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# # Previously on Ally Mcbeal....err....I mean Hawaii! The sun, sand and the huh?# #
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.
I Gotta Let My Feelings Known
~Eriol~
I called upon my staff as Sakura summoned her sword. I inched towards Sakura with one eye trained on Tomoyo. She was as usual busy videotaping the scene. I frowned slightly. I DON'T like the idea of her coming with us but when she looked at me with her big amethyst eyes well....She's here isn't she? Sigh... I turned towards Sakura.
"You got a plan?" I whispered.
"Yeah, she whispered. " Syaoran and I will distract and you will-Hey!"
Huh? I turned to look at what caught Sakura attention. Or who.
Bell apparently had decided to abandon the golden rule of battle. Teamwork. And always tell your teammates what is your plan before taking action. And never surprise your teammates, only the enemies. And... Ok so there is more than one golden rule in a battle. Bottom line is, Bell broke it and it is messing up Sakura's prefect plan... Whatever it is.
"Syaoran, try to get Lord Varfigaret with your fire god."
"I can't," he frowned, "I might hurt Bell instead." I rubbed my face wearily. Damn! Why does that girl had to be so reckless.
Clash! Lord Varfigaret's staff and Bell's sword came in contact causing blue sparks to appear.
"Steal my parents' energy force will you?"
Clash!
"Act all happy for my parents will you?"
Clash!
Clash!
Clash!
And err...clash!
"She is not holding up," Sakura pointed out, biting her lower lips. I studied Bell carefully. Her sword technique was superb but unfortunately Lord Varfigaret seems to outstand her. With a final trust with his staff, Lord Varfigaret sent Bell flying backward, hitting the wall painfully. She slid down onto the floor and stopped moving.
"Bell! Sakura cried and ran towards her. We all did like wise. Sakura put down her sword, and shook Bell slightly. "Bell? Bell!"
Bell lifted her head slowly and smiled weakly. "I'm ok Sakura. Just a little out of breath." She got up slowly, wincing slightly. Sakura and I quickly grabbed her when her legs gave out. Bell said weakly, "I guess I am more than a little out of breath."
I practically feel my blood boiling. People always said I am the cool guy never let my feelings known. But the truth is, I do get angry all the time, especially when one of my friends got hurt. There were countless numbers of time I got angry back in the old cardcapturing days. Each time Sakura got hurt, I felt like letting my fury known to the enemy. But I knew better. I can't let my feelings get to me. Only this time, I made an exception. And it cost Tomoyo's and my life.
Bell was his niece for Kami-sama sake! I glared at Lord Varfigaret and was taken back. He was looking at Bell worriedly. What is going on?
Lord Varfigaret caught me staring at him. He frowned, obviously not happy that one of his emotions was shown. He looked around and his eyes fell on Tomoyo who was looking at Bell worriedly. He smiled wickedly at me and lifted his staff. My blood froze.
"No!!!" I screamed out, trying to run towards Tomoyo but Bell was leaning on me for support. I watched the red beam projected towards Tomoyo. She screamed, her back arched. Lord Varfigaret stopped the beam. Tomoyo stopped screaming. She blinked her eyes once and looked at me. A few seconds passed before her eyes rolled to the back of her head and she slumped towards the floor.
"No!," I screamed hoarshly. I grabbed Syaoran and laid Bell on him. I rushed towards Tomoyo, oblivious to every thing.
I heard somebody shouted my name. I turned around and saw a red beam charging towards me. It hit me making me feel as if my blood is boiling. For real now.
Before everything turns black, I called out weakly for Tomoyo before collapsing beside her.
~Syaoran~
"Eriol don't!" I shouted out but it was too late. The red beam hit Eriol and he collapsed on the floor. I looked helplessly at Sakura. She shook her head slightly. She doesn't have a plan either.
"Kero-chan, please look after Bell, Tomoyo and Eriol," she said, softly leaning Bell on Kero.
She then looked at me and whispered, "Syaoran, I'm scared. I don't have any plans."
I smiled reassuringly. "Don't worry Sakura, together we will succeed."
We stared at each other, letting the moment passed. At that instance, I felt that our minds were connected.
"Are you guys just gonna stare at each other or start fighting?" Lord Varfigaret rudely interrupted.
Sakura and I smiled. We ran towards Lord Varfigaret, splitting to each side of him, catching him off guard. He decided to attack me first. When he wanted to blast me, Sakura called upon Thunder and electrified him.
"Fire, come forth!" A jet of fire flew out from my magical paper and scorched him. Lord Varfigaret supported himself on his knees and panted slightly.
"That was my mistake, letting up for awhile. But I won't do it again!" At that he sent two red beams towards us. We dodged but it caught us on the arms. Sakura cried out in pain while I grunted. Immediately Sakura summoned Fiery but he deflected Fiery's attack. Sakura was about to call another card when Lord Varfigaret sent another red beam towards her.
