: INSANE ADVENTURES
Chapter 02: A Whole New World
The lullaby haunted the silence. On the grass, a group of travelers were lying unconsciously. Birds chirped their way towards them, and one sat on Syaoran's head.
"Look!"
"What?"
"Onii-chan! This stuffed plushie look kawaii!"
Sakura was the first to wake up. She sat up slowly, and stretched her arms up as she yawned. As she opened one eye, she saw a little girl in front of her. "Hoee!"
"AHHHHHHH!!!" The little girl who seemed to be the eight years old, screamed very loud, loud, loud with all her might that might scatter someone's eardrum someday. The girl ran away from Sakura and hid behind the boy who looked three years older than her.
"Eh, you're a little girl. Sorry for scaring you!" She scratched her hair and sweatdropped.
The boy thrusted the katana in front of Sakura. "Who are you all? Are you all aliens or something?"
"Noo, we're not really aliens, honestly. We're a group of students from Tomoeda Elementary School..."
"Tomoeda? What's that?" The boy's gray eyes has bored into Sakura's emerald eyes.
"Hoeee... You never heard of it?" Sakura asked, feeling stupid. She looked at the surroundings around her. She was in some kind of a majestic garden, with flowers, plants, bushes, and trees everywhere. Butterflies were flapping their beautiful wings to fly through the air. Birds were perched on branches of many trees. What's most amazing is that alot of variety in garden were unlike those in Japan. She has never seen those varieties, never in her life... "My, what a beautiful garden!" She was engrossed in the astounding beauty of the garden.
"You're in our family's garden. Then all of you are illegal trespassers!"
"What?" Sakura began to feel uncomfortable with the straight-forward talking boy. The boy has long shoulder-length brown hair tied to a red ribbon, and is fair-skinned, which is a wonder he looks cute. Even the gray-teal eyes contributed to his cuteness factor. He was the same age as Sakura's.
The girl tugged the boy's red hakama. "I think she's tired. You know, I think she's probably a fairy! You should have see a bubble-thingy felling from the sky a moment ago!" She exclaimed, with what a cute innocence she have on! She have same hair color and eye color like her brother, but her eyes are definitely more shiny. She wore a purple kimono with alot of white flowers embroidery, and her hair was set in an one messy bun.
"Just be quiet, you know I don't trust strangers,"
"You always tell me to be quiet, Onii-chan! Just get to know them better so you can trust them!" Lirime stomped her brother's foot, receiving an 'Ouch!' sound from him. "He he... I don't think all of you are illegal trespassers! We apologize we forgot to say our formal introductions, travelers. I'm Himawari Lirime, and this is my brother, Himawari Imotou. We are from royal blood line. In this country where we are now is called "Karimia". Pleased to meet you all!" Lirime grinned and bowed. Even though she was just eight years old, she still speak so mature.
The day brightened for Sakura. Now she returned to her usual optimistic self. "Thank you, it's nice to meet you too, Himawari-san!"
"You don't have to call me Himawari-san. Just call me Lirime-chan instead!"
"Okay, sure! I'm Sakura. Kinomoto Sakura!" She reached her hand out, and there, two girls exchanged handshakes. Imotou sighed, half-glad for her sister to have a new friend. He sheathed his katana and proceeded to walk towards a group of unconscious people. He kneeled down and then poked all of them with a stick. In the background, Sakura and Lirime sweatdropped.
"What happened to them, by the way?" Imotou continued to poke. "Did they got drunk?"
"Ah!" A memory striked Sakura. "We were in King Penguin Park, and all of the sudden there was this weird dizzy sensation. We fell into unconsciousness- and there we are. How did we get here then?" Alot of question marks were around Sakura.
"King Penguin Park?" Lirime said. "It's a place with alot of penguins?"
"Nope, it's just a playground," Sakura answered.
"Ah someone's finally waking up," Imotou stared at the brown-haired boy who was opening his eyes slowly...
