Shims helped me in this chap... for the beginning part anyway (oh my god i lost the last part!! ahhhhh!!!!! O_O er anyway) so yea... man it's so hot right now i can't think... and it's not even 11 in the morning! and the sun didn' come out yet! well it did but it's so cloudy that there's no yellow in the sky
Chapter 17 - Exile
Sakura Blue shook her head, shamed. "Tsk tsk tsk, we have a cave-in and you guys all start bickering like human children..."
"WHAT?!?!!!" Syaoran exclaimed. He got out his sword but Sakura Blue made it disappear. She chuckled. "I think you forgot for a second there that it's pitch black right now... humans can't see in the dark unlike us cats... hehehehe..."
Syaoran sat back down and sulked. There was a deafening silence in the cave for a while.
Eriol decided to break it. "Now what?" he asked. Again it was silent but only for a second. "I don't know... what is there to do?" Tomoyo replied. Eriol shrugged even though no one could see it. "Who knows? Where is everyone again?"
"I'm right here" Tomoyo whispered, reaching out a hand barely brushing Eriol's shoulder. He in turn reached out and clasped her hand.
"Black, White, Blue and Touya are in the far corner with me," yowled Red knowingly. "Yellow is gripping Syaoran's back, quite forcefully I might add. Purple, Orange and Green are watching amused."
"That's it, I've had it with this DARK!!!" Syaroan exclaimed. Forcefully he yelled, "Eriol will you fucking call us some light here damnit!!!" (*Mouse- ooooooooo u cussed*)
"Hmm..." Eriol stroked his chin thoughtfully. "Do I know how to conjour light?" He grinned.
"Of course you do you pile of shit!!!"
"Hmm, I wouldn't call myself a 'pile' exactly. Actually, I'm built up rather well." Eriol snickered as Syaoran yelled in frustration.
"Gah!!! Just get the damn light!!! We can't get out of here if we can't see can we!!"
"Well actually," Sakura Purple purred, "WE can see." she smiled mischievously. Syaoran groaned and sat down, putting his face in his hands.
"Okay, fine fine, I'll go get the light." Everyone heard footsteps and then a bright light suddenly shone on them. Tomoyo, Touya, and Syaoran shielded their eyes. When their eyes finally adjusted to the light, they saw Eriol grinning with his sword in hand. Syaoran was enraged. "YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT YOU COULD GET OUT OF HERE, YET YOU STAYED HERE?!" Syaoran advanced. Eriol went into his fighting stance. "You should never question your master, my little apprentice." Tomoyo looked back and forth between Syaoran and Eriol. "What's going on?" Her question went unnoticed.
Tomoyo screamed suddenly. Eriol and Syaoran looked at her. Touya cackled. "Now it doesn't matter that the lovely little girl didn't eat, I'm sure she's still just as sweet!!" He started scuttling away.
Syaoran flamed but he was cautious. Eriol forgot his training from a long time ago and went berserk. He started slashing and with surprising accuracy he chopped Touya's head off. Syaoran stared at Eriol. He had never seen him this angry before.
In a few seconds, Tomoyo was covered in Touya's specks of blood. She wiped them uncomfortably. Eriol grinned sheepishly. "Sorry about that."
Sakura Blue dried herself of imaginary water and Tomoyo was clean again. Tomoyo smiled at Sakura Blue. Then she turned to Eriol and Syaoran.
"I knew you were lying to me! Why didn't you just tell me the truth?!"
Eriol and Syaoran looked at each other. Syaoran shrugged. "I guess we gotta tell her, right?"
Eriol sighed. "I guess. Okay, Princess Tomoyo-"
"I guess you know about that too."
"Princess, let me explain first." He heard her sigh, exasperated. He hurried. "Your mother-"
"What does SHE have to do with this??"
"Please..."
"Oh yeah. I'm sorry, go on."
"Your mother, well she panicked, when you were chosen for this... vile, utterly disgusting, totally savage, brut-"
"AHEM." Tomoyo cleared her throat.
"Oh... right... so anyway, she didn't want you to be sacrificed, so she hired us to save you... in a manner of speaking. So I'm Master Dragon Slayer Eriol Hiiragizawa of Gelion. My apprentice is Syaoran Li of Xeon."
As he had finished speaking, Eriol looked at Tomoyo. She was pale. "Mother... is such a lying, bitchy cheater!!"
