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Everyone ~*~ People have voted and people have chosen that I should have it so that it's in both Sakura's and Boa's P.O.V which is a really good idea. As for the rating I think it was a tie so what I'm going to do is start out in PG-13 and see what happens from there. Maybe I can get help on the action scenes that I wanna add, incase you haven't noticed I'm not good at that ^_^. But I've got all summer to improve after 3 1/2 weeks ^_^.
And I've finally turned 16!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm a woman in my family now ^_^.
Chapter 27
Everyone was practically crawling on our hands and knees when Melin decided that we could have a five-minute break, stopping where the passage way split into two different directions. Naturally she separated Syaoran and I, but we kept sending each other little love signs back and forth when she wasn't paying much attention.
Cobra, thank God for this, hasn't tried to hit on any of the girls while I've been away. Yet then again there's been so much going on and whatever had happened to Boa must keep his perverted side under control. Which reminds me how badly I wanna know what happened to her! But I couldn't bring myself to ask, plus it's not the best time to ask either.
Sighing thoughts of Touya poured into my mind reminding me to ask why no one ever mentioned that I had a brother in the first place. "How come no one ever told me I had a brother?" I asked to no on unparticular but it sure did get the attention of Syaoran, Eriol, and Tomoyo.
"Uh. I don't know why.Sakura," Tomoyo managed to get out. "Eriol, why didn't we mention that Sakura had a brother?"
"That is a VERY good question, Tomoyo. Syaoran, maybe you would like to answer that," Eriol said putting all the attention on him. Syaoran looked like he was going into shock as me, Cobra, and Boa leaned in to hear what he had to say, and even by the looks of things Melin was even interested in what he had to say.
"W-why I-I nev-never mentioned your br-brother IS a very good question." sweat started forming around his brow.
"What's so hard about you guys telling me about my brother?" I asked in slight rage. "How come no one ever TOLD me that I had a brother? The only person that's my REAL family." I looked at the three of the original group that kidnapped me in the first place.
"I don't think it's something that we're allowed to really talk about Sakura," Syaoran whispered hoarsely.
"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard! Why can't you talk about my brother?" I asked my anger rising up inside me like boiling water.
"Your brother's name isn't even allowed to be spoken unless the person whishes to be cursed. Themselves," Eriol said. Tomoyo nodded in agreement.
"Why is that?" I sure do ask 'why' a lot don't I?
"Your brother was banished from the Skyling Kingdom," Syaoran blurted out.
"For what?" I asked in a gasped.
"For trying to kill his baby sister. He's the reason why your not on the throne with your mother now.," he continued. All I could do was continue to stare at him in disbelief. They couldn't possibly be talking about the same Touya that I met in my dungeon/guest room. There was no possible way.was there? Then I snapped out of my thoughts and listened to Syaoran further. "Although Eriol, Tomoyo, and I think what he did was for the best and that he didn't try to kill you. He walked you deep into the forests and left you there to practically fend for yourself, even though that was practically impossible for anyone to do at the age of two."
"Some people thought he did it our of jealousy and hatred for your many blessings, other's thought that maybe he himself was possessed by the demons for doing what he done. Yet at the time there was a horrible war and those who knew your brother best knew that he was only trying to keep you safe, even though he was running a great risk," Eriol finished. A war? I don't remember a war. Was that how my real mother and father die? Geez, I'm so confused. I thought things were suppose to become more and more uncomplicated as this whole thing went along, but instead it's doing the exact opposite. Life is such a jerk.
"So he was just banded from the Kingdom? Didn't he even get a trial or something?" I asked.
"No, he wasn't given the right to a trial of any kind," Tomoyo said shaking her head slightly. I honestly didn't know what to think or really how to feel. Touya tried to keep me safe and then he just gets thrown out of the kingdom for life! If I get home and if I have to take over the throne I would give everyone a fair trial. What kind of kingdom would do that? Especially to their own Prince? I shook my head to rid myself of my unwanted thoughts. For some reason I just wanted to get off the subject of my brother.
"Alright you dimwits!" Melin's voice rang out. "Get some sleep and no talking. When we wake up we have a long ride a head of us," she said 'accidentally' hitting me upside the head when she walked by.
I rubbed my sore spot and laid down using my arms as pillows, and quickly feel into a deep sleep.
~*~ I was sitting back in the 'dungeon' that I had stayed in earlier only instead of everything being that horrid pink, it was green. But not the pretty green you see in nature, it was this real sick green that made you want to throw up.
In front of me was Touya. He was looking toward me but then again not really looking at me. It was like he was looking through me. I turned around to see what he could be looking at and only saw a wall. "I wonder what's going on," I thought aloud figuring that it was ok to talk to myself out loud, it wasn't like he could hear me, but life has it's many shocking surprises.
"Your dreaming again.well, sorta dreaming. It's more like one of those outer body experiences," Touya answered. I looked at him somewhat amazed and wondered if this was some kind of new power of mine or something that a few people could do.
