Hey all, thanks for the reviews. Just wanted to apologise for the delay. With Christmas and everything, yada yada yada. Took a while to get back on track. Hope everyone had a good Christmas. I did. Anyways, onto the story.
Disclaimer- Oops, forgot. Um… I don't think I own them. Give me a couple of days and I'll get back to you.
*3 days pass*
My memory is still a little fuzzy, but I'm pretty sure I don't own CCS or Harry Potter. If anyone happens to find ownership papers for them, with my name on it, then I guess I do own them, but seeing as I have no ownership papers, I guess I don't.
Chapter Fourteen-
Yuri sat beside Jamie, helping him with his Potions homework. A few months had past, and it was a couple of days before the Christmas holidays began. It seemed that it was usual for teachers to pile on homework just before the holidays. Luckily for the Cardcaptors gang, they were good students and got most of their homework done in a few nights.
"Once you finish, how about we go and train your magic a little?" Yuri asked Jamie.
Jamie groaned. Ever since he had shown that he had abilities like Naoko, Meiling and Tomoyo, Yuri had been training him hard, seeing as he had forgotten how to control his magic. "Will you go easy on me?" He asked hopefully.
Yuri shook her head. "If I went easy on you, you wouldn't learn."
Jamie groaned again. After he saw how Sakura and Yuri put Tomoyo, Meiling and Naoko through their paces, he had hoped that being Yuri's boyfriend might gain him some leniency. It didn't. If anything, Yuri was tougher on him than she was on anyone else.
"I've got to admit. You're getting very strong. You'll soon have your old strength back. I'm just lucky that I don't need the cards. It's amazing that no one has figured out who we are, considering the noise some certain guardians make." Yuri said, rubbing a hand over her eyes.
Jamie grinned. "I know. How close was it when that Hermione asked how we knew all that stuff about the Li Clan and Clow Reed in Types of Magic that time?"
Yuri giggled, the memory returning easily.
*FLASHBACK*
"Ohayo class. I mean, good morning class. It's nice to see that all my students are here on time." Erin sent a look to the Slytherins, who shrank back from her gaze. "Now, I hope that all your assignments are done. I required you to write a scroll and a half about the magic of your choice. Now, those who wrote more shall receive house points for their efforts. If you wrote half a scroll more than you shall receive ½ a house point. If you wrote a scroll more, than you shall receive one point, and so on." Erin stopped, then her eyes narrowed. "And if anyone attempted to make up a magic, you shall loose seventy-five house points and you shall have detention for a month. Is that clear?" Everyone nodded, and it seemed like Draco was swallowing hard.
"Ok, Hermione, you shall go first." Erin said, pointing to Hermione.
Hermione confidently walked up to the front of the class and began to read out her some parts of her report.
At the end of her talk, there was polite applause.
"Now Hermione, how much more did you write?" Erin asked.
"I only managed to find enough information for half a scroll." Hermione said, thinking that no-one could beat that.
There were a few groans in the class, showing that she had beaten a few people.
Erin then called up more students.
Soon it was Eriol's turn and he wrote an extra ten and a half scrolls about the Clow Cards.
Hermione was amazed. How the hell did he know that? Her hand shot in the air.
"Ah… Professor? I don't want to seem rude, but I looked in every book in the library and none of them had any of this information. Are you sure he's not making it up?"
Everyone glared at Hermione, especially the cardcaptors.
Erin stared at Hermione. "Excuse me Miss Granger, but are you attempting to tell me that I am wrong?"
Hermione blushed. "No, it's just…."
"It's just nothing, Miss Granger. Eriol happens to have everything right. I will of course, read over his report tonight to make sure he didn't just make things up, but what he spoke about is right."
Hermione's hand was in the air again. "But how did he know about Yue? I mean, no books mention anything about Yue."
Eriol looked at Hermione, and when he spoke, his voice deepened. "I hate to say it Hermione, but I have the ability to obtain resources that you will never ever be able to. There are few, few people who know this about Yue, and I happen to be one of them."
