TSUBASA RESERVOIR CHRONICLE
From left to right: Fai, Syaoran, Mokona white-manju, Sakura, and Kurogane.
"Ready, let's go to the next world!"
"Mokona-modoki is also thrilled!! Pa-puuu…."
Chapter 1- a new world
"Oww…"
"Hey can you get off of me already!"
"Whoo, Kuro-puu is angry."
"Ah, Fai I don't think you should tease Kurogane right now."
"It's okay Syaoran. Mokona doesn't think Kuro-puu is scary." Mokona said.
"Hey where are we anyway?" Syaoran asked.
"It looks like we landed in someone's yard." Sakura announced.
There were potted plants lying next to a low wall cutting a small square of grass away from the rest of the pavement. The house behind it looked quite small, but in a homely way. Its walls were made of what seemed like rock mixed with sand formed into blocks making up the walls.
"This looks like a nice place. Don't you think?" Fai said warmly.
"You're right, I really like it here." Syaoran said, "It looks kind of familiar though."
"Ehh? Have you been here before kid?" Kurogane asked.
"Maybe…" he said.
King Izumi
Later that day, after finding the owner of the house
"Have you lived alone for long?" Sakura asked Momoru, the girl who owned the house.
"Only for seven years since the revolution." Momoru answered.
"'The revolution'?" Kurogane repeated questioningly.
"Yes. Our king was very powerful and kind, but he had lost most of his power by the time his son turned seven."
"How did he lose his powers? And what happened to his son, did he take over the kingdom?" Fai asked. It was obvious that he was interested since he had been a prince in his own country but was despised because he had been born a twin.
"The king, King Reed, lost his powers because he had a son. The Prince had been powerful since his birth and the succession of our kingdom goes from parent to child because when an heir is born the current ruler's powers slowly start to drain into them." Momoru explained.
"It normally takes at least twenty years for all of their power to be gone, but because the Prince was born with so much of his own power it sped up the process."
"Why did the Prince have so much power?" Mokona asked.
"He was born into the blood-line of Reed entirely. Most of the rulers only had a section of Reed's powers, but he had it all."
"What about the revolution?" Syaoran asked before anyone asked who Reed was.
"The King was too weak to protect the Prince and he was kidnapped. King Reed was killed and the Country was taken over by the current ruler King Izumi." She told him. No one else noticed, except for Kurogane, that when Momoru said that the King had been killed Syaoran had looked shocked and sad for a brief moment before looking down at his feet. "Did you ever find out who kidnapped the Prince, or what happened to him?" Sakura asked concerned.
"We were only able to find out who took him, a man named Fei wang Reed." She said his name with such distaste she almost didn't see their faces full of shock. "What's the matter?" she asked when Syaoran had gotten up and left with Kurogane hot on his trail.
Syaoran had gone out through the back door and Kurogane had followed.
"Why are you trying to hide everything?" he asked.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Syaoran said quietly looking away.
"I think you do know what I mean!" he snapped moving closer to Syaoran.
"I saw your reaction when that girl mentioned the former King! Why don't you just admit that you've been here before and knew the King and Prince?!" he was struggling to keep his voice down so that the others didn't hear what he was saying. By now he was fuming and couldn't understand why Syaoran had kept his past secret. Of course he had kept his life a secret until the other Syaoran had accidentally seen it in "The Book of Memories". Kurogane was about to continue with his questioning when then heard a scream from inside the house.
"What's the matter?!" Kurogane and Syaoran asked simultaneously.
"I almost forgot!" Momoru yelled over her shoulder as she ran from the room. Sakura and Mokona followed her worriedly before calling for Fai, Kurogane and Syaoran. When they were all in the small basement bedroom Momoru finally told them what she had almost forgotten.
"A whistle?" Fai asked.
"Why do you need a whistle?" Mokona asked.
"It's not just any whistle, my father gave it to me he used to use one like it to help the king. I took it off this morning when I went out because I didn't want the King's men to see today." The look Momoru had on her face could have made Kurogane sad if he wasn't so good at hiding his emotions.
"Why would they take it today only?" Mokona asked.
"Because today is the seventh anniversary of the day the Prince went missing."
"What's so special about this particular whistle?" Sakura questioned studying the beautiful red pattern intricately carved into the shining silver.
"This whistle was used by King Reed to find his son whenever he snuck out of the castle, the other one was kept by my father, though they switched before the revolution." She answered.
"What happened to the other one?" Syaoran asked.
"King Izumi has that one."
"If you could use that to find the Prince then how come he isn't here now?" Fai asked Momoru.
"It hasn't worked for seven years, since the Prince was kidnapped. I think he's somewhere where magic is blocked."