I'm so sorry I haven't updated that quickly… but I do have a new chapter.
And I had to think of the best way to end Nave… you'll like it…
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Chapter 33
Everyone stood in an offensive position, waiting to see what the demon dog would do. They just stood there, staring the dog down as it growled. It bent its knees and jumped in the air… and began to hover! It could fly! Sakura grabbed the Fly Card and summoned her Angel Wings. She took off into the air and hovered there. Yue, Kero, Ruby, and Spinnel did the same. They still sat there in silence. Syaoran, Natalie, Kittie, and Eriol decided to stay on the ground and use long-distance attacks. Yue held his sword of pure energy in his hands and made the first attack. He flew in and slashed, but the beast dodged every strike, opened his mouth, and blasted Yue to the ground with one blast of energy. "Ugh…" Yue slowly sat up, watching Kero and Spinnel charge in as Sakura threw another card in the air and Natalie and Kirei Kittie charged for some spells.
Kero and Spinnel used their claws to swipe the giant beast that was probably twice their size, but to no avail. They connected, but their claws just weren't sharp enough. Kero flew backwards, and breathed fire all over the demon. The beast was completely invisible under a sea of flames. Spinnel started to breathe fire on him as well. It seemed like it was working. Natalie and Kirei cast fire on the demon. Eriol and Syaoran blasted fire at it as well. Sakura screamed, "FIRE CARD!" And the Fire Spirit left it's card and dived into the inferno. Everyone stopped and watched the flames burn. There was no way even a demon could stand all of that fire.
But it did. The beast flew straight out of the fire, with its fur still partially ablaze, and with two swipes, it sent Kero and Spinnel to the ground. It eyed Sakura, and charged her, tackling her, bringing himself and Sakura to the ground. It growled in her face. Sakura could feel the heat of the flames still burning the hellhound's fur. It opened its jaws and looked as though it was going to bite Sakura's head clean off. Sakura tried to move, but the dog had her pinned to the ground. She shrieked in fear as it came closer to snapping her head off, when something kicked the demon's head with a loud crack. The demon turned to where the blow had come and spotted Syaoran. "C'mon, tough dog. Pick on me. Leave Sakura alone." Syaoran lifted his blade and jumped to strike the beast, but the dog leaped off of Sakura and tackled him with its horns in midair. Syaoran went tumbling backwards, and rolled off the side of the huge rock they stood on. Sakura screamed as she stood up. "SYAORAN!" She reached her arm out, as if he could grab it. She ran to the edge of the rock and saw him falling out of sight. While her back was turned, the dog pounced again towards her, but was intercepted by Ruby Moon's sword, slicing part of its face, sending blood over its mouth. Eriol. Raised his staff and sent a large bolt of electricity, shocking the beast for several seconds. Sakura turned around quickly. Her eyes were filled with sadness and anger.
She pulled out another card. "I… I promised Syaoran I wouldn't use the Power Card in hate… so… FIGHT CARD!" Sakura began to glow in a light-blue aura. She let loose a flurry of attacks that sent the demon dog reeling. With every kick to the face, Sakura could see the saliva and blood fly from the dog's face. With every punch, Sakura could feel her anger growing. She couldn't handle it. The dog had thrown Syaoran over the side of the rock. She gave one last kick under the stomach that sent the dog flying into the air. Sakura flew over top of him and smashed the dog with her hands over its head, sending crashing into the ground. She didn't even wait to see if the dog had been knocked out; she just dive-bombed off the rock to try and see Syaoran.
Things seemed to be going well. Nave sat on one side away from them all, with his long sword drawn. He grinded his teeth in anger as he saw his pet losing and lying motionless on the ground. Yue and Ruby approached, raising their swords. They prepared to slice the demon to pieces, when it sprang to its feet and tackled the two of them to the ground. They couldn't move as the dog's weight held them down. It opened it mouth, preparing to blast them when a spray of blood covered Yue and Ruby in a blinding flash. The demon's head fell off, and the dog vanished into thin air. They turned to see Sakura flying overhead holding Syaoran's foot. Syaoran held a bloodstained sword. Syaoran had killed the beast. Out of Syaoran's pocket fell the fire-colored stone he found before. It landed beside Kittie, who examined it.
