Tainted Destiny
-kawaiiteddybear
kawaiiteddybear: WOW!!! so many reviews lol i'm soo happy... i would've gotten this chap written and posted up earlier but i was side tracked with my newest ficcy, Moonlit Candles. I would really appreciate it if everyone read and review my other fics! Anyways enough of my babbling...
Chapter Twenty: Lighting the Way
Apsu stared at Sakura and the unconscious Syaoran blankly. The unforgiving grey sky illuminated, as lightening cracked and thunder rang through the silent air. Light seem to shine through her dead grey eyes, as memories began to flash inside her mind. The scene before her reminded her too much of...
~*~
"Please master..." a young petite girl with silver locks and innocent greyish blue eyes cried. She stood in front of a young man with brown ruffled hair and dark brown eyes, he looked no older than she was. Three figures stood inside a dark chamber, glass tubes and containers were stacked high on the tables.
"I gave you a mission and you failed, now you must suffer the consequences." a tall muscular man towered over the two of them, he had jet black hair, and dark crimson eyes. The glasses that the man wore glared from the fire that was glowing from the fire pit, his eyes flashed with uncontrollable anger, he was going to burst at any moment.
"But he has nothing to do-" the silver haired girl protested. Akiko was a orphen, abandoned by her parents at a very early age. The man who stood in front of her, the most powerful magician ever known, had took her in. Showing her the secrets of the world of magic and hate. Akiko had learned well, she had almost reached her full potential, and maybe surpass the master as well. But along with the magic, she was taught to shut herself out of the world beyond, hating anyone that wasn't herself or her master. That was until she met the brown haired boy who was sneaking around the castle...
"Silence!" the taller man commanded.
"Please... Master... I beg of you..." Akiko sobbed.
"Akiko, you must learn that you can never love anyone. Loving someone will be the destruction of your well being." he explained angrily, "I can't risk anything." His crimson eyes flashed sadness for a brief moment, but they turned back into their cold, hard normal state.
Akiko's eyes widen, as she noticed her master wave his hands. She spun around quickly to find the one she loved, and the only one she could ever love had blood bubbling through his mouth, nose and eyes, until finally he was drenched into a pool of blood. "I'm so sorry..." she breathed, her heart and soul faded into nothingness, 'I will avenge your death.' she thought angrily, masking her emotion from her master.
~*~
"Master..." Akiko's sly voice slurred.
"Yes what is it." he snapped, as he placed the glass tubes back onto the wooden racks.
"Do you remember that day, when you killed my only love, along with my heart and soul?" she asked sweetly, but with a evil edge to it.
"Yes." her master replied bluntly, "If it wasn't for that day, you wouldn't be so powerful. I think you have even surpassed my powers."
"It doesn't matter that I have surpassed anyone. I just want to accomplish something that I have been wanting for three years. Three years of suffering and pain will end today. I will avenge his death... then I can finally set myself free from this hell hole." Akiko's eyes flared with hatred and anger. Since it was almost impossible to kill her master, magically, since they were both magically connected, she would have to go another route. She whipped out a sword and smirked, "You don't know how much I wanted this day to come."
"You can't stop me." her master stated calmly.
"Oh, but I can." she waved her arm slightly, "Since I can't kill you with magic, it doesn't mean I can't use magic to assist me to send you to your grave."
He moved frantically, not getting no where. "How dare you..."
"You killed the one that I loved, I will never forgive you!" Akiko screamed, slicing the sword through, causing her master to be cut in half.
His eyes became wide, his whole entire body became pale, his heart went faster. He stared down at disbelief, blood gushed out of his body rapidly. His heart raced even faster until it suddenly stopped.
~*~
Apsu stared at Sakura and Syaoran once again, hatred, pain, and anger overwhelmed her emotions. "No one ever gave me a chance to be happy, actually no one even cared." she spat quietly.
"Please..." Sakura repeated over and over, her voice becoming more quiet each time.
"If I was no ever happy, why should anyone else have the chance?" Apsu asked hysterically.
