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Syaoran's Angels
Chapter 26: Dark Things

Previously on Syaoran's Angels…

"Dark forces, grant my vessel strength, endurance and invulnerability. She shall triumph whilst others fall. She shall defeat all. She shall be all mighty, all powerful. Let her be strong and wrathful. Let her wield the darkest powers known to man. Until this day ends and night reign supreme, my vessel Lara William shall be invincible… So mote it be."


"Lara… she's…" Sakura searched for the right term, "Powerful. She threw a punch and it knocked me across the room. Her eyes and hair are all black… it's like she's been possessed and when Ruflac showed up…"


"RUFLAC?!?" Tomoyo gasped, "Oh god, how many people are coming back for revenge?"

"Ruflac's bodyguards… I think were all killed… by her and they had guns with them," Sakura paused to allow them to digest this piece of information, "They were dead… their necks broken… and she and Ruflac kissed and it was like he was possessed as well. He tried to kill me with a blast of dark energy, I dodged it but it took a good chunk out of the wall."

Zachary, Chelsea, Meiling and Tomoyo stared at Sakura.

"Are you sure?" Tomoyo asked gently.

Sakura smiled wryly.

"I've got the wounds to prove it."

"Oh god," Chelsea whispered, "But how?"

"Isn't that the million dollar question?" Meiling muttered.

"How do we deal with them?" Zachary demanded, "What…"

Before he could continue, the door to the safe house swung open as everybody froze. Sakura clutched her Star wand tightly as the sound of footsteps floated to their ears.

Meiling jumped up out of her seat as she shifted into a battle stance ready to attack, the footsteps faded as someone appeared at the doorway of the living room.

The Angels eyes widened in shock.

Sakura gasped as she stared at the familiar face.

"Xiaolang?" she choked.


"Void card?" Kiyone stared at Nivaline in confusion, "Okay… huh?"

"The Void card," Nivaline looked around, her hazel eyes cautious and worried, "The most powerful magical being ever created and the most deadliest as well."

"Okay…" Kiyone was still lost, "Void card bad huh?"

Nivaline nodded.

"A world of trouble," she commented before smiling wryly, "If it hasn't destroyed the earth in the meantime."

"You have a weird sense of humour," Kiyone informed her.

Nivaline laughed before she remembered the great danger they were in and sobered up instantly.

"So what now?" Kiyone asked surveying the immense structural damage.

"Well… the Angels are gone…" Nivaline began.

"And they're obviously in danger…" Kiyone paused, "They'll going into hiding…"

The two ex-Angels stared at each other.

"The safe house!"

They both rushed for the door, which was wide open having obviously been battered several times judging by the deep dent in the wood.

"Wait!" Kiyone stopped running as Nivaline came to a screeching halt beside her.

"What?" she demanded annoyed.

"Car!" Kiyone stared at Nivaline, "We need a car! The safe house is on the outskirts of L.A., there is no way in hell I'm walking or running there! We'll make it there by night probably at that rate."

Nivaline paused as she realised Kiyone was right.

"Damn," she thought for a few seconds, "Taxi?"

Kiyone was also deep in thought but a wicked smile appeared on her face as she glanced past Nivaline's shoulders and noticed the row of the parked cars that stood beside the street curbs outside.

"I've got a plan."

Nivaline was slightly uncomfortable at the downright predatory grin as Kiyone's face. She turned around as she followed the woman's line of view until she saw what Kiyone was smiling about.

She gulped.

"Oh man," she groaned as she followed Kiyone.

"Oh don't be a coward," Kiyone grinned strolling up to an expensive-looking sports car.

Nivaline sighed as Kiyone took off the jacket she was wearing and wrapped it around her hand. Quickly glancing down the street and satisfied that not too many people were around, she cocked back her fist and punched the glass.

"KWISH!"

It shattered raining glass chips down onto the upholstery inside as the alarm went off, blaring loudly. Kiyone shoved her hand inside and unlocked the door, throwing the door open she reached inside and punched the area just beneath the steering wheel, a plastic hatch popped open revealing a massive tangle of brightly coloured wires. Obviously an expert, Kiyone picked two out and snapped them in half. Nivaline watched the startled pedestrians nervously as Kiyone touched the exposed ends to each other and to Nivaline's amazement the car alarm stopped and the engine suddenly roared into life.

Brushing glass off the driver's seat, Kiyone turned to Nivaline.

"What're you waiting for?" she asked wickedly, "Jump in!"

Nivaline sighed and walked around the car. Opening the door she jumped into the front seat, Kiyone slid into driver's seat gingerly knowing glass chips were still embedded into the fabric.

"Let's roll," Kiyone smirked as Nivaline nodded.

Kiyone took off the brakes and they were off.


"Xiaolang?" Sakura croaked.

Tomoyo and Meiling froze recognising the man who had helped them in Hong Kong, Xiaolang blinked at them obviously taken aback.

"Wha… why…" he stuttered.

He took a deep breath.

"What are you doing here?" he demanded sounding strangely angry.

"Hey!" Meiling bristled not liking his tone, "Why are you here?"

That seemed to calm Xiaolang down at bit.

"Syaoran sent me here to pick up Chelsea and Zachary," Xiaolang noticed the couple and smiled at them charmingly, "I believe that's you."

Chelsea sent back a small smile as Zachary merely nodded.

"What are you doing here?" he asked in a gentler tone turning back to the Angels.

"Don't ask," Sakura muttered.

She winced as she tried to move but her battered muscles screamed in protest.

"Are you okay?" Xiaolang asked immediately worried, "What happened?"

"Lara," Meiling muttered grimly.

"Lara?!?" Xiaolang exclaimed shocked, "As in rogue Angel Lara?"

"Yeah," Tomoyo replied dryly, "That would be her."

"Why is she here?" Xiaolang asked trying to process everything they were telling him.

"She wants revenge," Sakura said weakly from her position on the couch, "And she's got some dark mojo a-brewing to pull it off."

"Dark mojo?" Xiaolang asked confused.

"Super strength, energy bolt and the ability to mojo someone else," Sakura sighed, "As if normal run-of-the-mill Lara wasn't bad enough."

"Mojo?" Meiling asked, even she didn't understand Sakura-talk all the time.

"Magic," Sakura added.

"Why am I not surprised?" Chelsea asked rolling her eyes, "It's always fun-time for you guys isn't it?"

"Yeah if fun-time was getting punched in the gut and getting strangled," Sakura snapped, seeing the hurt on her friend's face she softened, "Sorry."

"So what is exactly going on?" Xiaolang asked slightly confused.

"Short version?" Tomoyo asked wryly.

Xiaolang nodded.

"Ruflac's after us, Lara's after us, Spinnel Corporation is under us and Zachary over there," Tomoyo pointed at Zachary who was sitting on the couch, "Psuedo-Sakura's after us…"

"Wait," Meiling frowned cutting in, "Remember what Psuedo-Sakura said?"

Tomoyo blinked at her as she thought back to Psuedo-Sakura's words inside the car.

"Yue made her promise she won't hurt Zachary…" she said slowly.

"So?" Sakura demanded, "Yue only wants to challenge us."

"Unless…" Tomoyo's eyes widened in shock, "He's testing us!"

"Yue?" Xiaolang blinked, "As in the moon angel?"

"Yeah," Sakura frowned at him, "How do you know?"

A faint blush appeared on Xiaolang's handsome first as he fumbled for an answer.

"Well umm…" Xiaolang paused, "Let's just say I have 'powers'."

"Oh," Meiling blinked realising the full extent of his comment, "Ohhh…"

"Wait!" Chelsea cut in shooting her almost catatonic husband a worried look, "Who's testing you and what's it got to do with Zachary?"

Tomoyo was silent for a few seconds as she gathered her thoughts.

"I think… I believe that this is part of Yue's challenge seeing if we are staying focus on our goal retrieving the mirror and the third book," Tomoyo held up her hands to cut off Chelsea's question about the mirror and the book, "He's sent Psuedo-Sakura after you guys to test our focus… you know to test our resolve…"

There was a small silence following Tomoyo's theory. Sakura broke it by jumping up, dropping her Star wand to the ground in the process, a scowl on her bruised face.

"That son of a…" she snarled, "I'm going to kill him!"

"Chill Saku," Meiling cut in calmly, "We need to deal with Lara, Ruflac and Psuedo-Sakura first. And on top of that we need to deal with Lilia and her nagging habit of gunning for Zachary. Then we'll plan how to deliver a very slow and torturous death to Yue."

"So, we need magic," Tomoyo said slowly already strategising a plan.

"Plenty of it," Sakura added, "I hit her with lightning bolts but she not only withstood it but got up and hammered me across the room with one punch."

"And Ruflac as well," Meiling sighed, "And life just keeps on getting more complicated…"

"I think I can help you," Xiaolang suggested cutting into the trio's planning session, "I've had experienced in this type of thing."

"What about us?" Chelsea asked breaking in, "Not being selfish or anything but what are you gong to do with us."

"I don't know," Meiling sighed in frustration, "Maybe call Syaoran again?"

"Yeah…" Tomoyo began, agreeing with her friend.

"WAIT!"

Everybody jumped.

"What?" Sakura turned to Xiaolang, "What's wrong?"

Secretly, Xiaolang a.k.a. Syaoran was desperately trying to come up with a plan not to get them to call him. If his mobile phone went off here… he gulped not wanting to think what the Angels' reactions would be.

"Syaoran is unreachable right now," Xiaolang explained trying to calm his pounding heart down, "He told me that after he instructed me to come here and pick up Chelsea and Zachary."

