A Cherry Blossoms Death
Hey! Like I promised, this chapter will uncover a big secret, although probably most of you already know that…
Whoops! My lips are zip-locked…mmf mf mf mu mmmmmumf mmmm…
Hehe…anywayz, thanx for reviewing the last chapter! Whoopee!
I'm jumping for Joy! And as my cousin would say, Dancing for Chris…which none of will ever get in your life unless you actually personally know me, and the only person who knows me personally and is an ffn writer as well is AngelSweetie, and even she probably wouldn't get it. So…back to the story, I always seem to get side-tracked…like the time…WHOOPS! Maybe, I should just stop altogether and get on with the fic. What do you guys think? ::audience nods in approval::
Yes, bad Vivi for rambling on and wasting time…Bad VIVI!!!
I don't own Card Captor Sakura. Most importantly, I don't own a single buck. Don't sue. Oh yeah…and I'm sorry that I forgot to write the disclaimer for the last chapter so I'll say it again.
I don't own Card Captor Sakura. Most importantly, I don't own a single buck. Don't sue.
The True Card Captor
(AN: Yeah, as the title probably hints at…this chapter is more along the lines of "a revelation" and "EEK! RUN!!!")
"The idiot!" Syaoran seethed, pacing up and down as he tried to rack his brains for some way to find Eriol and get them all out of this mess. Eriol had just made his death wish by trying to find Seria on his own…and soon everything would come tumbling down. Maybe Seria would even go as far as to kill them all…Meiling, Touya, Fujitaka…all of them…to pry them from existence and let them perish…she certainly had a sick enough mind for that.
Meiling rested a hand on his arm. "Calm down Syaoran. We still don't know if Eriol has found Seria yet…"
Syaoran clenched his fist. "By the look of things, Eriol knew more of this than he was letting on…either that, or it just clicked for him a few moments ago. Either way we're screwed. If you think that Eriol hasn't found Seria yet, then you're wrong. Knowing him, Eriol has found her…"
Meiling chewed her lip and frowned.
"Well…can't you try to sense his aura?"
Syaoran sighed and raked a hand through his hair. It seemed he'd been doing that a lot lately. "We could…" he mused doubtfully. "But we can't risk it…there still might be a chance that Eriol is still okay…and if he's anywhere near Seria, she'd be able to sense the link that I'm trying to make with him…and then things could get even worse…"
Meiling whistled. "In other words…we're screwed."
Syaoran shook his head and a look of determination sprang into his amber eyes. "I'm not about to let another of my friends die. Sakura's death was bad enough…but this time Seria has gone too far…"
Meiling shook her raven curls and stared at him questioningly. There was no possible way to save the situation…Syaoran couldn't set up a link with Eriol, and it might take them days to find out where Eriol had gone…and by then, it might be too late. What other possible alternative did they have left to turn to? Syaoran looked grim, and almost pained.
"I never wanted to use them, but it looks like the cards are our only hope…if I can manage to pass the judgment…then maybe…"
His cousin frowned. "But it might take a day to pass the judgment! If you remember…it was even hard on Sakura…she almost failed remember? And Yue beat you like that!" Meiling snapped her fingers to show and emphasis on her words.
She had a point. But Syaoran couldn't think of another way.
"We'll just have to take the risk."
"Syaoran…are you crazy?! What do you think you're doing?" Meiling demanded as Syaoran knocked on the door to the Kinomoto residence. He waited a few minutes before the door was opened a crack and a pale, brown-haired, brown-eyed eighteen-year-old peered at him. "What are you doing?" Meiling hissed.
Syaoran chose to ignore her as Touya timidly let the both of them inside. Syaoran hadn't heard or seen Touya since the day before he'd found out that Tomoyo had died. He didn't have a clue what Touya was thinking right now…whether he was angry at Syaoran for intruding, or whether he was happy to see him.
Ever since Sakura's death he and Fujitaka had kept a pretty low profile, only going to work or school when necessary. Syaoran felt like slapping them back to reality. Why didn't they do something about their misery? Why did they sit around like hopeless fools…as if their lives would sudden take a dramatic twist by sitting idly around all day?
Touya stared at him expectantly, wondering why Syaoran had come here. And why his cousin-gaki was here too. After all, now that he had told Syaoran everything he knew, he would have thought the gaki would have no use for him anymore. "Touya, you're gonna have to trust me on this," Syaoran began, with Meiling nodding her head urgently. Syaoran searched the older boy's face and continued.
"I need something of Sakura's…it's very important and…"
Touya's face hardened. "Are you insane? I might have let you in on our past, but to let you take something of my sisters would be god damn betrayal!"
