"The Deepest Friendship" - A Cardcaptor Sakura Fanfic
Story Written by Freedom Fighter
Rating: PG
A familiar ally comes to the rescue... sort of! See what happens tonight
in the sixth chapter!
Disclaimer: I do not own Cardcaptor Sakura or any of the characters from the
TV series.
*****
Chapter Six (08.19.02)
Tomoyo and Meilin, standing in the middle of a deserted street at night in
downtown Tomoeda, stare each other down. Meilin is crouched in a ready
position, with her fists clenched and held right in front of her chest.
Tomoyo, on the other hand, stands there casually with her arms to the side.
"Clow Card, show yourself! I challenge you to a fight!"
"I'm right here," Tomoyo replied, but not in her voice. It was the voice of
the ghastly spirit that had taken control of her. "Fight me if you dare!"
Without another word, Meilin charges at Tomoyo, screaming a battle cry as she
does. Meilin swings her right arm right at Tomoyo. But Tomoyo blocks the
punch, lifting her left hand and catching the punch. Meilin responds by
quickly throwing another punch, this time with her left hand. But Tomoyo
catches that one too. Meilin throws three more consecutive punches,
alternating hands, but Tomoyo still blocks all of them.
"What the?" Meilin exclaimed, stepping back. "You don't know how to block
martial arts attacks!"
"I don't? Silly me. I guess you want me to act as the girl normally would."
Tomoyo smirks. "Fat chance of that happening!"
"Then I'll just have to serve it up!"
Going on the offensive once again, Meilin starts punching and kicking at
Tomoyo as fast as she can. But Tomoyo continues to block each and every blow.
Eventually, Meilin tires out from exhaustion and her aching back.
"How can this be? I threw everything I had at you!"
"Pity that it won't be enough."
Tomoyo then runs right at Meilin and starts punching away. Meilin blocks the
first few shots, but one gets through, hitting her in the left cheek. It
turns Meilin around temporarily, giving Tomoyo enough time to add a flying
kick. Tomoyo hits Meilin right in stomach, sending the Chinese girl to the
ground hard, causing even more pain from her injured back.
"I wanted to eliminate the Clow Mistress, but you'll do gladly for now."
Tomoyo runs over to a nearby lightpole and tries to pull out, intending to
finish off Meilin by whacking her with it. Unfortunately, the evil spirit
greatly overestimated Tomoyo's abilities, as the pole didn't even budge.
"Curse this girl's body! She can't do anything!"
Tomoyo walks over to Meilin, who is fighting with herself to stay conscious.
"If I had your body though, it would be a little easier to get around."
"You'll have to kill me first to get it!"
"Unfortunately, that won't work. The only way I can take control of you is to
get rid of this body."
Tomoyo then smiles evilly as Meilin realizes his plan.
"You can't kill her! Kill me first!"
"It's too late! Soon, this young girl will be swimming with the fishes. Then
I'll escape from her body, take over yours, and then use you to get rid of the
Clow Mistress! It's perfect!"
"No it's not! Really! Kill me first! I don't mind!"
"Your cries of sacrifice are falling on deaf ears! And soon, this girl won't
be able to hear anything at all!"
Tomoyo then begins to laugh maniacally. But for a brief moment, the real
Tomoyo breaks through long enough to issue a plea of help.
"Meilin-chan! Help me!"
"Tomoyo-chan?"
"Not here," Tomoyo replied, back in the spirit's voice.
"Let go of her, you evil Clow Card thingy!"
"That's so frightening," Tomoyo stated sarcastically.
Tomoyo then kicks Meilin in the stomach, making her turn over and face in the
other direction as she clutches her stomach in pain.
"Don't worry, I'm not going to kill you. I'm just knocking you out so that I
can buy some time to get rid of this body. But then I'll be back for you."
Tomoyo kicks Meilin again, this time in back. This particular hit makes her
scream out in pain.
======
About a block or so away, a red haired woman dressed in all black heard
Meilin's cries for help. Sensing danger, but not the presence of the
cardcaptor, Clow's descendant, or the guardian beast, she runs towards the
scene.
"This entity," she thought to herself as she ran, "it's powerful. Very
powerful. But how did it get here to Japan?"
======
Back at Li's apartment, Syaoran and Sakura continue their search through the
books, looking for an answer to their dilemma.
"I don't get it!" Syaoran said. "Why wouldn't Clow Reed leave some type of
record of his creation of the Forbidden Clow Cards?"
"Li-kun," Sakura began, "maybe we're approaching this the wrong way."
"What? What do you mean?"