Hermione was astounded. How had Eriol's voice changed?
Eriol walked back to his seat without a word.
While Erin called up another student, Harry and Ron looked at Hermione.
"What did you go and do that for?" Ron asked furiously, in a whisper.
"Do what?" Hermione asked.
"What if Eriol had made some of it up? You would of gotten us into trouble." Harry said.
Hermione blushed. "I…ah…." Hermione broke off, unable to continue.
"She's jealous because Eriol kun knew more about the Clow Cards than she did. Makes you wonder." A voice said softly. It was Naoko as she walked past, on her way to the front of the room.
Hermione frowned at the pretty Japanese girl. How dare she make those kinds of assumptions?
"Go Naoko." Sakura cried, receiving looks from the other students. "Wait a second." Sakura turned to Yuri. "Last time Naoko read anything out in front of a class, it changed our lives drastically. Do you think this is safe?"
Yuri giggled. "Of course it is, unless those damn twins come along. But I doubt they will, and besides, last time, all that change was because off me. I don't think I really want anything else to change at the moment." Yuri paused, looking serious. "Aside from being able to return a certain thing to a certain someone, and basically being able to pull a huge prank on someone." Yuri and Sakura noticed how apprehensive Syaoran and Jamie looked. "But I think maybe we'll have to wait to prank Jamie and Syaoran. Can't start a war at school now, can we?"
Sakura laughed. "Nope. We'll have to think about the pranks later, probably after we apologise to Erin for interrupting her class."
Yuri's face lit up with a grin. "Perfect. We'll to something to Yukito kun, and he'll have to come see Erin to make it all better, and we could tape it. How kawaii."
Sakura and Tomoyo agreed, while Eriol sighed. "Sometimes I wish that word was never invented."
Syaoran and Jamie agreed silently.
Naoko then went on about Rainbow Falls, only to be interrupted by Hermione. "How do we know this place is real?" She asked.
Naoko glared at Hermione, as did Erin.
"Miss Granger, that is the fourth time you have in…." Erin broke off, seeing that Yuri had stood.
"I'm sorry to interrupt Erin, but please, allow me." Yuri said, glaring at Hermione. "Rainbow Falls is indeed real. It was the favourite holiday home of Clow Reed and Eve's twin daughters. They in fact, named the place, seeing as they caused the falls to become rainbow coloured."
Hermione snorted. "You may say that, but how do I know that's the truth?"
Syaoran stood, angry. How dare this uppity little girl argue with someone who he considered a sister?
Yuri saw this and shook her head.
Syaoran scowled and sat back down.
"I couldn't really care less if you believed me, but considering that I own Rainbow Falls and have lived there all my life, I should know whether or not it exists." Yuri said.
"I also live at Rainbow Falls." Came Erin's voice. "Dare you say that I am lying, Miss Granger?"
Hermione gasped and shook her head.
The lesson continued, with more interruptions from Hermione as the rest of the exchange students spoke about their assignments. Hermione interrupted when Syaoran spoke about the Li Clan, she interrupted when Sakura spoke of star magic. Hermione disagreed with Meiling about the ability to see into the spirit world, but this argument was cut short when Sakura announced that her brother possessed that ability and could clear everything up for them if needed. When Tomoyo talked about the Eve Cards, Hermione accused Tomoyo of making it up, saying that she simply wrote about the Clow Cards under a different name. This made Tomoyo and Erin very mad. Hermione was quick to apologise when she saw the murderous looks being sent her way. But when it came to Yuri's turn, Hermione said that is was rubbish. If such a powerful magic existed, then why didn't anyone know about it?