Syaoran sighed. He had known it would come to this…but he had hoped against hope that maybe…
Obviously there wasn't a maybe, he thought as he was ushered out of the door with Meling ahead of him.
Now it was time for Plan B.
"If I thought you were crazy before, now I //know\\ you are," Meiling muttered as she watched her cousin use his magic to release a force that shot him up to Sakura's room. He turned to wink at her as he reached the window ledge.
"Relax Meiling. It's a little trick I learnt that came in handy once before…"
Meiling stared at him through narrowed eyes, baffled to her wits end. "What on earth are you doing? Come down from there you baka! You'll get yourself killed!"
Syaoran didn't even give her a glance. He was too busy concentrating all his will into the glass pane which he would seen be on the other side of.
Meiling watched as his body seemed to flicker and she screamed, then placed a trembling hand over her mouth as Syaoran waved at her through the glass of the window. @ How'd he learn to do that? Only the most experienced magic can do that@
Syaoran opened the window and used his magic this time to pull his cousin up onto the ledge. Meiling was too shocked to do anything besides utter non-understandable sentences. "But…how…but…"
Syaoran grinned. He had known how what her reaction would be like and he hadn't been disappointed. He leaned over to help her into the bedroom and Meiling whistled, finally gaining control of her mind.
"You seem to be a master at that Syaoran-kun," she said smoothly, and he could almost see the gears turning in her mind. "…but then again, I'm sure you've done this //heaps\\ of times, right?"
His cousin suppressed a small smile as Syaoran glowered at her and turned about a zillion shades of red. (AN: have you noticed that this is the first time that somebody blushes in this fic? Wow…what a thought! There's actually no romance in this…yet!!!) @ Wow @ Meiling mused, watching him try to regain a normal colour back into his cheeks. @ Blood red really doesn't suit him…but that sorta pinkish colour? @ Syaoran sniffed.
"Don't be perverted Meiling," he scolded her, still flushing hotly. "We came here for the cards remember, not for your dumba$$ comments." Meiling flashed him a shark-like smile. "Ooh. Touchy touchy." Syaoran pulled open a drawer and rummaged through the contents before finding a scarlet booklet with mixed symbols on the front and back. "Okay…" he breathed.
"I'm ready…" Meiling sat down on the bed, wondering what would come next.
Syaoran lay a shaky hand on the cover of the book and closed his eyes, willing himself to stay completely calm. "Okay Meiling…repeat after me…
Ancient book of light and spell
Unleash the cards and all who dwell
Place thy force unto me
Unlock the power and set it free…
Meiling repeated the simple rhyme as was asked and wondered how Syaoran had known the rhyme to set the cards free. The book glowed a golden colour and lit up the entire room, whipping Syaoran's hair away from his eyes. She could hear him swearing profusely as he was nearly knocked away from his feet, and Meiling watched entranced at the scene before her eyes. Then her eyes widened in horror as the light changed from a deep gold to a fiery orange and a burning red, then faded, turning as black as her hair. She had been trained well enough to know that something was wrong. The book wasn't supposed to do that.
What in the world was happening?
"Damnit…" Syaoran swore as he held onto the book with both hands, his hair whipping away from his eyes. He squinted to see as the light almost blinded him. For some reason, he felt a heaviness enter his soul and the light turned from orange to red, then to a midnight black. What the hell was going on?
Had he somehow chanted the wrong rhyme? It was the exact one his mother had taught him right before he had left to go to Japan…surely he hadn't mixed up the words somehow? The rhyme had been in his mind and haunted his dreams for as long as he could remember. What the hell was going on?
He knew that the Clow Book did //not\\ malfunction for no apparent reason. Thee had to be a cause to all this somehow. He didn't have much time to ponder over it though, because as he slowly took his clammy hand off the cover of the book, more lights illuminated the room. This time they were blue and seemed to dance along the walls, bouncing and weaving in and out like an illusion. Syaoran had to close his eyes as his head began to pound furiously and then his eyes flew open as everything went quiet and Meiling sat there…frozen like a statue.
In fact…her eyes made no movement at all and her mouth was frozen in an 'O'
Syaoran blinked. "Um…Meiling?" In a few quick steps he strode across the room. He waved his hand over her eyes, waiting for a reaction but none came.
"Meiling…?"
A deep rumble shook the house, and Syaoran wondered if Touya suspected something was wrong. This was getting stranger by the minute.
