A/N: Hello, this will be my first story on so please, be kind! This story will have a lot of chapters that will be very, very short and (hopefully) updated often.
IMPORTANT: Okay, I really hate author's notes so I'm going to categories everything. If you (like me) hate AN's then skip A/N, DISCLIAMER, SUMMARY and (if any) CHAPTER SUMMARY and go to the IMPORTANT. Point's to important (again, if any). There I'm going to point out any of my mistakes, and anything that I forgotten to add in the story, shudders though hopefully not.
Okay those who are confused I am ready to take your questions. Everybody raises his or her hands Then again maybe next time...
DISCLIAMER: Winter Aquamarine does not own any part of CCS, sniff not even the tiny pieces of scribbled paper that CLAMP throws out. But not to worry I've decided to raid their garbage tomorrow, anyone willing to join me?
SUMMARY: Sakura is just a girl and only wants to live her life, being with her friend's, learning how to prepare for the role of the future Queen, the usual. But fate had other things in store for her. Someone, someone powerful prophesied that she was perfect for the dangerous role of the Mistress of the Cards, and because of this her whole life is soon to be turned upside down. With power hungry sorcerers out to get her, how will a lonely girl survive in this world...?
CHAPTER SUMMARY: We meet Sakura!
KEYS:
'thoughts'
stressed words or dreams The stressed words will be like one or two, the dreams will be whole paras. For those who didn't get it -;
Scene changes, POV's
Made To Save The World
Winter Aquamarine
Chapter one: Dreams
floating... no, flying... no, twirling, round and round...
... chaos...
running... laughing...
... famine, draughts...
brown eyes...
... evil...
with hints of gold...
... and the wolf's blossom will save them all...
The girl opened her emerald green eyes and found a pair of clear lavender eyes staring anxiously back at her.
"Your highness, you're awake." The girl gushed at her mistress.
Tomoyo Daidouji, the servant of the Princess of the Tomoeda kingdom hovered above the newly awakened girl who, as she sat up, realized that she had been lying on the floor.
"Hoe?" The sixteen-year-old girl said, looking around in a confused manner.
"Your highness?" another voice asked.
The princess looked up and was greeted by her four ladies in waiting.
"Are you all right?" the second one continued.
"Yes I am," she said hurriedly going a bit red. 'I wish they'd stop staring at me' "I'm okay now. You all may go," her voice was a bit pleading.
The ladies bowed very low and left. When they had crossed the threshold of the intricately carved giant oak doors and closed it behind them, Tomoyo turned sharply to face the Princess and asked, "Sakura, are you sure you're all right?"
Sakura held her right hand in front of her face and found that it was shaking. "You had another dream, didn't you?"
Even before the Princess nodded in the affirmative, Daidouji knew the answer. Those dreams had been a regular occurrence ever since the Princess had been seven years of age. Tomoyo had been the servant of the Princess ever since she could remember, and ever since she could remember she was the only confidant of the young girl regarding the dreams. At first the dreams had been mild, just mentioned as a passing comment and then quickly forgotten be Sakura. It would be described as "I dreamt I was flying last night..." or as "I got that dream again..."
But later, especially in the last six months, they had been getting more vivid and Sakura told Tomoyo all that she could remember.
"Anything new?" the servant asked her mistress, coming back to the present.
"Well," said Sakura, putting her index finger on her lower lip, it was a habit of hers, usually done while thinking hard. "I didn't see anything new really. But I got a really strong feeling, I was really scared, but I don't remember why, though somehow I knew I'd be safe, I knew that someone was trying their best to protect me. Does that sound far fetched to you Tomoyo?" the girl finally concluded, looking up at her best friend.
Her friend thought for a minute and not finding anything to say said, "You fell off your bed and you were thrashing like crazy, even shouting. Everyone came running, we were really scared."
"I'm sorry."
"It's all right, but have you forgotten?"
Sakura looked at Tomoyo blankly and the raven-haired girl sighed. "Sakura, your father wants to ask about your progress from your sensei, and assign to you a new and more advanced one."
"Oh no! Am I really late?"
"No, just a bit. If you hurry and run you might just make it."
Without another word Sakura jumped up and rushed to he closet. She ran in and began looking for a suitable dress to wear. "I don't have anything to wear, I don't have anything to wear." She began chanting under her breath. Sakura started throwing dresses from her racks in a frenzied state when Tomoyo came to her side and handed her a pretty satin gray dress with silver sparkles on the bodice and hem on the long sleeves. It also had a pretty transparent silver glittering cloth overlaying a full skirt.
"Arigatou," said Sakura and walked behind the screens to change. "I don't know what I'd do without you Tomoyo." As she began to hastily put on the dress.
When Sakura walked out from behind the screen, Tomoyo already had a comb and a white ribbon in her hands for Sakura and she was standing behind a chair. Sakura rushed forward to sit on the chair.
"Do we have time for this?" questioned Sakura gasping for breath because of the strain of putting on various petticoats and dresses.
"Nothing fancy," replied Tomoyo calmly putting up the shoulder length auburn locks into a simple ponytail at the back of her head. She left her bangs, short ones in the front and longer ones at the side of her face, free to do whatever they liked.
"Now," said Tomoyo bending down so that she was at Sakura's eyelevel. "You have fifteen minutes left. I think a good long sprint should do it." She winked.
"Aren't you coming along?" asked Sakura standing up and slipping her tiny feet into even tinier shoes. Usually for some reason Tomoyo seemed to enjoy the boring visits to her father's court and took every opportunity to come along.
"I'm afraid not, Sakura."
"Why?"
Tomoyo gave Sakura a serene smile. "Well someone has to clean up this mess silly."
"Oh!" said Sakura embarrassed, and was about to offer to clean up afterwards when Tomoyo grabbed her by the shoulders and pushed her out of her quarters and into the corridor. "Run along." She said and shut the door.
The Kinomoto castle was huge and it took nearly ten minutes to walk in a direct path from one end to the other at a brisk pace. But there was no direct path and walking in the winding hallways it took almost forty. It took a painful twenty minutes to get from Sakura's room to the throne room.
Sakura decided to heed Tomoyo's advice and gathered up her skirts, it would after all take much more than a 'brisk' walk on her part to get there on time. Now she had more space for her legs to move, but she glared at her toe pinching shoes.
Sakura sighed; she was going to have the most throbbing feet in the kingdom by the end of the day.
To be continued...
A/N: Please RR and tell me what you think. I'll be eternally grateful if you do! Ah ha! And one more thing, this is definitely going to be SS, though tell me if you want ET. If nobody tells me to I'm going to stick to the magna pairings. Constructive criticism needed and flames don't bother me much. So well anything is welcome, really!
Until next time. Ja ne!
Winter aquamarine
