Chapter Eight
Above Tomoeda
Yami floated silently in the air. A preternatural darkness prevailed over light around this sinister being. He gazed with his dark eyes over the land below him. This land, his land, would soon be the epiphany of evil and darkness. This was a state that suited his name well. He ordered the people, scurrying below him, to submit before him. He threatened to destroy them all they resisted. Most aspiring dictators would mean that as an empty threat, but Yami did not. If even a single human caused him any grief, Yami would simply destroy the planet and move on. It was nothing for him to destroy Earth. In fact, he picked Earth because of the beings living on it. Humans are very strong beings, even thought they don't realize it, and would be a challenge for the Dark Lord to conquer. Of course, he didn't know that the two strongest gods to ever exist also lived on this planet, but would soon find out.
"Yami!" two powerful voices called from behind the evil Yami.
Yami turned to face the two who dared interrupt his thoughts of domination. First, he noticed the man. He was wearing a black and green battle robe and held a scythe loosely in his hand. He glared at Yami with his fierce, angry red eyes while slowly flapping his black, bat-like wings to stay aloft. If Yami hadn't known better, he would have thought that this man was evil.
Next, Yami studied the girl. If the man was the image of darkness and foreboding, this woman was the image of beauty and hope. Her robes were white and pale pink. These "robes" didn't cover as much as the man's, though. It seemed to be a cloth leisurely draped over the girl's lovely form, the loose ends hanging down her front and back and secured with a golden chain. Although her body was a heart-warming sight, her eyes were colder than ice. She simply stared at him with her beautiful pink eyes, as they seemed to swirl with energy and contempt. Her longer, golden pink hair was in a simple braid, draping over her snow-white wings with pink accents.
Both had an unearthly quality to them. Neither seemed human, but Yami assumed that they must simply be rather powerful humans.
"I am the God of Death!" the man declared.
"And I am the Goddess of Life!" the woman declared.
"I, I am the Ruler of Darkness and sovereign of all things unholy. I am Yami, the darkness!" Yami yelled, still angry. Dark bolts of lightning flashed behind him.
"We will destroy you here, and now!" Rob called.
"We will NOT allow you to hurt anyone or anything!" Sakura added.
Yami turned to Rob, "Well, my god, shall we get started since this pathetic little girl can't even touch me?"
Rob simply glared at Yami in renewed anger. In this form, it was not his nature to speak unless necessary. Even when Shinigami did choose to speak, it was in a quiet, sinister tone that gave most opponents the willies.
Yami shrugged and powered up to five percent of his maximum power. Of course, Shinigami thought that he'd simply raised his power to the same level as a few days before. Even at five percent, Yami was still slightly stronger than Shinigami.
Yami decided to charge. He screamed a battle cry as he charged at the dark god. Just before attacking Shinigami, Yami veered away and circled him at great speed. Yami left afterimage after afterimage after afterimage until it seemed as though hundreds of Yamis encircled the god. This would panic many warriors, but not Shinigami. Shinigami simply stood his ground and followed Yami's movements with his seething red eyes. Shinigami's eyes widened slightly just before he plunged the dual blades of his scythe firmly into the dark lord's chest. Yami had a look of surprise at first, then a smirk. Shinigami narrowed his eyes slightly in frustration, but that was the least of his worries. With all of the afterimages, Yami managed to hide a small mass of energy, which he now blasted into Shinigami's face.
Shinigami was thrown back and he let go of his scythe. Yami extricated the scythe from his body and self-healed. Yami now struck a battle pose with the scythe, intending to use it against its master. While Shinigami was dazed, Yami charged and attempted to slice his head off with the scythe, but that plan was soon dashed.
Just before the scythe entered Shinigami's neck, it began to glow a dark red and stopped moving upon contact with Shinigami's neck. Yami tried again and again, but the scythe refused to do more than touch its master.
"The Deathscythe, like all magical weapons, will not harm its rightful master," Shinigami stated simply.
"Then at the very least, I'll prevent you from using it!" Yami yelled in anguish and snapped the weapon in several pieces, and then threw each piece in a different direction. Shinigami simply chuckled and held out a palm and spoke again.
"Scythe of the Dead
With powers beyond mortal sight
Return to me
And lend me your might!
RELEASE!!"
A dark magical seal appeared beneath him. (Well, this IS a Card Captor Sakura fan fiction!) A dark orb appeared in front of Shinigami and upon his grasping of it, it extended into a long bar and blood red blades ripped out of the top. Once the energy died down, he was left holding his renewed scythe.
"Well, that could be a problem..." Yami muttered to himself.
Shinigami dropped the scythe and it instantly disappeared into the Shadow Realm to be recalled when needed. (If I steal one name from Yugi, I might as well steal another!)
Yami saw Shinigami's error in disarming himself and smirked. This "god" had no idea what was in store for him. Shinigami charged this time, throwing kicks and punches with meticulous attention to accuracy. Yami kept his smirk as he dodged, deflected, or caught every attack with relative ease.
Shinigami knew that he'd need to start with the energy attacks soon, so he decided to lead Yami away from the town.
Shinigami told Sakura this telepathically and began to speed toward a special place where he knew that no person would be. He was headed for the restricted city of Hiroshima. Ever since the US bombing of the city, it has been off-limits to the people. Of course, the residual radiation wouldn't hurt the gods or Yami, but it would be clear of civilians. Yami laughed at Shinigami's cowardice and took chase after him.
Former city of Hiroshima
They soon came upon the desolate city. A cold, swift wind blew over the flat land that was once a sprawling city. There were no ruins, no dead trees, nothing here at all, which was worse than a ruined city. Ruins are a testament to what was once there, an homage to past. Not even that existed now. The city had been completely decimated. Of course, the darkness in the skies over Tomoeda followed them to this desolate place. The entire lifeless, dark plain was an extremely creepy place. Even Sakura had to stifle a "hoeeee" upon entering the city.
"Nice decor," Yami commented.
"Indeed," Shinigami replied coldly.
