Chapter Nineteen

Trap!

Author notes: Here we go!

"How did we get ourselves landed in this situation?" Eriol asked himself as he struggled to maintain his stand against the wall. He was covered with wounds and blood was flowing out of them.

"Eriol, can you hear me?" Teng shouted through the earpieces in his ear.

"Teng ka... We got cornered. Get us some help here..." Eriol sighed.

"Eriol, your position," Scott, Teng's husband asked.

"10 o'clock across your position," he replied, sliding down to the ground, "Rex's pretty badly injured. Alex, Sakura and Syaoran are less badly wounded, though no doubt that they are also badly injured. "

"Right!" Pamela replied, "Hey, wait. Where's Kit?"

"Kidnapped," Eriol answered, closing his eyes, "By Riddle."

"My men will be there in 2. Hold on, Eriol, we will get you people out of there," Dick, Chris' husband said.

"Yeah sure... If we can hold that long..."

- Flashback -

"Kit-ne-san, take a look at this," Sakura signaled to Kit who just walked into the living room. After the carnival incident, Rex and the others were all busy back at CIA HQ. The investigation of Vic's death didn't go smooth after Rex announced that he was temporary taking over the department.

"What's the matter, Sakura?" Kit asked as she moved over to her and looked at the screen of laptop. On it, a message was displayed:

To: Phantom Cherry

I have information on Vic's death. Meet me alone at Ocean View 1000.

"Well?" Sakura blinked at Kit who was looking at the mail in suspiciously.

"We need to discuss this with Rex," Kit stood straight and reached for her phone to call Rex.

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Later that night, Rex and the others gathered around and looked at the mail.

"I wondered who send this mail," Alex was the first to rise the question after they looked at the mail.

"Someone with good talent for hacking," Eriol replied, receiving looks of disbelief, "At the least he or she knew how to cover her track."

"How did they know Sakura's mailbox?" Syaoran asked.

"Most of the people in the market knew, Syaoran," Sakura sighed.

"No... I mean, how did they knew you were out? And what's more, you working for the CIA," Syaoran rephrased his question.

"Something fishy is definitely in this," Kit replied as she crossed her arms.

"A trap will be a wise guess," Rex suggested.

"I'd send Teng and the others over to the location 30 meters away from the exact location," Kit replied, "It's an empty warehouse."

"Did you send them in to investigate?" Rex questioned.

"No. I wouldn't want to take the risk," Kit replied.

"True. I don't want to rise unwanted attention from the president as well," Rex sighed.

"So what do we do now?" Eriol asked.

"Are we going or not?" Alex looked over to Rex for an answer.

"Let's go," Sakura said, making everyone looked over to her, "Whether or not is this a trap, it will a lot better than just sitting here waiting for an answer that will not come on its own. I will meet whoever send this mail and find the truth."

- End of flashblack -

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"Where am I?" Kit whispered as she looked around her. Struggling a little, Kit realized that she was tied up and hung up in a warehouse. She wondered how long she had been unconscious. All she remembered was that she was hit by someone hard from the back. "How careless am I? To be attack by someone without knowing."

"So you finally woke up," A voice made Kit looked up to meet a pair of dark brown eyes staring at her.

"And who might you be?" Kit asked as she stared at the man in front of her.

"Forgive me for my rudeness," The man said as he bowed, "Nice to meet you, Kit 'de Denmark, Rex 'de Denmark's wife. Daughter of Fumi Kinomoto and Frank Vok Maxshall. My name is Riddle Vok Maxshall."

"Riddle..." Kit paused as his last name registered into her mind, "Vok Maxshall?! You..."

"It's always a pleasure to see people response in surprise when they heard my full name," Riddle smiled, "Vic gave me the exact same expression as you, sister."

"It can't be..." Kit debated, "He's dead... My mother told me so..."

"I was dead before her eyes. But I was really lucky, my daughter," Another voice drew Kit's immediate attention towards it. Shock was written all over her face when she saw the man standing at the door smiled at her, "I see you grow more and more like your mother, Kit." And all Kit could do was to squeeze a word out of her mouth:

"Father..."

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Sakura slowly opened her eyes. Everything in front of her was unclear. She closed her eyes once more. What just happened? She wondered back to everything that happened back then.

- Flashback -

"Sakura-chan, please be careful," Kit told her as she walked out of the truck.

"For the hundredth time," Sakura giggled, "I will be fine."

"If anything goes wrong, do not hesitate to call for help," Rex told her as he indicated the microphone ,hidden from view, on Sakura's shirt.

"Roger that," Sakura smiled.

"Careful, Sakura," Syaoran kissed her briefly by her lips.

"Hai! I will get going then," Sakura bid goodbye to them and walked towards the warehouse. Sakura looked at the building for a while. It seems a little old but something about it was bugging her. It might look old but it seems to be in use until recently. Shaking her head, Sakura walked into the warehouse, stopping when she saw a man standing in the middle.

