Prophecy Beta

Disclaimer: I don't own Card Captor Sakura.

"When darkness comes,

And all warriors are down,

Three heroes will come and stand.

With their mighty elemental strengths,

They will banish the enemy once more,

Their second victory of their prophecy…"

Chapter 3School

Sakura stood in awe as she saw Yukito shoot his target in the bullseye. It was obvious that he was the best in archery. Toya was next to Sakura, looking bored.

As the next row of archers came forward, Yukito came along to his friend and the Card Captor.

"Oh, Sakura! What're you doing here so early?" the rabbit asked, waving at Toya.

The girl replied boldly, "Because I wanted to see you shoot! You're really good, Yukito!"

"Nooo, you just came at the last minute, stuffing down your food as you usually do, little monster," Toya teased. When Yukito turned around to see if it was his turn again at archery, Sakura kicked her brother in the shins. With her rollerblades.

Suddenly, a crash was heard and a little boy shot out of nowhere, landing right in the target area face first. Before the archers could stop releasing their arrows, several flew toward the male. The boy continued to remain on the ground, the arrows luckily landing around the lad.

The coach yelled, "What're you doing there! You could've been killed!"

Then an amber-eyed girl fell out of some bushes on the other side of the school fence. She looked around frantically for something that seemed important to her. Another girl in a braid flew out of the bushes then, hitting Amber Eyes with her upraised hands.

"I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!" the braided one cried.

Awkward and a bit of freaked-out silence came.

Noticing that everyone had a confused expression, the screaming female slowly went back into the bushes, waving her arms around (which hit Amber Eyes again).

"You didn't see anything…" she whispered. The girl melted back into the greenery.

The amber-eyed lass shook her head to clear it and glared at the bush. She kicked it, snapping, "That's a bit hard to forget after a show like that! Moron…oh. Hi, Jackie! Woooo! You flew that far? You should join the circus!"

The boy in the target field groaned and sat up. He stood up and took a deep breath.

"Isn't that boy from your school?" Yukito asked Sakura, gazing curiously at Jackie's uniform.

Sakura replied, "Yes, but…I never saw him before."

Then everyone winced when the little boy bellowed, "I AM GOING TO KICK YOUR SORRY ASSES ONCE I GET OUT OF HERE! DAMMIT, I COULD'VE DIED SHOOTING OUT A BIKE LIKE THAT!"

"C-Colorful language…" Toya gaped.

The braided girl shot out of the bushes again and ran away, screaming, "EVERYBODY, RUUUUUUUN! HACKER-BOY'S GONNA KILL US ALL!"

With that, she disappeared into the high school. The amber-eyes female sighed and followed after her friend.

"Isn't that uniform…from our school? And why are they wearing the boy's one, though?" Yukito asked. He seemed a little startled from all the noise.

Everyone turned toward the cursing boy. However, he was far away, running to the elementary school.

Yup, everyone knew this was going to be one, long day.

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Jackie stuck his tongue out from the pain in his neck. Ever since that fall, his neck felt like it was twisted. WHOSE STUPID IDEA WAS IT TO SEE WHO COULD FLY THE FARTHEST AFTER CRASHING INTO A BIKE RAILING WITH BIKES? Oh, yeah…it was his.

The hacker-boy massaged his hurt throat and glanced at his math worksheet. He winced. It was so easy, it almost hurt. No…wait, that was just his neck. Jackie sighed.

It was easy enough telling the principal that he was the new transfer student. It was easy enough to tell the teacher that his neck was fine (not), and it was easy enough to sit in his chair half-sleeping through all the lectures that he had already learned. What was hard were the stares that the Card Captor cast gave him. It was only natural for Sakura to tell her two friends, Li and Tomoyo, about the incident in the morning. However, Li had sensed something unnatural about Jackie and told the others so. Now, the Chinese boy (Li) was glaring at the back of the hacker-boy's head and Sakura gave nervous glances from Li to Jackie. Tomoyo just minded her own business.

'I wonder if staring at a person for a long period of time is considered harassment,' Jackie thought unhappily. He twirled his pencil around and looked out the window, over the trees. A wind blew over and instead of its sweet coolness, something hit him hard in the eyes and ears.

