Prophecy
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"When legend becomes reality,
Three warriors of ancient monsters will rampage the earth,
Of light, dark, and element.
Look to the Heavens,
They will come from there…"
Chapter 24 – The Key
Erica opened her eyes slightly and looked around. They were still alive! The girl cheered and thanked Ra that her friends and she wasn't eaten by the cobra Shadow Realm. Talking about being eaten….
The girl shook Jennie to open her eyes and see what had happened. Jennie, who was overjoyed, started to dance around. Jackie, however, wasn't as happy as the dancing female.
"Look." he gasped, mostly from the pain from his broken ribs. "Those pieces are creating a barrier."
Erica looked up and saw that he was right. In front of the trio were the gold, silver, and bronze pieces emitting a curved shield. Beyond it was the Shadow Realm, furiously bashing against it and hissing.
The dark-haired girl whispered in awe, "What are those things?"
Then Jennie popped out of nowhere and helped Jackie onto his feet. "No time to think that, Erica. We gotta get moving. Who knows how long those blocks will last."
Erica nodded absentmindedly and followed after Jennie as she dragged Jackie along. Only when the trio was three football fields away from the Shadow Realm did they stop to rest. Jennie set Jackie on the floor and then sat down next to him. Erica still stood.
"Erica, Jennie, we have to get those blocks back," Jackie said weakly.
Erica sharply turned her head at the boy and asked, "Why? You gave them to me before, but why did you?"
"Didn't you even notice that they could connect together into a card? Those things have helped us so many times, I was wondering if they could do any more. Maybe beat the Shadow Realm for example?"
Erica grew silent, but Jennie was puzzled.
"What about those blocks?" she said, tilting her head.
Erica muttered, "Those things have so much power…if combined…then…maybe we do have a chance to win!"
Before Jennie could ask about how they were going to connect the things, something flashed and hard objects landed in their palms. They were the gold, silver, and bronze blocks. Then the Shadow Realm came in, this time morphed as a Red Eyes Black Dragon. With an angry roar, it clambered toward the three, though keeping a safe distance.
"How did you acquire those forsaken keys?" it screamed, wings flapping like a bee. "Do you intend to banish me with them? How dare you summon those things!"
With a confused look, Erica asked, "These are keys?"
"Don't act stupid! If combined they can throw me back into that endless world that I will not live in again!" the Realm shouted.
Jennie said happily, "Oh, thank you, big lizard! You just made things a whole lot easier for us!"
Then the mass realized that the humans didn't know anything about the "keys." Frustrated that it had told them the secret to defeating itself, the Shadow Realm swung out its tail and struck the pieces out of their hands.
"Get it!" Jackie yelled.
When Erica turned to get her piece, the Shadow Realm sent out a gust of wind that toppled the girl and sent all the pieces into random places.
"I will not allow you to get them!" the lizard bellowed. It flew into the air and began to claw at the three.
Jennie laid faced down on the ground and shouted over the noise, "We have to get those things and combine them! If we lose them, it'll all be over!"
"But—" Erica spat out some dust, "but how can we get it? The pieces can be anywhere and the Shadow Realm is guarding those things from us with its life!"
Jackie kneeled on the floor and took out his Path Finder magic card. "We have to try!"
The card disappeared from his hand and in return showed three glows in where the blocks were. The hacker-boy yelled, "Get it! Hurry!"
While Jackie remained on the floor because of his injuries, the two females shot forward, dodging the Realm's sharp claws.
"Got it!" Jennie yelled, holding up her silver piece.
Suddenly, the Realm grabbed it out of her hand and swallowed it.
"Oh, yeah! Nice one, Jennie!" Erica snapped. She was still looking for the gold and bronze piece. The light guiding them grew weaker.
The braided-hair girl cursed and took out a trap card. "Epoch Rewind!"
As if the scene was rewinding, the Shadow Realm spat out the silver block and it flew to the girl's hand.
"Found it!" Erica yelled, showing the gold and bronze card blocks. Then she ducked when the Shadow Realm sent out a stream of red blasts that destroyed the wall next to her. With new energy, the two girls ran back to Jackie.
"We got it, Jackie! Now what?" Erica gasped for breath. She stooped down when the Realm flew past her head.
Jackie connected the bronze piece to the silver and gave it to Jennie. A slight wind picked up. "You have to connect yours, Jennie, or else it won't work!"
Jennie was about to grab the gold to connect the pieces together, but she was picked up and thrown to the other end of the room by the tail of the Realm lizard.
"Jennie!" Erica shrieked. The girl lay still.
"No!" Jackie shouted. Now the mysterious wind was whipping their faces, making it raw. "Erica, you have to finish the piece now!"
Again the Shadow Realm swooped down, but narrowly missed the amber-eyed female's head. The enemy crashed into a wall instead. Then the girl held her gold piece, but lost it because of the wind. Cursing, she grabbed it before it could fly away and stuffed the thing into the slot of the silver piece. It didn't fit.
"Jackie, this isn't the right one! It's a dud!" the girl yelled. Then she noticed the real gold block in the Shadow Realm's mouth.
Time seemed to slow as the Shadow Realm smiled and crushed the precious metal with its teeth. The gold fell down as dust. Jackie and Erica screamed in horror. Then time fast forward.
As if with new energy, the monster transformed into a huge black bear and punched Jackie's body away so it could get to Erica. The girl backed away on impulse and felt slightly light-headed as the wind whipped her hair on her face. With amused laughter, the bear pounced, claws opened for gore and blood.
