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Ok here is chapter 8. I hope you like it. One of our main characters meets a real hottie in this chapter, so read on and find out who it is! Thanks, Now read. ^_^



Chapter 8

Colors and images flashed by in a blur. She was running so fast that she didn't feel her legs any more. She couldn't tell where she was going, or what she was running from, all she knew is that she had to run, and never stop…her life depended on it. Then a sharp pain hit her hard in the side. She gasped for air, but found none as she fell hard onto the ground. Again pain hit her but this time on her right side as she struck a huge tree stump hard. She still couldn't breathe. She lay on the ground trying to catch her breath, and fighting away the urge to just drift off into unconsciousness. She finally began to breathe somewhat normally and pushed her self up off the ground. She grasped her sides from the pain shooting down her. She groaned as she stood up straight and saw her attacker before her. A tall figure dressed in a blood red robe hovered in front of her. A purple mask that resembled a butterfly covered its face. It was a woman because she wore lipstick and her black hair was all the way down to the back of her knees. Sakura stood there looking at this woman in horror, bracing herself for an attack.

Suddenly the woman spoke. " You stand no chance against my powers," She hissed. " I expected much more from the Clow Mistress… but I guess you'll have to do" She smiled coldly at Sakura

"What do you want from me?" Sakura said breathlessly, still recovering from her wounds.

" Revenge!" The woman screamed and lunged her self at Sakura

Sakura lifted her arms in front of her face and closed her eyes to brace for the impact, but it never came. She blinked and took her arms down. The woman had disappeared, and Sakura was standing there all alone in the middle of the forest. She looked around and all she could see in every direction was trees. She walked around and tried to find some trace of the mysterious woman, but she couldn't find a thing. Then all of a sudden she heard something. It started out quiet, but it got louder, until she could hear a familiar voice. It was Li! She ran towards the sound of his voice, calling out his name as loud as she could, but it never seemed to get any closer. She kept running at full speed until she tripped on the root of a large tree. She sat up off the ground and dusted her self off. Then came the tears. Huge tears came flowing from her eyes and down her cheeks where they landed on the ground making dark circles on the dirt. Li's voice was still calling to her, and this made her cry even harder. She sobbed uncontrollably and her shoulders shook. She buried her face into her arms and sobbed even harder. She couldn't stop crying. She finally took a deep breath and looked up. To her surprise she was in her hotel room. She looked around and saw Li and Kero staring at her with strange expressions on their faces. She looked around and sighed in relief. She felt something wet on her cheek and wiped it off. She tasted salt on her lips and guessed that for some reason she had really been crying. She sat up in the bed, and then felt pain shoot down her side, she grabbed her side, and felt around until she found where it hurt at. She remembered that that was the same place where she had been injured in her dream.

"Weird." She thought to her self.

"Sakura are you ok?" Li asked looking at her with a puzzled look on his face.

"Uh…. yeah…I guess'' she stuttered.

"You were going loco!" Kero said waving his arm excitedly in the air

"Yeah you were Sakura" Madison said appearing over Li's shoulder.

"You had us worried" Li said blushing slightly

" It was just another dream" Sakura shrugged

"You know how your dreams are Sakura, tell me what happened in it"

So Sakura told Kero, Li, and Madison about what happened in her dream. And they all listened attentively. Of course she left out the part about her crying.

" Be alert Sakura, this could be a foretelling of the future." Kero said crossing his arms.

" Ok I will Kero" Sakura replied rolling her eyes.

"I'm serious Sakura"

"I told you that I would!"

"Ok Sakura, we got to get ready to go or we're going to be late." Li said walking over to his suitcase.

They all made it to the convention center just in time. They all filed into a big auditorium and sat down in row J5. They sat and waited as about 3000 students from other schools filed into the auditorium and sat down. They heard people talking in about 30 different languages at one time. They all settled in and a tall bald man in a dark blue business suit stepped up to the microphone on the stage.

"Hello and welcome to the international conference of schools!" He beamed into the microphone.

Apparently all the students understood English, because no translator was needed. They all sat and listened to the man on the stage attentively.

"These will be a very busy two weeks for you hear, but, don't worry, you will have plenty of time to do some sight seeing and relax." He smiled " Just think of this as a kind-of summer camp. You will be participating in many different activities and will be learning about each other's culture, while making friends. Now I'll hand the mike over to Mrs. Natalie Brewer, the head counselor here." He said stepping back from the microphone as a tall dark brown haired woman stepped up to it.

