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"..." Character speaking.
'...' Character's thought.
(...) My personal notes.
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It was still too early for anyone to be awake, but something made him alert, as Eriol gazed attentively to the sound of footsteps approaching. He had his hand gripped around the dagger inside his pocket in case someone wanted to pick up a fight with him. Soon the person came to view as she stood gazing at the stranger up front.
Eriol sighed in relief, as he saw who it was. He smiled and slowly approached the girl that stood gazing at him curiously.
"Hey there. What are you doing down here without your mother?" he asked curiously.
"I wasn't sleepy. So I went to look around." she answered sweetly.
Such resemblance of Tomoyo and some of himself as well. Eriol couldn't help but to feel amused at how those little azure eyes shined like his own.
"Aren't you afraid of me?" Eriol asked.
"No. You don't seem bad."
Eriol smiled. "What's your name little one?" he asked just to keep a conversation.
"Sakura." she replied proudly, making him chuckle.
"Lovely name."
"What's your name mister?"
"Eriol Hiiragizawa." he answered.
"A pirates name." she deciphered smiling, making him impressed.
"Aren't you afraid of pirates?" he asked confused that she would be smiling, for little kids would usually be scared of them.
"No because my mommy told me that my daddy was a pirate."
Eriol smiled. "Do you know his name?"
"No. Mother won't tell me."
He chuckled. It would have been too easy if she did tell her daughter the name.
"Sakura you better get back to your room. It is not safe here." Eriol urged kindly.
"I can defend myself mister." she spoke. "Look." and with her hand out stretched flames of fire burst from her little palm.
Eriol looked surprised, no doubt now, she was indeed his daughter. Why haven't Tomoyo told him? That woman! But now he knew the truth and knew that she had inherited his powers of magic. A proud father he was.
"Listen Sakura. Lets make a promise." Eriol started.
"What promise mister?"
"I'll promise you a wish in exchange for something."
"A wish?" she replied in excitement.
"Yes." he assured with a chuckle at her cuteness. "What would you like?"
"I want my mother home with me and I want my father back too."
Eriol smiled, "Now that's two wishes, but I'll see what I can do."
Sakura nodded her head excitedly, she knew that she could trust this man.
"Alright, in exchange, I don't want you to use your powers until I say you can. Alright?"
If she did show her powers the consequences would probably be that Blow would want to use her as a weapon. He could never let that happen.
"Ok." Sakura responded obediently.
"Does your mother know about your magic?"
"No. I haven't showed her yet. No one knows about it except you mister."
Eriol smiled. "Alright. That's good. Now do you promise me?"
Sakura smiled and showed her pinky, which Eriol chuckled and held her pinky with his large pinky. The promise was sealed.
"Ok. Now go back to your room or your mother will get worried."
Sakura waved and smiled, "Bye mister." and left.
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Tomoyo hurriedly walked into the dungeon room to find Eriol sitting on the hay while looking out the small window.
"Eriol I've got little time to speak so listen and don't speak a word until I'm done."
"Ok." he obeyed while getting up to stand before her.
"Blow and his crew will be leaving to a nearby village for an attack. He will leave few men here on guard. While they are out your crew will filter in without notice to steal the treasures to bring it back to the ship, while I'm going to poison Blow's food."
"Sounds great, but are you sure he will be gone?"
"Yes."
"Alright, be careful." Eriol asked worriedly.
"I will." answered Tomoyo smiling as she quickly walked away.
"Tomoyo!" he called.
"What?"
Eriol quickly thrust her something, which she caught. Opening her hands she found a whistle.
"Call if you're in any danger."
"I will." with a gratitude smile she left.
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"Tomoyo my girl. Listen." spoke Blow as he approached the lady that stood before him. "I want you to take care of things in the base."
"I will Blow, you know I will." Tomoyo spoke smiling as always to his face.
"I don't want you messing around. You know what happens when I get angry." he whispered dangerously.
"Blow, don't you trust me?" she asked in fear to hear a no after all her hard work.
"Of course I do." he smirked while picking her strands of hair and smelling the sweet scent.
She felt disgusted but kept her smile on, looking as if she didn't care.
"Where will you be heading off?" she asked, wanting to know how much time he would take out at his mission.
"A village nearby, taking us about 5 hours of trip or more."
"Pretty close from the usual trips you make Blow."
"True, but this little trip involves a great amount of money in the end."
"Cheers for us."
"Alright." spoke Blow stepping away and looking at his men, "Let's head out."
"Mommy!" cried a little voice as Tomoyo quickly averted her head to find her daughter being carried away by one of the pirates.
