disclaimer: I do not own and will never own Card Captor Sakura (though I wish I did)
it is owned by CLAMP. This author is merely borrowing so please don't sue me!!!^_^;
Fated Circle: Four Sacred Treasures of Earth
~Part 4
Seiryuu: The Mirror of Mystery
Chapter 22
The next day, I woke up as if I had been hit by a train. The surroundings
were swirling and so did the spots before my eyes. It was a very bright
room.
"is this heaven?" I asked to no one.
"no, think of it as hell." someone answered me.
I twirled around to see who it was. That's when I noticed that I was un-gaged,
unblinded and untied. Then more spots appeared. I closed my eyes and slowly
opened them to adjust to the light. That was not possible since when I saw a tall,
forbidding figure, my eyes suddenly opened up in surprise. Then the spots swirled
more violently.
"easy my dear. Any quick actions done in this plane will send spots dancing
before your eyes." the figure said. He was cloaked in black that stood well out
in the white surroundings.
With my hands on my eyes, I answered sacrastically, "thanks for the warning"
Slowly, I put my hand down - careful not to move to quickly. "where am I?"
I could feel his face beneath his cowl smile at me. "In my plane, your body
is still gaged and everything back in reality, only our minds are here."
"why did you bring me here?" I asked. Evil radiated from him and it made my
fists clench immediately.
The figure stepped backwards and gracefully sweeped his right arm to bow at
me. "I have called you forth to offer you something..." he paused. I didn't
answer. "...to join The Order. Let me tell you why..." he continued, answering
my would-be questions, "..I can sense magic within you, Princess. You are born
with it. It will be such a great honor that you join us."
I kept silent. *I have magic?* I thought. "how do you know of this?"
"one who weilds it can also sense it."
"how can you be so sure?" I asked. He didn't know about the pendant and I knew
that the pendant had magic.
The cowled head nodded. "a curious one indeed. I cannot tell you that."
*curious one indeed?* I echoed in my thoughts, *since when did this person
see me being curious actually?*
"what will it be?" he asked again, his voice more impatient.
I looked inside the cowl, not knowing what I was looking at, and replied,
"sorry to disappoint you, but I will not."
"farewell then."
I stepped back a bit in surprise. "farewell...?"
"one of magic like yours cannot live if not for The Order. If The Order you
shan't follow, we cannot allow you to follow any other." he told me, then
raised one of his flowy sleeves. The long, black cloth covered his arm and hands
completely. A bright blue ball glowed from the end of his covered hand and I just
closed my eyes.
*BOOM*
The floors beneath me shook like there was an earthquake.
"Sakura! Sakura!" a familiar, melodious voice called me.
I opened my eyes to see Tomoyo shaking me. "w-what happened?"
"Syaoran's shadow had gotten the best of him again. He's going berserk but
we're all free because of that." she told me.
"Syaoran's shadow?"
Tomoyo glanced to her right(where the now broken door was located) and looked
back at me. "no time to explain. We've got to help him!"
Tomoyo helped me stand up and we both ran out of the room. A trail of destruction
led to our left. Tomoyo nodded and we both followed the trail, Tomoyo on the lead,
cautiously, just in case some enemy have managed to escape Syaoran in his "madness".
"where's Eriol?" I asked, looking directly before me.
"he's followed Syaoran a bit earlier."
"what about that accented woman...she was the one guarding us, right?"
Tomoyo kept silent and did not reply.
"...Tomoyo?"
"burnt to an oblivion crisp. Syaoran's outburst was so sudden, she wasn't able
to defend herself." she said sadly, "her name was Yanagisawa Naoko. She used
to be a good witch, I knew her you see, before the Dark Lord Orochi overpowered
her will and bent it to serve him."
I remembered my latest exprience *were they trying to bent my will as well?* I
thought. Felt like the dots were swirling before my eyes again.
The trail of destruction continued down the hall, leaving only wrecked walls
and carpets, broken vases, roasted bodies or clean cuts of bodies scattered
everywhere. I couldn't believe that Syaoran was the cause of all this. We followed
until a body suddenly shot through the left wall and landed on the opposite wall.
"Eriol!" Tomoyo said in dismay.
Eriol's blue tunic was gone now, and so was his white shirt. There was a
black burnt circle in the middle of his chest. He moaned in pain.
"don't worry... I'll heal you." Tomoyo told him. At once she sang. Her voice
full and flowing, sweet and relaxing. I was mezmerized by the play of notes
and was getting sleepy and calm when a bloody shriek caught my attention.
