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Chapter 2

Twenty Seventh

Date: 27/10/2010

World: 446657p7

Era: Current

The group have been surrounded by a bunch of freaks all out for their blood, a fight was about to emerge and the cause of it all was a girl. It seemed that the freaks had intended to kidnap her however she had managed to escape and ran into Lucas and the others. Lucas and the others were outnumbers however Lucas thought nothing of the numbers and stupidly challenged the freaks to a duel, the freaks did not intend to fight with their hands and pulled out some horrific weapons bring down the chances of success for the group.

"Cheating bunch of freaks" said Lucas.

"Use your sword" said Aigis.

"Can't, I left it at the hotel along with my gun" said Lucas.

"I can't transform without Ran, Miki or Su" said Amu.

"Trust you to be useless, blah blah blah, Tidal Wave" said Rita.

Usually Rita would have been able to take them all out (knowing here part of the town and the group as well) with that attack however it failed to work. Sakura tried to use a card but her wand wouldn't start up again, nothing magical worked near the freaks.

"My magic is not working" said Rita.

"Neither is mine" said Sakura.

"Whose useless now" said Lucas.

"Shut it" said Rita.

"Guess we're going to have to do this the hard way" said Snow.

"The more harder it is the more fun it is" said Train as he aimed his gun at the freaks.

"Like hell it is, it's more of an annoyance" said Lucas as he got ready to fight bare fist.

"What do we do, we can't fight at all" said Mint.

"Take the girl and run, we'll keep then busy" said Snow.

"Will you be alright?" asked Sakura.

"Of course, don't think that these guys can hurt us" said Syaoran as he drew his sword.

"Aigis, go with them and keep them safe, when we are done here we'll meet at the headquarters" said Lucas.

"Got it" said Aigis.

"Let's go miss" said Sakura.

"Okay" said the girl

Amu, Sakura, Aigis, Mint and Rita then left with the girl leaving the others to deal with the freaks. Pan and Joy hovered above them watching as they tried to get their magic working again but to no avail.

"This should be interesting huh" said Train.

"Maybe, let's see what these guys are made of" said Snow.

The freaks then charged at them, Lucas dodged one of the swords, then countered with a punch knocking the freak out and then Lucas stole his sword and began to fight with it. Syaoran defeated two freaks with his sword skills and was working on a third however a freak tried to attack him from behind but Train shot him down. Train blocked sword blows with his gun while shooting down enemies with his gun and covering the group, Snow battered his opponents all around with his fists however the freaks kept on coming, it seemed like there was no end in sight. Pan and Joy desperately tried to use their magic as the group were forced back, a hundred freaks defeated, one thousand more to go.

"Damn, there are too many of them" said Lucas.

"We need to get out of here, now" said Syaoran.

At that moment one of Pan's spells actually worked and several large pans fell from the sky and hit

the freaks on the head knocking several of them out, this provided an opportunity for them to escape.

"There's our moment, everyone leg it" said Lucas.

Everyone then ran away from the freaks, the freaks chased them with a murderous intent but by using the large array of pathways they managed to lose them in the town. They then headed back to the hotel and at the front door was Sakura and the others who were waiting for them.

"I...don't think...I have ever...had to run...that fast...before" said Lucas who was out of breath.

"You need more exercise" said Joy.

"Easy for you to say, you can fly" said Lucas.

"Did you defeat them?" asked Rita.

"No, we got some but we had to run, there were too many" said Syaoran.

"They were able to stop magic, so then that must mean..." began Sakura.

"Yeah, seeing as our magic didn't work in their presence it means that they are the ones behind the kidnappings" said Snow.

"Just who are they?" asked Mint.

"That is a good question" said Pan.

"Hold on, how did you get your magic to work?" asked Train.

"I used an incarnation spell, their very old and somewhat weak but they are effective no matter what as they are considered Jinxes instead of anything magical" said Pan.

"Um..." said the girl.

"Oh right, who the heck are you?" asked Lucas.

"My name is Mai Lee" she said.

"Okay Mai, care to tell me why those guys were after you" said Lucas.

"I can't really say, I have no idea why" said Mai.

"Of course not" said Syaoran.

"By the way...what the hell are those things?" she asked pointing at Pan and Joy.

"Ugh, where to start" said Lucas.

"I'm Pan and this is my sister Joy, we're Demis" she said.