He was silently praying to God as the Angels fell silent. Seconds seemed to turn into centuries as he waited for their answer.

"Okay, so Syaoran's out," Tomoyo finally said.

He almost collapsed with relief.

"What are we dealing with here?" Chelsea asked, "Excuse me if that sounds dumb but I've got no knowledge about magic."

"Chelsea, you know about magic as much as we do," Sakura reassured her friend.

Okay can you describe to me what Lara looked like?" Xiaolang asked gently.

Sakura grimaced as she sat back down.

"Are you okay?" Xiaolang asked concerned.

"Fine," Sakura said with a brave smile, "Okay… her hair was turning black… her eyes were completely black there no irises just black and when she kissed Ruflac this black energy leapt between the two of them and Marcus Ruflac's eyes turned completely black as well. And then he hurled this bolt of black en…"

Sakura gasped realising where she had seen the same type of attack before.

"Sakura?" Xiaolang asked gently walking up to her and gently touching her arm.

The American Angel was still gasping with disbelief as she stared straight ahead, her eyes unseeing.

"Oh damn," she said suddenly, her voice a ghost of a whisper.

Xiaolang knelt down so his amber eyes were level with hers as he continued to gently grip her arm trying to bring her back to reality.

"Sakura?" he asked worry evident in his voice, "Sakura?"

Finally Sakura's eyes slipped down to look at his.

"The Void card," she murmured, "It's the Void card."

"WHAT?!?"


Draping her body over the soft leather couch standing in the marble mansion that was Ruflac's headquarters, Lara sighed dramatically as she played seductively with the ends of her long blonde hair.

"This is very annoying," Lara commented pouting to Ruflac, "Those little Angels are gone and we don't know where they are!"

Ruflac laughed, the power coursing through his veins and controlling his mind turning his laughter in one of malice and pure undulated evil.

"That shouldn't be a problem," he informed the possess rogue Angel.

He held out his hands as dark energy crackled in between in this fingertips.

"Find them," he commanded, "Find them and come back to me!"

With his last word, he flung his arms forwards and the energy flew out his fingertips congealing into a solid orb of crackling power as Ruflac smirked. With a loud bang and gush of black smoke, the ball of energy disappeared off to do its creator's bidding.

"Now, now," Ruflac turned back to Lara and smiled at her roguishly, "We just have to wait… what can we do in the mean time?"

Lara laughed as the Void's power running through her body controlled her every reaction and her every thought.

"I don't know," Lara stood up and tossed Ruflac an easy smirk, "But I'm going to the bedroom."

And with that she sashayed off as Ruflac stared after her. An evil smile flashed across his face.

"Then I guess I'm joining you then," he muttered to himself before following Lara into the bedroom.


Eriol sighed as he entered the musky, incense-filled air of the strange little shop located in the less reputed areas of Los Angeles. His contact had directed him here after Eriol had explained he needed someone who knew about the 'supernatural' (not that he personally believed in it or anything…)

"Welcome," a tall woman with long tresses of flaming red hair seemed to emerge from the shadows of the shop.

As skilled as he was at detecting the presence of the other people, Eriol was still slightly taken aback at the sudden appearance of this strange woman. She sent Eriol a mysterious grin.

"I know who you are," she said calmly, "I know what you want. But the questions are you ready to know everything."

She cocked her head to the side as she studied Eriol as the assassin stared back at her, undaunted by her dramatic words.

"Ahhh… a brave one," the woman chuckled, "But you have to be brave… or very stupid to be a hired killer."

That caused Eriol to start slightly as the woman smiled at him mysteriously.

"I see many things," she said in the way of explanation.

"Right…" Eriol muttered to himself before speaking up, "I'm looking for help to fight…"

The woman cut him off with a wave of her hand.

"I can tell you right now what you seek cannot be find here," she paused as she cocked her head to the side thoughtfully, "There is few things in this world, which could defeat what you hope to triumph over."

"What the hell am I dealing with?" Eriol snapped out of patience with this mysterious woman, "What the hell am I suppose to do?"

"Patience," the woman smiled at him, her eyes sparkling, "You're the half, you'll find a way."

"Half?!?" Eriol spluttered, "Half of what?"

The woman was silent for a few seconds as Eriol waited for an answer, tapping his foot impatiently.

"By the way I'm Mizuki Kaho," the woman introduced herself suddenly.

"Eriol," Eriol muttered back between gritted teeth, his raging temper threatening to break out at any second.

"Come with me, Eriol," Kaho commanded softly, "I've got something to show you."

With that she turned around and walked through a curtain of earthy-coloured beads that hung above an archway that led deeper into the shop. With a sigh of frustration, Eriol followed after her, hoping against hoping that this mysterious Kaho woman would have something, which could aid him.


"WHAT?!?" Xiaolang was freaking out as Sakura remained silent, the memory of the devastation the Void card had caused in Anyang burning in her mind.

"Void card…" Tomoyo trailed off remembering what Sakura had told them about the mysterious magical being.

Meiling felt shivers going down her spine.

"How do we defeat this thing?" Tomoyo demanded directing her question at Xiaolang.

The dark-haired man shrugged helplessly.

"Oh god…" Meiling moaned, "We're screwed."

"Thanks for the optimism," Tomoyo muttered dryly noticing the pale look on Chelsea's face.

"That's got to be a way!" Sakura suddenly yelled jumping up, "Clow Reed beat the card and we're the chosen three, we're supposed to beat this thing!"

"But Clow Reed had years of training behind him and all the cards," Xiaolang pointed out.

That seemed to burst Sakura's bubble as she instantly deflated, fear flashed across her face before she ruthlessly stomped it down trying to focus on the challenge at hand.

"The Void card is free…" Tomoyo mused, "But how?"

"It's quite probable it's not free," Xiaolang said thinking aloud, almost talking to himself, "The fourth book is designed…"

"You know about the fourth book?" Sakura frowned.

Xiaolang nodded.

"I've been studying magic since I was born," he informed her, "I know quite a bit about the books…"

Sakura nodded.

"Perhaps the power of the Void card was… tapped?" Xiaolang frowned thoughtfully as he thought his theory through.

"How?" Tomoyo asked curious.

Xiaolang began pacing across the room as the Angels and Chelsea watched him anxiously, Zachary remained silent on the couch still frozen in shock by the many revelations that Sakura had revealed to him that day.

"It would take phenomenal power and an in-depth knowledge of the dark arts," Xiaolang explained, "But it was be possible to harness a fraction of the Void card's power and channel it to a vessel… Lara. But this transfer of energy is only temporary, maintaining the link between the card and the vessel would slowly wear the magic-caster's power out…"

"So it's temporary?" Chelsea asked hope shining in her eyes.

Xiaolang nodded as a collective sigh of relief went around the room.

"So we have two options," Meiling looked at her fellow Angels carefully, "We fight Lara or we run and hide hoping that the spell would eventually end."

"If we hide than Lara and Ruflac might get out of control," Sakura pointed out wisely, "There's no telling how much damage or death they could cause if they really wanted to come after us."

"We fight then," Tomoyo said grimly.

Before anyone could comment on their new plan, the sound of a car pulling up outside broke through the silence as the three Angels and Xiaolang froze.

They were even more shocked to hear the lock on front door spring open. With an ominous creek, the door opened as the sound of footsteps echoed through the now silent room.

The sound of two voices talking could be heard now, Tomoyo frowned realising they were both feminine voices. Who could they be?

"I can't believe the key still works!" one exclaimed.

"Man, they've really got to change the locks," the other added.

Xiaolang reacted instantly as they appeared in the doorway leading into the room they were in.

"FIRE, COME FORTH!" he bellowed flinging his hands out forwards.

Before anybody could react, a ball of flames burst from Xiaolang's outstretched hand. The Angels and Chelsea gasped in shock as even Zachary blinked in surprise. The ball of flame shot across the room at the two figures standing in the doorway with deadly speed as it arrowed towards them intent on burning them to ashes.

"SHUI!" one of the women cried in Chinese.

To everyone's surprise including Xiaolang, a gush of freezing water shot forwards and slapped into the ball of fire. The flames were instantly doused out by the gushing water. Xiaolang ducked as the water shot past overhead and slammed into the wall spraying water everywhere.

"Kiyone!" Sakura gasped in shock recognising one of the women.

"Nivaline!" Tomoyo blinked in surprise as she realised the ex-Angel was the one who had summoned the wave of water.

"What the?" Chelsea gasped staring at the newcomers, "Who are they?"

Zachary finally managed to break out of his catatonic state enough to stare at the two women: Kiyone had an unpleasant scowl on his face as Nivaline sighed in relief.

"What the hell?" Kiyone demanded directing her question as everyone inside the room.

"Magic," Nivaline explained calmly, she glanced at Xiaolang, "Nice but you really should combine a bit more magic in it so it's not stopped by water as easily."

Xiaolang nodded as he studied the women carefully.

"You're Nivaline Sarah Thomas…" he said slowly.

Nivaline smiled at her as Xiaolang's eyes flicked over to Kiyone.

"And you're Kiyone Miller," Xiaolang added.

"The one and only," Kiyone grinned.

"What are you doing here?" Meiling demanded.

Kiyone sighed.

"Because Lara's here…"

"You know the truth now?" Sakura asked blinking in surprise.

"Yeah, Nivaline told me."

"Good, so you know my dad's innocent and you won't try to kill him," Sakura scowled at the ex-Angel as Kiyone had the decency to blush.

Nivaline turned to Kiyone in surprise.

