1.1 Chapter 10
"Where… where am I? Syaoran… Syaoran where are you?"
Sakura was floating in a bright light. She couldn't see anything. Just a bright white light all around her.
"Sakura! Sakura, I'm here!" Syaoran appeared next to her. They could barely see the outline of each other.
"Syaoran! I'm scared!" She reached out and grabbed his hand. "Hold on to me! Don't let go!"
They could actually feel themselves changing as they flew through the time portal. They hugged close to each other. Suddenly, they looked above them and saw a red light. The end of the portal.
"Sakura! Hold on! We're almost there!" His voice sounded deeper than usual. They were flung out of the portal at high speeds. They were flung into the air and Sakura landed on Syaoran on the grass. "Ow… That hurt… Syaoran, are you alright?" Sakura asked. She couldn't see him. It was very dark. "I'll be fine… as soon as you get off my back…" "Oh. Sorry!" She blushed, though no one could see it and she quickly jumped up. She felt… different. Syaoran got up and asked, "Where are we?"
"The park, just seven years in the future." It was Mia.
Sakura tried to see her, but it was still too dark. "Mia, I can't see you, or anything. What happened? Why is everything so dark?"
"Here, maybe this will help." It was Tomoyo, or at least it sounded a little like her. Suddenly, a bright light appeared, revealing everything around them. Tomoyo had cast fire and a ball of fire was in her hands, lighting the area around her. "TOMOYO! You're… you're… older! Mia! You too!" Sakura stated. Indeed, now Tomoyo and Mia looked like they were 17 or 18. The dresses they were wearing were now elegant looking gowns. They were taller, but they still looked like Tomoyo and Mia. Tomboy's hair still went down to her shoulders, her face still was rather cute and child like, her skin was still a pale peach. "Well, we're not the only ones! Take a look at yourselves!" Tomoyo told them.
Sakura and Syaoran looked at each other and jumped back in shock. They looked at themselves and at each other in absolute astonishment. Syaoran was the first to speak. "Sakura! You look… umm…" He didn't know what to say. She looked more beautiful than ever. She had gained a foot and a half in height, and her hair and had grown down to her hip. She was very slight. Her face… it was more beautiful than he could imagine. Her lips… her kawaii little nose… they were all beautiful. But when he looked into her eyes… he could just stare into them forever. Her face still had that look of child- like innocence that he always saw in her. She was dressed in a variation of her Elementary school uniform. She had her hat, the long sleeved shirt, and a pleated white skirt that went down to her knees. "You look…." He couldn't finish it. He just sat there and blushed. He didn't know what to say. His heart felt like it was going to jump out of his chest.
Sakura didn't fare much better. Li was very tall and slender. He was at least a foot taller than her. Hi hair looked as untamed as ever. It wasn't any longer, but it was just better. He was dressed in a green long sleeved shirt and a pair of dark denim jeans. His face was incredibly handsome. Especially his eyes. She almost melted just looking at them. He was the most handsome person she had ever seen. "And you look… umm… very… uhh…" She blushed too. Her heart was going a million miles an hour.