"YOU BASTARDS!" Nave screamed as Sakura sat Syaoran on the ground. "First, you kill my love, now you kill my pet! I may not be a true demon, but I am more powerful than one! I'll kill you here and now!" He charged forward and shoved Sakura to one side. He went straight for Syaoran as he got up. He slashed at Syaoran, just barely missing him. Syaoran turned his bloodied sword to one side, catching the next slash, and he pushed Nave back. He jumped to his feet and attacked on his own. Every shot either of them made was either blocked or missed entirely. Neither Syaoran nor Nave could get the advantage over the other. But eventually, they struck at the same time and pushed their swords together as hard as they could. They could see the sweat dripping off each other's face. Nave decided to cheat and kicked Syaoran in the gut, then smacked him over the back of the head with the broad side of the sword, sending Syaoran crashing to the ground. Nave back flipped about 5 feet away and held his hand out. "Now, it's time for my revenge!" A ball of black energy grew in his hand as he prepared to blast Syaoran into oblivion. Everyone stood in shock. Sakura screamed Syaoran's name but decided she would have to do something. She grabbed a card and tossed it overhead. "SWORD CARD!" Sakura charged forward with her gleaming sword in hand. Nave fired and the ball of deadly magic was heading straight at Syaoran, who lifted his head to see it barreling closer. But Sakura stepped in the way and swung her sword. It connected with the energy, and sent it barreling back at Nave. H screamed as his own ball of energy collided with him in a huge explosion. When the smoke cleared, Nave lay on the ground motionless. Sakura helped Syaoran to his feet. Syaoran blushed. "Umm… thanks." He said. "You saved me so many times today." Sakura smiled. "It's okay. I couldn't just sit by and watch you be blown away. I had to do something. And I didn't break my promise. I didn't use the Power Card in anger!" Eriol stepped forward. "Well, one question. If you killed Nave, why are we still here? Shouldn't we back in the shrine?"
Suddenly, Nave began to stir. He sprang to his feet and as quick as lightning ran to Sakura and punched her in the face. Hard. She went tumbling backwards. Eriol turned her over when she landed near her feet. "She's out cold!" Eriol said. Syaoran growled. "LEAVE SAKURA ALONE!" He went to punch Nave in the face, but Nave dodged it and kicked Syaoran, sending him flying to the ground. Yue, Ruby, Kero, and Spinnel all charged at Nave at once. Nave quickly beat them all to the ground with kicks and punches. Natalie, Kittie, and Eriol stood side by side, preparing to all cast a spell at once, but Nave got there and knocked them to the ground. Kittie landed beside Syaoran, and Syaoran's stone rolled out her pocket. She thought of something. Kittie grabbed the stone, got to her feet and helped Syaoran stand up. She opened his hands and put the stone in his palm. "Syaoran, I figured out what this is!" Kirei Kittie said. "It's an element stone!" Syaoran looked confused. "A what?" Kittie thought for a second. "How should I put this? An element stone is… made up of… pure magic of one type. I think this is made of fire magic! Concentrate your magic into this, and see what happens!"
Syaoran concentrated hard into the stone. He felt his body temperature rising. After about ten seconds, his right arm went ablaze. Syaoran gasped. His right arm was covered in fire, but it didn't burn. He could feel the power coursing through his veins. He saw Nave walking slowly towards the unconscious Sakura. Nave reached into his boot and pulled out a handgun! He aimed it at Sakura. "Well, good-bye, bitch." Nave said softly, as he got ready to pull the trigger. Syaoran put his arm out. "HEY ASSHOLE! SUCK ON THIS!" A wave of fire spread through the air, never touching the ground to avoid Sakura, and sent Nave flying back, and the handgun went flying.
Yue and Eriol looked on in amazement as Nave flopped on the ground, trying to extinguish the flames on his body. "H-h-h-how did you do that?!" Eriol asked. Syaoran turned to him and showed them the stone in his hand, which was still on fire. "This thing. It's some stone I found in this shrine. I just concentrate my powers through it." Yue and Eriol remembered their stones. They took them out and put them in their palms. They concentrated, and started to feel weird. When Eriol looked at his hand, his blue stone had turned his arm into pure water. Yue's arm became wrapped up in a series of vines that grew out of his arm. Eriol tried it out and blasted the flaming Nave with a river of water. Yue tried it out, and vines grew from the ground and lifted Nave off the ground and began to strangle him. Nave grabbed his throat, trying to rip-off Yue's vines. Instead, Nave grabbed a small dagger from under his clothes and cut himself loose, dropping to the ground.
