Welcome to chapter 6 of Finding the Light of the Moon. I hope you have enjoyed the chapters so far and that you will enjoy this as well. The matter of the fact is that I can only write when I have the thoughts flowing and that hasn't been happening for 3 days, until now. So, here it is. I would like to thanks everyone who has read and reviewed. All of your reviews are appreciated. For those that has requested spell checks and grammer checks, I promise that it'll be done when I have finished. I won't be updating or even be looking at the previous chapters until the story is finished. Sorry for this long AN and I don't own any of this characters besides Black Witch. Thank you! PLEASE REVIEW!
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Sakura looked up to the blackboard in sheer borderm. School was bad enough as it was, but she was pretty good at every other subject but math was just a nightmare. She looked back down to her notebook and noticed all the scribbled notes her brother had written to help her. He was really smart, even though he was the most annoying person in her life, she had to admit that. He loved her and she knew it in some part of her heart. She had felt his concern for her when she had been sick and she felt warm because of it. Yukito had been coming over to her house often lately. He had been so very nice to her. When she looked at him, she did not see him but her Moon Guardian. He was so clear to her. He had talked to her when she was sick. She remebered it like a dream, but she still remembered. He felt his silver magic surrounding her and had awakened, and saw Yukito's face, but she knew that it was not Yukito that had awakened her, but her wonderful guardian. Thinking about him, she smiled and blushed a little.
Tomoyo watched her best friend's attention wonder and saw the sudden blush along with the dreamy look. 'Could it be Syaoran? No...it was just a childish thing. Besides, Meiling is his fiancee. They are now a couple...aren't they? Could it be Eriol? I mean, he is pretty damn cute! Those dark eyes along with the killer long hair! And he is so sweet to everyone...nope! Sakura would be looking at him if it was him. Could she be still dreaming about Yukito-san? Most unlikely...since she understands that there might be something between him and her brother. But...there's always that gorgeous other form. Yue-san is gorgeous, mysterious, is an angel, powerful enough to protect her and well...he is the only one that was able to awaken her! He would be so right for her too...they are bonded. But what about Yukito-san? I have to investigate this a little further.' As Tomoyo's mind turned around and around at the subject of Sakura and Yue, a plan started to form in her mind. She would just have to match them up!
Sakura could only sigh in relief as the bell went to announce the end of the dreadful lesson. Tomoyo had waited for her and gratefully, she invited Sakura to walk with her home. Sakura had accepted. Sakura skated next to her friend, yawning. Tomoyo was rather worried about her friend. She had been really tired lately. "Are you ok, Sakura?" Tomoyo asked, with a worried look on her face. "I'm fine. Just a little tired still. But then, it could have been that math class." Sakura offered her a smile and Tomoyo smiled back to her friend. her worry was not that easily dismissed though. "So, Sakura, why were you so dreamy in math?" Tomoyo asked, almost causing Sakura to fall over. "Um, I was just thinking about nothing really important." Tomoyo watched amused as her friend's face lighted up in a interesting colour of red. "Can the great Card Mistress be in love?" Tomoyo asked, watching as the blush deepened and Sakura tried to change the subject.
"Tomoyo, did you understand any of that math stuff?" Sakura asked, hoping, just hoping Tomoyo would be distracted. "I didn't understand it all, but I kinda got the basic idea. But, I could see that you were too busy dreaming about your um...CRUSH!" Tomoyo intentionally said that loud for Sakura to get the idea. Just as Sakura was about to try to deny it, she smashed into Yukito. Yue woke quickly as he felt Sakura's aura near by. He was sure he could hear her friend yelling out something like 'crush' but his attention was taken as Sakura crashed into Yukito. Noting that Sakura will fall her and hurt herself most likely in the situation, Yue used his reflexs through Yukito to catch her just before she felt to the ground. "Are you alright, Mistress?" Sakura opened her eyes in someone's embrace to find herself drowning into the depth of hazel eyes and going further to find the silver eyes. "Yue?" Sakura whispered and snapped from her trance as she blushed furiously. "Are you alright, Mistress?" Yukito or rather Yue said and Sakura gave him a nod, not trusting her voice.
