The Switch Up
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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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As soon as they got home, Sakura and Madison ran up to her room so that they can talk privately.
"Kero, what do you know about the Nai Phan Clan?" Sakura asked as she put down her stuff.
"Well, here's what I know about them..." Kero said then telling her what he knows about the clan.
"Well, since you're the chosen one, they are trying to get the cards from you." Kero concluded.
"But why me? I didn't want to be in this." Sakura protested.
"You didn't choose it Sakura, it chose you," Kero said, "now let's go and play those games!!"
Sakura sweatdropped and Madison giggled.
"Okay Kero, Here you go." Sakura said as she set up the new game for Kero.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Li's House *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Okay, Ritchie told me to look for 'Nai Phan'. Let's see, how about this?" he asked himself as he scanned through his bookshelf and grabbed a book. Li scanned through the book thoroughly one page at a time, and at last he found what he was looking for.
"So they want to get the card from the chosen one, huh? We'll see about that. They're gonna get through me first!" Li thought as he closed the book and headed down to the kitchen with the book safely tucked in his arm, and planned to do some more reading in the kitchen.
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Since she knew exactly what to look for, she went to their library and grabbed one of Clow Reed's books, the one when he made the Clow Cards. She stomped her way to Clow Reed's books, which got Foxy really concerned.
"Ritchie, are you okay? Ever since we left them, you have been too quiet. Is there anything I can do for you?" Foxy asked with a very concerned voice.
"Yeah. Can you get me something to drink? I'll need it later when I'm reading." Ritchie said as she grabbed the book.
"I knew it!" She said, "Nai Phan used to work with Clow Reed, but..." Ritchie paused.
"Oh no! How can tell Sakura?"
Ritchie then ran to the kitchen, grabbed Foxy by the tail and streaked to her room.
"So that means I did the right thing. I might have killed her but I didn't have a choice." She said to Foxy.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ The Next Day ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
It was now 9:00 and Li was still lying on his bed as his alarm clock started to ring. His eyes slowly flutter open as he stood up. When he was up, he was mumbling incoherently. The only words that you an understand him say is: "9:00", "Why?", "Grr!". and the list goes on.
He was still sleepy as he headed towards the bathroom to take a shower. As he opened the water, you can hear his voice all round the house as he screamed, "AHHH!!!!!!! THAT'S TOO COLD!!!!!" He then zoomed back to his room, covered with a towel ( *Snicker* Sorry, I just had to do that) to warm himself up. When he realized what happened, he stomped his way back to the bathroom again, but this time he was more aware of his surroundings than he was before.
He then took a quick bath and changed into his clothes, a dark blue T-shirt, denim jacket, cargo khaki pants and running shoes (pretty much what he wore in the episode with the Dash card), and took sometime to read his book since it was only 9:20.
"Oh no! Sakura! I have to protect her. I don't care what happens." Li looked in horror in his book. It was now 9:30 and Li decided to give Ritchie a visit. As he was getting near her house, he saw a figure up the tree. As he got closer, he realized that the figure was Ritchie, waiting for him.
"Ritchie, how'd you know I was coming?" Li asked as Ritchie jumped off the tree.
"I just had a feeling you'd wanna talk and besides, I sensed you anyway." Ritchie replied.
"So you know why I came here?" Li asked.
"Yes. Let's go inside." Ritchie then led him inside the house.
The two cousins talked for a while and left the house at 9:45. They arrived near Madison's house at about 9:55. They bumped into Sakura, who had Kero in her backpack but was now released as they were near Madison's house.
"Hey Li! Hey Ritchie!" Sakura greeted.
Both Li and Ritchie's faces had a very unusual look. They both looked worriedly at Sakura, but didn't want to make it obvious.
"Hey! What's going on? Why did we stop?" Foxy cut in, popping her head out of Ritchie's backpack. "Oh hi Sakura."
"Hello Foxy. Well, let's go." Sakura led the way to Madison's house, while both Ritchie and Li were trailing behind her. Li then ran behind Kero and plucked him out of the air.
"You didn't tell her, did you?" Li asked.
"No, not all of it. I didn't have the heart tell her." Kero said.
"Well, what do you know about them?" Ritchie asked.
"Well here I go." Kero began, " The Nai Phan Clan are people who used to work with Clow Reed. When he created the Clow Cards, it was really powerful and Nai Phan wanted to get their claws on it but couldn't since Clow Reed gave it a seal. For them to get it, they are going to have to wait for the chosen one, namely Sakura, and then they are going to destroy the chosen one."
When Li heard those words, his ears turned red in frustration but it wasn't noticeable since his hair covered his ears.
"And then," Kero continued, "make the guardian beast, namely me, to pass on the cards to them and they will use it to wreak havoc on wherever they go to." Kero then took a pause and looked at Li and Ritchie in a really concerned way.
"What?" They both asked.
"I think you'll want to hear this." Kero said.
Both of them looked at Kero skeptically.
"Listen kids, if someone is helping the chosen one capture the cards, Nai Phan has sworn to get rid of them too in order to get the cards quicker and fulfill their ancestral plan." Kero concluded.
