Daphne: "Hi-Ho! I am really happy today, because my school gets a three day
weekend—starting tomorrow! Yippee! Anyway, I plan to spend a lot of time on
the computer, so I should get a lot of chapters posted. (This is a SHOULD
not a WILL so don't quote me on this.) Anyway, I really hope that you like
it!
Kero: "Daphne! Hurry! I want pudding!"
Daphne: *sigh* "Kero, for once could you ignore your hunger…?"
Kero: "No."
Daphne: *sweat drop* "On with the story…"
~*~*~*~
Palace of the Wolves
by: Daphne Li
Chapter 2.
"Oh! This airport is so big!" Sakura gasped. Tomoyo nervously took Sakura's hand, and they followed their class to a very well-dressed man standing near a private exit.
"The class of Terada, I presume?" The man said, looking around at all of them. Terada Sensei nodded and the man smiled.
"Good. Then follow me, please." He lead them out the private door and to a large tour-bus. It had two seats in a row, and then and isle and then two more seats. The bus was equipped with TV's and a VCR, if they wanted to watch movies. It also had a small fridge with drinks in it. When the bus started to leave, all the students flocked to the TV to see what channels it got and what movies the bus had to watch.
"Kawaii!" Tomoyo cried, recording the whole bus, and the awed students looking around at it.
"Sakura, look! Personal cup holders!" Chiharu cried.
"Did you know that the cup holder was originally…" Yamazaki began, but stopped abruptly when Chiharu hit him upside the head. Tomoyo and Sakura sat next to each other, while Terada sensei sat beside Rika, and the two were talking quietly. Chiharu and Yamazaki sat across from Sakura and Tomoyo and watched the movie. Naoko had a seat all to herself.
~*~*~*~
*Naoko's POV*
'Why am I always the loner? I mean, Sakura and Tomoyo are best friends, and then Chiharu and Yamazaki are inseparable, and then there is Rika and Terada Sensei, but where does that leave me? Why am I always alone?!'
~*~*~*~
*Normal POV*
Sakura smiled at something that Tomoyo had said, and then looked out the window. The bus was making its way through a dense forest. The sun was shinning brightly, filtering through the tall trees and making little patches of light appear on the forest floor. Sakura smiled again and then let her mind wander back to what Terada Sensei had told them about the place that they were staying in.
*Flashback*
"Where are we going to stay, Terada Sensei?" Naoko asked.
"Well, they said it was a place called 'The Palace of the Wolves'." Everyone smiled at the name.
"It they call it 'The Palace of the Wolves', it must be a really nice place." Chiharu commented.
"Not necessarily. The last time I stayed in a hotel with such a nice name, it turned out of be a horrid place." Naoko countered.
"I wonder what it is like." Tomoyo mussed.
"I just hope that the scenery there is pretty." Sakura said wistfully.
*End of Flashback*
"It sure is." Sakura commented, still looking out at the forest. They had been traveling for about an hour when they suddenly turned onto a half- hidden road. They traveled deeper into the forest for about twenty more minutes, then…
"Passengers, if you will look out the right-hand windows, you will see the 'Palace of the Wolves' come into view soon." The driver announced. Everyone flocked over to the windows to see the building. A unified gasp rose up from the whole group.
"That is a real palace!" Tomoyo cried.
~*~*~*~
"So what is the agenda for today?" Syaoran asked, finishing his breakfast. Yelan looked up from her meal and smiled.
"All you have today is training." She answered. Syaoran frowned.
"Then what?"
"Then you will come and meet the students. I am going out this morning, so Martin will show the students to their rooms. I have had the rooms specially made over for every student."
"What? But mother…there are a lot of students, ne?" Syaoran asked, slipping into Japanese. Yelan gave a dainty shrug.
"Only twenty-seven, plus a few chaperones. A few of the students will get rooms in your wing, but most of them will be in the east wing." She answered. Ellie noticed that Yelan's eyes twinkled, but she said nothing, knowing that even if Yelan had something up her sleeve, she would not tell them. So Ellie simply smiled.
"Syaoran, we had best be getting to the training grounds. Meiling…" Ellie whispered as she walked by Meiling's chair. "…would you kindly stay here and monitor Fanren, Fuutie, Feimei and Siefa while we are gone?" Meiling nodded and then smiled at the older girls.
"Auntie, I think that I will stay here while they go to the training grounds…"
~*~*~*~
"This way, please!" The well-dresses man called, leading them into the palace and up a flight of stairs. "Now, Mistress has selected rooms for everyone. If you will just enter the room that I indicate, when I call out your name? Yamazaki, first door on the left. Terada, first on the right…" The man read through the names. When Touya's name was called, he shot a regretful glance at Sakura and then entered his room. The man looked at the two girls still following him and smiled.
