Hey! Looky! We're back!

-Sakura

OMG!! Really?!?

-Naoko

Once AGAIN!! If they owned it, well, then, they'd be rich! And happy!!

-Kuri-chan

Who says we're unhappy?

-Sakura

Yeah! I already got over my fishie's death.

-Naoko

Meanwhile down in the dungeon Kero released the prisoners.

"Thanks for finally letting us go, stuffed animal," Syaoran said to him, still obviously angry at him.

"WHAT. Did you call me?" Kero asked with little streams of steam coming out of his ears.

"You heard me." Syaoran responded.

Kero changed into Keroberos and punced on him.

"Get off me!" Syoaran bellowed.

"Don't call me a stuffed animal anymore!" Keroberos growled.

"Fine! Fine! Just get off of me!"

Keroberos got off him and Syaoran stood up and brushed himself off. "We need to find a way out of here now. I have a very bad feeling about this," Syaoran said worriedly.

"There is no way out of here except up," Keroberos said. "And it's too far for me. I get really tired halfway up. I think it's something they're feeding me."

Sakuraguchi, who appeared to have taken Keroberos very well, along with Nabisco, asked, "If Sakura comes, does that mean Naoko will be here too?"

"Yeah, and will that girl with the black pigtails come too?" Nabisco asked.

"I don't know." Syoaran answered. "I hope she gets through," he said to himself. "She does have the cards."

*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*

In the Prince's chambers the 'Forest Scouts' were delivering their cookies.

"Your highness, these young women are part of the Forest Scouts and have brought you some of their cookies as a gift," the guard who escorted them in said and bowed.

"Thank you, you may leave and go attend the prisoners." Prince Touya said waving his hand.

"Yes Your Highness," the guard said, bowed again, and left.

"So, show me these cookies that you have brought for me," the Prince demanded.

"Yes Your Majesty," Sakura said and tried to keep her voice civil.

She walked over to her friends and pretended to rummage about in a sack that she had created when wandering down one of the corridors. In actuality, she had her wand out again and was using sleep to put a potion in the cookies. The card finished her job quickly. Sakura put the cookies on a tray that Meling nabbed from somewhere {she's good at that. =P} and delivered them to the prince with a bow.

*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*

"What's that?" Nabisco said and pointed to a light that appeared very far up.

"Get back to your chains! It's feeding time," Keroberos said and turned back into his earthly form.

They all put their chains on again and a small box with a guard in it was lowered into the dungeon.

"Hello, my prisoners! You get a special treat today! The Forest scouts delivered some cookies! Now, make sure they're not poisoned for me, alright?" The guard gave a chuckle.

"Forest scouts. Sakura!" Syaoran murmured.

The guard started shoveling cookies down his mouth. "I hope you enjoy these, they're really delicious!" He said in between swallows.

Syaoran looked up. "Hey! Why don't you save some of those for us?" he demanded furiously.

"Oh. yeah. you were supposed to make sure they weren't poisoned. Oh well! Have some anyways! I'm feeling nice today!" He put a box in the middle of the floor.

"How are we supposed to reach those if we're chained up?" Takashi asked.

"That is your problem," the guard and pulled on the rope to be taken back up again. After the top of the dungeon closed the prisoners released themselves again.

"Well, the DO smell good," Sakaguchi said and inched towards them.

"You can have my share, I'm not really very hungry," Syaoran said and stayed sitting on the ground.

"Are you alright My Lord?" Takashi asked.

"Yeah," Syaoran said. *Please be alright Sakura. Please!*

"Okay. I'll leave you alone then." Takashi walked over to the cookies.

Sakaguchi and Kero were having a fight.

"You got one more cookie than I did!" Kero yelled.

"I don't care! First come, first serve!" Sakaguchi retaliated.

"That's not fair!" Kero screamed.

"Kero! Sakaguchi! That's enough!" Syaoran bellowed.

"Ok." Kero said and backed away with his armload of cookies.

*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*

The prince and his court had eaten all of the cookies and had fallen asleep.

"Ok Merry Women! Let's go find the prisoners!" Sakura said happily.

"Yay!" The girls cried.

The prince stirred and Sakura turned around. "Shh," she said.

They all tip-toed out of the royal chamber.

"Now all we need to do is find the dungeon," Sakura said and put her hands on her hips.

"Um, Sakura?" Tomoyo said.

"Yes?" Sakura answered.

"Look," Tomoyo said and pointed to a sign.

