Disclaimer: All characters of CCS are the property of CLAMP, not mine. So please don't sue me. This is only written for entertainment purposes, not for profit. You won't get any money anyways, since I only have six American dollars at the moment, and I'm not going to get any profit whatsoever for writing this.
Symbols:
" " Dialogue
Sound FX
[ ] My side-notes when necessary.
(lang) language use in dialogue. [I.e. (Eng)- English, (Jap) Japanese, etc. Japanese is the default in the dialogue.]
Italic sentence
· A character is speaking in the first person (will be specified)
· A letter or written article/document.
· A quote that was said by a character in the past (usually when a characters is looking back.
· When a character emphasizes a word during speech.
Author's notes:
CAUTION: THIS FIC HAS MANY FLASHBACKS AS WELL AS SLIGHT SUMARIES. IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO HEAR VARIOUS PARTS YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED, I'D ADVISE YOU TO COME BACK AGAIN LATER.
Character heights:
Somebody asked how tall a few characters were, so here is what I came up with. The last chapter I only gave what I was thinking, so here is what I think would make sense.
Sakura Kinomoto- 5 ft 6 in, 1.6764 m
Syaoran Li- 5 ft 10 in, 1.8034 m
Tomoyo Daidouji- 5 ft 4 in, 1.6256 m
Meiling Li- 5 ft 5 in, 1.651 m
Rikou Daidouji- 6 ft 0 in, 1.8288 m
I definitely wanted the girls to be shorter than the boys, or at least the main people, because I really don't want them looking like squirts. For people who don't like my taste, this was just some random choosing and afterwards logic. I just made a random choice and made Sakura 5'6", Meiling was shorter than Sakura slightly, and Tomoyo was shorter than Meiling slightly as I remember, so I just docked in inch from those two. Li has to be taller than Sakura, by half a head as I remember, and a head is about eight inches, so I added four inches to Sakura to get Li's height (I also think that 5'10" is the minimum perfect height for a male Asian.) Rikou's 6'0" because he's American (or born there at least) and Americans are usually taller than Asians a lot, I thought of 6'3" awhile (the height I see at school), but since Rikou has Asian blood I docked a few inches. That's why I chose this as my final decision.
Japanese word notes:
(General words)
Jya/ Jya ne- See ya (informal)
Daijobu desu ka? /Daijobu - Are you all right?
Hoee-Sakura's word under surprise or distress.
Hannya- schweet (usually used only by Sakura)
Gomen/gomen nasai- sorry/I'm sorry
Sumimasen-Excuse me/Sorry
Douzo- Here/here you go
Domo- thanks
Matte- wait
chan/san/kun/sama- a title usually placed after a name to be polite. (i.e. brother/sister/mother/father something like that...)
demo- but
Oto-san- father
Oga-san- mother
Oni-san/chan- brother
Onei-san/chan- sister
Anno/etto- um/hmm
Moshi moshi- telephone greeting
Hai- yes
Iie (iye)- no
Watashi wa- I/I am
Anata wa- You/you are
Ikimasho- let's go
Sekoi-amazing/awesome, etc.
Oiishi- tasty/delicious
(I do not know the exact way to spell these, I just write them by how they sound... If there's a word you don't understand in this fic, ask me at psychic720@yahoo.com)
Ok so that's done, let's go.
Li Syaoran's Story
Chapter 5
Sakura and Li looked for a seat in the theatre. The two settled onto a row of empty seats. Sakura sat comfortably onto a chair. Li sat next to her, reluctantly. Li took a handful of popcorn and stuffed it in his mouth to clear his head.
The boy thought at the phone call he received this morning. "I thought Daidouji-san called and said that she wasn't coming? You even called saying that she wasn't coming, ne?"
"That's what she told me…" Sakura said. "This doesn't really make sense, ne? Rikou-kun, said something like that too…" Sakura's mind jolted. " But, I didn't call you, Syaoran-kun!"
"You didn't call?" Syaoran asked in shock.
"Iié!" Sakura shook her head. "I don't remember calling you at all!"
"You didn't?" the boy thought for awhile. Li shot up. "RIKOU!" Everyone in the theatre turned to look at the enraged boy.
"Nani, Syaoran-kun?" Sakura asked.
Li slowly sat back on to his seat. "This whole thing was Rikou-kun's idea…"
"Hoe? How do you know?" Sakura asked with interest.
