Chapter One- Oblivion

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I==D======= = Syaoran's POV

---;--@--;--- = Eriol's POV

o/'o/'o/'o/'o/'o/' = Tomoyo's POV

This story starts right after Sakura has transformed the Light and Dark cards into Sakura cards. It's after they all realize Eriol has vanished, and Sakura and Syaoran are still catching their breath after using so much magic.

Ok! Let it begin, and remember it's not exactly like Beauty and the Beast, there're a few varying parts. Also, this is my very first fic, I'll still take flames, but please.... helpful comments only! Don't scare me away from the world of fanfic writing.... never to write again! (o) (unless that's your aim...)

Disclaimer- I own nothing! (except the plot and anything else I made up) Everything belongs to Clamp!!!!!! T-T

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I felt so happy! I'd been able to transform all the Clow cards into Sakura cards, and now they wouldn't lose their magic! Of course, I couldn't have done it without Syaoran.... I glanced up at him and smiled. "Arigato, Syaoran-kun!" His face was red, but that must have been from sending all his magic to me.

"H-hai..."

He turned his tired and exhausted face away from me; we were kneeling next to each other, and looked the other way for a moment. I smiled, he had always been so humble, barely accepting a simple thank-you. Then, he turned back and faced me. He looked nervous, and very intense, his brow furrowed. I gazed at him, puzzled, "Syaoran-kun?"

"Sakura....." His gaze lowered until he was staring at his knees, then jerkily turned back to face me. Why was he so darn nervous?

"Syaoran-kun, you can tell me anything! We're friends now." I grinned, remembering his first day in Tomoeda and how he had forcefully tried to take the Clow cards from me. Since then, we had steadily come out of our rivalry, and formed a partnership in capturing the cards. Then, we became friends, and I found that he was a really sweet guy once you got to know him. He nodded grimly and continued.

"Sakura...a...ano.........I...." His almond brown eyes locked onto mine. A few stray strands of his ever-chocolate brown hair fell in front of his eyes. He unconsciously brushed them away out of habit, only to have them fall back again. I smiled at this, his hair had always been so messy, but I suppose, if it were neat, it wouldn't seem like Syaoran.

"Sakura...I......I LOVE YOU!" He finally managed to say.

I blinked, the smile falling from my face. I was shocked, he.....loved me? What should I say? Could I...no....DO I love him back? I'm so confused, does he really love me? We were barely 13! 13 year olds don't fall in love! Not true love...and yet.... looking into his eyes...all I can see in them is warmth...and nervousness. No, I couldn't hurt him, but I didn't want to lie!

"Sakura.....", he whispered hoarsely. He continued to look into my eyes, searching for my reaction. I was so confused, I tore away from his gaze and became suddenly fascinated by a blade of grass by my foot. His bangs covered his eyes as he, too, lowered his gaze to stare down at the ground. Then, abruptly, he stood up and ran away.

"Syaoran-kun", I whispered, looking at his retreating figure. I would tell him tomorrow, no, I would explain to him how I thought of him, as a friend. "Or perhaps.....no", I shook my head, clearing my head of the thought.

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I ran as fast as I could, out of the Tsukimine Shrine, away from Sakura. I should never have told her, how could she ever love me? After how badly I treated her in the beginning, how I could I possibly have had even a glimmer of hope she could love me? At least I won't have to hear her actually say it to my face. I'm leaving for Hong Kong tomorrow.

Then wind whipped my already unruly hair into a tangled mess as I raced through King Penguin Park, running until I finally stopped out of exhaustion in the wooded area. The air there would have seemed still to any person without magic, but to me, it was alive with the spirits of hundreds of unsettled spirits. I cringed, backing away from the ones that came to close. They were all pointing at me, mockingly it seemed. "Sh--l-r--love you" they whispered. They first few words were lost to the wind, but I'm pretty sure they were saying she would never love me. I drooped, hearing this, not caring what they might do to me. Then, to my surprise, the spirits backed away into the trees, but I could still sense some things, no, not something, one powerful spirit's presence.

I summoned my sword, and waited for the ghost to reveal itself, fully alert. Suddenly, the wind stopped blowing all around, and there was a chilly silence. I tensed, then saw a tall hooded figure clad in black come out into the clearing where I stood. It came closer to me, lifting a hand I could not see, as the sleeves were so long. Before it could do anything more I yelled, "God of Thunder, descend!!" A brilliant crackle of lightning came down from the clear sky and struck the figure. It had no effect. The figure seemed to brush off the attack as an accident as it gazed at me, with amusement, with no eyes that I could see. I glared at it as it stared back, then finally, it lifted its hand, a glowing ball of energy forming, getting larger at an alarming rate.

It held the now enormous energy ball in its palm, then spoke before hurtling it at me. "Your friends will soon join you."

"What?! NO! SAKURA!!" I yelled as the dark ball came hurtling towards me, still enlarging until it was the size of a door. I collided with it, my last conscious thought was of cherry blossoms, before I plunged headfirst into oblivion.

