Predator 2
By Charles Xavier
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Mrs. Sonomi Daidouji had probably overdone herself when she had asked Yukito Tsukishiro and Touya Kinomoto to help out bake Tomoyo's birthday cake, along with a dozen other chefs. She asked them all to make a large chocolate fudge cake for her only but special little girl. Sakura didn't quite like the idea of her brother coming over to Tomoyo's house with her, but with Yukito coming as well, she couldn't start an argument.
All of Tomoyo's friends had come to enjoy her birthday night, all bringing presents and having a wonderful time. Throughout the evening, they talked, played games, and had a wonderful dinner feast…
"Happy birthday to Tomoyo…happy birthday to you!"
A grand applaud was heard in the dining room. Sakura and her friends clapped loudly to congratulate Tomoyo on her eleventh birthday. Mrs. Daidouji's black uniformed bodyguards began filming their cameras around the room non stop, especially when she came up to Tomoyo and rewarded her with a sweet loving kiss on the cheek.
"Happy birthday, dear!" Sonomi said.
…
Later that night, all the children dressed into their pajamas, and were playing pillow fights in Tomoyo's bedroom. Yukito and Touya were busy cleaning up in the kitchen, while Sonomi was there supervising them. Outside, armed bodyguards were patrolling the house, making sure that nothing would come to disturb the party night. But little did they know that something for them had already arrived…actually, it had been waiting around for some time unnoticed.
One of the guards heard a noise in the bushes. "Who's there?" He shouted as he slipped out his black Beretta gun, pointing it to where he detected the noise. "Come on. Come out of those bushes now and nobody will get hurt."
The creature watched the silly guard, pointing his puny weapon at the fluffy plant, from its position way up above on one of the tree's branches. To its point of view, this guard didn't seem too bright.
"Tomoyo-chan?"
Tomoyo's voice uttered out of nowhere. The guard drew his gun away from the bush. "Miss Tomoyo Daidouji, is that you?" But the only answer he got was when three infra-red dots suddenly flashed onto his forehead. "Miss Tomoyo Daidou…"
…
A loud explosion was heard from outside, before it was followed shortly by a soft gurgling sound. Tomoyo and the rest of her friends ceased from their fun pillow fight game. They fell silent and heard guards shouting everywhere around the house. The noise of wild gunfire made the children get down onto the floor instantly, and cover up their ears…they knew that something wasn't right.
"AAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Some of the children started screaming.
"What's going on?" Kero's voice whispered in Sakura's bag. "What's all that noise coming from outside?"
"I have a feeling I might know." Sakura replied. "It's the one that Eriol had warned us of. I knew it'd be a good idea if I brought the Clow Cards and you, Kero-chan. It must have followed our trail into Tomoyo's house."
The voice of Sonomi was heard shouting in the corridor. "What's going on outside?! Why am I hearing gunfire?!"
…
"NO!"
"YAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!"
"NOOOO!!!!!!!"
"PLEASE!!!!!!"
"AAAAAAARRRGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!"
One by one, Sonomi's guards were being eliminated by the invisible creature. Sonomi stormed out of the house to see what was happening, and received a very big shock. She saw one guard being guttered in the back with a razor sharp wrist blade, and covered her mouth as he was crying and begging with pain, before being hurled upwards into the air…she saw another guard getting her stomach pierced through with a long silver spear, before choking blood out from her mouth and collapsing to the floor…she saw another guard getting his head decapitated clear off by a flying disk that had been thrown out of nowhere…and she saw more of her guards getting killed in the most unbearable manners…but what causing all of this? Sonomi could see no one in her sight. It was like some mysterious ghost hungry for blood.
Eventually, all the guards were dead. Sonomi was the only woman left standing.
"Oh, God…" She felt her heart beat like never before, as she began to recoil back in horror from the sight of her slaughtered bodyguards lying on the ground. The blood oozing out from the bodies began forming multiple blood pools which spoiled the greenness of her grass fields. "Oh, God. This has to be some sick joke."
