Sakura's Past Returns
Note: Ok…this is it…the last chapter (and the longest!!! ^-^). Well, so that you know what in the world is going on, because I combined two different story lines, I have certain parts that are only for a certain division. To tell which is which here are the special things:
**…** is for the chapters by the titles After Thoughts and Preparations
~~…~~ is for the chapters by the titles Return Attack and The Fight
All other text is general to encompass both branches.
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Disclaimer: I've been wishing and wishing that I owned CCS since before I even started this fic, but that wish still has not come true…I don't own CCS!
Ch. 22 – Rebuilding
*~*~*~* Sakura's POV:
When I reached the door leading to the room where I knew Ispep to be, I paused in my path. After calling out my staff, I blasted my way into the throne room.
"What the hell are you doing here?! **I thought you had to get your 'beauty sleep'?!?!" ** Ispep roared
"I'm here to get rid of you!" I countered, "Wood card! Entwine him in your branches!!!" I call upon the wood card, ** "I lied." **
As if brushing something aside, using his magic to throw the wood card against the side wall, "It's going to take a hell of a lot more then that to defeat me!"
"I'm just getting warmed up." I replied smoothly, "Wood card return!"
Instead of doing as I commanded, the wood card started entwining itself around me!
"What?!" I cried out in alarm.
"You think you could best me?! Me, who's been working so hard at strengthening my magic my entire life and you, a little 16 year old who just discovered she had magic about 6 years ago?!" Ispep shouted, "I think not!" he laughed, a sound so horrible that I was suddenly fearful that he was right.
*~*~*~* Sage's POV:
~~ "What happened?" I muttered to myself when I woke up and found myself on the floor. I sat up, trying to recall what had happened. Then I remembered.
On her way out of the room, Sakura had said that the only one who was going to die would be Ispep! 'I can't let her do it alone!' I jumped up and bolted to the throne room.
On my way there, I ran into Ekoc and before I could attack him, he called, "Don't worry! I want to help you!"
Looking him straight in the eye for a few seconds, I nodded and told him, "Go get everyone out of the dungeon."
And I headed off to the throne room. ~~
As I ran through the hallways, I remembered all the fun times I'd had with everyone in the last few months and how I had just left the couple that had raised me and sped up my pace even more. It was because of him that I had been separated from my real family for 16 years and why I had almost killed all of them. Now I had to help my sister get rid of him. When I reached the door, I stopped, catching my breath and listening to the commotion inside.
*~*~*~* Tomoyo's POV:
While we were still cleaning up, I think it was a few days later, but I'm not sure, Ekoc appeared again. As soon as he was seen, everyone assumed positions for fighting.
Before anyone could fire at him, though, he put his hands up and said, "No! I'm not here to do any more damage! I'm here to get you all out of here!"
"How do we know that you're telling the truth?!" Syaoran demanded.
"Well, if you don't want out of here, then I'll just leave." Ekoc started to disappear again.
"Wait! Take us with you!" King Fujitaka called after the slowly departing Ekoc. Ekoc reversed the direction of his travel, and when he was whole again, he wore a huge grin that reached from one ear to the other.
"I'll take the ladies first." Ekoc's smile disappeared, a look of complete seriousness replacing it, "Your highness." He held out his hand to the queen.
Once she took his hand the two of them started to disappear. A minute later, Ekoc returned and took me up. Once the two of us were up and I was with the Queen, he went back down and brought up one person at a time until everyone was safe.
When Syaoran and Diov were brought up, it took the King to keep them from taking off to help their girlfriends in the fight we all knew was being fought at this moment.
*~*~*~* Third Person POV:
For several minutes Ispep and Sakura traded attacks and blasts, neither truly doing any real damage.
"I'm hurt the you two started the party without me!" Sage announced as she burst through the door, causing a pause in the fighting.
"What the hell are you doing here?!" Both Sakura and Ispep yelled at Sage simultaneously.
"I came here to join in on the fight." Sage said sadly, "But if…*sniff*…you two don't want me here…*sniff*…then I'll go…" Sage started out the door.
