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XX: The Ending For Now
Back the house, JD was looking through a few things trying to identify the black substance while Madison looked over his shoulder. It was late at night and both of them were only a few second away from passing out on the scene. "I did it!" JD said to Madison who was yawning, "I finally realized it!"
"You know what that black goo is?" she asked excitedly.
"Nope!" he firmly, "I just realized I can't conduct a proper investigation on this black stuff until I get real equipment from a science lab!" Madison just slapped her head in frustration.
"Now what?" she asked.
"I say we ask Eli!" JD said, "I believe he is the only one who isn't pissed at us at the moment. Maybe he might remember what monster this stuff came from."
"Fine," Madison sighed, "But let's gets some sleep ok? I don't know…" She then passed out and collapsed onto the floor asleep pulling JD down with her.
"Wow," JD said getting back up to his feet and then trying to pick her up, "She's heavy. I can't pick her up and carry her to the room."
"HEAVY?" she said waking up angrily, "NO WAY! You are just too weak! Put some backbone into it!" Then she fell back to sleep once again.
"Well," JD said blinking, "That's was creepy."
The next day, JD and Madison walked over to her house. It was just as big as her regular home minus the gate and forest that surrounded it. "You and your family sure love big places," JD said to her.
"Well of course," she said with a smile, "My mom always have extra money and love spending it on big, impressive things of all kinds."
"You know," he asked her, "You never talk about your dad or ever mention him. Who is he and what is he like?" She didn't response to that, but her facial expression seemed to show like she wasn't in the zone, she seemed distant.
"Madison?" he asked waving his free hand in front of her face, "Hello? Something wrong?"
She didn't answer back, but after a few seconds, her cheery smile returned and said, "Let's go in!"
"Hmm…" he thought as he walked with her to the door, "What's up with her? Why won't she talk about her dad? Did he die? Is he a crook? What's she hiding in behind her smile?"
They both came up to the doorway and knocked on it. A woman in a business suit and shades answered, "Ah, Miss Madison welcome back."
"That's your mom?" he whispered into her.
"Nah," she replied, "That's just one of my mom's bodyguards she used to have following me. At first, I thought it was cool, but now as I am older, it more of a nuisance." The guard let them both into the foyer the.
"Mrs. Taylor!" the guard called out into the house, "Your daughter is back with that boy she chained to. You know, what the cop said."
"I'll be right there!" replied a voice that echoed through the building, "Just have them wait for me!"
"Yes Madame," the guard bowed and then turned to them, "Just wait a second, she'll be here." She then left them alone.
After a few minutes of silence, her mom had yet to appear. "Ok," JD said looking around, "Wasn't she supposed to be here by now? This is getting boring you know."
"Yeah," Madison said nodding, but then she froze in place and began to quiver. JD looked at her confused and then looked where she was looking. An older lady was aiming a magnum directly at his head.
"HOLY CRAP!" JD said jumping backwards, "What the heck?"
"That would be my mom," Madison said shaking, "Apparently, she's not happy right now."
"You twisted pervert," Madison's mom said to JD, "Sneaking off with my precious little girl in the middle of the night to do God knows what. Probably exposing her to alcohol and drugs or even worse."
"NO WAIT!" he said shaking his hands quickly, "It's not that! I would never try to do anything like that! I would never do that to your daughter!"
"Unless I didn't want it," she said quietly.
"You shut up," he growled into his ear, "You're going to get my head blown off!"
"Sorry."
"What are you two whispering about?!" Mrs. Taylor asked angrily.
"He didn't do anything to me," Madison said rolling her eyes annoyed, "I'm fine. I'm still your perfect little girl you gave birth to ok?"
"Humph," Mrs. Taylor said lowering her weapon, "Fine. I don't believe it and we'll have that little test at the doctor's once we are back."
"You are embarrassing me!" Madison blushed, "Let's not talk about this, and just tell me where Eli is right now."
"In his room he chose," she responded and then she looked at JD, "If you do anything to her, you'll regret it for the rest of your life. If you think dads are protective of their daughters, just wait until I get a hold of you if you do anything bad." JD nodded nervously as he followed Madison.
