AUTHOR'S NOTES:

Enjoy!!

MICHELLE'S POV:

She screamed as she unleashed her power. She could feel the dark energy of her rage course through her mind. And she could feel an inner demon coming up from the depths of her soul. In an instant, the darkness snapped Hao's link to her mind.

Let me out!!

No! This is my mind!! Go away!!

I helped you get rid of Hao, now.. LET… ME… OUT!!!!

NO!!!

Michelle fought hard against the hate that writhed in her soul, wanting to come out, and confined them in the darkest depths of her mind.

At that moment, Ren and Horohoro burst in.

"What the Hell happened mmph-"

"MICHELLE-CHAN!! Are you allright?!"

She smiled weakly at the both of them.

"I'm sorry, I had a nightmare… Yes, a nightmare… I'm sorry if I disturbed you with my screams…"

She said feebly. Horohoro nodded while Ren looked pissed.

"You mean to tell me I woke up at 1 in the morning over a damn nightmare?! I'm going back to sleep."

Horohoro tried to grin at the brown-haired girl.

"Well, I hope that you don't have any more um… nighmares…"

He said lamely. She smiled at him, and watched him shut the door. Then she looked at her two hands, and called up her power. Tendrils of white swirled around her palms.

Good. I still have control over some of my powers. But I wonder what 'that' was…

She could still hear the whispers of the dark voice in her head. She shook her head to make them go away, and tried to go back to sleep. She would think more about it in the morning.

HAO'S POV:

"NNGH!!"

Hao groaned as he slid down from the wall of the cave. Michelle's psychic blast, although so far away, still had enough force to throw him hard up against the stone.

"My Master… Are you all right?"

Daisuke helped his master up.

"I'm fine. Daisuke… It looks like she's more powerful than I thought. However, I did see something in her mind that I thought was most interesting."

Daisuke nodded.

"Without you, it seems that she is unable to fully control her abilities. Did you help her with her abilities when you were with her?"

The boy nodded and then answered like a drone.

"When she and I first came into this different world, I discovered that she had amnesia. So, I surpressed some of her powers, using it for my own, thus allowing her only a small bit of control."

Hao pondered this.

"So if you were to back to her, she would have complete control over her power?"

"No. I would still be able to control the dark emotions of her heart."

"And then you could defeat her and bring her to me?"

"Yes my master."

"Then Go!"

As Hao watched Daisuke start off, and began to rub a poltice on the bruises that began to appear on his shoulders and back.

"Didn't I tell you not to fail Hao?"

Hao shuddered at the voice of his employer.

"…..…"

Hao stared at the dusty ground of the cavern floor awaiting his punishment.

"Didn't I?"

The figure started to laugh from the shadows- a very, very, deep and evil sound. Hao looked up in surprise.

"That's what I get for employing such useless human shaman. Incompetent worm. Die."

Quickly, the figure whipped out the hugest sword and flung it at Hao's head. Hao gasped and ducked- the blade missed him by an inch.

Turning, he began to run from the cave. Running through the meadow outside, he made quite a lot of noise. He couldn't hear the figure behind him, but he knew from past experience, that his former employer could quite literally 'fly'.

"Now, now Hao, I don't think that you should make this harder for yourself…"

Skidding to a stop, Hao looked around him for the voice.

SLISH

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!"

The night reverberated with Hao's scream of agony. The figure smiled evilly and licked the blood that stained his clawed hands.

"And that was the end for my little pawn…"

Then the figure turned and left.

HAO'S POV:

Am I dead…………..?

It hurts so much………….

No… don't bring me back to the world… don't wake me up………………………………

He awoke to see the tear-stained face of Sakura above him.

"Master Hao!! You are awake!!"

She screamed in delight and squeezed him in a tight hug.

"Ow… That hurts Sakura…chan…"

She flinched again at his nick name for her, but released him.

"You were nearly dead Master!! Who did such a thing to you?"

Hao thought for awhile… He couldn't remember…

"I… I don't know…"

Sakura looked sharply at him.

"Master? How could you not know? Was it that boy that I brought back?"

She transformed into her fighting outfit, sakura petals floating around her.

"Shall I kill him?"

"No… it was not him… ow… I can't look down Sakura-chan. Why does my body hurt?"

Sakura looked down at his severed arm, and tears began to drip down her face.

"I'll have to take you back to fairyland to heal you Master… Would that be all right?"

Her question rang upon deaf ears, for Hao had already drifted into unconsciousness from blood loss.

Sakura sighed, and her tears swirled around her with her petals as she teleported back to her world.

KITTY'S NYA NOTES:

>How was that? i hope it wasn't lame...

>Um... this story is branching off into so many different things. I was considering making the chapter after this a huge one about how Hao meets all of Sakura's admirers in Fairyland, but let's save that for another side fic of this one hmm?

>well, plz review!!