Episode #5: Sakura and the Drained Guardians

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The alarm clock on Sakura's dresser sounded loudly like crazy and she woke up, tucked it into bed, turned it off, and put it back on. However, Kero heard the alarm and woke her up for her. "Sakura you sleep too much!" Kero whined. "Arigato Kero-chan," she yawned out. "What's wrong with you Sakura?" Kero asked, "Normally every night you tell me how your day was, yesterday was different, why are you doing this Sakura?" Sakura went to change into her school uniform but felt so sore over her body. "Kero-chan, I've been fighting," "FIGHTING!" Kero exclaimed, "Why would you do that?" Sakura managing to change despite her sores all over her body, picked up her book bag and put on her cap. "Kero-chan, lately, magic never wears me out as much as fighting, especially with Lung Da!"
"LUNG DA!" Kero snapped hearing his name; "Oh when I get my hands on him, I'll rough him up, nobody does that to my pal Yue and lives." Sakura gave a weak nod and rubbed her sore neck. "Sakura-san, breakfast is ready," Fujitaka yelled down the stairs. "Hai..." she muttered.

Elsewhere, in Syaoran's temporary apartment, Vung sat on the railing of the balcony and she sighed looking at the sunrise. Mei Ling saw her old friend so sad, so Mei Ling came to cheer her up. "You know, I think it's good you finally kicked Lung's butt, it's about time someone did it." Vung's face was unchanged, but she closed her eyes for a moment, thinking. Mei Ling saw this and tried to pass her a handkerchief but she said she didn't need it.
"We had him Mei Ling," Vung replied, "He was back, Lung was his old self again. But we were cowards and we ran away." The tears dripped on her striped blue pajamas. "I just want him back, is that too hard to ask?"
"No!" Syaoran butted in with a dignified tone, "I won't betray my friend any longer, we will bring him back!" Syaoran as determined as ever raised his hand in the air. "Doing what we did yesterday, even for a brief moment brought him back, imagine what will happen if we finally get rid of that thing that's inside of him," "But Syaoran," Vung interrupted, "That thing wants you, not me. You have the magic, and he wants it!" "You forget Vung," Syaoran gave a striking eye to her, "Lung wants us...he wants his friends, even if that thing is inside of him, bringing out Lung Da will get that other thing."
"Syaoran never fails!" Mei Ling added a comment. "Syaoran," Vung whispered as Syaoran paid attention, "I just realized, that Lung Da had the best friends ever."

Syaoran, Mei Ling, Sakura, and Tomoyo all hurried to school on foot. "You know...I could have asked my mother if she could've gotten us a limo!" Tomoyo suggested. "Ha...limos you're funny Tomoyo-chan. Why drive when you can run to school!" Mei Ling teased everyone who gave straight looks at her. She got really embarrassed and shut up.
Syaoran, Mei Ling, Sakura, and Tomoyo all sat in their seats quickly before the teacher walked in. "Take your seats!" the teacher said in the nick of time. "Homeroom is starting now, so if you're in the wrong classroom please get out."


In a dark, musty, cave. Lung woke up hearing light drops from the water. "Where am I?" he said, "Who's this thing inside of me?" Lung closed his eyes for a second thinking, and remembered hurting Wei, hurting Vung, hurting Mei Ling, hurting Syaoran, hurting Sakura, and hurting Yue. "Why am I doing these things?" All of the sudden, a major splitting head ache made him press his hands on his head and squeeze the head ache out. But really all along after he settled down, he heard voices.
:"Have you forgotten how we met Lung Da?" the voice in his head asked. "I wish I did Tew Lo." "Ahh so you remember my name after all, must be your good side kicking in, the bad side would worship me right about now." "Worship? Hardly!" Lung refused to submit to the spirit known as Tew Lo. He thought about long ago, when he went on a journey to change.

