A New Cardcaptor Or Another Enemy...
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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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Since Madison took a couple of pictures of them together, Sakura can't contain herself and picked up a sleeping Kero and started dancing with him.
"Sakura, what's going on?" He asked sleepily.
"Sorry Kero," She said then she ran down the stairs and saw her dad and her brother in the kitchen.
"Hey squirt. You're up early." Tory said, looking up from the newspaper.
"Good morning, Sakura," Her dad said.
"Morning dad," Sakura said, "Oh dad, is it okay if I go to the park right now?"
"Sure Sakura, though Tory has to LEAVE for soccer practice," Aiden stressed out.
Tory casually looked at his watch and then glared at it.
"I'M LATE!!!!!!" He yelled as he grabbed his bag, food, and soccer ball as he literally flew out the window. (Note: *Snickerz* Just a little payback since he always teases Sakura about being late)
"Okay, I think I'll just go to the park for now, dad. I'll be back really quick." She said and Aiden nodded. She then ran to her room to get Kero and headed outside.
As she was getting near the park, she saw 5 figures. 3 children, a lady, and a dog-like figure. One of the figures was waving at her and Sakura got a puzzled look and continued walking. As she got nearer, she realized that the figure that was waving at her was Madison and the other four was Li, Ritchie, Foxy, and Melinda.
"Hi Sakura," Madison greeted.
"Hey guys," she said as Kero floated on top of her. "What are you doing here?"
"I had an urge to go outdoors," Madison explained.
"I wanted to go around," Li said, slightly blushing.
"I just wanted to walk around," Ritchie said wincing at the pain in her ribs, "but I don't think it was a good idea since my ribs still hurt." She groaned. Ritchie tried to walk but collapsed. Melinda quickly caught her and helped her out. She then passed Ritchie some crutches.
"Well, I have to go for now," Melinda said, "Good-bye for now, chosen one."
"I hate crutches." Ritchie muttered under her breath as Melinda left.
"Thanks for the help, Ritchie. I really appreciate it." Sakura said.
"It's no problem Sakura. OW!!!!!" She yelled and then glared at Li.
"Sorry. I forgot about the broken ribs, but thanks for your help from yesterday." Li said as he elbowed Ritchie in the ribs lightly.
"Hey, it's the least I can do," She said wincing back at the pain, " I just hope I get better before the next attack."
"Hey, why don't we go to your house, Sakura?" Madison asked, trying to change the subject.
"My dad's working. I don't want to disturb him." Sakura replied.
"Why don't we go to Li's house?" Ritchie cut in. Li glared at her but she just smirked.
"Can we, Li?" Madison asked.
"Well... " Li began.
"Please?" Sakura said doing a puppy-dog face.
Li then blushed and backed away a bit. 'Oh man! How can I say no to that? She looks so pretty.' He thought to himself, and saw Ritchie grinning evilly at him. "All right," He said finally, " Wei is at home anyway."
Sakura then remembered that she only told her father that she will just go to the park, so she stopped the group and said she will just get her dad's permission. When her dad agreed, Sakura went back to the group and they happily went to Li's house though Ritchie was being helped by Li as they was walking. When they arrived, Li and Ritchie took off their shoes and Sakura and Madison followed them.
"Wei, I'll be in my room with my friends," Li said as he saw Wei.
"Aren't you going to say 'hi' to your visitor, master Li?" Wei asked. "Oh, hello Ritchie." He added when he realized that the girl that Li helped was Ritchie. (Imma not sure if Wei is the butler or whatnot but Imma putting that he's the guy from "A Meilin Story", k?)
Li looked puzzled. "But they're my only visitors." He said, letting Ritchie stand-up on her own.
Wei laughed. "She should come out soon," He said looking at the door beside Ritchie. The Door suddenly opened with full blast and Ritchie was thrown back to Sakura and Madison and got injured more.
"Li! You're here!!!" the new voice said.
"Huh?" Sakura, Li, Ritchie and Madison said as the new person wrapped her arms around Li, surprising him.
"Meilin?!?" Sakura, Madison, and Ritchie said in surprise, while Li had a BIG sweatdropped at the back of his head.
"Meilin, when did you come back?" Sakura asked.
"I arrived yesterday, but Wei told me that you went to a dance in school so I decided to surprise Li," Meiling explained.
"Well, you sure surprised me," Ritchie said, rubbing her jaw and wincing at the pain in her ribs.
"Huh?" Meilin squinted her eyes as she saw Ritchie. "Ritchie, what are you doing here?" Meilin asked and then saw Ritchie's crutch.
Ritchie sweatdropped and said, "Please don't ask."
Meiling was still latched on to Li, while he was trying to pry her off his neck. When he finally got her off, he asked what she was doing here.
"Oh, I just came over to visit." She said.
"Meilin...." Li said, giving her a you're-not-telling-me-the-truth stare.
"Okay, fine. My dad told Wei that we are going to have a Li Clan Family reunion next week or something. Oh yeah, Ritchie, your mom wanted me to give you this." Meilin explained and then tossed Ritchie a small vial.
"Huh? what's this?" Ritchie looked at the note in the vial as it read: "Would heal any injuries in contact". She then excused herself from the group and went to the washroom. After a couple of minutes in the washroom, Ritchie finally came out with the bandages off and she didn't walk wobbly anymore.
"Man, this thing works as fast as it says,' Ritchie said streching. Li then elbowed Ritchie again, to make sure if it really is okay, and she curled up in surprise. "I'm fine, Li. Don't worry." She assured him then elbowing him just to get even.
Every one of them, especially Meilin and Sakura, were talking a lot but this time when they reacquainted, they started off on the right foot. She wasn't as mad at Sakura as she was before. Time slowly passed away as the two friends were talking. When eleven o'clock came, Sakura, Ritchie and Madison excused themselves from Li and Meilin and said that they had to go for lunch. Meilin offered them to stay but Ritchie replied, " We'll be back real soon. Don't worry."
