Disclaimer: Card Captor Sakura does not belong to me, however I do own Zephel and Lily they are mine totally mine!
Author's Notes: Hey everyone! I really enjoyed getting so many reviews for my story so far, they're very encouraging so if you're reading my story now and don't get bored of it please please review! This chapter of the story is a bit confusing because I need it to be kind of mysterious so I can't reveal too much. I'll do a bit of explaining most likely in the next chapter when Lily finally meets Sakura and the rest of the CCS gang, I can't wait to get to that chapter!
~Destiny~
Chapter Two~Identity Revealed
As Sakura slowly fell into a deep sleep, not far away in a newly furnished mansion was the person of Sakura's dream.
The young girl who had stood atop the dream Tokyo Tower and the real Tokyo Tower sat in a dark shadowed room and the shadow on her face remained. A shadowing spell to hide one's identity.
The only light in the room was a single flickering candle and the embers of morning sunlight trickling through the curtained windows. She sat in a wine-colored armchair and sitting beside her arm was a strange creature, a small living creature.
It was an ancient creature from long ago, one that possessed magical powers, it had not been created by it's current owner but by a powerful sorcerer long ago who's name has been lost, but it was a magical creature. The humans had given the name called gryphon.
The gryphon was in what was a form like that of Kero-chan except that this creature had not a false form and so it had become smaller to fit it's master's needs. It was the size of the young girl's palm and was as long as the length from her fingertips to her wrist. It was a magnificent creature, a work of pure art it's creator had said when the gryphon had been first born.
It was a creature made from the bodies of two of earth's greatest predators, the lion and the eagle. It had the head of the eagle, a pair of keen eyes that could see for miles and had been enhanced further so that it could see through walls of whatever material whether it was magic or not.
A large yellow beak that was razor-sharp a dangerous weapon that could be used to snap a creature's neck as easily as breaking a brittle branch from a tree.
A pair of small wings was folded delicately against the blue-furred body of a lion. Four paws lay underneath the body, it's sharp claws sheathed, as a blue-furred tail waving slowly at a leisured pace as a pair of golden eyes blinked imperiously.
"Are you quite finished yet? You won't reveal your identity to her and yet you warn her, why are you playing around? The fact that you warned her is already unorthodox, but you're playing around while you should be serious that I've decided. You haven't changed at all over the centuries. Not one bit, joking around and being unorthodox."
The voice was light and airy, but the tone was reprimanding and resigned. Underneath the small voice was the remaining hints of a deep booming one, one filled with centuries of wisdom and dry humor.
"I'm quite finished and I wasn't playing around, well not necessarily anyway, I want to make sure if she can be trusted before I do reveal myself to her. I did let her catch a brief glimpse of me, if she recognizes me when we meet that it proves she has the powers that are rumored she has. I being safe and I do like being mysterious sometimes besides SHE was encouraging me or shall I say forcing me to so what could I say about it?"
"You shouldn't listen to her so much, she hasn't got much sense."
"You wouldn't insult her if you weren't the one who can't hear her screaming and shouting at the moment, perhaps I should have agreed back then when you suggested I project a link to you so you can hear what she says. You'd get an earful right now."
The gryphon shook his head rigorously and the girl grinned then continued.
"I know sending her a warning isn't normal, but I think she deserves to be warned and besides I won't feel as guilty when everything around her changes into chaos. Another reason of mine for sending her a warning is to see if she'll take action upon my warning. You could say it's sort of like a test to see if she respects and believes the dreams that she has. I want to know that we're helping someone who's actually who they say she is, kind, cheerful, responsible and powerful." The girl replied calmly though a bit of sheepishness underneath her calm tone.
The small gryphon snorted delicately and a hand reached out to scratch behind the gryphon's ears, who then purred contentedly.
"I really hope that Kinomoto-san is really who she seems to be I like her and she seems like a nice person to me. I think I'd like to be her friend, it would be nice to meet a new friend and spend time with other people other than well the others." The girl murmured hopefully as the gryphon gave a small sigh whether it was from contentment or exasperation or maybe both.
"If you can be friends with that boy, I don't see how you can't be friends with the Card Mistress. Besides you'd make friends with the most bad tempered, most despicable person or creature ever on the planet and still be able to get along fine."
"Don't be so dramatic, Zephel and besides I like making friends it's just that I don't like being lonely." The gryphon named Zephel ignored this comment and retorted,
"Well I'm not the one's being overly dramatic and mysterious, Lily." The girl, who was called Lily, laughed again and gathered the tiny gryphon in her arms giving him a warm hug.
"You keep saying things like that and I might actually consider that mind-link we were discussing back a minute ago." Lily warned softly as she gently ruffled the gryphon's blue feathers as she rose from her chair and headed towards the steps to her room.
It was so quiet and briefly that feeling of loneliness stuck her heart again, no that wasn't necessary true, she had Zephel didn't she? Still she couldn't help, but miss her friends who were halfway across the globe. America was suddenly so far away.
"You would do something like that, Lily." Zephel's voice startled her from her thoughts and she was suddenly aware that even though her friends were far away, Zephel would forever be by her side, it had always been like that hadn't it?
Smiling mischievously she replied teasingly, "Yep, absolutely, I would."
The gryphon sighed softly and snuggled deeper into her arms, his golden eyes drooping tiredly as the warmth of his mistress' arms began to lull him to sleep. "She won't be going out tonight will she and I mean tonight since its morning already. I feel like I could sleep all day and all night, I'm that tired."
"I doubt it, wait a moment. No, she says that she's not going to be going out tonight since she hasn't secured a target yet. She won't admit it, but I think she's exhausted as well, we did a lot toni-last night. We placed shields on the main point and I shielded our presence, then tracked him down. Then we went home and I made sure to contact the others to warn them and after that I had to use the shadow spell and the dream spell to warn Kinomoto-san. Usually this wouldn't take a lot out of me, but the shields took a lot of my strength so I took some of hers."
Lily chuckled suddenly a smirk on her face as Zephel glanced up at her curiously before snuggling back under her arm. Rose was probably talking to her, the small gryphon shrugged and moved into a more comfortable position before promptly falling asleep, unable to fend off sleep any longer.
Lily smiled tenderly at the sleeping gryphon and cuddled him protectively as she heard Rose whisper a good night.
"Good night Rose, sleep tight and have nice dreams." She replied softly as she continued her way up the flight of steps.
Lily reached her room and gently pushed open the door carefully juggling Zephel as to not awaken him.
She placed the softly snoring gryphon against her pillow and covered him up with a blanket. She then quickly undressed and changed into her nightgown, which she scowled down at. She certainly didn't like wearing it, but it had become a habit that had been induced by her persistent mother, perhaps that was an understatement?
She shook her head and pulled out the elastic bands holding her braids and a wave silk chestnut brown hair fell.
Lily sat down by the window as she brushed her hair gazing out at the window staring out into the dark blue sky dotted with stars.
The silver crescent moon shone brightly and once again for every single night she made a prayer and a wish before crawling into bed.
She soon fell asleep as the soft moonlight and the soft snoring from Zephel drew her into a sweet dream of someone far away and much missed.
Well what do you think? Review and as always feel free to email me, criticism and comments are very welcome whether they are bad or good. Do you want to know who Rose is? Did I do a good job of maintaining the mystery and didn't make it all too confusing? Who's Lily dreaming about? Find out in the next chapter! Thanks for reading if you're still here.