Hiiragizawa Eriol went running in light speed towards where Tomoyo's voice came from. His heart pounded hard against his ears, and his breath came out almost uneven.

"Tomoyo!" he shouted at the top of his lungs. Why did he have a bad feeling?

While Eriol was running he took out his staff and summoned it. "Key that hides the power of darkness, show your true self to me. I, Eriol, command you under contract. Release!" His staff turned into the long golden one with the sun on it. Clow Reed's trademark staff. He concentrated his powers to Tomoyo's aura, and found that her aura was around the lab room.

Why would she been on the lab? This was no time to be asking himself questions; this was the time to know what was happening.

He burst into the room with disheveled hair and saw her. Tomoyo was in a corner with eyes full of horror. Her pupils were dilated and her right hand was placed on her chest. Her lips trembled while her breath was uneven. It took her a certain amount of time into realizing that Eriol was in same room as her.

"Eriol!" she screamed and turned her gaze back at a beast. The beast looked like a huge fluffy spider with teeth on its legs, sixteen eyes, and venom coming out of its fangs. The huge beast was shaking and opened its mouth to let out a mortifying scream. Eriol used an attack and defensive spell. The attack one of the monster and the defensive one of Tomoyo. A giant sphere of yellow energy went towards the spider causing its vision to vanish. A force field protected Tomoyo from any bounce that the attack spell might have done.

The beast let out another scream because of the spell Eriol had cast on him. Eriol went running towards Tomoyo and asked her, "Are you alright?" he then shook his head and said, "I need to get you out of here and soon. You need to be safe."

"What about you?" Tomoyo asked in fearful voice. She was surprised that Eriol was still here at school. Why was he always there when she needed him? "That thing can kill you." Her soft voice rose an octave.

Right at that moment the beakers, jugs, support stands, test tube racks, test tubes, burets, pipets, graduated cylinders, crucibles, trays and chemicals all rose and turned their way to Eriol and Tomoyo. Eriol created the best shield he could do at the moment, probably one of the best ones ever, and shielded both of them as he thought for another spell to stop the equipment of killing them. Then he would get rid of monster soon.

With the shield around them protecting them they both ran down the hallway, the monster followed them. Eriol sent a wind spell that knocked the beast down. However, the wind spell didn't do much to it. It spit venom at them and Eriol did another defensive spell. He, unfortunately, miscalculated his energy into the defensive spell that his shield went down, leaving a huge gap open. The beast threw its thorns at them, which were filled with venom, and they were directed straight at Eriol.

"ERIOL!" Tomoyo screamed with all she had that she could probably go hoarse and lose the air on her lungs. "LOOK OUT!" she ran towards him and pushed him out of the way, the monster's thorn attack hit Tomoyo right on the neck and she collapsed after letting out a painful cry.

Eriol caught her, his heart stopped. He quickly took out thorn and tried to cover the wound with his hand and then with a piece of his school shirt. Her neck was looking funny already and that worried him. Tomoyo was having a hard time trying to breathe normally but the venom was spreading already.

"TOMOYO!" he shouted in rage. With all his magic he vested his power into the sun staff and sent a powerful mortifying spell on the monster that disintegrated him.

"Tomoyo," he whispered. I'm saying your name a lot today. I have to stay calm.

Eriol need to save Tomoyo soon. And so he teleported both of them to his mansion. He would call Sakura and Syaoran for help in searching ways to cure Tomoyo from the venom that was spreading quickly all over her body. He couldn't let her die like Clow left Violette to die.

Eriol knew that Violette and Clow had a downfall; however, they still loved each other. It was Clow's jealous fiancée, Mary Andrews, the one who caused Violette's death by poisoning her. It was too late when Clow tried to save Violette; she was already dead, cold and gone.

"WHAT?!" Sakura and Syaoran asked in horror after Eriol told a fast version of the story so that they could go on with searching through the books.

"We must search for an antidote quickly," Eriol said rather fast. No one argued and nodded.

Everyone, Eriol, Sakura, Syaoran, Kero, Ruby Moon, and Spinel Sun, searched through all the books in the Reed Mansion, searching desperately for an antidote that could cure Tomoyo's quick spread of venom.

