This my second fanfic… I hope you guys will love it! So… sit back & enjoy!
Just outside an arena, on the grass, sat an emerald-eyed, auburn-haired girl in the age of sixteen. Beside her was a black-haired, dark purple-eyed girl who was twirling her long wavy hair. That black-haired girl was looking at her companion.
"Sakura-chan, do you think we're ready?" the black-haired girl asked.
"I do, Tomoyo-chan... we've been training for six years of our lives... how can we not be ready?" Sakura said.
Then a blue-haired, blue-eyed boy wearing glasses approached them. He smiled.
"Tomoyo-hime, Sakura-chan." he said.
He both took their hands and kissed it. Tomoyo blushed while Sakura just smiled. The boy sat beside Tomoyo.
"Eriol, tell us about the Pender Open..." Tomoyo said.
"Anything for my Tomoyo-hime." Eriol smiled.
Sakura edged closer to them, to get something out of it too.
"Well, the Pender Open will be a competition for the title of Ultimate Sorcerer or Sorceress. The referee will not tell the rules as we should all know it by now. Killings will be allowed... actually, there are hardly any limitations, except no one is allowed outside help... although you can use guardians. Anyone is allowed to join the Pender Open, any sorcerer or sorceress that is. The Pender Open usually lasts for one week... and there has been one reigning champion for ten years already." Eriol said.
"Who's the reigning champion, Eriol-kun?" Sakura asked.
"It's the future head of the Li Clan... my kawaii descendant. I haven't seen him for quite a while. He's quite an emotionless fellow, the only feeling he lets out is anger... but I can tell you, he's a gentleman."
Sakura was silent, caught up in a chain of thoughts. What could this reigning champion look like? Was he brutal in battle? Did he kill? She had a very nervous face on. Tomoyo saw this and decided to make Sakura a bit confident.
"Don't worry, Sakura-chan, you're the Card Mistress of the Sakura Cards! Nobody can be more powerful than you!" Tomoyo said, admiration in her voice.
Eriol smiled, his Tomoyo was really the perfect friend... and the perfect girlfriend too. Sakura smiled a bit, but that was all Tomoyo would get from her. She felt a little bit inferior to the reigning champion, after all, he had won for ten years... so he must be way older than them. Then Kero appeared beside her, and he turned into his real form, and then after he had transformed, Yue appeared beside him. When Sakura's guardians did that, Eriol's guardians appeared too, Ruby Moon and Spinel Sun.
"Should we get ready now?" Sakura asked.
"Hai, we should. Only three more minutes." Eriol said.
Sakura and Tomoyo got out their wands, while Eriol got out his staff. Sakura's wand was called the star wand, while Tomoyo's was called the music wand. The music wand had a note on top... it looked really kawaii. Eriol's staff was called the sun staff.
After three minutes, a huge white board appeared in front, hovering above. It was the plan for the Pender Open, who would battle who and whoever would win, will battle someone else. And on top was the name Li Syaoran, the reigning champion. Sakura gulped when she saw the name.
"Eriol-kun, how old is your descendant?" Sakura asked.
"He's sixteen." Eriol said, a smirk in his face.
Sakura was shocked, the reigning champion was just as old as them, and yet he had already won for ten years! This discouraged her a bit, but she didn't let Tomoyo know it, or else she would be in one of those confidence sessions again. Sakura looked at the names on the board, all her friends were there, her onii-chan was there, so was her otou-san... to put it in short, all the people she knew were there. Sakura got out her cards for comfort, and it did work, and soon, she was excited for the Pender Open.
"Ganbatte, Sakura-chan!" Tomoyo smiled.
"Ganbatte, Tomoyo-chan, Eriol-kun." Sakura said cheerfully.
"Ganbatte, Tomoyo, Sakura-chan." Eriol said.
They went to separate places.
Four days later. The fifth day of the Pender Open, Tomoyo had already been beaten by the second day and was now just filming Sakura and her battles.
"Sakura-chan looks so kawaii!" Tomoyo squealed from the audience.
The faces of the people around her twitched. Boy, was she an obsessed best friend.
At Sakura's battle, everything was going smooth for her. The cards were really powerful. She finally won that match after three more minutes. Her opponent was a good match.