"You tried to kill Fujitaka?" she asked incredulously.

"I kept him prisoner," Kiyone protested defensively, "I didn't beat him up or anything… I was going to…"

Sakura glared at Kiyone as she turned to Nivaline.

"So you know Lara's back," she said softly.

"And the Void card's around," Nivaline sighed, "What is going on?"

"Long story," Meiling sighed exasperatedly, "Uber-long."

"We think someone is tapping into the power of the Void card and using Lara as a vessel," Tomoyo explained.

Nivaline frowned thoughtfully as Kiyone frowned in confusion, not understanding all the magical terms being thrown around.

"What's going on?" she demanded, a scowl on her face, "Cause I'm lost and I want answers… Now."

Before anybody could answer her, the window to the room shattered spraying everywhere with jagged pieces of glass.

"What the hell?" Kiyone yelled, knowing full well that the windows in this safe house were all bullet-proof nothing could penetrate it except for… the thing that was floating into the room.

Her eyes widened in shock as she gasped.

A ball of crackling black energy glided into the room, black sparks bursting from its surface as everyone stared at it in shock.

Xiaolang's eyes widened as he realised what it was.

"Don't let it get away!" he cried throwing his arm forwards, "WIND!"

A roaring vortex of wind seemed to manifest itself from thin air as everyone gasped, the mini-tornado leapt forwards and surrounded the orb of black energy in its gusty grip as Nivaline shook off her shook to fire off her own attack.

"XUE!" she cried summoning her powers.

A gusty breeze of freezing air swept into the room bringing chips if icy snow with it. It swirled around the trapped orb of black energy forming a solid barrier around the tornado and energy ball, trapping it in its icy hold. For a few tense seconds, the black energy ball struggled against its ice and wind prison before it unleashed a giant blast of energy. The ice shattered as the energy tore the tornado apart, it hung in the air glowing with fierce energy as Xiaolang and Nivaline gasped in shock.

Sakura scooped her Star wand off the ground and leapt up from her seat on the couch as she summoned forth a Clow card.

"SHIELD CARD! BIND THE ENERGY BALL! RELEASE AND DISPEL!"

She whacked the card with all her might as a large ball of blue energy formed around the dark orb that had invaded the room. Black and blue energy fought for dominance as Sakura grunted feeling the black orb pulling at her strength.

She gasped in shock and screamed in pain as the shield of blue energy she had placed around the dark orb shattered. She collapsed to the ground as the orb of dark energy disappeared with a loud bang.

"What the hell was that?" Meiling demanded.

"A homing spell," Xiaolang explained grimly, "Lara must have sent it after us. She knows where we are…"

Nivaline nodded.

"We need to get out of here," she commanded, "Now."


Psuedo-Sakura concentrated throwing her senses forwards in an ever-growing ripple touching each and every mind that appeared before her.

=No. No. No. No. No…. Yes!=

Psuedo-Sakura's eyes snapped open as she focused in with her power trying to sense where her prey was.

"Found them!" she hissed, her dark green eyes sparkling with malice.

Light surrounded her body and she disappeared eager to continue her hunt.


Ruflac smiled evilly as the orb of black energy he had sent out a while ago appeared in front of him with a spectacular show of crackling energy and thick black smoke. Carefully sitting himself up in bed and careful not to disturb Lara who was sleeping beside him, he gestured at the orb.

"Show me," he commanded.

The ball warped and twisted until it formed a large rectangle in front of him; slowly the dark energy diminished showing him an image in its crackling depth. Ruflac cocked his head to the side as he studied the image of the building in front of him.

"Where is it?" he asked aloud.

The image of the building faded as a second image showing a detailed map of Los Angeles, a pinpoint of light appeared on the map flashing as Ruflac laughed.

"My liege," he whispered gently shaking the naked body beside him.

Lara yawned and stretched as she glanced around, her blue eyes alert and dancing with mirth.

"What's up?" she asked grinning coyly as she wrapped her arms around Ruflac's neck.

Ruflac nuzzled her neck in reply before breaking away slightly.

"I've found them."

"Good," Lara laughed, "Guess it's off to work we go!"

Ruflac smiled wickedly as Lara stretched and leapt off the bed with feline grace. Grabbing her black silk shirt off the ground she pulled it on before hunting around for the rest of her clothes. Behind her Ruflac slipped out of the bed and pulled on his own shirt before gesturing at the ball of black energy.

"Dissipate," he commanded.

With a loud bang the black orb exploded into tendrils of crackling energy that arched through the air straight at him. Ruflac grunted softly as the energy slammed into his chest but it soon disappeared, absorbed back into his body.

When he turned around, he find to his disappointment that Lara was now fully dressed.

"Let's go," she grinned mischievously.

Ruflac smirked back at her as both of them closed their eyes. A wild gust of wind swept through the room as dark energy devoured their bodies hiding them behind a veil of crackling darkness. With a loud bang and a flash of black light they disappeared.

Destination: The Angels.


Chelsea and Zachary piled into Tomoyo's now completely repair car (thanks to Sakura's Star key) as Nivaline and Xiaolang watched their surroundings carefully, their magical senses on high alert.

"So what's the plan?" Sakura asked.

"We get Chelsea and Zachary out of here," Tomoyo informed her, "We need to get them away from Psuedo-Sakura…"

"Wait," Sakura cut in, "It doesn't matter if where we send them, Psuedo-Sakura would just find them and teleport over to them. We need to somehow stop Psuedo-Sakura from finding them through magical means."

Xiaolang heard her comment and walked over to them.

"Perhaps I could be of service," he said with an easy grin.

"You can stop her?" Sakura asked staring at him.

"No, but I can throw her off the trail," Xiaolang held up his hand and muttered something under his breath.

Chelsea and Zachary both jumped with fright as blue energy coursed from Xiaolang's hand and settled over them bathing them in gentle blue light. Sakura and Tomoyo stared at the energy and Tomoyo was sure she could see faint symbols pulsing amidst the azure light but before she could make sense of them, the light faded.

"What was that?" Chelsea asked slowly staring at Xiaolang.

"A veil spell, it would hide you two from Psuedo-Sakura's or any other magical being's senses and plus," Xiaolang held up his other hand as a sparkling ball of blue energy appeared in it, floating several inches above his outstretched palm, "This is a dummy so to speak, I replicated your essence and your basic brain patterns so if Psuedo-Sakura tries to search for you she'll zero in on this thing."

"Okay…" Sakura, Tomoyo, Chelsea and Zachary blinked at each other as they tried to understand the magnitude of what Xiaolang had done.

"Come on, people!" Kiyone shouted breaking into their thoughts, "Time's a wasting! Let's get the hell out of here!"

Meiling and Kiyone, with their almost identical personalities had become instant friends and allies, and both of them were now standing in front of them, an almost identical scowl on their faces.

"Creepy," Sakura noted feeling the hairs on the back of her neck rise.

Tomoyo nodded.

Sakura opened the other door to the car and tried to slip on but winced as the cuts and bruises on her body unleashed a sudden throb of pain, trying to fight it back Sakura was forced to let out a low whimper.

"Are you okay?" Xiaolang was instantly at her side, his amber eyes dark with worry.

"Fine," Sakura murmured in reply, pasting a smile on her face.

Xiaolang cocked his eyebrow at her, not believing a word she said. Reaching out with his hands, he gently touched her bruises arm and noticed her wince.

"You're injured," he noted softly.

"Duh," Sakura shot back.

Before Sakura could pull her arm away, Xiaolang closed his eyes and began chanting under his breath. Green light spilled from his hand and fell onto her skin, Sakura watched in amazement as the bruises on her arm faded, cuts began closing as she felt the other wounds of her body fix themselves and disappeared altogether. Energy coursed through her veins driving away the fatigue that had been gnawing away at her strength. When Xiaolang finally opened his eyes, Sakura felt rejuvenated and renewed as though she just had a decent night's sleep.

"Wow," she whispered awed, "Thanks."

Xiaolang grinned at her as he opened his mouth to say something but he was abruptly cut off by an eerily familiar voice behind him.

"Oh ain't this sweet?" the voice drawled, "Makes the heart bleed, it does."

Xiaolang whirled around only to find Psuedo-Sakura smirking at him.

"Hey!" she gave him a small wave, "Funny finding you here. You know I thought the Angels weren't supposed to know who their bos…"

"FIRE, COME FORTH!" Xiaolang yelled cutting off Psuedo-Sakura before she could expose his identity to the Angels.

A wave of fire shoved the doppelganger off her feet as Sakura jumped up, her hand instantly flying up on her Star key.

Meiling also reacted instantly grabbing her butterfly bracelet that hung around her wrist.

"Key of stars with powers burning bright!" Sakura chanted her Star key glowing.

"Blade of Clow, power of magic, power of light," Meiling began starting up her own incantation.

"Reveal the staff and shine your light! RELEASE!"

"Surrender the sword, the force ignite! RELEASE!"

Red and gold light flashed through the area as Sakura and Meiling pointed their respective magical weapons on the doppelganger.

"FIERY! RELEASE AND DISPEL!" Meiling bellowed.

A huge burst of flaming white fire jetted forwards slamming into Psuedo-Sakura as Sakura summoned her own card.

"SHOT CARD! RELEASE AND DISPEL!"

Psuedo-Sakura was hammered with a barraged of energy darts as Sakura watched grimly knowing that Psuedo-Sakura was far from finished.

Nivaline and Kiyone gasped in shock as despite the hammering she had received from the Meiling and Sakura's magical attacks Psuedo-Sakura nimbly flipped herself back to onto her feet before grinning at them mischievously.

