R.A.W


Chapter 4.


Sakura was sleeping soundly on her bed when something small entered the room. It yawned loudly and floated up to Sakura.

"Hey, Sakura. You awake??" Kero asked quietly. Sakura groaned and rolled over. She opened her eyes slowly and saw Kero looking sleepily at her. She smiled slightly.

"Hi..."

"What's up with you?" Kero asked seeing her cheek a rosy colour like she'd been crying for a while.

"I'll tell ya in the morning!" she said wearily. Kero yawned loudly as Sakura leaned over and looked at her clock.

It read 12:47pm.

She yawned as well then grabbed Kero wrapping her arms around him and holding him close like a teddy bear, but a real one!


Soon they both fell soundly to sleep.



*~* a few hours later.


Syaoran returned to Sakura's house a while after he'd left her. He quietly opened her window and snuck into her room making sure he didn't wake her or Kero up. He sat down in a chair and watched her night.


*~* the morning

Sakura opened her eyes as fresh sunlight shone on her. She slowly got up letting Kero sleep longer.

She then noticed her window was open and on the tiny ledge outside of it was sitting a person. Syaoran!


She grinned watching him meditate on the small ledge not looking up to her.

"Good morning!" he said calmly.

"Morning..." she said plainly looking outside to the forest.

"Today, if I see Romeo, you know you can't do anything to stop me if I loose it!" he said opening his eyes and breathing out deeply.

"I know...I don't know whether I really want to stop you either. But......his power! It was incredible! And it seemed to take all of my energy from me!" Sakura said, "Just be cautious, ok. He's evil, and I don't think you should mess with him! But if you want to fight I guess I can't do much to stop you!"


Syaoran sighed and got up.

"OHHH don't fall!" Sakura cried watching him balance.

"I'm too focused and centred too..................huh???"


Syaoran looked out to the forest when a large flock of birds flew up with a loud racket of screeching. He squinted and looked out further, leaning on the very edge to take a look.

"What is it??" Sakura asked trying to take a look but Syaoran shoved her back inside.

"Quickly, get in!" he cried closing the window and covering himself over it, so as no one could see inside.

"Syaoran!"

Sakura rapped on the window hard but he didn't let her out.


Syaoran looked out at something moving very fast, along the wind, towards him. An obscure blackness was coming towards him, until he could see what they were. A gigantic pack of black bats, screeching, screaming, fangs out, wings flapping. He braced himself for the impact with the bats and himself crouching down low.


Screaming calls filled his ears and he cried out in pain. All of the bats flew into him, screeching loudly. He just crouched down with his arms in front of his face, moving out of their ways, but suddenly he felt a long jolt of pain run up his neck to his back. He lifted his head up and cried out in shock. A bat had bitten into a very venerable spot. His neck.

He covered the wound with a hand and couched down again as the swam began to fly away quickly.


Suddenly all Syaoran could hear was the whistling winds between his ears. He looked up and took his hand away from his neck, still the searing pain running up and down his back. Cold red blood dripped off his hand.

His vision swirled in and out of sharpness and then a dark blackness took over him as he fell forwards to the ground.


*~*

The whole time that was happening Sakura could hear and was banging hard on her window. She'd woken Kero up and he was also trying to use his powers to open the window. All they would do was sit back and hear the screams of the bats and the horrible things they might be doing to Syaoran.

It went quiet again for some reason. The bats had seemed to disappear. Sakura could see outside too as Syaoran fell from the ledge.


*~*

Syaoran hit the ground with a thud and didn't get up. A small pool of blood slowly formed around his wound on the grass. Sakura cam running out of her house with tears uncontrollably welling in her eyes. She rushed to him and skidded on the grass next to his side.

"Syaoran are you ok????" she cried hysterically.


There was no answer and he didn't move either. Sakura picked up his head and saw the wound at his neck.

*~*

Eriol straightened up with school shirt but noticed something very strange. Someone's energy and magic levels dropped dramatically. He noticed whose they were.

(KN; I know this might be quiet annoying, me changing from scene to scene! But ya know, this is my story!)


*~*

Kero helped Sakura, with his magic, to carry Syaoran inside. They laid him on her couch and Sakura ran upstairs to check if her father was at home. He wasn't, obviously fell asleep at work again.


Sakura rushed back down with bandages and cloths to clean the wound. Suddenly someone opened her front door and walked in quickly. Sakura gasped in fright and sighed in relief when she saw it was only Eriol.