"What are you doing?" she demanded.
Blow smirked. "In case something happens to my base Tomoyo girl."
"You can't! You said you wouldn't hurt her!" she urged as she watched her daughter disappear with the pirate. "I thought you said you trusted me."
Tomoyo couldn't react or she would show her fear. She had to look strong and smile, to hide everything. She had to, or they would end up in a bad position.
"It's for precautions my dear. I won't hurt her, not if things here turn up the way I want it to be." he answered with a evil smile.
Tomoyo smiled back still with the fear for her daughter. "Take care of her and I'll take care of things here." with those last words, Blow smirked and walked off, as Tomoyo stood still with her fist trembling at her side.
Tears were threatening to fall from her eyes but she kept her posture and walked to accomplish her plan that she waited for such a long time to execute.
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Soon Eriol's crew entered the base without any notice. Tomoyo secretively and silently led them to the hidden chamber of the treasures that she had been introduced since the day she stole her first golden chest. Unlocking the door she handed the crew a map, showing all the hidden traps and secret codes to be inserted. With an encouraging smile, she bid them good luck.
Quickly heading towards the kitchen, Tomoyo took from inside her pocket a bottle of liquid poison. Once that fatal liquid swam into the blood veins of the person she or he would die instantly. She poured the whole liquid inside the pot of soup and hoped that everything would turn out the way she planned.
Going back to the treasure chamber she found the crew coming back out with two or three treasure chests each. Tomoyo quickly opened one of the chests to find gold sparkling inside. Smiling and embracing them joyfully she sent them back to the ship and told them to stay nearby for any help needed.
Closing the chamber doors and putting the golden key back to its place, Tomoyo sighed contently that this part of the plan had finished with success.
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"Eriol." whispered Tomoyo as she walked towards his cell.
Hearing her voice, he quickly got up from his spot to meet her up front.
"How was it?" he asked curiously.
"Fine. The first part turned out to be fine."
"Great." he smiled.
"Eriol." Tomoyo spoke hesitantly but soon looked up determined. "There has been a change of plan."
"What do you mean?" he asked worriedly.
Tomoyo took the key from inside her pocket and unlocked the door to let Eriol out of the jail. He stepped towards her direction as he waited for a response.
"I'm going to stay and you're going away." Tomoyo replied smiling.
"What?!? Are you insane woman! Why do you want to stay?"
"I have something else to do, but you..." she spoke with difficulty, "You helped me enough, now leave."
Eriol smiled, "I still want my payment, you promised me for my service."
Tomoyo grinned, "That, you'll have to wait later."
"Later when?"
"When we met up again." she answered sadly.
"Tomoyo my job here is still not done." Eriol spoke in seriousness.
"What do you mean?" she asked curiously.
"I have a promise to accomplish." he explained recalling what Sakura asked for. "Besides I can't leave you here alone."
"But I don't need you anymore. I told you I'll pay you later." Tomoyo insisted.
"It's not the payment I'm worried about, it's you! Now, you're coming with me whether you like it or not Tomoyo." Eriol replied while taking her hand and pushing a blushing lady away.
Tomoyo quickly recomposed herself and jerked her hand away from his grip. "Eriol its fine." she smiled fakly. "Leave. I'm all right alone. You must not get yourself more involved in this mess."
Eriol looked into her lovely eyes and read its depth. He then slowly embraced her into his arms and kissed her forehead.
"Stop pretending that your alright when your not. It's ok to ask for help. Your not alone on this anymore. I'm here with you Tomoyo." Eriol whispered truthfully making her smile genuinely and feel protective.
"Thank you." she whispered in great joy as she held him close to her.
"Now lets leave this place. Pick everything you need and I'll fetch Sakura."
"You can't."
"What?" he asked perplexed by her response.
"You can't fetch her up Eriol." she whispered again as tears finally broke themselves free from her eyes. "Blow took her along with him."
"What!!!" he called out in anger as he cursed the man.
If Blow dared touch her little one he would kill and tear him into pieces.
"I don't know what to do." she sobbed silently.
Eriol slightly pushed her back to look down at her wet face. He smiled, trying to calm her down. "I won't let him hurt her. I promise. Do you understand."
Tomoyo nodded her head as Eriol slowly brushed her tears away with his feather kisses, which surprised her and made her blush.
"Eriol I need to tell you something." she started but was silenced by his finger pressed against her lips softly.
"Not now, we need to greet Blow with a special surprise." Eriol spoke grinning.
"What do you have in mind?"
"A plan that will work."
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