Hello. Welcome all to the Ball! Yes, this chapter is the one where we all go to the ball! So, put on your gloves, your dress or tuxedo, grab a beautiful partner and lets have some fun!!!!
Disclaimer: I'm too busy dancing to own these stories! I own my big ball gown, it's a beautiful deep purple, and the purple shoes to match, but that's the only thing that I own that has anything to do in with CCS or HP.
By the way, there is a little part where Eriol and the five divas have a little conversation in Japanese. Here's the translation.
Shizukani- be quiet
Demo- but
A New Riddle
Chapter 18
The Ball! J
The Gryffindors weren't talking to Hermione as they all walked down the stairs from Syaoran's old room to the dinning room, where the fifth year Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws were already. They had already chosen out their partners. Straight away, the boys ran over to the girls that they were being put with. The Slytherins, on the other hand, were too busy, trying to talk to Sara.
"I told you that you'd be the Slytherin's most favourite person." Kayne laughed as they walked.
"Really funny." Sara snapped, dodging another Slytherin who stopped to talk to her. "If one more Slytherin dares to come near me, they will suffer in the same way as Malfoy did the other day." All the boys backed off and Sara's temper settled a bit.
"Now, I want the boys to line up in alphabetical order." McGonagall said. The boys took a few minutes, trying to figure it out. Just like how Ron said, he was at the end.
When it was Eriol's time to pick, half of the pretty girls had been taken. Seamus had taken Lavender, and the Patil twins went to some Hufflepuffs. But he knew that he would pick out Tomoyo. It would be hard to break Syaoran's charm, but he wanted to pick out Tomoyo. So when he pulled out her name, he wasn't shocked at all. He smirked and looked at Syaoran before blushing when he looked at Tomoyo who was sitting with some Gryffindor girls.
"Who'd you get?" Syaoran laughed from the line as Eriol passed him.
"Daidouji-san."
"You make it seem like you're not surprised." Eriol made his way over to Tomoyo, she was sitting next to Sakura and Kayne, who were both sitting quite straighter then usual. When he got there, he saw Sara sleeping behind them. He held out the piece of paper to Tomoyo, who blushed instantly.
"I'm your partner." He chuckled.
"Obviously." Tomoyo said.
"I sense Syao-kun all over that piece of paper." Sakura announced with an evil smile that equally matched Eriol's.
"Yes, he did charm it one night. He's an evil little git, eh?" Eriol chuckled again, but it stopped when Syaoran appeared next to him, his face was flushed as he looked at his partner. "Sakura?" Eriol asked Syaoran.
"Hai." Syaoran answered, passing her the paper to Sakura.
"Hiiragizawa." She snarled. "This is
your fault."
"Would you rather be with someone else?" Eriol asked. Sakura groaned and blushed.
"WHAT? Oh hell no!" Draco yelled from the hats.
"Any bet he got Sara." Tomoyo laughed.
"Hmm?" Sara asked from behind them. She heard her name; therefore she was part of the conversation.
"Never mind." Kayne said. "You get back to sleep."
"Okay." Sara moaned. Draco walked up to them, the paper nervously held in his hand, though he didn't know why he was so nervous. It was probably because she was going to be angry with him, even though it wasn't his fault.
"Who'd you get?" Hermione snapped at him.
"Sara."
"Damn." Sara groaned. "I hate you, Tomoyo."
"What do you mean?" Tomoyo asked hurriedly.
"Your aura arrived when he did. He must have been holding something that you had touched a lot or charmed or it had to be you, but you were next to the pink aura all along."
"Auras?" Hermione asked, slightly confused. How could someone his or her age have an aura? It was so strong that someone who was barely awake, therefore hardly concentrating, could sense it, but how could someone sense an aura?
"Every sorcerer and sorceress have one, y'know."
"Oh, and Tomoyo is a sorceress?"
"Well, at least the reincarnate of one." Sara muttered, not knowing that Hermione would understand her. Hermione, as well as Kayne and Draco, stared in shock.
