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Eriol stopped suddenly… "We're about to warp to a different
dimension, everyone ready for the change?" he said smiling.
Everyone else sweated… "As ready as I ever will be…" Sakura
said taking deep breaths. She was nervous, going to an entirely different world
than your own..
Li gritted his teeth, he wondered what the other side would be like. Will he see something that will come familiar or Déjà vu?
Tomoyo sighed slightly. She done this before, but last time
she wasn't WARNED about it, she was concentrating too much on other things to
notice.
Chaos shrugged. These things never bothered him much. He
looked at Sakura and Li, "What a mysterious pair…" he thought to himself "Just the way I like
things…" . He chuckled under his breath slightly "What kind of mess have
you gotten yourself into this time, Chaos?" the words of Bahamut rang in his mind. He stretched his claws
lazily.
Eriol looked at the group, they seemed ready…he mumbled a
few words of magic…the whole room began to shake…then the whole world seem to
blur in everyone's eyes, Sakura let out a small gasp. It was like her whole
stomach was turned upside-down, someone was playing a practical joke on
her…then before she realized it, it was over.
"Welcome to the land of Ryoungen…where it all began." Eriol
said smiling happily.
"Tell me something, Eriol-kun…" Tomoyo said dizzily. "Is it
SUPPOSED to disorient us this much?"
"Well, yea…" Eriol admitted plainly "It takes some time to
get used to it." He stretched his black 'angel' wings to full length.
"Why didn't we feel it last time?" Tomoyo asked curiously.
"Hmm?" Eriol said as if he forgot something important.
"Oh…yea… sleep spell, you guys must have been knocked out before the shift. A
whole house can collapse and you still wouldn't feel a thing…"
"And why didn't you cast it on us?" Tomoyo replied.
"It musta slipped my mind…" Eriol said unable to hold his
laughter.
"SLIPPED YOUR MIND???" Li growled angrily.
Chaos wasn't paying attention though…something was really
bugging him. What is the enemies' goal? They aren't stupid, challenging the destined
ones were like a one-way ticket back to hell. It wasn't destruction, or the
whole town would have been leveled by now. Revenge? No…that's way too simple,
the enemy was more complex than that. What were they up to?
"CHAOS!!" A voice
yelled in a distance disturbing his thoughts…
Chaos awakened from his 'trance' and looked up, Li was
calling from the distance, seems like they have settled down… he thought to
himself, he sighed, never would he thought of visiting his 'home' world again,
Bahamut was right, the past does come to haunt you…
Sakura looked around nervously, she didn't know what it
would be like to go back to somewhere you never remembered. She looked at Li
and Tomoyo, were they originally from the same place she was? Or did something
happen to unite them…
Eriol glance at Sakura's nervous looked and smiled
brightly. "Don't worry, Sakura…nothings bad going to happen, it's just a
harmless visit to your homeland…"
Suddenly, a draw of a sword interrupted the group, they all
sweated as they looked back and saw a cloaked man draw his long katana out
slowly and smiled, another man stepped
up from behind him drawing a nasty scythe out of nowhere.
"So nothing bad is going to happen…eh Eriol?" Li said
sarcastically readying his sword.
"Oh, shut up…" Eriol said as he saw another enemy show up
who was bringing a group of men to they're location.
"Does anyone have a plan?" Tomoyo asked nervously as she
pulled out her fan, sure she improved a lot, but these guys didn't look like
they'd show any mercy.
Sakura looked around there was nowhere to escape from and
they were seriously outnumbered…she didn't think there was any alternatives,
she drew her weapon out too.
"Ahh…look what we have here…" A mocking voice said. "A
dragon-boy, two angels, a dragon familiar and a grass runner… my boss would be
pleased."
"Funagni…" A voice in Sakura head said dangerously. Sakura looked at Chaos weirdly. "You know him, Chaos?"
Chaos nodded. "One of my creators…careful Sakura-san,
he's a sly one…don't let your guard down whatever you do…"
Funagni laughed. "Well, might as well give up now, since
you guys are CLEARLY outnumbered. Don't worry we'll treat you real well if you
come quietly…"
Sakura readied her weapon, she had no desire to be taken
away, she stole a quick glance at everyone else. Everyone had the same look of
determination that they rather die than be taken away.
Li narrowed his eyes, as he lifted up his sword, he stood
ready to take anyone on. No, he wasn't about to let these guys hurt his friends.
Not while I'm around…he thought to himself.
Eriol summoned his staff and secretly took out his cards, special cards. They were all BLANK. He put them under his sleeve so the enemy would not see them.
Tomoyo carefully opened up her fan, she looked at her
enemy's eyes with anticipation, if anything she will want to be placed on the
upper hand.