"Sakura!" I shouted. I called upon wind to stop the beam but it only managed to make the beam slightly smaller.
Sakura saw the beam coming towards her. She summoned shield but it was formed half way, only enough to block up some of the beam. Sakura gritted her teeth at the impact of the beam. I ran towards her, entering Shield, which was by now fully formed.
"Sakura? Are you ok?" I watched Sakura panted.
"Syaoran, only some of the beam actually hurt me so why do I feel so weak?" she said, slightly bewildered. I watched Lord Varfigaret sent beams after beams at Kero but Kero had shielded the rest with his enormous wings.
"He must be an extremely powerful magician."
"None of our attacks seem to affect him much," Sakura pointed out. I frowned. Sakura had used her most powerful card, Fiery but it did not hurt him much. Sakura looked at me expectedly. Damn! I don't even know a single solution. She would probably think me as a useless magician.
"Arghh!!! Somebody wake me up from this nightmare!" I buried my head in my hands in exasperation.
"That's it!" Sakura cried out. Huh? What's it? She called Shield away.
"Sakura what are you doing?" She smiled and winked. I don't know what was more surprising. Her outburst or that wink.
I watched Sakura pulled out a card. She flipped the card and threw it in the air.
"Sleep!" she said and the little pixie with a wand came out. It flew towards Lord Varfigaret and sprinkled yellow dusts on him.
Lord Varfigaret turned to look at us. Sakura and I held our breaths.
A few moments later Lord Varfigaret's eyes rolled to the back of his head and fell to the ground, snoring loudly.
Sakura turned towards me and gave a huge smile. "We did it! We did it!" She jumped up and down for joy before hugging me. I tightened my hold over her small body.
"But I didn't do anything Sakura." Sakura stepped back to look directly in my eyes.
"Syaoran, you had tried to stop the beam, I saw you doing that Syaoran." I reddened slightly.
"Yeah but it wasn't enough."
Sakura shook her head, "That's because Lord Varfigaret was too strong. Anyway I got the idea of using Sleep from you." I must have looked confused. "You said 'nightmare'."
I smiled. That is Sakura for you. She will look at every tiny thing you did and made it sound like it's a big deal. How I love this girl! I was about to confess my feelings to Sakura when Bell called us. Eriol and Tomoyo were supporting Bell. They must have regained conscious when Lord Varfigaret fell.
"Great job guys," Bell said. "But what are we going to do when he wakes up?"
"Sakura can use Dream to probe into his mind but it is now up to you to stop him," Eriol said to Bell.
"Me?"
"Yes. When you were injured, I caught him looking worriedly at you." Bell suddenly found her shoes fascinating.
"You are close to him aren't you?" Bell nodded sadly.
"Well then, you have to convince him to give back your parents' energy source. I will use my magic to get all of us to enter his mind. Ready Sakura?" She nodded and took out the Dream card.
"Dream!" She said and I felt Eriol used his magic on me. The next moment I saw all of us in a pitch-black room with Lord Varfigaret looking around in bewilderment.
~Tomoyo~
Sakura raised her star wand above her head.
"Dream!" A lady in white came out and stood over Lord Varfigaret. She clasped her hands together and entered Lord Varfigaret. Eriol instructed us to close our eyes. I felt a gush of wind blew past me before I opened my eyes.
Everything was pitch-black. But somehow we could see each other clearly. I lifted my camera to my eyes and was surprised to see Eriol stopping me.
"Sorry Tomoyo. We are in Lord Varfigaret's dream. No camera, watch etc is going to work here." Damn! This is one in a lifetime chance I could film a dream. Now if only that is possible, I could really videotape Syaoran's 'Sakura Dreams' and sell it to the tabloid.
"Where-where am I?"
"You are in your dream, controlled by Sakura." Eriol answered.
"Impossible! Get me out of this place now!"
"Not before you give me my parents' energy source."
"Never!"
"Then you ask for it!" Bell lurched forward to attack Lord Varfigaret but was repelled by an invisible force. She fell down hard on her bottom. "Ouch! What was that?!"
"Sorry Bell," Sakura said sheepishly. "I decided that there will be no fighting, so Dream help me to arrange it."
"I want to fight that man!"
"Sorry, I want you to talk to that man, not fight him."
"But I don't wanna talk to that man, I wanna fight him!" Bell whined. Eriol winced. "She sounded almost as screechy as you." I punched him on his shoulder, causing him to wince again.
Lord Varfigaret cleared his throat. "Ahem! 'That man' has a name?" Everybody ignored him.
"Bell, talk to him. Find out why he stole your parents' energy source", Sakura urged.
"Who cares why he stole it. He stole it and he has to pay for it!"
"That's right! Who cares about me? Who? Tell me!" Lord Varfigaret boomed causing all of us, with the exception Mr. Cool Guy Eriol to jump slightly.
