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the ladies of Clamp and J.K. Rowling respectively.
chapter 6
In a room in the very heart of the Li compound four sweating bodies stood with looks of grim determination etched on there faces. Two of the strongest sorcerers the world had ever known both seemed to be on the edge of exhaustion and the blue headed one was swaying on his feet. To his right stood a women, her face covered in sweat and what almost looked like pain contorting her beautiful features.
Also in the room was one other young man. His brown hair plastered to his head with sweat, and his blue-gray eyes haggard. His shoulders were tense as if he was fighting some vast battle with an unseen foe. Suddenly his eyes screwed shut and a sound that was more of a moan then a scream was wrenched from his lips only secants before the women announced that they were done.
At her words all the people in the room seemed to slump, their eyes tired and filled with worry. At there unspoken question the one who had screamed spoke the words that they were dreading to hear.
"We failed, one got through."
Yelin Li, who somehow managed to look regal even with her mussed appearance looked about the room seemingly deep in thought before she spoke to the boy. "Could you tell who or what broke though?"
Brian Garrison shook his head as he responded. "No, I can't even be sure it was human. It was... it just wasn't right. I've never felt anything like it before, but it seemed to be looking for something."
The blue headed boy spoke then, his eyes almost closed. "Could you tell were it was looking?"
"Yes, Hiiragizawa, it seemed to be heading towards Japan before I broke contact." Brian shuddered then, the experience had obviously unsettled him. As it was he only vaguely took note of the last member of there little party's response to the knowledge of the location that there mysterious presence's destination.
A barley whispered "Sakura." And a quick look to his mother and at her nod he was gone. Eriol sighed then, things would never be easy would they? But with what ever had broken past Brian and the spell they had been modifying looking in Japan, the card mistress would indeed be in danger, and with her at lest one other he called friend.
"I assume Syaoran is procuring transpiration to Tomeodo?" the half reincarnation asked the regent of the Li clan. At her nod, he too got up and left for his rooms to pack, leaving a very confused American in the room alone with the most powerful women in his life.
"What exactly is so important about Japa-... The Clow mistress... he's after the Clow mistress. Damn."
"He?" the regent asked.
"Oh yes," came the somewhat distracted response. "It is most definitely a male. It was alien, but not that alien." He paused then to collect his thoughts, before asking a question that he wasn't sure he had a right to ask. "My lady, why would the future head of the Li clan care about the mistress of the Clow, besides getting back the cards of course?"
Yelin smiled serenely, but did not directly respond. Instead she used a pull rope to call for a servant, and sent the older women who respond moments after to bring Meiling. When the ebony tressed girl arrived Brain was privy to what had to be the most cryptic conversation he had ever heard.
"You called for me auntie?"
"Yes dear, Syaoran and his men are going to be heading back to Japan soon." At this the much younger women's ruby read eyes went wide in shock.
"What will you tell the elders? They can't be privy of this."
"I shall tell them the truth, Meiling. A strong evil prescience is searching Japan for something as such the Cards are in danger. Syaoran is to be sent to bring the cards back into the clan, nothing more, nothing less." Yilen smiled then as did her niece, and Brian was suddenly hit with the idea that he was about to be introduced into a conspiracy.
He was right.
"Sakura is going to need to learn what is going to be expected from her. So as a lady of the clan I'm sending you." She then took a few steeps back and included Brian into the conversation for the first time. "My son must do this, and I want both of you to make sure he succeeds."
Brian managed a confused nod and quickly regretted his decision as Meiling started babbling about how much fun she and "Tomoyo-chan" would have in getting Syaoran to propose. In that moment he realized he had just agreed to set the closet thing he had to a friend on this half of the planet up with a girl he had never met.
He decided right then and there that he hatted his life. Just about then Meiling hugged him in her exuberance, and for some odd reason it suddenly didn't feel so bad...
That was until the girl looked at her aunt and said "Touya is going to kill him!" before she devolved into a giggling fit and for some reason Yilen was smiling as well. It was that smile that made him decide that he had been right after all.
He hated his life.
*******
This decision hadn't changed at all four hours latter as he sat on the Li clan privet jet. It was spacious, more then enough then was needed for the four teens and Wie as they flew into Tokyo and it was the first time he had ever been in what he assumed first class was like.
