~*~ Author's Notes ~*~
Hey everyone! I would like to thank my friend Jessica for reviewing my fic and girl, I am so embarrassed about choir. You see dear readers we were in choir today and I sung really loud and the whole class heard me above everyone else, so I'm really embarrassed about that.
Anyway, enough with my ranting about being embarrassed lets' give special thanks to: ~*~ hana no tenshi ~*~ Luckyducky7too ~*~ Liang ReConst (be looking for an e-mail from me ^_~) ~*~ Danielle Ngo ~*~ lilcutemunchkin ~*~ Kathy ~*~ Kangasmaster
Thanks for reviewing!
~*~ Chapter 12 ~*~
When I woke up I found my hands arms tied above my head and a huge woodpile underneath my feet.
"Where- what happened?" I asked not knowing nor caring who answered me as long as it was a friendly voice.
"They tied us to the stake," came the gloomy reply from Melin as she spat at one of the things.
My head was spinning and there was this huge aching where whatever the heck those things were had hit me. Then this memory came back to me stating that the things wanted to eat us, just thinking about that got my stomach turning and doing summer salts.
"Please tell me there not going to eat us," I begged someone to be so merciful to tell me that. I looked wearily at the things before us, who were arguing in front of a huge house. I think they were arguing about the mayor not coming out of his house at a certain time to burn us to the stakes we were tied to. I'm not really sure cause my senses were still kind of hazy.
"Sorry to burst your bubble Sakura, but yes, I honestly think they do plan on eating us," I heard Eriol reply.
I closed my eyes and let out a groan of complaint. Yeah for me! I find out I'm a princess, I make friends for the first time that isn't an animal or looks like on (Kero), and now I'm going to be burned to the stake and eaten by these things. If I ever, and I probably won't, make it out alive I'm never going to go to another strange place again! Ever!
I turned to my right and saw Syaoran struggling against his bonds. Blood was gently flowing down his arms from where the rope that bound him had cut him.
"Syaoran! Stop your just hurting yourself," I said groggily.
He squirmed and pulled against his bonds but he only succeeded in hurting himself more like I predicted. "No," he said breathless. "I must find a way to get us out of here."
Just then a rock came up and hit me in my stomach. I let out a gasp from the sudden rush of breath and tears filled my eyes.
"Sakura!" I heard everyone cry.
"You scum!" one of the kiddy things cried running away laughing at what they had done.
"Don't worry about me, I'm fine," I said when I caught my breath. I batted the tears away and looked around to the best of my ability. "Has anyone seen Kero?" I asked hoping that he wasn't caught like the rest of us.
"No, and I don't think that he'll show either," Eriol said.
"Why not?" we heard Kero's voice ask.
"Kero! Where have you been?" Tomoyo asked in a harsh whisper so the things couldn't hear us.
"Sleep," he said casually. "I just woke up and looked out the window and saw you guys were in trouble so I had to sneak and get a blade of some kind so I could release you from your bonds," he said presenting a beautiful dagger. (Ghetto Princess: I don't know if any of you are into knives and such but if you are and you've ever seen this dagger called the 'Dagger of Dawn,' then you get the idea of what it looks like. And if you don't, it's gorgeous! Binyaile and Tina: don't mind Ghetto, she has a fetish with knives. Ghetto Princess: no I don't. Everybody including family members: yes you do! Ghetto Princess: shrinks till you can no longer see her.)
"Great going Kero, now unleash me first," Syaoran said turning his head.
"Why should I let you go first?" Kero asked getting angry.
"Kero, this isn't the time to argue! Let him go first he can help you get us untied faster!" I whispered in a shouting way. I glanced over at the people who were getting restless as they waited for their mayor and this time I was sure that the mayor was going to do honors in burning us alive.
"Fine, fine," I heard Kero complain. All was silent, except for the arguments from the things arguing, then finally you could hear Syaoran breath a sigh of relief.
