~*~ Author's Notes ~*~
I'm so sorry if this chapter stinks, I was having a really bad day today when I wrote this but I've tried to stick to my original plan.
Special thanks to: ~*~ Danielle Ngo ~*~ Liang ReConst ~*~ Blue-Star-118 ~*~ KiwiZ ~*~ KuTiExAzNxAnGeL
Thank you so much for reviewing!
Blue-Star-118 - Sakura is able to remove poisons from the body, but her experience with poison is limited since she hasn't really had to deal with poison before. Plus she doesn't know what kind of poison it is so she could be poisoning herself if she goes and tries to make a remedy if she doesn't know what herbs to use. That's really observant of you, I wish I had that gift -_-. Thanks for reviewing though! ^_~
~*~ Chapter 13 ~*~
"Where's Kero?" I asked trying to look around, but I didn't get to see much of anything with Syaoran holding me so tight that I could barely turn my head.
"He's scouting the area," Tomoyo replied calmly, brushing away a strand of hair that had worked it's way in front of my face.
"That's something knew," I muttered. Guardian or no guardian, Kero has always been a coward in many situations, but I do have to admit that there are times that he gets a backbone and sticks up for me when I can't. It's just, I didn't think that this kind of situation would be one of them. Oh well.life is full of surprises and if I haven't learned that by now then, God have mercy on my soul.
Now there's the thing about Melin. All of a sudden she's kind of acting nicer to me. It's really weird, even though I still don't know whom it is I'm supposedly trying to take. What's weirder is the mixed feelings I feel from it. I'm happy that she no longer calls me a slut or a tramp and everything, but it feels funny when's she's not saying all of those things about me.
My mind began to take different directions non-stop and it was starting to make my head hurt. Seconds started to feel like minutes, minutes began to feel like hours and hours, if we've been walking that long, felt like an eternity!
I don't think I could stay up much longer. My eyes were starting close and everything around me was turning fuzzy on me. I shook my head a few times to try and wake me, but nothing seemed to help. Then I realized that I couldn't feel my entire right leg!
"Syaoran!" I gasped.
He stopped walking but signaled the others to keep on moving ahead of us. "What is it Sakura?" he asked concerned.
"I can't feel my right leg!" I could feel panic begin to rise inside me as I tired to move my right leg but it didn't respond to any of the messages that my brain was sending it.
"We'll have to make a run for it if we want to find a village. From the sounds of it that poison you drank is beginning to spread like a wildfire." I heard Syaoran muttered. Then he just kept rattling on. I don't even think he remembered that he was holding me in his arms. "But if I run wouldn't that just help the poison?" he asked himself.
From the looks of it was beating himself inside and I felt so helpless in how I could help him. "Syaoran.don't worry about it," I said groggily. I looked at him threw half-open eyes and felt the sleep tears fall gently down my checks.
"Don't cry, please don't cry." I heard him whisper.
"I'm not crying!" I tried to yell, but couldn't. Then I added more softly, "I'm just really tired."
"I know just hang in there ok?" Syaoran asked beginning to walk again. This time he had a fresh grip on me that was tighter than the last one, so now not only was moving my head difficult but so was breathing. The sad part was, I didn't have the heart to tell him that he was going to kill me from lack of air before the poison took me over.
For the rest of the walk no one spoke and it was driving me insane. How did anyone expect me to stay awake when no one kept up enough noise? What made things worst is that even the forest was quiet. Which reminded me.
"Syaoran, there was a road no too far from where you guys found me, why didn't we take the road?" I asked.
"We saw the people of the village come back. It was like they didn't remember anything that happened last night. I don't want to risk being seen by them human or whatever they were last night," Syaoran muttered the last part. I could feel my left leg going numb and it was really starting to worry me.
"How far is the next village?" I heard Tomoyo ask in a complaining voice. I turned to her direction and saw Eriol pick her up bridal style.
"We'll be there soon enough, " Eriol told her gently.
Just watching them made me think about how love felt. I honestly wouldn't know. My 'mother' didn't really love me, I guess Kero did.but what I'm talking about is a different love. The love only one person could give you. I felt like I would never get to experience that kind of love and now that I'm getting closer to seeing my true mother I feel like I will only have the feeling of responsibility.
I sighed and banished the evil thought with an inward sigh. I don't know how much longer I could stay up and it was killing me. I wanted so bad that to go to sleep that at the moment I would probably give myself to the demons as long as they let me sleep for at least five minutes. I'm so glad I did not say that out loud. Syaoran would probably kill me.