Tomoyo laughed. "Come on you two. There will be time for flirting later!" They looked at her and veins popped on their foreheads. "WE WERE NOT FLIRTING!" They screamed in unison. "Uh-huh! Sure you weren't! Come on Romeo and Juliet! We gotta go!" They glared at her angrily. Then they stared at each other, blushed, and hurried along, following them. After a minute of walking over what seemed like eternal darkness around them, with only Tomoyo's fire lighting the area around them, Syaoran asked, "Why is everything so dark?" Mia turned around, "Well, partly because it's night, partly because of a spell Sadin's minions put a spell that partly blocked the sun. And with less sunlight, the moon doesn't light up, so at night, it's always pitch black. "That's horrible!" Sakura said, still getting used to her older sounding voice. "Say," she wondered, "where are we going to first?" Tomoyo turned around. The light of her fire was lighting all the features of her face. They could see she was still optimistic looking with the big smile on her face, despite the world being flung into terror, watching her best friends being killed, and all that has gone wrong. "We're heading for the main village of the mages." Mia added in, "It's where the Tomeda Elementary School used to be." "USED to be?!" "Yes, Sakura. USED to be. The tuxedos tore it down shortly after their arrival. Since it was so big and open, we decided it would be the perfect place to set up a new village. But first, we must walk through the cemetery." Sakura's face went pale. "D-d-d-did you say cemetery?! OH NO! It's probably full of ghosts! I hate ghosts!" She clung to Syaoran's chest. "Please! Let's take a detour! I can't stand cemeteries!" Syaoran looked down at her. "It's alright Sakura. I'll hold your hand as we walk through if you like." Sakura looked up and blushed. "Well… I guess if YOU will walk me through…" Mia pushed her way through some vines wrapped around some trees and walked through them. "Alright, we're at the cemetery. Let's move out. But be quiet. Tuxedos are often seen walking around here." Tomoyo's smile quickly died down. Ummm… could you guys let me do something first?" They all looked at each other before responding. Mia nodded. "Okay, but we better hurry." Tomoyo's eyes shimmered with the light of her fire, but her face wasn't as bright. "…Thank you…" She ran off in one direction and everyone followed her. Tomoyo eventually stopped next to a pair of gravestones and kneeled down in front of them. Sakura never figured out how she remembered their exact location, out of the thousands of gravestones around them. Tomoyo put her fire on a nearby torch. Then, she began to cry. Sakura and Syaoran sat next to her, when Sakura asked, "What's wrong, Tomoyo?" She just pointed at the two graves in front of her, with dying white flowers in front of her. She began to cry harder. Sakura and Syaoran pushed the flowers out of the way and covered their mouths with their hands. They were in shock.
The graves were for Tomoyo's parents.
Sakura's eyes began to water. "How?! How could this happen?!"
"…It happened four years ago. I was very ill with a new virus that had developed thanks to that damned Sadin. An army of his lackeys invaded our village. I could barely move. They feared that if they tried to move me, I would die. And the Blue Mages still needed time to develop a cure for my illness… sniffle… My parents were also Black Mages like me. They stood at the entrance to my room and fought off all of those wretched demons that tried to get in. But while they drove them off, they suffered fatal injuries. A few days later, the Blue Mages cured me. When I asked what had happened to my parents, they just showed me to their graves… I never even got a chance to say goodbye!" Tomoyo burst into tears.
Sakura and Syaoran were still in shock. If that happened to Tomoyo's parents, who even had their own personal bodyguards, their parents could have been killed as well, even though Sakura's mother had already died long ago, and Syaoran's family, was supposed to still be in Hong Kong. But still, who knows what could have happened to them.
Sakura and Syaoran didn't know what to say. "That's why I want to help you guys destroy Sadin. If he is gone, the world will return to the way it was supposed to be. All these graves… they wouldn't be needed… so many lives would be spared… tragedies like this wouldn't have to happen to anyone…"
"THERE THEY ARE! GET THEM!"
It was the Tuxedos! Had they spotted them? Mia ran up. "Quickly! Everyone hide in the bushes!" They all ran and jumped into the bushes and slowly and quietly tried to sneak away, when a tuxedo flew in the air and landed unconscious on a grave right near the bushes they were hiding in. The tuxedos weren't after them! The demons were after someone else! Soon, the screaming of the demons was heard and a voice said in a mellow tone, "That's the last of them. But we can't go on like this forever."
Sakura recognized that voice. She stood up and saw two figures standing in the darkness. They had large angel wings. She instantly recognized them both. She stood up and yelled.
"KERO! YUE!"
To be continued…
So, are things getting much more interesting? Now, here is where the whole story is revealed… in a couple of chapters… ^^' It's going to be a long fic… And by the way, thanks for the reviews! I have already written chapters 1-21, I'm just slowly adding them. And I'm not even half done writing it yet, so there's always more to come…
"Where… where am I? Syaoran… Syaoran where are you?"
