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- Last Chapter -

"That was awesome Sakura!" Tomoyo cheered, jumping up and hugging her friend.

"Yeah! Now all we need is a beat!" Rika smiled as Sakura giggled and nodded.

"Right!"

- Chapter Six –

Rain cried from the sky in great grape sized tears, the dark clouds blocking out the night sky and gave Downtown Tokyo a gloomy shadow. Soaked streets and the flashing of the neon lights in the windows of shops, no one appeared to be on the street at this time of night. Which was exactly at...

"1 am in the morning?!"

"Be quiet Kero...you want someone to hear you?!"

"Like who?! I'm not seeing anyone!"

"Shut up!" the mistress hissed, pressing her back against the cold stone wall of the alleyway.

"I just love this outfit on you Sakura!" Tomoyo squealed with excitement as she taped Sakura leaning against the wall, with the yellow bear like creature hovering by her left ear.

Sakura's emerald gaze lowered to her own body as she sighed.

"Why am I not surprised?" she mumbled quietly.

The outfit of the night appeared to be a light pink modern Chinese dress, having no sleeves as it buttoned up right under her chin and hug her body all the way down to her waist, where it simply hung slightly loose so when she moved it flowed with her. Underneath the skirt was of course built in shorts, have to be able to move when dealing with things like she always did. On her feet she sported light purple boots that came all the way up to where the dress ended, only being 3 inches between the too. Draped over her shoulders was a light purple cape that clasped right in the front, the clip being a crescent moon. Sakura currently had her hood up to keep her head dry.

She sighed slightly as she tugged at the 'gloves' that were on her hands. They didn't have the finger holes and held on by the top of her knuckles, but there was a hole for her thumb. They were tiny fishnets with a pink lining at the top along her knuckles and by her wrist.

"Are you sure it was here?" Kero hissed, flying over to Tomoyo and perched himself on her shoulder, seeing how she had an umbrella.

"Positive" Sakura replied, raising the star staff up to her body and drew it close to herself, peering out of the alleyway.

"There" she whispered to herself before looking back over to the other two.

"You two stay here; it's not safe for you..."

Tomoyo pouted but nodded.

"Hey! What about me?! I'm the Guardian Beast don't forget!" Kero scowled at her, but the teen shook her head.

"No Kero...don't worry about me" she said with a smirk before stepping out of the alleyway and dashed across the street, into another alleyway.

Running down it, she clutched the staff in her hand tighter as she spotted a door just ahead of her.

She came to a stop, her feet sliding along the concrete due to the wetness of it as she glared at the door, her leg coming up and kicked the door open.

Complete darkness filled the room, as she walked inside, all her other senses on alert. The sound of her heartbeat and her footsteps filled her head. It smelled like aging rust and she couldn't see a single thing in front of her.

Raising her other hand, she lowered her hood as she continued looking around.

Magic reeked the place, she could sense it. After lowering her hood, she then moved her hand down to the clasp and quickly undid it, letting the soggy cape fall soundlessly to the ground.

But already things suddenly changed within the room, she could feel it.

Gazing around her once more, she then slowly closed her eyes. Sakura had always found it easier to pin point something when she concentrated on it hard enough.

There.

Her eyes snapped open, her gaze narrow as she starred straight out in front of her, as if someone was there.

Snapping her staff out of her side, she felt it change form and soon she was clutching the sword as the door behind her slammed shut, leaving her in the darkness with the thing.

Like she was scared...

Starting off on her right foot, Sakura started running straight foreword, her eyes locked on what was right in front of her. Finally, she pushed herself up and off of the ground and into the air, the sword swinging around and nearly made contact with the blackness but in a second she sensed that it had moved.

Landing on the ground, she knelt down into a crouch, the wings appearing on her shoes as she leaped again, flying backwards and did a back flip before landing again on her feet.

It was right in front of her again.

Leaping foreword, she slashed the sword against it, and it recoiled to her right.

Turning in mid air, she quickly landed before running at it again, missing a few times but struck many times.

Stopping to catch her breath, the sword then transformed back into staff and it glowed with an eerie yet warming white glow.

Raising the staff into the air, the glow then grew bright as it fell to the ground like fog and began filling up the space.

But it wasn't fast enough.

A bone chilling force had tackled her to the ground, knocking the staff out of her hands and it clattered on the ground as it slid along.

With her arms pinned down beside her, Sakura dared to look up to what was holding her down.

And immediately she wished that she hadn't.

She could see the faint outline of a skull beneath the hood almost.

She let out a scream and started to struggle but it held her down, its coldness seeping into her body like water.

She had somehow managed to lift up her right hand, palm facing towards it as she struggled to slam her hand up.

A pink glow outlined her hand and as soon as he brushed her fingers against the 'neck' of the creature, it flew backwards and landed in a heap 10 feet away from her.

Sitting up quickly, she then crawled quickly over to her staff and picked it up, throwing her arm up into the air with it in her hand.

"LIGHT!" she screamed as light exploded into the room, lighting up every corner there was.

Quickly drawing her hand down, Sakura then glared at the cloaked being.

Transforming the star staff back into a sword she then started to run towards it.

The figure quickly turned away and started to creep away but Sakura was too close.

Raising the sword into the air, she then stabbed the hem of the cloak, stopping it.

Smirking, she watched at it looked back to her as she held the sword down firmly.

"Gotcha"

Pulling the tip of the sword away, it turned back into the staff and she pointed it to the figure.

Reaching into her pocket, she then pulled out a card and tossed it to the ground.

"Return" she ordered.

It raised its arms into the air before it seemed to turn into black smoke, rising up into the air and slammed into the card, disappearing within it.

The card then rose into the air and flew towards her other hand as Sakura lowered the staff and caught the card with the other.

Looking down to it, she sighed.

The Shadow.

She gazed around the room, it was nothing special really, an old warehouse.

But the skull that she had saw.

That wasn't The Shadow.

Something was tampering with the Clow Cards.

Not good.

Picking up the cloak from the ground, she opened the door and walked back out into the alleyway, letting the rain soak her hair.

It felt good.

She was just about at the edge of the alleyway when she stopped, turning around quickly and looked around the alleyway.

Something was there.

She clutched the staff tighter as she concentrated to figure out where exactly, but as soon as it had come, it was gone.

Crap.

Sighing, she wiped her forehead slightly before turning again and dashed across the road and met up with Kero and Tomoyo.

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Short? Yes

Any good? I think so

Action packed? COMPLETELY! XD

Well, it's a start, like I said, romance takes a while to start up, but action comes and goes!

If you are interested in some NON fanfictions, then you can head over to and check out my latest...er...story that isn't very far yet seeing how I'm spending more time on the two stories here. But I'd love ya if you at least checked it out! :3 (M.Parker is the pin name of course)

Anyways, you all might not be pleased with this chapter, but I'm thinking this is one of my best yet! WHOO!

So...who was the mysterious force Sakura felt in the alleyway? And who exactly is tampering with the Clow Cards?

I'm not telling! Mwahaha!

Until next time...

M.Parker.