Disclaimer: CCS doesn't belong to me!!! It belongs to CLAMP! There! I did
it! Easier said than done though!!!! WAAAAH!
Yumi_Ya: Okay, like the summary said, this was a SS project but hey.it's still a fanfics!! If you feel like it really sucked, you can flame! In fact, flame as much as you want, if it's really that bad! Personally, I think it's one of my worst works! Well.introducing.Destiny has Chosen This Path!
"text"=dialogue
'text'=thoughts
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Once upon a time in a land far, far away.lived a young 13-year old boy named, Li Xiaolang. Xiaolang was the soon-to-be-leader of the strongest clan in the world, the Li Clan. The Li Clan was a clan made of sorcerers and sorceresses, mainly descendants of the great Clow Reed, creator of the powerful Clow Cards, himself!
Xiaolang, as part of his training, was sent to Qutou, a small village on an oasis in western China, to learn independence and housekeeping skills with his cousin and fiancée, Li Meilin. (It was to keep the Li line pure blood!) Of course, Xiaolang was a direct descendant of Clow; therefore he had much magical potential. He was also one of the youngest, strongest, and most powerful sorcerers in the world!
Unlike him, Meilin had absolutely no powers at all, because her mom married a different clan member who had no magic. One day, his mother, Li Yelan called.
"Xiaolang, how are you?" I just wanted to let you know that the clan elders have given you a mission to complete before you return home. After you've completed it and come home, you will marry Meilin immediately!" Xiaolang felt a sinking feeling in his heart. Since Xiaolang found out about the engagement, he'd been spending as much time as he could away from Meilin. He really didn't want to marry someone he didn't love, nonetheless, Meilin! Meilin was so happy about it though and, from then on, clung to him wherever he went.
"Mother, my training."
"Your training is complete once you've done the mission!" Yelan interrupted.
"But."
"You've mastered cooking, housekeeping, mathematics, literacy, Martial Arts, Sword fighting, Calligraphy, everything!"
"Mother! What about my farmland and Meilin?"
"You will take Meilin with you! As for your land.leave them! I doubt there's much there anyway! It's so dry and hard to farm too! Not fertile at all! You're probably very thin! My poor son!"
"Mother! I'm."
"None of that now! When you come home, you'll eat more food than you've been getting from your subsistence farming!"
"Okay!"
"Good, now listen carefully! Travel towards the region of northeast China and find the reincarnation of Clow Reed! Then travel to Southeast China and find a flower, delicate and beautiful but very powerful! Don't underestimate this clue!"
"Yes, mother!"
"Now pack up! You'll be leaving immediately and don't forget your sword!"
"Why must I do this mission?"
"To prove your real strength, and whether you can protect Meilin and your children when the time comes! Now, you best be going! Safe journey! Bye!" The phone clicked as they hung up. Xiaolang turned around slowly and found Meilin behind him with her eyes wide open and an evil grin on her face.
"Aaagh!!" Xiaolang jumped back. Meilin fell to the ground. Xiaolang calmed down then glared at her. "Geez, Meilin! What are you trying to do? Kill me? I almost had a heart attack!" Xiaolang got up and walked to the middle of their small house. He lifted his hands and whispered an incantation. His aura spread throughout the house and in an instant, all their stuff was magically packed. Meilin stood, grabbed her pack and waited for Xiaolang to get ready. A couple of minutes later, they were ready to go. As they started walking east, Meilin asked what his mother told him. Xiaolang replied coldly, "Don't you know? We're going on a mission!"
"Well, no duh! I heard that part but what exactly are we doing?!"
"We're going northeast for Clow's reincarnation then southeast for a delicate, beautiful, and powerful flower!"
"Well! That really helps, doesn't it?" Meilin marched next to Xiaolang, complaining about how they were going to wander for years looking for these people until they dropped dead. Xiaolang just ignored her and kept walking.
Two days later, Xiaolang and Meilin reached a fork. There was a trail going left, one going straight, and one going right. The two travelers stopped. Xiaolang looked at the signs by the trails.
"Okay.let's see. The left one goes to the Gobi, the center one goes to the Great Wall, and the right one goes to the Huang He."
"Oooooooh!!! Let's go to the Great Wall! Please!!" Meilin begged Xiaolang jumping up and down. Xiaolang thought carefully. 'If we take the left trail, we'll have to travel through the Gobi Desert. It's just rocks and dry soil.but it gets so cold there, we could freeze to death! My magic can't keep us warm for long. However, if we take the Great Wall, it'll keep us away from invaders. If I remember correctly, the wall should end at Beijing.'