Eriol touched her shoulder and she turned on him. "And you! What are you?? Just her... her henchmen!!" She sobbed. Eriol looked frustrated. "We are NOT the queen's henchmen!! We do NOT support her in any way! She's just another money bag feeder!" Eriol suddenly blushed like crazy. He turned away from everyone else so that no one would see his red face.
"Really?" a soft voice asked. He turned around slowly and saw the still tear-streaked face of Tomoyo looking up at him. Her eyes were pleading for him to answer. He opened his mouth but nothing came out. Syaoran answered for him, "Yes." At that moment in time, Eriol loved Syaoran. (no not like that)
Tomoyo smiled at them. Eriol's heart raced and he blushed more, and at that moment Syaoran couldn't remember the reason that he gave her up.
She stood up and dusted her dress. She looked around. "Hey where are the Sakuras?" Everyone else looked around and couldn't see them either. A couple minutes later, Fluffy(ah i can't remember the rest of the names hehe ^^) yelled excitedly. "Look look, I found something!" He grinned happily. Everyone ran to where he was. On the ground were paw prints, and writing that said, "Gotta go." Syaoran shrugged. "Well, now we don't have to worry about them." He sighed in relief. Tomoyo looked around. "Oh, I hope we see them soon." she said, worridly. Eriol patted her shoulder. "I'm sure we will." Syaoran yelled in agony, "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"
Later... after Fluffy generously offered to carry everyone...
"Wow it's so clear up here!" Tomoyo exclaimed. Eriol had to agree and he felt like there was something good with NOT killing dragons. The view is great. And of course it's MUCH faster than walking. But then Eriol still has a job to keep... he sighed. Then a cloud moved away and they saw the castle. "Wow..." he breathed.
Syaoran gaped in awe. "Awesome... it looks so cool from up here..."
Tomoyo agreed. "It's so..." she thought of the perfect word, "CUTE!!!" (haha i would write "kawaii" but that would defeat the whole purpose of NOT using japanese words... unless i already defeated it...)
Eriol and Syaoran sweatdropped and Fluffy almost lost his balance (resulting from an anime fall in the air ^_--).
"Hold on to your mini skirts, we're goin down!" Fluffy zoomed toward the castle. Everyone thought, 'What mini skirts??' but held onto the dragon's wing, ear, anything they could grab. (actually, grabbing the wing wouldn't be a good idea...)
They were getting closer, closer, closer... ahh too close too close! Ahh, the dragon stopped right next to one of the windows of one of the towers of the castle, right before they could crash into it! Whew! That was too close!
"OH MY GOD FLUFFY DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN!!" Tomoyo screeched. "Okay..." the dragon hung his head.
"Well... we're back here..." Eriol said quietly. Syaoran whispered, "Are we gonna get our-" he rubbed his fingers together. Eriol shrugged. "I don't know." Syaoran rose an eyebrow. "What do you mean, 'You don't know?'"
Suddenly they heard they heard a buzz coming from below them. Apparently Fluffy heard it too, because he started flying slowly downward. "Hey what are you doing?"
When they got closer, they heard panic among the streets and people were pointing at the dragon and screaming. The dragon didn't get it apparently because he grinned and blew friendly fire at them (friendly fire?! hehe). Which the people, like I said before, didn't think it was so friendly. Soon, there was a parade of city guards, palace guards, cell guards (with prisoners, so they can't run away), servants, and the queen herself. The dragon looked at the queen. "Who's that, wearing those funny clothes??" he inquired, curious.
The queen became enraged. "WHAT DID YOU SAY, YOU PUNY INSIGNIFICANT-" she stopped herself, looking at the dragon clearly through her black veil. She squinted her eyes and made out a couple of... people?! "Would Tomoyo be around here?" she asked, uncertain, not making her voice very loud. The dragon, apparently understanding and hearing her nodded happily. Three people slid off, unable to stay on him while he was bobbing his head up and down.
"Tomoyo!!" the queen stepped down from the carriage. Her daughter stayed next to the dragon. The queen didn't come closer for fear of the dragon. "Hello mother." The voice was cold. Queen Sonomi was unsure of what to do. The people of the kingdom held their breath, wondering what would happen.
Finally, Tomoyo spoke again. "What are you doing?" Sonomi stared. "Why, we were welcoming you!" Tomoyo's eye twitched. "No, I believe you were getting your men to kill this dragon." She patted Fluffy. Sonomi flushed, then paled. She turned and looked at the guards. "Put those away, what were you thinking??" The men looked confused but put their weapons of choice back into their belts.
