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POWER! An Insane Crossover!
Chapter #4
Tristan's House
"This is so cool!" Madison smiled as she looked around in the room she and her two friends were currently unpacking in. "Just the three of us, hanging out! Won't this be fun, Sakura?" No response. "Sakura?" What's wrong with her? She was acting funny ever since we got back from the airport...
That man...That cloaked man...Sakura's thoughts were elsewhere. There was something strange about that cloaked man...
"SAKUR-RA!" Madison shouted in her ear, breaking her thoughts and finally making Sakura aware of her surroundings.
"What was that for?" The Card captor asked.
"You seemed distant. I wanted to bring you back to reality." Madison shrugged off Sakura's peeved face and continued to unpack.
"Well sorry. I was thinking about stuff." Sakura responded as the silence returned.
"Was it about that man at the airport?" Li asked. He was a bit strange looking...and he was starting to follow us...
Sakura nodded. "I don't know what it was, but it was strange...."
Madison, bored with the conversation, walked towards the window. What the--? "Uh, guys...Was this cloaked man wearing a black cloak?"
"Yeah, why?" Sakura asked, walking towards the window.
"Because I think I see him.... He's right across the street!" Madison cried, pointing to the suspicious man.
Sakura felt the same feeling she got from bumping into him. It's like he knows my secret of being the Card Mistress... "Come on! I don't know what he's planning, but we have to stop him!"
"But Sakura," Madison protested, "We don't even KNOW the guy. This could all be one massive coincidence."
"But I have a bad feeling about him. And my 'bad feelings' are usually never wrong! Come on!" Sakura grabbed her cards and her key and raced out the door. Li followed quickly and Madison did too, reluctantly.
"Hey, where are you kids going?" Tristan asked, coming out of the kitchen. "Lunch is ready."
"We need to...uh..." Sakura tried to think of an answer. "...Visit a friend...who lives across the street from you! Yeah, that's it...."
"Oh. Okay.... Well, I better come with you.... You know, for parental supervision." Tristan said. If I let these kids out of my sight, they could get into trouble...or I could get into trouble...
"No, no, that's not necessary..." Li said, waving his hands in front of him.
"Nonsense." Tristan grabbed his coat. "Come on then." He opened the door and stepped out.
"We need to distract him..." Sakura whispered. Maybe we could use one of my cards...
"Where's your friend's house?"
"Uh...that way." Sakura pointed to the street in front of them.
"Hey, this is the same street my friend Téa lives on. What a coincidence, eh?" Tristan smiled.
"Wow..." Sakura smiled. "Uh.... Téa is that friend we need to visit..." That cloaked man was walking on that street...we have to go there!
"That's great!" Tristan led the way. Hey, why is that man wearing so many layers? It's hot out! Besides, cloaks are out these days... He thought absent-mindedly about the man who was walking—or floating rather—in front of them. What a dork.
Téa's House
"Can you pass the juggs-I MEAN-jug of iced tea?" Miroku fumbled. All of them were currently sitting at Téa's kitchen table having a snack.
PERVERT! Téa's mind screamed. She grabbed the jug of iced tea and threw it on him. "Excuse me; I need to make some more iced tea."
"Miroku, stop acting like that!" Kagome scolded.
"What? You mean, stop acting like myself?"
"YES!"
As Téa returned, Inu-Yasha's ears twitched. "Kagome...Someone's coming." It's a new scent...It seems like a human...but it isn't really...What strange people does Kagome's time hold?!
Without thinking, Kagome grabbed the Jewel around her neck protectively. "What is it?"
The doorbell rang. Téa stood to answer the door when Inu-Yasha withdrew Tessaiga and moved in front of her. "I don't know what's out there...but it doesn't smell human."
She blinked several times but continued to walk behind Inu-Yasha towards the door. The half-demon raised his sword as Téa opened the door.
"AH!" Tristan screamed as his eyes saw the sword. WHAT THE HECK?!
Téa realized that Inu-Yasha might hurt Tristan and his companions. "Whoa! Stop!" Grabbing onto his hands that held the sword, she stopped him. "These guys are my friends! They ARE human!"
Inu-Yasha lowered his sword and began to sniff Tristan. What is he doing?! Both Téa and Tristan thought. "You're human..." He crouched to meet the height of the three younger kids that stood behind the human boy.
Sniffing the others, he frowned. The girl with brown hair has a faint smell...But the one I smelled first is different...More powerful..."If it wasn't you guys, then who is the person with the un-human scent?" Inu-Yasha's head snapped towards Téa's backyard. "There!" He took off running towards the scent. It's getting stronger! With the other five following behind him, Inu-Yasha continued to run.
