Chapter eight: The earth and death
Penguin park.
Li, Sakura, Meiling and Kero in his true form were fighting the earth card with Madison on the sidelines with her camera videotaping them. Meiling hit the card with an uppercut which forced the earth card to stumble a bit but it almost instantly retaliated by using it's magic to make earth tentacles pin Meiling against the floor. She struggled against it but it appeared useless, Kero attacked the earth card but it dodged the attack and did the same thing to Kero.
"Li! How are we supposed to beat this card if it is just gonna pin us down like that!?" Sakura demanded.
Li thought for a moment "Sakura! The earthy card!"
Sakura stood there for a moment wondering if Li had gone mad because the earthy cards attack would only strengthen the earth card then she realised what he was planning. She used the earthy card just as the earthy card caused the ground near them to rise forming a boulder, which the earth card hurtled at them but fortunately the earthy card stopped the boulder and was instead hurtled at the earth card. The card was surprised at this development, so surprised it didn't even move out of the boulders way. It hit the card and went a few feet backwards before it dropped crushing the earth cards lower body and arms, unable to move and unable to attack it was an easy capture for Li. Sakura ran over and hugged Li congratulating him on his capture.
"Hey! You mind getting us out of here!"
Sakura and Li turned to see Kero and Meiling still pinned down by the tentacles.
"Sorry guys" Sakura said bowing.
Next day in the sky's above Reedington.
A dark figure lurked in the sky above Reedington, he wore a black cloak and had a scythe in its right hand and a skeleton face. He looked exactly like the grim reaper apart from the fact he had a golden armband around each wrist, he floated downward scanning the town of Reedington and laughed a dark evil and cruel laugh.
Sakura's room.
*Knock-knock*
"Come in!" Sakura said
Sakura's father came into the room and sat on her bed next to her.
"Sakura I've noticed that ever since Li started capturing those new cards you have been acting very strange is something the matter?"
Sakura shook her head "No everything's fine dad"
Kero flew over to them "yeah right"
"Sakura if something's the matter I want you to tell me"
"Nothings the matter dad don't worry"
Aiden looked at her for a few seconds then left the room.
"Sakura why don't you want to tell us what's wrong?"
"Kero nothings wrong something is very right"
He looked at her "huh?"
"You know how Li's been felling you know not needed well I think that if Li captures Korano's cards and becomes their master he won't feel like that anymore"
"That's good"
"But Li doesn't think the cards want him to be their master even though I know they do"
"Don't worry Sakura Li will realise soon enough"
Li's room.
Li stood perfectly still with his sword in hand, concentrating for a few seconds then he threw several thin pieces of wood into the air and sliced them all into splinters before they came close to the ground. Li put down his sword and got the dustpan and brush to clean up the mess of splinters on the floor, he did the process again with slightly thicker pieces of wood and cleaned the splinters off his floor once again.
"Ok now lets try magic"
He threw even thicker pieces of wood into the air and used his elemental lightning attack which hit all the pieces of wood and not a single miss, Li cleaned the floor up again.
"Finally lets try a combination of the two"
Now he threw twice as much wood in the air, hitting half of them with his lightning attack then jumped into the air and sliced the remaining pieces of wood and cleaned up the splinters.
"That's it for tonight"
He put his sword against the wall and went out onto the balcony, he gazed up at the moon.
*Wait a minute.a card!*
He looked at a cloaked figure with a scythe as it descended down on him, it took a swipe at Li with its scythe but Li dodged it. It then tried shot it's skeleton hand out, Li didn't have any time to move out of the way and when the hand was merely inches from his chest Meiling pushed him out of the way only to have the bony hand penetrate her chest only to emerge moments later with a red orb. Meiling grabbed the railing to support herself and looked at the card as it crushed the orb. As soon as the orb blew Meiling dropped lifelessly to the ground.
"MEILING!"
The card smiled and took off into the sky. Li checked Meiling's pulse.there was none, he carried her into his room and put her onto his bed. He hung his head for a few moments then realised something, he took the life card out of the Korano book and used it. The life card spirit came out of the card and formed a red orb in it's hand, it then put the orb in the wound in Meilings chest. The wound healed and Meiling opened her eyes, the life card looked at Li and bowed before turning back into a card.
"L-Li?"
"Meiling are you all right!?"
"I'm fine was that a card? And what happened? Did you capture it?"
Li answered her questions one by one and left Meiling in his room while he woke Korano up.
"Li just 5 more minutes"
"Korano there's been a card!"
That got her up "what!"
They went into Li's room and Li told Korano what happened.
"The death card"
"Right I'm guessing it does the opposite of the life"
"Yes but it only operates at night since it draws it's power from darkness. It seems like if it wasn't for Meiling here it would have been over for us"
Just then the phone started ringing and Li answered it to hear Sakura, she sounded like she was crying. "L-Li *sob* Tori has been killed I think it was by a card!"