Yue saw her emerald green eyes and felt himself drowning in them. They were the eyes of a young child in the face of a beautiful teenager. Untouched by the corruption, gentle eyes of the eternal emerald. In her eyes, he found power, pools of power, yet the girl had not been corrupted at the amazing strength she held in her. He admired her for her strength, determination and her love for everyone. As she whispered his name softly to him, he felt himself melt. A corner of his mind told him, 'the great Final Judge of the Clow Cards is in love.' He felt himself blushing, luckily, the blush didn't show on Yukito's face. He asked Sakura he she was alright again. He had to be sure that she was safe.
"I'm fine, Yue-san. Thank you so much for catching me." She gave him a gentle smile that he had never seen her use. As he searched Yukito's memories, he could see that she had never offered that particular smile to anyone before. Yue felt privilaged to hold his Cherry Blossom in his arms and be able to look into her warm green eyes. Yue didn't know how to reply but didn't have to as Sakura said, "I'm so sorry to you and also Yukito for crashing into you like that. It was incredibly silly of me not to think about where I was going." 'You could never be silly, Cherry.' He wanted to tell her but found it impossible. Not finding anything to say, he just nodded to her, his eyes telling her of gentlness that he had showed no one but Cerenerus and Clow before. Sakura smiled at him again as he drew back into Yukito's mind. "Bye Yue-san." Sakura's voice was the last thing he heard before he fell back into sleep. He was running low on magic...
"Are you ok, Sakura-chan?" Yukito asked, aware that he was on the ground, holding Sakura as she probably crashed into him and he had been lucky enough to catch her. "I'm fine, thank you for catching me and so sorry for that." Sakura said as Yukito helped her up. "Are you ok?" Sakura asked the older boy. "I'm fine, just a little tired, Sakura-chan. Oh, hello Tomoyo-san!" Yukito said brightly and recived a welcome just as warm before Sakura and Tomoyo left him and walked on their own. Tomoyo was quick to notice just how much Sakura blushed as she skated along the road. Tomoyo smiled secretly as she knew the reason for it. Her friend was a very open person and the kind that could not hide her emotions every well. Sakura sighed a little as she walked and Tomoyo knew that she just HAD to do something to pair her up with Yue. A secret smile and Tomoyo was ready for her match making mode.
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Sakura arrived home and headed right up to her room. She was tired. Her heart was still beating fast from her encounter with Yue. She landed on her bed with a dreamy look upon her face. Kero looked up from his game as she flopped on her bed. He was worried. His sibling had to take his powers from the Moon and also Sakura. Sakura was growing in power by everyday, yet, did she have enough power to support the Moon Guardian? She was collapsing after every capture as it was, but he had faith in the delicate looking card Mistress. She would live through it and she will be fine, she had too. Kero once peecked a look at the girl that was his Mistress, friend and at the same time just a teenager. She had to go through so much! Kero looked at her dreamy face and understood, she also went through love.
"Kero, my family is going out of the house for tomorrow and I have to clean the whole house, will be help? In your large form for me?" Seeing her pleading eyes, the great sun guardian agreed to help her. "Sure I will, Sakura. What are friends for?" Sakura smiled wider at that as she stood up from her bed and walked over to her desk and started up her computer. Sitting down comfortably, she started to type. Writing up her English homework was just too much of a task, but perhaps the computer screen can keep her awake. "Sakura! Dinner!" Her father's voice rang through the house not long after she was finished. "Coming!" She yelled and walked down the stairs, putting on a bright smile and brave face for her father. She would not worry him, it was not fair.
Touya watched his sister sit herself down, sigh and proceed to eat. She looked tired, both mentally and physically. Yet, she smiled at laughed for her father. He didn't notice that his daughter was not acting normally, perhaps he did but ignored it. After dinner, Sakura excused herself and went up to her room, carrying a piece of cake for her Guardian. As she walked up the stairs, she could feel her brother looking at her, he was concerned for her. But, how did she know that? Looking back at him, she felt the worry he had for her, looking at her dad, she saw the love he had for her. The strong feeling of love as he looked at her. Sakura smiled at them and walked up to her room a little faster. "Hey, Kero-chan. This is some cake for you." From Kero, she could feel joy, a bit of worry for her and also love towards her like a father and a friend. She smiled. Kero ate up his cake as Sakura struggled to finish her math homework. She hated math with passion and she did not want to have anything to do with it, yet she was forced to learn it. Sighing, she started again.