"Don't worry, we'll get out of here safe. I must say that, that guardian of yours may actually come in handy," he whispered gently in my ear, making me shiver. "Are you cold?" he asked catching me by my waist when my bonds were untied.
"No, just a cold chill," I lied and fought to keep the blush down as I moved carefully to help untie everyone. When we got untied the mayor had just came out with a huge burning torch. I prayed and I prayed hard to God that he wouldn't see us climbing down from the wood pile, but I think at this time God was really angry with me about something.
"They're getting away!" I heard the mayor screamed out.
"No, there escaping!" The Mayors second head argued. (Ghetto Princess: Gee don't their argument sound stupid.) Suddenly the whole stupid village started arguing about weather or not we were escaping or getting away, which were really stupid since they mean the same thing.
Us on the other hand took off running, since the opportunity practically jumped at us since the things were arguing. Unfortunately, we didn't get too far because as soon as we made it to the exit the things began to chase us down.
"What are you things?" I shouted. I know, it sounds like the dumbest thing in the world to ask someone or something when they are about to kill you. In all honesty however, I think that a stupid thing, like that question, comes on an impulse.
Anyway, what I wasn't expecting was that the things answered me back. "Los Dos Cabeza Monstruos."
"In English," Melin demanded.
"The Two Headed Monsters," something replied again. (Ghetto Princess: sorry if I said that wrong, my Spanish is very, very poor. Binyaile: just like everything else about her.)
"Oh that makes things sound so much better," Tomoyo replied catching up to me.
"We're going to have to split up," Syaoran yelled to make sure that we heard him.
"Why?" I asked. I know it was probably a good idea but as you probably already know, I HATE being alone. There's nothing more scarier in this world than being alone in a strange place.
"Because, Sakura, it's the safest way to get past Los Dos Cabeza Monstruo. I don't think they're that smart," Syaoran said. I knew it, I knew it. My life keeps getting more and more dangerous by the second with these guys. We had just reentered the forest when Syaoran spoke again. "When I say go, everyone split in a different direction...GO!"
I split from the rest of the group and ran back toward the village I think. I'm not sure why I would want to go back toward the village but my gut feeling told me that it was necessary. Of course I'm not going to back thorough the village, just around it. I may trust my gut but I'm not stupid enough to do something that crazy. That's like saying I should jump out of a two story building. (Amber: yeah.two story buildings were huge back then.I don't know what happened.)
I kept to the forest to help conceal where I was. It wasn't what you would call a way to trick my opponents, it's more like common sense, and lately I'm starting to think that I'm the only one who has any.
I don't know how far I had ran or how far away everyone else was away from me, but I was scared. Not even Kero was with me. The trees started getting denser as I ran and I couldn't make my legs slow down, so when I tried to dodge a tree that I almost ran into I tripped over a tree root and fell face first.
Tears sprung to my eyes immediately as I picked my self up, ignoring the pain I was feeling in my knees. I ran some more, now I didn't care how far away from the group I was, I just wanted to go somewhere familiar and safe.
I kept running until I spotted a really small cave, which I gladly ran to and collapsed inside. I breathed a sigh of relief and closed my eyes as I let my energy slowly come back to me. I was hoping that I wouldn't run into anybody or anything while I waited till every ounce of me was restored, but I should know by now that fate isn't kind.period.
I heard a slight growl coming from deep inside the cave and I immediately recognized what it was. Tears began to overflow my eyes and down my cheeks as I sat as still as I could.
Lucky me just ran into a bears cave. I just HAD to run into a bears cave. Yet when was a bear's cave so small that only a six or seven year-old kid could fit in.
That really didn't matter to me because the growling came closer and then I don't now why but I scrambled out as fast as I could and ran. The fatigue I was feeling earlier had vanished along with the last of my nerve.
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I ran until dawn and when I came to a stop I found myself on a road leading to only God knows where. It was times like this that I really wished that I had someone by me to comfort my fears.
A gently breeze blew at my heated face cooling it down, but it carried the stench that would make the brave turn into cowards. The breeze carried a faint burning smell, along with it the smell of.death.