No it wasn't the plane, or even the company, although Syaoran was, if possible, even more closed lipped then before. No it was the fact that he was sitting there, with a briefcase full of money and an engagement ring in his pocket, and none of it was his.
As visions of what Li would do to him, once he found out he was party to this, danced in his head was added on top of his own normal fear of flight made it a most unenjoyable trip for him. The others for their part seemed unawares of just how close the American was to pulling a William Shatner and totally flipping out.
Eriol was looking at the boy with this, for lack of a better word, evil smile as Meiling chatted with him in low tones that just screamed 'I know something you don't know!' That, Brian was sure, Syaoran would have picked up on had he not been so distracted, and it was because of that distraction, as much as a vain attempt to calm his nerves, that Brain asked Wei a rather loaded question.
Why?
And so Brian learned, he learned of the cards, both how they were captured and how they were changed. He learned of the changes in Li and Meiling, of the risk Syaoran took with Light and Dark, and of the pain he was willing to undergo due to the void. He found himself sending a death glare that would have done Syaoran proud after those last two, a death glare that had about the same affect on the blue haired sorcerer that Syaoran's did.
Which is to say, not much of one.
But still he couldn't being himself to believe that fifteen year olds would be ready for the steep that Yilen seemed to think they would take. The ring seemed to be burning a hole in his pocket, and he had to repress the urge to flush it down the jets toilet on more then one occasion during the flight. At lest the two were in love... or at lest had BEEN in love.
*******
Finally the plane touched ground and they disembarked, resisting the urge to kiss the ground Brian marched on to the waiting car, fully intending to enjoy the ride while he could because it was libel to be the last one he got to take until he was state side once more.
And only God knew when that was going to be.
Once they arrived at an apartment complex that the Li clan owned his teenaged companions tossed their bags in their cosen rooms before almost as quickly heading off to meet old friends and see their old school. Brian for his part merle collapsed on his new bed and tried to sort his thoughts.
That lasted of all of five minuets, he sprang up from his bed and threw open his window, and contemplated asking Wei to show him around town. He needed to move to work off some of this restless energy, he needed to feed the owl that was pecking at his pocket...
He blinked a moment at the sight before him, when the hell did that owl get in? It was a pretty thing, and he had some left over snacks of the plane. "Um, here ya go fella'... hope, ya, um... like peanuts." 'Look at me', he thought 'talking to a bird, I must be hard up for entertainment.'
Amazingly enough the owl seemed to enjoy its little treat quit a bit, and lingered for a moment before slipping out the window as silent as a ghost. Now denied the new found pleasure of bird watching the blue eyed boy turned to unpack. It was then that he noticed the fact that the owl had left something behind. A note, as a matter of fact, a note that had the most extensive address he had ever seen, and one that had him deathly afraid he would have to get on bord an airplane once again.
*******
Li Syaoran found himself unable to knock. Their he stood in front of the door of the Kinomoto house with his hand rased and he just couldn't knock. He really couldn't understand it, he had faced down Clow cards, evil 'uncute' ancestors, ghosts and even a demon during his training but he couldn't knock on a damn door.
Why the hell was he such a cowered? His last time back it had taken running into her, literally, for him to see her, but that had been before he had known she loved him, it should be easier this time shouldn't it?
He scowled at the door as if hopping it would just open and let him pass with out the need to knock. What was he afraid of anywise? He loved her, she loved him, they had kept in touch so all was good there. She could control the fluff-ball and he could take her brother easy, so why couldn't he just knock!
The chouse was taken out of his hands when the door decided it was fed up with the Chinese boys irrational behavior and opened, revealing the green eyed lady of the house. She saw him, her eyes went huge, and then all hell broke lose.
"Syaoran!" this was quickly followed by the mother of all glomps
"Sakura." This with a smile and a hug that quickly turned into a death glare because of..
"Gaki!" this with it's own death glare
"It's the Kid!" also with death glare, although it was far more cute then scary, well all except for the fire behind thoughts beady little eyes....
and then two owls swooped down and dropped their burdens right on top of the embracing couple.
*******
Not to far away three others were hiding, their location only given away by the small squeal of "kawaii!" that could be heard now and again. Tomoyo's van had allowed them to arrive before the reunion and the latest coconspirator sat happily taping the whole thing, at lest until her eye was distracted by the sight of an owl in flight....
@#%#@^@^^#%$#
A/N: Kudos to anyone who knows what the William Shatner crack was about. Or how ever ya spell the man's name...
