Journey across the Great Wheel
Author's notes: This story is taken from the original TCR. The journey of Syaoran, Sakura and the others through dimensions reminded me very much of D&D and so the idea came to me: what if, instead of the CLAMP cosmology, the character wandered through the cosmology of The Great Wheel? Enjoy the cross-over of a cross-over!!! :P
Sorry if my English is bad… I haven't practiced them for long…
Disclaimer: I Do not own neither TRC nor D&D (obviously)
Gem Fragments
"Are you sure we should be in here?" Syaoran wondered while he was following Sakura in the Dark.
"Yes, what could happen inside my brother's castle?" Sakura smiled at him care freely, though she knew he would not be able to see that.
"I don't know, but I have a very bad feeling about this." Syaoran told her.
Sakura grabbed his hand and took him with her, as she was walking through the dark corridor.
The Utter Chamber of the castle: a place in her home where Sakura had never been before. No one was permitted to enter that place, even the prince himself. Only the great priest and the king could go up there.
Sakura was always curious: what should be the secret of the chamber? A treasure? A magical artifact? A holy shrine?
Syaoran was indifferent for the chamber – until now, that he wished he hadn't followed his childhood friend to that.
A sudden chill made him shake. Every single moment he turned more and more worried…
"Sakura, let's go! Please! I feel something bad will happen!"
"You are exaggerating. Just like Touya!" Sakura frowned.
Out of the blue, a levitating glowing little ball appeared. Sakura gazed at it mesmerized.
"Oh, Syaoran, look! Isn't it beautiful?" she whispered stretching her hand to touch it.
Instantly, a shot-like feeling hit Syaoran. "Sakura, don't!" he shouted.
But it was too late.
The little glowing ball sat on her finger and the next moment it turned into a clear crystal. It levitated above their heads, changed colors and burst out, braking into several fragments that spread around and vanished into thin air. Syaoran fell a weigh fall on him. Cold. Syaoran was in shock.
"No!"
"And then she fainted…" Syaoran, still shocked, completed his explanations to Yukito, the priest.
Sakura was lying on her bed unconscious, surrounded by Yukito, Syaoran and her brother. Syaoran had brought her there.
"Darn you, Brat!" Touya, the prince, shouted. "If you had stopped her, nothing would have happened! It's all your fault!"
"I know that…" Syaoran lisped.
"Touya, don't unleash your rage on him, he is just a child." Yukito tried to calm him.
"No, he's right. I shouldn't let her go, and I knew it, but still… What happened to her?"
"I don't know." Yukito told him. "But there might be someone who knows."
Syaoran looked straight into his eyes with a determined expression on his face. "Who is that person?" he asked.
Yukito and Touya looked at Syaoran.
"Please, tell me! Where is that person. I'll go find him and ask him to save Sakura. Please, tell me."
Yukito and Touya exchanged a gaze and nodded at each other.
"I will send you to that person immediately, along with Sakura." Yukito told him. "Is that fine with you, Touya?"
Touya approached Syaoran and put his hand on his shoulder. "Sakura would trust you. I choose to trust you, too. Don't disappoint us."
Syaoran nodded. "Thanks"
Syaoran held Sakura in his arms as Yukito was casting his spell on them. A vortex of swirling colors danced around them and withdrew them up in a very high speed.
"No matter what, I'll save you, Sakura! I promise!"
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"Get him!" the guard of the tower shouted. Men dressed in black were running on the roof, following a tall figure dressed in red-black armor.
The man run faster than them, but that was not enough, apparently, as he ended up in front of the edge.
"Hah! Gotcha!" the guard of the prison shouted with enthusiasm.
"I wouldn't be so happy if I were you, fat guy!" the figure said audaciously. The man turned to the guards and drew his katana.
"Do you think you stand the slightest chance against all of…?" the guard did not manage to complete his sentence, as the man jumped up in the air, landed among them and with the speed of the wind, terminated each and every of them in a bloody dance.