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Lung was meditating next to a lake and he thought about nature, the vast nature that surrounded him. He was deep in thought and saw clouds and beautiful flowers. Suddenly, he heard a moan. He quickly opened his eyes and turned around a tree stump, but found no one. He looked at a nearby rock and then saw an old man lying on a rock his neck was bent. Lung went to go check his pulse, but then, a black shadow escaped his body and formulated into a man. This man appeared with black Chinese clothes, a spiked haircut, a goatee, and two small sharp eyes.
Lung looked at him feeling intimidated by his aura. "I sense your fighting spirit," the man said, "Who is this guy?" Lung asked as he took a fighting stance, "It's your funeral. "I'm Tew Lo, I wouldn't suspect any less of a fight than the only son of Lofu Da!" Lung snapped his head at the man. "You knew my father?" Lung Da asked. The man opened at stared at his hands, "His blood is in my hands, such an unfortunate death." Lung clenched his teeth and charged at the man named Tew Lo, but his body passed right through him. Tew Lo laughed maniacally and he took a fighting stance. Lung Da took a fighting stance, "I've trained my whole life to beat you, and I shall do it for my father."
Lung let out long combos, but all punches and kicks went right through him. Tew Lo just took his hand and pounded him in the chest. Lung flew back and hit a tree; he sucked up the pain and got back up again to do a roundhouse to his head. His leg went right through, and then Tew Lo went behind him and electrocuted his back. Lung Da screamed of pain. "How does that feel?" Tew Lo laughed like a madman and let go of his back.
Sizzling steam came out of Lung Da as he fell face first to the ground. "Hmm..." Tew Lo laughed, "Just like your father, you both failed, although unlike your father I may have use for you!" Lung opened his eyes and saw Tew Lo put his hands on his head. Lung started to feel nauseous and a headache coming on. "I'll bring the evil side out of you, so you can hurt all those you care about, and then, I might get the magic I need to become a whole person again." Lung screamed as he saw the last sights of life.

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"You're good side has come out again though," Tew Lo voice spoke again, "If you're going to get me my magic, looks like your evil side will have to take over again." Lung refused, he didn't want him to be in control again, but as soon as Lung stood up, he clutched his head again for a long time, but after a while he let go of his head and smirked.

Touya and Yukito were walking home together after their University was finished. Yukito as usual was eating and Touya just walked home not doing anything in particular. Yukito and Touya were silent for a long time, until Yukito felt an aura near a bush. Yukito walked back by the bush, "Yuki, what's wrong?" Touya asked. As Yukito touched a leaf on the bush, a hand came out and grabbed him. Yukito wondered what it was and tried to pull away, but the hand was already sucking rings of energy out of Yukito's arm.
Touya quickly ran towards the hand and kicked it to break the hold the hand had on Yukito. Lung Da jumped out of the bush and gave a strong jump kick to Yukito's chest. Yukito got knocked out cold and Touya came out to help his fallen friend. But everything that Touya threw at him didn't make a mark on Lung Da; Lung Da just smiled and said, "Karate does not compare to kung-fu!"
Touya made one punch near Lung's face, but this gave Lung the chance to put his two hands together and hit Touya in the stomach and knocking him out.
Lung Da grappled Yukito by the arms and started draining more of his magic. "That's it, feed Tew Lo!" Yukito was screaming in pain.

Kero was playing video games until he felt a strong imbalance in magic power. "What's happening?" Kero asked looking around, "Could Yue be in trouble?" Kero flew out the window and closed his eyes trying to feel Yue's aura. "It is Yue!" Kero transformed into Keroberus and flew as fast as he could to Yue's aura.
Keroberus scanned the area and found Yukito's body unconscious. He flew down as fast as he could and shook Yukito. "Yue, wake up, wake up Yue!" Keroberus continued shaking him.
Suddenly, Lung Da flew out of the tree and down to Keroberus' back. He strangled Keroberus and began to suck his magic power. Keroberus desperately tried to shake him off of him. But as he sucked the magic energy out of Keroberus, Keroberus weakened and fell flat to the ground. Lung Da smirked, and Tew Lo had the magic energy he needed; now it was only a matter of time that Sakura and Syaoran would come looking for him.

Syaoran and Sakura were walking home together; Sakura and Syaoran were holding hands while Sakura rested her head on his shoulder. "Syaoran-kun," Sakura called, "Do you think Vung and Lung will have a happy ending like us?" Syaoran looked at her for a while, "I'm sure they will be good friends. After all, they have been friends for a-" Syaoran then felt something dead along the next road, he ran as fast as he could to see what was wrong. Sakura felt it too and she ran along Syaoran. Upon the next turn, Sakura and Syaoran saw what they hated to see they didn't want to see the most.
An ambulance van put Yukito and Touya on the stretcher and to the back. "Onee-chan, Yukito-san, what happened!" Sakura asked the ambulance man who put them on the van. "The black-haired one suffering broken ribs, and the Grey haired one suffering tired muscles. If you want to see them, please schedule a visit in the hospital, his guardian has been notified." Sakura started to cry and hug her brother who woke up the instant she touched his ribs, "Ow monster! Stop that!" Touya said. "Onee-chan, what happened?" Sakura asked her brother, "Mushroom haired kid, beat me and Yuki up! Watch out for him Sakura. I'll be all right, just tell Otusan that I'll be okay, just watch out, this guy is-" Touya passed out before he could finish his sentence. "Sakura come here!" Syaoran called.
"Their magic power is drained," Syaoran said as he uncovered a twig with Kero underneath the twig. "Sakura, it's only a matter of time that I knew Lung Da would do this." Sakura stared at Syaoran surprised, "Syaoran, you knew this was going to happen?" Syaoran shook his head, "I heard an old legend of that shadow thing that matches the description." As the ambulance left, Sakura picked up Kero-chan and snuggled him for comfort, "Kero-chan..." she muttered. "That thing is called Hakguay, they are ghost spirits that lost their way to heaven, so they search for the souls of strong fighters in order to find magic power so it can be brought to full body form of it's past life."
Sakura looked at Kero and thought about Yukito on the stretcher. "How can I bring them back?" Syaoran shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know, but we have to find Lung Da and we have to find him fast, before that ghost causes any more trouble to him." Sakura then felt another aura and looked at the bush, she just shrugged off the feeling. And holding Kero in her arms, Syaoran decided they should rush over to his house to plan an attack plan.

