Card Captor Sakura Fan Fiction ❯ The ReAwakening of the Mistress ❯ On the Way to China Part 3 ( Chapter 9 )

The Reawakening of the Mistress

On the Way to China Part 3

Chapter 8

A/N: Me is sad since after this chapter I stuckish on ideas so peoples send in ideas I can uses? I have characters lined up for later on chapters buts I haves no ideas to gets to those later on chapters….. so send ideas in since my "depressed" mind can't be creative for some reason.

A/N2: Ok, I'm postings this a/n because I've fixed the endings of this chapter! Cheers to me! Oh and I'm seriouslys running out of ideas heres so someone help me! Also my updating schedule is officially kaput. I don't think I can update every Tuesday since I'm doing anchor essays and I can't seem to get my history grade up since I was sick a few times when they were doing some projects and I don't think I can make that up…. Anyways, I'm hopings I can post this today but I'm not sure since I just started editing today. Wishes me lucks!

S/N: This is a sister note! I feel like I've typed this before, and I have. In the next chapter. So I guess that when it comes out you'll read it. Anyways, I wish my brother luck and I wish you wish me luck in wishing my brother luck so wish me luck! <grins madly>

Disclaimer: I don't own CCS

It had been days since they left the port and the survivors were beginning to feel the effects of being away from the land for such a long time. Many of the children were ill from sea sickness, unable to handle the sway of the water around the ship. Only a few children in the group were able to handle the ocean, mostly the older ones. And to add to the pressure of everyone, the mothers of the younger sick children were beginning to take out their frustration on everyone else. If one were to even step out into a room of such people, you could almost feel the stress in the air.

Tomoyo looked over at the sick bay on the ship. Modern medicine had very powerful medicine for almost everything (except the common cold…..) but the ship didn't have any of it…..

The little girl Arukas had also fallen prey to the sea sickness, and Sakura seemed to have a minor case of it. Arukas was feeling very sick and had thrown up a few times. Ataki sat by Arukas' side, but seemed to be extremely sluggish lately. Yukito also seemed to be caught up in the sluggishness, as he seemed to be lacking the energy to do too much.

Chiharu and Takahashi were doing their best to treat the children but with their limited supplies, they could hardly do more than give them pain reliever pills.

Syaoran was eying Enikan from afar, clearly not trusting the newcomer while Enikan was tuning up all his little robots. Truth be told, Tomoyo was getting wary of Enikan and his robot army. He had that gun thing that could break through magic, the healing rod thing, the tiny robots, and who knew what else he had.

Tomoyo turned away from the teen inventor and looked out into the ocean. According to the onboard computer, there was just a few days until they reached port. It had also given data on the port. Apparently, the port was extremely valuable and various factions fought over it on a daily basis. Rewop had an agreement with most of the factions so he was one of the only people that could dock his ships there.

Tomoyo wondered who would be in control of the port when they got there. What would they do if it was a particularly violent group? Most of the survivors couldn't fight if their lives depended on it. And what would happen if they just sunk their ship outright when they got there?

Tomoyo sighed, the topic would have to be brought up at dinner later since there were too many what ifs about the situation.

After thinking about it a little more, Tomoyo got up to see what Sakura was doing.

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Rewop seethed as he sat at the helm of his ship, the Flame Galleon, the best out of all the battle cruisers he owned.

He had decided to go after the sorceress and her friends. No one, absolutely no one, made a mockery of him and got away with it. He didn't know how exactly they got past his magic net but they wouldn't get away from him again.

Suddenly, a man interrupted his reverie.

"Sir, we are entering waters that are currently marked as raiding grounds for pirates, I advise that we turn around and head back."

Rewop turned towards the lieutenant that kneeled before him and waved a casual hand at him. The man suddenly flew back into the side of one of the masts.

"Feh, if we meet any pirates, just blast them to bits, if you even think about turning back, I'll personally see to it that you wish you were never born!" Rewop growled at the lieutenant.

"Y-yes sir!" the frightened man whimpered as he crawled backwards away from his powerful leader.

Rewop turned his gaze back to the vast sea that lay before him. Yes, those fools would get what they deserved if it was the last thing he would do!

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Sakura was trying not to throw up. Ever since most of the children grew sick, she had started to feel a bit sick herself. She wasn't quite sure why though since she hadn't been sea sick ever since she was eight years old. And she wasn't such a little kid anymore, after all, she was almost like six hundred and eighteen years old…..

Keeping her focus on the unmoving wall, she started to feel better. Could it be that her body was still a bit unstable from being awakened about a week ago? That could explain why she was feeling so sick.

Deciding that she was feeling well enough, Sakura left the bathroom and out into her room. Back in her time, such ships had never existed. They only had wooden ones and only the extremely rich had their own rooms. Now there were giant ships made of metal that had rooms for everyone.