"Well, what exactly is going on?" I asked. For the first time since I've been here he looked like he was actually looking at me instead of through me. Yet from time to time his eyes looked like they were unfocused like I was some kind of blurry image.
"I don't know. Your unconsciousness must have thought it important to bring you here to me. So what's on your mind?" Touya asked leaning back on his bed.
"Are you feeling ok? And what happened with all the pink?" I asked looking at the sickening green walls.
"I'm feeling fine. As for the color, I have no idea what's going on with it. It was pink before you came," Touya said looking at his surroundings.
"Maybe I have something to do with it." I mumbled to myself. We sat there in silence for a few minutes and then Touya finally broke it.
"What's really on your mind? I know you didn't come here to sit and talk about how I'm feeling and the sudden color change on the walls and furniture," Touya said almost impatiently.
I sighed, not really knowing how I was going to put what I wanted to ask him since before I went to sleep into words. Finally, I just gave up trying to figure out how I wanted to say it and just spit it out, and if it didn't make any since then I would just have to try and explain it even more.
"Syaoran and the gang told me how I really ended up wandering off into the wilds by my self." I let my voice trail off and looked at his face waiting for a reaction. But the only reaction that I received was a signal from him telling me to continue, and I just wanted to hear it from you."
"There was a war going on around that time, which I knew that you wouldn't remember, even with your amazing gift of memory. You were only two and I feared for your safety so I took you out to the woods and hid you there hoping that you would remain there and be safe. But after the enemy was gone, our mother and father dead, you were gone and without a trace. Naturally I got blamed for being on the enemies side and was banished from the kingdom."
"So what the other's said was true?" I asked mainly to myself by he answered me anyway by nodding his head. All that was running through my head was.WOW. Touya, my dear brother, even though I didn't really know him did all this for me when I was little and at the age where most brothers or sisters would hate to have around. Yet he loved me so much that he put his own life on the line in order to save me and I just happen to wonder off FAR, FAR from home and get him kicked out of his only home. I feel so guilty now.
"Sakura, you have to go back now. The group is waiting for you," Touya said interrupting my thoughts. I looked at him somewhat confused and then it felt like someone was pulling at me. ~*~
I snapped up awake with Melin standing in front of me with sharp looking pebbles in her hand. "It's about time you woke up! I've been calling your name countless minutes now. I was just about to start throwing stuff at you to see if you would budge, now get in line with the rest of them," she ordered.
Groggily I picked myself up and dusted off, not that it would have really mattered seeing that I'm meeting my 'fate' and everyone being so sure that I'm going to let he world come to destruction, which I hope that I don't. I went and stood behind Cobra and chains appeared on my hands and ankles that were also connected to Cobra's chains.
"If your still tired Sakura you can lean on my back to rest your head while we walk," he whispered softly to me.
I'll admit that I was very touched by his words for what I think was the first time ever! I probably would have done so if I didn't feel like Syaoran would get mad at me again and hate Cobra more. Boa would think that I was trying to take Cobra away from her, even though I told him to go to her.but she doesn't need to know that.
"Thanks for the offer, it's really sweet, but I better not," I whispered back. I saw Syaoran glance back at us with a hint of jealousy in his eyes. When was he going to learn that I'm his and only his?
(Ghetto Princess ~*~ So sleepy.have fourteen more pages.-_- zzZZzzZzzZZZzzZzzZ)
My mind kept drifting into two and three different states that I found kind of amusing. I would go into a semi-unconscious state where all of my senses didn't work very well or not at all, thoughts about what had happened in my sleep, and some real crazy stuff like me attacking this thing with the beautiful sword Boa had given me. We didn't walk very long but I still felt completely drained. My eyes were watering like fountains from sleepy tears. I was in the middle of this great big yawn when all of a sudden Melin started yelling out of no where about forgetting something I could careless about.
"What do you mean!" she shouted. Her booming voice echoed through the passage way making my ears ring and my head feel like it was being torn into thousands of little pieces. The dog demon thing was making weird sounds which must of been some kind of demonic language that, naturally, only Melin understood since the rest of us didn't know a thing about the demon's language. "I can't believe this..." For a second I thought I saw worry splash across Melin's face, but if there was any it was quickly covered up.
"What's going on?" I whispered to Cobra.
"I'm not sure," he answered and I continued to try and grasp what it was she was complaining about, but she started speaking the demonic language and the next thing I knew she was gone, along with the chains that had held us together. Something about this whole thing didn't feel right...
"The chains are gone!" I heard Tomoyo cried in a shouted whisper of excitement. Her eyes were bright in the dim redness of the passage and I could only see the hope that shined only in her eyes. "This is our chance!"
"Hold it Tomoyo, this is too easy. I mean come on, Melin suddenly up and leaves and the chains vanish. I think she's up to something," Eriol said, his eyes looked grim.
