Chapter 6
Mysteries of the Descendant Li
SL: HEY! I'm sooooo sorry! Here's chapter 6! It's finally here! No homework, and Internet not working so I am TOTALLY bored. So I decided to post up this chapter! Hope you enjoy…
From Chapter 5
"Hey Chloe! Michelle! Did you have fun?" Syaoran said picking up Chloe from the floor. She was watching the little toys that have objects hanging from a thing.
"Mommy! Look! I made a picture!" Michelle said holding up her picture.
Sakura gasped as she took the picture from Michelle's tiny hands.
"Syaoran! Look! It's a picture of Clow Reed, Michel, Brishina…
Chapter 6
Mysteries of the Descendant Li
"Oh my gosh! How does Michelle do this?" Sakura said grabbing the picture and shoving in Syaoran's face. He looked at the picture. It was definitely Clow Reed Michel and Brishina, but who was that girl in the background?
"Hey Sakura…whose that?" he said pointing out the small figure.
"Hmm…I dunno…it looks kind of like Michelle. I don't get it. How does she do this? She must have some special ability. Like my dreams, she must just think it or something. We should ask Eriol." Sakura said picking up the phone. Syaoran stopped her hanging up the phone.
"I'm tired of it, Sakura. We've been together almost every day since we got back here. Can we please just have a day to ourselves?" Syaoran said taking the picture from her. Sakura smiled and nodded.
"Ok. I'm going to take a nap then." Sakura said heading towards their room. He watched her leave and close the door and turned towards his daughters.
"Daddy! Come play! Michelle said dragging him into the toy room. He sighed.
'Life will never be the same. Sakura's to depressed. Tomoyo and Eriol are just married and have to go through all this and I'm the one that never gets my own time! I really need a life!' Syaoran thought to himself as he played with Chloe on his lap. Michelle played with her dolls and dollhouse. Sakura yawned as she came out and stretched.
"Afternoon, Sleepy!" Syaoran smirked.
"Afternoon Dopey!" Sakura shot back. "Did you put the Chloe down for a nap?"
"Oops. Sorry. Do that now!" he said taking Chloe out of the room.
"Hey Michelle. You know the picture you drew earlier?" she nodded. "Who were the people in the picture?"
"Ummmm…the lady was Brishina and the two guys were Michel
and Clow Reed."
"How do you know all that? Do you them? What do you know about them?" she asked.
"Well…when we were visiting Auntie Tomoyo and Uncle Eriol I had a bad dream. You and daddy were asleep so I went downstairs. Uncle Eriol was reading and I asked him about my bad dream and he thought that he should tell me about everything, I knew most of it but not all so he told me. He explained how you're a cardcapi…a cardcap…
"A Card captor?"
"Yeah! That…and how you guys all have special powers and how me and Chloe have some to!" Michelle finished. Sakura nodded.
"Who was the girl in the background?"
"Remember, I have some to…I had a weird dream and it wasn't moving it just showed the three people and then it showed me in the background in a costume and holding a wand."
"Does Eriol know about that dream? How come you haven't been telling me!" Sakura said sitting down beside her daughter.
"No, I never told him yet.
And I never told you or daddy because you guys are always so busy with
grow-up stuff and never have time for Chloe or me. You guys stick us with baby-sitters or grandpa. (SL:
What's that in Japanese!) You
guys are hardly there. You're out
helping with the wedding or Uncle Touya capturing his cards, and we can never
tell you. I can tell Uncle Eriol 'cause
he'll listen." Michelle said looking down.
Sakura frowned and burst into tears as she picked up her daughter.
"Michelle…I never knew! I'm so sorry!" she said giving her a big bear hug.
"S'okay mommy." She smiled hugging her mommy. 'Hopefully now she can less worry about her Sakura Cards!'
Syaoran came in and stared at his daughter and wife.
"What's wrong?" he asked kneeling down beside the two.
"Nothing." Sakura sniffed. "Michelle…I promise I'll spend more time with you…Can I just spend some time with Daddy. When Chloe wakes up we can go out for dinner ok!"