If such a thing existed when she was little there might have been a chance that her brother would've survived….. it wasn't worth thinking about. It had been centuries since his death anyways. Sakura felt a wave of nausea sweep through her and started towards the infirmary. Maybe Chiharu had something that could help her feel a little better…..

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The children in the sick bay were wide eyed as they watched the unusual display of violence in front of them.

"It's just a fairy tale!" Takahashi yelled as he tried to remove Chiharu's hands from his neck.

"STOP TELLING LIES TAKAHASHI!!!!!" Chiharu screamed at her boyfriend's face.

"It's a story! I wasn't lying! Don't kill me!" Takahashi screamed as he managed to get another breath of air. He had been almost choked to death so many times by the girl in front of him that he had developed a pretty powerful lung and could hold his breath for almost ten minutes.

"Da nuwse is scawy….." one of the little kids said.

"Whad a poow doctow….." another whispered.

"Will we die if da nuwse kills da doctow?" another one whimpered.

Chiharu turned her glare on the kids.

"Wha! You da best nuwsie! Don't huwt us!" the kids cried at the same time.

Chiharu turned her attention back at Takahashi when Sakura entered the room.

"Oh hi Chiharu, er, uh, Takahashi….." as Sakura took in the situation.

"Oh hi Sakura! What *grunt* brings you here?" Chiharu said as she gave one final squeeze to Takahashi's neck.

"Uh, do you have anything, that, uh, helps with headaches?" Sakura asked timidly as she watched Takahashi slump to the floor, one hand clutching his neck, the other, his head…..

"Yes, do you need some?" Chiharu asked as if nothing was wrong.

"Uh, yeah, can you get me some please?"

"Right, Takahashi, some headache medicine please?" <I'm not going to name any brands that I know exists cause I don't know the copyright laws on those kinds of things….. and brands I do use I made up so don't sue me if they actually exist>

After not receiving an answer for a few seconds Chiharu turned to Takahashi, only to find him lying on the ground, unconscious.

Grumbling something about useless liars, Chiharu stomped off to the storage room where they kept their medicine.

Sakura was watching Chiharu go when a child walked up to her and tugged on her skirt.

"Hello, what's your name?" Sakura smiled as she knelt down to pat the little boy on his head.

"Is youw name Sakuwa?" the little boy asked instead of answering the question.

Taken aback at the fact that the little boy knew her name, Sakura replied, "Um, yes, my name is Sakura….. is there anything you need?"

"Fowow me Sakuwa!" the small child said happily as he lead Sakura down the hall by tugging at her skirt.

"Wait! What do you want!" Sakura asked as she stumbled after him.

"I found the headache medicine!" Chiharu yelled as she ran triumphantly through the door….. to find no one there…..

"Sakura?" Sakura asked to the room of sick little kids. None of the kids were brave enough to answer as the doctor was still out on the floor…..

"Saaakuuuraaa!" Chiharu sang as she looked for the missing girl.

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Sakura walked after the little girl until they reached Arukas' room.

"Wh-what? What are we doing here?" Sakura asked, bewildered at why she was outside the room of such a strange girl.

"Awukas wants to tawk to you!" the little kid said brightly before running back down the hall.

Sakura stood outside the room for a few minutes, trying to figure out if she should go in or not. Deciding that it wouldn't hurt to see the powerful little girl, Sakura reached for the door knob. Suddenly a wave of nausea swept through her again. It seemed that the closer she got to the room, the sicker she felt.

Sakura almost fell into Arukas' room when she tried to enter it. She moaned in pain and was surprised to hear another moan in the room.

Turning to where the sound had come from, she saw Arukas seemed to be in the same pain she was.

Suddenly something she had dismissed before as Arukas' ball lying in a pile of Ataki's cloak but it rose into the air and Sakura was surprised to see Ataki's face on it.

"We need to talk," the Ataki face said grimly.

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Chiharu was still looking for Sakura when Sakura came in from the hallway.

"Ah Sakura! There you are! Where've you been? I found the headache medicine you wanted!" Chiharu said cheerfully as she held the tiny packet up to Sakura.

A blank look was on Sakura's, "Th-thanks….. I-I need some time to think about things….." Sakura mumbled as she took the medicine and started walking out of the room.

A concerned look appeared on Chiharu's face, "Are you ok? Sakura? You look, odd….."

Chiharu reached out to put a hand on Sakura's shoulder but was surprised when she was shocked by magical energy.

"Sakura, are you ok?" Chiharu asked, alarmed.

"I-I'm fine….. I just need time, to think about, things….." Sakura answered as she walked out the door.

Chiharu was about to go after her but she heard a kid start coughing. The nurse turned just in time to see a little girl throw up into the trash can that was next to her bed.

Chiharu sighed, Sakura would have to wait till later. Her patients came first….. though she could've gone if she hadn't strangled Takahashi.

Resigning herself to her fate, Chiharu decided that she wouldn't strangle Takahashi that much next time…..

