Title: War Beat
Author: Peonyqt1004
Chapter Title: "The Dragons"
A/N: Thanks for all the reviews! *Sniff* I love reading them, they make me feel better. I think I failed all my midterms... I didn't study, I was playing dynasty warriors. *guilty look* It is my fault. But I did study a bit... Hope for the best... -.-; Hope you like this chapter! Oh... And I'm planning a new fanfiction called, *For Another Day* It's a no magic series. So watch out for it. It will come out after I finish either one of my two CCS fanfictions. Either Look for me by Moonlight or this one. Its a serious situation one, it has humor in it, and some political stuff. It takes place in Korea, so some things in it will be diffrent. Read and Reveiw please! OOoooh what does OOC mean? I'm confused.... *Scratches head*
**DISCLAIMER** I DO NOT OWN CCS! I do own my own made up characthers. Such as the dragons introduced in this page. And I'm pretty sure the ide for this story is mine. Hmph. ^^
*~*Dragons... The creature of pure beauty and power...*~*
Syaoran gulped, the yellow eyes flickered at him and then to the child. "Uhhh..." Syaoran stuttered, not knowing quite what to say. Sakura looked at Syaoran urgently and she went down on her knees slowly, touching her forehead to the ground. Syaoran stared at her, Sakura mouthed, 'Bow down to him!' Syaoran frowned. "No." He said aloud. He was a prince. He would'nt bow down to another-- The green creature roared angrily, its golden eyes glinting. Syaoran got pulled down to his knees by Sakura. Sakura got up. "Lord Raylight." She said, looking up. "Pardon my dear friend, he didn't mean any disrespect." Syaoran gaped. 'Lord?! What the heck?!' The green creature stared at Sakura, and smiled a toothy grin, his golden eyes blinked and his emerald scales flashed as he unfurled the large web of green and gold skin which surrounded his head. A low hissing sound rumbled from the large lizards throat. "Sakura. It is truely truely nice to see you again." Sakura smiled as the dragon motioned her to rise up. Syaoran scowled deeply as the lizard looked at him expectantly. "What?!" Syaoran demanded, getting an enraged hiss from the lizard who reared up on his powerful hind legs, its body rippling with mystical power. "Lord Raylight!" Sakura called out, suddenly standing between them. "He means no disrespect! He is royalty, he will not bow down to nobody but his father!" The dragon tilted its head. "Ah, an arrogant fool." The dragon mused, flapping its large expanse of scaly shimmering translucent wings. "Your pride will be the death of you." The dragon flickered his forked tounge. "Come quickly Ms Sakura." The dragon said, flapping its winds. "Hold onto my tail, my majesty is needing you." Sakura glanced at the dragon and nodded. "Come on Syaoran, this is this best way, this dragon is my trusted friend." Syaoran hesitated, holding the sleeping child tightly, he clung onto the tail, as did Sakura as the dragon rose upwards towards the blue heavens.
Tomoyo sat besides a small pond near the orchard. She was so bored, and so worried. 'Sakura... Syaoran... where are you two? Did you not come back to look for me?' Tomoyo stared as a apple blossom's petal slowly drifted off the tree and landed in front of her, floating... Tomoyo clasped her hands to her heart. She hoped they were alright. She was fine. But doing nothing. How useless she felt. Its been a few days... but it felt like months... A pair of small twitching yellow ears caught her attention. "Huh?" Tomoyo blinked, a yellow mouse with wings fluttered about the air, muttering profanity. It stared at her with small beady eyes. "Oh.... How darling..." Tomoyo muttered. "Hmph, darling my butt." The yellow creature muttered and flew closer to Tomoyo as he spotted the small tiara on her head. "Hey, you're the Daiijabou princess!" Tomoyo started to ask how he knew, but realized, quite foolishly, that she had her tiara on. "Yes." Tomoyo said quietly. The creature flew about her face. It seemed to be studying her. "Would you mind sticking out your index finger?" The creature asked. Tomoyo blinked. "How come a mouse like you talks perfect japanese... with a strange accent?" The creature didn't asnwer her and nodded its head impatiently. "Your index finger if you may." Tomoyo sighed and obliged, sticking out her slender pale fingers. Kero tapped it and clapped twice. A small spark of purple erupted from the creatures hands. "Ah, small magic. Healing, am I right?" The creature asked. Tomoyo nodded dumbly. "Yes... How did you know?" The creature stood up straight and tall. "I'm Kereobous! The gaurdian of the--." Kero stopped. "I am the gaurdian of the er... orchads." Tomoyo blinked. "Orchads..." Tomoyo repeated blankly. Kero nodded, sweatdropping a bit and looking quite nercous as he twitched his tail. "Yea..." Tomoyo paused, "Hey, I think I saw you before Kerebous.... Can I call you Kero? Well... Kero... Wasn't you the creature that left just as quickly as I came?" Kero frowned. "From that farm that owns this orchad?" Tomoyo nodded. "Why yes." Kero nodded. "Yeah, why?" Tomoyo sighed. "I wish I was you, if only I can run and help my friends..." Kero patted Tomoyo's head. "Your friends? Who are they?" Tomoyo sighed, "Prince Li and Sakura..." Kero's eyes dialated. "THE prince Li? The one who supposedly died?!" Tomoyo nodded. "Yes, he somehow survived..." Kero paced about the air. "Li... Li... why is it so familiar...." He suddenly stopped and snapped a finger.That is if he had any.... "AHA!" Kero yelped. "Of course! Li! Now I remeber why it sounds familiar!"