"Wha--" Tomoyo breathed, she didn't even try to hide her disappointment.
"He's right Tomoyo, this is too easy. There's no way Melin would do something like this without something up her sleeve," I said keeping the worry a bay.
"How would you know? You've only known her for what a month or two?" Tomoyo snapped. I bit my lip. She was right and most of the time that I've known her she's been demon.
"Tomoyo, I may not have known the real Melin at all or for very long, but I have known the demon inside her body long enough to know what she would and wouldn't do. It's only common sense..." I could hear my voice begin to trail off.
Syaoran must have crawled over to me at some point in time without me realizing it because the next thing I knew he had his arms wrapped tightly around my waist. Despite my self I smiled at the sudden relief that flowed through my body as he pulled me close to him and kiss my temple. Leaning back into him I closed my eyes for a while and the sounds and voices of my friends drifted away from me. When I did come back to reality I had woken back up in the middle of some great plan of whoevers.
"What did I miss?" I asked, my voice a little cracked.
"Have a nice nap sleep head?" Syaoran asked me planting another kiss on my forehead. I nodded my head and snuggled deeper into his arms. I think he liked it because it just caused him to hold me tighter than before. "Eriol came up with some kind of crazy plan," he said shaking his head.
"It's not crazy, it's fool-proof...well almost fool-proof, but that's not the problem at hand. What the plan is, is that we split up into two different groups and each one picks a tunnel to go done. Then we just keep going and see where it leads us, see perfect." Eriol smiled to him self, obviously pleased.
"Sure it's perfect if we all want to end up either dead or never see each other again and just assume that one another is dead," Syaoran said. "Besides, how do we know that it doesn't lead us into more danger, we have to make sure that Sakura gets out of here and not have a run in with the Demon Master."
"I thought it was my destiny to fight the demon master," I said feeling kind of confused. That is what Touya said right?
Everyone was silent for a moment looking at each other as if trying to find the write answer. "Yes...but we was hoping that once we got a hold of you that we would be able avoid you having to fight the demon master until we get you home..." Syaoran said gently.
"If it's destined...then don't you think that you can't really change it?" I asked.
"I guess you're right," Syaoran breathed and began stroking my arms sending shivers up and down my spine.
"Oh listen to Sakura and not to us, even though we've tried to tell you that since square one!" Tomoyo shouted in irritation.
"Calm down Tomoyo, I don't think this is the time that we need to get emotional about who said what," Boa said. I turned and looked at her. She was sitting next to Cobra looking pale and tired in the unnatural color lighting.
"You feeling ok?" I asked her. She just nodded her head and continued acting as if nothing was wrong, even though you could tell that she was thinking about something... Whatever it was it was really putting her under some kind of quiet mood.
Cobra stroked Boa's arm but she only kind of inched away from him, which I found odd since every since the whole dungeon thing they had pretty much acted like a couple. Maybe whatever she was hiding was also keeping her from having a relationship with Cobra. That made since right?
"Look I know we're going to make a lot of sacrifices if we carry out with my plan, but we mustn't think of ourselves anymore. We must think about our duty to the kingdom and to our Princess..."Eriol spoke gently yet strongly as he pointed to me.
"What about Cobra and Boa? They weren't raised in the kingdom," I said.
"That doesn't really matter to me Sakura. I've pledged my allegiance to you and the Skyling Kingdom and all the royalties the day I first found out who you really was," Cobra said smiling at me gently, but I could detect a hint of sadness in his voice.
"Same here," Boa said. "Besides, if my father were still alive he would probably be a little made at me but he would still be greatly proud of me at the same time. That makes me happy just the same, besides we're friends and as your friend I'm going to look out for you," Boa said smiling.
Mentally I thanked God for blessing me with wonderful friends like these. "Thanks Boa, that means a lot to me." I said tearing up.
"Looks like we're going through with your plan," Syaoran said in a low voice so that only we could hear but loudly he said, "We're not going to go through with it," For just incase the demon dog was listening so he could report to Melin or some other demon. We all nodded our heads in agreement and we all slept with one of us switching off from watching to see when the demon dog went to sleep.
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It was almost time for my shift when I suddenly woke up with a jolt. I had a dream that I was fighting the demon master and he was just about to stab me when I woke up covered in sweat. I looked around me and saw Syaoran sitting there glaring at the demon dog.
I crawled over to him and sat beside him and watched with him for a while. "You can go and get some rest I'll take over the rest of the watch," I told him quietly.
"Doesn't this seem weird to you at all?" he asked me after a moment's silence.
"What? That Melin still isn't back yet or the feeling that they're wanting us to do what Eriol suggests?" I asked. It seemed that I wasn't the only one who was thinking about this whole thing thoroughly. It had been bugging me since Melin had left whenever hours ago.
"Both," he said shaking his head. Once again we sat there in empty silence, this time I was kind of uncomfortable from the tenseness in the air. "I think he's sleep now," Syaoran said quietly as he got up to wake the others.