Meanwhile, in a cave, Lung Da clutched his head feeling more headaches trying to split his head in half. But eventually, the shadowy spirit came out of his body and took full form as the man named Tew Lo. "You have been a fine specimen, Lung Da," Tew Lo grabbed his ponytail and pulled it, "But now you are mine, your evil side shall completely take over in a matter of minutes, and when your friends come here, you will be the defense I need in order to regain full power and form." Lung Da got on both his knees and begged, "I don't want to hurt any more!" he mumbled, "I'm sick and tired of attacking my friends! LET ME GO!" Tew Lo crackled at his struggling, "Your evil side is devouring you, now give up you fool!" Lung Da started to scream like crazy, and then a flash in cave took place, and everyone was gone.

Mei Ling with her arm in a sling approached Syaoran and Sakura who just came home. "How's everything Syaoran?" Mei Ling asked. "Sakura's guardians have been drained of all their magic power," "That's terrible!" Mei Ling said. "Call Vung, to the dining table. We have to discuss about this Lung Da problem!"
Vung came out with her head hanging down, but sat on the table anyways. "Vung, it's important that we stop Lung Da now, he drained two magical guardians and that ghost might devour him, we gotta stop this!" Vung looked at Syaoran and replied, "Doesn't matter to me anymore!" Syaoran, Sakura, and Mei Ling all stared at her in shock. "So you're giving up!?" Mei Ling asked, "My friend would never give up to do something, not the Vung I knew." Vung slammed her hand on the table, "What if there's no happy ending!" Vung began to tear up, "I know that in a story of saving our friends, there's never a happy ending, why should I bother?"
Sakura felt the pain that Vung once went through. Despite Vung yelling at them all, Sakura spoke in a gentle tone, "You know Vung, long time ago, when Syaoran and I didn't know our feelings for each other, we were both going up against the emptiness card. When I found out that the emptiness card would exchange my feelings for becoming in my possession, I thought like you, I thought there would be no happy ending. But as soon as Syaoran risked himself to not let me lose my feelings, I thought there was no hope, but a miraculous thing happened, Syaoran didn't lose his feelings for me, and there was a happy ending to it."
"Vung..." Syaoran paused, "You can join us as you like, but please remember, that whichever choice you make, make sure you remember your true friends." Vung got out of her seat and went back to her room. "Besides, we have to find out where Lung Da is hiding." Syaoran announced. Sakura began to think and then an image of a bush popped in her mind, "The bush..." Sakura remembered, Mei Ling and Syaoran stared at Sakura, "The bush is the entrance to where Lung is hiding." "Are you sure?" Syaoran asked. Sakura nodded, "All the ambushes, most have occurred next to that street, and I keep feeling an aura on that bush." Syaoran thought carefully about the reasoning Sakura used. "Hmm it could be so!" Syaoran agreed, "Fine, let's strike tomorrow, I promised Vung and myself that Lung would come back to us, and tomorrow, we begin, are you up to it Sakura?" Sakura nodded, "I'll never forgive for what he did to Yue-san, onee-chan, and Kero-chan!" "Don't forget about me!" Mei Ling added.
On the corner, Vung eavesdropped, and went back in her room. "Lung, I'm sorry!" she said laying on her bed, "I'll be with them tomorrow, and I will save you, don't you worry!"

Next Fanfic Preview: We go to fight tomorrow. But what is this, why isn't Lung being flinched anymore when he sees Vung or Syaoran, why is he now merciless and serious of fighting us now? Why won't my magic work against him? Card Captor Sakura: Sakura and the Final Strike. Next time release along with Sakura!