"Your mom is scary," he whispered into her ear.
"She'll be back to normal once our handcuffs are off," Madison said, "Just be glad she doesn't know about our bathroom system we have because we are cuffed together."
"She'll use me as fertilizer for her plants!" JD shivered. Madison just giggled in reply.
They came up to the door to Eli's room and opened it. He was in there playing on his Gameboy Advance. "Eli?" Madison said to him, "I'm back."
"Oh so you are," he said looking up at them and at their handcuffs, "I see that both of you are chained together like the cop said."
"Oh you heard about it from the cop?" she asked.
"Nah," he said, "Your mom was screaming about how JD will try to seduce you or try to take your 'sacred thing' away from you while both of you are handcuffed together." Madison blushed deeply felt an odd feeling go through after he said that. JD on the other hand, stuck his tongue out in disgust.
"But that's not what's going to happen of course," Eli continued, "But what do you guys need besides a key to escape from those cuffs?" He laughed.
Both of them rolled their eyes and JD said to him as he handed him a glass jar with the black goo in it, "Do you know where this stuff came from?"
Eli looked at the jar and closed his eyes. He then opened them and said, "Ever heard of something called a Kodoku?"
"No," both of them said shaking their heads, "What is it?"
"Kodoku is a type of curse," Eli said with a grim face, "It is meant to kill a person. It is suppose summon an evil spirit that would devour who the conjurer wanted. By today's standards, this curse is barely ever used anymore."
"So this spirit…" Madison began.
"Is possibly what that thing in the water is?" JD asked.
"Possibly," Eli said, "If my memories are correct, Clow Reed had captured this spirit a long time ago. He caught sadly after the spirit had devoured conjurer's victim and conjurer himself."
"So," Madison said, "How do we destroy it?"
"If this thing has taken solid form such as this sludge," Eli said looking at it, "Then we meet be able to destroy. But it might turn into spirit form and escape. If it would turn into that, we would someone have to seal it away."
"This sounds hard," JD frowned.
"But our best bet would be to seal it away again," Eli said, "But that would require tons of magical energy and I do not have enough to do so myself."
"What if Sakura was able to help you?" Madison asked him.
"Maybe," he shrugged, "But we still might not have enough."
"It's better to try then never have I suppose," Madison said, "So we'll get Sakura and we'll meet you at the cove later!"
"FYI," JD said, "We still have a problem. Sakura's pissed at you for your comment and Dot is on a warpath because she thinks we hooked up. There is no way Sakura will help us."
"Well she better help us," Eli said, "We'll never know if we can seal this monster without her."
Back at the house, Sakura and Domino are both eating a bowl ice cream and watching TV together. Actually, Dot is flipping through the channels when she stops it on a news station. "As for local news," the news reporter said, "Have you seen these two missing teenagers? Their names are Sayo Taniyama and Houshou Izumi."
They are local couple in our area and were last seen at a restaurant at 8:51 pm last night. According to eyewitnesses, they heard the couple talking about a night swim," the news reporter said, "And speaking of night swimming, three teens were caught out in a night swim last night most likely hooking up or…" Dot turned the TV off.
"The news is too depressing," she mumbled, "And I don't ever want to see or hear about JD again!"
"I think he was telling the truth you know," Sakura said between bites, "I don't think he would move on to someone when he has you. The girl of his dreams."
"That's sweet," Dot said, "But I'm not in a good mood right now to listen to him."
"There you two are!" JD said coming into the room dragging Madison along, "Sakura! I know you aren't in a good mood, but could you come with me?"
"Oh so now you're a pimp?!" Dot said angrily, "Take every girl as you please!"
JD looked at her blankly and said, "I have no response to that because that was totally uncalled for and completely weird."
"That's not the reason," Madison said to Dot, "It's just that we need a person with magic right now. So Sakura, I know you are not happy about me making you angrily and…"
"I'm so over that now!" she said holding up her bowl of ice cream, "Ice cream always makes me feel better. That and 100 yen of course. So what do you need help for?"
