Chapter 2: A choice
A/N: Wow! In one day I managed to get 3 reviews for this story! Well as I promised here is chapter Two!
Li's apartment. . .
"Where am I?"
Li looked around and saw that he was on a building near the Tokyo tower, suddenly there was an explosion on the tower. Li twisted his head around and look at where the explosion was, he could tell there was some kind of battle going on there as the magic that was going off was incredible. A few seconds later he found himself floating in the air above the battle, he looked down and saw Sakura using the sword card fighting someone who he could not see as he was covered in darkness. Suddenly something large and yellow shot past Li and hit the tower followed by something dark purple, he looked closer and realised that the shapes were none other than Kerobearos and Spinner Sun!
"What would have the power to toss those two around so easily?" Li asked.
His question was answered sooner than he thought however as black shape flew by him and landed in front of them, all he could see was a faint outline but he was sure it was incredibly powerful. Li heard more people fighting and turned to see Yue and Ruby Moon fighting someone else who was also covered in Shadow. Li turned back to the battle Sakura was fighting and saw that Eli was helping her but they were losing badly. Li clenched his fists in anger.
"D-damn it. . . leave them ALONE!" he cried.
Li shot up drenched in sweat, he wiped the sweat off of his brow and looked down. He saw Sakura asleep on his lap, Li smiled then leaned back on the couch and stared at the ceiling.
"C-could that have been. . . the future?" he questioned.
Sakura's eyes flickered open, she sat up and looked at him "what's wrong Li?"
Li kissed her on the forehead "nothing's wrong Sakura" Sakura shifted over and lay on him burying her head into his chest, Li in turn buried his face in her hair and took in her sweet scent. Sakura giggled and started to squirm, Li grinned and held her tighter and started to tickle her.
"NO STOP LI!" Sakura begged in between laughs.
"Not likely Sakura!" Li said as he tickled harder.
Tears were now streaming from Sakura's eyes "NO PLEASE STOP!"
Li stopped and wiped away her tears "you have to spoil the fun!" Li pouted.
Sakura giggled "that's just the way I am!"
Suddenly a powerful magic caught their attention.
"LI!"
"I know Sakura!"
10 minutes later, Penguin park. . .
Sakura, Li, Eli and the loyal 4 guardians stood in front of two creatures, they both looked exactly the same as the one Sakura and Li fought a few days ago. Li began by charging at the creatures recklessly, he used his elemental fire attack but a barrier deflected the fire back at Li who had the top half of his robes burnt off from the attack and was sent into a tree knocking him unconscious.
"NO LI!" Sakura cried rushing to Li's side.
Sakura rested him against the nearest tree and examined him "he's out cold. . ."
"Kid shouldn't have been so reckless" Kerobearos muttered.
"This is hardly the time or the place Kerobearos" Spinner Sun said before shooting a red blast out of his mouth.
The barrier cracked under the attack but didn't shatter, Yue and Ruby Moon started to attack and began to damage the barrier but the two creatures fired blue magic blasts out of their mouths and knocked both of them back. They then started to attack Sakura and Eli, Eli quickly created a shield but the shield was rapidly losing its power under such a strong attack.
"Sakura a little help here if your not to busy" Eli said through clenched teeth.
Sakura stood up "SHIELD CARD!"
The shield card enforced Eli's barrier and Eli dropped to his knees from the loss of magic, Sakura walked over to him.
"Are you all right?" she asked.
Eli looked at her "Li's right. . . if they keep getting stronger like this then even with all the magic in the world Sakura we're finished"
Meanwhile the creatures kept attacking the shield but had little luck in damaging it, Sakura's used the fly card. Two wings sprouted from her back then the sword card transforming her staff into as sword, she flew out of the shield despite the cries from the others telling her to stop. The creatures immediately stopped their attack and looked up at her, they started to fire more blasts at her but she gracefully dodged them all. Lifting the sword above her head she broke the barrier and sliced one of the creatures heads off. The now dead creature fell to the ground and disintegrated, Sakura turned to face the other one and sliced at it. It dodged her attack easily and pinned her to the floor, the creature opened its mouth revealing its needle like fangs. Suddenly the creature was forced into a tree by an attack from Eli and the four guardians, the creature rose to its feet but Eli and co. attacked it continuously but the creature kept advancing. Sakura threw a card into the air.