"K Mommy!" Michelle said turning back to her toys.
Sakura sighed and smiled as she felt Syaoran hug her from behind.
"Come on." Sakura sniffed and followed.
"What was wrong with her?" he asked closing and locking the door, joining Sakura on the bed.
"She felt as if we never spent enough time with her and Chloe. She would always go to Eriol for advice and tell him about her prophetic dreams that she's been having and…" she continued what Michelle had showed her.
Syaoran smiled. "I'm sure she'll be fine. We can spend lots of more time with her, before we start training of course and then when we go and get the Sakura cards and deal with Brishina and then we can TRY and live a normal life!" Syaoran smiled his rare smile, made just for Sakura. She always loved it and melted as she leaned over and kissed him.
~~~***Hiirigiwaza Mansion***~~~~
"Do you think this is to mean?" Eriol said staring into space, Tomoyo cuddled next to him and reading a book.
"Hmmm, what?"
"Doing this to Sakura and Syaoran, and Michelle."
"Well…yeah, but still."
"I never expected it to either. I knew it would sooner or later but not sooner." Eriol said still looking, he sighed and looked down at Tomoyo.
'If only she knew…'
~~~***That Night---6PM***~~~
Sakura and Syaoran opened the door to their room and Sakura went to get Chloe and Syaoran to get Michelle.
"Hey Michelle." He said looking into her room.
"Hey daddy! We going to go now!" she said putting down her pencil crayons.
"Yup! Mommy's going to go and get Chloe changed. Do you wanna help her?" he asked knowing she loved being a big sister.
"Sure!" she said jumping up off her chair and racing out. He tentively stepped into her room and carefully picked up the picture. Another picture. He reached into his pocket and saw the other picture gone. He left the picture and found the other in his room and quickly went back to Michelle's. He put it next to her newly made one. All of them had Michelle in the background. Each also had exactly 7 stars in the black sky and beside Michelle, Michel, Clow Reed and Brishina were Sakura, Syaoran, Tomoyo, Eriol, Chloe, Touya, and Yukito. And each had a little picture of the Hope Card in the corner.
He took the two and stuffed them in the back pocket and joined Sakura and the kids in the hall.
"Ready?"
"Yup! Let's go!" he said. The family spent the next two hours at one of the favourite kid places in town. It had games, food, and pizza and any kid loved it. Once they got home, they were all happy, and tired. Michelle had a bath and went to bed after thanking Sakura. Chloe was fed and put to bed soon after and Sakura fell onto the bed as Syaoran closed the door and sighed.
"Tired?"
"Is it that obvious?"
"Gonna take a shower?"
"Yup." Sakura said jumping up and grabbing her pyjamas and running into the
bathroom in their room and came out 25 minutes later, dressed, dried and
looking happy.
"Better?"
"No." she smiled plopping beside him.
"Now?"
"Yeah." He smiled and hugged her as she rested her head on his chest. She sighed. "Do you think life could ever be normal? We have magic, so do our kids. Eriol and now Tomoyo have powers, we are always fighting and it always brings us down some way or another. It's getting old and annoying!" Sakura said snuggling into him more.
"Maybe." He said running his hand through her hair. "We all have powers and we were destined to do this. Maybe if we go though all this we can get it over with and live normal life's."
"But what about the Sakura Cards. They don't just sit there doing nothing. They have to play a role in this some how!"
"Well, eventually, after all this…defeating Brishina and stuff we will find the new mistress or owner of whatever the cards." He said casually, regretting it.
"But I don't want the cards to leave me!" Sakura said looking up.
"Sorry, don't worry! Maybe they just are handed down and Michelle or Chloe will get them!"
"Probably Michelle. She seems to know a lot!"
"DUH! She's my kid, and I'M helping raising her. It's going to be hard for her once she gets into Kindergarten. She'll be WAY ahead of everyone, the way she is now!"
"Maybe she'll skip a grade!"
