Author's Note: Hey guys! It took me a bit to think up the details of the
part of the story; I wanted it to be kind of mysterious, sad, yet happy at
the same time. :9 I hope I accomplished that!
Please R&R with any suggestions or corrections. :D Or you can ask me to put some other characters in the story too! All ideas/comments welcome. I respect your opinion.
To the reviewers: Thank-you so much to those people who have reviewed. It's made me want to write more of the story!
The Pallet of Love By Ruby Hime
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"Tomoyo-chan, do you think we could have a rest right here? I think White Flower is getting tired. We have been riding for a while." Sakura commented worriedly, running her fingers through White Flower's mane reassuringly.
Tomoyo nodded as they trotted along, "You're right Sakura-chan. I think all of the horses could use a rest."
"Why don't we take a rest over there, then?" said Meiling, pointing over to a small clearing by a cliff with a large oak and a grove of flowers blossoming by it. "It looks nice."
Sakura smiled, "That would be nice! Good idea Meiling." Syaoran's should slumped to one side, him totally oblivious of what they were talking about, he himself to pre-occupied with the rare blossoms of flowers growing all over the place.
'How did they get all of these flowers to grow in one climax?' Syaoran questioned, not noticing that he was heading in the wrong direction, Sakura following behind. 'I just can't-'
"Umm. Li-kun," Sakura interrupted. "Where are you going? Meiling-chan and Tomoyo-chan are over there."
Syaoran snapped from his thoughts and sweat dropped with his face red in embarrassment. 'Good job, baka.' he commented to himself, u-turning his horse back around into the grove. "G-gomen nasai, Kinomoto, I dazed off for a moment."
Sakura just smiled, while Meiling came up smiling smugly. "You sure did, cousin! Now when you two get off your horses, me and Tomoyo are over there, okay?" she side-glanced her cousin. "Don't daze off and fall off the cliff, now, Syaoran-kun." She winked, leaving a confused Sakura and a steaming-mad Syaoran.
"A-ano, Li-kun." Sakura asked as Syaoran got off his horse, and caringly guided it under the large tree.
"Hai?" he looked over to her.
Sakura blushed, scratching the back of her head in embarrassment. "H-how do I get of the horse?"
Syaoran shook his head and came up to her and White Flower. "Let me help you." he untied her feet from the feet-loops on the saddle, and held out his arms.
Sakura smiled, blushing as Syaoran gently lifted her down.
They stood like that for a while, just blushing as Syaoran had his hands on her sides, Sakura's hands neatly wrapped around his neck.
The couple heard unison of "kawaii"s and Sakura and Syaoran both pulled away blushing.
Tomoyo and Meiling giggled as the two walked over, making sure to be at least two feet away from each other, both embarrassed at the moment. "You two don't have to be shy and stay at least a mile from each other! Just go ahead and show you feel-"
Syaoran gave Meiling one of his death glares before she could finish, his face still bright red from the incident, and she stopped abruptly, giggling as she did so. "Shut. Up. Meiling." Syaoran growled through gritted teeth, but Meiling just motion for him and Sakura to sit down.
Sakura sighed, taking in a breath of fresh air. "It feels so good out here!" she exclaimed, stretching as she fell back onto the green grass, the large oak tree shading her from the blazing heat inside the dome.
"Kind of like a fairy tale, isn't it?" Tomoyo commented, shielding her eyes from the sun.
Meiling sighed and smiled, looking to Syaoran and smiled. "It's all like the atmosphere in the story Auntie read to us once. A Magical Day, was it called?"
Syaoran fell back onto the grass, and closed his eyes, "Yeah, something like that." He smiled somewhat wistfully, and Tomoyo and Meiling smiled to each other, knowing what he was thinking of.
The four sat that way, each silently laying in their own bed of thoughts. Syaoran opened his eyes, and looked to Sakura, who was lying in the grass next to him. She had a dreamy look on her face, and Syaoran wondered what, or who, she was thinking about.
Suddenly, the ground began to rumble, and each broke out of their secretive thoughts, in wonderment of what was going on. The ground began to shake even harder, and the horses began to run away from the site.
"White Flower, don't go anywhere, it's too dangerous!" Sakura yelled to the once gallant white steed, and she ran to it, trying to calm it down.
