Yes, I know I'm late. We had a garage sale yesterday and today I was working in the garden all day. Somehow, I got this chapter finished tonight. I was gonna make it longer, but I have a head-ache and am not really in the mood to write. I just wanted to get a chapter out before I go to my dad's tomorrow. Enjoy! I do not own Digimon or Card Captor Sakura...

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Digital Cards

Past the Picnic

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"This is the place?" Tomoyo asked as she looked around the clearing. It wasn't a very big clearing but it wasn't very small either…
"Yes, this is the exact place we were attacked yesterday. We tried to run away but somehow the area was linked and we weren't able to escape. Do you know if that was the act of a card?" Koushiro enquired
"Yes" Sakura nodded slightly "That's the loop card."
"I see…"
"We then went over in that direction. That's were we met Piedmon and all of the cards." Koushiro said. Everyone looked where he pointed. "It's amazing how many there were…"
All of a sudden a noise came from behind them. Everyone spun around and was met by another digimon. He had the head of a pumpkin and was wearing a green scarf.
"Hey everyone!" The creature said. "My name is Pumpkinmon. Hey wait a minute… I haven't seen any of you before." He said to Syaoran, Mei-ling and Tomoyo.
"They aren't digidestined." Koushiro proclaimed.
"Oh really…" Pumpkinmon said and walked over to Tomoyo. "What's your name?"
"I'm Daidouji Tomoyo, this is Li Mei-ling, Li Syaoran and Kino…" Tomoyo began to introduce everybody to the little pumpkin head but stopped when she saw that someone was missing.
"Li-kun, where is Sakura?"
Syaoran turned around but found that Sakura was gone.
"She was there just a minute ago…" Mei-ling said
"Sakura!" Syaoran shouted
"Where could she have gone?" Koushiro put
"She disappeared right after…" Syaoran began but took off before he finished. He ran in the direction Koushiro had pointed to earlier.
"Sakura!" he yelled.
"Syaoran-kun" he heard someone whisper. He looked around and saw Sakura on her knees looking through the bushes.
"Over there" She again whispered and pointed through the bushes.
Syaoran got down beside her and looked in the direction she was pointing to. There was a humongous empty clearing with a cave on the other side. Standing in the opening of the cave was a tall, strange looking man. He had a red jacket and a pair of green pants, somewhat resembling a badly dressed clown.
"Who's that?" Sakura whispered, even though she really didn't have to since they were a good distance away from the weird clown.
"I don't know. Maybe it's a digimon..," Syaoran commented
Sakura looked closer and saw that he was holding something out in front of him. Suddenly a black magic circle appeared beneath his feet and he took something out from around his neck. Once a black staff materialized in his hand the clown reached into his jacket and pulled out a deck of cards. There was a mixture of Sakura's pink cards and a small amount of another color deck was also there.
The clown pulled out a pink card and threw it in front of him. He was summoning Arrow. As soon as she appeared she put her head down as if bowing to the dark master. After a few seconds though, she lifted her head around and glanced around as if looking for something. The clown lifted his hand up and smacked Arrow hard across the right cheek, causing her to collapse on the ground.
"I did not give you an order yet you miserable defenceless creature! Bow to me respectfully!"
Sakura gasped as she saw her friend quiver on the ground. She was about to get up and run to help her but was stopped by Syaoran's hand on her soldier.
"This digimon is probably strong if he is able to make the cards obey him. Let's wait, maybe he'll leave." Syaoran supposed
Sakura thought about it for a second then relaxed a little and nodded. She sighed in relief as she watched her card get onto her knees, bowing to the tall digimon.
"That's better!" the clown mocked "I have a job for you. Stay here and protect my cave. I demand you to shoot at anyone or anything that comes anywhere close."
Arrow didn't give a response. Without warning, the clown kicked Arrow right in the stomach. Arrow cried out and crumpled to the ground.
"What was that?"
Arrow nodded vigorously, still holding her stomach in pain.
The clown cackled with delight and started walking away from the young-looking card.
"How terrible." Sakura and Syaoran heard from behind them. They turned around to see Tomoyo, Mei-ling and Koushiro standing there.
"Was that Piedmon?" Mei-ling asked
"Yes, I'm afraid so." Koushiro answered quietly.
After seeing that Piedmon was not coming back, Sakura got up to go see if her card was harmed very badly. As soon as she stepped into the clearing, Arrow took notice to her. At first she was delighted but then her face twisted in terror. She looked down at her hands to see that an unknown force was lifting them. Soon enough, she had both her bow and arrow aimed at her mistress.
"Look out!" Syaoran yelled from behind Sakura, but it was to late. Arrow had already shot the arrow. Sakura didn't move. She was terrified. What was controlling Arrow? Could it be because Piedmon had ordered her to shoot at everything?
The arrow flew towards Sakura but landed at her feet. Even from the distance, Sakura could see the relief from Arrow's face.
"Sh… she missed…" Sakura sighed. But she never misses. Could it be that she tried hard enough to control herself and missed on purpose?
"Arigato, Arrow-san" Sakura thought
"Sakura!" Syaoran yelled and ran up beside her. "Daijoubu?" (Are you okay?)
"Daijoubu desu." (I'm fine) Sakura answered
Syaoran looked over at Arrow but was surprised to see that she was pointing at him. He was confused. Was she trying to tell him something? Her arms were shaking as she forced them to obey her. She brought them up and pointed to something below her neck. Then gestured to Syaoran.
Syaoran brought his own hand up and felt his magic orbs under his shirt. Did she want him to attack her?

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Eeeeep!!! I forgot I had homework! G2G!!!