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Sakura hummed to herself as she dusted the furniture in the loung room. Getting to a particulary spot, she sneezed. "Bless you!" Cereberus yelled from the laundry room where he was attempting to put the dirty clothes into the washing machine. Sakura smiled and yelled, "thanks!" before going back to her dusting. It was Saturday afternoon and she was in charge of making the house clean by the time her family had returned. She was tired. Dusting and vacuming around the house while you are drained of magic, was not a good idea, yet she did it. It was her duty. "Sakura! I put the clothes in!" Cereberus said as he walked into the lounge room. Sakura looked at his huge form a swallowed a little. Seeing her friend and Guardian like so scared her a little, not scared exactly but alarm her. "I'll just go and push the buttons. You can have a rest. Strech your wings or something. Go and have fun." Sakura suggested the lion like guardian. "Are you sure? You don't look very finished to me." Sakura noded. "I'm sure. Only the washing and the gardening is left now. For gardening, all I have to do is sweep the leaves into a pile. I'll be fine. I never gave you the chance to go out and enjoy yourself for awhile. I'll be fine. If you sense something wrong, you can just fly back to me quickly."
Sakura had convinced him enough to make him fly out into the bright blue sky, quickly rising up to hide himself to the non-magical people. Sakura smiled tiredly, and sure her guardian was gone, she allowed herself to drop down in a couch, dropping her act. Sighing, she got up to press some buttons on the washing machine before she headed out to her gardens, grabbing the rake on her way out.
Standing in her garden, she started to collect all the fallen leaves into a heap in the middle. All of sudden, she stopped to lean on her rake to rest. She was tired. She couldn't rememeber the last time she felt completely well. It must have been just before the Final Judgement, but ever since those weird things started to happen, she always felt tired. Sighing, she was about to go back to her work when a voice called to her, "hey Sakura-san!" Turning around, a little too fast, she felt her head spin but managed a smile towards the newcomer. "Hello Eriol-kun. How are you?"
Eriol had to admire his young daughter. Ok, not exactly young, but compared to the fact that he has been reincarnated and that he was the daughter of his other half, she was his young daughter. Through with arguing in his mind on her subject of Sakura, he smiled back at her and said, "I'm fine, how are you, Sakura-san? You look very tired." A little concern entered his eyes. He knew that he was the cause of her tiredness and the fact that she looked ready to just drop dead. But it had to be done. As much as it broke his heart as her friend and father, he had to make sure the cards would change into Sakura cards and that she would develope her powers quickly enough. To protect herself from...no, he shouldn't think about those things now. They still had sometime left before anything happened. Or so he wished. Even as he waited for her response, he searched her being and found amounts of magic that would never be used. She didn't yet learn how to tap into her magic deeper than she already had.
Looking deeper and trying to listen to her response at the same time was difficult even for the reincarnation of Clow Reeds. "I'm fine. What are you doing here, Eriol-kun?" She asked and smiling again, he replied, "I was just walking back home after getting somethings for dinner. It's my turn to cook and no one had done the shopping yet. What were you doing?" While he was speaking, the deeper part of his mind was interested in something. Something that even tried to catch the attention of the rest of his mind. Sakura had found her powers of empathy. She could feel what others felt. Slowly developing, for that he sighed. He had met many witches, wizards, sorcerers, soceresses and magicians that went mad when their powers of empathy developed too quickly for them to control and learn. At least he had prepared Sakura for it, for all the powers that she will possess one day. She was one person in the world that would become a beautiful and strong sorceress, witch or magician, whatever they decided to call her. Unlike the others before her, the powers will not be able to corrupt her beautiful mind, the innoncence she had in her mind will not be destroyed.