"She will not rise until our discussion is over…"
Syaoran looked up and stared around him, searching for who…or what had spoken. How wonderful. Eriol's probably gonna die, Meiling won't move and I'm hearing voices. All in all, it's been great."
~ * ~ * ~
Swirling mists surrounded Eriol, looming up in a rage of darkness and blurry shades. Angry voices echoed and re-echoed in the cavernous walls of his brain, threatening to tear him apart. His head throbbed painfully as he swam in and out of consciousness.
a somewhat familiar voice pleaded.
You promised…you promised…you promised.
The words seemed to hold a meaning to him, something that Eriol couldn't figure out. He remembered that voice…it was //too\\ familiar…
But as the dark consumed him once again, the thoughts became a jumble as his lids closed and the voices spoke no more…only a soft murmur reverberating in his skull…
~ * ~ * ~
"Who are you?" Syaoran demanded. "And what exactly have you done with my cousin?" The lights stopped dancing and a beautiful winged nymph appeared before his eyes, paying no heed to his question. "To be worthy of the cards, you must pass my judgment.." she boomed. Syaoran's mouth fell open in shock.
"What happened to Yue?" The nymph bowed her head.
"Like the sun-beast Keroberos, the winged Yue, moon-guardian has vanished…gone…"
"Gone?" Syaoran hadn't expected that. What on earth had happened to both guardians and who exactly was this maiden who claimed he had to pass //her\\ judgment? "Gone," the maiden confirmed.
Her eyes blazed and she held out a hand, beckoning him over. "Come with…"
The nymph's voice faded and her profile was beginning to blink as if it were about to fade. @ What is going on? @ Syaoran wanted to know. The Clow Book wasn't supposed to react like this…unless…
Suddenly, Meiling blinked and life resumed all over again as the nymph began fading slowly. "What's happening?" she asked dumbfounded, noticing the nymph's faded form. Syaoran could only see the nymph's outline now…when he heard a soft voice, so soft that it was almost drowned by the breeze that swept around outside.
"You cannot fulfill the Card Captor duties…Kinomoto Sakura is not dead…not dead…not dead…not dead…"
Well…there you have it! Sakura is not dead and everything is just peachy, even though Tomoyo basically killed herself and Eriol might still die anyway. There's still a lot more to be revealed. R+r plz.
::bounces around happily:: Sakura's not dead! Sakura's not dead!
Hey! Like I promised, this chapter will uncover a big secret, although probably most of you already know that…
Whoops! My lips are zip-locked…mmf mf mf mu mmmmmumf mmmm…
Hehe…anywayz, thanx for reviewing the last chapter! Whoopee!
I'm jumping for Joy! And as my cousin would say, Dancing for Chris…which none of will ever get in your life unless you actually personally know me, and the only person who knows me personally and is an ffn writer as well is AngelSweetie, and even she probably wouldn't get it. So…back to the story, I always seem to get side-tracked…like the time…WHOOPS! Maybe, I should just stop altogether and get on with the fic. What do you guys think? ::audience nods in approval::
Yes, bad Vivi for rambling on and wasting time…Bad VIVI!!!
I don't own Card Captor Sakura. Most importantly, I don't own a single buck. Don't sue. Oh yeah…and I'm sorry that I forgot to write the disclaimer for the last chapter so I'll say it again.
I don't own Card Captor Sakura. Most importantly, I don't own a single buck. Don't sue.
The True Card Captor
(AN: Yeah, as the title probably hints at…this chapter is more along the lines of "a revelation" and "EEK! RUN!!!")
"The idiot!" Syaoran seethed, pacing up and down as he tried to rack his brains for some way to find Eriol and get them all out of this mess. Eriol had just made his death wish by trying to find Seria on his own…and soon everything would come tumbling down. Maybe Seria would even go as far as to kill them all…Meiling, Touya, Fujitaka…all of them…to pry them from existence and let them perish…she certainly had a sick enough mind for that.
Meiling rested a hand on his arm. "Calm down Syaoran. We still don't know if Eriol has found Seria yet…"
Syaoran clenched his fist. "By the look of things, Eriol knew more of this than he was letting on…either that, or it just clicked for him a few moments ago. Either way we're screwed. If you think that Eriol hasn't found Seria yet, then you're wrong. Knowing him, Eriol has found her…"
Meiling chewed her lip and frowned.
"Well…can't you try to sense his aura?"
Syaoran sighed and raked a hand through his hair. It seemed he'd been doing that a lot lately. "We could…" he mused doubtfully. "But we can't risk it…there still might be a chance that Eriol is still okay…and if he's anywhere near Seria, she'd be able to sense the link that I'm trying to make with him…and then things could get even worse…"
Meiling whistled. "In other words…we're screwed."