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A man wrapped completely in bandages except for his eyes stood at the front of his ship. He had a ragged cloak that covered his body and had a sword made of diamond and a giant blaster gun strapped to his back. He was looking out into the ocean, intently trying to make out a distant shadow.

Behind him, a pirate was trying to stab him in the back with a dagger. The pirate raised his dagger and struck down on at the man. Just as the sharp, deadly point of the dagger was about to strike the man down, an energy field materialized right before the point.

"Did you think that would actually work Mr. Johnson?" the bandaged man asked.

"Ah! Uh, I! Please don't kill me!" the pirate cried out as he backed away from the bandaged man.

"Hmmm, now how to punish this act of aggression against me….." the man asked as he fingered his giant gun's handle. "Maybe I should take this gun and-"

He was cut off by the man's scream of fear as the pirate jumped off the ship, into the shark infested waters.

"Ah, oh well, there's the other thing to take care of….. Mitsuhiko!"

The young cabin boy rushed out of his room, quickly adjusting his glasses as he ran to stand in front of his captain.

"Captain Latscry Epoc sir! W-what do you want!" the young boy said, trying to keep up his brave facade.

Latscry Epoc, the terror of any ship sailing in his waters. He would've had quiet a few digits on his head but all the people that might've offered such a bounty were too afraid of him to do so. Latscry was an accomplished swordsman, expert sharp shooter, and more importantly, proficient at basic magic, making him a force to be reckoned with.

His ship, the Shadow Star, was one of the fastest ships in the entire world. It had a very aerodynamic build and someone had decided to give it six turbine engines when the ship only needed one to perform up to standards. It was equipped with many different types of weapons, ranging from rapid fire machine guns to the occasional focused laser cannon.

His crew was made of the fiercest men, all born at sea, all hardened by the sea, and all as powerful as the raging water. Living their life at sea with a powerful mage gave them small control over water. They could call up the water to push someone away or to repel an attack.

Mitsuhiko was just a boy they had found during one of their attacks. Latscry, having something against killing young people, had taken the boy in and made him do menial tasks on the ship.

"Tell the crew to get ready….. another one of Rewop's ships has appeared. We'll be paying that lousy crook back again for what he did to us!" Latscry said, an interesting smirk emblazoned on his face.

Mitsuhiko turned to leave, happy to have a reason to do so, "Yes sir!"

Latscry turned back towards the sea. Although he didn't mean to scare the poor boy, it was just the kind of atmosphere he created. And being completely covered by bandages didn't help too much either.

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Yukito was sitting down on a bench, looking out into the ocean. For some reason he felt as if he was lacking a lot of energy. He also seemed to be more hungry than usual lately. When asked about it, he had merely brushed it off as being out to sea for the first time.

Inside however he felt that it had something to do with Yue. Yukito knew he had always eaten more than normal people could eat but ever since Yue had come out for the first time he seemed to eat ten times more than usual.

Suddenly he felt his strength sap from his body. Yukito shook it off after a while but the whole thing felt very weird. Feeling very hungry Yukito got up to go to the kitchen.

Going down the hall, he saw Sakura, a blank look on her face, walking into her room. Forgetting about his hunger, Yukito walked worriedly towards Sakura's room.

Yukito raised his hand to knock on the door but was stopped by a voice.

"Don't….."

Yukito turned around, surprised to find Ataki there. Feeling a bit uncomfortable around someone who called Arukas master, Yukito backed away slightly.

"Sakura didn't look well, I'm just going to check on her," Yukito said firmly. He raised his hand to knock on the door but Ataki quickly grabbed his wrist.

"I said no. Master needs time to herself." Ataki said, just as firmly as Yukito.

Yukito was about to rebuke when what Ataki said stopped him.

"Master needs time to herself? What do you mean by that?" Yukito asked.

A look of panic made it's presence known on Ataki's face for a split second before the face settled back into it's normal glare.

"I've said too much, just leave her alone," Ataki said fiercely before walking away with a swirl of his cloak.

"Wait! What does Arukas needing time to herself have to do with Sakura?" Yukito asked, obviously confused.

Ataki stopped at this, before saying, "Ask your other half if you truly want to know."

With that the mysterious man walked away. Yukito watched the person until Ataki turned a corner, disappearing from his sight.

`Ask my other half? What does he mea- He can't mean Yue! Damn, of all the people out there I have to ask "that" person.'

Yukito played with the idea of asking his other half for the answer, but didn't really want to ask the mysterious magical entity. But then again, it was for his friend Sakura.

Sighing, Yukito started for his room, deciding to try to communicate with his other half in the sanctity his room offered.

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Rewop looked on his radar, dread in his eyes. The radar showed five bleeps on the screen. The four in a bunch was obviously the fugitives ships where the people who embarrassed him were. Rewop's ship was catching up with them and he knew that he could sink all five ships with the weaponry he had onboard.