"I was just cleaning the house because it's my turn and I just have to clean up the garden now." Sakura replied, sensing that perhaps Eriol was a little preoccupied but he seemed to snap out of his thoughts just as her voice rang. The glazed look from his eyes disappeared and from those eyes, she knew that he felt love for her as a friend and a father? It confused her but she didn't question her insticts or the feelings she recieved from her new sense. "Would you like me to help you?" Eriol's gentle voice brought her back into the world. "Thank you for the offer, but I shouldn't be keeping you." Sakura's voice showed her fatigue. "I would love to help. Besides, I have no need to return home very soon." Sakura gave him a smile as he smiled at her. For a minute or two, there was silence before Sakura blushed a little and Eriol looked around to see that she had done only a tiny bit of the garden. "Here, let me have the rake while you sit and rest for awhile. No offence, but you look dead on your feet." Sakura playfully hit him on the shoulders as she listened to his advice.
It was about half an hour after Eriol had said his greetings to the captain of the cheerleading team. There was only a small part left to do and Sakura had taken over the rake. Seeing the bike was in the way, Eriol allowed him a small mischievious smile. If he somehow enchanted the bike, Sakura would be forced to change a few more cards. One part of his mind argued that changing the cards was very important as another part tried to tell Eriol that Sakura was physically and mentally to exhausted and that her magic was running at a low. Eriol took this all in and decided that he had to do something to the bike. Working at an exhausted supply of magic and abilities has to be taught to her sometime and thinking about it, she had to learn it sometime.
Setting his teeth firmly and his thoughts clear, he put a smile on his face, turned to Sakura and asked, "do you want me to move the bike so you can sweep the area?" Sakura gave him a small nod and a smile of thanks. As he moved the bike, he started to chant a small spell to hide what he was doing, under his breath and also managed to hide his feelings of guilt and worry. He moved the bike and resting his hands on it, he put in the spell he had started to prepare as Sakura was piling up the leaves. With it done, the bike glowed in a bluish black colour before it returned to normal. Sakura turned around quickly as she sensed magic, but when it disappeared, Sakura just gave Eriol a smile and gestured to the clean grass where the bike had once been. Understanding her meaning and sighing a sigh of relief in his mind, Eriol did as he was hinted to do and gave Sakura another smile. Not the smile he usually had, the happy smile but his real, gentle smile.
Sakura was rather puzzled about Eriol's behaviour and his lack of feelings, but all of sudden, the feelings returned. He was feeling relief and love. Relief for what? Sakura just shrugged it off when the back door opened to reveal her father. "Hello Sakura! I just came home. Um...who's your friend?" Sakura waved to her father and said, "hello dad! This is Hiiragizawa Eriol. He is a friend of mine from school and he stopped by and helped me." Eriol bowed to the other half of Clow Reed's reincarnation. "Nice to meet you, Hiiragizawa-kun. Thank you for helping Sakura. Would you like to come in and have dinner with us?" Eriol gave him a grateful smile and said, "I would love to stay, but I have to go home and make dinner. It's very nice of you to ask though. I really appreciate it." At the corner of his eyes, he saw Sakura look a little disapointed. "Then, we shouldn't hold you. Once again, thank you." With that, Sakura's father went into the house to complete his task as Eriol bowed to him again. "I better go. See you later, Sakura-san." Sakura gave him another smile as he collected his bags and was off.
As Eriol walked away, Sakura fell to the green grass and lay down for awhile. She wanted to just lie down and sleep. As her eyes closed and she drifted into sleep, a swish of powerful wings awoke her. Up on opening her eyes, she saw her Sun Guardian looking down at her with a worried face. "Are you alright, Mistress?" He asked, his voice gentle and his wings covering her petit form. "I'm fine Cereberus. Since when are you so formal?" Sakura commented as she started to get up. Cereberus moved so she would be able to use his strong shoulders to life herself up. Sakura gave him a grateful smile as she stood up and he transformed back. Holding him in her arms, she moved back into the house, putting away the rake on her way.
