I thought I'd place the disclaimer here. I don't own either CCS or HP. I own a bunch of other things though, like Yuri, Jamie, my bed, my CD player, my phone, my pen by my computer, those pieces of paper by my computer, that pile of homework, *shudders*. I've just had an idea. *bright lightbulb* Does anyone want to own my homework? I'll auction it off and if that doesn't work I'll try selling it, and if that fails, I'll tack a 'Free-to-a-good-home' sign on it. Get back to me on the homework, k?
Ok, now…. Um… Hmm…. It seems that there weren't very many people happy with my killing Syaoran. Ohh…. Is killing Syaoran a bad thing? I don't usually kill people. Continue reading though. It's alright. I'm not going to say it's good, cause that would be assuming too much. Anyways, here's this chapter, and I'm thinking, maybe I could dedicate it to someone. Not sure. If I did it would be first to my lovely reviewers, and secondly it's be dedicated to my new friend Saori. She's an exchange student form Japan, here in Sunbury for ten months. She's so sweet, and nice and shy, but I'm careful around her cause I don't want to seem like an idiot, or offend her, or make her uncomfortable. I would have dedicated this chapter to my sister Jinko Kawaii, but I'm now having a fight with her since I have to listen to her, but she doesn't listen to me.
Sorry about the whining and the babbling. I know you want to get on with the story, it's just that I like to talk to you all because it makes me feel better. Anyways, here's the story.
Chapter Twenty-
Garthra laughed, seeing the dead look on Sakura's face as she knelt on the ground in front of Syaoran's prone body.
"Syaoran." She whispered softly.
"Sakura!" A voice called, but Sakura paid no attention to it.
Yuri was watching her sister, concern written all over her face. She thought of something. "Cards of Sakura! Your mistress needs your help. Please help her." Pink flashes of light surrounded Sakura, rapidly changing into cards. Only one light was hesitant.
Yuri smiled at the hesitant light. "It's ok Shield. Go to your Mistress. She needs all of you now."
The final light seemed to glow brighter as it took its place with the other cards, transforming itself back into its card form.
"Eriol, Tomoyo. Help my Shield." Yuri ordered as she stared at her sister.
Eriol and Tomoyo both nodded and focused their energy towards the Shield Card, aiding it.
Yuri's concern for her sister was growing by the minute. How could she help? Suddenly an idea occurred to her. Pulling out three cards she threw them up in the air.
"LIGHT, DARK, DREAM!" She called, striking the cards with her staff.
Bright light shone as the three cards changed to their spirit forms.
Once the light disappeared, before Yuri stood three women. They all bowed to Yuri.
"Light, Dark, Dream. Please help my sister." She begged.
"Of course Mistress." Light said, bowing once more before joining with her sister Dark. Light and Dark then joined Dream and they all disappeared.
"Now we have to wait." Yuri said softly.
Sakura was surrounded by the cards, their forms glowing with their power. Suddenly there was another aura, slightly darker, coming from her right. She turned to see the Light and Dark cards walking towards her.
"Light, Dark? What are you doing? I thought you were over there." Sakura said, pointing to her left where the Light and Dark cards stood, protecting their mistress. "Hoe?" Sakura said confused. "How can there be two of you?"
The Light card to Sakura's right smiled gently. "Mistress Sakura, we are not your Light and Dark, we are your sister's. Mistress Yuri is very concerned for you. She doesn't understand why you are feeling such pain."
Sakura looked shocked. "How can she not understand? That horrid man took my Syaoran from me. What else is there to live for?"
Yuri's Dark card stepped forward. "Mistress Sakura, I think I now understand why Mistress Yuri wished that we bring Dream along with us. Please, if you will follow us." Dark said, holding out her hand to Sakura as did Light.
Sakura looked to the two offered hands and took them, urged to by her Light and Dark cards.
They walked for a little while till they came to the Dream card. She seemed to be protecting something.
The Dream card stood and bowed to Sakura. "Mistress Sakura." She said, her voice gentle.
Sakura looked even more shocked. "You can talk?"
Dream smiled. "All of us cards can talk, although some of us use telepathy instead of voices. Your cards just haven't felt the need. If you want to, ask Mistress Yuri about this and she could deepen your bond with the cards even more."
Sakura nodded, still slightly confused. "What is going on?"