Nubis searched the city throughly. Nothing was there. Nobody, not even one person was left. The city was half destroyed, and the prince, queen, and king was gone. "They left..." He said outloud. Angry, he paced the room. "I need to find that key... I need to find that key... and the only one who may know where it is is the Starr's family!" He drew his sword and hacked at a beam near him angrily. Slicing it into perfect 5 peices. They clattered about his feet. "Optius?!" He called angrily, striding over to the wizard who seemed to be speculating something over a peice of rubble. Optius did not answer and stared at the rubble in front of him. "OPTIUS!" Nubis bellowed. Optius turned alsowly, his red eyes glittering with evil glee. "I found it! I kenw I sensed a faint magic... old and strong here..." Optius dug through the ruins, his gnarled hands revealing a small entrance... the one Sakura and Syaoran had been through. "I found the hidden chamber." Optius said gleefully, watching his master smile. "Let us enter quickly and take what we need!" Optius lept in quickly. Nubis stared, stunned, and then eagerly jumped into the chamber entrance.
Syaoran felt like throwing up as he watched the world beneathe him shrink. His feet dangled in the air, a light breeze making his hair sway. "Where are we going?!" He demanded, his face pale as his weak grip nearly slipped from the tail. Sakura looked at him. "The dragon realm... the DragonLord Forest." Syaoran nodded, his face turning a slight shade of green. "Oh..." He moaned, feeling sickly and weak. "You ok?" Sakura demanded, a bit worried for the prince. "Yeah... I'm fine..." Syaoran said slowly. "Lord Raylight... are we almost there?" The dragon lord spat out a brief flame. "Yes we are. Our beautiful forest in not that far... " The dragon swooped low, making both Sakura and Syaoran's stomache flutter as they flew towards the forest... closer... closer... The child who was sleeping was now awake, it gurgled happily as its silky yet sweaty locks wipped across its face from the air and beated Syaorans head with its small hands, drawing a giggle from Sakura. Syaoran moaned. "Stop it! Stupid tyke." The dragon curved sharply to the right, making Syaoran cry out in fear, and the baby let out a gurgle of laughter. Sakura laughed with the child as the wind combed through her hair. The dragon cruved towards the oncoming ground. Sakura clung onto the tail of her friend. "Cling hard, he isn't very good at landing." Sakura muttered to Syaoran, making Syaoran become another pasty shade of white. "I heard that." The dragon muttered, as he glided towards flat land, his fet moving to stomp onto the group. The dragon came to an adrupt halt as he drew in his wings quickly. The dragon stumbled and landed on his chin, sending the three riders flying. Syaoran graped the child tighlty, who was starting to whimped as Syaoran curled into a ball.
WHAM
Syaoran groaned as he uncurled. He had taken all the impact for the stupid child. Sakura wasn't too far off, and she too, let out a small groan of pain. "Sorry." The dragon said sheepishly. "I never was all too good at stopping." Syaoran got up, rubbing his sore back. "Now what?" Sakura got up slowly next to him. "Dragon city." She replied, as she drew back a curtain of rich green plants. Syaoran gasped, seeing the most beautiful city he had ever seen before him. Glittering of gold, red, bright blue, and silver shone brightly about the city as dragons, both large and small roamed the city. A few travelers were there as well. "Wow." Sakura breathed, whistling softly. "Alot has changed since I've last come here." Raylight nodded his great head. "Of course, last time you came here was when you were 10. Now you are 15 in mortal years I presume?" Sakura shook her head. "A lot longer then that, I'm 19 now." "Ah..." Raylight nodded. "Its hard to get used to it, dragons age a lot slowly then humans do." The dragon flapped its wings and chirped as a very large dragon, two times as large as Raylight, approched them. "Overlord Earthboud." Sakura breathed, bowing and getting up as Syaoran hastened to follow suit. "Yes, Sakura Kinomoto isn't it?" The large dragon asked, his strange light blue eyes, the color of the sky on a cloudless day, blinked slowly. the dragons scales were cold, shimmering and fading to a dark green at the base of his tail. He had two large translucent silver wings and a dimond growing between its eyes. Uneasily, Syaoran noticed its claws.