"WHAT?!?!?!?!?" Both Li and Ritchie yelled.
"What's going on guys?" Sakura asked, "were almost at the gate already. Come on."
"Coming, Sakura," Kero said. " Break it to her easily, okay guys?" Kero whispered.
Li and Ritchie nodded as they entered and Madison was waiting for them.
"Come on guys, let's go to the study room." Madison said, pointing to the nearby room.
As the group finally got comfortable, Li decided to break the silence.
"Well, what do you know about the Clan, Sakura?" Li asked.
"Well, according to Kero, they want to get all the Clow Cards away from me." Sakura said.
"Actually, Sakura, it's more than that." Ritchie cut in.
"What do you mean?" Sakura asked.
Kero, Li, and Ritchie then took turns in saying about Nai Phan. When one can't say it, the other continues. When they finally said it fully, Sakura was shocked to say the least. Madison then ran out to get a drink for her guests since this was a shocking news, especially to Sakura.
"And since we're helping you..." Li continued.
"They're kinda after us too." Ritchie concluded.
Madison then came in with a tray of drinks. "I thought you guys might need it." she said as she distributed the drinks.
"Thanks, Madison" Sakura said calmly, trying not to stutter.
"Sorry, kid," Kero apologized, "I didn't want to break it to you alone. I didn't have the heart to tell you."
"It's okay, Kero. I understand." Said Sakura with a glimmer of determination on her eyes.
Madison saw this and said, "I'll see what I can do to make your battle costume more repellent to these powerful attacks."
Sakura then smiled. "Thank you, Madison."
Li and Ritchie both gave out a sigh of relief. The day passed on smoothly as they did what they had to do, and after that, they had fun but not forgetting their mission. Soon, they all had to go home and decided to talk about it more in school... hopefully.
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Ritchie was about to go to school, she had just grabbed her stuff and made sure that she has everything in place.
Outside, two figures were lurking beneath the shadows of the trees.
"So she is the one who killed our sister, that pest!" the boy said.
"Don't worry, my dear brother. I know just the thing to do." The girl said as she used her yellow pendant to change herself into a little girl who just fell off her bike, visible enough so that Ritchie can see her.
Ritchie walked there soon enough, and she saw a girl who just fell off her bike. Ritchie then rushed to her side.
"Are you okay?" Ritchie asked.
"Yes, now I am," the girl said who had an evil grin on her face. Her pendant began to glow and wrapped Ritchie in a yellow aura and transported Ritchie into the Ancestral place. Ritchie screamed since she didn't know where she was being taken to and what was going to happen to her.
Sakura then heard the scream and both her and Madison rushed to the place where they thought they heard the scream. They then saw Ritchie and she was wearing a very odd necklace with a yellow pendant on it.
"Well, let's go." Ritchie offered. 'This is too easy.' She thought as her dark brown eyes glimmered and has a sly grin on her face.
Sakura, Madison and Ritchie were walking and saw Li.
"Hey guys!" He greeted then looked at Ritchie. 'Something is different about Ritchie today... I wonder what it is.' He thought.
As the morning passed by, Li was getting more and more suspicious of Ritchie especially in gym class. Ritchie was holding on to a yellow pendant before she did a double-flip into the air. When she did that, the pendant shone and only Li and Sakura noticed it. Li got more suspicious but he decided to lay it off... for now.
After the dismissal bell rang, Ritchie called Sakura up.
"Sakura, I think there is a Clow Card on the lose. Meet me at the park early, okay?" Ritchie said.
"Sure Ritchie." Sakura agreed.
'Perfect.' Ritchie though. ' She is falling into my trap.'
Unknown to Ritchie, Li heard this and decided to come early too.
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Ritchie was waiting for Sakura, and like she said, she was early.
Sakura was wearing a Chinese robe similar to Meilin, but it was pink with yellow linings and instead of a yin-yang it had Kero's face on it, and also, Kero was flying beside Sakura and Madison, who was recording what's happening.
"How much would you give for your friend, Sakura? How much?" Ritchie asked.
Sakura was puzzled. "What are you talking about, Ritchie??
Ritchie grinned and snapped her fingers. An electric cage appeared and the real Ritchie was inside, wearing her battle costume and everything but she was still unconscious.
Sakura was surprised. That's when she finally noticed the yellow necklace and realized that this girl is a member of the Nai Phan Clan.
"YOU! You are a member of the Nai Phan Clan, aren't you?" Sakura almost screamed.
"Good job, little cherry blossom. Very good." Ritchie's double smirked. Her pendant then glowed and enveloped her in the light. When the glow faded, a brunette girl who had her hair tied up in a bun was wearing similar clothes as Danielle. She had a short sleeved yellow dress that had slits up to her thigh. She didn't have pants like Danielle did though.
"Yes, I am a member of the Nai Phan Clan. My name is Joanne, and tell me little cherry blossom, which would you like to give? The cards for her life, or your death to enable me to get the cards?" Joanne asked.
"How about neither?" A new voice yelled.