"Hey, how about you guys come over after lunch? We can spend the rest of the day there." Madison offered.
"Sure," they all agreed as Ritchie, Madison, Sakura and Foxy left to each of their houses as they headed out the door but Sakura hand came back inside and plucked Kero by the tail and was out the door.
At 1:30 Meilin, Li, Ritchie Sakura, Foxy and Kero were outside Madison's house. While waiting, Sakura and Meilin while you can see in the background that Kero and Li are arguing with each other while Ritchie and Foxy are trying to separate the two. Madison soon came out of the door and plucked Kero from the air. Foxy then gave a sigh of relief, She never knew that the guardian of Clow could be THIS stubborn sometimes.
Madison then led everyone inside the house and signaled them to go to a certain room, the rec room. Kero then got all starry-eyed as he saw the video game that Madison set up for him. Li then eyed an air hockey table around the corner. He turned around to ask Ritchie if she wanted to play a game with him but Ritchie disappeared. Li then slowly went up to Sakura and asked her if she wanted to play a game of air hockey with him, though he was blushing a bit. Sakura's face changed into a light pink hue and nodded her head. Li then led Sakura to the air hockey table. Meilin saw this and then glared at Sakura with flames in her eyes but was pulled back by Ritchie.
"Cool it, Meilin," Ritchie said, "They just want to play air hockey. Besides, it's not like they're going to leave the room or anything. Your going to live with Li for like a week or so, isn't that good enough for you?"
"Well, yeah," Meilin replied," We're friends. I can trust her."
"Come on, let's go talk with Madison and Foxy," Ritchie said.
"Hey Ritchie, just one more question. How did you do this?" Meilin whispered and Ritchie smirked. "Magic." Was all that Ritchie said.
It was now almost 5:30 and everyone was having fun at Madison's house when a wave of energy swept at the cardcaptors and their faces became dead serious, well, Ritchie and Li's faces were at least. Meilin saw this and decided to investigate this on her own. She excused herself from the group and went to the bathroom. On her way there, she saw something that belongs to Li. She then took it and ran out of the door, unnoticed by the group.
"A Nai Phan member is nearby," Li said calmly.
"Let's go," Ritchie said.
"Wait," Madison said as she grabbed a bag and gave it to Sakura, and told her to change into the battle costume.
When Sakura came back, she saw Madison ready with her video camera. Li was there in his battle costume and so was Ritchie.
'How can she possibly look anymore beautiful than this?' Li thought as Sakura came out, 'She looks good in that Chinese battle robe. What am I talking about? She looks good in any outfit!'
Ritchie then took a glance at her cousin and chuckled. She then went beside him, and whispered, "Why don't you ask her out already?"
That question snapped Li out of his trance. He then looked at Ritchie then glared at her. He then whispered back, "Not yet. When Meilin leaves, that's when I'll ask Sakura."
Sakura then joined up the group. She was wearing an outfit very similar to Meilin's costume but the white parts were neon yellow and the red parts were crimson red. The linings were light pink the Yin-yang sign was replaced with Kero's face on it. It was now kind of dark now so nobody would think they were weird.
"Where is it?" Sakura asked as she got her staff out, "where do you fell the presence?"
"It's that way," Ritchie and Li said as they pointed in different directions.
"How about the Lasin board? It will be much more better than nothing." Madison inquired.
Li then placed his hand behind him and an odd look crept upon his face. "The Lasin board is gone!" He said.
"How could that happen?" Sakura said.
"Meilin must've taken it. I saw her run outside." Foxy said.
"Foxy, why didn't you tell us?" Ritchie asked.
"Nobody asked." Foxy said, and Ritchie sighed.
"Well, at least I have something similar to the Lasin board," Ritchie said.
"Huh?" Sakura and Madison said.
Ritchie then took out her necklace that has a pendant that looks like the Lasin board. She then made the pendant float into thin air. Ritchie then looked at Li and he nodded and took Ritchie's hands. "Force of light with ancient spin! Send forth the magic power within! Force know my plight! Release the light!" They both chanted. With both of them using their powers with the Lasin board, the light grew brighter than usual and pointed in between where Ritchie and Li pointed. It pointed towards the park.
"What was that for?" Madison asked in curiosity.
"Since we are looking for two people, the Lasin's power might not be enough so Li and I combined our powers with the board." Ritchie explained. (I'm not sure if that's true but Imma just winging it.)
"Let's Fly!" Kero said as Sakura called out the Fly Card while Li, Ritchie, Madison and Foxy rode the staff with Sakura and they saw Meilin and they landed near her. Meilin saw them and squealed a bit.
"How did you guys know that I'm here?" Meilin asked, "I took the Lasin board."
"You forgot, Meilin, that I have a similar one to the Lasin board." Ritchie cut in.
The group then whipped their heads virtually everywhere when they heard a voice cackled. The Lasin board and necklace both glowed and pointed in the same direction... the penguin slide! Everyone, including Meilin, ran towards it and was ready to attack.
When they arrived, they saw a figure dressed up similar to Li's battle costume but was darker shade of green and the symbols in the robe were different as well. Her blonde hair flew with the wind, though most of it was tied up in a bun with two chopsticks holding it in. Her blue eyes sparkled with hatred against the three cardcaptors. Everyone but Meilin flinched when they saw the pendant on the girls necklace. She was wearing a green pendant, the second class of the Nai Phan Clan. Meilin just stood there confused on what's going on when the girl finally started talking.
"You killed my two brothers and sisters. Revenge is sweet for as long as I can savor it! The name is Janicka, and I-" The girl was cut off.
"Can it, missy! I think we all know what kind of brat you are!" Ritchie yelled.
"I'm sorry, but my mission is to get the cards from that pesky "Chosen One" and get rid of you people that are helping her and that's just what I will do!" Janicka yelled.
