"So we're talkin and he said to take out the tiger which I agreed with
then…," said Sakura, yacking like a manic about what had took place at
Burger King. Ray, Sakura, and Eriol were over at Tomoyo's house, lying on
the couches in her bedroom. Sakura was telling the details of the day and
after Sakura had told the part of the tiger being killed, ray stopped
listening. She was lost in her own thoughts. The one she protected with her
life now wanted to kill her. It wasn't fair.
Eriol interrupted Sakura's speech. "Sakura, normally you aren't so violent. Why do you want the tiger dead?"
Sakura looked at him and said in an almost whisper," What I learned from the whole incident with Syaoran trying to kill me that whoever possesses the cards is the most powerful sorcerer. Syaoran wants it dead and I have to agree with him. It's powerful and it seems to take an interest in me. It has to want the cards, there is no other reason why it was there yesterday."
Ray at that point lost her cool," Who said the tiger was evil? Who said it wanted the cards?" she said in her defense.
"I just know ok, I have to eliminate all competition for the cards," Sakura said sighing dramatically.
"Go Sakura," said Tomoyo, clapping her hands, then high-fiving Sakura.
Eriol and Ray looked at each other in worry. This wasn't good.
"You're totally blood-thirsty," Ray remarked.
"Am not," Sakura yelled.
"Are too, you want to be some big hero in front of the Li clan, admit it. If I didn't know better, I'd say you like Syaoran."
"I do not."
"I know you don't, but you're sure acting like it," and Ray stormed out of the room before she hurt someone.
"What's her problem?" Sakura muttered and everyone shook their head in response to Ray's storming off.
Ruby Moon flew to Tokyo tower in hopes of finding a certain moon guardian. She knew he had fond memories of this spot because that's where he had first meet sakura. Like expected, she found him sitting at the top, deep in thought. She flew down and folded her wings.
"You shouldn't have asked me that," he remarked, not looking at her.
"I'm sorry."
Yue raised his eyebrow in surprise. She had never apologized to him ever.
Nakura noticed the look on his face," Don't look too surprised, Yue. If she found out through Truth or Dare, she won't go out with you, but if you told her alone, I'm sure she would go out with ya."
"She doesn't love me," he said, looking down at the ground.
"What you mean she doesn't love you?"
"I'll just be Old Faithful Yue who always saved her," he said, his tone of voice and pattern of speech reminding Nakura of Eyore from Winnie the Pooh. He stood up and shook the snow that had got on his wings and flew off. Nakura shook her head, both Sakura and Yue were fools.
Syaoran walked around the inside of the hotel they were staying at, whistling. He was in a great mood. He had gotten off the phone with Sakura and he was going to go over there and have her make 2 cards from him. He was practically skipping down the halls. He came down the hall and went out into the poolroom and stripped off his long white pullover reveling his green swim trunks. He dived into the pool and started doing laps. He breaststroked to the other side and noticed Brad and some porky black dude with dread locks whispering in the corner. He got close to them as possible from the water and concerted all his senses on the conversation. He wasn't able to hear them but he saw Brad hand the guy a wad of money and the guy nodded his head listening to the plans Brad relayed to him. They looked up at him, realizing they were being watched, and Syaoran continued doing his laps. Brad and the guy left the room and Syaoran finished up his laps and stepped out the pool. He wrapped a pink flowery towel around his shoulder and walked out shivering from the change of temperature. He smiled remembering Sakura's face.
"What ya smiling about," asked Meilin in a red one piece, walking down to the pool.
"Nothin," he said, not able to keep the grin off his face.
"You like her, don't ya,"
"How did…how did you know," he stuttered.
"It's obvious. You've been in love with her for years."
"It is? I guess I like her." He said shrugging.
"So, do something about it. You're seeing her tomorrow, right?"
"Yeah."
"See how things go then tell her how you feel."
"It's not that easy."
"Yes, it is and I'm going with you tomorrow," and Meilin walked down to the pool before Syaoran had a chance to argue.
The bell tolled from within the clock tower announcing the time, 5:00 and Syaoran and Meilin stood on the Kinomoto doorstep. Meilin raised a thin hand to the door bell and rang it. The sound carried through the house and Sakura rushed to the door and flung it open.