He then jumped down the room, grabbed a flag poll, turned around it and landed through a window inside a cell.
"Princes Tomoyo! I came to the rescue!" the man notified to the prisoner of the cell with self-complacency. The raven-haired lass gazed at him with a cold expression in her Silver eyes.
"What?"
"Kurogane, you didn't need to kill them." She reprimanded him.
That stunned the man. "Are you kidding me? I risk my life coming here for you, try to find you, almost got caught to rescue you and all I get is a 'you shouldn't have killed those who held me imprisoned'. What's up with you, at last?" he shouted angrily at her.
"And don't shout, please. They are going to…"
Tomoyo hadn't finished what she was saying, when the door opened and ten-twelve guards entered pointing at them with their spears and glaives.
"Fine, just fine. They heard you!"
Kurogane did not hesitate. He grabbed the princess from the waist and jumped off the window.
Not much latter, it the middle of the forest, Tomoyo was scolding her guard.
"You should be more sensitive in matters as human lifes. All those people you killed were people with feelings, families…"
"…People who were keeping you imprisoned…"
"It was not their fault. They were given orders."
Kurogane was striving to be patient. "Listen, I know you are kind hearted by nature, but you need to understand we are on war! Cruel things happen. Understood?"
Tomoyo looked away, still pissed-of. Kurogane was also pissed-of. They didn't seem to understand one another.
Suddenly, Tomoyo turned to Kurogane. "Can you do me a favour?"
"Wha… what kind of favour?"
Tomoyo stood up and pronounced the words of a spell. A silver-purple vortex appeared behind Kurogane and started swallowing him.
"Yikes! What are you doing?"
"I'm sendig you somewhere else. Somewhere you may learn about kindness and compassion. But also, I will need you to bring me something."
"Bitch! You're trying to get rid of me!"
"Search for the Tapestry of Fire and bring it to me, please. Ah, and by the way…" Tomoyo cast another spell, one that caused an arcane mark to appear on his forehead.
"What did you do to me again?"
"I've cursed you, so that each time you kill someone, you will lose power. So be careful! Have a nice trip!"
Kurogane had sunk to the neck in the portal. "If I catch you, you'll pay for this! I'll be back! Be sure of it!" he shouted as the portal was closing in front of him.
"And don't forget the Tapestry!" Tomoyo reminded cheerfully a moment before he disappeared. "I hope you'll be alright."
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A magic missile passed him by, scratching the blonde wizard's arm.
"Phew, that was close!" he stated, casting a ray of ice.
"Do you think you stand a chance against me?" the archmage laughed, dodging the ray. "It takes far more than a few childish spells to beat me!"
Fye cast a bomb of smoke and started running. "At least I'll buy some time!"
He went straight to the archmage's library and opened his chest.
"How fool of you to set no trap on that chest. And how fool of me to enter your place. How did I get myself involved into this?"
He threw the things in it, when he came across what he was looking for: a bottle with a purple liquid.
"Hah! My way out of here!"
The exact moment when Fye drunk it, the archmage entered his library.
"YOU!" shouted enraged.
"Goodbye Japheth! You're too late!" he laughed at him, disappearing.
"Don't you ever dare enter this world again! I will find you whenever you are! As long as we are in the same world, I can sense your presence! And when I'll find you, I'll kill you!"
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In the middle of nowhere, in a place of astral dust, there was a mansion. Not any mansion: the mansion of Yuko, the witch of dimensions, a mysterious, powerful woman with a legendary reputation. The witch was lying on her sofa, enjoying her piping tea. The serenity of the moment was about to be disturbed – and she knew that.
Three portals of silver color opened before her, and four people came out of them: a youth holding a girl jumped out of the central one, a blonde, graceful young man exited softly the right one and the left one spited a black-dressed fighter in front of Yuko.
The three males stared at each other in wonder. Then Yuko spoke.
"Finally. You are here."