"You should die right in front of us!" Shadow reached out to grab me.
I ran down the hallway that looks like there's a dozen of chambers surrounding me. My heart thumped as I ran.
"You are already too late!" the darkness exclaimed. "Good bye Star!"
"Rinnngggg!"
"Aghhhhhhh! No!" I shouted at the top of my voice.
"Hey monster! Are you alright? Stop waking the neighbours!" said Leon, who is my concerned older brother.
"STOP CALLING ME MONSTER!" I exclaimed, while hearing another shout from our father, "Both of you stop shouting at each other! You are going to be late for school!"
I quickly dressed for school and I went down the stairs in a 2 story building.
My name is Yuki Astray. I'm a 15 year old girl, just like any other ordinary person, I hated Mathematics and Science subjects. My mother passed away when I was 6 years old. However, I don't remember much as I was still young. But her photos were scattered throughout the house, bringing back memories of my mum as I was still in her arms.
I greeted, "Ohaiyo ottosan, oniisan!" as I settled down in the dining table for breakfast to gulp down my breakfast.
"jā mata ne!" as I rushed out of the house to school.
The morning breeze and falling sakura petals surround me as I rush to school, just like how my father says that tomorrow will be better. Just like every night, I had weird dreams and it started being more realistic as I grow older and older.
As I reached my school, I went up to my classroom where I meet my best friend, Shizu Daidouji.
"Ohaiyo Shizu!" I greeted her as she replied "Ohaiyo Yuki".
I'm a very quiet person in school. Everyone, including my classmates wondered everytime why I am weird at certain periods of time and especially times when I attended music lessons.
In fact, I myself felt possessed whenever I had music lessons as it seemed like I remembered that particular piece of music whenever I play on the piano.
"Riiiiiiing", there goes the bell as my class teacher, Mr Tenji walked in as we started on Mathematics lessons.
Time flies as I continuously thought about the dream I dreamt lately. "It doesn't make sense", I thought to myself. "An animal head with wings resembling to a unicorn." Without realizing, I was actually drawing out what did that animal looked like. "That's a nice drawing! How did you draw that?" Shizu exclaimed in delight. I pretended not to bother of this issue and just gave Shizu a cheeky smile.
The class ended as the bell rang as Shizu and I made our way to our CCA, Cheerleading activity. We started practicing on the stunts. As I threw up the staff up to the sky, memories flashed before my very eyes as I remembered things that I dreamt of a couple of days ago.
Stunned, I failed to catch the staff, falling on my head then on to the ground. Feeling the pain from the flashback, I held my head with both hands.
"Are you alright, Yuki?" Shizu asked, concerned about my well-being. Ms Tanaka, the cheerleading lecturer saw my pale face and questioned if I was alright.
"Yes… I think so…" I replied, being confused with the current events.
"Lead Yuki to the sick bay immediately", Ms Tanaka said to Shizu. As Shizu held me, I darted away in agony, denying that I was unwell.
"Let's just go to the sick bay to examine you. I'll not tell your brother about it." As such, I gave in and went to the sick bay.
As I lay down on the sick bay bed, I felt dizzy. As I hear the screeching sound of the door opening, I saw my older brother.
Being concerned, my older brother asked a lot of questions and sometimes nagged at me for not taking care of myself. Throughout the entire scolding, I didn't bother about what he say. The only thing I bother was why Shizu lied to me, as what she promised.
Then, Shizu came in with a cute teddy bear, asking if I'm alright.
"You promised that you won't tell my brother!" yelled at her.
Shizu replied "I did. However, Ms Tanaka didn't promise you." Immediately, my face turned red for shouting at her.
Before long, the pain returned as I clutched my head in pain. Leon, at my side, held me while shouting for help from the school paramedics. Without knowing, I fell unconscious.
When I woke up, I found myself in the hospital bed, with my father and brother in the room, sleeping soundly. Suddenly, I heard a voice calling the name in my dream. "Star…. Star….Why…?" The sound became louder as the voice looped time and time again.
I walked out of the room silently and followed to the source of the voice. With each step, the voice again became louder and louder till I made it back to where I was: home.
I entered the house and made my way towards the basement as where the voice leads. There, I saw a glimpse of light shining from a book in a dusty bookshelf. "What was it?" I questioned myself. "How would a book for so many years be left shining?"
Curiously, I pulled out the book from the shelf. Immediately, the voice went silent. The book title reads "Sakura's Book". After a few moments, the book lost its shine and the book unlocked itself! I was shocked. Then, a mysterious pink coloured card fell from the book.
I picked up the card facing up, and the description reads "Windy". I pronounced the description and suddenly, huge gusts of wind struck against me. I dropped the book and the remaining mysterious cards flew with the wind, all around the house and even the roof!
I collapsed down on the floor, asking myself "what just happened?"
Mysteriously, the book glowed again. I was shocked as a small doll-looking figure appeared from the book!