"Just nice, Phantom Cherry. It's 10 sharp." The man replied as he turned to face her.

"I never will be late for my client," Sakura replied narrowing her eyes at the man, "Who are you? What information do you have on Vic's death?"

"Relax, chill," The man smirked, "One question at a time, Cherry."

"Right," Sakura took in another breath before continuing, "Who are you?"

"I'm Luke Mcgray, it's a pleasure to meet the famous phantom Cherry," Luke introduced himself.

"Getting to the point, Mr. Mcgray," Sakura said in a rather hash tone, "What information can you provide me?"

"Everything, Cherry," Luke continued to smile at her, "Everything I know about Vic's death to who is behind all of this."

Sakura stared at the man for a moment as if to decide whether or not to belief him.

"You want to know don't you?" Luke's words snapped Sakura right out of her thoughts, making her to look at him.

"What do you want in exchange for that?" Sakura calmly questioned.

"CIA's protection."

"When you know CIA can't really protect you?"

"It's better than running on my own."

"You don't sound like you are being hunted."

"I am."

"Hmm..." Sakura continued to eye Luke in suspicious. She simply couldn't bring herself to belief the man. "Fine. I can get the CIA to protect you. Now about the information..."

"It's the president!" Luke immediately gave an answer.

"The president?" Sakura blinked at him, "Do you know what you are saying, Mr. Mcgray?"

"Of course I know what I am saying!" He shouted, sounding agitated by Sakura's words, "Alaster is the one behind all of these. He wants to kill all the government politicians so as to let the Mafia take control."

"Wait... What do you mean by kill all the government politicians? All of those who were dead are..."

"They are all former politicians who opposed his ideas," Luke continued, "Alaster either framed them for corruption or buys people to kill them all. In which after, he sent his agents to kill those killers who did!"

'Sound possible.' Sakura thought. "How about Vic's death?"

Luke shivered a bit as he replied, "Vic is investigating the death of Elton Fort. He is very close to finding out the truth. Therefore Alaster asks Vok to finish him."

"Vok? As in Riddle Vok?" Sakura asked.

"Yes! Him! Riddle Vok Maxshall!" Luke shivered even more as he spoke the name with great fear.

'Vok Maxshall? Is it Kit-ne-san's family name?" Sakura wondered. "But it wasn't Riddle who killed Vic. It's Nakoshi."

"I don't know. I already told you what I know," Luke shouted, trying very hard to calm himself down.

"I understand. I will call..." Before Sakura could finish her sentence, a gun shot sounded through the hall and Luke fell to the ground. Blood flowed out of his wound, making Sakura took a step back.

"I knew you will betray us, Luke," Another voice sounded from dark, "It's a good thing that I followed you."

"Who's there?" Sakura asked, pulling her gun out.

"Hello there, Miss Kinomoto," A man walked out of the shadow and looked over at her, "Or shall I call you Mrs. Li?"

"Who exactly are..."

"Someone who you do not need to know," The man replied as he pulled his trigger. Sakura dodged the bullet and hid herself behind the pillar. The man continued to fire at Sakura as he made his way towards her.

'Calm down, Sakura. Just like old time.' Sakura thought.

"Why... You are disappointing me, Kinomoto," The man laughed, "Are you just going to hide there and do nothing?"

"Look who's talking now?" Sakura asked as she walked out from where she was hiding and looked at him.

"Meet your death, Kinomoto!" The man shouted as he fired at her once again. Six guns shots were accompanied by complete silence. Sakura stood still unharmed, her gun in her stretch-out arm, an expressionless face displayed.

"How..." The man asked in shocked as he fall. Blood was pouring out of the wound near his heart.

"Seven bullets," Sakura simply replied as she reloaded her gun.

"Sakura-chan, are you alright?" Kit's voice called out from behind, making Sakura turned to face her.

"Kit-ne, why are you here?" Sakura asked as she watched Kit stopped in front of her.

"Someone called me on my phone to tell me you are in danger," Kit replied as she looked at the bodies, "What happened?"

"Quite a few things happened," Sakura replied with a smile, "We will talk about it with the rest later. Let's get back."

"If you say so, Sakura-chan," Kit returned a smile.

"Kit, Sakura, can you hear me?" Dick's voice sounded through the earpieces.

"What's the matter, Dick?" Kit asked.

"Enemies, 10 o'clock from your position,"Dick replied, "Rex and the others are already on them."

"Numbers." Sakura and Kit ran towards the position indicated.

"30. Perhaps 40."

"How about your side?"

"Chris and Evelyn are handling them," Dick replied, "As well as my men."

"Right."

"Sakura!" Syaoran shouted as he ran towards her, "I'm glad you are alright."

"Syaoran, don't you think this isn't the time?" Sakura asked, sweatdrop.

