City Under Siege:
Chapter Two
Your family will turn
Best friends will change
Do not give up hope
Keep your foes within range
Sakura slowly opened her eyes and squinted as light flooded in. She heard material being ripped and felt someone bandaging her leg. She opened her eyes more and looked to see Syaoran wrapping her wound. "S…Syaoran-kun?"
Syaoran looked up and smiled. "You're awake."
Sakura slowly sat up. "Hai…I must've fallen asleep. But when? Where?"
Syaoran tied off the cloth. "Well, we made a hasty escape from school. You were wounded, so I carried you. You must've been weak, because…"
"I fell asleep in your arms." Sakura finished. She blushed. "Gomen ne. I didn't mean to…I…"
"Don't worry. It's okay." He bent down and grabbed the cloth he was using to make strips out of. Sakura looked and saw it was the uniform coats they usually wore in the winter. "Iie! You didn't have to use that! I would've been fine without…"
"And let you bleed to death? Yeah right." Syaoran snorted. "It's a small loss compared to…" He stopped.
"Nani?" Sakura inquired.
Instead of losing you. Syaoran thought. "Nothing. It doesn't matter."
Sakura frowned, but stopped the questioning there. She looked around. Tomoyo and Meiling were asleep in the corner of the area they were in. Speaking of which…"Where are we?"
"I found this underground workplace." Syaoran explained. "The force seems to be concentrating on the surface. We'll be safe here, for a while."
Sakura remembered their friends. "Chiharu! Naoko! Takashi!" She jumped to her feet. "We have to…ahh!" Her leg was still weak, and Sakura would've fallen, but Syaoran caught her.
"You're not going anywhere. You've got to stay here."
"But what about our friends! Touya! Otousan!" She argued.
"I'll look for them. Don't you worry." He set her safely back in the ground. He got up and started out of the area. I don't like the idea of leaving her, but we have to know what's going on topside.
"Syaoran-kun, matte!" Sakura said.
Syaoran stopped and turned to her. "Nani?"
She smiled. "Be careful, please?"
He nodded. "I promise." Then he left.
Hours later, Sakura was still up worrying about Syaoran. I hope he's okay.
"He's going to be fine." Tomoyo said next to her.
Sakura smiled. "Hai, I know, demo, it still worries me, because…"
Tomoyo smiled. "Because you love him."
"Shhh! Want to wake up Meiling?" Sakura said. They glanced over and saw Meiling still asleep in the corner.
"But you do." Tomoyo smiled.
Sakura nodded meekly. "Hai. That I do. We've been through so much with the Clow Cards, and I know he doesn't get along with Kero but…Wait! Where's Kero?!" Sakura exclaimed.
Tomoyo frowned. "He was at the school, but I don't remember him coming here."
Now Sakura was very worried. "Where is he?"
"Right here!" Sakura turned and smiled as she saw Kero fly in carrying a small bag.
"Kero-chan! Where did you go!?" Sakura held out her hands as Kero dropped the bag.
"Well, with this new force, I thought we'd need some of the old things. I brought the Clow Book, and something else." He handed her a scroll.
"What's this?"
Kero flew and landed on Sakura's shoulder. "It's a prophecy that Clow Reed-san gave me and told me to use if ever the force came back."
Sakura unrolled the scroll and read:
A darkness will form
To conquer all man
Beware of the past
For evil has a plan
Your family will turn
Best friends will change
Do not give up hope
Keep your foes within range
Surrender the wand
Surrender the sword
Give in for a time
Bow to the evil lord
The time will come
When love will bind
The body and soul
The heart and mind
The last part was smudged and she couldn't read it. Sakura frowned. "What does it mean?"
"I don't know. He died before he could tell me. All I know is, it's going to be useful for us against this new force." Kero replied.
Sakura nodded. "Maybe Syaoran-kun will know something about this."
"Yeah, where is the gaki anyway?" Kero asked.
"Kero! Syaoran-kun is not a gaki! Besides, he went to the surface to see what he could find."
"I hope he's careful." Kero said.
"Hai, me too."
Syaoran's first stop was the school, to see if any of their friends were still there. When Syaoran got there, he saw absolutely nothing. All the bodies were gone. Not a trace of their comrades was left. Syaoran made his way to Sakura's house and saw here too, nothing was left. No one was there at all. Syaoran went down the streets seeing the same thing. Everyone in town was gone! He went downtown and saw no one there either.