"Hey," she said and escorted them in. Kero flew down the stairs and sat on Sakura's shoulder protectfully. He showed off his teeth at the sight of Syaoran and Syaoran flinched, remembering how much it hurt when he was bit by him. Sakura showed them into the living room and they found Tomoyo, Eriol, and Ray sitting there. Tomoyo lept up and hugged them both, blushing when hugging Syaoran. Eriol said hi, but otherwise didn't move. Ray glared at them, mentally burning holes through their bodies. Eriol nudged her and she stopped glaring.
Syoran and Meilin sat down on the couch and Sakura took out her star topped staff and spun it around in thought.
"What card do you want me to make you?" she asked.
Syaoran tilted his head in thought and then said," How about Flower and Bubbles, start with something easy."
"Ok," and she concerted on the card powers and what the card looked like. She started with Flower since if she messed up, she won't get hurt. Sweat dripped down her face from the stress it was putting on her magic abilities. She groaned in pain form the loss of power and finally out of her staff came a green card with a girl with hair in swirly pinktails with a long puffy dress. Sakura laid down on the couch, catching her breath and after a few minutes of rest, did bubbles. She collapsed on the floor, exhausted and Kero flew down and fanned her with his wings.
"Are you okay?" asked Ray, kneeling beside her.
"Yeah," and Sakura tried to get up but wasn't capable of doing it. Ray helped her up and onto the couch.
"Hey, Meilin. Tomoyo, Ray, and Eriol are spending the night here. Do you want to stay over?" Sakura asked.
"Yeah sure, that sounds great."
"What aboout me?" asked Syaoran, hurt that he wasn't invited.
"You can't stay over because you're a guy."
"But what about Eriol?" he whined.
"Eriol is like family, that's why he's allowed to stay."
"Ok," and Syaoran stood up somewhat mad because he wanted to spend some quality time with Sakura. "I'll be going now," he said, picking up the cards that Sakura had made for him and he walked to the door. "Meilin, do you want me to bring over your stuff?" he asked, hand on the door.
"Nah, I really don't need anything?"
"Ok," and he walked out the door.
"We were in the middle of playing twister when you came, do you want to play with us?" offered Sakura.
"Sure."
The night had fallen and everyone was asleep. Sakura was standing in her room making the cards for syaoran. She had just finshed when she heard a knock on her window. She walked over to it and opened it and found her double floating on the air, waiting for her to open the window. Sakura screamed and her twin put her hand over Sakura's mouth to silence her.
"Shhh, we don't want to wake Touya," she whispered and she removed her hand from Sakura's mouth.
"What are you doing here," she hissed as her double stepped through the window and closed the window behind her.
"I came here to warn you. It isn't over with the Li clan."
"What do you mean? Syaoran doesn't want me dead," she said confused by what hr double meant.
"Yes, he doesn't want you dead, far from that, but there are members of the clan that still want to see you taken down."
"But why?"
Her double shrugged," Don't ask me the reasoning of the clan."
Sakura looked at her double and noticed for the first time that her double had the same cloudy gray eyes that the tiger had and it remained her of a question that she had for her all-knowing double.
"Who is the tiger."
Her gray-eyed double gave a predatory grin." If you want to know so you can kill her then I'm not telling you."
"I don't want to kill her unless it really wants the cards. Now tell me who it is?"
Just then she heard a crack of a window breaking and she spun around seeing shards of glass lying on the ground. "There's your answer," she whispered and Sakura woke up.
She rolled over and looked at her window, seeing if it was broken like it was in the dream. She saw Ray standing by the window, surrounded in pieces of glass. She was about to say something when Ray jumped out the window, unaware that she was being watched. Sakura sprung out of bed and rushed to the window, looking out of it. She saw Ray falling to the ground and she watched as Ray landed softly on the ground, feet first. Sakura ran down the stairs and went out the front door, slamming it, waking everyone up. Meilin and Tomoyo woke up and noticing the glass, slipped on slippers and looked out the window. Sakura rounded the corner of the house and saw Ray and some dude circling another.
"Move out of the way," the guy hissed. "I have a job to do."
"Like I'd let you kill Sakura."