I looked into the hole on the wall where Eriol had just come from and was
scared, shocked and awed at the same time. There was Syaoran, standing menacingly
and he had just slashed a black robed figure vertically into two halves. All
around him, cloaked bodies were charred to the bone, had a missing head or
limb or sliced in half, horizontally and vertically.
*is that really Syaoran?* I asked myself. I knew he was good in battles, but I
never thought he could do such massacre.
"Syaoran is cursed, Sakura." she told me from behind. I looked at her and saw
that Eriol was sleeping peacefully she was staring in sympathy at Syaoran, who
was still hacking and slashing about, his back facing us. "By his own mother."
I gasped in surprise. "how could a mother do such a horrid thing?" I asked
her.
She looked down. "His mother was a seer that my parents both knew. She saw of
what would happen to her son and she cursed him," she paused and sighed, "she
said thus:
I curse thee, my child,
To live a life of twos:
You by day and a shadow at night.
All who dare stop you might live,
But those who dare the shadow shall not.
Only with the light shall the shadow fade,
Only when the day that you are free.
she said those words and cursed him." sadness was in every letter of her words.
"but his shadow did not appear at night. His shadow was cunning and chose not to
and chose instead to come out when he is in less control of himself, like when
one is angry or mad." she sighed again, "I wish I could help him, but I cannot.
the curse shall end when it says."
"only with the light shall the shadow fade, only when the day that you are free."
I muttered under my breath. *I wonder what that means...*
Suddenly, the walls and floors shook once more. Looking back in the hole, I
saw Syaoran pushed to the wall behind him by a blue ball that came from my left
(beyond the hole, of course) and it looked familiar in some way. Syaoran slumped
to the ground as the blue ball passed though him like he was water.
I was to walk closer when someone in black robes suddenly appeared before him.
"you think you can challenge me? Dear Prince, I know that you are the dark
master's son but you still have to learn a lot. No one can challenge me and
live dear prince!" he said, his voice getting more menacing by the minute, "my
members might have fallen from your sword, but not Sicercon!" his statement
ended with a harsh laughter and suddenly, his cowl looked at me.
The blackness under his cowl was so deep that one would think that there was
no head. Then, two red sparks appeared within the cowl, side by side..... and
blinked.
I froze on the spot.
to be continued
it is owned by CLAMP. This author is merely borrowing so please don't sue me!!!^_^;
Fated Circle: Four Sacred Treasures of Earth
~Part 4
Seiryuu: The Mirror of Mystery
Chapter 22
The next day, I woke up as if I had been hit by a train. The surroundings
were swirling and so did the spots before my eyes. It was a very bright
room.
"is this heaven?" I asked to no one.
"no, think of it as hell." someone answered me.
I twirled around to see who it was. That's when I noticed that I was un-gaged,
unblinded and untied. Then more spots appeared. I closed my eyes and slowly
opened them to adjust to the light. That was not possible since when I saw a tall,
forbidding figure, my eyes suddenly opened up in surprise. Then the spots swirled
more violently.
"easy my dear. Any quick actions done in this plane will send spots dancing
before your eyes." the figure said. He was cloaked in black that stood well out
in the white surroundings.
With my hands on my eyes, I answered sacrastically, "thanks for the warning"
Slowly, I put my hand down - careful not to move to quickly. "where am I?"
I could feel his face beneath his cowl smile at me. "In my plane, your body
is still gaged and everything back in reality, only our minds are here."
"why did you bring me here?" I asked. Evil radiated from him and it made my
fists clench immediately.
The figure stepped backwards and gracefully sweeped his right arm to bow at
me. "I have called you forth to offer you something..." he paused. I didn't
answer. "...to join The Order. Let me tell you why..." he continued, answering
my would-be questions, "..I can sense magic within you, Princess. You are born
with it. It will be such a great honor that you join us."
I kept silent. *I have magic?* I thought. "how do you know of this?"
"one who weilds it can also sense it."
"how can you be so sure?" I asked. He didn't know about the pendant and I knew
that the pendant had magic.
The cowled head nodded. "a curious one indeed. I cannot tell you that."
*curious one indeed?* I echoed in my thoughts, *since when did this person
see me being curious actually?*
"what will it be?" he asked again, his voice more impatient.
I looked inside the cowl, not knowing what I was looking at, and replied,
"sorry to disappoint you, but I will not."
"farewell then."
I stepped back a bit in surprise. "farewell...?"