Upon hearing that, Li and Ritchie got their swords out and jumped in front of Sakura while Meilin just stood there confused.
"She's a member of the Nai Phan Clan, our ancestral rival." Li explain to Meilin but no taking his eyes off Janicka.
Janicka then cackled and produced 2 dolls from her sleeve; a female and a male. She then sprinkled some magic dust over them and threw the female doll down the slide and the male one in the air. As the dolls were falling, each of them became life size and faced their opponents, Ritchie and Li. The two gasped as the new people looked like them but they were created to help out Janicka with her quest to get the Clow cards away from Sakura. The clones where different in the clothes, the hair color and the eyes. The clones then took out their swords and lunged at their counterparts. Li and Ritchie moved swiftly and they dodged the blow of their doubles and got busy fighting.
Li was fighting a boy that looks like him but has dark brown eyes and black hair, and a really pale green battle robe. Li would attack and his double will block it and will counter attack with a jab, which Li would block. Ritchie, on the other hand, was fighting with a girl that has reddish-brown hair she had an icy stare in her green eyes and she had a light blue battle robe.
The two were busy fighting with their clones when Janicka jumped down from the penguin slide's crown to it's mouth and she slid down and advanced towards Sakura, who called upon the Sword Card. Meilin, finally seeing why Li and Ritchie are fighting, finally understood that the girl want's to get rid of Sakura. She then welcomed Janicka with a retaliated blow to the chest but Janicka just moved out of the way quickly and returned Meilin's welcome with a double kick in the air, Meilin blocked it but was hurt her that it sent her staggering back to Madison. Janicka once again started to walk towards Sakura and a scythe suddenly appeared into her hands out of nowhere. She then sliced at Sakura but was blocked since Sakura quickly put up her sword.
In the meantime...
Ritchie was beginning to get tired of fighting with her counterpart. She then noticed that her and her clone were slowly going away from the penguin slide and more into the park. They soon disappeared from sight but you can either hear their swords clashing or their grunts of combat but what did you expect this is no cat-fight.
While on the other hand...
Li was having no trouble with his double. The clone retaliated a blow but Li hits it no problem. The double then thrusts his sword but Li will parry the blow. The battle continues and Li is winning... so far.
Back to Sakura...
Sakura almost got hit a couple of times but she always blocked it with her sword.. She was getting tired by the second and Janicka was about to strike her down really hard but was kicked of the way by Meilin. Janicka's scythe flew out of her hands and decided to face Meilin woman-to-woman. Janicka yanked down Meilin's hair but Meilin back-flipped and kicked Janicka at the back of her head which caused her to let go of Meilin's hair. Meilin then landed on the floor with a small thump.
"Meilin, get out of the way," Sakura said as she produced a card from her sleeve.
"What?" Meilin asked while looking at Janicka, who was just standing up after her dive to the floor when she was kicked at the back of her head. When Meilin saw Sakura produce a card, she back-flipped a couple of times to gain some distance away from Janicka and allowed Sakura to use an attack card.
"Firey Card! Surround her with your power! Firey! Release and Dispel!" Sakura said as her wand hit the card and Firey flew around Janicka, creating a fire barrier preventing her from moving. For now, Sakura is safe.
When that was happening...
Ritchie, too, was getting tired by the second and it looks like her double is only absorbing all the attacks that Ritchie does. She then decided to freeze her double so she can get herself together again, and so she did.
"Force know my plight! Release the light! ICE!!" Ice beamed out of Ritchie's sword and froze the double on the spot. With that, Ritchie paused and took a breather. She then walked towards her double, who was glaring at her, and placed her sword in front of her.
"Even if you defeat me, you'll never defeat my mistress!!!!" Ritchie's double shrieked.
"Like I care!" Ritchie hissed as she threw five chuck-stars towards the double. Two were buried deep in the double's arms, two dug themselves deep into the double's leg and the last chuck-star was thrown into the double's stomach. The double screamed in agony but was stopped when Ritchie sliced her sword on her double's stomach.. The double then closed her eyes for the last time as the pain erupted throughout her body and fell lifeless on the floor with blood oozing out as it was a faucet pouring blood. When that happened, the double's form wavered and disappeared into thin air.
"Now that that's done, I'm gonna go back and help Li and Sakura," She said as she was running back. 'Wait! I'll just help them out if they need my help.' She thought as she jumped into the nearby trees and cautiously traveled to the tree wouldn't creak.
Meanwhile...
Li was now getting a tad tired but his double was really exhausted as it received another blow to the chest from Li. As that happened, Li and his double heard a scream at the far end of the playground. 'I hope Ritchie's safe,' he thought as he dodged his double's attack. Li then saw Sakura use the Fight Card to help her fight with Janicka, Meilin was helping too. He then looked back at his double who was planning an aerial attack, so he jumped into the air and started to kick Li as he flew towards him. Unfortunately for the double, Li caught wind of what he was doing so when the double kicked, Li grabbed his leg, turned around and elbowed his double's knee and got dislocated. when the double landed, he was limping around. Li was watching double act really pathetic.
"Let's end this!" Li said as he jumped over his double and kicked him over the head and the double stepped forward for a bit. Li quickly landed and faced his doubled back He took his sword out and aimed for the double's neck.. He then rammed the sword down towards the double's spine and it screamed bloody murder. Li then pulled back his sword and looked at the double. The double just gasped and breathed his last breath as he collapsed to the floor. He closed his eyes and his form, too, wavered and disappeared into thin air. Li then looked at his sword then looked at Sakura.
Speaking of Sakura...
Janicka got her scythe back, as Sakura was on the floor with Meilin as they try to catch their breaths. Fight turned back into a card and Sakura slowly stood up with her staff. Janicka just laughed at the effort that Sakura was doing to help herself and Meilin. Janicka then shot a fireball down towards them.
