Author's note: hiya! I'm back, and with a new story too! For all the fans of my other stories, don't worry/ I'll update soon. When I get a really good idea for one of them, I'll write it and post it. Too bad that I only have two days of vacation left.

Author's note 2: this story (after the opening paragraphs) starts the October before Eriol turns 10 (his b-day is March 28th) and he doesn't know he's half the reincarnation of Clow Reed yet.

Disclaimer: I own nothing, so don't sue me.

Author's note 3: lotta notes, huh?

"" denotes speech

"Italicizes" denotes Eriol's thoughts

Italicizes at the beginning of a break denotes location and season

This is written in 3rd person limited (meaning you'll only be able to read Eriol's thoughts)

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Tomoyo's house in mid summer, summer after the Clow cards were all transformed………

Eriol sat calmly in the grass At Tomoyo's house. Since everybody was out of school. And it had been a while since everybody had been together, so Tomoyo and Sakura had arranged for everybody to come back for three weeks. " it's nice to be back among friends," Eriol thought, "back home, my only real friends besides my family are Nakuru and Spinnel."

For a while, everybody had been playing in Tomoyo's pool. Now it was starting to get dark, and everybody was sitting around a bonfire telling stories. "…And that's basically what I was doing before the cards got released," Syaoran said, finishing his story. "Wow," Sakura said, "That's so cool."

Syaoran blushed, a usual reaction whenever Sakura talked to him. " I have a feeling I know what's going to be asked next," Eriol thought to himself. Tomoyo turned to Eriol and said, "So, what were you doing before the Clow cards got released?"

" I knew it," Eriol thought as he said, "That's a really long story. Are you sure you want to hear it?"

Tomoyo nodded, as well as almost everybody else. Sakura said, "Come on, tell us."

Eriol sighed and said, "Alright, I'll tell you. It all really started, for me at least, about seven months before the cards were even released……"

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Seven months before the cards were released, roughly September………

Eriol looked out across the lake. He sighed. "Another day," he thought, "Another day of being teased and beat up and tormented. I really need a vacation or something……"

Eriol began walking along the lake, towards his home. A minute later, he saw a group of boys much larger than him standing in a group around a little kid. "Those meat- heads," he thought, "it's early afternoon, and they already have a victim. Oh well, maybe they will forget about me today. It would be nice to show up at home not looking like I had just been through a battlefield."

Eriol slowed down a little and hid his face behind one of the textbooks he was carrying. He kept repeating in his mind, "please let me get by today without getting beat up, please let me get by today without getting beat up……"

Just as he was almost home free, Eriol heard a voice say, "Hey, midget! Did you think we forgot about you?"

Eriol cringed, but didn't turn to face the bullies. The same voice said, "How could we forget about our favorite victim?"

The group of boys laughed. Eriol kept walking, pretending that he didn't hear them. "Maybe," he thought, "If I pretend I can't hear them, I'll be able to make it home without getting hurt. I'll have to make a run for it, though."

The group walked towards Eriol, catching up with him quickly. The biggest boy, who was about twice Eriol's size, stood in front of him and said, "Don't pretend you can't hear us, midget. You know that we always beat you up everyday after school, and today's not going to be any different. Then again, I'm in a pretty good mood today. If you stay on my good side, I might let you off without even landing a punch on you. "

"Stay on Derek's good side," Eriol said to himself, "Don't blow it. Don't say anything stupid."

All of the boys laughed. Derek said, "We can't let you off without doing something, so what should we make you do…….. Hm………I know, say, 'I'm a big geek and I'll never amount to anything.'"

Eriol repeated, "I'm a big geek and I'll never amount to anything."

Derek said, "Now say, 'I will never have any friends, and I'll always be a lonely loser.'"

Eriol repeated, "I will never have any friends, and I'll always be a lonely loser."

All of the boys laughed again. The Derek said, "Hmmmm, still not good enough. Get down on your knees and beg for us to let you go, and I'll let you go."

Eriol's temper was starting to get the better of him. "Keep it under control," Eriol said to himself again, "You're almost home free. Just do what he said."

But Eriol couldn't get himself to beg. He slowly shook his head and said, "No, I won't beg."

Derek frowned. He said, "Too bad, looks like I'll get to beat you up anyways."

As Derek picked Eriol up by the collar of his shirt, Eriol, who's temper had slipped a little more, said, "Someday, I'll be stronger than you, and you'll be sorry that you ever messed with me!"

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A couple hours later………

Eriol sat at the base of his tree in his yard, his face buried in his knees. He was crying. The bullies hadn't beaten him up that badly that day, but that wasn't why he was crying. He was crying because he was mad at himself. "They are right," Eriol said, "I am a weak loser!"

