Tsukimi's long white hair was shortened so it flowed only to her waist and her pale lavender eyes gleamed evilly. "Who would suspect Akuno Shizuki?" She snapped her fingers and she was transported away.
In the shadows, Eriol's eyes gleamed. "She is far too overconfident. I shall rule this world." His midnight blue hair was barely visible in the moonlit darkness of the Dark Throne. Glowing white eyes stared out. "And there is no one who can stop me!"
He laughed evilly. His plan was being put into action. "The Clow cards shall be mine!" With a dismissing wave of his hand, the droid who had followed Tsukimi all week to spy on her gave him all the collected data. "Soon, soon, the clan will be mine! MINE!"
His last shout rang on deaf ears as the deserted Dark Throne gave a shudder. "Baka Tsukimi and her Dosei cards! I shall be unstoppable!" Haunting laughter rang through the halls as Eriol took a seat on the Dark Throne itself.
"Haha!"
FALLEN ANGEL, SILENT PRIESTESS
WEATHER THE STORM!!
The sky blacks out and the FASP logo shines a bloodred
If it seems like you're losing out,
Just forget about losing!
Erase!
Every little movement has a meaning!
You just have to weather the storm!
Weather the storm, weather the storm!
Shadows are falling all around; it is the time of haunting
Darkness flows in all directions,
Don't have a fear of terror!
Dark!
All those who live are born to die!
So if your life is not your own,
Weather the storm!
A raven flies overhead the woods on campus park; evil is approaching
One day, you'll see the light,
But 'till then...!
Life!
On my own, I hate to say,
Live life to the fittest, have no regrets!
Weather the storm!
A black-haired girl holds a slender staff gripped firmly in two hands
Nothing is truly the good it seems,
I can tell you no less!
Evil!
As the clouds pass overhead,
Stay calm, stay with no emotion,
Weather the storm, weather the storm!
The cast of FASP stands in a group pose; magic items held out
FALLEN ANGEL, SILENT PRIESTESS
Disclaimer:
No, I do not own the original CCS characters. Blah, blah, blah and yadda yadda.
Thanatos is the song of this one. Also Komm, Susser Todd, like always. Thanatos is Season One or Two ending at Sailormoon Millennia.Net, under Neo Soundtracks. Listen to it if you want this episode heightened to be even better.
Episode Five:
The Deadly Darkness of Tsukimi
The Aftermath of Defeat
Darkness, always this blissful darkness that covered her vision. But now it was time to wake up. Yamino Shimi opened her red eyes and stared out at what should be debris. But to her shock and confusion, there was none. She got up and brushed the dirt off her. She had taken a big fall after blacking out. Last time she had opened her eyes she had been a hundred feet in the air!
Luckily, she was fine.
She saw Syaoran was still unconscious and Sakura was awake and talking to Daidoujii. She walked over to Sakura. "Kinomoto-san, I need to talk to you. Now." She could see Tomoyo's eyes narrow, but Sakura nodded weakly and gave Tomoyo a fake smile. "I know." Her emerald eyes were slightly downcast, cloudy.
Tomoyo merely walked away and left Sakura stumbling. "Tomoyo-chan..." The hand that had reached out to Tomoyo went away, down at her side once more. "We failed." It was a sad statement. They had not caught the card. It had defeated them. "Hai, and we must succeed next time." Shimi kicked a small pebble with her heeled foot.
"There is no penalty for failure, only death." Shimi's eyes flashed gold, then she put a hand to her mouth in shock. "I'm not myself anymore..." She walked off, leaving Sakura to go to Syaoran. "Syaoran! Wake up!" She shook his shoulders, sobbing raggedly. "SYAORAN!" Her anguished shriek was heard only by Dokumi, standing in the twilight of the night. Ever silent, ever watching.
Always there.
Syaoran finally opened his eyes and gasped out a "Sa-kura... you... okay?" Sakura, happy again, impulsively leaning over to kiss him on the cheek. Syaoran blushed a little and finally got up to his feet. "What... was that?" He seemed disturbed, unsettled. "A Dosei card." Sakura's emerald eyes hardened and seemed devoid of emotion for a moment.
