Rizion
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This starts off the story and the whole thing is a dream(just to let you know).
[ ]= author added for effect
* *= direct thoughts, or dream speaking
" "=speaking
~~**~~ = change of scene or POV
~~^**^~~ = End of chapter
[A/N: I never have, never will, and don't now own Card Captor Sakura and co. or the Sakura story.]
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She woke to a strange room, filled with dusted antiques and a faded carpet. The whole atmosphere was stuffy, humid, thick.
Yellowed lace was laid over a four-poster bed that looked like it had been rolled down a hill before being set up in this place.
She got up, slowly, careful not to make too much noise. She feared if she did something might break or someone [or something??] might hear her.
There was an odd feeling hanging in the back of her mind. As though she'd been there, smelled the dank air, felt the humidity, walked these hallways. And she kept walking, down a grand set of staircases, past an ornate grandfather clock. The face looked faded, almost like... a face...
Many statues lined the walls, gargoyles, witch-looking hunchbacks, and even splendid woodcarvings of unicorns and dragons that seemed to look straight at you as you wandered past them.
Her long dark hair flowed behind her, her feet and gown swept up dust that looked centuries old.
She kept walking.
She didn't know where she was walking to, but her feet lead the way.
She reached a set of French doors, leading to a wonderful garden. Or one that would have been wonderful, had it been tended to. She could make out several rose bushes that had seemed to overtake some smaller, dandelions and peonies.
Ivy had grown up and over the garden wall, so much so that you wouldn't even notice the wall if not for the door at the far end.
Several obviously once splendid marble fountains were dark and chipped. The water below, cloudy and green.
The paths that once led between the gardens and the fountain were grown over with ivy and weeds.
She made her way to the door. It too looked old, faded, and lonely. The chipping paint was a faded maroon, the brass handle was loose in its socket, but as she turned it the latch moved. She had to push against the door with all her might, for the hinges were rusted and had plants growing through and around them.
The door flew opened to a room with the same musty, humid feel of the house, which she had long since lost sight of. There wasn't much there, a small table and a few ragged chairs sitting in the corner.
But right in the middle of the room, something glinted into her eyes. She held her hand between the object and her face, and slowly walked towards whatever it was that was sitting on the floor. She walked to the other side of it and saw an elaborate golden frame.
It was fairly large, large enough to hold the girl's entirety. In the middle and surrounding the frame were millions of shards of glass. It looked like a huge mirror was simply dropped on the floor and left for an eternity.
She gazed into the many slivers of glass. She saw her reflection; it was distorted, broken.
All of a sudden the pieces of mirror melted and looked like quicksilver. They flowed together in the middle of the empty frame in tiny rivulets. The mirror became whole again [A/N: yea yea I know that sounds like the Matrix. It just popped into my head]. For a second her reflection was normal. Then it started to waiver and change.
As the mirror surface stabilized, a young girl, about 16 appeared. She was crying, yelling, but no sound issued from the mirror. The sad scene played out in front of Tomoyo's eyes. The young girl was looking towards the edge of the frame. There seemed to be a conversation going on between the young girl and whoever.
Tomoyo could sense there was someone or something outside the frame of Rizion
*Assuming that was the name of the mysterious mirror* she thought.
*That's what it says. *
It was there, written on the bottom of the frame in bold, flowing letters.
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A/N:
Ahh.. the first chapter done. I uploaded it again to add in some things. Sorry if this confuses you people. The first version of this chapter was different. I wasn't very coordinated when I started writing this, so some things contradicted each other.
Anyways…
Stay tuned for the next chapter…
Taiyo and the Strange Mirror