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Chapter 3
"Are you joking?" exploded Sakura. "Do you know what you're asking me to do?" She leapt up from her seat on the clouds and began pacing relentlessly. "If this isn't a dream and you're really offering me the chance to find my soul mate…you're taking me away from everything I know. Everyone I love and cherish. You're taking me away from everything that has become my world. How can you ask me to chose between what I love and finding my soul mate?" She paused as another thought came into her head.
"And I'll be the only one who knows it isn't unsinkable…I. Can. Not. Deal. With. That."
Dessy followed Sakura and laid a hand on her shoulder, trying to relax the agitated girl. "Well…Fae and I had to make a decision something like this too…" Sakura stopped and stared at Destiny. "What do you mean?" she asked, shakily. "We had to chose whether or not we wanted to fulfill this prophecy our mother heard about us or live out normal lives. How long ago was that Fae?"
Fate wrinkled her forehead. "Well we had to chose about…. 17 years after we were born so…1550? Maybe earlier?" "Anyways," continued Destiny "When we were born, our mother was told a prophecy by a local…shall we say prophet, about the two of us. It went something like this." She took a deep breath and recited a two lined prophecy
The elder will control the fate of billions and the younger shall hold destiny in her right palm.
"That's why Mom gave us these names. And then, when we were your age, we had to make that decision-you know, the one you're carping about making? The old fate and destiny offered us the choice to be fate and destiny. We'd live for an extremely long amount of time…like, right now, we're probably around 20ish in looks wise but we've been alive since 1530ish," Destiny shrugged as she tried to calculate. "And about the whole being the only who knows type thing? We both knew exactly when everyone we cared about was going to die…what you speak of is nothing."
"Anyways, we had to make the choice to become immortal, but our family and friends wouldn't." "Dessy almost didn't come. She was in love, with a man from King Henry the Eighth's court and she had no desire to leave him."
"But then he fancied someone else. End of story." Said Destiny abruptly. The point is, I chose to come. But before I did…I asked the old Destiny a whole bunch of jobs about what my job would entail…. so you can ask questions."
Sakura seemed a little less agitated that she wouldn't have to just make a split second decision. "Okay then…what happens if I fail? What happens if…his love for me isn't strong enough and I can't save him? I'll be stuck in a world where I know noone…I'll have no opportunities because women just weren't given chances like that back then…and then what will happen to my body in this time? Will I just fall asleep and never wake up?"
"Okay. Let's start with number one. If you, for whatever reason, fail to save him, then you will not be stuck in that time where you don't know anyone. We will bring you back and you will wake up tomorrow as if nothing has changed…except you will remember it all," Said Fate as she answered the first one.
"When you go, your entire body goes. Your parents will wake up tomorrow and, if you've succeeded, your bed will be empty. There will be a manhunt for your but they won't find you. But be careful there. If you should fail but get injured, your injury comes back. Mysterious injuries can be hard to explain."
Sakura bit her lip. "I still don't know. What decision I should make?" Fate shook her head. "You can't ask us. It has to be one you make on your own."
Sakura paced the room for a few more moments. "I love my family and friends…if I went back, I'd be an orphan and I'd have to start over again. But I can make more friends. And I can have a family with my soul mate."
She sighed. "It shouldn't be a hard choice. So I'll say this…before you send me…can you bring all my friends here? Amanda, Steph, Derrick, everyone…I'd like to see them so that I can say good bye in case I actually make it through the Titanic ordeal," she stalled, out of things to say. "So…can you? Please?"
"So you decided to go? We have to hear you say it."
Sakura nodded. "Very well…I will go back and try to save my soul mate's life."
Immediately both Destiny and Fate vanished. Sakura looked around, startled. "Where…" she started. "We went to go get your friends." Came Destiny's voice.
One by one came her friends, Amanda, followed immediately by her boyfriend Derrick, Steph and Kyle showed up simultaneously as did Ben and Emily. "Saku what's going on?" asked Steph, confused. "That substitute teacher from your history class showed up in my dream and said you needed to talk to me." There was a general murmur, indicating that that had happened with the rest of them.
"Guys…. this might not be what goes on but if it does I want you to know what actually happened," Sakura took a breath and continued. "Tomorrow when you guys wake up, you will hear news that I've disappeared from my house, from my bed."
Everyone looked confused. "But Sakura…this is just a dream right?" said Emily, confused. Ben put her arm around his girlfriend. He had always been intuitive, and that showed now. "There are dreams," he said deliberately, "And then there are dreams. Right?"
Sakura nodded. "Yes, Ben's right. This may be a dream-that is, we're asleep but it's very real. Fate and Destiny" she jerked her head towards the two figures standing in the shadows "told me that my soul mate died on the Titanic. I'm going back to try and save him, and then I'll live with him there if I succeed."
Her green eyes filled with tears. "But I just had to say good bye to you guys first." She dissolved into tears and slumped to the ground. Amanda, Emily and Steph converged around their friend. "Shhh Saku it's okay," whispered Steph, tears in her own brown-gold eyes. The boyfriends came over to the group hug and wrapped their arms around the grieving girls, their own eyes misty at the thought of losing a close friend.
"Sakura." Destiny spoke up quietly. "It's time. We have to erase your old fate and destiny at the same time as we open the portal…and that takes time." Sakura nodded; pink hair falling over her face. She got up in the middle of the group and gave everyone another hug before stepping over to where Fae and Dessy stood. "I'm ready."
Fate and Destiny took each other's hand and immediately began to glow, their eyes especially. "Temporarily," intoned the two sisters "the fate and destiny of Haruno Sakura is in her own hands." There was a flash of light and Sakura immediately felt heavy, as though a burden had been placed upon her.
Fate and Destiny released each other's hand and both held their hands out in front of them. "Open the portal!" thundered the two women.
Sakura swallowed as a small void opened in front of her. She could see, in the very distance, a small room, Victorian style, canopy over the bed and all. She swallowed and turned back to her friends, as her hair was blown by the wind within the void. "I love you guys…" she whispered. "Good bye."
As she stepped into the tunnel, Destiny spoke up. "Sakura whatever you do, do not look back. It will just make it harder to go on." She nodded…
And stepped into the tunnel.
Every single step she took, took her farther away from what she knew and closer to the unknown. Halfway through the tunnel she stopped. If she went back now…
"She's not going to…do you think?" said Fate incredulously. "I think, Fae, that even if I hadn't told her not to look back she still would. She's strong…I think she can make it even if she does."
Destiny's warning rang in her ears. But she didn't care…she had to see her friends one last time. She turned her head slowly, and saw, at the other end of the tunnel, her friends. "Tell my mom I love her…" she yelled. Her friends nodded and waved.
She turned back around and faced the room again. However, as she did, the wind that had been blowing past her face suddenly picked up speed and intensity, scoring her face and blowing her hair straight back with almost hurricane force winds. As she took a step forward, she realized just what Dessy had meant. Seeing her friends had cast doubt into her choice and the wind was responding appropriately. It was trying to push her back from where she had come.
And she was, stubbornly, refusing to comply.
She took one struggling step after another, making her way slowly towards the bedroom. And then suddenly, she was there. She took one final look backwards at her friends who were all merely specks in the distance. "I love you all!" she yelled over the wind. She turned back and before the wind kicked up even more, stepped through the portal on the other side…
If anyone looking in the window of that particular London townhouse, it would look as if the pink haired girl had dropped out of nowhere onto the canopied bed where she lay very still.
A/N-There you go…the next chapter of 'To Save A Life'. Read and Review!