"She-she's delusional. She needs her sleep." Eriol stuttered.
"And you don't believe that there's such thing as reincarnation?" Hermione asked.
"Well, yeah, but not Daidouji Tomoyo. She couldn't be a reincarnation of anyone…"
"Sure. That's why I heard you whisper 'Ayane' on Sunday when Tomoyo parted Harry and Malfoy from their fight. I'm sure Tomoyo couldn't have learnt that trick from Muggles."
"That was quite interesting." Draco agreed.
"M-Millicent B-Bulstrode?" a small voice piped. "Oh, no, I can't,
no. She's far too tall and strong…"
"I'm stuck with that pipsqueak?" Millicent asked, eyeing Neville.
"Poor Neville." Kayne muttered. "Having to be stuck with a Slytherin,"
"Are you Gryffindors too good for a Slytherin?" Draco snapped.
"Yeah." Sara snickered, only to receive weird looks from everyone.
"You're considering yourself a Gryffindor?"
"It's better then following my father."
"He isn't that bad."
"Yes he is." Sara snapped, losing her temper all of a sudden.
"Kayne Host?" Harry asked in surprise as he read his paper out.
"Dream come true, eh?" Sakura laughed.
Harry walked over to them, bashful and blushing, and held his paper out to Kayne. Sara glared at it.
"Did you charm every piece of paper, Tomoyo?" she demanded.
"What's up with you?" Kayne asked.
"I'm too tired. I need more sleep, more energy." Sara moaned and fell back onto the floor again to sleep. Her plans were stopped when she felt Kayne shake her.
"You're not sleeping, they've almost finished."
"They've almost, that means that they haven't finished." Draco snapped.
"Shut up." Harry said.
"I'll say what I want." Draco snapped again, and felt the full force of Harry's fist as he started yet another fight. Every punch, every kick that made contact with the boys resulted in a shriek or a moan from Kayne or Sara.
McGonagall saw the fight out of the corner of her eye and ran over to the two boys, who would not stop fighting; they had the energy and strength of the girls they had links with.
Harry kneed Draco in the stomach, making Draco cough up some blood, along with Sara. Draco, then, punched Harry in the face, making Harry's and Kayne's left eyes swell up slightly.
"Stop it, you two!" Sakura yelled at the two boys.
"Don't you see what you're doing to the girls?" Eriol asked angrily. He knew that Ginny and Harry had a link together, as Draco and Sara did. He knew that the girls felt every bit of their partners' pain. He glanced over at Ginny. She couldn't take pain like Sara could. She didn't have to live through what Sara did. Sara was fine when it came up to pain; Harry fought like a newborn compared to what Sara was used to. But Ginny hadn't been through any sort of torture or anything. She was feeling every bit of pain that Draco caused.
"Go Harry! Yeah! Beat him up like he deserves it!" Ron called from the sidelines, remembering his fight with Draco in the first year where he gave him a black eye while Harry played Quidditch. He did not see the damage that his sister and her 'best friend' were sustaining.
Draco punched Harry again, though it was in the stomach this time, he could have sworn he heard a cry from Kayne, but he ignored it and continued. That was before Harry managed to punch him in the back somehow. Sara's hand instantly flew to her back, where she massaged it a bit, glad that she had been hit there before like that and that she was used to it.
"Boys! I will not have…" McGonagall started before the room turned purple again. All eyes turned to Tomoyo, who certainly wasn't Tomoyo anymore. They all saw the same thing that they saw on Sunday night.