"How long has he been sleep?" I asked.
"Since the beginning of my watch, which was about ten minutes ago," he answered simply.
"How do you know if he's sleep then?" I questioned. I felt like shaking him by the shoulders until he got some sense in the cute head of his.
"He's not going to go to sleep. He knows what's going to happen so I don't think that he's really cares if we sneak off with him awake or not." He's right. I mean come on this is way too easy. Everyone woke up either pumped or wanting to go back to sleep. I think I was one of those who wanted to go back to sleep.
"Alright Eriol, you're the leader on this plan. Split us up into groups," Syaoran said.
"Right.I've been thinking that they're should be one strong guy in each group. So Syaoran, I want you to watch Sakura and Tomoyo and I'll take care of Cobra and Boa-"
"Hey, what ever happened to Mberray?" I blurted out looking for my fluffy turned chicken friend.
"She was taken after you were, I think they already ate her." Cobra said making disgusted face. I felt my stomach churn at the thought of those demons crunching and chewing and licking her bones clean. I suddenly felt dizzy and ran to a far wall away from the group and barfed. How could I allow myself to think of such things? Sometimes I truly disgusted myself.
"Uh.I'll take care of Cobra and Boa." I heard Eriol say softly this time as if he was talking mainly to himself.
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Syaoran, Boa and I had been walking for some time and I kept getting the feeling that someone was watching us. The tunnel seemed to have gotten a little darker as time went by. Eventually I got so scared that Syaoran held my hand and I had gripped onto Boa's to try and comfort myself, and naturally it didn't work or help me one bit.
We took a few steps further and I suddenly tripped, almost bringing Syaoran and Boa with me.
"Are you ok?" I heard Boa ask me.
"Yeah I'm fine I tripped over something." I dropped down on my hands and knees and tried to search for what it was I had tripped over.
"If you're looking for what it was you tripped over you probably wouldn't want to continue doing that," I heard Syaoran's voice warn.
"Why not?" I asked still filling around on the ground.
"You might find something that you didn't want to see in the first place," he said. I could feel his eyes on my back as I continued to look for what it was and that's when I felt something cut my finger.
"Ouch!" I hissed.
"What is it?" Syaoran and Boa asked stooping down next to me.
I rubbed my index and thumb together feeling the sticky blood pouring out of my finger. "I cut my hand on something." I put my hand back down where I had cut myself before and this time I felt the cool hard steel of a blade. Licking my lips I followed the blade until I found a hilt. "I think I found a sword." I muttered.
"A sword?" Boa questioned as I stood up with the sword in my hand. I watched the outline of her body feel on the ground where I had found the swords and I hard her gasp. "I think I found two more swords," she said picking them up. She handed to Syaoran what looked like the heaviest one.
"Is it just me or does this sword feel.familiar?" Syaoran asked fingering his new found sword.
"Now that I think about it, it does feel like the same weight of the sword Boa had given me." I felt of the handle. Everything about it felt familiar even how smooth the blade was.
"These are our weapons!" I heard Boa cry out.
"How can you be so sure?" Syaoran asked.
"I know the feel and weight of each and every weapon I have ever made and this sword is the same design, texture, and weight as the one I was carrying when we got captured."
"I think she's right. This feels just like the sword Boa gave me," I said to Syaoran.
"Well it doesn't matter.I think. We need to first find a way out of here and to safety." Syaoran began walking again. Boa and I only looked at each other and shrugged and continued walking. It wasn't much longer, however, when we saw light at the end of the tunnel and we literately began running to it.
~* I'm going to stop here. I was going to continue and write chapter 28 with this one since chapter 28 is the last chapter! Yea!!!!! But I wanted to get this out to you plus I'm super tired. Anyway, thank you all for your help and support that means so much to me and until next chapter!
~* Ghetto Princess
Special Thanks to ~*~ kawaiitenshisakura ~*~ mysticalia ~*~ lilsweetcherryblossom ~*~ Liang ReConst ~*~ blueangelbaby ~*~ crystal-chan ~*~ hana no tenshi ~*~ Pnaixr0se8 ~*~ SweetBabyGurl ~*~ tani-chan ~*~ Mistress Tate ~*~ Shadow-Walker ~*~ kawaii mouse ~*~ Leena-chan ~*~ Princess-cherry-blossom ~*~ Luckyducky7too ~*~ Feyla ~*~ Yanddar Warit ~*~ lilcherryblossom
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Mysticalia ~*~ I don't know. I think I know what will happen but I'm not sure.
Lilsweetcherryblossom ~*~ In all honesty I was kind of getting sick of it myself -_-. But I want to try and make it through until I get to the sequel of this fic before I have that happen cause I like that idea a lot! It'll fit into this killer plot I've got planned out and I'm so hyped about it and between school and trying to get this done it's driving me crazy that I can't write it down fully detailed yet. Plus I'm trying to decide on if I want the sequel to be rated R or not.and I need a new title!! I just thought of that! I feel like such a loser now. -_-.