"You have no idea what you are talking about." Yuri said, her anger coming quickly. "The Forbidden Magic is real, and the Dark kind possess' a real threat to all life, well all excluding two people. There are only two people in the entire history of the planet can control the Dark Forbidden Magic. Those two people are twins and are incredibly evil. They have lived since Clow Reed's time. The only two people who they wouldn't hurt are Clow's twin daughters, seeing as they are obsessed with them." Yuri took a deep breath, the memories returning. She could see Syaoran comforting Sakura, and she wished Jamie was closer to her. She took a deep breath. "The twin girls fought the evil twins, using all their magic in the process. They evil twins were defeated by Clow's daughters, but they fortunately cannot remember the events that took place after the evil twins threatened to harm their family."
Hermione snorted. "Yeah, right. You're just saying that so you didn't have to write anymore. Your imagination must have been running on empty."
Yuri's eyes blazed with fury. "How dare you? You have no idea what those girls went though. If you think what Harry went through with the death of Cedric Diggory was bad, then you would think that what the girls went through as pure hell. Imagine, knowing that these two men are hurting all that you love, because of you. That's what those girls felt considering the fact that the evil twins went mad after finding out that they couldn't possess the girls. They were already in love and had been for many years. The girls have never documented what happened to them. They never got the chance, seeing as they died in that battle. The evil twins didn't, but they couldn't release the Dark Magic into the world again till the girls were reincarnated. The girls were reincarnated sixteen years ago, and of the two of them, only one retained the memory of their previous life. But even she can't remember the details of what happened." Yuri broke off, realising what she said.
Hermione looked at Yuri, shocked. "How do you know this?"
Yuri shook her head, as the memories began to return. She paled, and watched as Sakura paled as well.
"Sakura." She cried, rushing to her sister's side. Yuri then looked to Erin. "Please." She entreated.
Erin looked at her mistress's sister with concern. The memories were obviously affecting her worse than they affected Yuri, or Yuri had amazing control over her emotions. Erin nodded once and watched as Yuri took Sakura's hand and walked out of the chamber. Syaoran, Jamie and the others attempted to follow, but Erin shook her head.
"Professor, what just happened?" A voice asked.
Naoko was furious. She had brought this on them. She was about to say something, when Meiling beat her to it.
"I hope you're happy Granger. Pushing Yuri like that. How dare you?! You're damn lucky that I know that Sakura and Yuri wouldn't want me hurting you, otherwise I wouldn't hesitate." Meiling spat, glaring at Hermione.
"Miss Granger, I do believe that what just happened is none of your business. Nor is it of anyone else. As fro Yuri's assignment, all of it is true, even the part of which she yelled at Miss Granger. If and when those two return to class, I want no one bothering them. Understood?" Erin asked, her eyes hard.
Everyone nodded, while the cardcaptors gang looked at the door, awaiting their friends' return.
"Now, Draco Malfoy, your turn." Erin said.
Malfoy stood and began to walk up to the front of the room, his cocky attitude obvious. He said about one sentence before Erin stopped him.
"Where did you find this information?" She asked, her voice soft.
Malfoy looked at Erin with a sneer on his face. "The books Professor, are owned by my father and are part of his private collection."
Erin glared at Malfoy. "Do not attempt to lie to me Mr. Malfoy. I warned everyone on the first day not to make a magic up. There were to be severe consequences if someone did make it up. Now, you have one chance to own up. If you do, I will be lenient. If you don't, the full punishment is yours. Well?"
Malfoy still sneered at Erin. "I didn't make it up."
Erin stood, her eyes flashing. "Mr. Malfoy. Do not insult my intelligence. I know of every magic in creation and unless this magic was created as of now, there is no such thing. That will be seventy-five house points from Gryffindor, and you and I shall go and speak to Professor Dumbledore about your detentions after class."
Malfoy walked back to his seat, his sneer turned into a glare.
Suddenly, the door opened and in walked Sakura and Yuri, who were still pale. Syaoran and Jamie walked up to them and enfolded them into a hug.
"They can't hurt you now Sakura." Syaoran whispered.
Sakura simply melted into his embrace, just wanting to forget.
"I won't let them hurt you Yuri." Jamie murmured.
