Hi everyone! Don't worry, I got this chapter out. I never did get to check my other reviews yet though... if there are any yet. I decided to type as fast as I could because my dad is going out of town and he might have to take the lap top with him. Isn't that sad! I can't type on the other computer because something is wrong with it. It might take me a little while to get the next chapters up. I'll hurry and try to talk my dad into not taking the laptop. Sorry, not much of an intro, huh?
CHAPTER FOUR Together till the end
*****Syaoran*****
Sakura was right. I did still have my sword. I have had it since before I could remember. Maybe, just MAYBE there was still hope. Maybe I would get another chance. Could I succeed at being a cardcaptor after all?
I still had Sakura's hand in mine. I never guessed before how many nerves were just in a hand, but I was VERY aware of her skin against mine, and was blushing madly.
"How's your shoulder?" Sakura asked.
I looked the other way. "It'll heal." I didn't want Sakura to worry about me, or worse, feel sorry for me. Instead I concentrated on the magic that was close by. I tried to pinpoint it, but it was hard because I could sense two different things. Two cards wouldn't be working together now, would they?!
"Sakura..." I was cut off by a distant noise. It sounded... like singing!
"Ya da da da da da. Hmm hmm mmm humm, la de da la ti dum."
"What was that?" Sakura asked once the singing had subsided. Then it came again.
"Ha ha ha ha ha hum de dum."
I looked around, trying to find who the originator was. The voice seemed to echo all around us. It sounded sweet and soft, yet also deceitful and tricky.
"I- I don't know," I stammered, gripping her hand tighter and taking a step toward her. "I think it might be a- a Clow Card."
"A Clow Card!" She exclaimed. "But I thought I sealed all of them!"
`Me too,` I thought to myself. Instead I said, "Mmm- humm."
"Hee hee hee."
My head snapped to my right, glancing over my shoulder. How could she get behind me! This time it sounded as if she was laughing... not singing. She was clearly enjoying herself.
"Haaaa ahhh ahhh ahhh haaa ahaa."
While she was singing, a purple cloud of smoke formed before Sakura and I. It twisted and turned and spiraled into the shape of a little girl. Her mouth was open, mid- note. Then she closed it and silence filled the air. She had a weird little grin and her eyes sparkled maliciously. She stood with her hands behind her back. She was in a weird puffy outfit and her hair was in long pigtails. Everything about her was... purple.
"The Clow Card!" Sakura gasped.
"In its true form," I added.
The Clow Card started moving her hands up and down, opposite of the other. "La la la la la la la la la," she sang.
A cloud of smoke formed between her arms and turned into twelve separate little birds with long, pointed beaks. I gasped, unable to help myself. So that's how the Clow Card works!
"Is it just me, or do those beaks look VERY sharp?" Sakura asked, her voice trembling.
The Clow Card started singing notes, going higher and higher up the scale. At the last high note she sang, she held it out and the birds spread out their wings. The note seemed to be saying, `charge!` because once she stopped, all the birds sprang into action, headed in our direction.
"Uh-oh..." Sakura was saying, wide-eyed.
"Run!" I yelled, turning around to face the other way. I dragged her behind me until she got the rhythm of my running. I kept glancing over my shoulder, seeing how close the birds were. Each time I looked, they were closer than the time before, and gaining speed.
The next thing I knew, they were pecking at us. Sakura and I flung our arms over our heads, shielding ourselves from there attack. That's it!!! The shield card!
I came to a stop and Sakura followed my example. She was squinting, looking through one eye. "Shield Card," I said in a demanding voice. "Shield Sakura and I from these birds. Release and dispel!"
A shield was around us in no time at all. I grinned, `That would teach those stupid birds! `
"Element, Lightning!" I yelled, using my sword. Lightning streamed out, bolting in all different directions. It fried four of the birds and they disappeared.
"Element...Lightning!" I said again. Three more birds vanished. I have to be rid of these pesky creatures. They kept darting at us and whamming into the shield with a CLUNK.
`This should do it,` I thought to myself. "Fire!"
The remaining of the birds all went up in smoke and also disappeared. The shield around us had done its job, so it went back into its card form.
"Whew! THAT is a load off!" Sakura sighed.
"I wouldn't get too comfortable," I warned her, eyeing the Clow Card.
"What do you mean by that?" she asked, peering at me in earnest. I didn't have to explain. The Clow Card narrowed her eyes in anger and seemed to be pouting. Then, just like I guessed, she started singing again.