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It was after dinner, Sakura had finished her homework despite her fatigue and even had managed to put on a happ face for her family, but alone in her room with Kero, she let her fatigue show. She collapsed on her bed as she finished her homework and sighed. It was 8pm at night and she was just about ready to sleep, despite the fact that her best time was normally about 10:30pm. Before she could however change and sleep, she opened her top drawer and pulled out the Sakura Book. The book still amazed her. It was simple light pink with silver and gold decorations. Upon opening it, the six Sakura Cards flew out of the book to circle their Mistress, sending waves of love and warmth towards the exhausted teenager. Sakura smiled. She felt the love the cards had for her strongly and she enjoyed it. After the Final Judgment, she had sat down on her bed with every single card out, including the ones that Syaoran had given her and told them how sorry she was for all the cards had to go through and they had forgiven her and thanked her as well for being a nice Mistress.
Kero was amazed as he watched Sakura and the cards. The cards and the Card Mistress had a wonderful relationship going on and it was pretty amazing. So far from what he had learned, most sorcerers and others would always command or force their guardians or others to do their will. But Sakura was different. She asked the cards to do her biding and after, she would always thank the cards and kiss them in thanks. It was just so sweet of her to take care of her cards like so and the warmth, love and care she showed towards him was amazing as well. Afterall, he had forced the life of a Card Captor on the teenager, yet she had become his friend and he had become hers. Then thinking about the other guardian, she was amazed that she had forgiven him so quickly after all Yue had done to her. Sakura was too sweet and loving and caring. She was very respected by Yue and even though he didn't show it, Yue's cold heart was melting at the girl's warm touches. For that, Kero was forever glad for Sakura. Yue had been cold always. Even with their Master, he had the stony face, yet around Sakura, his eyes showed his feelings and sometimes, his face would also betray his emotions. Kero looked up from his thought at the sound of Sakura's alarmed gasp.
Sakura touched the Clow Cards and felt coldness. She then called one of the Sakura cards to her and felt how alive it was. Compared to the pink and silver card, the red and gold card felt like it was dying. Kero came closer to her to look at what she was looking at. "Kero, the Clow Cards feel like they are...dying. I can't explain it, but whenever I have touched the Clow Cards before, they have always felt alive. They had been so warm, but now they feel cold, dying! What's going on?" Kero looked at the girl, who was holding the Clow Cards in her hands, as if to make them warm again with her touch. "Don't panic Sakura. Let me explain. The Clow Cards had some magic in themselves for them to work, when they ran out, the took the magic needed from the book. Now, since the book as changed, they can no longer draw power from the book. The Sakura Cards are fine because they are now taking power from you. You have changed the cards, awakened them and fed them power, great amounts of power. But, the Clow Cards are now slumbering. If they do not change soon, some of them will start to lose their magical powers."
Sakura felt her heart drop. The cards would lose their powers? The cards were her friends! She had collected them over the 2 year period and she had worked hard for them. She loved the cards and the cards loved her. She wasn't going to let them down. Gathering herself, she stood up with about 15 cards in her hands. She didn't bother to chant. She needed to do it quickly, while she had the energy. "Release!" Kero looked up at her in surprise and called, "what are you doing?" "I'm going to change them all!" Kero couldn't believe his ears. If Sakura did change them all, she would collapes and it might even kill her. Looking into her eyes, he knew that Sakura can not be stopped. "Sakura, don't. Please!" It was too late. The 15 cards floated up in front of her and around her, caught in the spell. "Cards created by Clow, change and be reborn, under the name of your new Mistress, Sakura. Arrow! Create! Sweet! Big! Little! Dream! Sand! Lock! Move! Snow!" After the ten, Sakura started to sway, she was pale in her face and Kero was seriously worried. She didn't look so well, but then, who would, using as much power as she was at once?
Sakura steadied herself and breathed in and out until she was no longer dizzy. Her flickering magic circle managed to stay still as she pulled more magic from a place in her mind that she didn't know about. Kero looked at what she was doing and knew that there was trouble. She was pulling energy from her reserves, the parts of her magic that shouldn't be touched. "Flower! Power! Storm! Wave! Shot!" This time, Sakura was near collapse, there was no more power she could draw from anywhere and she was at the blink of collapsing. "Dash!" With the last card done, she quickly shut off her magic and fell. She simply fell onto her bed, luckily, she had been close enough to it and didn't fall on the floor. She felt dizzy and sick as she fought of the feeling to stay concious. It was not her best day. "What were you thinking, Sakura! You could have killed yourself!" Sakura just moaned in reply.