Yuri nodded, hoping it was so.
*END FLASHBACK*
Yuri's smile dimmed as she recalled the last part.
Jamie was watching her and could have hit himself for bringing it up. "I'm sorry Yuri." He apologised.
Yuri shook her head. "It's ok." She looked at him. "Are you done?"
Jamie nodded and packed up his stuff. After placing them in his dorm, he ran downstairs and saw that Yuri was waiting for him.
"Sakura said she'd meet us down there with the others." Yuri informed him as they walked out the opening in the wall.
Jamie nodded, knowing that Yuri and Sakura could talk to one another using telepathy.
As they walked down the halls, towards the entrance of the school, they noticed that a group of students were following behind them. Ever since the first day when Yuri had gone outside to get rid of her anger, the school had learnt that when the exchange students had that determined look upon their faces, they were going to train.
Yuri smirked at Jamie. "Let's get rid of the droves, huh?"
Jamie smirked back and nodded, and they both began to run. At first most of the students could keep up, but soon, Jamie and Yuri were pulling away from them. Soon it was down to only a few students still running after them, the rest having given up.
"Let's see how far you have progressed." Yuri said to Jamie.
Jamie groaned, instantly knowing that Yuri wanted to see if he could translocate them both to the training grounds that Dumbledore had specially set aside for them. Grabbing her hand tightly, he pictured the grounds in his mind, then focussed both of their energies there.
The pair flickered once, before disappearing from sight, causing the few students who had kept up to groan with surprise.
"How did they do that?" Someone murmured.
"I have no idea." Someone else replied.
Jamie moaned as he walked back towards the castle. Simply put, he hurt. He hurt a lot. He heard another groan and saw that Meiling wasn't in much better shape.
"I still don't understand how they can continue to beat us. I mean, I know that Sakura and Yuri are who they are, and Syaoran and Eriol have known about magic their entire lives, but still. All we have to face are Sakura and Yuri, considering the fact that Eriol and Syaoran are too busy bickering to help. We should be able to overpower them. It's four onto two." Meiling continued on this vein for a while.
Naoko sighed, limping up the stairs. "I don't know why she complains. I mean, all the aches and pains will be gone before dinner. Sakura and Yuri never let us suffer for long."
Tomoyo agreed. "But you'd think that they'd go easy on us."
"Go easy on you? Now why would we do that? Those damn twins won't go easy on you." Yuri said, as she walked up behind them.
"Hey guys! I just remembered something! You have to follow me!" Sakura cried, rushing ahead of them.
"How can she be so damn cheerful?" Meiling asked.
"Easy Meiling, it helps her take her mind off of them." Yuri answered, her sister's happy mood getting to her, making her smile. That smile soon disappeared when she felt Sakura's aura darken with anger.
The others watched as Yuri tore up the stairs and raced inside to see that Malfoy had cornered her sister. No one was trying to help her. No one, except for Harry.
"Leave her alone, Malfoy." He cried, taking a step forward.
Goyle moved in front of him, blocking his way.
Malfoy snickered as he reached forward and pulled something off of Sakura's neck.
Sakura gasped, seeing the pendant that Clow and Eve had left for her in her vault in Malfoy's hands. (Remember the package that the dragons gave Sakura and Yuri? Well inside them was a pendant with a picture of everyone, including the guardians that happened to be created. Yuri has one as well)
"Give that back Malfoy." Sakura said softly.
"Best do as she says Malfoy." Yuri said, a deadly tone in her voice.
"What are you going…" Malfoy started, but was cut off as Sakura punched him in the stomach.
"I am so sick of hearing that!" She cried. "Why does everyone think, just because we didn't start attending this school with everyone else, that we know less than you do? We were placed in the sixth grade, not because of our age, but because of our knowledge. We don't even need to attend a magic school, seeing as we're all more powerful than most of the professors here. I know that Yuri and I are more powerful than all of the professors. We're just here because we need to be in England." Sakura stated, causing everyone to stare in shock. "Now, as I was saying Malfoy, give that back."