They were sharp and leathal looking. Its body rippled with muscles as it sat down regally. "Syaoran, this is the lord of all dragons." Sakura said, introducing them." "Earthbound, this is Prince Li, one of the members of the family I must protect." The dragon gave Syaoran a look. "Ah, the famous Li's. Strange how their conquest of destruction meant nothing." Syaoran growled. "What are you talking about?" "You do know about the key and the stone of power? It became a real problem when your Clow Reed messed with nature." Syaoran let out a hiss of outrage. But the dragon flickered out a tounge. "I smell and taste anger in the aura around. Do not be angered, it must've been fate playing with us." The dragon stepped back, chirping in its own language. Sakura nodded, chirping back. "What are you saying?" Syaoran asked, holding the child who hit him with its fists. Syaoran was getting tired of holding the child. "Oh, that Starr should be here anytime now." Sakura replied. "They're sending a few dragons down to bring them here safely." A slender and small dragon came up to them. It was breathtakingly beautiful. She had scales, silverones outlines in gold, her eyes were bright green, liek Sakura's, she had smaller claws and a delicate triangular face. Her wings were transparent and frail looking. A lone dimond grew on its forehead. It chirped happily, motioning towards them. Sakura nodded, chirping back. "That is Silver Jade. She is the queen, the mate of Earthbound. Isn't she beautiful?" Syaoran nodded. The dragons eyes were a similar shade of green, like Sakura's. But Syaoran perferred Sakura's bright green sparkeling eyes. They were more beauti-- Syaoran stopped. He gritted his teeth and diverted his attention from the subject called beauty.
"Yes, she's beautiful..." Sakura sighed dreamily. "I love dragons, don't you?" Sakura didn't wait for an answer this time. "Silver Jade wants to take us to their shelter." Syaoran followed them, eyeing the world around him. There was blooming flowers everywhere. The place smelled faintly like cherry blossoms and honey suckles. Humminbirds, glittering and shimmering under the sun's beams, darted here and there. Syaoran started to notice there was alot of cherry blossom tree's everywhere. Not that he didn't think they were beautiful. But there were so many. They stopped in front of a large hut made of grass and bamboo. Flowers grew all over it, some honeysuckles fell over the large entrance. The female dragon turned, hissing slightly, she said in imperfect mortal language, "Enter." They both obliged. Syaoran stared at the scenery. It was beautiful... and... He stopped. Earthbound sat upon the ground, eating flowers. He stared. "I thought dragons liked to eat mortals." Syaoran said outloud. Earthbound looked up and snorted. "Mortals? Its just a rumor to keep humans away. Of course, not all humans." Earthbound remarked, swishing his tail towards Sakura. "Dragons are partial to honeysuckles, and cherry blossom's are a delicacy, and they are very beautiful... hmm... and an occasional honey, sugar and apples are good. We never eat mortals, we just kill them if they do something to threaten us." Syaoran stared. He always thought dragons were ferocious. Now he looked at Earthbound, and felt like laughing as it delicately munched on a honeysuckle.
Optius looked about. "Look, that must bethe entrance..." "Someone was here before us." Nubis remarked, as he looked down and saw foot prints embedded in the soft moist soil. Optius nodded. "Yes, the stars in front of the entrance is dimming. Usually it becomes bright when soemone first enters..." Optius ran towards the large maghony door, and found it was already open, a tiny bit. He opened the door quickly. The room was an old bedroom. Yet he felt immense power coming from it. He entered and stared. Everything was dusty. There was old bedsheets, the window was broke out and dirt and soil had accumelated outside of it. The room smelled faintly of flowers... lilacs... that was it. There was a large mirror which drew Optius's attention. A handprint was there. Optius stared at it. Someone obviously was here before they were. He suddenly noticed the words surrounding and embedded about the corners of the mirrors.
'Whomever looks into the mirror, will see a truth, or a warning, or success... The key to the stone lies within, but only with a pure heart, a heart of a hero, may be able to get it...'
Optius stared at the mirror. He was falling into a large black hole... Down... down... Until he landed on something soft. Optius got up and saw himself somewhere dark... a graveyard. With sudden suprise, he saw himself sitting in front of him, bowing over a mound. He heard the other Optius crying.
"If only I have not tried to sacrifice you for my own selfish reasons..."
Optius came closer, his eyes intent on the figure weeping.
"If only... If only I have treated you like who you were..."
Optius stared as he read the grave stone. His heart thudded to a sudden stop. It read:
Tyler Yokoshima
It was his grandsons name.
