Story: Tomoyo's World -Part 1- World Turned Upside Down (chapter 21)

Authors: Risa Kaijuu

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Chapter 21

Title: Chapter 20

Chapter 20

The pain tore through her like fire, but before she could even start crying she remembered something. "I can't afford to fall apart now! This isn't over, the Cards will start destroying and killing any minute now. I have to stop them!" She reached out to the cards with her Magic and tried to talk to them as Ieran told the pilot to continue landing. But the cautious pilot was doing it rather slowly as he watched the tall flames coming out of what used to be a house.

Too slow for Tomoyo. "The cards will start their destruction soon, there is NO time to waste!" She thought as she unbuckled her belt. Then she took a breath, opened the door and jumped out.

As she went through the Helicopter door the headphones that she had forgotten to remove were pulled from her head causing the microphone to rake her cheek but she hardly noticed it as she called on her Fly Card and flew as fast as she could, down to where she could feel the cards. On the way down she suddenly realized what she could do and the pain in her chest eased.

All the sprites were out of card form and roughly in a circle. As she flew towards them Fiery tossed a ball of fire at her but she just diverted it and kept on coming. "FIERY!" She screamed. "I'M TOMOYO! SAKURA'S FRIEND!" He seemed to have heard because he didn't throw anymore fireballs as she landed near him.

She could feel the Cards rage but they were at least giving her a chance to talk to them. Only because of who she was to Sakura, Fiery made it clear. She was happy to see Light and Dark there and they were supporting her, but the cards didn't seem to listen to the two beautiful ladies at all.

As she tried to get them to quit interrupting her and just listen, the sound of the helicopter got really loud. She turned and saw it landing nearby on the road. She waved angrily at them to go away, as she couldn't hear anything over the noise and in a moment it did take off so Tomoyo went back to talking to the Sakura Cards. But just a few seconds later Watery shot out several steel like jets of water. Tomoyo was startled but quickly realized they were not aimed at her. She turned to see what Watery was attacking and saw Ieran on her back on the ground. By the time Tomoyo had dropped her shield and gotten to her she was dead. "There must be no more killing! Please, be calm. I have come to save Sakura!"

"Sakura's dead! So how can you save her?" Fiery said angrily.

"I will use the Return card to go back to before she died, and prevent it from happening."

"Return can do that?!" Fiery asked.

"YES!" Light shouted. "Return can be used by someone with enough power to change the path of events. After a bit more explaining with Light and Dark helping Fiery seemed to get it but it took him a while to explain the idea to the others.

"Return! Come here please." When the smoky spiral came before her she gave it all the earth energy she could, then commanded, "Return! Send me and my Cards back four hours!" But after a couple of seconds she realized that it hadn't worked and panic started building inside her. "RETURN!" She screamed, "Send me and my Cards back two hours!" Again nothing. One hour didn't work either. Not even ten minutes.



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