"We think we may have found another monster out here," JD said, "But we need your help! There is a possibility that we can seal it away, but we need your magic powers to help Eli seal it!"
"Sure!" she said, "I'll help anyway possible."
"Is it just me or are is everyone using the world possible or possibility today?" Madison asked confused.
"Ok," JD said turning Dot, "Do you want to come?"
"I'm still not in a good mood with you," she said folding her arms and turning her head away from him, "I do not want to believe you at all anymore."
"Fine," JD said sadly, "But I hope you will forget about that crap. I'll be waiting for you later." He kissed her on the cheek and then everyone left her alone.
"Hey over here!" Eli called to them once he saw them running towards him over by the cove, "You guys got to see this! It looks like there was an oil spill!"
"An oil spill?" they asked him. He pointed to a large crowd behind him. Everyone pushed their way through the crowd and to the center where a huge pile of black goo was rest on the edge of the beach.
"It looks like that goo from Super Mario Sunshine," Sakura commented, "You know, from the Ricco Harbor level where all that oil was spread all over by those bloopers?" They all nodded.
"That looks like that stuff we found out on the floating pier thingy," Madison said.
"Umm…" JD said shaking, "Is that… moving?" They all took a closer look at it. It seemed to be vibrating and shaking.
"Run," Eli said simply. All four of them turned around and ran through and out of the crowd. They heard some gasps from some people and some people saying, "It's moving!"
The ground began to rumble and people began to turned and scatter in different directions. All of a sudden, the black substance shot off into the air high like a geyser and began to fall back to the earth all over the place. "We got to get out of here!" Madison said, "That's stuff can burning your skin off! It'll melt us all!"
"I have a better idea," Sakura said releasing her wand, "Shield Card!" All of a sudden, a light blue see through covering appeared around them and surrounded them. The sludge hit the shielding and slid off it.
"Whoa!" JD said to Sakura, "You can do that? Sweet!"
"Oh no!" Madison said looking outside the shield, "Look!" They saw that most of the people were disappearing underneath the gunk around them and were dissolving. They heard horrible screams of pain and terrible sizzling noises.
"Oh God," Eli said looking round, "This is horrible."
"That's not the worse of it," Sakura said, "Some of it is breaking through!" They looked around and saw that small holes were forming in the shielding.
"Oh crap," Eli mumbled. They saw then some of the sludge was now moving away from them and to one location. The pile was getting bigger and bigger.
"It's like black Monster Blood!" Madison cried, "It just gets bigger and eats and eats!"
"Enough with this!" JD yelled, "Sakura and Eli! You guys got to seal it before we are all dead as well!"
"Right!" both of them said nodding, and then Sakura said, "You two should find a safe spot while we tackle this thing!" Madison and JD nodded. Sakura released the shield card and Eli and she charged towards the massive monster.
"I hope they can do this!" Madison said taking cover along with JD, "If not, this monster is going to kill everyone in this town and then move onto more places and eat even more people!"
JD was silent for a few moments and then said, "Well… we're dead for sure."
"That's not positive thinking!" Madison said to him.
Back to Sakura and Eli, both of them were now in front of blob. "Ok," Sakura said nervously, "Now what do we do?"
"Seal it," Eli said, "Don't you pay attention?" Sakura stuck her tongue out at him.
"Follow my lead," he said raising his staff followed by her, "Now repeat after me, '书的野兽，您非常导致了麻烦。 现在回到您属于的地方。 妖怪卡片!'" Sakura copied him word for word and then two yellow lights began to glow at the top of each wand.
The monster then began to glow as well. Sakura smiled happily, it seemed to be working. She turned her eyes on Eli, who was frowning. Something was wrong and he was noticing it. But what?
Back over by Madison and JD, they were watching both of their friends sealing the beast away. "I knew they could do it!" Madison cheered happily hugging JD tightly.
"Umm…" he said annoyed, "Some space here!" She blushed and quickly released him from her grasp.
"I knew they could do it!" she cheered again.