He stood up, and stared down Syaoran, Eriol, and Yue with big bloodshot eyes. Natalie and Kittie were trying to wake Sakura up as she lay out cold on the ground, with blood running down her lip from the punch. Kero and Spinnel also tried to wake Sakura.
Nave jumped forward towards the three boys. He ripped off his cape to reveal a hug stack of weapons strapped to his back. Swords, guns, explosives, anything you could think of. He pulled out a small machine gun and fired away. They all rolled away, and Yue had a vine fly from his hands and smash the gun right in his hands into a million pieces. "Dammit…" Nave mumbled. "But I'll get these bastards one way or another." He grabbed a pair of grenades and tossed them at the boys. Eriol shot a blast of water at one, shoving off one end, while Syaoran kicked it right back and hit it with a blast of fire only a few feet from Nave. The force of the explosion threw him back. "Argh! Dammit! These kids are tough. Okay, time to play defensively 'til I think of a plan."
Syaoran looked over at the girls and Kero and Spinnel trying to wake up Sakura. "It's all his fault… he killed Sakura's father… if it weren't for him… Alright, time to end this!" He thought to himself. Syaoran charged up all the power he could. His eyes burned. His hair practically swirled like an open flame. The rest of his body began to go ablaze. He watched Nave slowly stumble to his feet. Eriol noticed Syaoran's entire body beginning to burn. "Syaoran, what are you doing? Are you insane? You're using too much power. We don't know if these could have an effect!" Syaoran didn't respond. He just mumbled to himself, "This is for Sakura…"
Syaoran slammed his fist into the ground with an Earth shattering force. Everyone except Nave and Syaoran fell to the ground with its force. A crack in the ground traveled towards Nave. Nave looked on in fear, until he grabbed a small stone from his pocket when the crack reached him. The ground underneath Nave exploded in a sea of flames. No demon could have survived it. Syaoran's entire body was engulfed in flames, but he started to relax until the flames vanished. Syaoran panted heavily as he rested. The entire area Nave was in was completely covered in smoke and fire. Eriol and Yue relaxed as well and returned to normal. They all sat down and took a breather. Syaoran saw Sakura beginning to move. "Sakura!" He screamed as he stood up. Sakura lifted her head and saw him. "SYAORAN! LOOK OUT!" she screamed, as something flew out of the fire and exploded at Syaoran's feet. Sakura watched in horror. The three boys were blown ten feet back. Kittie noticed the gems flying from their hands. Natalie, Kittie, Kero, and Spinnel all ran over to help, but something else flew from the fire and landed at the feet of everyone but Sakura. They were all blown back. Sakura watched a dark silhouette emerge from the fire. It was Nave.
Nave had a dark black shield around him that disappeared when he stepped out. He was carrying some kind of grenade launcher. He laughed a bloodcurdling laugh. "You little punks aren't the only ones who can use magic stones!" He reached to his belt and pulled out a dagger. He stepped over the unconscious bodies of Sakura's friends. He picked up Syaoran's head and slapped him. "WAKE UP SO I CAN KILL YOU FACE TO FACE!" Syaoran began to move. He slowly opened his eyes to see the dagger inches away from his throat. "I warned you that I would kill you kids… Now die! I shall avenge you, Rosaria!" He raised his dagger high and was ready to stab, when there was a loud clang of metal on metal and the dagger flew from Nave's hands. He turned to see Sakura using to Sword Card. Sakura pointed the sword at Nave's head. "Okay, stand up, and step away from Syaoran." Nave slowly rose to his feet, with his hands in the air. Syaoran lifted his head and rested on his elbows. "Sakura? What—WATCH OUT!" Syaoran said as he watched Nave slowly reaching for the weapons on his back. But before Sakura could react, Nave pulled out a kendo stick and smashed the side of Sakura's head. There was a loud crack, both of the stick and the sound of Sakura's bones. Sakura's body rolled to the edge of the rock. Syaoran tried to get up to help, but he was in too much pain to move. He just could sit there and watch as Nave sat on Sakura's stomach, pinning her down. Sakura's sword was by her side. Nave drew a handgun and put the barrel of the gun right into Sakura's forehead.
