Hey everyone! Just so you know, this is just a story I thought up one night, so yeah, hope you enjoy it! Review! Oh and just so you know, I got the idea of Sakura cutting her outfits "down to size" from the manga Princess Ai. Ai had the coolest fasion ideas. lol
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Chapter One: Sakura
The stars shone brightly through the dark leaves of the Everal Forest, small patches of moonlight cast on the forest floor, covered in moss and lush clovers.
"Sakura, are you coming?" Tomoyo asked, hovering a few feet off the ground, her deep blue wings reflecting the light from the moon.
Sakura smiled up at her best friend, her emerald eyes shinning. "Almost done here...there! Now we can go"
Sakura had just finished setting up the last trap for the night. Her and Tomoyo had been up for hours, setting traps in the Fairy rings of mushrooms, hoping to catch a stupid pixie.
The fairies and pixies had never gotten along, not that Sakura could remember anyways. For thousands of years they'd been at a silent war with each other, caching their enemies and either killing them, torturing them or making them their slaves.
Sakura and Tomoyo, since they had been of age, twelve, had been flying around in the middle of the night, searching the fairy rings for silly pixies who had been enticed to look beyond the toadstools.
Once beyond the mushrooms, there was no chance of escape.
Sakura smiled, her large golden wings fluttered lightly on her back, lifting her off the ground.
Each fairy was unique, no two the same. Especially their wings.
Tomoyo had dark blue wings with silver sparkles that reminded Sakura of the moonlight, where as Sakura's wings were gold with shinning green sparkles, hiding her well in the sunlight.
"I'm tired." Tomoyo sighed, flipping her long black hair behind her shoulders, her gray eyes smiling. "Zachary said he'd be waiting for us with something to eat"
Sakura smiled. "That's good, I cold use something to eat"
Tomoyo giggled, looking down on Sakura's trap. There was a pile of fresh orange slices, grapes and strawberry buds, lying on the ground, waiting for a hungry pixie to see them. "Clever girl. How did you know pixies like strawberry buds so much?"
Sakura shrugged, the moonlight bouncing off her long auburn hair. "Who knows. Can we go before the hunters come out?"
Tomoyo nodded, strapping her bow and arrows to her waist, she and Sakura flying off through the trees.
The "Hunters" were actually pixie scouts that went out every night, hoping to catch fairies when they were setting their own traps.
It never worked on Sakura and Tomoyo. They were the best trappers in all the fairy kingdom. And the pixies knew it.
The soft wind of flight blew in Sakura's face. She closed her eyes, enjoying the cool breeze. She could hear the soft flutes and chimes coming from the fairy city.
They cleared a patch of berry bushes, the city coming into view.
The fairy city was, actually, rather large. It was protected by tall elm and birch trees, toadstools and ivy growing all over the forest floor. The fairy houses were hidden underneath the rocks and other things on the forest floor, so if a human were to come along they wouldn't be able to tell a house from a normal log.
Beside one of the largest, and most beautiful trees, was a small hill, covered in clover and tulips. Beyond the hill, just underneath the surface, was the palace, where Prince Eriol and his parents, the King and Queen, lived.
Sakura smirked at Tomoyo as they flew past the palace, noticing a slight blush on her friends cheeks. She knew all about Tomoyo and Eriol, they were desperately in love and Sakura was sure that, one day, Tomoyo would marry Eriol and become queen.
"I see Zachary!" Tomoyo said quickly, pointing to a forest of clover over by a tree. She'd noticed Sakura's gaze and wanted to change her friend's tune.
Sakura giggled. "I know what your up to Tomoyo"
"No you don't." Tomoyo grinned, landing gracefully in front of Zachary, Sakura at her side.
Sakura sighed, Will I ever find love like Tomoyo and Eriol?
"Hey ladies!" Zachary grinned. He had dark green wings with a slight silver shine to them. "How was work?"
"Killer." Tomoyo smiled. "What about you?"
Zachary shrugged, he worked in the palace, Eriol's guide at some times. "Not bad. Run into any trouble?"
Sakura shook her head. "No, not tonight"
There had been, in the past, some incidents where Sakura and Tomoyo had almost been apprehended by a small group of pixies, but they'd made it out with only a few cuts and bruises.
After all, Sakura wasn't a normal fairy. Some in the kingdom called her "half fairy half witch" because, if she was provoked enough or just wanted to, Sakura could summon fire into her hands, the wind to do her bidding or the forest to listen to her.
