Truth Be Told
Creak..
Out stepped Nakuru as she closed the door behind her.
Tomoyo jumped up from her seat. "How is he?!" she asked immediately.
Nakuru bit her lip, as though trying to find a reasonable answer that wouldn't cause panic. "He's..well..he won't die, rest assured. But I've never seen him so weak.., even after Sakura transformed the Clow Cards."
"Uhh..What happened, exactly?" Sakura asked as she poured some tea for Nakuru and coaxed her to sit down.
"I'm not exactly sure. Eriol-kun didn't wake up to make breakfast as usually so I thought he was sick. But when I came into his room,. he was completely sweating and mumbling words. I-I couldn't complete understand what he said...
By that time, Tomoyo had arrived over for their morning music lesson. I just transferred some of my energy to him so he's breathing again. But-" she strained to talk, "it took a lot out of me."
"Hmmm." Kero said thoughtfully. Then he flew over to the phone, grabbed the notebook and pencil, and returned to his original spot.
"What are you up to Keroberous?" Suppi asked in his silky voice, as he flew from his spot, and plopped down next to his companion.
"Don't tell that you're getting so far into your years that you can't sense it Spinnel?" Kero asked in a serious voice. Which is usually unlike himself, since he and Suppi always have had quarrels. (Especially over sweets. -_-')
"Ump! I was create after you, so therefore it is you who is getting into his years!"
"Pipe down, don't get your tail in a knot. I'll explain later." Then he turned to Nakuru. "Now Ruby Moon. Recall back whatever information you received from Eriol."
"Hai." Then she began to speak slowly from lack of her usual energy. "First he said 'planets a line', umm then it was '-something chosen one'? Then ummmmm-wolf? And finally I think he said 'moonlight fighter'"
Kero scribbled down something for about a minute. And then he murmured a few words to himself. Everyone leaned over in silence, trying to see what the unexpected was.
His pencil dropped with a light pop onto the table, but everyone jumped at the sound. Kero's face was completely tranquil as he just stared straight through the window.
"Kero! What's wrong?! What's are you looking at?!!" Sakura asked in a panic as she picked up the little guardian.
He slowly turned his head to look Sakura deep into her eyes. "The sun.."
"What?" Sakura gasped.
She turned around and looked out at the same image Kero had his fixation on. There was the bright sun, shining to its fullest without the slightest change in it.
"What do you mean? Kero, the sun looks fine." Sakura asked again.
"It's just beginning, so it's too early to able to get a clear picture, but the sun is changing. Look." Kero persisted as he pointed down to his shadow on the table.
There was the regular outline of his shape but, ... something was wrong.. Sakura bent in closer to have a better look. There, she noticed a thin bright line in the middle of his shadow, splitting his body into two. Each half the same as the other.
"K-K-K-K-Kero? I-I-I-I don't understand.."
"Keroberous, are you out of your mind!" Suppi asked as he flew up to Sakura's hand as well. "What could possible make you say that?! Have you been playing that new video game again??!!!"
"No, you don't understand Spinnel. It's like you said! I was created before you, before Yueh as well, and therefore I have a closer bond with Clow Reed. It's the Chinese Celestrial Legend, about the Apocalypse."
"Celestrial?" Tomoyo asked.
"It means it is written in the stars. Pre-ordained thousands of years ago by sorcerers like Clow Reed."
"So what does this-legend say?" Sakura asked.
"It was written in a dead language, a language that is now lost forever because of the change and time in the world." Kero explained seeing the look on Sakura's face. "But I remember it well.
The day will come, when the eight lords turn against each other, causing the destruction of many lives. The great powers will clash with one another, and all will perish in the pursuit of one ruler of the vast lands. But, and when all nine worlds a line, it will unleash earth's demise. Look."
With that, he drew a large circle on his paper and then drew a much smaller circle in the middle.
