New Year was creeping closer and closer. It was only a day away now. Chloe had been promised Sakura was better but hadn't been allowed to go in and see her so as far as Chloe was concerned she could be dead and they were just telling her that Sakura was fine.

Chloe turned the corner to waterfront road, where she had met Rhys again. Chloe blushed and felt very guilty. She had promised Rhys she wouldn't walk the streets of Hong Kong on her own again after the mugging/harassment thing that had happened the night Sakura had been attacked, two days ago.

Well tonight she would be fine. She had pepper spray and lots of sharp pointy objects, and would have no problem hurting the person most of those pointy objects were intended for. That boy with the red eyes, and they weren't red because he was tired, unlike Chloe, they were unnaturally red.

Eriol had been looking this type of thing up, but had no luck. If only he knew, Chloe thought and sighed. She really hated her life sometimes. And in a horrible way she hoped Sakura wouldn't feel the same way as she did when she had fully recovered.

A cool breeze blew across her. She honed her senses on it closing her eyes. She wasn't alone. She carried on down the street taking long slow steps, stalking along like a predator. She wouldn't be made into prey.

Her had slipped into her bag and grasped a pouch within it. She kept walking picking up the pace and opened the pouch with her hand and took a pinch of the powder within out, trying to work out where her follower was. She stopped suddenly, and looked behind her and above her. No one was there and she could no longer sense him or her. Not that she had been able to in the first time she had probably just jumped to conclusions.

She sighed and shrugged again, double checking above her and then taking her had out of her bag after sealing the pouch again. She took another step forward and instantly fell back, her arm being caught and stabilising her before she hit the floor. When she looked up she was quite surprised at who she saw.

"Uh.Hi" she said nervously. No wonder she sensed the being above her she thought as she gazed on the person in front of her. She smiled nervously, but only a pair of icy eyes gazed back. The mans hand reached out and wrapped round her waist.

"NO, NO, NO!" Chloe told him pushing his hand away. "I'm not going back not yet!"

"And what do you think you will accomplish on your own?" Yue asked her staring down at her his feet hovering two inches from the floor. He folded his arms and looked very disapproving. Chloe stared back and raised an eyebrow.

"Who else is looking for me?" she asked him.

"Everyone." He stated.

Chloes' face set, didn't they trust her! She wasn't going to have it. Didn't they trust her, didn't they understand she could look after herself?

"Go Home." She stated to him her hand slipping back into her bag and the pouch. Yue reached his arm out again but she took a step back out of his reach. "Without me" she added. Yue shook his head.

"I promised my master I would bring you back."

"Sakura? No one trusts me do they?" she said raising her voice a little at the end. "Go home. Now." Her fingers clasped a pinch of the powder and her had raised out of her bag again slowly and down to her side. Yue shook his head once more and floated forward to take her arm again.

"I'm Sorry." She whispered and flung the pinch of powder into the air around Yues face. Yue paused the carried toward her then fell to the ground unconscious. Chloe stepped over him and then ran away from the waterfront. The powder was like a knock out pill. It would knock out a regular human for hours but a magical being, two minutes Max, good enough for a quick getaway in a tough situation.

She sped round a corner and down the main street past all the people about to go pubbing and clubbing for the evening, dressed in all the latest fashions laughing and talking without a care. Chloe sped past all of them her black boot heals clicking on the floor. She rounded the another corner and slammed into someone and fell backwards onto the floor. A second later she heard a thud where the other person hit the floor as well.

"Sorry" she mumbled as she got up. Rubbing the bottom of her back where she had hit the floor.

"Its okay. Its Fun bumping into you all the time, although a little painful this time." a familiar voice said. Chloe looked up and straight into Rhyss' brilliant brown eyes. "Are you okay?" he asked her taking her hand and looking at a small scratch apon it.

"I'm fine." She told him hand pulled her hand away slightly.

"How's your head? From the other day." He asked smiling.

"Much better. Thank you." Chloe told him smiling. "What are you doing in town?"

"We were about to go out. What about you you're not on your own are you?"

"Yeah I just needed some air."

"And a jog?" Rhys asked. Chloe smiled and laughed nervously. "Do you want to join us?" Rhys asked as a group of people came toward them.

"I don't have anything to wear." Chloe insisted.

"Never mind honey" a girl from the crowd said smiling at her. Bitchiness literally oozed from her. "Who's this Chinese ditz Rhys?" the girl asked turning to him and speaking in English. Chloes eyes narrowed and she turned to the girl.

"My Name is Chloe Nonaka, and you'd do well to use it." Chloe told her in English, there was a hint of annoyance in her voice. "And I'm not a ditz"

The girl was taken back and just stood there blinking while another girl with dark hair and black eyeliner on stepped forward. Chloe stood her ground. If these girls wanted a fight she wouldn't step down.