Hana no tenshi ~*~ Yes, I finally got something to eat! J I'm still hungry so after this chapter I'm going to have a date with my kitchen ^_^. And I'm so happy that you updated on your fic.
Kawaii Mouse ~*~ Yeah you finally updated on your fic! Yeah!
Felya ~*~ I like that idea. *wonders off while tapping her chin in thought *
Mystress Tate ~*~ Thank you so much! That was really sweet.
Hana no tenshi ~*~ At first I was thinking about making it rated R but my dear friend Tina, who also reads this said it might be a bad idea and she wanted like the whole story in Boa's P.O.V. But I kind of didn't want it to be in just Boa's because the sequel kind of reflects on both Boa and Sakura.
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Lilsweetcherryblossom ~*~ I like that idea a bunch thanks so much!
Princess-cherry-blossom ~*~ I have no idea what happened to the 27th chapter, but don't worry cuz it wasn't the real chapter, but this one is!
Everyone ~*~ People have voted and people have chosen that I should have it so that it's in both Sakura's and Boa's P.O.V which is a really good idea. As for the rating I think it was a tie so what I'm going to do is start out in PG-13 and see what happens from there. Maybe I can get help on the action scenes that I wanna add, incase you haven't noticed I'm not good at that ^_^. But I've got all summer to improve after 3 1/2 weeks ^_^.
And I've finally turned 16!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm a woman in my family now ^_^.
Chapter 27
Everyone was practically crawling on our hands and knees when Melin decided that we could have a five-minute break, stopping where the passage way split into two different directions. Naturally she separated Syaoran and I, but we kept sending each other little love signs back and forth when she wasn't paying much attention.
Cobra, thank God for this, hasn't tried to hit on any of the girls while I've been away. Yet then again there's been so much going on and whatever had happened to Boa must keep his perverted side under control. Which reminds me how badly I wanna know what happened to her! But I couldn't bring myself to ask, plus it's not the best time to ask either.
Sighing thoughts of Touya poured into my mind reminding me to ask why no one ever mentioned that I had a brother in the first place. "How come no one ever told me I had a brother?" I asked to no on unparticular but it sure did get the attention of Syaoran, Eriol, and Tomoyo.
"Uh. I don't know why.Sakura," Tomoyo managed to get out. "Eriol, why didn't we mention that Sakura had a brother?"
"That is a VERY good question, Tomoyo. Syaoran, maybe you would like to answer that," Eriol said putting all the attention on him. Syaoran looked like he was going into shock as me, Cobra, and Boa leaned in to hear what he had to say, and even by the looks of things Melin was even interested in what he had to say.
"W-why I-I nev-never mentioned your br-brother IS a very good question." sweat started forming around his brow.
"What's so hard about you guys telling me about my brother?" I asked in slight rage. "How come no one ever TOLD me that I had a brother? The only person that's my REAL family." I looked at the three of the original group that kidnapped me in the first place.
"I don't think it's something that we're allowed to really talk about Sakura," Syaoran whispered hoarsely.
"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard! Why can't you talk about my brother?" I asked my anger rising up inside me like boiling water.
"Your brother's name isn't even allowed to be spoken unless the person whishes to be cursed. Themselves," Eriol said. Tomoyo nodded in agreement.
"Why is that?" I sure do ask 'why' a lot don't I?
"Your brother was banished from the Skyling Kingdom," Syaoran blurted out.
"For what?" I asked in a gasped.
"For trying to kill his baby sister. He's the reason why your not on the throne with your mother now.," he continued. All I could do was continue to stare at him in disbelief. They couldn't possibly be talking about the same Touya that I met in my dungeon/guest room. There was no possible way.was there? Then I snapped out of my thoughts and listened to Syaoran further. "Although Eriol, Tomoyo, and I think what he did was for the best and that he didn't try to kill you. He walked you deep into the forests and left you there to practically fend for yourself, even though that was practically impossible for anyone to do at the age of two."
"Some people thought he did it our of jealousy and hatred for your many blessings, other's thought that maybe he himself was possessed by the demons for doing what he done. Yet at the time there was a horrible war and those who knew your brother best knew that he was only trying to keep you safe, even though he was running a great risk," Eriol finished. A war? I don't remember a war. Was that how my real mother and father die? Geez, I'm so confused. I thought things were suppose to become more and more uncomplicated as this whole thing went along, but instead it's doing the exact opposite. Life is such a jerk.
"So he was just banded from the Kingdom? Didn't he even get a trial or something?" I asked.
"No, he wasn't given the right to a trial of any kind," Tomoyo said shaking her head slightly. I honestly didn't know what to think or really how to feel. Touya tried to keep me safe and then he just gets thrown out of the kingdom for life! If I get home and if I have to take over the throne I would give everyone a fair trial. What kind of kingdom would do that? Especially to their own Prince? I shook my head to rid myself of my unwanted thoughts. For some reason I just wanted to get off the subject of my brother.