Kero seemed to burst with excietment. "Of course! Li! Li is a descendent of the Clow Reed himself!" He rubbed his hands together. "Oh dear, he must be who master chose as the one to overcome oncoming terror." "Huh? Syaoran?" Kero nodded. "Yes, Syaoran Li. He must be the chosen one!" Kero flew upwards. "Thank you Daiijabou! I'm off to find that Syao dude!" Kero shot off in a twinkling fo an eye. Making Tomoyo blink. The chosen one? Her mind suddenly drew itself towards a legend... a legend she thought would only remain a story... Maybe it was becoming reality? Tomoyo got up, and hurried to tell Eriol.
Syaoran had changed into another pair of clothes. Something more princely in regal. He ate the sweet food the dragons offered him. A crisp white wafer with honey and apples. It was not too appetizing, he yearned for some bread and meat. Something rich and filling... "Sakura!" The dragon next to Syaoran exclaimed. Syaoran looked up, and stared, the small silver spoon dropping from his hands. He was looking at Lady Sakura. Not Sakura the warrior...
'She's beautiful...'
Syaoran thought, his heart thudding against his ribcage as Sakura appeared, wearing a pink and white flowing gown. Her hair washed straight. She was adorned with no jewelery, with no makeup... But why was she so beautiful? Her body was slim, and firm. He watched her warily as she sat down. He never noticed Sakura as a true female before... until now. Syaoran felt his cheeks starting to burn.
'She's a bodygaurd you idiot! YOU'RE A PRINCE!'
He scolded himself, but became another shade of crimson as Sakura's bright and gorgeous green eyes fixtated themselves on him. Her smile was soft and demure. Yet her eyes held the same inner strength he had seen before. She wasn't a lady, yet she was. It was hard to explain...
"Syaoran, are you ready to start training? We need a force to go against Nubis, and the dragons agreed to help us. They have dragon's who can teach us how to combat. They are good."
"I guess so. Hmph, why the heck are you wearing a dress? I thought pants more suited your taste."
Sakura's eyes hardened. "What?!" She screeched, jumping up, startling both Raylight and Earthbound. "HOW DARE YOU!" Sakura shrilled, her face become a ghastly color of red. "ARE YOU CALLING ME A MAN?!" Syaoran didn't want to say yes. "Yes." There was a terrible look of hurt, pain, anger, and sadness in her eyes. "HOW DARE YOU! ARROGANT ROYALTY!" Sakura got up, slammed her dish down, and left, her food untouched. Syaoran felt a horrible guilt prick his heart but he became the same arrogant Syaoran as before.
'Nah... I was just imagining her beauty.'
"Ah, Syaoran, big mistake." Earthbound said, his eyes holding a strange look of amusement and anger. "She's very sensative about that. You should'nt talk like that. Sakura is a beuatiful mortal woman with an even more beautiful soul." Syaoran snorted. Silver Jade started chirping to her husband quickly and angrily and she too left. Raylight looked at Syaoran. "Don't you know... Sakura has a tendency to get mad over such things. She's been hurt more then once kid. If you hurt her, I'll hurt you. And belive me... I will." Raylight got up and left. Syaoran glared at the food before him. "Let us talk a while Prince Li." Earthbound said softly. "I see you for not what your title is. I can see why you act so harshly against her." Syaoran looked up at Earthbound sharply. 'What?!"
Sakura ran out, rage dripping from her like hot liquid wax from a lit candle. "Ooooh! I hate that arrogant prince!" Sakura declared out loud. "I hate him I hate him!" Sakura blew a strand of dissarrayed hair away from her face and sighed. He always blew a nerve in her, it made her want to rip her hair out. She wanted to be nice to him at times, but really, who could be nice to a soourpuss with no manners?! She let out a loud "HHRRUMMP" and stomped a foot, her large green eyes flashing angrily as she sat down in the grass, not noticing the dirt getting on her beautiful dragon silk gown. She didn't care. No one thought her as a lady anyways, so why should she care? Sakura sighed and looked up into the sky, her eyes becoming starry and limpid as she looked at the darkening sky. Small faint stars glistened in the darkening sky, she swore a star winked at her. 'We are the one and only Sakura... don't hate... learn to love...' A tiny sweet voice said in the back of her mind. It reminded her of a star, throbbing with light and power. Sakura felt her hands rest on the locket hidden under her dress. It was playing a sweet tune. Sakura looked down at her locket and popped it open, a small silver star winked at her... Sakura smiled as she felt a faint comfort with this strange object. She closed her eyes, lost in the haunted melody playing from the locket.
A tall black haired man stopped by the large city of Jade. The city of theives they called it. He looked about, looking bedraggled and worse for the wear. Hungry and thirsty, he stumbled towards the inn. Wincing from his side pain, and stumbled on a lady. "Excuse me!" A high voice shrilled. Tory looked confused and looked down and met Purple eyes. The eyes widened. "T-t-tory Kinomoto?!" The girl asked in disbelief. 'It can't be you! Sakura said... I thought..." Tory frowned, stepping away from the beautiful lady. "Whose Sakura?"