"Hello, and welcome!" She smiled " I'm Mrs. Brewer, but all of you can call me Natalie. I'm in charge of planning all of our activities while you're here. You can come to me when ever you need me" She smiled pleasantly " So have fun, and go and make some new friends!"

With that they were all ushered into a huge lobby, where there were refreshments and treats laid out on a long table. Sakura was glad that Kero wanted to stay behind and sleep, because he would have gone crazy over so much food. They made their way to the table and picked out what they wanted to eat, and then went to sit down on a red velvet couch in the corner of the room. All of the chaperons gathered in one corner of the room and talked with each other casually. Many students came up to them and introduced themselves. They met people from Australia, England, China, Germany, England, France, America, and many other countries. Then a handsome young boy with strawberry blond hair came up to Madison and kissed her hand. He looked deep into her eyes and for a moment there wasn't anyone else in the room, just the two of them.

" You have got to be the most beautiful girl in the world." He smiled at her

" Oh, why…thank you" Madison said blushing

" My name is Jerimiah Kindle, I'm from England" He said smiling " And what is your name?"

"M…my name is Madison Taylor, I'm from Japan" She said now blushing brightly.

"What a lovely name" He replied, slightly blushing himself.

"The…these are my friends, Sakura, Li, and Nikki" She stuttered motioning her hand towards them.

He took Sakura's hand and kissed it gently, as he did with Nikki's. They blushed and looked at the floor giggling nervously. Li's face turned dark red, and he scowled at Jerimiah. Jerimiah reached out to Li to shake his hand, Li hesitated, but then put out his hand. He shook Li's hand and then turned back to Madison, who looked slightly ticked at his display towards the two other girls.

"Jerimiah, will you please try and stay with our group!" A short chubby brown haired lady yelled at him

"Ok, I'm coming Mrs. Broth!" He yelled back at her

" Au revoir" he said before kissing Madison's hand again and rushing off toward his chaperon.

Madison's face was bright red. She looked down at the floor and made little circles in the carpet with her foot. Sakura and Nikki were giggling uncontrollably, and Li was blood red with anger. Sakura and Nikki swarmed Madison and started talking excitedly.

"He's so cute! Madison he likes you! Awww!" Nikki swooned

"Go Madison! I think he really likes you, he was blushing when he said that your name was lovely" Sakura smiled at her friend.

"You really think so?" She asked them still blushing.

"Defiantly" They said in unison.

She looked up and spotted him at the other side of the room. She caught his gaze and he waved to her. She waved back, her face still pink, turned red as he looked into her eyes again from all the way across the room. And for another moment time stopped and they were the only people there. They moved to the middle of the room and took each other in their arms. They danced beautifully in the middle of the room all alone. Lovely music played and echoed through the now empty room. All of a sudden the music stopped and all the people reappeared before her. Sakura and Nikki were waving their hands in front of her face trying to snap her out of this trance.

"Huh?" Madison shook her head as the fantasy faded away.

"Hello, Earth to Madison!" Sakura said waving her hands in Madison's face

"What…oops, sorry, I kind of drifted off for a minute there," Madison said regaining her composure.

"Well, come on we all have to go and find out where we are for the day" Nikki said as they made their way over to a table where Mrs. Natalie sat handing out assignments to the groups.

"Hi, we're the group from Reedington, Japan." Nikki said when they reached the table.

"Ok…." She shuffled through papers and found the one she was looking for. " Today you have American culture and history class first, the rest of your classes for today and their room numbers are listed under here. And if your not sure where to go, please feel free to come ask me where to go, My office is right over there" She said pointing to a door across the room.

"Ok, Thank you." Nikki smiled as they made their way towards Mr. Alexander.

"Hi Mr. Alexander." Sakura said as they walked up behind him.

"Oh, hello children, what class do you have first?"

"American culture and history" Madison smiled

" I wonder what other groups are in our class today" Nikki said looking over at Madison.

"Maybe Jerimiah's group will be with us" Sakura smiled

"I hope" Madison said with a dreamy tone in her voice.

"Ok, well I'll be waiting for you here at 3 o'clock, ok?"

"Sure, Mr. Alexander, we'll be here."