I felt panic run through me, causing me to violently shiver out of fear for what could be up ahead. I turned around and saw a fluffy chicken (Amber: that's me!) sitting in the middle of the road.
From first glance it looked dead, but only if you looked closely you could tell that the fluffy chicken was still alive but there was something about it that gave me goose bumps, almost like when I had my first encounter with a demon.
Slowly I backed away from it and headed back to where the smell of burnt flesh and wood or something close like it, was burning, or just smoking. I don't know, but something bad with a fire happened and even though I don't like going that way, I am because that fluffy chicken is really freaky.
I walked non-stop for hours and it was almost noon now and I was practically crawling on my hands and knees from thirst and hunger pains.
I was angry with my self because somehow I had lost the jerky that I had been saving during my run through the forest and really needed it. My eyes were beginning to close from the lack of sleep that I had and I felt like I wouldn't be able to take another step forward if I tried.
The smell of something burnt was getting stronger and made me dizzy with its sickening smell. That's when I heard it, that merciful sound of water running somewhere not too far from where I was standing. I stopped and listened carefully to try and pinpoint the where the sound was coming from and then I quickly gave up and followed my gut feeling.
The sound of running water was becoming louder and louder and I felt my spirit lift with the sound. I probably would have run, but I wanted to be careful. The last thing I needed was to run into some kind of monster or whatnot and not having the strength to fight or run.
Finally after what seemed like an eternity, I found the baka river of mercy, which I collapsed in front of and plunged my whole head into, only coming back up for air and to swallow the big mouthful I had in my mouth.
"Sakura! Don't drink the water!" I heard someone yell, or at least I think I heard someone yell. I'm not really sure because instead of getting that refreshed feeling I usually get after drinking water I began to feel sick to my stomach.
The last thing that I remembered was thinking of Syaoran.
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I opened my eyes and met intense amber eyes starring gently back down on me. "Wh-what happened?" I asked. I tried to sit up but Syaoran gently pushed me back down.
"Don't try and move," he me. "You drank poisonous water."
I gasped a little. "Am I going to die?" I asked.
"Not if I can help it," Syaoran told me removing a strand of hair that had was laying across my face. I closed my eyes to go to sleep but Syaoran called me. "Sakura, don't go back to sleep," he told me shaking a little as he took me into his arms.
I knew that I shouldn't go to sleep knowing that I've been poisoned, but it was so hard not to close my eyes. Not only that, Syaoran's sweet sent made it even harder to not go to sleep. I moaned a little and snuggled deeper into his chest for warmth. He wrapped his arms tighter around me and laid his head upon mine.
Surprisingly I didn't feel embarrassed about him holding me like this. In all honesty I felt safer than I had in the longest of times.
"Eriol, could you try and get a sample of that water? I want to have a sample for just in case the nearest doctor around here needs it," I head Syaoran's gentle voice vibrate.
"Yeah," I heard Eriol reply. I felt so tired and heavy. My eyesight began to blur and my stomach was doing weird things inside me.
"Syaoran," I muttered when I felt him rise. I got this wave a nausea from the sudden movement he made and he gently maneuvered me into his right arm and rubbed my back with his left hand.
"Shh.I'm here, I promise I won't leave your side again," Syaoran whispered in my ear.
"I'm so tired," I whispered back.
"You can't go to sleep. I can't afford to lose you," Syaoran said.
"Yeah, I know, you can't go empty handed to my mother," I replied bitterly at the thought. I'm going home, if I live, to a mother I never knew. Yippee for me!
I heard Syaoran let out a long sigh and he began walking. I moved my head to look behind his back and saw the girls and the boys walking at a small distance away from Syaoran and I. Where they afraid that I would vomit and they would suddenly get the poison or something? I felt a little depressed thinking that they were trying to keep their distance because I was poisoned.
I moved my head back in front of Syaoran and that's when I realized that he was still shirtless! When is he going to stop being so rude and put on a shirt or a vest or something? Oh well, I guess that doesn't matter at the moment.