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I watched from in a tree, carefully concealing my aura from the new card mistress and Li Syaoran. I was a little worried when Syaoran ran away, and what he would do, so I concentrated on his aura. As he ran farther, it got fainter, but then he stopped it seems. He was probably at King Penguin park right now, judging by how much of his aura I could feel. Suddenly, I felt an extraordinary burst of power from the direction Li-san's aura was in. Then, just as suddenly had the power flared into being, it flared out once again. Li-san can deal with ghosts, surely. Even so, I was about to go check on him, when I realized, there was nothing to check on. His aura was gone! I glared in the direction his aura had been, and prepared to teleport there.

Sakura-chan obviously noticed something as well, her head jerked up in the direction Li-san had gone. FLY!" She screamed. She sprouted wings from her back, and zipped off. I watched as she zoomed like a jet to the wooded area in King Penguin Park, along with her guardians.

"Spinnel Sun! Take care of Kinomoto-san and Daidouji-san. Ruby Moon, come with me!" Spinnel Sun sprinted over to the sleeping forms and lay down in front of them.

"Hai Eriol!" Ruby Moon flew to my side, and together, we teleported to King Penguin park.

When we got there, we found Sakura-chan kneeling in the center of the clearing crying and calling out for Syaoran. She was so caught up in her sorrow she didn't even notice us arrive, but her guardians did.

"Eriol! What are you doing here?!" Keroberos thundered. He and Yue leapt in front of Sakura-chan and shielded her from me. Yue shot a rather angry glare at Ruby Moon. She glared back.

Ignoring them, I asked, "Where is Li-san?"

Sakura-chan spoke up, hiccupping as she tried to stop sobbing. "He disappeared!" Then she ran towards me and threw her arms around me, crying all the while. "It's all my fault! If I had said something to him when he told me he......then he wouldn't have run away! And now he's gone!"

"Hush, hush. It'll be all right", I soothed as I stroked her auburn hair. She was like a sister to me, or a daughter, and it hurt me to see her hurt.

"But Syaoran-kun! He said that he-", Sakura began, then she broke down into tears again. I looked down at her, then at her guardians. They were looking at their mistress crying, and I knew it hurt them too.

Then, I saw Spinnel in his true form, zipping over the trees to the clearing. , with Kinomoto-san on his back...but where was Daidouji-san? "Spinnel! What are you doing? Where's Daidouji-san?!"

He made a lightning quick landing in front of me, letting Kinomoto-san of his back, then gasped to me, "Daidouji-san........black....hooded.....energy ball..........GONE!!!!"

"What?! I can't understand you. Spinnel, calm down!" I yelled.

Spinnel panted heavily, calming himself down, then started again, "I was watching them just like you told me to, then all of a sudden this thing came down! It was hooded, and had this black, swirly energy ball thing in it's hand. I attacked it, it didn't look too friendly, but it didn't even flinch! Then, it motioned with it's other hand, and Daidouji-san floated up! She woke up, saw what was happening, and freaked out. I tried to get her back on the ground again, but before I could reach her, I ran into some sort of invisible force field! The energy ball just kept getting larger and larger, until finally, the figure threw it at Daidouji-san! The energy ball covered her entirely in blackness, then swirled around until it disappeared. When I looked at the figure, it disappeared too!"

"Tomoyo-chan", Sakura-chan whispered. Then, she looked up at me wide-eyed and asked, "Eriol-kun! Do you feel that?"

I blinked, when I had been listening to Spinnel's story, I didn't bother paying any attention to a certain aura that I felt. It was probably just a ghost since there were a lot of ghosts in this clearing. Then, I realized, listening to Sakura-chan's words, that this aura, was extremely powerful. I glared at nothing in particular, "Hai."

Kinomoto-san was still asleep, with Yue and Ruby Moon guarding him. Behind them though, I saw a hooded black figure with a swirling energy ball in it's right hand. It motioned with it's left and Kinomoto-san floated up. Yue gasped and flew towards him, then grabbed his hand, trying to pull him away from the figure with the energy ball. All this did however, was cause Yue to be unable to move his body, and so he floated with Kinomoto-san towards the figure. I feared the worst as they got nearer to the figure, but then, all of a sudden, they were floated back towards us again, over our heads, to land softly ten feet behind us. Both of them were asleep.

Sakura-chan cried out, "Onii-chan! Yukito-san!" She started to run towards them, but then stopped. Then, she started pounding on the air in front of her. "I can't get through to them! There's a barrier of some sort between us!" She said frantically.

I looked back at the figure, then my eyes widened with surprise as I saw the black energy ball getting even bigger. It had the diameter of about ten feet! Keroberos and Ruby Moon jumped in front of Sakura-chan to shield her, as I whipped out my staff. "Release." Then, I started attacking the figure, but all my attacks just dissolved once they came into contact with the figure. "Damn."

Sakura-chan tried attacking it too, but got the same results.

The ball kept growing, until finally, the hooded figure flung it at us. I last thing I was aware of was my body shrinking, and then, I was smothered in complete and utter darkness.

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Cliffy! Cliffy! Cliffy! Heehee...

Well, I hope you enjoyed that, I'll start working on the next chapter soon, and I'll finish it even quicker if I get a lot of good reviews. ::hint:: ::hint:: ^ - ^