"Alright, but the Wall is very."Xiaolang was interrupted quickly interrupted by Meilin's squeal. She grabbed his hand and pulled him towards the trail in the middle. So, Xiaolang and Meilin headed for the Great Wall of China.
Later on the Great Wall, Xiaolang and Meilin stopped for a rest.
"My.it sure is a great view from here!" Meilin leaned against the structure. Suddenly, it shook and the part of the Wall under the two young travelers collapsed.
"Aaaaaaah!" They shouted as they fell down. Xiaolang quickly grabbed a slip of parchment under his robe with some characters on them. He held it up in the air.
"Element, Wind! Come to my aid!" Suddenly, a gust of wind came and caught Xiaolang and Meilin in mid air. Slowly the wind blew gently away from the Wall, carefully lowering them. When their feet touched the ground, Meilin hugged Xiaolang so tight he couldn't breathe.
"Oh! Thank you, Xiaolang!" She let go of him. As Xiaolang caught his breath, he scolded her, "Meilin that was dangerous! That wall is more than a couple of centuries old! Meilin, you know that!"
"But it's long enough!" Meilin said, trying to make up an excuse for her stupid mistake.
"Maybe back then it was 4000 miles long to keep invaders away from conquering China, but now, it's beginning to crumble and it's only around 2000 miles long with gaps in it!"
"Well, why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"I was going to but you dragged me away before I could continue!" They stood there, silent for a while. Then Meilin said, "I'm sorry, Xiaolang!" A couple of yards away, they saw some water.
"Um, exactly where are we?" Xiaolang looked around, "It seems as if we're near the Huang He."
"Okay! I'm not going anywhere until you tell me information on this!" Meilin said crossing her arms. Xiaolang looked at her crossly, "Why don't you tell me? You went to school too, you know!"
"Okay, let's see.Huang He is also know as China's Sorrow because it flooded so often and took many lives, ruined crops and farmland. The Europeans named it the Yellow River because, unlike regular rivers, it's actually kind of yellow!"
"It's nice to know you actually listen to the tutors!" Xiaolang and Meilin kept walking northeast towards Beijing.
End of Part 1!!!!!
Yumi_Ya: This story is complete!! I left a cliffhanger! Not really.well continue reading! Please try to R+R! Thanks!
Yumi_Ya: Okay, like the summary said, this was a SS project but hey.it's still a fanfics!! If you feel like it really sucked, you can flame! In fact, flame as much as you want, if it's really that bad! Personally, I think it's one of my worst works! Well.introducing.Destiny has Chosen This Path!
"text"=dialogue
'text'=thoughts
______________________________________________________________
Once upon a time in a land far, far away.lived a young 13-year old boy named, Li Xiaolang. Xiaolang was the soon-to-be-leader of the strongest clan in the world, the Li Clan. The Li Clan was a clan made of sorcerers and sorceresses, mainly descendants of the great Clow Reed, creator of the powerful Clow Cards, himself!
Xiaolang, as part of his training, was sent to Qutou, a small village on an oasis in western China, to learn independence and housekeeping skills with his cousin and fiancée, Li Meilin. (It was to keep the Li line pure blood!) Of course, Xiaolang was a direct descendant of Clow; therefore he had much magical potential. He was also one of the youngest, strongest, and most powerful sorcerers in the world!
Unlike him, Meilin had absolutely no powers at all, because her mom married a different clan member who had no magic. One day, his mother, Li Yelan called.
"Xiaolang, how are you?" I just wanted to let you know that the clan elders have given you a mission to complete before you return home. After you've completed it and come home, you will marry Meilin immediately!" Xiaolang felt a sinking feeling in his heart. Since Xiaolang found out about the engagement, he'd been spending as much time as he could away from Meilin. He really didn't want to marry someone he didn't love, nonetheless, Meilin! Meilin was so happy about it though and, from then on, clung to him wherever he went.
"Mother, my training."
"Your training is complete once you've done the mission!" Yelan interrupted.
"But."
"You've mastered cooking, housekeeping, mathematics, literacy, Martial Arts, Sword fighting, Calligraphy, everything!"
"Mother! What about my farmland and Meilin?"
"You will take Meilin with you! As for your land.leave them! I doubt there's much there anyway! It's so dry and hard to farm too! Not fertile at all! You're probably very thin! My poor son!"
"Mother! I'm."
"None of that now! When you come home, you'll eat more food than you've been getting from your subsistence farming!"
"Okay!"