The black guy with dreadlocks lunged at her and Ray jumped in the air, bringing her hands together then pulling then apart. A bolt of lightning formed between her hands and she released it at him. The guy crashed into the house waking whomever wasn't already awake and Ray landed on the ground in a squat. The guy brushed himself off and lunged at her transforming into a lion. Ray leapt up and turned into the tiger and barreled into him, fighting tooth and claw for control. Sakura gasped, that was why Ray was so in the favor of the tiger. Kero floated down to Sakura, fully transformed into a golden lion with jeweled amour. Ray gained the upper hand and leapt off him, sending a beam of red light at him, slaying him instantly. Sakura remembered the beam form somewhere but she couldn't place it. Kerberos leapt on the tiger pinning it to the ground. Then it occurred to her that it was the same light that had saved her from Syaoran's death spell. "Stop," she yelled to Kerberos then realized that Kero was floating 20 feet from Ray trapped in a ball of psychic energy so he couldn't attack. The tiger transformed into Ray and then using her staff, commaned him to transform into his stuffed animal form. She then released him.
"You were the one who saved me that night in the park," Sakura remarked.
"Yeppers."
"But why?"
Eriol walked out of the shadows of the house and said, " I can explain."
Ray picked up the lifeless body of the guy sent to slay Sakura and calmly walked crossed the streets to the park where she could burn the body.
Eriol sighed and began telling the story.
Flashback
Clow Reed sat in his bed, reading an old newspaper. He had just broke the news to Yue and Kerberos that he was going to die in a few days because he had a terminal cancer that was slowly killing him. They were off digesting the info and Clow was meanwhile making preparations for it. He had already enchanted himself so that he would be recarnated into two people and had already chose his heir, a girl by the name of Sakura Kinomoto. He put the newspaper down and drifted off to sleep. In the dream, he saw a young girl around the age of 11 with auburn hair and green emerald eyes walking hand in hand with a boy around the same age as her with brown wind blown hair and chocolate brown eyes. He instantly knew that he was his descendent and he watched closely at the interaction. He watched his descendent attack the his future hier with a girl with long black hair tied into two pinktails and red eyes the color of blood. They killed her with a card that contained death and then walked away laughing. The emerald-eyed beauty lay on the ground, bleeding to death. By the time Yue and Kerberos found her, she was dead. Clow could see anymore of his without being sick to his stomach and willed himself out of the dream. He awoke, his long black hair sticking to his sweat drenched face. He leaned over to his night stand and picked up his glasses. He put them on and stood up and walked to the other side of his bedroom where a seeing glass was located. He opened it up and spun his sun staff around chanting words so he could see what he desired. The seeing glass showed that Sakura would die at the age of 6 when the Li clan would attack her house and since no one in her family possessed magic she died. He shut off the seeing glass and walked over to a red velvet chair. He leaned back and thought about to make sure Sakura didn't die. Kerberos and Yue would be in the book when the first attack would occur and he had no idea how to prevent it.
Just then he heard a knock at the front door and he walked over to it and opened it up. On his doorstep stood a thin baby with auburn hair and gray storm-like eyes wrapped in a blanket sitting in a basket. On the basked was a little note reading:…take care of my baby…
Clow tore up the note and brought the baby in because it was storming out and the baby was gettting wet. The ink ran on the paper staining his hands blue and he sat the baby down the table. He go out his staff to do a spell to dry it off but when he spun it, it fell from his hand and came tumbling towards the baby's head. Instantly the baby's half closed eyes sprung open and turned the color of metal and the staff stopped three inchs from the baby's face, just floating in mid-air. The baby cooed and the staff came floating back to his hand and he looked at t he baby in amazement. So that was why it had been given to him. All the people in town thought as him as some wacko who lived in the country and thought him to have magical abilities. He looked closed at the baby and he noticed that how much it resembled his heir to the cards. An idea formed in his head and he looked around, making sure that Kerberos and Yue weren't near by. He took out his staff and opened the Clow book, which sat on the kitchen counter because he had used the Sweet card to spice up his cooking. He willed the cards to transform a bit of their power to the young girl and then added a few extras for the girl. He had learned much from the days of creating the guardians of the seal and he didn't have to make two forms for the girl. He created wings for her and a diamond marking on her forehead for when she transformed. He gave her the ability to shift shape so she could always watch over his heir and many other cool things. The baby, through his consent chanting just stared at him, with unspoken intelligence. The baby was a psychic and understood and knew many things that it wasn't willing to show because it would make her different. Clow collapsed into a chair, exhausted from transmitting almost all his power to the girl and the baby looked up at him in worry. A noise came from the back door and Clow jumped up.