It was just a moment after Syaoran checked the surroundings around him, he started a sudden outburst, "WHAT THE HECK! WHERE THE HECK ARE WE?! WHY THE HECK DID WE FELL INTO UNCONSCIOUSNESS?! HOW THE HECK DID WE GET HERE?! WHAT THE-"
Imotou whacked Syaoran on the head using his scabbard. "Oh for gosh sake, stop repeating 'the heck' phrase!" He rolled his eyes.
Syaoran gave a deadly glare to Imotou, but the samurai boy wasn't affected.
"Looks like my cousin has met his match," Meiling laughed.
"Meiling-chan! You're awake!" Sakura exclaimed. "Are you okay?"
"Aye aye, I'm okay. Thanks for worrying,"
Sakura turned her head to face Syaoran. "What about you Syaoran-kun?" This has made him blush in different shades. "YesIamokay,"
"Huh?" Confused Chibi Sakura tilted her head to the side. "What did you say?"
Syaoran lowered his head down. "Umm,"
"He is okay." Imotou answered it for Syaoran.
"Oh, thanks!" Sakura smiled. "I'm glad Syaoran-kun is okay,"
Syaoran smiled slighty- and felt a little jealousy towards Imotou... for getting a smile from Sakura's. He sent a deadly glare once more time at him, but Imotou doesn't get affected again. Meiling, who was watching the three of them, giggled.
Later...
- - - - - - guest room - - - - - -
"Tomoyo-chan! Kero-chan! You both are awake!" Sakura exclaimed with a concern in her voice. "I was worried about you two, because you both have been sleeping for an entire day yesterday,"
"SAKURA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kero launched himself onto Sakura's hair. "WHERE ARE MY PANCAKES!" Sakura sweatdropped.
"Don't worry I'm fine, Sakura-chan," Tomoyo grinned and sat up slowly on the futon. "So... where are we?"
"We're in Karimia Country. We've been to another dimension, but I don't know how that happened,"
"I see! Also, was Syaoran still unconscious?"
"Oh, that!" Sakura pointed her index finger at Syaoran by the wall, who was sleeping in his futon. "Well a long story... He has woken up before you, but somehow fell into unconsciousness again..."
- - - - - - flashback a hour ago - - - - - -
"Ah, you haven't found a home in this country? You can stay with us, we have some guestrooms for you all!" Lirime offered, feeling generous.
"Thank you so much!" Sakura bowed gratefully.
Poor Syaoran and Imotou had to carry Tomoyo all the way to Himawari Mansion, her arms around their necks as support. As Meiling followed along behind them, Syaoran couldn't help but think if his cousin was actually keeping a secret from him. Lirime opened the frontdoor for them to enter, and standing on the hallway was...
"Eriol-san!" Sakura gasped. The name of the four-eyed creep... got Syaoran's full attention.
"YOU!!!" Syaoran you-ed at the reincarnation of Clow Reed. "WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING HERE?!" (Which Imotou has to add while shaking his head, "The heck phrase again," )
"My dear descendant! Long time no see!" Eriol smiled. He was the same usual creepy, sadistic, four-eyed Eriol.
"Hey you, carry her for me." Syaoran said to the air, but this was directly for Imotou alone.
"Okay," Imotou answered dully.
Amber-eyed boy lets himself loose away from Tomoyo, and poor Imotou fell on the floor with Tomoyo on top on his back. (Which Imotou has to add while his eyes are swirly, "How did this lady get so much weight although she looks thin?")
Syaoran unsheathed his sword and begins to slash at Eriol's sides, but the reincarnation of Clow Reed dodged expertly. Syaoran kept slashing forward while Eriol dodged backward. Eriol send a glance at the unknown person behind him.
"Okay!" Came from an unknown person. He or she dropped something on the hallway.
With a creepy usual smile on Eriol's face, it irked Syaoran alot.. "YOU..." Syaoran you-ed again at Eriol, not aware of the thing that was dropped on the hallway floor... As he stepped on it, he tripped. The world soon blacked out for Syaoran as he fell.