"Heh… finally, no more interruptions. Now I can kill you once and for all! My love's death shall no go in vain. I shall kill you and use that hatred to become even more powerful!" Sakura started to cry. She was terrified. She couldn't move and there was a gun stuck to her forehead. Syaoran rose to his feet, clutching his chest in pain. "Sakura! I'm… I'm coming! OW! Argh!" Syaoran collapsed again on the ground. He could only lift his head to see what would happen. He couldn't bear to watch.
Nave laughed. "You know what? That scared look on your face… it reminds me of the same look on the face of my daughter, right before I shot her… This is too perfect!" Sakura's blood began to boil. She couldn't take it. She felt her sword next to her and grabbed the handle. "You sick bastard!" She screamed as she swung her sword, severing the arm Nave was holding the gun with. Syaoran looked shocked.
Nave fell off of Sakura and stood up, clenching where his arm used to be. He was hysterical. Sakura jumped to her feet and slashed again, giving him a cut on his leg.
"This is for me!" She slashed again. She continued to slash, as she dedicated the damage to all those who have been hurt by him.
"This is for my father! This is for Touya! This is for Tomoyo! Mia! Natalie and Kittie! Vincent! Gene! The mages! Meilin! Mihoshi! My school friends! Syaoran's sisters!"
Nave's entire body was drenched in blood from all of the cuts. He staggered on his feet. Sakura saw Syaoran trying to stand, but was too hurt from the burns. She felt so angry.
"AND THIS IS FOR SYAORAN!" She jumped forward and stabbed the sword through Nave's chest. Nave gasped for air. Sakura held it there in silence for a moment, before quickly sliding the bloodstained sword out quickly. Nave held his chest in pain. His hands were drenched in blood, like the rest of him. He stumbled backwards, and fell off the rock. He screamed all the way down until he fell out of sight.
Sakura stood in silence at the edge of the rock with her hair blowing gently in the wind. Blood dripped from the tip of her sword. She had killed Nave by her own hands. Her father's death had been avenged.
To be continued…
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Chapter 33
Everyone stood in an offensive position, waiting to see what the demon dog would do. They just stood there, staring the dog down as it growled. It bent its knees and jumped in the air… and began to hover! It could fly! Sakura grabbed the Fly Card and summoned her Angel Wings. She took off into the air and hovered there. Yue, Kero, Ruby, and Spinnel did the same. They still sat there in silence. Syaoran, Natalie, Kittie, and Eriol decided to stay on the ground and use long-distance attacks. Yue held his sword of pure energy in his hands and made the first attack. He flew in and slashed, but the beast dodged every strike, opened his mouth, and blasted Yue to the ground with one blast of energy. "Ugh…" Yue slowly sat up, watching Kero and Spinnel charge in as Sakura threw another card in the air and Natalie and Kirei Kittie charged for some spells.
Kero and Spinnel used their claws to swipe the giant beast that was probably twice their size, but to no avail. They connected, but their claws just weren't sharp enough. Kero flew backwards, and breathed fire all over the demon. The beast was completely invisible under a sea of flames. Spinnel started to breathe fire on him as well. It seemed like it was working. Natalie and Kirei cast fire on the demon. Eriol and Syaoran blasted fire at it as well. Sakura screamed, "FIRE CARD!" And the Fire Spirit left it's card and dived into the inferno. Everyone stopped and watched the flames burn. There was no way even a demon could stand all of that fire.
But it did. The beast flew straight out of the fire, with its fur still partially ablaze, and with two swipes, it sent Kero and Spinnel to the ground. It eyed Sakura, and charged her, tackling her, bringing himself and Sakura to the ground. It growled in her face. Sakura could feel the heat of the flames still burning the hellhound's fur. It opened its jaws and looked as though it was going to bite Sakura's head clean off. Sakura tried to move, but the dog had her pinned to the ground. She shrieked in fear as it came closer to snapping her head off, when something kicked the demon's head with a loud crack. The demon turned to where the blow had come and spotted Syaoran. "C'mon, tough dog. Pick on me. Leave Sakura alone." Syaoran lifted his blade and jumped to strike the beast, but the dog leaped off of Sakura and tackled him with its horns in midair. Syaoran went tumbling backwards, and rolled off the side of the huge rock they stood on. Sakura screamed as she stood up. "SYAORAN!" She reached her arm out, as if he could grab it. She ran to the edge of the rock and saw him falling out of sight. While her back was turned, the dog pounced again towards her, but was intercepted by Ruby Moon's sword, slicing part of its face, sending blood over its mouth. Eriol. Raised his staff and sent a large bolt of electricity, shocking the beast for several seconds. Sakura turned around quickly. Her eyes were filled with sadness and anger.
