Magical Witches
Chapter 1: The Typical Life
By: KawaiLeena

Summary: Sakura, Meiling, Naoko, Chiharu and Tomoyo are the usual teenage girls and are best friends who handle the everyday life with boys, school, teachers, homework, jokes and parents. What would they react when they find out they have elemental powers and are destined to protect the world?

"I'm late; I'm late; I'm late!" Sakura whimpers as she skates as fast as she can to Tomoeda High School. A typical day for Sakura Kinomoto, isn't it? As Sakura continues to skate through the cemented sidewalk, birds chirps through their nests of the branches of trees, while the golden sun gives off its natural energy of light. The sky has its sky blue, cheery color as time pass through, which is… a bad thing.

"Skate faster; I'm late!" she whimpers once again as she looks at her baby pink watch on her right wrist. As the teenage 16-years old girl who has honey brown shoulder-length hair with streaks of golden locks and pure, deep emerald green crystal eyes skates, she finally reaches Tomoeda High, with 5 minutes left until the second bell rings.

The 16-years old girl didn't take second thoughts as she quickly runs to her homeroom in the 2nd floor. She passes through the multiple gray-painted lockers to the black and white stairs leading to the next level.

Sakura immediately sees her appointed room that she dashes to the nearly empty hallways, when she almost reaches the entrance door…

RIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!

"Ohayoo Gozaimasu…" Sakura greets to the class dully and plainly, ignoring the sound of laughter and giggling by her fellow homeroom classmates. Great, another day being late once again! Maybe she'd just bought that cute flared pink alarm clock she saw on the mall last week.

Their teacher, Mitzuki-sensei, chuckles on her teacher's seat as she turns to Sakura with a kind smile, "Kinomoto Sakura, late." She turns to Meiling Li who is giggling to herself, "Li, Meiling! Please add a 1 in Sakura's 'late' records, please."

The long jet-blacked hair girl which are tied to two Chinese buns and who has flaring red eyes giggles again and nods willingly, putting out a small notepad. "Yes, sensei!" she exclaims, writing a vertical line on the paper. "Late Records: 99!"

The whole class once again giggles and chuckles, while Sakura rolls her emerald eyes, but giggles slightly, "Ha, ha… very funny…" she says plainly, still standing by the doorway entrance. "I can bet that another late entrance, you are going to put that to the World Records, ain't you?"

Meiling nods and giggles, "Of course!"

Mitzuki-sensei laughs then turns to the smiling Sakura, "Sakura-san, you may now take your seat," she orders, with a kind smile. The auburn-haired girl nods and cheerfully walks to a seat beside a long raven-haired girl with a red headband and with gorgeous amethyst eyes, Tomoyo Daidouji, or her best friend.

"They were just kidding with you, Sakura-chan," the beautiful girl reassures her with her famous bright smile as Sakura sits on her appoint seat.

Sakura laughs as she puts her pink with cherry blossoms printed on it down. She glances to her best friend and smiles, "Actually, Tomoyo-chan, I don't mind that much. It's pretty funny, and sometimes, I laugh at myself being late."

Just then, a sharp object pokes Sakura on the back, making the auburn-haired girl jerk her head behind, meeting face to face with her secretly crush, Li Syaoran, or her other best friend's cousin, Meiling. He has deep amber brown eyes and chocolate chestnut hair that seems really messy.

"Late again, eh, Sakura-san?" he asks with a smile, but in a mocking tone, too. "If you keep this up, you'll gonna have the world's record having the most late arrivals!"

Sakura grins ear to ear and replies in a point-of-fact voice, "That would be quite a pleasure, seeing my grand name in a grand book, of course!" Syaoran laughs at her remark and leans his back on his chair.

"That's why I like you," Syaoran says with a smile, which made Sakura completely blush. The boy notices this and chuckles, and decided to point it out in the right way, "But in the friendly way. You know, friends?"

The 16-years old girl almost slaps herself for being so stupid! Of course he wouldn't mean that! Stupid daydreams, stupid crush, stupid herself!

"Of course, of course," she says back nervously, faking a laugh. "How foolish of me to think things like that!" she glances to her best friend who is giggling all the way. "Um… gotta talk to Tomoyo! Well, talk to you later, Syao-kun!"

Syaoran smiles and shakes his head, 'Strange, but a nice girl. So naïve and innocent, but mysterious and cunning at times…' he chuckles quietly, remembering her priceless face when she arrived late earlier that morning.