Malfoy stared, then he began to laugh. "You think I'm going to believe all that?"
"You better believe it Mr. Malfoy." An authoritative voice said.
"And you best be giving back Sakura's pendant." Another said.
It was Erin and Yukito. They had both sensed their mistress' anger and had come to investigate.
Malfoy reluctantly handed back the pendant and began to walk away.
"Malfoy, if I find out that you have been pestering Sakura, Yuri or their friends, I shall personally make you sorry." Yukito said, his voice unnaturally hard.
"And I'll help." Erin agreed.
"Ah…. Professors?" It was Hermione. "What do you mean? That could get you fired."
Erin shrugged. "I'm only here until what Yuri and Sakura have to do is done. I shall leave with them, just as I came here because of them."
"And that's the same for me." Yukito said, watching Malfoy.
"Professor, was Sakura telling the truth about her and Yuri being more powerful than the professors here?" Hermione asked timidly.
"My imouto does not take to lying that easily Granger." Yuri said, making sure Sakura was alright.
"I'm fine One san." Sakura reassured. "Hey, we gotta move, I've still gotta show you that surprise." Sakura grabbed Yuri's hand and began to run.
"Thanks Erin, Yukito!" Yuri cried, as she grabbed Jamie's hand to pull him along.
This soon started a chain, because Jamie grabbed Tomoyo's hand, because she was closest. Tomoyo then grabbed Eriol, Eriol grabbed Meiling, Meiling grabbed Syaoran and Syaoran grabbed Naoko.
"Where are we going Sakura?" Yuri asked, as they ran down the halls.
Sakura stopped abruptly and moved to the wall. She motioned that the others do the same.
"I want you all to focus your energy on not being seen. We'll hold hands, as we did before, so just in case you run out of energy, the person beside you will still have you covered. Yuri, I want you down by Naoko, because you're the strongest, aside from me." Sakura said.
Yuri did as she was told, knowing that her sister had a reason.
"Join hands and focus." Sakura ordered.
Everyone did as she said, and they became invisible. Just as the last person disappeared from sight, Harry, Hermione and Ron walked past.
"Where did they go?" Hermione was wondering.
"Could they have apparated?" Ron asked.
Hermione snapped at him. "How many times do I have to tell you? You can't apparate on or off the grounds of Hogwarts."
Harry shook his head. "Hermione, you didn't see before. Yuri and Jamie were running ahead of this group and they suddenly vanished."
Hermione stubbornly shook her head.
Harry sighed, watching as they his friends walked on ahead of him. He had stopped because he felt something.
"Why do I feel as if someone is watching me?" He asked himself. He then heard Hermione calling to him, and he hurried to catch up with his friends. "I'm probably being paranoid."
As he moved out of sight, Sakura and the others reappeared.
"Did he sense us?" Tomoyo asked.
Yuri shook her head. "No he didn't sense us." She said, her tone implying something else. "Where did you want to take us Sakura?"
Sakura grinned. "This way." She said, walking towards a stone statue of two women, their faces missing.
"Where are their faces?" Meiling asked, horrified.
Yuri began to grin as she recognised where they were. "Oh my God. I almost forgot about this place."
Sakura's grin widened. "It's so nice to know that this spell is still working."
Yuri agreed. "Shall we?"
Sakura nodded and they both laid a hand on the statue.
Their hands began to glow the colour of their auras, and so did the statue. When the glow subsided, they statues' now had faces.
Tomoyo gasped. "They're you."
Sakura and Yuri nodded.
The statue behind them was indeed a replica of them. Suddenly the statue began to move, and as it did, it opened a door behind it.
"Go inside." Sakura said, urging the others in. Once the others had entered the room, Sakura and Yuri told the statue to remain faceless, until they said so.
The statue agreed and waited til Sakura and Yuri were inside, before returning to it's original place and becoming faceless.