"Maybe we shouldn't be searching for information on what the cards are. We
already know that. Besides, he probably wouldn't write the information down
in a book..."
"Because he wouldn't want anyone to either find the first set," Syaoran
finished. "Or create a second one."
"But I bet that somewhere he's written something down in case of an emergency.
You know, if someone really did get a hold of them."
"Yeah, so? I don't really follow, Sakura."
"Clow Reed must have a journal, diary, or something which he kept a personal
record of his life. Where else would you keep information that you didn't
want anyone to find out about, not even the guardian beast himself?"
"It all makes sense," Kero chanted, coming out of his trance.
"I almost forgot the stuffed animal was here with us. He was being so quiet.
For once."
"Stop calling me a stuffed animal!"
"Kero-chan, Li-kun, this isn't the time! We've got to find that journal."
Syaoran starts searching the book bindings for any titles that may signify
that it was a journal of Clow Reed's. Alas, no luck.
"Nothing."
"Then what do we do? We can't let Tomoyo roam around town all night causing
mischief!"
"There's one option we haven't tried yet."
"What?"
"Wei!"
Li's guardian walks into the room.
"Yes, Sir Syaoran?"
"I need to call... my mother."
======
Back downtown, Meilin crawls against the wall of a nearby store, still
gritting in pain over her aching back. In fact, the pain was so great that
she was on the verge of crying. But she had no time to worry about that, as
the possessed body of Tomoyo walked towards her, looking to inflict a little
more pain before departing.
"You're tougher than I thought," Tomoyo admitted. "No matter. That at least
assures me a better chance at offing the cardcaptor when I take control of
you!"
Tomoyo rears her right foot back, preparing to kick Meilin in the face this
time. But she stops, sensing something in the air. Tomoyo puts her foot down
and starts looking around the area.
"There's another Clow Card here!"
Tomoyo closes her eyes and tries to concentrate and find the Clow Card. But
with her senses focused elsewhere, she missed the presence of a certain
someone who's come to rescue Meilin.
"Mitsuki-sensei?"
Miss Kaho Mitsuki, the woman who taught the fifth grade class that Meilin and
the others shared, was standing right in front of her.
"Being out this late at night can be dangerous," she tells Meilin as she
kneels down and tries to comfort her.
"Don't get near her," Meilin cried, pointing at Tomoyo. "She's not feeling
well. She tries to fight off anyone who tries to get close to her."
Miss Mitsuki glances at Tomoyo, who is still in her trance. She also begins
to feel a strange presence approaching... although the one inside the young
girl in front of her seemed to be overpowering it.
"The hold on her is strong. And getting stronger by the minute."
"Stronger?" Meilin asked, a bit fearful of the response.
"Yes. And any second now..."
She never gets a chance to finish her statement, as a flash of white light
envelopes Tomoyo. The young ten year old falls to her knees, screaming in
pain as something courses through her body.
"Tomoyo-chan!"
Meilin gets up and starts to run over towards Tomoyo, but Miss Mitsuki stops
her.
"It wouldn't be wise to jump in with your condition."
Meilin didn't object, as the sudden rise had once again double the intensity
of the pain on her back. Meilin wails loudly as she sits back down on the
pavement, wishing for the pain to stop. Miss Mitsuki helps Meilin lay down
on the ground.
"It hurts so much!" Meilin cried, as tears came to her eyes.
"Don't worry," her teacher told her, looking back at the still-enveloped
Tomoyo just a few yards away. "Help will be on the way."
======
Sakura paces back and forth in the kitchen as she listens into Syaoran's
phone conversation with his mother.
"Yes, as far as I know, the card already has control of her."
Sakura got more nervous by the moment as Syaoran takes some mental notes of
what his mom is telling him.
"The psychic card. We don't know if the other two cards around."
He listens closely as his mother tells him another dangerous aspect of the
Clow Cards.
"What? You mean the cards are attracted to each other?"
"Attracted to each other?" Sakura asks. "How, Li-kun?"
He covers the receiver for a second as he explains what his mother had just
told him.
"When one of the Forbiddens takes over a human's body, then the other two
will automatically sense that. And then..."
Before Syaoran could finish, his face grows serious. Sakura and Kero also
begin to sense something.
"It's another Clow Card," Kero told them.
Syaoran quickly turns back to the phone and wishes his mom a quick goodbye.
"I'm sorry mom, but I gotta go. You may be right about your theory. We've
got to get her now."
He then hangs the phone up and runs out of the room, towards the front door.
Sakura and Kero follow right after them, wondering what's going on.
"We're going after the Clow Card, right?"
"Sakura, we may be over our heads on this one. It might be another one of
the Forbiddens."