It was the fifth ship that scared him. At first glance one would dismiss it as a simple fishing boat or something. But every so often the radar would show it as a bigger dot. And there was only one explanation for that. It was a ship that had stealth capabilities. And there was only one ship in the area that had that technology. The Shadow Star, once the pride of his fleet, stolen from the port by Latscry, the legendary pirate.

Even Rewop was scared to place a bounty on the bastard's head even though he desperately wanted to. He knew that if he did that the pirate would completely destroy his city with that ridiculously big gun of his.

For a few minutes, Rewop considered returning to port to avoid the confrontation. He knew that the Shadow Star probably already had their sight set on the fugitive ships so they would probably meet if he continued for the fugitives. He also knew that Latscry had a very deep hatred for him, even though he wasn't sure why.

Then an idea hit him, with all the new guns he had, he could wait until Latscry was finished attacking the fugitive ships. And if luck was on his side, the sorcerers would be able to weaken him sufficiently enough so he could destroy the menacing pirate once and for all. Who knows, maybe the sorcerers on the fleeing ships could even defeat the legendary pirate?

Rewop ordered his ship to slow down and keep a fair distance from his two enemies. Heh, two birds with one stone……

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The Shadow Star's cannons were in range of the fugitive ships. Latscry smirked, he didn't really care about the passengers too much, he just wanted the goods onboard, some of the women for his men, and more importantly, to hurt Rewop's business.

"Open fire!" he commanded. Instantly his crew began to fire at the ships in the distance.

"Rewop, I will pay you back for what you did to me ten fold!" Latscry growled, clenching his fist.

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Syaoran was with Enikan, completely engrossed with the older boy's machinery. The Li clan agent had to admit that he had a fascination for machines ever since he was little. Albeit he liked magic better but he still found machines to be interesting.

Enikan had the most advance technology he had ever seen, the little robots had their own individual AI and were able to life ten tons each! The healing rod was like a portable hospital in a tiny stick. Another one of the teenage boy's toys was a small box that could change the voice of anyone and had a small mechanism on top that could fire a small needle that would incapacitate the target. He also wanted to ask about the strange mark that Sakura had to remove from Enikan's back before the young inventor was able to leave the city, but the Li agent felt that it was a sensitive subject best left till after they were safely within the Li clan walls.

But more importantly, Syaoran wanted to know about the gun Enikan had used against the magical net.

"How does your gun work?" Syaoran asked, "you said something about a magical virus….."

Enikan looked up from his little gadget that he was tinkering with.

"Oh, that was just a basic plasma launcher gun, it was the bullet I put in it that was special."

"How so?"

"Anything can be explained scientifically, magic isn't such a strange thing once you break it up into small logical things. You learned basic chemistry right?"

"Yeah, I took chemistry back when I was thirteen."

"Well, then you know about the S, D, P, and F subshells right?"

"I vaguely recall that lesson….." Syaoran said cautiously, not sure what that had to do with anything.

"Well, magic is formed by the rarest sub shell, the X sub shell. While the F sub shell can carry the most electrons out of the basic four, the X sub shell can carry up to five hundred electrons, making it the most potent of all the subshells. With that many electrons, the X sub shell is obviously very ionic, creating it's own special type of magnetic field. The field is easily distorted despite being very powerful making X subshells very hard to control. Basic mages are able to keep and maintain X sub shell atoms, and are able to manipulate them into whatever they need. Now my bullet carries the equally rare Z sub shell, it's even more special because the outer shells are filled with protons and the neutrons and electrons are in the inner shell. What the Z sub shell does is corrupt the X sub shell until it's neutralized. Now you know normal electrons detach and attach to other molecules all the time, in the Z sub shell the protons take up this task. Once the first molecule is neutralized, the protons attach themselves to surrounding X subshells and neutralizes them. The neutralized subshells further create more protons that attach themselves to surrounding subshells until there are no more X subshells around, making the Z subshells useless and then collapse on themselves." Enikan explained as if it were the easiest thing on earth.

"Er, yeah….. Can we go over that again, slowly?" Syaoran said.

"Sure! See, basic magic-" Enikan began but was cut off by explosions all around them.

"What the fuck was that!?" Syaoran yelled as he and Enikan sprinted out of the room.

They ran onto the main deck, only to see Tomoyo running frantically around trying to find the fighters onboard the ship.

"Tomoyo what's going on!" Syaoran yelled, trying to figure out why there was a hole in the ground.

"Oh my god! Syaoran! Thank god! We just got hit by cannon fire! Make a shield or something! We're under attack!"

"Um, ok….." Syaoran said, very confused but willing to do what Tomoyo asked. Syaoran didn't know how to call up Sakura's shield around anything more than himself but he did have the basic ofuda shields. Quickly using a few of his parchments, he created a blue shield over all the survivor's ships.

"Is there anything I can do?" Enikan asked.

Tomoyo turned uneasily towards the new boy. Unsure whether or not she could trust him but knowing that she needed all the help she could find, she said, "Get some of your equipment and find out where the attack is coming from! And grab your guns and stuff! We need some fire power! I'll go look for Sakura and Yukito!"

