A/N: Okay, I'm now making it my personal mission to finish this fic, no matter what! So if you wanna e-mail me for nagging purposes, feel free! I need it people! ^_^;;;;
The echoing screams of terror that had once filled the room faded to silence, leaving only a cloaked figure standing in the center of a yellow grid, a glowing rectangle and a sea of black. Clow reached out and took the newly made seal that held the spirit of yet another member of his army and placed it in his robes. He walked a few paces forward and tapped the blackness directly in front of him with the immense wand that he grasped. A pool appeared, shimmering, brining an eerie, but limited light to the magic devoted room.
"Things shall start to pick up at this point," he whispered to himself, quickly following it with an incantation that brought an image in the pool of the village that he had just attacked. 'This is one that I will have to keep a watch on for a bit.' As he surveyed the town that housed his rival, his thoughts wandered back to another enemy that he was up against. He knew that he could capture them all rather effortlessly and be done with it, but that wouldn't be any fun now, would it? He chuckled at the memory of the trio diving down the cliffs into hiding. 'Such foolish, young creatures, thinking that they can simply run into a hole and be safe.' The image in the pool slowly moved back and forth, searching the nighttime that the town was cloaked in. He started when he saw movement in the landscape he was surveying. Following it, he found that it was the very same group that had been dominating his thoughts. He watched them land on one of the chalky cliffs that dominated over the town and perked his ears to hear their conversation.
"Okay, as see I it, well be able to watch over this place best enough if we cover the air, ground and sea," announced Temichica in her best commanding general voice.
"What? All of us at the same time??? I thought I was gonna be able to actually catch a couple of winks tonight..." whined Cerberus. Temichica fell over.
"NO YOU LEON ESTUPIDO!!!!" hollered Temichica, smacking her brother over the head. "Do you have any idea how inviting it would be for that guy to come along and see one of us asleep with the others gone?!?!? WE ARE IN WAR TIME HERE!!!!" Yue massaged his temples as Temichica continued on her tirade, grabbing on to a neglected stick and whacking Cerberus over the head to emphasize her points.
Clow chuckled at the parody of night guard that was playing before him. This is really too easy he sneered, Indeed, it shall be quite fun to play with these three. With that he made the pool disappear and he disappeared from the room as well.
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Marin panted, grabbing on to another jut from the cliff face and pulling herself along. She only had enough reserves to provide a magical net that would catch her if she slipped, rather than just transporting up there. With a sigh of relief she finely rolled up onto the flat surface of the top. Finding no one there, she chose to wait and greet the self appointed guards when they came back. She pulled the pack that she had carried along the way off and emptied its contents. Bread, soup, honey, and butter, all kept at their desired heat with various spells she had used. Setting the provisions out, Marin starred out at the nightscape before her, the ocean and sky paralleling one another. Her mind drifted back to a time she gazed out the same direction, on to a less peaceful scene, a world slowly being consumed by a destructive energy, and felt tears boil up in her eyes.
The rustle of huge wings interrupted her morbid thoughts.
"Marin? What brings you up here?"
Swallowing down her tears at the sound of the young lion's voice, she turned. "I thought you would all be hungry," she replied to Cerberus, motioning to the setup she had prepared.
"Am I ever!" Cerberus pounced on the dinner set down before him.
"Hey! Take it easy already! I said ALL of you!" Marin quickly scooped up the honey pot before he could get a hold of it.
"Ah! That's my favorite!!! Gimme gimme gimme!" His whining was swiftly cut off by a quick smack from Yue who had landed along with Temichica. "Ey, ey! Back off, she said I could have this!!!"
"The situation is really not getting to you is it, Cerberus?" growled Yue.
"Stuff your selfish little face AFTER all of the townspeople gets food!"
"It's alright," Marin, replied, chuckling, "The food reserves are holding out well, so you don't need to worry about that."
"Sooo…" Cerberus interjected in shyly, "Does that mean I can have some of that honey…"
"Only if you promise not to scarf it all, for honey is seldom in access around here," with Cerberus' solemn promise to do so, Marin looked for the honey pot that she had hidden from the sweets crazed lion, only to find it gone. "Oh dear…" she murmured, looking over the cliff edge.
"Aw, you gotta be kidding me…"
"Um…err, well, it's not here…"
Cerberus whimpered in loss.
A/N: Now, what do you suppose really happened to that jar of honey? Somebody else here likes sweets… XD