"Li!" Madison said as she saw Li jumped up to the cage and smashed it with the blade of his sword. He then helped Ritchie up as she slowly woke up.
"Uh.... what?" Ritchie asked groggily as she looked around, "YOU!" Ritchie's eyes shot open as she saw Joanne's face. She slowly gained her power, took out her pin and transformed it to a sword, and attacked Joanne with it. She was about to hit Joanne with her sword when another person jumped in and blocked Ritchie's attack. Ritchie's eyes glared at the new figure as she saw the pendant on his necklace.
"He's from the middle class level in their clan." Ritchie hissed as she jumped back to where Li and Sakura were.
"About time, Jonathan!" Joanne scolded.
"You're welcome." Jonathan sneered.
"Last time, we defeated one of their third class members" Ritchie said.
Upon hearing this, Joanne and Jonathan glared at Sakura.
"So you defeated our sister!" Joanne shrieked.
"You will die!" Jonathan bellowed.
"She didn't do anything. I killed your sister and I'll do it again with you two if I have to!" Ritchie snapped.
This pushed Joanne to her limit. She then took out her scimitar that had yellow stones near it's blade. She then ran towards Ritchie ready to smash her skull open, but Ritchie moved quickly enough that she removed her sword from her sheath and blocked the attack. Using the hilt of her sword, Ritchie punched the side of Joanne's face and blood came out of her mouth.
Li was watching this and sensed something behind him. He quickly realized it was Jonathan so he decided to bring him up into the air.
"Now, element! Wind!" He chanted.
The wind wrapped Jonathan up and threw him into the air. When he came down, he brought out his scimitar and a green stone was at the hilt of the sword. Thus, this began Li's fight.
Sakura was watching in horror as her friends were fighting but deep inside, Sakura knew that she must help since they are really after her, not them. So she decided to help out. She brought out her key and said:
"Key of Clow. Power of magic. Power of light. Surrender the wand. The force ignite! Release! Arrow card! Release and dispell! Arrow!"
Sakura's staff then turned into a bow and she decided to help Ritchie out, seeing that Ritchie was getting tired and she didn't regain her energy back that fast.
Ritchie was getting tired by the second. With the punch she just received from Joanne, she was surprised that she was still able to block most of Joanne's attacks. Sakura then saw her chance and aimed for Joanne's chest but unfortunately, Joanne moved and the arrow missed her chest but it hit her in the arm and the arrow was deeply buried in her arm.
Joanne screamed as the pain shot from her arm. Now to get even, she used the hilt of her scimitar and punched the side of Ritchie's face then threw her to the side and walked towards Sakura.
Ritchie was on the floor, her blue robe was now dirty with all the dust that was around them. She slowly stood up, wiped some blood out of her mouth. As she used her sword to stand up, she saw Joanne coming up to Sakura.. She got really angry, closed her eyes and clenched her fist that a weird blue aura started glowing around her, she regained both her power and her energy, and for a split-second, she looked like a 15 year old girl. Her blue aura quickly faded as Ritchie opened her eyes. She aimed her sword towards Joanne's legs and said, " Force know my plight! Release the light! ICE!!!"
Ice beamed out of Ritchie's sword and froze Joanne on the spot. Sakura was looking at Joanne, with her legs frozen to the ground. Jonathan saw this and he kicked Li into the nearby tree. Madison rushed to his side to help him, while a tired Ritchie and a determined Sakura was facing Joanne, who was still frozen to the floor. Madison helped Li back to Sakura and Ritchie, but he just struggled to get free from Madison and used his power to separate Jonathan from Joanne.
"Now, element! Wind!"
Once again, the wind enveloped Jonathan and it threw him in the tree. Li regained a little bit of his energy and started attacking Jonathan once again.
"Now," Li began, "I believe that we started something that we didn't finished." Li grinned slyly as Jonathan took his scimitar and lunges at him. Li did a couple of back-flips to gain some distance from Jonathan and placed his sword in front of him in a defensive stance. Jonathan got really mad at him as he shot an energy ball towards Li but was deflected. On the other hand, Joanne finally got free from the ice pants that Ritchie gave her. She then snarled at Ritchie, who got all her energy back and attacked her. Joanne placed her scimitar back to it's sheath, took out a whip that had a yellow stone in the handle. Ritchie then remembered the time that they were fighting with Danielle.
Joanne was about to hit Ritchie with her whip but unfortunately for her Ritchie had a plan of her own and before she did her attack, Ritchie has already chopped off her whip into tiny little leather sticks, also cutting Joanne's hand in the process.
"Argh! You'll pay for that, you brat!" Joanne screamed.
Ritchie grinned evilly. "Please, put it in my bill." She sneered before attacking once again. She got a running start and did a flying kick that hit Joanne square in the chest. Joanne tumbled down as the pain on her chest increased. While Joanne was down, Ritchie ran up to Sakura.
"Are you okay?" Ritchie asked.
"Yes. I'm fine, thank you. Do you want me to take over?" Sakura asked.
"If you want," Ritchie answered. "But let's take care of her together."
