Chapter 15
Sorceress Myst: I'm back! ….I hope this doesn't turn out to be a yearly update…
Fagtron: What? What's x and y? Stupid algebra. (Fagtron opens her mouth and tries to put the algebra book in there.)
Sorceress Myst: Fagtron, if you eat your book, then you'll never get to read PG-13 fics. (Fagtron smiles sweetly and gently places the book back down.)
Fagtron: Okay, then I sentence it to eternal fla-
Sorceress Myst: You can't set the book on fire with your fire spell either. (Sorceress Myst stares at the book) Wait a minute… JED!
Apprentice Jed: (Looking up from comic) Yes sir-I mean-ma'am?
Sorceress Myst: Are you making Fagtron do your homework again?
Apprentice Jed: Kinda…
Sorceress Myst: Okay, just don't let her find out that she's doing your work.
Fagtron: She's doing what!?
Sorceress Myst: Nothing, say the disclaimer.
Fagtron: Ooh! Sorceress Myst doesn't own CCS or any of its characters except for Xylona. Hey! Why does the algebra book have Apprentice Jed's name on it!?
Apprentice Jed: Uhh…now on with the story!
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Eiryn…you murdered my parents and my sister and I forgave you. Then you show up to attack someone I was beginning to love so I killed you. Finally, with the help of that relic, you come back from the dead and possess Xavier to slaughter my new parents on Blane's birthday. I was only able to save Blane. Because of you I ran away to Japan, to hide behind the Card Captor. Because of you Blane is still in the mental asylum recovering from shock. Thanks a lot Eiryn. Now the only thing left for me to do is to fight to the death for my family, both of them.
-Last diary entry from Sorceress Xylona Shaheen/Pendragon
Xylona dodged the lightning bolt that was aimed at her and counter attacked with her shuriken. The shuriken was knocked from its target from a swift wind spell and nearly sliced Xylona's head off. Most elemental attacks cast by Sakura and Syaoran were blocked by a guardian of the same element. Sometimes the guardians would shove Kero and the others in harm's way. Eiryn's guardians outnumbered Sakura and Eriol's guardians and made it impossible to hit Eiryn. Eriol mostly stayed in the background, studying the weakness and strengths of the enemy, but he sometimes cast a force spell that kept the guardians away from the humans. Tomoyo turned out to be very evasive and blocked nearly all the attacks aimed at them. She was real handy in battle, but every now and then she would pull out her camera and tape everything with an evil grin on her face.
It seemed like no one was winning because no one could hit Eiryn and he wasn't fighting back. Eiryn's guardians were either protecting him from spells by reflecting them back or wrestled with Yue's team. Because of the guardian's loyalty to Eiryn, Sakura couldn't use cards like Power or Sword or she might injure them severely.
"Xylona!" Tomoyo shouted as she approached her, "When Syaoran gives a signal, cast a thunder spell at the dragon."
"What good would that do!?"
"It's supposed to distract him." She explained before running to Eriol.
"Aw! But I love dragons!" Xylona whined. Suddenly Ramadon flew by her and was preparing a thunder spell for Ruby.
"Hey Ramadon!" Xylona cried, causing him to stop chanting and hover over her.
"What?" He asked in a hoarse voice.
"I love you…" she said sweetly as she slightly leaned side to side with her hands behind her back like an innocent girl.
Ramadon only blinked in bewilderment before rolling his eyes and muttering, "…Humans…"
She kept the look a moment longer before getting big watery eyes and blushed cheeks and started screaming, "I'LL LOVE YOU AND HUG YOU AND CALL YOU MR SCALY!!!!!!!"
The dragon sweat dropped and quickly began chanting a thunder spell as Xylona began jumping up to hug him. Eriol finally saw what was happening and cast another force spell to push him away from her. Xylona turned to glare at him as he suddenly raised his staff in a defense position. She raised an eyebrow in confusion as she realized that no one was attacking him. She dismissed this as some weird sorcerer thing and focused on the battle.
"Now!" Syaoran ordered. Xylona quickly cast the thunder spell at Ramadon while Syaoran cast a lightning spell at Siva. Although the spell did not affect Ramadon, it distracted him from saving Siva, who was now temporarily stunned. This allowed Watery to slip through and attack Eiryn. Eiryn screamed out in pain and retaliated by throwing a water spell back at Sakura. The spell was too large to block with the shields and Sakura didn't have enough time to get the Shield Card out.
"Sakura!" Syaoran jumped in front of her and took the blow from behind. The water spell knocked them down.
"Syaoran! Are you okay?!" she asked in a worried tone, ignoring the fact that he was lying on top of her.
"Yeah, but are you alright?" he cringed as he pushed himself up so he could look down at her. She nodded and kissed him on the cheek.
"Yes, thanks to you…"
"Hey you two! Making out during a battle is NOT a good idea!" shouted Xylona in the background, causing them to blush. Syaoran quickly got up to help Sakura to her feet. Tomoyo grinned as she taped the cute moment and then faced the camera at Xylona who had slapped her forehead and rolled her eyes at them. She started to walk away from them, but suddenly froze in place.
