reunited3

reunited part 3

By Shirono

*Author note: Please excuse my many typos*
Severe TXE ahead.

Part #3: RELEASE!

Eriol was hurdling tword the groud, fast. He didn't want to scream, but couldn't help it.
It was what he screamed that was surprising.
"TOMOYOOOOOO!!!!!!!"

And right before he hit the ground, she answered.

"Wing." Tomoyo whispered, touching her mother's wand. She coughed again. WIth every summoning, she became weaker.
The black wings dissapeared from Sonomi's back, and appeared on Eriol, who stopped in mid-air, and floated to the ground. When safely landed, they returned right back to Sonomi.
But just as he landed, so did Suppi. In a heap at his feet.
"Supppiiii!!!" he cried. He looked up, and saw Keroberos circling.
Sonomi growled and snatched the wand from her weak daughters reach.
"Stop, momma..." she said.
"No." she said." I will take care of his so that I won't be lonely again. I wont let him take you away again.
Kero! Attack him!"

Eriol was scared out of his wits now. And without Syaoran watching, he freely expressed his fear.
"AHHHHHH! Tomoyo, don't let her! Its the lonely card! She is under its spell!"
Eriol jumped over his rosebed, onto the bench, and up to his balcony. He was directly across from the garden wall where Sonomi was clutching her daughter.
"I know, Eriol. I'm sorry....." her head rolled to one side.
"Tomoyo! Please hold on! I'll save you soon!" he called.
"Sonomi! Please realize that these are black cards! They need a source of power! That source is-!"
Kero tackled him off the wall, roaring.
"Kero....why?" he asked, looking into Kero's deep amber eyes.
He merely huffed, and swatted at Eriol's head.
"Ung! Tomoyo...hold on..."He pushed kero off of himself and ran.
He didn't know where to.

Sonomi looked at him.
"You can't run away this time! I will avenge my lonliness!" She raised her wand and cried.
"No!" Eriol alled back. He tripped on a vine in the garden, toppling over.
"You have nothing to avenge! Don't you want your daughter to be happy!?"
"Silence!" She waved her wand at him. "Broken!"
Eriol heard his leg snap. He merely winced. He couldn't give up now.
"Every time you use those cards...Tomoyo gets weaker!!"
Sonomi dropped her wand.
"Thats not true!"
Eriol stood on his good leg.
"It is! You are killing the daughter you strive to have only to yourself!
Don't you want her to be happy?"
Sonomi put Tomoyo down. She held the cards in front of her and stared at them.
"You gave me the promise....you promised happiness! Vengeance! My daughter! Have you lied!?"
She began to cry and dropped the cards.
They floated in miscellaneous directions, but one floated down to Eriol. It was the Posess.
He pulled a lantern down from the garden wall, opened it, and set the card aflame.
Kero roared, and shook his head.
"Eriol!" he growled. "Whats happened to Sakura?"
Eriol wasn't listening. "Sonomi! Save your daughter! Dont pay attention to the cards!"
He tried to limp over to her. Then he shook his head. "Kero, help me!"
Keroberos flew over to him and Eriol got on his back. They flew up to Sonomi, who was still sobbing.
"If I don't eliminate you, Ill be alone!" SHe stood up, as if ready to attack again with new gusto.
"Kero, burn eveything! Quickly!"
Kero breathed fire out onto the garden.
The "Wings" were caught.
Sonomi's wings dissapeared.
The "Lost" Caught on fire.
All the cupboards filled back up with the missing items.
The "Broken" caught.
Eriol's leg felt better. The cabinets and stairways in Eriol's Home became new again.
The "Plague" burned.
The "Lonely" was caught.
Sonomi looked up, scared.
The "Illness", finally caught on fire.
All the Flowers became healthy again. The fire fizzled out. Sakura, Syaoran, Suppi, Naruku, all awakened and looked about, confused.

But Tomoyo was still weak.

Eriol rushed to her side and held her.
"Tomoyo! Why are you still ill!?"
Tomoyo coughed.
"One more..."
he turned , suddenly.
Sonomi was sitting on the wall staring at a card.
Eriol grabbed the card from her.
"The...promise?"
Sonomi began to cry again.
"It told me! It promised that I'd have my daughter back! That I would be happy! That....that I wouldn't be lonely!"
Eriol held up the card to Kero, who breathed on it, and it burned.

Sonomi screamed. Her clothes became her normal buisness wear, her features faded to thier natural light complexion, and the BLACK book fell to the ground, shattering.
She stood there, on the wall, with Sakura, Syaoran, Naruku, Kero, Suppi, and Eriol and Tomoyo staring at her.
She ran her hand through her hair.
"Well, this doesn't happen everyday..." she commented coolly.

Eriol hugged Tomoyo, who hugged him back strongly.

Everything was in order now, right?

No more surprises, right?

Riiight. Maybe in a fanfic by someone else.

Sakura stood up and looked at the broken pile that was the Black book.
"Eriol, something is here..."
Everyone crowded around as Sakura pushed aside the ashes and debris.
there was a card.
Eriol picked it up.
"The....Love.....?"
Tomoyo smiled and him and took his hands.
"See, its the rival of the black cards. It was missing when the Black Cards existed. Now, through YOUR love, it was born! Your love resuced me from my own magic."
Eriol flipped it over.
It read "Eriol".

And the first, the ONLY , Eriol card was born. One was all that was needed.

The End.