I yawned and my eyes began to water from the lack of sleep. I don't know how much longer I could stay awake. That's when I noticed that my toes where going numb. Was it from all the running I done last night?
"Syaoran, where is the closet village?" I asked him trying to stay awake.
"I-I'm not sure," Syaoran said looking down at me apologetically.
Oh great, I said sarcastically in my mind. Then a question struck me. "How did you guys find each other?" I asked stifling another yawn. I need rest! My body screamed out.
"Kero flew around in the air looking for us. It was harder looking for you. I can't believe you ran this far," Syaoran exclaimed. "When we found you, it was too late."
"How did you know not to drink the water?" I asked. This time it was Eriol who spoke.
"We found the river not too far from where you was. Across from us we seen a dead bird laying by the side of the river on the other side," Eriol said walking up with Tomoyo in his hand. I guess they figured it was safe to around me.
"The sign of poisoned water." I muttered. I didn't even think to look around me to see if it was safe or anything. I'm such a klutz that it's sad. I shivered from both cold and at the thought of my own stupidity.
"I would cover you up Sakura but I'm afraid we don't have our blankets with us. They got left back at the weird village," Tomoyo said.
"Just cover me with my hair, it's long enough to use as a blanket," I replied sleepily. I felt someone pull my hairpins out of my hair as it slowly began to fall down toward the ground. Then I felt it rise up and laid across my body. That was the only good thing about having long hair likes mine. You could use it as a blanket.
"Don't go to sleep Sakura," I heard Syaoran's warning voice. I groaned fought to keep my eyes open. I think I know how it felt for Syaoran when I kept him up until I got some medicine for his wound.
"I wish I knew what kind of poison that water has in it," I said trying to get myself to think it could help to keep me up.
"Would you know what herbs to use?" Tomoyo asked excited.
"I don't really know that many cures for poison, just a few, but it wouldn't help me much to make a paste even if I had the ingredients because I don't know what kind of poison it is," I said. I hid my face into Syaoran's chest feeling his flesh against my face. Another wave of nausea hit me and soon my feet began to grow numb and I could no longer feel my toes, even when I wiggled them. I felt panic rise in me and I guess Syaoran sensed it.
He came to a stop and held me closer to him, if that was possible. "What's wrong?" he asked.
"I can't feel my toes and my feet are going numb," I answered still wiggling my toes.I think I was wiggling my toes, I couldn't tell.
"We have to get you to a specialist in poison," I heard Cobra breath.
"You just figured that out on your own?" Syaoran asked annoyed.
"Syaoran." I called his name warning him.
"I'm sorry.it's just that I'm really worried right now," he apologized.
"Well don't worry. I'll only die when it's my time, and if it's my time to die this very night Syaoran, then I have no choice but to accept that. Tell my mother that I begged her to not hurt you for you tried your best.but I really, really want to rest." I said feeling my eyes begin to droop downward.
"NO!" Syaoran yelled startling me out of my sleep for only a few seconds before I could feel the fatigue crawl over me. "You can't go to sleep! I- we can't lose you," he finished shaking me a little.
I let out an annoyed sigh. "Fine, but let me walk, I can probably stay wake better that way," I said trying to get out of his arms. He started walking again.
"No, you need all the energy that you can get," I heard him say. I yawned some more and felt the tears from my eyes tumble down to sleep. It probably looked like I was crying, but I wasn't. It was just something that happened when I've reached my limit on how long I can stay awake without rest.
"Don't cry Sakura," I heard Cobra say and then a hand touched my head and stroked my hair. I figured that it was Cobra that was stroking the top of my head because the hand withdrew its self away from me when Syaoran let out a warning growl.
"Yeah, we'll make to a village on time, we promise," I heard Melin say.
Was Melin being nice to me just then? And where is Kero?
Sakura's poison!!! Does she make it? Is Melin changing for the better? And where is Kero anyway... The answers in the next chapter! 5 reviews for me to continue.