"Ah! You must be the two that Mistress told me about. Your rooms are in a different wing. Please, follow me!" Sakura and Tomoyo looked at each other in confusion, but said nothing. They walked down a long hall, through a room and then down another hall. Finally they stopped at a door and the man pushed it open and led both girls in.
Pink and white. That was the color of the room they walked into. It had pink walls with white trim, it had a white four-poster bed with pink draperies and comforter. There was one whole wall of glass windows, covered with sheer white curtains embroidered with pink cherry blossoms. The furniture was all different shades of pink and white.
"This is your room, Sakura!" Tomoyo whispered, her eyes sparkling. Then the man opened another door and led them into a huge white and gold bathroom, and then he opened another door and led them into another room.
This one had purple walls with white trim, white four-poster bed with light purple draperies and comforter. The curtains were sheer white embroidered with a sweet purple flower that they couldn't name. The furniture was white and different shades of purple.
"You may put your things away, and then meet me out here in fifteen minutes to re-join your fellow students." The man said, leaving the room. Sakura helped Tomoyo put her things away, and then they went to Sakura's room to do the same thing. When they were finished, Sakura noticed that there was a glass door that led outside, concealed behind the curtains to her room.
"Tomoyo, look! A door." Sakura pointed and Tomoyo went over to get a better look.
"Sakura, come look what it leads to!" Tomoyo cried, unlocking the door and pushing it open. Sakura followed her out and they found themselves on a big white balcony! Sakura gave a squeal of delight.
"Look Tomoyo! You have one too!" She cried, rushing over to the railing and looking down. Below the balcony lay a beautiful courtyard, with three fountains, lots of flowers, and one…Japanese Cherry tree! Sakura caught her breath and stared at that tree, smiling.
"Oh no! Sakura! Look at the time!" Tomoyo cried. She and Sakura hurried back into the room, just as the well-dressed man came back in.
"Hurry, girls! Master is coming soon, and he will want to meet you!" Then the man led them out of the room and back to their classmates.
~*~*~*~
Syaoran whipped sweat from his brow and faced his opponent, his sword drawn. The man attacked a Syaoran quickly countered with first a side- swipe, and then a top-cut. His opponent faltered, and Syaoran lost no time in brining the man to the ground. The man smiled.
"Well done, Master Shaoran. That is all for today, you are excused." The man bowed to him and then exited the ground. Syaoran watched as Ellie came running into the arena, her hair wet and newly washed.
"Are you done? I finished fifteen minutes ago and had time to take a quick shower. Mon (jeez) they work us hard! I don't know how you put up with it for nine full years!" Ellie exclaimed. Syaoran chuckled.
"Practice!" He answered, ducking into a small shower-room. He was done with his shower in five minutes and replaced his training clothes for the clean ones hanging on a hook just outside the shower-room. When he emerged, Ellie was still waiting for him, her long, wavy chestnut hair now air-dried and smelling of rose hips and lavender. Her icy-blue eyes twinkled at him as she smiled.
"Meiling and Eriol are waiting just over there." She informed him, pointing to a bench not far away.
"Meiling is back?"
"Yah! She talked Fanren, Fuutie, Feimei and Siefa into going into town. They won't be back until dinner!" Ellie answered. They caught up to Meiling and Eriol and then the four of them started back to the Palace.
"Ugh! Do we have to go? Can't we just leave them to their own devices?" Syaoran whined, as they walked down the path. Eriol chuckled.
"You seem to have forgotten that they are going to be tutoring with us for the nest month, cute little descendant!" He reminded Syaoran. Syaoran snarled at him, but the two girls laughed.
"You are going to pay for that, Hiiragizawa!" Syaoran hissed, taking off after Eriol. Eriol gave a shout of laughter and then sped away. The two girls looked at each other, shrugged, and helped Syaoran chase after Eriol.
~*~*~*~
"Look Sakura! We are going to meet them in the courtyard!" Tomoyo cried, as the class entered into the courtyard. Immediately, Sakura walked over to the Cherry tree and sat down on a bench at the base of the tree. Everyone looked around in wonder.
"Who owns this place?" Chiharu asked breathlessly. Yamazaki answered.
"Whoever it is, they must be really rich! It must be some old man who hates children…"
"Come back here you!" Shouted a voice, obviously a young girl's. Everyone looked over at Yamazaki and Chiharu giggled.