"This circle here, is the sun." He continued, pointing at the smaller circle. "Spiritually, it is the yin and yang of this universe." Then he drew the yin and yang signs in the sun. "When the planets a line, it will look like this." A straight line was drawn, splitting both circles and the yin and yang in half vertically. "But you see, it splits up the balance of yin and yang itself. Eternal balance preserved for so long at this point is at the weakest. The slightest tip will throw everything off.
"It has already begun. Something has meddled with the balance and the other seven guardians will be coming to earth. This is why only my shadow, can you see the splitting of the sun, because I am the Sun guardian. And Yueh, the moon. When this day came, Clow Reed's magic barrier around Asia will form, hopefully to keep the guardians here only so the rest of the world can figure out how to prevent it. Eriol is the reincarnation of Clow Reed so his power will be drained in order to hold up a strong enough barrier. Sakura."
"Hai?"
"Your father will be weakened too, since he is the other reincarnation of Clow Reed."
"Are you saying the world is going to end if we can't find a way to stop all of this chaos?" Tomoyo asked tearful.
"Only one, a chosen one, will prevail and liberate the fate of this world and all who dwell in it. That person is the only one capable of restoring balance."
"A chosen one?" Sakura spoke up.
"One who is destined to become the next guardian of earth in each generation. A planet cannot survive without a guardian to protect it. The other 7 guardians are all spirits, since earth is the only planet enabling life. Which is why they want it as well. Clow Reed knew that he would die, so he placed a spell upon his descendents, that the noblest child, worthy enough, who is born with the Clow magic, would become the next guardian."
"But what about the Star Cards, there must be a way they can help?" Sakura asked.
"They can, but only the Chosen One can seal the guardians back to their original place."
"Well, why did Eriol say wolf and moonlight fight? Are the guardian in animal form?" Tomoyo asked, remembering back to what Nakura said.
"No, although I'm not sure why Eriol would say that. It was never mention by Clow Reed." Kero replied.
"Maybe the Chosen has a spirit of a wolf! I read that someone in one of Master's books." Nakura spoke up, showing her proud she was of herself.
"You actually read??" Suppi asked with an exasperated look.
"Why you!" Nakura lunged forward to tackle a very frightened Spinnel Sun.
However Sakura suddenly became quiet. Her face dropped to a sad expression as she stared down at her teacup.
Dong! Dong! Dong!
The large grandfather clock in Eriol's living rooming struck at the hour of 4:00 p.m.
"Sakura! Aren't you going to be late for meeting Syaoran-kun?" Tomoyo reminded Sakura.
"Oh! You're right Tomoyo! Uh hai, I better go. Mata ne."
~*~*
"Flight 36 now arriving from Hong Kong."
Sakura leaned against the window, staring out the planes that busily hurried in and out of port. She watched a familiar plane with the sign of her flower, the cherry blossoms on its tail. China Airline.
The one she's seen so many times.
The one that always carried him on it..
"Sakura-chan! Aren't you excited?! Syaoran's going to be coming back, for good now!"
Sakura just sighed happily as she looked up into the sunlight. It was true, he was finally going to be back. No more waiting endless nights for him, wondering how he is. No more waiting for his letter to arrive. No more waiting, period.
"And then you two are going to get married and have a big ceremony! Oh I can't wait!" Tomoyo squealed.
"Huh?! Tomoyo! We're only 17, we still need to go through college and graduate high school first. Marriage is a long way from now. If I even brought it up, Syaoran will probably just hop back on that plane and head back to Hong Kong."
"Sakura-chan, stop teasing yourself. You know that's what you hope for."
Sakura blushed. She didn't know if Syaoran was the one destined for her, but for the moment, she was content with being just his girlfriend. Just being with him, sent chills down her back and a tingling feeling in her stomach.
"I think it's love." Tomoyo teased as she saw the expression on Sakura's 'daydreaming face'. "Hai Sakura?"
Sakura.
Sakura...
"Sakura!"
"Huh?!" Sakura jumped with a startled expression.
There was Meilin standing in front of her with her luggage at hand.
