~ SWAN LAKE, KINOMOTO KINGDOM, JAPAN...~

A certain auburn-honey hair girl with shinny, emerald eyes, dressed in a fancy short dress stood in field beside a lake of eternal-shinning waters. It hugged her curves perfectly, and flaring down in waves of pink and white silk from the hips down. A shimmering white butterfly hair clip above her ear, was consisted of pink diamonds. The dress was made of layers of different shades of white and pink silk, with bows and ribbons of pink, white or red embossed here and there. Her shinny light-pink glass slippers decorated with a pink heart of diamonds. This was Sakura Kinomoto (Avalon), daughter of a kind, loved, and noble king of Japan, Fujitaka. Unfortunately she also had a certain annoying, and overprotective brother, Touya, whose favourite phrase or so, is " Kaiju" meaning 'Monster.'

The wind gently blew through her hair, making her clothes flowing in the wind gently. An kept secret, that only she, the sun guardian: Cerberus( also known as Kero), moon guardian: Yue, and her family knew of. As well as her best friend, and cousin: Tomoyo Daidoji (Madison Taylor).The Sakura cards, which were once Clow Cards, which were created by a powerful sorcerer who died years ago.

Tomoyo was obsessed in dressing up Sakura in her weird costumes and creations, she was a awesome designer none less. Though Tomoyo has habit of filming her and all of her actions…

What about the queen, her mother? Queen Nadeshiko, Sakura's late mother, was a gentle/intelligent/kind queen, and was and is loved by many. She had green eyes, and wavy navy blue-grey hair. She died with an incurable illness.

There's another twist to it, Sakura had a curse placed upon her, mute. Years ago, in a battle using the Clow Cards, reincarnating them to Sakura Cards. Just when she almost got rid of the evil dictator, who was trying to take over, he cast the curse upon her as he disappeared. Leaving Sakura mute, the battle had drained her energy, so she fainted seconds after her victory, if you can call it that.

Even since then she basically shied away from everyone, always so distant, and when her mother died, things became worse. Her mother died just a month after Sakura's loss of voice. After years, the only emotions that remained in her were sadness and emptiness. Her once cheerful, carefree, and innocent self had been torn away from her at that battlefield, and whatever that was left, vanished when her mother died.

Currently being a 16-year-old, Princes all over the globe has asked her hand in marriage cause the Kinomoto kingdom was the wealthiest, loved and respected. No matter how many times asked though, she'll deny it right away, without a second thought. For this, they nick-named her as the Cold-hearted beauty or Ice Princess.

Sakura POV

' Ever since that battle… I haven't been able to use my cards… I mean, there not much need for it...I can't speak. I tried using the Voice card, but that didn't help much…it didn't work.'

I've lost hope, and became emotionless, the only emotion I showed was during night time. After dark I always cried myself to sleep full of dread and loneliness. Tomoyo-chan 's wedding is held next month... I wonder if I should attend... she's been bugging me to go there. She even made me a dress....

THRONE ROOM, LI KINGDOM, CHINA...

" Mother! Why?! You know that there's no way she'll fall for it! Hundreds of princes and noblemen has asked for her hand of marriage before. You know what happens right?!" The young prince shouted with rage. his amber eyes were blazing with golden shine, his usually dark- chestnut hair was messier then ever before; he was dressed in a red and gold top that princes wear, and silk white pants which had a gold strap on each side.

" Calm yourself, Syaoran! Don't you dare raise your voice at me." the elegant queen scolded. " You know very well why you must convince her into marriage. The Kinomoto kingdom is a great ally of ours, plus they are the only other kingdom that holds great magic power. You shall be leaving for Japan in two weeks, prepare yourself"

" Yes mother. I understand." the prince sighed and bowed to be excused then left for the garden.

" Queen Yelan, we've received a invitation from Japan"

" Excellent!"

Two weeks later...

~SUPPER TIME, KINOMOTO KINGDOM, JAPAN....~

" So Kaiju...aren't you attending the wedding next week?" the prince asked, his brown eyes shinned with excitement." Or are you still angry about the arranged marriage?"

Sakura's eyes flashed with rage, her left eye twitched, she ate the last few slices of bread on her plate and stomped off to the garden. She headed straight for the fountain which was at the center of the garden. As she passed the rose-bushes which were in full bloom, and the falling, withered cherry blossom petals, the golden gate glimmered with hope.

She suddenly stopped to ever so gently pick up a tiny cherry blossom, slowly she turned to a path that none had traveled through before. the stones shimmered with mystery. Not even a fallen leaf or petal may be found. Letting her curiosity get to her, Sakura traveled through the forest, as it got darker and darker as she went deeper and deeper in.

Suddenly something grabbed her from behind and pulled her off the path. Sakura slowly turned around to find herself face to face with a monster, a few of its snake-like arms pyralyzed her. Sakura closed her eyes and waited for the worst....

Sakura POV

' Oh...what do I do?! Is this it? The end...? I can't reached my cards since it got my arms squeezed tight, even if I had them I probably wouldn't be able to use them because I can't even summon my staff with the lose of my voice...'

"Rrrrrrrrrrrr!!!" the beast roared in agony.

My eyes fluttered open at once when I felt the beast's giant arm clang to the floor.

" Dammit! Run for it!" a voice shouted from somewhere near the thing. " NOW!"

I looked over to find a boy my age with a sword battling the beast. His Amber eyes burning with determination, his messy chestnut hair danced in the breeze. I felt my cheeks flush. ' Oh NO!I ...am not going to fall for him! Even if his appearance is so...charming.....Oh. Shoot. I did not just say--think that...shoot me now...'