"I don't think so! Shield Card! Release and dispel!" Sakura said as she released shield.. It enveloped both Sakura and Meilin and the fireball just bounced off the shield. Sakura just called back Shield then Janicka was about to attack with another fireball at them. She was gathering energy and was about to throw the ball and then...
"LIGHTNING!!!" Li yelled as lightning came out of his sword and struck Janicka, stopping her from attacking Sakura or Meilin. Janicka jumped back in pain and in surprise when lightning struck her.
"Are you okay?" He asked Sakura worriedly.
"Yeah, I'm okay." Sakura said but then sweatdropped as Meilin latched herself into Li.
"Oh Li was so scared. I was so worried. I'm so glad that your safe." Meilin said as she "sobbed" on Li's shirt.
"Meilin, this is not a good time. We'll talk later" Li said, prying her off.
"Well, okay." Meilin said as she let go of him.
Janicka then cackled and Sakura, Li and Meilin whipped their heads to face Janicka but only to see her form waver and disappear.
"Where is she?" Sakura asked, tightening her grip on her staff, while Li has his sword in front of him in a defensive position while Meilin just placed her hands in front of her in a defensive position. Since Janicka figured out that one of them didn't have any magic powers, she yanked Meilin off the triangle from the hair, making her yell. Janicka's form became visible once again and when she heard Meilin scream, she shut her up by giving her a karate chop on the stomach then on her neck. After that, Janicka let go of Meilin's hair and fell down on the floor clutching her stomach and holding on to her throat. Meilin attempted to kick her but Janicka's form disappeared into nothingness once again.
"AHHHH!!!!" Janicka screamed as blood oozed out of the spot in her arm where a chuck-star was.
Li then saw the chuck-star in front of him, with blood oozing out, he then realized that it was Janicka and that she was right in front of him so he called upon the power of lightning to strike her down once again. Unfortunately though, Janicka deflected the lightning and her form became visible once again as she, painfully, removed the chuck-star from her right arm and now her sleeve was a brownish kind of color because of the blood. Li snarled as Janicka was right in front of him, he then stood in front of Sakura. Since Janicka has her scythe out in front of her, she grinned evilly and then looked at them.
"You're not the only ones who can use chants you know!" Janicka said, she then said a small chant and electricity came up from the ground and create a cage 'round them. Li tried to break it with his sword, as he did before to free Ritchie, but this time his sword just bounced back.
"What?" Li said as his attempt didn't work.
Janicka just laughed at Li's attempt but somehow she felt a presence around her. She was now seeing visions of her family being assassinated right in front of her eyes. Her family was being killed by a cloaked woman with two faces and was now headed towards her. Janicka then screamed bloody murder. Li and Sakura were just watching her and was surprised as Janicka was acting like she was going crazy.
Janicka then turned around and saw an item flying towards her. She squinted her eyes to see what item was approaching her. Her eyes shot open as she realized that it was a big and sharp hunk of ice flew towards her at great speed and she didn't have time to move out of the way that the ice just dug it's way through her stomach and passed through her body and the ice had turned from white to red because of the blood and some of Janicka's intestines came out with the hunk of ice. Janicka then collapsed and her electric cage slowly disappeared.
"LaToya... I'm... Sorry... I... Failed... You..." Janicka uttered.
'LaToya?' Ritchie thought as she called the Fright Card back and was listening from the nearest tree on where the gang was. 'So she's the leader.' Ritchie thought as she jumped into the others away from the cardcaptors so they wouldn't know that it was her who helped them out.
Sakura and Li were watching Janicka as her pendant exploded and her body slowly tuned into ashes, as her scythe did too, but for some reason, her battle robe just stayed put, it didn't disappeared with Janicka. They then turned their heads around and saw Ritchie running towards them.
"Hey, what happened, you guys?" She asked as she arrived.
"I don't know, she just died. It couldn't have been Meilin that killed her because she was with Madison, and it couldn't have been us because we were trapped in the cage and it only leave you, Ritchie." Li said.
Ritchie then looked at him in surprise she them placed her hands on her waist (u know, so that her sleeves will cover her hands) and said," Li Showron, I'm disappointed in you. I was busy fighting off my double," she said as her fingers were crossed, "how could I fight her?"
Li then cocked an eyebrow at her and Ritchie just winked at him. "Well, that might be true but we have to go back home." Li said as he said his good-bye and then left.
"Li! Wait for me!" Meilin said as she ran beside Li and latched her arms around him. Sakura sweatdropped and Madison approached her.
"Well, let's go." Madison said as Kero and Foxy jumped into her bag.
"Hurry! I wanna finish that game in Madison's house" Kero whined.
"We're going, Kero." Madison said as they began to walk to Madison's house.
When they arrived, Ritchie faced Madison and Sakura. "Guys, I will ask Melinda if I can invite you in the reunion, okay?" Ritchie said.
"That would be great, Ritchie." Sakura said and Madison nodded. Ritchie then transformed her clothes back to normal and said her good-byes. "I'll just see you guys in school." Ritchie said as Madison led her and Foxy to the door.
*** ANCESTRAL HOUSE OF THE NAI PHAN CLAN ***
After watching her last sister battle and get defeated. She then threw her wine glass that was filled with Pepsi.
"So, Ritchie. Looks like we're going to meet up once again but the next time we meet, you are going down so savor your last moments here because when I defeat you, I will let you suffer first, and after that, that's when you're going to fell the pain!" She said as she went to another room and grabbed her saber. "We'll see what happens!" She then laughed an icy cold laughter that sent chills down Ritchie's spine. Ritchie felt the chill and knew that it was from LaToya. When Ritchie got home, she asked Melinda if Madison and Sakura could come to the reunion, though in her head she is thinking on how she is going to destroy LaToya so that Sakura can capture the cards in peace.
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There's chapter 5. What did you think? Sorry about Meilin getting beaten up. Does it need improvement? Tell me what you think, k?