"He wanted to help me…" Li mumbled.
"How would this help you?" Sakura asked still with the confused expression on his face.
Li flinched. "Eygh!!!" He stiffened tightly, but soon turned and stared at her for a long time. "Sakura, although three years have passed… Watashi wa…"
"What?" the girl looked back at Li pleasantly.
Turning bright red, the boy started again. "I… I still… I STILL—!"
BOOM! An explosion erupted through the theatre.
"NANI!" Li turned to search out the distraction.
"It's a fantasy movie Syaoran-kun," Sakura replied at the sudden explosion.
"NANI!" Li glared at the flashing lights of the movie screen.
"Anno, Syaoran-kun, you still what?" Sakura asked.
"Nothing…" Li mumbled.
(That evening)
Li clumsily kicked a rock across the walk. "Why don't you just chuck out your feelings again and get it over with, everyone else would…" The boy really wanted to burst out what was going on in his mind when he dropped Sakura off at her home.
"Now don't ya start stereo typing…" a boy called from a distance.
"Nani?" Li squinted his eyes to view the speaker. "Oh, Rikou-san…"
"Konban wa…" Rikou waved from a table from a beverage stand. "(Eng) Wazzup?"
"Nothing…" The boy sat down next to him.
"Oh, yeah, sumimasen, ne?" Rikou sighed. "Guess you figured out huh?"
"About the false voices, yeah…" Li ordered himself a soft drink.
"Yeah that." The boy smiled. "I left out a few factors huh. Didn't even think about the film that you were seeing, that screwed it up too."
"Not calling Tomoyo about messed it up too, ne?" Li said, he grinned.
Rikou patted him on the back, "As the Hindus and Buddhists, Karma ne? Nothing you can do about what already happened, useless worrying."
"Hai…"
"That cousin of yours is cute." Rikou smiled.
"Nani?" Li asked.
Rikou sipped from his cup. "Cute, pretty…" the boy sighed. "Unfortunately violent and fussy."
"Where is she now?" Li asked.
"She decided to go back to your house," Rikou laughed. "Guess she got scared of Hannah, which I don't blamer her for, so she ran back to your place. Well, my friend, looks like the peacefulness of your place is going to be gone!"
Li glared at the other who flinched.
"Here, this may help." Rikou said handing him a book of blank old paper.
"What do you expect me to do with this."
"When she gets into one of her fits, stuff one in each of your ears!" The boy slapped a few coins down on the table. "Well I gotta go, Ah, Jya, ne!"
"Sayonara."
(The next morning)
Beep, beep… Sakura's alarm clock rang quietly above the girl's head. Her hand fumbled clumsily to bring the alarm down. She finally found the pink cylinder and pulled it under the covers. She sighed comfortably as the high pitched sounds went silent. Sakura dozed off in her sleep as usual.
(Sometime later)
"SAKURA!!!! YOU OVERSLEPT!!!!" Kero yelled in front of the girl's face.
"Nani…… I'm so sleepy… The bed is so warm… EH, NANIIII!!!!!" The girl jolted into reality.
"Sakura you overslept!" Kero exclaimed again. "You pulled the alarm under your blanket and then you forgot about it!"
"HOEEEE!" Sakura leapt out of bed and a flurry of clothing flew in all directions.
The girl rampaged out the door and down the stairs.
Kero looked around the room, and gaped at the thing he saw. "Matte, Sakura you forgot your—Sakura!"
Sakura had already was out the door before she could here what Kero was saying.
(Seijouu High)
Sakura bolted into the classroom. "OHAYO!" She gasped as she smashed the door open.
Tomoyo turned. "You're on time, Sakura-chan, seven minutes before the bell."
"Yatta…" Sakura sighed with relief and sat down on her desk.
"Sakura-chan, where's your back pack?" Tomoyo asked wonderingly.
"Nani!!!" Sakura jolted to examine the back of her chair. The nothingness she saw wasn't pleasant for her eyes. "HOEE! I must've left it at home when I was hurrying here. What am I going to do?" Sakura turned to the clock in panic, there was only five minutes left before the bell rang. "Hoeee!"
Rikou walked casually in to the room. "Mmm, nothing like a good night's sleep. Haven't been getting any of those since that Meiling was over for awhile." The boy sat at his desk. Calmly placing his books down.
Tomoyo turned to her twin brother. "Oni-san, how fast does it take you to get from Sakura's house from here?"