"Something's not right," Melin told Syaoran when he caught up to her.
"You smell it to then," Syaoran said.
"What's going on?" I asked getting a little worried. They just looked at me and didn't answer. I inhaled deeply and got a lung full of the burning smell that I had encountered earlier. Only this time it was much stronger, meaning we must be close.
Just then Kero came flying back to Syaoran and landed gently on my stomach.although I could tell that Syaoran didn't approve. What was with him lately anyway?
"What's the report?" Syaoran asked.
"There's a burnt village up ahead. I don't know if there are any survivors or not," Kero said holding his nose to keep the stench out.
"We'll have to check, hopefully there are some survivors there who know about getting rid of poisons," Syaoran said. By then I'd probably wouldn't be able to.oh great! Now I can't feel my left leg nor move it.
"Guys, I think this poison is paralyzing me," I said aloud.
"How far is the village and how long does the village look like it's been burning?" Eriol asked, setting Tomoyo back on her feet.
"Not too far away and as for been burning.it look like it could have been burning since morning. The fires have died and all but it's still smoking so it couldn't have been too long ago since the fire died." Kero flew up and floated above my face. "You doin ok?"
"I can't feel anything below the waist," I said casually. "Any idea what kind of poison does that?"
Kero rubbed his chin and thought for a moment. "Now that you mention it, I think I have an idea."
"Oh now you get an idea!" Tomoyo yelled at Kero. "You could have at least said something!" she added.
"Well, I didn't know what was happening to her, I was out scouting remember?" Kero snapped back. "Anyway, it sounds like (Ghetto Princess: I'm making this up cause I really don't know that much about poisons) that one poisons that immobilizes the person and makes them look dead.but in reality they're alive."
"So the person who has consumed the poison gets buried alive and starve to death," Melin said. Yea, I've never encountered poison that does that before.
"Lets not talk about that, we need to look for survivors if there are any," Syaoran said holding me closer before breaking off into a high speed run, with the others not far behind.
Well, the chapter ends here. I know, it sucks but I didn't want to get to the village just yet for some reason and I'm really thinking about adding that idea the blueangelbaby's idea. Anyway, I would have posted this chapter up last night but I didn't have it typed out so.yeah. Well, gotta go work on the next chapter. 5 reviews for me to continue!
~* Ghetto Princess
I'm so sorry if this chapter stinks, I was having a really bad day today when I wrote this but I've tried to stick to my original plan.
Special thanks to: ~*~ Danielle Ngo ~*~ Liang ReConst ~*~ Blue-Star-118 ~*~ KiwiZ ~*~ KuTiExAzNxAnGeL
Thank you so much for reviewing!
Blue-Star-118 - Sakura is able to remove poisons from the body, but her experience with poison is limited since she hasn't really had to deal with poison before. Plus she doesn't know what kind of poison it is so she could be poisoning herself if she goes and tries to make a remedy if she doesn't know what herbs to use. That's really observant of you, I wish I had that gift -_-. Thanks for reviewing though! ^_~
~*~ Chapter 13 ~*~
"Where's Kero?" I asked trying to look around, but I didn't get to see much of anything with Syaoran holding me so tight that I could barely turn my head.
"He's scouting the area," Tomoyo replied calmly, brushing away a strand of hair that had worked it's way in front of my face.
"That's something knew," I muttered. Guardian or no guardian, Kero has always been a coward in many situations, but I do have to admit that there are times that he gets a backbone and sticks up for me when I can't. It's just, I didn't think that this kind of situation would be one of them. Oh well.life is full of surprises and if I haven't learned that by now then, God have mercy on my soul.
Now there's the thing about Melin. All of a sudden she's kind of acting nicer to me. It's really weird, even though I still don't know whom it is I'm supposedly trying to take. What's weirder is the mixed feelings I feel from it. I'm happy that she no longer calls me a slut or a tramp and everything, but it feels funny when's she's not saying all of those things about me.
My mind began to take different directions non-stop and it was starting to make my head hurt. Seconds started to feel like minutes, minutes began to feel like hours and hours, if we've been walking that long, felt like an eternity!
I don't think I could stay up much longer. My eyes were starting close and everything around me was turning fuzzy on me. I shook my head a few times to try and wake me, but nothing seemed to help. Then I realized that I couldn't feel my entire right leg!
"Syaoran!" I gasped.
He stopped walking but signaled the others to keep on moving ahead of us. "What is it Sakura?" he asked concerned.
"I can't feel my right leg!" I could feel panic begin to rise inside me as I tired to move my right leg but it didn't respond to any of the messages that my brain was sending it.