Syaoran's amber eyes narrowed. "True. But it will be conquered. We will bring it down." Sakura grinned. "You're right, of course, Syaoran!" She hugged him tightly and it seemed she would never let go.
*****
Harue frowned. She had been defeated! How would she report that to Master. In the back of her mind, she could almost hear Fuyue say 'I told you so!' in that voice that made her blood run cold. Almost. Not quite.
Her dear sister had left, deserted them. She was gone like the wind she dreamed upon. Swift, graceful, gone... Fuyue was just that. Gone. And the Master wanted her head already for failure. Already. This was just one more step down the road of failure, Harue thought sadly, wistfully.
This was the end.
"Master, I... I have... failed you." She whispered silently to the still air and as a crystalline tear slipped down her cheek she could hear a chuckle. {I KNEW YOU WOULD. YOU WERE TOO COCKY.}
A light shimmered in the darkness and the Master formed. He was about twenty with dark blue hair and blazing white eyes. {GOODBYE HARUE.} He sent a blast of energy aimed at her heart and it went through. She gave a shriek as her death came to her. Swiftly, painfully.
Master smiled.
"Tsukimi, doesn't need to know I have my own empire."
*****
"Dusk unto dusk...
Ashes to ashes...
All who die
Will rise again.
Deliver us from light!"
The ocean-blue eyes of Yamino Yuurei, Shimi's favorite cousin, pierced the darkness. Her eyes were deep, holding oceans of sorrow in them. Her whole life had been tragedy. Everything... tumbling down around her. Everyone she loved was cursed to die. Everyone...
Her long, waist-length blonde hair tumbled down her back, into her face. She was alone again. Alone. Yuurei was always alone. She smiled wistfully, reminded of days when she was a naive child at age eleven, annoying the Clow Card Captors to hell. It had been fun. But fun that refused to last.
Nothing really did last. Life was just a game, in all sincerity.
Just a game. It was odd, how the most important thing to some people was just a game played by goddesses. It would never be real. Never. Yuurei sighed. She would be setting out for Tomoeda soon. But not yet.
Not when she was still hurting inside.
*****
Yamino Dokumi frowned. That card was still at large. This wasn't good. Not good at all. She hated it when things didn't go according to plan. Baka Shimi... should've finished it off when you had the chance. She blew a chestnut lock out of her face and sighed.
She looked over at the note she was holding. On it was her assignment. "Write about when you wanted to do something but you couldn't. It can be in story form, or poem form... This sounds like fun..."
She started writing immediately. It wasn't often she actually got an interesting topic in class. Better make the best of it. She uncapped her purple feather pen.
"I Couldn't Do It
Yamino Dokumi
I am fluttering,
Like a silent feather
Hovering in the air
But I couldn't do it
I couldn't take it
A falling feather,
Silently weeping inside
I can't do it,
And that's why it hurts
I should've done it
I wanted it so bad,
But it wasn't mine
No, I lost my chance
Now it would probably never be mine
I couldn't do it"
She smiled, capped her pen, and awaited her flighty sister's barge into a supposedly PRIVATE room. Shimi chose that moment to race in, holding a black-and-red dress in her hands. "I went shopping." Dokumi sighed. It wasn't that her sister was a featherbrain, it was that her sister cared too much about clothes.
What importance did clothes have to anything anyway?
*****
Running. Hai, she was running. Running away from destiny. Her pink silk pajamas waved in the slight breeze and clouds formed overhead. Her long cherry blossom pink hair flowed in the breeze, a tattered red ribbon holding onto it. A glimpse of cherry red eyes were seen and then blackness came over it all.
Kageno Sakuya rubbed her eyes blearily and sighed with relief. It was just a dream. All just a dream. The cards Dosei were not really released, ne? Just in the dream. Just in the dream.
"And as I close my eyes
Just to remember
The dreams of yesterday..."
She smiled. It had to have all been a dream. Just a dream...
