Yeah! Welcome to my final chapter!! I'll bet you're really sad, huh? *cough, cough*, right, sure u r! Anyway, I wanna thank all that reviewed and all that read my last 12 chapters...sorry this story has taken so long, as well...I've been EXTREMELY busy! Ok, on to the story now!
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"..." spoken words
*...* thoughts
~~~~~~~~~ scene changes/flashbacks (won't be too many flashbacks)
(...) Authors Notes
Disclaimer: CCS belongs is ©Clamp, ok! I've made it clear that I DON'T own them, so don't sue!
last paragraph of chapter 12: (so this flows, k?)
""Syaoran," Sakura whispered, "What's wrong with you?"
"....." no response.
Sakura frowned and became slightly annoyed. So she jabbed Syaoran in the side with her elbow.
"Ouch!" he let out, "What was that for?!"
Sakura smiled, happy to finally have his attention.
"I asked you a question," pretending he remembered it, or even heard it.
"Uh, Ok, what's the question?" he sarcastically replied.
"I asked you what was wrong with you...so, what was?" she asked, crossing her arms.
Syaoran thought of a response.
"I think I know a way to stop him Sakura...but I'm gonna need everyone's help, got it?""
~The Untold Story ~
Chapter 13: The End?
Sakura blankly stared at her husband for a moment, then nodded.
"Ok then Syaoran, what's your plan?" she asked assertively.
Syaoran smiled and moved closer to Sakura, as if telling her a secret.
Sakura nodded every once and a while and smiled after he was finished.
"Syaoran, that just might work...but how are we supposed to let everyone know about this when we're all scattered about?" asked Sakura, crossing her arms for 'protection'.
Syaoran scratched his head and looked around.
"Uh, I was hoping you could help me with that one, Sakura," he responded, still scratching his chestnut head.
Sakura sweat-dropped. (-_-')
"I thought you had this all planned out!" she cried, just as 'The Next Transformation' began.
'Touya' looked over in Sakura and Syaoran's direction and spotted them fighting.
"You two!" he screamed as he pointed in their direction, "Shut up already! I'm trying to get something done and you're over here yelling and screaming like a couple of psychotic retards!!"
Sakura and Syaoran stopped arguing and turned to face the imposter.
"I know you're not my brother." Sakura stated simply.
'Touya' crossed his arms.
"Hmm, oh really and what makes you say that, monster?" he asked, trying to be as much like Touya as possible.
Sakura became red faced (~_~')
"DON'T CALL ME THAT, YOU GAKI!" she cried, huffing and puffing hard, trying to regain her composer.
'Touya' jumped a little at her tone, but then smiled evilly.
"What is so funny, baka?!" she asked, a little more calmly, now remembering that this was not her real brother.
The cheat laughed.
"Why you are, Card Mistress....and you're right, I am not your brother...But, can you guess what I am?" he responded, again smiling evilly.
Sakura's gaze hardened as she examined the man; then she remembered the mark on his neck.
"You're a demon," she simply stated.
"You're half right Mistress, I am a demon...But I am something else as well...hahaha!
Sakura looked at Syaoran who was whispering something to Eric, Ceroberos and Misty.
"Syaoran," she said lightly hitting him, "if he's only half demon, what else could he possibly be?"
He looked at her and thought momentarily.
"Sakura....close your eyes and try to sense something..." he said, getting off her question's subject.
Sakura looked at him quizzically.
"But what for?"
"Just trust me Sakura...try it and tell me what you sense."
Sakura sighed (^-^') and closed her emerald eyes. For a moment she felt nothing unusual, in fact, she felt nothing but the demon's magic.
Just then her eyes shot open.
*Wait...the demon has...magic?? But that would mean he's....*
Sakura gasped and looked at her husband again.
"Syaoran, is he a Clow Card????" she whispered.
Syaoran had already sensed it before, but tried once more to make sure. Then he nodded his head unenthusiastically.
"Maybe not a CLOW Card...but possibly something that Clow Reed created."