"We'll have to make a run for it if we want to find a village. From the sounds of it that poison you drank is beginning to spread like a wildfire." I heard Syaoran muttered. Then he just kept rattling on. I don't even think he remembered that he was holding me in his arms. "But if I run wouldn't that just help the poison?" he asked himself.
From the looks of it was beating himself inside and I felt so helpless in how I could help him. "Syaoran.don't worry about it," I said groggily. I looked at him threw half-open eyes and felt the sleep tears fall gently down my checks.
"Don't cry, please don't cry." I heard him whisper.
"I'm not crying!" I tried to yell, but couldn't. Then I added more softly, "I'm just really tired."
"I know just hang in there ok?" Syaoran asked beginning to walk again. This time he had a fresh grip on me that was tighter than the last one, so now not only was moving my head difficult but so was breathing. The sad part was, I didn't have the heart to tell him that he was going to kill me from lack of air before the poison took me over.
For the rest of the walk no one spoke and it was driving me insane. How did anyone expect me to stay awake when no one kept up enough noise? What made things worst is that even the forest was quiet. Which reminded me.
"Syaoran, there was a road no too far from where you guys found me, why didn't we take the road?" I asked.
"We saw the people of the village come back. It was like they didn't remember anything that happened last night. I don't want to risk being seen by them human or whatever they were last night," Syaoran muttered the last part. I could feel my left leg going numb and it was really starting to worry me.
"How far is the next village?" I heard Tomoyo ask in a complaining voice. I turned to her direction and saw Eriol pick her up bridal style.
"We'll be there soon enough, " Eriol told her gently.
Just watching them made me think about how love felt. I honestly wouldn't know. My 'mother' didn't really love me, I guess Kero did.but what I'm talking about is a different love. The love only one person could give you. I felt like I would never get to experience that kind of love and now that I'm getting closer to seeing my true mother I feel like I will only have the feeling of responsibility.
I sighed and banished the evil thought with an inward sigh. I don't know how much longer I could stay up and it was killing me. I wanted so bad that to go to sleep that at the moment I would probably give myself to the demons as long as they let me sleep for at least five minutes. I'm so glad I did not say that out loud. Syaoran would probably kill me.
"Something's not right," Melin told Syaoran when he caught up to her.
"You smell it to then," Syaoran said.
"What's going on?" I asked getting a little worried. They just looked at me and didn't answer. I inhaled deeply and got a lung full of the burning smell that I had encountered earlier. Only this time it was much stronger, meaning we must be close.
Just then Kero came flying back to Syaoran and landed gently on my stomach.although I could tell that Syaoran didn't approve. What was with him lately anyway?
"What's the report?" Syaoran asked.
"There's a burnt village up ahead. I don't know if there are any survivors or not," Kero said holding his nose to keep the stench out.
"We'll have to check, hopefully there are some survivors there who know about getting rid of poisons," Syaoran said. By then I'd probably wouldn't be able to.oh great! Now I can't feel my left leg nor move it.
"Guys, I think this poison is paralyzing me," I said aloud.
"How far is the village and how long does the village look like it's been burning?" Eriol asked, setting Tomoyo back on her feet.
"Not too far away and as for been burning.it look like it could have been burning since morning. The fires have died and all but it's still smoking so it couldn't have been too long ago since the fire died." Kero flew up and floated above my face. "You doin ok?"
"I can't feel anything below the waist," I said casually. "Any idea what kind of poison does that?"
Kero rubbed his chin and thought for a moment. "Now that you mention it, I think I have an idea."
"Oh now you get an idea!" Tomoyo yelled at Kero. "You could have at least said something!" she added.
"Well, I didn't know what was happening to her, I was out scouting remember?" Kero snapped back. "Anyway, it sounds like (Ghetto Princess: I'm making this up cause I really don't know that much about poisons) that one poisons that immobilizes the person and makes them look dead.but in reality they're alive."
"So the person who has consumed the poison gets buried alive and starve to death," Melin said. Yea, I've never encountered poison that does that before.
"Lets not talk about that, we need to look for survivors if there are any," Syaoran said holding me closer before breaking off into a high speed run, with the others not far behind.
Well, the chapter ends here. I know, it sucks but I didn't want to get to the village just yet for some reason and I'm really thinking about adding that idea the blueangelbaby's idea. Anyway, I would have posted this chapter up last night but I didn't have it typed out so.yeah. Well, gotta go work on the next chapter. 5 reviews for me to continue!
~* Ghetto Princess
