Story: Tomoyo's World -Part 1- World Turned Upside Down (chapter 25)

Authors: Risa Kaijuu

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Chapter 25

Title: Chapter 24

Chapter 24

The remaining members of Ieran's group continued attacking the young man as he flew, but their attacks became less and less effective as he got further away.

Meanwhile, as Tomoyo felt the Sakura Cards coming, right behind them was a figure with wings, and the magical attack was back, slime-needle plus a stream of fireballs. As she dodged the fireballs she was careful to keep an iron grip on Sakura with both her arms and legs, and as usual the slime-needle attack only managed to get the sickening feeling through her natural shield. But it was getting stronger as he got closer and Tomoyo knew what needed to be done. "Sakura! You have to use the cards to... You have to kill him!"

"Tomoyo-chan!"

"You have to, Sakura! If you don't, we will both die and so will all of Hong Kong!" Tomoyo was doing her best to run from the man but with carrying Sakura and using a lot of her power shielding and dodging he was catching up rather fast.

"NO ONE IS GOING TO KILL MY TOMOYO-CHAN!" Sakura suddenly yelled, and just an instant later the sickening Magical attack stopped. Tomoyo looked back and could only see a cloud flashing light then dark then light again. Reaching out tentatively with her Magic Tomoyo could feel Sakura cards and lots of magic. "I have Fiery, Watery, Earthy and Thunder attacking as hard as they can but they can't break through his shield!"

"Star Power! Send them all the star power you can! Now!"

Sakura tightened suddenly in Tomoyo's grip and in spite of it being daylight, short bright streaks of light appeared all over the sky from horizon to horizon. In just an instant, the battle was over and the streaks winked out.

Sakura then called up her own wings and hovered next to Tomoyo, as Windy brought back a somewhat charred ball of something. "What should I do with this?" The beautiful elemental asked.

As they looked at what had once been a human being and felt sick, Tomoyo saw a ghost of an old man in a robe. "That must be what he looks like without his Magic disguise." Tomoyo thought to herself, but then she noticed there was a faintly glowing string going from the ghost's hand to the charred ball. What was even odder was that the ghost was smiling. "I have a real bad feeling about this."

"Sakura, could you have Fiery burn the remains to ash, and have Windy hold the ashes together? We may need to dispose of them in a special way."

"Uh, sure. Fiery! Burn that thing! Fiery smiled as he reached out to the ball with blue white fire and at the same moment Tomoyo heard the ghost scream. A horrible high pitched sound. As Fiery surrounded the ball with a very bright shell of intense heat, the string vanished and the ghost began furiously trying to push Fiery away. But all of the ghosts fury had no effect on the Card Sprite and after a few more seconds, it looked to Tomoyo as if the ghost was being sucked into a crack. It's body stretched and it screamed louder and flopped around trying to escape whatever was pulling it into nothingness. But the ghost's struggles were useless, and in a matter of seconds it had been completely drawn into the invisible crack and there was silence. As Tomoyo looked back at Fiery, he was handing over a small glowing ball to Windy.

"Tomoyo!" Sakura exclaimed, "You're hurt! There is blood all over! I can carry you if you need me to!" Sakura offered before she remembered that Tomoyo had just been carrying her while dodging fireballs a couple of minutes earlier.

Tomoyo looked down and sure enough she had blood all down the front of her clothes. "Oh yeah. The collision."

"That's not necessary Sakura. I just hit my nose is all, and it just hurts a little." The last part was a lie as the pain was rather serious now that there weren't any life and death distractions. "Come on, let's see how the others are."

As they approached the burning house Tomoyo could see a group of people on the front lawn near the street, so she landed nearby with Sakura coming down just behind her. Her penalty for forgetting her sprained ankle was a blast of pain and a fall to the ground. "Tomoyo-chan!" Sakura cried out as she knelt next to Tomoyo who was at this point very angry with herself for being so forgetful "What happened? Are you alright?" "Yes, mostly... I sprained my ankle a little while ago and just now stupidly landed on it." "I guess the pain in my nose made me forget about the pain in my ankle. But it was still stupid."

Once Sakura had helped Tomoyo to her feet and held her steady, Tomoyo asked the young woman who was looking at them, "Where is Ieran?"

"There." She replied and moved out of the way so the girls could see Ieran, who was kneeling on one side of someone who was lying on their back.

There was a middle aged man kneeling on the other side who looked up and spoke. "He is dead. His physical injuries are minor, so I'm guessing that the Magic attack tore his spirit right out of him..."

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