~*~
The younger version of Eriol stood there panicing, 'There must be something that I can do...' He stared past the towered Apsu and saw two figures emerging from the ground. They were stumbling trying to pull themselves up. His hopes soared when he figured out who they were. Xiao Lang and Ying Fa. 'So they weren't dead at all... But then that was a full blown attack from Apsu... How could anyone survive such an attack?' he wondered. 'The light... the dark... the past... the present... the future...' the words echoed in his mind. 'The past...?' Eriol's mind wondered, 'Could it be?' A light bulb flicked on inside his mind, his navy eyes looked around the park, noticing something that could hopefully destroy Apsu.
Sakura and Syaoran... 'The past...' something whispered in his mind.
Ying Fa and Xiao Lang... 'The present...'
He averted his eyes to the two children standing beside the older version of himself. Hikaru and Xiao Long... 'The future...' Eriol turned and came face to face with his future self. The older Eriol nodded in understanding, as if he been sent the exact same information.
Eriol walked up to the older version of himself, "How is this going to work then?"
"I read an old prophecy in one of my textbooks. I remember it was something like;
When the time is right, when all hope in gone.
Two will face the most deadliest situation,
Then the light will finally arrive,
Setting the past, present and future into final peace."
"So we can't do a damn thing?" Eriol spat angrily.
The older version of himself nodded slightly.
"Eriol..." Tomoyo's sobbing voice cracked the silence between the two mirror beings.
"Everything's going to be alright." Eriol tried to assure his beloved, 'I hope...' he added in his mind.
'Auntie warned me about this... But I just couldn't believe her...' Meilin thought angrily, kicking herself mentally.
~*~
"Why can't Syaoran come too?" a ten year old Meilin asked eagerly, her raven hair was tied up into her traditional buns.
"Meilin, when the day comes, you will understand why... Why everything is the way it is..." Yelan told her.
Meilin came back from her flashback, but something bothered her. The way Yelan had explained to her, it was as if she had something to hide. 'Is it possible that auntie knew what was about to happen?' Meilin wondered.
~*~
Sakura stared at Apsu, not wanting to avert her gaze anywhere else. "I love Syaoran with all my heart, even though I might have realized it a little to late, I know now that I would give my life just for him."
"How touching... But did anyone listen to any of those words when they came out of my mouth? Why should I even give a damn?" Apsu's voice cracked, struggling through the words. "I'll be nice, I'll kill you both! That way you can be together forever." Apsu screeched.
"I love you Syaoran..." Sakura cried, tears rolled down her cheek. Her Sakura cards laid sprawled on the floor, her staff clung to her hand loosely as her grip tightened around Syaoran's neck.
Apsu pale arm turned into a sword, blood dripped onto the ground as the transformation was processed. "Perish!! Suffer the pain that I had to go through..." With the sword high in the air she swung right towards Sakura and Syaoran.
Right when the sword was right above their heads, a bright white light surrounded the two.
"What's this?" Apsu shrieked. Her pale body starting to shrivel and turn translucent.
"I told you..." a voice behind Apsu said full of determination, "We've beaten you once before, and we can destroy you again."
Ying Fa and Xiao Lang stood side by side, their hands wrapped around the other, the Love card floated in front of them.
"Mommy! Daddy!" Xiao Long and Hikaru both squealed happily. They watched curiously as their parents as a pale pink orb, mixed in with a pale green, was formed around them. Surrounding the exterior of the pink and green orb was a bright light, breaking the grey of the sky slightly.
"Xiao Long..." Hikaru whispered quietly, in her hands was a card, the word Hope was printed on the bottom. It was glowing immensely, sending warmth through Hikaru's entire body. She loosen the grip on the card slightly, which caused it to float in front of both Xiao Long and Hikaru.
"What's going on?" Xiao Long asked confusingly.
A orb formed around the twins as well, instead of a pale pink and green orb, it was a light blue orb with a bright light emitting on the outside. The thunder and lightening was silenced, everyone remained motionless, the air became still and all attention was turned to the two glowing orbs.
Two white beams shot from the orbs that contained the two pairs. The beams aimed right towards Sakura and Syaoran.
Sakura looked around confusingly, 'What's happening?' she asked herself. First the shield that stopped Apsu from killing them both, and now, the white beams that was heading right towards herself and Syaoran.
Suddenly all her Sakura cards were surrounding her, creating a circle around her and Syaoran. They began to spun around her rapidly, she could barely see the images that were shown on her cards. The white beams hit her spinning cards and a white light shot into the sky. Light shone through out the park, blinding everyone momentarily.