"Ahm... right..." Syaoran laughed nervously.

"Syaoran, Sakura-chan, look out!" Eriol shouted as they noticed a group of men dressed in black with machine guns, ready to shoot at them. But before they could do so, Sakura and Syaoran had already pulled their triggers, taking them all out.

"Nice shot, both of you," Rex commented, sweatdrop.

"Very accurate indeed," A voice commented from behind, making all to face the source. There they saw Riddle with Kit in his arms, unconscious.

"Kit!" Rex shouted, running towards them. However, Riddle was faster as he shot Rex by his arms and one near his left kidney, making him drop to his knees.

"Don't you dare to move a bit, all of you," Riddle threatened as he pointed the guns at Rex, "I knew she would come. And everyone of you."

"Riddle, why are you doing this?" Syaoran asked, as he stared at him.

"Because Sakura is the reason," Riddle smiled, "Now drop all your weapons or I will kill Rex."

All of them had no choice but placed their weapons down.

"Now, now," Riddle grinned, "What should I do to you all?"

"What do you mean by 'Sakura is the reason'?" Alex asked.

"Her talent is needed," Riddle replied, smiling wickedly at them, "However, what I want is her."

"You want me​?" Sakura asked.

"I want you to be my woman,"Riddle answered her question.

"..." All of them went silence for a moment. Did he just gone insane, proposing at a time like now?

"I thank you for liking me," Sakura forced a smile at Riddle, "but I will never be your woman. I belong to Syaoran. Now and forever."

"Not when I kill him," Riddle snapped his fingers. A group of men in armors surrounded them. "Now what do you say, Sakura? Would you be mine?"

"Never!" Sakura shouted in anger, "And you can't force me to."

"Then die with him," Riddle replied calmly, "Now I have Kit, I should really get going."

"Give Kit-ne back!" Sakura shouted but was stopped by a bullet aiming at her.

"Get her back on your own Sakura," Riddle laughed, "We will be expecting you at you-know-where." With that Riddle walked out of the warehouse.

- End of flashback -

'All I remember after that was taking out those guys.' Sakura opened her eyes once more to see a pair of violet eyes looking down at her.

"HOEEE!!" Sakura shouted at the top of her voices as she struggled to pull herself up but her wounds were to painful that it made her fall back down.

"Sakura-chan, relax... It's just me," Tomoyo told her when she saw Sakura so worked up.

"Tomoyo-chan? Where am I?" Sakura asked when she saw Tomoyo.

"Dick-san's house," Tomoyo replied, "You guys were so badly injured that he thinks this is the best way to protect us now."

"Are we seriously this badly injured?" Sakura asked in concern.

"Syaoran-kun and Rex-kun will be down for the moment," Tomoyo replied and Sakura gasped when she heard Syaoran's name, "They are in really bad shape. Alex and Eriol just needed some rest and they should recover."

"How's Syaoran?" Sakura asked in a worried expression.

"He was shot by the lung though it didn't really hit the lung just yet," Tomoyo explained, "But Rex-kun is much worst."

"How worst is worst, Tomoyo-chan?"

"One bullet narrowly missing his kidney and one other narrowly missing his heart."

"Rex-kun..." Sakura couldn't help but felt that she was at fault. If only she had not wanted to go and meet Luke, all of these will not happen.

"Sakura-chan?" Tomoyo asked in concern when she saw Sakura's expression saddened even more than before.

"What are we going to do next?" Sakura asked, "We are not in good shape to enter another round of attack. I'm not even sure if I can..."

"They wouldn't dare to touch here just yet, Sakura-chan," A man with short, tidy black hair a.k.a Dick answered her as he walked in.

"Dick-san," Sakura wanted to speak but was stopped by him.

"For now, Sakura-chan," Dick continued, "Rest. We can discuss this tomorrow first thing in the morning. I wouldn't want to be scolded by Kit for not taking good care of you."

"But..."

"No 'but'. Now be a good girl, sleep."

Unwillingly, Sakura closed her eyes as Dick tucked her to bed. In no time, Sakura was soundly asleep. As Dick and Tomoyo left the room, Tomoyo asked.

"Is it wise to do so?"

"For now, what I can do is this. With Kit not around, things might get nasty. Moreover, Rex is down as well. Without both of them, you guys will be more vulnerable to attacks. At the least, they wouldn't dare to mess with me just yet," Dick replied honestly. He knew the danger he was putting himself in. One wrong move he made will get all of them killed. Tomoyo could sense the tension around him and fell silence.

How did things got so complicated?

Finally another chapter! Hahaha! Right... I have no right to laugh. For the third time in this story lifetime, I lost my plot AGIAN! I swear I almost wanted to kill myself when I search through tons of papers just looking for it and I can't find it! It's as if it didn't want me to end the story.

In all case, is the chapter interesting? I'm not too sure. And the story is coming to an end soon.

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Signing off,

Kit.