A card captor Sakura and Spiderwick crossover story.
Jared could see the fire.
A fireplace.
A couch. A big window showing nothing but darkness.
"A living room?" He guessed.
Sakura helped him up and Thimbletack was back in his hood.
"This is a nice room." Sakura said. The good news was that there was a lot more light.
Or there was.
The dark figure came back and blew the fire out.
"You freed the useless nanny. No matter. You won't be alive long enough to make it out."
And he vanished.
"He's scary." Sakura said.
Jared grabbed the flashlight from Sakura and found some matches.
"Let's start the fire back up." He said. He took a match and put it in the fire.
"Thank you!"
Not another one! Jared thought.
He turned to see a very well dressed man standing behind him and Sakura.
"I know him! He is a great nobleman. He first lived in the house before master's own father lived there." Thimbletack said.
Jared looked closely at the man. "Are you with the dark one? The one who has us trapped?" Jared asked.
"Oh god no! He tricked my brother and he got me to take his place inside the mirror. My brother my be a pain but I would never do something like that." He said.
So that was a no.
"How can we help you?" Sakura asked the man.
"Oh! Well. If you can get the fire a little bigger and open the safe above it then that should be good." He said.
"What is in the safe?" Jared asked.
"Before I was tricked I had a few valuables in the safe here. The master said I could use it. I put my things in and now that I'm a ghost I can't get them out. It's just a picture is all." He said.
Jared didn't like the sound of it put what is the harm. They needed to get out anyway.
"Okay. The code to the safe then."
"I don't remember it. Maybe if you look around you'll find it."
Great.
Jared worked on the fire while Sakura was already looking around the room.
"Where could it be? What if we guess the code?" Sakura asked.
"That would take WAY too long. We'd be dead by then and would never get out." Jared said.
Sakura sighed. She looked around on the desk and table that was here in the room and Jared used a couple more matches.
"Ouch!" Jared said. He must have gotten too close to the fire.
"Jared! Are you okay? Maybe there is...Oh. I found the code." Sakura said as she opened up a drawer.
"That was easy." Jared said.
"Jared. your hurt."
"It's nothing. Quick reflexes. See. No burns." Jared showed his hand.
Sakura sighed with relief.
"Okay so it's-"
The wind blows again and this time the fire grew.
"How about a game." The dark figure said blowing the code into the fire.
"No!" Sakura attempted to reach for it but a gate slammed down almost on her hand.
"Ah!" She jerked her hand back.
"What do you want?!" Jared demanded.
The figure used magic and a chess set appeared in front of them.
"A game. Of wits. For the code. Before it burns completely." Jared glared.
How was this going to work.
Sakura was looking at the paper. She could make out the last three numbers.
"Thimbletack." She whispered.
It gave Jared an Idea.
"I'll play. If I win...You let Sakura go." He said.
"What?!" Sakura shouted.
The figure laughed.
"Sakura. My hood." He said. "Use it. Get the code. Then run." He said.
"I get this side." Jared pointed.
"Very well. You seem confident. Let's begin." The figure said.
They sat down and Sakura reached in Jared's hood. Gentle with her hand, She grabbed Thimbletack and pulled him out. Walking passed the figure she could see he didn't have a face.
She bent down and looked at the code.
3469 or 8 and the first one. Shoot! She needed the code. And quick.
"Thimbletack. Can you squeeze through the bars and get that paper?" She whispered.
Thimbletack nodded but Sakura didn't see him. He was invisible.
Sakura felt him move off of her hand and could hear his little footsteps.
"Ouch! Hot!" Thimbletack shouted. He grabbed the paper and moved back as fast as he could.
"Hmm?"
"Hay! Your dealing with me! Check." Jared said.
The figure growled.
Sakura moved quick to get the code up. "Okay so let's try all nine numbers with these four." She said to herself.
She tried a few numbers and eventually...She got it.
"Yes! Here it is." Sakura pulled the picture out and it was a picture of the nobleman's family.
At least she guessed.
"Thanks you my dear. Now I'm free."
Sakura saw a bright behind her and in seconds the picture was gone.
"Jared!" Sakura called his name and ran for the mirror.
Jared flipped the table as the figure noticed what just happened but was too slow.
Jared jumped in the mirror right behind Sakura and disappeared.
"They won't make it that far. Not when they reach...the green room." The figure laughed and vanished.
End Chapter 4.