To be continued....
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Author: Peonyqt1004
Chapter Title: "The Dragons"
A/N: Thanks for all the reviews! *Sniff* I love reading them, they make me feel better. I think I failed all my midterms... I didn't study, I was playing dynasty warriors. *guilty look* It is my fault. But I did study a bit... Hope for the best... -.-; Hope you like this chapter! Oh... And I'm planning a new fanfiction called, *For Another Day* It's a no magic series. So watch out for it. It will come out after I finish either one of my two CCS fanfictions. Either Look for me by Moonlight or this one. Its a serious situation one, it has humor in it, and some political stuff. It takes place in Korea, so some things in it will be diffrent. Read and Reveiw please! OOoooh what does OOC mean? I'm confused.... *Scratches head*
**DISCLAIMER** I DO NOT OWN CCS! I do own my own made up characthers. Such as the dragons introduced in this page. And I'm pretty sure the ide for this story is mine. Hmph. ^^
*~*Dragons... The creature of pure beauty and power...*~*
Syaoran gulped, the yellow eyes flickered at him and then to the child. "Uhhh..." Syaoran stuttered, not knowing quite what to say. Sakura looked at Syaoran urgently and she went down on her knees slowly, touching her forehead to the ground. Syaoran stared at her, Sakura mouthed, 'Bow down to him!' Syaoran frowned. "No." He said aloud. He was a prince. He would'nt bow down to another-- The green creature roared angrily, its golden eyes glinting. Syaoran got pulled down to his knees by Sakura. Sakura got up. "Lord Raylight." She said, looking up. "Pardon my dear friend, he didn't mean any disrespect." Syaoran gaped. 'Lord?! What the heck?!' The green creature stared at Sakura, and smiled a toothy grin, his golden eyes blinked and his emerald scales flashed as he unfurled the large web of green and gold skin which surrounded his head. A low hissing sound rumbled from the large lizards throat. "Sakura. It is truely truely nice to see you again." Sakura smiled as the dragon motioned her to rise up. Syaoran scowled deeply as the lizard looked at him expectantly. "What?!" Syaoran demanded, getting an enraged hiss from the lizard who reared up on his powerful hind legs, its body rippling with mystical power. "Lord Raylight!" Sakura called out, suddenly standing between them. "He means no disrespect! He is royalty, he will not bow down to nobody but his father!" The dragon tilted its head. "Ah, an arrogant fool." The dragon mused, flapping its large expanse of scaly shimmering translucent wings. "Your pride will be the death of you." The dragon flickered his forked tounge. "Come quickly Ms Sakura." The dragon said, flapping its winds. "Hold onto my tail, my majesty is needing you." Sakura glanced at the dragon and nodded. "Come on Syaoran, this is this best way, this dragon is my trusted friend." Syaoran hesitated, holding the sleeping child tightly, he clung onto the tail, as did Sakura as the dragon rose upwards towards the blue heavens.
Tomoyo sat besides a small pond near the orchard. She was so bored, and so worried. 'Sakura... Syaoran... where are you two? Did you not come back to look for me?' Tomoyo stared as a apple blossom's petal slowly drifted off the tree and landed in front of her, floating... Tomoyo clasped her hands to her heart. She hoped they were alright. She was fine. But doing nothing. How useless she felt. Its been a few days... but it felt like months... A pair of small twitching yellow ears caught her attention. "Huh?" Tomoyo blinked, a yellow mouse with wings fluttered about the air, muttering profanity. It stared at her with small beady eyes. "Oh.... How darling..." Tomoyo muttered. "Hmph, darling my butt." The yellow creature muttered and flew closer to Tomoyo as he spotted the small tiara on her head. "Hey, you're the Daiijabou princess!" Tomoyo started to ask how he knew, but realized, quite foolishly, that she had her tiara on. "Yes." Tomoyo said quietly. The creature flew about her face. It seemed to be studying her. "Would you mind sticking out your index finger?" The creature asked. Tomoyo blinked. "How come a mouse like you talks perfect japanese... with a strange accent?" The creature didn't asnwer her and nodded its head impatiently. "Your index finger if you may." Tomoyo sighed and obliged, sticking out her slender pale fingers. Kero tapped it and clapped twice. A small spark of purple erupted from the creatures hands. "Ah, small magic. Healing, am I right?" The creature asked. Tomoyo nodded dumbly. "Yes... How did you know?" The creature stood up straight and tall. "I'm Kereobous! The gaurdian of the--." Kero stopped. "I am the gaurdian of the er... orchads." Tomoyo blinked. "Orchads..." Tomoyo repeated blankly. Kero nodded, sweatdropping a bit and looking quite nercous as he twitched his tail. "Yea..." Tomoyo paused, "Hey, I think I saw you before Kerebous.... Can I call you Kero? Well... Kero... Wasn't you the creature that left just as quickly as I came?" Kero frowned. "From that farm that owns this orchad?" Tomoyo nodded. "Why yes." Kero nodded. "Yeah, why?" Tomoyo sighed. "I wish I was you, if only I can run and help my friends..." Kero patted Tomoyo's head. "Your friends? Who are they?" Tomoyo sighed, "Prince Li and Sakura..." Kero's eyes dialated. "THE prince Li? The one who supposedly died?!" Tomoyo nodded. "Yes, he somehow survived..." Kero paced about the air. "Li... Li... why is it so familiar...." He suddenly stopped and snapped a finger.That is if he had any.... "AHA!" Kero yelped. "Of course! Li! Now I remeber why it sounds familiar!"