Enikan nodded and ran back to his room to get his equipment.

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Yukito sat in his room, trying to talk to himself….. He had tried meditating, sleeping, knocking himself out, and just plain talking to himself but all attempts had failed. He wasn't sure how he had talked to Yue the other time but he didn't seem to be able to at will.

"Damn it, I need to know what's wrong with Sakura!" Yukito mumbled as he stared at the ground. Suddenly, an explosion rocked the entire ship.

"Mistress Sakura! Go help her!" Yukito suddenly found himself yelling.

"What the heck? Why did I just say that!" Yukito cried out.

"Let me out! I need to protect my mistress!" he found himself yelling again.

"What the hell is going on here!" a bewildered Yukito yelled.

"It's me! Yue! Let me out so I can save my mistress!"

"Wait, that's you Yue?"

"Of course it's me, who did you think it was, yourself going crazy!?"

"Damnit, you scared me there! I'm going to kill yo- what the fuck am I doing….. I'm not going to kill myself, and stop taking over my mouth!"

"How else am I supposed to talk to you?"

"If I'm talking to you now how come you didn't answer before!"

There was a long silence.

"Well?" Yukito asked himself.

"I was sleeping….."

Yukito sweat dropped.

"Anyways, before you go taking over my body, I need to know, what's wrong with Sakura and what is her connection with Arukas?" Yukito asked, moving in front of a mirror since it seemed more normal to talk to a face, even if it was his own.

"Um, Arukas is Sakura's-" Yue/Yukito began but was cut off by a loud pounding on the door.

"Yukito! Get out here! We need Yue!" Tomoyo's voice came from the other side.

"We'll talk about this later, I'm needed," Yukito found himself saying before he was surrounded by wings.

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Tomoyo was about to knock on the door again when the door opened. Tomoyo looked up to find herself in front of the Yue angel person.

"Erm, Yue….. We're under attack! Please help us!" Tomoyo pleaded, a bit intimidated by Yukito's cold stare.

"Where's Sakura," the cold eyed angel asked.

"Erm, she's in her room but we need you on the main deck! If you don't help the ships going to sink!"

Yue seemed to think about going to Sakura's room to see if she was ok and going to the main deck to make sure she didn't die. Making up his mind, Yue ran up the nearby stairs to the main deck.

Tomoyo ran into Sakura's room, only to find Sakura curled up on her bed, staring at her hands.

"Sakura! We need your help!" Tomoyo said.

Sakura looked up slightly from her hands.

"Sakura? Are you ok?" Tomoyo asked cautiously.

"I'm fine, let's go!" Sakura said, suddenly as perky as ever. She teleported up to the ships deck, leaving Tomoyo alone in Sakura's room.

`Something's wrong with Sakura….. I'll have to ask Syaoran about this later…..'

Dismissing the thought for the moment, Tomoyo started running back up to the main deck, already starting to form protective shields in her hands.

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Latscry ordered for the cannons to fire again, only to find his assault stopped by blue shields.

Surprised to find such resistance, Latscry ordered for the bigger cannons to be brought out. He had met such resistance but only rarely. Some of the times the ship was lucky enough to have a mage onboard to protect them for a while and other times it was Rewop's men in an attempt to ambush him.

The bigger cannons fired, but was once again deflected by the blue shields. Never before had Latscry met such adamant resistance, usually the laser cannons he had knocked out the shields but this sorcerer seemed to be more powerful than the others he had met. He would have to use the silicon tri-radon titanium hull of the ship to plow through the shield.

Ordering the ship to charge towards Rewop's boats, Latscry smiled, he would have a fun time with such a powerful sorcerer.

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Rewop watched as the Shadow Star charged at the fugitive ships. He had never heard of Latscry doing such a thing since the cannons usually took care of the ships.

Suddenly the thought of going after the sorcerers that were with the fugitives seemed less like a good idea. If the Shadow Star, which had weapons that had similar fire power compared to his Flame Galleon, couldn't break through the defenses of the fugitive ships, then what were the chances that he could break through.

Shaking such discouraging thoughts from his head, Rewop ordered his men to start preparing for battle.

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Syaoran had just finished putting up the last of the shielding ofuda when Yue and Sakura appeared on the deck. Syaoran's head shot up, surprised that the two appeared so fast after Tomoyo had gone for help. Seeing that Tomoyo wasn't there to cast her protection spells, Syaoran continued to power his shielding ofudas, knowing that if he stopped, the cannon fire would tear the ships apart.

<Um, I'm my brother's sister, he doesn't seem to be feeling like writing too much so I'll be helping him write some things since I know he feels guilty.>

Fearing for the safety of the survivors, Syaoran spared a glance over at where the sounds of cannon shots were coming from. A look of pure terror crossed his face when he realized that the ship was on a full out collision course with the ship he was on.