Seeing a black cloak, he smiled. Gotcha! Hey! Where'd he go?! Before the half-demon could grab onto the cloak, it disappeared into the wall!
"Hey! That's the same cloak the man at the airport was wearing!" Sakura cried as they all caught up with Inu-Yasha.
"We gotta get back inside! Téa, where's the nearest entrance?" Inu-Yasha asked quickly. Not waiting for a response, he simply jumped up and crashed through one of her windows.
"HEY!" Téa shouted. My mom's gonna KILL me when she gets home...
"That freak is going towards the kitchen! Kagome!" Without waiting for the others, Inu-Yasha bolted towards the room.
"Téa," Tristan started to say, "you got some freaky friends."
"Long story..." She replied, sighing. "Come on, let's go through the front."
"Sakura, is that cloaked man here?" Madison asked. "You can 'sense' him, right?" Sakura nodded and followed the others towards the kitchen.
Voldemort smiled as he walked through the wall. Yup. Still got it. Now I will gain a few seconds...And that's all I need to grab the shards! His eyes locked on the black haired, brown-eyed girl and instantly found the pink Jewel hanging around her neck.
Kagome turned to look at the cloaked man. "Uh, Miroku, did that man just walk through the wall?"
Miroku stood up. "Stand back!" He shouted, holding his staff horizontal to his body and standing in front of Kagome. No way is this guy getting a hold of the Shards! I saw that look in his eyes...He wants them...He wants their power!
This mortal thinks he can defend himself against me?! Voldermort smiled wickedly and waved his hands in the air. "Timious areterous! [1]" Both Miroku and Kagome stopped moving. Perfect...Walking over towards Kagome, he quickly snatched the Jewel from the necklace she wore.
"Stop right there!" Inu-Yasha shouted, Tessaiga drawn. "Return those shards or I swear I'll cut you up into pieces!"
"No one can stand in my way when I have the POWER!" Voldemort laughed aloud, holding onto the fragments tightly.
"You're a crazy old kook, you know that?!" Inu-Yasha pulled his sword over his head and swung it in the direction of the cloaked man. He's toast! "TESSAIGA!"
But before the sword could touch Voldemort, he had disappeared in a puff of smoke. The spell on Miroku and Kagome broke and both were able to move again.
"Kagome, are you alright?" Inu-Yasha asked first.
"Yeah...But...He—He took the shards!" Kagome cried. "I'm sorry!"
"Don't worry about it...He couldn't of gotten far!" Inu-Yasha concluded, picking up his scent again. Invisible or not, I can still smell ya...He put Kagome onto his back. "Hold on."
"HEY!" Téa shouted. "What happened--?"
"Follow me by foot. That cloaked freak of nature got away with our shards!" Inu-Yasha explained, taking off towards the broken window and after the scent.
"And, that's bad?" Madison and Tristan asked.
"Oh yea," Li said. "I've studied the ancient jewel shards before, and I know enough about them to say, they should never be in the wrong hands."
Tristan and Madison were still confused.
"I'll explain on the way! Come on!" Miroku directed the rest of them in Inu-Yasha's direction. After asking Téa if she wanted a piggyback ride and getting another slap, the entire gang was off in the direction of the red blur.
This man is dangerous! Sakura thought as all of them began to run. If he's after those shards, maybe he's after my cards too! Miroku had already told them the power of the shards and how he suspects that the cloaked man is after more power. We can't let him take the power! If he succeeds, the world is doomed!
On the Road
"What a crazy lunatic..." Spike sighed as the cloaked man made his way off the road and towards another street.
"He's a crazy lunatic?" Mai asked. "If anything, the way you're driving will classify YOU as a basket-case!" Why did I even agree to ride with these 'bounty hunters'?
"Hey, Faye, keep your niece quiet." Spike shot back, putting the car back into gear.
Faye sighed in the back seat. She had explained everything to Mai: how she was frozen, how she met up with the whole gang and that she makes a living catching bad guys for a reward. Her niece was taking things very well... surprisingly.
"Spike!" Ed called from behind Faye and Mai. "That man looks like a photograph!"
"What?" Jet asked. Wait... "Hey, Mai...That's your name right?"
"Yeah. What?" The blonde asked.
"Pass me that folder." Mai handed it to him and instantly, Jet realized what Ed was talking about. "Spike, turn this car around."
"You're the boss." He turned the wheel sharply, almost flipping the car over.
"That man in the cloak is the guy we're after!" Jet explained.
Great...we got two lunatics chasing after one another...Just great...Mai thought as she clung to the seat when Spike made another sharp turn to go onto the street the cloaked man was walking.
