The Nightmare
"I cannot wait to see your ring!" Tomoyo squealed with excitement. "I wished I could have taped, it would have been a beautiful moment," she mumbled.
I rolled my eyes, "So when are you coming back from Hong Kong? I miss you so much." I said. Tomoyo was in Hong Kong visiting Meiling, and it has been two weeks now.
"Probably in another week, I miss you too and so does Meiling." She answered. "We are so excited for you. So when is the wedding? I already got an idea for a wedding dress too. You will let me design your wedding dress, Sakura?"
I sighed. "First slow down Tomoyo," I instructed. "The wedding date, we are not sure of but it will be after my birthday. And yes I would love for you to design my wedding dress." I heard squeal in joy.
"Yes in another three months, lots of time to prepare." Tomoyo was more excited than me.
"Tomoyo..."
"And the flowers they have to be cherry blossoms and..."
"TOMOYO!" I yelled, loud enough to get her to stop.
"Sorry Sakura, but I have to go, Meiling is waiting for me at the plaza and I don't want her to wait too long, so we will talk more about the wedding later. Bye Sakura."
"Bye Tomoyo," I sighed in relief when I heard the dial tone. If it wasn't for Meiling, then we would have been on the phone for ages.
Syaoran wasn't at home tonight because he had to stay in late at the Li Tower in Tokyo, to sought out some business things. I felt a bit lonely as I changed into my pink and white pyjamas and took out the Sakura cards. I placed them facing up on the bed.
"What you looking at?" Kero popped out of nowhere and dropped some of the cards at the side of my bed.
"Ah!" I screamed.
"What! What I do?" Kero questioned looking confused.
"You scared me, that's what you did!" I yelled as I picked up the Sakura cards off the floor and placed them back into the book.
"So," Kero said. "You're marrying the kid, huh?" Kero gave me an evil glance.
"Yea, I told you already, what's you point?" I glanced back.
"Well I wanna know..." He paused. "What I am trying to say..."
"Spit it out Kero!" I was tired and wanted to sleep.
"Okay okay! Well what's the wedding cake going to be? Because you know how much I love Strawberry cake. No wait, Chocolate cake but..."
I rolled my eyes. "Good night Kero," I said.
"Hear me out Sakura." He pleaded
I threw a pillow at him, "Good Night."
"Fine," he grumbled as he flew to his bed near my desk. "Good Night."
He said something else but it was too low for me to hear. I closed my eyes and tried to get some sleep. I had a big day tomorrow, we're going to call our parents and inform them about our engagement. I think my dad would take it perfectly fine as he always liked Syaoran and treated him like his own son, and Yelen would also take it like Tomoyo did, jumping with joy. Even though Yelen was stern and serious, she had a child-like side as well. Touya, on the other hand wouldn't like the idea at all because he never really like Syaoran at all in my perspective. Syoaran also said he was going to take me somewhere special and I couldn't wait. I finally dozed off into sleep.
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I was in a red room with a small light on the ceiling, it wasn't really clear but the room was tiny about the size of my bathroom. There was no door or window and I started to get scared. I was wearing an outfit that Tomoyo once made me when I use to capture Clow cards. I had my staff in my hands but no Sakura cards. I started to hyperventilate, I felt so alone. Then I heard a childlike giggle.
"Hehehe..."It echoed.
"Who's there?" I said in a hoarse whisper. I had a frog in my throat.
The giggling continued but then died down.
After a while, which felt like hours, I heard another voice but it was man who spoke due to the fact it had masculine tone.
"Are you scared... Sakura?" He asked.
At first I didn't answer, there was sweat dripping down my forehead.
"Answer me!" He ordered with authority.
I trembled violently and dropped my staff, "Yes," I said in a weak voice. I didn't want the voice to know that I was afraid of him but my body wouldn't allow me to take control in what I was thinking in my mind.
He chuckled. "Now listen to me closely, Sakura."He said softly. "You will do what I say or you can say good bye to all your loved ones. And you wouldn't want that, do you?"
I finally took control of my body and emotions and replied, "No, I wouldn't want that."
"Ah, I see you are no longer scared." He pointed out. "I see you are much stronger than I thought, I underestimated you." He said the last part quietly, mainly speaking to himself.
There was a long pause. I looked around the red wall to see if there was any way out. I could feel depression creeping up on me to take control of my body again.
"There is no way out," he broke out, which startled me. Then suddenly the wall adjacent to me had a white screen that appeared out of nowhere.
"Now I want you to give me all your cards," he ordered.
"No!" I said without a second thought.
"We'll see about that." Then on the screen appeared a black and white image of Syaoran being chained to a wall. His mouth was glowing, which I thought straight away was magic. His eyes look like they were a broken glass filled with pain.
I covered my mouth in shock and felt warm tears start to roll down my face, he looked so fragile and it traumatized my heart.
"You wouldn't want this to happen to your fiancé, do you?" the voice said.
"Syaoran." I whispered.
"I didn't hear you," he said amused.
The next thing was horrifying, a stroke of lightning shocked Syaoran, shaking his body in pain. It looked like he was screaming but the magic surrounding his mouth prevented that.
"NO!" I screamed. "Don't hurt him!" I pleaded. I started banging against the screen but the lightning continued. "Please!" I screamed again. The screen went white again and Syaoran disappeared. There was a long silence and I continued to sob. "Syoaran" I whispered.
"See I didn't want to do that to you, little Sakura," the voice broke the silence. "Now, those Sakura cards?"
I sniffed and wiped the tears off my face. I felt a light come from my body and I cried in pain. It felt like I was being stabbed. Once the light came out from me, I fell on the floor feeling weak. The light was the Sakura book.
"See that wasn't so hard." He chuckled. I then saw a hand appear from the white screen and snatched the book. The hand and the book disappeared in the white screen. "Well now that I have the Sakura Cards, you are no use to me and your fiancé, Syaoran. So I'll let enjoy the rest of the show." I could hear the smirk in his voice.
The room became clearer and Syaoran appeared on the screen again. "You said you wouldn't hurt Syaoran again, if I gave you the Sakura cards." I said in a weak but loud enough voice, every word hurting my body.
"Sakura, I never said that. I only said if you didn't give the cards then I would have to hurt your fiancé. You should listen next time." He laughed. "Enjoy the show Sakura and by the way there is little surprise after I leave." Just after he finished speaking another stroke of lightning hit Syoaran.
"No!" I cried. "Stop please," I pleaded. I closed my eyes and started to cry again, when will this nightmare end? I was on my knees listening to the continuing of lightning strikes that kept aiming at Syaoran. I then felt liquid on my hands and smelt blood. I opened my eyes to see that the red walls were melting. It was blood, I screamed in fear but not just because I was covered in blood but that Syaoran had stopped trembling when he was being shocked and I could no longer see his eyes.
He was dead.