"Sakura! Yue! Don't let that ship get through the shield!" Syaoran shouted at the two powerful magicians, knowing full well that the ship probably had some sort of magic disabling device if it was charging at them.

Both of the magicians nodded and took off, Yue spreading his wings and Sakura sprouting wings, and flew at the advancing ship.

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Latscry watched as suddenly a girl and a man with wings took flight at him.

"Take those magicians down!" Latscry ordered.

A few of his men focused their machine guns on the incoming magicians.

`Hmm, this is harder than I thought,' Latscry thought.

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Rewop watched as two of the sorcerers left the fugitives ship to attack Latscry's ship. It looked like the Shadow Star was trying to ram the runaway ships with it's magic deflecting metal, but the two magicians seemed to be slowing it down considerably, taking out a few of the engines on the powerful ship.

Smirking, Rewop ordered his ship to attack both of the ships. He grinned widely as his brand new cannons were activated, firing upon all five of his enemy ships.

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Sakura flew at Latscry, swinging her sword around to block the lasers coming at her. To her right, she could see Yue making sweeping attacks, tearing cannons off the front section of the ship.

Sakura focused her attention at the task at hand, flying rapidly at a nearby cannon as it fired quickly at her. Wincing as one shot grazed the tip of her left wing, Sakura put a burst of speed into her flight and drove the magically enhanced sword into the core of the mounted cannon, utterly destroying it.

More shots were fired from the right of her from a line of mobile cannons, forcing Sakura to put up a shield to block it. A few of Latscry's men grinned victoriously as the spot where Sakura had stood moments before was engulfed in a blast of fire that mushroomed into the sky. The smiles were quickly wiped off their faces however when Sakura came flying out of the smoke, striking the air with the tip of her sword to cast a spell.

"Fiery!" she cried, making a fire sprite form in midair. The sprite quickly flew at the line of mobile cannons, completely melting them so that they were reduced to mere puddles of liquid. The fire sprite turned its attention on the crew members who had been manning the cannons. Smiling mischievously, Fiery flew at the men, one arm stretched out to burn them. All of Latscry's men almost grinned as they all summoned a bit of water from the surrounding ocean and directed it at the fire sprite, effectively defeating it.

Sakura, who had her attention focused elsewhere was almost hit by a blast of water from the men who she had thought had been defeated when Yue swooped in, covering her with his large wings.

Giving a quick thanks to the magical entity, Sakura turned an angry glare at the people who had attacked her and released a streak of lightning at the crew members. As the blast hit the first victim, the lightning arched and bounced through the remaining targets.

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Yue turned to fight off more warriors that had come to fight. He flew into a group of them, then suddenly stopped on his side and turned to blast half of them away, then used the wing that was under him to blow the others into the water below. Another group jumped at Yue, a few grabbing onto his wings as they tried to bring him down.

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Sakura had been destroying cannons on the ship when suddenly a blast of energy caught her in the back. Stumbling forward, Sakura turned to see a bandaged man carrying a giant gun.

"So, you're the one that has been wreaking havoc on my ship," the man grumbled loudly as he lowered his gun, "and it seems you have magic since you survived my blast."

Sakura raised her sword and held it in front of her, "Who are you and on what grounds have you attacked us!"

"Ah, I'm Latscry, the dread pirate of the South China Sea. <Yes, that is a real ocean although I'm placing it in a wrong place, I think> And I'm attacking you because you're working for Rewop."

"Well that doesn't give you the right t-, hey! We don't work for Rewop!"

"Don't fuck with me, this was a trap to destroy me but I'll show that arrogant freak!" Latscry yelled as he brought his gun back up and fired another blast at Sakura.

Dodging to the left, Sakura swung her sword at Latscry, forming a ball of energy that flew at Latscry. The man simply stood there until the blast exploded, causing smoke to billow all around.

Sakura was about to let her guard down when a chuckle reached her ear. The startled girl turned around to find Latscry behind her.

"Really, I would've thought that the one who Rewop sent after me would've known how fast I am," Latscry sneered as he finished laughing. He brought up his gun and shot another stream at Sakura. This time she waved her sword and formed a pink shield that completely nullified the attack.

"I told you I don't work for Rewop!" Sakura yelled as she ran at Latscry, swinging her sword. Latscry met the attack by bringing out the sword that he had strapped behind him horizontal to his waist. Sakura was shocked at how fast he had blocked the attack and had to back up to regain her balance.

"So the assassin actually has some skill," Latscry drawled as he expertly strapped his gun to his back and swung his sword in a few patterns before settling it at his side.

"When did I become an assassin?" Sakura asked.

"Since you attacked me," Latscry answered.

"I didn't attack you! You attacked me!"

"You attacked my ship you piece of shit!"

"Well! I! It's still your fault!"

"Rewop hires such strange assassins….." Latscry muttered.

"I do NOT work for Rewop!" Sakura screamed.

"Well, then who do you work for?"