"Ow," she smirked.

Sakura hefted up her wand again and was preparing to summon another card but abruptly stopped herself as a crackling ball of black energy emerged from seemingly thin air several metres in front of her. As she watched, the energy expanded itself growing and twisting its shape until it exploded with a huge bang. Amongst the black smoke, two figures emerged.

"Oh god," she gasped.

"Hey," Lara smirked, "Looks like the party started without us."

Ruflac smiled at them evilly.

"Then I guess we going have to gate-crash it."

"Damn," Meiling sighed.

Everybody tensed as Lara and Ruflac attacked. Sakura gasped as a blast of black energy shot out from Lara's hand aiming straight for Tomoyo and the car with Zachary and Chelsea still in it.

"NO!" she cried desperately, jumping in the way of the energy bolt.

"SAKURA!" Xiaolang yelled.

The energy whipped itself around Sakura before exploding with a mighty blast. Sakura's body was flung backwards with immense force before crashing to the ground in a crumpled, bleeding heap. Everybody stared at her unmoving body, horrified at her stillness and what it implied. A few tense seconds passed before she groaned softly and slowly moved, her clothes torn and revealing bruises and cut skin.

"TOMOYO!" Meiling yelled hoping that Sakura was fine but knowing that the fight was just beginning, "GET THEM OUT OF HERE!'

Torn between her desire to help her friend and the knowledge that she needed to get Chelsea and Zachary away from this, Tomoyo hesitated frozen with indecision.

"GO!" Meiling roared.

Nodding to her friend and hoping that they would be fine without her, Tomoyo leapt into the driver's seat and threw the car into drive as she turned to the Yamazakis.

"Hold on!" she yelled flooring the gas.

The car shot off down the road as Meiling let out a sigh of relief.

They were safe for now…

But the battle was far from over. With a sigh of frustration Meiling whirled around and entered the fray.

"WOOD! RELEASE AND DISPEL!"


"Well?" Eriol demanded.

Kaho merely smiled at him as she took a sip from the steaming cup she was holding. Seated around a table in the back of the little shop Kaho obviously owned, Eriol ignored the cup of tea the woman had given him as he glared at her his temper ready to erupt.

"I've get you waiting long enough," Kaho admitted tossing him a small smirk.

"Damn right!" Eriol growled at the end of his patience.

"What you are dealing with it's the darkest form of magic ever created in all of mankind's long history," Kaho said softly, her eyes becoming unfocused as she stared at something invisible off in the distance, "It's power is almost unparalleled. But luckily for you, you're not dealing with it directly. You're dealing with only a fraction of its power."

"Great… lady? Stop speaking in mystical riddle."

Kaho sighed.

"You're dealing with the big bad with enough power to reduce Los Angeles into a giant hulking smoking crater but lucky for you, you're not dealing it with its pure form… a diluted form if you will," she summarised, "Got that?"

Eriol narrowed his eyes at her as Kaho smiled mockingly at him.

"Yeah," he replied after a few tense seconds.

"But this power has been channelled into a vessel made of flesh and blood," Kaho continued, "Strengthened, yes but still vulnerable to weapons. What you need is a weapon that can do serious damage and combined with magic so that it can't be instantly healed."

"So you're saying is that I need the magical equivalent of a rocket launcher," Eriol snorted derisively, "Yeah, I'll just pop down to the corner store and get one right now."

Kaho remained silent as she studied him with piercing eyes.

"Do you think you can truly defeat this evil?" she asked softly.

"Lady, I think I have to," Eriol replied thinking of Tomoyo and the danger she was in.

He had to help her and protect her no matter what… call him a chauvinist but the idea of Tomoyo hurt in any way was distinctively uncomfortable and he would do anything in his power to prevent anything happening to Tomoyo… it didn't matter what happened to him. All that mattered was Tomoyo…

Shaking himself out of his thoughts, Eriol concentrated on the task at hand.

"So how do I defeat this thing, what weapon were you thinking off?" Eriol demanded.

Kaho got up and left the room for a few seconds, she came back and put something down onto the small wooden table.

"This," she said softly gazing down at the object with an almost reverence look.

Eriol looked at it before looking up at the woman.

"You've got to be joking," he snarled.

Kaho smiled mysterious as Eriol stared at the 'weapon' incredulously.

Lying on the table was a single arrow.


Vines burst from the ground and snaked themselves around Lara and Ruflac's limbs pinning them down. With a sigh of frustration, Lara concentrated as the air around her crackled with power.

"BOOM!"

The vines literally exploded, shredded into long green fibres as Lara laughed.

"You think your parlour tricks can harm me?" she hissed.

"HUO!"

"Lightning, come forth!"

Nivaline and Xiaolang flung their magic as the possess rogue Angel as a bolt of lightning crashed down from the skies and struck her followed closely by a wave of red flames. Lara howled in rage and pain before deflecting the attacks away with a flick of her wrist.

"DIE!" she screamed as Ruflac attacked as well.

Twin bolts of energy lanced across the lawn of the safe house aiming straight for Xiaolang and Nivaline as they prepared to meet the attack head-on.

"Shield!" a weakened voice cried, "Release and dispel!"

Sakura gritted her teeth and fought back her pain as she tapped the card with the tip of her Star wand. A sparkling barrier of blue light absorbed the energy bolts as Sakura almost collapsed.

"Sakura!" Xiaolang yelled seeing that the American Angel was slowly staggering to her feet.

"This has been fun and on but really I've got places to be, people to kill," Psuedo-Sakura smirked at them, "Have fun whilst you die! Ciao!"

White light surrounded her body but before she could teleport away, Kiyone leapt at her and kicked out in a crescent kick.

"BANG!"

Psuedo-Sakura was flung backwards as Kiyone nimbly landed onto her feet.

"You 're not going anywhere," the ex-Angel smirked at her.

"Oh yeah?" Psuedo-Sakura challenged.

Before Kiyone could react, Psuedo-Sakura sweep-kicked her foot out from under her as she toppled to the ground. They both leapt up at almost the same time and began trading blow after vicious blow.

Everyone's eyes were torn away from their fight as Ruflac attacked again.

"Burn!" Ruflac spat, his eyes glittering with malice and barely contained rage, "BURN!"

Black energy lashed out from his fingers, four tendrils aiming straight for Sakura, Meiling, Xiaolang and Nivaline. The Shield card absorbed the blows meant for Nivaline and Xiaolang and Meiling was quick enough to jump to the side as the energy struck the ground tearing a long rut into the grassy soil. But in her weakened state, Sakura could only watch helplessly as the energy barrelled through the air straight for her.

"SAKURA!"

The attack crashed into her flinging her backwards onto the ground. Xiaolang and Nivaline gasped as the Shield card flickered in and out of existence before disappearing altogether.

"The Shield card…" Xiaolang whispered.

He felt sick knowing that the only way the Shield card could disappear was that if it was overpowered or if the wielder who had summoned it called it back or…

…when the wielder was dead.

Throwing a horrified glance as Sakura's prone body, Xiaolang gritted his teeth and let the rage and horror that boiled in his heart and mind loose in a huge blast of magic.

"LIGHTNING! COME FORTH!"

A huge arc of blue lightning flashed across the battlefield and struck Ruflac in the chest shoving him violently backwards.

"I'm getting very annoyed with your antics!" Ruflac snarled, sounding for all the world like an angry teacher telling off her misbehaving class, "WHY WON'T YOU DIE?"

"Bored now," Meiling informed him faking a yawn, "FREEZE CARD! RELEASE AND DISPEL!"

Before anybody could react, a huge beam of blue energy burst from Meiling's card and struck Ruflac. A blast of freezing wind almost swept everyone off their feet as frost gathered onto the man's chest, it hardened and grew until it covered his whole body. Everyone stared as light glittered off the icy prison that encased the possessed mob leader.

"Whoa," Nivaline whispered awed.

"NOOOOO!!!" Lara roared in fury, her voice ripping through the air like a knife, "HOW DARE YOU!"

Meiling's eyes widened in shock as Lara held up her hand, dark energy gathering at her fingertips.

"YOU WILL PAY!" she screamed.

Five beams of crackling power shot into the air and came crashing down to earth like deadly glittering comet, each other heading towards them. Meiling and Nivaline hurriedly summoned forth magical protections as Xiaolang almost did the same until he remembered Sakura.

"SAKURA!" he gasped.

"NO! YOU'LL BE KILLED!" Nivaline yelled.

Xiaolang lunged at the prone Angel and tackled her off the way as the energy intended to destroy her smashed into the ground creating a massive smoking crater. A second attack, aimed at Xiaolang almost missed as with amazing strength and agility Xiaolang swept Sakura up in his arms and leapt to the side, the energy almost taking out his leg.

Meiling and Nivaline both grunted as the energy blasts slammed into the defences but soon fizzled out as Lara screamed in rage.

"KIYONE!" Nivaline yelled remembering the fifth member of their group.

Still deep in combat with Psuedo-Sakura, Kiyone swore loudly as she looked up and saw the dark energy bearing down on her with deadly speed. Psuedo-Sakura merely laughed as she held out her own hands.

"Nice but amateurish," she snorted as a wicked grin curved her lips.

Nivaline gasped loudly as the energy crashed into Psuedo-Sakura as Lara laughed.

"Bull's eye!" she crowed.

"Oh, contraire," a familiar voice replied mockingly, "Part of the plan, dear."