"Wait!" Sakura called after her twin, "Dang it! I need your help!"
Sage brightened up immediately and bounded over to Sakura's side, "Time to take this freak out!"
For about another five minutes, Sakura was using her strongest cards while Sage fired off blast after blast. This time, with attacks coming in at different angles, Ispep was busy trying to just dodge most of the attacks.
Sakura's strongest card finally make its way through all Ispep's defenses and nailed him in the back, sending him sprawling, face-down on the floor. Jumping back up, Ispep threw a blast that hit Sage and knocked her out of the fight.
Seeing her sister go down, covered in blood, Sakura doubled the power of the cards she had pounding on Ispep.
After a minute of the terrible assault, Ispep called out a surrender, "Stop! I give up! I surrender!!!"
Sakura, who had moved to Sage's side once the deadly attack had started, called off the cards, "Because you surrender, I will not kill you this day. But because of your traitorous ways, you are, forever more, banished from this dimension." Sakura used a spell she had been taught years before to call up a dimension portal.
"Damn you!" Ispep cried out, "I will return one day and you will be sorry that you didn't kill me when you had the chance!" The portal closed, cutting off Ispep's line of curses.
"Shoot! How am I going to get her out of here?!" Sakura sighed, looking down at Sage, "I know!" She quickly brightened up, "Strength card!" Using the strength card to make herself stronger, Sakura picked-up Sage and headed back outside.
*~*~*~* Diov's POV:
Once we got outside, Yue, Kero, Nakuru and Spinal charged us, excited that we had returned. Nakuru and Spinel immediately cut Eriol off from the rest of us as Yue and Kero searched the group frantically for Sakura.
"She went to battle my father, along with Sage." Ekoc explained to Sakura's absence to the distressed guardians.
"What?!?!" Kero cried, transforming into his larger self, "And you dare come out here without them?!" He roared.
"Keroberos! Stop that yelling this instant!" Sakura walked out, supporting a weak Sage, "It just makes my headache worse!"
"Sakura! Sage!" Everyone but me and Syaoran ran over to the two girls.
Me and Syaoran just stood there, standing in shock, staring at the two we loved. "Sakura." I heard Syaoran whisper faintly at the same time I whispered, "Sage."
*~*~*~* Third Person POV:
Later that same day, the victorious group returned to the Kinomoto Castle. They spent that night getting healing from the castle healers and resting up. The next Eriol's, Syaoran's and Tomoyo's parents all arrived and were told the story.
Once Sakura and Sage were feeling normal, a kingdom-wide party was thrown. The couple who had raised Sage had been invited to the castle.
When they arrived and saw everyone, Sage and Diov standing together, the mother began to weep.
Worriedly, Sage ran over to the woman and enveloped her in a hug, "What's wrong?"
"Oh, Sage. I missed you so much!" She sobbed.
"But it's only been a few weeks!" Sage pulled away from her adoptive mother.
"But it seems like years have passed since you left!" She then looked past Sage, to Diov, "Diov?! You look just like your grandfather!"
"How…do you know…my grandfather?" Diov asked shakily.
"Your grandfather was my father." The woman walked up to him.
No one even tried to hide their surprise as the woman walked around a stunned Diov, looking him over. "When Sir Telracs gave us Sage to raise," She put an arm round Sage, "He took our only child and said that if we had any more children, he would come and kill them. So we did as we were instructed."
"Well, you never have to worry about him again." Sakura bounced over and began pulling everyone towards the castle door, "This is going to be a story for the books: My sister, who I didn't know about until sixteen and who was raised by her future husband's parents…" Sakura went on and on as they made their way to the main hall. (I know it doesn't really make sense, but I didn't want to just keep writing her rambling on…^-^)
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The following year (after all the engagements had been straightened out) there were four big weddings: Sakura and Syaoran; Sage and Diov; Tomoyo and Eriol; and Ekoc, who's real name was Efil Htaed Telracs, and the princess from the Rianok Kingdom, a small kingdom sharing a boarder with the Kinomoto and Hiiragawza kingdoms.
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The End
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