Sonomi turned back to Tomoyo. "Let's go home, child."
"I'm NOT a child. Why do you keep treating me as one? And I was so willing to die for my people! Why do you take that away from me by hiring these men?! Why do you always lie??" Tomoyo let out her anger on her mother, who blushed, embarrassed, then by anger. Trying to keep calm, she said slowly, "We should go back to the castle."
"No, I don't want to go back with you."
"Don't you want to come back to your room?"
"No. I don't want you to kill the dragon behind my back." she retorted, harshly.
"I'll pay the men for bringing you back..."
Tomoyo rose an eyebrow. She looked at Eriol and Syaoran. They barely gave a shake of their heads. "No."
"Not even that?"
"Of course not, you weren't supposed to hire them in the first place!" Tomoyo burst out. Sonomi pursed her lips.
"You won't come back then..."
"No mother."
"Then..." Sonomi knew that she could regret this very badly. "You are now and forever more exiled. You are no longer my child, and you have no right upon the throne. No one in this kingdom-" she flashed a look at everyone, "will house you, or give you food. You are to be banished from this kingdom of Tomoeda. It could have been yours, Tomoyo. The rest of your party will also receive this banishment." Sonomi turned around and sat in the carriage and allowed one tear to slowly make its way down her cheek. The procession moved back toward the castle.
Tomoyo looked as long as her eyes would let her, without crying. "Goodbye then." She smiled sadly. She turned to Fluffy. "Come on, you heard the queen. We gotta leave." Fluffy nodded. "Too bad, this looked like a nice place to live," he commented. Eriol looked at Syaoran. "And THAT, is what you don't want to do... you don't want to ever be banished from a place because-"
"Yeah, yeah, I know..."
Fluffy took flight and soon they were back in the sky.
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oh no, was this chapter a product of my stupidity, cruelness, and weirdness getting the best of me? lol who knows...
i apologize for dying this past month...
oh yes and since hikari-angel reviewed i was thinking that she's right... this has been total chaos... so i'm going to try to make it more... normal again...
thanks everyone for reviewing the utter chaos too hehe ^^
oh yes, and don't worry if you have questions... you can ask them, but i'm sure they'll be answered somehow before this fic is over... or at least that's what i'm hoping and thinking...
Chapter 17 - Exile
Sakura Blue shook her head, shamed. "Tsk tsk tsk, we have a cave-in and you guys all start bickering like human children..."
"WHAT?!?!!!" Syaoran exclaimed. He got out his sword but Sakura Blue made it disappear. She chuckled. "I think you forgot for a second there that it's pitch black right now... humans can't see in the dark unlike us cats... hehehehe..."
Syaoran sat back down and sulked. There was a deafening silence in the cave for a while.
Eriol decided to break it. "Now what?" he asked. Again it was silent but only for a second. "I don't know... what is there to do?" Tomoyo replied. Eriol shrugged even though no one could see it. "Who knows? Where is everyone again?"
"I'm right here" Tomoyo whispered, reaching out a hand barely brushing Eriol's shoulder. He in turn reached out and clasped her hand.
"Black, White, Blue and Touya are in the far corner with me," yowled Red knowingly. "Yellow is gripping Syaoran's back, quite forcefully I might add. Purple, Orange and Green are watching amused."
"That's it, I've had it with this DARK!!!" Syaroan exclaimed. Forcefully he yelled, "Eriol will you fucking call us some light here damnit!!!" (*Mouse- ooooooooo u cussed*)
"Hmm..." Eriol stroked his chin thoughtfully. "Do I know how to conjour light?" He grinned.
"Of course you do you pile of shit!!!"
"Hmm, I wouldn't call myself a 'pile' exactly. Actually, I'm built up rather well." Eriol snickered as Syaoran yelled in frustration.
"Gah!!! Just get the damn light!!! We can't get out of here if we can't see can we!!"
"Well actually," Sakura Purple purred, "WE can see." she smiled mischievously. Syaoran groaned and sat down, putting his face in his hands.
"Okay, fine fine, I'll go get the light." Everyone heard footsteps and then a bright light suddenly shone on them. Tomoyo, Touya, and Syaoran shielded their eyes. When their eyes finally adjusted to the light, they saw Eriol grinning with his sword in hand. Syaoran was enraged. "YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT YOU COULD GET OUT OF HERE, YET YOU STAYED HERE?!" Syaoran advanced. Eriol went into his fighting stance. "You should never question your master, my little apprentice." Tomoyo looked back and forth between Syaoran and Eriol. "What's going on?" Her question went unnoticed.