Even Lara was shocked to see Psuedo-Sakura smile behind the veil of crackling black energy that hid her from everyone else. The energy that surrounded her body supposedly trying to burn her to ashes was suddenly pulled with irresistible force and amazing speed towards Psuedo-Sakura's outstretch hands as though it was made of metal and the doppelganger's hands made of magnet. The evil counterpart laughed as the energy compacted into a dense ball of burning power in her palm as she pointed it at Kiyone.

"Boom," she laughed.

Kiyone eyes widened in shock.

Sakura stirred in Xiaolang's arms as her eyes fluttered open.

"No," she whispered hoarsely seeing what was happening.

The energy ball exploded forwards transforming into a whip of crackling darkness. It struck Kiyone across the chest, an eerie sound somewhat akin to the sound of a juicy steak sizzling on a hot grill filled the air as even Meiling gagged at the stench of burning flesh.

Kiyone flew backwards landing heavily and thankfully passed out, Nivaline was horrified at the extent of her exposed wounds trying to imagine the pain she was going through but failing miserably.

"Oh god," she whispered.

Psuedo-Sakura laughed maniacally and whipped the tendril of dark energy around. Lara was struck across the face but even as her skin burned and melted, the dark energy coursing through her body repaired the damage instantly.

"Ow," she growled with animalistic fury, "Bitch!"

"Sue me," Psuedo-Sakura smirked.

She whipped the energy at Meiling but the Angel brought her sword up in time to deflect the attack. The whip wrapped itself around the blade of the sword as Meiling yanked with all her might. Psuedo-Sakura cursed loudly as her end of the 'whip' flew out of her hands. Meiling hurriedly untangled her sword from the energy and watched as it sailed overhead barely missing her and landing on the lawn where it scorched the grass and earth until it slowly fizzled out.

"Well, this has been fun and all but…" Psuedo-Sakura sighed dramatically, "You're not my concern… for now."

She gave them a small wave and smirked at them.

"See you in hell!" she said cheerfully before light claimed her body and she teleported away.

Xiaolang felt Sakura move in his arms again.

"Don't move," he said softly to her, "You're hurt."

"I'm fine!" Sakura gritted out as her hands slowly tightened around her Star Wand, "Move card! Get us away from here! Release and dispel!"

She barely had enough energy left to throw her card onto the ground and needed Xiaolang's help in guiding the tip of her wand to the card's surface. Gently tapping the card with her wand, Sakura collapsed in Xiaolang's arms as two pairs of petite pink wings burst from the card and flew around the partially destroyed lawn weaving a trail of pink powder around Xiaolang and Sakura. It flew to Meiling and Nivaline sprinkling them with pink powder before dumping the rest onto Kiyone's unmoving body.

Before Lara could attack again, light flashed through the air and they were gone.

"GOD DAMN IT!"


"Turn around."

Tomoyo's eyes flicked up to the rear-view mirror as she sped down the freeway.

"I'm not sure that's wise," she said quietly, every instinct in her body screaming at her to turn around and help her friends.

=NO!= she told herself firmly =Zachary and Chelsea need to get away from those psychos. Now=

"Turn around," Zachary said again quietly.

"I can't do that," Tomoyo whispered obviously wavering.

"I know we can't help," Zachary smiled for the first time in what seemed ages, "But you can. You, Sakura and Meiling… you're a team. They need you."

"They don't," Tomoyo replied, reminded for perhaps the millionth time that if only she had magic, she would be able to aid her friends in fighting Lara and Ruflac.

"Tomoyo," Chelsea added gently, "They do. You may not have magical powers but you still have your fighting skills and your amazing ability to stay calm even when under fire. Tomoyo, trust me. They need you… this thing… that crazy power that possessed what's her name… Lara is more important than me or Zachary. It's more important than Lilia's petty hatred of Zachary or his attempting to kill him. We're just bystanders in this… Tomoyo, you're a key player. They. Need. You."

Tomoyo looked at them via the rear-view mirror again, both of them had determined looks on their faces.

"If we got back, you're going to be in danger," Tomoyo stated quietly, "A lot of danger."

"Then we'll choose danger," Zachary replied softly.

Tomoyo bit her lip still unsure if this was the wisest plan.

"If we turn back…" she sighed knowing she had to be blunt, "You may not survive this."

Silence reigned in the car before Chelsea spoke up.

"There's a risk," she admitted before her face hardened, "But I'm not afraid."

Her husband nodded in reply.

Silent applauding them for their courage and determination, Tomoyo nodded before swerving into a sudden U-turn causing the driver behind her to blare his horn and swear at her violently. Ignoring him, Tomoyo cut another car off as she went into the opposite lane and sped off heading back to L.A.

Gripping the steering wheel tightly, Tomoyo hoped that she would arrive back in time.

She just had to.


Eriol stared at the arrow incredulously before looking up into Kaho's calm eyes.

"What the hell are you trying to pull off?" he growled.

Kaho smiled at him calmly.

"It may not look like much…" she began.

"Damn right!"

"But this arrow has been enchanted," Kaho lifted the arrow up to the light as Eriol could see the fine runes and symbols that had been etched into the metal and wood, "It is designed to penetrate all magical attacks and defences. And when it strikes someone with magical powers it drains that power away."

Eriol was silent for a few seconds.

"How much?" he asked.

Kaho was taken slightly aback.

"Pardon?" she asked, her perfect manners still in place.

"How much," Eriol repeated gesturing at the arrow, "For this?"

Kaho laughed.

"It's free," she smiled handing it to him, "Oh and you need something to fire that thing."

She got up to get something but stopped as Eriol gently grabbed her arm.

"Why?" he asked looking up at her with piercing eyes, "Why are you helping me… for free?"

Kaho smiled back at him.

"You don't know, do you?" she asked, "You are the Half. You play a pivotal role in the ancient prophecy. The power that courses through your enemy needs to be stopped. Now. If it isn't stopped… the whole world will be plunged into darkness."

Eriol gazed at her in shock as Kaho sent him a small smile before shaking his hand off her and walking out of the room.

Eriol stared at the arrow in his hands.

"Ancient prophecy?"


Somehow Sakura had managed to teleport all to the hospital, which was good thing considering the critical state both she and Kiyone were in.

Even the medics had gasped seeing the bloody cuts and burns that had been inflicted on Kiyone thanks to Psuedo-Sakura's energy whip and Sakura hadn't fared much better after being hit with multiple energy blasts.

Both of them had been immediately admitted to the Intense Care Unit as doctors hurriedly conducted tests on them, trying to understand the full extent of their injuries. Meiling, Nivaline and Xiaolang had been forced into a separate treatment room as nurses quickly disinfected their wounds, binding them with bandages before handing them several antibiotic tablets to swallow.

"Can we see them now?" Meiling demanded for the thousandth time.

An elderly nurse who was halfway through treating Nivaline smiled at her before replying, her voice warm and reassuring.

"Be patient," she advised, "These things can't be rushed. Your friends were badly injured."

"Tell me something I don't know," Meiling muttered.

"Calm down," Nivaline sighed before wincing slightly as the nurse poured some disinfectant on a minor cut she had on her arm, "Ow!"

The nurse ignored her as she gently pressed a bandage against the cut before wrapping it securely around her arm.

"There," she announced, standing back to admire her work, "A police will be here in a few seconds to collect your statements."

With that she turned around and walked out of the room as the three occupants inside stared at each other.

"Police?"

"Here?"

"Statements?!?"
They continued to stare at each other for a few more seconds, trying to digest the bombshell that nurse had unknowingly dropped.

"What are we going to say?" Meiling wailed.

"Chill," Nivaline said calmly, "Look we need to fabricate a story but we need to be sure we all give the same facts."

They fell silent as each of them tried to come up with a plausible story.

"We'll just say we're not sure what happened," Meiling said slowly, "It happened so fast… out of nowhere… sudden… couldn't see anything. Be very vague and then say we're very tried and can they please come another time."

Xiaolang nodded.

"That's seems good," he agreed.

Another moment of silence descended onto the room.

"I'm worried," Xiaolang said softly.

Meiling snorted and rolled her eyes.

"We all are."

"How do you think they are?" Nivaline asked quietly.

"Fine… hopefully," Meiling muttered, ever realistic.

"I hope," Xiaolang echoed, a worried look on his face.

Meiling stared at him strangely.

"Why are you so concerned about them?" she wondered, "You barely know Kiyone or Saku…"

Her eyes widened as a wicked grin came over her face.

"Oh," she smirked, "Oh…"

"Oh what?" Nivaline demanded.

Her sharp hazel-green eyes caught the faint blush spreading over Xiaolang's face as she too began grinning like the Cheshire cat.

"Hmmm… how very interesting…" the older woman said slowly still grinning at him evilly.

Xiaolang tried to ignore them as he continued to worry about the young woman lying somewhere in this hospital.

=She's going to be fine= Xiaolang told himself.

At least he thought she was…


Tomoyo's eyes widened in shock as she took in the scene that lay before her. It looked like several bombs had gone off on the lawn of the safe house resulting in several smoking black craters dotting the lush green grass.

"Holy…" Chelsea whispered her face pale.

Zachary stared at the destruction, not speaking but the sweat glistening across his forehead betraying his fear.

"Zachary," Tomoyo said softly, "I want you to get into the driver's seat when I get out. If anything happens, drive off without me. Do it, forget about me… I'll be fine, I promise."

"Liar," Zachary replied but nodding his consent.

Tomoyo nodded back and cautiously opened the door, her senses on high alert. She slipped out as Zachary wriggled around in the car finally managing to squirm from his position on the backseat and into the driver's seat.