"Eriol, what's wrong with her?" He glanced in Xylona's direction before realizing that-
"Xylona! Close your mind or you'll lose it!" he snapped, but it was too late as a ball of electric energy surrounded her.
"Your power is MINE!!!" a deep voice growled. Xylona screamed as waves of pain erupted through out her body, taking away her knowledge of her thunder spell and a quarter of her energy.
"So that was what Hiiragizawa was doing earlier. His power can be stolen too; he was concealing his mind from that relic so his spell can't be taken." Xylona thought as she slowly stood up.
It was now quiet. No spells were cast, no wind was blowing. Eriol narrowed his eyes as he felt strong energy everywhere. He felt his hair rise on the back of his neck before a volley of elemental spells erupted from below. Some of the blasts gracefully curved down for a second attack. Eriol pulled Tomoyo in his embrace as one nearly hit her from behind. He then pulled her behind him so they could block spells back to back.
"Time!"
Xylona looked up to find a fire spell was about to strike her. She backed way and faced Sakura. Sakura was breathing heavily as the Time Card spun above her.
"Sakura! Use the Arrow Card on Eiryn!" Xylona shouted. Sakura nodded and quickly pulled the card out.
"Arrow!" a girl then appeared and released an arrow that quickly multiplied into many arrows before they passed through Eiryn, causing no damage to him.
"It didn't work…" Sakura muttered as the card returned to her.
"He's only a ghost…only elemental spells seem to affect him." Syaoran explained. Sakura's eyes went wide at the mention of ghosts.
"G-ghost?"
"Not for long Sakura, we need to get the relic away from him. Doing so will force his spirit to move on." Xylona said as she glared at Eiryn's time frozen form.
"We're running out of time and we can't hit Eiryn when the guardians are in the way." Added Eriol.
"We can't hold them off either, there's too many of them." Kero agreed as he flew by.
"Then use me. If you can cast your spells behind me, I'll lead them to Eiryn." Everyone turned to the direction of the voice. Kalie was running towards them in her celestial form, "My brothers and sisters won't attack me or get in my way."
"But you might get hurt if you don't get out of the way in time." Xylona warned.
"I don't think we have any other option," Sakura said as she knelt to Kalie's level, "Are you sure you want to do this?"
"More than anything! After all, I'm the only one who could do this," she chirped before she ran to the edge of the building. Time was slowly continuing around them as Sakura readied seven cards in her hand; Watery, Fiery, Earthly, Windy, Light, Dark, and Thunder. She glanced around at Syaoran and Eriol as they also prepared to cast spells. She then saw Xylona run up to Kalie. Sakura thought about calling her back, but something inside told her to trust Xylona.
Kalie stared at her siblings as they were released from frozen time. They gave her a surprised look when they saw her. Suddenly, she felt a weight on top of her.
"What are you doing!?" Kalie squeaked at her master as Xylona placed her feet behind her wings.
"I'm going with you," Xylona responded casually, "Someone needs to grab the relic after the spells hit him. I hope I'm not too heavy for you."
"Nah! I'm as strong as Ramadon!" she bragged, causing Xylona to smile and roll her eyes.
Kalie jumped and flapped her transparent, fiery wings. Sakura, Syaoran, and Eriol immediately cast all the elemental spells they had. Xylona cast a small wind spell to help Kalie fly faster. And just as Kalie said, the guardians move out of her way as she came closer to Eiryn. Once they were a few inches away from him, Kalie quickly descended under him while Xylona threw her shuriken into the magical wave. Eiryn became less transparent as each spell struck him and when Xylona's shuriken brushed past his cheek, he began bleeding. Kalie flew behind him so Xylona could steal the relic of Zebas while Eiryn was doubled over in pain. She held in a scream as she touched the chain of the relic because it sent sharp stings throughout her body. Suddenly Eiryn's hand grabbed her wrist and pulled her off of Kalie.
"No! Xylona!" Kalie cried as Diablos held her back. The other guardians started an aggressive assault on Sakura and Eriol's guardians, leaving Eiryn defenseless.
Ruby watched as Siva sent a blast of water towards Suppi and was about to go help him until she thought she saw Yue aiming an enchanted arrow at her in the corner of her eye. She turned as the arrow breezed past her and struck Luna behind her. Luna was knocked back and then tackled by Kero. Ruby smiled at Yue before she spotted Phoenix getting ready to cast a fire spell at him.
"Yue! Behind you!" She shouted as she gave him a big hug that caused him to fall back and miss the spell, "Thank you Yue! You're so sweet!"
"U-uh, Ruby not now." He stuttered as he tried to aim another arrow at Phoenix. Ruby quickly let go and blushed.
"Oh yeah," she giggled while gliding towards Teum, "Well maybe later!"
Tomoyo was recording the battles and realized that all the guardians were fighting. She was about to tell Sakura it was safe to use her other cards when she noticed Eriol staring at something. He was watching Xylona struggle while Eiryn held her by her wrists. There was no card that could be used to attack Eiryn and save Xylona if she fell and it was impossible for an attack card to only strike Eiryn when Xylona was dangling in front of him.