Sakura turned to it and fell over anime style. It read:

Dungeon ( ( Courtyard pool ( Royal Chamber (

"Well then," Sakura said weakly. "I guess we know where to go."

They started off in the direction of the dungeon.

"Do you think anyone will try to stop us?" Naoko asked Sakura.

Sakura thought for a minute. "Maybe," she said slowly. "We could just say we're delivering cookies to other people."

Tomoyo nodded. "Good idea. We should be generous with those we meet on the way. You'd better make more cookies, Sakura."

Three hallways, two downward-winding stairs, and twelve sleeping guards later, the group arrived at the dungeon.

"This is a strange dungeon," Rika said. Instead of a typical dungeon where the doors to the cells lined the walls, manhole-shaped openings covered with bard ran along the middle of the floor.

Sakura looked around. "Glow card, send light into every dungeon," she said. The card she had pulled out of her pocket dissolved into small orbs of light that flew into every opening. A couple of seconds later, Sakura and her companions could hear a hoarse voice.

"Sakura! Over here!"

"Where?" She demanded. "Keep on talking so we can find you!"

"Um." they could hear Syaoran's voice coming from in front of them.

"I can take care of that my lord." Takashi's voice said. He started babbling about the origin of dungeons.

Chiharu, who had found where the prisoners were being kept, stared down suspiciously. "I don't believe that," she said.

Takashi, whose face was lit eerily by the Glow Card, looked up and smiled brightly.

Sakura, Tomoyo, Rika, Naoko, and Meling walked over to where Chiharu was standing.

"How are we supposed to get them out of there?" Rika moaned, looking down at the considerable drop.

Sakura smiled. "Magic!"

Down in the cell, Syaoran looked at Nabisco and the sleeping Sakaguchi. "Just for the record, Sakura and I have magical powers." He then looked up and called to Sakura, "Two of us are asleep down here. They got some of your cookies."

"Oh." Sakura laughed. She turned to her friends. "We need to get this door off." Meling and Tomoyo stepped forwards.

"We'll do it!" Meling said. The two bent down and started fiddling with the lock. It didn't open. The two sat back. "This doesn't appear to be any ordinary lock." Tomoyo said.

"I'll do it," Sakura said. She thought for a minute. "Erase Card, remove this obstacle from our path," she said. The door simply disappeared.

"Nice," Chiharu said.

Sakura smiled. She pulled out another card. "Float Card, remove the prisoners form their dungeon." The prisoners floated out one by one, last of all the sleeping Sakaguchi and Kero.

"Kero!" Sakura cried when she saw him and flung herself on her long lost friend.

"Wha -?" Kero said, startled out of sleep. "Oh, hi Sakura!"

Nabiso, who seemed very glad to be back on his feet, walked over to Meling. "Hi there," he said to her.

Meling stared at him as if he had just sprouted another arm. "Hi."

After everyone was done greeting each other, Takashi voiced a question. "How are we supposed to get out of here?"

"We'll walk," Sakura said. "How else?"

"I mean," Takashi said, "How are we going to get our of here without anyone stopping us?"

"Well," Tomoyo said, "We can take one of the sleeping guard's garments and dress him up," she indicated Nabisco, "And say he's escorting us somewhere."

"Good idea!" Nabisco said. "Show me where one of them are and I'll change." He smiled at Meling. Meling looked confused but smiled back and the two walked off. The rest waited in silence. After a few minutes, Meling and Nabisco returned. "There are quite a few guards running about," he said. "It seems as if the Prince has woken up."

Everyone else looked uneasy. "Well, we'd better get moving," Syaoran said. "We don't want to get caught here."

Sakura nodded. "What do we do with him?" She asked, indicating the sleeping Sakaguchi.

"I'll take care of him!" Naoko said. She picked him up and slung him over her shoulder like a sack.

The others stared. "Um.. Aren't you going to get tired?" Tomoyo asked.

"Nah," Naoko said waving her hand. "I haven't gotten any good exercise lately."

The girls stared at her in shock. "To think. Naoko wants to exercise." Rika muttered.

"I hate to burst your bubble," Syaoran said, "but he's going to be more of a hinderance to you if you're going to carry him around. Why don't you wake him?"

Naoko looked disappointed. "Oh, alright." She said. She put him down and shook him violently. "Wake up!" she said loudly.

"Sh!" Rika said. "Not so loud!"

"Sorry!" Naoko said.

Sakaguchi sat up and looked around him, dazed. "How did we get out here?" he asked.

"We'll tell you later," Naoko said. "Now we have to run." She grabbed his hand and pulled her up."