~* Ghetto Princess
Hey everyone! I would like to thank my friend Jessica for reviewing my fic and girl, I am so embarrassed about choir. You see dear readers we were in choir today and I sung really loud and the whole class heard me above everyone else, so I'm really embarrassed about that.
Anyway, enough with my ranting about being embarrassed lets' give special thanks to: ~*~ hana no tenshi ~*~ Luckyducky7too ~*~ Liang ReConst (be looking for an e-mail from me ^_~) ~*~ Danielle Ngo ~*~ lilcutemunchkin ~*~ Kathy ~*~ Kangasmaster
Thanks for reviewing!
~*~ Chapter 12 ~*~
When I woke up I found my hands arms tied above my head and a huge woodpile underneath my feet.
"Where- what happened?" I asked not knowing nor caring who answered me as long as it was a friendly voice.
"They tied us to the stake," came the gloomy reply from Melin as she spat at one of the things.
My head was spinning and there was this huge aching where whatever the heck those things were had hit me. Then this memory came back to me stating that the things wanted to eat us, just thinking about that got my stomach turning and doing summer salts.
"Please tell me there not going to eat us," I begged someone to be so merciful to tell me that. I looked wearily at the things before us, who were arguing in front of a huge house. I think they were arguing about the mayor not coming out of his house at a certain time to burn us to the stakes we were tied to. I'm not really sure cause my senses were still kind of hazy.
"Sorry to burst your bubble Sakura, but yes, I honestly think they do plan on eating us," I heard Eriol reply.
I closed my eyes and let out a groan of complaint. Yeah for me! I find out I'm a princess, I make friends for the first time that isn't an animal or looks like on (Kero), and now I'm going to be burned to the stake and eaten by these things. If I ever, and I probably won't, make it out alive I'm never going to go to another strange place again! Ever!
I turned to my right and saw Syaoran struggling against his bonds. Blood was gently flowing down his arms from where the rope that bound him had cut him.
"Syaoran! Stop your just hurting yourself," I said groggily.
He squirmed and pulled against his bonds but he only succeeded in hurting himself more like I predicted. "No," he said breathless. "I must find a way to get us out of here."
Just then a rock came up and hit me in my stomach. I let out a gasp from the sudden rush of breath and tears filled my eyes.
"Sakura!" I heard everyone cry.
"You scum!" one of the kiddy things cried running away laughing at what they had done.
"Don't worry about me, I'm fine," I said when I caught my breath. I batted the tears away and looked around to the best of my ability. "Has anyone seen Kero?" I asked hoping that he wasn't caught like the rest of us.
"No, and I don't think that he'll show either," Eriol said.
"Why not?" we heard Kero's voice ask.
"Kero! Where have you been?" Tomoyo asked in a harsh whisper so the things couldn't hear us.
"Sleep," he said casually. "I just woke up and looked out the window and saw you guys were in trouble so I had to sneak and get a blade of some kind so I could release you from your bonds," he said presenting a beautiful dagger. (Ghetto Princess: I don't know if any of you are into knives and such but if you are and you've ever seen this dagger called the 'Dagger of Dawn,' then you get the idea of what it looks like. And if you don't, it's gorgeous! Binyaile and Tina: don't mind Ghetto, she has a fetish with knives. Ghetto Princess: no I don't. Everybody including family members: yes you do! Ghetto Princess: shrinks till you can no longer see her.)
"Great going Kero, now unleash me first," Syaoran said turning his head.
"Why should I let you go first?" Kero asked getting angry.
"Kero, this isn't the time to argue! Let him go first he can help you get us untied faster!" I whispered in a shouting way. I glanced over at the people who were getting restless as they waited for their mayor and this time I was sure that the mayor was going to do honors in burning us alive.
"Fine, fine," I heard Kero complain. All was silent, except for the arguments from the things arguing, then finally you could hear Syaoran breath a sigh of relief.