"We're home," shouted a deep roaring voice.
Clow grabbed the baby and ran into his room to pretend to be deathly ill.
"It's not safe for you to be around here," he whispered and he chanted a spell that would freeze the baby in time until a later day." I shall name you Stormy for you came on a stormy night in July and you have the eyes of one," he whispered to the babe as it slipped into time.
"Clow arranged for the baby to be born almost seven moths after you so you would be the same age. She was put in an orphanage. Ray was born with the instinct to seek me out and find the heir of the cards. She accidentally discovered her powers when she was four years old when she lost her temper and sent a knife flying into a girl's heart. She ran away and eventually found me and she helped me create Nakura and Suppi. She then devoted her life to protecting you. She is my best friend. She's not evil."
"But isn't she evil if she kills people?" asked Sakura.
"No. Some people when they are little remember their first birthday party or something sweet like that. Ray's first memory was killing someone."
"But that doesn't make it right?" Tomoyo shouted, standing on the doorstep, letting all the cold air into the warm house.
"NO it doesn't. But Ray only kills those who would kill you," he said calmly.
"But she killed Syaoran's father," Sakura shouted as they walked back into the house.
Eriol sighed as they slammed the door behind them," She didn't kill him. He never attacked her or you so she didn't hurt him. One of the attacks that was directed at Ray hit him and that's what killed him. She tried to save him but she didn't have the ability yet to heal the injuries he had sustained.'"
Just then the door opened and Ray walked in, clothes smelling like burnt flesh.
"Do I want to know what you just did?" asked Sakura.
"No you don't," and Ray opened a jar she had in her hand and dumped it into the trash can.
"Ray, can I talk to you for a second?"
"Sure," and Ray followed Sakura into the kitchen. Ray hopped onto the counter and faced Sakura. " So what's up."
"I have a question. Did you save me that night with Syaoran trying to kill me?"
"Yeah."
"Who was the person who died."
"Me."
"How can that be."
Ray sighed and brought her knees to her chest, hugging them. She stirred nervously and ran her hand through her almost red hair. "I transformed into you then ran in front of him. The blast of lightning never hit me, it was just an illusion to fool him. I pretended to trip over the root and froze the flames before they hit me. I then projected an image of a burned body."
"So that's why there was no burn marks on the ground," a voice remarked from outside of the room. A blur of yellow fur floated into the room and settled down on Sakura's shoulder.
Ray nodded," So you're the one who saved Sakura from everything that day from cutting the ropes to helping her dodge Syaoran's attacks to pretending the die so that Sakura could live a few years of her life worry free," Kero said grinning up at the small petite girl.
"Yeah," she said cautiously. Kero launched himself at the girl and hugged her with his fat chubby stuffed animal arms. He hugged her around her neck, burrowing under its warmth." Thank you so much," he whispered, tears streaming down his face. For one so small he sure cried a lot, drenching Ray's cow spotted tank top. Ray took it all in and held the small creature as he sobbed in joy. He hadn't crying so much since Clow had died and that had been a rare occasion.
"Kero, why are you crying," Ray aske after Kero was done with the worst of his sobbing.
"Because Sakura is alive because of you and you devoted your entire life to protecting her, it's so sappy," he exclaimed.
Ray stared at him in disbelief. She didn't know what to say to that and everyone cracked up.
Touya walked into the room, dressed in only a pair of boxers with a lips on them and glared at them for waking him up.
"What the hell is goin on," he yelled, his mud colored eyes half closed from just waking up. He looked around the room, seeing for the first time what Ray looked for and he gasped.
Flashback
A 12-year-old Touya walked down the hall, a baseball bat in his hands. He had heard a noise in the house and he had heard a bump in Sakura's room. Sakura was a deep-sleeper and once asleep, never moved. He opened the door and found a girl resembling Sakura with soulful gray eyes and dressed in a black bra with a black see through shirt over it with a pair of tight patchwork jeans. She looked up at him and he noticed she had a glow to her making him think she was a ghost. She stood over Sakura, her hands over her chest. Sakura was covered in blood from head to toe. The girl didn't know he was watching her and he was about to swing the bat at her when somebody stopped it. Touya's mom stood holding the bat and she motioned for him to leave. His mother would never leave Sakura in danger so he reluctantly left the room.