Nubis searched the city throughly. Nothing was there. Nobody, not even one person was left. The city was half destroyed, and the prince, queen, and king was gone. "They left..." He said outloud. Angry, he paced the room. "I need to find that key... I need to find that key... and the only one who may know where it is is the Starr's family!" He drew his sword and hacked at a beam near him angrily. Slicing it into perfect 5 peices. They clattered about his feet. "Optius?!" He called angrily, striding over to the wizard who seemed to be speculating something over a peice of rubble. Optius did not answer and stared at the rubble in front of him. "OPTIUS!" Nubis bellowed. Optius turned alsowly, his red eyes glittering with evil glee. "I found it! I kenw I sensed a faint magic... old and strong here..." Optius dug through the ruins, his gnarled hands revealing a small entrance... the one Sakura and Syaoran had been through. "I found the hidden chamber." Optius said gleefully, watching his master smile. "Let us enter quickly and take what we need!" Optius lept in quickly. Nubis stared, stunned, and then eagerly jumped into the chamber entrance.
Syaoran felt like throwing up as he watched the world beneathe him shrink. His feet dangled in the air, a light breeze making his hair sway. "Where are we going?!" He demanded, his face pale as his weak grip nearly slipped from the tail. Sakura looked at him. "The dragon realm... the DragonLord Forest." Syaoran nodded, his face turning a slight shade of green. "Oh..." He moaned, feeling sickly and weak. "You ok?" Sakura demanded, a bit worried for the prince. "Yeah... I'm fine..." Syaoran said slowly. "Lord Raylight... are we almost there?" The dragon lord spat out a brief flame. "Yes we are. Our beautiful forest in not that far... " The dragon swooped low, making both Sakura and Syaoran's stomache flutter as they flew towards the forest... closer... closer... The child who was sleeping was now awake, it gurgled happily as its silky yet sweaty locks wipped across its face from the air and beated Syaorans head with its small hands, drawing a giggle from Sakura. Syaoran moaned. "Stop it! Stupid tyke." The dragon curved sharply to the right, making Syaoran cry out in fear, and the baby let out a gurgle of laughter. Sakura laughed with the child as the wind combed through her hair. The dragon cruved towards the oncoming ground. Sakura clung onto the tail of her friend. "Cling hard, he isn't very good at landing." Sakura muttered to Syaoran, making Syaoran become another pasty shade of white. "I heard that." The dragon muttered, as he glided towards flat land, his fet moving to stomp onto the group. The dragon came to an adrupt halt as he drew in his wings quickly. The dragon stumbled and landed on his chin, sending the three riders flying. Syaoran graped the child tighlty, who was starting to whimped as Syaoran curled into a ball.
WHAM
Syaoran groaned as he uncurled. He had taken all the impact for the stupid child. Sakura wasn't too far off, and she too, let out a small groan of pain. "Sorry." The dragon said sheepishly. "I never was all too good at stopping." Syaoran got up, rubbing his sore back. "Now what?" Sakura got up slowly next to him. "Dragon city." She replied, as she drew back a curtain of rich green plants. Syaoran gasped, seeing the most beautiful city he had ever seen before him. Glittering of gold, red, bright blue, and silver shone brightly about the city as dragons, both large and small roamed the city. A few travelers were there as well. "Wow." Sakura breathed, whistling softly. "Alot has changed since I've last come here." Raylight nodded his great head. "Of course, last time you came here was when you were 10. Now you are 15 in mortal years I presume?" Sakura shook her head. "A lot longer then that, I'm 19 now." "Ah..." Raylight nodded. "Its hard to get used to it, dragons age a lot slowly then humans do." The dragon flapped its wings and chirped as a very large dragon, two times as large as Raylight, approched them. "Overlord Earthboud." Sakura breathed, bowing and getting up as Syaoran hastened to follow suit. "Yes, Sakura Kinomoto isn't it?" The large dragon asked, his strange light blue eyes, the color of the sky on a cloudless day, blinked slowly. the dragons scales were cold, shimmering and fading to a dark green at the base of his tail. He had two large translucent silver wings and a dimond growing between its eyes. Uneasily, Syaoran noticed its claws.