"Did that card look exactly like the grim reaper only with gold armbands around his wrists"
"Y-yeah how did you know"
"Because that card killed Meiling it's the death card"
"WHAT MEILING!"
"Don't worry I used the life card"
"So she's alright"
"Yes Sakura she's fine so what happened?"
"Well I was woken up by my window opening and I saw that card right in front of me, I screamed and woke everyone up. Kero was thrown aside by this magic barrier and the card reached this bony hand for my chest and almost got me but Tori burst into the room and threw himself in front of me to protect me. Then it pulled this red orb out of Tori's chest and destroyed the orb then Tori just.just died and the card left"
"Don't worry I'll be right over"
10 minutes later Sakura's living room.
Sakura, Kero and Aiden were impatiently waiting the arrival of Li to revive Tori. As soon as Li arrived the first thing he did was revive Tori then call Korano about the card, when he was done he told Sakura what Korano said.
"So the card is waiting for you in the sky" Sakura said.
"Yeah but I don't have any way of getting there" Li said.
"I could use the fly card and carry you there"
"No I need to be able to move where I want"
"Okay I'll use the fly card on you but you will be on your own you know that"
"Sure thanks Sakura" Li said hugging her.
"Just don't die Li your too important to me" Sakura kissed him for a long time then they went outside and Sakura used the fly card on Li.
Wings grew from Li's back and he kissed Sakura lightly on the cheek "goodbye"
In the sky.
*I've been looking for that card for over an hour and no sign of wait that's the card*
Li saw the card and drew his sword, and flew toward it trying not to be noticed. Unfortunately the card saw him and started firing red magic blasts at him, fortunately because of Li's martial arts training he easily managed to predict where the attacks would go then dodge them easily. Li got close to the card and attacked it with his sword, the card started dodging his sword swipes and then tried to slash him with it's scythe. Li dodged it then hit it with his elemental fire attack then his elemental lightning which really hurt the card. He then used the strength card and gave the card the old one-two, after his 4th punch the card dropped it's scythe. The card got angry and shoved it's hand into Li's chest, Li screamed in pain and was about to give up when he saw Sakura in his mind and remembered that he promised to come back alive. He grabbed the skeleton hand and pulled it out of his chest and was relived to see that there wasn't a red orb in it's hand. He twisted the arm around and stabbed the card then sealed it, he looked at the card and smiled.
Penguin park.
Li, Sakura, Meiling and Kero in his true form were fighting the earth card with Madison on the sidelines with her camera videotaping them. Meiling hit the card with an uppercut which forced the earth card to stumble a bit but it almost instantly retaliated by using it's magic to make earth tentacles pin Meiling against the floor. She struggled against it but it appeared useless, Kero attacked the earth card but it dodged the attack and did the same thing to Kero.
"Li! How are we supposed to beat this card if it is just gonna pin us down like that!?" Sakura demanded.
Li thought for a moment "Sakura! The earthy card!"
Sakura stood there for a moment wondering if Li had gone mad because the earthy cards attack would only strengthen the earth card then she realised what he was planning. She used the earthy card just as the earthy card caused the ground near them to rise forming a boulder, which the earth card hurtled at them but fortunately the earthy card stopped the boulder and was instead hurtled at the earth card. The card was surprised at this development, so surprised it didn't even move out of the boulders way. It hit the card and went a few feet backwards before it dropped crushing the earth cards lower body and arms, unable to move and unable to attack it was an easy capture for Li. Sakura ran over and hugged Li congratulating him on his capture.
"Hey! You mind getting us out of here!"
Sakura and Li turned to see Kero and Meiling still pinned down by the tentacles.
"Sorry guys" Sakura said bowing.
Next day in the sky's above Reedington.
A dark figure lurked in the sky above Reedington, he wore a black cloak and had a scythe in its right hand and a skeleton face. He looked exactly like the grim reaper apart from the fact he had a golden armband around each wrist, he floated downward scanning the town of Reedington and laughed a dark evil and cruel laugh.
Sakura's room.
*Knock-knock*
"Come in!" Sakura said
Sakura's father came into the room and sat on her bed next to her.
"Sakura I've noticed that ever since Li started capturing those new cards you have been acting very strange is something the matter?"
Sakura shook her head "No everything's fine dad"
Kero flew over to them "yeah right"
"Sakura if something's the matter I want you to tell me"
"Nothings the matter dad don't worry"
Aiden looked at her for a few seconds then left the room.
"Sakura why don't you want to tell us what's wrong?"
"Kero nothings wrong something is very right"
He looked at her "huh?"
"You know how Li's been felling you know not needed well I think that if Li captures Korano's cards and becomes their master he won't feel like that anymore"
"That's good"
"But Li doesn't think the cards want him to be their master even though I know they do"
"Don't worry Sakura Li will realise soon enough"
Li's room.
