Gomen it took me so long

Gomen it took me so long! But I am working on another story.. but here is the next chapter s enjoy! And please review!

Chapter 5: The Gate

Sakura opened her eyes to see something big and whitish next to her, and a little black ball on her lap. She was next to Setae and Chibi was on her lap. She looked around adjusting her eyes to the light. Where is Syaoran? She thought. Sakura picked up the tiny ball in her lap and set it next to Setae. She got up and stretched a bit. Then she went back at looking for Syaoran. A fast movement caught her eye, it was in the forest. A tree began to fall. Syaoran.

"Wow." said Syaoran as he sliced through the tree. It was just like cutting through butter.

"Syaoran!" a voice screamed through the trees.

Sakura pushed some branches aside and saw Syaoran with the sword in his hands. They smiled a bit. And there was a moment of silence.

"Sorry, did I interrupt you?" she asked

Syaoran quickly shook his head. Then another moment of silence

"Umm, you must be hungry right?" asked Sakura

"Well, yeah, I guess…" he answered

"Ok, I'll go out and get some more berries." She said with a smile

She turned around heading back from where she came from, Syaoran opened his mouth to say something, but she was gone before his first word was out. He looked at the spot where she had just been and sighed.

When he was finished practising he went back to the waterfall. Sakura was eating some of the berries. She saw him coming and signalled him to come and sit down. After breakfast Chibi and Setae gave him some more information on Fovu. The day passed like that and it was getting dark.

"Are you sure the gate will open today?" asked Sakura

"Yes we are sure." answered Chibi. "And we must go soon."

"Huh? Where? Why?" asked Sakura

"Well, we do not get our energy from food, like you humans, we must all go to a… specific location where our energy, how can I say it… recycles itself?"

"Oh. Well I think you better go. Don't worry about us." She said to them

They looked at each other and seemed to be talking, but after a while they nodded and left.

Sakura sighed a little bored. She looked over to the water fall. Syaoran was there just staring at it like last night. He noticed Sakura looking at him and looked over to where she was. She gave him a shy smile as he walked over.

"I sure hope we can get home tonight." He said to her

She nodded. Another one of those awkward moments. But it was soon interrupted by a very loud crashing noise that shook the ground. Sakura lost her balance and fell backwards, but was caught by Syaoran just in time.

"Are you all right?" he asked

"Yes, thank you… but, what was that?" she asked

The trees far off fell as another crash rattled the forest.

"I don't know, but it's getting very close very fast, it might be…" he didn't finish his sentence "Sakura, there is a cave behind the waterfall, please go and hide.

"But I can't leave you alone." She said

"Thank you but I will be much calmer knowing you are safe." He said smiling

She hesitated a bit, but finally ran over and crossed the water, the cave was relatively small but she did fit fine enough. She could see outside occasionally, and beyond the edges of the waterfall. Syaoran was at the tree line waiting in position. What seemed like a brown tentacle popped out from the trees strait for Syaoran, with a quick move of his sword he sliced it. The creature screamed and popped out of the forest causing various tress to fall, Syaoran jumped out of the way to avoid being crushed.

A hideous creature emerged and faced Syaoran. It had the gigantic body of a worm separated in segments tentacles all over his body, some strait, some ending in what seemed like a net and a few with blades. But two tentacles stood out from the rest, they were bigger and ended small spheres. His head was small compared to his enormous body, like a perfect sphere, with fore eyes on opposite sides of the head, so that he could see left, right, behind, and forward. And on the very top was a stone, it wasn't circular like Setae's or Chibi's. This one was shaped like a triangle, a tree dimensional pyramid.

A rain of the creatures tentacles fell upon Syaoran, Sakura gasped, She couldn't see him anymore behind all those tentacles, she was about to go out and help when she saw the gleam of his sword break through. One of his big arms came down to where he was, he managed to dodge it just before the sphere hit the floor. It was like a demolition ball, a huge crater was left where the small ball had hit.