"ERASE CARD!"
The jester like spirit of the erase card lifted the creature with its magic and stripped it apart leaving nothing behind.
Sakura collapsed to her feet and looked at her cards "thanks a lot for your help"
The cards glowed pink like Sakura's aura, Sakura limped over to Li who had just woken up. She sat next to him and smiled.
He smiled back "where's the creatures?"
"We killed them easy!" Sakura said.
Li looked down "oh. . ."
Sakura buried her head into Li's chest while Li continued to look down, Eli and the four guardians noticed his reaction while someone else watched from the sidelines.
Hastusha grinned "hm hm hm. . . this looks like the perfect time to. . . persuade our future comrade Li"
In her arms the book of Shadow began to glow giving off a pitch black aura, the creature on the front and the humanoid one on the backs eyes began to glow red.
2 hours later, Li's apartment. . .
Li was laying down on his bed staring at the ceiling not uttering a word, not making a sound. He was startled when he heard a voice.
"Well, well, well what's the little wolf thinking about?"
Li sprung upwards and drew his sword facing the women that had entered "who are you!?" he demanded.
*The little wolf is uptight. . . this is going to be easier than I thought* Hastusha thought grinning inwardly.
*I don't like this everything about her seems to scream EVIL!* Li thought.
He examined Hastusha, she had dark brown hair and blue eyes, she was very slim and had a cloak attached to her armour which was black like her cloak.
"Calm down little wolf I'm just here to offer you something" Hastusha said calmly.
"And what would that be miss. . .?"
"Hastusha"
Li relaxed a bit but did not take his eyes off of her "what have you got to offer me?" he said in a mock tone.
From her cloak the book of Shadow floated out and hovered in between Hastusha and Li, Li examined it closer and seemed almost. . . drawn to it.
Hastusha smiled *the boy is drawn to its power! Excellent!*
Li snapped out of it and shook his head "what is it?"
"It is the book of Shadow. . . my mistress sent me to give it to you. . . within it is the greatest power in the universe" Hastusha explained.
Li looked at her strangely "and if it really has that power then why would she want to give it to me?"
"Well the book can only be opened by one person and one person only and. . . you're it" Hastusha said.
"What kind of powers does it have?" Li asked intrigued.
"Any kind of magic dark, light or negative will have no effect on you. . . you shall become the human definition of a god!" Hastusha said excitedly.
"What's the catch?"
"The catch is you have to join my mistress who is the one responsible for the attacks on you and your friends recently. . ."
Li tensed up "hearing this news why would I want to join YOU now!?"
Hastusha grinned "if you say no then you shall remain the weakling that you are and eventually your friends and yourself will fall to our powers. . . however if you join us you shall acquire the greatest power in existence and be unstoppable. . . of course you will have to betray your friends but what would you rather have? Friends or ultimate power?"
Li started to tremble "nothing could break the bond between me and my friends Hastusha. . ."
Hastusha frowned *time to hit him hard. . . emotionally hard that is*
"Do you really know why the card mistress says she loves you Li?" Hastusha asked.
Li's ears pricked up "what do you mean!?"
Hastusha sighed "she pities you that's all Li she doesn't really love you after all. . . your much weaker than she is but why don't you show her that your every bit as strong as her no. . . even stronger. . . prove her wrong and make everyone who ever treated you badly PAY!"
Li trembled even harder "e-everyone. . . p-p-pay?"
Hastusha nodded "all you have to do is join our cause and prove them WRONG! What do you say Li?" Li slowly looked up and stared at the book of Shadow. . . slowly he reached out for it but stopped just short of the seal.
"What's the matter Li? You know you want it! You crave for it! And it craves for you!"