She pulled out another card. "I… I promised Syaoran I wouldn't use the Power Card in hate… so… FIGHT CARD!" Sakura began to glow in a light-blue aura. She let loose a flurry of attacks that sent the demon dog reeling. With every kick to the face, Sakura could see the saliva and blood fly from the dog's face. With every punch, Sakura could feel her anger growing. She couldn't handle it. The dog had thrown Syaoran over the side of the rock. She gave one last kick under the stomach that sent the dog flying into the air. Sakura flew over top of him and smashed the dog with her hands over its head, sending crashing into the ground. She didn't even wait to see if the dog had been knocked out; she just dive-bombed off the rock to try and see Syaoran.
Things seemed to be going well. Nave sat on one side away from them all, with his long sword drawn. He grinded his teeth in anger as he saw his pet losing and lying motionless on the ground. Yue and Ruby approached, raising their swords. They prepared to slice the demon to pieces, when it sprang to its feet and tackled the two of them to the ground. They couldn't move as the dog's weight held them down. It opened it mouth, preparing to blast them when a spray of blood covered Yue and Ruby in a blinding flash. The demon's head fell off, and the dog vanished into thin air. They turned to see Sakura flying overhead holding Syaoran's foot. Syaoran held a bloodstained sword. Syaoran had killed the beast. Out of Syaoran's pocket fell the fire-colored stone he found before. It landed beside Kittie, who examined it.
"YOU BASTARDS!" Nave screamed as Sakura sat Syaoran on the ground. "First, you kill my love, now you kill my pet! I may not be a true demon, but I am more powerful than one! I'll kill you here and now!" He charged forward and shoved Sakura to one side. He went straight for Syaoran as he got up. He slashed at Syaoran, just barely missing him. Syaoran turned his bloodied sword to one side, catching the next slash, and he pushed Nave back. He jumped to his feet and attacked on his own. Every shot either of them made was either blocked or missed entirely. Neither Syaoran nor Nave could get the advantage over the other. But eventually, they struck at the same time and pushed their swords together as hard as they could. They could see the sweat dripping off each other's face. Nave decided to cheat and kicked Syaoran in the gut, then smacked him over the back of the head with the broad side of the sword, sending Syaoran crashing to the ground. Nave back flipped about 5 feet away and held his hand out. "Now, it's time for my revenge!" A ball of black energy grew in his hand as he prepared to blast Syaoran into oblivion. Everyone stood in shock. Sakura screamed Syaoran's name but decided she would have to do something. She grabbed a card and tossed it overhead. "SWORD CARD!" Sakura charged forward with her gleaming sword in hand. Nave fired and the ball of deadly magic was heading straight at Syaoran, who lifted his head to see it barreling closer. But Sakura stepped in the way and swung her sword. It connected with the energy, and sent it barreling back at Nave. H screamed as his own ball of energy collided with him in a huge explosion. When the smoke cleared, Nave lay on the ground motionless. Sakura helped Syaoran to his feet. Syaoran blushed. "Umm… thanks." He said. "You saved me so many times today." Sakura smiled. "It's okay. I couldn't just sit by and watch you be blown away. I had to do something. And I didn't break my promise. I didn't use the Power Card in anger!" Eriol stepped forward. "Well, one question. If you killed Nave, why are we still here? Shouldn't we back in the shrine?"