At Eriol's battle, he had just been casting weak spells. His opponents were all weak, very weak. Was sorcery becoming a lower magic when time passed? And he thought his opponents would be tough. But then, they served as training for what was to come.
After two more days. The last day of the Pender Open. Everyone was excited. Would there be a new champion? Would the reigning champion have even more surprises in store? Would it be a draw?
Touya looked from the crowds, he was worried for his little sister. He was also worried for his boyfriend's sake... Yue was still Yukito.
"I hope whoever the kaijuu battles won't kill her and Yuki." he muttered.
Tomoyo looked excitedly at the arenas. Sakura and Eriol were still in the running. Tomoyo packed lots of batteries with her as this looked like a long day, and she wouldn't want to miss one bit of precious Sakura footage.
Sakura looked eager. What would her battles be like now? Would she even reach the reigning champion? Will she win the Pender Open? Or will she not? She stopped thinking and tried to clear her mind for her to have good battles ahead.
Eriol looked calm and collected. His opponents were getting harder, but no trouble for him. He wondered how powerful his kawaii descendant would be. Will his descendant be a match for the Card Mistress or not? Or would the two be equally powerful? He never met his descendant for six years, had he changed?
After six hours and after lunch. The last match. Eriol had been beaten by Sakura in their match which was before lunch. It had been a fierce battle between the two, and both were weak. Sakura had gotten most of her energy back after she ate and rest. But during lunch, she could hear someone singing. Of course that certain person sang exceptionally well, probably in a perfect way. The rest of her lunch was spent listening to that enchanting voice.
The audience were noisy. Their noise was deafening, but nobody looked at that fact, they were just too excited for the last match. The best sorcerer and the best sorceress, who would prevail?
Sakura stepped into the arena. Her opponent still wasn't there.
"Where could he be?" she asked.
Then a boy stepped into the arena. He was holding a case. He turned around to face her. Sakura's heart stopped moving. Her cheeks started to warm. In front of her was the most handsome boy she ever saw. His hair was brown and his eyes were the most beautiful pair she ever saw, amber eyes that looked soft, but unreadable. The perfect face, one that equaled to a god, Sakura thought. The boy was also tall. Most of the female population in the audience also noticed that, there were swooning and cooing and other girly stuff that inclined love for the boy. Only about 1 of the female population in the audience weren't attracted by him.
The boy opened the case and took out whatever was inside it. Then he levitated the case and made it go to the nearby bench. Sakura saw that the thing inside the case was a violin and bow. A beautiful piece too, it looked expensive. Why would he have a violin with him? Sakura thought.
Yue and Kero appeared beside her. Kero was already in his real form.
"Mistress, be careful. He's a music sorcerer." Yue said.
"Like Tomoyo?" Sakura asked.
"Tomoyo only sings. This one can play and sing."
"People like those are dangerous." Kero said. "He has a weak aura though."
Sakura got a little bit relieved with the words Kero said. She never wondered how such a weak-aura-person got to be the reigning champion... Li Syaoran, so that was how her guardian thought of him. She would stick by Kero's observation. The sign to begin appeared, and Sakura got out her powerful cards, wanting to finally rest in her bed or go shopping in the mall. Syaoran started playing his violin. The violin dominated those cards. Sakura was shocked. She gave more of her energy into it and the cards fought back a little, but then angel-like creatures appeared. They were many. Kero was a bit taken aback, how can a weak person conjure so many things like those!
"There are a million of those things, Mistress." Yue said.
Sakura called out half of her cards. Syaoran just looked calm and kept playing his violin, in a sweet melody too. Her cards began to weaken, and so did she. Sakura's guardians decided to attack, but they were repelled by the angel-like creatures, and that was where it hit them.
"Those are guardians, Mistress!" Yue said.
"Guardians... demo, they are so many..." Sakura said.
She called the rest of her cards. But the cards began to weaken again. It was something the melody did to them. Then Syaoran produced even more sweeter sounds with his violin, and Sakura herself became weaker. His guardians took care of her guardians which became unconscious after a few attacks... the attacks varied, from elements, to powers, and to forces, and these attacks looked even more powerful than the cards. Soon, the notes became higher and higher, and Sakura felt weaker and weaker until everything became black for her. She became unconscious.
A/N: Hm… looks like "love at first sight" for Sakura & Syaoran! Hehe… hope you like it..
Miu Hanazawa )