"I work, I-I, well, I guess I work for him….. than I used to work for, well that wasn't me but, then again I don't…..," Sakura tried before falling silent.

"What, the assassin too retarded to figure out who she works for?"

A look of fierce defiance flickered into Sakura's eyes, "I work for Master Syaoran and since he ordered me to attack, hey! You attacked my ship before I attacked your ship so it IS all your fault!"

"No shit Sherlock," Latscry growled.

"Hey! Be nice!"

"You sure are something, which assassin group do you belong to?" Latscry asked.

"I'M NOT AN ASSASIN!!!!!" Sakura screamed at Latscry.

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Yue had just finished off the last of the warriors when he heard Sakura's voice yelling at someone. Flying over to where the sounds were coming from, what he saw made his jaw drop.

Sakura, the normally sweet natured girl, was in a full blown argument with what apparently was some sort of mummy that carried around a giant gun and sword.

"Eh, would this be a good time to interrupt?" Yue asked cautiously.

Both girl and mummy thing took the time to glare at him before getting back to their argument.

"My mistress is acting oddly today….." Yue muttered.

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Syaoran was concentrating on his ofudas, knowing he couldn't move in case he accidentally going out of range of Sakura.

Tomoyo had been casting a few protective spells and had been reinforcing them when she noticed that there didn't seem to be anything going on over on the Shadow Star.

"Um, Syaoran?" Tomoyo asked.

The Li sorcerer opened one eye to glance at Tomoyo, "What is it?"

"Is it just me or is nothing going on over at the Shadow Star….."

Li spared a moment to turn his head and look over at the ship, "Yeah, there doesn't seem to be anything going on."

"Think we should go and check what's going on?"

"Nah, Sakura will come back when she's done….. besides, she seems to be really really pissed off right now….."

"…..right" Tomoyo answered after thinking it over a little. The fact that Chiharu was currently quietly killing Takahashi again in the corner.

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Rewop watched as it seemed that the battle was over. Grinning madly, he snapped his fingers, signaling the gunners to start their assault.

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Latscry and Sakura were still arguing when suddenly blasts of energy flashed around them. Turning, they found themselves being attacked by a giant ship that seemed to almost be sparkling as its artillery peppered their location with fire power.

"Fuck, I'll deal with you later, gotta take care of this new threat," Latscry said as he jumped off the ship and onto his crystal sword. Immediately water came up to support him and he took off towards the new ship. Sakura gave a quick glance at Yue, telling him to follow her with a flick of her head, then took off after Latscry. Yue followed soon after.

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Syaoran was just about to stop powering his shields when suddenly his shield was peppered by cannon fire.

"What happened? Why are we getting attacked again?" Syaoran asked as he tried to keep his shields up.

"There's another ship here Syaoran, and it's trying to blast us all to smitherings," Tomoyo said, eerily calm.

"Ok, so now I'm go- gah!" Syaoran gasped as he felt his heart tug.

`Crap, Sakura's out of range again!' Syaoran thought as his ofuda shield failed and he fell to the ground.

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Sakura was flying after Latscry when she suddenly felt her chest explode in pain. Struggling to stay up in the air, Sakura quickly backed up back into range of Syaoran.

"I can't go any further!" Sakura cried out desperately, "Yue, go help out Latscry for me!"

"Yes Mistress," Yue said as he continued his flight towards the enemy ship.

Sakura waited until Yue was in the distance before turned around intent on getting to Syaoran.

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Rewop was content on sitting back and blasting his enemies to pieces when suddenly he heard explosions echo around him. A warning alarm was set off all around him and he almost jumped up, "What in the name of hell is going on here?!"

All chances of an answer was quickly crushed when something shot into the hull of his ship and completely wiped out his entire crew in one wave. Rewop barely was able to stand up after the attack, only with his magic was he able to stay conscious.

Quickly, Rewop looked up to see Latscry and Yue blasting at any survivors that were lucky enough to stay alive. Scowling, Rewop quickly turned all the cannons that were computer controlled on the Shadow Star.

"I will take out all my enemies if I have to die!" Rewop cried out maniacally as he pressed the button for an all out assault.

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Sakura was on her way back to the ships when she heard sounds of many cannons going off. Turning around, she gasped at the amount of missiles headed towards the Shadow Star and the survivor ships.

"Uh, I don't think that's good….." Sakura whimpered as she started blasting as many as she could out of the air before they destroyed the ships.

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Syaoran watched as Sakura tried to fight off the many missiles but many of them still got through. He glanced at Tomoyo quickly and saw that she was frantically reinforcing her protection spells.

`This would be a good time for Arukas to make an appearance…..' Syaoran thought as his mind flashed through the many times the now sea sick girl had saved them with her skills.

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Takahashi watched with his eyes wide open while he watched the missiles fly towards them, only to be stopped by an invisible field. His mouth was agape, shock registering across his face. Of course, his state might have also been cause by Chiharu choking him…..