Li toughened up and grabbed the book, he broke open its seal and opened the book. A black aura exploded out of the book and covered Li while Hastusha grinned, the aura subsided and Li looked at himself to find that he had new robes on that were black and had a red wolf on the front. He looked in front of him and saw two beings kneeling before him. . . they were the ones on the front and back of the Shadow book.
Hastusha stepped forward "Li Showron. . . meet your guardian's they are yours to name and yours to have. . ."
Li grinned evilly and turned to the humanoid one "you shall be Shadow scythe"
The humanoid one spoke with a voice like a ghost "yes master Li"
Li turned to the wolf-like one "and you shall be called Night wolf"
Night wolf bowed "thank you master Li"
The looked down at the Shadow book which started to glow, seconds later the book turned into a black smoke and went inside of Li. Li waved his hand and a magic circle appeared below him, the symbol had Sakura's circle, Clow's circle and the Chinese symbol for moon on it. A deck of black cards appeared in Li's hand they had the names: Element, Levitation, Weather, Forest, Barrier, Time, Strength, Elimination, Teleportation, Clone, Slumber, Height, Past, Future, Creation, Switch, Frozen, Steal, Weapon, Transparency and Empower. Li looked over these 21 cards and started laughing hysterically.
Hastusha grinned "it has truly begun. . ."
"What do you wish us to do master Li?" Shadow scythe asked.
Li looked over him and Night wolf "Shadow scythe. . . you shall take your human form and keep an eye on the ones called Julian and Ruby otherwise known as Yue and Ruby Moon and Night wolf. . . you shall use you powers to help me cover up my new found abilities. . . for the time being anyway"
Li turned back to Hastusha "will that be fine with you and your Mistress?"
Hastusha smiled "of course. . . you can have fun with your former friends if you so desire. . ."
Preview of next chapter. . . A new student attends Julian's, Tori's and Ruby's class and begins to spy on them, Li meanwhile tests his new found abilities and cards out against Sakura & co. Hastusha meanwhile begins to plot against Li so she can acquire the Shadow book's power. . . but even though she's powerful and Li has only just recently acquired his new power's does she really stand a chance of defeating him?
A/N: Unless I get a total of 5 chapters I won't continue
A/N: Wow! In one day I managed to get 3 reviews for this story! Well as I promised here is chapter Two!
Li's apartment. . .
"Where am I?"
Li looked around and saw that he was on a building near the Tokyo tower, suddenly there was an explosion on the tower. Li twisted his head around and look at where the explosion was, he could tell there was some kind of battle going on there as the magic that was going off was incredible. A few seconds later he found himself floating in the air above the battle, he looked down and saw Sakura using the sword card fighting someone who he could not see as he was covered in darkness. Suddenly something large and yellow shot past Li and hit the tower followed by something dark purple, he looked closer and realised that the shapes were none other than Kerobearos and Spinner Sun!
"What would have the power to toss those two around so easily?" Li asked.
His question was answered sooner than he thought however as black shape flew by him and landed in front of them, all he could see was a faint outline but he was sure it was incredibly powerful. Li heard more people fighting and turned to see Yue and Ruby Moon fighting someone else who was also covered in Shadow. Li turned back to the battle Sakura was fighting and saw that Eli was helping her but they were losing badly. Li clenched his fists in anger.
"D-damn it. . . leave them ALONE!" he cried.
Li shot up drenched in sweat, he wiped the sweat off of his brow and looked down. He saw Sakura asleep on his lap, Li smiled then leaned back on the couch and stared at the ceiling.
"C-could that have been. . . the future?" he questioned.
Sakura's eyes flickered open, she sat up and looked at him "what's wrong Li?"
Li kissed her on the forehead "nothing's wrong Sakura" Sakura shifted over and lay on him burying her head into his chest, Li in turn buried his face in her hair and took in her sweet scent. Sakura giggled and started to squirm, Li grinned and held her tighter and started to tickle her.
"NO STOP LI!" Sakura begged in between laughs.
"Not likely Sakura!" Li said as he tickled harder.
Tears were now streaming from Sakura's eyes "NO PLEASE STOP!"
Li stopped and wiped away her tears "you have to spoil the fun!" Li pouted.
Sakura giggled "that's just the way I am!"