Suddenly, Nave began to stir. He sprang to his feet and as quick as lightning ran to Sakura and punched her in the face. Hard. She went tumbling backwards. Eriol turned her over when she landed near her feet. "She's out cold!" Eriol said. Syaoran growled. "LEAVE SAKURA ALONE!" He went to punch Nave in the face, but Nave dodged it and kicked Syaoran, sending him flying to the ground. Yue, Ruby, Kero, and Spinnel all charged at Nave at once. Nave quickly beat them all to the ground with kicks and punches. Natalie, Kittie, and Eriol stood side by side, preparing to all cast a spell at once, but Nave got there and knocked them to the ground. Kittie landed beside Syaoran, and Syaoran's stone rolled out her pocket. She thought of something. Kittie grabbed the stone, got to her feet and helped Syaoran stand up. She opened his hands and put the stone in his palm. "Syaoran, I figured out what this is!" Kirei Kittie said. "It's an element stone!" Syaoran looked confused. "A what?" Kittie thought for a second. "How should I put this? An element stone is… made up of… pure magic of one type. I think this is made of fire magic! Concentrate your magic into this, and see what happens!"
Syaoran concentrated hard into the stone. He felt his body temperature rising. After about ten seconds, his right arm went ablaze. Syaoran gasped. His right arm was covered in fire, but it didn't burn. He could feel the power coursing through his veins. He saw Nave walking slowly towards the unconscious Sakura. Nave reached into his boot and pulled out a handgun! He aimed it at Sakura. "Well, good-bye, bitch." Nave said softly, as he got ready to pull the trigger. Syaoran put his arm out. "HEY ASSHOLE! SUCK ON THIS!" A wave of fire spread through the air, never touching the ground to avoid Sakura, and sent Nave flying back, and the handgun went flying.
Yue and Eriol looked on in amazement as Nave flopped on the ground, trying to extinguish the flames on his body. "H-h-h-how did you do that?!" Eriol asked. Syaoran turned to him and showed them the stone in his hand, which was still on fire. "This thing. It's some stone I found in this shrine. I just concentrate my powers through it." Yue and Eriol remembered their stones. They took them out and put them in their palms. They concentrated, and started to feel weird. When Eriol looked at his hand, his blue stone had turned his arm into pure water. Yue's arm became wrapped up in a series of vines that grew out of his arm. Eriol tried it out and blasted the flaming Nave with a river of water. Yue tried it out, and vines grew from the ground and lifted Nave off the ground and began to strangle him. Nave grabbed his throat, trying to rip-off Yue's vines. Instead, Nave grabbed a small dagger from under his clothes and cut himself loose, dropping to the ground.
He stood up, and stared down Syaoran, Eriol, and Yue with big bloodshot eyes. Natalie and Kittie were trying to wake Sakura up as she lay out cold on the ground, with blood running down her lip from the punch. Kero and Spinnel also tried to wake Sakura.
Nave jumped forward towards the three boys. He ripped off his cape to reveal a hug stack of weapons strapped to his back. Swords, guns, explosives, anything you could think of. He pulled out a small machine gun and fired away. They all rolled away, and Yue had a vine fly from his hands and smash the gun right in his hands into a million pieces. "Dammit…" Nave mumbled. "But I'll get these bastards one way or another." He grabbed a pair of grenades and tossed them at the boys. Eriol shot a blast of water at one, shoving off one end, while Syaoran kicked it right back and hit it with a blast of fire only a few feet from Nave. The force of the explosion threw him back. "Argh! Dammit! These kids are tough. Okay, time to play defensively 'til I think of a plan."
Syaoran looked over at the girls and Kero and Spinnel trying to wake up Sakura. "It's all his fault… he killed Sakura's father… if it weren't for him… Alright, time to end this!" He thought to himself. Syaoran charged up all the power he could. His eyes burned. His hair practically swirled like an open flame. The rest of his body began to go ablaze. He watched Nave slowly stumble to his feet. Eriol noticed Syaoran's entire body beginning to burn. "Syaoran, what are you doing? Are you insane? You're using too much power. We don't know if these could have an effect!" Syaoran didn't respond. He just mumbled to himself, "This is for Sakura…"
Syaoran slammed his fist into the ground with an Earth shattering force. Everyone except Nave and Syaoran fell to the ground with its force. A crack in the ground traveled towards Nave. Nave looked on in fear, until he grabbed a small stone from his pocket when the crack reached him. The ground underneath Nave exploded in a sea of flames. No demon could have survived it. Syaoran's entire body was engulfed in flames, but he started to relax until the flames vanished. Syaoran panted heavily as he rested. The entire area Nave was in was completely covered in smoke and fire. Eriol and Yue relaxed as well and returned to normal. They all sat down and took a breather. Syaoran saw Sakura beginning to move. "Sakura!" He screamed as he stood up. Sakura lifted her head and saw him. "SYAORAN! LOOK OUT!" she screamed, as something flew out of the fire and exploded at Syaoran's feet. Sakura watched in horror. The three boys were blown ten feet back. Kittie noticed the gems flying from their hands. Natalie, Kittie, Kero, and Spinnel all ran over to help, but something else flew from the fire and landed at the feet of everyone but Sakura. They were all blown back. Sakura watched a dark silhouette emerge from the fire. It was Nave.
