Magical Zodiac
Her world was dark.
She laided there on what felt like solid ground but she knew if she looked she would see nothing but vast blackess. She stared into an endless void of nothingness waiting for something but not knowing what she waited for.
However this utter darkness didn't last. She blinked when the familliar object floated out of nowhere, falling in a flutter in front of her. Reaching out Kinomoto Sakura took hold of the lone Sakura Card as it slipped into her hand obediently.
-Windy?- Sakura gave the card a curious look.
More of her cards began to fall around her like pink and gold flower peddels dancing in the wind. Then the world changed as a different scene faded in.
Looking around Sakura found herself lying on the floor of a large room within an ancient yet well maintained looking temple. There were draps and tapestries hanging in the windows and ceiling and a long red carpet stretching from one end of the room to the other. The room was half lit only by the flames of tourches that lined the walls.
Sakura stood up slowly without realizing she made herself do that, her body seemed to be on autopilot in this dream. Though for the most part she lacked control of her body, the sorceress looked around at her surroundings, more so at the walls. She could make out old Geek texts and fading murals. Sadly she couldn't read a word of what was writen, however the pictures showed stories of powerful warring gods, massive armies of young men in armors fighting under each god, and what looked like the world surrounded by the many constillations hovering in the center of it all.
-What is all of this?- the brunette asked herself. -There's noway this could be a regular dream.-
Sakura jumped when two grand gold basins filled with fire suddenly jumped to life. She turned to see standing at the once darkened end of the room was a tall white marble bust of a woman in flowing robes atop a raised platform. In her left hand she held a staff longer than she was tall with a circular bird-like head ornament at the top and her right hand kept a large round sheild that came up to her waist standing strait at her side. At her feet were eighty-eight aesthetic coffers lined in three rising rows; out of seventy-six silver coffers, thirty took up the bottom row, and fourty-six coffers in the middle. At the top row were twelve gold coffers. Each box had pictures of mythical creatures and people engraved in them.
Suddenly, her magical circle flared to life and her Key of Sealing transformed into its wand form. This baffled Sakura to no end seeing as her body had called on her magic without her mind's concent. Her confusion didn't last long as she felt a powerful and consuming presence behind her. Without hesitation, Sakura felt her body whirl around to face the being who snuck up on her. Apperently her body seemed to know what her mind didn't.
Sakura found herself staring up at young man a little older looking than her in a flowing red cloak with a gold mantle decoratng his shoulders. Long red-orange hair fell strait down his back and over his shoulders. Equally red-orange eye stared down coldly in narrowed slits. Sakura could easily see blood-lust and love of battle in the mans eyes.
"You have something I require... Give it to me... " the newcomer ordered and began to reach for her. Sakura stepped back defensively.
Behind her, five of the dormant coffers on the bottom row, the ones that had a pegasus, a dragon, a swan, and woman wrapped in chains, and a phoenix, and the top twelve gold coffers with images of the zodiac began to creak open, bathing the room in pale blue, green, white, magneta, red, and gold respectively.
Before Sakura could see what was inside the boxes or put any thought into what was happening, the world around her blurred back into nothingness.
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"SAKURAAAA!!"
"Ack!" Sakura fell out of bed out of suprise when a small yet high pitched voice screeched out her name in her ear followed by her alarm clock suddenly dropped out of the air and landed on her head.
Kero hovered with crossed arms... er paws.. in the air as he looked down at the young teenage Card Mistress who was now sprawled out on the floor. The yellow guardian beast sighed. It had been three, nearly four, years so far since he met her. Sakura had went from a struggling ten year old novice sorceress to a powerful and well known one among the few other known magic users, and still the girl had problems waking up on time! Kero had a sneaking suspicion that this particular trait would carry over into her adult years too.
"Hoee, Kero-chan," Sakura gave a pained whine as she stood, rubbing her sore rear end. "Why'd you do that?!" she demanded, annoyance and anger clearly etched on her face.
Kero grunted. "Because you're always late when you oversleep and if you don't hurry up you will be late."
The green eyed brunette blinked curiously. "Late for what? It's the weekend, I don't have to go anywhere."
Kero smacked his forehead before dragging his paw down his face in disbeliefe. He then flew over to her desk, picked up her calander then flew back over to her. He pointed to the date, June seventh, circled in red marker ink with the word TRIP writen in big bold letters. "Didn't you say you had a two week out-of-country class trip to Greece today? It's already seven fouty-eight, you're supposed to be at school in the next twelve minutes!"
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In the kitchen Kinomoto Fujitaka peeked out of the refrigerator and chucked to himself when a loud "HOOEEEEEEEE!!" followed by equally loud crashng shook the house and scared away the birds that perched in the nearby trees. The father of two pulled out a small on-the-go bottle of orange juice and cream cheese just as the toaster popped out two halves of a bagle.
From in the living room Kinomoto Toya however sighed in exasperation while Tsukishiro Yukito, who had come over to see Sakura off, smiled and laughed to himself.
"One of these days she's gonna hurt herself getting out of bed like that."
Yukito's smile never wavered. "She'll be okay. But I wonder what Greece would be like. I heard the pasta they make is some of the best after the Italians. I hope she'll bring back some nice souviners."