Getting up and sitting was a hard task and Sakura nearly fell back but, the cards that she had just changed surrounded her and she felt all of her fatigue disappear for the moment. The cards were all healthy and circling her, once again giving her the warm feeling. "Sakura, look!" Kero pointed at the Dash Card. It was glowing rainbow colour and before Sakura could react, the card changed out of the card form and into the form of the cat. It hissed at Sakura and she was rather amazed to find all the cards in front of her, attack cards in front of defed cards near her. "What's going on?" She asked, a little frightened. "What were you thinking? You have used too much magic at once when you were weak to start off with! You could have died! Since you used so much magic, your magic didn't work the way it was supposed to with the Dash card. Somehow, you have upseted it. Now..." Kero didn't get to finished as the Dash hissed loudly and jumped out of the window. Sakura followed it.
Looking down at where the dash card was, Sakura saw the card was on her brother's bike. All of sudden, she felt Clow's aura and the bike glowed in a blackish blue colour before Dash disappeared and the bike, possessed by the card, dashed off into the dark, cold night. "Oh, no!" Sakura yelled before she grabbed her phone, her roller blades with the cards in one pocket. "Come on, Kero! We have to catch Dash. It's all my fault and I have to fix it." Kero tried to protest, but Sakura jumped out of her window, flipped and landed on her feet perfectly on the pavement. "You amaze me." Kero said as she put on her skates and sped off after the card.
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Yukito sat and did his homework while Yue slept. But, when Yue felt Sakura's power drain so much, he awoke and fought through the clouds that surrounded him. She had changed 15 cards...she didn't have enough power to support him. Determined, he pulled all he can from the full Moon, which was a lot. Enough to fill him with enough magic to last a week at least. Sakura was in danger. He could feel her panic and for some reason, he worried for her. Will she be safe? Thinking that he could not take chances the second time, he pulled more magic from the Moon, rather than Sakura and changed his form. He stepped out into the backyard of the Tsukishiro residence and with a few beats of his wing, he was in the air he loved so much. Concentrating on her pinkish silver power that was his Mistress, he flew towards the library.
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Sakura felt cold, weak and unable to do anything. She held her staff in her hands and calling jump, she followed the card around and when it dashed up the wall of the library, using all of her strength, she did the same. But, weak and tired as she was, she couldn't reach it and when she felt dizzy, her magic came undone, leaving Sakura to fall to the cold harsh ground. She closed her eyes and prepared for the impact of the ground. Midway down, she felt a warm silver aura around her and someone catching her. Opening her eyes in the warm embrace, she drowned in the silver eyes of her Guardian. "Thank you." Sakura whispered before she burried her face into Yue's shoulder and closed her eyes. "You are welcome, Mis...Sakura-sama." Sakura didn't open her eyes but snuggled a little closer to him, a smile on her face.
"Is she ok?" Kero asked worried. "She'll be fine. Now, what do we do about the Dash card?" Kero asked. "Nothing. WE are doing nothing. I will however be doing something." Sakura opened her eyes and Yue let her down on her feet, but stayed close to her. She was wearing a simple kahki pants and a long sleeved, tight shirt. She looked gorgeous! But, he destracted himself, trying to figure out what he could do to help the exhausted teenager. "I have to do this. It was all my fault and it's time I fixed it." Sakura stood and faced the bike, holding her staff tightly and her face pale.
The bike charged at her as Sakura jumped out of it's way. It turned around and Sakura felt the presence of Dash within the bike. "I'm so sorry, Dash." Sakura called out to it as she thought of anything she could do. The bike rolled away from her and then around her. "You have to be able to be in front of it, get to it's destination before it does." Kero yelled out to her and Sakura understood what she would have to do. Calling the card in her mind, a red and gold card came into her awaiting hand. "Sakura, NO! If you change another card, you won't just pass with collapsing! You could die!" Unlike other NORMAL people would have been, Sakura remained calm, almost serene. "If I die, I die. But I seriously doubt that. I know that I have just enough power for one more card to change and that's going to be Loop." Kero seems to understand her as he nodded and said, "alright then. Go for it Sakura! We'll take care of you." Sakura gave her smile to everyone before she started to chant.