Once they reached the center of this deserted wasteland, they settled to the ground about 100 feet apart, glaring at each other. Sakura used one of her new techniques to stay invisible and out of the way, but her heightened senses kept her fully apprised of everything that was happening.
Sakura's P.O.V.
That stubborn fool! Why did I agree to marry him? He's so arrogant and stubborn that he'll not ascend to his highest level to fight. Well, I guess I agreed to marry him because he's kind, gentle, strong, and.... hoe, never mind. All I know is that my love can't win this way. I hope that he has some sort of plan worked out. The new training he gave me might help me, but I'm still so inexperienced at it.
"Shall we continue, my god?" I heard Yami sneer.
Rob just gave another one of his trademark glares and I noticed Yami's annoyed expression. I almost giggled at the way his face contorted in anger.
Finally, Yami got fed up and attacked Rob. I don't know where he got the speed or strength, but Rob was having an easy time dodging every punch and kick. Once Yami got angry enough to let his guard slip, my love used one of his best moves.
Rob swept Yami's legs out from under him and continued to spin, blindly blasting Yami in the stomach with a large mass of energy. Isn't Rob just so sugoi when he's like this? *dreamy eyes* I love him so.... *ahem*
Yami seems to be quite stunned, but I noticed no decrease in his power. Normally when two powerful beings fight, one can tell how hurt they are by their power levels. Each hit is supposed to lower the energy of the one being hit, but Yami didn't seem to be getting any weaker. He must be hiding his powers.
*Looks down at her outfit* I really wish that it wasn't so dark and barren out here; I'm starting to get kind of cold. Hoeeee!
Rob's P.O.V.
Ack! Dang, this guy is swift. FIST! Phew, barely dodged that one. This is bad, I hit him with a surprise attack and not only does his energy not go down, but it began to rise! I'll have to ascend soon if I'm not careful. LEG! AHH! That hurt, chokuso! I can't keep this up, but I have no choice. If I reveal that I can ascend further now, I'll lose my surprise attack later on. I know he's hiding a lot of energy from me, but surely he can't be much more powerful than he already is.
Good thing that Sakura's invisible, her lovely figure and outfit would probably distract me.
Yami's P.O.V.
HAHAHA! This fool knows not of whom he deals with. AH! HA, pain! What an interesting sensation! Hehehe, I'd almost forgotten what it felt like. No matter, a slight energy increase and I'm well on my way. Perhaps it's time to lean more pressure on him. Let's see how he handles 8% full power, eh? Bwa ha ha ha ha! He is so weak and frail. I'll squish him like an insect once I'm done with him. OH! But first, I'll rip this area of the universe into to pieces! I wonder what his serious face will look like once he sees the universe begin to collapse in on itself! Ha, ha, HAHAHAHA!
Omniscient Narrator P.O.V. (Although, I'm not sure what's going to happen now so that isn't a good title for me)
Shinigami was beginning to lose his battle. He did not realize just how powerful that Yami was. He only had one technique left before he would be forced to ascend to his godly form. Now was about as good a time as any to use it.
Shinigami took a stance a braced himself as he called out the incantation he would need to use this ability.
"Super Kaioken Attack!" he yelled at the top of his lungs and soon he was surrounded by a torrent of red energy. The energy seeped into every pore of his body and energized him. His power level nearly doubled with this technique, but there is a risk of certain muscles and tendons exploding from the tremendous strain placed upon them.
While Yami was in startled awe, Shinigami attacked. He simply appeared in front of Yami, moving faster then even Sakura could see. Shinigami did a back spin-kick, knocking Yami's head roughly. Yami was sent backward and quickly recovered to find no opponent in front of him. His confusion was soon relieved as Shinigami slammed Yami on his back, sending him into the ground. Shinigami now prepared to perform his most powerful beam attack, the Kamehameha Wave. Shinigami assumed the position, with his hands cupped off his right hip and his left hip pointed toward his target as he began the chant.
"Kaaaaa Meeeeee Haaaaaa Meeeeee...." he called and a blue ball of light and energy appeared in his grasp.
Yami knew of this very old attack and prepared to do the same thing.
"Kaaaaa Meeeeee Haaaaaa Meeeeee...." Yami screamed and a red ball of light and energy appeared in his grasp.
"HAAAAA!" they both called and unison and fired their respective beams at each other.
Shinigami's blue beam met Yami's red. They collided in a great display of energy. Bolts of electricity danced around the white orb that had formed where the beams met. Great gusts of wind blew from the two warriors as they seemed to be equally matched. Only Sakura knew that this was almost a Kamikaze attack on Rob's part. He could only maintain this intensity as long as he was using Kaioken and he would be severely injured if he kept that up.
Soon, Yami began to push Shinigami's beam back little by little. Shinigami strained and pushed all of his energy into his beam, but it was not enough. Soon the muscles on his arms, his triceps, began to quiver. First, his left tricep burst from the strain.
"AHHHHH!" the god screamed in pain, his sudden burst of intensity buying him a little time. But alas, his left tricep and bicep suddenly exploded. The right leg that had come to brace him once he landed began to collapse under the strain. Inside of his leg, the wild energy being created began to play havoc with his muscles. Soon, Rob could no longer hold Yami back and his beam of energy collapsed. Rob was then engulfed in the red beam.
"NOOOOO!" Sakura yelled and raced toward her fallen love. Once the beam cleared, she found the broken man. Most of the bones in his body were broken and over 70% of his skin was covered in third-degree burns. His tidy braid was barely existent and his wings... you don't want to know what his wings looked like. Sakura was sobbing at the sight of her fiancée and was trying to tell if he was alive. Her teary eyes couldn't detect life until she felt the familiar dark green aura touch hers. He looked again and he was breathing, but only barely. Thank goodness that gods are immortal! She couldn't restore his energy, but she could heal him. She placed one hand on his chest and the other on his belly as she began to heal him. Soon after the display of light died down, he was a restored man. He was extremely tired and winded, but fully healed.
But alas, the great god of death had lost.
"Ha ha ha ha ha..." Yami slowly chuckled. "I have defeated the god of the death and the goddess of life can't even touch me, what a pity!" Yami called and began to laugh hysterically.