She just called herself a "mixed up fairy.
Zachary smiled, digging around in the pouch that was strapped at his side. Out of it he pulled a bottle of a drink that tasted like honey dew and a loaf of nut bread. "I brought us some dinner"
"Oh thank you!" Tomoyo grinned, taking a piece of the bread and beginning to munch happily. "Yum!"
Zachary laughed and handed Sakura a piece, then giving her a large folded leaf full of the drink. "Here"
"Thanks." Sakura smiled, taking the food. Zachary and Tomoyo were like family to her, for her parents had been killed by pixies.
But her brother was very much alive, and probably looking for her at that moment.
"Won't you sit with us Sakura?" Tomoyo asked as she seated herself in the clover across from Zachary, her eyes catching Sakura's movements as she tried to leave.
"Oh...I can't." Sakura smiled. "But thanks for the food Zachary, Touya will be looking for me"
"I thought so." Zachary laughed. "Well I'll see you tomorrow okay?"
Sakura nodded. "See you Zach, Tomoyo"
Tomoyo waved, her mouth full of bread.
Sakura jumped into the air, her wings carrying her off towards her and Touya's house.
Tears stained her cheeks as she flew, she could still remember the day her parents had been killed. As if it had been yesterday.
But it had been ten years ago, when Sakura was only six and Touya still young. The family had been in the forest, teaching Sakura how to read the movements of the trees and the wind, when a group of pixies had jumped out of nowhere and attacked them.
Touya had been badly injured and Sakura knocked out. When she woke she found herself in the palace, Eriol's worried gaze standing over her.
Then she'd found out that her parents hadn't made it.
Sakura brushed the tears from her cheeks. Ever since that day, she'd hated the pixies and when she'd turned twelve, she'd asked Eriol if she could be a trapper with Tomoyo, who was a little older than Sakura.
Eriol, being the prince and Sakura's good friend, had agreed.
Four years later, now sixteen, Sakura was, along with Tomoyo, the best trapper in the kingdom.
The girl landed softly in front of her and Touya's house, her skirt blowing softly in the wind.
Sakura could, never, dress like Tomoyo; proper and neat. Whenever Sakura got a new dress or anything, she'd take a knife to it, cutting it down to size.
She was, now, wearing a pale green dress, the neck was low, following the line of her chest, the straps had been cut thin and slid off her shoulders. The skirt fell above her knees, almost reaching to her butt, but there were thin and thick strips of fabric that fell past her knees, giving her an eerie look as she walked and flew.
"It's about time your home!" Touya snarled as Sakura walked into the house, dropping her sword on the table.
As a trapper, Sakura was ordered to carry a weapon around, just in case of attacks. She had a sword, while most other trappers such as Tomoyo, had bows and arrows.
"Sorry." Sakura said faintly, setting the food Zachary had given her on the table, untouched. "I had to meet up with Zachary before I came home"
Touya glared at her. He was at least two heads taller than his younger sister with shaggy black hair that fell into his eyes, his dark brown orbs were always watching her. Touya had large black wings with a blue shine. He was very, very protective of his sister.
"Just tell me next time okay? I worry, you know that"
Sakura nodded and smiled up at him. "So how as your day?"
Touya rolled his eyes. "Fine. What about you, run into any of those damned-"
"Pixies?" Sakura giggled. "No. Not tonight. But I'm tired, I have a longer shift tomorrow, you know, with the festival coming soon we have to set more traps"
Touya nodded. "Okay. See you in the morning squirt"
Sakura glared at him. "Don't, call me squirt"
Touya stuck his tongue out at her as she disappeared into her room, closing the door gently behind her.
Sakura's room consisted of a circle bed, woven from twigs and branches, the mattress was made of cotton from dandelions and the covers were pink lily petals. A large window covered one wall, small strands of ivy covered it, serving as curtains. There was a small lantern, carved by her father, on the corner of her room.
Sakura walked over to it and waved her hand over the wick, it instantly lit, a bright flame lighting the room dimly.
Sakura pulled off her dress, blowing out the candle and crawling into bed.
If only...I could find who killed you...mom...dad. Then I would get my revenge...and I could live on.
She sighed, huddling under the covers, her large gold wings twitching slightly as she drifted into a deep sleep.
Okay! I hope you liked it! Review and tell me what you think!