"What is a Demi?" asked Mai.

"It's a long story, I'm Snow by the way" he said.

"Lucas, this is my team or a quarter of it, this is Sakura, Syaoran, Mint, Aigis, Amu, Train and Rita" he said.

"Team?" questioned Mai.

"We're looking into the recent kidnappings that have been happening" said Lucas.

"No offence but don't you seem a little old to be playing detective" said Mai.

"I'm not playing you idiot, we are really looking into the kidnappings" said Lucas.

"But if those people are behind this then we might have a problem" said Amu.

"Indeed, we're vastly outnumbered, we need to regroup" said Aigis.

"Call the others" said Lucas.

later

Aigis and Snow gathered everyone together and met up at the hotel, after introducing Mai to everyone they began to talk more on the matter of the mysterious people.

"This sword is one of theirs, Maria have you seen it before?" asked Lucas.

"I think so...I really can't be sure but I think that it is from the Dark Seal Clan" said Maria.

"That's it, the pentagram, it is from the Dark Seal Clan" said Pan.

"What's the Dark Seal Clan?" asked Miki.

"It is a group of people with an odd power to seal nearly all types of magic just by being there, they often have dark and violent views hence their name and are stationed here" said Pan.

"So the people that Lucas and the others fight, their this clan then" said Mir.

"Yes, most likely" said Pan.

"But why kidnap all those people, it doesn't make sense" said Husky.

"Some people are just twisted, that's the way they are" said Dante.

"They never act without a specific goal in mind, they must have some kind of plan" said Mis.

"So all we have to do is find and beat up these bad people, then everything will be okay" said Ran.

"Supposedly but we have no idea what they are up to, we don't want to walk into a trap and because they cancel out magic we'll most likely have a nearly impossible battle considering we need magic for nearly all our attacks" said Ikuto.

Shelke then casually turned on the T.V, the news was on, there was a braking story on the T.V., it was about the kidnappings.

"A sources now say that twenty five children have now vanished, among them are the more recent victims, the Logan Triplets, the three girls were on their way home when they were kidnapped, Officer Jenkins, the man in charge of the investigation had this to say" said the reporter.

An image of Officer Jenkins then appeared on screen

"I assure you that everything that can be done about the kidnappings is being, we will neither rest nor sleep until we find the kidnappers and see they are brought to justice" said Officer Jenkins.

"Liar, you wanted to turn tail and quit" said Mint.

"Oh, I just realised something, Mint should have been able to read their minds" said Syaoran.

"For some reason I couldn't, their minds were blocked to me" said Mint.

"Now that is odd, your ability is not magical so how did they stop it" said Lyner.

"What are you going to do about me?" asked Mai.

"You'll stay here until this thing is over, it's too dangerous for you to go home to your parents" said Snow.

"Indeed, Train and Mir will be your bodyguards until this whole thing is done and dusted" said Lucas

"Okay, but I don't have any parents" said Mai.

"Huh?" questioned Etna.

"I live in an orphanage" said Mai.

"Oh, sorry" said Snow.

"It's okay" said Mai.

"Hey Mai, just out of curiosity when were you born?" asked Mis.

"Oh, um October thirty first, why?" asked Mai.

"No reason, just interested, born on Halloween huh, how interesting said Mis.

"I know, it is an odd coincidence but that was the date they found me at the Orphanage" said Mai.

"Enough for tonight, let's just get some rest" said Lucas.

Everyone agreed and went to bed as a shadow lurked outside the hotel, it was one of the freaks they had encountered earlier. He seemed to be preparing an attack and got ready to launch a spell at the building.

"Stop" said a voice.

"Master, but you told me to..." began the Freak.

"Not yet, she will come to us either way" said the voice.

The freak nodded his head, stopped his spell and walked away into the darkness, the group awoke in the morning having very little sleep and began to investigate the Dark Seal Clan with their weapons this time, however they found nothing as the hours passed by. Mir and Train spent all day guarding Mai as the reports of kidnappings increased. As the night approached they found nothing out about the Clan, however Shelke and Maria had learned of an interesting rumour that was pretty much useless. As the day drew to a close the count escalated to twenty seven missing children.

Halloween draws ever closer, what is the Dark Seal Clan's objective and why have they kidnapped so many children, can our heroes stop them now that they are unable to use magic in the presence of their enemies, find out as this story continues.