison slowly opened her eyes when she didn't feel anything and was surprised to see a translucent red dome, that was created by Foxy.
"What's that?" Sakura asked as she saw the dome.
" I just created a small barrier for Madison. Now go on and get her!" Foxy ordered.
Li and Ritchie took out their key and pin and transformed it to their swords. Now all three cardcaptors are facing Danielle. A girl was in the middle holding her staff and the other two that was beside her were holding swords in a defensive position.
"Oh gee. I'm overpowered. I think I 'll just go home to my mother." she said with pure sarcasm in her voice.
"You'd better!" Ritchie snarled as she lunged at Danielle.
"No! Don't!" Kero yelled as he tried to stop her but it was too late.
Ritchie got a running start and tried to jump on top of Danielle when suddenly she raised her hands and the water fountain shot down on her. Danielle casually put down her hand as she saw Ritchie crashing down to Li.
"Oof!" Li groaned as Ritchie crashed on top of him.
"Sorry about that Li," She apologized using her sword to support herself as she was standing up.
"Are you guys okay?" Sakura asked looking really concerned at L, bringing her hand out to help him up. Li blushed and took her hand.
"Thanks Sakura," He smiled.
The three cardcaptors plus Madison, Foxy and Kero quickly turned their heads as they heard a crack of a whip. Danielle was standing there, ready to attack. Both her pendant and her hand that was holding the whip were glowing. She then aimed the whip at Ritchie, wrapping it around her and quickly pulled the whip back, which caused Ritchie to go flying in the air and crashing in the nearby table. (Ouch!)
"Ritchie!" Sakura and Li yelled as they saw their friend crash to the table.
"You'll pay for that!" Li yelled picking up his sword.
"Let me attack first Li!" Sakura cut in. "Arrow card. Release and dispell!" Sakura's staff promptly turned into an arrow and Sakura targeted Danielle's arm.
Danielle was watching all this and decided to take them all down. She raised her hand, the one with the whip and shot it down at Li. She was about to hit him when... TWANG!!! Sakura released the arrow and it hit it's target, Danielle's arm. Even though it was a small gash, Danielle's wound was oozing blood like crazy, and you can actually tell how much blood she was loosing by looking at her sleeves. Her yellow top was turning kind of orangey and she used her free hand to put pressure on the wound to stop it form bleeding.
"You insolent little fool!" Danielle shrieked. She then created a small energy ball with her right hand and aimed it at Sakura.
"Sakura, watch out!" Li said jumping in front of her and deflecting the energy ball with his sword. He then looked at Sakura, who was holding her bow in front of her, kinda like in a defensive position. She then looked up at Li.
"Thanks," Sakura whispered.
When the energy ball was deflected towards her, Danielle jumped out of the way and was furious.
"Enough of this! You two will p-" Danielle was cut off as she stared into space but still at the direction of the cardcaptors then coughed up some blood.
After being thrown at a nearby table, Ritchie was knocked out for about a minute. When she regained consciousness, she wiped off some blood from her mouth and she saw Danielle fire a blast towards Sakura but Li jumped in front of her and deflected Danielle's attack with his sword. The shot went back to Danielle but she dodged it. When Ritchie saw that Danielle was walking towards both Li and Sakura, She decided to attack while the attacker, Danielle, was busy. Ritchie then stabbed her from the back and the sword went and cut through her heart and out of her chest, which caused Danielle to stop talking in her mid-sentence. Ritchie then pulled back her sword, which was now covered in blood.
Danielle turned around and faced Ritchie, holding her chest, where the open wound with the blood gushing out, was.
"All I wanted was the cards..." Danielle gasped holding her wound before collapsing to the ground.
Li and Sakura was staring at Ritchie, who slowly realized what she had done, let go of her blooded sword, and fell down on her knees, almost crying on what happened but didn't because Danielle's first words where echoing in her mind.
~*~*~ Small flashback *~*~*
" My name is Danielle from the Nai Phan clan," the vision said. "Nai Phan... Nai Phan... Nai Phan...." It kept on echoing on Ritchie's mind.