"Meilin!"
"Sakura-I, I'm.Syaor-" Meilin tried to say but the words wouldn't come out right.
Sakura didn't need her to finish. Ever since she heard Nakura tell her about the wolf spirit, a Chosen One from a descendant of Clow, and now this.
Little Wolf..
The pieces fell into place. . .
"He's not here is he?" Sakura asked sadly, with her head lowered.
Chosen one.
"I'm sorry....do you understand why?" Meilin answered with her head bowed too.
"...Hai.I-"
Sakura was suddenly interrupted by a loud noise from outside the airport in the airfield.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!
A loud explosion came from one of the planes that just exploded in the air as it took off.
Screams soon erupted from inside the terminal as people franticly ran for the exits.
"Meilin!" Sakura shouted as she took out her key.
"Right behind you!"
MNKitty: Alright, alright, alright, I know this chapter basically was just a re-run of the first chapter, but this one got into more dept and gave me room for the next chapter with the first guardian. As most of you are probably wondering, if the first guardian is attacking there in Tomoeda, where's Syaoran if he's the Chosen One? Please be patient, you know the hero always has to make a dramatic entrance. Oh yes, if any of you are interested, I have a started another original story(Usagi: WHY THE HECK DID YOU START ANOTHER STORY WHEN YOU'RE NOT EVEN DONE WITH THIS ONE??!!!!) Yea, I know I need to finish this first and of course from the looks of it, it's gonna be a long one. But that's why I'm asking you nice people whether or not you want me to post up the other story. I haven't gotten the first chapter yet mind you, but here's the prologue in case you're interested. It's called Dark Sun, with a ninja on take.
Prologue:
"You do realize if the police catch you, I'll be held responsible as well," Ms Hideyoshi said as she tilted her head to the side in order to look at Yukari's face.
"I haven't done anything wrong." Yukari replied in her usual hollow voice with her eyes still focused on the floor tiles. Those rare violet eyes with their golden iris ring.
"There are five dead bodies that don't agree." Ms Hideyoshi answered back.
"I haven't killed anyone."
"When their hearts stop beating, that considers a person dead, my dear."
"A hear is just an organ that pumps blood through the our veins. Technology is far and a pump is not hard to create." Yukari replied back as she stood up and walked to the window of the classroom. "Besides, how could their hearts have stopped beating. ...when they never had one in the beginning. There is no heart in tearing a little girl from her mother's arms."
"A life for a life. Only one life was destroyed though, not five." Ms Hideyoshi replied, joining her at the window.
It was a sunny day, no clouds, warms skies. It all seemed so peaceful and yet it was all romantic. No reality, like a dream.
"Perhaps. but the pain of five will not come close to match my pain."
"And what will you do after you have eased your pain?"
Yukari turned to face her teacher. Her expression showed no elements of surprise or any emotion, as always.
"Fade away."
"Hmp." Ms Hideyoshi smirked as she turned around and walked towards her desk.
"I question myself why you find my answer so light-heart." Yukari asked, turning around to face her teacher.
Ms Hideyoshi still had a grin on her face. "Because I know my dear, deep inside you will not fade away. No mater how much you try to."
"I assure my quest will not guarantee my survival."
"Oh, but you see," she said, turning around to face Yukari, "dying is not the same as fading away. To fade away is when your life-long search is complete and you have nothing left to live for. That your true destiny is lost to you because you have depended on your quest. Your quest is the reason you live, without it, it you perish."
"Is that not dying?"
"To die is when you have completed that goal you yearn for, but at the same time, you have carried out your destiny."
"And how would you know which is my true destiny. What gives you the ability to see what I am destined to do, and not I?"
"Because," Ms Hideyoshi replied as she gathered her purse and papers, "I can see what's in your heart. The heart is more than just a pump that maintains your life and your bloodstream. It's not the heart itself but what it represents. Do you understand?"
"...No.." Yukari answered, almost in a sad way.
"You will, just trust what you feel."