"Don't worry, we'll get out of here safe. I must say that, that guardian of yours may actually come in handy," he whispered gently in my ear, making me shiver. "Are you cold?" he asked catching me by my waist when my bonds were untied.
"No, just a cold chill," I lied and fought to keep the blush down as I moved carefully to help untie everyone. When we got untied the mayor had just came out with a huge burning torch. I prayed and I prayed hard to God that he wouldn't see us climbing down from the wood pile, but I think at this time God was really angry with me about something.
"They're getting away!" I heard the mayor screamed out.
"No, there escaping!" The Mayors second head argued. (Ghetto Princess: Gee don't their argument sound stupid.) Suddenly the whole stupid village started arguing about weather or not we were escaping or getting away, which were really stupid since they mean the same thing.
Us on the other hand took off running, since the opportunity practically jumped at us since the things were arguing. Unfortunately, we didn't get too far because as soon as we made it to the exit the things began to chase us down.
"What are you things?" I shouted. I know, it sounds like the dumbest thing in the world to ask someone or something when they are about to kill you. In all honesty however, I think that a stupid thing, like that question, comes on an impulse.
Anyway, what I wasn't expecting was that the things answered me back. "Los Dos Cabeza Monstruos."
"In English," Melin demanded.
"The Two Headed Monsters," something replied again. (Ghetto Princess: sorry if I said that wrong, my Spanish is very, very poor. Binyaile: just like everything else about her.)
"Oh that makes things sound so much better," Tomoyo replied catching up to me.
"We're going to have to split up," Syaoran yelled to make sure that we heard him.
"Why?" I asked. I know it was probably a good idea but as you probably already know, I HATE being alone. There's nothing more scarier in this world than being alone in a strange place.
"Because, Sakura, it's the safest way to get past Los Dos Cabeza Monstruo. I don't think they're that smart," Syaoran said. I knew it, I knew it. My life keeps getting more and more dangerous by the second with these guys. We had just reentered the forest when Syaoran spoke again. "When I say go, everyone split in a different direction...GO!"
I split from the rest of the group and ran back toward the village I think. I'm not sure why I would want to go back toward the village but my gut feeling told me that it was necessary. Of course I'm not going to back thorough the village, just around it. I may trust my gut but I'm not stupid enough to do something that crazy. That's like saying I should jump out of a two story building. (Amber: yeah.two story buildings were huge back then.I don't know what happened.)
I kept to the forest to help conceal where I was. It wasn't what you would call a way to trick my opponents, it's more like common sense, and lately I'm starting to think that I'm the only one who has any.
I don't know how far I had ran or how far away everyone else was away from me, but I was scared. Not even Kero was with me. The trees started getting denser as I ran and I couldn't make my legs slow down, so when I tried to dodge a tree that I almost ran into I tripped over a tree root and fell face first.
Tears sprung to my eyes immediately as I picked my self up, ignoring the pain I was feeling in my knees. I ran some more, now I didn't care how far away from the group I was, I just wanted to go somewhere familiar and safe.
I kept running until I spotted a really small cave, which I gladly ran to and collapsed inside. I breathed a sigh of relief and closed my eyes as I let my energy slowly come back to me. I was hoping that I wouldn't run into anybody or anything while I waited till every ounce of me was restored, but I should know by now that fate isn't kind.period.
I heard a slight growl coming from deep inside the cave and I immediately recognized what it was. Tears began to overflow my eyes and down my cheeks as I sat as still as I could.
Lucky me just ran into a bears cave. I just HAD to run into a bears cave. Yet when was a bear's cave so small that only a six or seven year-old kid could fit in.
That really didn't matter to me because the growling came closer and then I don't now why but I scrambled out as fast as I could and ran. The fatigue I was feeling earlier had vanished along with the last of my nerve.
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I ran until dawn and when I came to a stop I found myself on a road leading to only God knows where. It was times like this that I really wished that I had someone by me to comfort my fears.
A gently breeze blew at my heated face cooling it down, but it carried the stench that would make the brave turn into cowards. The breeze carried a faint burning smell, along with it the smell of.death.
