Title: War Beat
Author: Peonyqt1004
Chapter one: "The Kinomoto Academy"

Peony: Hewwo everyone, again. I'm sending out two chapters so you can get a feel of what this all is about. :) Read and Reveiw please!!!!

Kero: Amigonnabeinitamigunnabeinitamigunn-- *SMACK*

Peony: Ehehehe.... As disclaimers apply!




There was the usual buzz about the Kintomoto academy. The Kintomoto family were dedicated to the Daiijabou and the Li family. They were the famous bodygaurds who were trained at the Kintomoto academy to fight for the king, and to have no other loyalty. The large building were filled with little children training in martial arts and more.

"SAKURA!"

A beautiful woman with curly black hair and beautiful green eyes looked about, frowning slightly. "Yes mother!" A tall girl, with the same green eyes as the woman stood before her. "Sakura!" The woman scolded. "You are missing your lessons!" Sakura sighed. "Mother, I am tired of taking lessons of fighting... why can't I learn to dance instead? Its much more... feminine!" The woman sighed. "We have served the Daijabou and Li family for--" "Over 1000 years... I know..." Sakura muttered. "But mother... Your not a "Kintomoto..." You don't have fighting blood, you dance!" The woman sighed. "Yes yes... daughter, that may be true, but you must carry on your fathers name, you told me, when you were young, that you wanted to be the best body gaurd there is..." Sakura nodded. "Yes, but that was before people started to..." Her lips trembled. The woman sighed and smoothed her hair. "I know... people would make fun of you becuase you are a woman fighter..."

"Nadeshiko!"

A tall brown haired man entered the room. "Oh! There you are! There is a guest that wants to meet you out in the hallway." Nadeshiko winked at her husband and nodded. "I'll be there in a second." She turned to her daughter. "But you, Sakura, there was something about you... You don't understand now, but I think its fate, you chose this road when you were a child... instead of the pencil... or money, you chose these metal fans..." She touched the metal fans hanging from either side of Sakura's hips. "You cannot deny that you love there weapons dearly." Sakura bit her lips. "Its destiny..." Sakura watched her graceful mother get up and glide to the door and leave the room. Her father stood next to her. "Sakura, want to spar? Let me test your skills." Sakura shook her head. "No thank you father, Gomen." "Its because she knows she'll lose." A irritating voice said from across the hallway. Sakura glared at her brother. "Oh yea? Look who can do magic and who can't TORY!" Tory grinned and mussed her hair. "Little monster." Sakura stomped her foot and grinded her teeth together and left the room.

"Such temper." Sakura's father mummered. Tory smirked. "Its becoming." "Tory..." His father had a warning tone to it. "Ok ok..." Tory said, "I won't get her to blow up like that... after all, only I can do that." He smiled and looked after his sisters retreating back.



"We need to destroy all whos loyal to the Li family." Nubis said, pointing at a map he showed them their next target. "Let no one live, slay them all! They are powerful fighters and magic users, Opitus, go with the soldiers and see if you can even the odds." The gnarled old man nodded. "Next stop, Kintomoto academy."


Syaoran wasn't used to being thirsty. He always had water when he needed it... He gasped and choked as he grabbed his water skin and drank his last drop of water. It was precious... He needed it. Wiping away the sweat, he rested under a shade. His grim thoughts lead him back to the scene at him home... The spell... betrayal... A growl rose from his throat, he got up as a plan formed in his mind. He knew what to do... he'll get them... he'll show them...


It was an ordinary night. It was peaceful at the Kintomoto academy. Everyone was asleep, except for Sakura. She went into the courtyard and sighed as she came to the small pond filled with Koi. She noticed something strange. "Oy? Why is that Koi..." She poked at the golden fish with a stick, it floated back up, dead and rotting. "Hoe!" Sakura got up quickly, "Is it a bad omen?" As if to answer her, the wind blew at the trees, a sakura blossom fell on her shoulder. She brushed it off and shivered. It was cold. She touched her fans and sighed, she loved fighting... but everyone made fun of her, and the person she liked would never like her... She was too much of a warrior and had no feminine side... then... Sakura sighed. 'Julian...' Dreamily, Sakura looked into the pond and smiled as she remebered his face... So handsome... so kind... Sakura stared at the reflection again. Something was wrong. She turned and screamed.

Syaoran picked at his peasent shirt and pants. They were a change, they were light and coarse against his skin. He had sold off his armor, and kept his sword. It was strange to walk down the streets, and having no one notice you. But he held the golden shillings in his bag, at least he knew how to haggle. He turned a corner and came to an Inn. He would stay the night here, he would train until his revenge was set perfectly.