"Sakura-chan, don't!" Tomoyo screamed, her voice still not reaching Sakura, as the worried young auburn haired girl climbed onto her horse.
Suddenly, the horse charged off and Sakura went along with it in shock and fright. "SAKURA!" Syaoran yelled, hopping onto his horse and riding after her.
"S-Syaoran, wait a minute-" Meiling was halted to silence by Tomoyo, the ground's rumble barely letting her be audible.
"It's best if we let them go alone. We need to get out of under this tree first, and ride to the base of the mountain. I have feeling Sakura-chan and Li-kun will be fine together." Tomoyo stated, heading for the reins of her horse.
Meiling nodded, but still laced a glanced in the direction Sakura and Syaoran had ridden off too. 'Please protect them, Kami-sama.' She prayed, throwing herself onto Bronze, and rode off not too far behind Tomoyo.
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Sakura was terrified. White Flower would not listen to any of her pleading cries for her to slow down, but only went faster. Sakura's hugged herself to the horse and it zoomed strait into a clobber of trees.
Suddenly, Sakura her name being called. 'Could it be.?' she turned her head as much as she could without falling off, and fair enough, she saw Syaoran a not too far distance from her and White Flower, charging onward atop Steel.
"Sakura!" he yelled, and Sakura almost gasped. 'Did he just call me. by my first name?'
"Sakura," Syaoran repeated once again. "You've got to jump off once we clear out the forest! It the only-" he suddenly was cut off as a tree fell behind him, and Sakura's horse gained speed.
'Too much speed,' Syaoran thought worriedly, and dug his heels into his horse's side, signaling him to go faster.
"Syaoran-kun, I can't!" Sakura cried back to him, still clinging for life to her horses neck.
Syaoran, now riding in unison with Sakura's horse, only a few yards away, held out his hand. "Then grab my hand and I'll pull you on with me!"
Sakura's eyes filled with pure terror, "B-but what if I just pull you off the horse and we both get trampled?" she yelled toward him, as lighting struck, rain began to pour, and the ground shook even more.
"You've got to trust me Sakura! Believe me; you'd never pull me off! I'll take care off you!"
Sakura almost fumed up in anger by his second comment, but after hearing the last one, she nodded. "O-okay, I'll give it a s-shot."
'What are you doing?! You can't just jump onto his horse, and put his life in jeopardy!' Sakura's mind screamed.
Syaoran up-stretched his right hand to her, and his eyes begged her to grab hold of it and jump. 'Please Sakura. grab hold.' he thought.
Sakura stared at his hand for a bit, and then slowly reached for it. A sudden jerk of the ground made Sakura shriek, almost loosing balance and falling to the mud covered ground, but she felt Syaoran's gentle grasp catch her from the fall.
She looked to him, and he smiled. 'You can do it.' He mouthed, and she nodded, building the courage to jump.
A flash of lighting made Sakura jumped, and she suddenly found herself wrapped in a warm embrace. "S-Syaoran!" she gasped, and he only smiled.
Another tree fell behind them, and Syaoran's face turned serious. "We've got to go find shelter!" he prompted, halting Steel for a second, and looking around.
Another flashing of lighting and the booming sound of thunder made Sakura cringe, wincing as she buried her face into the crook of Syaoran's shoulder. Syaoran's expression softened and he took hold of the reins, his other arm wrapped around Sakura protectively. He felt more determined than ever to find shelter for the shivering beauty in his arms.
Spotting a cave not to far out of the woods, Syaoran tightened his grip on Sakura and signaled Steel to go towards the cave at full force. It took them a bit to get to the cave, as the ground was shaking harder than ever: trees were falling all over the place. The rain didn't make it any easier to see either, and the lighting and thunder made it hard to concentrate. But the two made it there, luckily, both in one piece.
Syaoran slid down from the horse, then helping Sakura down much as he had before the storm/earthquake. Yet, this time, he wrapped his arms around her, trying as best as he could to give her warmth.
The earthquake seemed to have stopped, but the storm was still coming at full force. A flash of lighting stroke against the walls of the caves, and rocks started to clatter down from the roof of the cave.
Sakura and Syaoran stared at the opening to the cave in terror, as large boulders tumbled down, covering their only way out, their only source of light, and most importantly. their only source of air.