"But if Eriol could…," Tomoyo thought as a plan formed in her mind, "Then Sakura…"
Eiryn squeezed Xylona's wrists so hard that his fingernails drew blood. She tried to pull away by placing a foot on his chest. It didn't work as well as she hoped, but this distracted him from noticing Xylona's other foot digging under the relic's chain. Suddenly, a small bolt of lightning struck Eiryn's leg as Xylona tried to pull away again, causing him to finally let go. Xylona felt a snap before she began to fall to the ground.
"Windy!" She faintly heard Sakura cry before Windy caught her. Xylona then realized that the snap she felt earlier was Eiryn's relic. It was now lying harmlessly on her shoe.
"I got the relic Sakura!" She shouted excitedly. She watched as Sakura smiled and faced the others to tell them the news. But then Xylona felt some one grab her ankle.
"Love hurts, doesn't it?" Eiryn whispered in her ear.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!"
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"Xylona got the-" Sakura stopped in mid-sentence and glanced behind her when she heard the scream.
"Sakura, watch out!" She then felt arms around her waist pull her back as a body landed near her. She broke out of Syaoran's embrace when she recognized the body, "Xylona!"
Xylona was face down and had a pool of blood near her head. Eriol gently picked up her hand and searched for a pulse, "She's still alive."
"We better tend to her wounds quickly before she loses more blood." Syaoran advised as he and Eriol tried to lift her. Xylona began coughing blood as she regained consciousness.
"S-Shaheen…Flying eagle……Never broken," She whispered. Eriol and Syaoran carefully began dragging her inside the school. Sakura looked around, but found no trace of Eiryn or the relic.
"Why are the guardians still fighting? Eiryn is gone," Sakura wondered before asking out loud, "How did this happen to her if Eiryn is gone?"
"HAHAHAHA!!!" Sakura felt something on her arms that forced her to fall flat on the school roof. She tried to get back up, but found that she couldn't move again. Syaoran immediately left Xylona's side to go help Sakura only to also be paralyzed to the ground. Soon Tomoyo and Eriol fell, leaving Xylona kneeling on the ground to mutter unintelligible sentences. Kero and his team were cornered by the guardians while Kalie was still held back by Diablos. Eiryn appeared above Xylona, his relic in his right hand.
"Now watch as I destroy your friends and then you can witness me taking over the world!" He yelled as a large ball of energy formed above him. Sakura struggled to get up. Her staff was still in her hand, but she couldn't reach her cards. Despite the loud noise around her, Sakura could hear Xylona muttering.
"She…she's chanting. What spell is she trying to cast?"
A magic circle formed around them. It was just a plain yellow circle with no crest. The circle then formed a dome that nullified the binding spell Eiryn cast on everyone. But as everyone sat up, no one had the energy to move another inch.
"Shaheen means flight of the eagle. I am an eagle, my loyalty to my family was never broken," The magic circle responded to her confession and developed a crest decorated with wings, "Now I call upon my ancestral powers to transport everyone in this circle to safety in exchange…"
The rest of her spell was drowned out as Eiryn released the energy ball. The dome glowed as the two spells collided. Tomoyo noticed the circle was also glowing and felt herself passing through the school's roof. She stared at Xylona and seen her mouth mutter a 'goodbye' before she blacked out.
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Xylona collapsed on the cold ground once the spell was complete. She didn't know where Sakura and the others were, but she knew they were somewhere safe. She worried about Kalie, Kero, Suppi, Yue, and even Ruby. Her spell couldn't reach them so they were left behind. Xylona was completely drained of energy and she had a feeling that if she closed her eyes, they will never open again. She smiled as she thought of her parents and her sister. She couldn't defeat Eiryn. She has done all she could by saving Sakura. Now it was up to Sakura to stop Eiryn.
"Maybe I can see my family now…" her last thought was before she closed her eyes and slipped into oblivion.
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Sorceress Myst: Are Sakura and the others really safe? Will the guardians be okay? What did Xylona give up as she chanted her spell? Her life or something else…? Find out in later chapters.
Fagtron: I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!! I sentence the book to eternal flames! (Fagtron accidentally sets Apprentice Jed's magazine on fire) Oops…
Apprentice Jed: (putting out the flames) Fagtron! You have to be specific when you cast spells!
Fagtron: Pacific?
Apprentice Jed: Specific!
Sorceress Myst: You know, I think we're going about this the wrong way. Fagtron, you don't need to learn Algebra anymore.
Fagtron: Yea! (Does a victory dance while Apprentice Jed takes the Algebra book away)
Sorceress Myst: Instead, you are going to study English so you can read big words. (Gives her a large English book)
Fagtron: Aw man!
Apprentice Jed: (while looking at her finished Algebra homework approvingly) I think I'll go make everyone some fresh lemonade!
Fagtron: (brightens up) I love lemons! (Sorceress Myst and Apprentice Jed snickers) What? …ooohhh yeah… (sarcastically) hilari…hirary …funny! Just keep on laughing I don't care…
Sorceress Myst: Don't worry, we will. C ya next time! Oh, and I want to thank all the reviewers for their support, I would have said this in earlier chapters, but I keep forgetting to add it…