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Italic lettering: Telepathic talking (for Eriol) and emphasis of words

Few days after the previous chapter

To the Battle Field!

~Tomoyo~

"Pretty please?"

Sakura rolled over, pulling the bedsheet over her head and mumbled a 'no'. Controlling myself from bashing her head with a pillow I gritted out, "Please, please please with cherry on top?"

Sakura gave a loud sigh and sat up, hair all over her face. From a certain angle, she looked like a mop and I told her so. She pushed her hair away, irritatingly. "No Tomoyo, for the thousandth time no! I will not hand over that tape to you. Now let me get back to sleep. I have training with Grandma Teeahr tomorrow." She laid down on her pillow, took another to cover her ears from any pleas and sighed contentedly.

Damn! Bribery didn't work. Begging didn't work. I could resort to blackmail but she still have the upper hand. Damn! Damn! Damn!

Tomoyo?

Eriol.....

Yes?

Can't sleep?

Not really....I am still trying to get that tape from Sakura.

Does it really matters? I mean so what if she shows it to the whole world? Everybody knows about us...

I'm....I'm still not use to it... I blushed mentally.

He chuckled mentally.

Ok then. I try to persuade her too.

Thanks. You're the greatest. How's Syaoran now by the way? Syaoran had recovered from the love potion but still was haunted by the memories of him hitting on Sakura. Sakura tried to reassure him that she will put the whole thing behind but I don't think Syaoran is convinced. He tried to hide behind everything and that include Kero in his false form when Sakura is around.

Beside me, tossing around. Probably from nightmares of him seducing Sakura. Man! He is interrupting my sleep. Say, why don't I bunk with you? Sakura can bunk with Syaoran. That ought to give them sweet dreams and we...well... we don't have to sleep right away...

ERIOL!

What? I could imagine him giving me that oh-I-am-so-innocent wide-eyed look.

Sigh...Nothing. You just love to embarrass me don't you?

Pink cheeks looks really good on you babe.

Tee hee....Well good night Eriol. You have training with Grandma Teeahr tomorrow. Gotta get all the rest you need.

Trying to get rid of me huh? He chuckled. Ok, ok. Anyway, don't want to be late for training. Bell's grandma sure is a witch when she wants to be.

*Flashback*

Eriol and I ran down the stairs, panting and clothes slightly disorientated. (A/N: Makes one wonders what WERE they doing huh? Hmm...)

"Sorry Grandma Teeahr. Tomoyo and I were having breakfast and we forgot the time."

"Right. A breakfast of tongue, saliva and pink lipstick jam on toast I suppose?" Grandma Teeahr lifted one of her bushy eyebrow, tapping her feet on the ground and looked pointedly at Eriol's lips. His lips were stained with my lipgloss.

Opps! I grabbed my handkerchief and started to rub his lips.

"Oww! Oww! Oww! Tomoyo! I think you just rub off my lips." I took away my handkerchief away from his lips. Apparently, I had rubbed his lips a little too hard that his lips were really red and swollen. Very much like Jessica Rabbit's lips. Eriol gingerly touched his lips then winced.

Sakura and Syaoran found this really hysterical and started to laugh so hard that they had to hold on to each other. Kero started to scribble down something then stopped. Realizing it was not Sakura/Syaoran situation, he joined Sakura and Syaoran.

"Sorry honey, I didn't mean too." I said, sheepishly.

Grandma Teeahr grinned over her too-large dentures. "Hope the swelling goes down soon. You don't want people to think that you and Tomoyo are constantly making out do you?"

Eriol and I resorted to blushing to our roots.

*End of Flashback*

I sweatdropped at the memory.

Right. Good night Eriol.

Night Tomoyo. Sweet dreams...

You too... I felt the path that linked between our mind disappeared. I stared at the wall that separated Eriol's room and mine. I sighed and closed my eyes.

~Syaoran~

I flew down to the dining room (A/N: Remember they have wings. They could make it disappear if they want to like for sleeping etc) and saw everybody was already there. Except for Sakura and Kero that is. Kero was probably busy trying to wake her up. It is a good thing. I can compose myself before seeing her.