Sakura was mostly ignoring him and concentrating on Rob, hugging and kissing him.
"Just for the heck of it, I think that I'll destroy the entire universe anyway. I was only going to do that if I lost, but now would be a good time, too," Yami said matter-of-factly.
Yami collected his energy and rose to full power. He raised his hands to the heavens and there was a break in the darkness. The break wasn't blue, however, it was dark violet. Red lightning ripped from the tear and soon other tears began to form. The sky was a patchwork of black and violet with blood red lightning striking in waves across the sky. The coldness and wind inherent to the area worsened dramatically and Sakura shivered. The ground began to rumble but soon died down as the clouds above roiled and churned from the energy expended.
Rob slowly climbed to his feet, shrugging Sakura off when she tried to help. She watched him with worry on her face as he stood tall and straight. He soon began to draw upon his ancient energy and started to glow a soft golden color.
He soon erupted with energy as he assumed his full, godly form. His braid became much longer and turned ash gray, and then his bat wings became massive feathered wings. His red eyes became golden as well and he filled with strength. He wasn't at full power and still wasn't a match for Yami, but Rob had no intention of fighting any more.
"Sakura," Rob began and gazed at his love with his silvered eyes, "You'll have to take care of Yami. I'll be busy holding the universe together."
"I can't even touch him..." Sakura said.
"You can with the training I gave you," he cut her off and continued, "Just use the anger and despair that you felt when you saw my hurt body and that will help you."
With that, Rob raised his godly arms to the sky and his gold and silver aura shot up into the sky. The lightning calmed and the sky turned back to black it was before. Rob then collapsed onto his hands and knees. He was directing so much energy toward keeping space intact that he could no longer stand. Sakura rushed to his side, but he told her that he was alright.
Sakura, knowing that he couldn't maintain this level of output for long, ascended to her full goddess form. Her pinkish-gold hair elongated to almost drag the ground and became more of a platinum blond with soft pink highlights. Her wings became larger and seemed to look like her feathers were made of silver. Her pink eyes turned golden as a last step. She stood up and faced her opponent and she began to concentrate.
She thought about how her love's crumpled and burned form looked. She thought about how Yami laughed at her concern. She thought about how Rob was completely helpless now, trying to hold the universe together by himself. She thought about the screams of her friends when Akuma killed them all. She thought about how bloody and broken Rob was then, too. She thought about all the horrible things that had happened to her since she'd known Rob. She even thought about how Veovis had brutally murdered Robahsu's parents in D'ni. All of the anger, the rage, the contempt that she held coalesced here and now.
She glared at the laughing form of Yami as another transformation took place. First, her eyes turned black. Not simply a black like new tarmac or like a new black car, but more like the blackness was all consuming. Her eyes looked as if they absorbed light and reflected none back. She had the look of anger, of rage in those dark eyes. As she concentrated more and more on her growing rage, the whites of her eyes turned a dark, blood red. Yami stopped laughing and took notice of her.
Next, her hair changed. It was still the same length and style, but blackness was snaking down it. Once her hair had completely changed to that raven blackness, thin trails of blood red began to snake around her hair. Her wings took on the same color scheme. They became black as coal and the blood red appeared as random feathers.
Her robes also changed. Before, she sported a light white cloth, now she sported black leather. She had a pair of leather boots that came almost up to her knees. A tight mini-skirt adorned her hips and a tight black top covered most of her torso. A pair of black gloves appeared on her hands and they reached pass her elbows.
All of her skin became a very pale color. The contrast in color between her clothing and skin simply made her look evil. She glared at Yami. She wasn't angry. She wasn't enraged. She was ROYALLY PISSED OFF!
"Wow a change of clothes and color, I'm shaking in my boots over here!" Yami jeered.
Sakura was squeezing Yami's neck in an instant. Yami sputtered and choke before he blasted Sakura in the stomach to get her off. She flew back a few feet, but didn't seem to really feel it. She started beating the crap out of Yami while he was still dazed. She plunged her knee into his stomach, her fist into his jaw, and a number of other unpleasant things.
She sent a crescent kick to Yami's head, but Yami caught it and smiled at her. He then started to turn flips, swinging her around in large circles. He let her go, sending her downward.
"HOEEEEE!" Sakura yelled just before hitting the ground and being buried in rubble.
Yami laughed to himself but his self-congratulation was cut short.
Sakura from the rubble in a blast of dark energy. She was even angrier than before now. She rocketed up to meet Yami at a speed that even he had been impressed with. She renewed her assault on him, but he decided to end this fun and be serious. They were both matching each other blow for blow. Sakura then decided to draw her weapon.
Reached and from nowhere pulled out her own scythe instead of her sword. Magical weapons tend to transform to suit their owner's mood or ability. She was very dark so her jeweled sword became a jeweled scythe. It was shorter than the Deathscythe at only 5-foot long but the blade was still 2-foot long. It had a single blade at the top to Shinigami's two and it couldn't fold or telescope, but she really didn't need those abilities at this point.
She swung her scythe and Yami barely managed to call his sword before his head was removed. His black and violet sword clanged loudly against Sakura's scythe. They pressed as hard as they could, but neither budged nor backed down. They glared at each other angrily for a few minutes. Yami smiled and let go of his weapon and dodged downward. Sakura fell forward from being off-balance and Yami kicked her in the stomach. He grabbed her neck and slammed her face into his knee. He held onto her hair as he continued to kick and punch her repeatedly. Finally, he used her long braid to through her into the ground again. When she got up, blood was trickling from her nose and mouth. One of her ribs was cracked, also. She breathed heavily and inconsistently.
"Well, Goddess, what are you going to do now?" Yami asked her in mock concern.
"I'm going to DESTROY YOU!" she screamed and fired an energy beam at Yami.
Yami was surprised by the size of the beam and barely managed to catch it. He was holding it back as Sakura poured more energy into it. It was almost too powerful for him to stop. He began to fire another beam into it and had an idea. He fired a very fine blast of energy into hers creating a small hole. He dove through that hole and met Sakura while she was in a very vulnerable position. Yami kicked her in the head and fired a massive blast of energy at her. She barely managed to get into a defensive position but she did. She crossed her arms in front of her and projected her energy in front of her to keep herself from being injured.
