Author's note: This one you may consider a little more violent than the last ones. If you do decide that it is, Please do not e-mail me because of the content, you have been warned. Sorry though, it's just in this chapter.
"THE LOST CARDS-part I: The Unexpected Friend"
"The cardcaptors have ruined my intire plan for the clowbook!" Kuragari Yelled tearing benches from their bolts on the ground in fits of rage. He was taking his anger out on the park. His master plan was now hopelessly lost.
"Heather, let's go" a worried mother said to her daughter. "The police will take care of that disturbed child." She said walking away with her daughter.
"They want disturbed! I'll show'em disturbed! Electroshock!" Kuragari roared launching a bolt of lightning at a vending machine. Suddenly four cops appeared from behind the shrubs. They tackled Kuragari to the ground.
"Let go of me!" Kuragari struggled as they picked him up. He was able to get a fist free. He punched the officer that was holding him in the face. Blood ran down from the officer's nose. They took out their pepper spray. With one sharp spray to the face, fell to the ground and screamed with pain, but still fought back. They attacked him with their batons and were able to get a hold of him.
"Don't worry, we'll take care of you." One of them said as the others dragged him into a squad car.
"Let me go back! Let me go back!" Kuragari called desperately. "I'll get you cardcaptors for this!" Kuragari continued.
"What was he talking about." One of the officers said to the other.
"I have no idea." Responded the other. The rest of the officers looked at each other and shook their heads. The police cars then drove off with Kuragari in the first car. He rammed the window with his head repeatedly in an attempt to break the glass, but he passed out. Hiding behind a tree, the boy with blue jeans and a white shirt stood. He didn't need a prophecy ball to know what was going to happen. He shook his head.
"Maybe I don't even have to confront you, Kuragari." He said.
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Sakura and Madison sat at sat by the tree where Sakura was sucked back by the Return card.
"It was really odd." Madison begun. "My mom said I'd slept over at your place."
"My brother said I slept over at your house." Sakura followed.
"Something's not right." Madison said.
"I hope Li's ok." Sakura said changing the subject, remembering about his leg. They both sat there in silence waiting for a temple to open. Kero send them over there. He said that they might have something he needed a charm of some sort.
"Do you even know what you're looking for." Madison asked. "He didn't really describe it."
"He said I'd sense it when I saw it." Sakura responded, bewildered. The temple opened. They walked in, bowing to the priests. Sakura scanned the room. She didn't sense anything. One of the priests watched and approached Sakura. He was old and tall.
"You were sent here by an important person to look for something." He said without doubt.
"How did you know?" Sakura asked.
"I can feel your urge to find it. And if you don't, it will be a disappointment." He responded patiently. We've felt that something here was amiss, for a while now. Perhaps you are here to claim it.
"I guess so." Sakura responded careful with her words. She and Madison continued through the halls. Then finally, Sakura was lured to a corner. A bed end table stood there.
"Kero sure knows how to pick his charms." Madison exclaimed referring to the table.
"It's not the table." Sakura said moving towards the table. She rubbed the top of it. "Madison, flat screwdriver." Sakura ordered. Madison handed it to her. She laid her hand just above the underside of the table. "Madison, I want you to hit the table here." Sakura requested. Madison was puzzled, but went ahead with it. Madison hit the table on its underside. The middle section popped up. Sakura quickly stuck the screwdriver into the space that opened before it closed. She then opened up the little door in the middle of the table that the screwdriver was wedged. Inside was a compartment. There was a beetle like stone. It was semi-heavy, thick, and emerald green. It looked like a scarab charm from Egyptian mythology. "This is it." Sakura confirmed with Madison.
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Kuragari sat in solitary confinement. The doctors considered him crazy. Kuragari sat in the middle of the room, meditating.
"A force that shall do the bidding of my threats
Of shadows, darkness, and all sorts of deaths
Conjuror the spirits that can devastate all
And allow me to force my way out of this hall"
Kuragari glowed. He envisioned himself, passing through the walls, into the halls, and into a boiler room that was across the hall. It started to heat up. Steam violently was released from the boilers. Light Alarms flashed redness in the scorching room. Sound alarms started buzzing in the main office.
