Hearts
Chapter 12:
The final battle
Syaoran, Sakura, and Eriol stood around each other in a circle as more and more of the demons summoned by Pravada appeared ready to fight. Syaoran's heart was beating with fear from seeing the great number forming before his eyes. How was he to fight these demons and take back him family? How was he to kill Pravada? more and more questions seemed to rush through his head. "Eriol, I have your back." Syaoran said looking to Eriol in the corner of his eye. Eriol turned and looked to Syaoran and nodded.
"Don't think, Prince Hiiragizawa, that your little magic's are going to stand up against my demonic power, you are mine to control!" Pravada called from across the room. Eriol snarled at Pravada and as the demon attacked Syaoran. Syaoran drew his sword and cut the demon in half and it disappeared into a smoked. "THUNDER!" Sakura cried holding her star wand into the air and the white blasts struck a few hundred of the demons but more and more appeared. Syaoran jumped and flipped into the air fighting with the demon's cutting them with ease as Eriol was using his staff.
The three fought for another five minutes before reuniting themselves in a circle, back to back. "I can't keep this up." Sakura panted hitting a demon. Syaoran didn't say anything as he too was out of breath along with Eriol was seemed to be fighting not only the demons but Pravada's spell. "Sakura, use the Power card." Syaoran suggested punching a demon away.
"Power?" Sakura said looking to Syaoran. Syaoran nodded and closed his eyes and stood still for a moment and as he did so his green aura began to circle him a green markings began to appear on his face, neck, arms, and hands. "Syaoran you haven't master The Wolfs mark you can't do it!" Eriol winced feeling his spell break. "I can, Eriol." Syaoran said holding his sword at the ready and Sakura called The Power card.
Eriol grunted and fell to his knees. "Syaoran quickly." He panted. Sakura turned and got into a fighting stance with her staff and attacked the demon killing hundreds at a time. Syaoran turned and was moving so quickly that he was almost a blur protecting Eriol. "Syaoran!" Meling shouted. Syaoran stood and looked to Meling. "Sakura, break the cage!" He ordered and Sakura looked up seeing the cage floating along with Pravada who was chanting the spell trying to take control. Sakura jumped up but was thrown down my a force field. Sakura huffed seeing that Pravada was not bothered by this. Sakura thought for a moment as the demons began to close around her. "Of course." She whispered to herself seeing Syaoran zooming past killing the demons.
"Through card!" She called and jumped up once more and went through the barrier. She began to wonder why it was so easy. Sakura was almost to the cage but she was shocked by the barrier. "AHHH!" She wailed in pain. "Sakura!" Syaoran said and ran to him. Clow looked to Eriol who was had a shield around him that was flickering.
Pravada was getting to him. Clow turned in the cage nearest to Pravada and sat down closing his eyes and reaching as best as he could into her mind. He could feel Tomoyo giving up.
"Tomoyo, don't give up, she'll kill everything if you let her win." Clow spoke through his mind feeling Pravada trying to block it. "I can't, I have done so much evil to this place and to someone I love, I can't. I'll be killed anyway." Tomoyo voice sounded in Clow's head. "Don't give in, if she takes Eriol you both will die and your souls will be lost, fight her!" Clow said and winced a little feeling blooding trickling down his lips.
Sakura and Syaoran fought side by side protecting Eriol who was becoming weaker and weaker the dark aura was clouding him as Sakura tried to keep the spell away from Eriol while fighting.
Pravada winced and hissed. "Bitch you stay out of this!" She shouted feeling Tomoyo fighting back. "NO!" Tomoyo's voice shouted and a bright light came from Tomoyo's body and the dark demon melting out of her body as the demon's began to disappear. Eriol sighed feeling the pain and dark magic lifting from him as he looked. "Tomoyo." He said to himself as Syaoran and Sakura looked as Tomoyo floating down gracefully with the cage going down and opening as the people of the castle flooded out and hide.