"What the hell are you trying to pull?" Apsu screamed, her eyes flaring into a deep crimson red. She swung her sword shaped hand once again, but she screamed when she contacted with the orb that surrounded Sakura and Syaoran.
"All the suffering you have caused... It ends now." Ying Fa stated calmly.
Sakura's eyes looked up, trying to find out what was going on, but the light had glared her eyes as well. When she could finally see what was before her, she saw a piece of paper, shaped exactly like one of her Sakura cards. The card floated right in front of her. Sakura read the small printed words at the bottom, "Fate...?" 'What is this?' Sakura wondered curiously. The Fate Card was like no other card that Sakura possessed in her deck. It was completely white, along with the symbol of her trademark. The card had an image of a pale blue angel, her hands were clasped together, as if they were praying. The angel seemed to have a certain glow around the edge of its body and a large light pink colored heart was seen in the background.
"Sakura..." a voice beside her breathed. It was Syaoran.
His voice rung in her ears, happiness overwhelmed her, "Syaoran...?" Sakura looked up, realizing that his eyes were open, she could see the life dancing inside, "Your alive!"
"What's going on?"
"I'm not sure..."
"Use the card Sakura!" Eriol's voice reminded. He watched patiently and hope ran through his veins as he watched the scenes unfold.
Tomoyo and Meilin were hugging one another, there hearts were racing. It was hard to tell what was happening, the white light, if things were heading towards the better route.
The beams from Ying Fa and Xiao Lang and the beam from Hikaru and Xiao Long were both still sending energy and power to the center orb between them.
Sakura glanced at Eriol for a moment and then tightened her grip on her staff.
"This is it Apsu..." Xiao Lang spat.
"You can never stop me!" Apsu screamed, her arms shielding her eyes from the light before her.
"Fate! Rid us of the darkness that fall upon the light!" Sakura commanded, she felt a new rush of energy and power surging through her. The light that was feeding into her was tremendous, her heart and soul seemed to glow immensely. Her warmth was shared with Syaoran, who was still weak after awakening from the spell.
A small pale spirit flew out of the white card, everyone stared at the spirit in awe. She was strikingly beautiful, her waist length silver hair and her pale blue dress matched her pale skin. The spirit floated in front of Apsu.
Apsu, who tried to ignore the light that was blinding her, swung her sword shaped arm at the glowing spirit. She screamed in agony as the light had impacted with her dark, dead skin.
"You should have been destroyed long ago, Apsu..." the older version of Eriol stated a matter of factly, his features remained untainted.
"I will destroy all of you... and claim what is rightfully mine!" she screeched.
"I won't let you hurt anyone anymore!" Sakura cried, hope refilling in her heart, "Fate, destroy her now!"
The pale angel opened up its palms and a golden orb began to form in her hands. She held the orb in front of her face and blew the orb directly at Apsu.
"This is just a pathetic waste of energy, if you expect to destroy me, your going to have do better than that." she spat angrily.
"A little energy, can do a lot of damage." Hikaru piped in, her tone cheerful, as if she knew the outcome of this final battle.
The orb surrounded Apsu, she screamed as she stood there frustrated. Unable to stop the spreading light that was engulfing her, she shot her eyes at Sakura and Syaoran, who were embracing each other tightly, "I will be back." her eyes cold and hard. The golden light wrapped around her whole body until her blood drenched body was seen no more.
Everyone held there breath as a large explosion of light blinded everyones' sight. When the light had dimmed down, the blue sky shone down at them, the birds chirped happily, and the sun began to rise, dawning a new day.
A wave of sighs washed over the crowd that occupied Penguin Park. It was over. It was finally over. The reign of Apsu had finally diminished.
[a/n: AHHHHH... what did everyone think?!?! i sort of rushed... but i'm getting overexcited haha, always like this when i'm almost done my fics... hehe... so review and please read my other fics and review them too, i would really appreciate it. hmmm... one more thing, if you want me to email you if i update, then TELL ME specifically in your REVIEW! okay... i'll try to update soon... but i'll tell everyone now, the next few chaps are the concluding chaps, simple and lots of mush haha!