"Loop!" She felt her magic drain away from her. Though she was sure that everything would be fine, it worried her a little to feel basically no power in herself. As Loop did it's job and Dash jumped out of the bike to hiss at her, Sakura felt her knees weaken. Everyone present could see that she kept herself up with sheer will. "It'll be okay, Dash. I promise. Windy! Gently carry Dash to me, please." Sakura said, her voice gentle like a loving friend that she was. As Windy moved to comply, Dash protested. Sakura could tell that Dash was afraid, Syaoran was worried, Kero was also worried and Yue was worried as well and to her amazement, she felt something like love from him...towards her. Sakura stopped all other thoughts other than the ones of Dash. She now held the cat like creature in her arms as Dash struggled to get out of her hold.
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Eriol had followed Dash card from Sakura's home all the way to the Library. Sakura was growing stronger, yet he had been worried sick when she had changed 15 cards. She must have been worried about the cards alot. So caring! But, that was Sakura, Clow Reed's daughter. He smiled as Sakura used Loop, it was so smart of her to think of it. As he looked at her form, he saw that her face was pale, a thin veil of sweat on her body and her hair was dampened slightly due to her sweat. She was trembling a little and as she held Dash in her arms, she looked so small, so young, so naive, innocent and loving. Sakura petted Dash's head and whispered words that he could not hear to it.
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"It's alright now. I'm so sorry, Dash. It was my fault. I shouldn't have tried to change so many of you at once. I'm so sorry. Forgive me." As a tear slid down her cheek, from fatigue, worry and remorse, the card looked up at it's Mistress and licked her face. "Oh, don't do that! Are you alright? Can you please go back to your true form now? Please?" Sakura asked, too tired to use her powers. The card nodded, gave her a last lick and went back into it's card, floating into Sakura's hand. She struggled to get up and when she did, she looked back to the group and said, "I won't be trying THAT again!" Kero gave her a hug and when he let her go, Sakura could no longer support herself and she fell to the ground, but she never hit the ground. Yue had caught her once again and held her in his arms. She was so delicate looking but her power in her was so strong!
Kero guided the way towards Sakura's home, even though Yue knew the way. Sakura had just left, too busy to use Mirror. So the group had to be really careful not to draw attention to themselves. Kero opened the window for Yue as he rid of his wings and went into his Mistress's room. She was unmoving in his arms as Yue held her close to his heart. Kero pulled the covers back and Yue laid her in her bed, a little hesitant to let the contact go. As he let her go, he heard her whisper a soft, "no" and she snuggled closer to him. He gently laid her in her bed but didn't break contact with her as she wouldn't let him go. She moaned in her sleep. Yue wondered just what was happening in her dream that was so terrible to make her look like she was in pain.
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Sakura looked up from where she was standing. It was dark everywhere and the only light was her. She glowed in the dark like a single candle in a black room. Then she heard footsteps coming towards her. There was such a strong feeling of hate that it hurt her. Hurt her so much inside her mind that she could scream, yet she couldn't. The figure came closer. "Hello, Star." When she came close enough to her, Sakura's light showed a face of a lady. She looked about 25 or so, with long black hair, left to flow about her form in fake wind. Her eyes were black as well and that was the thing that scared her the most. The eyes that were filled with hate so dark and evil. She was dressed in a black robe, much like hers, but no decoration. In her hands she held a staff of pure black wood with only a black orb on top of it. "Who are you?" Sakura asked, her voice showing her fear.
"Wow! The greatest sorceress in the world is afraid of me? Black Witch? I'll kill you, you know. You'll die and I'll kill Clow Reeds as well and everything he stood for. You, his..." Sakura couldn't hear what was happening next as silver light started to come closer to her and she started to feel drawn to it. The Black Witch swore as she was drawn away, covered by the warm silver aura.