"What did I tell you boys about fighting?" Ayane demanded. She waved her hands and the boys were split apart and slammed against the castle walls, where they stayed, pinned. Ayane looked at them, but then looked at their partners. Kayne was bloody and Sara was bruised. "Look at your partners." She stated. Harry and Draco stared at her, not knowing what she was talking about. "Harry, you look at G-Kayne, Draco, look at Sara. Look at the damage that you both caused them. They suffer each time you get hurt. Draco, you have felt what it's like to feel that pain. Do you not remember when Sara was so weak that she was liable to attack? You felt her pain, now she feels yours. Harry, look at Kayne. See her cuts? Run a hand over where you're bleeding." Harry did as he was told and ran a hand over a cheek. He saw blood smearing across Ginny's face as he did. He looked at Ayane, who was giving him an all-knowing look. "When you were hurt when you were little, it did not count for you two were not near each other. Now that you two are close and have feelings for each other, the link was triggered. Now, Sara and Draco had a different trigger. Although yours is love," Ayane told them, and the two blushed, "theirs is hate. Their hate for each other triggered this link, unlike when they were little where they loved each other like family. Love and hate are the strongest emotions, which make people stronger then what they really are. You four are lucky enough to be part of this cycle that only a few great sorcerers and sorceresses will experience. Now, I will put you two down." The two boys were let down from the walls and they moved off to see their partners and the purple glow left the room.
"Kayne, are you okay?" Harry asked quietly. She nodded her head and it was only then when Harry saw the real damage. Her face was bruised and bloodied, it seemed much worse than his; she had a huge black eye and cuts coming from her cheeks. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have attacked him." Harry said quietly.
"It's cool. We've all wanted to hurt him." Kayne smiled. "It's just too bad that he fought back."
Draco looked at Sara, who had blood coming from her bottom lip; her right eye was bruised and had swelled, her lower back was bruised and the force of Draco's punches had re-broken her hand from when the Hippogriff stepped on it. But her pain was Draco's so his hand was broken, too. "Are you alright?" he asked.
"Perfect." Sara said sarcastically. "Next time you get in a fight, fight against someone who won't fight back."
"I'll remember that."
"Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy, get over here, now!" McGonagall screeched. She looked at them angrily as they walked up to her. "I am very angry and disappointed in you! You're fighting-again! You got away with it last Sunday-everyone was too distressed to worry about your little fight, but when your fighting interferes with Madam Li's traditions while she was so nice to let us come to her castle we can't take it any longer. You will both be in detention tomorrow night. You will be cleaning the castle without magic and if you two fight again, you will also have to clean up the mess tonight."
"But-." Draco started.
"And don't go on arguing it with me or else it'll be a worse punishment." Harry and Draco walked back to their partners where they healed each other. It was rather complicated; Sara and Draco had to heal each other at the same time, as did Kayne and Harry.
~*~
"WAKE UP!!!" Mana demanded Sara. She was back in her bed, in the room she was given before the term started.
"What am I doing here?" she asked tiredly.
"You fell asleep after you and Draco healed each other. He did too, but he didn't sleep as long. They decided to move you up here."
"Right."
"You're really late for the ball."
"Oh well. I wasn't planning on going anyway."
"You have to. Yelan said you had to."
"So?"
"You have to go. Draco's waiting for you."
"And?"
"Please. Tomoyo even dropped off your dress."
"She made me a dress?" Sara asked, looking around the room. She saw a long black dress laid across her desk. She quickly got up and picked it up. It was a beautiful dress that was in a new day kimono style. (Like what Tomoyo and Sakura wore in movie one.)
~*~
Sakura blushed as she saw Syaoran glance at her from the corner of his eye. He had been doing that a lot lately, Sakura thought he didn't like the dress. She was wearing a pale pink dress that was long at the back, yet the front at the legs were cut out. (Just think of the second movie. She's wearing the dress from that and Syaoran's wearing the clothes he wore, except the top is green.) It was nicely finished with red ribbons and two small white wings on her back. Syaoran walked over to Sakura, nervously, and asked her to dance. With 'yes' as her answer, he picked up her hand and rested his other hand on her lower back and started to dance to the music. Eriol had done the same thing to Tomoyo, who was wearing a beautiful heliotrope dress that was very much the same as Sakura's, though full at the front. Eriol was wearing clothes a lot like Syaoran's, though his top was blue.