As the last of the rocks stopped falling, Syaoran gulped, and Sakura cuddled closer to him.
They lay against the wall in silence, Steel occasionally clopping his feet against the floor to break the silence somewhat.
Syaoran felt Sakura stir in his arms, and he looked down to her.
She was crying.
"D-don't cry, Sakura. Everything's going to be alright. I'll get us out of here."
Sakura sniffled and stared up at him. "It's not just that, if I hadn't run off and done the stupid thing to get on a freaking horse, we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place." She buried her face back into Syaoran's already wet shirt, racking out in sobs once again.
He rubbed her back, trying to comfort her. "Shhh." he whispered. "Don't think a thing about it. None of this is your fault. You were just being the caring person that you are. You were worried about White Flower."
"I know, b-but." Sakura mumbled, her crying slowing, but Syaoran hushed her, gently lifted her head to face him.
"It's okay, just rest. I'll find a way to start a fire or something." He reluctantly removed Sakura from his arms, and wrapped his wet jacket around her.
Sakura watched as he left her to find something to warm them, and suddenly, she didn't feel so scared anymore. She actually felt. happy. She smiled at Syaoran, who seemed to have seen her do so and turned around and smiled back.
The words that Tomoyo had said earlier suddenly came to Sakura's head:
*Kind of like a fairy tale, isn't it?*
Sakura smiled, and repeated the words in her head, 'Kind of like a fairy tale.'
She liked the sound of them. It just seemed to make the atmosphere even better.
Sakura stood up and walked to Syaoran, who was searching through the bags on that had been tied to Steel's saddle. Sakura took the jacket from her shoulders and wrapped it around Syaoran gently.
Syaoran jumped slightly at the feeling of her touch, turning the look at her. She smiled, "Find anything?"
He smiled back, "Not much, just a flashlight, some cap stick, and a tub. of jelly?" he said questioningly, reaching into the pack and pulling out a tub of jelly.
Sakura laughed. "Probably something Tomoyo put in there just in case of a situation like this. Don't know it would be jelly, though."
Syaoran chuckled, finding it very warming the way Sakura laughed. He smiled looking into the pack, "Well, maybe if she thought of jelly, they're might be biscuits or water or something like that in here too."
"Maybe," Sakura giggled, and watched as Syaoran pulled out a bucket of conserved bread, a pack of water bottles, and to end it all up: a pack of plastic knifes, forks, and plates.
Syaoran and Sakura both laughed, and turned to smiled at each other. "There's enough jelly for a entire world war country!" Sakura goofed.
"Well, then I guess I won't have to worry about you eating it all, then!" Syaoran teased, only to get a not-so-gentle jab in the ribs.
"Ouch." he said, rubbing his ribs as Sakura looked through the pack for more stuff.
"First Aid. and some batteries, that's pretty much it." Just then something caught Sakura's eye. "Wait a minute." she reached into the pack once more.
"A lighter!" Syaoran exclaimed.
Sakura and him high-fifed, "Looks like we'll be having some warmth tonight!"
"Yeah, but what about an air hole so we don't suffocate?" Sakura asked, glancing around the cave.
"Shit. I never thought about that." Syaoran pulled out the flashlight. "Looks like I'll have to go make one."
He walked over to the rocks that were blocking their exit and sighed. "This might take a bit," he yelled to Sakura.
She walked over to him, "I'll help then."
Syaoran began to protested, "B-but. You, and the horse, and."
Sakura took Syaoran's hand, causing him to blush a beet red. "Syaoran-kun, we're in this together, right?"
"U-um."
"Yes. We are, so I have to put my fair share into this situation." Sakura tugged on him, as if telling him 'come on'.
He smiled, and followed, as they climbed to the top of the rocks.
Syaoran looked around the rocks for a hole, as did Sakura. "See anything?" Sakura asked.
"I think so." Syaoran began to chip away at a small opening in the rocks.
"Here, use this rock to break it away," Sakura handed Syaoran a sharp rock she had found, and climbed down from the rocks. "I'm going to go get the First Aid, just in case something happens. Then we'll have it first hand."
Syaoran nodded, and continued to chip away at the rocks in front of him.
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HOOEEEHHH?: Good thing Sakura found that lighter! But will Syaoran and Sakura be able to chip away the rocks in time, before either of them catches hypothermia? Find out in Chapter 5!