"Stop repeating yourself," JD said annoyed, he looked back at Eli and thought, "I wonder if it is really working. Eli had his doubts before; I wonder if it is coming true and we are just not seeing it."
"Ah damn it!" Eli thought struggling to maintain his magic power as he tried to seal the monster, "This isn't working! This thing is even too powerful for me!"
Then a strange feeling hit him hard. A different magic energy source was appearing and adding itself into both of their power. The light from the top of his and Sakura's wand glowed harder. It shined so brightly nearly blinding him.
His arms and legs began to tremble as tried to control the power that was now coursing through his wand. He couldn't see if Sakura was having trouble because the light blinded his vision. Soon, it began to fade away.
The light slowly extinguished itself and the view of what was in front of them was clearer now. The blob was gone, nothing left of it, but a small card that was left on the sands of cove. Eli looked at Sakura was shocked and surprised at what happened.
Eli ran over to the card and scooped it up for a closer look. It had no lettering on it, just a picture of a strange beast that looked nothing like the giant mass that was just there. "What the…" Eli mumbled.
The card began to shake and Eli tossed out of his hand. The card froze in midair and continued to shake. Then powerful beams of light burst out of the card in all directions. Then it exploded into a ball of light, leaving nothing left but small sparkles of the light slowly falling to the earth.
Then was no sound for a while. No one spoke. Then from behind them, they heard JD say, "Holy crap."
One week later, everyone was at dance club at night for some fun. Madison and JD had been relived of their handcuffs and were extremely happy. Dot was starting to warm back up to her boyfriend, but she still had her worries about what happened that night when he and Madison were caught.
A song came over the speakers and Madison squealed with delight. "I love this song!" she said happily to JD, "Let's dance… umm… is it ok with you Dot?"
She sighed and said, "Sure, but no funny business alright?" Madison smiled and dragged JD out there by force.
"Listen," he said to Madison once out on the dance floor with a bunch of other people, "I'm not that good of dancer. Maybe you would like it if…"
"I can help you dance," she said smoothly, "Just follow my moment and put your right arm around my waist." JD looked at her and then at Dot. He wasn't so sure that she would like him doing that. But he did so anyways, Madison smiled, and she began to lead him along in a dance.
From underneath the trees, we watch the sky
Confusing stars with satellites
I never dreamed that you'd be mine
But here we are, we're here tonight
"Are you sure about this?" Sakura asked Dot, "You don't seem like the type to let this happen with your boyfriend to allow another girl to dance with him."
"I need a drink," she grumbled leaving the table and heading towards the bar, "If he puts his hand on her butt, tell me and I'll break him in two."
After she left, Eli said to Sakura, "I wonder how JD puts up with her anyways. She seems a little… prissy and uptight about him being friends with other girls."
Singing Amen, I'm I'm alive (I'm alive)
Singing Amen, I'm alive
"You know," Sakura said to him, "Something has been bugging me for quiet some time now. It's about…"
"That beast and how it was destroyed instead of being sealed away like it should have been?" Eli asked.
"Yeah," she said, "But how did you…"
"Know?" he asked, "It's been something that has been bugging me for a while now as well. It seem weird that it happened. After all, our magic power together wasn't going to even seal the beast away let alone destroy it."
If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died
"What do you mean?" she asked him.
"Didn't you feel a little weak back there?" he asked her, "You know, like your magic wasn't going to work at all or anything like that?"
"Yeah," she said softly, "But then that strange feeling came to me and then it seemed my magic was unlimited and extremely powerful."
"That happened to me as well," he said, "But I have no idea how it happened at all. It's bugging me a lot. The only way that could of happen is if someone transferred some of their own magic to us."
And I'm singing
Amen I, Amen I, I'm alive
Amen I, Amen I, Amen I, I'm alive
"But why would someone do that?" she asked.
"Who knows why?" he said, "But the person must of wanted to help us. But with that kind of magic he or she had, I should have been able to sense it, but I didn't."
"How is that possible for you?" she said.
"I don't know," he said, "This may mean someone is close by with a lot of magical energy. But I don't know who, it could be anyone."