Chaos glared at Funagni, his eyes were full of rage that
surprised everyone else, most of the time, Chaos seemed emotionless, other
times he seemed that he was 'normal'. He slowly began to take out the card that Bahamut left him. He stopped "This
is NOT the time…" he thought to himself. He shook his head, he couldn't
help much without his magic.
Funagni laughed again. He was clearly amused by the 'futile'
attempt that the group was putting up. "Well, what have we here? They want to
fight guys!!" The others started laughing too.
Chaos growled deeply… Sakura was clearly surprised she
never heard a dragon growl.
"Chaos, Chaos, Chaos…" Funagni said as he spun his katana
around. "I know you aren't a threat so long as you can't use your magic. Wasn't
that why we were created? You for magic, me for my weapon skills? Or have you
forgotten?"
Li lost his patience right there. "Are you going to fight?
Or are we just here to talk?" He said.
"(Easy Li, don't lose your patience, that's what they are
counting on…)" Chaos said to Li. Beads of sweat began to form on his forehead,
the jewel of his forehead shone brightly.
Funagni looked at his enemies, he saw that they had no
desire to surrender. "Very well…" he muttered. He swung his katana lightly as
his men surrounded our team in a full circle… "What are you going to do now,
guys? No where to run, no where to hide."
Eriol looked at Sakura giving her a slight signal. Sakura
looked at Eriol and nodded, she understood what he meant. She took out two
cards carefully, she hid them in her palm.
Li looked at Eriol questioning he hated how he always had
that look that he knew something that other people don't, it takes him forever
to figure out what he was planning. Today was different he wasn't up to these
games. "What are you planning Eriol?" he whispered to him. He held his sword up, ready to defend himself.
"We're going to create a flash effect, when that happens, we
all run as fast as we can." Eriol whispered back. Li nodded, he didn't like running but this
time there wasn't much of a choice. Li
quickly relayed the message to Tomoyo, she nodded and whispered the same thing
into Chaos' ear.
Chaos nodded silently, but he was puzzled "Funagni was
created? What does this all mean…?"
Funagni order his troops to attack…they all started to
close in to our heroes…
"Sakura! Now!" Eriol shouted.
Sakura nodded she tossed them toward Eriol… Eriol caught
them and the blank cards suddenly magically transformed into Clow cards…with a
simple swing of his arm he threw his cards in the air and they landed with a
boom…
The enemies braced themselves as the cards exploded…but
instead of destruction a bright flash surrounded the area…blinding the
unfortunate group.
Sakura grabbed Li's hand, Li grabbed Tomoyo's , Tomoyo
grabbed Eriol's hand… "Let's go everyone!! This way!!" she yelled.
Funagni discovered what they were doing "DON'T LET THEM GET
AWAY!!" He yelled, as he charged at a random direction.
After the flash resided, they were nowhere to be found…
Funagni growled and plugged his katana in the ground with a loud thud.
* * *
"Can we stop running now??" Tomoyo said panting. Naturally
she was the least experienced out of the team.
"I think we lost them, yea we can stop now…" Li said. "How
did you manage to do that, Eriol?"
Eriol smiled "Well, I know that if I charge enough magic
energy into the card it will overload it will cause an explosion. However, I figured if I make that explosion
potential, it would release all at once creating a big flash. Problem is I need
some card with the right elements…" he explained.
"Those cards were, lamp and light, but he didn't want to
destroy the Sakura cards…so he decided to make copies of the cards with his
blank cards, and use those as 'flash bombs'." Sakura continued to explain.
"At that time, Chaos was already searching for a escape
route, although he looked like he was ready to fight to the end, that was only
diversionary tactics." Eriol continued. "Being a familiar enables him to read
minds to a point…that is…"
Li growled "You better not scan my mind, Chaos or I
personally kill you…" He said eyeing the dragon.
"(Take it easy, Kid, I can only read what you want me to
read…)" Chaos said shrugging. "(So, no I don't know your deepest secrets,
though it's not all to hard to figure out.)" he continued.
"What was that??" Li asked gritting his teeth.
"(Never mind…)" Chaos responded.
"Anyways, so after the flash happened, Chaos lead Sakura
out of trouble and she lead us out." Eriol finished. "Well…let's see…" he took
out a map. "We'll need to go across this mountain to reach the meeting point,
however, it's still early what say we camp out here?"
Sakura looked at her friends they were all beat from all
the events. "Hai, I believe that would be the best thing to do right now.
Eriol, Tomoyo? Why don't you guys start setting camp, while, Li, Chaos and I
will gather fire wood."
Tomoyo smiled her 'sister' was beginning to really sound
like a leader. Of course, in this situation she was kind of forced to be a
leader, but one thing is for certain she doing a darn good job of it. She
sighed dreamily and then went to help Eriol on setting camp.
