Disclaimer: I do not own Card Captors :(
AN: I just wanted to say for fun that MeiHua means "Beautiful flower", heh.
" Speech
* Thoughts
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~ Inserted sound like laughing or
coughing
Shattered Blossoms
Sakura blinked a couple times and found herself staring at her mother. She felt tears of happiness spring from her eyes as she ran to her.
"Mother!!!" She was almost there when a sudden force shot her back. Her eyes watered. "...Mother?"
"Stay away Sakura....you killed me enough...actually, you did kill me..."
Sakura gasped, "No! I didn't! Mom, I didn't!"
Then her father appereared with a sad frown on his face.
"Why Sakura?"
"...Why?"
"You killed all of us squirt." Touya appeared.
"You....killed your family!!!"
Sakura backed away, and her family kept on coming closer. "Stop haunting me! I didn't kill you all!" Then the scene changed.
"Sakura!"
Sakura turned around and saw Tomoyo. She was crying.
"Tomoyo-chan! What's wrong?" She asked, running up to her friend.
She pushed her back. "Stay awake from me!" She held up a ripped up dress. "Why did you ruin it Sakura?! I made it just for you and it took me the whole night! You could have just said you didn't like it! You didn't have to rip it up!" She screamed while crying.
Sakura shook her head. "But I didn't rip it! I...I didn't even know you made a dress for me!"
"Whatever Sakura! I never ever want to see you again!"
"Matte (wait)!" Sakura reached out to her friend, but then the scene changed again. *What's happening?!*
"Pathetic Kinomoto."
Sakura gasped, and saw Syaoran. "Shaoran!!" She called in happiness and jumped into his arms.
He pushed her roughly away. "Get off me Kinomoto. Are you that pathetic? That you go around clinging onto boys when you're depressed?" He said in a mocking tone.
Sakura's eyes watered. "....Shaoran...what's wrong?"
"Nothing's wrong but yourself," He gave her a cold icy glare that sent a shiver down Sakura's spine. "You would have been dead now, if it weren't for me."
Sakura felt her heart sink deeper and deeper into depression when all of a sudden she felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned around and met amber eyes.
"Shaoran?!" She looked back at the other Syaoran infront of her.
"Don't listen to that Syaoran, Sakura. This is all an illusion of what you hope will not happen, got that?" Syaoran explained to the crying Sakura.
She nodded, "But how will we get out of this?"
"The Choice card most be doing this..."
"You are wrong!"
Sakura and Syaoran turned around to the direction of the voice. Someone emerged from the shadows.
"What?! You're not the choice card!" Sakura exclaimed.
The figure was a women with black hair touching the floor, and black finger nails that were incredibily long. She wore a tight black dress and black high heels that clicked when she walked.
"I am not the choice card. I am the nightmare card!" She cackled.
Syaoran looked at Sakura. "Did you create that card too?!"
"No..." Sakura's voice shook. "Which means..."
"You didn't seal the cards power Sakura! Which means that the choice card can create its own cards!" Syaoran said.
The Nightmare laughed, "Smart boy, but not smart enough! Prepare to die in your own nightmares..." The Nightmare raised one hand a staff appeared with a blackish purple orb ontop of it.
"Thoughts, and dream, hate, and fear! Send these cardcaptors into their worst nightmare!" She swung the staff out and two black orbs shot out.
"Watch out Sakura!" Syaoran jumped out of the way and continued to run as a black orb chaced him.
Sakura darted out of the way with the jump card, and quickly spun around. "Shaoran! Watch out!!!!!!!!"
Sakura's eyes widened in horror as the black orb surrounded Syaoran and he disappeared. "No....NO!!!"
Sakura glared at the nightmare, and jumped out of the way as the black orb zoomed by. "Freeze card! Freeze the orb of darkness! Release and dispel!"
She flung the card out and hit it with her staff, sending out the icy spirit. The black orb froze, and dropped to the ground shattering into a bilion pieces.
"WHERE IS SYAORAN?!" She screamed, her star wand held tightly infront of her.
The Nightmare laughed loudly. "Away in his nightmare Card Mistress!"
Sakura grew angry, and she closed her eyes. "Firey, Earthy, Watery! I call upon your powers and join Freeze!" She raised the three cards in front of her, she knew this was going to take alot of energy, and maybe her life if it was needed. "Combine your powers!"
Watery and Firey swirled around each other, and the Earth card and Freeze card joined them. They soon swirled into a tornado and spun right into the Nightmare.
She let out a high pitched scream.
