Sakura's Past Returns

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Chapter 13: Fire Spirit

*~*~*~* Third Person POV:

"Sa-!" Everyone stopped mid-word and stared open-mouthed when Sage's hand wasn't burned.

"Exactly as I thought." She smiled in triumph then pulled her hand out of the fire, taking a part of the fire in doing so. She brought the fire in her hand up to her face and looked at it from all different angles. She tossed it up in the air as if it were a regular ball.

"Sage! Be careful with that!" Sakura cried in disbelief.

"Don't worry…I got this thing under control." She then set the fire back into the fire pit.

When Sage let the fire go, Syaoran and Diov started in on her.

"Don't ever do that again!" Diov was on her right.

"Who knows how much damage you could have caused by doing that!" Syaoran was on her other side.

Sage's eyes became blank and she just hardened up her face and reached back into the fire pit. "You mean…damage like this?" She threw the small ball of flame at the nearest tree. The tree instantly burst up in flame.

"WHAT?!?!" Everyone scrambled back. Then Sakura called upon the watery card to put out the flames, which it did.

"What was that for?!" Sakura demanded.

"Hehehe…fun." Sage answered casually, tossing another flaming ball up and down.

*~*~*~* Ispep's POV:

"Good," I laughed, watching the scene unfold through Arukas' eyes (magically ^-^), "That wasn't too hard…she will be easy to recruit…"

*~*~*~* Sage's POV:

After Sakura and Tomoyo had gone off, I felt a pull from the fire. Then the thought that fire creates destruction, basically the same as the magic inside me, I wanted to put my hand in it to see if it would hurt me. So I put my hand in, with everyone's eyes on me, courtesy of Sakura and Tomoyo. It didn't hurt at all, it actually felt cool to the touch. I pulled my hand out and tossed the fire around a couple times. Everyone was all worried and didn't think I could control it so I put it back. (I know this is a repeat of what has happened, but I wanted to give it all to you from her POV. ^-^)

After putting the fire back into the fire pit, and Syaoran and Diov yelling at me, I felt something else trying to gain control of my body. Because I really didn't care, I let it take over. I didn't want to listen to them yelling at me.

I felt my body lean back down and my hand go back into the fire. I tried to stop it, but the thing that had taken charge wouldn't let me back in control until it was done. It then threw the fire it had picked up at a tree which instantly burst into flames.

'NO!' I cried out, or at least tried to, 'How could you do that?!'

'Easy.' A voice answered, 'I love to play with fire and since you can play with fire and I'm in control, it was easy. Hehe…watch this!'

She picked up another ball of fire and flung it at my friends. I tried even harder to regain control, much to no avail.

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

When Sage threw a ball of fire at us, Sakura called upon her Shield card to protect us. 'What in the world has gotten into her?!' I studied her up and down, trying to find something that had changed.

Obviously, so had Syaoran because he whispered in my ear, "Look at her eyes…they're blank!" I looked and indeed, they were blank. Usually blank eyes meant that the person's body had been taken over by some sort of spirit.

Yue and Kero were up attacking her, and she had no problem deflecting their attacks. Ruby and Spinel wanted to join in on the fight, but I'd told them to stay back. Tomoyo was back with my guardians and Sakura, Syaoran and I were up close, looking for a chance to make a hit. Diov was trying to get us to not hit her until she threw some fire at him which he then led the attack.

All six of us had scorch marks from being hit by one of Sage's fireballs. Sage, on the other hand, didn't look all that bad. She had a few cuts here and there, but nothing serious.

"Kero! Yue! Get back!" The two pulled back as commanded, "Syaoran! Eriol! Diov! You guys get back too!" We then backed off. "Sage! Stop what you're doing before you destroy everything! Please!"

"Um…I don't want to. I'm having fun." She laughed.

"Watery! Soak her!" Sakura was looking for a way to stop her sister without hurting anyone. Sage was in the middle of a pillar of water.

When the water disappeared, Sage fell to her knees, breathing hard and apparently fighting with herself, or whatever had taken over her. In her momentarily obvious unguarded state, Syaoran attacked. Before anyone could stop him, his sword pierced Sage's skin.

When he pulled his sword back out of her shoulder, where it landed, she spun around and shot her hand out towards him, sending him flying back. Her eyes were blank, but from the look on her face, she was still fighting to regain control. After sending Syaoran flying and a few more seconds of internal struggle, she won the fight.

Almost as soon as she had won the fight, another entity separated from her. It was a fire spirit. It disappeared instantly and I didn't think anyone else had seen it, I was right.

"Sage! What has gotten into you?!" Diov ran to her side when he could tell she wasn't going to be fighting anymore.

"It…wasn't…me…" She stammered.

"Then how do you explain all the damage?! To the trees and to us?!" Sakura was by Syaoran, making sure he was still alive.

She looked around at all the damage caused by her, a look saying that she couldn't believe she would do anything of the kind. She then looked at us, with all our places she burned us. "I…I…" Her eyes were as big as they could be.

Tomoyo, Ruby, and Spinel came back out and looked at everything. Tomoyo ran to Sakura's side while Ruby and Spinel came to me.

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