"Yes, success!" The "unknown person" was Nakuru. She jumped up and down like an excited ball. "The tripping-soap prank was a wonder!"
"Yes." Eriol pushed the bridge of his glasses up. His glasses flashed, giving a creepy eerily look.
- - - - - - flashback ended - - - - - -
"What a funny story!" Tomoyo commented. "Syaoran-kun sure hates Hiiragizawa-san alot,"
"Sure it really is," Sakura sighed.
"So how's Meiling?"
"Meiling's awake and feeling fine! Oh, that reminds me. My Clow Book! Let's see if they're in my backpack..." She digged her way into her pink-colored backpack and her fingers touched something cool and hard. "I got it!" She lifted the book away from the backpack. As she flipped through the pages, her face reflected full of horror.
"What's wrong, Sakura-chan?"
"..." Silence filled the air. All is quiet.. until Kero-chan noticed that the Clow Book felt empty, "HOLY CANDY, IN THE NAME OF SWEETS, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CLOW CARDS!"
"They disappeared! Except Windy card and Dash card!" Sakura replied with an aghast expression. "I feel Deja vu..."
"WHAT?! IN THE NAME OF CREAMPUFFS, THEY DISAPPEARED LIKE THAT?!" Kero-chan roared. WHACK.
"I'm trying to sleep, you stuffed plushie!" Syaoran had whacked the Great Almighty Kero-chan on the head with a pillow, and then returned to sleep to catch some ZZZ's.
"So he was just sleeping, not being unconscious like that..." Tomoyo sweatdropped.
"So do you know them, Hiiragizawa-sama?" Lirime served four teas on the table. In the room were Meiling, Eriol, Imotou and Lirime sitting 'round the tea table, on their cushions as seats.
"Yes, I do." Eriol replied as he took a sip of the tea.
"You sounds like you just accepted someone to be your wife," Meiling snickered. "The 'Yes, I do' one." Eriol nodded with an usual creepy smile.
"Has all of you heard some rumor lately?" Imotou started a sudden question that was very unexpected to everyone in this room.
"Hmm?" Meiling raised an eyebrow.
"There's this rumor that some people in this town we're living now has lost their voices,"
"Really? Really?" Lirime exclaimed with curiousity rising up in her face.
"Yes, it really is," Imotou grinned and gave a noggin on her head. "But I can't let you get involved in this dangerous matter,"
"'Nii-chan! You're saying this because I'm just a little kid!" Lirime puffed.
"Haha," Imotou laughed then returned to being business-like. "So, do you both know how did their voices got lost?"
Meiling looked at Eriol expectantly. Suddenly Eriol's glasses flashed. "If my calculation is true, then it could probably be..."
"CREAMPUFFS!"
"There are none in this world, I'm afraid," Sakura sweatdropped. Kero-chan was sitting in the corner alone, with dark atmosphere around him, muttering he's in this stupid world with no sweets.
"But, I did brought some sweets along!" Tomoyo exclaimed gleefully. "I knew Kero-chan wouldn't live without them,"
Kero-chan eventually cheered up and began dancing around in circle. "Yes! Tomoyo, you're the savior of my life! I thought it's the end of my world without sweets here!"
"Here it is, it's cookies!" The amethyst-eyed girl handed a plastic bag with alot of delicious-looking cookies in it to the happy Kero-chan.
"Yay!" Kero-chan begins to munch one of the cookies.
Sakura flipped through the pages in the Clow Book desperately. "How did it happen?" She thought as she tries to replay what happened recently.
That morning at the King Penguin Park...
Falling into sudden unconsciousness...
Oh that.
"Right!" Sakura exclaimed. "Before I fell into unconsciousness, there were those many sparkly things. I believe they are Clow Cards. Somehow, I feel they were begging for me to not black out,"
"Oh, there must be a reason," Tomoyo nodded. "Meiling-chan was the one who did a sudden move on pushing us towards the swings, and then now... We entered this world here."