I sat down opposite Eriol. I greeted him good morning but it just went passed his head. He was too busy making those goo-goo eyes at Tomoyo. Tomoyo was just as bad. She was trying to feed Eriol some omelette but she got lost in staring at Eriol's eyes and the omelette wind up on her lap.

I glared at them (not that they noticed), then turned towards Bell and greeted her. She gave me a small smile then started to play with her food, distracted. I frowned and was about to ask her what was wrong when Sakura and Kero entered the dining room. My heart started to pump extra fast. I turned my head swiftly and saw a vision before me. The vision was wearing the training costume, just like Eriol and mine. Our costume was black in colour, very much like a ninja costume completed with a head hood, which, thank Kami-sama is removable. The only different was, the vision has a star belt adorned on her perfect slim waist and her star key around her neck.

Ahh.... The vision is so beautiful.....

With rosy pink cheeks and pearly white skin..........

The vision is so graceful......

Walking towards the table like she is walking on air...

The vision is.......

Bashing Kero with a wooden stick we used for training.

"I am not a lazy pig you stuffed animal!"

"Oh yeah? Then try waking up yourself. Bet you a pudding, how bout that eh?"

"Why you little- Oh! Hello! Syaoran! Err....What's for breakfast today?" She stammered, throwing the wooden stick aside and sat down beside me.

Control yourself! Control yourself! Don'tblush!Don'tblush!Don'tblush!Don'tblush!

"Err...well...for breakfast...we...having...err...." Just say it! Omelette, toast and cereal! Omelette, toast and cereal! I tried to answer her one more time but she turned her attention to Bell. Whew! Saved by the...err...Bell.

"Good morning Bell! Lovely day isn't it?" Sakura said cheerfully. Bell got up from her seat and flew out of the dining room. We stared at her retreating back, mouth wide-opened.

"Did I say something wrong?" Sakura asked, biting her lower lips. I smiled at her reassuringly. She gave smiled back at me, which made my stomach did a back flip.

"Nope it's not you Sakura," Grandma Teeahr called out from the kitchen. She came out from the kitchen carrying a pot of, what smelled like her famous chicken stew. It is a big pot by the way (I suspected it is formerly a cauldron before it is a cooking pot) Grandma Teeahr's look is very deceiving. She was rather weird looking. The closest thing that resembled her was Master Yoda from Star Wars. Same bushy eyebrows and pointed ears, though she is not as short. Or green in colour as a matter of fact. She is really strong and this is proven by the various bruises I've got when I had a one-on-one training battle with her. But she has a heart of gold. Now she would be a perfect 198 years old grandma who always gives goodies and candies to little grandchildren if she doesn't have a bizarre sense of humor. I still can't get the nightmares of that love potion she concocted.

She set the pot on the table and started spooning some soups in our bowls. I scooped a spoonful of her stew and was rewarded with a pleasant burst of spicy flavor. Sakura made a small moan. I smiled over my spoon. I know how she feels. The stew is just heavenly.

"It's her parents. They are growing weaker by the moment. Which is why I will conclude the training today, and the day after tomorrow, you will go to the Daek Varfigaret where her uncle resides."

We stared blankly at her. The stew that was halfway into Sakura's mouth dripped back to her bowl.