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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Since Madison took a couple of pictures of them together, Sakura can't contain herself and picked up a sleeping Kero and started dancing with him.
"Sakura, what's going on?" He asked sleepily.
"Sorry Kero," She said then she ran down the stairs and saw her dad and her brother in the kitchen.
"Hey squirt. You're up early." Tory said, looking up from the newspaper.
"Good morning, Sakura," Her dad said.
"Morning dad," Sakura said, "Oh dad, is it okay if I go to the park right now?"
"Sure Sakura, though Tory has to LEAVE for soccer practice," Aiden stressed out.
Tory casually looked at his watch and then glared at it.
"I'M LATE!!!!!!" He yelled as he grabbed his bag, food, and soccer ball as he literally flew out the window. (Note: *Snickerz* Just a little payback since he always teases Sakura about being late)
"Okay, I think I'll just go to the park for now, dad. I'll be back really quick." She said and Aiden nodded. She then ran to her room to get Kero and headed outside.
As she was getting near the park, she saw 5 figures. 3 children, a lady, and a dog-like figure. One of the figures was waving at her and Sakura got a puzzled look and continued walking. As she got nearer, she realized that the figure that was waving at her was Madison and the other four was Li, Ritchie, Foxy, and Melinda.
"Hi Sakura," Madison greeted.
"Hey guys," she said as Kero floated on top of her. "What are you doing here?"
"I had an urge to go outdoors," Madison explained.
"I wanted to go around," Li said, slightly blushing.
"I just wanted to walk around," Ritchie said wincing at the pain in her ribs, "but I don't think it was a good idea since my ribs still hurt." She groaned. Ritchie tried to walk but collapsed. Melinda quickly caught her and helped her out. She then passed Ritchie some crutches.
"Well, I have to go for now," Melinda said, "Good-bye for now, chosen one."
"I hate crutches." Ritchie muttered under her breath as Melinda left.
"Thanks for the help, Ritchie. I really appreciate it." Sakura said.
"It's no problem Sakura. OW!!!!!" She yelled and then glared at Li.
"Sorry. I forgot about the broken ribs, but thanks for your help from yesterday." Li said as he elbowed Ritchie in the ribs lightly.
"Hey, it's the least I can do," She said wincing back at the pain, " I just hope I get better before the next attack."
"Hey, why don't we go to your house, Sakura?" Madison asked, trying to change the subject.
"My dad's working. I don't want to disturb him." Sakura replied.
"Why don't we go to Li's house?" Ritchie cut in. Li glared at her but she just smirked.
"Can we, Li?" Madison asked.
"Well... " Li began.
"Please?" Sakura said doing a puppy-dog face.
Li then blushed and backed away a bit. 'Oh man! How can I say no to that? She looks so pretty.' He thought to himself, and saw Ritchie grinning evilly at him. "All right," He said finally, " Wei is at home anyway."
Sakura then remembered that she only told her father that she will just go to the park, so she stopped the group and said she will just get her dad's permission. When her dad agreed, Sakura went back to the group and they happily went to Li's house though Ritchie was being helped by Li as they was walking. When they arrived, Li and Ritchie took off their shoes and Sakura and Madison followed them.
"Wei, I'll be in my room with my friends," Li said as he saw Wei.
"Aren't you going to say 'hi' to your visitor, master Li?" Wei asked. "Oh, hello Ritchie." He added when he realized that the girl that Li helped was Ritchie. (Imma not sure if Wei is the butler or whatnot but Imma putting that he's the guy from "A Meilin Story", k?)
Li looked puzzled. "But they're my only visitors." He said, letting Ritchie stand-up on her own.
Wei laughed. "She should come out soon," He said looking at the door beside Ritchie. The Door suddenly opened with full blast and Ritchie was thrown back to Sakura and Madison and got injured more.
"Li! You're here!!!" the new voice said.
"Huh?" Sakura, Li, Ritchie and Madison said as the new person wrapped her arms around Li, surprising him.
"Meilin?!?" Sakura, Madison, and Ritchie said in surprise, while Li had a BIG sweatdropped at the back of his head.
"Meilin, when did you come back?" Sakura asked.
"I arrived yesterday, but Wei told me that you went to a dance in school so I decided to surprise Li," Meiling explained.
"Well, you sure surprised me," Ritchie said, rubbing her jaw and wincing at the pain in her ribs.
"Huh?" Meilin squinted her eyes as she saw Ritchie. "Ritchie, what are you doing here?" Meilin asked and then saw Ritchie's crutch.
Ritchie sweatdropped and said, "Please don't ask."
Meiling was still latched on to Li, while he was trying to pry her off his neck. When he finally got her off, he asked what she was doing here.
"Oh, I just came over to visit." She said.
"Meilin...." Li said, giving her a you're-not-telling-me-the-truth stare.
"Okay, fine. My dad told Wei that we are going to have a Li Clan Family reunion next week or something. Oh yeah, Ritchie, your mom wanted me to give you this." Meilin explained and then tossed Ritchie a small vial.
"Huh? what's this?" Ritchie looked at the note in the vial as it read: "Would heal any injuries in contact". She then excused herself from the group and went to the washroom. After a couple of minutes in the washroom, Ritchie finally came out with the bandages off and she didn't walk wobbly anymore.
"Man, this thing works as fast as it says,' Ritchie said streching. Li then elbowed Ritchie again, to make sure if it really is okay, and she curled up in surprise. "I'm fine, Li. Don't worry." She assured him then elbowing him just to get even.
Every one of them, especially Meilin and Sakura, were talking a lot but this time when they reacquainted, they started off on the right foot. She wasn't as mad at Sakura as she was before. Time slowly passed away as the two friends were talking. When eleven o'clock came, Sakura, Ritchie and Madison excused themselves from Li and Meilin and said that they had to go for lunch. Meilin offered them to stay but Ritchie replied, " We'll be back real soon. Don't worry."