Syaoran went by a T.V. store and saw an announcement. "All contact to the Tomoeda District has been cut off. More news after this." Syaoran frowned. No contact? That means no help? I'd better go back to Sakura and tell her what I know. Syaoran left topside and once again went underground.
Sakura reread the prophecy, but had no idea what it was about. She paused and sensed something. "He's back." She said even before Syaoran came into view. Meiling, who was now up, ran to Syaoran. "I was so worried!" She put him in a strangle hold.
Syaoran wrenched her off him and walked over to Sakura. "No one was there."
Sakura frowned. "At the school?"
"Anywhere." Syaoran plopped himself next to her. "The school, your house, downtown. Everything's deserted."
Sakura gasped. "Oniichan! Otousan! Where could they be?" She started to cry.
Kero floated up. "They could've escaped."
Syaoran gently took her hand. "Sakura-chan. I think everyone in town's been captured."
"Iie!" Sakura buried her face in Syaoran's chest and cried. Syaoran wrapped his arms around her and squeezed.
Meiling let out a growl, but a glare from Tomoyo, shut her up. Kero pouted.
"Don't worry. We'll find a way to get them back." Syaoran reassured her.
"But what if they get me." She glanced up at him. Her green eyes, bright with unshed tears. Syaoran wanted to glance away, because it caused him so much pain to look at her. "Or you." She finished.
Syaoran gasped silently. She's worried about me getting captured?
"Syaoran-kun, I couldn't bear it if you were caught." Sakura said.
Syaoran pulled her close and whispered in her ear. "I won't let them get either of us."
Sakura smiled and rested her head on his shoulder. Tomoyo sighed at this. Oh! How kawaii!
Both Sakura and Syaoran gasped and bolted up. "Nani?" Tomoyo asked.
"Someone's coming." Kero said. Meiling ran behind Syaoran and Sakura moved in front of Tomoyo.
One shadow could be seen coming from the entrance. Syaoran pulled out his sword. The shadow split into two shadows, until the figures came into the light. "Hahaoya!" Syaoran exclaimed.
"Yue-san!" Sakura cried.
It was true. Standing in front of them was Syaoran's mother and Sakura's guardian Yue.
"How'd you find us?" Syaoran asked.
"Yue-san here, found me, and led me to the Clow Card Mistress." Syaoran's mother answered.
Yue kept his impassive face and said. "I always know where my mistress is."
"How did you escape?" Sakura asked.
Yue looked down. "It wasn't easy…"
Yukito, Yue's other form, sat at home alone, studying for school. The spirits barged in throwing everything into disarray. Yukito changed into Yue and fought off as many of the creatures as possible. No matter how many he fought, more would come. They could feel his presence. Sense who he was.
"I have to get to my mistress!" Yue said. He spread his wings and made a hasty escape.
He flew over the streets, seeing bodies being carried away, all white and dead like. He went to Sakura's house and saw Touya and Fujitaka being carried out of the house. Their bodies too were white as chalk. Yue started sensing for his mistress' aura when he sensed another aura, very close by. It was strong, so Yue followed it, ending up at Syaoran's apartment. There he had found Syaoran's mother searching for her son. He flew down there and after debating, agreed to lead her to Sakura, where Yue was confident they would find Syaoran.
Syaoran nodded after Yue finished his tale. "Arigatou, Yue-san." He bowed his thanks to the angel guardian.
"I didn't do it for you." Yue replied coldly. "I did it for my mistress." Yue knew about Sakura's feeling for Syaoran. Though he wouldn't dream of interfering. This was part of her destiny. He played no part in it.
"What do you know about the evil force?" Kero asked the new arrivals.
Syaoran's mother stepped up. "From what I could tell from the bodies I saw, before they were taken away, their energy was drained out in the easiest way possible, their souls.
"That's why they turned white!" Kero said.
"Oh no! Oniichan and then others!" Sakura exclaimed. "We have to get them back!"
"Matte Sakura! We don't even know where they are!" Syaoran said.
"They're being held at the high school. It's the biggest place in the area." Yue said.
Keep your foes within range…"I'm going there!" Sakura said.
"Not without me!" Syaoran said.
"If Sakura-chan is going, so am I!" Tomoyo exclaimed.
"I go wherever my Syaoran goes!" Meiling added.
"We all go then." Yue decided. Everyone agreed and made plans to get their friends out.
Author's Notes: And the plot thickens, ne? How do you like it so far? More happens in the next chapter. Go on! Read it!