Nave had a dark black shield around him that disappeared when he stepped out. He was carrying some kind of grenade launcher. He laughed a bloodcurdling laugh. "You little punks aren't the only ones who can use magic stones!" He reached to his belt and pulled out a dagger. He stepped over the unconscious bodies of Sakura's friends. He picked up Syaoran's head and slapped him. "WAKE UP SO I CAN KILL YOU FACE TO FACE!" Syaoran began to move. He slowly opened his eyes to see the dagger inches away from his throat. "I warned you that I would kill you kids… Now die! I shall avenge you, Rosaria!" He raised his dagger high and was ready to stab, when there was a loud clang of metal on metal and the dagger flew from Nave's hands. He turned to see Sakura using to Sword Card. Sakura pointed the sword at Nave's head. "Okay, stand up, and step away from Syaoran." Nave slowly rose to his feet, with his hands in the air. Syaoran lifted his head and rested on his elbows. "Sakura? What—WATCH OUT!" Syaoran said as he watched Nave slowly reaching for the weapons on his back. But before Sakura could react, Nave pulled out a kendo stick and smashed the side of Sakura's head. There was a loud crack, both of the stick and the sound of Sakura's bones. Sakura's body rolled to the edge of the rock. Syaoran tried to get up to help, but he was in too much pain to move. He just could sit there and watch as Nave sat on Sakura's stomach, pinning her down. Sakura's sword was by her side. Nave drew a handgun and put the barrel of the gun right into Sakura's forehead.
"Heh… finally, no more interruptions. Now I can kill you once and for all! My love's death shall no go in vain. I shall kill you and use that hatred to become even more powerful!" Sakura started to cry. She was terrified. She couldn't move and there was a gun stuck to her forehead. Syaoran rose to his feet, clutching his chest in pain. "Sakura! I'm… I'm coming! OW! Argh!" Syaoran collapsed again on the ground. He could only lift his head to see what would happen. He couldn't bear to watch.
Nave laughed. "You know what? That scared look on your face… it reminds me of the same look on the face of my daughter, right before I shot her… This is too perfect!" Sakura's blood began to boil. She couldn't take it. She felt her sword next to her and grabbed the handle. "You sick bastard!" She screamed as she swung her sword, severing the arm Nave was holding the gun with. Syaoran looked shocked.
Nave fell off of Sakura and stood up, clenching where his arm used to be. He was hysterical. Sakura jumped to her feet and slashed again, giving him a cut on his leg.
"This is for me!" She slashed again. She continued to slash, as she dedicated the damage to all those who have been hurt by him.
"This is for my father! This is for Touya! This is for Tomoyo! Mia! Natalie and Kittie! Vincent! Gene! The mages! Meilin! Mihoshi! My school friends! Syaoran's sisters!"
Nave's entire body was drenched in blood from all of the cuts. He staggered on his feet. Sakura saw Syaoran trying to stand, but was too hurt from the burns. She felt so angry.
"AND THIS IS FOR SYAORAN!" She jumped forward and stabbed the sword through Nave's chest. Nave gasped for air. Sakura held it there in silence for a moment, before quickly sliding the bloodstained sword out quickly. Nave held his chest in pain. His hands were drenched in blood, like the rest of him. He stumbled backwards, and fell off the rock. He screamed all the way down until he fell out of sight.
Sakura stood in silence at the edge of the rock with her hair blowing gently in the wind. Blood dripped from the tip of her sword. She had killed Nave by her own hands. Her father's death had been avenged.
To be continued…