Disclaimer: I don't own CCS/CC or
its characters, they belong to CLAMP.
By ~Xiaoling~
Chapter 7: Finding Her
It was night time, and Meiling appeared at the courtyard where Syaoran and Kero were waiting patiently.
"Oops! I got stuck in some cleaning!" Meiling explained. "Anyways...I know where Sakura-chan is!!"
Syaoran's face lit up. "Where?!"
"The...Higawaraza Kingdom?" Meiling tried to remember with a sweatdrop.
"You mean the Hiiragizawa Kingdom," Syaoran corrected.
Meiling nodded, "How did you know?"
"I've heard about that kingdom...they are very powerful magic users," Syaoran commented. "That kingdom will take us a whole day to get there."
"Can't you use your wind and blow us there?" Meiling asked.
Syaoran shrugged, "I might be able to, but not for the whole journey."
"Whatever gaki! Let's just get going!" Kero had already was flying upwards.
"Do you even know where the Hiiragizawa Kingdom is?!" Meiling called up and Kero fell back down onto the ground.
Kero sweatdropped with swirls in his eyes. "Actually, I don't know."
"But I bet Xiaolang does!!" Meiling said proudly.
Syaoran nodded and pointed east. "That way."
"Then let's get going!" Kero exclaimed.
Sakura had just woken up by the sounds of people yawning and stretching. She sat up in her bed, and got out. The room was big, since it had to fit twenty servants. Girls were in a room, and boys were in seperate rooms.
"Ohayo Sakura-chan!" Chiharu greeted.
"Ohayo!" Sakura greeted back cheerfully. Oddly, she didn't feel so sad. But then she remembered all the problems back at the Kinomoto Kingdom. *I hope otou-san and oni-chan are alright...*
Naoko, the girl in charge of their room, came in. "Alright everyone! Get to your rightful tasks right away!"
Sakura waved good bye to Chiharu and went up the flights of stairs to the library with her mop and bucket, and duster. As she entered the library again, she felt a strong blue aura.
*Hoe?* She walked down a row of old books that seemed that they were never touched before. She turned the corner and saw Eriol reading a book, with a dim light over it.
He looked up just as she peeked. "Oh, hello there." He greeted politely.
Sakura blushed in embarrassment, but greeted back. "Ohayo, prince."
"I would rather you call me Eriol," Eriol said with a smile. "How rude, I don't even know your name."
"Oh! I'm Sakura, Sakura Kinomoto!" Sakura introduced.
Eriol raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure?"
Sakura tilted her head. "Of course I'm sure..."
"Then you are Princess Sakura Kinomoto of the Kinomoto Kingdom then," Eriol said, slightly shocked.
"Oh! I didn't know you knew it was me.." Sakura nearly dropped her mop.
Eriol gestured her to take a seat. "But what is a princess doing here as a maid?"
"...Oh, it's a long long story," Sakura sighed and after ten minutes she finished explaining everything except for the fact that she was the card mistress.
Eriol nodded, he believed that this girl was the real princess, because he could sense that her aura was pure and kind. He was about to ask her about the cards when a guard came into the library and was calling his name.
"Excuse me," Eriol pushed his chair back and joined the guard at the front of the library.
Sakura shrugged and went back to
cleaning. She had noticed that Eriol had wanted to ask her something, and
she wondered what he wanted to ask for the rest of the afternoon.
Syaoran, Kero, and Meiling were walking through a dense forest in silence.
"Where are we?!" Meiling whined all of a sudden.
"We should be almost there..." Syaoran grumbled.
Kero had a stress mark on his forehead. "You've said that for the past our gaki! And haven't we walked by this stump already?"
Meiling sweatdropped and fell onto the grass, tired. "Can't we rest?"
"No, we have to find Sakura!" Syaoran snapped.
"I need water!!" Meiling groaned.
Syaoran shrugged, "Water, come forth.." He mumbled under his breath and watched in amusement as a splash of water covered Meiling.
"GAH!!!" Meiling leapt off the grass, soaked. "Xiaolang!! Why'd you do that?!"
Kero cracked up, and Syaoran stared at her innocently. "You said you needed water."
"..Argh!" Meiling stomped past them. "Let's get going before the sun sets again!"
Syaoran and Kero quickly followed
behind her, wondering if they would ever get out of the forest.