This time her singing was sharper and had a faster beat to it. You could feel her anger in every note and sound. She pranced around, touching trees with her pointer finger and then stopped dead center in the middle of trees that surrounded us. She had just gone around in a circle, and now she had a cold smile on her face.
`Not good,` I thought to myself. `Whatever it is she just did it definitely was NOT good.`
I was right. All the trees she had touched flickered with purple and then we were being attacked by their swinging branches.
We put our arms in front of us protectively, but it didn't do any good. Branches flung at us from every direction, it was impossible not to get hit. The branches thrashed at us, and whenever they made contact, it felt like being lashed with a wipe.
"What kind of card IS this? The TORCHER card?!?" Sakura asked, semi- sarcastically.
"I have NO idea. I was just about to ask you the same question."
"I don't know if... if I can take... much more of this," she said weakly.
I looked over at her, concerned. She had cuts all over and they were openly bleeding. I probably didn't look much different. I didn't remember ever letting go of her hand, but I stepped closer to her and took it once again. She was right. We had to get out of this, and fast!
"Come on!" I said, grasping a tighter hold on my sword. "Let's go!"
She looked up at me. Her eyes looked so soft, and weak. Her hand trembled in mine. Despite everything she was feeling, she grabbed her wand and held it in front of her in a strong grip. "Okay," she said strongly, summoning up all of her strength. I brought my sword up and crossed it with her wand. We were a team, we'd be together till the end.
*****Sakura*****
I was only aware of the thick branches thwacking me from all different directions. I didn't even have spare time to take a breath of air. Each strike stung for what seemed to be an eternity. I looked down at my arms and saw deep gouges where the branches sliced my skin open. I could feel my energy draining away. I swayed barley able to stand.
"I don't know if I can take much more of this," I wheezed.
Syaoran gave me a concerned look, but didn't say anything. I could tell he was thinking about something by the look in his eyes. He came over to me and took my hand in his. We were both really weak.
"Come on!" he said, renewing his energy. "Let's go!"
I summoned all of the strength I could muster and clasped onto my new wand. I brought it up in front of me, ready for anything. "Okay."
He gave me a small grin and held his sword up also, crossing it with mine. I smiled back, glad that we were in this together. I didn't know what I d do without him. He was always there... and always would be.
A radiant glow came from where my wand and Syaoran's sword touched. It melted all of the branches away and shone brighter and brighter all the while. It was so intense that I had to look away, toward the night sky.
"What's... happening?!?" I yelled over to Syaoran. Lately it seemed that all I have been doing was asking questions.
"I- don't- know!" he said through what sounded like gritted teeth. Again, he didn't have the answer I was looking for.
I used all of my strength to push my wand upward. It seemed that Syaoran was doing the same thing. I managed to do it and I locked my elbow so it wouldn't crush me to the ground.
I started to feel really light and looked down, stupefied. We were rising up off the ground- already off the ground- going up, higher and higher into the sky! It was breathtaking. Everything looked so marvelous from up here! The stars in the now black sky zoomed closer and closer in our direction.
For about the first time in my life I wasn't scared. Amazed, but not scared. How could I be when Syaoran was with me? I knew he would protect me, and I would protect him. Everything seemed to be fine.
I looked across at him and smiled. It felt like we were in control. Nothing bad could happen. Syaoran gave me a lopsided grin and that made me just smile wider. We stopped, suspended in air, but not the least bit frightened.
It took me a while to realize that something had changed. I didn't feel tired, or drained anymore. I no longer hurt, like I had been lashed with tree branches fifty times. I felt 100% better. I stared at Syaoran and saw that his clothes no longer had tears in them, and that all his cuts and bruises healed. He was as good as new, and I must be too.
Then the most amazing thing happened! My wand started glowing! The whole thing was surrounded in a white light! Syaoran's sword was glowing a ruby red color too! Then the staff that Syaoran had been using flew up in the air... and it looked like it was being carried by... a spirit. `Hope?` Then the staff made contact with my wand and his sword and there was a blinding flash! I shut my eyes tightly, waiting until the light was a dim flicker.
I opened one eye first, and then the other. I gasped at what I saw. I no longer held the wand I had created, but a green staff that matched the color of my eyes. There was a four pointed silver star at it's top, with another four pointed star behind it, and then an eight pointed star behind that! It was taller than I was by about a head. The star was shining brightly, proudly.
I looked over in wonder at Syaoran to see that he had a new staff also. He was looking at it with a shocked expression on his face. It was green, and matched the outfit that he always wore to capture the Clow Cards in. He also had a star at the top of his staff, but his star was gold. It was a five-pointed star with another five-pointed star behind it. It was very stunning.
