The Heir and the Priestess
Disclaimer: Card Captor Sakura is not mine. It's Clamp's!! If I own CCS I wouldn't be writing fanfics you know!
A/N: My first language isn't English, so forgive me if there are mistakes in this fanfic. Thank You
Summary: Sakura is a priestess who guards The Star Shrine. One day, The Dark Beast sealed her into a deep sleep. Li Syaoran, the only heir of the Li Clan, who also The Chosen One, was sent in a mission to awaken the Priestess in order to avoid destruction in the world.
Thus the story began…………
Prologue
The wind breeze as she watch the sunset in the west side of the shrine. Her hair was blown and strands of her hair covering her face as she tucked it behind her ear. She was wearing a white miko clothes and a pink ribbon tied her golden auburn hair that fell to her back. Her emerald eyes showed expressions of wisdom and peace. Her eyes were calm and peaceful.
When the day is finally dark, she decided to take a walk outside the front yard of the shrine. She sighed in content at things around her. It all seemed to be welcoming her. And then she thought about herself, and what she had been doing for the last two years. It is not easy being a priestess, especially for someone who is so young like her, to be a mistress to 52 cards and also to guard them as the Sacred Item. And then her thoughts flew to her father and her brother who in a faraway land across her. She left her country two years ago when she was fourteen to fulfill her task as the Mistress of the Cards. It is difficult for her to leave her family like that, but she had no choice but to finish her task and spend a life as not only a priestess, but as a sorceress as well.
She was cleaning the shrine when the sun is starting to go down in the west side of the shrine. Then she went outside to see them. She likes to take a walk before and after the sunset. She thinks that it is peaceful, just to enjoy the scenery. It helps her to enlighten her mood, especially this time it's spring when the cherry blossom is reaching its full-bloom.
However, her thoughts were interrupted by a strong wind blowing around her. And she felt an immense dark aura is approaching. The aura was so great that it's making her dizzy. She can felt a coldness creeping up her spine. She was having a bad feeling that things are not going to be okay from now on.
What is this feeling...? Why did I felt so grave about this thing? I have never felt this way before…
The wind slowly become calmer and revealed a figure with black robe and a veil that cover his/her face. The figure was standing before her with a frightening posture and the priestess was still having the bad feeling she had been feeling a minute ago. The coldness inside her starting to overwhelmed her and ready to take over her body. However, she was stronger than that. She could withstand the darkness. She would win.
"Good evening, Priestess. On the other hand, should I say... Cardmistress?" the figure in black greeted her with a smooth, strong, masculine voice.
"Who are you? How do you know me?"
"It's not hard to know and understand things about you, Cardmistress," come the reply from the black figure. "And I am the Shadow Master. The Ruler of Darkness."
"What do you want?" she asked, still feeling the coldness inside her body and mind.
"Not much, just the Cards… and your soul"
"Wha—," before she could utter a word, a small blast thrown at her and drew her three steps backwards.
"That is just a warning, Cardmistress. Unless you give up your cards and your soul to me, you won't feel pain," he smirked under his veil.
"I will never give up my cards or my soul to anyone like you!" she summoned the Star Wand.
"Then, I shall not be easy on you," he made a circle in the air with his hand and mutter spells that the priestess cannot hear nor understand.
A second later, the circle changed into a mirror and revealed a big black creature, showing its great fang. It had a sharp claw and big black wing on its back. It wass a mix of a lion and a tiger. The creature stepped out of the mirror and growl dangerously, waiting for its master's order.
"Kill her, Dark Beast. And bring her soul to me."
And with that, the Dark Beast started to lunged at her. But the priestess easily dodged it. She summon the Fight and the Sword, ready to counter the beast's attack at anytime. But that was not as easy as she imagine. Even with a years of training, it's still not good enough compare to the quickness the beast had.
For the first few minutes, she could still dodged the beast's attack. But after dozens time of leaping and dodging, she got tired herself. Her moves became slower and her body didn't reflect to her brain as fast as before. Compare to the beast's condition, she was a lot worse. She jumped up in the air and tried to attack from behind. But the beast saw this and elude out of the way. The priestess was caught off guard an fell. The beast saw this chance and lunged at her and then bit her neck, extracting the poison from inside its fang.
The Cardmistress felt a surge of pain all over her body. Her consciousness is staring to slip. But if she gave up now, the Cards would be taken and her soul will be corrupted by darkness. So she gathered her strength and pull out the Sword and thrust it into the beast's neck. The beast's released its bite and fell onto the ground. The beast was starting to disappear slowly and turn into ashes.
"I must admit. You are good, Cardmistress," said the Dark Master, who had been watching the entire fight. "But the Beast's bite is poisoned. And it will make fall into a dark sleep. No one can awake you, except for the Chosen One. And I will make sure that will never be happen."
The priestess realize that the moment her conscious was gone, he would take the cards and made disasters on the world. So she threw a Sealing Spell at him. The spell would make him lost his power to do magic.
The Dark Master's eyes widen in shock. He knew exactly what she had done to him. Nevertheless, he smirked. "With that small amount of power you have now, you can never seal all of my magic. I will wait until you are awaken once again. And I will make the Cards mine." And with that, he disappeared.
The Cardmistress took her last amount of energy to seal the cards in the Sacred Room of the shrine. And then she make a prayer for the last time before darkness finally took over her body.
"Please, let the Chosen One be selected by the Moon, and shall the world is saved from destruction"