"Alright you dimwits!" Melin's voice rang out. "Get some sleep and no talking. When we wake up we have a long ride a head of us," she said 'accidentally' hitting me upside the head when she walked by.
I rubbed my sore spot and laid down using my arms as pillows, and quickly feel into a deep sleep.
~*~ I was sitting back in the 'dungeon' that I had stayed in earlier only instead of everything being that horrid pink, it was green. But not the pretty green you see in nature, it was this real sick green that made you want to throw up.
In front of me was Touya. He was looking toward me but then again not really looking at me. It was like he was looking through me. I turned around to see what he could be looking at and only saw a wall. "I wonder what's going on," I thought aloud figuring that it was ok to talk to myself out loud, it wasn't like he could hear me, but life has it's many shocking surprises.
"Your dreaming again.well, sorta dreaming. It's more like one of those outer body experiences," Touya answered. I looked at him somewhat amazed and wondered if this was some kind of new power of mine or something that a few people could do.
"Well, what exactly is going on?" I asked. For the first time since I've been here he looked like he was actually looking at me instead of through me. Yet from time to time his eyes looked like they were unfocused like I was some kind of blurry image.
"I don't know. Your unconsciousness must have thought it important to bring you here to me. So what's on your mind?" Touya asked leaning back on his bed.
"Are you feeling ok? And what happened with all the pink?" I asked looking at the sickening green walls.
"I'm feeling fine. As for the color, I have no idea what's going on with it. It was pink before you came," Touya said looking at his surroundings.
"Maybe I have something to do with it." I mumbled to myself. We sat there in silence for a few minutes and then Touya finally broke it.
"What's really on your mind? I know you didn't come here to sit and talk about how I'm feeling and the sudden color change on the walls and furniture," Touya said almost impatiently.
I sighed, not really knowing how I was going to put what I wanted to ask him since before I went to sleep into words. Finally, I just gave up trying to figure out how I wanted to say it and just spit it out, and if it didn't make any since then I would just have to try and explain it even more.
"Syaoran and the gang told me how I really ended up wandering off into the wilds by my self." I let my voice trail off and looked at his face waiting for a reaction. But the only reaction that I received was a signal from him telling me to continue, and I just wanted to hear it from you."
"There was a war going on around that time, which I knew that you wouldn't remember, even with your amazing gift of memory. You were only two and I feared for your safety so I took you out to the woods and hid you there hoping that you would remain there and be safe. But after the enemy was gone, our mother and father dead, you were gone and without a trace. Naturally I got blamed for being on the enemies side and was banished from the kingdom."
"So what the other's said was true?" I asked mainly to myself by he answered me anyway by nodding his head. All that was running through my head was.WOW. Touya, my dear brother, even though I didn't really know him did all this for me when I was little and at the age where most brothers or sisters would hate to have around. Yet he loved me so much that he put his own life on the line in order to save me and I just happen to wonder off FAR, FAR from home and get him kicked out of his only home. I feel so guilty now.
"Sakura, you have to go back now. The group is waiting for you," Touya said interrupting my thoughts. I looked at him somewhat confused and then it felt like someone was pulling at me. ~*~
I snapped up awake with Melin standing in front of me with sharp looking pebbles in her hand. "It's about time you woke up! I've been calling your name countless minutes now. I was just about to start throwing stuff at you to see if you would budge, now get in line with the rest of them," she ordered.
Groggily I picked myself up and dusted off, not that it would have really mattered seeing that I'm meeting my 'fate' and everyone being so sure that I'm going to let he world come to destruction, which I hope that I don't. I went and stood behind Cobra and chains appeared on my hands and ankles that were also connected to Cobra's chains.
"If your still tired Sakura you can lean on my back to rest your head while we walk," he whispered softly to me.
I'll admit that I was very touched by his words for what I think was the first time ever! I probably would have done so if I didn't feel like Syaoran would get mad at me again and hate Cobra more. Boa would think that I was trying to take Cobra away from her, even though I told him to go to her.but she doesn't need to know that.
"Thanks for the offer, it's really sweet, but I better not," I whispered back. I saw Syaoran glance back at us with a hint of jealousy in his eyes. When was he going to learn that I'm his and only his?
(Ghetto Princess ~*~ So sleepy.have fourteen more pages.-_- zzZZzzZzzZZZzzZzzZ)
My mind kept drifting into two and three different states that I found kind of amusing. I would go into a semi-unconscious state where all of my senses didn't work very well or not at all, thoughts about what had happened in my sleep, and some real crazy stuff like me attacking this thing with the beautiful sword Boa had given me. We didn't walk very long but I still felt completely drained. My eyes were watering like fountains from sleepy tears. I was in the middle of this great big yawn when all of a sudden Melin started yelling out of no where about forgetting something I could careless about.