Meilin was wearing a dress that's like her battle costume, except it was longer in the legs and Tomoyo didn't make it. Fenren insisted that she made her little cousin's dress. She made it go down to her feet with a large slit going down Meilin's left leg. It was deep blood red and wasn't too loose, nor too tight. She was partnered with a quiet Slytherin, if there was such a thing, called Robert Weeds.
Naoko was dancing with a Ravenclaw. Tomoyo had made her a dress that was very simular to her own, except it was light blue. She wore the same three-chained tanzanite gem necklace that she wore at Tomoyo's birthday party. She had also switched her glasses for contact lenses. (God they hurt!)
Tomoyo had somehow managed to even make a suit for Draco. It was exactly the same as Syaoran's and Eriol's, but the top was black, perfect to match with Sara.
~*~
Sara stared at the dress in front of her. It was beautiful, without a doubt, but Tomoyo expected her to wear a dress?
"Oh well, I haven't got any shoes to go with it." Sara said, desperately.
"Tomoyo brought them too." Mana laughed, having heard her thoughts.
"They better not have heels."
"Too bad, they do." He got them out for Sara to look at, then pushed her towards the bathroom, knowing that she had no excuse for not being there. Sara grabbed the dress angrily on her way and with a last growl at Mana, and closed the bathroom door.
~*~
"She's going to be here. Mana promised me that she'd come." Tomoyo said to Draco.
"Like I care." Draco snapped.
"Riiight. That's why you let me make you your clothes."
"Shut up, Mudblood."
"I don't see why you have to be like that to everyone." Tomoyo said quietly and left.
"I advise you do not say that to her anymore." Eriol spoke coolly from behind Draco's seat. He turned to see Eriol glaring at him. "Tomoyo mightn't come from a true bloodline, but she is as powerful and as deadly as you. Remember when Madam Li said that some students could kill Voldemort-I do not fear his name, nor his power- and, Tomoyo is one of them, along with me."
"And why am I supposed to believe that?" Draco snarled.
"I am the reincarnation of a very powerful sorcerer. I wouldn't try showing off in front of me, for I am not very impressed. You can wave you stupid little wand as much as you want, you can say any little charm. I won't be affected. I am much more powerful than that."
"Are you threatening me?"
"You talk to Tomoyo-or any other person with a Muggle background like that again and I will be."
"KAWAII!" five voices screamed from behind them.
"Finally! You took your time." Nakuru giggled.
"Took my time doing what?" Eriol asked, slightly confused.
"You took your time announcing your feelings for Tomoyo-chan, Chibi Clow." Sheifa laughed.
"I didn't…"
"Oh yes you did. You just stood up for her exactly how Syaoran-kun would have stood up for Sakura-chan." Fumie giggled.
"The day has finally come when the great Hiiragizawa Eriol has fallen to Daidouji Tomoyo." Suppi snickered from Nakuru's arms. Eriol glared at him strongly from behind his glasses. "Oo, he's glaring at me, I'm very scared."
"Just you wait. I'll stuff you with chocolate until you die of overdose, Suppi."
"My name is Spinel Sun, not Suppi. How is a Guardian supposed to get any respect around here with a nickname like that? I blame you, Nakuru, for this."
"Why me? Eriol-sama's the one who named you Spinel Sun, not me." Nakuru argued. "And besides, you can't help but make up a cute nickname for a cute guardian, even if he does act like he's got Eriol-sama's staff up his butt."
"I do not. I just don't like acting like a child. Talking about children, why on earth did you tell this one," Suppi said, cocking his head at Draco, "about being a reincarnation of someone?"
"It's because he wanted to look strong and stand up for his kawaii
Tomoyo." Fuutie giggled.
"Shizukani." Eriol growled.
"Demo…." Feimei started, talking in Japanese, as Eriol had started.
"Shizukani."
"Stop it." Draco moaned, not understanding a thing they were saying.
"See, you're not all that good, eh?" Eriol snapped before he felt a tug on his sleeve.