I looked at Syaoran's face and saw that his gaze was upon my new staff and me. `Syaoran is very stunning too,` I thought to myself. `Although he is also very stunned.` I couldn't help but to add that last thought to myself. I smiled guiltily as he gave me a questioning look, giggles erupting deep within.
"What now?" he asked, as if nothing could surprise him more than everything that had happened.
I was glad that I didn't ask the question this time. "I think these staffs will help us channel our power," I said, merely guessing. "Maybe... maybe since the wand and sword touched each other, they evolved because of our feelings."
"But what about the other staff? Causing my sword and your wand to transform. Does that mean that both of us can use the cards now? How can that possibly work? Are we BOTH the cardcaptors?"
I thought back to earlier and what I saw before my wand and his sword changed. I was forgetting something. Did the wand really join... on it's own? What did I see? I couldn't remember. "I don't know," I said, feeling a headache coming on. "Maybe."
"I don't like this," he said, "not knowing. Anything can happen."
"That's why we have each other," I said. [AN:AWWWWW!!! KAWII!!! ^-^] "We can go through this together."
He smiled, and again my heart started to pick up speed. I haven't seen Syaoran smile so much in my whole entire life! He ACTUALLY SMILED! "Yeah, you're right Sakura."
That comment made my heart go double- time. He shouldn't be allowed to have such affects on people. I didn't ever want to stop gazing into his eyes.
"Come on, we have a Clow Card to capture," he said, jerking me to reality.
"Oh, yeah, right," I said, stumbling over my words. "The Clow Card."
`Well, since `Star Flight' once got me here, maybe it will work again. The staff IS different from my wand. I'll have to try it anyway.`
I grabbed Syaoran's hand. "Star Flight!"
Hee hee hee! That's where this chapter ends! Well, did ya like it? Huh huh huh?!? I hope you did! Ohhhhhh, I REALLY hope you did! There is only one chapter left now! I hope I get it out soon! My dad is going out of town tomorrow morning at 5:00 a.m. and he won't be back until Tuesday! HE"S TAKING THE COMPUTER WITH HIM!!!!!! WAAAAAAA!!!!!! I'm gunna cry! I'll still be able to go on the internet though so that means I'll have more time to read all of YOUR guys' stories and review them for you! There is a plus... But I won't be able to type anything. I still want your reviews though because I'll be able to read them! It will hopefully be able to cheer me up. So, as always R&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CHAPTER FOUR Together till the end
*****Syaoran*****
Sakura was right. I did still have my sword. I have had it since before I could remember. Maybe, just MAYBE there was still hope. Maybe I would get another chance. Could I succeed at being a cardcaptor after all?
I still had Sakura's hand in mine. I never guessed before how many nerves were just in a hand, but I was VERY aware of her skin against mine, and was blushing madly.
"How's your shoulder?" Sakura asked.
I looked the other way. "It'll heal." I didn't want Sakura to worry about me, or worse, feel sorry for me. Instead I concentrated on the magic that was close by. I tried to pinpoint it, but it was hard because I could sense two different things. Two cards wouldn't be working together now, would they?!
"Sakura..." I was cut off by a distant noise. It sounded... like singing!
"Ya da da da da da. Hmm hmm mmm humm, la de da la ti dum."
"What was that?" Sakura asked once the singing had subsided. Then it came again.
"Ha ha ha ha ha hum de dum."
I looked around, trying to find who the originator was. The voice seemed to echo all around us. It sounded sweet and soft, yet also deceitful and tricky.
"I- I don't know," I stammered, gripping her hand tighter and taking a step toward her. "I think it might be a- a Clow Card."
"A Clow Card!" She exclaimed. "But I thought I sealed all of them!"
`Me too,` I thought to myself. Instead I said, "Mmm- humm."
"Hee hee hee."
My head snapped to my right, glancing over my shoulder. How could she get behind me! This time it sounded as if she was laughing... not singing. She was clearly enjoying herself.
"Haaaa ahhh ahhh ahhh haaa ahaa."
While she was singing, a purple cloud of smoke formed before Sakura and I. It twisted and turned and spiraled into the shape of a little girl. Her mouth was open, mid- note. Then she closed it and silence filled the air. She had a weird little grin and her eyes sparkled maliciously. She stood with her hands behind her back. She was in a weird puffy outfit and her hair was in long pigtails. Everything about her was... purple.
"The Clow Card!" Sakura gasped.
"In its true form," I added.