"Hates children, huh?" She taunted. Then more young voices shouted out.
"That wasn't fare!"
"It was too, and even if it wasn't, you still wouldn't be able to catch me!"
"Oh yes I can!" Shouted a the first girl's voice.
"Go Meiling, go! You show him!" Another girl cried. Four figures came rushing down the path, two far ahead of the others. Those a blue-black haired boy and a black haired girl rushed by the class and straight into the arms of…Terada Sensei! Then the other two stopped short and started laughing hysterically.
"Ter…Terada Sensei!" The girl everyone recognized as Meiling gasped.
"This is interesting…" The first boy commented. Eriol's blue eyes flashed in good humor. Sakura stood up in shock. If Meiling and Eriol were here, that must mean that Syaoran was too! In fact, that must be him, laughing over there…
Sakura's thoughts stopped short and she gasped. Syaoran never laughed like that! Not in front of his class, at least! And who was that beautiful girl that he was leaning against? A rush of jealousy rushed up into Sakura's heart.
"I can't believe that you started this argument, Xiao-lang, but Meiling finished it!" A chestnut haired girl choked out ,leaning against the young man beside her.
"Yah! And they ran right into Terada Sensei! I…TERADA SENSEI!?!?!" Shouted Syaoran, his eyes widening in horror. Everyone stared at the two in shock. Syaoran was in a Chinese style, green silk shirt and loose black silk pants. The girl beside him wore a light, flimsy blue satin dress that had a long skirt that reached to the ground. Its sleeves were loose around her arms and ended in a scoop at her wrists. She looked up at the pale Syaoran and worry entered her icy-blue eyes.
"Xiao-lang…are you all right?" She asked, putting her hand on his arm. Suddenly, he began to smile.
"Sakura!" He rushed over to Sakura and pulled her into a tight hug. "I have missed you so much! Wait! There is someone I want you to meet!" Syaoran exclaimed, breaking away from Sakura and running over to the chestnut haired girl.
"Nora, these are my classmates from Japan! The ones I told you about!" At these words, the girl's face cleared and an exited flash entered her eyes.
"Everyone, I would like you to meet the reason that I came back to Hong Kong. This is my twin sister, Ellanora!"
~*~*~*~
D.L.:
Daphne: "Hi! I know that this sounds really lame now, but it gets better! I am sorry that I didn't mention the white figures in this chapter. I am hoping that I can tell you about them in the next one! Well, I really want to know what you think, so please review!
Kero: "Daphne! Hurry! I want pudding!"
Daphne: *sigh* "Kero, for once could you ignore your hunger…?"
Kero: "No."
Daphne: *sweat drop* "On with the story…"
~*~*~*~
Palace of the Wolves
by: Daphne Li
Chapter 2.
"Oh! This airport is so big!" Sakura gasped. Tomoyo nervously took Sakura's hand, and they followed their class to a very well-dressed man standing near a private exit.
"The class of Terada, I presume?" The man said, looking around at all of them. Terada Sensei nodded and the man smiled.
"Good. Then follow me, please." He lead them out the private door and to a large tour-bus. It had two seats in a row, and then and isle and then two more seats. The bus was equipped with TV's and a VCR, if they wanted to watch movies. It also had a small fridge with drinks in it. When the bus started to leave, all the students flocked to the TV to see what channels it got and what movies the bus had to watch.
"Kawaii!" Tomoyo cried, recording the whole bus, and the awed students looking around at it.
"Sakura, look! Personal cup holders!" Chiharu cried.
"Did you know that the cup holder was originally…" Yamazaki began, but stopped abruptly when Chiharu hit him upside the head. Tomoyo and Sakura sat next to each other, while Terada sensei sat beside Rika, and the two were talking quietly. Chiharu and Yamazaki sat across from Sakura and Tomoyo and watched the movie. Naoko had a seat all to herself.
~*~*~*~
*Naoko's POV*
'Why am I always the loner? I mean, Sakura and Tomoyo are best friends, and then Chiharu and Yamazaki are inseparable, and then there is Rika and Terada Sensei, but where does that leave me? Why am I always alone?!'
~*~*~*~
*Normal POV*
Sakura smiled at something that Tomoyo had said, and then looked out the window. The bus was making its way through a dense forest. The sun was shinning brightly, filtering through the tall trees and making little patches of light appear on the forest floor. Sakura smiled again and then let her mind wander back to what Terada Sensei had told them about the place that they were staying in.
*Flashback*
"Where are we going to stay, Terada Sensei?" Naoko asked.