~*~*~ End of flashback *~*~*
"You haven't seen the last of me," Danielle uttered, "My sisters will get revenge for me!" With those final words, Danielle's necklace began to glow and it suddenly exploded as it's owner died. Danielle then slowly turned into ashes (how? I dunno) and it began top glow in the wind.
Still stunned at what she did, Ritchie was help up by Li and Sakura.
"Hey, are you okay?" Sakura asked, deeply worried about her friend.
"I'm fine." Ritchie replied in a somewhat rough voice. She just keep on hearing the words "Nai Phan" over and over again. She then grabbed tome tissue that she found in the nearby table that she crashed into, and wiped her sword with it. She transformed it back to a hairpin and stood there emotionless.
Madison arrived with Foxy back in the water fountain, after leaving the three cardcaptors to fight. She was wondering what happened to the girl that they were fighting was.
"She's gone. Ritchie, well, she killed her." Sakura said, hesitating to say it.
Foxy then jumped into Ritchie's arms.
"Are you okay?" She asked.
"Yeah, I'm alright." Ritchie replied.
Then they heard someone groan. Li then turned his sword into a key quickly and put it in one of his pockets.
"Let's split for now guys. The people are waking up." Li interrupted them.
"Let's go then," Madison said, "I know this place where they make the best pizza."
Ritchie finally smiled. "Let's go then." She said.
"Let's just go to the mall later, you know after lunch." Sakura suggested, to which everybody agreed.
All of them went to the pizza parlor for lunch and after eating, they went back to the mall and stayed there till 5:00. Sakura bought a new game for her and for Kero, Li bought a pine green sweater, Madison bought a couple of video camera tapes, while Ritchie just bought a couple of CD's. They promptly went back to the park to talk for a while.
"Well, that was a unique experience at the mall," Ritchie commented, "thank you for inviting me."
"Anytime. Anyway, I loved Foxy's company. She's kinda like Kero in a way." Madison said.
"That girl said that she was in a clan. What was it? I didn't quite hear her." Li said.
Ritchie's face became serious once again. "That girl said that she was apart of the Nai Phan Clan, I heard that name before. You have some of Clow Reed's old books, don't you Li?" She asked.
"Yeah," Li replied.
"Look up some information about that Nai Phan Clan. Sakura, I think you should ask Kero about them a little later." Ritchie said, seeing Kero is busy talking with Foxy.
"Let's go Foxy," She said, as she grabbed her bags and began to walk away.
"Wait! Where are you going?" Sakura asked.
"Home," Ritchie replied, "I'm going to see if I can get more information about the Nai Phan Clan."
"Hey, how about this," Madison cut in, "You three search on Nai Phan Clan tonight and we'll discuss it at my house tomorrow?"
"Sure. What time?" Both Li and Ritchie asked.
"Same as today, ten to ten-thirty. You know where I live, don't you Ritchie?" Madison asked.
"Yeah, I do. I'll see you guys tomorrow." Ritchie turned around with her bags, and slowly disappeared in a distance, while her friends were watching her.
"Well, I got some reading to do." Li said, breaking the silence, "I'll see you guys tomorrow."
"Bye Li. Come on Sakura. Let's go home." Madison said.
"Yeah, I wanna play that new video game that you bought." Kero said.
Madison and Sakura just giggled as they headed of to Sakura's house.
*** Nai Phan's Ancestral Place ***
LaToya was looking at the energy crystal ball that has a pyramid of power.
Three yellow orbs at the bottom, two green orbs in the middle, and one blue orb on top.
LaToya then saw one of the yellow orbs explode and it surprised her a bit.
"The cardcaptors must've defeated our sister. We need to get rid of her allies!" she hissed.
"Leave it to us, dear sister," a girl with a yellow pendant said.
"We'll take care of the pest." A boy with a green pendant added.
"Very well." LaToya said as her pendant began to glow. "Get your plan ready. I want revenge for our sister." LaToya cackled and the three cardcaptors heard it and it sent chills in their spines, but they ignored it because they thought they ad more important things to worry about.
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Well, there is the second chapter. What do you think? Is it okay? Does it need improvement? I'd love to hear from you. This is just my second try at a Cardcaptors fic so be gentle with your criticism. I'll try to submit the next part real soon.
Here Alwayz,
Ritchie Waterfighter