Dream's smile faded a little. "Mistress Yuri wanted me to bring someone to you." Dream moved to the side to show a worried Syaoran.
"Syaoran?" Sakura asked, scared to believe.
As soon as Syaoran saw Sakura, he rushed over to her to embrace her. "Sakura, are you ok?" He asked.
Sakura was bewildered. She turned to look at the prone body of Syaoran, then back to the Syaoran who was holding her close. "What is this? You…. You're just some trick that that Garthra made up, aren't you?" She accused, trying to break free of Syaoran's hold.
"No Sakura, I'm not. That dead me over there, isn't me. Garthra is trying to make you get angry enough to use up your magic so you won't be strong enough to fight him. I'm still alive. I'm still here. Come back to me." Syaoran said. He then grinned crookedly. "Now if Tomoyo was here, she'd say something like 'kawaii'."
In the distance both Syaoran and Sakura heard a very faint 'KAWAII!'.
Syaoran groaned. "Any bet Yuri had something to do with that." He looked to Sakura, his eyes serious. "Sakura, this is only a dream, a nightmare. Listen to your cards. Can't you hear them?"
Sakura, giving in to Syaoran's words, shut her eyes. Faintly at first, she could hear the separate voices of the cards echoing around her and through her mind.
Suddenly, Sakura's Dream card stepped forward. "Mistress." She said. "This is all but an illusion. You must not believe it. Wake up and leave this nightmare behind. Follow Mistress Yuri's cards out of this nightmare and we shall follow you."
Sakura nodded and took Syaoran's hand as they walked into a bright ball of light.
When Sakura opened her eyes again, she saw that she was kneeling on the ground, Syaoran holding her hand, alive.
"Syao-kun!" She cried, embracing him and holding him close. "I thought you died. I love you my Syao-kun." Sakura promised fervently, placing gentle kisses all over his face.
Syaoran held Sakura gently as he blushed.
Yuri sighed happily. She was getting beyond worried about her sister.
"Kawaii, kawaii, kawaii." Tomoyo said softly, her camera focused on the pair.
Sakura, remembering something, reluctantly released Syaoran. Taking out her Shield card, she commanded it to return to helping Yuri's card.
Tomoyo and Eriol sighed as the pressure was taken off them.
Sakura then looked at Yuri and wordlessly she embraced her sister. "Arigatou Yuri." She said softly.
Yuri smiled, brushing the hair away from Sakura's face. "That's okay, imouto chan. Now, who says we run these twins off, for the moment?" Yuri asked, her eyes lighting.
Sakura had an identical look on her face. "Let's." She nodded, holding her staff out in front of her. Whipping out a card, she threw it up in the air. "Light Card, combat the darkness!" She cried.
Yuri watched as Sakura's Light card flew into the sky, after Garthra. Reaching into the folds of her gown, she pulled out four cards. "Fiery, Watery, Windy, Earthy Cards! Aid Sakura's Light Card!" Striking the cards with her staff, she watched as the four element cards raced towards Sakura's Light card, helping it fight off the attacks thrown at it by Garthra.
Suddenly, a blast of dark energy was thrown at them from their left, aimed at Tomoyo. Eriol stepped in front of the blast and deflected it, but barely. The blast knocked Eriol to the ground, and he lay there, gasping.
"Eriol!" Tomoyo cried, kneeling to make sure he was alright.
Eriol smiled gently at the dark haired beauty before him. "I'm okay Tomoyo." He said softly.
Tomoyo smiled tearfully. "You baka. You could have been hurt. Don't do that again." She demanded.
Eriol looked at Tomoyo, a wry smile on his face. "Can't promise that I won't. If you're in trouble Tomoyo, I'm always going to try and help."
Tomoyo's eyes welled with tears. "But I don't want to see you hurt." She stated, embracing the young sorcerer.
Eriol's smile remained gently as he stroked Tomoyo's hair as she cried into his shirt.
"Kawaii." Both Sakura and Yuri exclaimed quietly.
Yuri then smiled at Sakura. "You know, this is only bringing us closer to our soul mates."
Sakura nodded. "Oh, the irony." She said, grinning.
There was a sudden cry from behind them and both Yuri and Sakura spun around to see a battered and bloody Nerina on the ground. Yue laid beside her, no scratches on him.