"Well, they said it was a place called 'The Palace of the Wolves'." Everyone smiled at the name.
"It they call it 'The Palace of the Wolves', it must be a really nice place." Chiharu commented.
"Not necessarily. The last time I stayed in a hotel with such a nice name, it turned out of be a horrid place." Naoko countered.
"I wonder what it is like." Tomoyo mussed.
"I just hope that the scenery there is pretty." Sakura said wistfully.
*End of Flashback*
"It sure is." Sakura commented, still looking out at the forest. They had been traveling for about an hour when they suddenly turned onto a half- hidden road. They traveled deeper into the forest for about twenty more minutes, then…
"Passengers, if you will look out the right-hand windows, you will see the 'Palace of the Wolves' come into view soon." The driver announced. Everyone flocked over to the windows to see the building. A unified gasp rose up from the whole group.
"That is a real palace!" Tomoyo cried.
~*~*~*~
"So what is the agenda for today?" Syaoran asked, finishing his breakfast. Yelan looked up from her meal and smiled.
"All you have today is training." She answered. Syaoran frowned.
"Then what?"
"Then you will come and meet the students. I am going out this morning, so Martin will show the students to their rooms. I have had the rooms specially made over for every student."
"What? But mother…there are a lot of students, ne?" Syaoran asked, slipping into Japanese. Yelan gave a dainty shrug.
"Only twenty-seven, plus a few chaperones. A few of the students will get rooms in your wing, but most of them will be in the east wing." She answered. Ellie noticed that Yelan's eyes twinkled, but she said nothing, knowing that even if Yelan had something up her sleeve, she would not tell them. So Ellie simply smiled.
"Syaoran, we had best be getting to the training grounds. Meiling…" Ellie whispered as she walked by Meiling's chair. "…would you kindly stay here and monitor Fanren, Fuutie, Feimei and Siefa while we are gone?" Meiling nodded and then smiled at the older girls.
"Auntie, I think that I will stay here while they go to the training grounds…"
~*~*~*~
"This way, please!" The well-dresses man called, leading them into the palace and up a flight of stairs. "Now, Mistress has selected rooms for everyone. If you will just enter the room that I indicate, when I call out your name? Yamazaki, first door on the left. Terada, first on the right…" The man read through the names. When Touya's name was called, he shot a regretful glance at Sakura and then entered his room. The man looked at the two girls still following him and smiled.
"Ah! You must be the two that Mistress told me about. Your rooms are in a different wing. Please, follow me!" Sakura and Tomoyo looked at each other in confusion, but said nothing. They walked down a long hall, through a room and then down another hall. Finally they stopped at a door and the man pushed it open and led both girls in.
Pink and white. That was the color of the room they walked into. It had pink walls with white trim, it had a white four-poster bed with pink draperies and comforter. There was one whole wall of glass windows, covered with sheer white curtains embroidered with pink cherry blossoms. The furniture was all different shades of pink and white.
"This is your room, Sakura!" Tomoyo whispered, her eyes sparkling. Then the man opened another door and led them into a huge white and gold bathroom, and then he opened another door and led them into another room.
This one had purple walls with white trim, white four-poster bed with light purple draperies and comforter. The curtains were sheer white embroidered with a sweet purple flower that they couldn't name. The furniture was white and different shades of purple.
"You may put your things away, and then meet me out here in fifteen minutes to re-join your fellow students." The man said, leaving the room. Sakura helped Tomoyo put her things away, and then they went to Sakura's room to do the same thing. When they were finished, Sakura noticed that there was a glass door that led outside, concealed behind the curtains to her room.
"Tomoyo, look! A door." Sakura pointed and Tomoyo went over to get a better look.
"Sakura, come look what it leads to!" Tomoyo cried, unlocking the door and pushing it open. Sakura followed her out and they found themselves on a big white balcony! Sakura gave a squeal of delight.
"Look Tomoyo! You have one too!" She cried, rushing over to the railing and looking down. Below the balcony lay a beautiful courtyard, with three fountains, lots of flowers, and one…Japanese Cherry tree! Sakura caught her breath and stared at that tree, smiling.
"Oh no! Sakura! Look at the time!" Tomoyo cried. She and Sakura hurried back into the room, just as the well-dressed man came back in.
"Hurry, girls! Master is coming soon, and he will want to meet you!" Then the man led them out of the room and back to their classmates.
~*~*~*~
Syaoran whipped sweat from his brow and faced his opponent, his sword drawn. The man attacked a Syaoran quickly countered with first a side- swipe, and then a top-cut. His opponent faltered, and Syaoran lost no time in brining the man to the ground. The man smiled.