Ray finshed explaining it all to them and Touya looked at her in wonderment. "Were you healing her that night?" he asked.
"Yeah, and it's getting late and I want to sleep so….buh bye," and Ray walked up the stairs and collapsed on the floor of Sakura's room.`
Eriol interrupted Sakura's speech. "Sakura, normally you aren't so violent. Why do you want the tiger dead?"
Sakura looked at him and said in an almost whisper," What I learned from the whole incident with Syaoran trying to kill me that whoever possesses the cards is the most powerful sorcerer. Syaoran wants it dead and I have to agree with him. It's powerful and it seems to take an interest in me. It has to want the cards, there is no other reason why it was there yesterday."
Ray at that point lost her cool," Who said the tiger was evil? Who said it wanted the cards?" she said in her defense.
"I just know ok, I have to eliminate all competition for the cards," Sakura said sighing dramatically.
"Go Sakura," said Tomoyo, clapping her hands, then high-fiving Sakura.
Eriol and Ray looked at each other in worry. This wasn't good.
"You're totally blood-thirsty," Ray remarked.
"Am not," Sakura yelled.
"Are too, you want to be some big hero in front of the Li clan, admit it. If I didn't know better, I'd say you like Syaoran."
"I do not."
"I know you don't, but you're sure acting like it," and Ray stormed out of the room before she hurt someone.
"What's her problem?" Sakura muttered and everyone shook their head in response to Ray's storming off.
Ruby Moon flew to Tokyo tower in hopes of finding a certain moon guardian. She knew he had fond memories of this spot because that's where he had first meet sakura. Like expected, she found him sitting at the top, deep in thought. She flew down and folded her wings.
"You shouldn't have asked me that," he remarked, not looking at her.
"I'm sorry."
Yue raised his eyebrow in surprise. She had never apologized to him ever.
Nakura noticed the look on his face," Don't look too surprised, Yue. If she found out through Truth or Dare, she won't go out with you, but if you told her alone, I'm sure she would go out with ya."
"She doesn't love me," he said, looking down at the ground.
"What you mean she doesn't love you?"
"I'll just be Old Faithful Yue who always saved her," he said, his tone of voice and pattern of speech reminding Nakura of Eyore from Winnie the Pooh. He stood up and shook the snow that had got on his wings and flew off. Nakura shook her head, both Sakura and Yue were fools.
Syaoran walked around the inside of the hotel they were staying at, whistling. He was in a great mood. He had gotten off the phone with Sakura and he was going to go over there and have her make 2 cards from him. He was practically skipping down the halls. He came down the hall and went out into the poolroom and stripped off his long white pullover reveling his green swim trunks. He dived into the pool and started doing laps. He breaststroked to the other side and noticed Brad and some porky black dude with dread locks whispering in the corner. He got close to them as possible from the water and concerted all his senses on the conversation. He wasn't able to hear them but he saw Brad hand the guy a wad of money and the guy nodded his head listening to the plans Brad relayed to him. They looked up at him, realizing they were being watched, and Syaoran continued doing his laps. Brad and the guy left the room and Syaoran finished up his laps and stepped out the pool. He wrapped a pink flowery towel around his shoulder and walked out shivering from the change of temperature. He smiled remembering Sakura's face.
"What ya smiling about," asked Meilin in a red one piece, walking down to the pool.
"Nothin," he said, not able to keep the grin off his face.
"You like her, don't ya,"
"How did…how did you know," he stuttered.
"It's obvious. You've been in love with her for years."
"It is? I guess I like her." He said shrugging.
"So, do something about it. You're seeing her tomorrow, right?"
"Yeah."
"See how things go then tell her how you feel."
"It's not that easy."
"Yes, it is and I'm going with you tomorrow," and Meilin walked down to the pool before Syaoran had a chance to argue.
The bell tolled from within the clock tower announcing the time, 5:00 and Syaoran and Meilin stood on the Kinomoto doorstep. Meilin raised a thin hand to the door bell and rang it. The sound carried through the house and Sakura rushed to the door and flung it open.
"Hey," she said and escorted them in. Kero flew down the stairs and sat on Sakura's shoulder protectfully. He showed off his teeth at the sight of Syaoran and Syaoran flinched, remembering how much it hurt when he was bit by him. Sakura showed them into the living room and they found Tomoyo, Eriol, and Ray sitting there. Tomoyo lept up and hugged them both, blushing when hugging Syaoran. Eriol said hi, but otherwise didn't move. Ray glared at them, mentally burning holes through their bodies. Eriol nudged her and she stopped glaring.
