Sakura's Past Returns

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Chapter 14: Earth Blockade

*~*~*~* Sakura's POV:

After Syaoran had regained consciousness, I walked up to Sage and asked softly, "Why? Why did you do all this?"

"But…I…didn't do this!" She looked like she was about to panic.

"Do not try to deny your guilt! We all saw you, we fought against you!" Yue commanded harshly.

"Wait! Listen to me!!!" She looked as if she were about to explode, "Someone, something took control after I put my hand in the fire! As it was fighting you, it was also fighting me!" Sage tried to explain, clutching her wounded shoulder.

"Something had taken over her body. She is telling the truth." Syaoran was leaning up against the tree, "I saw her eyes. The were blank. Though I could never guess what it was…"

"It was a Fire Sprit." Eriol was being held up by Ruby and Spinel.

"How did you know?" Sage looked at him thankfully.

After getting everyone all patched up, we went to bed. The next morning, we decided to continue on and pray that nothing happened.

We were not that lucky. About half-way through the day, we were attacked. A giant earth creature with the same appearance of the water elemental rose out of the earth in front of our horses. Then, right next to it appeared a little creature of fire. Then, last to show itself, but certainly not the weakest, came a little creature that looked like an elf.

"Not today…" I heard Syaoran complain under his breath, then he said aloud, "Who are all of you and what in the world do you want?!"

"I'm Acta, the fire spirit." The fire creature said in a high squeaky voice.

"YOU!" Sage growled.

The fire spirit just giggled, "And these are my friends, Atca the wood elf. And Ataca the earth elemental."

"And what we want are your lives!" The earth elemental sounded bored. They attacked.

"I'll take the fire devil!" Sage steered her horse off in the direction of the tree-line. The fire spirit followed, with Diov right behind. The earth elemental tried to stop her by erecting a wall of earth, but she just blasted her way through.

The elemental then turned to me and Syaoran, "You two are mine!" He started throwing stones of all sizes at us.

*~*~*~* Third Person POV:

"Ruby, we have to go down there and help them!" Yue tried to go around his female counterpart.

"We can't! It's already crowded down there! If we go down there, then it will be even worse!" Ruby stayed in front of Yue.

"Kero? Spinel?" Yue asked, "What do you guys think?"

"I say we stay here. Only go down if we are needed." Kero said and Spinel agreed.

"Fine." Yue gave up.

*~*~*~* Tomoyo's POV:

The fire spirit followed Sage when she took off and then the earth elemental erected a wall around Sakura and Syaoran, blocking them off from view.

Then the wood elf appeared in front of me and Eriol, "Hehehe…I get to take you two down!" The fight began.

Eriol used his normal attacks which Atca just kept dodging. I thought about my powers with string, 'I wonder…' I took a roll of string from my bag and sent it after Atca. After chasing the wood elf around for a few minutes with Eriol's attacks, my string finally tripped up the little thing and then wrapped around him instantly.

"Ha! See, I can help!" I grinned at Eriol who smiled warmly back at me. He then used his magic to keep the elf from getting away and to put it in a position where we could get answers from it.

*~*~*~* Diov's POV:

(All the battle scene's described happen at the same time ^-^)

"Sage! Wait up!" I ran after her and Acta. After what had happened the night before, I couldn't just let her fight him alone. Sage was headed for the tree line. Probably to make sure that the fire demon couldn't do any more damage to the forest.

When I caught up with them, he was flinging fire at her, which she used her powers to disperse. "Sage!" I called to get her attention. She nodded her head to acknowledge that she knew I was there.

"If you want to be of any use, find some way to help me!" She yelled, still concentrated on fire creature in front of her. Then one of Acta's attacks made it through her defenses.

I let loose my power and hit the tiny creature, knocking it down.

"Thanks!" Sage said and used her power to contain it.

We headed back with it in tow.

*~*~*~* Syaoran's POV:

"Sakura, you go that way, I'll go this way." I darted off to the left while she darted to the right.

I used my sword and sliced the elemental's head clean off. Before we could gape for long, though a new head replaced the old one! 'Well, it's not going to be that easy I guess…'

Then I heard Sakura, "Key of the Star, With powers burning bright, Reveal the staff And Shine your light! RELEASE!" She looked at me, "Fight! Help Syaoran fight Acata!"

The fight card joined with me and we started hand to hand fighting with the elemental. While fighting me, Acata was also attacking Sakura.

"Jump!" She jumped out of the way, "Windy! Lift Acata off the ground! Fight return!" She continued when and the cards listened to her, "Sword!" She now had a sword that she was holding to the elemental's neck, "You listen to me now, you are off the ground, so you can't replenish yourself and if you don't cooperate, I will cut off parts of you until there is nothing left."

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