"But Clow Reed's dead, Syaoran...Unless he planned this WAY before I even existed, then...." she paused.
"What Sakura?" he asked, confused.
"Syaoran, that means that Eriol has something to do with this. I sense Clow Reed's magic! So if it's not a Clow Card, then maybe it's a different kind of card....."
Sakura thought for a moment before hearing Syaoran's input in her theory.
"Sakura, you're right...Clow's magic is in him, I can feel it...But why would Eriol want the Sakura Cards? I mean that's why this baka is here in the first place, to take the Cards and Misty's and Eric's powers."
"I'm not positive, but I honestly don't think that Eriol wants their magic or the Sakura Cards...He's already immensely powerful and has enough magic to make any cards he...wants....Wait a minuet! Syaoran, this thing is a card...but what kind of card I'm not sure."
"What makes you say that Sakura?"
"Well, if Clow's magic created it, and it's not only a demon, then the only other logical explanation would be that it's some kind of a magical card."
Syaoran rubbed his chin, nodded and looked over at the demon, who was 'threatening' Ceroberos and Eric for constantly arguing with him.
"LION AND ANNOYING CHILDREN, BE SILENT NOW OR YOU SHALL REGRET IT IN A MOMENTS TIME!" cried an agitated demon.
Ceroberos was willing to be a little more subtle since he ran out of things to say, but Eric and Misty weren't finished yet; they wanted to annoy this thing long enough for Sakura and Syaoran to come up with a plan.
Syaoran smiled and looked back at Sakura.
"Sakura, my plan will work. I've already gotten Misty, Eric and Ceroberos in on the beginning; now, let's begin the next part." he said, quickly glancing back at the group of 'annoyances'.
Sakura looked in their direction as well and noticed the demon becoming more and more red faced (~_~') every second.
"Syaoran, if we're going to do this, we better start now; who knows what the thing will do to get them to shut up," said Sakura, worriedly.
Just as Sakura predicted, the demon lashed out a large stream of magic directly at Eric. He managed to push Misty out of the way, but before he had the time to move himself, the magic struck him, hard. Hard enough to where he flew about twenty feet from the group. Luckily, Meiling hadn't seen what happened because she was busy tending to Mika. Misty looked in his direction timidly, then turned back to the demon, scowling.
"You will pay for that you wicked creature from the depths of Hell!"
The demon just smiled.
"Bring it on little girl." (AN: ok, yeah that's a little retarded, but I'm trying all right ^^')
Misty became angrier than she had been when Eric was flung backward. She glanced back there one more time to make sure he was all right and found Madison tending to him. Then she turned her attention back at the demon and glared once more.
"No one calls me 'little girl', you baka. You'll be sorry you ever said that."
The demon laughed once more.
"We'll just see about that; C'mon! Let's get this over with."
With a flick of his wrist, a long, black staff with a glowing, red ball on top appeared in his hands.
Misty held out the Star Key and chanted the incantation to release it:
* *
* Key of the stars, *
* with powers burning bright *
* reveal the staff, *
* and shine your light! *
* Release! *
* *
As the light dimmed down a little and staff grew from the key, Misty grabbed it, keeping her irate, emerald eyes fixed upon the imp.
Before the demon had time to call upon his dark powers, Misty closed her eyes for a minuet, then shot them open again just as a large lightning bolt came out of no where and struck him, making him collapse and his hidden interior revealed. (AN: his disguise as Touya vanished and he returned to his original form)
"You are pretty strong for someone who has had their powers only a short time, but I would expect nothing less from the daughter of the Card Mistress and a Li Clan leader. But you have not shaken me, for it will be harder than using measly lightning bolts and the three cards you've captured to defeat me."
Misty looked at him quizzically and raised an eyebrow.
"Are you saying that you give up?"
The demon smirked.
"No, of course not. But it would be a waste of my time to defeat someone who can only throw worthless lightning bolts and has underdeveloped powers."
