Chapter 7 - Attack

It took Zhao a while to locate his sibling because the ball room was huge and his anger was making him go in circles. "What's wrong Zhao?" was his father's first response with half concern. "That, That...stupid child!!" Zhao said angrily trying to calm himself down. "Let's go outside" Syaoran said, they all followed him. Eriol was looking at then from a far, trying to figure out why he had such a bad feeling and to his surprise the rest of his friends were feeling the same way, especially Sakura and Ai's grandfather. Ai's grandfather came to Eriol to ask if he had seen little Ai, but he hadn't. This time the disappearing act was too long. When Eriol saw that Syaoran and the people he was talking to had gone outside, went out as well. And Tomoyo had followed him without him noticing.

"Why are we spying on Syaoran??" Tomoyo said behind Eriol which almost made him fall, then she giggled. "Umm...Tomoyo!, because I have a bad feeling about the people with him" Eriol said embarrassed. "They sure must be discussing something important" Eriol said, "they seem very mad at something" Tomoyo said, neither of them could hear their discussion, even when they seemed to be screaming their lungs out. Then suddenly they say little Ai walking to them, she was frowning and that look was scary. "What is Ai doing there???" Tomoyo asked worried and she covered her mouth, Eriol took her in his arms to calm her down. "I don't know" Eriol said almost instantly.

"You mean that little girl dressed as an angel attacked you??" Meirin asked Zhao, "yes, she had some sort of telepathic power" Zhao responded, "her name is Ai" Syaoran told them. "Whatever, she made my arm bleed, without touching, and I didn't sense any magic coming from her" Zhao said, "Syaoran, you know who she is??" Mr. Li asked. "Of course I do, she would always hang out with Sakura, she seemed very gentle to me" Syaoran said, "who is she???" Meirin asked. Syaoran looked at her then his brother and last he kept staring at his father, "she's....she's your daughter" Syaoran said staring at him. "What??? what are you saying Syaoran" Mr. Li screamed furiously, "why don't you ask her grandfather, my grandfather, he was the one that told me" Syaoran screamed mad at his father for not telling him that he had a sister all these years. "You got be joking, that girl that attacked me is our sister??" Zhao screamed and asked in disbelief. Then Ai appeared in the middle of them. "Ai?" Syaoran asked, she looked at him, her eyes where glowing redder than usual. "What's wrong Ai?" Syaoran asked feeling that something bad was coming, "she looks like Syaoran" Meilin said. Mr. Li could feel the rage coming to him, his power had started to concentrate on its own, and he screamed at Ai. "It was all our fault my Yelan is gone" he screamed like he had waited years to say it. "Maybe it was, but it was you who broke her heart, all of you, even you Syaoran" she said angrily yet very calm, her sweet musical voice was now somewhat different and it sounded more like someone was telling her what to say.

"If your gonna blame someone, why don't you blame yourself" Ai said nearly crying, the wind seemed to go around her, little sparks of red and white were barely visible. Then there was a strange blast, and they all fell back about 5 meters away. By now people inside had noticed that light, and felt strange, everyone who had no powers started falling asleep. And in no time most of the people at the party were asleep. Ai had started to run to the forest barely touching the ground. "Ai, come back" her grandfather screamed when he saw her running. Everyone who was still awake had already started to run to Ai. "Where is she going??" Meirin asked, she was running behind Syaoran, "to my old summer home" Mr. Li said angrily. Sakura and the others where behind them, they all knew exactly how to get to the destination. And they could all feel the great power unbalance in the sky, "the shield, she's taking all it's power" Touya had said, "that's bad" Eriol screamed. After what seemed like hours of running that were actually about 20 minutes or so, they got to the big house. Such a beautiful place, Ai was in the front balcony, looking down at all of them. Syaoran, Zhao, Merin and Mr. Li were at her right, the rest were at her left. "What is Ai doing?" Yukito asked, "I don't know" Eriol responded him.