Erica took out a card, any card, to stop the beast. At that moment, a huge, familiar, multicolored dragon arose from the card and took the fatal attack while blasting the Shadow Realm in the face. The summoned card floated down while the Shadow Realm twisted on the ground from pain. It was Monster Reborn. Taking a deep breath, she saw that even if her Elemental Dragon was destroyed from the attack, a strange gold dust from the dragon seemed to linger. With the wind becoming a powerful hurricane, it blew the Realm off its back and pinned it to the wall. Then the gold dust combined and became a new gold piece. It floated down to the only conscious human, defying the air around it.
Swiftly, Erica grabbed it out of the air. Before attaching the last piece to the card key, she looked at the Shadow Realm. It was struggling from its bonds and tried to transform into different things. The wind only held it tighter.
Standing up tall, the dark-haired girl connected the gold piece to the silver and bronze. As the pieces radiated a stream of light, now the wind twisting around the girl like it had found a new master. At the same time, the Shadow Realm got out of the binding gales and galloped to the girl in the form of a titanic wolf. Before it could even reach the female, though, the gusts flew forward and gashed the sides of it like knives. The Realm reeled backwards.
"How dare you try to invade a world that is not yours! How dare you attack the people I cherish and love as a family! How dare you invade Jennie's, Jackie's, and my life into a realm of chaos! I'LL MAKE YOU PAY FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE!" Erica roared.
Then Jennie and Jackie went through the tornado surrounding Erica. In the corner of Erica's mind, she noticed that these were the spirits of her friends who left their bodies to be with her. Erica's two best friends put their hands on top of her shaking ones and guided her hand up to raise the now completed card. Erica closed her eyes and smiled. All these people, the ones she had met, were all family. She would never forget them. Not ever.
Then the trio's voices echoed as they cast their special spell:
"When legend becomes reality,
Three warriors of ancient monsters will rampage the earth,
Of light, dark, and element.
Look to the Heavens,
They will come from there.
"The three monsters of Light, Dark, and Element,
We are the three that will rampage the Earth.
We came from the heavens,
When legend became reality!"
Suddenly the spirits of Jennie and Jackie disappeared and the wind became even more powerful. Now the magical card rose up and Erica had to cover her face from the scathing windstorms. The combined card sent out a black beam into the ceiling and revealed a dark portal. The Shadow Realm screamed and roared as it tried to stay on the ground. However, resistance was futile and the purple mass was dragged into the portal.
Before it disappeared wholly into the dimension, it bellowed, reaching out at nothing in the turbulent air, "Help me! Help me, summoner! I can still succeed! I can still kill these mortals! Please!"
Something must've given back a response because the Realm roared in fury. Then it glared at Erica. "I will come back! I swear I will! When I do, I will kill you, the summoner, and all! I WILL COME BACK!"
After that…it vanished.
The wind dissipated and the portal closed. The card dropped down onto the ruined floor and cracked into a million pieces, its job finally completed.
Erica stood standing there, mind not yet comprehending that she, with the help of Jennie and Jackie, had defeated the infamous Shadow Realm. By the time she did, though, the house shuddered and everything began to crumble. Erica was pulled backwards by somebody as a huge part of the ceiling fell on where she had stood. The girl turned around and saw Jennie, holding Jackie by the arm. They were conscious and safe.
Hugging her two friends briefly, the female asked in what was wrong with the house.
Sensible Jackie answered, "The Shadow Realm alone had held up this place and when you sucked it back into its own world, all the destruction that it had made is starting to take effect. Soon this place will be in ruins!"
"And more bad news is that there is no way out! All the exits are blocked!" Jennie added.
Erica took out a Dynamite trap card. "Then we have to make a new exit!"
"It's not that simple!" the hacker-boy cut in. "The cards can't come to life now that the Realm is gone! We're back on the normal plane!"
"What do we do then! DIE?"
Jackie smiled and shrugged. "I never really expected to get out of here alive."
Jennie groaned and winced as another part of the wall collapsed.
"Then if we can't get out, we have to find a way to survive!" Erica reasoned. "There! Hide under that ledge!"
When everyone piled under a piece of debris from the wall, Jennie asked, laying Jackie down, "What about the others? Are they okay?"
"They're safe. I told Bakura to get out of here with the other people," the amber-eyed lass said. Then Erica spotted a strange mark on her hand. It was the Eye of Horus.
"…On your palm is my symbol so when you are in trouble, rub it. Please be safe and don't…don't get killed…"
This was the symbol from Bakura! Then Erica began to rub the symbol furiously.
"What the heck are you doing?" Jennie asked, an eyebrow raised.
"I'm trying to send a signal to—"
Before Erica could finish, however, the ceilings and walls all collapsed at the same time. It buried the trio under and everything grew dark, Erica's hand hanging limply outside the rubble, the strange symbol glowing red.
A/N: LAST CHAPTER AT FRIDAY AHOY! WOOOOOOOOOOT!
Anyway, I'd like to thank the reviewers first before I go on with my message! So, here they are!
Hi, Meow-Sama (thanks for your advice), egyptluvergurl, Akari Ishtaru, Isis the Spinx, candy-animelover600, ElementalDemoness23, and fairys'maiden!
Wow…so many reviewers this time…and you all loved Jennie's insults from the last chapter! Hah! I had fun writing them.
Alrighty, now! As I have said before, PLEASE REVIEW CARD CAPTOR SAKURA BASIC PLOT AND CHARACTERS TO PREPARE FOR THE NEXT INSTALLMENT OF PROPHECY! It is very important to do so since Prophecy Beta, as it is so named, will have (hint, hint) something to do with that world. To the people who have the inconvenience of looking up Card Captor Sakura because they know nothing of it or don't like it at all, I am very sorry. I just hope you will have the same amount of fun reading Beta as I hope you will with the other readers that know CCS.
SEE YA AT FRIDAY!
And, oh, before I forget, I will be posting a preview to Prophecy Beta at Saturday, so head ups for that, too!