Back at the Kinomoto Kingdom, everything seemed normal from the outside, but in the castle, it was plain messed. The king and the prince were still sitting there at the dining table.
Celeste had casted a spell over the entire castle guards, and servants too. "XueLian!!" She shouted.
XueLian quickly appeared, "Yes mistress?"
"I'm getting impatient! Have you sensed the book or anything lately?" Celeste asked, sitting on Fujitaka's throne.
"...No..." XueLian said shakily.
"WELL FIND IT!" Celeste screamed. "If it is nowhere in the kingdom, then the card mistress must have it."
XueLian nodded, "Then we will have to go to the Hiiragizawa Kingdom."
"Then we will go tomorrow." Celeste
said with a small sigh. "Sooner or later, the cards will be mine."
"YYYESSSSS!!!!!!!!" Meiling nearly jumped into the sky as she saw the looming towers of the Hiiragizawa castle. "YESS YESS YESS!!!" She leapt onto Syaoran and spun around on him. "We're here!!"
"Meiling! Get off me!" Syaoran pulled back and stumbled.
Meiling ran the rest of the way there, Kero and Syaoran following behind. They stopped at the front of the castle gates.
"How are we going to get in?" Meiling asked.
"They don't have any guards...how odd..." Syaoran remarked.
Kero crossed his paws. "Since I'm an expert at this, you chinese brats have no idea why. The Hiiragizawa family are very strong magic users, and so, they simply put up a magic barrier to keep people out. As you can see, I am the guardian beast of the seal, and so my knowledge exceeds yours."
"Oh shut up stuffed animal!" Meiling glared at Kero. "You still haven't said how we're going to get in!"
Kero sweatdropped, "That, I don't know."
"So much for the knowledge you have,"
Syaoran muttered.
Sakura was walking down the hallways, when she sensed two familiar auras.
*Hoe?* She lifted her head slightly. *Could it be them?* She thought hopefully as she walked out to the garden. She felt another aura nearby, and suddenly she heard a loud screeching sound.
She spun around and saw a bat like creature standing in front of her. Its wings had flames, and its eyes were a piercing blood red.
"HOE!!!" She started running as the
bat like thing chased her. *Great!!! I need my CARDS!!!*
Kero, who had been holding the Sakura book throught the whole journey, suddenly gasped. "It's glowing again! Sakura's in trouble!"
"Oh no!" Syaoran frowned.
They watched in shock as the book opened and the Sakura Cards came flying out in a circle and right through the magic barrier and into the castle.
"Sakura's calling for them..." Kero said.
Meiling had a confused look on her face. "I thought you told me that she could only use her cards with a...a what do you call it staff?"
"The star staff..but maybe she has
learned how to control her cards through thinking," Kero said, and they
all looked as the the last card floated over the castle walls.
Sakura saw the flying pink cards spiriling around her. She sighed in deep relief and she smiled at the Sakura cards.
"Arigatou for coming..."
"It is our duty to protect you mistress..." Said the light card.
Sakura smiled, "But how do I use you when I don't have my staff?"
"Just use your thoughts, and you will be able to summon us..." Said the dark card.
Sakura nodded and closed her eyes in concentration. *Water Card...here my cry for help...Water...put out the flames of that creature...* Her eyes shot open as she felt the water card come out of it's card form.
Watery spireled around the bat like creature and diminished the flames, and the bat fell onto the grass and vanished. Sakura sighed in relief.
"Ah...my dear little daughter has appeared at last."
Sakura gasped and spun around and met the eyes of Eriol. "What?! Did..did you see all that...?"
Eriol smiled and nodded, "In fact, I made that bat appear. I wanted to see if you are really the card mistress, cute little daughter."
"What do you mean cute little daughter?" Sakura questioned.
Eriol raised his hand, offering to shake hers. "I am half the reicarnation of Clow Reed, dear Sakura."
"Nani (what)?!" Sakura exclaimed in shock. "You're Clow Reed? The creater of the cards? The great sorcerer?!"
"Hai," Eriol nodded. "And I think your friends are here."
"Hoe?" Sakura followed Eriol's gaze
to the front gates of the castle.
AN: Yay! Syaoran and Sakura have
found each other at last! What will happen next? Hint: Celeste and XueLian
will be coming to the Hiiragizawa Kingdom! What troubles will happen?!
Stay tooned to find out ;)