When the dust cleared, Sakura was intact, but severely drained of energy. She sat down from lack of energy and panted loudly. She probably couldn't even stand, much less defend herself at this point. She waited for Yami to slowly walk over to her.
Meanwhile
Rob wasn't exactly conscious, but he was aware enough to tell that Sakura was loosing. He knew that he had a small amount of energy in reserve just in case he had a chance to attack Yami, but Rob thought of another use for it. He could use it to send a message, to get help.
As he concentrated, he whispered, "Go to her, your mistress..."
As soon as he finished, a beam of light left him and headed for whom it was meant for. Rob finally lost consciousness as he lost the energy to stay awake. It was all up to whether or not his message got through in time.
Back with Sakura and Yami
"Your name is Sakura, right?" Yami questioned her.
She just glared at him angrily.
"I heard him call you that a while ago. You know, your boyfriend is almost dead. He won't last more than ten minutes," Yami stated as he slowly walked in circles around her.
"But you know what?" Yami asked her, "You won't live for another two minutes so how long he lives doesn't really matter."
"We will defeat you," Sakura whispered.
"No, you won't. Nice chatting with you, but goodbye!" Yami said.
He walked about 20-30 feet away from her and gathered energy for one more beam attack. He concentrated and fired at Sakura. She cringed and closed her eyes.
Sakura's P.O.V.
This is the end. I'm going to die now. I've failed everyone! I failed Rob, Tomoyo, Syaoran, Eriol, Dad, Touya; I've eve failed my mother. That beam will hit me any second now....
It should have hit by now.
3rd Person P.O.V.
The beam raced toward Sakura and there was a massive explosion. Sakura opened her eyes to see a blinding white light. But when the light died, she saw something even more amazing. She was encased in a pink dome. On the dome directly in front of her was a symbol. It looked like a large wing with a chain wrapped around it.
"Shield....?" she questioned herself, not believing, "SHEILD CARD!"
It was the Shield card. Shield disappeared and a glowing brick appeared in front of her. The light dimmed and she found that she was looking at a deck. Her deck of Sakura cards! The deck exploded and four rings of thirteen cards formed around her on random axes. She saw this and wondered where the 53rd card was.
She got her answer. The Hope appeared in front of her and released into its spirit form. Hope looked down at her mistress and crouched down onto her level. Hope smiled warmly at Sakura and took her cheek in her hand. Sakura looked into the card's gray eyes and remembered how lonely it felt as the Clow card Void.
"I'm sorry that I left you all," Sakura said on the verge of crying.
"Be silent Mistress. We forgive you and now we are here to help you," Hope said warmly.
Yami had begun to try and force his way to Sakura, but the cards formed a barrier that he could not pass.
"How can you help me? None of you are powerful enough to stop him," Sakura said confused.
"You forget about my abilities as the Void," Hope said.
"But to use them, don't I have to give up my strongest emotion?"
"Yes, Mistress, I'm afraid so."
"Then I won't do it."
"Nani?"
"I won't give up my love for Robahsu! Never!"
Hope looked troubled for a moment then had an idea.
"Mistress, is love the strongest emotion? Stronger than hate and fear?"
"I think it is."
"Do you think that it is more powerful than wind, water, fire, and earth?"
"Yes."
"You're the Card Mistress and we are the Sakura Cards, surely we can make a new friend."
Somehow, Sakura understood. All of the cards took their spiritual forms. The great bird of Fly, the finned lady of Watery, and small animal of Dash, the cloaked darkness of Shadow, even the woman holding the scale of Libra was there. Fifty-four spirits were before her including the two spirits of Twin. Magical seals appeared beneath all of them and they concentrated their energy toward a single point in front of Sakura. She released the staff that had appeared around her neck. Her magical seal appeared and she added what energy she had left to theirs. Soon, a card of light appeared revolving in front of Sakura. It stopped with the back facing her.
It didn't have Sakura's seal on it. It was different. It was now pink, gold, and dark green. Instead of the normal star and moon symbols, it had the Kanji for life and death on it. It wasn't just her card, it belonged to both her and Robahsu. She took it from midair and turned around to be shocked by the image. It was Rob and herself holding each other warmly and kissing. They each held half of a heart with wings. The same heart that Hope once held on her card.
"The Love," she read from the bottom of the card.
She looked at all of the spirits around her and said, "Thank you! Thank all of you for helping me today."
"Just make sure that we're invited to the wedding," Windy said.
"How did you..." Sakura began to ask, but the cards all returned to their card forms and went back to the book. Sakura was left with a very frustrated Yami and a new card.
"About time!" Yami yelled, "Now I finally get to destroy you!"
Sakura tossed the Love into the air and pointed her staff at it while calling, "Love card! Release and dispel! Give me the strength to defeat Yami!"
The card released and Sakura began to glow and she was revitalized. She was at her full strength now. Yami was still powerful, but was no longer a match for Sakura. Using the power of her love for Rob, she concentrated her energy on Rob's trademark attack.
"Kamehame..." she called and dark blue ball formed in her hands.
"Not this again," Yami complained with distaste in his voice.
"Ha..." Sakura whispered silently and a beam of energy escaped his hands. A massive beam over 50 feet in diameter streaked toward Yami. He tried to stop the beam, but was soon engulfed in the blue light. Yami screamed in pain and soon disappeared. Sakura stopped firing and collapsed onto the ground.
After a few minutes, she got up and went to Rob. He was badly drained, but he would survive. She picked him up and slowly flew them both home. Sakura collapsed before she made it so she dragged Rob to Tomoyo's house, which was a couple miles before their house.
Outside Tomoyo's Mansion
"What happened?" Tomoyo asked them.
Sakura weakly smiled and said, "We won."
Tomoyo gave her a questioning look but Sakura collapsed before she could elaborate. Tomoyo ordered her bodyguards to bring them in and put them in the best guest bedroom they had. Once both were put to bed, they slept soundly together in each other's arms.
