A/N: hay everyone. I'm back. A thank you to Gaaraxluvr for your review. Don't worry I am not going to quit writing this story or any other story for that matter since I love to write even of a certain wooden block refuses to get out of my way.
To my readers, I apologize in advance for the shortness of this chapter but there is a reason for that as you will find out at the ending A/N. for now please go ahead and enjoy the story. Don't forget to leave a review.
The chocolate haired boy looked impassively at the blond girl as she struggled uselessly against the binding spell his master had placed on her. Her hand glowed blue before it transformed into a giant mallet. She swung her arm and hit the tank but the glass remained intact. Even after countless tries the girl was still trapped as her effort bore no fruit. She screamed in frustration as her exhausted body refused to struggle any more, slowly she slid against the glass container and slumped at the bottom. With an angry sigh she put her head in her hands.
A short while afterwards, she raised her eyes and observed her surroundings once more. Her's was not the only cylindrical prison in that room and neither was she the only captive. To her right was another young girl who happened to be unconscious at that time; her body was floating in some sort of liquid. Eve was able to tell that by the fact that the other girl's brown hair were rippling about her calm face.
'I have got to get out of here.' She thought as she jumped back to her feet once more. With renewed determination she transformed both her hands and her hair into mallets and started hitting the glass container once again, completely ignoring the pair of mismatched emotionless eyes observing her actions from across the room.
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Kurogane walked around the city feeling extremely annoyed. The shiruu manju had refused to hide in his jacket claiming it was far too hot for that. So he ended up carrying the thing in his arms. All the passerby's were giving him strange looks despite his intimidating appearance, which was not so intimidating anymore due to the fluffy white plushy in his arms. What kind of ninja walked around carrying soft and cuddly plushies??? He thought indignantly.
He had been searching for five hours straight and there was still no sign of that cat guy or the green haired guy that crazy fan-girl had told them about. This park was the last place where he was going to look. And then, Black Cat or no Black Cat, he was heading back to the bar.
'Aunty, look at the cute rabbit that scary man is holding.' A little girl, no older than six years, pointed as soon as Kurogane entered through the park gates. She had black hair and sparkling green eyes.
'It's not nice to point dear.' The purple haired woman, who was holding her hand, said as she moved her cell-phone away from her ear to look at the girl. 'Come on now, Uncle Jenos is waiting outside the park. Could you go on, I'll be there in a second.'
'Okay.' The girl said brightly as she ran past the ninja. The woman watched her disappear through the gates before turning her back to it and walking towards the centre of the park.
'Poor Sven.' She muttered as she turned and started walking towards the centre of the park. Kurogane's ears perked up at hearing that name. 'Wasn't it that green haired guys name?' he thought as he decided to follow her. The park was almost empty by now, a few people were walking towards the exit and just a couple were jogging around the track. There were benches placed near the fountain. At first sight they were all unoccupied but upon getting a closer look Kurogane realized that a man was seated on the furthest one.
He was dressed in a light cream colored suit and a matching brimmed hat, a black eye-patch covering one of his eyes. He held an ice-cream cone in one hand and was using his other hand to feed it's biscuit to the birds with the other one. He was talking to the purple haired woman.
'Kurogane,' Mokona whispered, 'I think that is the guy Kyoko was telling us about, Black Cat's partner.'
'I think so too.' Kurogane nodded as he stuffed the magical creature into his coat pocket.
'Kuro-tan that was soo mean.' Mokona whined.
'Shut up manju, he won't take me seriously if I'm holding you in view.' Kurogane told the bunny as he started walking towards the guy, who he assumed was Sven.
'Alright, I will let you know if I find out anything.' Kurogane heard the woman say. 'I should be going now; Jenos is waiting for me outside. We still have to drop Saki at her home.'
'Sure,' the man said in a quiet tone, 'thanks for coming.'
'No problem.' The woman, Rins replied. 'Tell Train I said hi.' With that she walked past Kurogane. Said ninja waited till she was out of the gate before approaching the green haired man.
'Sven Volfied, right?' Kurogane said as he seated himself next to the dejected man.
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'So you want me to believe that you travel dimensions with the help of a white rabbit that you got from Yuuko, so you could gather some amnesiac girl's memories?' Train repeated what he had been told by the overly cheerful blond and Mr. Way-too-serious, I-got-cloned-by-a-madman.
'That's pretty much about it.' Fay replied with a grin.
'This is total c**p.' Train said angrily as he got up from his chair in Annette's bar. 'I just wasted an entire hour for some stupid fairy-tale! I shouldn't even have bothered with you two.'
'Ah! Kuro-sama… where are you going?' Kyoko asked as she attached herself to his arm.
'I'm going to go look for Eve.' He said simply, removing the pyrotechnic from his arm.
'But but…Kuro-sama wait…' the girl wailed as number thirteen walked out the bar without another word.
A/N: (if you don't want to read the A/N just scroll down to the bottom for two important questions.) Pretty short I know but you can't blame me. I was very busy. I had exams and assignments and tests and whatnot. Then I had to be the responsible elder sister and help my baby bro with his exam preparations. After that I slipped off the ramp and busted my foot… and the endless list of excuses for not updating will continue on forever if I don't put my foot down over here. (Ouch! Maybe putting my foot down wasn't such a good idea.)
Train: are you going to keep on rambling.
Me: (trying to be offended) I was not rambling.
Eve: were too.
Me: was not.
Eve: were too.
Me: was not! Hey aren't you supposed to be stuck in a gigantic glass tube?
Eve: I asked the clone to let me out.
Me: (turns to C. Syaoran.) how could you Cloney? After all the trouble I went through to make it indestructible.
Cloney: it's just for this A/N.
Me: oh. Right. (Turns to you guys.) The real reason for the shortness of this chapter is that I am unable to decide between two things.
Question: Should the whole group (train included) just hop the dimension to Clow to save their respective princesses or should they stay in this world for a while and try sweeping for sometime while they wait for the time to arrive? Let me know what you want me to do since I can do either of the two at the moment. You can give your opinion via review or a PM.
Another question: who can guess Train's payment to Yuuko? Once again you can PM me with your answers or just leave a review. (coughcoughleavereviewcough) correct answers will receive a bucket of cyber-ice-cream of their choice. ;)
Ja ne.