"What do you mean!" she shouted. Her booming voice echoed through the passage way making my ears ring and my head feel like it was being torn into thousands of little pieces. The dog demon thing was making weird sounds which must of been some kind of demonic language that, naturally, only Melin understood since the rest of us didn't know a thing about the demon's language. "I can't believe this..." For a second I thought I saw worry splash across Melin's face, but if there was any it was quickly covered up.
"What's going on?" I whispered to Cobra.
"I'm not sure," he answered and I continued to try and grasp what it was she was complaining about, but she started speaking the demonic language and the next thing I knew she was gone, along with the chains that had held us together. Something about this whole thing didn't feel right...
"The chains are gone!" I heard Tomoyo cried in a shouted whisper of excitement. Her eyes were bright in the dim redness of the passage and I could only see the hope that shined only in her eyes. "This is our chance!"
"Hold it Tomoyo, this is too easy. I mean come on, Melin suddenly up and leaves and the chains vanish. I think she's up to something," Eriol said, his eyes looked grim.
"Wha--" Tomoyo breathed, she didn't even try to hide her disappointment.
"He's right Tomoyo, this is too easy. There's no way Melin would do something like this without something up her sleeve," I said keeping the worry a bay.
"How would you know? You've only known her for what a month or two?" Tomoyo snapped. I bit my lip. She was right and most of the time that I've known her she's been demon.
"Tomoyo, I may not have known the real Melin at all or for very long, but I have known the demon inside her body long enough to know what she would and wouldn't do. It's only common sense..." I could hear my voice begin to trail off.
Syaoran must have crawled over to me at some point in time without me realizing it because the next thing I knew he had his arms wrapped tightly around my waist. Despite my self I smiled at the sudden relief that flowed through my body as he pulled me close to him and kiss my temple. Leaning back into him I closed my eyes for a while and the sounds and voices of my friends drifted away from me. When I did come back to reality I had woken back up in the middle of some great plan of whoevers.
"What did I miss?" I asked, my voice a little cracked.
"Have a nice nap sleep head?" Syaoran asked me planting another kiss on my forehead. I nodded my head and snuggled deeper into his arms. I think he liked it because it just caused him to hold me tighter than before. "Eriol came up with some kind of crazy plan," he said shaking his head.
"It's not crazy, it's fool-proof...well almost fool-proof, but that's not the problem at hand. What the plan is, is that we split up into two different groups and each one picks a tunnel to go done. Then we just keep going and see where it leads us, see perfect." Eriol smiled to him self, obviously pleased.
"Sure it's perfect if we all want to end up either dead or never see each other again and just assume that one another is dead," Syaoran said. "Besides, how do we know that it doesn't lead us into more danger, we have to make sure that Sakura gets out of here and not have a run in with the Demon Master."
"I thought it was my destiny to fight the demon master," I said feeling kind of confused. That is what Touya said right?
Everyone was silent for a moment looking at each other as if trying to find the write answer. "Yes...but we was hoping that once we got a hold of you that we would be able avoid you having to fight the demon master until we get you home..." Syaoran said gently.
"If it's destined...then don't you think that you can't really change it?" I asked.
"I guess you're right," Syaoran breathed and began stroking my arms sending shivers up and down my spine.
"Oh listen to Sakura and not to us, even though we've tried to tell you that since square one!" Tomoyo shouted in irritation.
"Calm down Tomoyo, I don't think this is the time that we need to get emotional about who said what," Boa said. I turned and looked at her. She was sitting next to Cobra looking pale and tired in the unnatural color lighting.
"You feeling ok?" I asked her. She just nodded her head and continued acting as if nothing was wrong, even though you could tell that she was thinking about something... Whatever it was it was really putting her under some kind of quiet mood.
Cobra stroked Boa's arm but she only kind of inched away from him, which I found odd since every since the whole dungeon thing they had pretty much acted like a couple. Maybe whatever she was hiding was also keeping her from having a relationship with Cobra. That made since right?
"Look I know we're going to make a lot of sacrifices if we carry out with my plan, but we mustn't think of ourselves anymore. We must think about our duty to the kingdom and to our Princess..."Eriol spoke gently yet strongly as he pointed to me.
"What about Cobra and Boa? They weren't raised in the kingdom," I said.
"That doesn't really matter to me Sakura. I've pledged my allegiance to you and the Skyling Kingdom and all the royalties the day I first found out who you really was," Cobra said smiling at me gently, but I could detect a hint of sadness in his voice.
"Same here," Boa said. "Besides, if my father were still alive he would probably be a little made at me but he would still be greatly proud of me at the same time. That makes me happy just the same, besides we're friends and as your friend I'm going to look out for you," Boa said smiling.
Mentally I thanked God for blessing me with wonderful friends like these. "Thanks Boa, that means a lot to me." I said tearing up.