The Clow Card started moving her hands up and down, opposite of the other. "La la la la la la la la la," she sang.
A cloud of smoke formed between her arms and turned into twelve separate little birds with long, pointed beaks. I gasped, unable to help myself. So that's how the Clow Card works!
"Is it just me, or do those beaks look VERY sharp?" Sakura asked, her voice trembling.
The Clow Card started singing notes, going higher and higher up the scale. At the last high note she sang, she held it out and the birds spread out their wings. The note seemed to be saying, `charge!` because once she stopped, all the birds sprang into action, headed in our direction.
"Uh-oh..." Sakura was saying, wide-eyed.
"Run!" I yelled, turning around to face the other way. I dragged her behind me until she got the rhythm of my running. I kept glancing over my shoulder, seeing how close the birds were. Each time I looked, they were closer than the time before, and gaining speed.
The next thing I knew, they were pecking at us. Sakura and I flung our arms over our heads, shielding ourselves from there attack. That's it!!! The shield card!
I came to a stop and Sakura followed my example. She was squinting, looking through one eye. "Shield Card," I said in a demanding voice. "Shield Sakura and I from these birds. Release and dispel!"
A shield was around us in no time at all. I grinned, `That would teach those stupid birds! `
"Element, Lightning!" I yelled, using my sword. Lightning streamed out, bolting in all different directions. It fried four of the birds and they disappeared.
"Element...Lightning!" I said again. Three more birds vanished. I have to be rid of these pesky creatures. They kept darting at us and whamming into the shield with a CLUNK.
`This should do it,` I thought to myself. "Fire!"
The remaining of the birds all went up in smoke and also disappeared. The shield around us had done its job, so it went back into its card form.
"Whew! THAT is a load off!" Sakura sighed.
"I wouldn't get too comfortable," I warned her, eyeing the Clow Card.
"What do you mean by that?" she asked, peering at me in earnest. I didn't have to explain. The Clow Card narrowed her eyes in anger and seemed to be pouting. Then, just like I guessed, she started singing again.
This time her singing was sharper and had a faster beat to it. You could feel her anger in every note and sound. She pranced around, touching trees with her pointer finger and then stopped dead center in the middle of trees that surrounded us. She had just gone around in a circle, and now she had a cold smile on her face.
`Not good,` I thought to myself. `Whatever it is she just did it definitely was NOT good.`
I was right. All the trees she had touched flickered with purple and then we were being attacked by their swinging branches.
We put our arms in front of us protectively, but it didn't do any good. Branches flung at us from every direction, it was impossible not to get hit. The branches thrashed at us, and whenever they made contact, it felt like being lashed with a wipe.
"What kind of card IS this? The TORCHER card?!?" Sakura asked, semi- sarcastically.
"I have NO idea. I was just about to ask you the same question."
"I don't know if... if I can take... much more of this," she said weakly.
I looked over at her, concerned. She had cuts all over and they were openly bleeding. I probably didn't look much different. I didn't remember ever letting go of her hand, but I stepped closer to her and took it once again. She was right. We had to get out of this, and fast!
"Come on!" I said, grasping a tighter hold on my sword. "Let's go!"
She looked up at me. Her eyes looked so soft, and weak. Her hand trembled in mine. Despite everything she was feeling, she grabbed her wand and held it in front of her in a strong grip. "Okay," she said strongly, summoning up all of her strength. I brought my sword up and crossed it with her wand. We were a team, we'd be together till the end.
*****Sakura*****
I was only aware of the thick branches thwacking me from all different directions. I didn't even have spare time to take a breath of air. Each strike stung for what seemed to be an eternity. I looked down at my arms and saw deep gouges where the branches sliced my skin open. I could feel my energy draining away. I swayed barley able to stand.
"I don't know if I can take much more of this," I wheezed.
Syaoran gave me a concerned look, but didn't say anything. I could tell he was thinking about something by the look in his eyes. He came over to me and took my hand in his. We were both really weak.
"Come on!" he said, renewing his energy. "Let's go!"
I summoned all of the strength I could muster and clasped onto my new wand. I brought it up in front of me, ready for anything. "Okay."
He gave me a small grin and held his sword up also, crossing it with mine. I smiled back, glad that we were in this together. I didn't know what I d do without him. He was always there... and always would be.
A radiant glow came from where my wand and Syaoran's sword touched. It melted all of the branches away and shone brighter and brighter all the while. It was so intense that I had to look away, toward the night sky.
"What's... happening?!?" I yelled over to Syaoran. Lately it seemed that all I have been doing was asking questions.