Syaoran shook his head and a look of determination sprang into his amber eyes. "I'm not about to let another of my friends die. Sakura's death was bad enough…but this time Seria has gone too far…"
Meiling shook her raven curls and stared at him questioningly. There was no possible way to save the situation…Syaoran couldn't set up a link with Eriol, and it might take them days to find out where Eriol had gone…and by then, it might be too late. What other possible alternative did they have left to turn to? Syaoran looked grim, and almost pained.
"I never wanted to use them, but it looks like the cards are our only hope…if I can manage to pass the judgment…then maybe…"
His cousin frowned. "But it might take a day to pass the judgment! If you remember…it was even hard on Sakura…she almost failed remember? And Yue beat you like that!" Meiling snapped her fingers to show and emphasis on her words.
She had a point. But Syaoran couldn't think of another way.
"We'll just have to take the risk."
"Syaoran…are you crazy?! What do you think you're doing?" Meiling demanded as Syaoran knocked on the door to the Kinomoto residence. He waited a few minutes before the door was opened a crack and a pale, brown-haired, brown-eyed eighteen-year-old peered at him. "What are you doing?" Meiling hissed.
Syaoran chose to ignore her as Touya timidly let the both of them inside. Syaoran hadn't heard or seen Touya since the day before he'd found out that Tomoyo had died. He didn't have a clue what Touya was thinking right now…whether he was angry at Syaoran for intruding, or whether he was happy to see him.
Ever since Sakura's death he and Fujitaka had kept a pretty low profile, only going to work or school when necessary. Syaoran felt like slapping them back to reality. Why didn't they do something about their misery? Why did they sit around like hopeless fools…as if their lives would sudden take a dramatic twist by sitting idly around all day?
Touya stared at him expectantly, wondering why Syaoran had come here. And why his cousin-gaki was here too. After all, now that he had told Syaoran everything he knew, he would have thought the gaki would have no use for him anymore. "Touya, you're gonna have to trust me on this," Syaoran began, with Meiling nodding her head urgently. Syaoran searched the older boy's face and continued.
"I need something of Sakura's…it's very important and…"
Touya's face hardened. "Are you insane? I might have let you in on our past, but to let you take something of my sisters would be god damn betrayal!"
Syaoran sighed. He had known it would come to this…but he had hoped against hope that maybe…
Obviously there wasn't a maybe, he thought as he was ushered out of the door with Meling ahead of him.
Now it was time for Plan B.
"If I thought you were crazy before, now I //know\\ you are," Meiling muttered as she watched her cousin use his magic to release a force that shot him up to Sakura's room. He turned to wink at her as he reached the window ledge.
"Relax Meiling. It's a little trick I learnt that came in handy once before…"
Meiling stared at him through narrowed eyes, baffled to her wits end. "What on earth are you doing? Come down from there you baka! You'll get yourself killed!"
Syaoran didn't even give her a glance. He was too busy concentrating all his will into the glass pane which he would seen be on the other side of.
Meiling watched as his body seemed to flicker and she screamed, then placed a trembling hand over her mouth as Syaoran waved at her through the glass of the window. @ How'd he learn to do that? Only the most experienced magic can do that@
Syaoran opened the window and used his magic this time to pull his cousin up onto the ledge. Meiling was too shocked to do anything besides utter non-understandable sentences. "But…how…but…"
Syaoran grinned. He had known how what her reaction would be like and he hadn't been disappointed. He leaned over to help her into the bedroom and Meiling whistled, finally gaining control of her mind.
"You seem to be a master at that Syaoran-kun," she said smoothly, and he could almost see the gears turning in her mind. "…but then again, I'm sure you've done this //heaps\\ of times, right?"
His cousin suppressed a small smile as Syaoran glowered at her and turned about a zillion shades of red. (AN: have you noticed that this is the first time that somebody blushes in this fic? Wow…what a thought! There's actually no romance in this…yet!!!) @ Wow @ Meiling mused, watching him try to regain a normal colour back into his cheeks. @ Blood red really doesn't suit him…but that sorta pinkish colour? @ Syaoran sniffed.
"Don't be perverted Meiling," he scolded her, still flushing hotly. "We came here for the cards remember, not for your dumba$$ comments." Meiling flashed him a shark-like smile. "Ooh. Touchy touchy." Syaoran pulled open a drawer and rummaged through the contents before finding a scarlet booklet with mixed symbols on the front and back. "Okay…" he breathed.