Please R&R with any suggestions or corrections. :D Or you can ask me to put some other characters in the story too! All ideas/comments welcome. I respect your opinion.
To the reviewers: Thank-you so much to those people who have reviewed. It's made me want to write more of the story!
The Pallet of Love By Ruby Hime
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"Tomoyo-chan, do you think we could have a rest right here? I think White Flower is getting tired. We have been riding for a while." Sakura commented worriedly, running her fingers through White Flower's mane reassuringly.
Tomoyo nodded as they trotted along, "You're right Sakura-chan. I think all of the horses could use a rest."
"Why don't we take a rest over there, then?" said Meiling, pointing over to a small clearing by a cliff with a large oak and a grove of flowers blossoming by it. "It looks nice."
Sakura smiled, "That would be nice! Good idea Meiling." Syaoran's should slumped to one side, him totally oblivious of what they were talking about, he himself to pre-occupied with the rare blossoms of flowers growing all over the place.
'How did they get all of these flowers to grow in one climax?' Syaoran questioned, not noticing that he was heading in the wrong direction, Sakura following behind. 'I just can't-'
"Umm. Li-kun," Sakura interrupted. "Where are you going? Meiling-chan and Tomoyo-chan are over there."
Syaoran snapped from his thoughts and sweat dropped with his face red in embarrassment. 'Good job, baka.' he commented to himself, u-turning his horse back around into the grove. "G-gomen nasai, Kinomoto, I dazed off for a moment."
Sakura just smiled, while Meiling came up smiling smugly. "You sure did, cousin! Now when you two get off your horses, me and Tomoyo are over there, okay?" she side-glanced her cousin. "Don't daze off and fall off the cliff, now, Syaoran-kun." She winked, leaving a confused Sakura and a steaming-mad Syaoran.
"A-ano, Li-kun." Sakura asked as Syaoran got off his horse, and caringly guided it under the large tree.
"Hai?" he looked over to her.
Sakura blushed, scratching the back of her head in embarrassment. "H-how do I get of the horse?"
Syaoran shook his head and came up to her and White Flower. "Let me help you." he untied her feet from the feet-loops on the saddle, and held out his arms.
Sakura smiled, blushing as Syaoran gently lifted her down.
They stood like that for a while, just blushing as Syaoran had his hands on her sides, Sakura's hands neatly wrapped around his neck.
The couple heard unison of "kawaii"s and Sakura and Syaoran both pulled away blushing.
Tomoyo and Meiling giggled as the two walked over, making sure to be at least two feet away from each other, both embarrassed at the moment. "You two don't have to be shy and stay at least a mile from each other! Just go ahead and show you feel-"
Syaoran gave Meiling one of his death glares before she could finish, his face still bright red from the incident, and she stopped abruptly, giggling as she did so. "Shut. Up. Meiling." Syaoran growled through gritted teeth, but Meiling just motion for him and Sakura to sit down.
Sakura sighed, taking in a breath of fresh air. "It feels so good out here!" she exclaimed, stretching as she fell back onto the green grass, the large oak tree shading her from the blazing heat inside the dome.
"Kind of like a fairy tale, isn't it?" Tomoyo commented, shielding her eyes from the sun.
Meiling sighed and smiled, looking to Syaoran and smiled. "It's all like the atmosphere in the story Auntie read to us once. A Magical Day, was it called?"
Syaoran fell back onto the grass, and closed his eyes, "Yeah, something like that." He smiled somewhat wistfully, and Tomoyo and Meiling smiled to each other, knowing what he was thinking of.
The four sat that way, each silently laying in their own bed of thoughts. Syaoran opened his eyes, and looked to Sakura, who was lying in the grass next to him. She had a dreamy look on her face, and Syaoran wondered what, or who, she was thinking about.
Suddenly, the ground began to rumble, and each broke out of their secretive thoughts, in wonderment of what was going on. The ground began to shake even harder, and the horses began to run away from the site.
"White Flower, don't go anywhere, it's too dangerous!" Sakura yelled to the once gallant white steed, and she ran to it, trying to calm it down.
"Sakura-chan, don't!" Tomoyo screamed, her voice still not reaching Sakura, as the worried young auburn haired girl climbed onto her horse.