-Flameraven
chapter 6
In a room in the very heart of the Li compound four sweating bodies stood with looks of grim determination etched on there faces. Two of the strongest sorcerers the world had ever known both seemed to be on the edge of exhaustion and the blue headed one was swaying on his feet. To his right stood a women, her face covered in sweat and what almost looked like pain contorting her beautiful features.
Also in the room was one other young man. His brown hair plastered to his head with sweat, and his blue-gray eyes haggard. His shoulders were tense as if he was fighting some vast battle with an unseen foe. Suddenly his eyes screwed shut and a sound that was more of a moan then a scream was wrenched from his lips only secants before the women announced that they were done.
At her words all the people in the room seemed to slump, their eyes tired and filled with worry. At there unspoken question the one who had screamed spoke the words that they were dreading to hear.
"We failed, one got through."
Yelin Li, who somehow managed to look regal even with her mussed appearance looked about the room seemingly deep in thought before she spoke to the boy. "Could you tell who or what broke though?"
Brian Garrison shook his head as he responded. "No, I can't even be sure it was human. It was... it just wasn't right. I've never felt anything like it before, but it seemed to be looking for something."
The blue headed boy spoke then, his eyes almost closed. "Could you tell were it was looking?"
"Yes, Hiiragizawa, it seemed to be heading towards Japan before I broke contact." Brian shuddered then, the experience had obviously unsettled him. As it was he only vaguely took note of the last member of there little party's response to the knowledge of the location that there mysterious presence's destination.
A barley whispered "Sakura." And a quick look to his mother and at her nod he was gone. Eriol sighed then, things would never be easy would they? But with what ever had broken past Brian and the spell they had been modifying looking in Japan, the card mistress would indeed be in danger, and with her at lest one other he called friend.
"I assume Syaoran is procuring transpiration to Tomeodo?" the half reincarnation asked the regent of the Li clan. At her nod, he too got up and left for his rooms to pack, leaving a very confused American in the room alone with the most powerful women in his life.
"What exactly is so important about Japa-... The Clow mistress... he's after the Clow mistress. Damn."
"He?" the regent asked.
"Oh yes," came the somewhat distracted response. "It is most definitely a male. It was alien, but not that alien." He paused then to collect his thoughts, before asking a question that he wasn't sure he had a right to ask. "My lady, why would the future head of the Li clan care about the mistress of the Clow, besides getting back the cards of course?"
Yelin smiled serenely, but did not directly respond. Instead she used a pull rope to call for a servant, and sent the older women who respond moments after to bring Meiling. When the ebony tressed girl arrived Brain was privy to what had to be the most cryptic conversation he had ever heard.
"You called for me auntie?"
"Yes dear, Syaoran and his men are going to be heading back to Japan soon." At this the much younger women's ruby read eyes went wide in shock.
"What will you tell the elders? They can't be privy of this."
"I shall tell them the truth, Meiling. A strong evil prescience is searching Japan for something as such the Cards are in danger. Syaoran is to be sent to bring the cards back into the clan, nothing more, nothing less." Yilen smiled then as did her niece, and Brian was suddenly hit with the idea that he was about to be introduced into a conspiracy.
He was right.
"Sakura is going to need to learn what is going to be expected from her. So as a lady of the clan I'm sending you." She then took a few steeps back and included Brian into the conversation for the first time. "My son must do this, and I want both of you to make sure he succeeds."
Brian managed a confused nod and quickly regretted his decision as Meiling started babbling about how much fun she and "Tomoyo-chan" would have in getting Syaoran to propose. In that moment he realized he had just agreed to set the closet thing he had to a friend on this half of the planet up with a girl he had never met.
He decided right then and there that he hatted his life. Just about then Meiling hugged him in her exuberance, and for some odd reason it suddenly didn't feel so bad...
That was until the girl looked at her aunt and said "Touya is going to kill him!" before she devolved into a giggling fit and for some reason Yilen was smiling as well. It was that smile that made him decide that he had been right after all.
He hated his life.
*******
This decision hadn't changed at all four hours latter as he sat on the Li clan privet jet. It was spacious, more then enough then was needed for the four teens and Wie as they flew into Tokyo and it was the first time he had ever been in what he assumed first class was like.
No it wasn't the plane, or even the company, although Syaoran was, if possible, even more closed lipped then before. No it was the fact that he was sitting there, with a briefcase full of money and an engagement ring in his pocket, and none of it was his.
