Before you all read this, don't go out and flame me just because I have different opinions then you. I was born with a twisted mind. So sit back and enjoy.
It was a dark night with the full moon shining over the field that Sakura stood on. In front of her, stood the Void card, which was swallowing everything in its path. Syaoran stood by her side, sword in hand. They were the last people left to face the card and seal it. The card looked up at her and swallowed Syaoran. Sakura dropped to her knees and started sobbing. She had loved Syaoran so much. She pulled the Sword card out; the only card that Void hadn't absorbed and changed the staff. She brought the staff up to her throat, her hand shaking. Life without Syaoran wasn't a life she wanted to live. She made a motion to slash her throat, but she couldn't do it. The sword fell out of her hand and clattered to the ground. She sat on the ground, face in her hands remembering all the times that Syaoran had helped her. How he always protected her when she was hurt, how he went nuts when Eriol was nearby, how much he had changed from the brat he was to her best friend and lover.
"Hold that thought, Sakura," said a strange voice that was coming from above her.
She looked up and there stood a girl, an older version of her, except for the eyes. Her eyes were the color of the sky before it stormed, which were illuminated by the moonlight giving her an errie glow.
"Who are you?" asked Sakura
"You don't need to know who I am, you just have to listen to me," the girl replied.
"You are in great danger. Just because someone appears, a friend doesn't mean they really are. People don't change Sakura."
"What do you mean?"
The gray-eyed girl made a motion with her chin to a spot a few feet from Sakura. On the ground was Syaoran's body spawled over the grass. Sakura rushed over to him and checked his pulse. Still beating, but barely.
"Syaoran would never hurt me, he loves me," Sakura yelled, tears streaming down her small face.
"Believe what you like Sakura, but listen to me. He is not loyal to you as you believe him to be. His loyalty is to his clan," she responded coldly. 2 white wings tipped in gold appeared from her back and covered her. When the wings unfolded, there was only air standing where she had once stood.
Syaoran let out a grunt and picked up his sword.
"Syaoran,don't. You are too weak to face the card. Let me handle it," Sakura pleaded.
She pushed him back on the ground and walked over to where the card stood.
"You're going down, Void," she shouted, sword in the air ready to strike. Too late she heard the whistle of a sword in flight. She turned around and she saw Syaoran's sword coming down on her head. She screamed.
Sakura woke up with a start, sweating running down her face. She looked around her room making sure that everything was normal. Kero, her guardian looked at her in worry. He hated seeing her like this, scared out of her wits.
"What's wrong, Sakura," asked Kero.
"I had that dream again. The one with the Void card, except this time the girl spoke and I saw," Sakura sniffled."I saw the person who killed me."
"Who was it?" asked Kero
"It was Syaoran," and Sakura broke down into tears.
Kero floated down to her and gave her the best hug he could considering the size of his paws.
"It's okay, it's going to be okay," Kero reassured her.
After sobbing for almost a half of hour, Sakura finally quieted down and Kero laid her down and tucked her in.
He looked at her sleeping form, so quiet and peaceful. It had almost 3 months since the capture and changing of the Void card. Every night since that day, Sakura had the same dream but every night something more got added. Kero sat on the windowsill looking at the moon wondering about what it all meant. He liked to believe that Syaoran would never hurt sakura, but Sakura vision's were always right. Then there was the matter of the girl in the dream. Was the girl Sakura or someone else? He did not like her, whoever she was. All of Sakura's previous dreams that had people in it, the person appeared in her life shortly after. Kero opened the drawer containing the Clow book as quietly as he could, so not to wake Sakura. He pulled out 5 cars out of the deck randomly to do a reading. He put them in the shape of a diamond, 1 on top, 3 in the middle, and 1 on the bottom. He flipped over the first card, the one that identified the threat. Mirror. Kero swore under his breath angry, he already knew that the girl was a mirror image of Sakura.
He flipped over the 3 cards in the center, that would describe the person. Power, Windy, Change. Power meant that she was powerful, windy meant that she was someone that Sakura knew and was smart because it knew and saw all. It took him a few minutes to figure out what Change meant. Change was one of the cards that rarely showed up in readings. He focused, trying to remember what Clow had said about the card. Clow had said something about Change, in a reading about a person having the ability to change to fit the situation at hand. Kero picked up the last card, the card that summed it up. Twin. Kero, frustrated because he had learned almost nothing from the reading, put the cards in the book, put it back in the drawer, and went back to sleep.