"Err..Did-.did..did you say the day after tomorrow?" Tomoyo stammered.

~~~~~~TIME INTERVAL~~~~~~

Daek Varfigaret wasn't very far from 'Land of Gazio'. It took like 1 hour to reach via wings. But these two places couldn't have more differences. 'Land of Gazio' is your typical 'good people' land completed with fairies, green trees, flowers of every color you can imagine and those you can't, hopping white bunnies and soda pops. But Daek Varfigaret is like your typical 'evil people' land. You have owls, trees with faces on it, thunder bolts, howling of wolves and white figures passing by which freak the hell out of Sakura.

"Ho-hooeeee!!!!!!!!!!!" Sakura squatted down, and waved her hand madly above her. It appears that an owl had just swished past her.

"Ekk! Ghost! Get away from me you evil creature!" She was making too much of a racket. I grabbed her flaying hands. (Which is an extremely difficult task to do) "Sakura! Sakura!" She stopped and looked at me. I cupped her face in my hand.

"It's just an owl," I said gently. She sniffed, and wiped her tears. "An owl?" The 'evil creature' hooted as if to confirmed its species.

"Oh, hee hee… Silly...me...." she trailed off staring at me, realizing at the same time as me, that our faces were a little too close. Oh Kami-sama! I am staring at her! I know I am staring at her. This is it. I am so dead. I bet my eyes are a dead giveaway of my feelings for her. She knew! She got to know. Why else would she still stare at me? (A/N: Why else indeed...) I bet my chocolates she is probably thinking I'm demented or something. Her eyes widened slightly. That it! She knew! She probably knew that I knew she knew. Or she knew that I knew she knew I knew. Ah heck! What do I know?!

Don't stare at her. DON'T stare at her Li Syaoran! I can't tear away my eyes from her. I decided to end my life right there by slightly leaning forward. Amazingly Sakura hadn't start slapping my face red. In fact she pretty much just stared back at me.

Ok this is it. I closed my eyes and leaned forward and then felt.....

Something furry tickling my lips. I frowned. I opened my eyes and saw yellow. Which could only mean one thing.

"Arghhh!!!!" I backed away quickly, horrified that I came in contact with that stuffed animal. If I wasn't busy spitting out furs out of my mouth, I could see that Sakura was doing the same thing.

"Look, this is hardly a romantic place to be sucking faces with each other and we got a mission to complete. Remember? Bell's parents?" Kero asked.

"We are not sucking faces!" Sakura and I shouted. I was caught off guard for a moment. I looked at Sakura and saw her looking back at me. We turned away quickly. I felt my heat creeping up my face. One good thing about evil places, it is always night time. It is dark enough to conceal my glowing red face.

"Right. You guys are just counting eyelashes. Well, whatever. I hope little brat, could get your hormones under control so we can continue our journey eh?" the 'little minion of evil' quipped and fluttered past me. I have a sudden urge to kick him back into the Clow Book, lock it and throw the key down into an ocean where a starving shark could have it for lunch.

I took a deep breath and let it out slowly. No use making a scene. I turned to Sakura, "You're okay? Should we continue or do you want to take a rest?" She smiled at me and shook her head. Once again I found myself stood rooted to the ground, mesmerized by her smile. I heard Kero sighed. He pulled Sakura and dragged her off while mumbling something that sounded like, 'hopeless' and 'give up'. The rest of them giggled. I gave them my famous glares, which prompted various kind of responses. Bell started to smooth her hair, Tomoyo started to fiddle her video cam and Eriol was whistling and was looking around, fascinated by the beauty of the surrounding.

I don't think so.

I gave them one last glare before following Kero and Sakura, who was in a middle of a round of squabble.

~Sakura~

Oh my Kami-sama. This cannot be true. I turned to look at Bell for confirmation.

"Oh yeah. That is where dear ol' Uncle Varfigaret resides alright."

No way! I was more than a little awed. You cannot believe your eyes. In a place surrounded my owls, spiky bushes and ghos-err.... Anyway, you are expecting a big dark castle surrounded by thick fogs and a swamp with one or two starving crocs eyeing you, waiting for the right moment to pound at you. Instead...well.... Sure the castle is dark and gloomy but... It was made out of dark chocolate! Instead of windows with metal bars, the windows were made of doughnuts with colored icing. The door, I suspected was made from biscuit. Instead of swamp, we have red (I suspected to make it look bloody) soda pop. The only thing that looks evil here was a statue of a gargoyle perched on top of the castle. Well, it will look really evil if it wasn't holding an ice-cream cone.