"You're here!" the dazed guard cried, overjoyed. He immediately seemed to take bearing of his surroundings.

Nabisco took the lead, dragging Meling along so she could "give him directions." {Meling finally seemed to get the fact that he liked her.} The rest followed single file.

"Wait!" Tomoyo said. "Shouldn't we look like prisoners?"

Sakura stopped. "Yeah." She said. She pulled out the Create Card and made manacles that would disappear if they pulled them apart hard enough.

They continued on their way. For about one upward-winding staircase, six duped guards, and one-point-five hallways, they were unstopped. When they had gotten halfway through that last hallway, they were finally challenged.

"Going somewhere?" Yue asked them, smiling nastily. Eriol, Nakuru, and Spinal Sun followed him through the door he had emerged from.

Sakura and Syaoran glanced at each other. "Run!" Sakura whispered to Tomoyo. "Lead the others!"

Tomoyo glanced at the group that stopped them, then back at Sakura. Reluctantly, she gestured to her friends and they started running for safety. Yue let them stay. Kero turned into Keroberos and stayed.

"Let the battle begin," Yue said.

Syaoran turned his orb into his sword and tried shooting a lightning bolt at Yue. Yue dodged it easily.

"You'll have to try harder than that," Yue said.

Eriol stepped forwards and started to cast a binding spell on Keroberos, Sakura, and Syaoran. Before he could finish, Sakura used the Shield Card to protect the three of them.

"This is going to be harder than you said," Eriol stated, looking at Yue.

"I didn't think they would be able to resist us this easily," Yue said. The two of them retreated into a corner and started planning.

After this had gone on for a few seconds, Sakura and Syaoran looked at each other again.

"This is stupid," Keroberos growled.

"Let's just run," Sakura whispered to them. They started running and were past their enemies before they could react. Keroberos started to fly. "I'll make sure there is no one up ahead to stop us," he said and flew ahead. He flew into a corridor to the right of them. Sakura and Syaoran followed.

"You realize that you're taking us into the Prince's hall, right?" Syaoran called to Keroberos. "That means there will be lots of people and guards!"

"Oh well!" Keroberos yelled. "Fly through!"

Sakura used the Fly Card on her wand and pulled Syaoran on with her backwards. "Hold on!" Sakura cried to him and they zoomed forwards until they were right behind Keroberos.

Syaoran looked behind him and bellowed, "We're flying straight into locked doors!"

It was true. They were hurtling towards a pair of closed doors accompanied b two guards with spears. The handles had a bar laid across them. Keroberos gave a loud roar and charged. He knocked the two guards out of the way and crashed into the doors, breaking the bar and tumbling out directly in front of the prince on his throne.

Touya lept to his feet. "Sieze him!" he yelled, but it was too late. Keroberos staggered back to his feet and was up in the air again before the guards could react. He flew up high into the chamber, causing many of the ladies to faint.

Sakrua and Syaoran flew into the room and right next to Keroberos. Amid the screams and yells, Sakura cried, "How do we get out of here?"

Syaoran scanned the surroundings. The only door that led outside was puickly being blocked off by guards. "I think we have to leave through the window!" he called. No sooner had he said this, they heard a crush of class. Syaoran whipped his head around to see what happened. This movement caused the rod to roll. "Ahh!!" he screamed and fell off.

"Man," Sakura said. She dove after him and caught his sleeve just before he hit the ground.

While Sakura was helping him back on the rod, which was extremely hard because she had raised her elevation to stay out of reach, Syaoran had a chance to see what had happened. Keroberos had pulled a spear out of one of the guard's hands and had smashed a hole in the glass, big enough for them to get out. Right now Keroberos was keeping the guards busy by playing a game of "tag" with the spear in order to keep Sakura and Syaoran from being shot at.

"Silence!" someone yelled. Within a matter of seconds, everything got eerily silent. Yue rose up from the ground on his wings.

"Run!" Syaoran yelled, back on the rod. Sakura turned the rod around and flew out of the hole in the window. Keroberos followed. Yue started to give chase, but Eriol stopped him.

"WE have other times to catch him," he said.

Yue turned to the infuriated prince and transformed back into Yukito. "Well, my Lord," he said. "There goes our prisoners."

You like this chappy?

-Naoko

I should hope so. We spent some time on it.

-Sakura

If they don't, there's always the option of brainwashing them into liking it.

-Naoko

*eyes go swirly* you like this chappy. You like this ficcy. You like to review and are going to do so.

-Sakura

Yay!

-Naoko