"You, Mr. Hiiragizawa, need to get back to a beautiful woman who has been waiting for you to leave this second rate wizard." Meilin snarled.
"Second rate?" Draco laughed. "I am at the top of my class."
"Second to Hermione Granger at the moment, but then again, Sakura hasn't had time to show off her abilities, and neither has Syaoran, or Tomoyo. I've already done my bit of snooping around." Meilin explained once seeing Eriol's look of confusion. She dragged him back to the corner with all the food and swung him around to Tomoyo.
~*~
Sara looked at herself in the mirror. She had dark lines under her eyes again, no matter how much sleep she got, she was still tired.
"I really don't think I'll survive tonight." She whispered, a hand playing with the black silky material on the side of her leg. It tickled and she wasn't used to wearing dresses. She felt insecure in them; it was just something that happened in the orphanage. The girls went out of their way to stay out of them.
"You'll do just fine." Mana told her, brushing her hair lightly. When it was straight, he put half of it up like when she trains. Sara then walked over to the shoes that Tomoyo had gotten for her. They were about four inches high, (ten centimetres) black and had straps and an open toe. She slipped into them and did them up. She seemed much taller than what she originally did.
"How do I look?" Sara asked in a moan. She really didn't want to go out there.
"You look fine, now get out there before everything's over!" Mana yelled and pushed her out of the room. She couldn't fight, not with herself being that tired. When she got outside her room, she saw a blonde haired man out of the corner of her eye.
~*~
Sakura and Syaoran danced quietly, refusing to look up at each other.
"It's not right to look down while we dance." Syaoran said quietly. Sakura looked up to see him looking down to his side. She giggled a bit.
"You're looking down as much as I am."
"I-no I'm not."
"Yes you are, Li-kun." Sakura giggled. Syaoran groaned and looked back down.
~*~
"Meilin-chan, you didn't have to bring Hiiragizawa-kun here to dance with me." Tomoyo blushed.
"Oh yes I did. He was spending all that time telling Malfoy to get stuffed and not spending any time with you." Meilin snapped, making Tomoyo blush even more and Eriol start his blushing. "Now, I want you two to dance like you should have at your birthday." She pushed Eriol in Tomoyo and walked off casually, checking to make sure that Sakura and Syaoran were still dancing.
There was a loud fit of embarrassed giggles coming from all of the girls in the room as the blonde haired man that Sara saw entered the room, or more or less came out of the shadows he was hiding in. He had short blonde hair, the muscles proved he had great strength; his eyes were a cold blue, yet if you stared hard enough, you could see they resembled a cats'. He was about the same age as Touya, who had sensed something from the guy as soon as he had shown himself.
"Who is he?" a sixth year girl asked another.
"Do you think he's a teacher, or a helper like Touya?" she asked back.
"Do you think he's go out with me?" the first giggled, but the guy just looked around. He knew the person who he was looking for would be there. There was a nagging at the back of his mind telling him so.
It was then that Sara staggered into the room. Still tired, she looked around for somewhere to sit. That was before she saw Kayne run over to her.
"You came! Oh, wow. You look great! Did Tomoyo make that for you?" she asked in a rush.
"Yeah."
"What's up?"
"Nothin'."
"Riiight." Kayne drawled out.
"Not now, Ginny." Sara groaned and tried desperately for the nearest seat.
"Ms. Riddle." Yelan said, appearing out of nowhere. Sara groaned angrily again. "I do believe that you of all people should be celebrating this day. It is the day Ayane Tale died, leaving you the Ayane Cards. Just think, where would you be if it weren't for this day?"
"Back home in the orphanage." Sara said sarcastically.
"Home?" Kayne asked, slightly puzzled. As far as she knew, Sara
had no home; everywhere was just another Hell. "You must be really out of it to
call that Muggle orphanage 'home'.
"Sara, I do think that we should take
you over to your partner who is Draco Malfoy, ne?" Yelan asked before she could
continue.
"Yeah."
"I do think we should take you over to him so you can start dancing…."