It started to rain, but Eriol didn't notice. "I'll always be alone and weak," he said, "Nobody would want to be friends with me!"

It was really pouring down, and it was starting to get dark. Lights in houses were going on, and everybody was racing to get out of the rain. Eriol didn't move, though. He said, "I just wish……….. I wish I wasn't alone…………."

Suddenly, a bright light started to glow. Eriol looked up and noticed that a bright circle had appeared underneath him. He stood up and looked down at it. The wind picked up, and it threatened to blow Eriol over. He tried to block the wind with his arm, but it didn't help much. He closed his eyes and waited for it to be over. Soon, the wind and the glowing stopped. Eriol slowly opened his eyes, and he could see two figures running away in the shadows. One looked human, sort of. The other one looked almost like a panther, but it also looked like it had wings. "H….hello," Eriol called out, "Who's there?"

Nobody answered. Eriol waited for a while, but he didn't see anything else. "How strange," Eriol thought. He looked at his watch and said, "Whoa, it's late! I better get inside, before Mom worries too much about me!"

Eriol ran inside, not noticing the two figures watching him from the shadows.

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The next day, after school, Eriol decided to take a different way home. He wanted to go home a different way than the bullies, so that he wouldn't get beat up that day. He carefully made his way along the streets, looking out for the bullies. "I've been taking the same way home for years now," Eriol thought, Derek and his friends wouldn't expect me to take a different way. They think I'm too stupid to do that, when in reality I'm well beyond my nine years."

Eriol walked along for a while, not encountering anybody. He gradually began to relax, and as he walked by a different park, he didn't take notice to the group of kids up ahead. As he walked by, one of the boys stuck out his leg and Eriol tripped. All of the kids laughed, and after he got up, Eriol noticed that some of them were friends of Derek. One of the kids was Derek himself, too. "Darnit," Eriol thought, "Somehow he knew! He must have figured it out when I didn't walk by the other park at my normal time!"

"So," Derek said snidely, "Thought you could outsmart us, did you? Well, too bad, because now we're going to make sure you don't try something like that again!"

Derek picked Eriol up by his shirt. Eriol struggled while he said, "Stop it! Leave me alone!"

Suddenly, the circle that had appeared below Eriol the night before appeared again. The wind picked up, too. Derek, who was surprised, said, "If you think that your little light trick will save you this time, you are dead wrong!"

The light and wind died down and Derek lifted up his other hand and curled it into a fist. Eriol closed his eyes and braced himself for the punch. The punch never came, though. Eriol, who was wondering what was going on, opened his eyes a little and stole a glace at his attacker. His face was white, and he looked scared stiff. Derek dropped Eriol, turned, and ran. All of the other kids did so as well. Confused, Eriol stood up and turned around. He then saw what had scared the kids so badly. A panther was standing right in front of him. This panther was weird, though. It had big butterfly wings on it's back. Scared, Eriol backed up slowly. He backed into a tree, and slid to his knees. He closed his eyes and said softly, "Please don't eat me, please don't eat me…….."

The panther walked up to Eriol and used his nose to lift up Eriol's chin. He said, "Don't be afraid of me, I won't hurt you."

Eriol opened his eyes. The panther said, "It looks like you have it pretty rough, Eriol."

Eriol stammered, "How do you know my name? And how can you talk?"

The panther said, "I know you, because you created me. And I can talk for the same reason."

"I…created you," Eriol said, "But how?"

The panther answered, "You are a sorcerer, Eriol. You can do almost anything you want, if you know how."

"A….sorcerer," Eriol said in a questioningly way. The panther nodded and said, "For now, that's all you need to know. I better go back to my borrowed form, or else I might draw unwanted attention."

The panther closed his eyes, and the same circle that had appeared below Eriol appeared below him. The wind picked up, and the panther began to shrink. When the wind stopped and the circle disappeared, he was small enough to hide easily. He looked almost like a mouse, but he was completely black with translucent wings. He flew to Eriol and said, "Now I can travel around without making a scene."

Eriol said, "I would like to thank you for saving me, but I don't know your name."

The small animal smiled and said, "in my other form, I am known as Spinnel Sun. in this form, my name is Spinnel. I am your sun guardian."

Eriol said, "My sun what?"

"Your sun guardian," Spinnel said, "That just means that I am your guardian, and I get my power from the sun. you have another guardian, your moon guardian, but he or she isn't here right now."

Eriol was fascinated by everything that Spinnel had to tell him, but he knew that he couldn't stay there for much longer. The bullies would be back soon, craving revenge. Especially Derek. He stood up and said, "We batter go someplace safer. Those bullies will be back soon, and in greater numbers."