Syoran and Meilin sat down on the couch and Sakura took out her star topped staff and spun it around in thought.
"What card do you want me to make you?" she asked.
Syaoran tilted his head in thought and then said," How about Flower and Bubbles, start with something easy."
"Ok," and she concerted on the card powers and what the card looked like. She started with Flower since if she messed up, she won't get hurt. Sweat dripped down her face from the stress it was putting on her magic abilities. She groaned in pain form the loss of power and finally out of her staff came a green card with a girl with hair in swirly pinktails with a long puffy dress. Sakura laid down on the couch, catching her breath and after a few minutes of rest, did bubbles. She collapsed on the floor, exhausted and Kero flew down and fanned her with his wings.
"Are you okay?" asked Ray, kneeling beside her.
"Yeah," and Sakura tried to get up but wasn't capable of doing it. Ray helped her up and onto the couch.
"Hey, Meilin. Tomoyo, Ray, and Eriol are spending the night here. Do you want to stay over?" Sakura asked.
"Yeah sure, that sounds great."
"What aboout me?" asked Syaoran, hurt that he wasn't invited.
"You can't stay over because you're a guy."
"But what about Eriol?" he whined.
"Eriol is like family, that's why he's allowed to stay."
"Ok," and Syaoran stood up somewhat mad because he wanted to spend some quality time with Sakura. "I'll be going now," he said, picking up the cards that Sakura had made for him and he walked to the door. "Meilin, do you want me to bring over your stuff?" he asked, hand on the door.
"Nah, I really don't need anything?"
"Ok," and he walked out the door.
"We were in the middle of playing twister when you came, do you want to play with us?" offered Sakura.
"Sure."
The night had fallen and everyone was asleep. Sakura was standing in her room making the cards for syaoran. She had just finshed when she heard a knock on her window. She walked over to it and opened it and found her double floating on the air, waiting for her to open the window. Sakura screamed and her twin put her hand over Sakura's mouth to silence her.
"Shhh, we don't want to wake Touya," she whispered and she removed her hand from Sakura's mouth.
"What are you doing here," she hissed as her double stepped through the window and closed the window behind her.
"I came here to warn you. It isn't over with the Li clan."
"What do you mean? Syaoran doesn't want me dead," she said confused by what hr double meant.
"Yes, he doesn't want you dead, far from that, but there are members of the clan that still want to see you taken down."
"But why?"
Her double shrugged," Don't ask me the reasoning of the clan."
Sakura looked at her double and noticed for the first time that her double had the same cloudy gray eyes that the tiger had and it remained her of a question that she had for her all-knowing double.
"Who is the tiger."
Her gray-eyed double gave a predatory grin." If you want to know so you can kill her then I'm not telling you."
"I don't want to kill her unless it really wants the cards. Now tell me who it is?"
Just then she heard a crack of a window breaking and she spun around seeing shards of glass lying on the ground. "There's your answer," she whispered and Sakura woke up.
She rolled over and looked at her window, seeing if it was broken like it was in the dream. She saw Ray standing by the window, surrounded in pieces of glass. She was about to say something when Ray jumped out the window, unaware that she was being watched. Sakura sprung out of bed and rushed to the window, looking out of it. She saw Ray falling to the ground and she watched as Ray landed softly on the ground, feet first. Sakura ran down the stairs and went out the front door, slamming it, waking everyone up. Meilin and Tomoyo woke up and noticing the glass, slipped on slippers and looked out the window. Sakura rounded the corner of the house and saw Ray and some dude circling another.
"Move out of the way," the guy hissed. "I have a job to do."
"Like I'd let you kill Sakura."
