Disclaimers: No matter what happens, its never mine. [sobs]
GPilot04: I'm finally back!! God it's been like what? Four billion years? [blows dust off computer] Well I guess that happens when you enter to many cirriculums. T_T Burn the school!! Anyways, I'm sooo sooo sooooo SOOOOO sorry if the fic is misleading about the Meilin thing. I have NEVER EVER watched the Japanese originals, only the god damned Nelvana Kids WB show. -_-; That's why Meilin is so OOC [Out Of Character]. Sorry if it's offense, I really am. Please enjoy!
"Syaoran, you must not fight me!!!!" Meilin squealed as she bounded and gaged him. The skilled martial artist was weak and vulnerable at the time. Meilin had taken the advantage to tie him. Yet he still struggled.
'Maybe I could get it to loosen up a bit,' he thought. He cast his eyes to Sakura, laying right beside him. The bleeding had slowed down and her breathing was low and fluctuated. 'I gotta do it for Sakura!' He squirmed more, but it was creasing red markings on his wrists.
"Syaoran, anymore and you might saw off your hands," she slapped him lightly. "Now stop it, she's still alive otherwise everybody wouldn't be frozen in time right now!" She eyed the next door where the people stood there like statues. There faces showing happiness and delight. Especially the drunken Elder.
'Happiness…that's all I wanted,' Meilin said in her mind. "I never got happiness…" she whispered softly. Syaoran's ears perked. Meilin was staring at the motionless members of the clan. Her eyes looking forlorn and empty.
"What did you say?" Syaoran asked. Meilin snapped from her trance and looked at the ground.
"I didn't say anything!" she denied. Syaoran shrugged and let the subject drop. He looked at Sakura again. 'Sakura…' Her skin was going pale and losing colour. Life was draining from her ever so slowly. He needed to think of a plan to save his beloved, before she slips away. 'Meilin said something, I know it. I need to get her to help Sakura. I can't get these ropes off my hands. What do I do? Everyone is frozen and no one could help…' As Syaoran thought deeply, Meilin was too.
'The only time I got happiness was when Syaoran caught my bird back. He cared so much.' Something glistened in her eyes. 'And when Sakura invited me for a sleepover. Oh god.' She shook her head to clear the thoughts. Her movements made the tears glide down and fell upon the ground. 'I had happiness, but I had more sadness…' her thoughts wouldn't go away. Her conscience was ebbing at her. As more thoughts got into her head, more tears were forming. The visions blurred before her, Meilin only saw flashbacks. When she found out that Syaoran left her to go to Japan to capture the cards, Syaoran telling her that she wasn't needed, and more events with unhappiness.
"How selfish," Sakura's vooice rang through her mind. "Meilin, you don't care for other people! You want only your selfish needs!" She grips her head. 'Selfish needs?! SELFISH NEEDS??!!'
"I DON'T HAVE SELFISH NEEDS!!" Meilin screamed. Syaoran stared at her before shouting her name.
"Meilin??!!" He struggled against the table. What's wrong with her?
"Don't you know how that feels like?! Everything that you wanted is given away?" Meilin clenches her eyes and grimaces. The current incident comes and turns to a recent past.
"If it's not Meiling….who do you love then, if love is what you truly desire?"
"…I love…Sakura Kinomoto."
"No no stop it!" Meilin sobbed. All this pain, the torture of rejection. That's all she ever felt. Lonliness, unhappiness, miserable. It's just rejection.
"It was never me!!! That's why I want Syaoran!!! Someone to claim as my own!!"
"Meilin, you don't care for other people! You want only your selfish needs!"
Selfish needs. Selfish needs. Just two words that Meilin spilt. As the words echoed in her head, she bawls over on her hands and knees. Letting the tears drip and spotted the ground.
"…Is it…raining, Sakura?" Was that Syaoran's voice? She looked up and sees Sakura bending over with Syaoran in her lap.
"Don't cry. I…I…Sakura…Aishiteru, Sakura." Meilin sees a hand climb up Sakura's cheek and stroke it lovingly, wiping away sorrow's tears. Meilin kneeled there paralized by this illusion. Wasn't Sakura lying on the floor bleeding into death's hands? If so, what is this Sakura doing. Meilin's eyes stared on unaware that it was a memory. And like a memory, she sees someone brushed past her. A sword. A gleaming silver sword carried by a deprived child in a red costume just like what Meilin was wearing. And like Meilin, she had the same hairstyle, some face, same everything. An exact replica. Meilin stared in horror as she saw this copy of herself raise the sword slightly and walked closer and closer to Sakura. She gasps and widened her eyes.