The Japanese Angel gazed around taking in the damage as she walked up to the front door of the safe house. A glistening patch of grass caught her eye as Tomoyo turned to study it closely; she froze realising that it was a patch of frost.

"Okay…" she said slowly wondering how frost managed to form on a single patch of grass in the middle of such a hot day.

Reminding herself why she was here, Tomoyo turned back to the safe house and stealthily walked up the steps to the front door. Carefully nudging the door open, she stepped inside.

It was silent.

Tomoyo walked to the living room, careful to be as quiet as possible. She walked through the threshold and was startled to find it was empty.

"Guys?" she called, "Meiling? Sakura?"

No answer.

Tomoyo frowned.

"Where are they?" she muttered to herself.

=The headquarters?= she wondered.

The Angel shrugged, it was the only place she could think off. Quickly dashing out of the living room and out of safe house, she ran to the car and flung the door open.

"Move inside," she ordered.

Zachary wriggled into the other seat as Tomoyo slipped into the driver's seat and turned on the engine.

"Where are we going?" Zachary asked, "Where are they?"

Tomoyo shook her head.

"I don't know where they are. But I'm going to find out."

And with that she peeled away from the safe house and drove back to the Angel's headquarters.


Psuedo-Sakura sighed in frustration as she paced around the warehouse that was her temporary headquarters.

"WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY?" she raged stomping her foot creating several cracks in the solid concrete.

She had spent the last hour casting out her senses trying to seek out the Yamazakis but couldn't find them.

"Impossible," she snarled, "GOD DAMN IT! IMPOSSIBLE!"

She calmed down as she closed her eyes and concentrated. Once again she tried to sense them but even after going through every mind she could find she still couldn't find them.

"HOW COULD THIS BE?" she screamed before instantly calming down and trying again.

This time a new mind came to her attention; she concentrated trying to find out who this new person was.

"Alicia Rueben?" she said aloud, "God damn it! I don't need you!"

Suddenly she froze.

"Alicia Rueben…" she repeated beginning to read this woman's mind, "Assassin… her new target…"

An evil smirk flashed across Psuedo-Sakura's face.

"Zachary Yamazaki," she whispered, "Good, I have a new lead."

She blinked and with a huge flash of bright light she disappeared.


"Stupid girls," Lara growled as she studied the human popsicle Ruflac had become, "Hurting my dear Ruflac."

With a sigh, she gestured and the ice that surrounded Ruflac disappeared collapsing to the marble floor of his mansion/headquarters.

"What happened?" he demanded weakly staggering to his feet.

"Some witch bitch froze you," Lara snarled.

"I'll kill her!" Ruflac roared.

Lara laughed.

"Honey, you couldn't hurt a fly. You're weak after that attack," Lara pushed herself off the couch she had been sitting in, "I'll deal with this."

"How?" Ruflac demanded, "You need me. One of those blasted Angels would teleport all of them away."

"True," Lara sighed.

She began pacing around the living room trying to come up with a plan.

"I need something that will make them come to me and something that will make sure they don't run away…" suddenly she clicked her fingers, "Of course! A hostage!"

"Who's going to be your hostage?" Ruflac asked stumbling towards the couch and managing to sit himself down as he collapsed on it, tired out from his short trip.

Lara cocked her head to the side as she thought trying to think of the perfect hostage.

"That couple!" she said suddenly, "That couple in the car! Remember how one of those Angel losers threw herself in the way of the attack that was coming straight for them? Obviously she cares about them and they're obviously powerless."

Lara laughed.
"Perfect hostage material."

"How are you going to find them?" Ruflac demanded.

"Simple," Lara laughed, "Magic."

Dark energy exploded outwards from her eyes and mouth bathing her in black light. Ruflac looked away as with a loud bang and with a plume of smoke she disappeared.


Somehow, somewhere along the way between summoning the Move card and its mistress fainting the Star wand had changed back into its key form and reappeared around its mistress's neck. No one knew how but it had happened. Such was the power of this magical artefact.

And it had other powers as well.

Gold energy burst from the key bathing its mistress with warmth, light and more importantly, healing powers. Internal bleeding, cuts, bruises, burns… all of them healed and disappeared in the blink of an eye. Sakura slowly stirred as the light faded having done its work.

"Wha…' she sat up, "Where am I?"

She looked around and seeing the medical equipment that was connected to her displaying her heartbeat and other bodily functions for the world to see, realised she was in a hospital.

"Oh man," she moaned, "Please don't tell me I went into another coma."

She took a deep breath and was shocked to realise she was in no pain even though she had been hammered by Lara and Ruflac's magic attacks.

"Nurse! Anyone! Please!" Sakura called, "I'm awake!"

Suddenly the door to her room swung open and a nurse's head popped in, her eyes bulged as she stared at the healthy girl sitting up in bed.

"Oh god! It's a miracle!" the nurse cried becoming flustered, "You were so badly injured… we thought you were doing to di… I'll get the doctor… I'll get…"

She left as Sakura sighed and wondered where all her friends were.

And Kiyone…

Sakura gulped remembering Kiyone getting thrashed by her doppelganger.

"Oh god."

Several minutes later and after being checked up by the doctor, Sakura had been forced to use the Star key to persuade the doctor not to run any tests and she was fine and ready to leave.

It had taken her a while to find where her friends were but here she was standing at the door of a seemingly bland and featureless hospital room.

She opened the door.

"Sakura?" Meiling gasped.

Xiaolang and Nivaline slowly turned around.

"How…" Xiaolang gasped going pale.

Nivaline stared at her as it suddenly dawned on her, the reason behind Sakura's miraculous recovery.

"The Star key!" she gasped, "It's magic…"

Sakura nodded.

"And now I'm 100% fine!" she announced.

"How's Kiyone?" Nivaline asked worriedly.

Sakura shrugged.

"They wouldn't allow me to see her," she sighed obviously frustrated, "I wish I could… but there's other things to deal with here… namely Lara and Psuedo-Sakura. We need to take care of them. Now."

"How?" Xiaolang asked softly shaking out of his shock, "How?"

"Well, we need to deal with Psuedo-Sakura. We need to draw her away…" Meiling began.

Xiaolang smirked.

"Easy," he held up his hand as an orb of blue light gathered in it, "Remember the veil spell I cast on Zachary and Chelsea to hide them. This thing contains a copy of their essence, if Psuedo-Sakura tries to magically sense for them she'll zero in on this."

"Good," Sakura nodded, "That gets rid of her. We'll hide it somewhere and she'll find that and stand out of her hair."

Xiaolang nodded as he gestured and the orb disappeared.

"Now for Lara and Ruflac…" Nivaline sighed, "Where do we find them?"

"Well that's where I can help."


Alicia Rueben jumped as a burst of white light suddenly illuminated her million-dollar apartment.

"What the?" she gasped whirling around, grasping for a gun.

"Hey!" a strangely familiar voice cried.

Alicia blinked recognising the figure standing before her as the woman who had saved Zachary from her bullet.

"You!" she gasped raising her gun and firing with deadly accuracy.

The woman's body jerked as the bullet slammed into her body, over and over again. But to Alicia's astonishment the woman just laughed.

"Oooo… the pain, the pain!" she sneered as Alicia watched, stunned as the bullet holes began healing up, "You have something I want."

"What?" Alicia scowled slowly backing up, her hands scrambling behind her as she backed up against a wooden cabinet.

Carefully she opened a drawer, talking to keep the woman's attention of what she was doing as she searched for a better weapon.

"The location of Zachary Yamazaki," the woman said calmly, "Where is he?"

"I don't know," Alicia smirked as her hand gripped something tightly, "But you'll be seeing him in hell!"

She whipped the semi-automatic rifle she had hidden in her cabinet and fired bursts of light and smoke illuminating the air. A hail of bullets ripped into the woman as Alicia continued firing until the gun stopped, running out of bullets.

"God," the woman sighed.

Alicia's eyes widened in shock as the gun fell out of her suddenly paralysed fingers.

"You know how annoying that is?" the woman demanded glaring at her, "Stop firing at me!"

"I don't know where he is," Alicia said calmly between gritted teeth refusing to panic.

"Wrong answer," the woman informed her.

With a scream of fury, the assassin leapt forwards pummelling her with powerful blows. The mysterious woman merely grabbed her arms and threw her across the room. The blow was enough to smash the wall apart hurling Alicia into her bedroom, to Psuedo-Sakura's astonishment the assassin stood up seemingly unharmed.

"You want to try that again?" Alicia demanded whipping a trail of blood away from her chin, "… Bitch?"

"You're not human," Psuedo-Sakura commented.

"Not a normal human, if that's what you mean," Alicia spat.

"Oh well, normal or not you're still going down," Psuedo-Sakura rushed at her and took a wild swing.

Alicia duck and punched her in the kidneys as Psuedo-Sakura gasped in pain. She kneed the woman in the face and kicked her away.

"You know if I were human I'd been screaming in pain right now," Psuedo-Sakura noted conversationally, "But then again I'm now."

She lunged forwards and punched Alicia in the throat. The assassin stumbled backwards choking for breath until she backed into the ceiling-to-floor window of her bedroom.

"Game's over honey, please insert coin to start again," Psuedo-Sakura laughed as she leapt forwards into a flying kick and struck her.

Alicia was punched through the glass as she sailed through the air. Psuedo-Sakura watched as Alicia fell from five stories down and hit the hard ground below.

"Humans," Psuedo-Sakura muttered, "They die so easily."