Jackie, for a moment, saw complete darkness. Then he spotted a dim light that barely illuminated a book that a man was holding. Something creaked and the leaves rustled.

A deep voice chanted,

"Come to me, come to me,

The darkness shall roam free.

A web of space and grime,

Dead the Father Time.

A king of ice and knave

Shall put heroes in their graves.

Come and consume this sphere,

And it will become the endless nadir."

The creaking noise crashed and clattered like metal and instead of leaves rustling, something groaned and fell, a huge trunk rolling across the ground. A blue light formed a huge circle. Air screamed as it was sucked away. Finally, a huge, massive globe covered the blue circle's borders, cutting off the light. Complete darkness.

Jackie felt himself fall and careen into something cool and hard. Someone cried out in shock and metal scrapped across the floor. The hacker-boy opened his eyes and saw a world of blur. Someone handed him his glasses.

The boy put them on and looked around. Some of the kids were standing to see if Jackie was alright. Others were still in their seats, too shocked to move. The teacher was squatting next to Jackie.

"Do you need to go to the nurse?" he asked.

Jackie smiled and shook his head. "Naw, it's okay. I just fell asleep from boredom and ended up falling off the chair."

The teacher's eye twitched and whacked the upside of the hacker-boy's head.

"Get back to work, everyone!" he yelled with irritation.

Smiling feebly, Jackie went back onto his seat and looked out the window again. Was it just him or did the wind just send him a message? The boy looked down at his desk and turned his head to the side. He saw Li looking at him with apprehension. Jackie simply grinned at the Chinese boy and went back to his work.

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Jennie twitched as she glared at her quiz paper. Someone, SOMEONE, in this room was talking. No one noticed it as they continued on their work and even the teacher didn't say anything. She was walking around like a vulture, too, making sure that no one was cheating on their pop quiz. Erica didn't hear it either as she was speeding away, her pen whizzing here and there. Jennie tried hard not to listen to the noise, but it was hard…especially when "they" were talking about her.

"Is that her? The one with the long braid?"

"Yes, it seems like it."

"Do you think she can hear us?"

"Well, after all she is one of the three to defeat that new annoyance."

"She seems too scrawny."

"What's her name?"

"I don't know."

"I'll ask her. HEY, HUMA—"

"WOULD YOU ALL JUST SHUT UP ALREADY?" Jennie shouted angrily, standing up.

The female turned around toward the sound and saw only plants on the window sill.

"Excuse me?" the teacher said indignantly. Apparently, she was talking before Jennie had so graciously interrupted.

"What're you doing?" Erica hissed.

"Um…" Jennie drifted. "You see…I had a fight with this friend, right, and I keep replaying that fight in my head. I couldn't concentrate so I finally…uh…screamed it out."

The teacher's mouth turned into a straight line. "And do you actually expect me to believe that?"

"Uh…"

Abruptly, Erica raised her hand. The teacher looked at her and the amber-eyed girl spoke. "Um…she's right. Yesterday, she had a fight over the phone and I heard it all. Jennie was like, 'SCREW YOU!' and her friend was like, 'SCREW YOU!' and then Jennie said, 'WOULD YOU SHUT UP ALREADY?' I should know. I'm her…sister. Yeah. Sister."

Everyone looked at the two girls as if they were crazy. The teacher coughed and told everyone to go back to work. Sighing, Jennie sat back down. Erica just smiled at the still staring students.

Jennie slapped her "sister" on the arm. "Will you stop doing that? People'll think you're crazy!"

Erica stuck her tongue out and whispered, "As if you didn't look crazy enough at the school yard!"

The braided-hair girl rolled her eyes and looked over to the plants on the window.

Even though Jennie thought she was half-hallucinating when she had heard the plants talk, Jennie still whispered out, "You speak one word and I'll throw you into the Home Ec room's stove."

That seemed to work because the plants didn't say another word after that. Toya, however, already had his suspicions.

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A/N: Bwah. Now it gets interesting…Is Jennie going crazy? Is Jackie starting to go into shock? Or did he hit his head too hard in the archery grounds? WHO KNOOOOWS!

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