"Well, whatever happens, she doesn't get her smartness from you!" Syaoran smiled. Sakura slapped him playfully and soon the two fell asleep in each other's arms.
The next morning Sakura woke up to a ringing noise. Hitting around she started hitting the unknown object.
"We need a new alarm clock, this one's broken!" Sakura mumbled opening her eyes.
"We don't have an alarm, answer the phone!" Syaoran said turning to look at her. Sakura sighed and answered.
"Moshi Moshi. Li residence, Sakura-desu." Sakura said mumbling into the phone.
"Morning Sakura! I hope I didn't wake you up." Said a voice from the other end.
"Morning Tomoyo. No you didn't. What's up?"
"Yeah right. Well,
apparently Eriol's been doing his research and he found the exact way of
getting into the next dimension. He
also wants you four over here in an hour to catch our plane."
"PLANE!" Sakura said panicky jumping out of bed.
"Yeah, we're going to Hong Kong!"
"NANI!"
"Yup! Be here in an hour. We'll have three hours to explain and get to the airport." Tomoyo said.
"OK! See you soon! Ja ne!" Sakura said before hanging up.
"JA NE!"
Sakura sighed. Yep, definitely not normal. Well…sort of!
"UP UP UP! We have an hour to get to Eriol's and catch a plane!" Syaoran grumbled as he got out of bed and stumbled to the washroom.
Sakura dragged two suitcases out of the closet and started to stuff clothes and other stuff. She sighed and laid her wand on top before putting the Sakura and Syaoran bear on top and closing it. Stuffing the other with more clothes, she grabbed some of Chloe's and Michelle's and other stuff. She opened her half empty closet and saw Syaoran's sword, Lasin board (SL: Spelling?) and Elemental cards. She smiled and carefully placed them on top and zipped it up. Pulling on a pair of jogging pants and a light sweater she ran to Michelle's room, leaving clothes for Syaoran on the unmade bed. Peeking in she saw Michelle, dressed, colouring and a backpack beside her table.
"What are you doing?" Sakura asked sweetly.
"Colouring and waiting to go."
"How did you…"
"I heard you scream it." Michelle said giggling.
"Ok…and the backpack?"
"Stuff for on the plane and when visiting Grandma!"
"Ok…I'll go get Chloe and make a quick breakfast."
"K!"
"She's way to smart. I'm definitely getting Yelen to test her. She can't be five and be so smart!" Sakura opened Chloe's door and saw her sitting up in her crib.
"Morning sweetie!" she said picking her up. (SL: Sitting up? Time flies in fanfics! It's my fic so dun flame me! She's just say…ugh…4 months? So it's like…September…yeah…I think…so Michelle has to start soon! Uh oh…lol…Anywayz…)
"Time to get you ready to go!" Sakura said setting her down on a change table and taking out some clothes from a dresser and quickly changing her. Pulling out some small toys she put them in a small backpack for Chloe, picked her up and ran out to the kitchen. Syaoran was standing their making some eggs.
"THANK-YOU! I never would have been finished in time!" Sakura said setting Chloe in a high chair. He nodded and as he pulled out some plates and set some eggs on them and gave them to Sakura. The three quickly ate as Sakura helped Chloe and then cleaned up.
"Ready!" Sakura said setting Chloe in a stroller and getting all the suitcases together.
"Yeah…let's go!" he said.
~~~***15 minutes later***~~~
Tomoyo sighed looking out the window. 'They're gonna be late!' She saw a car pull
up and smiled. Running into the hallway
she opened the door to let Michelle in who grabbed her leg.
"HIIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!" Michelle screamed hugging Tomoyo.
"Hey Michelle. Excited?"
"YUP!" Syaoran, Sakura and Chloe came in.
"Eriol's in library. Come on." She said, the four followed behind her.
Eriol looked up and smiled at Michelle.
"Hi Uncle Eriol!" Michelle said scrambling into his lap. "Guess what! I had two more dreams! Except this time they moved and…" she looked at her parents and frowned.
Sakura smiled and told her to keep going.