Yuri rushed to her fallen guardian's side. "Nerina? Oh, please Nerina." She begged, brushing the strands of hair away from her guardian's face. Looking to Yue, she saw the shocked and anguished look upon his face. "What happened Yue?" She asked.
Yue, his hand shaking, gently touched Nerina's face. "Darva threw a ball of energy at me, but I didn't see it. Nerina did and she pushed me out of the way." Yue's voice, to his surprise was trembling.
Nerina's eyes opened. "Hey Yue." She said softly. "Love you, k?" She then looked to Yuri. "Sorry Mistress." Nerina's eyes closed, as Yuri stood, a look of determination on her face.
"Oh no Nerina. I refuse to let you do this. I am your mistress and I say, look at me!" Yuri commanded.
Nerina's eyes opened painfully to settle on Yuri's face.
Yuri, pulling out a card, threw it into the air. "Heal Card! Heal Nerina immediately."
Nerina tried to protest as the card glowed and bathed her in a pink light. When the light disappeared, all her injuries were gone and Yuri was leaning on her staff for support.
Nerina looked to her mistress. "What's wrong? You only got this tired when you first created and used the Heal card. You should be fine, seeing as that was over three years ago."
Yuri smiled. "Heal told me that you were holding on by a thread. The only reason why you were still alive is because I commanded you not to die on me. I had to help Heal. She can only heal so much. When someone's an inch from death, she can't heal that, without help that is." Yuri realised that she was babbling. She smiled, seeing that Nerina's attention had been taken away from her when Yue grabbed her arm.
"What do you think you were doing?" He demanded harshly.
Nerina grinned. "Saving your life. I thought that would be obvious."
Yue growled, surprising the cardcaptors gang. Yue rarely showed emotion. "Don't try that on me. It won't work. Do something that foolish again and I won't be responsible for the consequences." His eyes seemed to glow.
"Oh Yue, and here I thought that you didn't care." Nerina teased, running a hand down the side of his face.
Yue's eyes softened for a moment. "I don't know what I'd do if you'd die." He said softly. He leant down and placed a feather soft kiss on Nerina's lips.
Of course, Sakura, Tomoyo and Yuri had been taping the whole thing and could hardly control their glee. This was the strange thing about them. They were in the middle of a battle and yet they still found time to tape all the 'kawaii' things happening.
Yuri's eyes narrowed as she turned to face Darva. "You almost took my guardian away from me. You shall leave this place now!" She cried, her magical energy soaring with new found purpose.
Sakura faced Garthra, her own eyes narrowed. "Our time to finish this is soon approaching. Leave us now, as we both know who would win a battle at the moment." Sakura's magical energy grew to the same power, as Yuri's, it having charged itself towards this.
The Akai twins looked at each other, then back at the two Card Mistresses before them, their cards that they had released before standing behind them. The twin's looks were anxious, when as one, they turned and left in a flash of black energy.
Sakura and Yuri sighed, as the cards that they had used returned. They smiled at the cards, thanking them for their assistance.
Yuri faced Sakura, a grin on her face. "Light and Dark say that you want to talk to your cards. I shall explain later."
Sakura nodded as she grinned too. "Some Christmas, huh?"
The others around her laughed.
"I can think of better." Meiling said calmly as she relaxed in Touya's hold.
Sakura and Yuri looked at Meiling, concerned.
"What happened Meiling?" Yuri asked.
Touya smiled at Meiling gently. "She saw what I think the kaijuu saw. All I really know is that when Sakura screamed, Meiling went ballistic and started attacking that creep."
Sakura looked at Meiling, her face hard. "Meiling. How badly hurt are you?"
Meiling grinned. "Not that bad." She said.
"Nothing that needs healing?" Yuri asked.
Meiling shook her head. "No. I'm just drained."
Yuri nodded, then looked around anxiously. Spying Jamie on the ground, she screamed and raced over to him. "Jamie? Jamie!?" She cried, shaking his shoulders.
Jamie groaned and tried to sit up, but he found that he couldn't and began to cough. His coughing fit lasted for a few minutes and within those few minutes, he had coughed up enough blood to fill a small glass.
"Oh Jamie!" Yuri cried, standing and pulling out the Heal card.
Quickly the Heal card got to work, healing Jamie.
Once the glow died down, Jamie say up, looking around in confusion. When he saw Yuri, he embraced her and held her tight. "I thought you had left me. All I could see was you walking off with that Darva. I tried to talk to you, but all you did was ignore me." Jamie broke off what he was saying to take possession of Yuri's mouth, crushing hers to his, leaving them both breathless when they parted.