"Bring,Bring"
"Hello…yeah, do you want to talk to her…OK. Sakura, it's for you, "yelled Touya, phone in hand.
Sakura groaned, she had just woken up and was starting to drift back off. For goodness sake, it was 7:00 in the morning.
"Tell whoever it is, to call back later, I'm sleeping," moaned Sakura
"But Sakura, it's Syaoran," yelled Touya, smirking.
Sakura leapt out of bed, nearly running over Kero who was eating a pudding cup. She ran down the stairs and grabbed the phone.
"Hello…hey Syaoran…what's up. .No I'm not…Sure, I'll see you at 7:00, bye."
"Yes," Sakura yelled dancing around in joy.
"Why are you so happy," asked Touya suspiciously.
"Syaoran asked me on a date to celebrate our 3 month anniversary. At 7:00, I'm meeting him at his apartment." Noticing Touya's face she quickly added," Then we're going to the movies or something. Oh, crap what am I going to wear."
Sakura bolted up the stairs into her room and frantically went through her closets. Kero smiled at the sight of his mistress worrying about what to wear on her date. After the incident with the Void card, Syaoran and her had stopped being afraid of rejection and had been happily going out for the last 3 months.
"Kero, I have nothing to wear," whined Sakura.
"Why don't you go over to Tomoyo's and see if she will make you something cute to wear," suggested Kero.
"Great idea, thanks," Sakura said as she grabbed her coat and headed toward the door.
Kero smiled to himself and went back to eating his pudding cup.
"You sure this looks ok," said Sakura looking at herself in the mirror at all angles, to see Tomoyo's latest creation.
"You look great. I can guarantee that Syaoran will be drooling all over the floor after seeing you."
Sakura was dressed in a tight long-sleeve pink shirt that showed her stomach when she rose her hands and a pair of black bellbottoms. It wasn't a typical thing that she would wear, but Tomoyo insisted that it was perfect for tonight. Anyway, it made her feel so good when Tomoyo was happy. Sakura grabbed her coat off Tomoyo's bed and headed toward the door, but stopped like she just remembered something.
"Tomoyo, please don't follow me and video-tape me because I really want tonight to be special and.."
"No, it's okay. I won't videotape you or follow you guys," interupted Tomoyo.
"Thanks." Sakura gave her grateful smile. "I'll call later and tell you everything that happened," and Sakura walked out the door.
Syaoran Li stood outside his apartment door waiting for Sakura to arrive. He was pacing back and forth, nervous out of his mind. He tried to focus on his training, the lesson on how to control emotions. He would need it tonight. He was so deep in thought, he did not hear the approach of his girlfriend. Sakura snuck up behind him and whispered into his ear, Boo. Syaoran nearly jumped out of his skin, how could he not have heard her. Sakura, like always, looked absolutely beautiful, which would make his task difficult. He took notice of the Clow key around her neck. Ever since Eriol had come, Sakura won't leave the key home, just in case something happened.
"I'm sorry, Syaoran. I didn't mean to scare you," Sakura apologized, giving Syaoran a kiss on the cheek, which sent him blushing.
"So, where are we going?" asked Sakura.
"I was thinking about a picnic in the park."
"At this hour"
Syaoran shrugged ,"If you don't want to, we don't have to."
"No, that's fine. Come on, let's go," Sakura said grabbing his arm.
As they walked, Sakura couldn't help admiring the sky. It was a cloudy night with only the cresent moon showing. She noticed how the few lone clouds in the sky were black, like it would storm any second.
They arrived at the park and set up their picnic dinner next to the penguin slide, the place where alot of the capturing and changing of the cards had taken place.
Syaoran had packed an awesome dinner, steak sandwiches with homemade potato salad. It was a great dinner and they did the normal stuff that couples did, but Sakura could tell that Syaoran wasn't into it. Something was troubling him.
"Syaoran, what's wrong?" asked Sakura.
"It's nothing," Syaoran replied a little more harshly then he meant to.
"What's…"Sakura was interrupted by the rustling of the bushes near them and an errie sound coming from in the woods. Sakura ran into Syaoran's arms, thinking that it was a ghost. As Sakura stared in terror at the moving bushes, Syaoran ever so slowly slipped the Clow key from around Sakura's neck.
Sakura immediately jumped away from him and faced him. "Why do you have the key?" asked Sakura confused," There might be something out there and I need the key."
Syaoran replied calmly," There is nothing out there."
"What do you mean? Come on Syaoran, this isn't funny, I need the key. Give it back to me."
Syaoran grinned as he said" It's nothing, Meilin is out there."