"I'm still not sure she should go. It's too far away." the dark haired man griped at his lover.
The pale young man laughed. "My other self completely agrees. He's very unsettled with Sakura going so far away from him. But you shouldn't worry, Kero-chan will be with her. He is one of her guardians after all."
"Is that gluttonous stuffed animal even that much reliable?"
Yukito shrugged while inside Yue gave a definent "No" answer.
Toya grunted. "At least theres one upside to her going on this trip."
"What's that?"
The older Kinomoto smirked smuggly and said, "The Brat won't be there because he's in Hong Kong."
The mortal half of Sakura's moon guardian sighed.
"Well, I'm gonna go get her stuff in the car." Toya said as he put down the magazine he'd been reading and stood up from his seat on the couch with Yukito right behind him. As they walked past the kitchen and to the front door Toya called to his dad, "I'll take Sakura to school so she wont be late." He slipped on his sneakers, grabbed the car keys, and then hefted up one of Sakura's two bags as Yukito grabbed the other that had been left near the door the day before and walked outside.
Fujitaka nodded and was just finishing spreading cream cheese on the baggle when his youngest came half running half tumbling down the staires while trying to comb out her bed hair with her fingers. She had managed to save herself from a face plant at the last moment before rubbing out the small wrinkles in her pale blue sundress and hiked up the strap of her small yellow purse higher on her shoulder. She quickly scurried into the kitchen for anything she could eat on her way out.
"Ohiyo, tou-san!" Sakura stopped in font of her mother's picture and greeted it much less franticly. "Ohiyo, ka-san." When she turned her father was standing in front of her.
"Ohiyo, Sakura-chan," He greeted back. Fuitaka then placed a bento, a wrapped bagle and a bottle of orange juice in her hands. "Here's a light breakfast and a lunch. Eat the bagle on your way to school and the bento on the plane."
"Hai!"
"Do you have you passport?"
Sakura pulled a little blue booklet out of her bag with PASSPORT in big gold letters across it and showed it to him. "Hai, tou-san!" She stuffed her passport back into her bag.
"Emergency information?"
"Hai!"
"Emergency credit card?"
"Hai-"
"Oi, kaiju!" Toya's irratated voice called. "Step on it or everyone's gonna leave you behind!"
A vein popped out on Sakura's forehead. "Kaiju yuuna!" she called back before turning to give her dad a good-bye hug. "I'll call as soon as we land, tou-san. I'll see you real soon, okay?"
"Hai, hai, take care, Sakura-chan!"
"I will, ja ne!" With that the seventeen year old bolted for the door, an excited smile stretched across her face.
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Sakura smiled grandly as she idlely watched airplanes take off and land through the large airport windows. Toya had just barely managed to get her to school on time just as her class was walking to the charter bus that would take them to the airport. He had unceremoniously chucked her bags into the storage compartment of the bus, Yukito was much more gentler with her things. Toya muttered a quick good bye and Yukito gave her a hug and told her to take care and to call, then the two left her with her friends.
Tomoyo giggled gleefully. "I'm so excited!" She exclaimed yet still somehow managing to keep her voice soft. "I hope I can get some good shots of the city." she said pulling out her video camera.
Kero's head popped out of Sakura's purse. "Yeah, I'm pretty excited too. I've never been that far west before so I've never tried some of the foods over there."
"Is food all you think of?" Sakura asked
The girl never got an answer because a that moment the PA system above suddenly dinged and a female voice sounded, "ALL PASSENGERS FOR FLIGHT 9W283 TO ATHENS, GREECE PLEASE REPORT TO GATE 39E. YOUR FLIGHT IS NOW BOARDING."
"That's us!" The teacher called. "Everyone get your things and make sure you don't leave anything behind!"
As the group prepared to board the plane, Yamazaki launched into another one of his bogus stories on why airplanes were called airplanes. Sakura gave him her rapted attention almost instantly. Chiharu, who was as always at his side, glared before she wrapped her fingers around his neck and shook him in an attempt to make him stop lying. But because she was holding up the line she stopped and simply dragged him off into the plane by the back of his collar, Takashi still narrorating his highly detailed fabricated story. Rika and Naoko shook their heads as they followed close behing the two.
"So his story was another lie?" Sakura mused aloud.
Tomoyo smile at her second cousin. Sakura was just as cute she was gullible.
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Hello everyone, thanks for reading my fic! I've never writen a Saint Seiya/Cardcaptor Sakura fic before so I'm glad I could start one. Ya know, I seem to have a knack for writing the first or second unexpected crossover fics. I've been told that ya know. I think I'm unintentionally starting some kind of trend here. I got the idea when I was reading a CCS fic while I was listening to my RADIO.BLOG.CLUB musics. Saint Seiya music had been playing at the time so I was like "What the hell, I'll start writing a fic." so yeah, this is a 'on the whim story'.
I know this chapter might be a little boring, but don't worry it'll get better... eventually. Well, anyway, I have other stuff to write and I'll update when I can. Remember, reviews is the coffee that keeps me up writing to the crack of dawn so update. See ya!