"Okay," Sakura said. "Fight card, release and dispell! Fight!"
"Show time!" Ritchie smirked as she kneeled down on one leg and locked her hands together, ready to throw Sakura into the air so that she can attack from above.
"Ally oop!" Ritchie said as she flung Sakura into the air and Sakura did a helicopter hit that hit Joanne's face a lot of times.
Joanne was about to attack Sakura when Ritchie jumped in front her and sliced through her stomach sideways. Joanne stopped attacking and her scimitar fell on the floor. Once again, Ritchie stabbed her in the stomach and pulled her sword out again. She then placed a defensive arm in front of Sakura just in case Joanne had anymore last attacks.
Joanne just held on to her wounds and coughed up some blood (Oy! Bloodthirsty aren't I?) and said weakly, "Jonathan.... do your best... Don't fail our ancestors...... Don't fail them like I did.. Do it for our family..." With that last breath, she collapsed to the floor and all her stuff, except her scimitar turned to ashes and flew into the wind.
"JOANNE!" Jonathan yelled as he saw his twin sister disappeared into ashes. He then created an energy ball and threw it at Li to distract him. Sakura called fight back and called out sword. Ritchie and Sakura ran to Li, who deflected Jonathan's attack and the three placed their swords in front of them.
Jonathan knelt down and picked up some of Joanne's ashes, shed a tear and grabbed his sisters scimitar and attached it's hilt too the sword of his hilt. With that happening, his sword transformed into a staff with a blade on both sides and to the three cardcaptors surprise, it had power as to before, it didn't have any. Jonathan then twirled the staff around creating a really gusty wind towards the three cardcaptors.
"Sword card, return! Shield card! Release and dispell."
A ball enveloped Sakura, Li, Ritchie, Madison and Kero and it caused the wind just pass through them like they weren't even there.
Jonathan got furious and decided to attack them manually. Since Sakura, Li, and Ritchie was right beside each other, Jonathan slashed in between Sakura, Li, and Ritchie causing them either to jump back, do a flip, or just plainly run out of the way. Li jumped back, Sakura did a flip and Ritchie just plainly ran out of the way. Jonathan then targeted Ritchie for his next attack. Li then took advantage of the time that Jonathan was using to attack Ritchie.
"Force know my plight! Release the light! Lightning!" he yelled.
Lightning struck down on Jonathan and was paralyzed for a bit.
"Sakura, Ritchie, use fire now!" Li ordered.
"Okay!" They both yelled.
"Force know my plight! Relese the light! Fire!" Ritchie said as her sword blasted a huge amount of fire straight at Jonathan.
"Firey card! Release and dispell! Firey!" Sakura said as Firey flew out of it's card and headed towards Jonathan.
Now both attacks were headed straight for Jonathan, unfortunately though, fire card just passed through him like he wasn't even there and Ritchie's attack got deflected and was sent back to her.
Ritchie, watch out!" Li said and pushed Ritchie out of the way and they both landed on the floor, Li placed his arm around her to protect her from any sudden attacks, but Ritchie got hurt and coughed up some blood. Ritchie then snarled as she stood up. She was really angry at the Nai Phan Clan as to impersonating her and hurting Sakura. She decided to get rid of this member of the clan too. Gathering up all her energy, she called upon the power of ice to finish him off.
"Force know my plight! Release the light! ICE!"
Half of Jonathan's body got frozen to the floor while the other half struggled to get off. After doing that, Ritchie collapsed unconscious and fell to the ground. Sakura ran to her friend, and Li went to face Jonathan. Li then took out the Freeze Card and finished what Ritchie started.
"Freeze Card! Release!" Li said as he used his sword to release Freeze. A fish-like creature came out of its card and flew towards Jonathan and simply covered him and froze his whole body. Li then called back Freeze and walked over to the statue of Jonathan. Li looked at the blade of his sword for a second and slashed it at the side of the statue and it split into two and both halves were oozing blood and slowly turned into ashes and it melted with the ice and it looked like nothing happened. The two scimitars were still there so Li decided to get rid of it by breaking the stones. Sakura then asked Li to help her carry Ritchie up to her house so that they can revive her. So the two cardcaptors plus Madison and Kero walked over to Ritchie's house carrying the unconscious Ritchie.
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LaToya decided to look at their pyramid of power and she saw a yellow and a green orb explode.
"NO!" She shrieked, "I can't believe this. There are only three of us left. One of us has better to defeat them soon."
LaToya then walked to their balcony with an agonized look and also a look of revenge in her face.
"That girl doesn't know who she's dealing with, but she'll know soon enough!"
LaToya looked around and saw her last sister and brother, walking and playing around.
"There's only three of us left. Danielle, Joanne, Jonathan. I hope it's possible to beat those three soon." She said through clenched teeth and her blue pendant was glowing like crazy as she thought of.... Revenge.
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Well, there's chapter three. What do you think? Izzit okay? Does it need improvement? Tell me what you think and what I can do to make it better. I can handle criticism but plz be gentle with it. Thanx.
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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As soon as they got home, Sakura and Madison ran up to her room so that they can talk privately.
