Chapter 8 : Clow Controlled
"Move!" Meilin cried. She teleported her friends away just in time.
The shot smashed into the ground, causing an explosion bright as the sun.
But what the card captors paid attention to more was the being that had appeared besides their friend in the shield.
"Sakura!" Tomoyo gasped. "It's Magnet, the card that we fought on Sunday!"
"We only remember it when we see it again because someone erased our memories that time!" Sakura recalled. "And the last time we saw it, none of us thought that it was a Clow Card!"
"Not erased, Sakura, clouded." Eriol smirked. "And by the way, that's a Golden Clow Card, one of 52."
At its creator's words, Magnet buzzed excitedly.
"Magnet," Eriol said coldly. "Kill them."
Magnet dissipated the shield and raced towards Sakura, hurling telekinetic bolts at her at a supernatural speed. Sakura barely escaped using Jump in time.
"Watch out! The card is fast!" Sakura warned.
"I'll take care of it!" Meilin offered. "You three take him out!"
"Dash!" Meilin sped around the Magnet, easily dodging its blows with her enhanced speed.
"Meilin!" Syaoran shouted. He threw a card at her and she caught it with ease.
"Freeze!" Meilin brought her sealing wand down onto the card.
Unfortunately, the attack missed Magnet completely.
"Earthy!"
Eriol laughed as he dodged his descendant's attack.
"That was weak." he taunted.
"And I thought that you were the goody-goody who always gave good advice!" Syaoran snarled. "Time!"
Eriol froze, but apparently, his vocal cords had not. When he spoke, however, his voice was not the evil voice that Syaoran had heard but his own.
"A wise choice, dear descendant. Time immobilizes the Golden Clow."
Syaoran blinked in surprise, but at that very instant, the time field disappeared. Eriol fired a laser from his staff that struck his descendant right in the chest.
"Ahhhhh!" Meilin screamed as she was hurtled into space by a magnetic blast. Thinking quickly, she activated Through, which allowed her to pass through the trees without getting hurt.
"Magnet!" she growled. "You're going to pay!"
"Power!"
By a rare, lucky chance, Meilin managed to bring both of her fists down on Magnet in midair. The card shrieked in surprise, its shield vanishing for a few precious seconds.
"Freeze!"
This time, the card froze, and within its own magnetic field at that.
"Yes!" Meilin gave a cry of triumph. "Back to your true form! Clow card!"
Syaoran fell to his knees, clutching his chest in pain.
Sakura ran towards him in concern, but was blasted to the side by Eriol.
"Eriol! Why are you doing this?" Tomoyo cried.
"I'm not," he whispered, his eyes suddenly full of grief.
Tomoyo was taken aback at her friend's sudden change of tone. Could it be-
"Sorry, Tomoyo." The coldness in Eriol's eyes returned. Before she could react, Tomoyo was blasted to the ground.
"Tomoyo!" Syaoran gasped. He gave his ancestor a murderous glare.
"You'll pay for this, Clow!"
"Wait!" Tomoyo gasped. "I think that Eriol's been possessed!"
"How...did you know?"
A pair of lips appeared above Eriol's head, laughing cruelly.
"Because he never turns his back on a friend." Tomoyo said firmly.
"Then why did he promise us that he'd help us kill the four of you?" the mouth gave a horrible laugh. "Tell them, Eriol."
"Stop lying! He'd never do such a thing!" Tomoyo gasped.
"Actually, Tomoyo , I did." Eriol said softly.
"Possess," the mouth said smugly. "Is the name of the card that controls him. I, Sound, am the card that controls his voice."
"But right now, he speaks for himself." Possess said in a sinister voice. "He betrayed you, and you still want to save him?"
Tomoyo, Sakura, Syaoran ,and Meilin looked at each other, than at Eriol-no-the two evil cards.
"He has his reasons for working with you," Sakura said knowingly. "I trust him."
"So be it." Sound rose into the air and emitted a high-pitched scream that tore the windows out of the nearby houses.
"Argh! It's loud!" Sakura winced. The card captor were thrown to the ground by the sound wave.
Fury flashed in Tomoyo's eyes.
"How dare you use Eriol to further your own ends!" she snarled. "Create! Summon a typhoon!"
To be continued...