"Konichiwa!" it exclaimed. "What are you doing here, Star?"
Surprisingly, the doll talks! I grabbed it and tried to find anything that made the doll talk; buttons, levers, switches… you name it.
"Stop it! I'm not a toy!" exclaimed the doll, "I'm Keberos! You should have known my name!"
Thinking that it probably was a dream, I pinched myself on my arm. "Ow!"
"What are you doing, Star? Why are you pinching yourself?"
Indeed I wasn't dreaming. A doll, called Keberos is talking to me. But wait… Star? Why is Keberos calling me Star? Wasn't that the name from my dream?
"Don't look so shocked", Keberos interrupted. "You killed your own father years ago and killed yourself out of hate, isn't it?"
"My name is not Star. My name is Yuki Astray."
"Don't lie to me! Your magical signature is exactly the same to Star. YOU are Star."
"I….. I… I have this dream that someone called me Star." I replied.
"Oh? What dream?" Keberos questioned.
"I don't know… There was a dream where the veil of darkness said that my name was Star and they wanted to kill me."
"Trying… to kill you?" Kerberos asked again. I nodded my head without hesitation.
"Hmm… you don't seem to be a bad girl indeed", Keberos proclaimed.
"So…. What are you doing in the Sakura's book?" I asked.
"Oh. I'm the beast of the seal who guards this book."
Keberos out of nowhere raised the book without touching it flipped the pages and said "I am to ensure that nothing bad ever happens to the cards in this book."
Keberos looking back at the book with an empty card slot, "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh? What is going on!? Where are the cards!?"
I passed Keberos the "Windy" card and asked, "Is this the card you wanted?"
Excitedly, Keberos claimed the card and shouted "Yes!" and asked "Where are the other cards..?"
I explained, "Well…. I… picked up the book… and the book unlocked by itself… a card dropped out and it reads "Windy". When I read the word "Windy", strong gusts of wind came out of nowhere and the cards were scattered throughout."
Angrily, Keberos yelled at me "Whaaaaaaat!?"
After a few minutes of calming down Keberos, I asked "So… why did the book call me Star?"
"Hmm… well, maybe you are the reincarnation of Star. That's why the book called you Star." Keberos explained.
"Oh. So… what now?"
"Well, now that things had turned out this way, we don't have much of a choice…"
"What do you mean… "We"…?" I questioned
"Since you're the one who unlocked the book… and you may be the reincarnation of Star, you have to help me find all the cards!" Keberos interrupted.
"But I didn't know how to catch all of the cards! And besides, they must have flown off far away!" I exclaimed.
Suddenly, a gust of wind came from nowhere and it brought me to my house living room. Looking out of the window, I saw a huge animal with the size of a dragon glowing in blue.
"What is that?" I shouted.
"Oh Star… Didn't you recognize it? It is a "Fly" card!"
"How can I even recognize it!? It's like a huge chicken with a dragon's head and wings."
Keberos shouted, "Don't talk rubbish! Come and catch it!"
"How can I catch it!? What do you think I am? A chicken-dragon catcher?"
"Well, I'll give you a weapon for it." Keberos replied.
Keberos turned to the book, "Key of the seal… There is a girl wishing to contact with you. Her name is Star…" A sphere came out from the book and revolved around me.
"WAIT!" I interrupted, "I am not Star!"
"Alright…" Going back to where Keberos was doing, "Her name is Yuki. Oh key, grant her the power…"
"RELEASE!" Suddenly, there was a light emitting from the sphere, and a star shaped staff came out of nowhere.
"Yuki! Grab the staff!" Keberos shouted.
Without hesitation, I grabbed the staff into the palm of my hands.
"Okay! Now you have the power to seal "Fly"!" Pushing me closer to the creature, "now, go and seal that so-called chicken-dragon monster which you so called it to be…"
"But… how can I seal it?" I asked.
"Use "Windy"!" said Keberos.
"But I don't know how!" I shouted in anger.
"Use your instincts!" Keberos yelled back.
Using my instincts as what Keberos said, I calmed myself down, closed my eyes and a familiar voice came out of nowhere, "Use the staff and "Windy"."
""Wind", become a binding chain, "Windy"" I exclaimed to myself as I call upon the card to catch the creature when I hit the card with the staff.
A glowing creature then came out of the card, binding the creature, bringing the monster down to the ground.
Again, with my instincts, I exclaimed "Return to the guise that you're meant to be in!"
"SAKURA CARD!" I shouted as the creature was sucked into another dimension, leaving a card behind.
Exhausted, I fell onto the ground.
"Great job Yuki! You done very well! Let's work hard and find all of the remaining cards! You are definitely Star!" exclaimed Keberos.
Suddenly, a male voice was heard… "Yuki! Where are you!?"
This is the continuing of what happen after Sakura dies and after many years the cards will choose the new master! Well what you happen what? Please review to find out! A new story to entertain the anime lovers