"Whoa! No way!"
"Kero-chan... are we really up against something we can't beat?"
"Are you leaving?" Wei asks the duo as they put their shoes back on.
"Tomoyo-chan's in serious trouble! We have to save her!"
Grabbing her wand, Sakura immediately pulls the Fly card out again and summons
it.
"FLY!"
Sakura hops on, straddling the wand once again. Without hesitation, Syaoran
sits down behind her, accidentally reaching for Sakura's waist instead of the
wand itself, which he usually held onto. But he failed to notice it, as his
mind was focused on other things. Sakura noticed however, but she didn't do
anything about it. At least for the time being.
Sakura and Syaoran take to the air, with Kero following behind them.
"Li-kun, what were you saying about the Forbiddens?"
"Well, as I was saying, the other two cards are attracted to the one that now
has control over Tomoyo. As powerful as the cards are separately, mother said
that together they could be impossible to capture."
"But the cards are coming to Tomoyo, right? We just wait for them to come,
capture the other two, and then deal with the one that has Tomoyo-chan."
"It's not that easy. The longer a card has possession of a body, the stronger
it gets. How strong a card is determines how easily the Forbiddens can merge
together."
"Just how strong could the one in Tomoyo-chan be?"
"Depends. Under normal circumstances, it would take at least another 12 hours
to be strong enough to begin to attract the other two Forbiddens. But..."
"The Clow Card we just sensed! Could it be one of them?"
"It must be. That means somehow Tomoyo figured out that the card had control
of her, so she must have tried to fight it. But doing so makes the situation
worse. In order to keep control of her, the card probably amplified its power,
shortening the length of time that it would take for the other two cards to
become attracted to her."
"So you mean that one of the cards is already here in Tomoeda, searching for
Tomoyo and the Psychic card that has her under its control?"
"Worse. If my instincts are right... that card has already found her."
Sakura gasps. "Oh no! Tomoyo-chan!"
"I can still sense the card. It must still be trying to complete the merge.
We have to get there before the merge completes. Or before the third card
appears."
Coming in Chapter 7:
- Miss Mitsuki pulls Meilin to safety as Tomoyo completes the merge.
- Sakura, Syaoran, and Kero arrive, still without a plan on how to stop Tomoyo.
- The final Forbidden appears! Can Sakura keep it from reaching Tomoyo-chan?
Story Written by Freedom Fighter
Rating: PG
A familiar ally comes to the rescue... sort of! See what happens tonight
in the sixth chapter!
Disclaimer: I do not own Cardcaptor Sakura or any of the characters from the
TV series.
*****
Chapter Six (08.19.02)
Tomoyo and Meilin, standing in the middle of a deserted street at night in
downtown Tomoeda, stare each other down. Meilin is crouched in a ready
position, with her fists clenched and held right in front of her chest.
Tomoyo, on the other hand, stands there casually with her arms to the side.
"Clow Card, show yourself! I challenge you to a fight!"
"I'm right here," Tomoyo replied, but not in her voice. It was the voice of
the ghastly spirit that had taken control of her. "Fight me if you dare!"
Without another word, Meilin charges at Tomoyo, screaming a battle cry as she
does. Meilin swings her right arm right at Tomoyo. But Tomoyo blocks the
punch, lifting her left hand and catching the punch. Meilin responds by
quickly throwing another punch, this time with her left hand. But Tomoyo
catches that one too. Meilin throws three more consecutive punches,
alternating hands, but Tomoyo still blocks all of them.
"What the?" Meilin exclaimed, stepping back. "You don't know how to block
martial arts attacks!"
"I don't? Silly me. I guess you want me to act as the girl normally would."
Tomoyo smirks. "Fat chance of that happening!"
"Then I'll just have to serve it up!"
Going on the offensive once again, Meilin starts punching and kicking at
Tomoyo as fast as she can. But Tomoyo continues to block each and every blow.
Eventually, Meilin tires out from exhaustion and her aching back.
"How can this be? I threw everything I had at you!"
"Pity that it won't be enough."
Tomoyo then runs right at Meilin and starts punching away. Meilin blocks the
first few shots, but one gets through, hitting her in the left cheek. It
turns Meilin around temporarily, giving Tomoyo enough time to add a flying
kick. Tomoyo hits Meilin right in stomach, sending the Chinese girl to the
ground hard, causing even more pain from her injured back.
"I wanted to eliminate the Clow Mistress, but you'll do gladly for now."
Tomoyo runs over to a nearby lightpole and tries to pull out, intending to
finish off Meilin by whacking her with it. Unfortunately, the evil spirit
greatly overestimated Tomoyo's abilities, as the pole didn't even budge.
