Syvonair: Konichiwa minna-san! Hello everybody! I've been thinking about all those reviews I got concerning this chap and I decided to edit it so it would be easier to read for new readers. I hope you would enjoy my story and consider reviewing. Also, I would like to ask those who have enjoyed my story to please pass the word around to others who might like it too. Thanks so much for your cooperation. Enjoy!
DISCLAIMER: I do not own CCS! I can barely think of a good story to write let alone think of something as good as what the owners/creators of CCS did! : P
(Translation) ~only for uncommon words
'Thoughts'
"Talking"
Author note
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'Darkness. There's nothing but darkness. Matte (wait)! What's that light?'
A girl of about 15 years of age walks towards a mysterious white light. A cold wind surrounds this girl and she shivers.
'It's so cold and dark. Where am I?'
Shaking off the weird feeling, the girl walks some more.
'I don't seem to be getting closer to the light.'
Suddenly, she's falling, falling into a black abyss.
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Emerald eyes shot open and beautiful auburn strands of hair stick to her sweating face.
'What was that? What was that dream all about? I can't remember.'
She gets out of bed and opens the light. A yellow orange teddy bear-like creature known as The Great Keroberos, Guardian of the Seal and Sakura's Guardian groans a little and returns to his dreams. The girl, commonly known as Kinomoto Sakura, the Mistress of the Clow Cards, smiles and covers Kero with a blanket. Kero snuggles in to show his appreciation.
Sakura, still confused by her weird dream, walks to the window and looks out at the sun slowly illuminating the city.
'I wonder if it could be a premonition like my other dreams.'
She walks to her desk and opens a drawer. She pulls out the book of the Clow Cards, now called Sakura Cards or Star Cards. She looks at it and takes in the design of a star with wings and her name and the beautiful sun that represents Kero, The Sun Guardian. She turns the book around and sees the moon that represents Yue, The Judge and Sakura's other Guardian. Yue is also Tsukishiro Yukito, the best friend of Sakura's older brother, Touya. She slowly opens the book and gathers the cards in her hand. She looks at all the cards she worked hard to catch and change into Sakura Cards. She smiled at all the memories of her early days and carefully put back the cards.
She decided to dress for school already since she didn't feel like going back to bed. She quickly changed and left some pudding Oooooh, pudding! *Author is starry eyed* for Kero before grabbing her bag and heading to the door. She quietly exits her room closing the door behind her. She walks down a flight of stairs, careful not to make any noise in case it would awaken the other residents of the house. She opens the front door of their small but comfortable two-story house, and steps outside. Cold morning air greets her as she sits down on the stoop of her house to put on her roller blades. Once finished with that, she carefully steps into the street and starts to skate towards her school.
She skated through the familiar scenery of her hometown, Tomoeda. She skated in between a grove of sakura trees and took in the fresh scent of the flowers newly blooming. She passed by the place she would've seen Yukito if she wasn't so early. She even stopped by the temple that was once the house of her former teacher Mizuki Kaho, a tall woman with long red hair and golden eyes that moved to England to study.
When she reached the school, she went to her locker and switched from her roller blades to her school shoes. She headed to her classroom and took a seat near the back of a room by a window. She was the first one in the room, which was very unusual since she's almost always late for class. She grinned upon thinking this.
Suddenly, the door to the classroom opened and messy chestnut hair and amber eyes peeked in from the door.
Upon making eye contact with the emerald-eyed goddess, the boy who looked of the same age as Sakura slowly smiled and said, "A bit early today aren't you?"
Sakura smiled at the boy, whose name happens to be Li Syaoran, and replied, "Yeah, a bit."
Syaoran entered and took his usual seat behind Sakura. Sakura turned around in her seat and took in the sight of the chestnut haired boy, the boy who helped her capture the Clow Cards and turn them into Sakura Cards, the future Li Clan leader, and the boy whom she loves the most.