Syaoran jumped on a tree. Thinking that it would slow him down, he headed deeper in the forest hoping he would have less movement and agility. The creature fell in the trap and followed Syaoran in the forest. When the were surrounded by trees again Syaoran tried his best to get to the pyramid on the beast's head. Sakura not seeing anyone jumped out of the cave and began to search for them. But instead she saw a tiny ray of light appear in the middle of the river, it got wider and was now the size of a tube reaching the sky. A sort of wind came from it, like a type of suction. Could it be the gate? She heard the sound of trees crashing to her left and went over to see what was wrong.

Syaoran had tried several times to get up on the creature's head but had failed. Fovu was getting frustrated not being able to move. Syaoran jumped attempting once more. Fovu extended his wrecking-ball arms and caught Syaoran with one of his tentacles, slamming him on the ground. Then he spun rapidly around with his arms extended, knocking out all the trees. He saw Syaoran vulnerably on the floor and extended one of his net ended tentacles.

"Syaoran!" screamed Sakura

Hearing her voice Syaoran snapped back into reality and sliced the net. The beast looked furiously at Sakura and fired one of his spherical arms at her. Sakura only covered herself with her arms.

"Sakura!" shouted Syaoran running to where she was

Sakura felt Syaoran in front of her and then powerful push on her chest and stomach. Syaoran had received the impact for her. The two of them went rolling until stopped by a fallen tree. Sakura got up rapidly still a little dazed she looked around for Syaoran and saw him laying sideways, motionless against the tree.

"Syaoran! Syaoran wake up!" she sobbed

She took his shoulders and turned him over right side up. She shook his shoulders screaming at him to wake up. Very slowly he opened his eyes.

"Are you ok?" he managed to barely whisper.

Sakura cried and put her arms around his neck.

"Why did you do that? I'm so sorry! This was all my fault!" she cried

Syaoran somehow managed to sit up and put his hand on her shoulder.

"Sakura… I, I love you… and I would give up anything, even my own life to save you." He said softly

Sakura stared at him for a while. 'He… he loves me?' she wondered 'Do I love him also?'

Their precious moment was interrupted by the sound of Fovu's roar. Another net ended tentacle came forward. Sakura had slightly faster reflexes at that time, she pushed Syaoran to the side. The net broke down to hundreds of tiny tentacles that wrapped around her body.

"Sakura!" Syaoran shouted.

"This isn't over Syaoran! Do it now while he is distracted with me." She said to him.

The creature had started to move, since there were no trees anymore the monster could see the gate. He was now moving towards it. Syaoran frantically searched for the sword, he saw a gleam beneath some leaves and rushed over. He saw a black steak on the creatures back. In that black streak Fovu could feel nothing. That's what Chibi had told him. So he jumped on the small streak and ran up it's back. And since it was moving it didn't even see him. He looked over to where Sakura was, she was not moving and her body was limp. He ignored the pain in his stomach and ran faster. Reaching the head, the monster stopped and flung all his tentacles towards him. Syaoran's hand was quicker, with one clean slice the pyramid was cut in two. The monster's tentacles disappeared then his body and finally his head. Syaoran fell to the ground and beside him, the two pieces of the pyramid.

Syaoran managed to get on his knees, he was breathing heavily, and the pain in his stomach was increasing, but he didn't have time to pay attention to it, he got up and searched for Sakura. It was dark, but a tiny tinge of pink stood out between the logs. He rushed over to where she was.

"Sakura!? Sakura!?" he shouted once beside her.

He kneeled down next to her and took her hand putting his finger beneath her wrist. He let out a huge sigh of relief as he felt her pulse. He took her in his arms and hugged her. Then he looked back at the door. It was pretty big now, and it was now higher than he could see. He looked back at the still uncouncios girl in his arms and sighed.

"Time to go…"

A/N: oooh, what will happen? Well please keep reading, and don't forget to review! ^^