"You see, Unc Varfy got a sweet tooth, and it is one big tooth I can assure you." I stared at Bell, incredulously. Then again, they are related. Tomoyo and Eriol were having a hard time keeping Kero under control. Luckily, Spinel is not here. We are going to have to bring more manpower to subdue the two sugar-craze monsters. Syaoran was looking wistfully at the chocolate wall. Oh well, we better get into the castle. I got up and started to fly towards the castle when Bell reached out suddenly and pulled me down to our hiding position almost snapping my head back.

"What?" I hissed out, rubbing my sore neck.

"I know a secret passage." She whispered back.

"You know a secret passage?" I asked, voice slightly rose above a whisper.

"Shh! Yes. I'll explain as we move along," she signaled the others to follow her.

We went to the back of the castle. Bell skimmed her hand over a few chocolate bricks. She stopped at one, pushed it and presto! The wall moved and revealed a secret passage. We followed Bell in. It was pretty dark and err..smelly. I called upon Glow and instructed her to form glowing balls of light to float infront of each of us. About the smell, well....There is nothing I can do about it. I could call Flower to fill this underground tunnel with fragrant flowers but I don't think 'Unc Varfy' will appreciate that.

"So, can you tell me how you know there's a secret passage?"

"Simply because I used to play here with the other fairies and pixies. I mean what child can resist a playroom surrounded by candies?"

"Huh?"

Bell flew slightly to the right to avoid a jutting wall. "Yes. Daek Sajhiontshkuta the former name of Daek Varfigaret is not like what it is now. We have day and night. Green trees, bright flowers, rainbows, springs and waterfall dominated this place. But ever since my father was elected King, Unc Varfy got really mad, since he is the older brother. He was given Daek Sajhiontshkuta but he is not satisfied. So he took my parents' energy source. Without the energy source, one could only live for a few days. It is amazing that my parents could last for more than a week now."

"But why an apple? Anybody could mistook it for an ordinary apple and take it away." Syaoran said.

"Each of us, have an energy source. When one is elected King and Queen, a gift of increase energy will bestow upon them. To do so, my parents had taken take out their energy source and placed it on a shrine so that our ancestors could increase their energy. This process however, takes about a day. Grandma Teeahr decided that we disguised the energy source as an apple so nobody could attempt to steal it. Unc Varfy was there when Grandma made that suggestion. We didn't suspect that he would steal it. I mean he acted all happy when Father received the crown. I didn't want to trouble you but our magic does not work against blood relative, which is why I had to bring you guys here. I-I'm sorry."

I put a hand on the poor girl's shoulder. "There there. What is there to be sorry about. You couldn't have guessed his intention could you? Now chin up ok? We will find your parents' energy source. I promise." Bell smiled and squeezed my hands. "Thanks Sakura." She then straightened up. "We go up this way. This will lead to the hall of the castle. From there, we will sneak into Unc Varfy's chamber." She pointed at a twisted stairs. Thank Kami-sama we are flying. I wouldn't want to step on the mice-infested stairway. We flew up the twisty stairway, which took a good 10 minutes before coming to the door. Whew! Finally. I called off the glow balls. Bell gave a tiny push and the door opened silently (surprisingly). Bell poked her head into the doorway then popped it in. She gave a thumb-up. We went into the hall quietly.

Just then, Unc Varfy I supposed, but he look more like Santa Claus completed with white beard, came out of his room yawning. Is this the evil Uncle Varfigaret? He was wearing a blue polka dots pajamas and furry night shoes. He stopped in mid-yawn when he saw us. He uttered a blasphemy loud enough to sing our ears and went into his room. We looked at each other in confusion. We heard some shuffling, tugging and a loud bang as if someone or something heavy had fallen on the floor. Then silence....

Unc Varfy, or more appropriately Lord Varfigaret considering what he was wearing, came out of the room. He was wearing a black cloak with large medallion and was holding a large staff with red globe on top.

"SO!" He boomed. "What do we have here?"

Bell stepped forward. "We are here to fight you for my parents' energy source."

Lord Varfigaret smirked. He took out the apple from behind and transferred it into the red globe.

"Then you have to get it through me." He held the staff slightly forward and the red globe started to glow.

Syaoran and Bell drew their swords while I called upon Sword. All of us crouched into a fighting stance.

This is it.

The battle has begun.

A/N: Whew! That was tiring. *read this chapter again* Erm...ok, it is not that good.... Gomen. School has started and I am struggling to finish this fic. I hate rushing! I wouldn't do my best if I rush. But what I hate even more is to leave a fic unfinished. Please review ok? I'm sorry for any grammatical and spelling mistakes. There will be one or two chappies more, depending on how long each chappie will be. I just hope fanfiction.net will not be down the next time. Till next update! Bye!