"Where are we?" Eriol said in the darkness.
"Are we scared, Hiiragizawa?" Syaoran taunted.
"You're lucky I can't see you Descendent." Eriol threatened.
"Really?" Syaoran acted surprised. "Could it be that I am angering the great Hiiragizawa?"
Eriol growled. "Just you wait Li."
"Boys, please. A bit of maturity if you will." Yuri said calmly. "Sakura, I think we'd better hit the lights."
"So do I." The twins began to glow, lighting up the room with their pink auras. They then focussed on something, and suddenly, there was light.
Everyone gasped at the beauty of the room.
"Welcome to our little hideaway. No one knows its here, except for us." Yuri informed them.
"And no one can enter, aside from Yuri and I. The entrance is tuned in to our auras." Sakura said. She then pointed some things out.
Eriol gasped, as did Syaoran.
"I have never seen this many pictures of Clow." Syaoran said softly.
"Me neither." Eriol agreed.
Yuri laughed. "What do you expect? Sakura and I got homesick, and so we decided that we'd make a special place just for us. This is it. All of our portraits are here."
Naoko gasped, looking a painting. It was a family portrait. There was Clow, Eve, Touya, Yuri, Sakura, Meiling, Syaoran, Jamie, herself and someone else, who was blanked out.
"What's with this painting?" She asked, pointing to the person who was blanked out.
Sakura giggled. "You see, I kinda did something so that that person will not show up in any of our past portraits til they remember and when you remember."
Yuri giggled too. "Good idea."
Suddenly a head poked through the wall. "What are you students doing here? This happens to be their Ladyships private room." It was Peeves. "Leave…."
Yuri turned. "Hello Peeves."
Peeves gasped. "Your Ladyships." He bowed, but his feet were poking out the other side of the wall.
"Peeves, do come in. Someone might wonder if they happen to see your feet sticking out the other side of the wall." Sakura said.
"Yes Lady Sakura." Peeves pulled his feet in at once, but not before they were spotted by Ron.
"What's going on?" Ron asked, as he noticed Peeves feet poking out from the wall.
"What do you mean?" Harry asked Ron.
"Peeves, his feet…." Ron broke off, pointing out Peeves's feet just before they were pulled in.
Hermione walked over to the wall. "There's someone in there. I can hear them."
"Let's go get your map Harry." Ron suggested.
Harry agreed and was about to walk off when….
"What are you doing around here, Potter?"
"Shh…." Jamie whispered. "Someone's out there."
Sakura sent a look at Peeves, and he gulped. "I didn't tell nobody, Your Ladyship.
"Well then, go scare them off, so we can leave." Yuri said in an undertone.
Peeves nodded, and shot out of the room.
Yuri waved her arm at the wall, and it became transparent. "We can see them, but the can't see us." She whispered.
"What are you doing around here, Potter?" Peeves asked, addressing Harry.
"We heard voices from inside there, and wanted to know who you were talking to." Harry replied.
"I wasn't talking to nobody. Now go, or I'll call Filch." Peeves said.
"Why are you acting so differently Peeves? I mean, you're acting responsible." Hermione said, astonished.
"None of your business. Peeves does as he likes, and Peeves is protecting himself from his Ladyships's anger."
"What?" Ron asked, confused.
"PEEVES!" A voice cried, echoing around them. "GET RID OF THEM NOW!"
Peeves paled, an amazing feat for a ghost, and began to tremble. "G..Go Now!"
"We'll get the Bloody Baron." Hermione said, trying to convince the poltergeist to tell them who was in the room.
"The Bloody Baron?" Peeves looked shocked, like he was just remembering that he did fear the Bloody Baron. "The Bloody Baron is nothing compared to my Ladyships. Now go!"
Harry, Ron and Hermione stared at each other, then began to run as Peeves tore after them.
"Let's go." Syaoran said.
The others agreed and walked out of the room.
That's the end of this chapter. I apologise in advance if I take long to update.
Ta.
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