"Hey, how about you guys come over after lunch? We can spend the rest of the day there." Madison offered.
"Sure," they all agreed as Ritchie, Madison, Sakura and Foxy left to each of their houses as they headed out the door but Sakura hand came back inside and plucked Kero by the tail and was out the door.
At 1:30 Meilin, Li, Ritchie Sakura, Foxy and Kero were outside Madison's house. While waiting, Sakura and Meilin while you can see in the background that Kero and Li are arguing with each other while Ritchie and Foxy are trying to separate the two. Madison soon came out of the door and plucked Kero from the air. Foxy then gave a sigh of relief, She never knew that the guardian of Clow could be THIS stubborn sometimes.
Madison then led everyone inside the house and signaled them to go to a certain room, the rec room. Kero then got all starry-eyed as he saw the video game that Madison set up for him. Li then eyed an air hockey table around the corner. He turned around to ask Ritchie if she wanted to play a game with him but Ritchie disappeared. Li then slowly went up to Sakura and asked her if she wanted to play a game of air hockey with him, though he was blushing a bit. Sakura's face changed into a light pink hue and nodded her head. Li then led Sakura to the air hockey table. Meilin saw this and then glared at Sakura with flames in her eyes but was pulled back by Ritchie.
"Cool it, Meilin," Ritchie said, "They just want to play air hockey. Besides, it's not like they're going to leave the room or anything. Your going to live with Li for like a week or so, isn't that good enough for you?"
"Well, yeah," Meilin replied," We're friends. I can trust her."
"Come on, let's go talk with Madison and Foxy," Ritchie said.
"Hey Ritchie, just one more question. How did you do this?" Meilin whispered and Ritchie smirked. "Magic." Was all that Ritchie said.
It was now almost 5:30 and everyone was having fun at Madison's house when a wave of energy swept at the cardcaptors and their faces became dead serious, well, Ritchie and Li's faces were at least. Meilin saw this and decided to investigate this on her own. She excused herself from the group and went to the bathroom. On her way there, she saw something that belongs to Li. She then took it and ran out of the door, unnoticed by the group.
"A Nai Phan member is nearby," Li said calmly.
"Let's go," Ritchie said.
"Wait," Madison said as she grabbed a bag and gave it to Sakura, and told her to change into the battle costume.
When Sakura came back, she saw Madison ready with her video camera. Li was there in his battle costume and so was Ritchie.
'How can she possibly look anymore beautiful than this?' Li thought as Sakura came out, 'She looks good in that Chinese battle robe. What am I talking about? She looks good in any outfit!'
Ritchie then took a glance at her cousin and chuckled. She then went beside him, and whispered, "Why don't you ask her out already?"
That question snapped Li out of his trance. He then looked at Ritchie then glared at her. He then whispered back, "Not yet. When Meilin leaves, that's when I'll ask Sakura."
Sakura then joined up the group. She was wearing an outfit very similar to Meilin's costume but the white parts were neon yellow and the red parts were crimson red. The linings were light pink the Yin-yang sign was replaced with Kero's face on it. It was now kind of dark now so nobody would think they were weird.
"Where is it?" Sakura asked as she got her staff out, "where do you fell the presence?"
"It's that way," Ritchie and Li said as they pointed in different directions.
"How about the Lasin board? It will be much more better than nothing." Madison inquired.
Li then placed his hand behind him and an odd look crept upon his face. "The Lasin board is gone!" He said.
"How could that happen?" Sakura said.
"Meilin must've taken it. I saw her run outside." Foxy said.
"Foxy, why didn't you tell us?" Ritchie asked.
"Nobody asked." Foxy said, and Ritchie sighed.
"Well, at least I have something similar to the Lasin board," Ritchie said.
"Huh?" Sakura and Madison said.
Ritchie then took out her necklace that has a pendant that looks like the Lasin board. She then made the pendant float into thin air. Ritchie then looked at Li and he nodded and took Ritchie's hands. "Force of light with ancient spin! Send forth the magic power within! Force know my plight! Release the light!" They both chanted. With both of them using their powers with the Lasin board, the light grew brighter than usual and pointed in between where Ritchie and Li pointed. It pointed towards the park.
"What was that for?" Madison asked in curiosity.
"Since we are looking for two people, the Lasin's power might not be enough so Li and I combined our powers with the board." Ritchie explained. (I'm not sure if that's true but Imma just winging it.)
"Let's Fly!" Kero said as Sakura called out the Fly Card while Li, Ritchie, Madison and Foxy rode the staff with Sakura and they saw Meilin and they landed near her. Meilin saw them and squealed a bit.
"How did you guys know that I'm here?" Meilin asked, "I took the Lasin board."
"You forgot, Meilin, that I have a similar one to the Lasin board." Ritchie cut in.
The group then whipped their heads virtually everywhere when they heard a voice cackled. The Lasin board and necklace both glowed and pointed in the same direction... the penguin slide! Everyone, including Meilin, ran towards it and was ready to attack.
When they arrived, they saw a figure dressed up similar to Li's battle costume but was darker shade of green and the symbols in the robe were different as well. Her blonde hair flew with the wind, though most of it was tied up in a bun with two chopsticks holding it in. Her blue eyes sparkled with hatred against the three cardcaptors. Everyone but Meilin flinched when they saw the pendant on the girls necklace. She was wearing a green pendant, the second class of the Nai Phan Clan. Meilin just stood there confused on what's going on when the girl finally started talking.
"You killed my two brothers and sisters. Revenge is sweet for as long as I can savor it! The name is Janicka, and I-" The girl was cut off.
"Can it, missy! I think we all know what kind of brat you are!" Ritchie yelled.
"I'm sorry, but my mission is to get the cards from that pesky "Chosen One" and get rid of you people that are helping her and that's just what I will do!" Janicka yelled.