* * *
Firewood search party…
Sakura, Li and Chaos went into the woods, picking up
suitable wood for fire. The whole team pretty much silent as they picked them
up.
"How do you think they knew we were here?" Sakura asked
suddenly.
"Good point…for all they knew we were still in our 'home'
town…" Li said. "And it seemed like
they know where we were going to meet with the Oracle of the Wind?"
"Yea, it seemed like they knew what our plan was exactly…"
Sakura agreed. "Any ideas? Chaos?"
"Either there is a traitor in the mist, or they have
spies…" Chaos said to Sakura. "I would think the latter is a
greater possibility…" he said.
Sakura frown, she didn't want to think that someone was
betraying them again. The thought of having spies was also scary…
"The others might be in trouble…if it's the latter case, if
they have spies that means they know our base has little defense…" Chaos continued.
"Oh, no…" Sakura gasped. "Your right, Chaos, they might be in
danger…we need to go back."
"Wha? Nani?" Li said. "What were you talking about?"
"Oh, sorry Li…" Sakura apologized. "Chaos believes we might
have been spied upon. I afraid that the others might be in danger."
"We HAVE to go back!!" Li exclaimed. "They will need our
help !!"
"Wait…that's EXACTLY what they want!! We can't go back!" Chaos said. "Where everything is going
they want to PREVENT us from meeting the Oracle."
Sakura picked up another piece of firewood… "But, but…I
can't sit here doing nothing…"
Li looked grabbed Chaos by his neck. "ARE YOU SUGGESTING WE
ABANDON OUR FRIENDS??" Chaos squirmed while being held five feet above the
ground.
"(Wait I am not suggesting that…)" he said "(I'm suggesting
that they can take care of themselves, I mean with Fujitaka-san, Yue-san,
Kero-san, Kerus-san, I doubt there is much to worry about. Plus sis is there…)"
Li
glared at the dragon for awhile. He let the dragon go…Chaos quickly flew to
Sakura's shoulder. Li picked up a piece wood. "You know what, Chaos? You got a
point there…"
Chaos
nodded slowly. "(Plus, I doubt that they will send that much, if they do they
risk leaving themselves open. I doubt that they will like that too much.)"
Li
nodded, Chaos gave Li a suggestive look, Li nodded, Sakura didn't understand
dragon language… he sighed "When did communicating become so darn
complicated." Chaos wanted Li to
convince Sakura to stay.
"Sakura…I
think we should stay with our plans…" Li said "Fujitaka-san and the others can
take care of themselves." As they walked back to the camp.
Sakura
titled her head slightly, she didn't doubt that…but something just didn't feel
right… "If you guys don't go, I'll go back alone!" she said slightly angry.
Li
rushed after her… "SAKURA!!" he sighed.
This is going be one LONG night…
*
* *
Camping place…
Sakura ran back as fast as she could…Chaos clinging onto
her for dear life. "I didn't know she could run THIS fast!" Chaos
thought to himself.
"Sakura-san!" Chaos tried to talk some sense into her. "Sakura-san!!"
"What?!?" She yelled back to Chaos. "I know it was your
idea back there…"
Chaos nodded. "I can't lie to you…it was my idea…but
please listen to my reasons!" He
begged.
Sakura let out a frustrated sigh. "I don't want to hear it
okay?" she said.
"But…but…" Chaos stuttered
Chaos sighed it wasn't a good idea to argue with your
mistress. But he 'knew' that Sakura HAD to meet the Oracle. "Sakura-san,
I'll tell you what, I'll go back. You stay here and meet with the Oracle."
Sakura glared at her familiar "No…I don't want you be anywhere except by my side. You don't have your magic anymore Chaos, and I'm not about to let you off somewhere that you might get hurt."
"I'll be fine, I know this place pretty well. Plus, if all
else fails…I can always hide my way though…" Chaos argued.
"NO, YOU WILL NOT GO ANYWHERE, and that's
final…understand?" Sakura warned.
"But, Sakura-sama…" Chaos
began.
"Chaos…" Sakura voice was dangerous. "Please, I don't want
to hurt you…it's for your own good."
"No…I will go back…" A voice said. Sakura and Chaos turned back quickly just to
see Li coming back with the rest of the fire wood.
"Why do you insist that I stay?" Sakura asked clenching her
fists.
Eriol and Tomoyo rushed to see what happening, just to see
the arguing trio.
"What's going on here?" Tomoyo asked.
Sakura, Li both explained the situation to Tomoyo and
Eriol…
"So, Sakura…you don't think that the others are good enough
to take care of themselves?" Eriol asked simply.
"No, it's not that…it's just…" Sakura began. "Ugh! I don't
know! I just feel that I should go back…"
"Sakura-chan…it's not that I don't know how you feel…however,
this time I have to say I agree with Li…you should stay here and meet the
Oracle. Let, Li or Chaos go back to see how things are developing."