Tomoyo screamed suddenly. Eriol and Syaoran looked at her. Touya cackled. "Now it doesn't matter that the lovely little girl didn't eat, I'm sure she's still just as sweet!!" He started scuttling away.
Syaoran flamed but he was cautious. Eriol forgot his training from a long time ago and went berserk. He started slashing and with surprising accuracy he chopped Touya's head off. Syaoran stared at Eriol. He had never seen him this angry before.
In a few seconds, Tomoyo was covered in Touya's specks of blood. She wiped them uncomfortably. Eriol grinned sheepishly. "Sorry about that."
Sakura Blue dried herself of imaginary water and Tomoyo was clean again. Tomoyo smiled at Sakura Blue. Then she turned to Eriol and Syaoran.
"I knew you were lying to me! Why didn't you just tell me the truth?!"
Eriol and Syaoran looked at each other. Syaoran shrugged. "I guess we gotta tell her, right?"
Eriol sighed. "I guess. Okay, Princess Tomoyo-"
"I guess you know about that too."
"Princess, let me explain first." He heard her sigh, exasperated. He hurried. "Your mother-"
"What does SHE have to do with this??"
"Please..."
"Oh yeah. I'm sorry, go on."
"Your mother, well she panicked, when you were chosen for this... vile, utterly disgusting, totally savage, brut-"
"AHEM." Tomoyo cleared her throat.
"Oh... right... so anyway, she didn't want you to be sacrificed, so she hired us to save you... in a manner of speaking. So I'm Master Dragon Slayer Eriol Hiiragizawa of Gelion. My apprentice is Syaoran Li of Xeon."
As he had finished speaking, Eriol looked at Tomoyo. She was pale. "Mother... is such a lying, bitchy cheater!!"
Eriol touched her shoulder and she turned on him. "And you! What are you?? Just her... her henchmen!!" She sobbed. Eriol looked frustrated. "We are NOT the queen's henchmen!! We do NOT support her in any way! She's just another money bag feeder!" Eriol suddenly blushed like crazy. He turned away from everyone else so that no one would see his red face.
"Really?" a soft voice asked. He turned around slowly and saw the still tear-streaked face of Tomoyo looking up at him. Her eyes were pleading for him to answer. He opened his mouth but nothing came out. Syaoran answered for him, "Yes." At that moment in time, Eriol loved Syaoran. (no not like that)
Tomoyo smiled at them. Eriol's heart raced and he blushed more, and at that moment Syaoran couldn't remember the reason that he gave her up.
She stood up and dusted her dress. She looked around. "Hey where are the Sakuras?" Everyone else looked around and couldn't see them either. A couple minutes later, Fluffy(ah i can't remember the rest of the names hehe ^^) yelled excitedly. "Look look, I found something!" He grinned happily. Everyone ran to where he was. On the ground were paw prints, and writing that said, "Gotta go." Syaoran shrugged. "Well, now we don't have to worry about them." He sighed in relief. Tomoyo looked around. "Oh, I hope we see them soon." she said, worridly. Eriol patted her shoulder. "I'm sure we will." Syaoran yelled in agony, "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"
Later... after Fluffy generously offered to carry everyone...
"Wow it's so clear up here!" Tomoyo exclaimed. Eriol had to agree and he felt like there was something good with NOT killing dragons. The view is great. And of course it's MUCH faster than walking. But then Eriol still has a job to keep... he sighed. Then a cloud moved away and they saw the castle. "Wow..." he breathed.
Syaoran gaped in awe. "Awesome... it looks so cool from up here..."
Tomoyo agreed. "It's so..." she thought of the perfect word, "CUTE!!!" (haha i would write "kawaii" but that would defeat the whole purpose of NOT using japanese words... unless i already defeated it...)
Eriol and Syaoran sweatdropped and Fluffy almost lost his balance (resulting from an anime fall in the air ^_--).
"Hold on to your mini skirts, we're goin down!" Fluffy zoomed toward the castle. Everyone thought, 'What mini skirts??' but held onto the dragon's wing, ear, anything they could grab. (actually, grabbing the wing wouldn't be a good idea...)