It wasn't…just a second after that, Sonomi saw some shape approaching her in the shadows' darkness. She could see the stomps of its mighty feet splash into the pools of blood and she could hear the soft growling sound it made…then her legs began to shake, when blue electrical energy began sparkling round the shape's body. And slowly, the shape revealed its true form: two black metallic tentacles stretching down to its knees, whipped out from the creature's cheeks. A large shoulder cannon was attached to its right shoulder, and it held the same silver spear Sonomi saw before, only this time covered in blood. Though it was the creature's black devilish horned mask, that simply scared the living daylights out of her.
"Tomoyo-chan?" The creature said to her.
Sonomi immediately turned her back and ran into the house as fast as she could, locking the door behind her.
…
"Sakura!" Touya burst the door open into Tomoyo's room, only to make the children inside scream even louder than before. Behind him was Yukito, who was quicker enough to find out where Sakura was…crouching in the corner of the room beside her bag, dressed in her blue pajamas.
"Sakura, are you okay?" Yukito asked her when he pulled her up on her feet. "Are you hurt anywhere?"
"Iie." She shook her head. But then, Sonomi was seen scrambling into the room in great panic…she slammed the door shut and locked it tight. Tomoyo was surprised to see the scared look on her mother's face. Everyone else just paused.
"DON'T GO OUTSIDE, CHILDREN!" She cried as she sprinted her way to the window and locked them too. "Don't go out there! I've just called the police and they should be here very soon. I want all of you in the meantime to stay right where you are and keep yourselves calm, okay? Everything's going to be just fine."
Wrong…
"THE LIGHTS!!!!!!!" The voice of Naoko suddenly cried out from the dark. "WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LIGHTS?!?!?!?!"
"SOMEBODY'S TURNED THEM OFF!!!!!" Chiharu exclaimed next to Yamazaki, wrapping her arms tight around him.
Sakura and Tomoyo could hear Rika crying. "WHAT'S GOING ON!"
The power in the house had been cut off, and all of Tomoyo's friends were beginning to get upset. Kero, now fed up of hiding in Sakura's bag, flew out and saw what was going on. Yukito, Touya and Sakura were close together just behind him. Tomoyo and her friends were scattered all over the room, while Sonomi was frozen standing in the middle of them like a statue.
"What's going on here?" Kero asked himself. "Why has room suddenly gone all pitch black?"
"Everything's going to be just fine." Sonomi mumbled. "Everything's going to be just fine."
Tomoyo heard glass suddenly shatter behind her, when something enormous crashed right through her window. The children screamed once again half to death. They ran from their positions and gathered together in one corner of the room.
"OH NO, LOOK!!! IT'S GOT TOMOYO!!!!!" Yukito pointed his shaking finger at the big tall shadow entering the room.
Tomoyo, unfortunately, wasn't quick enough to escape from the creature coming up from her back.
"AAAAA!!!!!!! LET GO OF ME!!!!!!!!" It grabbed onto Tomoyo's pink night gown and pulled her back as she tried to run away, and all she could do was scream at the top of her voice. "MOMMY!!!!!!!!"
"TOMOYO!" Sonomi shrieked as she came to her daughter's rescue. "LET HER GO, YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!" She picked up the nearest object she could find: a lamp. Frantically, she whacked the lamp like a baseball bat right into creature's covered face, which made it release its clutches on her daughter.
Tomoyo and her mother quickly ran back to the corner where her friends were waiting for her.
Sonomi's attempted attack on the creature, however, caused no harm on it and it only made it a slightly more annoyed. So after gripping its fearful looking spear with its fingers, it scanned the darkened room with its eyes, searching for the girl it was determined to find. At first, it looked to its left, to see Sonomi, her daughter and the children all packed together, paling before their uninvited visitor. But when it looked to its right, it saw a tall angel and large lion, both with winged, rushing into its direction, ready to attack. The creature took no hesitation to Yue and Kero and simply stretched out its right arm, aiming at them both.
And to Yue's and Kero's surprise, a large net fired out from the creature's arm and trapped them both to the wall. The netting was so tight that none of them were able to move…"UHHHNN!!!!!!!!"…in fact, it electrocuted both, knocking them out at once. And Sakura saw them turn back into their original forms.