"I wouldn't leave." Yuri whispered softly, trying to make it so Sakura and Tomoyo wouldn't be able to hear her and catch what she was saying on tape.
"Nice try Yuri, but I spelled my camera to capture even the softest confession." Tomoyo said happily from behind her.
Yuri groaned as she stood, Jamie's hand in hers. She looked to Naoko and Harry. "Are you two okay?" She asked.
They both nodded.
Harry looked to the corpse of Voldemort. "Who would have thought it. The wizard who caused the wizarding world to tremble is dead, and for once, he wasn't defeated by me." The was said with a wry grin.
"I think you all have some explaining to do." A voice claimed from behind them. It was Dumbledore.
"But that would be telling." Yuri protested.
Fujitaka looked to his newest daughter. "Telling one secret will be fine." 'But they don't need to know about any reincarnations.'
Yuri nodded. "Fine, let's go inside then."
Sakura and Yuri led the way, followed by Syaoran and Jamie, who were followed by Meiling, Touya, Tomoyo, Eriol, Harry, Naoko, Nerina, Yue, Ruby Moon, Spinnel Sun, Riara, Keroberus, Fujitaka and Nadeshiko. The rest of the school followed them.
Inside the Great Hall, everyone took their seats except for the cardcaptors gang. They stood in the middle of the Hall and watched as people stared at them.
"What will you have us explain, Dumbledore-Sensei?" Sakura asked innocently.
Dumbledore's eyebrows shot up. "How about you start with where our two new teachers are?"
Yuri nodded. "Easy." She motioned to Yue and Nerina. "They're right there."
Snape stood up. "That's not Tsukishiro or Hinata." He objected.
Yuri nodded. "Technically, no they're not. They are…."
"Yuri, have you ever thought that they may want to introduce themselves?" Meiling asked, looking delighted at the idea of shocking the entire school.
Yuri looked at the two guardians curiously. "Do you?"
Nerina looked to Yue and grinned. "I will, if you will." She said.
Yue simply nodded.
"Me first then." Nerina said. "I am Nerina the Judge, Moon Guardian of the Eve Cards."
Yue floated forward. "And I am Yue, the Judge and Moon Guardian of the Clow Cards."
There were many gasps as people recognised the names.
Kero and Riara stepped forward.
"I am Keroberus, Guardian Beast of the Seal, Sun Guardian of the Clow Cards."
"I am Riara, Guardian Beast of the Seal, Sun Guardian of the Eve Cards."
Harry smirked as he watched everyone else in the hall almost faint with shock.
"Now you four, why are you lying to them?" Tomoyo asked cheekily. "Tell them the truth."
McGonagall stood. "You aren't really the Guardians?" She asked.
Yue shook his head. "That is not what Tomoyo meant. The Clow cards and the Eve cards no longer exist."
There were gasps of shock. The two most powerful magical objects in the world no longer exist?
"Oh, Yue, I think you've gone and worried them." Nerina scolded lightly. "The cards no longer exist as they have new masters who have upgraded them, making them even more powerful than before."
A hand shot up in the air. No surprise, it was Hermione. "Who is it?" She asked timidly.
Sakura and Yuri grinned at each other.
Naoko smirked at Harry before looking to Hermione. "Granger, who has been telling you repeatedly not to underestimate them?"
Hermione paled, as did many of the Slytherins as they realised that the two innocent looking girls in the middle of the hall were the most powerful sorceresses in the world.
"I don't believe that those Mudbloods could be in possession of the most powerful objects in the world." A voice claimed. It was Malfoy.
Sakura and Yuri sighed.
"You know, I don't even know why we bother Sakura. Let's just ignore him, hmm?"
Sakura nodded. "Fine." She then looked to the rest of the hall. "I am the Mistress of the Sakura Cards, formerly known as the Clow Cards."
"And I am the Mistress of the Yuri Cards, formerly known as the Eve Cards." Yuri said.
Malfoy made disbelieving noises.
This seemed to really annoy the cards, as well as Sakura and Yuri's guardians and in a flash of blinding pink light, all of the card's spirit forms were surrounding their mistresses, and their guardians were glaring at Malfoy.
Malfoy gulped.