Spinnel nodded, and flew into Eriol's back pack. From inside, he said, "alright, let's go."

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That night………

Eriol was sitting in a high backed red chair. "I could have sworn I was just asleep," he thought, "What's going on?"

Eriol tried to stand up, but for some reason he couldn't move. He tried to look down at his feet, but yet again he found that he was frozen in his spot. Eriol was able to look at the window beside the chair by glancing out of the corner of his eye. What he saw scared him. The person sitting in the chair wasn't himself, it was an older man. "Okay, this is too weird," Eriol thought. Right then, two creatures appeared in front of him. "And it just got even weirder," he thought. One of the creatures looked like a lion with wings, while the other one looked kind of like an angel. The man said, "I have to tell you both something."

The angel-like creature said, "What is wrong, master?"

The man smiled and said, "Nothing is wrong, Yue. I just have something important to tell you both."

"What would that be," the lion-like creature said. The man said, "My time is drawing to an end. Soon, I shall die."

Both of the creatures were shocked. "No," Yue said, "it can't be true!"

"You are the most powerful sorcerer there ever was," the lion- like creature said, "you created us! You created the Clow cards!"

"Nevertheless," the man said, "the end comes for us all. We must now prepare you two for a new master."

"I will answer to nobody but you," Yue said defiantly, "Nobody will ever be as powerful as you."

"Then you shall be the judge," the man said. He then turned to the lion-like creature and said, "I couldn't leave you out, could I Keroberos. You shall be the one to choose the candidate for Yue to judge. Soon, I shall seal the cards in a book. You two shall guard the book until the proper candidate comes along. Make sure the book doesn't fall into the wrong hands."

Eriol woke up in a cold sweat. He muttered, "Was that a dream or….a memory?"

From the bed that Eriol had made for him, Spinnel sleepily said, "Was what a memory?"

Eriol quickly shook his head and said, "Nothing. Go back to sleep, Spinnel."

Spinnel muttered something Eriol couldn't hear and was soon asleep again. "What is going on," Eriol thought.

Eriol rolled over and tried to get to sleep. Sleep didn't come easily, though. But after a while, Eriol was finally overcome by exhaustion, and he fell fast asleep.

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Eriol woke up a few minutes early the next morning. Instead of getting up, though, he layed in bed for a while, sleepily thinking about the events from the day before. "It had to be a dream," Eriol thought, "Or else by now I would have been awaken by Spin……"

"Rise and shine," Spinnel said as he flew to the window and opened the curtains. Eriol sat up quickly and said, "It wasn't a dream, you are real………"

"Of course it wasn't," Spinnel answered, "I am very real. But you did have a dream last night. You woke up in a cold sweat, remember?"

Eriol nodded, remembering the events from the night before. Eriol said, "What does it mean when you have a dream that seems like a memory, but it's a memory of something you have never done, and you could not have possibly done what was done in the memory?"

Spinnel said, "It could mean a lot of things. Tell me the memory you are referring to."

Eriol told him about the weird memory he had. "And I know it wasn't a dream," Eriol said, "It was something different. It feels like a memory, but I couldn't have been that old, and I have never seen those two creatures, Keroberos and Yue."

"From what you have told me," Spinnel said, "I think those two, Keroberos and Yue, are guardians. And this man they were with was probably a very powerful sorcerer. No doubt he's dead by now, though."

"But it felt like I was him," Eriol said, "How could that be?"

Spinnel thought for a moment, then said, "I am not sure, but it has to mean something. Everything happens for a reason. Whatever this "memory" was trying to tell you, it must be important. Tell me of anything else that happens that is out of the ordinary."

"Alright," Eriol said, "I will."

Eriol glanced at his clock and said, "It's getting late. I better go downstairs for breakfast. After my family leaves for work and school, you can go downstairs and get some food and stuff. See you after school!"

Eriol ran out of the room and downstairs. As he sat down fro breakfast, he thought, "One thing's for sure. life will never be the same for me!"

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So, what do you think? Please reply and tell me if it is good or bad. Constructive criticism is good, but flames are evil. Evil, I tell you, evil!

Arramon: -_-' she's gone on an evil accusing binge again……. This is what happens when you give a writer who has had very little sleep some sugar.

DG: it's not the sugar's fault that flames are evil! It's the flame's fault!

Arramon: down, girl.

DG: *calms down a little* anyways, I'll post the next part as soon as I can, but I would like some reviews, so I know where my weak points are. And please tell me if I spelt a name wrong.

Arramon: I'll keep her sanity intact the best I can.

DG: well, time for me to go, so see yah!