While Sakura was looking intently at Syaoran, Syaoran was doing the same thing to Sakura. He was looking at her radiant emerald eyes and smile that could cheer anyone up just by the sight of them, her straight auburn hair, her full figure, everything of her just made him want to hold her so tightly and never let her go. Soon, their eyes met and slowly, very slowly, they started inching closer to the other, their eyes closed, and…
"Ohayo!"
The classroom door swung open and an amethyst-eyed girl with straight raven hair entered the classroom.
Seeing Sakura and Syaoran both looking at their desks and blushing madly, she giggled and said, "Hmmm…I seem to have interrupted SOMETHING."
She purposely emphasized on the word 'something' making Sakura and Syaoran both look up and say, "I-iie. You didn't interrupt anything."
"Y-yeah! Syaoran and I were just asking each other what uh…" Sakura started.
"What we did over the break." Syaoran finished.
The raven-haired girl giggled again. She walked over to the seat on the right side of Sakura and sat down.
"So…are you deciding to turn over a new leaf, Sakura-chan?" the girl known as Daidouji Tomoyo, Sakura's best friend, asked.
"Nani (what)?" Sakura was puzzled.
"It's just that you're early today that's all." Tomoyo giggled again seeing Sakura's puzzled expression.
Soon students started entering the classroom.
"Ohayo Tomoyo-chan, Sakura-chan!" three voices chorused.
One belonged to a girl with short chocolate brown hair and glasses known as Yanagisawa Naoko. Naoko loves scary stories and reads plenty of books. The other voice belonged to a girl with short reddish brown hair known as Sasaki Rika. Rika is good at cooking and baking and has a crush on their teacher, Terada-sensei. The last one belonged to a girl with light brown hair tied in two pigtails known as Mihara Chiharu. She's really energetic like Sakura and is in the cheerleading club with Naoko and Sakura. The three of them were Sakura and Tomoyo's close friends.
"Ohayo," Sakura and Tomoyo replied.
"A little early today, ne Sakura-chan," Chiharu asked.
"Yeah, did you read any new books? I read this book. It's called "School Ghosts". It said that they were real ghosts in real schools!" Naoko chimed in.
"I had a great break! And I haven't read any new books." Sakura sweat dropped thinking of all those scary books.
Soon, another of their close friends, a boy with black hair and chocolate brown eyes, also Chiharu's boyfriend, Yamazaki Takashi came and joined their little chat. Yamazaki had this habit of telling lies or in this case more of false stories actually. After a while, Hiirigizawa Eriol, a boy with midnight blue hair and sapphire eyes and another of their close friends arrived. He is also the reincarnation of Clow Reed, the Creator of the Clow Cards.
After they were all reacquainted, their teacher Yoshiyuki Terada, a tall guy with neat brown hair and bangs that compliment his handsome features If he had any handsome features *Rika comes in* Rika: HEY! Syv: Hehehe, just kidding! , entered the room. Everyone went to his seat and a new day of school began.
After school, Tomoyo had practice for her concert and Syaoran had soccer practice. Sakura was forced to go home alone.
She decided to pass by Penguin Park. She sat at the top of the King Penguin Slide and just stayed there enjoying the wind when she sensed an aura. She closed her eyes and concentrated on the aura. It was coming closer and it felt like an evil aura. She jumped down from the slide and became very alert. She looked around carefully. Not seeing anyone, she decided to search for the aura. She concentrated on it and soon pinpointed its location. It was coming from somewhere behind the slide.
She whipped around and came face-to-face with a boy of the same age as her with long hair the colour of blood tied neatly in a ponytail and matching cold crimson eyes. He wore a strange outfit composed of a sleeveless shirt with jagged edges and long pants that ended just above his ankle also with the same rugged look as his shirt. Both were of the colour black and his shirt had a design that looked like a raging fire. He was of muscular build, you could easily tell due to his lack of sleeves. He was barefooted and yet he didn't seem at all in a sense of discomfort.