She turned away from the window and strolled away. Down below Alicia Rueben's eyes flicked open, even though she should've been killed by the fall the African-American assassin staggered to her feet blood dripping down from the wounds inflicted along her body.

No one could've survived the fall… no human that is.


"Tomoyo?!?"

"What?" Meiling scowled, "I thought I told you to take Zachary and Chelsea away from here!"

"They wanted to come back," Tomoyo explained strolling to the centre of the room.

Meiling opened her mouth to protest but Tomoyo cut her off.

"Look you want to argue, argue with them but if it wasn't for them I wouldn't be here. If I weren't here I wouldn't be able to tell you where Lara is."

"You know where Lara is?" Nivaline demanded.

Tomoyo shrugged.

"Not exactly but I have a fair idea," Tomoyo pulled out a black mobile phone from her pocket, "Remember this?"

Meiling nodded.

"That's the mobile phone you find that those guys who tried to kill you used," Meiling frowned, "So what?"

"I went back to our headquarters and retrieved this as well as my laptop," Tomoyo sighed, "Considering the damage I'm lucky they both survived."

Sakura groaned remembering the damage Lara had caused to their beloved headquarters.

"Don't remind me," she muttered.

"Anyway, I managed to track down the calls made on and to this phone. There's only been one call to this phone, a private number but I managed to track it down to a phone number listed as a mansion in the Bel-Air area," Tomoyo explained, "I also managed to retrieve part of the call. I believe its Ruflac's voice that called those gunmen. He was the one who tried to kill me."

"Wait," Xiaolang frowned, "How did you find us."

"I hacked into the hospital records and find that someone fitting Kiyone and Sakura's description had been admitted here," Tomoyo shrugged, "It was easy to find you from there."

"Where's Zachary and Chelsea?" Sakura demanded.

"I've sent them back to my house," Tomoyo shrugged helplessly, "I didn't know where else to send them to."

"Maybe out of this state would've been nice!" Sakura snapped.

"Hey!" Tomoyo protested beginning to argue.

"Stop it!" Nivaline commanded breaking in, "Stop fighting, let's kill the all-powerful people before we bicker. So okay, Xiaolang…"

The young man nodded.

"Go hide your spell somewhere so that Psuedo-Sakura's drawn to it. Hopefully somewhere far away."

Xiaolang nodded as he held out his hands. The blue orb of light manifested itself again as Xiaolang concentrated chanting under his breath with a flash of blue light the spell disappeared sent to his remote location.

"Done," he announced.

"So that's Psuedo-Sakura taken care of," Meiling said with satisfaction, "Now Lara?"

Nivaline nodded.

"We hit them suddenly and hard," she warned them, "It's our only chance. What's the time?"

Meiling glanced at her watch.

"Six," she announced, "Almost sunset."
"We fight them for half an hour max," Nivaline ordered, "If we don't beat them by then. We get out. Understood?"

Everyone nodded.

"Good," Nivaline sat back satisfied, "We move out. Sakura?"

Sakura nodded as she and Meiling quickly summoned their magical tools. Tomoyo quickly gave Sakura the address of the mansion as Sakura summoned the Move card.

"Move card! Take us to this mansion! RELEASE AND DISPEL!"

With a bright flash of light, they were off to fight the two most powerful and deadly magical creatures on earth.


Psuedo-Sakura froze.

"I can sense them!" she smirked, "Got you now!"

Quickly she summoned her magic and disappeared in a spectacular blaze of light eager to capture Zachary and Chelsea Yamazaki once and for all.


Lara's eyes widened as she sensed her prey.

"Well the hard parts over," Lara smirked, "Bait's been find. Now all I have to do is to capture them. Then goodbye Angels."

Black energy consumed her body as she disappeared continuing on her path to revenge.


Ruflac jumped as bright light flash through his mansion.

"What the hell?" he demanded.

"Hey!" Meiling smirked, suddenly appeared in the middle of his living room, "Remember me?"

Before Ruflac got a chance to reply, Meiling blasted him across the room with a huge burst of flames.

Sakura swung her Star wand around and summoned forth the Shot card, darts of yellow energy stinging his skin and inflicting some wounds.

"That hurt!" Ruflac roared as he flung his hand outwards and blasted them backwards with a burst of dark energy.

The five of them were flung backwards as the energy struck them but they quickly jumped to their feet ready to fight. Ruflac gathered his power and the fight truly began.


Eriol pulled up beside Ruflac's mansion and checked once more ensuring that the 'magical' arrow was fitted perfectly inside the crossbow, ready to fire.

"This is it," he whispered to himself knowing full well that he might now survive.

But it was worth it.

Protecting Tomoyo was more important to him than anything else.

Including his life.


Psuedo-Sakura blinked as she took in her surroundings, which seemed to be an abandon warehouse located somewhere. Glancing around, she frowned seeing that neither Chelsea nor Zachary was here. She cast her senses around and smiled sensing that they were close by.

She paced around and froze seeing a heavy metal door locked shut right in front of her according to her magic they were located behind this door.

"Lucky door number 1," she smirked as she moved to open it.

"Get the hell away from that door!" a voice barked behind her.

Psuedo-Sakura turned around slowly as Lara Williams glared at her, dark energy making her eyes black as night.

"I thought I killed you," Lara said slowly, "That night in Santa Barbara. But I was wrong… you lived but I'm going to make sure that doesn't happen again."

Psuedo-Sakura snorted realising Lara thought she was the real thing.

"Listen lady, I'm not the re…"

Lara flung her hands upwards and a bolt of dark energy struck Psuedo-Sakura's chest as the doppelganger screamed in pain.


"LIGHTNING! COME FORTH!"
A bolt of lightning flashed across the room striking Ruflac in the chest, the possessed man stumbled backwards as Meiling blinked realising he wasn't as strong as he was when they first faced him.

"He's been weakened," she whispered.

Ruflac's head snapped up as though he had heard her.

"Still strong enough for you!" he snarled sending a blast of dark energy at her.

Meiling gracefully leapt into the air performing a perfect flip as the attack sailed beneath, she landed in a perfect stance as she smirked at Ruflac.

"Nice try."

She flung a card onto the floor.

"WATERY! RELEASE AND DISPEL!"

The tiny water-sprint sprung from the card before striking Ruflac with its watery tentacles binding him as Nivaline attacked.

"XUE!"

A jet of freezing wind buffeted the man creating a layer of frost on his body as he screamed in pain and struggled against his watery bonds. With a cry of rage, he lashed out his magic striking the Watery card and flinging it backwards as he unleashed a wave of dark energy at them.

"SHIELD CARD! RELEASE AND DISPEL!" Sakura cried.

A dome of blue energy blocked the attack as Ruflac stamped his feet in fury.

"DAMN YOU! STOP THAT! STOP USING YOUR GOD DAMN MAGIC!'

"Fine," Tomoyo smirked, "Look. No magic."

Ruflac had no time to react as Tomoyo kicked the small coffee table standing in the middle of the room up into the air, she whirled around and snap-kicked it the force of the blow sending the table rocketing across the room straight at Ruflac. It struck him in the chest exploding into splinters as he staggered backwards.

"See no magic and I still manage to kick you ass," Tomoyo sneered.

"Die," Ruflac whispered firing a huge ball of dark energy at her.

Sakura summoned the Shield card again but gasped in shock as the attack merely punched through her barrier. Tomoyo had no time to react as the dark energy shot straight at her ready to tear the flesh from her bones.

"NOOOOOO!!!!"


"Bitch!" Psuedo-Sakura pushed through the attack and struck Lara across the face drawing blood as Lara howled in pain.

She kicked Psuedo-Sakura in the stomach driving the air from the doppelganger's body before performing a perfect back flip kicking her in the face in the process. Psuedo-Sakura was flung backwards and hit the ground, hard as Lara laughed.

"You think you could defeat me?" she snarled.

Psuedo-Sakura glared at her.

"I know I can," she hissed as she flipped back to her feet.

She punched Lara in the side of the face and then nailed her with her opposite arm, Lara's head was flung violently side-to-side as Psuedo-Sakura continued to hammer her.

"Stop that!" she yelled seriously annoyed as she grabbed the doppelganger's arm and flipped her onto her back.

She raised her arm and tried to punch her in the face but Psuedo-Sakura rolled to the right as Lara's fist made a huge dent in the concrete. The doppelganger kicked Lara in the chest with both legs sending her flying across the warehouse and into the wall creating a gaping hole as she flipped onto her feet.

"Come on," she hissed, "Bring it on!"

With a roar of rage, Lara dashed across the room her arm cocked back and ready to punch. Psuedo-Sakura lunged at her, her arm in a similar position.

"BAM!"

Both of them connected at the same time, the force of their punches sending them both flying backwards. At the exactly the same moment they hit the ground, for a few seconds they laid there trying to regain their breath before slowly staggering to their feets both gasping in pain.

"It looks like we're evenly matched," Lara hissed.

Psuedo-Sakura laughed.

"Uh-uh," she refuted, "I'm just warming up."

Lara lunged at her trying to hit her with a flying-kick but to her shock, white light surrounded Psuedo-Sakura's body and she disappeared. Lara hit the ground heavily as she looked around trying to search for her opponent.

"What the?" she looked up as bright light appeared in front of her.

"Hi!" Psuedo-Sakura smirked suddenly appearing in front of her.

She kicked Lara in the face throwing her backward as the rogue Angel roared in rage.

"Dirty trick!" she snarled trying to nail her with a right hook.

Once again Psuedo-Sakura disappeared only to reappear when Lara completely missed. Taking advantage of her unbalance Psuedo-Sakura kicked her in the gut.