Li stood perfectly still with his sword in hand, concentrating for a few seconds then he threw several thin pieces of wood into the air and sliced them all into splinters before they came close to the ground. Li put down his sword and got the dustpan and brush to clean up the mess of splinters on the floor, he did the process again with slightly thicker pieces of wood and cleaned the splinters off his floor once again.
"Ok now lets try magic"
He threw even thicker pieces of wood into the air and used his elemental lightning attack which hit all the pieces of wood and not a single miss, Li cleaned the floor up again.
"Finally lets try a combination of the two"
Now he threw twice as much wood in the air, hitting half of them with his lightning attack then jumped into the air and sliced the remaining pieces of wood and cleaned up the splinters.
"That's it for tonight"
He put his sword against the wall and went out onto the balcony, he gazed up at the moon.
*Wait a minute.a card!*
He looked at a cloaked figure with a scythe as it descended down on him, it took a swipe at Li with its scythe but Li dodged it. It then tried shot it's skeleton hand out, Li didn't have any time to move out of the way and when the hand was merely inches from his chest Meiling pushed him out of the way only to have the bony hand penetrate her chest only to emerge moments later with a red orb. Meiling grabbed the railing to support herself and looked at the card as it crushed the orb. As soon as the orb blew Meiling dropped lifelessly to the ground.
"MEILING!"
The card smiled and took off into the sky. Li checked Meiling's pulse.there was none, he carried her into his room and put her onto his bed. He hung his head for a few moments then realised something, he took the life card out of the Korano book and used it. The life card spirit came out of the card and formed a red orb in it's hand, it then put the orb in the wound in Meilings chest. The wound healed and Meiling opened her eyes, the life card looked at Li and bowed before turning back into a card.
"L-Li?"
"Meiling are you all right!?"
"I'm fine was that a card? And what happened? Did you capture it?"
Li answered her questions one by one and left Meiling in his room while he woke Korano up.
"Li just 5 more minutes"
"Korano there's been a card!"
That got her up "what!"
They went into Li's room and Li told Korano what happened.
"The death card"
"Right I'm guessing it does the opposite of the life"
"Yes but it only operates at night since it draws it's power from darkness. It seems like if it wasn't for Meiling here it would have been over for us"
Just then the phone started ringing and Li answered it to hear Sakura, she sounded like she was crying. "L-Li *sob* Tori has been killed I think it was by a card!"
"Did that card look exactly like the grim reaper only with gold armbands around his wrists"
"Y-yeah how did you know"
"Because that card killed Meiling it's the death card"
"WHAT MEILING!"
"Don't worry I used the life card"
"So she's alright"
"Yes Sakura she's fine so what happened?"
"Well I was woken up by my window opening and I saw that card right in front of me, I screamed and woke everyone up. Kero was thrown aside by this magic barrier and the card reached this bony hand for my chest and almost got me but Tori burst into the room and threw himself in front of me to protect me. Then it pulled this red orb out of Tori's chest and destroyed the orb then Tori just.just died and the card left"
"Don't worry I'll be right over"
10 minutes later Sakura's living room.
Sakura, Kero and Aiden were impatiently waiting the arrival of Li to revive Tori. As soon as Li arrived the first thing he did was revive Tori then call Korano about the card, when he was done he told Sakura what Korano said.
"So the card is waiting for you in the sky" Sakura said.
"Yeah but I don't have any way of getting there" Li said.
"I could use the fly card and carry you there"
"No I need to be able to move where I want"
"Okay I'll use the fly card on you but you will be on your own you know that"
"Sure thanks Sakura" Li said hugging her.
"Just don't die Li your too important to me" Sakura kissed him for a long time then they went outside and Sakura used the fly card on Li.
Wings grew from Li's back and he kissed Sakura lightly on the cheek "goodbye"
In the sky.
*I've been looking for that card for over an hour and no sign of wait that's the card*
Li saw the card and drew his sword, and flew toward it trying not to be noticed. Unfortunately the card saw him and started firing red magic blasts at him, fortunately because of Li's martial arts training he easily managed to predict where the attacks would go then dodge them easily. Li got close to the card and attacked it with his sword, the card started dodging his sword swipes and then tried to slash him with it's scythe. Li dodged it then hit it with his elemental fire attack then his elemental lightning which really hurt the card. He then used the strength card and gave the card the old one-two, after his 4th punch the card dropped it's scythe. The card got angry and shoved it's hand into Li's chest, Li screamed in pain and was about to give up when he saw Sakura in his mind and remembered that he promised to come back alive. He grabbed the skeleton hand and pulled it out of his chest and was relived to see that there wasn't a red orb in it's hand. He twisted the arm around and stabbed the card then sealed it, he looked at the card and smiled.