"Curse this girl's body! She can't do anything!"
Tomoyo walks over to Meilin, who is fighting with herself to stay conscious.
"If I had your body though, it would be a little easier to get around."
"You'll have to kill me first to get it!"
"Unfortunately, that won't work. The only way I can take control of you is to
get rid of this body."
Tomoyo then smiles evilly as Meilin realizes his plan.
"You can't kill her! Kill me first!"
"It's too late! Soon, this young girl will be swimming with the fishes. Then
I'll escape from her body, take over yours, and then use you to get rid of the
Clow Mistress! It's perfect!"
"No it's not! Really! Kill me first! I don't mind!"
"Your cries of sacrifice are falling on deaf ears! And soon, this girl won't
be able to hear anything at all!"
Tomoyo then begins to laugh maniacally. But for a brief moment, the real
Tomoyo breaks through long enough to issue a plea of help.
"Meilin-chan! Help me!"
"Tomoyo-chan?"
"Not here," Tomoyo replied, back in the spirit's voice.
"Let go of her, you evil Clow Card thingy!"
"That's so frightening," Tomoyo stated sarcastically.
Tomoyo then kicks Meilin in the stomach, making her turn over and face in the
other direction as she clutches her stomach in pain.
"Don't worry, I'm not going to kill you. I'm just knocking you out so that I
can buy some time to get rid of this body. But then I'll be back for you."
Tomoyo kicks Meilin again, this time in back. This particular hit makes her
scream out in pain.
======
About a block or so away, a red haired woman dressed in all black heard
Meilin's cries for help. Sensing danger, but not the presence of the
cardcaptor, Clow's descendant, or the guardian beast, she runs towards the
scene.
"This entity," she thought to herself as she ran, "it's powerful. Very
powerful. But how did it get here to Japan?"
======
Back at Li's apartment, Syaoran and Sakura continue their search through the
books, looking for an answer to their dilemma.
"I don't get it!" Syaoran said. "Why wouldn't Clow Reed leave some type of
record of his creation of the Forbidden Clow Cards?"
"Li-kun," Sakura began, "maybe we're approaching this the wrong way."
"What? What do you mean?"
"Maybe we shouldn't be searching for information on what the cards are. We
already know that. Besides, he probably wouldn't write the information down
in a book..."
"Because he wouldn't want anyone to either find the first set," Syaoran
finished. "Or create a second one."
"But I bet that somewhere he's written something down in case of an emergency.
You know, if someone really did get a hold of them."
"Yeah, so? I don't really follow, Sakura."
"Clow Reed must have a journal, diary, or something which he kept a personal
record of his life. Where else would you keep information that you didn't
want anyone to find out about, not even the guardian beast himself?"
"It all makes sense," Kero chanted, coming out of his trance.
"I almost forgot the stuffed animal was here with us. He was being so quiet.
For once."
"Stop calling me a stuffed animal!"
"Kero-chan, Li-kun, this isn't the time! We've got to find that journal."
Syaoran starts searching the book bindings for any titles that may signify
that it was a journal of Clow Reed's. Alas, no luck.
"Nothing."
"Then what do we do? We can't let Tomoyo roam around town all night causing
mischief!"
"There's one option we haven't tried yet."
"What?"
"Wei!"
Li's guardian walks into the room.
"Yes, Sir Syaoran?"
"I need to call... my mother."
======
Back downtown, Meilin crawls against the wall of a nearby store, still
gritting in pain over her aching back. In fact, the pain was so great that
she was on the verge of crying. But she had no time to worry about that, as
the possessed body of Tomoyo walked towards her, looking to inflict a little
more pain before departing.
"You're tougher than I thought," Tomoyo admitted. "No matter. That at least
assures me a better chance at offing the cardcaptor when I take control of
you!"
Tomoyo rears her right foot back, preparing to kick Meilin in the face this
time. But she stops, sensing something in the air. Tomoyo puts her foot down
and starts looking around the area.
"There's another Clow Card here!"
Tomoyo closes her eyes and tries to concentrate and find the Clow Card. But
with her senses focused elsewhere, she missed the presence of a certain
someone who's come to rescue Meilin.
"Mitsuki-sensei?"
Miss Kaho Mitsuki, the woman who taught the fifth grade class that Meilin and
the others shared, was standing right in front of her.
"Being out this late at night can be dangerous," she tells Meilin as she
kneels down and tries to comfort her.
"Don't get near her," Meilin cried, pointing at Tomoyo. "She's not feeling
well. She tries to fight off anyone who tries to get close to her."