Upon hearing that, Li and Ritchie got their swords out and jumped in front of Sakura while Meilin just stood there confused.
"She's a member of the Nai Phan Clan, our ancestral rival." Li explain to Meilin but no taking his eyes off Janicka.
Janicka then cackled and produced 2 dolls from her sleeve; a female and a male. She then sprinkled some magic dust over them and threw the female doll down the slide and the male one in the air. As the dolls were falling, each of them became life size and faced their opponents, Ritchie and Li. The two gasped as the new people looked like them but they were created to help out Janicka with her quest to get the Clow cards away from Sakura. The clones where different in the clothes, the hair color and the eyes. The clones then took out their swords and lunged at their counterparts. Li and Ritchie moved swiftly and they dodged the blow of their doubles and got busy fighting.
Li was fighting a boy that looks like him but has dark brown eyes and black hair, and a really pale green battle robe. Li would attack and his double will block it and will counter attack with a jab, which Li would block. Ritchie, on the other hand, was fighting with a girl that has reddish-brown hair she had an icy stare in her green eyes and she had a light blue battle robe.
The two were busy fighting with their clones when Janicka jumped down from the penguin slide's crown to it's mouth and she slid down and advanced towards Sakura, who called upon the Sword Card. Meilin, finally seeing why Li and Ritchie are fighting, finally understood that the girl want's to get rid of Sakura. She then welcomed Janicka with a retaliated blow to the chest but Janicka just moved out of the way quickly and returned Meilin's welcome with a double kick in the air, Meilin blocked it but was hurt her that it sent her staggering back to Madison. Janicka once again started to walk towards Sakura and a scythe suddenly appeared into her hands out of nowhere. She then sliced at Sakura but was blocked since Sakura quickly put up her sword.
In the meantime...
Ritchie was beginning to get tired of fighting with her counterpart. She then noticed that her and her clone were slowly going away from the penguin slide and more into the park. They soon disappeared from sight but you can either hear their swords clashing or their grunts of combat but what did you expect this is no cat-fight.
While on the other hand...
Li was having no trouble with his double. The clone retaliated a blow but Li hits it no problem. The double then thrusts his sword but Li will parry the blow. The battle continues and Li is winning... so far.
Back to Sakura...
Sakura almost got hit a couple of times but she always blocked it with her sword.. She was getting tired by the second and Janicka was about to strike her down really hard but was kicked of the way by Meilin. Janicka's scythe flew out of her hands and decided to face Meilin woman-to-woman. Janicka yanked down Meilin's hair but Meilin back-flipped and kicked Janicka at the back of her head which caused her to let go of Meilin's hair. Meilin then landed on the floor with a small thump.
"Meilin, get out of the way," Sakura said as she produced a card from her sleeve.
"What?" Meilin asked while looking at Janicka, who was just standing up after her dive to the floor when she was kicked at the back of her head. When Meilin saw Sakura produce a card, she back-flipped a couple of times to gain some distance away from Janicka and allowed Sakura to use an attack card.
"Firey Card! Surround her with your power! Firey! Release and Dispel!" Sakura said as her wand hit the card and Firey flew around Janicka, creating a fire barrier preventing her from moving. For now, Sakura is safe.
When that was happening...
Ritchie, too, was getting tired by the second and it looks like her double is only absorbing all the attacks that Ritchie does. She then decided to freeze her double so she can get herself together again, and so she did.
"Force know my plight! Release the light! ICE!!" Ice beamed out of Ritchie's sword and froze the double on the spot. With that, Ritchie paused and took a breather. She then walked towards her double, who was glaring at her, and placed her sword in front of her.
"Even if you defeat me, you'll never defeat my mistress!!!!" Ritchie's double shrieked.
"Like I care!" Ritchie hissed as she threw five chuck-stars towards the double. Two were buried deep in the double's arms, two dug themselves deep into the double's leg and the last chuck-star was thrown into the double's stomach. The double screamed in agony but was stopped when Ritchie sliced her sword on her double's stomach.. The double then closed her eyes for the last time as the pain erupted throughout her body and fell lifeless on the floor with blood oozing out as it was a faucet pouring blood. When that happened, the double's form wavered and disappeared into thin air.
"Now that that's done, I'm gonna go back and help Li and Sakura," She said as she was running back. 'Wait! I'll just help them out if they need my help.' She thought as she jumped into the nearby trees and cautiously traveled to the tree wouldn't creak.
Meanwhile...
Li was now getting a tad tired but his double was really exhausted as it received another blow to the chest from Li. As that happened, Li and his double heard a scream at the far end of the playground. 'I hope Ritchie's safe,' he thought as he dodged his double's attack. Li then saw Sakura use the Fight Card to help her fight with Janicka, Meilin was helping too. He then looked back at his double who was planning an aerial attack, so he jumped into the air and started to kick Li as he flew towards him. Unfortunately for the double, Li caught wind of what he was doing so when the double kicked, Li grabbed his leg, turned around and elbowed his double's knee and got dislocated. when the double landed, he was limping around. Li was watching double act really pathetic.
"Let's end this!" Li said as he jumped over his double and kicked him over the head and the double stepped forward for a bit. Li quickly landed and faced his doubled back He took his sword out and aimed for the double's neck.. He then rammed the sword down towards the double's spine and it screamed bloody murder. Li then pulled back his sword and looked at the double. The double just gasped and breathed his last breath as he collapsed to the floor. He closed his eyes and his form, too, wavered and disappeared into thin air. Li then looked at his sword then looked at Sakura.
Speaking of Sakura...
Janicka got her scythe back, as Sakura was on the floor with Meilin as they try to catch their breaths. Fight turned back into a card and Sakura slowly stood up with her staff. Janicka just laughed at the effort that Sakura was doing to help herself and Meilin. Janicka then shot a fireball down towards them.