And in the air the fireflies
Our only light in paradise
We'll show the world they were wrong
And teach them all to sing along
"Hey!" Madison said to the two of them at the table, "Aren't you two going to dance at all?"
"With who?" they responded.
"With each other," JD responded, "If I'm being forced to dance then you two should do so as well!" Madison twisted his ear hard making him flinch.
Eli and Sakura looked at each other and shrugged. Why not is what they most likely thought. Both of them took each other's hand and followed JD and Madison out onto the dance floor.
Singing Amen I, I'm alive (I'm alive)
Singing Amen I, I'm alive
Dot returned to the table and saw that all four of them were now dancing all together. She sighed and said, "I'm so lonely now. I wish I could dance with someone. But I don't want to intrude on them at all. They all look happy…"
Dot looked at her boyfriend. He was smiling as he and Madison dance both together. Dot felt like crying. Her boyfriend seemed to be happier without her.
If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died
If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died
Someone was watching Dot and the rest of the team. He took a drink from his glass and smiled at Dot. "I helped those two destroy that monster at the beach," he said, "Perhaps I can now help myself to my next plan. I just need to get to her. But how?"
And as we lie beneath the stars
We realize how small we are
If they could love like you and me
Imagine what the world could be
Dot took a slip from her glass and continued to watch her friends dance away. Someone tapped her on the shoulder and she jumped. She turned around saying, "What kind of creep would…"
She stopped what she was saying and said, "Oh it's you! I haven't seen you in a while."
"Yeah I know," the person answered, "I saw you and friends come in here and I decided to follow you guys. You know, you kind of lonely. Your boyfriend skip out on you?"
"No," she said slowly, "I'm just…"
"You want to dance?" he asked smoothly. She looked at him blankly and smiled. She nodded and she took his hand. Both of them soon were both on the dance floor slow dancing.
If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died
If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died
"Hey!" Madison said looking past JD's shoulder, "Is that who I think it is?"
"Who?" he asked her looking to where she was looking.
"It's Kurt!" she said surprised, "And he's dancing with Dot!"
We'd see the day, we'd see the day
When nobody died
We'd see the day, we'd see the day
When nobody died
We'd see the day when nobody died
Author Notice: This chapter ends part one of this story. I'll get the next part up later, possibly March or April when I get a chance. I hope you like the first part of the story.
Like last year, I'll continue to do Top 5 Stories of the Month. These are the winners from January:
1. Haunted Memories By: HeroOfDarkness2005
2. Crystal: The Legend of Jotho By: Katie Legends
3. The Titan Chronicles, Episode III: Thresholding By: CidGregor
4. Old Sakura, New Sakura By: Shi Strange
5. Hina of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Tama By: The Unknown Alias
I'm looking for any kind of story this time around. Find any good ones and report them to me so I can take a look into them!
Time to take a look back at all my past reviewers of this story and say a final goodbye to them all for now.
A Crazy Girl of Many Names: My first ever reviewer!
Katie Legends: A faithful reviewer who reviewed all my chapters. Thank you!
The Dono Trio: Nothing to say, but thanks for the reviews.
AshK: He reviews a lot of my stories, but will always say the same thing! No offense.
Chibi Ninja xo. Cherry: She provide me with all the translations of each person's name from Japanese to English.
Ajm88: Another great reviewer, he had also reviewed The Secret of the Storm, my first ever fanfic.
Dbzgtfan2004: Nothing really to say, thanks for your reviews though
-Lang Fa-: Nothing really to say, thanks for your reviews though
Forget You Let's Talk About Me: Another interesting reviewer with an interesting name
Shadow: Nothing really to say, thanks for your reviews though
SnowCharms: Nothing really to say, but your reviews came far into the story.
I hope to see ya in the next part of the story. In it, the team will encounter a bunch of more crazy monsters, Dot takes in an orphan, some interesting secrets come out from Kurt, the hunters return, and what happened to the Thunderbird. See you soon!
This was Jordan R. Was Here saying his final goodbye for now. Peace out and rock on forever everybody!
Date: 2/5/07