Creak..
Out stepped Nakuru as she closed the door behind her.
Tomoyo jumped up from her seat. "How is he?!" she asked immediately.
Nakuru bit her lip, as though trying to find a reasonable answer that wouldn't cause panic. "He's..well..he won't die, rest assured. But I've never seen him so weak.., even after Sakura transformed the Clow Cards."
"Uhh..What happened, exactly?" Sakura asked as she poured some tea for Nakuru and coaxed her to sit down.
"I'm not exactly sure. Eriol-kun didn't wake up to make breakfast as usually so I thought he was sick. But when I came into his room,. he was completely sweating and mumbling words. I-I couldn't complete understand what he said...
By that time, Tomoyo had arrived over for their morning music lesson. I just transferred some of my energy to him so he's breathing again. But-" she strained to talk, "it took a lot out of me."
"Hmmm." Kero said thoughtfully. Then he flew over to the phone, grabbed the notebook and pencil, and returned to his original spot.
"What are you up to Keroberous?" Suppi asked in his silky voice, as he flew from his spot, and plopped down next to his companion.
"Don't tell that you're getting so far into your years that you can't sense it Spinnel?" Kero asked in a serious voice. Which is usually unlike himself, since he and Suppi always have had quarrels. (Especially over sweets. -_-')
"Ump! I was create after you, so therefore it is you who is getting into his years!"
"Pipe down, don't get your tail in a knot. I'll explain later." Then he turned to Nakuru. "Now Ruby Moon. Recall back whatever information you received from Eriol."
"Hai." Then she began to speak slowly from lack of her usual energy. "First he said 'planets a line', umm then it was '-something chosen one'? Then ummmmm-wolf? And finally I think he said 'moonlight fighter'"
Kero scribbled down something for about a minute. And then he murmured a few words to himself. Everyone leaned over in silence, trying to see what the unexpected was.
His pencil dropped with a light pop onto the table, but everyone jumped at the sound. Kero's face was completely tranquil as he just stared straight through the window.
"Kero! What's wrong?! What's are you looking at?!!" Sakura asked in a panic as she picked up the little guardian.
He slowly turned his head to look Sakura deep into her eyes. "The sun.."
"What?" Sakura gasped.
She turned around and looked out at the same image Kero had his fixation on. There was the bright sun, shining to its fullest without the slightest change in it.
"What do you mean? Kero, the sun looks fine." Sakura asked again.
"It's just beginning, so it's too early to able to get a clear picture, but the sun is changing. Look." Kero persisted as he pointed down to his shadow on the table.
There was the regular outline of his shape but, ... something was wrong.. Sakura bent in closer to have a better look. There, she noticed a thin bright line in the middle of his shadow, splitting his body into two. Each half the same as the other.
"K-K-K-K-Kero? I-I-I-I don't understand.."
"Keroberous, are you out of your mind!" Suppi asked as he flew up to Sakura's hand as well. "What could possible make you say that?! Have you been playing that new video game again??!!!"
"No, you don't understand Spinnel. It's like you said! I was created before you, before Yueh as well, and therefore I have a closer bond with Clow Reed. It's the Chinese Celestrial Legend, about the Apocalypse."
"Celestrial?" Tomoyo asked.
"It means it is written in the stars. Pre-ordained thousands of years ago by sorcerers like Clow Reed."
"So what does this-legend say?" Sakura asked.
"It was written in a dead language, a language that is now lost forever because of the change and time in the world." Kero explained seeing the look on Sakura's face. "But I remember it well.
The day will come, when the eight lords turn against each other, causing the destruction of many lives. The great powers will clash with one another, and all will perish in the pursuit of one ruler of the vast lands. But, and when all nine worlds a line, it will unleash earth's demise. Look."
With that, he drew a large circle on his paper and then drew a much smaller circle in the middle.