Miss Mitsuki glances at Tomoyo, who is still in her trance. She also begins
to feel a strange presence approaching... although the one inside the young
girl in front of her seemed to be overpowering it.
"The hold on her is strong. And getting stronger by the minute."
"Stronger?" Meilin asked, a bit fearful of the response.
"Yes. And any second now..."
She never gets a chance to finish her statement, as a flash of white light
envelopes Tomoyo. The young ten year old falls to her knees, screaming in
pain as something courses through her body.
"Tomoyo-chan!"
Meilin gets up and starts to run over towards Tomoyo, but Miss Mitsuki stops
her.
"It wouldn't be wise to jump in with your condition."
Meilin didn't object, as the sudden rise had once again double the intensity
of the pain on her back. Meilin wails loudly as she sits back down on the
pavement, wishing for the pain to stop. Miss Mitsuki helps Meilin lay down
on the ground.
"It hurts so much!" Meilin cried, as tears came to her eyes.
"Don't worry," her teacher told her, looking back at the still-enveloped
Tomoyo just a few yards away. "Help will be on the way."
======
Sakura paces back and forth in the kitchen as she listens into Syaoran's
phone conversation with his mother.
"Yes, as far as I know, the card already has control of her."
Sakura got more nervous by the moment as Syaoran takes some mental notes of
what his mom is telling him.
"The psychic card. We don't know if the other two cards around."
He listens closely as his mother tells him another dangerous aspect of the
Clow Cards.
"What? You mean the cards are attracted to each other?"
"Attracted to each other?" Sakura asks. "How, Li-kun?"
He covers the receiver for a second as he explains what his mother had just
told him.
"When one of the Forbiddens takes over a human's body, then the other two
will automatically sense that. And then..."
Before Syaoran could finish, his face grows serious. Sakura and Kero also
begin to sense something.
"It's another Clow Card," Kero told them.
Syaoran quickly turns back to the phone and wishes his mom a quick goodbye.
"I'm sorry mom, but I gotta go. You may be right about your theory. We've
got to get her now."
He then hangs the phone up and runs out of the room, towards the front door.
Sakura and Kero follow right after them, wondering what's going on.
"We're going after the Clow Card, right?"
"Sakura, we may be over our heads on this one. It might be another one of
the Forbiddens."
"Whoa! No way!"
"Kero-chan... are we really up against something we can't beat?"
"Are you leaving?" Wei asks the duo as they put their shoes back on.
"Tomoyo-chan's in serious trouble! We have to save her!"
Grabbing her wand, Sakura immediately pulls the Fly card out again and summons
it.
"FLY!"
Sakura hops on, straddling the wand once again. Without hesitation, Syaoran
sits down behind her, accidentally reaching for Sakura's waist instead of the
wand itself, which he usually held onto. But he failed to notice it, as his
mind was focused on other things. Sakura noticed however, but she didn't do
anything about it. At least for the time being.
Sakura and Syaoran take to the air, with Kero following behind them.
"Li-kun, what were you saying about the Forbiddens?"
"Well, as I was saying, the other two cards are attracted to the one that now
has control over Tomoyo. As powerful as the cards are separately, mother said
that together they could be impossible to capture."
"But the cards are coming to Tomoyo, right? We just wait for them to come,
capture the other two, and then deal with the one that has Tomoyo-chan."
"It's not that easy. The longer a card has possession of a body, the stronger
it gets. How strong a card is determines how easily the Forbiddens can merge
together."
"Just how strong could the one in Tomoyo-chan be?"
"Depends. Under normal circumstances, it would take at least another 12 hours
to be strong enough to begin to attract the other two Forbiddens. But..."
"The Clow Card we just sensed! Could it be one of them?"
"It must be. That means somehow Tomoyo figured out that the card had control
of her, so she must have tried to fight it. But doing so makes the situation
worse. In order to keep control of her, the card probably amplified its power,
shortening the length of time that it would take for the other two cards to
become attracted to her."
"So you mean that one of the cards is already here in Tomoeda, searching for
Tomoyo and the Psychic card that has her under its control?"
"Worse. If my instincts are right... that card has already found her."
Sakura gasps. "Oh no! Tomoyo-chan!"
"I can still sense the card. It must still be trying to complete the merge.
We have to get there before the merge completes. Or before the third card
appears."
Coming in Chapter 7:
- Miss Mitsuki pulls Meilin to safety as Tomoyo completes the merge.
- Sakura, Syaoran, and Kero arrive, still without a plan on how to stop Tomoyo.
- The final Forbidden appears! Can Sakura keep it from reaching Tomoyo-chan?