"It seems that you and Syaoran are getting along just fine," Tomoyo cheerfully says with a bright smile, her amethyst eyes on Sakura's emerald ones. "So… is it getting anywhere?"

Sakura blushes scarlet and puts her index finer on her cherry-flavored mouth and hisses, "Shh… Tomoyo! It's just a silly crush! Nothing big, y'know." She sighs and leans her back on her chair while Mitzuki-sensei allows them to waste the 30 minutes homeroom time, seeing there is nothing by the bulletin today.

"Of course, you two are not in love…. Yet," Tomoyo says slyly, with a suspicious grin plastered on her face. The emerald-eyed girl blushes and looks down, her golden locks covering the tinted red on her cheeks.

"Nihao!" a cute voice greets them, making them look up to face-to-face with their other best friend, who is pure Chinese, Li Meiling.

"Hi, Meiling," the two girls greets with their usual smiles. "Why are you here?"

The Chinese girl arches an eyebrow then giggles, "Why, I am just in front of you, my dear girls!" then, the trio laughs. "Anyways, enough about that, were you talking about my cousin, Xiao Lang? Or Syaoran?"

Tomoyo's eyes lit up with joy as she exclaims happily as she could, "Yes! Well, our Sakura here is in –" before the lovely Tomoyo could speak up her sentence, a familiar hand of Sakura covers it, avoiding her to talk. "MMPPFFTT!"

"Hehe! Um… Tomoyo was saying that… err… was asking that…um… I mean wondering that… err…" Sakura speaks out nervously, having a hard time to reason out. She thinks fast anxiously, receiving a confused look from the cute Chinese. "She was wondering that… anooo… if he has any pets! Yeah, pets!" she then gives out a goofy grin.

Meiling's eyebrow rise up in surprise and in amusement as she says, "Pets? Oh, okay. He actually don't have any pets, my aunt or his mother, Yelan, forbids him to." Then a quick smile forms on her lips as she continues, "But that's in Hong Kong. Here, our grandfather owns a pet shop, so you can go there if you want to!"

A sweatdrop appears in Sakura and Tomoyo's heads as they reply, "Um… okay." Suddenly, another two teenage girls appear before them, one has glasses and one has brown hair tied to two pigtails. "Hi, Chiharu! Hi Naoko!"

Meanwhile, by Mitzuki Kaho's side, she looks up to no one in particular as she feels a strange aura around her. Just then, a man in the early thirties appears in her mind, which has navy blue hair and sapphire eyes, holding the usual book.

Seeing this, Kaho insists this must be an important message, seeing the highly Clow Reed seldom talk to her through their minds and magic. She closes her eyes as she puts them in telepathy mode.

Telepathy >>>

"What do you wish for me to do, Clow Reed?" she asks with her sweet-toned voice, speaking to the handsome man before her.

"Kaho, it is time," he replies with his deep and muscular voice and a friendly smile. "A new dark force is planning to destroy the fortress and all the universes that is placed under my guard."

"A new enemy, perhaps?" she asks, smiling to herself, still in telepathy.

"Yes, Kaho, a dangerous one, too," Clow Reed replies, his friendly smile suddenly forms to a straight line of a frown. "He wants to take my position and have the powers to himself. He will not give up easily, as he says. He has summoned enough magic to destroy the fortress. We must act soon before the destiny takes place."

"Does that mean I have to gather the new five guardians altogether and explain this to them?" she asks.

"Exactly, though it might be risky and unfortunate to them, it is fate for them to be like this," the navy blue haired man chuckles lightly. "I must go now, Kaho. Please act soon, for the new enemy is getting stronger as time passes by quickly. Send my regards to the new guardians."

"As you wish, Clow Reed."

End of Telepathy >>>

Kaho opens her eyes as the image of her master disappears, and the telepathy that connects between them vanishes. She remembers to explain this to the new guardians, yes, the new guardians that will soon protect infinity and the fortress of Deimos, or, Clow Reed's lair.

She looks at her watch as she sees that Homeroom time is catching up. She sighs; she must act fast. By chance, the 1st Period bell rings, hearing groans from the fellow classmates.

"Now, now, class," Kaho assures, laughing slightly, standing up from her seat. "It's not that bad, ne? Of course, you are much more luckier! You won't have to be standing up the whole time and talk the whole period! All you have to do is listen, sit down, keep quiet, and write down notes! It's easy, isn't it?"