"Hai, Syaoran. I heard you. And I…Ai-aaauuugh!!!" Meilin saw herself cutting through Sakura's body.
"Nooooo!! SAKURA!!!!" Meilin croaked out and then covered her mouth.
Syaoran just watched her, trying to get out of his tied position. He saw her crying, sobbing all of a sudden. And then squatting with a void pale expression on her face. And now she is screaming. What was she seeing before her?!
"MEILIN!!" Syaoran pulled harder at the ropes.
Through Meilin's eyes she sees herself again. The auburn haired girl with bright green emerald eyes were slowly dying. This illusion was too real. 'What's going on? Why am I seeing this again?' Meilin demanded. The other Meilin turned around and smirked at Meilin. Meilin gasped.
"Meilin," the girl said, smirking still. "Are you happy now?" Meilin knelt there silented. She looked past the girl and saw Sakura lying down with red blood coming out.
"Meilin," the girl repeated. Meilin looked up scared. "Are you happy? You killed your friend. The one who took your love away. Are you satisfied now?"
"…no," Meilin choked out. The other girl frowned and strode to the kneeling Meilin and slapped her.
"Then tell me!" she shouted. She bent down and shook Meilin's shoulders. "WHY DID YOU KILL HER??!!"
Syaoran sees Meilin shaking violently and tries to tear away the bindings on him to help his cousin.
"You wasted a good friend, Meilin."
"…"
"What is more important? Your selfish needs?"
"I don't have selfish needs!"
"Then why did you kill Sakura?"
"…I wanted…Syaoran…to…"
"Love you? By killing someone he loved most?"
"…I just…I just thought…"
"That's right. You THOUGHT!" The double glared at Meilin. "You THOUGHT Syaoran would love you. How can he love, or even look at you now?" The other snorted and grabbed Meilin's neck. She squealed and writhed. "Look at the pain you've cause!" She forced Meilin to look at Sakura. Meilin closed her eyes.
The table shook harder as Syaoran forced it to tip over. He would try to slip under the ropes table leg to set himself free. The objects were heavy on the table and it was harder for Syaoran. He grunted and thought as he caught his breathe. This time he decided to throw himself to the floor, maybe bringing the table with him. He tried this plan. As he fell against the floor, he felt the rope twisted and tighten as he reached contact to the ground. He yelped and finally had the table tip over. He inched lower and lower until he got his hands out. He rubbed the crimson wrists and crawled on the floor to the sword. Then eyed Meilin. 'Please hold on Sakura' he thought as he brushed by to get the weapon.
"Meilin, I guess I have to kill you." The other Meilin held the real one with one hand with incrediable strength while her other hand reached behind her. Meilin struggled. She struggled harder as she saw the sword she stabbed Sakura with appear in the other's hand. The blood was still there, fresh and gliding down the edge down to the tip. Her eyes followed the blade as it ws lifted into the air and screamed as she sall it coming down.
"Got you!"
Syaoran had cut the ropes tiring his legs free and ran to Meilin. She was screaming and clutching her throat. He races to her and takes Meilin into his arms. "Got you!" he said. Meilin screamed withered and she fell against his chest.
"Meilin?" Syaoran pulled her away and her head lolled back. She had blacked out.
"Meilin!!"
A sudden rush of music filled the air. Next door, the people were laughing, dancing, as if none of this had happen.
"Oh no! Sakura!!" He let go of Meilin and ran to Sakura. She had gone deathly paled and the bright blood stained around her. He reached for her wrist and was afraid of the result. There was no pulse.
"SOMEBODY HELP!!" he cried out. "SAKURA!!!" A few people peered through the room and screamed. The music stopped. The people stopped their joy and ran to the room.
"SOMEONE CALL THE MEDICS! Help me! Help Sakura…" his voice went raw. In the instant two elders came and before his eyes, Syaoran watched them carry his Cherry Blossom onto a stretcher. Another for Meilin. Both were immediatley rushed to the hospital. Syaoran was left behind, crying in the puddle of Sakura's blood.
TBC
G Pilot 04: I'm SOOOO sorry!!!! GOMEN NASAI!!!! YOU NEVER KNOW HOW IT MAY TURN OUT!! Please review!! I'm sorry!! [bows down 4billion times]