"Oh dear. I think Malfoy has gone and made our cards and guardians angry. What do you think Sakura?"
Sakura grinned, but she lost her smile when she remembered something. "Harry?" She called. "Harry, what is a 'mudblood'?" She asked.
Harry had a frown on his face when he answered. "It's a term used to call witches or wizards who don't come from magical families, meaning their parents weren't wizards or witches. It means that their blood is dirty." He glared at Malfoy across the Hall, then stopped as he heard Sakura and Yuri burst out laughing.
Everyone turned to stare at the two, wondering if their fight had unhinged their brains.
"Impure blood Cherry. He accused us of having impure blood. Our blood is purer than Syaoran's and he's the soon-to-be leader of the Li Clan." Yuri sent a sly glance in Sakura's direction. "Or he will be the leader as soon as he gets the courage to ask his Ying Fa to marry him."
Both Sakura and Syaoran blushed as everyone stared at Syaoran. He was the future leader of the Li Clan?
Syaoran then scowled at Yuri, realising that she had given away who he was. "Yuri." He growled warningly.
"What's the matter, Xiao-lang? Don't you like me telling your secrets?" Yuri asked teasingly.
Sakura placed a calming hand on Syaoran's arm. "Lily, don't go doing that to Syaoran. You know he doesn't like it."
"All the more reason to do it. I mean, if Jamie fell so easily for things like that, you'd do it to him. We have too much of our dearly beloved Papa in us." Yuri said, sending a look towards both Fujitaka and Eriol.
"So, you're going to admit to that are you?" Dumbledore asked, looking at both Sakura and Yuri.
They both shrugged, wearing identical looks.
"We'll let you do the honours, Dumbledore-Sensei." Yuri said, grinning.
Dumbledore sighed. "That's not very nice you know."
"And?" Sakura wondered. "Yuri's right, we have too much of our Papa in us and we like to make other's peoples lives difficult."
Harry groaned, leaving his seat and walking over to Naoko. "Don't we know it, what with that damn evil mistletoe." Harry grinned at the dismayed looks both Sakura and Yuri sent him.
"Oh dear. It looks like our secret is out, sister mine." Yuri said, sighing slightly.
"Yes. And Harry was doing so well too." Sakura agreed, a resigned tone in her voice.
Harry began to look a little nervous.
"Harry. Spilling that little secret around our guardians of all people, are you stupid?" Yuri asked, lifting her hand slightly.
"What shall we do to him?" Sakura asked her sister, while keeping an eye on their moon guardians who looked more than a little annoyed.
"Umm…. I have an idea." Yuri replied, as she kept an eye on Touya, who was more than just a little pissed off.
Sakura read Yuri's mind and grinned. This was a perfect plan.
As Nerina and Yue began to glow, both Sakura and Yuri realised that their time to make a move was soon.
Their wings enfolding them, both Yue and Nerina had slightly calm looks on their faces. The light grew til it was blinding to those who were merely witches and wizards and when they could see again, instead of the Moon Guardians, in front of them stood Professor Hinata and Professor Yukito, who both looked angry.
"Yuri…" Erin began.
"Sakura…" Yukito continued.
"As much as we'd like to stay and chat with you about our evil mistletoe, I think we'll be playing a prank and leaving you here to explain a little more, while we watch all our lovely videos." Sakura said cheekily, her hand raised too.
Both girls flicked their hands at the same time and watched as Harry shrunk to the size of Kero, when he's in his false form. Harry took on a stuffed toy look, even though he could still move and talk and eat, much like Kero can.
"Oh look, it's a chibi Harry." Yuri cooed before blowing a kiss to Jamie and disappearing in a pink flash.
Sakura shook her head. "Sometimes I wonder who was really born first." She said as she winked at Syaoran and was about to leave when Yuri's voice echoed through the hall.
"Sakura, you know you would have done it had you been the first to leave. We're both a little showy. And besides, it's obvious that I was born first. You were born late and that's why you're always late."
Sakura growled. "I'm not."
"Sure, that's why if someone was to investigate why there are so many earthquakes in Japan, or at least Tomoeda, they'd find that they all originate from your house, what with your world-shaking 'HOE' each morning before school."
(Now I'm only making that up as I go along, k?)
Sakura growled some more. "That's it Yuri!" She cried as she disappeared in a flash of pink, obviously after her sister.