"Well…the first one had a picture of Michel, Clow Reed, Brishina and me. They were fighting kind of. The second one did the same thing but after it showed me, mommy, daddy, Chloe, You, Tomoyo and Yukito."
Eriol nodded and smiled. "You're a very smart girl!" She smiled triumphantly as she joined Tomoyo sitting on the couch. Eriol motioned for Sakura and Syaoran to sit.
He paused and went on, "Yelen called. She sensed a lot of danger coming and that everyone should be together. She also wants to see Michelle and the elders…want to…have her tested." He stopped and looked at Sakura.
"You mean…the same test I took when I got married to Syaoran?"
"And the test I took the year before I moved back here?" The two looked at each other.
"SHE'S WAY TO YOUNG!" the two blurted out.
"She could get hurt!" Sakura screamed.
"She may not be strong enough!"
"Can I make her a costume?" Tomoyo said. The three glared at her. "WHAT! Just asking!"
"We'll talk about it later! We've must go and meet Touya at the airport. We're meeting Yukito in Hong Kong." Eriol said standing up.
Sakura glanced up. "We get to see Yuki again! YAY!" she squealed jumping around. Everyone rolled their eyes and gathered up their stuff and put it into a limo. Nakura came out with Spinel Sun, and put a suitcase in the trunk and joined the 6.
"This isn't going to be fun!" Sakura sighed closing her eyes and leaning on Syaoran. He nodded.
They arrived at the airport and got out. Once inside they saw Touya waiting patiently on a bench.
"Where's your stuff?"
"Already put it on the plane. Hurry or you'll be late!" Touya said pushing Sakura to the counter.
~~~***10 minutes later***~~~
Sakura settled Michelle by the aisle her in the middle, and Chloe beside her in a little seat, beside Tomoyo. Eriol, Syaoran, Touya and another man sat on the other side.
"Welcome to Flight 1678, from Japan to Hong Kong. Please take a seat and buckle up for safety. The flight will be three hours long, depending on the weather. Please, sit back and enjoy the flight." A woman said over the intercom.
"Sakura, do you think Michelle will be able to pass the test?" Tomoyo asked looking at the sleeping girl.
"I dunno. Remember, we've only actually trained her three times and tested her abilities once and she was 4 then. A year ago. She could have advanced so much since then! I'm just wondering whose going to have to test her…" Sakura wondered.
"Hey gaki…do you know whose testing Michelle?" Touya asked.
"No…and DON'T call me that! Eriol had the plans…I just followed." He said glancing at the man beside him.
Later on Syaoran and Eriol were basically the only ones awake on the plane. Everyone had fallen asleep.
"I don't trust that guy. He looks really similar to Michel." Eriol said looking at the man beside Syaoran. He shrugged glancing at him.
"There's only one way to find out and there's no way!" Syaoran said. Eriol smirked looking at his descendant.
"NO! NO WAY!"
~~~***Flashback***~~~
Syaoran followed the man out of the room. The other man led Sakura out 5 minutes later and before Syaoran was pushed back into the room and locked in he glanced at the man beside Sakura. A black tattoo with a snake and two circles were on his arm. Before he could get a closer look he was locked in.
~~~***End Flashback***~~~
"How do I get myself into these things!" Syaoran said as he carefully lifted the man's sleeve of the t-shirt. "It's not there!" Syaoran whispered.
"Try the other arm!"
"NO!"
"YES!"
"NO!"
"YES OR I TELL SAKURA WHAT YOU DID THE DAY WE…" Eriol threatened.
"OK OK OK! Just don't tell her!" Syaoran grumbled in a whisper carefully reaching for the man's other sleeve. Carefully he leaned against the seat in front of him and reached for it. He slowly lifted it and saw the snake and two faint circles. The man grumbled and his eyes fluttered opened. Syaoran instincts kicking in, flopped back onto the seat and pretended to be sleeping. The man looked around and saw Eriol who was leaning forward, trying to watch Syaoran and glared at him. Eriol smiled innocently. The man continued to glower at him and began to speak.