Fin Chapter Eight
Above Tomoeda
Yami floated silently in the air. A preternatural darkness prevailed over light around this sinister being. He gazed with his dark eyes over the land below him. This land, his land, would soon be the epiphany of evil and darkness. This was a state that suited his name well. He ordered the people, scurrying below him, to submit before him. He threatened to destroy them all they resisted. Most aspiring dictators would mean that as an empty threat, but Yami did not. If even a single human caused him any grief, Yami would simply destroy the planet and move on. It was nothing for him to destroy Earth. In fact, he picked Earth because of the beings living on it. Humans are very strong beings, even thought they don't realize it, and would be a challenge for the Dark Lord to conquer. Of course, he didn't know that the two strongest gods to ever exist also lived on this planet, but would soon find out.
"Yami!" two powerful voices called from behind the evil Yami.
Yami turned to face the two who dared interrupt his thoughts of domination. First, he noticed the man. He was wearing a black and green battle robe and held a scythe loosely in his hand. He glared at Yami with his fierce, angry red eyes while slowly flapping his black, bat-like wings to stay aloft. If Yami hadn't known better, he would have thought that this man was evil.
Next, Yami studied the girl. If the man was the image of darkness and foreboding, this woman was the image of beauty and hope. Her robes were white and pale pink. These "robes" didn't cover as much as the man's, though. It seemed to be a cloth leisurely draped over the girl's lovely form, the loose ends hanging down her front and back and secured with a golden chain. Although her body was a heart-warming sight, her eyes were colder than ice. She simply stared at him with her beautiful pink eyes, as they seemed to swirl with energy and contempt. Her longer, golden pink hair was in a simple braid, draping over her snow-white wings with pink accents.
Both had an unearthly quality to them. Neither seemed human, but Yami assumed that they must simply be rather powerful humans.
"I am the God of Death!" the man declared.
"And I am the Goddess of Life!" the woman declared.
"I, I am the Ruler of Darkness and sovereign of all things unholy. I am Yami, the darkness!" Yami yelled, still angry. Dark bolts of lightning flashed behind him.
"We will destroy you here, and now!" Rob called.
"We will NOT allow you to hurt anyone or anything!" Sakura added.
Yami turned to Rob, "Well, my god, shall we get started since this pathetic little girl can't even touch me?"
Rob simply glared at Yami in renewed anger. In this form, it was not his nature to speak unless necessary. Even when Shinigami did choose to speak, it was in a quiet, sinister tone that gave most opponents the willies.
Yami shrugged and powered up to five percent of his maximum power. Of course, Shinigami thought that he'd simply raised his power to the same level as a few days before. Even at five percent, Yami was still slightly stronger than Shinigami.
Yami decided to charge. He screamed a battle cry as he charged at the dark god. Just before attacking Shinigami, Yami veered away and circled him at great speed. Yami left afterimage after afterimage after afterimage until it seemed as though hundreds of Yamis encircled the god. This would panic many warriors, but not Shinigami. Shinigami simply stood his ground and followed Yami's movements with his seething red eyes. Shinigami's eyes widened slightly just before he plunged the dual blades of his scythe firmly into the dark lord's chest. Yami had a look of surprise at first, then a smirk. Shinigami narrowed his eyes slightly in frustration, but that was the least of his worries. With all of the afterimages, Yami managed to hide a small mass of energy, which he now blasted into Shinigami's face.
Shinigami was thrown back and he let go of his scythe. Yami extricated the scythe from his body and self-healed. Yami now struck a battle pose with the scythe, intending to use it against its master. While Shinigami was dazed, Yami charged and attempted to slice his head off with the scythe, but that plan was soon dashed.
Just before the scythe entered Shinigami's neck, it began to glow a dark red and stopped moving upon contact with Shinigami's neck. Yami tried again and again, but the scythe refused to do more than touch its master.
"The Deathscythe, like all magical weapons, will not harm its rightful master," Shinigami stated simply.
"Then at the very least, I'll prevent you from using it!" Yami yelled in anguish and snapped the weapon in several pieces, and then threw each piece in a different direction. Shinigami simply chuckled and held out a palm and spoke again.
"Scythe of the Dead
With powers beyond mortal sight
Return to me
And lend me your might!
RELEASE!!"
A dark magical seal appeared beneath him. (Well, this IS a Card Captor Sakura fan fiction!) A dark orb appeared in front of Shinigami and upon his grasping of it, it extended into a long bar and blood red blades ripped out of the top. Once the energy died down, he was left holding his renewed scythe.
"Well, that could be a problem..." Yami muttered to himself.
Shinigami dropped the scythe and it instantly disappeared into the Shadow Realm to be recalled when needed. (If I steal one name from Yugi, I might as well steal another!)
Yami saw Shinigami's error in disarming himself and smirked. This "god" had no idea what was in store for him. Shinigami charged this time, throwing kicks and punches with meticulous attention to accuracy. Yami kept his smirk as he dodged, deflected, or caught every attack with relative ease.
Shinigami knew that he'd need to start with the energy attacks soon, so he decided to lead Yami away from the town.
Shinigami told Sakura this telepathically and began to speed toward a special place where he knew that no person would be. He was headed for the restricted city of Hiroshima. Ever since the US bombing of the city, it has been off-limits to the people. Of course, the residual radiation wouldn't hurt the gods or Yami, but it would be clear of civilians. Yami laughed at Shinigami's cowardice and took chase after him.
Former city of Hiroshima
They soon came upon the desolate city. A cold, swift wind blew over the flat land that was once a sprawling city. There were no ruins, no dead trees, nothing here at all, which was worse than a ruined city. Ruins are a testament to what was once there, an homage to past. Not even that existed now. The city had been completely decimated. Of course, the darkness in the skies over Tomoeda followed them to this desolate place. The entire lifeless, dark plain was an extremely creepy place. Even Sakura had to stifle a "hoeeee" upon entering the city.
"Nice decor," Yami commented.
"Indeed," Shinigami replied coldly.
Once they reached the center of this deserted wasteland, they settled to the ground about 100 feet apart, glaring at each other. Sakura used one of her new techniques to stay invisible and out of the way, but her heightened senses kept her fully apprised of everything that was happening.