I felt panic run through me, causing me to violently shiver out of fear for what could be up ahead. I turned around and saw a fluffy chicken (Amber: that's me!) sitting in the middle of the road.
From first glance it looked dead, but only if you looked closely you could tell that the fluffy chicken was still alive but there was something about it that gave me goose bumps, almost like when I had my first encounter with a demon.
Slowly I backed away from it and headed back to where the smell of burnt flesh and wood or something close like it, was burning, or just smoking. I don't know, but something bad with a fire happened and even though I don't like going that way, I am because that fluffy chicken is really freaky.
I walked non-stop for hours and it was almost noon now and I was practically crawling on my hands and knees from thirst and hunger pains.
I was angry with my self because somehow I had lost the jerky that I had been saving during my run through the forest and really needed it. My eyes were beginning to close from the lack of sleep that I had and I felt like I wouldn't be able to take another step forward if I tried.
The smell of something burnt was getting stronger and made me dizzy with its sickening smell. That's when I heard it, that merciful sound of water running somewhere not too far from where I was standing. I stopped and listened carefully to try and pinpoint the where the sound was coming from and then I quickly gave up and followed my gut feeling.
The sound of running water was becoming louder and louder and I felt my spirit lift with the sound. I probably would have run, but I wanted to be careful. The last thing I needed was to run into some kind of monster or whatnot and not having the strength to fight or run.
Finally after what seemed like an eternity, I found the baka river of mercy, which I collapsed in front of and plunged my whole head into, only coming back up for air and to swallow the big mouthful I had in my mouth.
"Sakura! Don't drink the water!" I heard someone yell, or at least I think I heard someone yell. I'm not really sure because instead of getting that refreshed feeling I usually get after drinking water I began to feel sick to my stomach.
The last thing that I remembered was thinking of Syaoran.
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I opened my eyes and met intense amber eyes starring gently back down on me. "Wh-what happened?" I asked. I tried to sit up but Syaoran gently pushed me back down.
"Don't try and move," he me. "You drank poisonous water."
I gasped a little. "Am I going to die?" I asked.
"Not if I can help it," Syaoran told me removing a strand of hair that had was laying across my face. I closed my eyes to go to sleep but Syaoran called me. "Sakura, don't go back to sleep," he told me shaking a little as he took me into his arms.
I knew that I shouldn't go to sleep knowing that I've been poisoned, but it was so hard not to close my eyes. Not only that, Syaoran's sweet sent made it even harder to not go to sleep. I moaned a little and snuggled deeper into his chest for warmth. He wrapped his arms tighter around me and laid his head upon mine.
Surprisingly I didn't feel embarrassed about him holding me like this. In all honesty I felt safer than I had in the longest of times.
"Eriol, could you try and get a sample of that water? I want to have a sample for just in case the nearest doctor around here needs it," I head Syaoran's gentle voice vibrate.
"Yeah," I heard Eriol reply. I felt so tired and heavy. My eyesight began to blur and my stomach was doing weird things inside me.
"Syaoran," I muttered when I felt him rise. I got this wave a nausea from the sudden movement he made and he gently maneuvered me into his right arm and rubbed my back with his left hand.
"Shh.I'm here, I promise I won't leave your side again," Syaoran whispered in my ear.
"I'm so tired," I whispered back.
"You can't go to sleep. I can't afford to lose you," Syaoran said.
"Yeah, I know, you can't go empty handed to my mother," I replied bitterly at the thought. I'm going home, if I live, to a mother I never knew. Yippee for me!
I heard Syaoran let out a long sigh and he began walking. I moved my head to look behind his back and saw the girls and the boys walking at a small distance away from Syaoran and I. Where they afraid that I would vomit and they would suddenly get the poison or something? I felt a little depressed thinking that they were trying to keep their distance because I was poisoned.
I moved my head back in front of Syaoran and that's when I realized that he was still shirtless! When is he going to stop being so rude and put on a shirt or a vest or something? Oh well, I guess that doesn't matter at the moment.