"Split second," The boy placed an egg roll in his mouth and organized his books onto his desk.
"Do you think you can—" Tomoyo started, but Rikou vanished with a faint blue light.
"Hoe?" Sakura looked at the empty space where the boy used to be.
Li paced in to the room as if he never got any sleep for days. He got to his desk and placed his head tiredly on it. "Ohayo…" he said to no one in general, but he did it every morning, and he was too tired to notice that Sakura was in front of him.
Rikou flashed back into his seat with another faint light. "Douzo, Sakura-san. You needed this ne?"
Sakura took the bag with relief. "Domo, Rikou-san! I thought I was going to die."
Rikou smiled. "Doi tashi—something, something, something, can't remember at the moment."
The girls giggled at the boy's attempt to say Japanese.
"Oh fine laugh at my misery!" Rikou said with a fake serious sound in his voice, he burst laughing for a minute and harrumphed right after and made a face as if nothing was happening which just ended in a snicker.
"Sumimasen Rikou-san, I thought you were going to say it right, but you're a foreigner, so it would be hard." Sakura said apologetically.
"Hey, I have Japanese blood!" Rikou said standing closer to Tomoyo, "Ne? Onei-chan?"
"Hoe?" Sakura looked at the boy. "Onei-chan?"
Li looked up at the sudden statement. "Eh?"
Tomoyo looked at the others. "Rikou-san and I are really twins."
"He…" Sakura said in amazement. She turned to Li. "**Sugoi desu ne? Syaoran-kun?"
**(Generally means weird, awesome, great, etc.)
Li reddened. "Ah." Li's eyes drooped, and his tiredness took over him.
"Syaoran-kun, Daijobu?" Sakura asked noticing the eye closure.
"It's nothing, not enough sleep." Li replied.
Rikou laughed. "By that loud cousin of his, yeah, understandable, hai!"
Sakura turned, "You mean Meiling-chan?"
"Something like that." Rikou frowned a little. He tapped his temple slightly "I'm becoming forgetful, Meiling was her name?"
"You two are siblings?" Li asked with a slight confusion. He decided to change the topic.
"Actually twins to be exact." Rikou said. "Tomoyo-chan's mom said that I was her son and we were separated because her mom and my dad was divorced, and you could guess the rest."
"Hoe…" Sakura murmured in amazement. "Ah, Meiling-chan wa douko desu ka?" (where's Meiling?)
"Back home." Li murmured. "They school said that she had to wait for next semester because this semester seemed to be too full."
"That's just a month though, ne?" Rikou pondered scratching his head.
Li thought teasing the boy would be clever to control the amount of teasing that Rikou seems to give "What you miss my cousin already?"
Rikou noticed the attack and he nodded. "I'll miss something, yes." Rikou replied calmly, "But I'm going to miss the nice peace and quiet that we'll have around here when she comes back."
The girls laughed at his remark. Li looked at the boy with a slight challenge in his glimpse.
The school principal went in. Everyone looked ahead in surprise.
"Your teacher transferred to the University at Tokyo. So I have a person to introduce to you. Come in please."
A woman wearing a long skirt and a button up suit jacket. She had really long red-brown hair. A few kids gasped in amazement.
"Mizuki-sensei!" Sakura gasped.
"That teacher!" Li said a second or two after.
"(Eng) Hot woman!" Rikou gaped.
Tomoyo giggled at the comments from the other three.
"Konnichiwa." Kaho Mizuki greeted her new students. "For the rest of the year, you will be studying with me."
Li glared ahead. Although he knew that the teacher didn't intend any threat his death glare was trying to decode what was going on in Miss. Mizuki's mind. "The last time that teacher came there was some trouble, something important is probably going to happen." Li whispered to Sakura in front of him.
Sakura's eyes popped open. "You're right, the last time she was here we were still capturing the Clow Cards. Now there's this Dark force thing that Kero's talking about. She must've come here for that reason…"
Sakura looked at the teacher who was still introducing herself at the moment and recognizing familiar faces. Sakura looked at a daze at the pretty woman who smiled back at her and she was back in her "Schweet mode".
"Hannya…" Sakura murmured.
"Here we go again…" Li said rolling his eyes.
(Lunch period)
Sakura sat on a picnic blanket next to Tomoyo. It was a nice sunny day. Although the day was warm, a cool, comforting breeze blew around the area every once and awhile so that it wouldn't become too hot. Sakura ate her food cheerfully.