Sakura brought up her metal fan and managed to deflect the arrow. "WERE UNDER ATTACK!" Sakura screamed, the lights in the house came on as Sakura dodged another arrow. She looked up in fear as a cloud of arrows darkened the sky and came towards her. It was time to use her training to the max. Sakura managed to dodge some arrows with ease, and deflected most of them with her fan, at least, the ones which would do her most harm. But a arrow grazed her arm and pinned her down the the floor. She writhed in pain but became alert as a soldier all in black came towards her with his sword upraised. She managed to dodge it by pulling out the arrow and rolling quickly to the side. She brought her fan down on the soldiers head many times, a strange beat welled up in her, the feeling of blood lust. Anger... Serenity. As if she was dancing, she twirled among the enemy, swiftly coming and going like the tide, the flash of her fan was the terror of the enemy. The kinomoto academy crew ran out, some were shot and killed, but many were fighting next to her. Sakura focused on the world around her, her body was nothing more then a vessle for her soul... now her soul was unleashed.

Opitus grimaced as he watched the soldiers fall. Nubis looked at Opitus, "Use your magic." He urged. Opitus indulged, he rose a gnarled hand to the sky and chanted strange words which echoed over the academy. It was as if time stopped... Nothing moved.

Sakura's eyes opened in surprised as she suddenly paused in the middle of flight. She was doing a fly kick and suddenly she was hovering in air. She sensed it already, it was magic. Sakura clenched her teeth as she used her pink aura to find the source of it.

Optius's eyes glowed red as all the soldiers in black were allowed to move, the frozen bodygaurds were slayed one by one... He grinned, it was a success... But his eyes widened as someones magic, powerful and budding with life, probed his. In anger, he threw the magic off, sending it back towards its source.

Sakura grimaced as her magic was thrown back at her, at least she knew the source... Her magic screamed past her and destroyed the enemies who were trying to shoot her down. Sakura thrusted her magic at the source, a wizard who was standing in front of the building, she saw it with her minds eye. The wizard fell back and the remaining fighters fought and fought hard. She glimpsed her father and Tory, and sighed in relief. Her mother was managing with her glaive, slicing upwards and sweating profusely, her mother was out of shape. Sakura whirled back into her dance of death, and proceeded in destroying the black warriors.

Opitus cursed as he staggered backwards. Someone had magic. He was bleeding down his front and his eyes was bloodshot from the power of the force. "What is wrong?!" Nubis exclaimed angrily. "Who is it?" "Someone has magic." Optius gasped. "And they are quite powerful in it." "Can't you overcome it?" Nubis asked angrily. Opitus feared Nubis's anger and brought forth a hand,this may drain him for a few days, but it would certaintly beat the young and pulsing magic of the source beneathe. He brought up a hand and created a glowing symbol... "The seal..." Nubis breathed, fascinated as the symbol grew larger and brighter... It was the symbol of a dragon... the mighty dragon of darkness... the seal which magicians from the world had tried to draw their power from.

Sakura danced along with the beat of her heart, it was strange, everything felt earthreal... Her magical aura sensed something... what was it? In her magical mind, she saw a large blackness of power from somewhere... where? Oh no... "LOOK OUT!" Sakura winced as someone managed to slice her arm. But she managed a back kick and sent the opponet spinning... She threw up a powerful sheild...

Tory saw something coming, he had a sixth sense, no one knew about it. He could sense magic... He looked up and his eyes grew side. He brought his sword and sliced his enemy and ran underneath the fountain and curled up. He could sense the enormous power... "MOTHER FATHER! RUN!"

It was too late. The black cloud of power blew up the building... The ground shook and broke, swallowing up his parents... Torys eyes watered as dirt flew into his eye, tears fell as he cried out to them, but the explosion drowned out his cry. The fountain he was hiding under broke, and he felt pain... pain everywhere... as he fell down and blacked out.

Sakura screamed, her parents... no... the student... her friends... Her magic strained to help them, but her magic was drained as it was... The power slammed into her sheild, she was thrown back into a tree with such force that she started coughing blood. She was so dizzy... She felt the magic from the dark dissappear, and she looked around her, the academy was in flames... and she was the only one alive... The dead Koi floated on the now steaming water, only a skeleton...