Suddenly, the horse charged off and Sakura went along with it in shock and fright. "SAKURA!" Syaoran yelled, hopping onto his horse and riding after her.
"S-Syaoran, wait a minute-" Meiling was halted to silence by Tomoyo, the ground's rumble barely letting her be audible.
"It's best if we let them go alone. We need to get out of under this tree first, and ride to the base of the mountain. I have feeling Sakura-chan and Li-kun will be fine together." Tomoyo stated, heading for the reins of her horse.
Meiling nodded, but still laced a glanced in the direction Sakura and Syaoran had ridden off too. 'Please protect them, Kami-sama.' She prayed, throwing herself onto Bronze, and rode off not too far behind Tomoyo.
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Sakura was terrified. White Flower would not listen to any of her pleading cries for her to slow down, but only went faster. Sakura's hugged herself to the horse and it zoomed strait into a clobber of trees.
Suddenly, Sakura her name being called. 'Could it be.?' she turned her head as much as she could without falling off, and fair enough, she saw Syaoran a not too far distance from her and White Flower, charging onward atop Steel.
"Sakura!" he yelled, and Sakura almost gasped. 'Did he just call me. by my first name?'
"Sakura," Syaoran repeated once again. "You've got to jump off once we clear out the forest! It the only-" he suddenly was cut off as a tree fell behind him, and Sakura's horse gained speed.
'Too much speed,' Syaoran thought worriedly, and dug his heels into his horse's side, signaling him to go faster.
"Syaoran-kun, I can't!" Sakura cried back to him, still clinging for life to her horses neck.
Syaoran, now riding in unison with Sakura's horse, only a few yards away, held out his hand. "Then grab my hand and I'll pull you on with me!"
Sakura's eyes filled with pure terror, "B-but what if I just pull you off the horse and we both get trampled?" she yelled toward him, as lighting struck, rain began to pour, and the ground shook even more.
"You've got to trust me Sakura! Believe me; you'd never pull me off! I'll take care off you!"
Sakura almost fumed up in anger by his second comment, but after hearing the last one, she nodded. "O-okay, I'll give it a s-shot."
'What are you doing?! You can't just jump onto his horse, and put his life in jeopardy!' Sakura's mind screamed.
Syaoran up-stretched his right hand to her, and his eyes begged her to grab hold of it and jump. 'Please Sakura. grab hold.' he thought.
Sakura stared at his hand for a bit, and then slowly reached for it. A sudden jerk of the ground made Sakura shriek, almost loosing balance and falling to the mud covered ground, but she felt Syaoran's gentle grasp catch her from the fall.
She looked to him, and he smiled. 'You can do it.' He mouthed, and she nodded, building the courage to jump.
A flash of lighting made Sakura jumped, and she suddenly found herself wrapped in a warm embrace. "S-Syaoran!" she gasped, and he only smiled.
Another tree fell behind them, and Syaoran's face turned serious. "We've got to go find shelter!" he prompted, halting Steel for a second, and looking around.
Another flashing of lighting and the booming sound of thunder made Sakura cringe, wincing as she buried her face into the crook of Syaoran's shoulder. Syaoran's expression softened and he took hold of the reins, his other arm wrapped around Sakura protectively. He felt more determined than ever to find shelter for the shivering beauty in his arms.
Spotting a cave not to far out of the woods, Syaoran tightened his grip on Sakura and signaled Steel to go towards the cave at full force. It took them a bit to get to the cave, as the ground was shaking harder than ever: trees were falling all over the place. The rain didn't make it any easier to see either, and the lighting and thunder made it hard to concentrate. But the two made it there, luckily, both in one piece.
Syaoran slid down from the horse, then helping Sakura down much as he had before the storm/earthquake. Yet, this time, he wrapped his arms around her, trying as best as he could to give her warmth.
The earthquake seemed to have stopped, but the storm was still coming at full force. A flash of lighting stroke against the walls of the caves, and rocks started to clatter down from the roof of the cave.
Sakura and Syaoran stared at the opening to the cave in terror, as large boulders tumbled down, covering their only way out, their only source of light, and most importantly. their only source of air.
As the last of the rocks stopped falling, Syaoran gulped, and Sakura cuddled closer to him.