"one of magic like yours cannot live if not for The Order. If The Order you
shan't follow, we cannot allow you to follow any other." he told me, then
raised one of his flowy sleeves. The long, black cloth covered his arm and hands
completely. A bright blue ball glowed from the end of his covered hand and I just
closed my eyes.
*BOOM*
The floors beneath me shook like there was an earthquake.
"Sakura! Sakura!" a familiar, melodious voice called me.
I opened my eyes to see Tomoyo shaking me. "w-what happened?"
"Syaoran's shadow had gotten the best of him again. He's going berserk but
we're all free because of that." she told me.
"Syaoran's shadow?"
Tomoyo glanced to her right(where the now broken door was located) and looked
back at me. "no time to explain. We've got to help him!"
Tomoyo helped me stand up and we both ran out of the room. A trail of destruction
led to our left. Tomoyo nodded and we both followed the trail, Tomoyo on the lead,
cautiously, just in case some enemy have managed to escape Syaoran in his "madness".
"where's Eriol?" I asked, looking directly before me.
"he's followed Syaoran a bit earlier."
"what about that accented woman...she was the one guarding us, right?"
Tomoyo kept silent and did not reply.
"...Tomoyo?"
"burnt to an oblivion crisp. Syaoran's outburst was so sudden, she wasn't able
to defend herself." she said sadly, "her name was Yanagisawa Naoko. She used
to be a good witch, I knew her you see, before the Dark Lord Orochi overpowered
her will and bent it to serve him."
I remembered my latest exprience *were they trying to bent my will as well?* I
thought. Felt like the dots were swirling before my eyes again.
The trail of destruction continued down the hall, leaving only wrecked walls
and carpets, broken vases, roasted bodies or clean cuts of bodies scattered
everywhere. I couldn't believe that Syaoran was the cause of all this. We followed
until a body suddenly shot through the left wall and landed on the opposite wall.
"Eriol!" Tomoyo said in dismay.
Eriol's blue tunic was gone now, and so was his white shirt. There was a
black burnt circle in the middle of his chest. He moaned in pain.
"don't worry... I'll heal you." Tomoyo told him. At once she sang. Her voice
full and flowing, sweet and relaxing. I was mezmerized by the play of notes
and was getting sleepy and calm when a bloody shriek caught my attention.
I looked into the hole on the wall where Eriol had just come from and was
scared, shocked and awed at the same time. There was Syaoran, standing menacingly
and he had just slashed a black robed figure vertically into two halves. All
around him, cloaked bodies were charred to the bone, had a missing head or
limb or sliced in half, horizontally and vertically.
*is that really Syaoran?* I asked myself. I knew he was good in battles, but I
never thought he could do such massacre.
"Syaoran is cursed, Sakura." she told me from behind. I looked at her and saw
that Eriol was sleeping peacefully she was staring in sympathy at Syaoran, who
was still hacking and slashing about, his back facing us. "By his own mother."
I gasped in surprise. "how could a mother do such a horrid thing?" I asked
her.
She looked down. "His mother was a seer that my parents both knew. She saw of
what would happen to her son and she cursed him," she paused and sighed, "she
said thus:
I curse thee, my child,
To live a life of twos:
You by day and a shadow at night.
All who dare stop you might live,
But those who dare the shadow shall not.
Only with the light shall the shadow fade,
Only when the day that you are free.
she said those words and cursed him." sadness was in every letter of her words.
"but his shadow did not appear at night. His shadow was cunning and chose not to
and chose instead to come out when he is in less control of himself, like when
one is angry or mad." she sighed again, "I wish I could help him, but I cannot.
the curse shall end when it says."
"only with the light shall the shadow fade, only when the day that you are free."
I muttered under my breath. *I wonder what that means...*
Suddenly, the walls and floors shook once more. Looking back in the hole, I
saw Syaoran pushed to the wall behind him by a blue ball that came from my left
(beyond the hole, of course) and it looked familiar in some way. Syaoran slumped
to the ground as the blue ball passed though him like he was water.
I was to walk closer when someone in black robes suddenly appeared before him.
"you think you can challenge me? Dear Prince, I know that you are the dark
master's son but you still have to learn a lot. No one can challenge me and
live dear prince!" he said, his voice getting more menacing by the minute, "my
members might have fallen from your sword, but not Sicercon!" his statement
ended with a harsh laughter and suddenly, his cowl looked at me.
The blackness under his cowl was so deep that one would think that there was
no head. Then, two red sparks appeared within the cowl, side by side..... and
blinked.
I froze on the spot.
to be continued