Misty puckered her brow, ready to lunge at him at any given time. Sakura walked over to Misty and faced the fiend. She focused her eyes on him then whispered,
"Time"
Just as the last letter was spoken, the entire room became still and everyone except Misty, Eric, Sakura, and Syaoran remained frozen in time.
Misty looked at her mother in awe.
"Mom, h-how did you do that?!"
Sakura side-glanced at her daughter and smiled as she held up the Time Card.
Misty smiled back.
"But where did you get that one? I never captured anything called 'Time'." stated a confused Misty.
"I'll explain after you seal this card, ok." she said, glancing at the frozen demon.
Misty raised an eyebrow,
"THAT is a Sakura Card?? But which one?" exclaimed Misty, pointing at the motionless imp.
Just as Misty finished he question, Li walked over.
"No, this is not a Sakura Card. It's from a deck called 'The Dark Cards',"
"Oh, ok, but which card is it?" Misty asked.
"I-It's the D-Demon C-Card," replied a weary voice from behind the family.
Misty turned to see Eric, limping toward them with an agonizing expression on his injured face.
"Misty, hurry and seal it before 'Time' wears off," said Sakura anxiously, as she took hold of Eric and held him up for support.
"But don't I have to weaken it first?" she asked, looking around at the group of individuals.
"You u-used the T-Time, that's w-weakening it; c-capture it n-now!" replied a stuttering Eric, who was resting on Sakura for assistance.
Misty turned her gaze from her injured friend and back to the motionless demon standing before them.
*Well, here goes nothing*
"Demon Card, return to you powers confined; Dark Card!"
Just as the incantation finished, 'Time' had run out and the demon's agonizing screams could be heard throughout the building as swirls of black and gray beams joined together and formed into a rectangular shape that hovered before Misty.
*I-I can't believe I did it...* she thought, quite stunned as she grabbed the black card before her.
Sakura and Syaoran looked at each other then around and smiled brightly as the people that had disappeared began to return, bewildered and confused.
"Congratulations Misty....You passed 'The Next Transformation'," stated a deep, husky voice from behind the green-eyed teen.
Everyone turned around and spotted Eriol, smiling happily with the rest of the group standing behind him. (AN: by 'the rest of the group' I mean Meiling, Mika, Kero, Tomoyo, etc)
"Eriol...Did you do all this?" Sakura asked, skeptically.
Eriol smiled (AN: you know that impish smile he has ^^')
"Yes Sakura, I did," he simply said.
"But why? What was the point?" asked Syaoran, who was just as confused as the lost and found people wondering about the, once again, packed mall.
Eriol continued to smile.
"Why Syaoran, you should know the answer to that question, for I did the same with Sakura after she transformed the Clow Cards."
Sakura searched her memory to find what scene Eriol was talking about; when she remembered it.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~FLASHBACK~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Eriol?! You're the one that's been causing all of this trouble for Tomeda? But why Eriol?!" asked a very surprised Sakura.
Eriol smiled impishly.
"Must you ask, Sakura? I was destined to test you, you know. And why? Well, Clow had to make sure you were worthy enough and powerful enough to control the cards and have them live off of your magic instead of his own. And then again, why not? You were tested to become the Clow Mistress, were you not? It was the same circumstances there as well as now."
(AN: ok, so that might not be the EXACT dialogue, but give me a break! It's been a while since I saw that Card Captors Ep.)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~END OF FLASHBACK~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sakura's eyes widened.
"So this was kind of like a...test for her?"
Eriol widened his playful grin.
"Right Sakura...you never cease to amaze me."
Sakura blushed a little at that comment. (AN: no ideas please! Eriol is not getting together with Sakura and Sakura is not leaving Syaoran for Eriol, got it? GOOD!)
As Eriol, Sakura and Syaoran continued to talk, Eric glanced over at Misty.
"Good job, Misty. I knew you could pull it off."
Misty blushed a little then looked over at Eric and smiled her dazzling smile. This made Eric blush, too. (AN: it's a blush fest!)