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-kawaiiteddybear
kawaiiteddybear: WOW!!! so many reviews lol i'm soo happy... i would've gotten this chap written and posted up earlier but i was side tracked with my newest ficcy, Moonlit Candles. I would really appreciate it if everyone read and review my other fics! Anyways enough of my babbling...
Chapter Twenty: Lighting the Way
Apsu stared at Sakura and the unconscious Syaoran blankly. The unforgiving grey sky illuminated, as lightening cracked and thunder rang through the silent air. Light seem to shine through her dead grey eyes, as memories began to flash inside her mind. The scene before her reminded her too much of...
~*~
"Please master..." a young petite girl with silver locks and innocent greyish blue eyes cried. She stood in front of a young man with brown ruffled hair and dark brown eyes, he looked no older than she was. Three figures stood inside a dark chamber, glass tubes and containers were stacked high on the tables.
"I gave you a mission and you failed, now you must suffer the consequences." a tall muscular man towered over the two of them, he had jet black hair, and dark crimson eyes. The glasses that the man wore glared from the fire that was glowing from the fire pit, his eyes flashed with uncontrollable anger, he was going to burst at any moment.
"But he has nothing to do-" the silver haired girl protested. Akiko was a orphen, abandoned by her parents at a very early age. The man who stood in front of her, the most powerful magician ever known, had took her in. Showing her the secrets of the world of magic and hate. Akiko had learned well, she had almost reached her full potential, and maybe surpass the master as well. But along with the magic, she was taught to shut herself out of the world beyond, hating anyone that wasn't herself or her master. That was until she met the brown haired boy who was sneaking around the castle...
"Silence!" the taller man commanded.
"Please... Master... I beg of you..." Akiko sobbed.
"Akiko, you must learn that you can never love anyone. Loving someone will be the destruction of your well being." he explained angrily, "I can't risk anything." His crimson eyes flashed sadness for a brief moment, but they turned back into their cold, hard normal state.
Akiko's eyes widen, as she noticed her master wave his hands. She spun around quickly to find the one she loved, and the only one she could ever love had blood bubbling through his mouth, nose and eyes, until finally he was drenched into a pool of blood. "I'm so sorry..." she breathed, her heart and soul faded into nothingness, 'I will avenge your death.' she thought angrily, masking her emotion from her master.
~*~
"Master..." Akiko's sly voice slurred.
"Yes what is it." he snapped, as he placed the glass tubes back onto the wooden racks.
"Do you remember that day, when you killed my only love, along with my heart and soul?" she asked sweetly, but with a evil edge to it.
"Yes." her master replied bluntly, "If it wasn't for that day, you wouldn't be so powerful. I think you have even surpassed my powers."
"It doesn't matter that I have surpassed anyone. I just want to accomplish something that I have been wanting for three years. Three years of suffering and pain will end today. I will avenge his death... then I can finally set myself free from this hell hole." Akiko's eyes flared with hatred and anger. Since it was almost impossible to kill her master, magically, since they were both magically connected, she would have to go another route. She whipped out a sword and smirked, "You don't know how much I wanted this day to come."
"You can't stop me." her master stated calmly.
"Oh, but I can." she waved her arm slightly, "Since I can't kill you with magic, it doesn't mean I can't use magic to assist me to send you to your grave."
He moved frantically, not getting no where. "How dare you..."
"You killed the one that I loved, I will never forgive you!" Akiko screamed, slicing the sword through, causing her master to be cut in half.
His eyes became wide, his whole entire body became pale, his heart went faster. He stared down at disbelief, blood gushed out of his body rapidly. His heart raced even faster until it suddenly stopped.
~*~
Apsu stared at Sakura and Syaoran once again, hatred, pain, and anger overwhelmed her emotions. "No one ever gave me a chance to be happy, actually no one even cared." she spat quietly.
"Please..." Sakura repeated over and over, her voice becoming more quiet each time.
"If I was no ever happy, why should anyone else have the chance?" Apsu asked hysterically.
~*~
The younger version of Eriol stood there panicing, 'There must be something that I can do...' He stared past the towered Apsu and saw two figures emerging from the ground. They were stumbling trying to pull themselves up. His hopes soared when he figured out who they were. Xiao Lang and Ying Fa. 'So they weren't dead at all... But then that was a full blown attack from Apsu... How could anyone survive such an attack?' he wondered. 'The light... the dark... the past... the present... the future...' the words echoed in his mind. 'The past...?' Eriol's mind wondered, 'Could it be?' A light bulb flicked on inside his mind, his navy eyes looked around the park, noticing something that could hopefully destroy Apsu.