"Attack them Ai, they are all your enemies, they say they want to help you, then they stab you on the back!!, for example your so called father told your mom that he loved her, but he abandoned her, what kind of love is that??" the voice was telling Ai. "But..but" Ai stuttered confused, "when have I told you a lie??" the voice asked, "never" Ai responded, her eyes changing to a determined look, "Ai, come down here, please!!!" her grandfather asked. "No" was Ai's response, the first time she had told that to her grandfather so coldly. Then Ai pointed at him with her left hand, and when she closed her hand he disappeared, they were all getting scared by now, if they hadn't been, they had noticed that his aura was still close. "I hate you all" Ai said and pointed to Zhao, he was giving her the death glare. She did some kind of incantation, then Zhao turned around to face Syaoran, his eyes looked lost and distant, "Zhao??" Syaoran asked, "draw" Zhao said, he was being controlled. Ai's eyes were bright red as well as her aura, she looked angry and sad at the same time. Syaoran had to stop looking at her when his brother attacked him with his sword. Syaoran took his own sword out, but instantly knew he couldn't win, he never could, the only advantage Zhao had and Ai had known it. "Enough of this foolishness!!" Mr. Li screamed and made a huge ball of fire and aimed it at her.

"See, he'll attack you, he doesn't care about you" the voice kept talking to her, "they could have helped but they didn't, they decided to stay away and let her die.." the voice said sounding a little harsh. "But Sakura...." Ai started saying, "Sakura is a traitor, just like all the others, she was there as well as Tomoyo, but did they help no, they had the power but didn't use it....then there is Touya and Yukito, what a coincidence that they were late don't you think??" the voice said, marking his words deep in her head. Ai's expression changed constantly, she would start to get soft and then determined and somewhat evil once again. The shield around the city was getting nearer to them, Ai was taking all of it's power.

"Toya, what's that over Ai??" Sakura asked, "it looks like a shadow" he answered, "and since when do shadows touch people on their shoulder??" Tomoyo asked. "I don't think they do" Eriol said, "someone must be telling her what to do, look at her expression" Yukito said, they all watched carefully as her face changed every few seconds. "Look, Syaoran is fighting that guy" Tomoyo said, "they are brothers" Touya said, "what??" they all asked in unison except for Yuki. "You heard me, I used to hang out with Zhao when we were kids" Touya said. "What's going on here??" Sakura asked very confused.

"Ai, don't listen to that shadow, it's telling you what to do!!" Sakura screamed as she got a little closer, she couldn't help but worry about everyone there, even Syaoran's family. "You don't understand" the shadow said and went down in front of Sakura. The dark shadow started forming up into a man covered in black. He had a double knife staff, and had it pointing up. Sakura was getting scared and Touya tried to run to her but he bumped into something and fell backwards. "The shield" Touya said, "it's keeping us out" Yuki said, "I don't understand...what??" Sakura asked getting a step back. Then the man jumped at her, Sakura fell down raised her hand and her necklace transformed into a staff. She hadn't noticed what was happening yet, when she looked up, she saw the man being held back by a power shield, she was holding a strange pink staff, "what..???" Sakura asked herself in confusion, she had never had a staff before. The man stepped back to let her stand up, while Ai was controlling Zhao, also thinking on what to do. "It's their fault" the shadow man whispered to the wind, which Ai must have heard because she looked their way. "Why are you doing this??" Sakura screamed at the man, "me, who said I was doing anything" the man responded and attacked once more, this time Sakura dogged but got a scratch on her right arm.

Meirin on the other hand got involved in the fight, she knew she wasn't as good as neither of the Li's but she had to help somehow. She started helping Syaoran defend, but ended up wounded in the ground, Syaoran was about to fall as well. Then Mr. Li started running to them but started to fly and getting closer to Ai, she was doing that. "What are you doing??" Mr. Li screamed at Ai, "it was mainly your fault" Ai said, "what???" he asked trying to get down but he was being bound by powerful magic. Ai got a little closer to the stone bars of the balcony enough for her to whisper in his ear "It was mainly your fault, you shall pay for that".

To Be Continued....

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