"Sakura-chan looks cheerful today," Tomoyo said with a smile on her face.
"Uun, although some troubles are going to happen soon, everyone we haven't seen for awhile are coming back. First Syaoran-kun, came back from Hong Kong, we'll see Meiling-chan soon, Now Mizuki-sensei's here." Sakura replied. "We also got to meet Rikou-san, although slightly different from us, is still quite fun." Sakura looked around for awhile. "Come to think of it, where are they?"
"Li-kun and Oni-san?" Tomoyo asked.
"Hai." Sakura said.
"I remember seeing them over in the back gym, with all the mats, They're sparring." Tomoyo replied. "Or actually Li-kun challenged Rikou-san."
"Oh." Sakura said. She picked up her small chopsticks and placed some of the food in her mouth. "Oiishi…" Sakura looked at her food box, "Too bad Oto-san didn't give me some more."
"KONNICHIWA!" A voice called from afar.
The two girls turned their heads. "Meiling-chan!"
The Chinese girl wore a beige Chi pao** dress with yellow linings and hauled a large, wooden basket/box of food. Meiling ran stopped at the edge of the blanket and smiled at the two. "Konnichiwa, long time no see, ne? Kinomoto-san, Daidouji-san?"
**A chi pao/qipao is a Chinese dress with traditional and modern characteristics.
Seeing the smile, Sakura supposed that the girl was soothed from the last encounter with her. "What's going on Meiling-chan."
The girl glared at her, Sakura flinched. Meiling smiled again and started laughing. "Kinomoto-san you get scared too easily. I've already forgotten what happened on that other night!"
Sakura sighed with relief. She sniffed the air. "Meiling-chan, what's in the box?"
"Oh this?" Meiling asked pointing to the box. "It's just something I made for Syaoran." The girl looked around. "Where is he?"
"Oh he and Rikou-san are sparring in the gym." Sakura replied
"Oh, Rikou-san?" Meiling thought for a second. "Isn't he that American?"
"Hai, that's my brother." Tomoyo replied.
"Your, brother?" Meiling asked with confusion.
Tomoyo nodded.
"You two are from the opposites sides of the world!"
"We were just separated for awhile." Tomoyo said continuing the story.
Sakura looked to the side. "Oh here they come, Syaoran-kun, Rikou-kun!" The girl waved at them.
"Syaoran!" Meiling yelled, running towards him. Li almost fell over when he was embraced.
"Ah so the girl who has a fog horn for a mouth is here." Rikou said passing the girl. He strolled to the picnic blanket. "You know Li-kun, I don't know if you're one of those lucky guys who attracts chicks or an unfortunate dude winding up with cute, but hazardous cousin." Rikou began to gag. "Cousins liking each other…"
"Nani?" The girl stared at the boy with fury. Her fist rose and leapt towards him.
Li yelled after her but it was too late. "Meiling matte, Rikou's really good at martial arts--!"
Rikou had rose a leg high above the ground, pivoted to turn around and intercepted the fist, smoothly pushed it away but forcing Meiling in to the sudden jolt that occurred right after the counter. Meiling tried another strike but that was swiftly redirected in a circular motion and pushed her back lightly. The girl was forced outward away from the boy, Li caught her before she fell over.
"Owwwww…" Meiling said rubbing her stomach. "Arigato, Syaoran." The girl got to her feet.
"I said he was good!" Li said.
The girl looked away in slight anger. "It's not my fault!"
"You're lucky you're female," Rikou scoffed. "If you were male, the 'never hit a girl' thing doesn't apply, so you would've been nailed."
"It's not like you're any good," Meiling said
"Not like you're any better. Hmm, this is good!" Rikou said munching form the basket that Meiling brought.
"Hey that's for Syaoran!!!!!" Meiling screamed.
"Can't have anything you can't catch!" Rikou said, getting up to his feet.
"You!!!" Meiling dashed after him who in return ran off with the basket.
Sakura looked after the two who were getting further away from sight.
"Hoee…" Sakura said.
"They already seem like a good couple, ne? Sakura-chan?" Tomoyo asked.
"Uun," Sakura nodded in confusion.
Li sat down on the far end of the picnic blanket. "About that teacher… What do you think she wants to do here?"