"Would a maintenance crew please report to boiler room 5" The manager sounded over the P.A. While this was happening, the boy with the white shirt and blue jeans walked into the lobby.
"Hello, I am Shuai and I've been sent to pick up Kuragari's things. His mom sent me over. The woman at the desk looked at him. Meanwhile, five floors up, the boilers started superheating, thrashing violently from the immense heat inside. The maintenance crew proceeded down from other end of the hall. Suddenly there was an explosion. In the lobby, more alarms went off. Buzzers read that boiler #2 was offline and #'s 1 and 3 were at critical heat. Alarms in the halls started going off. The maintenance crew on floor 5 ran down the stairs. Fire suppressant systems on that floor started going off. Water sprayed everywhere.
"Evacuate floor five. I repeat, evacuate floor five." The manager spoke of the P.A. system. The lady helping Shuai was now assisting the manager.
"We've lost communications and security on that floor now." She spoke. The manager shook his head. The alarm for boiler #1 was going bizark, when it finally shut off. Another explosion followed on floor 5. #3 was now approaching a core breach.
"All personnel. Evacuate floors four through six." The manager spoke once again. "The press is going to have a field day with this." He said to himself. Doctors and security rushed through the halls, escorting patents down or up the steps to floors three and seven.
"Computer has confirmed that the locks on the doors are offline on floor five." The lady assisting the manager spoke. Kuragari opened his door. Fire lurched outside the door of the boiler room. He proceeded to the storeroom on that floor and gathered his cards, charms, and key. Then took the stairs down to floor four.
"Security to floors three and seven, guard every access point." The manager's voice continued to sound. Kuragari was in between floors four and three, going down the stairs. He saw two guards standing on the other side of the door through the window. He ran back up the steps, and confronted a double-layered glass window.
"Power card!" Kuragari ordered. The strength filled him and he took his wand and smashed it against the window. It shattered to pieces. "Jump card!" Kuragari announced. Then he leaped from the fourth story window and ran off into the distance.
"I'm sorry," The assistant told Shuai. Were having some problems, could you come back in about four days?"
"Sure." Shuai said walking out of the hospital. He knew that what ever had happened, Kuragari was responsible.
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Sakura opened the door to her bedroom. Madison left to her house because her mom needed her. She looked around for Kero. In his drawer, she heard thuds. Approaching, she could hear certain phrases, like, "You can't take the Clow Cards" and "Yue, we need you" or "Yue, you can't" Sakura wondered what this all meant. The appearance of Yue was something she was coming to know more about. But she still didn't understand it. Out of no where, a high pitch tone, too high for a person to hear, sailed through the air. Suddenly, the drawer flue open and Kero came flipping outward, the drawer was upside down, and its contents scattered across the floor.
"NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kero screamed as he was flung through the air into the wall across the room. Kero then woke with a daze.
"What happened?" Sakura asked worried about what just happened.
"The Clow Cards, I heard some of their voices, crying out for me, then were silenced. I think they….." Kero trailed off in wonderment if it could happen.
"What?" Sakura forced him to continue.
"died." Kero said looking down.
"Is that possible?" Sakura asked startled.
"I'm not sure." Kero responded still trying to make sense of what he heard.
"Which ones?" Sakura asked.
"The Wave, The Lock, and I think The Create." Kero recalled. The phone rang before Sakura could ask anymore questions. Sakura picked it up.
"Sakura, did you hear it?" It was Li. She couldn't remember the last time he called.
"Hear what?" Sakura said puzzled.
"The voices." Li said annoyed. "The Clow Cards." Li continued.
"Kero heard it. He says they might be dying." Sakura told Li.
"We have to search for them." Kero said. "It's Kuragari. He's done this." Kero left out Sakura's window and Sakura chased after him, hanging up the phone on Li. Outside at the ice arena, Li was following the lasin board, not knowing why it was going this way. Shuai was what it was leading him to. Shuai had been told to try not to interfere with the other cardcaptors. So he ran, but Li called upon the Dash card. Quickly, he was gaining on Shuai.