"I'm ready…" Meiling sat down on the bed, wondering what would come next.
Syaoran lay a shaky hand on the cover of the book and closed his eyes, willing himself to stay completely calm. "Okay Meiling…repeat after me…
Ancient book of light and spell
Unleash the cards and all who dwell
Place thy force unto me
Unlock the power and set it free…
Meiling repeated the simple rhyme as was asked and wondered how Syaoran had known the rhyme to set the cards free. The book glowed a golden colour and lit up the entire room, whipping Syaoran's hair away from his eyes. She could hear him swearing profusely as he was nearly knocked away from his feet, and Meiling watched entranced at the scene before her eyes. Then her eyes widened in horror as the light changed from a deep gold to a fiery orange and a burning red, then faded, turning as black as her hair. She had been trained well enough to know that something was wrong. The book wasn't supposed to do that.
What in the world was happening?
"Damnit…" Syaoran swore as he held onto the book with both hands, his hair whipping away from his eyes. He squinted to see as the light almost blinded him. For some reason, he felt a heaviness enter his soul and the light turned from orange to red, then to a midnight black. What the hell was going on?
Had he somehow chanted the wrong rhyme? It was the exact one his mother had taught him right before he had left to go to Japan…surely he hadn't mixed up the words somehow? The rhyme had been in his mind and haunted his dreams for as long as he could remember. What the hell was going on?
He knew that the Clow Book did //not\\ malfunction for no apparent reason. Thee had to be a cause to all this somehow. He didn't have much time to ponder over it though, because as he slowly took his clammy hand off the cover of the book, more lights illuminated the room. This time they were blue and seemed to dance along the walls, bouncing and weaving in and out like an illusion. Syaoran had to close his eyes as his head began to pound furiously and then his eyes flew open as everything went quiet and Meiling sat there…frozen like a statue.
In fact…her eyes made no movement at all and her mouth was frozen in an 'O'
Syaoran blinked. "Um…Meiling?" In a few quick steps he strode across the room. He waved his hand over her eyes, waiting for a reaction but none came.
"Meiling…?"
A deep rumble shook the house, and Syaoran wondered if Touya suspected something was wrong. This was getting stranger by the minute.
"She will not rise until our discussion is over…"
Syaoran looked up and stared around him, searching for who…or what had spoken. How wonderful. Eriol's probably gonna die, Meiling won't move and I'm hearing voices. All in all, it's been great."
~ * ~ * ~
Swirling mists surrounded Eriol, looming up in a rage of darkness and blurry shades. Angry voices echoed and re-echoed in the cavernous walls of his brain, threatening to tear him apart. His head throbbed painfully as he swam in and out of consciousness.
a somewhat familiar voice pleaded.
You promised…you promised…you promised.
The words seemed to hold a meaning to him, something that Eriol couldn't figure out. He remembered that voice…it was //too\\ familiar…
But as the dark consumed him once again, the thoughts became a jumble as his lids closed and the voices spoke no more…only a soft murmur reverberating in his skull…
~ * ~ * ~
"Who are you?" Syaoran demanded. "And what exactly have you done with my cousin?" The lights stopped dancing and a beautiful winged nymph appeared before his eyes, paying no heed to his question. "To be worthy of the cards, you must pass my judgment.." she boomed. Syaoran's mouth fell open in shock.
"What happened to Yue?" The nymph bowed her head.
"Like the sun-beast Keroberos, the winged Yue, moon-guardian has vanished…gone…"
"Gone?" Syaoran hadn't expected that. What on earth had happened to both guardians and who exactly was this maiden who claimed he had to pass //her\\ judgment? "Gone," the maiden confirmed.
Her eyes blazed and she held out a hand, beckoning him over. "Come with…"
The nymph's voice faded and her profile was beginning to blink as if it were about to fade. @ What is going on? @ Syaoran wanted to know. The Clow Book wasn't supposed to react like this…unless…
Suddenly, Meiling blinked and life resumed all over again as the nymph began fading slowly. "What's happening?" she asked dumbfounded, noticing the nymph's faded form. Syaoran could only see the nymph's outline now…when he heard a soft voice, so soft that it was almost drowned by the breeze that swept around outside.
"You cannot fulfill the Card Captor duties…Kinomoto Sakura is not dead…not dead…not dead…not dead…"
Well…there you have it! Sakura is not dead and everything is just peachy, even though Tomoyo basically killed herself and Eriol might still die anyway. There's still a lot more to be revealed. R+r plz.
::bounces around happily:: Sakura's not dead! Sakura's not dead!