"Sakuya-sama?" Her cousin, Takara, peeked her head in the door. "Your mother wants you. Now... She said it was urgent." Sakuya smiled to her cousin but she was mentally crying.
This was how her dream had started!
She wondered if she would change the dream by not going. But, iie. She couldn't do that. She had a responsibility to her mother and she would fulfill that no matter what happened. It would be okay. The dream wasn't real.
It was merely a dream.
Just a dream.
Just a very odd dream, as Sakuya would come to see.
Just a dream.
*****
"Sakura..." Chiharu whispered, finally awakening after another long sleep. Why was she always tired? Why did she always close her eyes and nod off to sleep?
Sakura would know.
Because Sakura was behind all this yôkai magic. Sakura had to know. Chiharu knew with all her heart that this was an enemy--or friend--of Sakura's causing the yôkai attacks.
If not, then the world was a way bigger place than Chiharu thought it was. Who else could be involved in magical mumbo-jumbo?
It was kind of odd how Sakura had never told them about this magic. But, Sakura must have had her reasons. It had to be Sakura or somebody doing this.
Maybe that new girl Shimi. Maybe Dokumi. Maybe Syaoran, finally back. Maybe even Tomoyo. Chiharu doubted the last. Tomoyo just would NOT be involved in magical mumbo-jumbo.
Chiharu walked over to her room and turned on the television to watch Dragon Ball. She would think more on this later. Right now...
"Oh no! Not Buruma! How could they ever turn her into a carrot?!"
*****
"Moonlight is the key..." Shimi looked thoughtfully at the small book she held in her hands. It was the kind of antique book a historian would love to examine--it wasn't even written in kanji.
"For the Evil shall be dispelled by the light of moonlight..." She was reclining on a windowsill, her short black hair tied back with a red ribbon. "This Evil... Could it be this card?" She paused a moment, then looked at the passage once more.
Evil enchantments are spelled within this being. A Shapeshifter, it can change its form. The Chi of it is much and it is a worthy opponent. Not all powerful, but close to the Doom of the Five. It must be defeated quickly for the longer it remains in the outside realm, the more powerful it gets.
"Sounds about right... The Evil card, I guess..."
Shimi slipped on a pair of sunglasses and raced out the door, blowing past her bewildered twin. "Time to go Card Captoring... Ja!"
She reached Sakura's room and knocked on the door.
No one answered. She frowned. This wasn't supposed to happen. Not at all.
*****
Sakura and Syaoran were also looking for the card. Of course, they didn't know what it was, which complicated things. "Of all the cards to create, why this one!" Sakura cursed under breath bitterly. "I mean, what is its purpose, be annoying! B-E annoying B-E A-N-N-O-Y-I-N-G!"
Syaoran could barely stifle his laugh at this, making Sakura look at him and frown in an irritated manner. "Syaoran!" "Gomen, gomen." Syaoran held his hands up in mock surrender.
A loud roar was heard behind them.
The two paused for a moment, before turning around and staring into the eyes of a gigantic panther. "RUN!" Sakura screamed at the top of her lungs and Syaoran screamed with her!
The card was back and there was no telling what it would do this time!
*Owari*
So, will Shimi find S+S in time? Will Sakuya get a clue? Will Tomoyo actually figure out Sakura is not in love with her?
I dunno.
Anyway, our heroes are in a delightful pickle, aren't they? The longer they delay in capturing this card, the more powerful it gets!
I wonder if they'll capture it next chapter.
Onto more interesting things...
Who's your favorite character:
A: Sakura
B: Syaoran
C: Tomoyo
D: Shimi
E: Dokumi
F: Ryuu
G: Eriol
H: Tsukimi
I: Himeko
J: Sakuya
K: Kouri
L: Spectre Lady
M: Spectre Man (Clow)
N: Hallucination [i know it isn't a character]
O: The new card [i know it isn't a character]
Vote and let me know so I can do a character special on one of those characters.
Oh, and read fics by my other alias twisted panchan, okay? So far all the fics there are DBZ but...
yami no ako