Sakura's P.O.V.
That stubborn fool! Why did I agree to marry him? He's so arrogant and stubborn that he'll not ascend to his highest level to fight. Well, I guess I agreed to marry him because he's kind, gentle, strong, and.... hoe, never mind. All I know is that my love can't win this way. I hope that he has some sort of plan worked out. The new training he gave me might help me, but I'm still so inexperienced at it.
"Shall we continue, my god?" I heard Yami sneer.
Rob just gave another one of his trademark glares and I noticed Yami's annoyed expression. I almost giggled at the way his face contorted in anger.
Finally, Yami got fed up and attacked Rob. I don't know where he got the speed or strength, but Rob was having an easy time dodging every punch and kick. Once Yami got angry enough to let his guard slip, my love used one of his best moves.
Rob swept Yami's legs out from under him and continued to spin, blindly blasting Yami in the stomach with a large mass of energy. Isn't Rob just so sugoi when he's like this? *dreamy eyes* I love him so.... *ahem*
Yami seems to be quite stunned, but I noticed no decrease in his power. Normally when two powerful beings fight, one can tell how hurt they are by their power levels. Each hit is supposed to lower the energy of the one being hit, but Yami didn't seem to be getting any weaker. He must be hiding his powers.
*Looks down at her outfit* I really wish that it wasn't so dark and barren out here; I'm starting to get kind of cold. Hoeeee!
Rob's P.O.V.
Ack! Dang, this guy is swift. FIST! Phew, barely dodged that one. This is bad, I hit him with a surprise attack and not only does his energy not go down, but it began to rise! I'll have to ascend soon if I'm not careful. LEG! AHH! That hurt, chokuso! I can't keep this up, but I have no choice. If I reveal that I can ascend further now, I'll lose my surprise attack later on. I know he's hiding a lot of energy from me, but surely he can't be much more powerful than he already is.
Good thing that Sakura's invisible, her lovely figure and outfit would probably distract me.
Yami's P.O.V.
HAHAHA! This fool knows not of whom he deals with. AH! HA, pain! What an interesting sensation! Hehehe, I'd almost forgotten what it felt like. No matter, a slight energy increase and I'm well on my way. Perhaps it's time to lean more pressure on him. Let's see how he handles 8% full power, eh? Bwa ha ha ha ha! He is so weak and frail. I'll squish him like an insect once I'm done with him. OH! But first, I'll rip this area of the universe into to pieces! I wonder what his serious face will look like once he sees the universe begin to collapse in on itself! Ha, ha, HAHAHAHA!
Omniscient Narrator P.O.V. (Although, I'm not sure what's going to happen now so that isn't a good title for me)
Shinigami was beginning to lose his battle. He did not realize just how powerful that Yami was. He only had one technique left before he would be forced to ascend to his godly form. Now was about as good a time as any to use it.
Shinigami took a stance a braced himself as he called out the incantation he would need to use this ability.
"Super Kaioken Attack!" he yelled at the top of his lungs and soon he was surrounded by a torrent of red energy. The energy seeped into every pore of his body and energized him. His power level nearly doubled with this technique, but there is a risk of certain muscles and tendons exploding from the tremendous strain placed upon them.
While Yami was in startled awe, Shinigami attacked. He simply appeared in front of Yami, moving faster then even Sakura could see. Shinigami did a back spin-kick, knocking Yami's head roughly. Yami was sent backward and quickly recovered to find no opponent in front of him. His confusion was soon relieved as Shinigami slammed Yami on his back, sending him into the ground. Shinigami now prepared to perform his most powerful beam attack, the Kamehameha Wave. Shinigami assumed the position, with his hands cupped off his right hip and his left hip pointed toward his target as he began the chant.
"Kaaaaa Meeeeee Haaaaaa Meeeeee...." he called and a blue ball of light and energy appeared in his grasp.
Yami knew of this very old attack and prepared to do the same thing.
"Kaaaaa Meeeeee Haaaaaa Meeeeee...." Yami screamed and a red ball of light and energy appeared in his grasp.
"HAAAAA!" they both called and unison and fired their respective beams at each other.
Shinigami's blue beam met Yami's red. They collided in a great display of energy. Bolts of electricity danced around the white orb that had formed where the beams met. Great gusts of wind blew from the two warriors as they seemed to be equally matched. Only Sakura knew that this was almost a Kamikaze attack on Rob's part. He could only maintain this intensity as long as he was using Kaioken and he would be severely injured if he kept that up.
Soon, Yami began to push Shinigami's beam back little by little. Shinigami strained and pushed all of his energy into his beam, but it was not enough. Soon the muscles on his arms, his triceps, began to quiver. First, his left tricep burst from the strain.
"AHHHHH!" the god screamed in pain, his sudden burst of intensity buying him a little time. But alas, his left tricep and bicep suddenly exploded. The right leg that had come to brace him once he landed began to collapse under the strain. Inside of his leg, the wild energy being created began to play havoc with his muscles. Soon, Rob could no longer hold Yami back and his beam of energy collapsed. Rob was then engulfed in the red beam.
"NOOOOO!" Sakura yelled and raced toward her fallen love. Once the beam cleared, she found the broken man. Most of the bones in his body were broken and over 70% of his skin was covered in third-degree burns. His tidy braid was barely existent and his wings... you don't want to know what his wings looked like. Sakura was sobbing at the sight of her fiancée and was trying to tell if he was alive. Her teary eyes couldn't detect life until she felt the familiar dark green aura touch hers. He looked again and he was breathing, but only barely. Thank goodness that gods are immortal! She couldn't restore his energy, but she could heal him. She placed one hand on his chest and the other on his belly as she began to heal him. Soon after the display of light died down, he was a restored man. He was extremely tired and winded, but fully healed.
But alas, the great god of death had lost.
"Ha ha ha ha ha..." Yami slowly chuckled. "I have defeated the god of the death and the goddess of life can't even touch me, what a pity!" Yami called and began to laugh hysterically.