'Guess that doesn't work on him!' "Umm…I think I'll be just going now…to much caffeine…need a washroom break…SAYANARA!" Eriol said before tripping and stumbling over Syaoran and Touya to get out and ran to the back on the plane. The man grumbled and checked his sleeve.
'Guess they may have discovered me. But oh well…the plan is falling perfectly into place. Brishina will be so happy!' Michel thought before falling back asleep.
~~~***Li Estate***~~~
"ME!" Syaoran screamed. Sakura, Tomoyo, and Eriol watched Syaoran pace around the room. "There is NO way I'm am testing her! The clan must be crazy to think I'm going to test my daughter! I could hurt her or something!"
Eriol smirked. "If you keep pacing like that you'll wear a hole in the ground!"
"Shut up Hiirigiwaza! I don't need your smart remarks now!" Eriol shrugged and Syaoran went back to pacing.
The seven had arrived an hour earlier. Touya had gone to pick up Yukito as soon as they had arrived at the estate. They were waiting in the living room for Yelen and Syaoran's sisters to come. Sakura was a little nervous. Don't get her wrong, his sisters were awesome and really nice, but were way to hyper. They hadn't seen them in three years and they hadn't even met four month Chloe yet. Michelle looked at her dad and giggled.
"Daddy looks funny, mommy!" Sakura smiled and looked down at the smiling Chloe who was sitting in Sakura's lap.
Yelen, Fuutie, Fanren, Shiefa, and Xiefa (SL: Correct or wrong?) walked in and sweatdropped at their brother's behaviour but then turned to "kawaii mode".
"LITTLE BROTHER! You've grown so much! Look at you!" they all squealed glomping him.
"Get…off…me…" Syaoran yelled pushing them off. They turned to Tomoyo and Eriol and squealed at how they were such a kawaii couple and perfect for each other and how Tomoyo and Eriol had grown into such kawaii people. They then turned to a frightened Sakura holding a smiley Chloe and a bubbly Michelle.
"HIIIII KAWAIIERS!" The four looked at each other and screamed, almost making the windows shatter. Syaoran rolled his eyes feeling sorry for Michelle who stood still as the sisters hugged, kissed, pinched and messed up her hair. After that died down Sakura found Chloe out of her arms and the four sisters squabbling over who got to hold her and hug her next. Sakura sighed, stood up and smiled at Yelen.
"Welcome back to Hong Kong Sakura. I'm sorry to have called you here and such
short notice, but Eriol has been keeping an update on what has been
happening. He also said that your
brother has finished capturing all his cards and transforming them." She said
standing next to Sakura. Sakura's mouth
dropped open.
'Why hasn't Touya told me any of this?' She quickly closed her mouth and nodded.
Touya and Yukito walked in glancing at the crowd.
"Oh, no, not these girls again!" Touya said rolling his eyes. Yukito just smiled as hey quickly lost interest in Chloe and lots in the two boys. Fanren, currently holding the still happy Chloe gave her to Yelen who smiled holding Chloe. Yelen sat down and played with her while the four daughters squealed and commented on Touya and Yukito.
"Has the whole world gone mad!" Syaoran screamed throwing up his hands and stomping out. Sakura shook her head at the floor. Eriol was right, there was a hole in the ground!
Sakura peeked outside and saw Syaoran standing looking out at the view of the estate.
"Honey…is everything okay? You seem more nervous then when Michelle and Chloe were born."
He looked up and shook his head. "I just don't want to test Michelle I don't think she's ready for it."
"But she could be a really big help! When we go to get the Sakura cards and keep the Touya cards safe we may need her help, she may be stronger then us! You never know!" Sakura protested. He sighed and shrugged. Sakura glared at him and stomped out.
'He can be so stubborn!' she screamed to herself. Joining everyone in the living room. Yelen smiled warmly at her. Everyone else was sitting to one side and some other people were on the other.
"Sakura, these are some elders of the clan. They are here to discuss some things with you. Since Xiao Lang is…umm…unavailable, you are the one to replace him." She nodded and turned to them.