"Then... Meiling-chan must be hiding something. And it's a weird coincidence meeting Eriol-kun and Naruku-chan here,"
"Correct,"
"If Eriol-kun and Naruku-chan are here... So that means they and Meiling-chan are hiding a secret from us."
"Right!"
Lirime entered in and said that breakfast will be ready soon. After that, she dumped water on Syaoran's head (Meiling's effective method of waking a sleepy Syaoran) from the pail she was holding, and dashed out quickly from the room before the soon-to-be-volcanic-erupted boy wakes up.
"AGAIN!" Syaoran stood up, an angry expression on his face and shook his fist towards the ceiling. (Ceiling: Why are you shaking your fist at me? I didn't wake you up, I swear!) In the background a volcano was erupting angrily equaling Syaoran's anger. "I had a dream of eating delicious food in my home... and then there, I woke up being splashed with the water,"
"..." Sakura, Tomoyo, and Kero-chan sweatdropped.
"Weird-o," Kero-chan commented.
This sent Syaoran turn his head around to glare at Sakura's guardian, "What did you say, stuffed plushie?" He punched his fist on his palm.
"Nothing. . ."
- - - - - -
After the breakfast, everyone decided to look for a culprit who stole voices that was rumored to be in Fosaa Forest by now. The forest was full of trees in different kinds; and so does the flowers and plants too. Unfortunately, Lirime wasn't able to join because of Imotou's over-protectiveness as a brother, so Nakuru volunteered to watch over her.
"What kind of a "person" that steals voice?" Sakura asked, gripping her wand as she moved her way on the jagged path in the forest.
"I don't know," Kero-chan rubbed his chin; his face clearly shows that he was in deep thinking. "But it does sound familiar... the one about stealing voices... But why can't I try to remember it?"
"Maybe eating sweets make you forget something," Syaoran commented. He wore in his usual Li traditional outfit.
"Brat!" Kero-chan gave a kung fu kick at the boy's cheek. Thankfully, he was in gratitude of his kung fu teacher, The Dash.
"What was that for, you stuffed plushie!" He grabbed the guardian's tail and glared at Kero-chan.
Kero-chan bit Syaoran's finger, which send him to yell out a loud "Ouch!" Sakura's guardian finally escaped from the boy's clutches.
"YOU!" Syaoran you-ed at Kero-chan and began chasing after him.
"Catch me if you can!" Kero-chan made a funny face at Syaoran and then proceeded to run away, the theme playing, "Catch Me, Catch Me, Catch You!"
"Do they always argue alot?" Imotou asked.
"Yes, they are. Syaoran acts like a little kid really!" Meiling laughed.
Eriol chuckled and Tomoyo, as usual, videotaped Syaoran chasing after Kero-chan. As the walking continues, Sakura spotted an aura behind the big oak tree. She shh-ed at everyone trailing behind her, and pointed her index finger towards the certain oak tree, as to say there might be a culprit hiding.
"So-" Kero-chan started. Everyone made a 'shh' motion on him.
Unfortunately, the culprit heard it and appeared before them.
"THAT IS-" Kero-chan started again without receiving 'shh' motion from everyone this time, "VOICE CARD!"
A/N: Ohhh cliff-hanger! Eriol and Nakuru makes their appearance! Hope you like my OCs, Imotou and Lirime. XD So, all of you knows this plot probably; and you know how many cards is it then too? nn Hope you don't mind the OOCness, because it makes the story funny. Be ready for next chappie, it'll sure to make you laugh! Thank you for reviewing!
Preview for next chapter:
"Then the culprit is the Voice Card. From the rumor that Himawari-san mentioned... If someone sings horribly, it will lure the Voice Card. Then, that card will steal the voice. For some reason, the victims are all boys. So, the Voice steals only boy's voice who sings horribly,"
Upon hearing the explanation from the Clow Reed's reincarnation himself, the girls and guardian turned to look at Syaoran and Imotou, then to Eriol back. Three boys knew what it was coming.
Eriol said, "Me and my big mouth."