"I- don't- know!" he said through what sounded like gritted teeth. Again, he didn't have the answer I was looking for.
I used all of my strength to push my wand upward. It seemed that Syaoran was doing the same thing. I managed to do it and I locked my elbow so it wouldn't crush me to the ground.
I started to feel really light and looked down, stupefied. We were rising up off the ground- already off the ground- going up, higher and higher into the sky! It was breathtaking. Everything looked so marvelous from up here! The stars in the now black sky zoomed closer and closer in our direction.
For about the first time in my life I wasn't scared. Amazed, but not scared. How could I be when Syaoran was with me? I knew he would protect me, and I would protect him. Everything seemed to be fine.
I looked across at him and smiled. It felt like we were in control. Nothing bad could happen. Syaoran gave me a lopsided grin and that made me just smile wider. We stopped, suspended in air, but not the least bit frightened.
It took me a while to realize that something had changed. I didn't feel tired, or drained anymore. I no longer hurt, like I had been lashed with tree branches fifty times. I felt 100% better. I stared at Syaoran and saw that his clothes no longer had tears in them, and that all his cuts and bruises healed. He was as good as new, and I must be too.
Then the most amazing thing happened! My wand started glowing! The whole thing was surrounded in a white light! Syaoran's sword was glowing a ruby red color too! Then the staff that Syaoran had been using flew up in the air... and it looked like it was being carried by... a spirit. `Hope?` Then the staff made contact with my wand and his sword and there was a blinding flash! I shut my eyes tightly, waiting until the light was a dim flicker.
I opened one eye first, and then the other. I gasped at what I saw. I no longer held the wand I had created, but a green staff that matched the color of my eyes. There was a four pointed silver star at it's top, with another four pointed star behind it, and then an eight pointed star behind that! It was taller than I was by about a head. The star was shining brightly, proudly.
I looked over in wonder at Syaoran to see that he had a new staff also. He was looking at it with a shocked expression on his face. It was green, and matched the outfit that he always wore to capture the Clow Cards in. He also had a star at the top of his staff, but his star was gold. It was a five-pointed star with another five-pointed star behind it. It was very stunning.
I looked at Syaoran's face and saw that his gaze was upon my new staff and me. `Syaoran is very stunning too,` I thought to myself. `Although he is also very stunned.` I couldn't help but to add that last thought to myself. I smiled guiltily as he gave me a questioning look, giggles erupting deep within.
"What now?" he asked, as if nothing could surprise him more than everything that had happened.
I was glad that I didn't ask the question this time. "I think these staffs will help us channel our power," I said, merely guessing. "Maybe... maybe since the wand and sword touched each other, they evolved because of our feelings."
"But what about the other staff? Causing my sword and your wand to transform. Does that mean that both of us can use the cards now? How can that possibly work? Are we BOTH the cardcaptors?"
I thought back to earlier and what I saw before my wand and his sword changed. I was forgetting something. Did the wand really join... on it's own? What did I see? I couldn't remember. "I don't know," I said, feeling a headache coming on. "Maybe."
"I don't like this," he said, "not knowing. Anything can happen."
"That's why we have each other," I said. [AN:AWWWWW!!! KAWII!!! ^-^] "We can go through this together."
He smiled, and again my heart started to pick up speed. I haven't seen Syaoran smile so much in my whole entire life! He ACTUALLY SMILED! "Yeah, you're right Sakura."
That comment made my heart go double- time. He shouldn't be allowed to have such affects on people. I didn't ever want to stop gazing into his eyes.
"Come on, we have a Clow Card to capture," he said, jerking me to reality.
"Oh, yeah, right," I said, stumbling over my words. "The Clow Card."
`Well, since `Star Flight' once got me here, maybe it will work again. The staff IS different from my wand. I'll have to try it anyway.`
I grabbed Syaoran's hand. "Star Flight!"
Hee hee hee! That's where this chapter ends! Well, did ya like it? Huh huh huh?!? I hope you did! Ohhhhhh, I REALLY hope you did! There is only one chapter left now! I hope I get it out soon! My dad is going out of town tomorrow morning at 5:00 a.m. and he won't be back until Tuesday! HE"S TAKING THE COMPUTER WITH HIM!!!!!! WAAAAAAA!!!!!! I'm gunna cry! I'll still be able to go on the internet though so that means I'll have more time to read all of YOUR guys' stories and review them for you! There is a plus... But I won't be able to type anything. I still want your reviews though because I'll be able to read them! It will hopefully be able to cheer me up. So, as always R&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!