Castle on a Cloud

Prologue

Dialogue Key:

(ME)

Singing

'Thoughts'

"Speaking"

Lil LoveStar: Hello there. This is my latest story. I got the idea from a song from Little Orphan Anne, but it's not exactly like that.

Syaoran: You made me the bad guy!

Lil LoveStar: No I didn't, your father is though.

Sakura: And I'm just the little confused one?

Lil LoveStar: No… ON WITH THE STORY! RR

A baby started to cry, as if it knew what happened. 'How could anyone?' The baby's mother asked. "Because you're worth any crime." A dark voice said from behind her. The baby girl cried louder at the icy, dark voice. Her mother turned and looked face to face with what all the people of Japan, her country would call the devil himself.

"Y-you killed him?" She asked in a scared tone.

"Only to be with you Natasha." He said lazily. "You're the most beautiful creature in the world and I want you."

"You could get anyone to warm your bed." She spat.

"That's not all I want from you Natasha, I want you to be my wife."

"You're crazy if you think I'd be your wife Li."

"I was hoping it wouldn't come to that." Li snapped his fingers and his guards came forth. Natasha ran out the backdoor as they followed after her. The baby girl looked at her mother in question, having stopped crying to wonder what her mother was running from. As the silver moon came up and as the guards got closer every second, Natasha wondered what would happen if she were to lose her daughter and her freedom because of Li. Unable to truly see where she was going she rammed into something hard. She nearly fell when two arms held her tightly. "It's over Avalon, be my wife." Li said walking out of the shadows.

"No Sean, I will never be yours." She said boldly and brokenly.

"Well then I suppose that girl you have is yours? Guards!" The men around her were about to take the girl when Natasha yelled, "NO! Please!" She fell to her knees at the thought of losing her only daughter, since her son ran away when he was seven. And losing her daughter a year after would too much for her to handle as well as her husband's death. The only way she could see not losing her whole family was to, "I'll be yours, just don't kill her."

"Very well my sweet, but she can't stay in your care because of your insolence." Natasha's emerald eyes looked at him in fear as his words came to her ears, "I'll keep her with us in the palace though." "You may do what you wish with her now, but I'm taking her. And don't think of naming her right here and now." Natasha looked at the little bundle in her arms, her emerald colored eyes looking back and almost glowing with innocence. She rocked her lovingly and started to sing.

There is a Castle on a Cloud.

You can go there in your sleep. Aren't any doors where you can't creep. Not in your Castle on a Cloud.

There is a room full of toys; there are 100 boys and girls. No body shouts or talks too loud. Not in your Castle on a Cloud. I am there all in white, I hold and I sing a lullaby.

Remember me as I sing this song, remember Sakura I love you very much.

You know a place where no one's lost. You know a place where no one cries. Crying at all is not allowed.

Not in your Castle on a Cloud.

One of the guards slowly took the baby so it wouldn't cry. Before the baby was out of her arms Natasha magically put a key with a star on it around her neck and two stuffed animals were put in the baby's blankets so they wouldn't be seen. Natasha whispered to the animals, "Stay out of their sight and protect her, she's the new Mistress of the Cards." The animals nodded and hid. Sean looked at Natasha and said, "I hope you know that I'll rename her and you won't ever be able to see her again after tonight." Natasha gasped and started toward the girl as two guards pulled her away as she yelled, "SAKURA! SAKURA!"

Lil LoveStar: Well that's it, I know it seems sad but it will get better. RR