Sakura and Syaoran... 'The past...' something whispered in his mind.
Ying Fa and Xiao Lang... 'The present...'
He averted his eyes to the two children standing beside the older version of himself. Hikaru and Xiao Long... 'The future...' Eriol turned and came face to face with his future self. The older Eriol nodded in understanding, as if he been sent the exact same information.
Eriol walked up to the older version of himself, "How is this going to work then?"
"I read an old prophecy in one of my textbooks. I remember it was something like;
When the time is right, when all hope in gone.
Two will face the most deadliest situation,
Then the light will finally arrive,
Setting the past, present and future into final peace."
"So we can't do a damn thing?" Eriol spat angrily.
The older version of himself nodded slightly.
"Eriol..." Tomoyo's sobbing voice cracked the silence between the two mirror beings.
"Everything's going to be alright." Eriol tried to assure his beloved, 'I hope...' he added in his mind.
'Auntie warned me about this... But I just couldn't believe her...' Meilin thought angrily, kicking herself mentally.
~*~
"Why can't Syaoran come too?" a ten year old Meilin asked eagerly, her raven hair was tied up into her traditional buns.
"Meilin, when the day comes, you will understand why... Why everything is the way it is..." Yelan told her.
Meilin came back from her flashback, but something bothered her. The way Yelan had explained to her, it was as if she had something to hide. 'Is it possible that auntie knew what was about to happen?' Meilin wondered.
~*~
Sakura stared at Apsu, not wanting to avert her gaze anywhere else. "I love Syaoran with all my heart, even though I might have realized it a little to late, I know now that I would give my life just for him."
"How touching... But did anyone listen to any of those words when they came out of my mouth? Why should I even give a damn?" Apsu's voice cracked, struggling through the words. "I'll be nice, I'll kill you both! That way you can be together forever." Apsu screeched.
"I love you Syaoran..." Sakura cried, tears rolled down her cheek. Her Sakura cards laid sprawled on the floor, her staff clung to her hand loosely as her grip tightened around Syaoran's neck.
Apsu pale arm turned into a sword, blood dripped onto the ground as the transformation was processed. "Perish!! Suffer the pain that I had to go through..." With the sword high in the air she swung right towards Sakura and Syaoran.
Right when the sword was right above their heads, a bright white light surrounded the two.
"What's this?" Apsu shrieked. Her pale body starting to shrivel and turn translucent.
"I told you..." a voice behind Apsu said full of determination, "We've beaten you once before, and we can destroy you again."
Ying Fa and Xiao Lang stood side by side, their hands wrapped around the other, the Love card floated in front of them.
"Mommy! Daddy!" Xiao Long and Hikaru both squealed happily. They watched curiously as their parents as a pale pink orb, mixed in with a pale green, was formed around them. Surrounding the exterior of the pink and green orb was a bright light, breaking the grey of the sky slightly.
"Xiao Long..." Hikaru whispered quietly, in her hands was a card, the word Hope was printed on the bottom. It was glowing immensely, sending warmth through Hikaru's entire body. She loosen the grip on the card slightly, which caused it to float in front of both Xiao Long and Hikaru.
"What's going on?" Xiao Long asked confusingly.
A orb formed around the twins as well, instead of a pale pink and green orb, it was a light blue orb with a bright light emitting on the outside. The thunder and lightening was silenced, everyone remained motionless, the air became still and all attention was turned to the two glowing orbs.
Two white beams shot from the orbs that contained the two pairs. The beams aimed right towards Sakura and Syaoran.
Sakura looked around confusingly, 'What's happening?' she asked herself. First the shield that stopped Apsu from killing them both, and now, the white beams that was heading right towards herself and Syaoran.
Suddenly all her Sakura cards were surrounding her, creating a circle around her and Syaoran. They began to spun around her rapidly, she could barely see the images that were shown on her cards. The white beams hit her spinning cards and a white light shot into the sky. Light shone through out the park, blinding everyone momentarily.