Just then, a boy with black hair and black eyes stands up and talks, "Did you know that many, many years ago, school only teaches how to wash the butt after –" he broke off his sentence when suddenly, Chiharu whacks him a thick book on the head.

"You and your stupid lies!" she cries out, smiling triumphantly.

"Well, my lies are true!" he replies back, receiving a fit of laughter and giggles of the class. He smiles back to Chiharu, which made the pigtailed girl blush.

"Opposites attract," Meiling remarks, grinning ear to ear to the two 'lovebirds' that are fighting, well, not fighting actually. More like flirting.

Kaho smiles and gets the class' attention and announces, "Now, now, don't get tired out. Stand up, get your books and head to your 1st Period before the 2nd bell rings." She says this with a smile. The class soon groans and reluctantly stands up and picks up their backpacks.

As almost everyone left, she sees Syaoran, Takashi, Sakura, Meiling, Tomoyo, Chiharu and Naoko still inside the classroom, mostly waiting for Sakura to find the lost pendant that was 'accidentally' got slipped by Meiling.

Finally, they found it below Syaoran's desk and starts to leave when Kaho says, "Kinomoto Sakura, Daidouji Tomoyo, Li Meiling, Mihara Chiharu, and Naoko, I want to talk to you in private." Five heads turns to her in surprise. She makes a small smile and adds, "Right now. Don't worry, I'll give your passes to the teachers."

"Um… okay," Sakura says, scratching the back of her head in confusion.

"Sure! I want to skip first class anyways!" Meiling laughs cheerfully.

"It's quite alright," Naoko, replies with a smile, her free hand adjusting her glasses.

"Why not?" Chiharu smiles.

"If it is quite urgent and important, I don't seem to mind," Tomoyo says in her usual gentle tone of voice.

Syaoran glances over his shoulder to see the girls not following. He makes a worried look and approaches Sakura, "Is something wrong?"

Sakura turns to him and shakes her head, then smiles at him. "Nothing is wrong, Syao-kun," she responds. "Mitzuki-sensei wants to talk to us five about something. You can go ahead with Takashi. I think this might take a while."

"Oh… okay," he says back, with a tint of disappointment in his voice. He tries hard to hide it, but it didn't seem to work, so he brushes it off. He shrugs and forces a small smile then turns around. He glances again over his shoulder to face with Sakura, "Well, see you at lunch. Bye."

The emerald-eyed girl blushes and waves at him, giving a very faint answer, as Syaoran walks away, "Bye."

"Hey, Sakura-chan!" someone calls behind her. Sakura turns around to see Meiling waving at her. "Hey! Come on, Mitzuki-sensei is calling us! She wants to talk to us, remember? Now come on!"

Sakura nods and runs towards her friends. She looks around to see six chairs in a circle, and her other friends are already sitting, waiting for her. She quickly takes a seat beside her best friends, Tomoyo and Meiling.

"What is it that you want to talk to us, Mitzuki-sensei?" Naoko asks softly, almost a whisper. She looks around to see her other friends agree with her, nodding their heads and uttering a 'yeah' and 'what's up?'

Kaho sighs before proceeding. How can she tell it to them clearly? What would they react to this? Would they back out? No, they won't back out. This is their destiny; to be guardians who protect the fortress.

"First of all, my dears, please call me Kaho for the time being," she says with a gently smile. The five girls look at each other, very confused. "If you are wondering why, I am not your teacher, for today. Okay? Because, right now, you five are in a position more highly than me."

"What makes it like that?" Sakura asks innocently, her emerald eyes filled with interest. She looks at her 'teacher' more clearly, to see her eyes serious.

"As you five don't notice, you are more special than average teenage girls," she tells them, wondering what their reaction would be. To her surprise, they look calm as always, as if they weren't taken back. "Well?"

Meiling giggles and points out, "Mitzuki-sen – I mean… Kaho, we already know we are special!" Kaho's eyebrows rise up in surprise. "I mean, all of us are. You, Syaoran, Rika, Tomoyo, Chiharu, Sakura, Terada-sensei, Tak –"

Then, Meiling stops her sentence when Kaho starts to laugh. She arches one eyebrow while Chiharu asks, "What's so funny?"

"Everything, my dear," Kaho replies. "Let me put it in a more clearer way. You five are special girls, more special than the average teen. Each of you possesses one earth element power that is bestowed by your ancestors."

Everything became silent and but Meiling breaks the silence with, "Whaaatt? I don't understand!"

Kaho sighs and says, "Or in short, you five have magical powers."

To be continued…

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