"Nonaka Huh?" the girl said looking her up and down and walking round her sizing her up, but not in a way she expected. "So what size are you? British size 10?"

"Yes" Chloe said not taking her eyes off the girl, but clearly looking a little confused.

"That's good. My flat is just a road away, I have some clothes you can wear." Chloes expression softened, but still looked a little confused.

"Its okay I should be going" Chloe told her.

"No I insist." The girl told her "its pretty clear you're wanted around. I'm Jen Askew, you can call me Jen if you want, or by my last name if you feel more comfortable.

It's pretty clear I'm wanted around? What does she mean by that? Chloe thought.

"Well Jen I couldn't really." Chloe stopped seeing Syaoran and Meiling walking down the street looking amongst the crowds. ". but if you insist" Chloe said and let Jen whisk her away.

"We'll see you in there!" Jen called back. Chloe kept her head down on the way to the flats narrowly avoiding Kero-Chan just as they got there. She fumed at how her friends didn't trust her well tonight she was just going to have fun. She hadn't been out in ages. She wasn't going to be able to look for red eye boy but she'd get to spend an evening with Rhys, which made her fell. floaty at a guess.

"Make yourself at home" Jen told her as she opened the door. "So how old are you Nonaka?"

"Sixteen." Chloe replied looking at photographs on the walls hung in their frames proudly on display. "Seventeen in April"

"An Aries then? How'd you know Rhys?"

"Were friends. From a while back." Chloe watched Jen disappear into another room and emerge with a handful of clothing. Most of it black.

"Well have a raid through that. You should find something you'd wear."

"Actually tonight I'd thought I'd change my style a bit." Chloe said picking up a few things.

"Go for it girl and when your ready I'll do your make up"

"Make up?"

"You don't wear make up?"

"Not a lot" Chloe told her nervously

"Brilliant! A fresh canvas! I'll find my camera" Jen said excitedly and then from the look on chloes face added "I'm training to become a make up artist I need to find models and take pictures for my portfolio"

Chloe smiled Jen was truly a Kind person, she treated Chloe like she had known her for years unlike the bitchy blonde back in the street.

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Chloe entered the club with flawless confidence, Chloe felt like a completely different person and by the look on Rhys and his peers faces they quite surprised. Jen had done a superb job of chloes make up and hair. Jen had been so pleased with herself and had taken so many pictures of her creation, and a few before to show the change.

Chloe felt powerful. All the men in the club had turned their heads to get a better look at her, a lot of women were getting a bit jealous. She stopped in front of Rhys, Jen stood to his right, who had entered the club before so no one really knew what Chloe looked like at that present moment.

Chloe didn't smile as she stood allowing the group to look her over. From her black high healed boots she began with to the deep red trousers and Black tank top. On her left arm she wore a black lace glove with no fingers to it that went halfway up to her elbow.

The group just blinked Rhys stared at her face Chloe could tell he thought she looked familiar but couldn't tell why. Jen had swept chloes hair across her face like a long fringe and it was amazing how by just changing your parting how different you could look.

Chloe Showed a small smile at Rhys and a mix of complete and utter surprise flooded his face.

"Chloe! Is that you?" he asked over the loud music. Chloe just smiled. "You look. you look. so different"

"Is that a bad thing? Do I look odd?" she asked him the Chloe he knew coming into view.

"No." he told her "You look Stunning"

"So buy her a drink" Jen interjected "it's a rule. The guy buys the girl a drink they dance, and then more drinks"

Rhys turned to Jen with a smile on his face "Jennifer, You are an alcoholic" he told her

"Yeah but what can you do?" she said in a jokeish voice shrugging her shoulders and wandered off to the group.

Chloe smiled to Jens' retreating back and then felt a hand on her arm. Rhys stood there smiling and then placed his hand on her back. He led her across to the bar and sat down on a seat Chloe sat next to him.

"Two Vodka and oranges please" he said and turned to Chloe "if that's okay with you. Every drunk alcohol before?" Chloe shook her head at him "In that case Two orange juices instead. I'll not drink until this beautiful lady is ready to." Chloe felt her face get hot and red. Oh No I'm Blushing! She thought in a panic. She looked down but felt Rhys hand raise her chin until she looked at him.

"You really have grown into a stunningly beautiful woman Chloe, you shouldn't be embarrassed when someone just says the truth." Rhys told her and smiled, Chloe couldn't help but go a brighter shade of red but smiled all the same. Tonight was going to be brilliant.

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By midnight Chloe had been introduce to a lot of alcohol. Rhys had introduced her to Vodka and Oranges, Kassie had introduced her to Bacardi, Kay had introduced her to Malibu, and Jen had introduced her to Larger, bitter, beer, archers, smirnof and some other things but she couldn't remember their names right now. Although she had only had a tiny sip of all of these she felt quite tipsy and sat at the bar with an orange juice while the others danced.