"Return to your power comfined! Nightmare!" She held out her wand and the dark card was sucked in. She looked at the card, and fell onto her knees, weak from using so much magic. "Where are you Syaoran?! Why aren't you back..."
"Because you must defeat me, the creator of that card!"
Sakura remembered that voice. It was the choice. "Choice card! Stop this, and return to me!"
"No card mistress! You made the wrong choices, and when you do, you must learn from them!" A shadowy figure appeared with a cloak covering their face, and basically their whole body.
"...Fine! I will defeat you no matter what!" Sakura slowly stood up, she felt weak, but she would not show it.
The shadowy figure waved their hand and two cards appeared with their face down. "Pick a card."
"What?!" Sakura asked.
"Pick a card."
"We're not playing poker here!"
The Choice chuckled, "No we're not. We're playing a game of choice."
"And why are we?"
"Do not ask questions. If you pick the right card, your boy will come back to you. If you pick the wrong one, you will be sent into a nightmare to!"
Sakura reached out for the card on the right, her hand shaking. Then she stopped. *No...maybe it's the left card...* She moved her hand over to the left. *...Oh please...* She flipped the card over, her eyes closed, afraid of what she picked. She slowly opened her eyes when nothing happened.
She stared at the card. It had a big 'WRONG' on it.
"Hahaha, you picked the wrong card. Now I will send you into a nightmare that you will remain in forever!"
"Wait! Before you do, let me see the other card!" Sakura demanded.
The Choice didn't move, and finally said in a bitter voice. "Fine."
Sakura flipped the card over and it also read 'WRONG'. "Hey! That's not fair! They both say WRONG on it!"
"That was just a little warm up to see if you were thinking." The Choice muttered, and he waved his hands over the cards and they vanished. "Here is the real game."
Four round tiny balls that looked like candy appeared. One red, one blue, one green, and one yellow.
"Out of these four, one will bring you and your friend out of this. One, will kill you. Another will send you into a nightmare. And another one will cause the lost of memory to everyone you knew and loved." The Choice explained. "Basically, you have one right choice. You most swallow whatever ball you pick."
Sakura frowned, as she looked at all the balls. *Oh god...Syaoran...Tomoyo...Meiling...my family...be with me...* She reached out for the red one. *No...red...it isn't a good color...it resembles blood...* She moved her hand to the blue one. She paused, she could sense something wrong with this one. She moved to the yellow one. *Yellow...it's the color for jealousy...I don't know...*
Finally she took a breath and eyed the green one. *Green...must be green! It's Syaoran's color...* She picked it up, and quickly shoved it in her mouth.
She felt heat rise in her, and slowly drop down. Suddenly a black hole out of the sky appeared and Syaoran dropped from it.
"Ouch!"
"SHAORAN!!!!!!" Sakura ran over to him and hugged him tightly.
"Sakura! You're making me choke!"
Sakura released her hug. "I was so worried!"
The Choice raised one hand and it extended out to reach for Sakura. It grasped Sakura by the neck.
"Hey! You said if...I picked.. the right one! You would let...us go!" Sakura said in difficulty.
Syaoran stood up, his sword drawn. "LET HER GO!"
"Yes I did say that card mistress. But did I say I can not do something before I release you all and return to my card form?"
Sakura gasped.
The Choice took the red ball and shoved it in her mouth. "There, now you may all leave!"
And then the choice turned into a card. Sakura fell back, and Syaoran ran up to her.
"What was that about?! What did he just shove in your mouth?!" Syaoran said urgently.
"I...I don't know...But I know it's bad Syaoran." Sakura held his hands tightly in hers.
A clock appeared, 5 minutes away from midnight, and a door was next to it.
"I think that means we have five minutes to get out of here..." Sakura's grip tightened.
Syaoran started towards the door.
"No! Stop Shaoran!" Sakura ran up to him and hugged him tightly. "Something bad is going to happen. And before we step out of this door, I have to say something to you."
"...Ok."
"I...Wo Ai Ni (I love you)!" She cried into his shoulder.
Syaoran felt himself turn red. *She loves me...* "I love you to...Sakura..." He was slightly confused at her sudden reactions, but he hugged her tightly back.
"Shaoran, always, always remember a person in your heart named Sakura Kinomoto? Alright?" Sakura looked into his eyes.
"Ok...What's wrong though?"
"Just promise me!" She held out her pinky, and Syaoran held his out. And they interlocked.
"I promise."
And they opened the door, and stepped
out.
AN: Mwuhahaha a cliff hanger! But
I'm going to write the next chapter real soon and fast! This story is going
to soon end just to remind you all ;) But I will soon start on another
story. Anyways, please R+R, and stay tooned!
~XiaoLing~
