Chapter 4

Satsuki rubbed her fore head form being hit by the fisbee, "This is another reason why they must go." Up came a cute girl about the same age as she. She was dressed in a green school uniform and profusely apologized. A sigh handing the disc back , "It is so pointless you do that."

"Huh?"

"You should all just disappear. You have killed enough."

"What are you saying," she objected, "I have never killed."

"Oh? You do eat meat, do you? Or fruits and vegetables? That is killing. Just you breathing is causing the death of millions of bacteria," the dark girl with the blonde bangs countered rationally, "So you do kill."

'What? I have feeling and."

"Oh? So does that make you superior? Does that give you the right to determine who lives and who dies. besides that, feelings are underrated." The girl in green pouted for a long time then stormed away trying to figure out a reply.

"What an amusing person," a wicked smile came seeing an oversized canine - probably owned by the girl, "She could be very entertaining."

Sphene watched Chronos finally light up his cigarette. Before he could enjoy the cool feeling of pulling in the nicotine into his longs and fill his bloodstream, Maylin began to have "a quiet discussion" with Janni that this was not the capital of Chizeta. Upon hearing this, took away the cigarette saying that children should not smoke and it was his fault. He made a mischief filled aura; Chronos bolted promising to come back with gifts. Aino could care less, "Just don't get killed."

"If he is going that way," Janni said pointing in the opposite direction, "To explore, we're going that. Maylin had finished her conversation with Janni - she had other plans for she sighted something in the corner of her eye.

"Go that way, we can all meet up here," ShieRhea suggested then offered to accompany Aino - much to her ire. Aino someway disliked this other purple- haired woman, other than the fact that this woman had no past - a complete blank-slate. She accepted anyway, maybe if she got to know her the feeling might change.

Maylin crept on toe followed by Janni and Sphene to the thing she saw. There a tall brown-haired male was talking to two others. One was the same age as he - a girl with glasses - and the other was much older. The older one took a breath, "Why don't' we give up? We have been searching for a week without success."

"We could ask Chief Inspector Nokoru to help." The girl offered a compromise, "He always helps ladies in distress."

The one that Maylin had sighted had crossed his arms, "I made a promise! I made a promise to my best friend. I have never broken my word ever, I will not begin to." This dark-haired girl from Chizeta's heart moved, there was something about him that just made him so huggable. She set it in mind to follow him anywhere, even to death. Sphene on the other hand latched onto a different part of the conversation - in his sense of justice he had to help out.

Monoka yawned as a form came from behind; it turned to face the form. The rabbit with the bindi blinked at the strangeness of a feline that was half yellow and half blue. The feline bowed, "Hellolololo, there. I am Hecate, nice to meet you."

"What? Who -what are you doing here? How do you know my language."

"A little of this, a little of that," the cat purred offering, "You like go back to my place sometime?"

"What are you doing here? Who are you?"

"I am Hecate, Mister Clow made me with one of the witches, aren't I the cutest thing in the world,' he led and stroked his tail, "With the most lovely tail, ne?"

"What?"

"Mister Clow made you, right? He made me to make things fall in line."

"What?"

"Take the Hope Diamond for example. It was the eye of an statue of Tamamo- no-mae, mother of all shape-shifters, stolen, the thief was killed. It was sold to "the Sun King", he died of syphilis and his mistress of consumption. The diamond was worn by both Marie Antoinette and her husband - beheaded in the French Revolution. Sphene's family participated in the robbery of the jewels. The diamond was re-cut in Amsterdam and was lost in a game of cards - the diamond cutter's descendants ended up in the gas chambers. The diamond turned up in England where it got the name Hope. After a slew of death and tragedy, it was given as a gift to the US government - so came the Great Depression and World War Two. It was once worn by Jackoline Kennedy at a Cuban embassy ball - Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, husband murdered. It was also once worn by Marilyn Monroe as a treat for her on-again-off-again lover, Robert, both dead under mysterious circumstances. So logically, the curse is overdue for Sphene's family."

"What are you talking about?"

"What, you don't know, Jebus," Hecate sighed coming on to Monoka, "Or ShieRhea. she is also cursed - it has nothing to do with a misplaced body on the Chi-lines or that her father may have had some "business" in London between August 1889 and November 1889." Then he bounded off, "It is just as bad."

"Weird," Monoka shook its head.

Large tears came down form her cheeks. The large male brushed her cheek, "Something the matter, Yazurih?"

"Yes.sniff.Kusanagi," she sniffled and told him of her meeting with that strange girl in glasses and blonde bangs.

"There, there," he comforted her, holding her tenderly in his big arms, "There, there. Dry your tears; they do not belong on such a good person."

"Really? I don't feel like I am."

"If you were not a good person, it would not bother you," he nuzzled his nose against her chest, "I would be very sad if you went away."

"Thank you," she kissed him thrice resolving what she will say the next time they meet or least a version of it. Her smile had returned.

"That's my girl."

She licked his cheek lustfully, "I am not a little girl - not anymore."

"Open the door, Casablanca," the cute man with blond hair said. The woman in the slinky gown slipped off the desk and opened the door. He smiled happy to see her but hid is by flicking out a fan to hide his face, "Well, isn't it my favorite consulting detective." A fluster came to Naoko's cheeks as he kissed her hand. He observed, "But your friends are not from around here are they."

"No-no- Inspector Nokoru - I."

His big blue eyes shimmered complemented by the over use of a folding fan proceeded to tell everything about them right down to Sakura's shoe-size.

"How did he. We just met."

"You san say that again," Fye said, "Blacky."

"My name isn't BLACKY!" Kurogane shouted ready to strike him dead.

Naoko whispered, trying not to admit that his good looks had also captured another admirer, "That's his greatest gift.he can detect a lady in distress at 300 km."

Supikun again. I hope this section does not confuse anyone. The song in the previous chapter sang by ShieRhea was from Tokyo Babylon, she is regretting there is no Moon and wishes in her heart to fall in love with a kind man. In CLAMP's Tsubasa, the character Kurogane other than having Fye make fun of his name has a "relationship" with Tomoyo, who is a princess of the ninja kingdom. The tea party is with the Princesses of Chizeta and Guru Clef (Rayearth), Clef himself is seen depicted in Card Captor Sakura, the episode where Naoko finds a the create card, so the author assumes that Clow probably knew him. In the readings of CLAMP's XXXholic, where it can be compared to Mysterious Island meets the Little Pet Shop of Horrors, where on Mysterious Island Ricardo Montabon is the devil giving people their greatest wishes in exchange for something (probably their immortal soul), but in XXXholic Yuuto plays that role. The new world they are in is basically the world that Naoko (Card Captor Sakura) would be happiest in - Shounen Del Ray (Shounen and Del Ray are manga companies that CLAMP use) - as a consulting detective in a world of mystery. I also make a reference to Dupin, the first consulting detective, written in Edgar Allen Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue. Being fascinated by magic and mysterious stuff, she would have a picture of Fox Mulder (X- Files), and also it is a pun.that Mulder from x-files "wants to believe" is looking at Kamui from X/1999.In CLAMP's Tsubasa, it is said that Chii was made by Fye in a wintery kingdom, so I followed with CLAMP's Chobit's description of Chii by her owner " the cat-eared girl with resplendent white hair - there was much difficulty in this. He found it easier to digest the inner-working of the common lap-top computer, toaster, microwave, and clock radio." Though personally, Chii is not just a laptop (pun intended) with extras - trust me IF I owned Chii, that is where she be right now - on my lap.