Eriol nodded "We're obviously on the right track, since
they are worried enough to attack us. So, the best course of action is Sakura
staying here." He finished.
Sakura sighed "Fine…Li…you go back and check things out."
"I still think I should go back…" Chaos argued.
Sakura glared angrily at Chaos, she had told him a million
times…Chaos saw the dissatisfied look on his mistress face and decided to shut
up.
Chaos tapped the ground gently with his claws "Maybe I
can sneak out…" he thought to
himself.
"Don't even THINK about it, Chaos." Sakura said folding her hands together.
Chaos slapped himself lightly on the head, forgetting that
the link with his mistress works both ways.
"Then it's settled then…" Li said. "I'll go back tonight,
and check on the others."
Sakura nodded. "I'm counting on you, Li." She said.
* * *
Everyone finished they're dinner, they sat around the campfire, watching the fire burn slowly.
Li was getting his things ready, he was planning on leaving
after they fell asleep… he was checking on his stuff when he saw Chaos looking
at him with a slight look of curiosity.
Li knew that look too well… "What do you want, Chaos?" he
asked.
"(Well, nothing much…but are you sure you want to go
out in the nighttime, this place is dangerous at night.)" he said amused.
"If all else fails I have my sword with me, are you
doubting my ability to defend myself, Chaos?" he asked.
"(No, I'm doubting you in general.)" he said chuckling.
Li growled "You're test me out?" he said dangerously "I'll
take you on any day of the week."
Chaos laughed lightly "(You got to cool off, people can get
the advantage when you get too angry…)" Chaos said. "(I'm just saying your
weapon may not be 'fit' for fighting anymore.)"
"What do you mean?" Li asked, as he tied a bag around
himself.
"(Here…)" Chaos said as he produced a long katana. "(Use
this…it's the Dragon Sword, it belonged to a friend. I'm putting this sword in
your hands now.)
Li took the sword and took it out it's sheath, the sword
revealed itself, it had a nice brilliant 'glow' to the sword. A dragon was
carefully etched on the majestic blade. Li swung the sword a few times, the
sword produced a nice harmonic ring to it. Then Li knew it was a legendary
sword. "Are you sure it's okay for me to use this? I mean my expertise isn't
katana's it's Chinese long swords."
Just as he said 'Chinese long sword' the katana flashed a
suddenly and morphed into a Chinese sword in his hands. Li gasped as he saw the
sword in his hand.
"(It modifies itself to whatever it's master wants.)" Chaos
said smiling. "(Yea, you can use it. I don't think Ryu would mind.)"
"Ryu…" Li began. Somehow that name still gave him the
chills, was he a Ryu? Could it be true that he was his descendent?
"We should rest…" Eriol suddenly piped up after everyone's
conversation was coming to an end.
"Hai…" Sakura said yawning. She pulled Chaos by one of his
wings…
"Ouch!!" Chaos exclaimed. "Easy on the wings, Sakura-san."
"What are you doing, Sakura-chan?" Tomoyo asked curious.
"I'm making sure this baka doesn't try anything 'cute' on
me!" she said.
Eriol laughed. "Looks like you blew it big time,
Chaos." He said jokingly.
Chaos pouted, he gave a silent glare at Eriol, but since
Sakura was pulling him he didn't have much of a chance of escape.
Tomoyo also managed to laugh at this funny situation. It
was funny seeing the little dragon being dragged to bed like a child.
Li looked back one last time as the group as they headed
inside the tent. He nodded, and then took off.
"Be safe, Li…be safe.." Sakura said as she took a quick
peak out of tent.
Chaos sighed. He looked at the leash on his neck. "Sakura-san
REALLY doesn't trust me does she?" he thought to himself.
"Of course not, what made you think that she did?" A playful
voice said.
Chaos scrambled as he heard the familiar voice.
"Tsk, tsk…" the voice said "I can't believe you forgotten
about me so fast…"
Chaos looked toward the place where he was 'sleeping' at,
he couldn't believe his eyes. "Oh, by Ladon's name…" he began.
"Heh heh, you never change do you Chaos?" The half
translucent figure said mockingly. "How many practical jokes have you pulled
off this time?"
"You never change either, Nina-sama…" Chaos said.
End of Chapter 18.
A/N: Wow…18th Chapter! I didn't think I would
write THAT much! And I owe it all of those who reviewed my fic!
Special Thanks To:
Everyone !!
Preview:
Hi everyone, I'm the narrator, the one who watches yet
never interferes. Weird! Nina-sama?? Who is Chaos talking to?? Next up, the
meeting of the Wind Oracle, why does she want Sakura to be there what does she
want with Sakura? Is the other team in danger? Will Li-kun be able to help
them?