"Did you hear the news! The king was overthrown and killed!" A villager exclaimed. "Oh no! Not our king?" "Nubis has taken charge... and anybody loyal to Li will die..." Syaoran got up and sighed, he heard them talking and sighed. So the news have spread... "The Kinomoto Academy has been destroyed..." Syaoran got up straight, that was the academy most of his bodygaurds had come from. He got out of the cot and put on his coarse cotton jacket and tucked in is sword. What was going on? He walked out into the streets and sighed, he was one person against a whole army, how was he to find people to help him? Especially, since his largest hope was gone... Kinomoto Academy... He walked slowly towards the counter inside the inn and handed two shillings to the innkeeper and took the small amount of things he had left. A water skin, his sword, the clothes on his back... He had to go buy some supplies. A frown crossed his face as he saw two boys bullying a little girl. "Hey hey... leave her alone!" Syaoran said gruffly. The boys stared at him and ran, yelling. The girl looked up. "Thank you..." She said, her front teeth was missing and she was grimy, yet, she was so cute... just like his sister, her eyes were brown and her hair... No... Her sister was dead now. He straightened up as the girl got up and tottered towards a pudgy lady. "Dear darling." The woman crooned, a look of love shining from her face. He felt a pang os sadness... His mother once looked at him like that, and the last thing he said to her... was far from loving... Feeling depressed, he kicked a rock angrily. "OW!" Syaoran looked up startled, he met a pair of green eyes, vivid and large, but clearly angry.

"Watch what your doing!" He observed her, she had a white uniform, white pants that ended up short above her ankles, brown boots, a white shirt marred by cuts, bloodstains and burned marks. Her face was quite dirty and she was wearing a pink vest over it all. On her leather belt she had two shining fans, metal ones. "You have a problem with it?" Syaoran asked rudely. "Yes." she said boldly. A woman was not suppose to answer like that. "Act like the woman you are." Syaoran sneered. The girls eyes sparked with anger and her eyes narrowed. "Say that again?" Syaoran faced her, anger and a strange crazed maddness took over him. "I called you a lowly woman! Thats what! Woman are not allowed to to speak so boldly, watch your tounge!" As soon as he finished those words, her hand came out swiftly and slapped him. "Imbecile..." She seethed, her eyes narrowing. Syaoran punched her in the stomache. "Stupid lowly peasent." The girl groaned as she clutched her stomache. Syaoran looked at his fist, red blood was all over it.

"Sakura!" A girl with purple hair and purple eyes ran over to the adburn haired girl. "Are you ok? Are you hurt? What happened? What brought you here?" She reminded Syaoran of Eriol. Purple hair, purple eyes... The girl glared at her. "Look what you did!" She spat. Sakura got up groggily. "Tomoyo... Tomoyo... tell the queen... that... a strange work is at hand... the academy... was destroyed... mother... father..." Sakura broke into a sob, her grimy face washed by the sudden pain which came over her. "I saw a wizard." She hiccuped. "I could'nt fight him with my magic Tomoyo... I could'nt!" The crowd which formed around them mummered uneasily. Tomoyo brought up a comforting hand. "Shush, don't talk, your weary, let me take you to the palace..." Syaoran frowned, palace? He noticed her regal uniform, the tiara on her head... of course, this was Plumroot City... this must be one of the Daiijabous... Wait... that girl he punched... she knew about... He was pushed aside as Tomoyo snapped a hand and three bodygaurds who were waiting in the back brought Sakura up on their shoulders and carried her towards a carriage. 'Princess Daiijabou?'


Nubis's eyes grew angry and dark when the spy and messangers arrived. "WHAT! A Kinomoto trainnee survived!" "She's Sakura Kinomoto sir, she passed her martial arts test with high success and she has magic." Nubis growled angrily. "And the other bad news, let me guess, the Daiijabou's are refusing to ally with us." Nubis's lips curled into a frightful snarl as he grabbed his large obsidian sword. "Yes... yes... more blood shed to come..." She moved suddenly with his sword, and the messanger fell down, dead. "Klien!" He barked. The spy nodded, his eyes wide and scared. "Go find this Sakura girl and bring her to me, if she survived Opitus's magic, she must have some potential, and also, arrange an army to go destroy the kingdom of Plumroot." He smiled evilly. "There shall be no resistance... and no mercy."


To be continued....

Peony: Thank you, please R and R! Sorry about this slow beggining, ^_^ There will be more! Can someone please edit my stories? I'd like it if someone would do that for me. ^_^ Thank you! Please email me about the editing~ Not with aniemtheme but with this addy: cherishxme@yahoo.com. Thank you!

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I'm trying to get at least 100 reveiws with this story, if there is more, I'll be most grateful!
Kero: *holding ice pack to his head* I hope I come out in it later. @_@