Though they all knew that panicking wouldn't help they couldn't help but panic.

It had been perhaps two hours of searching until Ruby Moon exclaimed, "Found it! Master, I found it!"

As they all looked at the ingredients Kero asked, "Do we even have them?"

Spinel looked at him, "Of course we do. You shouldn't be surprised that Clow Reed's reincarnation has hidden things in this house."

Before Spinel had finished talking, both Sakura and Eriol had gone running in search of the ingredients present in the house.

Ingredients:

Water

Fish scales

Snail's slime

Rose petals

Cinnamon

Blue mushroom

Mash all the ingredients except the water. After having a blobby texture add water and chant spell.

Half an hour later

While Tomoyo laid on the bed, Eriol gently raised her head while Sakura placed the antidote on Tomoyo's blue lips. After she drank everything, some color returned to her.

They all waited for her to wake up but she didn't.

Syaoran suggested quietly, "We should take her to the hospital. Just because we found the antidote to the venom doesn't mean something else might be wrong or affected. Let's avoid another grave situation."

No one argued.

"Why isn't she getting better?" Sakura asked. She looked at Daidouji Sonomi, Tomoyo's mother, who looked at her only daughter with concern. Syaoran placed a hand on Sakura's shoulder and squished slightly. They were all tense due the current situation.

As soon as Sonomi was informed that her daughter was hospitalized she cancelled her three meetings and hurried to the hospital.

"I don't understand why," Eriol mumbled. "We gave her the antidote. She should be better. She is better than before but she is still on a grave condition." Her face was paler than usual, her lips were cracked, her pulse was low, and her heartbeat was not like it should be.

Sonomi soothed her daughter's hand and stared at the doctor. "Why isn't my dear Tomoyo-chan getting any better? What does she have?" She might not always be with Tomoyo but that did not mean that Sonomi did not care or love Tomoyo to death. Sonomi would kill if she found out that something every happened to her angel, just like it had happened now.

"We do not know Daidouji-san," the doctor responded with no feelings whatsoever. He stared at the paper in his hands, "We have done the best that we can and your daughter does not seem to respond to us in any way. In fact, we do not know what she has."

Sonomi trembled with rage and got to her feet, ready to punch whoever needed to be punched, and yelled at him, "What do you mean you do not know? You are professionals! You must know something. You have to save my daughter's life! She's too young to die; she hasn't finished school or gone to college, hasn't lived life long enough, she hasn't gotten married or had kids or gotten a job." Now she started crying, "She's my only family."

Kinomoto Fujitaka, who had been present, placed an arm around Sonomi and took her out of the room. Sakura and Syaoran did the same because Sakura was in the verge of tears and Syaoran needed to comfort her. The doctors had already left and Eriol was alone with Tomoyo.

He covered his face with his hands and took a deep breath. This wouldn't have happened had she not been the one I care for.

"Tomoyo please," Eriol begged. He took her hand and chanted all the healing spells he knew. When those didn't work he said sweet little nothings and closed his eyes. "Please, get well. Don't leave us your family, don't leave me."

A small drop dropped on Tomoyo's cheek. Because of this Tomoyo fluttered her eyes slowly and mumbled, "Eriol?" Eriol could not contain himself and hugged her, burying his head on her hair. "Don't you ever scare me again like that. Don't ever sacrifice yourself for me, do you understand?" Tears rolled down Tomoyo's cheeks. Eriol hushed her as she cried over and over again, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

Eriol just hugged her and kissed her forehead ever so slightly.

Outside the hospital a girl with a black umbrella, a black scarf, and dark red sweater dress smiled sardonically. She had shoulder length red hair with a black bow tied around it, freckles, one brown eye and one aqua blue eye, and a mysterious aura around her.

"I was close. Enjoy your last moments Clow and Violette," she spat the names and left. Her shoes sounded hard against the pavement.

Author's notes: Sorry for the long update. I was adapting to 10th grade and I was involved Nanowrimo :) Here is the chapter. I might edit this chapter later on in the future.