"I don't think so! Shield Card! Release and dispel!" Sakura said as she released shield.. It enveloped both Sakura and Meilin and the fireball just bounced off the shield. Sakura just called back Shield then Janicka was about to attack with another fireball at them. She was gathering energy and was about to throw the ball and then...
"LIGHTNING!!!" Li yelled as lightning came out of his sword and struck Janicka, stopping her from attacking Sakura or Meilin. Janicka jumped back in pain and in surprise when lightning struck her.
"Are you okay?" He asked Sakura worriedly.
"Yeah, I'm okay." Sakura said but then sweatdropped as Meilin latched herself into Li.
"Oh Li was so scared. I was so worried. I'm so glad that your safe." Meilin said as she "sobbed" on Li's shirt.
"Meilin, this is not a good time. We'll talk later" Li said, prying her off.
"Well, okay." Meilin said as she let go of him.
Janicka then cackled and Sakura, Li and Meilin whipped their heads to face Janicka but only to see her form waver and disappear.
"Where is she?" Sakura asked, tightening her grip on her staff, while Li has his sword in front of him in a defensive position while Meilin just placed her hands in front of her in a defensive position. Since Janicka figured out that one of them didn't have any magic powers, she yanked Meilin off the triangle from the hair, making her yell. Janicka's form became visible once again and when she heard Meilin scream, she shut her up by giving her a karate chop on the stomach then on her neck. After that, Janicka let go of Meilin's hair and fell down on the floor clutching her stomach and holding on to her throat. Meilin attempted to kick her but Janicka's form disappeared into nothingness once again.
"AHHHH!!!!" Janicka screamed as blood oozed out of the spot in her arm where a chuck-star was.
Li then saw the chuck-star in front of him, with blood oozing out, he then realized that it was Janicka and that she was right in front of him so he called upon the power of lightning to strike her down once again. Unfortunately though, Janicka deflected the lightning and her form became visible once again as she, painfully, removed the chuck-star from her right arm and now her sleeve was a brownish kind of color because of the blood. Li snarled as Janicka was right in front of him, he then stood in front of Sakura. Since Janicka has her scythe out in front of her, she grinned evilly and then looked at them.
"You're not the only ones who can use chants you know!" Janicka said, she then said a small chant and electricity came up from the ground and create a cage 'round them. Li tried to break it with his sword, as he did before to free Ritchie, but this time his sword just bounced back.
"What?" Li said as his attempt didn't work.
Janicka just laughed at Li's attempt but somehow she felt a presence around her. She was now seeing visions of her family being assassinated right in front of her eyes. Her family was being killed by a cloaked woman with two faces and was now headed towards her. Janicka then screamed bloody murder. Li and Sakura were just watching her and was surprised as Janicka was acting like she was going crazy.
Janicka then turned around and saw an item flying towards her. She squinted her eyes to see what item was approaching her. Her eyes shot open as she realized that it was a big and sharp hunk of ice flew towards her at great speed and she didn't have time to move out of the way that the ice just dug it's way through her stomach and passed through her body and the ice had turned from white to red because of the blood and some of Janicka's intestines came out with the hunk of ice. Janicka then collapsed and her electric cage slowly disappeared.
"LaToya... I'm... Sorry... I... Failed... You..." Janicka uttered.
'LaToya?' Ritchie thought as she called the Fright Card back and was listening from the nearest tree on where the gang was. 'So she's the leader.' Ritchie thought as she jumped into the others away from the cardcaptors so they wouldn't know that it was her who helped them out.
Sakura and Li were watching Janicka as her pendant exploded and her body slowly tuned into ashes, as her scythe did too, but for some reason, her battle robe just stayed put, it didn't disappeared with Janicka. They then turned their heads around and saw Ritchie running towards them.
"Hey, what happened, you guys?" She asked as she arrived.
"I don't know, she just died. It couldn't have been Meilin that killed her because she was with Madison, and it couldn't have been us because we were trapped in the cage and it only leave you, Ritchie." Li said.
Ritchie then looked at him in surprise she them placed her hands on her waist (u know, so that her sleeves will cover her hands) and said," Li Showron, I'm disappointed in you. I was busy fighting off my double," she said as her fingers were crossed, "how could I fight her?"
Li then cocked an eyebrow at her and Ritchie just winked at him. "Well, that might be true but we have to go back home." Li said as he said his good-bye and then left.
"Li! Wait for me!" Meilin said as she ran beside Li and latched her arms around him. Sakura sweatdropped and Madison approached her.
"Well, let's go." Madison said as Kero and Foxy jumped into her bag.
"Hurry! I wanna finish that game in Madison's house" Kero whined.
"We're going, Kero." Madison said as they began to walk to Madison's house.
When they arrived, Ritchie faced Madison and Sakura. "Guys, I will ask Melinda if I can invite you in the reunion, okay?" Ritchie said.
"That would be great, Ritchie." Sakura said and Madison nodded. Ritchie then transformed her clothes back to normal and said her good-byes. "I'll just see you guys in school." Ritchie said as Madison led her and Foxy to the door.
*** ANCESTRAL HOUSE OF THE NAI PHAN CLAN ***
After watching her last sister battle and get defeated. She then threw her wine glass that was filled with Pepsi.
"So, Ritchie. Looks like we're going to meet up once again but the next time we meet, you are going down so savor your last moments here because when I defeat you, I will let you suffer first, and after that, that's when you're going to fell the pain!" She said as she went to another room and grabbed her saber. "We'll see what happens!" She then laughed an icy cold laughter that sent chills down Ritchie's spine. Ritchie felt the chill and knew that it was from LaToya. When Ritchie got home, she asked Melinda if Madison and Sakura could come to the reunion, though in her head she is thinking on how she is going to destroy LaToya so that Sakura can capture the cards in peace.
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There's chapter 5. What did you think? Sorry about Meilin getting beaten up. Does it need improvement? Tell me what you think, k?
Here alwayz,
Ritchie Waterfighter