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Latscry and Yue glared at Rewop, rage in their eyes. Their target, however, was blissfully unaware of the two men that wanted to kill him.

"Your going to die a horrible death for fucking with me," Latscry growled.

"For your sins I'm going to make you die slowly," Yue monotoned.

Latscry held out his hand and began choking Rewop using magic, but was stopped when Yue stopped him.

"Why are you stopping me?!" Latscry yelled.

"I, have a better idea," Yue said, a slight smirk on his face.

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Sakura was trying to stop all the missiles and blasts but there just were too many. Suddenly, one caught her off guard and she had to pull up her shield. The blast forced her back until she was right above the ship.

`I don't think this is good…..'

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Yue and Latscry left Rewop tied to the mast of his ship. Latscry turned to the winged man next to him.

"You know, I think we're going to be great friends!" Latscry said brightly, unusually out of character.

"Yes, that would be most probable," Yue answered.

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Sakura was thinking about wasting all of her energy to block all the attacks when Enikan appeared, holding a small little gun. Sakura would've ignored it had Enikan not put ear mufflers out.

Suddenly, a loud grating sounds burst out from Enikan's gun as it shot a giant stream of white light at the Flame Galleon.

Syaoran fell over, clutching his ears in pain. Sakura fell from the air close to him, curled in fetal position as the sound seemed to beat at her skull. Tomoyo lost control of the spell she had been weaving and knocked herself out trying to get away from the noise. Chiharu kept trying to kill Takahashi. Yue and Latscry ducked out of the way of the white light as they tried to ignore the loud noise. The white light washed past all of the incoming attacks and they all suddenly stopped in midair, falling harmlessly into the ocean. As soon as the light hit Rewop's ship, it started sinking, brining the mad maniac with it.

As soon as the sound went away, Syaoran shot a questioning glance at Enikan.

"Eh, it just completely stopped them from moving….." Enikan muttered.

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Latscry stood on his sword as he road a wave away from Syaoran's group. Syaoran looked suspiciously at Enikan, wondering when he would get more time to question the mechanical genius.

Yukito seemed to be lost in thought as he sat on a bench. Chiharu was killing Takahashi's jacket while Takahashi was slowly sneaking away. Sakura seemed to be sick once again while Enikan was trying to avoid questions fired at him by survivors about his machines. Arukas still lay sick in bed while her Ataki seemed to have disappeared. Sakura sat next to Syaoran as they both wondered what awaited them when they finally reached port…..

A/N: Er, yeah. I'm an impatient person, I had the idea for this entire thing but I was too lazy to put in all the details I wanted to. When I'm done with the story I'm going to go and rewrite everything! Well, that's my editing of the incomplete version of chapter 9, officially a full twenty one and a half pages! Wheee! Anyways, Avelyn Lauren has reviewed every chapter and has been a big help in boosting my ego, er, self esteem! Thanks for some of the ideas, some I already have planned, just that I have nothing that will bring them in yet. I got a very very interesting review from Julia and Tania. Thanks for your input! I'll go back and check on the things you talked about, er, yeah, the spell thing was a bit confusing, I was just typing and had to figure some way out and I have no idea what I'm talking about. Well, it was an long and interesting review! Sorry Avelyn but I don't think I'm making Arukas Syaoran and Sakura's daughter although the idea seems to be quite interesting and I might consider playing around with it a little. I was surprised that you and so many people figured out it was Sakura spelled backwards! Well, not too surprised, I was thinking about leaving the `S' off the end to make it harder to figure out her significance but….. I can't say more than that without giving away lotsa the plot! Hmm, I think I'm going to hold a vote to see if you people actually like Arukas in the plot because that will decide her fate way later in the story. I'll hold it for three chapters, and everyone gets one vote per chappie! Yays! Hmmm, and since it's been a while since I actually updated since my sister updated last time I'm going to take the time to thank everyone that reviewed this chapter! I thank Avelyn Lauren, Julia and Tania even though officially they reviewed the last chapter but I just read their review so…., Yamiyumetenshi, Piccoleia Star, and Vi3t BaBiT, and last but not least AnimeObsessionFantasy! Wow, five whole reviews! Six counting Julia and Tania! I'm so happy! And I worked on this story for one hour now, chapter 9 is coming along nicely, kinda, took up a few more hours, and now its three o'clock and if either my parents wake up due to the call of nature than I'm going to be in big trouble….. Now to wake up my sister! <rooms connected by a bathroom….. makes it easy for practical jokes!>

S/N: Well, I guess I'll be the one forced to go edit the chapters when the time comes since I know my brother and he's lazy. And since I'm posting this story he won't get a chance to read this! Ha! I could say anything I want about him and he would never know! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Ahem, anyways, I won't because I'm the best sister ever! Ok, bye! <and he never gets me with his stupid pranks!>

A/N: Geez, she forgot that I always write a little Ja Ne at the end of my stories….. And I'm not lazy! Oh, and I'm happy with your reviews!

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