He carefully looked Sakura over and glared at her. Sakura inched backwards and was obviously frightened by this weird character.
She was trembling but managed to ask him, "W-what are y-you d-doing here?"
The boy growled and answered her in a voice laced with ice, "I was sent here to take you to my Master, Card Mistress."
Sakura's eyes widened at the mention of the words "Card Mistress".
'How did he know? And who is his Master?'
Sakura regained her composure and sent him a death glare, "Why should I go with you? Who are you anyway?"
"All your questions shall soon be answered. Come with me," his voice became colder, "or else."
"Or else what," Sakura challenged him to answer her.
"Or else this!"
A sword appeared in his hand out of nowhere. It was curved, had a jagged edge and the hilt was a black dragon with ruby red eyes that seemed to hold a fire in them that wanted to burn everything. He took a fighting stance and prepared to attack.
"Prepare yourself!"
He shouted at Sakura and lunged at her. Sakura dodged it and grabbed the key that hung from her neck. She put it in front of her and started saying an incantation. The boy slowly turned around to face Sakura and prepared to lunge again. Sakura's key turned into this pink staff with a star with small white wings on top. The boy was getting closer to her. She put her hand in her pocket and remembered that she left her cards at home.
She remembered that after those days when she and Syaoran went capturing the cards and turning them into Sakura cards she thought she wouldn't need to bring them along anymore. She grimaced at the thought of her stupidity. Then she noticed the boy heading straight for her, sword above his head. She lifted her star staff to protect herself. The boy's sword hit the staff and the sound of their weapons colliding echoed throughout the park. The boy jumped back and straightened himself.
He looked at Sakura through cold eyes and then slowly, he bent his knees and stretched out his left arm. With the right arm holding the hilt of the sword, he placed the blade just a millimetre above his outstretched arm, the curved part facing upward and the tip of the sword touching his finger. Then the boy lunged at Sakura. She barely had any time to move at all. She moved to the right but she wasn't fast enough. The tip of the boy's sword sliced a part of her shoulder. By the time she moved away, her left shoulder hung limply at her side and blood slid down her arm to the ground. She took a quick glance at her shoulder before growling and glaring hatefully at the redhead.
"I can just finish you now, you know. But I have to take you to my Master so… give up and come peacefully and I'll spare your life," the boy taunted her.
"I'll never give up! I'll never come with you either… and YOU can't make me," Sakura screamed.
"Alright then, we'll see if I can or can't make you. Master will be mad but I'll just tell him you forced me to do this."
Suddenly, the boy was surrounded by a very dark aura. He lifted his sword and slashed at the air, and started chanting what seemed like some sort of a spell. Soon, the air became heavy, the clouds started to gather, thunder roared, and lightning cracked through the air.
The boy's hair seemed to stand, his eyes seemed to become even colder, and he started floating in the air. The movements of his sword suddenly became clearer and Sakura found out that it was as if he was writing some sort of a word though she couldn't make out what the word was. Suddenly, she was being lifted into the air. She couldn't move at all, all she could do was look at the boy with fearful emerald eyes.
Slowly, at the center of what was supposedly a word, a dark energy ball was forming. It grew bigger every second and when it was already the size of the boy's head, it stopped growing. It looked to Sakura as if it was pulsing with a life of his own. Slowly, suddenly, the boy stopped chanting, aimed the tip of his sword at Sakura, and then the next thing Sakura knew was that the energy ball was heading for her. Coming closer and closer and then…
Syvonair: So, did you like it? I hope you did and I hope you would think about reading the next chap and reviewing. Since this is my first fic and I have WAY too little experience even though I got reviews to fix this chap, I'd still like to get more in case you find any other mistakes in this chap. Please enlighten me so I may be able to serve you better. Anyway, please, I'm begging you, review my story and introduce it to others. Thanks a lot!