" And why is Meilin out there."
"Because I told her to be. You see, Sakura, if I want to be the leader of my clan, I have to return to Hong Kong with the cards. And because of you, I haven't been able to. I was destined to be the master of them, but no, a non-magical person opens the book and gets to be their master." Syaoran said, his voice radiating with anger.
Sakura looked at him confused, "But, if you wanted to the cards, you could have just asked me, I would have given them to you."
"But it's not that simple. You're their master, and they'll only obey you. I, being the other person that captured the cards means that I become their master only if you die," Syaoran said, eyes flashing.
The truth dawned on Sakura. He was going to kill her. Her own soul mate was going to kill her. She may not have her cards, but she wasn't helpless. She bolted toward the exit of the park, but before she could move 2 feet, she was tackled from behind by Merlin.
"You not getting away, Kinomoto," Meilin growled, pulling Sakura up and held her so that she won't move.
Syaoran took off his sword pendent from around his neck and made it grow big. He closed his eyes as he brought the sword parallel to his shoulder." I'm sorry I have to do this, Sakura," he said sounding regretful." I really want to be the leader of the clan and this is the only way. If I didn't have to do this, I won't but.." Syaoran brought the sword up, his eyes tearing up. He swung the sword straight at Sakura's head. Sakura closed her eyes, thinking that this is how she was going to die. She prayed to God that Yue and Kero would show up. A strange feeling came over her, like she was being separated from her body.
"Maybe this how it feels to die," she thought to herself in horror.
She opened her eyes and saw that she was surrounded by a blue light that seemed to be moving her so that Syaoran's sword would miss her. She turned around and saw Meilin lying against a tree, rubbing her head, from being thrown into it. She saw a flash of silver coming from behind her. It was his sword. There was no time to move away from it. Suddenly, she felt all tinglely, like with the incident with the Move card. She looked at where she stood, it had changed. She was 3 feet from where she just stood.
Meilin grabbed her from behind. "It's no use, she just moves everytime you swing," yelled Meilin.
Syaoran stopped the sword and looked at Sakura and the key in his hand.
"How…how is she doing this," he mumbled to himself. He looked at her straight in the eye searching for some clue if she knew what had just happened, which she didn't. It wasn't the Move card because she would have sensed its aura. Syaoran reached into his jeans pocket and pulled out a yellow piece of paper with strange writing on it, properly containing some kind of spell.
"What is it?" Sakura asked in worry.
"Why do you want to know?"
"Because if I'm going to die, I least have a right to know how I died."
"Syaoran, don't listen to her. She's just trying to stall us so that Yue and Kero can save her," called Meilin from behind Sakura.
Syaoran took in what Meilin said, but he decided to tell Sakura. A part of him wanted Yue & Kero to find them, so he would have an excuse to why he hadn't killed her.
"The card, when hit by the sword, shoots out a beam that will kill whatever it hits immediately. The beam is impossible to stop and it follows it's target until it hits," he explained.
"I'm sorry it has to end this way, but I can't risk you or whatever force here from preventing me from killing you.
"Now Meilin, would you please tie Sakura's hands to the tree and move so that the beam doesn't miss and hit you."
Meilin took out a piece of rope from within her battle costume and backed Sakura up to the tree that she had crashed into a few minutes ago. She put a piece around each wrist and tied them together around the tree. Sakura struggled to get free, but it was no use. The ropes were too tight and tightly wound to break or loosen them.
As Syaoran got ready to strike the card, Sakura thought about how to stall them longer. She couldn't come up with anything. She quickly re-played the events that just happened in her mind, looking for some inspiration. Something wasn't adding up.
"Syaoran."
Syaoran looked up from what he was doing annoyed, because any second Kero & Yue would show up and he would get his ass kicked by them. "Yeah"
"Okey, you said you wanted the cards and I said I would give them to you, but yet you still want to kill me. Why?"
Syaoran sighed." Because even if you gave them to me, you could still use them and they'll consider me as their master if their current master died. Does that answer your question? Now, I have to kill you."
Syaoran held the card and threw it into the air. As the card slowly fell back to Earth, he shouted," Death," and hit the card with his sword. A beam flew out of the card, as the card crumbled into ashes. The beam went flying towards Sakura. She watched it in rapid horror as it got closer and closer.
A/N : Yes, I know I'm evil. I'll get the next part up hopefully in a few days. The more reviews I get, the faster I'll write. I'm not exactly sure what pairings I'll do for the story because I have a problem with every coupling so, in your reviews tell what pairing you would like.