Disclaimer: I do not own Card Captor Sakura and this fanfic is simply a product of my imagination and I am not paid to do this.
Chapter XI: Decisive Battle
Francis raised his staff and several clay-like creatures rose from the ground to attack her friends.
"Do you really think this would stop us?" Remus hurled a fireball at the creatures.
The creature exploded and multiplied.
"No way!" Remus looked surprised.
Cerberus shot a beam at several monsters.
"Do you need help?" Spinel Sun flew from behind him.
"No!" Cerberus firmly answered but the creatures quickly outnumbered him and tackled him.
"I didn't need your help." Cerberus told Spinel Sun after he blasted the creatures for him.
"Whatever." Spinel Sun glared at him.
Yue sent a number of arrows while Ruby Moon sent out crystal shards.
"They just keep multiplying." Eriol sent a beam at a creature.
"We've got to stop them! We have to save Sakura!" Syaoran destroyed several creatures at once.
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"Stop it!" Sakura screamed at Francis.
"They must not interfere with this battle which I have prepared for a long time!" he replied. "Now, daughter of Reed, let's see what you could do."
Sakura grasped her wand tightly. "I will not allow you to hurt my friends!"
Francis laughed as the ground trembled.
"Fly!" Sakura escaped the huge clay hand that emerged from the ground.
More clay hands sprung up but Sakura quickly dodged them.
Francis flicked his staff and the hands shot up faster, finally hitting Sakura's wings.
"Freeze!" She froze one of the clay hands and landed on it. "Your power is from the earth!" Sakura told him.
Francis glared at her and sent a barrage of rocks.
"You could change the magic of the cards to do things connected to them." She remembered Kaho tell her.
"Shield!" Sakura protected herself from the rocks.
"I can divert the uses of my cards!" She repeated. "Please, my cards, help me so I could protect you and everyone I love!" She took out the Shot card. "Shot! Direct the rocks to Ducant!"
The rocks around her quickly assaulted themselves on Francis.
Caught unaware, the rocks hit him and he screamed in pain. He reached for his staff and made a wall to protect him.
"You're better than I thought, daughter of Reed." He muttered under his breath.
He directed the wall towards Sakura.
"Mirror! Return the wall to the direction from which it came!" The wall returned to Francis but he jumped out of its way.
Francis hit the ground with his staff and roots sprung up and grabbed Sakura.
"Sword!" She quickly cut the roots. "Jump!" She jumped away as pillars suddenly sprung from the ground and tried to hit her.
"Dash!" She quickly dodged around the pillars and ran to Francis.
Francis stood up, his eyes with hatred. He shook his staff and huge boulders materialized, shooting at Sakura in all directions.
"Loop!" The boulders hit Francis and he fell on the ground.
"Windy!" Sakura bound Francis.
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"Go Sakura!" Rhea cheered from on top a rock.
"Could you please stop cheering and help?!" Her brother was fighting a huge clay dragon.
"But it's so boring!" Rhea reasoned.
"RHEA!!!"
"Alright already! Sheesh!" Rhea grimaced and closed her eyes.
Her symbol surrounded her and she pointed at one of the creatures.
The creature was quickly engulfed with life and so did all the other creatures until they were all completely gone.
Rhea's companions glared at her.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU DO THAT EARLIER?!!!" Cerberus yelled.
"No one asked me too." Rhea answered with a smile.
"Sakura." Syaoran looked at the finished battle on the other side.
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Sakura walked towards Francis. Then, she saw a vision as she saw Francis in front of her. A vision that he and Clow Reed used to be close friends.
"How come you have defeated me?" Francis glared at her. "After all these years of planning and waiting…how could I lose to Reed's power yet again?"
"This is not Clow-san's power!" Sakura corrected. "I am Sakura Kinomoto and this is my power, which I will protect forever."
"If I could have only gained that power you possess…every sorcerer's dream…to be the most powerful…I could have achieved it."
"Why can't you understand?"
Francis raised his head.
Sakura stood eye level to him. "I am not Clow-san. I may have inherited his powers but I am a different person. But still, I know a few things he would like you to know.
"Even though you have always been after his power, I believe Clow-san thinks you are his friend and rival.
"I have not really met Clow-san…maybe in dreams but that's not him. Still… he taught me something important and that is to cherish love and friendship."
Sakura looked at the other side at her friends.
"A friend told me this, 'It is when you are down that you rely on your real strengths, the people you love and who love you back.' I believe it is in believing in others that we could become powerful. Knowing that someone cares for you makes you feel stronger. Knowing there are people you want to protect as well."
Tears fell from Francis' eyes. 'Yes, I remember…how good friends we have been…Clow and I.
"My greed for power had made me forgotten my friendship." Francis looked at Sakura. "I see now what makes you and Reed strong. You always had the power of friendship behind you."
Sakura's friends ran to her.
Francis slightly smiled. "How I admire you, daughter of Reed. You will be a great sorceress in the future." He started to vanish.
"What's happening?" Sakura asked in alarm.
"There's nothing left for me to do." Francis replied. "Thank you, finally my heart will be at peace."
"Wait!" Sakura said. "I want to thank you. If you haven't come, I wouldn't have made great new friends…and I wouldn't have learned so many things. Arigatou Gozaimasu."
Francis Ducant smiled before he completely disappeared.
Tears fell from Sakura's eyes. "Clow-san…What has happened in the past? How could such good friendship end this way?" She whispered before her friends joined her.
"It has finally ended." Syaoran touched Sakura's shoulder.
Sakura dried her tears. "Yes, finally, Francis Ducant's soul can rest."
