Three Worlds, One Sakura Feather…

The sequel to Secrets: A New Hope (Tsubasa Chronicles/Cardcaptors)

The Seven Kudans Unite: Power of Tharne

"My king!" yelled one of the guards suddenly. "The Black Rose group is coming here with all their armies and power!" Li Avalon looked up; there was a sense of alarm in the Clow Palace! But he was determined not to give up the fight…
"High Priest Julian, please stay here with my Princess, everyone else, follow me!"

The battle lines were drawn, and the Black Rose/Shorin army stood in the desert sand… But there was trouble ahead for them… Immediately, the entire Cardcaptor/Tsubasa group called out their long-lost, hidden seven Kudans…


"Fire!" called Li Avalon as his own Fire Kudan appeared in a blazing hue, it's orange wolfish form blazing like the fire within the elemental beast itself.
"Water!" Madison Talyor's Kudan materialized as water poured from the depths of the river… It looked like one of those aquatically mystic mermaids, except it was made out of solid liquid, sort of like cold lava to the touch.
"Earth!" Sakura Avalon shouted as the rocky earth began to quake and her beast emerged; it looked like a huge tortoise with slabs of rock covering its back, its nose was so hard, like rock, its jaws like iron. It resembled a furry creature- possibly a cat.

"Air!" Fye summoned his wind eagle Kudan. It screeched as it came, the wind rustling its white feathers and its spirit form was smoky.
"Ice!" Yashii cried as the smoke was condensed around him, immediately; the frozen dragon emerged with a roar of power. Mist swirled around it.
"Starlight!" Mei's Kudan appeared with a twinkle of light. It neighed once, rearing like a furious wild brumby. Its bright exterior blinded everyone who was watching!

"Darkness!" Kurogane's dragon roared, it's wings were as blue as sapphires.

"Together, all emerge into one,

release the Power of Tharne!"

Everyone chanted the verse without knowing how they did it. The Kudans all roared and combined into a multicoloured super-powerful elemental beast that was a combination of all of them. The beast (called Tharne, the 'King of the Kudans) was three times more powerful than the Shorin people's dark Kudans, and had twice the firepower. Somehow, the Kudan, Tharne, reminded Li Showron of someone, but whom? Tharne looked like an alternating colourful beast that had glowing silver eyes- and a very vague form of a giant leopard/lion with vivid orange wings sprouting from its back.

The beast flashed a dark purple before releasing his immense psychic power. At once all the evil Kudans tried to resist it by attacking the beast's form, but they were all absorbed into the King of Kudan's body… All of the shadowed Kudans squealed.

"WHAT!" yelled Leon, "This isn't supposed to happen! Looks like I need to defeat this monster!" His electric sword appeared solid within his hands. "Electron Nova!" Immediately, the sword shattered with a snap, but the sharp pieces were all headed for Tharne! When the metal pieces were stuck in the beast's flesh, they exploded.

But Leon wasn't expecting that Tharne wouldn't be affected by the explosion!

Immediately, Tharne stared at Leon, You dare attack me! It roared in Leon's mind.

"So, you're just a-" Leon began. But he never finished, Tharne leapt on him… Sakura Avalon didn't want to see, so she asked Li Showron to cover her eyes. Trembling, he did what she asked him to do.
"Sakura, whatever you do, don't look!" yelled Li Showron.

"This… Is horrible," muttered Nekino in horror.

"I agree," said Princess Madison, "Killing solves nothing."

When they saw what Tharne did to Leon, the Shorin people (including Kyro) ran the other way! But Madeline and Furai still stood, they were the only ones left in the battle.

"If you want the feather of memories, you'll have to get to me first!" challenged Furai. Kero-Cham dove at him in enragement, "I'll get the memories for the Princess!" he yelled.

"No! Animals! Come to our help!" shouted Nekino in his animal language. Suddenly, birds came to their aid, answering Nekino's call for a rally. All kinds of birds, swans, eagles, swallows, hawks, seagulls… They all swarmed the sky and aimed for Furai's head, diving and squawking and pecking. Finally, Furai cried out,

"I can't stand it anymore! Please, stop the attack of those birds!" he pleaded. But Kero turned back to his normal form… "Let them stop!" To his relief, the birds obeyed Kero's voice. Maybe they thought Kero was a bird too, after all, he had wings! "I give up," admitted Furai, surrendering in the sand.

"Yeah!" cheered Kero, at once, he dove and took Sakura's last feather away from Madeline's necklace.

"No… You can't do this to me!" Madeline said… "Oh yes, we could!"

"You must vanish, far away! roared Tharne in agreement, "To where you will never interfere in our affairs again! How about outer space for Madeline Talern?"

"No!" yelled everyone else.
Ok then, how about she goes to the city of Atlantis… Where a volcano is about to erupt on this particular island, sinking everyone below the ocean floor…"

"Sounds a bit better!"

"Sure!" Immediately, Madeline vanished in a puff of smoke… They would never see her again. But they could hear her screams…

Then Tharne strode up to Li Avalon… He was proud and powerful, being King of the Kudans…
"Thank you for helping us in our darkest hours," said Li Avalon. "But who are you?"

"I am the King of the Kudans, Tharne. But more than that, I belong to someone very special, the Princess of a very hot desert country… Don't you recognise me? I am… Princess Sakura Reed's Kudan! And as you requested, I will bring her back from the land of the dead… Any more requests?"


"Please make her remember me as I am… For I worked long and hard to recover her memories, and I don't want her to forget me again… And can Sakura Avalon's group use their Kudans?"
"Certainly, they can use them as Kudan Cards! But only when they need it the most! But I must go now, and I will grant your deepest wishes. Farewell…"

The figure of Tharne broke up into the separate Seven Kudans again… But then with a flash, they were absorbed into glowing cards, similar to the Clow Cards. Sakura Avalon picked the Kudan Cards up and shared them around the entire group.

"But what about me?" said Nekino… "Don't you think that after all that, I deserve a bit of credit?"
"Don't worry; I'll re-employ you as the head artist of my castle! How about that? And Kurogane… I hope you learnt your lesson from all this and I want you to come back with me…" said the Federal Princess.

"Gladly," huffed Kurogane, "But no more curses, okay!" The Federal Princess laughed gently. "No, but we'll see about that! Ho, ho, ho!"

"Are you going now?" asked Meilin after silence.

"Yes, we are… Come Kurogane and Nekino! We must go back to the palace!"

"Bye!" Nekino waved as they went back to their world. Sakura Avalon shed a tear.

"The Princess!" yelled everyone! They had just remembered! They ran back to the Palace as fast as they could… Did Tharne grant their last wish? Li Avalon stroked Sakura Reed's hands gently… Her eyes were still closed. The last feather went in.
Please don't be dead, please don't be dead… He prayed urgently…