Sakura was floating in a bright light. She couldn't see anything. Just a bright white light all around her.
"Sakura! Sakura, I'm here!" Syaoran appeared next to her. They could barely see the outline of each other.
"Syaoran! I'm scared!" She reached out and grabbed his hand. "Hold on to me! Don't let go!"
They could actually feel themselves changing as they flew through the time portal. They hugged close to each other. Suddenly, they looked above them and saw a red light. The end of the portal.
"Sakura! Hold on! We're almost there!" His voice sounded deeper than usual. They were flung out of the portal at high speeds. They were flung into the air and Sakura landed on Syaoran on the grass. "Ow… That hurt… Syaoran, are you alright?" Sakura asked. She couldn't see him. It was very dark. "I'll be fine… as soon as you get off my back…" "Oh. Sorry!" She blushed, though no one could see it and she quickly jumped up. She felt… different. Syaoran got up and asked, "Where are we?"
"The park, just seven years in the future." It was Mia.
Sakura tried to see her, but it was still too dark. "Mia, I can't see you, or anything. What happened? Why is everything so dark?"
"Here, maybe this will help." It was Tomoyo, or at least it sounded a little like her. Suddenly, a bright light appeared, revealing everything around them. Tomoyo had cast fire and a ball of fire was in her hands, lighting the area around her. "TOMOYO! You're… you're… older! Mia! You too!" Sakura stated. Indeed, now Tomoyo and Mia looked like they were 17 or 18. The dresses they were wearing were now elegant looking gowns. They were taller, but they still looked like Tomoyo and Mia. Tomboy's hair still went down to her shoulders, her face still was rather cute and child like, her skin was still a pale peach. "Well, we're not the only ones! Take a look at yourselves!" Tomoyo told them.
Sakura and Syaoran looked at each other and jumped back in shock. They looked at themselves and at each other in absolute astonishment. Syaoran was the first to speak. "Sakura! You look… umm…" He didn't know what to say. She looked more beautiful than ever. She had gained a foot and a half in height, and her hair and had grown down to her hip. She was very slight. Her face… it was more beautiful than he could imagine. Her lips… her kawaii little nose… they were all beautiful. But when he looked into her eyes… he could just stare into them forever. Her face still had that look of child- like innocence that he always saw in her. She was dressed in a variation of her Elementary school uniform. She had her hat, the long sleeved shirt, and a pleated white skirt that went down to her knees. "You look…." He couldn't finish it. He just sat there and blushed. He didn't know what to say. His heart felt like it was going to jump out of his chest.
Sakura didn't fare much better. Li was very tall and slender. He was at least a foot taller than her. Hi hair looked as untamed as ever. It wasn't any longer, but it was just better. He was dressed in a green long sleeved shirt and a pair of dark denim jeans. His face was incredibly handsome. Especially his eyes. She almost melted just looking at them. He was the most handsome person she had ever seen. "And you look… umm… very… uhh…" She blushed too. Her heart was going a million miles an hour.