As they drove, they saw a group of people running in the same direction they were going. "Spike, slow down for a second." Mai said as she recognized two people in the running pack. "Hey! Tristan! Téa!" Mai waved from the window. Both teens looked over but didn't stop.
"Sorry...Mai..." Téa said between gasps of breath. "We're...busy...right now..."
"Where's the fire?" She asked.
One of the other people running with Téa and Tristan, wearing odd purple robes, blurted, "We're chasing this cloaked man because he stole something that shouldn't have been stolen!"
Cloaked man? Oh no...Don't tell me...These guys are after the same guy we're after! Both Mai and Faye thought. "Hop in!" Mai opened the door next to her and waved the group in.
Even though Spike was grumbling about the whole thing, all of the runners were seated uncomfortably in the back seat. Miroku told him to follow a red blur in the sky and under his directions. And they were off.
In Yugi's HouseYugi flipped through Ninjas for Dummies as Naruto continued to gaze around nervously. He's been doing that since he got here! An annoyed Yugi thought. Yugi was now pretending to read as he held his book in front of his face. He moved it down every so often to glance at his edgy cousin. The only sound in the room was the grandfather clock ticking slowly.
Tick-tock tick-tock...
Naruto had the feeling he was being watched again. He stared at his cousin, who was now staring back. It was a very quiet awkward moment. No one was saying anything, and the clock was still ticking.
Tick-tock-tick-tock..."OK! I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!" Yugi said throwing his book aside. "You have to tell me why you are so jumpy all the time! What the hell did you do?"
"I already told you! I can't say." Naruto said softly, still making sure no one else was around.
"Well you're going to have to or else you can't stay here. I mean you could be some kind of criminal for all I know!" Yugi said firmly.
"Alright, fine, I don't blame you for being so suspicious." Naruto said. Then he motioned his hand for his cousin to come closer. Naruto whispered in Yugi's ear.
"That's it?! You ate his sandwich?!" Yugi blurted out loudly.
"Sh-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h!" Naruto quickly covered his cousin's mouth. "You trying to get me killed?"
"I don't see what the big deal is..." The spiky haired teen muttered, turning back towards the couch. "What do you plan to do about it?"
Naruto jumped up and ran in front of his cousin. "If you must know, I plan to get all the Dragon Balls to wish for my wrongs to be right."
"You're wishing for a sandwich?"
"I'd like to hear a better idea."
"Why can't you just--?"
"—NO! It's the only way! The sandwich was sacred!" Naruto interrupted. "It was made by the elite elders!"
Yugi sighed. "You know what? You can do whatever the hell you want."
Naruto smiled. "Good! Wanna help? I already found ONE of the Dragon Balls, conveniently located outside the kitchen window....Remember that time where we heard those weird noises? It was out there."
"Where did it come from?"
The blonde ninja shrugged. "Beats me. But I think I saw some strange cloaked man cursing afterwards..."
Well, if it'll help my cousin get out of trouble, I'll do it! Yugi thought. "Okay Naruto, where do we go looking?"
"Uh...." Naruto mumbled. I don't know! I found the first one by fluke! "Wanna try around the city?"
Suddenly, a loud crash was heard upstairs. "What was that?!" Both boys asked at the same time. Running to the source, they saw a man with spiky black hair with a blue spandex suit with yellow and white armour on top.
"I believe you have something of mine...."
In the Air"Why do I get the crappy broom?!" Bakura shouted over the wind to Harry and Hermione who were currently sharing one broom.
"What are you talking about?" Harry asked. "That was your old broom from when you were at Hogwarts, before that unfortunate accident."
"Yes...Accident." Bakura shifted his eyes. "But it's not fair! My magic is rusty. I can barely control this thing! Whoa!" Bakura's broom zigzagged up and down almost hitting the other two flyers, and Bakura fell off his broom only grabbing on to it just in time. "Oh! Honestly! Son of a bitch! See?!" He shouted, holding onto his broom with one hand.
"Don't worry Bakura," Hermione sighed, "Harry said we're almost there..."
"Alright, but you better be right!" A worried Bakura said as he pulled himself back on the broom. Don't look down, don't look down, don't look down... But against his better judgment, Bakura looked down. "Hey, that looks like my friend Téa's house....Why is there a car speeding out of control?"
SEE?! I told you we'd be done quicker!
[1] Yeah....um...We just made up a curse to stop time. Timious=Time (can you see the resemblance) Areterous=Arête (French for stop. GET IT?)
Anyway, thankies for all who reviewed last chapter, and now, an authors rant
PG: Anime Expo was cool...POCKY RULES!!!!!!! Need more POCKY!
Evil SS: (Nods) uh-huh.... Tell it to the men in white....
PG: Anyway! Hope you enjoyed the randomness
Evil SS: See Ya next week
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