"Kero, what do you know about the Nai Phan Clan?" Sakura asked as she put down her stuff.
"Well, here's what I know about them..." Kero said then telling her what he knows about the clan.
"Well, since you're the chosen one, they are trying to get the cards from you." Kero concluded.
"But why me? I didn't want to be in this." Sakura protested.
"You didn't choose it Sakura, it chose you," Kero said, "now let's go and play those games!!"
Sakura sweatdropped and Madison giggled.
"Okay Kero, Here you go." Sakura said as she set up the new game for Kero.
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"Okay, Ritchie told me to look for 'Nai Phan'. Let's see, how about this?" he asked himself as he scanned through his bookshelf and grabbed a book. Li scanned through the book thoroughly one page at a time, and at last he found what he was looking for.
"So they want to get the card from the chosen one, huh? We'll see about that. They're gonna get through me first!" Li thought as he closed the book and headed down to the kitchen with the book safely tucked in his arm, and planned to do some more reading in the kitchen.
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Since she knew exactly what to look for, she went to their library and grabbed one of Clow Reed's books, the one when he made the Clow Cards. She stomped her way to Clow Reed's books, which got Foxy really concerned.
"Ritchie, are you okay? Ever since we left them, you have been too quiet. Is there anything I can do for you?" Foxy asked with a very concerned voice.
"Yeah. Can you get me something to drink? I'll need it later when I'm reading." Ritchie said as she grabbed the book.
"I knew it!" She said, "Nai Phan used to work with Clow Reed, but..." Ritchie paused.
"Oh no! How can tell Sakura?"
Ritchie then ran to the kitchen, grabbed Foxy by the tail and streaked to her room.
"So that means I did the right thing. I might have killed her but I didn't have a choice." She said to Foxy.
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It was now 9:00 and Li was still lying on his bed as his alarm clock started to ring. His eyes slowly flutter open as he stood up. When he was up, he was mumbling incoherently. The only words that you an understand him say is: "9:00", "Why?", "Grr!". and the list goes on.
He was still sleepy as he headed towards the bathroom to take a shower. As he opened the water, you can hear his voice all round the house as he screamed, "AHHH!!!!!!! THAT'S TOO COLD!!!!!" He then zoomed back to his room, covered with a towel ( *Snicker* Sorry, I just had to do that) to warm himself up. When he realized what happened, he stomped his way back to the bathroom again, but this time he was more aware of his surroundings than he was before.
He then took a quick bath and changed into his clothes, a dark blue T-shirt, denim jacket, cargo khaki pants and running shoes (pretty much what he wore in the episode with the Dash card), and took sometime to read his book since it was only 9:20.
"Oh no! Sakura! I have to protect her. I don't care what happens." Li looked in horror in his book. It was now 9:30 and Li decided to give Ritchie a visit. As he was getting near her house, he saw a figure up the tree. As he got closer, he realized that the figure was Ritchie, waiting for him.
"Ritchie, how'd you know I was coming?" Li asked as Ritchie jumped off the tree.
"I just had a feeling you'd wanna talk and besides, I sensed you anyway." Ritchie replied.
"So you know why I came here?" Li asked.
"Yes. Let's go inside." Ritchie then led him inside the house.
The two cousins talked for a while and left the house at 9:45. They arrived near Madison's house at about 9:55. They bumped into Sakura, who had Kero in her backpack but was now released as they were near Madison's house.
"Hey Li! Hey Ritchie!" Sakura greeted.
Both Li and Ritchie's faces had a very unusual look. They both looked worriedly at Sakura, but didn't want to make it obvious.
"Hey! What's going on? Why did we stop?" Foxy cut in, popping her head out of Ritchie's backpack. "Oh hi Sakura."
"Hello Foxy. Well, let's go." Sakura led the way to Madison's house, while both Ritchie and Li were trailing behind her. Li then ran behind Kero and plucked him out of the air.
"You didn't tell her, did you?" Li asked.
"No, not all of it. I didn't have the heart tell her." Kero said.
"Well, what do you know about them?" Ritchie asked.
"Well here I go." Kero began, " The Nai Phan Clan are people who used to work with Clow Reed. When he created the Clow Cards, it was really powerful and Nai Phan wanted to get their claws on it but couldn't since Clow Reed gave it a seal. For them to get it, they are going to have to wait for the chosen one, namely Sakura, and then they are going to destroy the chosen one."
When Li heard those words, his ears turned red in frustration but it wasn't noticeable since his hair covered his ears.
"And then," Kero continued, "make the guardian beast, namely me, to pass on the cards to them and they will use it to wreak havoc on wherever they go to." Kero then took a pause and looked at Li and Ritchie in a really concerned way.
"What?" They both asked.
"I think you'll want to hear this." Kero said.
Both of them looked at Kero skeptically.
"Listen kids, if someone is helping the chosen one capture the cards, Nai Phan has sworn to get rid of them too in order to get the cards quicker and fulfill their ancestral plan." Kero concluded.
"WHAT?!?!?!?!?" Both Li and Ritchie yelled.