"IIIIEEEEE!!!!!!!!!"
Sakura didn't realize that she made a big mistake when she drew the creature's attention with her pointless cry. But Touya stepped into the creature's way as it advanced. Using his fists, he tried to swing at it round the head…the attack missed, and he was soon picked up by the creature and hurled into the wall fiercely, knocking him out instantly.
"SAKURA-CHAN!" Tomoyo's voice screeched when she saw that Sakura was cornered by the creature.
"Clow…Clow…"
Sakura heard it mutter. She was just about to prepare her staff and use her Clow Cards in her pockets…when…
"NO!" A masculine voice yelled at the creature from behind. "You're going to have to fight me first, if you EVER want to get your claws on Sakura."
The creature turned around…to come eye to eye with Syaoran Li.
"SYAORAN!" Sakura gasped in excitement when she saw that Syaoran Li had returned. He was wearing that same green battle costume that Tomoyo had offered him one month ago…
The creature saw that this boy was a just a waste of its time. Without any warning, it threw its flying disk at him, which was going to target right for Syaoran's neck. Syaoran quickly slipped out his sword and sliced the object in half, and surprised the creature.
He then prepared himself for combat. "You're the one who attacked Meiling…and I've just come to return that favor, you cocksucker." He taunted. The creature snarled angrily at what he called him. "So what are you waiting for? Come get me, unless you're too chicken, birdbrain."
The creature couldn't stand Syaoran's smart attitude and swung its spear on him, but Syaoran easily avoided the attack with his quick feet. The creature then gave Syaoran a series of fast swings with its spear, and Syaoran simply blocked all its attacks with his sword. When it was his turn to make some moves, Syaoran jumped forwards and swung his sword upon the creature, but quite surprisingly it too was smart enough to avoid every attack he made. And when the creature saw an instant where Syaoran had just swung his last move leaving him temporarily vulnerable, it used the butt of its spear to knock the sword out of his hands.
Syaoran wasn't giving up there, though. He somersaulted backwards when the creature gave another swing with its spear, and counterattacked with a flying kick right into its face. The creature fell over onto its back…as its black mask went flying off its face and landed right in front of Tomoyo and her friends.
"AAAAAAA!!!!!!!!" They all screamed once more and held onto each other when they saw the creature's lifeless mask, staring back at them.
Sakura saw the creature get back up on its feet in no time at all…but this time, sans his mask. Everyone in the room feasted their eyes upon the hideous and grotesque face of the creature…
"God in Heaven." Tomoyo shook her head and covered her mouth in case she thought she was to about scream unexpectedly. Sonomi simply shut her eyes and fainted at the creature's horrific glance upon her. But Sakura felt a chill running up her spine…when the creature turned and gazed into her face, scowling at her with those yellow beady eyes.
"Clow…" The creature discarded its spear by tossing it away. It took out its right arm, opening up its wrist blade attached to it, and marched furiously towards the Keeper of the Clow Cards.
"BAKA!" Syaoran came running up from behind the creature. But he was punished with his foolish move when the creature quickly turned back on him and slammed him hard in the face its left fist. The impact made Syaoran fall to the ground with a great thump…before blood began to bleed out from his nose. "Iie…"
"GRAAA!!!" The creature then picked up Syaoran before he could fully recover, and fiercely tossed him over into one of Tomoyo's large mirrors on the wall, shattering the glass to pieces. Syaoran was unable to get up anymore…he had received far too many injuries from the sheds of glass.
"Run…Sakura…" Syaoran whispered…before he fell unconscious.
Sakura knew that she was in for it, this time. The creature continued to advance towards her…but then, the strangest thing happened at that moment. The creature halted when it heard the sound of police sirens from outside of the house. The volume grew louder and it somehow warned the creature that something was coming, and perhaps now was not a good time to find out what it was. Sakura saw it turn the opposite direction and look out from the broken window from whence it came. It stared up into the dark blue sky, growling to itself. Then, turning its head to make one last look at Sakura, it suddenly lifted its feet off the ground and shot up high into the sky like a speeding bullet.
The creature had left.