"Card Mistress…we understand that Michelle is at Level 4 of training masters, correct?" Sakura nodded and sweatdropped. It was going to be a looooong day.
~~~***Later***~~~
By six that night, Sakura was sitting on a couch opposite them, half asleep. Everyone else had managed to sneak out; even Yelen had managed to get away. Sakura softened her groan listening to the zillion questions they had.
"So, tonight, Wei, will train with Michelle and on Saturday, three days from now, Xiao Lang will test her out. If she passes, she must go with you on your quest to get hold of your cards. We cannot lose them. Also, your brother has managed to capture the Khan cards and transform them, correct?" Sakura nodded.
"We should find a way to get them into the family also." One man said.
"But, he's my brother, basically he's already connected." Sakura protested.
"Ahhh…yes, but not quite…maybe if he were to marry one of Xiao Lang's sister's…" one said.
"He also seems to care quite a lot for the young one, Meilin." Sakura perked up at the name. She hadn't seen her in years!
"Meilin is here?"
"Yes, she arrived quite a while ago. Touya saw her walking back to the estate and gave her a ride, while picking up the guardian Yue…or your friend Yukito." A woman said. Sakura smiled.
"You are dismissed. Please find Michelle, and tell her she must go the main training room with Wei." Sakura nodded and left. Walking to her room she fell on her bed exhausted.
"The elders ask WAY to many questions, everyone else is lucky, managing to escape…now…to find them!" Sakura mumbled to herself sitting up. Concentrating her energy, she felt them all gathered in one spot.
Running down three flights she found a back door. The sun hit her eyes and she quickly shielded them looking around. Syaoran, Tomoyo and Eriol were standing and talking. They waved her over. Yelen, Michelle and Chloe were sitting on some chairs, playing with Chloe. The four sisters, and Yukito were talking and Touya and Meilin were talking.
(SL: I KNOW! *Dodges rotten fruit* A lot of people dun like the Touya/Meilin relationships, but I think it's kinda cute and it goes with the story, Kay? Dun flame meh, pwease!)
Sakura smiled. She knew they were right for each other, maybe their was to be another marriage soon! She joined the others who were drinking some water.
"Hey, you guys COULD have saved me! And you" she said pointing at Syaoran. "Could have joined me and not have me answer all those questions!" she said pouting.
"Sorry, but I just can't face them. I can test her but I don't want to face anyone about it. Sorry!" he said giving her a hug. She gave a him a sympathizing look and smiled.
"So have you noticed the maybe new couple?" she said looking over at her brother and Syaoran's cousin. The looked over and laughed.
"They've been together since they got here!" Tomoyo smiled.
"Maybe they will be!" Eriol said.
"I don't want your brother marrying my cousin! It's bad enough he's my brother-in-law!" Syaoran grumbled. Sakura rolled her eyes. And went over what the elders told her.
"Oh yeah…be right back!" Sakura said rushing over to Michelle.
"Come on hunny, you have to train with Wei. Elder's orders."
"Awww…I wanna play with Grandma!"
"Later…come on!" Sakura said leading her to the training room. Wei was there with some of things that were exactly like Syaoran's.
"Since she's both yours and Master Xiao Lang's child. She will be able to master all of his abilities and the Sakura card abilities. Although we need the cards to do it which are inaccessible right now, so later. We'll be done by 12pm. Don't worry about her." Wei said giving her a reassuring smile. Sakura nodded. She was too young for this. She didn't even want to go and train. Joining everyone out in the yard again she sat down with her friends.
"How long is she gonna train for? I have a costume I want her to try on for when she goes fighting!" Tomoyo said jumpy.
"Wait till tomorrow! She's training till midnight!" Their eyes widened and shook their heads.
"I hope she'll be alright!" Tomoyo said.
"She will be…she's a strong girl." Eriol said.
SL: YAY! All done! About time to! Sorry for the long wait! I have had TONS of homework! So, R/R and Sayonara!
~Princess Sarah