"What's going on guys?" Sakura asked, "were almost at the gate already. Come on."
"Coming, Sakura," Kero said. " Break it to her easily, okay guys?" Kero whispered.
Li and Ritchie nodded as they entered and Madison was waiting for them.
"Come on guys, let's go to the study room." Madison said, pointing to the nearby room.
As the group finally got comfortable, Li decided to break the silence.
"Well, what do you know about the Clan, Sakura?" Li asked.
"Well, according to Kero, they want to get all the Clow Cards away from me." Sakura said.
"Actually, Sakura, it's more than that." Ritchie cut in.
"What do you mean?" Sakura asked.
Kero, Li, and Ritchie then took turns in saying about Nai Phan. When one can't say it, the other continues. When they finally said it fully, Sakura was shocked to say the least. Madison then ran out to get a drink for her guests since this was a shocking news, especially to Sakura.
"And since we're helping you..." Li continued.
"They're kinda after us too." Ritchie concluded.
Madison then came in with a tray of drinks. "I thought you guys might need it." she said as she distributed the drinks.
"Thanks, Madison" Sakura said calmly, trying not to stutter.
"Sorry, kid," Kero apologized, "I didn't want to break it to you alone. I didn't have the heart to tell you."
"It's okay, Kero. I understand." Said Sakura with a glimmer of determination on her eyes.
Madison saw this and said, "I'll see what I can do to make your battle costume more repellent to these powerful attacks."
Sakura then smiled. "Thank you, Madison."
Li and Ritchie both gave out a sigh of relief. The day passed on smoothly as they did what they had to do, and after that, they had fun but not forgetting their mission. Soon, they all had to go home and decided to talk about it more in school... hopefully.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* The Next Day, Ritchie's house *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Ritchie was about to go to school, she had just grabbed her stuff and made sure that she has everything in place.
Outside, two figures were lurking beneath the shadows of the trees.
"So she is the one who killed our sister, that pest!" the boy said.
"Don't worry, my dear brother. I know just the thing to do." The girl said as she used her yellow pendant to change herself into a little girl who just fell off her bike, visible enough so that Ritchie can see her.
Ritchie walked there soon enough, and she saw a girl who just fell off her bike. Ritchie then rushed to her side.
"Are you okay?" Ritchie asked.
"Yes, now I am," the girl said who had an evil grin on her face. Her pendant began to glow and wrapped Ritchie in a yellow aura and transported Ritchie into the Ancestral place. Ritchie screamed since she didn't know where she was being taken to and what was going to happen to her.
Sakura then heard the scream and both her and Madison rushed to the place where they thought they heard the scream. They then saw Ritchie and she was wearing a very odd necklace with a yellow pendant on it.
"Well, let's go." Ritchie offered. 'This is too easy.' She thought as her dark brown eyes glimmered and has a sly grin on her face.
Sakura, Madison and Ritchie were walking and saw Li.
"Hey guys!" He greeted then looked at Ritchie. 'Something is different about Ritchie today... I wonder what it is.' He thought.
As the morning passed by, Li was getting more and more suspicious of Ritchie especially in gym class. Ritchie was holding on to a yellow pendant before she did a double-flip into the air. When she did that, the pendant shone and only Li and Sakura noticed it. Li got more suspicious but he decided to lay it off... for now.
After the dismissal bell rang, Ritchie called Sakura up.
"Sakura, I think there is a Clow Card on the lose. Meet me at the park early, okay?" Ritchie said.
"Sure Ritchie." Sakura agreed.
'Perfect.' Ritchie though. ' She is falling into my trap.'
Unknown to Ritchie, Li heard this and decided to come early too.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ That Afternoon ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Ritchie was waiting for Sakura, and like she said, she was early.
Sakura was wearing a Chinese robe similar to Meilin, but it was pink with yellow linings and instead of a yin-yang it had Kero's face on it, and also, Kero was flying beside Sakura and Madison, who was recording what's happening.
"How much would you give for your friend, Sakura? How much?" Ritchie asked.
Sakura was puzzled. "What are you talking about, Ritchie??
Ritchie grinned and snapped her fingers. An electric cage appeared and the real Ritchie was inside, wearing her battle costume and everything but she was still unconscious.
Sakura was surprised. That's when she finally noticed the yellow necklace and realized that this girl is a member of the Nai Phan Clan.
"YOU! You are a member of the Nai Phan Clan, aren't you?" Sakura almost screamed.
"Good job, little cherry blossom. Very good." Ritchie's double smirked. Her pendant then glowed and enveloped her in the light. When the glow faded, a brunette girl who had her hair tied up in a bun was wearing similar clothes as Danielle. She had a short sleeved yellow dress that had slits up to her thigh. She didn't have pants like Danielle did though.
"Yes, I am a member of the Nai Phan Clan. My name is Joanne, and tell me little cherry blossom, which would you like to give? The cards for her life, or your death to enable me to get the cards?" Joanne asked.
"How about neither?" A new voice yelled.