"Invisibility!" Shuai called hitting his sword on the incantation card.
"Lightning!" Li called aiming where he last saw Shuai. Shuai was struck and lost the invisibility. Kero, feeling a new presence, diverted course to Shuai. Sakura, now on the Fly card, followed Kero.
"Who are you?" Li said. "Have you been sent by the elders?"
"I am Shuai and yes, I have." Shuai responded. "I was told not to interfere with you." Sakura and Kero set down on Li's location. "I was sent to chase after Kuragari by the elders. He is the first of his family to actually try to avenge his ancestor. They think it's a thing to get attention." Sakura looked at him. His robes looked just like Li's, except they were blue. "I heard the screams of the Clow Cards. Did you?"
"I did" Kero said worried, still thinking about what it means.
"So did I" Li said. I was looking for the location when the lasin board changed its target to you. Sakura didn't answer.
"Were you the one who created an alibi for me and Madison?" Sakura asked, changing the subject. Shuai nodded.
"Ready or not, here I am." Kuragari spoke from behind them. They all turned. "So, Shuai, I see you've finally arrived. A little late than you usually are." He continued, annoying Shuai.
"You're going back to the house of time. Then your understand why Clow didn't let your ancestor have the cards." Shuai said, warning him to stand down.
"If you think that's true, you're going to fail again." Kuragari continued. "Electroshock!" Kuragari cried out. Bolts of lightning dashed between the three cardcaptors and Kero.
"Illusion card, show Kuragari false targets. Release and dispel!" Sakura countered. But Kuragari had stopped. Kero was now farther separated from the three. He pulled out a card that had the backing of a Clow Card.
"Possess Card!" He said. "Lend your powers to my key. Grant me your powers! Release!" Kuragari pointed the wand toward Kero. A strike of crimson red shot out and hit Kero. Kero glowed for five seconds before the redness disappeared, then flue off into the distance.
"Where is Kero going?" Sakura asked Li.
"I don't know." Li responded.
"Lets go after him then." Shuai said impatiently, chasing after him.
"Not going to happen." Kuragari said to then. "Mist card! Cloud their vision. Release!" Mist began to fill the air. They couldn't see through it.
"Freeze card!" Make the mist fall!" Li said releasing the Mist. The droplets of water froze and rained to the ground.
"Return to your power confined! Mist!" The frozen droplets gathered together into the card. It then went to Li. Then scanned the perimeter but Kuragari had left and Kero had disappeared.
Li was about to give Sakura the Mist card, but she tried to tell him to keep it.
"Just play rock, paper, scissors over it." Shuai said annoyed.
"That's childish." Li said surprised at him for the suggestion.
"Do you know a better was for someone to keep the card. If none of you will take it, I will." Shuai said thinking that he could use a Clow Card or two.
"Rock, paper, scissors, shoot" Li and Sakura said in unison over the Mist card. Sakura drew paper, but Li had scissors. Li tried to change quickly but Shuai saw.
"I didn't know you were the cheating type." Shuai said to Li. Sakura gave her Mist card to Li and he joined them into one card. Now for the Move card from yesterday.
"Rock, paper, scissors, shoot." They both said once again in unison. Li had rock, but this time, Sakura put out scissors. Sakura gave him her Move card and Li took it reluctantly, and joined them. Shuai was still mad though over the loss of the guardian.
Authors note: I really thought this chapter would be longer, like "A Time of Before". This one too had a lot of information to understand to. "A Time of Before", you have to understand that going back in time to take the Clowbook was the reason Kuragari's came to Readington and his failure was the reason he went mad in the beginning of this chapter. This chapter is the first of three parts. (Hears boo's because of the cliffhanger) It's easier on me to make it three parts. This one shows the aftermath of Kuragari's master plan's failure. Shuai means water. Please review with thoughts or comments. Also, where did the Possess card come from? Try to guess.