Sakura was mostly ignoring him and concentrating on Rob, hugging and kissing him.
"Just for the heck of it, I think that I'll destroy the entire universe anyway. I was only going to do that if I lost, but now would be a good time, too," Yami said matter-of-factly.
Yami collected his energy and rose to full power. He raised his hands to the heavens and there was a break in the darkness. The break wasn't blue, however, it was dark violet. Red lightning ripped from the tear and soon other tears began to form. The sky was a patchwork of black and violet with blood red lightning striking in waves across the sky. The coldness and wind inherent to the area worsened dramatically and Sakura shivered. The ground began to rumble but soon died down as the clouds above roiled and churned from the energy expended.
Rob slowly climbed to his feet, shrugging Sakura off when she tried to help. She watched him with worry on her face as he stood tall and straight. He soon began to draw upon his ancient energy and started to glow a soft golden color.
He soon erupted with energy as he assumed his full, godly form. His braid became much longer and turned ash gray, and then his bat wings became massive feathered wings. His red eyes became golden as well and he filled with strength. He wasn't at full power and still wasn't a match for Yami, but Rob had no intention of fighting any more.
"Sakura," Rob began and gazed at his love with his silvered eyes, "You'll have to take care of Yami. I'll be busy holding the universe together."
"I can't even touch him..." Sakura said.
"You can with the training I gave you," he cut her off and continued, "Just use the anger and despair that you felt when you saw my hurt body and that will help you."
With that, Rob raised his godly arms to the sky and his gold and silver aura shot up into the sky. The lightning calmed and the sky turned back to black it was before. Rob then collapsed onto his hands and knees. He was directing so much energy toward keeping space intact that he could no longer stand. Sakura rushed to his side, but he told her that he was alright.
Sakura, knowing that he couldn't maintain this level of output for long, ascended to her full goddess form. Her pinkish-gold hair elongated to almost drag the ground and became more of a platinum blond with soft pink highlights. Her wings became larger and seemed to look like her feathers were made of silver. Her pink eyes turned golden as a last step. She stood up and faced her opponent and she began to concentrate.
She thought about how her love's crumpled and burned form looked. She thought about how Yami laughed at her concern. She thought about how Rob was completely helpless now, trying to hold the universe together by himself. She thought about the screams of her friends when Akuma killed them all. She thought about how bloody and broken Rob was then, too. She thought about all the horrible things that had happened to her since she'd known Rob. She even thought about how Veovis had brutally murdered Robahsu's parents in D'ni. All of the anger, the rage, the contempt that she held coalesced here and now.
She glared at the laughing form of Yami as another transformation took place. First, her eyes turned black. Not simply a black like new tarmac or like a new black car, but more like the blackness was all consuming. Her eyes looked as if they absorbed light and reflected none back. She had the look of anger, of rage in those dark eyes. As she concentrated more and more on her growing rage, the whites of her eyes turned a dark, blood red. Yami stopped laughing and took notice of her.
Next, her hair changed. It was still the same length and style, but blackness was snaking down it. Once her hair had completely changed to that raven blackness, thin trails of blood red began to snake around her hair. Her wings took on the same color scheme. They became black as coal and the blood red appeared as random feathers.
Her robes also changed. Before, she sported a light white cloth, now she sported black leather. She had a pair of leather boots that came almost up to her knees. A tight mini-skirt adorned her hips and a tight black top covered most of her torso. A pair of black gloves appeared on her hands and they reached pass her elbows.
All of her skin became a very pale color. The contrast in color between her clothing and skin simply made her look evil. She glared at Yami. She wasn't angry. She wasn't enraged. She was ROYALLY PISSED OFF!
"Wow a change of clothes and color, I'm shaking in my boots over here!" Yami jeered.
Sakura was squeezing Yami's neck in an instant. Yami sputtered and choke before he blasted Sakura in the stomach to get her off. She flew back a few feet, but didn't seem to really feel it. She started beating the crap out of Yami while he was still dazed. She plunged her knee into his stomach, her fist into his jaw, and a number of other unpleasant things.
She sent a crescent kick to Yami's head, but Yami caught it and smiled at her. He then started to turn flips, swinging her around in large circles. He let her go, sending her downward.
"HOEEEEE!" Sakura yelled just before hitting the ground and being buried in rubble.
Yami laughed to himself but his self-congratulation was cut short.
Sakura from the rubble in a blast of dark energy. She was even angrier than before now. She rocketed up to meet Yami at a speed that even he had been impressed with. She renewed her assault on him, but he decided to end this fun and be serious. They were both matching each other blow for blow. Sakura then decided to draw her weapon.
Reached and from nowhere pulled out her own scythe instead of her sword. Magical weapons tend to transform to suit their owner's mood or ability. She was very dark so her jeweled sword became a jeweled scythe. It was shorter than the Deathscythe at only 5-foot long but the blade was still 2-foot long. It had a single blade at the top to Shinigami's two and it couldn't fold or telescope, but she really didn't need those abilities at this point.
She swung her scythe and Yami barely managed to call his sword before his head was removed. His black and violet sword clanged loudly against Sakura's scythe. They pressed as hard as they could, but neither budged nor backed down. They glared at each other angrily for a few minutes. Yami smiled and let go of his weapon and dodged downward. Sakura fell forward from being off-balance and Yami kicked her in the stomach. He grabbed her neck and slammed her face into his knee. He held onto her hair as he continued to kick and punch her repeatedly. Finally, he used her long braid to through her into the ground again. When she got up, blood was trickling from her nose and mouth. One of her ribs was cracked, also. She breathed heavily and inconsistently.
"Well, Goddess, what are you going to do now?" Yami asked her in mock concern.
"I'm going to DESTROY YOU!" she screamed and fired an energy beam at Yami.
Yami was surprised by the size of the beam and barely managed to catch it. He was holding it back as Sakura poured more energy into it. It was almost too powerful for him to stop. He began to fire another beam into it and had an idea. He fired a very fine blast of energy into hers creating a small hole. He dove through that hole and met Sakura while she was in a very vulnerable position. Yami kicked her in the head and fired a massive blast of energy at her. She barely managed to get into a defensive position but she did. She crossed her arms in front of her and projected her energy in front of her to keep herself from being injured.