"What happened?" he asked looking at Syaoran.

"I don't know! Something was coming, he shoved me back inside, and we saw darkness and then he fell!" Sakura cried franticly. She didn't know what to tell him seeing she was still in shock.

"How did you know something was going on?" kero asked moving away so Eriol could examine his injured cousin.

"I noticed a giant drop in his magic levels earlier!" Eriol said looking at the wound on his neck, "Bats???" he cried suddenly curious, "This is a bat wound! Not a normal one either, demonic, maybe poisoned."


"Bat? Poison??" Sakura cried falling backwards into a chair from dizziness and shock.

"Yes, but if it were poisonous we'd see signs on it by now! So obviously just a bite. But who sent them?" Eriol muttered to himself. Sakura watched as he cleaned the wound and then lifted up the sleeve of his t-shirt to reveal a silver band with little bottles attached. He examined them and then ripped on off, carefully removing the lid.

"What's that?" Sakura asked in awe.

"Oh, I bought it on the black market a while back, the bottles contains potions, things I might need in situations like these!" Eriol said pouring some see-through liquid onto the wound. He then wrapped it in the bandage that Sakura had found.

"What was that?" Kero asked.

"Just some snake oil." He said replacing the lid and then back on the band.

"Snake oil!" kero cried, "That's illegal now!"

"You know I would never use it in that case!" Eriol cried in disgust.

"You never know!" Kero said crossing his arms and looking at Eriol with suspicion. Sakura looked at them both.

"What are you two talking about?" Sakura asked.

"Snakes oil is now illegal because most magic folk drink it to increase their strength and it might give people unusual powers. So were not really supposed to use it anymore, but I only use it in medicines because it heals wounds so fast!" Eriol said explaining quickly. Kero stared at him still not believing his story.

"What ever!" he huffed and floated away to the kitchen.

Sakura kneeled down next to Syaoran.

"Why did this happen??" Sakura mumbled.

"Obviously someone, very powerful, was watching your place. When they saw Syaoran they found it the opportunity to steal his blood, through the bat that bite him. You see, when that happens to someone, their blood and energy is drained, carried in the bats own blood, and back to it master, who then kills it for the energy inside it. Whoever it was wants Syaoran's power to make themselves stronger!" Eriol told her.


Sakura whimpered and sighed, remembering what Romeo had told her yesterday. Eriol looked at her.

"Syaoran told me about Romeo and what he said." He said calmly.

"Huh? Oh...yes..." Sakura said blankly.

Eriol then filled her in with what he'd told Syaoran about Romeo Ace and White. She gasped at his assumptions and then he told her the story he'd been told so long ago. Sakura put it all together and realised it must've been true. No person would come and threaten Sakura like that when Syaoran was behind her.

*~*

"Which one took his blood?" Ace asked

"This is the one!" Romeo cried grabbing a bat out of the air as they flew past. It screeched and squirmed within his grasp but he quickly silenced it with a slash of a dagger.

There were three glasses all encrusted with different crystals and diamonds.


Romeo squeezed the dead animals body as blood poured into each of the glasses until it was just skin flesh and bone. He threw it to the corner where a white wolf greeted it's dinner happily.

Romeo raised his glass in the air followed by the others.

"Now enjoy and taste what is to come!" Romeo cried and they drank the blood. When it touched each boys lips there was a rush of power.

Romeo could feel everything around him, see everything around him, and smell everything.

The boys drank the last drop in their glasses, their heads spinning, their bodies aching to do so much.

White fell backwards and fainted. The power was obviously too much. White had never been the more powerful of the three.

Ace fell to his knees laughing, cackling as the rush wouldn't stop.

Romeo smiled with a look of ecstasy. He licked his lips and teeth cleaning off the last bits of residue and turned around.

"I'm just...going...to have some...fun..." he said flexing his aura with new power and happiness. Romeo walked away down the hallway to test his new strength on some slaves. Ace on the other hand felt overwhelmed by his new strength and magic.


Clow blood now ran through their veins. A new power, new magic. Nothing they'd ever imagined before. All of Syaoran's fighting skills and knowledge were know theirs too.

Now in a battle they would be unstoppable.


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Kaz notes; Hey peoples. Ohhhhhh naughty, naughty boys! DRINKING OTHER PEOPLES BLOOD IS NOT GOOD! You could get aids, or other deadly disseises! Hehehe, well I'll keep writing if you guys keep sending those lovely reviews! Go on, R+R!!!!!