She stirred her straw round the orange liquid staring into it. She saw someone sit beside her out of the corner of her eye and looked up expecting it to be Rhys but was sent into a panic when she saw who it was. The boys smiled down onto her Crimson eyes blazing. This wasn't a good time, she could barely fight him when she wasn't tipsy let alone when she was.

She opened her mouth to shout for Rhys or one of his friends but the boy placed his finger over her mouth.

"Shhh." He whispered. "Look at you. Re-inventing yourself? That outfit really does make you look quite stunning."

Chloe reached for her bag but the boy grabbed her hand before it got there and she was forced to look him in the eyes. His grip was tight but not painful, it was quite gentle.

"No you don't" he told her "I've seen the effects of that power on your friends guardian. You really are more powerful than I would have imagined Chloe. You always seam to surprise me." His finger trailed down from her lips and across her jaw line.

She pulled her arm free from his grasp with ease mainly because he let go of her. Her fist balled tightly, but the boy just shook his head.

"I'm not going to fight you tonight Chloe. I could kill you this very second but I'm not an unfair man. When we are on more even grounds maybe. I mean I don't want to have to fight you unless I have to." He told her and leaned in closely to her ear. "You know who I am don't you?" he whispered Chloe nodded now staring over his shoulder. "So when the time comes will you be able to kill me?"

The Boy drew away and stared into her shocked green eyes. He smiled powerfully and got up from the seat. Chloe watched him for a second and then saw where he was walking to and sprang up from her seat and ran after him. He drew his Crimson Sword and looked into the groups of frightened people around him, not even the bouncers dare come near him.

He strided forward and the crowd parted in his wake. He stopped in front of Jen who looked petrified. Chloe forced her way through the crowd, but she wouldn't be quick enough if they didn't let her through. She push harder on the groups in front of her, she would lose another friend.

He raised his sword and was ready to strike when someone stepped in front of Jen. OH NO! Chloe thought and stood still closing her eyes for a second then rushed forward again, the spell she had just recited in her mind moving the crowd slightly for her.

"You?" The boy said to Rhys who stood in the path of the Crimson blade and Jen. His eyes were set and he didn't look afraid. The boy almost laughed.

"Leave her" Rhys told him.

"Okay." The boy said lowering his sword. Everyone seamed to breath a sigh of relief except Rhys, he still stood eyes set and determined. The Crimson eyed boy grabbed Rhyss' throat a second later and threw him across the room making him crash into a pillar and then followed Rhys with powerful strides and stood above him grinning.

"I'll have more fun killing you anyway." The Blade rose again and swept down toward Rhys, but never made contact, within a split second two bodies lay on a heap on the floor in front of him, one was his attacker and the other was.

"Chloe!" Rhys yelled as the boy threw her off and into a different post, she smashed into it with a tremendous force that post bent slightly.

"I said I didn't want to have to fight you on uneven terms." The red eyed boy told her stalking toward her expecting her to stay down but she was up again in an instant. "but since you clearly want to." His eyes brightened a force radiating from them. He muttered a word but Chloe dodged his attack, which hit the post instead snapping it in two.

He continued with the same attack snapping posts and fortunately narrowly missing people.

"Face it Chloe you have nothing to hit me with" he told her blade glowing.

"Wanna bet?" she said and pointed upwards. The boy looked up and levitating above his head was a barstool. Which instantly dropped on his head knocking him to the floor, Chloe took the opportunity and ran forward the pouch in her hand she stood above him and as soon as he removed the stool from his head poured the entire contents over his head. He dropped unconscious for a few seconds then began to stir again.

There was nothing else to do Chloe ran for the door, crowds parting quickly for her and the Crimson eyed boy now in furious pursuit. The powder should have knocked him out for an hour! He was too powerful. She ran down the streets the boy in chase and gaining on her every second, but she had to do this it was her only choice to keep him away from all those innocent people. She turned a corner and activated a spell that radiated a bright white light from her that reached up above her, invisible to all eyes except one pair, so her pursuer would have no idea.

She looked up into the sky, he attacker closing distance slowly and suddenly she saw another bright white light rise to the sky, she knew the area they were in, she de activated her light yet the other stayed bright and stopped in one place. Now to create a little distance. Chloe concentrated as hard as she could and the boy stopped running and began hitting the air in front of him. She had created a temporary invisible wall but it would fall any second with out her concentrating.

She turned onto the waterfront and dashed quickly down it. When the boy turned the corner his eyes opened in shock and then a split second later was hit by a powerful spell that sent him flying backwards three meters into a lamp post and tumbling to the ground. When he looked up he saw the golden staff glowing in the moonlight decorated with a sun symbol at the top. The boy holding it was at least a year older than Chloe with bright blue eyes and dark hair dressed in ancient robes.

The crimson-eyed boys' eyes narrowed and his sword quickly disappeared from sight. He stood and began vaporising saying one word directed at Chloe.

"Bitch."

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