"The only thing that has happened was that one event when we figured out about Rikou-san's identity." Sakura replied. "But ever since then nothing has…" Sakura looked up. "But something's going to happen really soon, I can feel it, it's strange…"
"Nani?" Li looked at the girl.
"It's faint but I feel something new…" Sakura looked around.
"Something's going to happen tonight…" A quiet voice went in.
"Eh?" Li whirled around.
Kaho Mizuki was leaning forward behind the trio on the picnic blanket.
"Mizuki-sensei!" Sakura said with surprise. "Nani?"
The teacher nodded. "You'll find out by yourself anyways, you're Sakura after all, ne?" The teacher said turning over to look at Meiling who had chased Rikou up a tree.
"Hoe," Sakura said with surprise. "Rikou-kun may never come down…"
Miss Mizuki smiled. "He's scared of heights isn't he."
"ARE YOU GOING TO GET DOWN FROM THAT TREE!!!" Meiling yelled from afar.
"WHAT'LL YOU DO IF I'M NOT!?!" Rikou said with an insulting gravity.
Sakura and Tomoyo giggled at the shouting between the two. Sakura took a small pastry and placed it in her mouth. "Things were never the same with Rikou-san around, ne?" Sakura said.
"Hai," Tomoyo said with a grin on her face.
Li looked at Sakura who was still chatting away with her teacher and Tomoyo.
"OWWWW!" Rikou fell out of the tree after Meiling threw the basket lid at him.
"Oni-san reminds me of a cat." Tomoyo said.
"How?" Sakura asked with confusion. "Oh, because he can always climb a tree, but can never come back down on his own!"
The two laughed while Li stayed in his usual silence. The boy shifted with anxiety. Just seeing the girl made him nervous.
"Mizuki-sensei, anno, do you know anything about this one thing called the Darkforce?" Sakura asked.
"Well I do know that that's just a nick name." Miss Mizuki said. "The leader has been after the cards for a long time. Chang, San-Feng sealed them up some time ago. That's all I know, you could ask Eriol-kun."
"Hiiragizawa-kun is here?" Li jumped to his senses. "Where is he?"
Mizuki sensei smiled. "He's back at our new home for now. He can't come to school until next semester.
"Oh Eriol-kun's going to be coming back too?" Sakura asked her eyes popping up.
"That's nice, ne? Sakura-chan?" Tomoyo said.
"Everyone's who's left Tomoeda is coming back!" Sakura said with excitement. "How can that be not nice, Hannya…!"
Li pounded his fist down slightly. Hirigsawa-san liked Sakura a lot too or at least he seemed like he did…
(That evening 10:00)
It was a dark and dreary night. Touya dismounted from a blue motorcycle and pushed in the garage. He decided not to stay at the Dormitory at the University this night due to a weird feeling in his head After all his classes were done at the university.
Sakura's should be asleep, Oto-san's probably still doing something at school so… Touya thought, but the gloominess of his home made him feel weird.
He got into the house and flipped on the lights. The University senior student took something to drink from the fridge and slowly advanced up the stairs. A flicker went into his head making him slightly nauseous. He took a peek in Sakura's bedroom. The girl snuggled in her covers.
Sakura's home, good… Touya thought, but he had a feeling that she wasn't that night and peeked again.
(The park with the Penguin slide.)
Rain was still pouring down in Tomoeda, but it wasn't the rain making Sakura blink. After releasing the Mirror card, she felt really woozy. "I feel… strange…"
"What's the matter?" Li asked.
The girl decided not to worry her friends so she shook her head vigorously and smiled. "It's nothing, just that, um just that… I feel this strange presence but I don't see anything here!" Sakura said for an excuse under the shelter of a nearby tree.
"Oh…" Li replied knowing that Sakura was purposely trying to hide something from him. He looked away sadly. He decided not to ask what was in the girl's brain.
Rain still poured vigorously around the area. Sakura shifted nervously in her costume. Tomoyo, who hadn't found a situation to dress Sakura until recently, had really gone out on this design. The costume consisted of a long sky-blue cape with a wide hood, which protected the girl slightly from the rain. Sakura was clothed in a kimono-like, white shirt speckled with pink sparkles that went down to her thighs. The skirt the girl wore was a light green, going down to about half her shin. As with all Tomoyo's battle costume design, the suit had plenty of frills and ribbons Li stood near by her, in his costume. The boy's sword was drawn and moved around the front half of the boy as if he were using it to scan the ground. Tomoyo orbited around the two in a bluish rain-jacket.