"This circle here, is the sun." He continued, pointing at the smaller circle. "Spiritually, it is the yin and yang of this universe." Then he drew the yin and yang signs in the sun. "When the planets a line, it will look like this." A straight line was drawn, splitting both circles and the yin and yang in half vertically. "But you see, it splits up the balance of yin and yang itself. Eternal balance preserved for so long at this point is at the weakest. The slightest tip will throw everything off.
"It has already begun. Something has meddled with the balance and the other seven guardians will be coming to earth. This is why only my shadow, can you see the splitting of the sun, because I am the Sun guardian. And Yueh, the moon. When this day came, Clow Reed's magic barrier around Asia will form, hopefully to keep the guardians here only so the rest of the world can figure out how to prevent it. Eriol is the reincarnation of Clow Reed so his power will be drained in order to hold up a strong enough barrier. Sakura."
"Hai?"
"Your father will be weakened too, since he is the other reincarnation of Clow Reed."
"Are you saying the world is going to end if we can't find a way to stop all of this chaos?" Tomoyo asked tearful.
"Only one, a chosen one, will prevail and liberate the fate of this world and all who dwell in it. That person is the only one capable of restoring balance."
"A chosen one?" Sakura spoke up.
"One who is destined to become the next guardian of earth in each generation. A planet cannot survive without a guardian to protect it. The other 7 guardians are all spirits, since earth is the only planet enabling life. Which is why they want it as well. Clow Reed knew that he would die, so he placed a spell upon his descendents, that the noblest child, worthy enough, who is born with the Clow magic, would become the next guardian."
"But what about the Star Cards, there must be a way they can help?" Sakura asked.
"They can, but only the Chosen One can seal the guardians back to their original place."
"Well, why did Eriol say wolf and moonlight fight? Are the guardian in animal form?" Tomoyo asked, remembering back to what Nakura said.
"No, although I'm not sure why Eriol would say that. It was never mention by Clow Reed." Kero replied.
"Maybe the Chosen has a spirit of a wolf! I read that someone in one of Master's books." Nakura spoke up, showing her proud she was of herself.
"You actually read??" Suppi asked with an exasperated look.
"Why you!" Nakura lunged forward to tackle a very frightened Spinnel Sun.
However Sakura suddenly became quiet. Her face dropped to a sad expression as she stared down at her teacup.
Dong! Dong! Dong!
The large grandfather clock in Eriol's living rooming struck at the hour of 4:00 p.m.
"Sakura! Aren't you going to be late for meeting Syaoran-kun?" Tomoyo reminded Sakura.
"Oh! You're right Tomoyo! Uh hai, I better go. Mata ne."
~*~*
"Flight 36 now arriving from Hong Kong."
Sakura leaned against the window, staring out the planes that busily hurried in and out of port. She watched a familiar plane with the sign of her flower, the cherry blossoms on its tail. China Airline.
The one she's seen so many times.
The one that always carried him on it..
"Sakura-chan! Aren't you excited?! Syaoran's going to be coming back, for good now!"
Sakura just sighed happily as she looked up into the sunlight. It was true, he was finally going to be back. No more waiting endless nights for him, wondering how he is. No more waiting for his letter to arrive. No more waiting, period.
"And then you two are going to get married and have a big ceremony! Oh I can't wait!" Tomoyo squealed.
"Huh?! Tomoyo! We're only 17, we still need to go through college and graduate high school first. Marriage is a long way from now. If I even brought it up, Syaoran will probably just hop back on that plane and head back to Hong Kong."
"Sakura-chan, stop teasing yourself. You know that's what you hope for."
Sakura blushed. She didn't know if Syaoran was the one destined for her, but for the moment, she was content with being just his girlfriend. Just being with him, sent chills down her back and a tingling feeling in her stomach.
"I think it's love." Tomoyo teased as she saw the expression on Sakura's 'daydreaming face'. "Hai Sakura?"
Sakura.
Sakura...
"Sakura!"
"Huh?!" Sakura jumped with a startled expression.
There was Meilin standing in front of her with her luggage at hand.