Then, the flying, metallic feline Sparkle flew away from her position with Meiling and Mika over to Eric and Misty.
"He's right you know," said Sparkle, who had flown up just in time to hear what Eric had said.
"You did an awesome job, Misty, and you didn't even need my help! And I'm the guardian! But I guess I'll be able to help you capture the rest of the Sakura Cards and- -"
"WHAT?! You mean I have to keep doing this??"
Sparkle was a little blown away by the sudden out burst but regained her composer and flew to Misty to land on her shoulder.
"Well, yes. But you don't have to worry about it, Misty. You've got plenty of help."
A confused look crossed her face.
"Besides you, mom and dad, who else do I have?"
Sparkle smiled, as well as a cat can smile.
"Well, for one, you've got Eric here; you two make a pretty good team."
Both teens blushed at this comment as Sparkle continued.
"Then there's Eriol, which will be a huge help, then Yue, Kero-chan, Meiling and even your real Uncle Touya."
Misty looked questioningly at the glittery feline.
"Uncle Touya? But he doesn't have magic."
"Well, he used to have it, therefore he could help you manage it...and help you understand all of this magic stuff, if no one else can explain it."
Misty smiled to herself then looked at her mother and father who were arguing with Eriol about this 'Next Transformation' thing. She just sighed (^-^') and shook her head.
"Hey...uh, Misty? Is that you?"
Misty turned and came face to face with a blonde teenage girl that had stunning silvery eyes.
"LESLIE?"
The blonde girl backed up when she heard her name.
"Hmm, I guess that is you, huh?"
Misty cringed when she looked her friend over: her usually neat, blonde hair was frizzy and sticking out in all directions. Her silvery eyes were red and bloodshot. She looked really tired.
"Leslie! Are you all right?" she cried running to the aid of her found friend.
"What? Oh yeah I guess I'm ok, I'm just a little *yawn* tired that's all...have you seen Terri anywhere?"
Misty frowned slightly.
"No Leslie, I haven't; I was hoping she'd be with - -"
"Oh, there you guys are, I've been looking everywhere for you...who's the guy?"
Everyone looked over in Eric's direction, which made him a tad nervous...and when he's nervous (you guessed it) he blushes.
"Oh, that's Eric." Misty stated simply.
Leslie and Terri smiled mischievously at each other and then back at Misty.
"So is he your boyfriend, Mist? Or do you just have a crush on him?" asked Terri, playfully.
Misty sweat-dropped (-_-')
"No, no! It's not like either of those, he's just a friend ok!"
The two girls giggled.
"OK, I think I'll wait 'til tomorrow to tease you, right now, I'm exhausted; could you walk us home Misty?" asked Leslie as she yawned and rubbed her weary, chrome-colored eyes.
Misty smiled.
"Sure, but how about I get my Mom and Dad to drive us, okay?"
"Sounds good to me," the girls said in unison as Misty walked away, following Eric.
"Hey Eric," said Misty, gently tapping his arm.
Eric turned and faced her.
"Yeah?"
"T-Thank you," she said, nervously.
Eric blushed.
"For what? I should be thanking you."
Misty smiled a little as she moved her gaze to her shoes.
"Thank you for helping me out. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have even gotten the first card."
Eric turned more crimson at this statement, just as Misty moved closer and gave him a hug. (AN: ^^' sorry, I couldn't resist!)
Eric suddenly became ridged and turned so red steam could have some out of his ears.
Misty quickly released her grip on him and strolled past him to Sakura and Syaoran, as Leslie and Terri giggled happily at Eric's red face.
Soon after everyone had gotten reacquainted and set straight, the group of buds decided that it was time for them to part ways...that is, for now. ^^'
~~~~~THE END~~~~~
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Well, that's the end of this fic. YEAH! I finally finished it!! Writing with a writer's block is not easy ppl! Believe me!! Well, I hope you enjoyed my last chapter! If I get enuff reviews and emails from ppl, I MIGHT do a sequel! (Bet you're thrilled about that one, huh? *LOL*)
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