Predator 2
By Charles Xavier
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It must have been several hours now since she left her friends. Sakura flew across acres of green forests in the countryside of Japan…holding her staff in her left hand, and Syaoran's sword on the other, still searching for the creature that wanted her head.
"Where can it be?" Sakura muttered, looking down closely at the trees and lakes. "I swore I heard something suspicious around here somewhere." The only creatures she could see were the ones of nature…deer, owls, frogs, fish, fireflies…but nothing out of the ordinary.
Until…
"Clow!" The devilish voice spoke out from the trees…and before Sakura could take any action, she felt two metallic pairs of tentacles fasten round her legs. They pulled her down into the forest, where the creature was standing.
"AAAAA!!!!" Sakura squealed as the creature's tentacles threw her about the place, hitting her hard against the solid wood of the trees. She heard the creature's thunderous roar as it whacked her around more and more…until finishing her off by throwing her bruised up body into a small shallow lake with a splash.
"Arrrr…" The creature marched towards the lake to see if its opponent was either still alive or had bitten the dust. Obviously, the former was the correct answer, and it had expected it. Sakura jumped right out of the lake as the creature made a big leap back. She landed right onto her feet, directly in front of the creature, and prepared herself to take out another Clow Card. But just when she could have, the creature hastily aimed its shoulder cannon onto Sakura's left arm. Targeting the red dots on her moving shoulder, and it fired a bright blue fireball at it…only to miss slightly. Instead, the shot had managed to scrape Sakura's arm severely, making her drop her staff and clutch her fatal wound.
"UUHNNN!!!!!!" Sakura went down on one knee, as her arm began to spurt out some blood. However, she made an effort to stretch over for her staff, lying a few inches away from her. The creature stomped over to the staff and picked it up before she could reach it. It stared demonically at her and simply threw the useless stick away into one of the bushes close by…it made Sakura most annoyed. "SHINEEEE!" She screamed out in rage, stood up, and was about to slice down the creature's head in half with Syaoran's sword…but alas, the creature caught the blade between its two of fingers before it could strike its head. Sakura struggled to push the sword downwards onto the creature, but its resistance was too strong for her to overcome. The creature fought back by slapping Sakura hard in the face with one its tentacles, making her disarm her sword, which fell into the other tentacle's grip.
"IIEE!!!" Syaoran's sword went flying into the shallow lake behind her and sank to the bottom…Sakura had no more weapons to fight with. The only thing she was able to do now was dodge every attack her deadly foe was about to make. It armed its wrist blade and charged full on towards her. Sakura swiftly moved leftwards and rightwards, jumped and ducked, somersaulted and flipped, and tried her best to predict every move that the creature was going to make upon her. She also thanked herself for all the gym lessons she had taken in school, because they seriously helped her in this tough situation…but it soon proved to be not enough to outsmart the creature. For after a minute of skilful dodging, Sakura began to run out of steam…and it made her much more open for attack. The creature at last got its luck by swinging its sharp blades across Sakura's right leg, tearing off part of her clothing and her skin. "AAAA!!!!!" Sakura fell down on one knee once again, and this time, the creature gave her no time to recover.
It swung back its left fist and uppercut her up her face, making her fly backwards and crash land onto the muddy ground. Sakura, a little knocked up from the blow, tried to get up again. The creature got to her first, though, and lifted her up by the collars of her shirt…and sneered at her.
"Baka…" Sakura said when she looked disgustedly at her enemy. She rudely spat into the creature's eye with saliva mixed with blood. The creature roared savagely at her…
"RAAAAAA!!!!!" …and paid its respects back by head butting her face several times…until it was convinced that she had enough. It then threw her back into the lake with yet another splash.
The beaten up Sakura sank down to the bottom of the lake, half unconscious. For a moment, her mind was asking her why she was risking her life and limb in this endless fight…it seemed like a blur to her for a few moments…but then, she knew the reason: she had to show these alien hunters just how strong the Keeper of the Clow Cards really is. And if she ever wanted to prove that, she had to overcome this battle and slay their Clan Leader…
So she fiddled her hands around the sand and soil on the bed of the lake, searching for anything that she could hold onto and use on the creature when it was going to pick her up again. And to her delight, she did in fact find something…Syaoran's sword. By the time she got her hand upon it, she heard the creature's tentacles dive into the lake and curl around her neck. The poor girl began choking for air as she was quickly taken out from the water and brought back face to face with the creature once again. The creature began tightening its grip round Sakura's neck, hoping to make the girl suffer a slow death. But it didn't seem to notice Sakura's right arm wrapped around her back, where she was secretly holding Syaoran's sword firmly in her hand.
