Sakura's Past Returns

Note: This is probably more a T+E chapter then S+S, and I'm sorry!!! Please R+R!!!

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Chapter 9: Underwater Battle

*~*~*~* Sakura's POV:

"Sakura! Are you all right?" Sage ran to my side.

"Yeah…I think. Are you all right?" I stood up and looked around. Where we were now looked like the place in the tree, only with water making up the walls, floor and ceiling.

"Where are we?" Sage went over to a wall and tried to push through, but failed, "And what's going on?"

"You're in the stream. Of course, in another dimension though." Two creatures made of water appeared.

"Who are you two?" I asked, sizing them up. One looked like the tree sprite, just made of water. Her hair flowed around her as if she were floating in water. She stood about two feet and had an innocent face. A face you wouldn't expect to hurt a fly. She was completely the same blue as the water around us, except her eyes. Her eyes were like the wood sprite's. Black orbs with blue swirled throughout peered out at us. 'I wonder if that is a trademark of the sprites that work for Ispep.

The sprite's companion, I had never seen anything like. It stood about four feet in height and had short, spiked hair, if he even had any hair. This one was a male creature. There was an outline of where his pants would be if he wore real pants. His face was the opposite of the sprite's. He wore a sneer and his eyes were small black dots encompassed by red.

"I'm Rorrim, a water elemental." The male creature answered first.

"And I'm Roim." The sprite chirped.

"What do you want?" Sage demanded.

"Her dead…" Rorrim's voice sounded like a waterfall, "…And your surrender."

"Never!" We both replied at the same time. Then I called upon my staff and held it at the ready. Sage tried to use her magic to make one of the two explode, but wasn't successful.

"What?! Why didn't it work…" She became thoughtful, "…maybe…because I don't know how to make water explode! What do we do? I can make solids turn to dust, but I don't know how to do that with liquids!!" She looked at me for an answer.

"I know!" I pulled out the freeze card and called upon the card, "Freeze! Make the water sprite solid!" Freeze darted towards the water sprite and she was frozen solid up to the neck.

Then Freeze went for the water elemental, but the water elemental blocked against it, "I'm not as easy to capture as the sprite!" He raised his hand and a spout of water encased Sage. "Got her!"

"No!!!" I screamed, "Water! Do whatever you can to catch him! Freeze! When he's caught, freeze him!"

"When he started icing over, Sage broke out of her water 'cage', "I discovered how to destroy water!" She exclaimed.

I turned back to the two frozen creatures in front of us, "Let me guess. Ispep sent you." They both nodded. A moment later, we were standing were we had been. Everyone's face showed relief.

*~*~*~* Syaoran's POV:

"Are you two all right?" I reached up and stroked Sakura's cheek.

"I am." Sakura said and looked at Sage, "I don't know about her, though."

"I'm…fine…" Sage began to totter and fall. Diov was by her side instantly. He picked her up and started to carry her in the direction we were headed – to the Kinomoto Castle. We walked the rest of the way to the castle. I had Sakura's shoulder wrapped up in my arm as we walked.

When we arrived at the castle, I knew we were going to have a warm welcome from the King and Queen, who were excited to be able to see their daughter after so long. I had been told that Sage had been kidnapped at the age of two. She was now sixteen, which meant that she had been gone for about fourteen years.

*~*~*~* Eriol's POV:

Walking the last couple of hours to the castle, Diov was carrying Sage; Sakura was cuddled up to Syaoran and he had his arm over her. I looked a Tomoyo and she was staring at the two couples with stars in her eyes. I knew she wanted her camera, it was written all over her face.

"Eriol?" She pulled me back a few paces behind the others.

"Yes?" I whispered back to her, so as to not ruin the mood of Sakura and Syaoran.

"Do you really love her?" She sounded sad.

"Um…no." I was caught by surprise.

"Who…do you…love?" She had hope in her brilliant violet eyes.

*~*~*~* Tomoyo's POV:

'Say me. Say me. Say me…" I thought over and over to myself when I asked him who he loved.

He reached his arm around my waist and turned me toward him and I looked into his dark blue eyes, then up at his shining hair which matched his eyes. I felt his semi-masculine arms and shoulders flex under my touch. His white shirt fit him perfectly and was tucked into his black pants.

"You, my dear Tomoyo." He pulled me closer and we kissed.

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