They lay against the wall in silence, Steel occasionally clopping his feet against the floor to break the silence somewhat.
Syaoran felt Sakura stir in his arms, and he looked down to her.
She was crying.
"D-don't cry, Sakura. Everything's going to be alright. I'll get us out of here."
Sakura sniffled and stared up at him. "It's not just that, if I hadn't run off and done the stupid thing to get on a freaking horse, we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place." She buried her face back into Syaoran's already wet shirt, racking out in sobs once again.
He rubbed her back, trying to comfort her. "Shhh." he whispered. "Don't think a thing about it. None of this is your fault. You were just being the caring person that you are. You were worried about White Flower."
"I know, b-but." Sakura mumbled, her crying slowing, but Syaoran hushed her, gently lifted her head to face him.
"It's okay, just rest. I'll find a way to start a fire or something." He reluctantly removed Sakura from his arms, and wrapped his wet jacket around her.
Sakura watched as he left her to find something to warm them, and suddenly, she didn't feel so scared anymore. She actually felt. happy. She smiled at Syaoran, who seemed to have seen her do so and turned around and smiled back.
The words that Tomoyo had said earlier suddenly came to Sakura's head:
*Kind of like a fairy tale, isn't it?*
Sakura smiled, and repeated the words in her head, 'Kind of like a fairy tale.'
She liked the sound of them. It just seemed to make the atmosphere even better.
Sakura stood up and walked to Syaoran, who was searching through the bags on that had been tied to Steel's saddle. Sakura took the jacket from her shoulders and wrapped it around Syaoran gently.
Syaoran jumped slightly at the feeling of her touch, turning the look at her. She smiled, "Find anything?"
He smiled back, "Not much, just a flashlight, some cap stick, and a tub. of jelly?" he said questioningly, reaching into the pack and pulling out a tub of jelly.
Sakura laughed. "Probably something Tomoyo put in there just in case of a situation like this. Don't know it would be jelly, though."
Syaoran chuckled, finding it very warming the way Sakura laughed. He smiled looking into the pack, "Well, maybe if she thought of jelly, they're might be biscuits or water or something like that in here too."
"Maybe," Sakura giggled, and watched as Syaoran pulled out a bucket of conserved bread, a pack of water bottles, and to end it all up: a pack of plastic knifes, forks, and plates.
Syaoran and Sakura both laughed, and turned to smiled at each other. "There's enough jelly for a entire world war country!" Sakura goofed.
"Well, then I guess I won't have to worry about you eating it all, then!" Syaoran teased, only to get a not-so-gentle jab in the ribs.
"Ouch." he said, rubbing his ribs as Sakura looked through the pack for more stuff.
"First Aid. and some batteries, that's pretty much it." Just then something caught Sakura's eye. "Wait a minute." she reached into the pack once more.
"A lighter!" Syaoran exclaimed.
Sakura and him high-fifed, "Looks like we'll be having some warmth tonight!"
"Yeah, but what about an air hole so we don't suffocate?" Sakura asked, glancing around the cave.
"Shit. I never thought about that." Syaoran pulled out the flashlight. "Looks like I'll have to go make one."
He walked over to the rocks that were blocking their exit and sighed. "This might take a bit," he yelled to Sakura.
She walked over to him, "I'll help then."
Syaoran began to protested, "B-but. You, and the horse, and."
Sakura took Syaoran's hand, causing him to blush a beet red. "Syaoran-kun, we're in this together, right?"
"U-um."
"Yes. We are, so I have to put my fair share into this situation." Sakura tugged on him, as if telling him 'come on'.
He smiled, and followed, as they climbed to the top of the rocks.
Syaoran looked around the rocks for a hole, as did Sakura. "See anything?" Sakura asked.
"I think so." Syaoran began to chip away at a small opening in the rocks.
"Here, use this rock to break it away," Sakura handed Syaoran a sharp rock she had found, and climbed down from the rocks. "I'm going to go get the First Aid, just in case something happens. Then we'll have it first hand."
Syaoran nodded, and continued to chip away at the rocks in front of him.
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HOOEEEHHH?: Good thing Sakura found that lighter! But will Syaoran and Sakura be able to chip away the rocks in time, before either of them catches hypothermia? Find out in Chapter 5!