"What do you mean? Of course we care about you!" Bell snapped.
"Then why am I given Daek Sajhiontshkuta while my YOUNGER brother was given the throne to 'Land of Gazio' which was say 20 times bigger!"
"Simply because Unc, you couldn't even play King well during one of dressing up game." We stared incredulously at Bell. Then at Lord Varfigaret. "Remember, you ordered the water supply to be cut just because I, who acted as the servant missed a spot when shining your shoes."
"But-but.." Lord Varfigaret blubbered. "That's just a game."
"Oh yeah it was just a game all right. But you even lost in a simple game of Risk, which pretty much reflects how good your leadership power is." Lord Varfigaret didn't have an comeback to that and consoled himself by pouting. Which was not a pretty sight, I can assured you.
"Daddy actually plans to make you 'Protector of Child' because you are so good with children. He is also going to make Daek Sajhiontshkuta, I mean Daek Varfigaret, a nursery. Imagine how much revenues you are going to make." You could practically hear the ringing cash register in Lord Varfigaret.
"I'm sorry child, I don't mean to hurt your parents or even you. I am just going to scare them. Your father is my brother after all." He held out his hand and hugged Bell. We awwed at that.
Lord Varfigaret transferred the apple from his globe to Bell's hands.
"Thanks Unc Varfy. Come on let's transfer the apples back to my parents," Bell said and took Lord Varfigaret's hands.
Eriol waved his staff and the next moment we were standing in Lord Varfigaret's hall.
Lord Varfigaret raised his staff, which prompted an immediate response from Syaoran, Sakura and Eriol. Bell just smiled and shook her head. Lord Varfigaret raised his staff again, muttered a few magic words then pointed it out of the window. Instantly, a burst of light shot out of his staff and darkness in the sky disappeared. We ran to the window just in time to see the ugly trees, owls and ghosts were replaced with bunnies, waterfalls and rainbow. I lifted my videocamera and caught it all in tape.
"Pretty isn't it?" Eriol came next to me, putting his arms around me. I smiled.
"Yes." We watched the scenery silently.
"I thought I am going to lose you. You will never follow us in a battle do you hear me?"
I pouted. "No fair. I don't care. I WILL follow you and I WILL videotape it."
Eriol looked at me for a moment. I stared back, challengingly. Finally he relented.
"As long as you agree that you will be protected by my shield."
"Mou, a shield will make the scene slightly blurry!"
"No more argument," he said and silent me with a kiss. I will try to reason with him.
But later. I put my arms around him. He deepened the kiss.
Much much later.
~Sakura~
I watched the exchange between Eriol and Tomoyo. Sigh... They make such a lovely couple. I caught Syaoran looking at Eriol and Tomoyo too. Syaoran caught me looking at him. I gave him a smile and was taken back by the determination in his eyes. He marched towards me, very much like he is going in a battle.
"Sakura!" He barked. I jumped slightly.
"Ho-hoe? Err...yes?"
"I-" he softened. Suddenly he started to act all nervous, drawing pictures on the floor with his shoes.
"I- I lo-....ahem! I mean I- I -lo-" Huh?
"I.....I......I......." He took a deep breath and grabbed me by my shoulders.
"Sakura. I lov-"
"SAKURA!!!!!" Kero called out. Syaoran fell to the floor anime style, legs twitching. Hoe? Kero stared at Syaoran incredulously for a moment. Then he shrugged it off.
"Sakura, come over there. Tomoyo is videotaping us and she wants you to be in it." I just stood there, slightly lost at what Syaoran is going to tell me.
"Come on Sakura," Kero said impatiently. Then he dragged me by my hands and started to talk excitingly about poses and clothes and camera.
I managed to catch Syaoran muttered something about de ja vu and him banging his head against the floor.
A/N: Tee hee hee hee... I am so evil! So sorry for the cliffhanger (NOT!) This chapter isn't the best and I know it. School reopens, projects are piling up and deadlines are drawing near. And the worst part is my boyfriend of 3 yrs plus broke up with me. Sobs....Sigh..... Well, cest la vie. Anywae, the battle scene was so hard to write. I don't want to write a battle scene that is so short that it's corny but neither a long one that it will distract the whole point of this fic, which is the S+S scene!!!! Next chapter will be the last chapter of this fic. Just for fun, I will like to post a question for you guys.
How will Syaoran confess his feelings to Sakura in the next chappie?
1) With a bouquet of flowers, a bottle of wine and a box of very very expensive ring
2) Stammers, blushes, about to say the long-awaited confession, back out and runs away leaving Sakura saying 'Hoe?'
3) Takes Sakura firmly on her shoulders, kiss her hard on her lips so that she would be to shock to realize how silly he sounds when he stammers over his confession.
4) Get Eriol to tell her on his behalf
5) Abducts Sakura, carries her to a secluded place and do whatever is necessary to let that clueless girl how crazy he is over her.