"Looks like we're going through with your plan," Syaoran said in a low voice so that only we could hear but loudly he said, "We're not going to go through with it," For just incase the demon dog was listening so he could report to Melin or some other demon. We all nodded our heads in agreement and we all slept with one of us switching off from watching to see when the demon dog went to sleep.
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It was almost time for my shift when I suddenly woke up with a jolt. I had a dream that I was fighting the demon master and he was just about to stab me when I woke up covered in sweat. I looked around me and saw Syaoran sitting there glaring at the demon dog.
I crawled over to him and sat beside him and watched with him for a while. "You can go and get some rest I'll take over the rest of the watch," I told him quietly.
"Doesn't this seem weird to you at all?" he asked me after a moment's silence.
"What? That Melin still isn't back yet or the feeling that they're wanting us to do what Eriol suggests?" I asked. It seemed that I wasn't the only one who was thinking about this whole thing thoroughly. It had been bugging me since Melin had left whenever hours ago.
"Both," he said shaking his head. Once again we sat there in empty silence, this time I was kind of uncomfortable from the tenseness in the air. "I think he's sleep now," Syaoran said quietly as he got up to wake the others.
"How long has he been sleep?" I asked.
"Since the beginning of my watch, which was about ten minutes ago," he answered simply.
"How do you know if he's sleep then?" I questioned. I felt like shaking him by the shoulders until he got some sense in the cute head of his.
"He's not going to go to sleep. He knows what's going to happen so I don't think that he's really cares if we sneak off with him awake or not." He's right. I mean come on this is way too easy. Everyone woke up either pumped or wanting to go back to sleep. I think I was one of those who wanted to go back to sleep.
"Alright Eriol, you're the leader on this plan. Split us up into groups," Syaoran said.
"Right.I've been thinking that they're should be one strong guy in each group. So Syaoran, I want you to watch Sakura and Tomoyo and I'll take care of Cobra and Boa-"
"Hey, what ever happened to Mberray?" I blurted out looking for my fluffy turned chicken friend.
"She was taken after you were, I think they already ate her." Cobra said making disgusted face. I felt my stomach churn at the thought of those demons crunching and chewing and licking her bones clean. I suddenly felt dizzy and ran to a far wall away from the group and barfed. How could I allow myself to think of such things? Sometimes I truly disgusted myself.
"Uh.I'll take care of Cobra and Boa." I heard Eriol say softly this time as if he was talking mainly to himself.
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Syaoran, Boa and I had been walking for some time and I kept getting the feeling that someone was watching us. The tunnel seemed to have gotten a little darker as time went by. Eventually I got so scared that Syaoran held my hand and I had gripped onto Boa's to try and comfort myself, and naturally it didn't work or help me one bit.
We took a few steps further and I suddenly tripped, almost bringing Syaoran and Boa with me.
"Are you ok?" I heard Boa ask me.
"Yeah I'm fine I tripped over something." I dropped down on my hands and knees and tried to search for what it was I had tripped over.
"If you're looking for what it was you tripped over you probably wouldn't want to continue doing that," I heard Syaoran's voice warn.
"Why not?" I asked still filling around on the ground.
"You might find something that you didn't want to see in the first place," he said. I could feel his eyes on my back as I continued to look for what it was and that's when I felt something cut my finger.
"Ouch!" I hissed.
"What is it?" Syaoran and Boa asked stooping down next to me.
I rubbed my index and thumb together feeling the sticky blood pouring out of my finger. "I cut my hand on something." I put my hand back down where I had cut myself before and this time I felt the cool hard steel of a blade. Licking my lips I followed the blade until I found a hilt. "I think I found a sword." I muttered.
"A sword?" Boa questioned as I stood up with the sword in my hand. I watched the outline of her body feel on the ground where I had found the swords and I hard her gasp. "I think I found two more swords," she said picking them up. She handed to Syaoran what looked like the heaviest one.
"Is it just me or does this sword feel.familiar?" Syaoran asked fingering his new found sword.
"Now that I think about it, it does feel like the same weight of the sword Boa had given me." I felt of the handle. Everything about it felt familiar even how smooth the blade was.
"These are our weapons!" I heard Boa cry out.
"How can you be so sure?" Syaoran asked.
"I know the feel and weight of each and every weapon I have ever made and this sword is the same design, texture, and weight as the one I was carrying when we got captured."
"I think she's right. This feels just like the sword Boa gave me," I said to Syaoran.
"Well it doesn't matter.I think. We need to first find a way out of here and to safety." Syaoran began walking again. Boa and I only looked at each other and shrugged and continued walking. It wasn't much longer, however, when we saw light at the end of the tunnel and we literately began running to it.
~* I'm going to stop here. I was going to continue and write chapter 28 with this one since chapter 28 is the last chapter! Yea!!!!! But I wanted to get this out to you plus I'm super tired. Anyway, thank you all for your help and support that means so much to me and until next chapter!
~* Ghetto Princess