Tomoyo laughed. "Come on you two. There will be time for flirting later!" They looked at her and veins popped on their foreheads. "WE WERE NOT FLIRTING!" They screamed in unison. "Uh-huh! Sure you weren't! Come on Romeo and Juliet! We gotta go!" They glared at her angrily. Then they stared at each other, blushed, and hurried along, following them. After a minute of walking over what seemed like eternal darkness around them, with only Tomoyo's fire lighting the area around them, Syaoran asked, "Why is everything so dark?" Mia turned around, "Well, partly because it's night, partly because of a spell Sadin's minions put a spell that partly blocked the sun. And with less sunlight, the moon doesn't light up, so at night, it's always pitch black. "That's horrible!" Sakura said, still getting used to her older sounding voice. "Say," she wondered, "where are we going to first?" Tomoyo turned around. The light of her fire was lighting all the features of her face. They could see she was still optimistic looking with the big smile on her face, despite the world being flung into terror, watching her best friends being killed, and all that has gone wrong. "We're heading for the main village of the mages." Mia added in, "It's where the Tomeda Elementary School used to be." "USED to be?!" "Yes, Sakura. USED to be. The tuxedos tore it down shortly after their arrival. Since it was so big and open, we decided it would be the perfect place to set up a new village. But first, we must walk through the cemetery." Sakura's face went pale. "D-d-d-did you say cemetery?! OH NO! It's probably full of ghosts! I hate ghosts!" She clung to Syaoran's chest. "Please! Let's take a detour! I can't stand cemeteries!" Syaoran looked down at her. "It's alright Sakura. I'll hold your hand as we walk through if you like." Sakura looked up and blushed. "Well… I guess if YOU will walk me through…" Mia pushed her way through some vines wrapped around some trees and walked through them. "Alright, we're at the cemetery. Let's move out. But be quiet. Tuxedos are often seen walking around here." Tomoyo's smile quickly died down. Ummm… could you guys let me do something first?" They all looked at each other before responding. Mia nodded. "Okay, but we better hurry." Tomoyo's eyes shimmered with the light of her fire, but her face wasn't as bright. "…Thank you…" She ran off in one direction and everyone followed her. Tomoyo eventually stopped next to a pair of gravestones and kneeled down in front of them. Sakura never figured out how she remembered their exact location, out of the thousands of gravestones around them. Tomoyo put her fire on a nearby torch. Then, she began to cry. Sakura and Syaoran sat next to her, when Sakura asked, "What's wrong, Tomoyo?" She just pointed at the two graves in front of her, with dying white flowers in front of her. She began to cry harder. Sakura and Syaoran pushed the flowers out of the way and covered their mouths with their hands. They were in shock.
The graves were for Tomoyo's parents.
Sakura's eyes began to water. "How?! How could this happen?!"
"…It happened four years ago. I was very ill with a new virus that had developed thanks to that damned Sadin. An army of his lackeys invaded our village. I could barely move. They feared that if they tried to move me, I would die. And the Blue Mages still needed time to develop a cure for my illness… sniffle… My parents were also Black Mages like me. They stood at the entrance to my room and fought off all of those wretched demons that tried to get in. But while they drove them off, they suffered fatal injuries. A few days later, the Blue Mages cured me. When I asked what had happened to my parents, they just showed me to their graves… I never even got a chance to say goodbye!" Tomoyo burst into tears.
Sakura and Syaoran were still in shock. If that happened to Tomoyo's parents, who even had their own personal bodyguards, their parents could have been killed as well, even though Sakura's mother had already died long ago, and Syaoran's family, was supposed to still be in Hong Kong. But still, who knows what could have happened to them.
Sakura and Syaoran didn't know what to say. "That's why I want to help you guys destroy Sadin. If he is gone, the world will return to the way it was supposed to be. All these graves… they wouldn't be needed… so many lives would be spared… tragedies like this wouldn't have to happen to anyone…"
"THERE THEY ARE! GET THEM!"
It was the Tuxedos! Had they spotted them? Mia ran up. "Quickly! Everyone hide in the bushes!" They all ran and jumped into the bushes and slowly and quietly tried to sneak away, when a tuxedo flew in the air and landed unconscious on a grave right near the bushes they were hiding in. The tuxedos weren't after them! The demons were after someone else! Soon, the screaming of the demons was heard and a voice said in a mellow tone, "That's the last of them. But we can't go on like this forever."
Sakura recognized that voice. She stood up and saw two figures standing in the darkness. They had large angel wings. She instantly recognized them both. She stood up and yelled.
"KERO! YUE!"
To be continued…
So, are things getting much more interesting? Now, here is where the whole story is revealed… in a couple of chapters… ^^' It's going to be a long fic… And by the way, thanks for the reviews! I have already written chapters 1-21, I'm just slowly adding them. And I'm not even half done writing it yet, so there's always more to come…