Sakura's Past Returns

Note: I know I didn't take as long as I was expecting, but I typed it faster then I expected. Please enjoy and R+R!!!

Disclaimer: I don't own CCS and there is no real chance that I will, but I can hope, right? Well, they are not mine, so please don't sue…I don't have any money anyway!

Chapter 16: New Arrivals

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

By the time we arrived at our destination, we had been riding hard the entire day and we were all exhausted.

"Are we going to hang out here for the night?" Syaoran was ready to get off his horse and go straight to sleep.

"No." Even Sage stared at me in surprise, "We have to go in. We are only about ten minutes away from the front door."

"But we're not ready to go in! Just look at everyone, Sakura! Everyone is about to fall over dead!" Sage also wanted to get down and go straight to sleep. Then she whispered, "How would we go through with what we are planning in our presents states?! We haven't had any sleep since the night before last night!"

She was right. The night before, she had been possessed by Acta, a fire spirit and attacked us. That had drained us almost completely – fighting her. We hadn't gotten any sleep because of that – Sage was staying awake to make sure nothing happened again and no one else could get to sleep because they were either healing wounds or watching Sage. Even Kero, Yue, Ruby, and Spinel wouldn't go to sleep because they were afraid of another attack – they didn't believe that she had been possessed.

Then, this morning, after such a hard night, we were attacked by three different creatures. Syaoran and I had fought an earth elemental, Tomoyo and Eriol had fought a wood elf and Diov and Sage had fought the fire spirit that had done so much damage the night before. The four guardians were told to sit the fight out so that they would not be in the way. After the fight, we continued on until we reached the mansion of Count Evol Etah Telracs, a.k.a. Ispep, the man who kidnapped our parents and brother.

"Fine. We'll head back a little so that we are not so close." I suggested, "Then in the morning, we will be ready and will then go in."

"What about his captives? We're going to make your family suffer even longer?!" Tomoyo demanded.

"We'll do more damage to them if we go in right now. If they want rescued, then they have to wait one more night, otherwise we'll be killed and so will they." Eriol explained softly to Tomoyo, "Let's go."

We turned the horses around and headed back the way we had come and continued for about ten minutes. Then we climbed down and set up our beds and went to sleep. The girls were on one side and the guys were on the other side. The horses in the middle.

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

It was the day we were to rescue the royal family of the Kinomoto Kingdom. Everyone woke up early that morning despite how tired everyone had been the night before. After eating a light breakfast, we reviewed the plans we had made before we even set out. Everyone packed and ready to go, we headed back to the front gate.

"We're here." Sakura whispered, "Kero, you stay in my knapsack, no matter what. Yue, you are to stay out here with the horses until we come back out. I'll send Kero out if we need your help."

"Spinel, you stay in there with Kero. Ruby, you stay out here with Yue. Only come in the house if Kero is sent out and gives you to go ahead." I told my two guardians. All four guardians nodded in response, and Kero and Spinel ducked their heads into Sakura's knapsack while the other two took their places with the horses.

"So, you're finally ready to go in?" Loire suddenly appeared in front of us, hand-in-hand with Arukas.

We followed the two fairies into the mansion. We had been expecting to be taken straight to Ispep so that we could get things over with. How completely wrong we were. As soon as we walked in the door, the floor fell from beneath us and we began to plummet. We all fell down a bent and slanted shoot for about five minutes, picking up scrapes and bruises the entire way down.

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

When we all landed, we were in a room with chains hanging all over all the walls. Also, we all landed in a heap. Syaoran was on the bottom, with Eriol right above him. Sage was next in the line up with Diov following right behind. I was on top of Diov and Tomoyo was on top of my knapsack, which was holding Kero and Spinel.

As everyone got up, I asked, "Is everyone all right?"

"Other then bruises showing up everywhere and a few scrapes, everything is just fine." Sage replied sarcastically, "We're lucky we didn't die!" Everyone agreed.

Once we were all up, we noticed three figures against the wall on the far side of the not too small room we were in. I ran up to them, "Mother! Father! Touya!" I couldn't believe that we were in the same room as them.

"Sakura, dear." Mother whispered.

"Kaijuu, get us out of these chains." Touya instantly commanded.

"I'm not a kaijuu!" I half-smiled as I tried to free them. I pulled out my key and called fourth my staff and called out, "Erase! Erase the chains holding my family captive!"

*~*~*~* Diov's POV:

We all gathered around and watched in respectful silence as Sakura used the Erase card to free her family. Once the chains had been erased, the royal King and Queen embraced their daughter in a hug. Even Touya gave his little sister a hug and thanked her for helping them!

"Sakura, where's your sister?" The Queen looked around the group. We all turned, expecting to see her behind us, but she wasn't there.

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Where did Sage go??? Won't know until I get the next chapter up! Please remember to R+R!!!