"What the hell are you trying to pull?" Apsu screamed, her eyes flaring into a deep crimson red. She swung her sword shaped hand once again, but she screamed when she contacted with the orb that surrounded Sakura and Syaoran.
"All the suffering you have caused... It ends now." Ying Fa stated calmly.
Sakura's eyes looked up, trying to find out what was going on, but the light had glared her eyes as well. When she could finally see what was before her, she saw a piece of paper, shaped exactly like one of her Sakura cards. The card floated right in front of her. Sakura read the small printed words at the bottom, "Fate...?" 'What is this?' Sakura wondered curiously. The Fate Card was like no other card that Sakura possessed in her deck. It was completely white, along with the symbol of her trademark. The card had an image of a pale blue angel, her hands were clasped together, as if they were praying. The angel seemed to have a certain glow around the edge of its body and a large light pink colored heart was seen in the background.
"Sakura..." a voice beside her breathed. It was Syaoran.
His voice rung in her ears, happiness overwhelmed her, "Syaoran...?" Sakura looked up, realizing that his eyes were open, she could see the life dancing inside, "Your alive!"
"What's going on?"
"I'm not sure..."
"Use the card Sakura!" Eriol's voice reminded. He watched patiently and hope ran through his veins as he watched the scenes unfold.
Tomoyo and Meilin were hugging one another, there hearts were racing. It was hard to tell what was happening, the white light, if things were heading towards the better route.
The beams from Ying Fa and Xiao Lang and the beam from Hikaru and Xiao Long were both still sending energy and power to the center orb between them.
Sakura glanced at Eriol for a moment and then tightened her grip on her staff.
"This is it Apsu..." Xiao Lang spat.
"You can never stop me!" Apsu screamed, her arms shielding her eyes from the light before her.
"Fate! Rid us of the darkness that fall upon the light!" Sakura commanded, she felt a new rush of energy and power surging through her. The light that was feeding into her was tremendous, her heart and soul seemed to glow immensely. Her warmth was shared with Syaoran, who was still weak after awakening from the spell.
A small pale spirit flew out of the white card, everyone stared at the spirit in awe. She was strikingly beautiful, her waist length silver hair and her pale blue dress matched her pale skin. The spirit floated in front of Apsu.
Apsu, who tried to ignore the light that was blinding her, swung her sword shaped arm at the glowing spirit. She screamed in agony as the light had impacted with her dark, dead skin.
"You should have been destroyed long ago, Apsu..." the older version of Eriol stated a matter of factly, his features remained untainted.
"I will destroy all of you... and claim what is rightfully mine!" she screeched.
"I won't let you hurt anyone anymore!" Sakura cried, hope refilling in her heart, "Fate, destroy her now!"
The pale angel opened up its palms and a golden orb began to form in her hands. She held the orb in front of her face and blew the orb directly at Apsu.
"This is just a pathetic waste of energy, if you expect to destroy me, your going to have do better than that." she spat angrily.
"A little energy, can do a lot of damage." Hikaru piped in, her tone cheerful, as if she knew the outcome of this final battle.
The orb surrounded Apsu, she screamed as she stood there frustrated. Unable to stop the spreading light that was engulfing her, she shot her eyes at Sakura and Syaoran, who were embracing each other tightly, "I will be back." her eyes cold and hard. The golden light wrapped around her whole body until her blood drenched body was seen no more.
Everyone held there breath as a large explosion of light blinded everyones' sight. When the light had dimmed down, the blue sky shone down at them, the birds chirped happily, and the sun began to rise, dawning a new day.
A wave of sighs washed over the crowd that occupied Penguin Park. It was over. It was finally over. The reign of Apsu had finally diminished.
[a/n: AHHHHH... what did everyone think?!?! i sort of rushed... but i'm getting overexcited haha, always like this when i'm almost done my fics... hehe... so review and please read my other fics and review them too, i would really appreciate it. hmmm... one more thing, if you want me to email you if i update, then TELL ME specifically in your REVIEW! okay... i'll try to update soon... but i'll tell everyone now, the next few chaps are the concluding chaps, simple and lots of mush haha!
go to my mine and friends' website:
www.geocities.com/magical_crazee_trio/
-please sign the guestbook! (no flames please!)]