I yawned and my eyes began to water from the lack of sleep. I don't know how much longer I could stay awake. That's when I noticed that my toes where going numb. Was it from all the running I done last night?
"Syaoran, where is the closet village?" I asked him trying to stay awake.
"I-I'm not sure," Syaoran said looking down at me apologetically.
Oh great, I said sarcastically in my mind. Then a question struck me. "How did you guys find each other?" I asked stifling another yawn. I need rest! My body screamed out.
"Kero flew around in the air looking for us. It was harder looking for you. I can't believe you ran this far," Syaoran exclaimed. "When we found you, it was too late."
"How did you know not to drink the water?" I asked. This time it was Eriol who spoke.
"We found the river not too far from where you was. Across from us we seen a dead bird laying by the side of the river on the other side," Eriol said walking up with Tomoyo in his hand. I guess they figured it was safe to around me.
"The sign of poisoned water." I muttered. I didn't even think to look around me to see if it was safe or anything. I'm such a klutz that it's sad. I shivered from both cold and at the thought of my own stupidity.
"I would cover you up Sakura but I'm afraid we don't have our blankets with us. They got left back at the weird village," Tomoyo said.
"Just cover me with my hair, it's long enough to use as a blanket," I replied sleepily. I felt someone pull my hairpins out of my hair as it slowly began to fall down toward the ground. Then I felt it rise up and laid across my body. That was the only good thing about having long hair likes mine. You could use it as a blanket.
"Don't go to sleep Sakura," I heard Syaoran's warning voice. I groaned fought to keep my eyes open. I think I know how it felt for Syaoran when I kept him up until I got some medicine for his wound.
"I wish I knew what kind of poison that water has in it," I said trying to get myself to think it could help to keep me up.
"Would you know what herbs to use?" Tomoyo asked excited.
"I don't really know that many cures for poison, just a few, but it wouldn't help me much to make a paste even if I had the ingredients because I don't know what kind of poison it is," I said. I hid my face into Syaoran's chest feeling his flesh against my face. Another wave of nausea hit me and soon my feet began to grow numb and I could no longer feel my toes, even when I wiggled them. I felt panic rise in me and I guess Syaoran sensed it.
He came to a stop and held me closer to him, if that was possible. "What's wrong?" he asked.
"I can't feel my toes and my feet are going numb," I answered still wiggling my toes.I think I was wiggling my toes, I couldn't tell.
"We have to get you to a specialist in poison," I heard Cobra breath.
"You just figured that out on your own?" Syaoran asked annoyed.
"Syaoran." I called his name warning him.
"I'm sorry.it's just that I'm really worried right now," he apologized.
"Well don't worry. I'll only die when it's my time, and if it's my time to die this very night Syaoran, then I have no choice but to accept that. Tell my mother that I begged her to not hurt you for you tried your best.but I really, really want to rest." I said feeling my eyes begin to droop downward.
"NO!" Syaoran yelled startling me out of my sleep for only a few seconds before I could feel the fatigue crawl over me. "You can't go to sleep! I- we can't lose you," he finished shaking me a little.
I let out an annoyed sigh. "Fine, but let me walk, I can probably stay wake better that way," I said trying to get out of his arms. He started walking again.
"No, you need all the energy that you can get," I heard him say. I yawned some more and felt the tears from my eyes tumble down to sleep. It probably looked like I was crying, but I wasn't. It was just something that happened when I've reached my limit on how long I can stay awake without rest.
"Don't cry Sakura," I heard Cobra say and then a hand touched my head and stroked my hair. I figured that it was Cobra that was stroking the top of my head because the hand withdrew its self away from me when Syaoran let out a warning growl.
"Yeah, we'll make to a village on time, we promise," I heard Melin say.
Was Melin being nice to me just then? And where is Kero?
Sakura's poison!!! Does she make it? Is Melin changing for the better? And where is Kero anyway... The answers in the next chapter! 5 reviews for me to continue.
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