The black guy with dreadlocks lunged at her and Ray jumped in the air, bringing her hands together then pulling then apart. A bolt of lightning formed between her hands and she released it at him. The guy crashed into the house waking whomever wasn't already awake and Ray landed on the ground in a squat. The guy brushed himself off and lunged at her transforming into a lion. Ray leapt up and turned into the tiger and barreled into him, fighting tooth and claw for control. Sakura gasped, that was why Ray was so in the favor of the tiger. Kero floated down to Sakura, fully transformed into a golden lion with jeweled amour. Ray gained the upper hand and leapt off him, sending a beam of red light at him, slaying him instantly. Sakura remembered the beam form somewhere but she couldn't place it. Kerberos leapt on the tiger pinning it to the ground. Then it occurred to her that it was the same light that had saved her from Syaoran's death spell. "Stop," she yelled to Kerberos then realized that Kero was floating 20 feet from Ray trapped in a ball of psychic energy so he couldn't attack. The tiger transformed into Ray and then using her staff, commaned him to transform into his stuffed animal form. She then released him.
"You were the one who saved me that night in the park," Sakura remarked.
"Yeppers."
"But why?"
Eriol walked out of the shadows of the house and said, " I can explain."
Ray picked up the lifeless body of the guy sent to slay Sakura and calmly walked crossed the streets to the park where she could burn the body.
Eriol sighed and began telling the story.
Flashback
Clow Reed sat in his bed, reading an old newspaper. He had just broke the news to Yue and Kerberos that he was going to die in a few days because he had a terminal cancer that was slowly killing him. They were off digesting the info and Clow was meanwhile making preparations for it. He had already enchanted himself so that he would be recarnated into two people and had already chose his heir, a girl by the name of Sakura Kinomoto. He put the newspaper down and drifted off to sleep. In the dream, he saw a young girl around the age of 11 with auburn hair and green emerald eyes walking hand in hand with a boy around the same age as her with brown wind blown hair and chocolate brown eyes. He instantly knew that he was his descendent and he watched closely at the interaction. He watched his descendent attack the his future hier with a girl with long black hair tied into two pinktails and red eyes the color of blood. They killed her with a card that contained death and then walked away laughing. The emerald-eyed beauty lay on the ground, bleeding to death. By the time Yue and Kerberos found her, she was dead. Clow could see anymore of his without being sick to his stomach and willed himself out of the dream. He awoke, his long black hair sticking to his sweat drenched face. He leaned over to his night stand and picked up his glasses. He put them on and stood up and walked to the other side of his bedroom where a seeing glass was located. He opened it up and spun his sun staff around chanting words so he could see what he desired. The seeing glass showed that Sakura would die at the age of 6 when the Li clan would attack her house and since no one in her family possessed magic she died. He shut off the seeing glass and walked over to a red velvet chair. He leaned back and thought about to make sure Sakura didn't die. Kerberos and Yue would be in the book when the first attack would occur and he had no idea how to prevent it.
Just then he heard a knock at the front door and he walked over to it and opened it up. On his doorstep stood a thin baby with auburn hair and gray storm-like eyes wrapped in a blanket sitting in a basket. On the basked was a little note reading:…take care of my baby…
Clow tore up the note and brought the baby in because it was storming out and the baby was gettting wet. The ink ran on the paper staining his hands blue and he sat the baby down the table. He go out his staff to do a spell to dry it off but when he spun it, it fell from his hand and came tumbling towards the baby's head. Instantly the baby's half closed eyes sprung open and turned the color of metal and the staff stopped three inchs from the baby's face, just floating in mid-air. The baby cooed and the staff came floating back to his hand and he looked at t he baby in amazement. So that was why it had been given to him. All the people in town thought as him as some wacko who lived in the country and thought him to have magical abilities. He looked closed at the baby and he noticed that how much it resembled his heir to the cards. An idea formed in his head and he looked around, making sure that Kerberos and Yue weren't near by. He took out his staff and opened the Clow book, which sat on the kitchen counter because he had used the Sweet card to spice up his cooking. He willed the cards to transform a bit of their power to the young girl and then added a few extras for the girl. He had learned much from the days of creating the guardians of the seal and he didn't have to make two forms for the girl. He created wings for her and a diamond marking on her forehead for when she transformed. He gave her the ability to shift shape so she could always watch over his heir and many other cool things. The baby, through his consent chanting just stared at him, with unspoken intelligence. The baby was a psychic and understood and knew many things that it wasn't willing to show because it would make her different. Clow collapsed into a chair, exhausted from transmitting almost all his power to the girl and the baby looked up at him in worry. A noise came from the back door and Clow jumped up.
"We're home," shouted a deep roaring voice.
Clow grabbed the baby and ran into his room to pretend to be deathly ill.