"I don't dance." Sara snapped.
"You will tonight."
"Riiight."
"Sara, how much damage could one dance
do?" Kayne asked quietly.
"Do you realise that you are gambling with my pride-which I only have a few strands left of due to that beating I took on Sunday?"
"Yeah." Kayne laughed. Sara was just about to scowl at her when she felt herself being pushed in the back towards a few seats; Draco sat in one of them next to Crabbe and Goyle, who he had called over to protect himself from Eriol.
"Malfoy! Guess who we have for you!" Syaoran's older sisters called out once he was within earshot. Sara groaned quietly and looked away.
"Don't you have someone else to bother?" Sara demanded. "Why isn't Kayne dancing with Potter?"
"They've already danced." Fuutie giggled.
"And Tomoyo-chan taped it all." Sheifa laughed.
"And you are going to give her
something else to tape." Fumie informed Sara, who replied with a groan.
"I am not dancing with that." Sara snapped. She saw Draco pull a face at her. "Child."
"You seemed to like it when we were children." He laughed, standing up.
"I was one!"
"And now you're fifteen…"
"Fourteen. I'm fifteen in December."
"Three months! Big deal!" Draco laughed, but then stopped his laughing when Sara's whole body was pushed onto his. He fell back a bit, though Sara was extremely light for her age. (So am I! I'm fourteen this year and my little sister who's eleven is about the same weight as me.)
"Now, you two are going to dance." Feimei demanded. Sara and Draco glared at her for a while before they actually realised that Draco was still keeping up Sara. He gently pushed her off himself, relieved that this little clash hadn't been seen by anyone else and then held her in the right position for dancing, though it was very much against her will. She was just too tired to do anything about it.
"There you go. Now, if you don't mind, I'll go find Harry again." Kayne giggled and skipped away.
~*~
'Finally, now, keep watch. She mightn't even survive tonight.'
~*~
They were well into a dance when Sara and Draco started to talk.
"You look really tired." Draco said quietly.
Sara smirked. "I thought you were going to say I look good."
"Nah, but anyway, you're not bad, but that's only because you're Lord Voldemort's daughter." Sara sneered at him and tried her hardest to break his hand, which didn't turn out to well. Instead, she had used up most of her remaining energy and collapsed on Draco. His arms that had completely wrapped around her back were the only things keeping her up. "S-Sara!"
Sakura's head, along with Syaoran, Tomoyo and Eriol pricked up, sensing Sara being weakened. They all made their way over to the linked pair to see Draco lying Sara down gently on the ground. Kayne saw them all walking around and saw it, too.
"Professor!" Tomoyo called out to Professor McGonagall who was the closest teacher there.
As the crowd thickened, the blonde man heard that voice; it was getting stronger. He fought to keep him from coming out. When his contradictory came out, the blonde man would end up in a dark place; bad things happen though. He knew it. And his opposite took over for months on end.
He was planning to again.
'No! I won't let you out again!' the blonde man wailed in his mind. He could feel his opposite surfacing. He could feel the darkness returning. 'I only just came back!'
'It's too late now, Jay.'
A bright light shone from Jay. It was just so bright. Everyone had to close his or her eyes. It was never like this, though. The first time Jay was taken over was so painful, but he didn't shine. When the voice had finally taken over, everyone could open his or her eyes again, but it was useless to see what had happened, because there was a silver flash and the blonde man, also known as Jay, and Sara had both disappeared.
~*~
CLIFFY! Well, that was my best shot at a cliffhanger (Or at least I think so!)
Sorry that was soooooooooooooooo short.
Who's Jay? And what's up with Sara? Big scary.
Okay, about the death. Not every future is the same. So in one lifetime, that person might have died but wasn't reborn.
KawiiKairiTenshi: I try really hard to update quickly. Really! And your guess is pretty close!
Lady-Tomoyo: PLEASE KEEP REVIEWING!! I love your reviews. When people review then I know what I have to be careful with and that. I am also dead serious about the prequel and sequel.
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