CHAPTER ONE
Everyone had said their goodbyes. The blond magician Fai along with the permanently angry looking swordsman Kurogane, the princess Sakura and her 'bodyguard' (as Kurogane likes to call him) Syaoran turned their backs to the villagers and joined Mokona, who was standing near a bridge.
"this time it wasn't so hard to get the feather. How lucky, right Syaoran-kun?" whispered Fai into the younger boys' ears. Syaoran blushed. In this world he had spent day and night looking for the feather whilst trying to forget that Sakura would never remember him which was due to the deal Syaoran had made with Yuuko, the dimensional witch. The deal was to exchange Sakura's memories of him for the ability to travel to different dimensions and collect the rest of his beloved princesses memories. They stood next to the white bunny-like Mokona and faced the villagers again.
Mokona's red gemstone on her head glowed, radiating bright white light into the darkening sky. Colourful streams of light rose from the ground underneath Mokona enveloping the five travellers and pure white wings folded out from either side of Mokona's back. A magic circle rotated below them and Fai, Kurogane, Syaoran and Sakura were swallowed by Mokona who almost spontaneously disappeared along with her streams of rainbow lights with a blink of an eye.
Mokona's wormhole had almost every shade of blue surrounding them along with orange dots of light forming a sort of barrier around them, almost as if guiding them to where they should go. The four travellers glided peacefully into the hole, feeling as though they were free-falling from high up in the sky but in slow motion. Everything was calm and normal but then suddenly, as though someone had flicked off a switch, everything went black and they felt as though the really were free falling.
"What's going on Mokona?" called the soft boyish voice of Syaoran, sounding sore from the heavy impact of his backside and the floor. A thud and some yelps a short distance from Syaoran could be heard echoing in the dark abyss-like place. Judging from the deep angry yelling it sounded like a certain blond, blue-eyed magician had just fallen on top of the short-tempered swordsman.
Mokona jumped on top of Sakura's shoulder. "Mokona doesn't know! This wasn't supposed to happen, Mokona doesn't know where we are!" Fai and Kurogane finally managed to get up, using each other for support. Mokona opened his mouth and a large beam of light shot out forming a small orb of white light, illuminating their surroundings.
They were standing on what appeared to be large stone stalagmites in a cave surrounded with darkness. One single step or hasty movement could cost them their lives, making them fall for who knows how long into the darkness below. Syaoran was standing on a tall and blunt stalagmite barely a metre away from the nearest stalagmite on which Sakura, with Mokona on her shoulder, stood. Kurogane found himself, much to his dismay, sharing a narrow stalagmite with Fai, who had discovered a new way to annoy the hell out of him which was to poke him on the side of his waist when he least expected it.
"get us out of here manjuu-bun!" growled Kurogane as he tried to dodge Fai's fingers but failed when he realised he couldn't without pushing Fai off the stalagmite, which he was very close to doing. Mokona closed her eyes and scrunched up her face fully concentrating on trying to make them teleport again. But it didn't work. The red gem on Mokona's head stubbornly remained its normal red self without a trace of its usual magical gleam to be found.
"It's not working! Mokona can't use her magic in this place!" Mokona looked distraught and the light that hung like an orb in front of them dimmed slightly. Sakura gently patted Mokona's head, whispering soothing words to her.
Fai, with his acute sense of magic, stopped poking Kurogane, his usually carefree expression changed into one of fear, and faced the darkness behind them. Except it wasn't dark anymore. A small bright orange light, barely a centimetre in diameter could be spotted hovering between the stalactites above them. The orange light started to expand at a fast rate, with its centre being a dark endless hole filled with magic sensed even by Sakura. At last the light stopped growing. It was large enough for a full grown man to walk through which is exactly what happened.
It wasn't someone who they were glad to see, rather it was the complete opposite. Fai's face was covered with unmasked fear, Kurogane was shaking with overflowing anger and Syaoran was trying to cover Sakura as best he could without falling off his stalagmite. This particular person, who they shared a mutual distaste for, was no other then Fei Wong, the person who had forced them into this mess.
Fei Wong stepped out of the portal completely and stood on an invisible platform, the portal still as dark looking as ever. "Fai, it's been a long time, you've grown." the cruel smile on is face grew wider as Fai struggled to make himself less noticeable by hiding be Kurogane. Fei Wong continued to talk to him, "you see I've been doing a bit of research, as you know I selected and gathered all my pieces very carefully, and until some time ago I had fully believed that my pieces were you all. Fai, Kurogane, Syaoran and of course Sakura," he looked at each of them as he called out their names, and the echoing made it sound as though thousands of Fei Wongs were repeating his words. Kurogane opened his mouth to probably swear at him but found that he couldn't do so.
"now," Fei Wong continued, "I have reason to believe that the person I had intended to save wasn't saved but rather it was his twin brother. Do you know what I'm talking about Yuui?" he laughed out loud and they were deafened by the numerous echo's thundering their eardrums, their hands having little resistance and then as suddenly as it had begun the laughing stopped. He looked at them seriously, "I don't like to be fooled. It's a universal fact. Those who try to trick me get punished so my punishment for you all is this!" and with a click of his fingers, separate magic portals appeared beneath each of the travellers feet, and the last thing they saw was Fei Wong howling with laughter and then everything was black again.