They were getting closer, closer, closer... ahh too close too close! Ahh, the dragon stopped right next to one of the windows of one of the towers of the castle, right before they could crash into it! Whew! That was too close!
"OH MY GOD FLUFFY DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN!!" Tomoyo screeched. "Okay..." the dragon hung his head.
"Well... we're back here..." Eriol said quietly. Syaoran whispered, "Are we gonna get our-" he rubbed his fingers together. Eriol shrugged. "I don't know." Syaoran rose an eyebrow. "What do you mean, 'You don't know?'"
Suddenly they heard they heard a buzz coming from below them. Apparently Fluffy heard it too, because he started flying slowly downward. "Hey what are you doing?"
When they got closer, they heard panic among the streets and people were pointing at the dragon and screaming. The dragon didn't get it apparently because he grinned and blew friendly fire at them (friendly fire?! hehe). Which the people, like I said before, didn't think it was so friendly. Soon, there was a parade of city guards, palace guards, cell guards (with prisoners, so they can't run away), servants, and the queen herself. The dragon looked at the queen. "Who's that, wearing those funny clothes??" he inquired, curious.
The queen became enraged. "WHAT DID YOU SAY, YOU PUNY INSIGNIFICANT-" she stopped herself, looking at the dragon clearly through her black veil. She squinted her eyes and made out a couple of... people?! "Would Tomoyo be around here?" she asked, uncertain, not making her voice very loud. The dragon, apparently understanding and hearing her nodded happily. Three people slid off, unable to stay on him while he was bobbing his head up and down.
"Tomoyo!!" the queen stepped down from the carriage. Her daughter stayed next to the dragon. The queen didn't come closer for fear of the dragon. "Hello mother." The voice was cold. Queen Sonomi was unsure of what to do. The people of the kingdom held their breath, wondering what would happen.
Finally, Tomoyo spoke again. "What are you doing?" Sonomi stared. "Why, we were welcoming you!" Tomoyo's eye twitched. "No, I believe you were getting your men to kill this dragon." She patted Fluffy. Sonomi flushed, then paled. She turned and looked at the guards. "Put those away, what were you thinking??" The men looked confused but put their weapons of choice back into their belts.
Sonomi turned back to Tomoyo. "Let's go home, child."
"I'm NOT a child. Why do you keep treating me as one? And I was so willing to die for my people! Why do you take that away from me by hiring these men?! Why do you always lie??" Tomoyo let out her anger on her mother, who blushed, embarrassed, then by anger. Trying to keep calm, she said slowly, "We should go back to the castle."
"No, I don't want to go back with you."
"Don't you want to come back to your room?"
"No. I don't want you to kill the dragon behind my back." she retorted, harshly.
"I'll pay the men for bringing you back..."
Tomoyo rose an eyebrow. She looked at Eriol and Syaoran. They barely gave a shake of their heads. "No."
"Not even that?"
"Of course not, you weren't supposed to hire them in the first place!" Tomoyo burst out. Sonomi pursed her lips.
"You won't come back then..."
"No mother."
"Then..." Sonomi knew that she could regret this very badly. "You are now and forever more exiled. You are no longer my child, and you have no right upon the throne. No one in this kingdom-" she flashed a look at everyone, "will house you, or give you food. You are to be banished from this kingdom of Tomoeda. It could have been yours, Tomoyo. The rest of your party will also receive this banishment." Sonomi turned around and sat in the carriage and allowed one tear to slowly make its way down her cheek. The procession moved back toward the castle.
Tomoyo looked as long as her eyes would let her, without crying. "Goodbye then." She smiled sadly. She turned to Fluffy. "Come on, you heard the queen. We gotta leave." Fluffy nodded. "Too bad, this looked like a nice place to live," he commented. Eriol looked at Syaoran. "And THAT, is what you don't want to do... you don't want to ever be banished from a place because-"
"Yeah, yeah, I know..."
Fluffy took flight and soon they were back in the sky.
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oh no, was this chapter a product of my stupidity, cruelness, and weirdness getting the best of me? lol who knows...
i apologize for dying this past month...
oh yes and since hikari-angel reviewed i was thinking that she's right... this has been total chaos... so i'm going to try to make it more... normal again...
thanks everyone for reviewing the utter chaos too hehe ^^
oh yes, and don't worry if you have questions... you can ask them, but i'm sure they'll be answered somehow before this fic is over... or at least that's what i'm hoping and thinking...