Suddenly a powerful magic caught their attention.
"LI!"
"I know Sakura!"
10 minutes later, Penguin park. . .
Sakura, Li, Eli and the loyal 4 guardians stood in front of two creatures, they both looked exactly the same as the one Sakura and Li fought a few days ago. Li began by charging at the creatures recklessly, he used his elemental fire attack but a barrier deflected the fire back at Li who had the top half of his robes burnt off from the attack and was sent into a tree knocking him unconscious.
"NO LI!" Sakura cried rushing to Li's side.
Sakura rested him against the nearest tree and examined him "he's out cold. . ."
"Kid shouldn't have been so reckless" Kerobearos muttered.
"This is hardly the time or the place Kerobearos" Spinner Sun said before shooting a red blast out of his mouth.
The barrier cracked under the attack but didn't shatter, Yue and Ruby Moon started to attack and began to damage the barrier but the two creatures fired blue magic blasts out of their mouths and knocked both of them back. They then started to attack Sakura and Eli, Eli quickly created a shield but the shield was rapidly losing its power under such a strong attack.
"Sakura a little help here if your not to busy" Eli said through clenched teeth.
Sakura stood up "SHIELD CARD!"
The shield card enforced Eli's barrier and Eli dropped to his knees from the loss of magic, Sakura walked over to him.
"Are you all right?" she asked.
Eli looked at her "Li's right. . . if they keep getting stronger like this then even with all the magic in the world Sakura we're finished"
Meanwhile the creatures kept attacking the shield but had little luck in damaging it, Sakura's used the fly card. Two wings sprouted from her back then the sword card transforming her staff into as sword, she flew out of the shield despite the cries from the others telling her to stop. The creatures immediately stopped their attack and looked up at her, they started to fire more blasts at her but she gracefully dodged them all. Lifting the sword above her head she broke the barrier and sliced one of the creatures heads off. The now dead creature fell to the ground and disintegrated, Sakura turned to face the other one and sliced at it. It dodged her attack easily and pinned her to the floor, the creature opened its mouth revealing its needle like fangs. Suddenly the creature was forced into a tree by an attack from Eli and the four guardians, the creature rose to its feet but Eli and co. attacked it continuously but the creature kept advancing. Sakura threw a card into the air.
"ERASE CARD!"
The jester like spirit of the erase card lifted the creature with its magic and stripped it apart leaving nothing behind.
Sakura collapsed to her feet and looked at her cards "thanks a lot for your help"
The cards glowed pink like Sakura's aura, Sakura limped over to Li who had just woken up. She sat next to him and smiled.
He smiled back "where's the creatures?"
"We killed them easy!" Sakura said.
Li looked down "oh. . ."
Sakura buried her head into Li's chest while Li continued to look down, Eli and the four guardians noticed his reaction while someone else watched from the sidelines.
Hastusha grinned "hm hm hm. . . this looks like the perfect time to. . . persuade our future comrade Li"
In her arms the book of Shadow began to glow giving off a pitch black aura, the creature on the front and the humanoid one on the backs eyes began to glow red.
2 hours later, Li's apartment. . .
Li was laying down on his bed staring at the ceiling not uttering a word, not making a sound. He was startled when he heard a voice.
"Well, well, well what's the little wolf thinking about?"
Li sprung upwards and drew his sword facing the women that had entered "who are you!?" he demanded.
*The little wolf is uptight. . . this is going to be easier than I thought* Hastusha thought grinning inwardly.
*I don't like this everything about her seems to scream EVIL!* Li thought.
He examined Hastusha, she had dark brown hair and blue eyes, she was very slim and had a cloak attached to her armour which was black like her cloak.
"Calm down little wolf I'm just here to offer you something" Hastusha said calmly.
"And what would that be miss. . .?"
"Hastusha"
Li relaxed a bit but did not take his eyes off of her "what have you got to offer me?" he said in a mock tone.
From her cloak the book of Shadow floated out and hovered in between Hastusha and Li, Li examined it closer and seemed almost. . . drawn to it.