"Oh please," Psuedo-Sakura smirked blocking an attempt knee to the stomach.

Lara tried to take her out with a roundhouse kick but Psuedo-Sakura disappeared again, reappearing behind her and pushing her almost playfully in the back sending her stumbling forwards.

"Like this is an honourable fight and I'm an honourable person," Psuedo-Sakura laughed as Lara whirled around and tried to hit her again.

She disappeared and reappeared again several metres away.

"You can't defeat me," Psuedo-Sakura smirked as Lara charged at her, "In fact…"

She disappeared as Lara passed through suddenly empty space only to find that Psuedo-Sakura reappear again in mid-air striking her with a flying kick.

"You can't touch me," Psuedo-Sakura smiled impishly landing nimbly on the ground.

"Stay still!" Lara cried charging at her again.

Another swing and another miss as Psuedo-Sakura disappeared. This time however as Psuedo-Sakura began to reappear, Lara whirled around and blasted her with a bolt of dark energy.

"Touched you there," Lara smirked studying the huge burn across the doppelganger's chest.

"Oh, this?" Psuedo-Sakura gestured at her wound, "Merely superficial. Heal up in a couple of seconds."

Lara's eyes widened as the wound closed and disappeared replaced by healthy skin.

"See?" Psuedo-Sakura laughed, "Honey, are you out of your league."

"Don't honey me," Lara roared, "I'm not finished yet."

"No not yet. But almost," Psuedo-Sakura laughed.

Lara hurled another bolt of dark energy at her but this time Psuedo-Sakura held out her hand and laughed as the dark energy wrapped itself around her arm twining itself around her like a tame serpent. She pointed at Lara and the rogue Angel had no time to dodge as her own attack lashed out back at her striking her in the chest and throwing her backwards.

"See?" Psuedo-Sakura sashayed over to her, "You're finished."


Eriol had sneaked into Ruflac's mansion and had been startled to hear the sound of a battle going on so he had followed the noise and made his way towards the impressive living room that once would've been stunningly beautiful if not for the amazing amount of damage done to the place. He had been shocked (an understatement) to see Tomoyo in battle with the possess Ruflac but not had been nothing compared to his shock as seeing Ruflac attacking her.

"NOOOOOO!!!!" he screamed knowing that the energy would kill her instantly.

Shaking himself out of his stunned horror, he raised his crossbow and fired. The enchanted arrow whistled through the air narrowly missing Tomoyo's head and it sped forwards, everybody gasped in shock as the arrow struck the ball of dark energy and tore it apart as Ruflac's jaws dropped in shock as panic set in realising that the arrow was aiming straight for him.

He threw up a barrier of dark energy but the arrow sliced through it as though it was made of paper. At the last moment, he tried to jump to the side but was too late as the arrow thudded into his chest.

Instantly his dark eyes seem to dim as Meiling and Xiaolang took the chance to attack.

"FIRE! COME FORTH!"
"FIERY CARD! RELEASE AND DISPEL!"

Twin jets of flames struck Ruflac as the man screamed in pain before summoning a bolt of dark energy. It was a sad shadow of his previous attacks, obviously the arrow had done massive damage but it still managed to hit Xiaolang and had enough power to throw him back against the wall.

"Xiaolang!" Sakura gasped as the young man's head smashed against the hard marble as he slipped to the ground, out cold.

"DIE!" Ruflac screamed summoning up the last dregs of his power.

He flung a massive blast of dark energy at them as Sakura hurriedly held up her Star wand.

"SHIELD CARD! DEFLECT THE ATTACK! RELEASE AND DISPEL!" she cried.

A barrier of sparkling blue energy sprung up between them and the incoming attack as the sky outside turned a fiery red as the sun began to sink into the land. Stars began to appear as the darkness of night chased away the last rays of sunshine.

The dark energy struck the Shield card and was flung backwards straight at Ruflac, Nivaline frowned realising something had happened. Ruflac was bleeding horribly now but he fought back his pain as he tried to control his wayward attack. He flung his arm outwards but nothing happened, no magic happened. Nivaline could sense it; this man had no magical powers what so ever.

But how?
"What on earth?" she gasped.

Ruflac screamed as the dark energy slammed into his already weakened body, everyone looked away as the energy burnt at his skin and flesh tearing him apart. With a huge bang, the dark power ripped through his power and exploded flinging burning flesh everywhere.

Eriol, satisfied that Ruflac was dead and not wanting Tomoyo to know he was there quickly slipped away, confusion and questions ringing through his mind.

"His head," Sakura murmured, "But how?"

"The spell must have run out," Nivaline said quietly, "The spell that harness energy from the Void card to Lara must've been finished."

"Still I can't help wondering," Meiling said with a frown as she looked around, "What happened to Lara?"


Psuedo-Sakura kicked Lara in the ribs as the rogue Angel rolled over and groaned in pain.

"You're finished," the doppelganger smirked as the sky outside began to darken.

She raised her foot ready to stomp Lara's head into the ground as the woman roared in fury.

"NOOO!!!"

Dark energy burst from her body and cocooned her in its burning embrace as Lara Williams teleported away.

"Well, that was anticlimactic," Psuedo-Sakura noted smirking, "But still, I won against the big bad!"

She continued to crow over her victory as she strolled towards the thick iron doors. With a flick of her wrist, she broke the lock and flung the door open.

"Hey, my pretties! Guess who's he…" Psuedo-Sakura stopped as her eyes widened in shock.

Instead of Zachary and Chelsea Yamazaki there was a ball of blue energy floating in the air. Psuedo-Sakura gasped as she realised she had been tricked.

"NO!!! DAMN IT! NOOOOO!!!"


Lara teleported herself to Los Angeles hospital knowing she was badly wounded. She gasped feeling the power that had been coursing through her body beginning to fade.

"No," she gasped, "No! The power! Please!"

As medics swarmed around her, the rogue Angel screamed before fainting.


"Xiaolang?" Sakura gently shook the young man's prone body.

Nivaline, Meiling and Tomoyo had already left, gone to get a car as Sakura tried to wake Xiaolang. Slowly his burning amber eyes fluttered open, his sleepy gaze met her own emerald eyes as a soft smile appeared on his face.

"Ahh… Sakura…" he whispered, "My love."


And with that he fell back into unconsciousness as Sakura stared at him.

"Sakura?" Nivaline asked.

They had ended back at Tomoyo's house with much celebration even though Xiaolang was still unconscious resting in Tomoyo's room but Sakura had escaped the partying and had ended up outside gazing up into the stars.

"Nivaline… what is magic?" Sakura asked still staring up into the dark sky, "Is it good? It is bad?"

Nivaline sighed.

"Sakura, you killed Ruflac because you had to."

"No, it's just not that," Sakura sighed before staring into Nivaline's warm and compassionate eyes, "It's just… Psuedo-Sakura… she's made from… me. And she's like evil reincarnated… does this mean I'm evil? Do I have this dark side to me that's ready to come out and kill?"

"Sakura," Nivaline turned to look at her, "This world both physical, natural and magical is about balance. Every mage knows that. Like fire and water, the earth and the sea, the sun and the moon… it's all about balance. It's physics: every action had a reaction. Psuedo-Sakura was created to try and challenge you… to create a sort of a balance between the two of you… darkness to you Angels' light. Of course she's evil, she has to be to even try and beat you. I see Psuedo-Sakura's evilness as not being a part of you but rather the opposite of you. So if Psuedo-Sakura is really evil… it means you are really good."

"Thanks," Sakura smiled at her, comforted by her words.

"Come on," Nivaline beamed back at her, "Let's party!"

"Maybe in a while," Sakura replied softly, Nivaline nodded as she turned around and opened Tomoyo's front door before walking back into the house.

Sakura stared at the moon.

"Lake of balance…" she whispered suddenly remembering Yue's cryptic clue.

Suddenly she froze remembering what Nivaline had just told her.

=It's all about balance… like fire and water, the earth and the sea, the sun and the moon…= she gasped.

"The Sun and the Moon! The Lake of balance!" Sakura cried suddenly beginning to pace around as it finally came to her: the location of the mirror, "Balance! I know where it is now! I know where the mirror is!"

And with that she whirled around and dashed back into the house.


LONGEST CHAPTER EVER! That took a long time and a lot of energy but it's done!!!!!

Next chapter:

After uncovering the location of the mirror, the three Angels head off trying to retrieve the artefact not knowing that trouble is still brewing in L.A.. But that's the only problem, Psuedo-Sakura is still around and Yue's prophecy is also coming true: a terrible guardian will stand in their way. But something else terrible is about to happen… what is it? You'll just have to find out in… Mirror, mirror

A/Note:

Longest chapter ever! Can't believe this is over 30 pages long! I don't think any other chapter will be as long (except for perhaps the final chapter… maybe).

Well, how did I go? This chapter was the long because of extensive magic battles, the fight scene between Psuedo-Sakura and Lara and the final battle between Ruflac and the Angels. How was it? Interesting, exciting, boring? Please, please tell me!

And for all S/S fans… don't you hate me for dragging it out? Will this be a SS fic… still unsure but it's possible!!!! (I'm evil)

Well, after that short piece of rambling only one real piece of news to give… there is only about 5 chapters left!!! 5 chapters to go! But don't worry 'Syaoran's Angels: P.S.' (you'll have to find out what that stands for later… hahahahaha!!!), is in its early staging plans and will probably be 'darker' than this one… but keep in mind that this fic is a W.I.P. so delays are expected! So be patient and please RR!!!!