"What The Cards Were For"
A Card Captor Fanfiction
By: Bekah-chan
Rated: PG (for,
scary stuff)
Disclaimer: I don't now, have never, and will never own Card Captors. *sigh*
Author's Notes: Okay, now I've read a lot of stuff, both books and fanfiction. Mostly Science Fiction/Fantasy. So I've read a lot of descriptions of various bad guys and monsters, most of which is still floating around in my head. The point is, while I'm pretty sure the 'monster' in this fic is completely of my own invention, it was probably influenced by some of the said descriptions. So, any resemblance to books/fics out there (alive or dead) is purely coincidental, and not to be taken seriously. `K? ^_^
Thanks for all those Reviews! ^_^ You guys think I could get 100 by the last chapter???
Chapter 34:
"Mistress It's me, really!" Yue protested. His hands went up in a 'I'm harmless' gesture, to go with the 'I'm innocent' expression his face was still sporting.
"If you're you, why are you acting so strange?" Sakura demanded.
"Well, I'm more 'me', than the 'me' you saw, when you last saw me. You see?" the smirk was back.
"Quit goofing off!" Sakura pushed Yue back into a standing position, and folded her arms, glaring, "Just tell us what's going on!!"
"Okay! Okay! Calm down! It's just rather complicated, that's all," that smirk was still there. Sakura, who had always been a kind person, had to restrain herself from slapping it off his face.
"Yue! If that *is* who you are!" her eyes narrowed.
"Yes, Mistress?" he inquired politely.
"Talk. Now."
Yue examined the Card Mistress, and decided to be prudent, and explain. Before she pounded him into the carpet. "I'm still me. But I'm Yukito now, too."
"What?"
"Yukito and I, well we're not a 'we' anymore, we're an 'I'"
Sakura's eyebrows rose in disbelief, "So what do we call you? Yuekito?"
"No, but it does have a nice ring to it," the return of the smirk.
"Just explain!" Sakura tried to remember why she considered Yue/Yukito to be a *nice* person.
"Okay, see if you can follow."
*Glare*
"Yukito was made from facets of Yue's psyche."
*Nod*
"When Yue was holding the Guardians' Barrier Yukito suggested that it would be better, energy-wise, if Yue stopped trying to keep their personalities separate. So, Yue absorbed Yukito back into his psyche, and now I'm 'me' again!" this time Yue gave a real smile, and Sakura knew he was telling the truth. However odd that truth was. For Sakura, odd was pretty much a daily occurrence, so she was sure she could adjust to this eventually. But there was one more thing she needed to know:
"How does you suddenly becoming obnoxious, fit into this little scenario?"
"Hmm, side-effect?" That smirk just had to go! But, before Sakura could tell Yue just what he could do with his smirk, they all heard a panicked voice from across the room. Turning they saw Touya, who had been keeping watch at the window.
"Um, guys?" Touya's attention didn't deviate from his view through Syaoran's blue curtains, as he talked, "I think you should come look at this."
"Look at what?" Syaoran asked, as they walked over.
"Look at the Big and Scary, thing that's currently hovering, ominously, over Tokyo."
They all gathered at the window to see what Touya was talking about. Peering through the livingroom curtains, Sakura saw one of her worst nightmares. It covered half the sky, an opaque cloud of evil, blocking out the sun. Reminding Sakura strongly of it's minions, it was a tangible darkness. It's only discerning feature a huge pair of eyes burning a sickly yellow-green. Those eyes, located roughly in the center of the darkness, locked onto Sakura's and stared into her very soul.
~Sorceress~ She heard it's cold voice in her mind, hissing like a snake. ~Sorceress, you will not get away from me this time. Soon, I will have your power for my own.~
Sakura started shaking. She had seen this, in her dreams. Dreams that she had discounted as nightmares, because she didn't want to face the truth. The dreams had been visions. And she could no longer deny what those visions had told her. She had *seen* what would happen if she failed to defeat this thing. She felt the responsibility of killing this evil monster, of saving the World, tighten like a band across her chest, choking off her breath. She had seen what this monster would do to the World if it got her power, and it was much worse than death.
Syaoran:
Beside him Syaoran felt Sakura start to tremble, he put a comforting hand on her back, "Sakura it's okay, we'll beat this thing, I know it," he winced at the trite promise, and wished he had something more encouraging to say. Wished he really knew that it was okay, and that they would all pull through it alive. For the first time in his life, Syaoran was completely unsure of a battle's outcome. He didn't like the feeling.
"Syaoran." He leaned down to catch the words on Sakura's whispered breath. "Syaoran, I've seen this before." She had?!?
"Where?"
"A vision, I've had dreams, nightmares, about it for years." Uh-oh, this was really bad. Sakura's visions were usually right on the dot.
"Syaoran," her voice was even lower now, "it knows who I am. It wants my magic."
"Your magic? Why? To destroy the world, like Kero said?" Could it be? The Fluff-ball right about something?
"No, not destroy," She was past trembling, and on her way to violent shaking, "It feeds on pain, Syaoran, things have to be alive to feel pain. It wants us alive. And it wants to use my power to bring pain. To everything."
To Be Continued ^_^