"Li!" Madison said as she saw Li jumped up to the cage and smashed it with the blade of his sword. He then helped Ritchie up as she slowly woke up.
"Uh.... what?" Ritchie asked groggily as she looked around, "YOU!" Ritchie's eyes shot open as she saw Joanne's face. She slowly gained her power, took out her pin and transformed it to a sword, and attacked Joanne with it. She was about to hit Joanne with her sword when another person jumped in and blocked Ritchie's attack. Ritchie's eyes glared at the new figure as she saw the pendant on his necklace.
"He's from the middle class level in their clan." Ritchie hissed as she jumped back to where Li and Sakura were.
"About time, Jonathan!" Joanne scolded.
"You're welcome." Jonathan sneered.
"Last time, we defeated one of their third class members" Ritchie said.
Upon hearing this, Joanne and Jonathan glared at Sakura.
"So you defeated our sister!" Joanne shrieked.
"You will die!" Jonathan bellowed.
"She didn't do anything. I killed your sister and I'll do it again with you two if I have to!" Ritchie snapped.
This pushed Joanne to her limit. She then took out her scimitar that had yellow stones near it's blade. She then ran towards Ritchie ready to smash her skull open, but Ritchie moved quickly enough that she removed her sword from her sheath and blocked the attack. Using the hilt of her sword, Ritchie punched the side of Joanne's face and blood came out of her mouth.
Li was watching this and sensed something behind him. He quickly realized it was Jonathan so he decided to bring him up into the air.
"Now, element! Wind!" He chanted.
The wind wrapped Jonathan up and threw him into the air. When he came down, he brought out his scimitar and a green stone was at the hilt of the sword. Thus, this began Li's fight.
Sakura was watching in horror as her friends were fighting but deep inside, Sakura knew that she must help since they are really after her, not them. So she decided to help out. She brought out her key and said:
"Key of Clow. Power of magic. Power of light. Surrender the wand. The force ignite! Release! Arrow card! Release and dispell! Arrow!"
Sakura's staff then turned into a bow and she decided to help Ritchie out, seeing that Ritchie was getting tired and she didn't regain her energy back that fast.
Ritchie was getting tired by the second. With the punch she just received from Joanne, she was surprised that she was still able to block most of Joanne's attacks. Sakura then saw her chance and aimed for Joanne's chest but unfortunately, Joanne moved and the arrow missed her chest but it hit her in the arm and the arrow was deeply buried in her arm.
Joanne screamed as the pain shot from her arm. Now to get even, she used the hilt of her scimitar and punched the side of Ritchie's face then threw her to the side and walked towards Sakura.
Ritchie was on the floor, her blue robe was now dirty with all the dust that was around them. She slowly stood up, wiped some blood out of her mouth. As she used her sword to stand up, she saw Joanne coming up to Sakura.. She got really angry, closed her eyes and clenched her fist that a weird blue aura started glowing around her, she regained both her power and her energy, and for a split-second, she looked like a 15 year old girl. Her blue aura quickly faded as Ritchie opened her eyes. She aimed her sword towards Joanne's legs and said, " Force know my plight! Release the light! ICE!!!"
Ice beamed out of Ritchie's sword and froze Joanne on the spot. Sakura was looking at Joanne, with her legs frozen to the ground. Jonathan saw this and he kicked Li into the nearby tree. Madison rushed to his side to help him, while a tired Ritchie and a determined Sakura was facing Joanne, who was still frozen to the floor. Madison helped Li back to Sakura and Ritchie, but he just struggled to get free from Madison and used his power to separate Jonathan from Joanne.
"Now, element! Wind!"
Once again, the wind enveloped Jonathan and it threw him in the tree. Li regained a little bit of his energy and started attacking Jonathan once again.
"Now," Li began, "I believe that we started something that we didn't finished." Li grinned slyly as Jonathan took his scimitar and lunges at him. Li did a couple of back-flips to gain some distance from Jonathan and placed his sword in front of him in a defensive stance. Jonathan got really mad at him as he shot an energy ball towards Li but was deflected. On the other hand, Joanne finally got free from the ice pants that Ritchie gave her. She then snarled at Ritchie, who got all her energy back and attacked her. Joanne placed her scimitar back to it's sheath, took out a whip that had a yellow stone in the handle. Ritchie then remembered the time that they were fighting with Danielle.
Joanne was about to hit Ritchie with her whip but unfortunately for her Ritchie had a plan of her own and before she did her attack, Ritchie has already chopped off her whip into tiny little leather sticks, also cutting Joanne's hand in the process.
"Argh! You'll pay for that, you brat!" Joanne screamed.
Ritchie grinned evilly. "Please, put it in my bill." She sneered before attacking once again. She got a running start and did a flying kick that hit Joanne square in the chest. Joanne tumbled down as the pain on her chest increased. While Joanne was down, Ritchie ran up to Sakura.
"Are you okay?" Ritchie asked.
"Yes. I'm fine, thank you. Do you want me to take over?" Sakura asked.
"If you want," Ritchie answered. "But let's take care of her together."
"Okay," Sakura said. "Fight card, release and dispell! Fight!"
