Alright, alright, if I don't want a homicidal locker partner when I get back from break, then I better continue this. After this chapter this will be moving to the crossovers; the other half, containing mostly pokémon (kindly done by Sarah Maxwell) will be more involved in it during this phase, and also Digimon will become majorly involved. Other shows too, every low rated anime show (no movie-onlys) will probably at least make an appearance. *squeal* Oh, I LOVE this!!!!!
The really big, strange, incredibly odd, something went wrong, completely chaotic, truthfully insane, magic-prone, medieval, AU, anime crossover (2a)
(this epic half) by Lyra Kamiya, Co-authored by Sarah Maxwell
"Sakura? Sakura dear, wake up!" Madison panicked, shaking her gently. "You simply must wake up!"
Sakura looked up tiredly, rubbing her eyes and sitting on the edge of her bed. "Why?"
"Syaoran got into a sword fight with an invader! Your father believes that he is attracting trouble, and is sending him away the moment the nurses finish bandaging him!"
"This cannot be… Are our items prepared? We must leave at once!" Sakura ran to the other side of the room and checked for any other items she might wish to take.
"You cannot possibly be leaving in that, or in one of your nice gowns!" Madison scolded her, pointing to the princess's night robes. "I always knew there'd come a time when you'd want to sneak out, so I sewed something a little more common for you," she rushed out of the room to her own down the hall, returning with a dull colored, simpler dress. "I'm afraid that it's not very pretty, but, I know that anything will look fantastic on you, Sakura. And I have one for myself, as well."
"Thank you, Madison. And it's absolutely wonderful, no matter how it looks, if it will help me to go with Syaoran," she smiled, going to another part of the room to change. Madison sat down on Sakura's bed, staring into space and thinking aloud.
"I only hope he is as infatuated with you as you appear to be with him… It would be simply tragic for us to go with him for nothing…"
"With any luck, he is. And if not, I shall find another, in a far away land!" she giggled softly, spinning herself about before a mirror. "This dress is simply adorable. I expect that I will blend in perfectly!"
"Now then, I expect we shall be leaving within a short time, correct?"
"Yes, I do think-" she was cut off as a sudden shout came from the courtyard outside.
"They're escaping! Get them!"
"They're after that warrior! Run, young man!"
"There's dozens of them, there's no way we can hold them back!"
"Madison! It must be the ones who attacked Syaoran earlier! We cannot possibly leave with them out there, the guards might mistake us for one of them…" Sakura sobbed, sitting back against one post of her bed. The door opened suddenly, and she panicked, fearing someone might view Sakura's new attire and determine her plan. Thankfully, it was only Julian.
"Sakura! Madison! If you are to accompany the Wolf, you will need to leave at once! Hurry now!" he said in a harsh whisper, motioning to the two girls and leading them down the hall and to a doorway at the end of the hall. He took them into the room, and pulled back a section of the wall to reveal a narrow corridor within. "Go straight through here, and take the second left you come to. Stay straight ahead from there, and you will come out by one corner of the castle, near which Syaoran should pass. Both of you, be careful, and I pray I will see you once more someday." Tears filled both the girls' eyes as they hugged the taller boy and rushed off through the narrow passage, and off to their destiny…
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Syaoran sighed as he wandered along the road, occasionally rubbing his soar side where the mysterious girl with purple hair had kicked him the night before. "She definitely was a strong fighter," he thought aloud, "especially for a female. She surely must be one of the Moon-Fighters… but she claimed her brother was their leader… Why did she not use any magic against me? Surely, if she belongs to that group, and that family, she must be a strong sorceress as well… I could feel energy even…" he froze as he heard a rustle in the trees behinds him. He spun around, a glint of sunlight hit off something in one of the trees for a moment, and he stared, hand poised above his sword, at all the surrounding foliage suspiciously. "An ambush most likely… I can't let my guard down… ALL OF YOU! I know you're there! Attempt to attack, any of you, and I'll destroy you! You shan't be as fortunate as the one who attacked me last night!"
A lone, solemn figure dropped from the tree that had been Syaoran's primary suspect. His navy blue hair shone in between the shadows of the leaves, as he set his glasses calmly in to position and raised his head, staring at the Wolf with piercing crystal eyes. "How insightful of you. However, I am the only one present in these trees. I have asked the others to carry on… You know quite well they aren't here, I'm the only one who's energy you could sense. Am I not right," he said calmly, stepping out from beneath the shadows of the tree so that his form could now be seen, "Li Syaoran?"