They were sharp and leathal looking. Its body rippled with muscles as it sat down regally. "Syaoran, this is the lord of all dragons." Sakura said, introducing them." "Earthbound, this is Prince Li, one of the members of the family I must protect." The dragon gave Syaoran a look. "Ah, the famous Li's. Strange how their conquest of destruction meant nothing." Syaoran growled. "What are you talking about?" "You do know about the key and the stone of power? It became a real problem when your Clow Reed messed with nature." Syaoran let out a hiss of outrage. But the dragon flickered out a tounge. "I smell and taste anger in the aura around. Do not be angered, it must've been fate playing with us." The dragon stepped back, chirping in its own language. Sakura nodded, chirping back. "What are you saying?" Syaoran asked, holding the child who hit him with its fists. Syaoran was getting tired of holding the child. "Oh, that Starr should be here anytime now." Sakura replied. "They're sending a few dragons down to bring them here safely." A slender and small dragon came up to them. It was breathtakingly beautiful. She had scales, silverones outlines in gold, her eyes were bright green, liek Sakura's, she had smaller claws and a delicate triangular face. Her wings were transparent and frail looking. A lone dimond grew on its forehead. It chirped happily, motioning towards them. Sakura nodded, chirping back. "That is Silver Jade. She is the queen, the mate of Earthbound. Isn't she beautiful?" Syaoran nodded. The dragons eyes were a similar shade of green, like Sakura's. But Syaoran perferred Sakura's bright green sparkeling eyes. They were more beauti-- Syaoran stopped. He gritted his teeth and diverted his attention from the subject called beauty.
"Yes, she's beautiful..." Sakura sighed dreamily. "I love dragons, don't you?" Sakura didn't wait for an answer this time. "Silver Jade wants to take us to their shelter." Syaoran followed them, eyeing the world around him. There was blooming flowers everywhere. The place smelled faintly like cherry blossoms and honey suckles. Humminbirds, glittering and shimmering under the sun's beams, darted here and there. Syaoran started to notice there was alot of cherry blossom tree's everywhere. Not that he didn't think they were beautiful. But there were so many. They stopped in front of a large hut made of grass and bamboo. Flowers grew all over it, some honeysuckles fell over the large entrance. The female dragon turned, hissing slightly, she said in imperfect mortal language, "Enter." They both obliged. Syaoran stared at the scenery. It was beautiful... and... He stopped. Earthbound sat upon the ground, eating flowers. He stared. "I thought dragons liked to eat mortals." Syaoran said outloud. Earthbound looked up and snorted. "Mortals? Its just a rumor to keep humans away. Of course, not all humans." Earthbound remarked, swishing his tail towards Sakura. "Dragons are partial to honeysuckles, and cherry blossom's are a delicacy, and they are very beautiful... hmm... and an occasional honey, sugar and apples are good. We never eat mortals, we just kill them if they do something to threaten us." Syaoran stared. He always thought dragons were ferocious. Now he looked at Earthbound, and felt like laughing as it delicately munched on a honeysuckle.
Optius looked about. "Look, that must bethe entrance..." "Someone was here before us." Nubis remarked, as he looked down and saw foot prints embedded in the soft moist soil. Optius nodded. "Yes, the stars in front of the entrance is dimming. Usually it becomes bright when soemone first enters..." Optius ran towards the large maghony door, and found it was already open, a tiny bit. He opened the door quickly. The room was an old bedroom. Yet he felt immense power coming from it. He entered and stared. Everything was dusty. There was old bedsheets, the window was broke out and dirt and soil had accumelated outside of it. The room smelled faintly of flowers... lilacs... that was it. There was a large mirror which drew Optius's attention. A handprint was there. Optius stared at it. Someone obviously was here before they were. He suddenly noticed the words surrounding and embedded about the corners of the mirrors.
'Whomever looks into the mirror, will see a truth, or a warning, or success... The key to the stone lies within, but only with a pure heart, a heart of a hero, may be able to get it...'
Optius stared at the mirror. He was falling into a large black hole... Down... down... Until he landed on something soft. Optius got up and saw himself somewhere dark... a graveyard. With sudden suprise, he saw himself sitting in front of him, bowing over a mound. He heard the other Optius crying.
"If only I have not tried to sacrifice you for my own selfish reasons..."
Optius came closer, his eyes intent on the figure weeping.
"If only... If only I have treated you like who you were..."
Optius stared as he read the grave stone. His heart thudded to a sudden stop. It read:
Tyler Yokoshima
It was his grandsons name.
