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When Rika woke up, Yoshiyuki wasn't with her, she wasn't in Sakura's house. The last thing she remembered was her world crashing down about her. The familiar scents and sounds were gone. Fear consumed her slight body and Rika fell to the ground again shivering uncontrollably. A little voive in the back of her mind told her that everything would be fine, if only she could calm down for a few minutes and take stock of the situation. Rika slowly stood up and looked around.
Everything was so dark. In fact, if she hadn't been glowing, she wouldn't have been able to see her hand. Glowing?! Why was she glowing. Rika brought her hand to her face, touching her face make sure she was still alive. She was. So, where was everyone else. She unconciously twisted her engagement ring as she tried to think. Everything around her was black...black..except, except for...
Except for a group a figures glowing in the distance. Rika started walking towards them. Two of them had staffs, one had a sword. She squinted, not believing her eyes; four of them had wings and two of the winged ones were big cats! Rika grew hesitant, yet something in her forbade her to stop walking to them.
As she drew near, she could hear their voices. "S-sakura?" she whispered to herself and started running to them "Sakura!" she called out.
Sakura turned around, startled. "Rika!"
"Sakura, Syaoran, Eriol. Where did everyone go? Who are these people?" her eyes communicated her fear.
"Rika. We don't know where everyone went. We thought..." Sakura stopped.
"What did you think?"
"We thought that only people with magic were left," Eriol finished her sentence.
"Magic?" Rika repeated. "There's no such thing....is there?"
"Magic, Rika, is very real," Sakura put her arm around Rika's shoulder and drew her into their circle. "I don't think...I can't see any in you though. Can anyone else?" Rika looked at the faces around her, shaking their heads.
One of them and long silvery hair and lavender eyes. He had an icy expression on his face and his arms were folded across his chest. He was hovering in the air. He had angle wings. The other winged human was all in red. She had red eyes and red hair and red lips. Her clothes were pink and black and white. A smile played on her lips and when their eyes met, she winked at Rika. She too was hovering in the air. Her wings were butterfly wings.
The two animals. One was golden and the other was black. One looked like a huge panther and the other, a huge lion. The panther had butterfly wings and a little curly-q at the end of his tail. The lion had angle wings with silver hair coming out of its tail. Rika was scared to look them in the eye.
She had already known Eriol and Syaoran from school, but now they seemed almost alien. Even Sakura! Eriol had a staff with a sun on the top, Syaoran had a sword and Sakura had a staff with a star. Rika gulped "So...so what's going on now?" she asked timidly, not wanting to make eye contact with any of them.
"We're trying to decide what to do," Syaoran answered her.
Eriol sensed Rika's fear. "Maybe if some of us became a little less intimidating..." He nodded at Keroberos and Spinel Sun. The two of them transformed into their earthly forms. Rika watched the process in facination. Their huge wings cocconed them and strange symbols formed in a circle beneath them. In a few seconds, their wings unfolded and shrunk, revealing two little creatures that looked like stuffed animals.
"I've seen you before," she said to Kero. Kero flew over to her.
"Probably. I tag along with Sakura a lot. I'm Keroberos." Rika held out her hands and Kero landed in them. He turned to Syaoran and said, "if you had been this nice to me I wouldn't have bit you."
Syaoran rubbed his finger. "Don't remind me you little stuffed animal."
"What was that?"
"Nothing."
Rika laughed nervously at the interchange. She looked at the little blue black one. "Who are you?" she asked.
"Spinnel Sun."
"Suppi," the woman in red interjected.
"Who's Suppi?" He asked looking around. Then he realized who she was talking about. "RUBY MOON!"
"What??"
Rika looked at the woman. "Ruby Moon?"
"That would be me." she said cheerfully with a wave. Rika then turned her gaze onto the last winged figure.
"Yue," he said. "I'm Yue."
"They are our Guardians, at least, mine and Eriol's," Sakura said.
"Syaoran, you do not have guardians?" Rika asked.
Syaoran shook his head. "Spinel and Ruby are with Eriol and Yue and Kero are with Sakura."
"Do they had other forms too?"
At that question, Ruby Moon and Yue transformed too. Rika gasped when she saw who they were. "Yukito and Nakuru!"
Both of them smiled at her. "But we agreed that Yue and Ruby Moon would stay in their original forms until everything turns back to normal," Eriol said.
"But isn't...aren't two winged figures kind of strange?" Rika said ask Yukito and Nakuru changed back into Ruby Moon and Yue.
Syaoran laughed. "They can make their wings go away. All of them can, but we figured, two humans would scare off people less than two huge cats."
"Oh." Rika grew dizzy and she held on to Sakura and Syaoran for support. At that same moment, Sakura, Syaoran, and Eriol all sensed the magic.
"Mistress," said Yue, "it would seem that your friend Rika is somehow connected to this strange magic."
"Yes," Sakura agreed.
"I still don't get it," Suppi said. "What is this magic? Why can't we feel it?"
"Master, should we really trust magic that we guardians can't sense?" Ruby had a point.
"Ruby, you've said that a lot, but this magic is what's caused the diappearance of our world. We must go after it," explained Eriol.
"I thought we had agreed on that too," Sakura was confused.
"We did." mumbled Syaoran. "Look. We can't stand here forever." He pulled out his laison board. "We should start looking for the source. Every second we argue, we...well...we could be losing our chance to get back our families."
"Tomoyo..." Eriol said sadly.
"Dad and Touya...."
"Yoshiyuki..."
"Mother, my crazy sisters, and even Meiling..."
"We have to go rescue the video games and cakes!" yelled Kero.
"Is that all you can think about?" Yue looked at his furry, yellow counterpart.
"What are you thinking about?"
"Hmmm...oh, that's a tough one, Keroberos," Yue started sarcastically. "How about the well being of our mistress and Syoaran?"
"Who am I going to harass if Touya never comes back?" Ruby Moon sounded forlorn.
"Yue," said Suppi.
"Suppi," suggested Kero. Suppi gave Kero his death glare.
Ruby Moon brightened up and glomped Yue. "Get! Off! Me! Ruby! Moon!"
Syaoran crossed his arms and rolled his eyes, impatient. "This is why we never bring our gaurdians along when we get together."
"Is it always like this?" asked Rika, watching the four guardians argue.
"Well, yes and no. When there's danger, everyone's serious." Eriol responded with a wave of his hand. "That quite enough the four of you. Syaoran. The Laison board?"
"Finally...Sources of Light with ancient spin, Send forth the magic power within, Oracles of gold, wind, water, and electricity, Force know my plight, RELEASE THE LIGHT!"
As Syaoran chanted, Rika could feel the wind moving and swirling around him. A blue stream of light shot out from the center of the board. Rika's gaze followed the light. It seemed to go one forever. "Well, I guess we should follow the yellow brick road," Sakura said.
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