"Hirigazawa…" Syaoran said breathlessly. "You-you are the leader of the MoonFighters? But, I thought that you died, more than two years ago…"
"Don't you mean, you thought you had killed me that long ago?" he asked enticingly. "No; when I fell away, off the bridge and towards the waterfall during our final day of training, I did not die. My sister and the rest of the original Fighters pulled me from the river. Syaoran, I know that you have sworn to be the one who takes revenge on the Forces, however… It was just as much my home as yours."
"You left more than a year before they attacked, and you are just as much my enemy as they are, because you did not return to help defend it. The town and countryside might still be in existence if you had not disappeared…" Syaoran glared at his old rival icily.
"If you had not killed me, as far as anyone else is concerned. They all still think I'm dead. I know the look in your eyes; you want to get it over with, kill me right here and now. I am defenseless, why don't you just go ahead? Oh, I know… You're alone. You know that, while my small army is not here right now, if I were not to return they would know it was you who killed me, and would attack. While you could take out all of us, one or two at a time, you know you stand no chance against the dozens of MoonFighters. It's such a pity, you know? I was looking forward to a nice rematch, but I guess you're still not the Sorcerer you want to be… Nothing but a sword fighter, a fantastic one at that, who just happens to do a bit of magic," he smirked and pulled a sword from seemingly no where, midair, in fact. "While you know that I, though not skilled in weapons, am the greatest sorcerer who ever has or will live. It really is too bad… I was so excited when we found out the one we'd been trailing was you, you know. I thought it might, but I only knew it was someone from our village, and there was always the possibility that you'd gone the way you thought I had… Now I'm afraid I must be leaving…" he shrugged, disappearing suddenly from sight.
"He always did like to make long speeches," Syaoran sighed, relaxing the arm that had been holding the Lightning Blade, his sword, and returning it to it's sheath. "Alright, you two. I know you're over there, and that one of you is the princess. Come on out," he shook his head slowly, his eyes not leaving their previous location as Sakura and Madison looked to each other in panic and came slowly out from hiding. "You two really shouldn't be here, you know, it's dangerous. Just because they won't kill me for now, doesn't mean they won't kill those accompanying me."
"I'm sorry, good sir, but-"
"'good sir'?" he mocked. "There is nothing good about me, I do nothing except attract trouble. Address me as Syaoran or Wolf."
"Alright, Syaoran… I'm afraid that I shall be accompanying you for as long as you will allow, as will Madison," Sakura said sharply. "I am tired of being cooped up in that castle, and you seemed like the most suitable person to go with, most capable to protect us if need be."
"What makes you think I want to protect you?" he sighed, finally turning to face them. "Alright, you can accompany me, be you must find a safe place once we reach Odaiba. There is more to fear than just the MoonFighters once we arrive."
"Then it's true? You did try to kill him? Why-"
"He was my rival learning magic. All of the best sorcerers came from the area in which I lived… my own sword, though real in nature and with only minor magical capabilities, could match the power of any magical one. And though the rest of my abilities were strong, they weren't the strongest… but still, I found only one to be a match for me. Eriol Hirigazawa. He challenged me to a competition one day, a magic/sword fight at dusk, on an old bridge over a waterfall, a mile or two out of town. The last one surviving would win… I thought I'd killed him, but it seems that his twin sister, the best sword fighter besides myself, and a strong sorceress as well, saved him." He took a deep breath and scanned the trees again momentarily. "Things have only gotten worse from there… That's why I didn't want you involved…"
Madison stood staring at the boy she had chosen to follow with Sakura. She had sworn to accompany Sakura at all times, but this was all very dangerous… She prayed they would survive the week. Sakura, however, took a deep breath and fingered a necklace she had insisted on wearing.
"I'll do whatever I can to help."
I've had a few people ask why I use mostly the English names for the characters, but gave Syaoran and Eriol their Japanese ones. They're cooler for one thing, more people are used to them than their English names but the other English names are more common, and they're from a different part of the world in this story. I'll see you people around, in the crossovers-anime section from now on. Review, please!!!