"It's not safe for you to be around here," he whispered and he chanted a spell that would freeze the baby in time until a later day." I shall name you Stormy for you came on a stormy night in July and you have the eyes of one," he whispered to the babe as it slipped into time.
"Clow arranged for the baby to be born almost seven moths after you so you would be the same age. She was put in an orphanage. Ray was born with the instinct to seek me out and find the heir of the cards. She accidentally discovered her powers when she was four years old when she lost her temper and sent a knife flying into a girl's heart. She ran away and eventually found me and she helped me create Nakura and Suppi. She then devoted her life to protecting you. She is my best friend. She's not evil."
"But isn't she evil if she kills people?" asked Sakura.
"No. Some people when they are little remember their first birthday party or something sweet like that. Ray's first memory was killing someone."
"But that doesn't make it right?" Tomoyo shouted, standing on the doorstep, letting all the cold air into the warm house.
"NO it doesn't. But Ray only kills those who would kill you," he said calmly.
"But she killed Syaoran's father," Sakura shouted as they walked back into the house.
Eriol sighed as they slammed the door behind them," She didn't kill him. He never attacked her or you so she didn't hurt him. One of the attacks that was directed at Ray hit him and that's what killed him. She tried to save him but she didn't have the ability yet to heal the injuries he had sustained.'"
Just then the door opened and Ray walked in, clothes smelling like burnt flesh.
"Do I want to know what you just did?" asked Sakura.
"No you don't," and Ray opened a jar she had in her hand and dumped it into the trash can.
"Ray, can I talk to you for a second?"
"Sure," and Ray followed Sakura into the kitchen. Ray hopped onto the counter and faced Sakura. " So what's up."
"I have a question. Did you save me that night with Syaoran trying to kill me?"
"Yeah."
"Who was the person who died."
"Me."
"How can that be."
Ray sighed and brought her knees to her chest, hugging them. She stirred nervously and ran her hand through her almost red hair. "I transformed into you then ran in front of him. The blast of lightning never hit me, it was just an illusion to fool him. I pretended to trip over the root and froze the flames before they hit me. I then projected an image of a burned body."
"So that's why there was no burn marks on the ground," a voice remarked from outside of the room. A blur of yellow fur floated into the room and settled down on Sakura's shoulder.
Ray nodded," So you're the one who saved Sakura from everything that day from cutting the ropes to helping her dodge Syaoran's attacks to pretending the die so that Sakura could live a few years of her life worry free," Kero said grinning up at the small petite girl.
"Yeah," she said cautiously. Kero launched himself at the girl and hugged her with his fat chubby stuffed animal arms. He hugged her around her neck, burrowing under its warmth." Thank you so much," he whispered, tears streaming down his face. For one so small he sure cried a lot, drenching Ray's cow spotted tank top. Ray took it all in and held the small creature as he sobbed in joy. He hadn't crying so much since Clow had died and that had been a rare occasion.
"Kero, why are you crying," Ray aske after Kero was done with the worst of his sobbing.
"Because Sakura is alive because of you and you devoted your entire life to protecting her, it's so sappy," he exclaimed.
Ray stared at him in disbelief. She didn't know what to say to that and everyone cracked up.
Touya walked into the room, dressed in only a pair of boxers with a lips on them and glared at them for waking him up.
"What the hell is goin on," he yelled, his mud colored eyes half closed from just waking up. He looked around the room, seeing for the first time what Ray looked for and he gasped.
Flashback
A 12-year-old Touya walked down the hall, a baseball bat in his hands. He had heard a noise in the house and he had heard a bump in Sakura's room. Sakura was a deep-sleeper and once asleep, never moved. He opened the door and found a girl resembling Sakura with soulful gray eyes and dressed in a black bra with a black see through shirt over it with a pair of tight patchwork jeans. She looked up at him and he noticed she had a glow to her making him think she was a ghost. She stood over Sakura, her hands over her chest. Sakura was covered in blood from head to toe. The girl didn't know he was watching her and he was about to swing the bat at her when somebody stopped it. Touya's mom stood holding the bat and she motioned for him to leave. His mother would never leave Sakura in danger so he reluctantly left the room.
Ray finshed explaining it all to them and Touya looked at her in wonderment. "Were you healing her that night?" he asked.
"Yeah, and it's getting late and I want to sleep so….buh bye," and Ray walked up the stairs and collapsed on the floor of Sakura's room.`