"I'm so happy Sakura's once again wearing one of my costumes!!!" Tomoyo said with joy. "I haven't been able to film you in them for a few years! Sakura you look so cute!"
"Hoe…" Sakura murmured, shifting again nervously.
Yue dived down from the beating rain sky. "There's no one around in every kilometer."
"Demo, where's this aura comin' from?" Kero asked. "I'm becoming a wet towel are we supposed to wait all night?" The huge winged lion gave himself a good shake, scattering water in all directions.
Meiling sat up on a tree branch staring around the area. She wore her usual battle costume with her bluish cape that she wore when Li and Sakura were trying to catch the Snow. "I hate this waiting, can't it just show itself." Meiling pounded the branch hard. "And it's raining too!"
Rikou
suddenly teleported in front of the girl. "You know, if you can't stand a bit
of rain, you could just go home you know… Not like you have magic and make some
significant help."
"Get out of my face!"
Meiling said smacking the boy.
The boy fell out of the tree, PLOP!!!
"You didn't have to hit me you know!" Rikou yelled back. "What a psychopath!"
"What did you call me!?!" Meiling screamed launching a pinecone at him.
"Who said it was you!?!"
Li looked at the two with an irritated look on his face. "The aura's getting stronger, be quiet!"
"Her fault," Rikou said pointing upward. He got up, re-buttoned his Chinese martial arts suit, and used his straw-woven hat to brush off the dirt from his navy blue robe and black pants. The boy then placed the hat on his head.
Sakura smiled at the boy who didn't seem to have the regal air that a legendary warrior should have. She placed her star staff down and began stretching her back muscles. Something flashed in her head. The star staff shot into her hands as the girl immediately grabbed a card.
"WINDY!" The girl screamed. A huge gust of wind came outward and immediately enveloped a small area.
"What is it!" Li said coming forward towards Sakura. His sword was out and he snared a charm.
Yue and Keroberos went in front of Sakura and the others in a protective fan. The Wind that Sakura had cast was slowly thinning and huge bulges could be seen trying to knock it away. The wind soon erupted returning to their card phase.
A huge man appeared where the wind had enveloped. He was extremely tall and wore a black Manchurian courtier's uniform. The Man rose his head, his fierce red glowing eyes glared at the Sakura like a laser piercing its target. Sakura flinched at the glare.
"So the Card Mistress is such a young girl, eh?" The man said with this evil look on his face. "But she's rusty anyways, the cards will be mine today after all! HAHAHAHA!"
"WHAT!" Kero was enraged, he hadn't seen so much impertinence in his life and here was this weird looking thing that thought it could snare something impossible to get.
"Let's go, Keroberos…" Yue said his wings opening making the guardian look more intimidating.
Kero did the same and the two guardians shot forward towards the demon like thing.
"TAKE THIS!!!" Kero bursted a mouthful of flames towards the thing. Yue let out both hands, icy spheres appearing on them and shot volleys of ice shards towards their intended target.
A screen of explosions covered the arena. "Yue-san! Kero-chan!" Sakura screamed over the explosion. "STOP!"
A huge blast, launched the two backwards. Sakura dashed towards the two. "Kero-chan! Yue-san! Daijobu!"
"That…. can't… be!" Rikou exclaimed in disbelief. The boy rose his hand and his Long Tai Chi Sword appeared in his hand. He drew the slender blade from its scabbard smoothly. Rikou angled his blade carefully at the man.
"What?" Li asked anxiously, standing his ground cautiously.
"I sense that was the power of the Realms but it can't be…" Rikou replied hesitantly.
"He has powers of the Realms?" Sakura asked hesitantly.
"It's that all the magic of Clow is?" The man asked slyly.
Sakura gripped her staff. "Li can you look over the others…"
Li nodded hesitantly. "What are you—"
Sakura had moved closer to the man. "How dare you hurt my friends!"
"For the pieces of cardboard in your hands," The man said slyly stroking his pale beard. He rose a hand, illuminating with a mystique purplish light.
"Fiery!" Sakura exclaimed. At the moment Sakura said the incantation, a bulge of flames erupted from Sakura's staff.
The man shot a purplish blast outward. The two forms of magic collided against each other.
Sakura winced, a pain hit her stomach. What's going on, I feel really weak all of a sudden.