"Meilin!"
"Sakura-I, I'm.Syaor-" Meilin tried to say but the words wouldn't come out right.
Sakura didn't need her to finish. Ever since she heard Nakura tell her about the wolf spirit, a Chosen One from a descendant of Clow, and now this.
Little Wolf..
The pieces fell into place. . .
"He's not here is he?" Sakura asked sadly, with her head lowered.
Chosen one.
"I'm sorry....do you understand why?" Meilin answered with her head bowed too.
"...Hai.I-"
Sakura was suddenly interrupted by a loud noise from outside the airport in the airfield.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!
A loud explosion came from one of the planes that just exploded in the air as it took off.
Screams soon erupted from inside the terminal as people franticly ran for the exits.
"Meilin!" Sakura shouted as she took out her key.
"Right behind you!"
MNKitty: Alright, alright, alright, I know this chapter basically was just a re-run of the first chapter, but this one got into more dept and gave me room for the next chapter with the first guardian. As most of you are probably wondering, if the first guardian is attacking there in Tomoeda, where's Syaoran if he's the Chosen One? Please be patient, you know the hero always has to make a dramatic entrance. Oh yes, if any of you are interested, I have a started another original story(Usagi: WHY THE HECK DID YOU START ANOTHER STORY WHEN YOU'RE NOT EVEN DONE WITH THIS ONE??!!!!) Yea, I know I need to finish this first and of course from the looks of it, it's gonna be a long one. But that's why I'm asking you nice people whether or not you want me to post up the other story. I haven't gotten the first chapter yet mind you, but here's the prologue in case you're interested. It's called Dark Sun, with a ninja on take.
Prologue:
"You do realize if the police catch you, I'll be held responsible as well," Ms Hideyoshi said as she tilted her head to the side in order to look at Yukari's face.
"I haven't done anything wrong." Yukari replied in her usual hollow voice with her eyes still focused on the floor tiles. Those rare violet eyes with their golden iris ring.
"There are five dead bodies that don't agree." Ms Hideyoshi answered back.
"I haven't killed anyone."
"When their hearts stop beating, that considers a person dead, my dear."
"A hear is just an organ that pumps blood through the our veins. Technology is far and a pump is not hard to create." Yukari replied back as she stood up and walked to the window of the classroom. "Besides, how could their hearts have stopped beating. ...when they never had one in the beginning. There is no heart in tearing a little girl from her mother's arms."
"A life for a life. Only one life was destroyed though, not five." Ms Hideyoshi replied, joining her at the window.
It was a sunny day, no clouds, warms skies. It all seemed so peaceful and yet it was all romantic. No reality, like a dream.
"Perhaps. but the pain of five will not come close to match my pain."
"And what will you do after you have eased your pain?"
Yukari turned to face her teacher. Her expression showed no elements of surprise or any emotion, as always.
"Fade away."
"Hmp." Ms Hideyoshi smirked as she turned around and walked towards her desk.
"I question myself why you find my answer so light-heart." Yukari asked, turning around to face her teacher.
Ms Hideyoshi still had a grin on her face. "Because I know my dear, deep inside you will not fade away. No mater how much you try to."
"I assure my quest will not guarantee my survival."
"Oh, but you see," she said, turning around to face Yukari, "dying is not the same as fading away. To fade away is when your life-long search is complete and you have nothing left to live for. That your true destiny is lost to you because you have depended on your quest. Your quest is the reason you live, without it, it you perish."
"Is that not dying?"
"To die is when you have completed that goal you yearn for, but at the same time, you have carried out your destiny."
"And how would you know which is my true destiny. What gives you the ability to see what I am destined to do, and not I?"
"Because," Ms Hideyoshi replied as she gathered her purse and papers, "I can see what's in your heart. The heart is more than just a pump that maintains your life and your bloodstream. It's not the heart itself but what it represents. Do you understand?"
"...No.." Yukari answered, almost in a sad way.
"You will, just trust what you feel."