"Show time!" Ritchie smirked as she kneeled down on one leg and locked her hands together, ready to throw Sakura into the air so that she can attack from above.
"Ally oop!" Ritchie said as she flung Sakura into the air and Sakura did a helicopter hit that hit Joanne's face a lot of times.
Joanne was about to attack Sakura when Ritchie jumped in front her and sliced through her stomach sideways. Joanne stopped attacking and her scimitar fell on the floor. Once again, Ritchie stabbed her in the stomach and pulled her sword out again. She then placed a defensive arm in front of Sakura just in case Joanne had anymore last attacks.
Joanne just held on to her wounds and coughed up some blood (Oy! Bloodthirsty aren't I?) and said weakly, "Jonathan.... do your best... Don't fail our ancestors...... Don't fail them like I did.. Do it for our family..." With that last breath, she collapsed to the floor and all her stuff, except her scimitar turned to ashes and flew into the wind.
"JOANNE!" Jonathan yelled as he saw his twin sister disappeared into ashes. He then created an energy ball and threw it at Li to distract him. Sakura called fight back and called out sword. Ritchie and Sakura ran to Li, who deflected Jonathan's attack and the three placed their swords in front of them.
Jonathan knelt down and picked up some of Joanne's ashes, shed a tear and grabbed his sisters scimitar and attached it's hilt too the sword of his hilt. With that happening, his sword transformed into a staff with a blade on both sides and to the three cardcaptors surprise, it had power as to before, it didn't have any. Jonathan then twirled the staff around creating a really gusty wind towards the three cardcaptors.
"Sword card, return! Shield card! Release and dispell."
A ball enveloped Sakura, Li, Ritchie, Madison and Kero and it caused the wind just pass through them like they weren't even there.
Jonathan got furious and decided to attack them manually. Since Sakura, Li, and Ritchie was right beside each other, Jonathan slashed in between Sakura, Li, and Ritchie causing them either to jump back, do a flip, or just plainly run out of the way. Li jumped back, Sakura did a flip and Ritchie just plainly ran out of the way. Jonathan then targeted Ritchie for his next attack. Li then took advantage of the time that Jonathan was using to attack Ritchie.
"Force know my plight! Release the light! Lightning!" he yelled.
Lightning struck down on Jonathan and was paralyzed for a bit.
"Sakura, Ritchie, use fire now!" Li ordered.
"Okay!" They both yelled.
"Force know my plight! Relese the light! Fire!" Ritchie said as her sword blasted a huge amount of fire straight at Jonathan.
"Firey card! Release and dispell! Firey!" Sakura said as Firey flew out of it's card and headed towards Jonathan.
Now both attacks were headed straight for Jonathan, unfortunately though, fire card just passed through him like he wasn't even there and Ritchie's attack got deflected and was sent back to her.
Ritchie, watch out!" Li said and pushed Ritchie out of the way and they both landed on the floor, Li placed his arm around her to protect her from any sudden attacks, but Ritchie got hurt and coughed up some blood. Ritchie then snarled as she stood up. She was really angry at the Nai Phan Clan as to impersonating her and hurting Sakura. She decided to get rid of this member of the clan too. Gathering up all her energy, she called upon the power of ice to finish him off.
"Force know my plight! Release the light! ICE!"
Half of Jonathan's body got frozen to the floor while the other half struggled to get off. After doing that, Ritchie collapsed unconscious and fell to the ground. Sakura ran to her friend, and Li went to face Jonathan. Li then took out the Freeze Card and finished what Ritchie started.
"Freeze Card! Release!" Li said as he used his sword to release Freeze. A fish-like creature came out of its card and flew towards Jonathan and simply covered him and froze his whole body. Li then called back Freeze and walked over to the statue of Jonathan. Li looked at the blade of his sword for a second and slashed it at the side of the statue and it split into two and both halves were oozing blood and slowly turned into ashes and it melted with the ice and it looked like nothing happened. The two scimitars were still there so Li decided to get rid of it by breaking the stones. Sakura then asked Li to help her carry Ritchie up to her house so that they can revive her. So the two cardcaptors plus Madison and Kero walked over to Ritchie's house carrying the unconscious Ritchie.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Nai Phan Ancestral Place *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
LaToya decided to look at their pyramid of power and she saw a yellow and a green orb explode.
"NO!" She shrieked, "I can't believe this. There are only three of us left. One of us has better to defeat them soon."
LaToya then walked to their balcony with an agonized look and also a look of revenge in her face.
"That girl doesn't know who she's dealing with, but she'll know soon enough!"
LaToya looked around and saw her last sister and brother, walking and playing around.
"There's only three of us left. Danielle, Joanne, Jonathan. I hope it's possible to beat those three soon." She said through clenched teeth and her blue pendant was glowing like crazy as she thought of.... Revenge.
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Well, there's chapter three. What do you think? Izzit okay? Does it need improvement? Tell me what you think and what I can do to make it better. I can handle criticism but plz be gentle with it. Thanx.
Here alwayz,
Ritchie Waterfighter