Chiaki panted, coming to a stop a bit away from the boy. He was standing there, staring at the horrid bell. He looked up, spotting her. She shrank all of a sudden; something was wrong…
Syaoran spotted the girl. His eyes glazed over, an almost maniacal look in them. He lifted the bell, hardening his heart. He shook it, giving it one loud, full sound.
Chiaki shuddered as the black skin appeared once again. It seemed to disappear inside her, searching her. All at once, it glowed and reappeared. In one fluid motion, it lifted off her skin, forming a cocoon around the young woman. Chiaki stared at it with a crazed kind of joy. She wanted to grab it, to wrap it around herself and let it comfort her. She never wanted to go back, back outside her bubble to the hateful world she had lived in.
{Why was it so hateful?}, a voice softly resonated.
Chiaki thought.
{Because…}
{Why?}
{Because there was no…no…}
{No? No what?}
{No…love.}
{That is yours for the changing. Just open your heart…and listen once again.}
Chiaki's eyes flew open, as she realized what inhabited her soul and heart. A black shadow, her own negativity, had surrounded the once joyous girl. She knew now that she had to let go. And with that thought, she willed herself to let go.
A pain like she had never experienced shot through every inch of her body, making her cry out in pain. She closed her eyes.
{Stop, make it stop!}
Syaoran looked on in horror as the girl became enveloped in light. Suddenly, a glyph appeared on the ground, one that he could vaguely remember.
The light surrounding the girl faded away. Instead of a tattered white dress, a girl in an outrageous costume stood with her head bowed. She looked up, towards the tower.
"Yueh! Come forth once again!"
A light emitted from the moon. There stood in front of him the man in white he saw.
"Impossible! You were sealed over three years ago!"
"Clow Reed knew that I would fail. So he created a bell for a young priestess, to help me. With her dead, I failed. But now, I summon you once again, to re-battle!"
"You will only lose again."
"I would not be so sure…
'Key which hides the power of my star,
reveal thy true form before me!
Release!'
"Windy! Form a chain and trap Yueh!"
Syaoran continued to watch as the man fell, trapped by this girl's powers. Who was she? He had yet to see her face.
The battle ended, with the girl victorious. She turned around from her high ledge on the tower, spotting Syaoran. She flew down, then began to slowly jog towards him. As she got closer, he saw her face, and her eyes. He looked within them and…
~*flashback*~
"I, Yueh the judge, proclaim Kinomoto Sakura inadequate to be the Master of the Clow. The cards will be sealed."
"No! Sakura!"
"What will happen, Cerberus?"
"When the Clow Cards' seal is broken-"
"Disaster will befall the world!"
"The disaster that will befall the world…to protect the Clow Cards, and their former masters, anyone who was affected by the Clow Cards will lose their memories…of everything that they hold dearly…Cerberus, you chose wrongly. This girl is no match for me."
"I…cannot fail…must try…daijoubu desku wa!" *sounds of straining*
"You have courage…or is it foolishness? Baka…the disaster will befall the world. The only person who can beat me is Clow Reed himself."
*lights wash over the whole scene. Everyone disappears*
~*end flashback*~
{I know that girl} Syaoran heard a name, hidden in his depths, coming, forcing itself to be said.
"Sakura."
And with that, all the memories that had been sealed came rushing back to him, as he took the girl he loved into his hands.
~*^The End^*~