They went their separate ways and headed to their classroom. It was on the second floor, room B125. They found it easily, entered the classroom quietly, and took four seats in the back. Many other students entered the classroom, and sat down. Madison was keeping a close watch at the door to see if Jerimiah's group was here also. He walked in the door talking to another cute boy with brown hair. He looked up from the conversation and saw Madison waving to him from the back. He hurried to the back and sat down in front of her. A bell echoed through the school and all the students took their seats as a tall balding man wearing a dark blue button up shirt and kaki pants stepped into the class room and stood in front of the chalk board. What was left of his hair was dark gray and sticking out in different directions. He wore glasses and carried a backpack in his hand. He looked relaxed, and they could tell that this class was going to be fun.

"Good Morning and welcome to American culture and history!" He smiled widely at the group." My name is Mr. Busick"

"Good morning" The class echoed.

Jerimiah couldn't resist it any longer, he turned around to face Madison and smiled widely at her. She looked at his face closely. He had perfect teeth, and a very nice smile. She noticed that he had a light dusting of freckles on his checks, which where absolutely adorable. She looked into his eyes and saw that they were beautiful. They were light blue with a dark blue ring around them, that made them stand out even more. There were little flecks of gold in them and they kind of shimmered when the light hit them just right. She smiled back at him and he studied her closely as well. He loved her hair. It was long and flowing, and it looked like black silk. Her smile was perfect. He looked at her skin, which was pale and beautiful. Then he looked deep into her eyes, and was lost in them. They were violet with little green flecks in them. They stood out like emeralds. They were totally amazed by each other. Madison blushed slightly and broke their gaze. She smiled at him again, and looked toward the front of the room paying attention to the teacher. Jerimiah turned around and tried to pay attention, but he could barely listen.

" Now how much do you know about American history?" Mr. Busick asked the class

The boy that Jerimiah was talking to when he entered the room raised his hand and Mr. Busick called on him to answer the question.

"Yes, um…sorry what's you name?"

"Eddie Renkwitz"

"Ok Eddie, what do you know about American history?"

"That America has been involved in the 2 World Wars"

"Yes, That is true" He smiled at Eddie "Dose any one else know any other wars that America was involved in?"

Madison raised her hand and Mr. Busick called on her.

"Yes, dear, first of all what is your name?"

"Madison Taylor"

"Ok what other wars did the U.S. fight in?"

"Vietnam" Madison replied

"Your absolutely right!" Mr. Busick said excitedly.

"She smart too" Jerimiah thought to him self. He turned around and gave her a thumbs up and she smiled at him.

"Can anyone tell me of any wars that happened right here on U.S. soil?"

" The Civil war" Sakura smiled

"The Spanish/American war" someone on the other side of the room said.

"The Revolutionary war" Li said as Mr. Busick called on him.

"Good job! I'm impressed." Mr. Busick said taking a seat at his desk. "Ok now that I know that you have a basic knowledge about U.S. history, I'm going to fill in the blanks for you. But I'm not going to use this big huge text book." He said dropping it into the trashcan. "I believe that if I'm going to teach this to you right, I have to know it myself, not just recite it from a textbook, written by biased people." He said standing up. "I have studied this text book from front to back… and parts of it are not true, so I'm here to teach you the truth, and not the truth that they want you to know. I've studied every topic in this book, and I can teach it to you from what I know." He smiled at them.

So he started his lesson from the Revolutionary war. He got all the way up to WW1 and then their time was up.

"I'll see you again next week to finish the rest of U.S. history," he said as they left the room.

"Wow! That was a cool class," Sakura said as they left the room.

"Yeah, it's cool that he has memorized the whole history of the U.S." Nikki said

"Don't you think so Madison?" Sakura turned around to find that Madison was not behind her. She looked around and spotted her just outside the door to Mr. Busick's classroom talking to Jerimiah.

"Madison! Common! Were going to be late!" Sakura yelled down the hall.

"Huh… Oh sorry Sakura, I'm coming. See ya later" She said running towards her friends.

"Bye!" Jerimiah waved to her as she left.

"Sorry guys." Madison said blushing as she skidded to a stop next to Sakura.

Jerimiah ran to catch up with his group as a pair of eyes glared at him from a shadow.

"Soon…" the figure hissed and disappeared with a little puff of purple smoke.

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Ok so tell me what you think of Jerimiah. Aren't they adorable! ^_^ I had to make Madison get a guy. ^_~ Sorry that I still haven't gotten into any major action yet, but as the mysterious figure said… "Soon…" HAHAHA, you'll just have to wait a little longer! Wahhh Ha Ha Ha! *Li slaps me with a frying pan* Ouch! Ok I can take a hint. So stay tuned for the next chapter of The New Magic Force!!! And email me at Just_beein_me@hotmail.com Thanks! ~Sakura_star~

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