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The Final Task
--*The Test of Love*--









Syaoran gasped and jumped back just as Sakura swung her sealing wand down at his head. She gripped her wand tighter, with a very angry expression on her face.

"Die!" She screamed again.

Syaoran called upon his sword to block Sakura's attacks. "Stop Sakura! What are you doing?!"

"Killing you!" She answered with an emotionless voice.

Syaoran looked into Sakura's eyes. He gasped when he noticed it wasn't her usual shimmering emerald green, but instead it was kind of blank and a dull black empty color. Like how Rika was possessed with the Sword Card once.

"Sakura! Snap out of it!" Syaoran said, while blocking an attack.

"Snap out of what?!" Sakura snapped and closed her eyes. "Firey, Watery, Earthy! Come to my aid! Release and dispel!"

The Clow Book opened and the three cards were sent out towards Syaoran. Syaoran reached for one of his yellow cards.

"Fire come forth!" He flung the thing at Earthy. "Water come forth!" He flung another card at Firey. He ducked as Watery zoomed above him. "Lighting come forth!" He threw the ofadu at Watery.

"Sakura! You're under a spell! I know it! Just wake up! Fight!" Syaoran pleaded as he blocked again. "I don't want to hurt you!"

"Yeah right! You always want to hurt me!" Sakura cried. "You said you didn't love me! You said it was all a foolish game! IT WAS ALL A GAME!" She screamed, but no tears came out of her blank and black eyes.

Syaoran flinched at the words he remembered coming out of his own mouth. "Sakura...I didn't mean it...."

Sakura swung her staff down on Syaoran, missing him by a hair.

"Sakura! I love you! Always! Forever!" He screamed.

Sakura stopped for a while.

Syaoran stared at her. She seemed to be in pain.

"...Sakura...?" Syaoran stepped closer.

"Stay back Syaoran!" Sakura's eyes flashed to an emerald green. "Stay away from me now!" Her eyes seemed to go blank again, then emerald. "NOW! GO!" Then her eyes went blank. "DIE!"

Syaoran gasped and fell back as her wand hit him in the knee. He moaned a bit but jumped back up. "Sakura! Stop this now! I dno't want to fight!" He jumped back up to the platform, avoiding his death.

He saw the Clow Book out of the corner of his eye. He suddenly had an idea and ran towards the book just as Sakura was running up the platform.

"Sakura! Stop!" Syaoran said while taking out a clow card.

"Hey! That's my clow card!" She yelled furiously. "GIVE IT BACK!"

Syaoran flipped the card over so Sakura could see which card it was. "Sakura...come back...fight! I love you..."

"...Love Card.." She read the card, and it started to glow, and the Love came flowing out in swirls of pink. The card went around Sakura, twisting and spinning like ribbons around her.

Sakura screamed. She felt her body burn and something being taken from her body. Syaoran gasped and ran to her, but Sakura shot a hand out to stop him.

"Stay away Syaoran!" She said.

Syaoran saw that it was his Sakura. The real Sakura. "Sakura...what's wrong with you?!"

Sakura placed a hand on her chest to sooth the pain. She fell onto her knees in pain. "L...Libra!"

The Libra Card came to Sakura's aid, and Sakura felt her emotions being balanced out. "Syaoran! Get out of here!"

"No! Not without you Sakura!" Syaoran said while running to her side and holding her in his arms.

Sakura brushed him aside just as her eyes flashed blank again. "DIE!!!" She hit Syaoran hard in the chest with her wand.

Syaoran fell against the cold marble floor witha thud. He felt the world spin around. *No!! I can't...I can't black out!!! I can't!!* He could hear Sakura walking closer, her footsteps echoing the room.

He couldn't get up. He felt his whole body ache as he starred up at the doomed ceiling. Stars. Stars filled the sky now, glittering and twinkling.

Sakura's shadow casted down upon Syaoran. She had a smirk on her face. "It is time for your death Li Syaoran."

"Look!" Syaoran pointed with his finger up to the ceiling.

Sakura followd his finger, and up to the ceilling. She saw stars, millions of them twinkling against the night sky.

Syaoran, seeing that she was staring at the stars, continued. "Do you see those stars? They look like..."

"A heart..." They both said in unison.

Sakura felt herself breaking out of a shell. "GO AWAY!!!!!!!! GET AWAY FROM ME!!!!" She screamed.

Syaoran was confused at what Sakura was saying, but his eyes widened when Sakura felt onto the floor, and something misty and swirly came floating out of her body. It floated up to the ceiling, and disappeared in a flash.

Syaoran stood up slowly, and limped over to Sakura. "Sakura!!! Sakura...wake up!!" He shook her gently.

Suddenly, Sakura's aura flared and flung Syaoran back against a wall. She floated over to the Clow Book on the platform, her eyes were still closed, but her arm outstretched to the book. With her other hand, she felt for the key and she opened the book.

All the cards came flying out and swirled around Sakura, all shimmering with light. The cards all started to glow a bright bright pink, and Sakura started glowing with them all.

"Key that hides the forces of darkness, show your true form before me, I, Sakura, your mistress, command you under our contract, release..." Sakura said in a flat voice, her eyes shot open.

Her key started to shake and twist and finally changed into the star wand. The cards all started to turn a pink color, and they all started chanting.

"Mistress..."

They all floated into the 'Sakura Book', and Sakura felt her knees give in and she fell onto the cold marble floor.

Syaoran was stunned at what had happened right in front of him. *what...what happened?!* He crawled over to Sakura, and carried her in his arms.

The door to the room swung wide open as he stepped out, and he was greeted with thunderous applaus that almost made his ears deaf.

"...What?"

He glanced around the room, and saw Yelan, his sisters, all the elders, Wei, Meiling, Tomoyo, Kero, Yue, and a whole bunch of people he did not know.

"You passed the punishment dear." Yelan smiled proudly at his son.

"What?" He felt so confused. "What do you mean?! It was totally crazy in there! Sakura, she tried to kill me, and I tried to save her, and everything was just so weird!"

Yelan shooed everyone away, and he led his son into her bedroom. Syaoran placed Sakura on his mother's bed, and went back to staring at his mother.

"I don't get it mother..."

Yelan smiled at her son. "The...the elders decided that this punishment should be a test of your emotions." She explained. "So, Sakura was injected with a possession fluid so she would think that you hated her."

"Why?!" Syaoran asked angrily.

"Don't get angry yet. She's alright now anyways." Yelan continued. "We all wanted to know, if it was worth loosing all the clow cards just because of this girl. But now I see, and so do the elders, how strong your love is with this girl." She said softly, and glanced at Sakura. "She is a very beautiful and strong young lady Syaoran. I can feel it in her aura."

Syaoran smiled slightly. "She is."

Yelan nodded, "I knew that you could make the right choices Xiaolang." She hugged her son. "You are the rightful leader of the Li-clan, you deserve this place very much."

"So...so I can be with Sakura?" Syaoran asked hopefully.

Yelan smiled brightly at her son. "Of course, if it will give you happiness, and it is your choice, then of course, you may. I know, that if your father was here, he could be very very proud of you."

Syaoran smiled again.

"I will always be with Sakura, mother. That is my destiny, and she is my destiny."





AN: ^^;; Ok, the next chapter is the FINAL chapter =( Well, I hope you've all enjoyed this fic and please R+R! Thanks everyone for your support and everything =D I will be writing the final chapter soon, and I will be starting my new fic! Actually, I've already started on it ^^;; Anyways, stay tooned for the final chapter of The Final Task!