"Well done, Master Shaoran. That is all for today, you are excused." The man bowed to him and then exited the ground. Syaoran watched as Ellie came running into the arena, her hair wet and newly washed.
"Are you done? I finished fifteen minutes ago and had time to take a quick shower. Mon (jeez) they work us hard! I don't know how you put up with it for nine full years!" Ellie exclaimed. Syaoran chuckled.
"Practice!" He answered, ducking into a small shower-room. He was done with his shower in five minutes and replaced his training clothes for the clean ones hanging on a hook just outside the shower-room. When he emerged, Ellie was still waiting for him, her long, wavy chestnut hair now air-dried and smelling of rose hips and lavender. Her icy-blue eyes twinkled at him as she smiled.
"Meiling and Eriol are waiting just over there." She informed him, pointing to a bench not far away.
"Meiling is back?"
"Yah! She talked Fanren, Fuutie, Feimei and Siefa into going into town. They won't be back until dinner!" Ellie answered. They caught up to Meiling and Eriol and then the four of them started back to the Palace.
"Ugh! Do we have to go? Can't we just leave them to their own devices?" Syaoran whined, as they walked down the path. Eriol chuckled.
"You seem to have forgotten that they are going to be tutoring with us for the nest month, cute little descendant!" He reminded Syaoran. Syaoran snarled at him, but the two girls laughed.
"You are going to pay for that, Hiiragizawa!" Syaoran hissed, taking off after Eriol. Eriol gave a shout of laughter and then sped away. The two girls looked at each other, shrugged, and helped Syaoran chase after Eriol.
~*~*~*~
"Look Sakura! We are going to meet them in the courtyard!" Tomoyo cried, as the class entered into the courtyard. Immediately, Sakura walked over to the Cherry tree and sat down on a bench at the base of the tree. Everyone looked around in wonder.
"Who owns this place?" Chiharu asked breathlessly. Yamazaki answered.
"Whoever it is, they must be really rich! It must be some old man who hates children…"
"Come back here you!" Shouted a voice, obviously a young girl's. Everyone looked over at Yamazaki and Chiharu giggled.
"Hates children, huh?" She taunted. Then more young voices shouted out.
"That wasn't fare!"
"It was too, and even if it wasn't, you still wouldn't be able to catch me!"
"Oh yes I can!" Shouted a the first girl's voice.
"Go Meiling, go! You show him!" Another girl cried. Four figures came rushing down the path, two far ahead of the others. Those a blue-black haired boy and a black haired girl rushed by the class and straight into the arms of…Terada Sensei! Then the other two stopped short and started laughing hysterically.
"Ter…Terada Sensei!" The girl everyone recognized as Meiling gasped.
"This is interesting…" The first boy commented. Eriol's blue eyes flashed in good humor. Sakura stood up in shock. If Meiling and Eriol were here, that must mean that Syaoran was too! In fact, that must be him, laughing over there…
Sakura's thoughts stopped short and she gasped. Syaoran never laughed like that! Not in front of his class, at least! And who was that beautiful girl that he was leaning against? A rush of jealousy rushed up into Sakura's heart.
"I can't believe that you started this argument, Xiao-lang, but Meiling finished it!" A chestnut haired girl choked out ,leaning against the young man beside her.
"Yah! And they ran right into Terada Sensei! I…TERADA SENSEI!?!?!" Shouted Syaoran, his eyes widening in horror. Everyone stared at the two in shock. Syaoran was in a Chinese style, green silk shirt and loose black silk pants. The girl beside him wore a light, flimsy blue satin dress that had a long skirt that reached to the ground. Its sleeves were loose around her arms and ended in a scoop at her wrists. She looked up at the pale Syaoran and worry entered her icy-blue eyes.
"Xiao-lang…are you all right?" She asked, putting her hand on his arm. Suddenly, he began to smile.
"Sakura!" He rushed over to Sakura and pulled her into a tight hug. "I have missed you so much! Wait! There is someone I want you to meet!" Syaoran exclaimed, breaking away from Sakura and running over to the chestnut haired girl.
"Nora, these are my classmates from Japan! The ones I told you about!" At these words, the girl's face cleared and an exited flash entered her eyes.
"Everyone, I would like you to meet the reason that I came back to Hong Kong. This is my twin sister, Ellanora!"
~*~*~*~
D.L.:
Daphne: "Hi! I know that this sounds really lame now, but it gets better! I am sorry that I didn't mention the white figures in this chapter. I am hoping that I can tell you about them in the next one! Well, I really want to know what you think, so please review!