Hastusha smiled *the boy is drawn to its power! Excellent!*
Li snapped out of it and shook his head "what is it?"
"It is the book of Shadow. . . my mistress sent me to give it to you. . . within it is the greatest power in the universe" Hastusha explained.
Li looked at her strangely "and if it really has that power then why would she want to give it to me?"
"Well the book can only be opened by one person and one person only and. . . you're it" Hastusha said.
"What kind of powers does it have?" Li asked intrigued.
"Any kind of magic dark, light or negative will have no effect on you. . . you shall become the human definition of a god!" Hastusha said excitedly.
"What's the catch?"
"The catch is you have to join my mistress who is the one responsible for the attacks on you and your friends recently. . ."
Li tensed up "hearing this news why would I want to join YOU now!?"
Hastusha grinned "if you say no then you shall remain the weakling that you are and eventually your friends and yourself will fall to our powers. . . however if you join us you shall acquire the greatest power in existence and be unstoppable. . . of course you will have to betray your friends but what would you rather have? Friends or ultimate power?"
Li started to tremble "nothing could break the bond between me and my friends Hastusha. . ."
Hastusha frowned *time to hit him hard. . . emotionally hard that is*
"Do you really know why the card mistress says she loves you Li?" Hastusha asked.
Li's ears pricked up "what do you mean!?"
Hastusha sighed "she pities you that's all Li she doesn't really love you after all. . . your much weaker than she is but why don't you show her that your every bit as strong as her no. . . even stronger. . . prove her wrong and make everyone who ever treated you badly PAY!"
Li trembled even harder "e-everyone. . . p-p-pay?"
Hastusha nodded "all you have to do is join our cause and prove them WRONG! What do you say Li?" Li slowly looked up and stared at the book of Shadow. . . slowly he reached out for it but stopped just short of the seal.
"What's the matter Li? You know you want it! You crave for it! And it craves for you!"
Li toughened up and grabbed the book, he broke open its seal and opened the book. A black aura exploded out of the book and covered Li while Hastusha grinned, the aura subsided and Li looked at himself to find that he had new robes on that were black and had a red wolf on the front. He looked in front of him and saw two beings kneeling before him. . . they were the ones on the front and back of the Shadow book.
Hastusha stepped forward "Li Showron. . . meet your guardian's they are yours to name and yours to have. . ."
Li grinned evilly and turned to the humanoid one "you shall be Shadow scythe"
The humanoid one spoke with a voice like a ghost "yes master Li"
Li turned to the wolf-like one "and you shall be called Night wolf"
Night wolf bowed "thank you master Li"
The looked down at the Shadow book which started to glow, seconds later the book turned into a black smoke and went inside of Li. Li waved his hand and a magic circle appeared below him, the symbol had Sakura's circle, Clow's circle and the Chinese symbol for moon on it. A deck of black cards appeared in Li's hand they had the names: Element, Levitation, Weather, Forest, Barrier, Time, Strength, Elimination, Teleportation, Clone, Slumber, Height, Past, Future, Creation, Switch, Frozen, Steal, Weapon, Transparency and Empower. Li looked over these 21 cards and started laughing hysterically.
Hastusha grinned "it has truly begun. . ."
"What do you wish us to do master Li?" Shadow scythe asked.
Li looked over him and Night wolf "Shadow scythe. . . you shall take your human form and keep an eye on the ones called Julian and Ruby otherwise known as Yue and Ruby Moon and Night wolf. . . you shall use you powers to help me cover up my new found abilities. . . for the time being anyway"
Li turned back to Hastusha "will that be fine with you and your Mistress?"
Hastusha smiled "of course. . . you can have fun with your former friends if you so desire. . ."
Preview of next chapter. . . A new student attends Julian's, Tori's and Ruby's class and begins to spy on them, Li meanwhile tests his new found abilities and cards out against Sakura & co. Hastusha meanwhile begins to plot against Li so she can acquire the Shadow book's power. . . but even though she's powerful and Li has only just recently acquired his new power's does she really stand a chance of defeating him?
A/N: Unless I get a total of 5 chapters I won't continue