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Chapter 6 Smoke? But Where's the Fire? Part 2

By: BeautyandYue

"Well master, have you had your trouble intake for today?" Ruby teasingly asked as she sat down next to Eli.

He leaned onto her shoulder tiredly "not nearly enough." He said watching the school with anguish as Ruby put her arm around him trying to comfort. "Ruby?"

"Yes master?" Ruby asked him.

"Please don't call me master anymore." Eli asked her.

Ruby looked at him in surprise. "Why?"

"Because I want the kind of connection Sakura has with her guardians that it's so powerful that they can feel her pain. That they can so fiercely fight when clearly the battle is against them. I want to be friends not your master. " Eli said expressively, looking at her.

Ruby sat and thought. Eli watched her worriedly as he saw her frown. She glanced down and saw him watching her. Ruby broke out in a smile and hugged him tight. "I would love too. And I'm sure that Spinny will say the same." Eli hugged her back.

"I'm glad."

"Now Eli, what's up with this classmate of yours that gave you the slip?" Ruby asked him.

Eli sighed and started taking out twigs and leaves that were stuck in his hair. "I'm not quite sure actually." He confessed. "One minute I thought I was seeing wrong. In place of my classmate was a guy dressed in all black, his eyes were the same green and purple but his hair was black and sticking straight up. Also he carried a staff which he used to blast at me and make his escape."

Ruby nodded "we'll talk about it later. Right now let's see if we can be of assistance." She and Eli carefully got up and hurriedly walked towards the school.

Sakura ran into the school heading straight for the music room. The smoke was thick and suffocating. Sakura dropped to the hallways floor where the air was clearer at the bottom. The noxious smoke blew in her face making Sakura cough and her eyes water profusely. She sensed that magic was behind this smoke. Sakura stood up (not smart considering the smoke.) and pulled out her star key. She chanted the woods to make the staff extend. "Oh Key of the Stars with Powers burning Bright. Surrender the wand the Force ignite! Release!" The key extended into Sakura's staff. She grabbed it and twirled it around in her usual fashion. The smoke, which had backed away when Sakura's magic circle had appeared, rushed back to claim the air around her. Sakura coughed again "Windy! Blow this smoke away!" she cried. Windy tried to make the smoke go away for its mistress but the smoke was too strong. Windy turned back into a Star Card as a new wave of smoke came in to take the area that Windy had tried so hard to clear. Sakura staggered back choking on the black fumes when something came hurtling through the smoke to hit Sakura in the head. Hard. "Ouch!" she gasped drawing in a lungful of smoke. Sakura coughed as her vision grew black at the edges but she hung on. The thing came at her again, hitting her hand that held the staff. "Hey!" Sakura cried out. Sakura was hit again with enough force to knock her over and lose her grip on her staff. Sakura felt all over for it. Sakura's hand finally closed upon the smooth handle of her staff. Sakura sensed that Yue and Ruby Moon were outside but hiding. Sakura realized that she needed help and soon. Sakura pulled out the sleep card. "Sleep!" she struggled for breath dragging her staff upward. Sleep burst out to head for the open window and do what it was commanded to do. Put everyone to sleep. Sakura felt the Sleep card put everyone without magical powers into slumber. Before she could contact Yue, Sakura was hit a third time with the same object, thingamaboby. This time it hit her so hard that Sakura saw stars. As she began to black out she saw what was hitting her. It looked like a little griffin. Sakura called on one last card to help her out. "Wood!" but the creature hit her again. Sakura gasped in pain as everything went black and the sound of rushing wings came upon her now deaf ears.

To Be Continued…

Hey everyone! Thought I would type up a chapter since I just got down with my first fanfic! Like done! No more writing! Wah! Anyway I haven't gotten a lot of reviews on this or a lot of people reading this maybe I shouldn't write anymore about this. Review and tell me what you think. If I get enough reviews saying go on! Then I'll keep writing and typing up. If not, then I will have to look at it long and hard to see if I want to keep writing it.

-BeautyandYue