Kero seemed to burst with excietment. "Of course! Li! Li is a descendent of the Clow Reed himself!" He rubbed his hands together. "Oh dear, he must be who master chose as the one to overcome oncoming terror." "Huh? Syaoran?" Kero nodded. "Yes, Syaoran Li. He must be the chosen one!" Kero flew upwards. "Thank you Daiijabou! I'm off to find that Syao dude!" Kero shot off in a twinkling fo an eye. Making Tomoyo blink. The chosen one? Her mind suddenly drew itself towards a legend... a legend she thought would only remain a story... Maybe it was becoming reality? Tomoyo got up, and hurried to tell Eriol.
Syaoran had changed into another pair of clothes. Something more princely in regal. He ate the sweet food the dragons offered him. A crisp white wafer with honey and apples. It was not too appetizing, he yearned for some bread and meat. Something rich and filling... "Sakura!" The dragon next to Syaoran exclaimed. Syaoran looked up, and stared, the small silver spoon dropping from his hands. He was looking at Lady Sakura. Not Sakura the warrior...
'She's beautiful...'
Syaoran thought, his heart thudding against his ribcage as Sakura appeared, wearing a pink and white flowing gown. Her hair washed straight. She was adorned with no jewelery, with no makeup... But why was she so beautiful? Her body was slim, and firm. He watched her warily as she sat down. He never noticed Sakura as a true female before... until now. Syaoran felt his cheeks starting to burn.
'She's a bodygaurd you idiot! YOU'RE A PRINCE!'
He scolded himself, but became another shade of crimson as Sakura's bright and gorgeous green eyes fixtated themselves on him. Her smile was soft and demure. Yet her eyes held the same inner strength he had seen before. She wasn't a lady, yet she was. It was hard to explain...
"Syaoran, are you ready to start training? We need a force to go against Nubis, and the dragons agreed to help us. They have dragon's who can teach us how to combat. They are good."
"I guess so. Hmph, why the heck are you wearing a dress? I thought pants more suited your taste."
Sakura's eyes hardened. "What?!" She screeched, jumping up, startling both Raylight and Earthbound. "HOW DARE YOU!" Sakura shrilled, her face become a ghastly color of red. "ARE YOU CALLING ME A MAN?!" Syaoran didn't want to say yes. "Yes." There was a terrible look of hurt, pain, anger, and sadness in her eyes. "HOW DARE YOU! ARROGANT ROYALTY!" Sakura got up, slammed her dish down, and left, her food untouched. Syaoran felt a horrible guilt prick his heart but he became the same arrogant Syaoran as before.
'Nah... I was just imagining her beauty.'
"Ah, Syaoran, big mistake." Earthbound said, his eyes holding a strange look of amusement and anger. "She's very sensative about that. You should'nt talk like that. Sakura is a beuatiful mortal woman with an even more beautiful soul." Syaoran snorted. Silver Jade started chirping to her husband quickly and angrily and she too left. Raylight looked at Syaoran. "Don't you know... Sakura has a tendency to get mad over such things. She's been hurt more then once kid. If you hurt her, I'll hurt you. And belive me... I will." Raylight got up and left. Syaoran glared at the food before him. "Let us talk a while Prince Li." Earthbound said softly. "I see you for not what your title is. I can see why you act so harshly against her." Syaoran looked up at Earthbound sharply. 'What?!"
Sakura ran out, rage dripping from her like hot liquid wax from a lit candle. "Ooooh! I hate that arrogant prince!" Sakura declared out loud. "I hate him I hate him!" Sakura blew a strand of dissarrayed hair away from her face and sighed. He always blew a nerve in her, it made her want to rip her hair out. She wanted to be nice to him at times, but really, who could be nice to a soourpuss with no manners?! She let out a loud "HHRRUMMP" and stomped a foot, her large green eyes flashing angrily as she sat down in the grass, not noticing the dirt getting on her beautiful dragon silk gown. She didn't care. No one thought her as a lady anyways, so why should she care? Sakura sighed and looked up into the sky, her eyes becoming starry and limpid as she looked at the darkening sky. Small faint stars glistened in the darkening sky, she swore a star winked at her. 'We are the one and only Sakura... don't hate... learn to love...' A tiny sweet voice said in the back of her mind. It reminded her of a star, throbbing with light and power. Sakura felt her hands rest on the locket hidden under her dress. It was playing a sweet tune. Sakura looked down at her locket and popped it open, a small silver star winked at her... Sakura smiled as she felt a faint comfort with this strange object. She closed her eyes, lost in the haunted melody playing from the locket.
A tall black haired man stopped by the large city of Jade. The city of theives they called it. He looked about, looking bedraggled and worse for the wear. Hungry and thirsty, he stumbled towards the inn. Wincing from his side pain, and stumbled on a lady. "Excuse me!" A high voice shrilled. Tory looked confused and looked down and met Purple eyes. The eyes widened. "T-t-tory Kinomoto?!" The girl asked in disbelief. 'It can't be you! Sakura said... I thought..." Tory frowned, stepping away from the beautiful lady. "Whose Sakura?"
To be continued....
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