"Clow…Clow!...CLOW!!!!!!" The creature screeched. Sakura instantly took out her sword and stabbed the creature right into the center of its heart. "RAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Sakura was dropped from its clutches and watched the creature stagger back screaming like crazy, with the sword stuck deep into its chest. She got on her feet and limped towards the creature, taking the sword's handle. She pulled it out at once, ignoring the creature's green blood splattering onto her face and body, and gave all of she had left…she sliced the sword around its neck, decapitating its head off completely.
The headless creature collapsed to the ground.
Looking down at the fallen monster, Sakura dropped her sword with relief, and fell onto her bottom panting… "Yadda…" She whispered, wiping the sweat off her forehead. "…yadda."
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A few minutes had flown by. She could hear the crickets of the night, making their noisy chirps around her. The wind had stopped blowing and Sakura could no longer feel it. She looked up at the bright full moon…and realized just what a wonderful night it was to be in this nature. There was no longer going to be anymore fighting around these areas…there was nothing else more that Sakura could worry about tonight…she just wanted to sit back and relax right where she was.
But then, a giant spotlight shone onto her from above. Sakura looked up to see an odd shaped spacecraft descending down into the forest near her. It landed softly onto the grass, and the main door opened up slowly. At first, nothing seemed to be coming out of the ship, except fumes of white smoke…but from out of nowhere, several masked aliens uncloaked themselves and stepped out, surrounding Sakura, who saw that these aliens were of the same kind that she had just killed. But these seemed to look more like warriors and normal hunters, as they were dressed differently and not as well armed with weapons like the Clan Leader. And none of them had tentacles sticking out from their cheeks.
The aliens gathered round Sakura and lifted her up by her tired arms. Sakura struggled to free herself from the aliens' grip at once. But then she saw what she thought looked like the High Priest, making its way out of the ship towards her with a couple of unmasked aliens following from behind. The High Priest, unlike the other aliens around it, was armed with some deadly looking sword in its hands. Sakura became frightened now and shut her eyes tight…it seemed like the aliens were just about to make an act of execution upon their Clan Leader's killer.
But then again, looks were deceiving.
Sakura opened her eyes after a few silent moments, and saw that the High Priest was in fact offering the sword to her. It knelt down on its knees, and presented its offering upon its open hands and its head bowed down to her. Sakura timidly reached her arm out for the sword and took it by the handle, picking it right off from the High Priests' hands…she looked at the sword closely, and saw that it was an ancient Samurai sword, engraved with Japanese words on the shiny silver blade.
The unmasked aliens went to pick up the Clan Leader's head and body and carried it back to the ship. The High Priest turned its back on Sakura without uttering a word, and returned back into the ship along with the other aliens, who cloaked themselves up again and silently followed. The door of the ship closed up, the ship began to lift itself off from the ground…and it disappeared into the stars in space.
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Sakura went to retrieve Syaoran's sword, and her staff sticking out from a bush. And she simply sat by the lake, laying back on the green grass and looking at the Samurai sword she held in her hands…it was beautiful. She couldn't believe that this was all over now…the Clan Leader had been killed…and the aliens had now at last learned that they could never claim power over the cards made by Clow Reed…because they were too scared of the one that protected them.
"They are an alien race from a distant planet…who believe themselves far superior than mankind. And therefore, we mean nothing to them but a sport… They do follow a very strict code of honor…they challenge other dangerous enemies…they believe in an art rooted in the trials of combat and courting of death…and I've learned that they have been coming to this planet for centuries."
Sakura couldn't help now but smile joyously…she even began to giggle to herself, as she imagined the faces upon those aliens back home when they would hear that their Clan Leader got beaten by a little Japanese girl.
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The End