As visions of what Li would do to him, once he found out he was party to this, danced in his head was added on top of his own normal fear of flight made it a most unenjoyable trip for him. The others for their part seemed unawares of just how close the American was to pulling a William Shatner and totally flipping out.
Eriol was looking at the boy with this, for lack of a better word, evil smile as Meiling chatted with him in low tones that just screamed 'I know something you don't know!' That, Brian was sure, Syaoran would have picked up on had he not been so distracted, and it was because of that distraction, as much as a vain attempt to calm his nerves, that Brain asked Wei a rather loaded question.
Why?
And so Brian learned, he learned of the cards, both how they were captured and how they were changed. He learned of the changes in Li and Meiling, of the risk Syaoran took with Light and Dark, and of the pain he was willing to undergo due to the void. He found himself sending a death glare that would have done Syaoran proud after those last two, a death glare that had about the same affect on the blue haired sorcerer that Syaoran's did.
Which is to say, not much of one.
But still he couldn't being himself to believe that fifteen year olds would be ready for the steep that Yilen seemed to think they would take. The ring seemed to be burning a hole in his pocket, and he had to repress the urge to flush it down the jets toilet on more then one occasion during the flight. At lest the two were in love... or at lest had BEEN in love.
*******
Finally the plane touched ground and they disembarked, resisting the urge to kiss the ground Brian marched on to the waiting car, fully intending to enjoy the ride while he could because it was libel to be the last one he got to take until he was state side once more.
And only God knew when that was going to be.
Once they arrived at an apartment complex that the Li clan owned his teenaged companions tossed their bags in their cosen rooms before almost as quickly heading off to meet old friends and see their old school. Brian for his part merle collapsed on his new bed and tried to sort his thoughts.
That lasted of all of five minuets, he sprang up from his bed and threw open his window, and contemplated asking Wei to show him around town. He needed to move to work off some of this restless energy, he needed to feed the owl that was pecking at his pocket...
He blinked a moment at the sight before him, when the hell did that owl get in? It was a pretty thing, and he had some left over snacks of the plane. "Um, here ya go fella'... hope, ya, um... like peanuts." 'Look at me', he thought 'talking to a bird, I must be hard up for entertainment.'
Amazingly enough the owl seemed to enjoy its little treat quit a bit, and lingered for a moment before slipping out the window as silent as a ghost. Now denied the new found pleasure of bird watching the blue eyed boy turned to unpack. It was then that he noticed the fact that the owl had left something behind. A note, as a matter of fact, a note that had the most extensive address he had ever seen, and one that had him deathly afraid he would have to get on bord an airplane once again.
*******
Li Syaoran found himself unable to knock. Their he stood in front of the door of the Kinomoto house with his hand rased and he just couldn't knock. He really couldn't understand it, he had faced down Clow cards, evil 'uncute' ancestors, ghosts and even a demon during his training but he couldn't knock on a damn door.
Why the hell was he such a cowered? His last time back it had taken running into her, literally, for him to see her, but that had been before he had known she loved him, it should be easier this time shouldn't it?
He scowled at the door as if hopping it would just open and let him pass with out the need to knock. What was he afraid of anywise? He loved her, she loved him, they had kept in touch so all was good there. She could control the fluff-ball and he could take her brother easy, so why couldn't he just knock!
The chouse was taken out of his hands when the door decided it was fed up with the Chinese boys irrational behavior and opened, revealing the green eyed lady of the house. She saw him, her eyes went huge, and then all hell broke lose.
"Syaoran!" this was quickly followed by the mother of all glomps
"Sakura." This with a smile and a hug that quickly turned into a death glare because of..
"Gaki!" this with it's own death glare
"It's the Kid!" also with death glare, although it was far more cute then scary, well all except for the fire behind thoughts beady little eyes....
and then two owls swooped down and dropped their burdens right on top of the embracing couple.
*******
Not to far away three others were hiding, their location only given away by the small squeal of "kawaii!" that could be heard now and again. Tomoyo's van had allowed them to arrive before the reunion and the latest coconspirator sat happily taping the whole thing, at lest until her eye was distracted by the sight of an owl in flight....
@#%#@^@^^#%$#
A/N: Kudos to anyone who knows what the William Shatner crack was about. Or how ever ya spell the man's name...
-Flameraven