A/N: Hey people, sorry about the slow updates. I was recently hit by a wall of writers block and I couldn't solve it. Luckily, I just solved it today and spent almost the whole school day writing in class. I think I pissed some of my teachers off, but they will have to deal with it. This chapter is shorter than the others, but I really wanted to post what I had for today.

Tsubasa: Shadows Chapter 5.

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The spiders, who had each member of the group tied up, twitching in horrible nightmares, clicked their dripping green fangs and approached their prey on spindle-like legs.

A voice shot through the air, "STOP!"

The spiders turned their small beady eyes toward the silhouetted figure standing in the doorway. The figure's eyes burned into the black husks of the spiders.

Suddenly, the spiders screamed and fled back to the opposite end of the dome making scared clicking noises.

The figure stepped into the green light of the dome. It was… (A/N: Bilbo Baggins!)…Sakura.

She had her usually kind green eyes filled with an angry fire. Mokona was perched on her shoulder looking slightly afraid.

"No one hurts my friends," Sakura said slowly and deliberately narrowing her green pools. Both her voice and eyes were cold as she glared into the green mist. She closed the doors behind her with an almost inaudible click.

A shocked voice echoed from the top of the dome; among clumps of web, "What?! How did you ward the spiders away?!" from the webs atop the dome a lithe figure leaped down to land on the floor, glaring at Sakura. She was a black-haired woman that was clad in black. The woman narrowed her maroon eyes and snarled, "I am Senestra and I demand to know how you warded my spiders away!" In one of Senestra's hands… she clutched three feathers.

Sakura's feathers.

Mokona's eyes went 'boink' and the little creature exclaimed, "Your feathers!"

Except…they were different. The feathers of memory were corrupted from their usual purest white that turned into green and the pink markings were a sickly orange.

Sakura's green orbs narrowed and she looked coldly at Senestra, "You have something that belongs to me. I want it back."

"These?! You think I would just give these to you?!" snarled Senestra.

"You hurt my friends with my very own memories. If you don't give them back I'll-"

Sakura was cut off when Senestra snarled, "What?! Kill me?! HA! Like a little girl like you could hurt me!" after he last statement Senestra held up the three corrupted memories as if they could defend her.

"Yes I could hurt you," Sakura murmured as she stared intently at the three feathers. The feathers started twitching as if alive and they shimmered a bright pink.

"W-What are you DOING?!" Senestra screamed; her red eyes wide.

The feathers flashed even brighter and they shed their sickly colors to turn the usual white-and-pink.

The feathers' glow faded leaving the now pure feathers in Senestra's hands. The feathers made a small sizzling sound. Senestra screamed in pain and dropped the feathers. There were burn marks shaped like the feathers on her hands. "Wha-How?!" Senestra exclaimed taking a frightened step back.

"You have touched the pure memory of a child. One that is as dark as you will corrupt a child's memory, and once the child in the memory saw the corruption she burned you with her purity.

Senestra's eyes widened when she realized that she couldn't use her power anymore. She turned tail and ran.

Sakura patted a scared, shaking Mokona, and stooped down to absorb all three feathers. Then she lay down, fully asleep.

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Sakura woke up quickly-since these memories were all but small ones, and looked around the green mist. She could hear no more scared clicks-the spiders had faded once she absorbed the feathers.

She looked around at the clumps of webs until she found her companions' heads sticking out from yet another group of web clumps.

Slowly she used her hands to separate the webs around her friends-starting with Syaoran. (A/N: Of course!)

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By the time she had them all safely down they were all awake.

There was an air of sadness and fear surrounding Syaoran, Fai, and even Kurogane. Sakura was hesitant to ask them about it.

Kurogane finally broke the silence by asking, "How did you…" he paused and his next words seemed strained, "…save us?" he seemed to choke on his own words.

Sakura looked at all of them and said, "Let's get back to Luke's house and I'll explain there."

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Now in Luke's house Sakura took a breath to explain, "Well, first I woke up and you were gone. I didn't know what to do so I just stayed in the house. Then, Mokona came back and told me what happened. In the middle of Mokona's explanation Yuko interrupted us. She told me that the spider shadow monsters were a different type. The first shadows were dispelled by physical light, but the spider types were dispelled by 'Light of the Soul.'

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I think that I will have a slightly easier time writing the next few chapters (or at least I hope so). I'm not really sure where this story is going next so I might take awhile. I will try my best to be faster with the next update.

See you next time!