"Good, now listen carefully! Travel towards the region of northeast China and find the reincarnation of Clow Reed! Then travel to Southeast China and find a flower, delicate and beautiful but very powerful! Don't underestimate this clue!"
"Yes, mother!"
"Now pack up! You'll be leaving immediately and don't forget your sword!"
"Why must I do this mission?"
"To prove your real strength, and whether you can protect Meilin and your children when the time comes! Now, you best be going! Safe journey! Bye!" The phone clicked as they hung up. Xiaolang turned around slowly and found Meilin behind him with her eyes wide open and an evil grin on her face.
"Aaagh!!" Xiaolang jumped back. Meilin fell to the ground. Xiaolang calmed down then glared at her. "Geez, Meilin! What are you trying to do? Kill me? I almost had a heart attack!" Xiaolang got up and walked to the middle of their small house. He lifted his hands and whispered an incantation. His aura spread throughout the house and in an instant, all their stuff was magically packed. Meilin stood, grabbed her pack and waited for Xiaolang to get ready. A couple of minutes later, they were ready to go. As they started walking east, Meilin asked what his mother told him. Xiaolang replied coldly, "Don't you know? We're going on a mission!"
"Well, no duh! I heard that part but what exactly are we doing?!"
"We're going northeast for Clow's reincarnation then southeast for a delicate, beautiful, and powerful flower!"
"Well! That really helps, doesn't it?" Meilin marched next to Xiaolang, complaining about how they were going to wander for years looking for these people until they dropped dead. Xiaolang just ignored her and kept walking.
Two days later, Xiaolang and Meilin reached a fork. There was a trail going left, one going straight, and one going right. The two travelers stopped. Xiaolang looked at the signs by the trails.
"Okay.let's see. The left one goes to the Gobi, the center one goes to the Great Wall, and the right one goes to the Huang He."
"Oooooooh!!! Let's go to the Great Wall! Please!!" Meilin begged Xiaolang jumping up and down. Xiaolang thought carefully. 'If we take the left trail, we'll have to travel through the Gobi Desert. It's just rocks and dry soil.but it gets so cold there, we could freeze to death! My magic can't keep us warm for long. However, if we take the Great Wall, it'll keep us away from invaders. If I remember correctly, the wall should end at Beijing.'
"Alright, but the Wall is very."Xiaolang was interrupted quickly interrupted by Meilin's squeal. She grabbed his hand and pulled him towards the trail in the middle. So, Xiaolang and Meilin headed for the Great Wall of China.
Later on the Great Wall, Xiaolang and Meilin stopped for a rest.
"My.it sure is a great view from here!" Meilin leaned against the structure. Suddenly, it shook and the part of the Wall under the two young travelers collapsed.
"Aaaaaaah!" They shouted as they fell down. Xiaolang quickly grabbed a slip of parchment under his robe with some characters on them. He held it up in the air.
"Element, Wind! Come to my aid!" Suddenly, a gust of wind came and caught Xiaolang and Meilin in mid air. Slowly the wind blew gently away from the Wall, carefully lowering them. When their feet touched the ground, Meilin hugged Xiaolang so tight he couldn't breathe.
"Oh! Thank you, Xiaolang!" She let go of him. As Xiaolang caught his breath, he scolded her, "Meilin that was dangerous! That wall is more than a couple of centuries old! Meilin, you know that!"
"But it's long enough!" Meilin said, trying to make up an excuse for her stupid mistake.
"Maybe back then it was 4000 miles long to keep invaders away from conquering China, but now, it's beginning to crumble and it's only around 2000 miles long with gaps in it!"
"Well, why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"I was going to but you dragged me away before I could continue!" They stood there, silent for a while. Then Meilin said, "I'm sorry, Xiaolang!" A couple of yards away, they saw some water.
"Um, exactly where are we?" Xiaolang looked around, "It seems as if we're near the Huang He."
"Okay! I'm not going anywhere until you tell me information on this!" Meilin said crossing her arms. Xiaolang looked at her crossly, "Why don't you tell me? You went to school too, you know!"
"Okay, let's see.Huang He is also know as China's Sorrow because it flooded so often and took many lives, ruined crops and farmland. The Europeans named it the Yellow River because, unlike regular rivers, it's actually kind of yellow!"
"It's nice to know you actually listen to the tutors!" Xiaolang and Meilin kept walking northeast towards Beijing.
End of Part 1!!!!!
Yumi_Ya: This story is complete!! I left a cliffhanger! Not really.well continue reading! Please try to R+R! Thanks!