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Yue looked at Sakura's face as she opened her eyes. All traces of distress was gone from her face. Upon opening her eyes, Sakura found that she was looking at silver eyes, so, Yue had been the one that rescued her from the Black Witch. "What was wrong, Sakura? You looked like you were terrified of something or someone. What did you dream?" Sakura looked up at the two guardians with a look of horror in her eyes. She was afraid, deadly afraid. "It wasn't a dream." Sakura whispered, just loud enough for the two to hear. "What do you mean, Mistress?" Sakura listend to Yue's question and indeed wonder what it was, she even forgot to correct her Guardian. "It was more like a meeting. I saw a lady with long black hair and black eyes. She gave off the feeling of so much hate...it hurt me inside..." Sakura started to cry, shaking, feeling the deadly coldness that still remained in her after that meeting in her dream. "Everything was dark and the lady called me 'Star' and that she hated me. The hate hurt me..." Not being able to control her crying anymore, she threw herself at Yue and held on to him like he was the only thing in the world that could keep her safe.
Uncosciously, almost, Yue wrapped his arms around the crying girl, attempting to calm her down. Her hot tears seeped through his robe on to his skin and she was shaking so much. "How did you know that she hated you before she told you? Who is she?" Kero asked, as Yue awkwardly held her. He had never had to comfort anyone before, never in his long life of about 100 or so years. "I don't know, I just knew! She had this black eyes and they were filled with anger and hate. It hurt me inside." Sakura held on tighter to Yue, burying her face into his shoulder. She was in shock, something in her dream had been so terrible enough to put the Card Mistress into shock. Perhaps the usage of so much magic might have something to do with it, but she was in shock and Yue didn't know anything that he could do to help her. So, he held his Mistress in his arms and let her cry, but Kero had other plans.
"Sakura, explain how you knew, please, it's very important." Sakura looked up from Yue's shoulder, her face a little red from all the crying, and managed to just get out her words. "Ever since yesterday, I've been able to feel what other people felt. I don't know how or why. I just know that I can. Now, leave me alone." When Yue started to get up, Sakura pulled him back. "Stay, please. I'm scared."
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Her tears did not stop until an hour later. Sakura fell asleep in Yue's arms and he laid her on her bed and put the covers over her once again, pushing away a bit of her hair and holding onto her hands. She looked so vunerable. So delicate like a doll. "What do you think is happening?" Kero asked softly and Yue almost wanted to strangle the creature. Yue wanted to just sit there and watch the girl sleep, watch over her, the beautiful Angel. "I don't know. Though, I did notice that she seemed to have started to develope powers other than just her magic. What she was doing is Empathy. Feeling other people's feelings and anger and hate can her an Empath. It is said that hate feels cold and dark while anger burns. I wouldn't know but what I do know is that she is very lucky that her powers are developing slowly. It's less painful or dangerous. I don't remember anyone named Dark Witch but she might be a new one. Sounds like she's pretty powerful, with a lot of knowledge as well. Possible danger. We need to put a spell on our Mistress to protect her mind from being entered through a dream. No one should be able to enter the Mistress's mind without her permission. She has very strong psycic abilities that are yet to develope. They are more than enough of protection, but dreams..."
Kero listened to Yue and looked at Sakura, his Mistress. She looked a little peaceful but the exhaustion was there. "How come she's fine now?" Kero asked. "I'm shielding her from any invasion to her dreams. But, we need to secure this shield. I need your help." Kero nodded and called on his magic only to change. In his bigger form, he stood next to his brother and looked at their young Mistress, lying there, her face pale. "What do you want me to do?" Cereberus asked. "Nothing, but supply me with the power. I'll do the spell work." Cereberus agreed. "You always was the one with the knowledge and I always provided the power, right?" Yue gave his brother a rare smile before closing his eyes and concentrating on making a shield around his Mistress.
After 5 minutes of hard work, Sakura was safe from all kinds of invasion and the two guardians were exhausted. "I have to go now. Yukito will be very puzzled as it is." Cereberus gave a curt nod, too busy trying to pull Sakura's covers up as she shivered. Yue stepped in to help before he went to the window and flew out. Cereberus decided that he would stay awake and look after his young Mistress. He sat down on the small cushion, his face resting on her bed. Sakura leaned closer to him and laid her small hand on the side of his head and smiled.
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