"SAKURA, DAIJOBU DESU KA!" Li yelled to the girl noticing the girl sudden pain.
"Kinomoto-san, what's wrong!" Meiling shouted.
"Something's definitely not right!" Rikou said from afar.
"What!" Meiling and Li turned and looked at the boy who began concentrating hard.
"Rikou-kun, what's going on with Sakura!" Li panicked almost strangling the boy, Tomoyo luckily pulled Li away from her brother.
"Let him think, Syaoran!" Meiling screamed.
Li looked helplessly at Sakura who had this look of deterioration. He pulled out a charm from his costume. "God of thunder, descend!"
The charm streaked out a bolt. The man merely rose a hand and blasted the bolt back towards the boy. Who was shocked by it. Li collapsed to the ground.
"Syaoran!" Meiling shrieked.
"Li-kun, daijobu?" Tomoyo asked placing her camera down.
Rikou knelt towards the boy, and felt his left wrist. "He's ok, the pulse is fine. As for Sakura, she's beginning to look even worse, how… Wait that's it!"
Li looked at the boy with anxiety. "Why is she weakening?!?"
"Sometime ago she absorbed the 'Plague Blast' with the shield sometime ago!" Rikou panicked. "If the blast doesn't hit anything, who cares, if it hits someone, even if they're using a shield, it will do internal damage to the body making it unable to use magic in large amounts with out damaging the body. This is bad…"
Tomoyo looked up. "You were able to block it with your barrier."
Rikou shook his head. "The Psychic Barrier absorbs the magic, but it's designed to redirect or reflect it back at the user's enemy, so no damage is done to someone using the barrier." The boy looked at Sakura "With Sakura pumping out those flames at this rate, she'll…" The boy shook his head. "Well it just becomes a soap opera, and, well, death occurs."
Meiling dropped squarely on the boy's back. "What do you mean by that!!!?!!!"
"Exactly what I mean!" Rikou exclaimed. "Definition of 'death', according to Webster's Dictionary of the American Language, 'death' means to cease existing—" Li collapsed during Rikou's speech. "I guess you didn't need to know that…"
Li stood up dismay in his face; his clothing was drenched wet. The boy touched his stomach irritably. "Those papers you gave me Rikou are sorta useful to keep you dry," The boy mumbled taking them out of his costume. There was something different from them when he looked at the scraps of papers briefly. "What?"
Li glared at the damp sheets of paper. Faint markings were sketched all over the book of papers. The words were faint but Li could clearly what was on the top paper cover.
"The Art of the Realm of Courage… The notes of Chang San-Feng," Li grasped the book and turned the pages.
"What's that?" Tomoyo asked only seeing blank pages.
"Syaoran it's not going to help if you just look at blank pages!" Meiling screamed. Li however resumed flipping through the pages
"My god…" Rikou exclaimed, "He's possessed!"
The pages weren't readable when Rikou gave it to me, then how… Li's eyes burst opened. He smashed the book down and made it even wetter. He then began turning the pages violently. The boy got up, picked up his sword, and rampaged at Sakura's foe.
"Hey Li!" Rikou yelled. He dashed after what seemed to be an enraged boy. "What are you doing!!! (Eng) Son of a--!"
Li wasn't paying attention. "YOU!!!" The boy yelled at the top of his lungs. "DON"T YOU HURT SAKURA!!!" The Boy's blade was raised high, sparks of yellowish light illuminated brilliantly on the sword's surface.
"You don't have the power to defeat me…" The man said to the advancing boy, he continued to Shoot Sakura was his light.
"You know very well that you can't LI!!!!!" Rikou exclaimed, running after the boy.
"DIEEEE!!!!!!!" Li exclaimed. He swung his blade, huge bursts of lightning fired from the boy's blade igniting the whole area with a blinding light.
Rikou stopped in his tracks. "WHAT THE HECK!"
(End of ch 5)
Well, That's ch 5, but I think it's getting boring, why can't my writing be any good!?! I think I'm losing my touch, and time for that matter. Anyways if you have any comments or suggestions contact me at psychic720@yahoo.com or write a review if you read this from www.fanfiction.net, both ways work fine, Any suggestion would help, really! So please tell me what you think and what I should add!
For all you Yue fans, I don't know how he should be written, so he probably won't be very big, as with Yukito. Gomen Nasai.
Please keep a look out for ch 6!
-Psychic720