Eriol stood as Tomoyo's feet touched the floor, the light began to fade. Tomoyo was wearing a sparkling white gown. Eriol ran over to Tomoyo who fell into his arms as Syaoran and his parents reunited with him.
"Eriol, I'm sorry I didn't tell you the truth." Tomoyo whispered as Eriol held her. "Shh, you mustn't talk, save your strength." He said panting holding back tears that were biting in his chest.
"I haven't strength to heal Eriol, you have to let me go." She whispered holding his hand. Eriol looked away and then to his Father was watched with pain in his eyes. Eriol's tears slipped from his eyes. "Tomoyo no, I'm not letting you go." He said angry. Tomoyo smiled. "Don't worry, my love. I'll find my way back to you." She said and touched his tear stained cheek. And then Tomoyo's aura disappeared. Eriol held her body close to him tighter not wanting to let her go, but knew he had to. Eriol sighed and laid Tomoyo's body on the floor seeing Pravada in her true form.
"Tragic, your lover died anyway." The demon smiled. Pravada was deformed and spoke in a echoed growling voice. Her body seemed burned and had a terrible smell. Eriol looked to Pravada and stood. "I'll make you pay for this." He growled.
Syaoran stepped beside Eriol along with Meling, and his parents and Sakura. "Do you really think you peons can defeat me, I am you, I am everything you are." The demon hissed. Syaoran's Father got into his fighting stance with his aura around him. Queen Yelan took out her magic fan and concentrated her magic as Eriol got into his fighting stance along with Sakura and Syaoran. "You can't control us." Syaoran said as his Father and Syaoran stepped forward in the same fighting stance with there aura's mixing.
Eriol and Sakura's cards shot out and glowed around the room. "Ah!" Growled Pravada as the pure light burn it's skin. Syaoran and Xiao Lang turned and a large wolf appeared. The Wolf Mark was a style that comes from the power of there ancestors. Syaoran and Xiao Lang moved gracefully as the wolf look to it's target and attacked. Syaoran and his Father began fighting using there power and then Yelan joined in putting a piercing barrier around the demon cutting it little by little. Sakura and Eriol summoned all there cards and they attacked Pravada at once.
Fought as she might the light was burning through it's demonic aura and body. And with the light the demon vanished before there eyes. Everyone looked around. "It's gone." Sakura said not feeling the dark aura. Syaoran looked to his hand and then to Eriol who turned back to Tomoyo. "Eriol?" Syaoran said walking over to him. Eriol kneeled down and put his hands over Tomoyo's heart.
"Eriol, don't do it." Clow said walking quickly over to him. "What is he doing?" Sakura asked. Eriol grunted as his transferred his life energy into Tomoyo. Tomoyo's eyes snapped opened and she gasped loudly feeling the air. "Eriol!" Clow ran over to his son and looked to his pale face. Tomoyo sat up and looked around seeing Eriol beside her. "Eriol?" She asked and looked to his face that was still and pale.
"I won't take your life from you." Tomoyo said and touched Eriol with her glowing hand and the breath was restored to Eriol as Tomoyo lived. Sakura looked to Syaoran. "There sharing a life forces with there own." He said sounding surprised Eriol laid on the Throne room floor breathing in a deep sleep. Clow looked to Tomoyo who stood and bowed deeply. "Forgive me." She whispered and walked away.
The dark aura was lifted from the palace and Pravda was gone. In a way the pain was just starting for Syaoran and Eriol. Sakura would be leaving soon. But Syaoran didn't want her to me for some reason. The deaths of the Li people were tragic and the cost too. Throughout the week Syaoran had spent his time in the temple and at graves feeling the hollow grief for his people and himself. So what was to happen next now that Pravada was gone? surely he couldn't just go back to his daily routine. He had to figure out how these demons keep finding there way into his life and other peoples life.
But what worried him the most what his feelings were toward Sakura.
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