When the dust cleared, Sakura was intact, but severely drained of energy. She sat down from lack of energy and panted loudly. She probably couldn't even stand, much less defend herself at this point. She waited for Yami to slowly walk over to her.
Meanwhile
Rob wasn't exactly conscious, but he was aware enough to tell that Sakura was loosing. He knew that he had a small amount of energy in reserve just in case he had a chance to attack Yami, but Rob thought of another use for it. He could use it to send a message, to get help.
As he concentrated, he whispered, "Go to her, your mistress..."
As soon as he finished, a beam of light left him and headed for whom it was meant for. Rob finally lost consciousness as he lost the energy to stay awake. It was all up to whether or not his message got through in time.
Back with Sakura and Yami
"Your name is Sakura, right?" Yami questioned her.
She just glared at him angrily.
"I heard him call you that a while ago. You know, your boyfriend is almost dead. He won't last more than ten minutes," Yami stated as he slowly walked in circles around her.
"But you know what?" Yami asked her, "You won't live for another two minutes so how long he lives doesn't really matter."
"We will defeat you," Sakura whispered.
"No, you won't. Nice chatting with you, but goodbye!" Yami said.
He walked about 20-30 feet away from her and gathered energy for one more beam attack. He concentrated and fired at Sakura. She cringed and closed her eyes.
Sakura's P.O.V.
This is the end. I'm going to die now. I've failed everyone! I failed Rob, Tomoyo, Syaoran, Eriol, Dad, Touya; I've eve failed my mother. That beam will hit me any second now....
It should have hit by now.
3rd Person P.O.V.
The beam raced toward Sakura and there was a massive explosion. Sakura opened her eyes to see a blinding white light. But when the light died, she saw something even more amazing. She was encased in a pink dome. On the dome directly in front of her was a symbol. It looked like a large wing with a chain wrapped around it.
"Shield....?" she questioned herself, not believing, "SHEILD CARD!"
It was the Shield card. Shield disappeared and a glowing brick appeared in front of her. The light dimmed and she found that she was looking at a deck. Her deck of Sakura cards! The deck exploded and four rings of thirteen cards formed around her on random axes. She saw this and wondered where the 53rd card was.
She got her answer. The Hope appeared in front of her and released into its spirit form. Hope looked down at her mistress and crouched down onto her level. Hope smiled warmly at Sakura and took her cheek in her hand. Sakura looked into the card's gray eyes and remembered how lonely it felt as the Clow card Void.
"I'm sorry that I left you all," Sakura said on the verge of crying.
"Be silent Mistress. We forgive you and now we are here to help you," Hope said warmly.
Yami had begun to try and force his way to Sakura, but the cards formed a barrier that he could not pass.
"How can you help me? None of you are powerful enough to stop him," Sakura said confused.
"You forget about my abilities as the Void," Hope said.
"But to use them, don't I have to give up my strongest emotion?"
"Yes, Mistress, I'm afraid so."
"Then I won't do it."
"Nani?"
"I won't give up my love for Robahsu! Never!"
Hope looked troubled for a moment then had an idea.
"Mistress, is love the strongest emotion? Stronger than hate and fear?"
"I think it is."
"Do you think that it is more powerful than wind, water, fire, and earth?"
"Yes."
"You're the Card Mistress and we are the Sakura Cards, surely we can make a new friend."
Somehow, Sakura understood. All of the cards took their spiritual forms. The great bird of Fly, the finned lady of Watery, and small animal of Dash, the cloaked darkness of Shadow, even the woman holding the scale of Libra was there. Fifty-four spirits were before her including the two spirits of Twin. Magical seals appeared beneath all of them and they concentrated their energy toward a single point in front of Sakura. She released the staff that had appeared around her neck. Her magical seal appeared and she added what energy she had left to theirs. Soon, a card of light appeared revolving in front of Sakura. It stopped with the back facing her.
It didn't have Sakura's seal on it. It was different. It was now pink, gold, and dark green. Instead of the normal star and moon symbols, it had the Kanji for life and death on it. It wasn't just her card, it belonged to both her and Robahsu. She took it from midair and turned around to be shocked by the image. It was Rob and herself holding each other warmly and kissing. They each held half of a heart with wings. The same heart that Hope once held on her card.
"The Love," she read from the bottom of the card.
She looked at all of the spirits around her and said, "Thank you! Thank all of you for helping me today."
"Just make sure that we're invited to the wedding," Windy said.
"How did you..." Sakura began to ask, but the cards all returned to their card forms and went back to the book. Sakura was left with a very frustrated Yami and a new card.
"About time!" Yami yelled, "Now I finally get to destroy you!"
Sakura tossed the Love into the air and pointed her staff at it while calling, "Love card! Release and dispel! Give me the strength to defeat Yami!"
The card released and Sakura began to glow and she was revitalized. She was at her full strength now. Yami was still powerful, but was no longer a match for Sakura. Using the power of her love for Rob, she concentrated her energy on Rob's trademark attack.
"Kamehame..." she called and dark blue ball formed in her hands.
"Not this again," Yami complained with distaste in his voice.
"Ha..." Sakura whispered silently and a beam of energy escaped his hands. A massive beam over 50 feet in diameter streaked toward Yami. He tried to stop the beam, but was soon engulfed in the blue light. Yami screamed in pain and soon disappeared. Sakura stopped firing and collapsed onto the ground.
After a few minutes, she got up and went to Rob. He was badly drained, but he would survive. She picked him up and slowly flew them both home. Sakura collapsed before she made it so she dragged Rob to Tomoyo's house, which was a couple miles before their house.
Outside Tomoyo's Mansion
"What happened?" Tomoyo asked them.
Sakura weakly smiled and said, "We won."
Tomoyo gave her a questioning look but Sakura collapsed before she could elaborate. Tomoyo ordered her bodyguards to bring them in and put them in the best guest bedroom they had. Once both were put to bed, they slept soundly together in each other's arms.
Fin Chapter Eight