FALLEN ANGEL, SILENT PRIESTESS
SHI NO TSUKIMITSU
{DEATH OF MOONLIGHT}
SAKURA:
Dancing away in this world filled with agony
Makes me feel so alone... Then I
Think of those things that make me feel whole!
Dancing away... the death of moonlight shines!
Shadows dancing on a pinkish ray of light
I always, always, always feel alone!
Sakura holds up her Star Staff and the cards come to stand by her.
SYAORAN:
Lying again and again, I never thought I'd feel this way before
What's done is done and we cannot fix it!
Flying away on a cloud sounds so far away
I used to think life had a happy ending but now...
I can see that the world will come tumbling down
But now that I know, I can say, I wish I never knew!
Syaoran holds up his double-edged sword and the cards come to stand by him.
TOMOYO:
Life isn't wonderful, I know that that's true
Dancing away of a cloud of dead moonlight!
Why did the moonlight die? I know, oh, I know...
Life is a precious, flitting butterfly, and it doesn't go away
But now that I know half my life's been in vain
I must say, for me it's a CURSE!
Tomoyo stands against a shadowy purple backround holding a wand topped with a violet star.
FALLEN ANGEL, SILENT PRIESTESS
Disclaimer: No I do not own the original CCS characters. Blah, blah, blah and yadda yadda.
Episode One
Lights of the Past
Darkness of the Future
"Power." a golden-auburn head poked out of a tree. "Betrayal." Memories flitted through the girl's head, catching her at a vulnerable moment.
A boy. Messy chestnut locks that fell over his blank, without emotions, amber eyes. A sword. Power. A green aura. He had betrayed her.
Shadows flickered across the night on gilded wings, eager to make the world dark again. Light stood alone, filled with sorrow and hatred.
Happiness had been vanquished from the eerie village that was Tomoeda years ago. And it had stayed that way. It still was that way.
Nothing was the same way it had been eight years ago. Eight long years, filled with sorrow, betrayal, anger, hatred...
What was hope? Many had given up on it. Kinomoto Sakura was one of them. Hope was something that always failed you. That people said to try to cheer you up.
Hope was something that never came through. Never, in a million years. Darkness was solitary, safe, because there was no hope. Hope was a fickle emotion, it always toyed around with your mind...
...And then it didn't come through.
She wiped a tear out of a brilliant emerald eye. She scolded herself thoroughly. Tears were a sign of weakness, they showed you were vulnerable.
Kinomoto Sakura was far from vulnerable.
*****
A shadowy image focused, becoming clearer. A girl held a small pendant up to the darkening sky, but the shadows still roamed. The staff of the stars came out.
But it didn't do any good. If this was indeed the future, it was not a nice one. Many omens of things to come had passed through eighteen year-old Yamino Shimi's mind.
They all came true.
Shimi was a sorceress, one who posessed extremely strong magics. Darkness flowed within her very blood. She was the sorceress to begin the prophecies.
She would be the sorceress to end them.
For centuries, clans of magic had taken the route of outcasts; abandoned and unwanted. They had grown strong, powerful, through this thin sheet of deception.
They had focused their strong powers in order to create a Way for themselves. The Way of sorcerors and sorceresses and other magic users had been prophecised of years before it happened.
The Yamino clan was one of those old clans, dark and mighty. They liked to think no powers were beyond them.
But that was not Fated to be true.
*****
Ripples flowed beneath the surface. The ancient prophecies threatened to come through now. But that was good for Hayashibara Tsukimi.
Shadows danced amidst the darkened villa that was her home. Long white hair flowed on deeply tanned shoulders. She would show them what is to be.
If the prophecies rang true, this was the beginning of this dimension's downfall. Tsukimi made bright stars go out, she tried to eclipse the rays of the sun.
But she didn't need to. It would be done for her. The prophecy spoke of a girl who was "Ying" and another "Yang" who were the balances between good and evil.
If this balance were to be broken, disaster would befall upon this world.
Ying, the force of light, and Yang, the force of darkness, were not allowed to meet.
Yet it was hard to stop their meeting, for no one knew the identities of either. Each generation a "Ying" and a "Yang" appeared, true to the prophecy.
And so far, they had not met. But they may be fated to finally meet. Tsukimi knew that was true, and so she prepared. She prepared her powers, stored them away so they would be there when she needed them.
But she wasn't ready yet. A strong power still reigned free, powered by an ancient One that had been "Yang". True magic was hard to find, for it was either already captured or hidden.
Tsuskimi would find this strong power. She would find it, or destroy this world before its time.
*****
Power, that was what he trained for, and what he was "destined" to achieve.