Sorry it took soo long. My computer, the one I type on was screwed. Or maybe that was the disks. Anyway, whenever I tried to save this chapter, half of it would go missing. *Amber Dream sulks* You'd think with the holidays on I'd get more chapters uploaded. Well no. First the internet company we're with said that we had run out of hours and therefore cannot access the net, then I realised that I have to get my holiday homework done. I got something from every subject bar one! Course, I guess that's what year 11 is about. And I still haven't finished and there's only 6 days left. *Amber Dream looks around, panicked* Anyone else know what I'm going through?
Anyways, thanks for the reviews. I think this could be the second last chapter, not entirely sure, and I'm sorry that they're getting shorter as we go along, but I'm trying to induce suspense, and I'm not completely sure it's working.
Here's the next chapter.
Ta
Disclaimer- I don't own either of them.
Chapter Twenty Four
They sat there, staring in front of them, wishing they could do something.
Others had left, determined to do something to take their minds off the empty darkness that grew darker by each passing moment.
They had sat there since breakfast that morning.
It was now well into the afternoon, almost time for when dinner would be served, but no one was hungry.
No one could eat when surrounded by this never-ending darkness.
They had no intention of moving til they came back.
They were being supported by Eriol, Tomoyo, Meiling, Touya, Harry and Naoko.
They needed them to help them survive.
Syaoran and Jamie stared at the darkness before them, the seemingly never-ending darkness that held their loves somewhere, trapped in a deadly battle.
Each injury they sustained was healed by one of the few who were supporting them, but they weren't fast enough, not strong enough.
The injuries that they received were appearing more rapidly, and their energy was being sapped faster than they could be healed, or the energy could be replaced.
Most students, and most of the professors stared, wondering what it meant.
Very few realised that it meant that Sakura and Yuri were loosing. They were going to die.
Sakura lay on the ground, gasping for air, when she sensed a movement to her right. She rolled to her right, instinctively knowing that the attack would come from her left.
The ground exploded just inches away from where she was currently lying.
Leaping to her feet, Sakura scanned the area around her, her eyes, ears, and magical senses on the alert.
Suddenly, a movement from above!
Throwing herself into a back flip, Sakura managed to avoid the deadly attack sent her way.
Yuri panted for breath, blood dripping from a cut above her left eye. Hastily she wiped it away with the back of her hand.
She shook her head. There was something wrong. Last time they didn't have as hard as a time fighting the Akai twins as they were now.
Frowning, as she stood protected by a weak shield, she tried to think of why the battle was more difficult.
Suddenly the answer hit her!
It was because Syaoran and Jamie were joined with them, it was because their energies were linked. Syaoran and Jamie had been sending them energy since the start of the battle and the two sisters were afraid to go all out, in case it may injure the boys in some way.
Yuri glanced at her sister, and sent out a quick thought. –Break the connection with Syaoran!- She cried. –They are why we aren't fighting at our best! We're worried that they'll get hurt!-
Yuri smiled as she saw the realisation dawn in her sister's eyes, lighting them again.
Concentrating, Yuri saw the connecting strand of energy that linked her with Jamie. With a grim sigh, she severed the link, feeling Jamie's reassuring presence leave.
Jamie and Syaoran paled. They looked at each other, the realisation of what the twins had done, dawning on them.
"They broke the link." Jamie said softly, his voice catching slightly.
"Did it feel like they knew something that we didn't as they broke it?" Syaoran asked, his voice just as silent.
Jamie nodded. "I got that and I also got an immense feeling of love, and lots of anger too."
"Same with me."
Dumbledore sighed. Who would have thought that it would have come to this? The threat was not Voldemort, as most of the wizarding world would suspect, even though they knew he was dead for good. No, the threat was a pair of sorcerers over a thousand years old, obsessed with Clow's twin daughters, who got reincarnated, and who happened to be the Card Mistresses.
Dumbledore sighed again. He had no idea what time it was and looking to the enchanted ceiling of the hall wouldn't help. The ceiling only showed darkness. There was no sun, there was no moon, there were no stars.
Sakura stared up at the sky, her energy reserve almost depleted. God she wished that the stars were out tonight.
She and Garthra had exchanged blows, strikes and practically everything else, but neither were ready to give in.
Suddenly, the darkness around them flared and it became darker still.
Sakura and Yuri looked at each other in confusion, as they moved closer together, wanting to protect each other.
There was laughter from in front of them, and out of the darkness, they saw the twins, each bearing wounds from their battles.
"You two can't beat us this time." Darva laughed, and his laugh sent chills down Yuri's spine.
"We shall defeat you, and when you are bloody and broken, begging for our mercy, we shall take you and make you our brides." Garthra continued.
"And we shall make you watch as we destroy those you love, and this world that you care for so much, and then, once that is done, together we shall build a new world on the ashes of the old, and we shall rule it for all eternity." Darva finished.
Sakura and Yuri looked at each other, before they burst out laughing, confusing the Akai twins.
"What are you laughing about?" Garthra demanded.
Sakura, still giggling, while wiping tears from her eyes answered. "You two sound like villains from a bad movie with all that crap you just said."
Yuri, a bright smile on her face, laughed some more. "Your attempt to scare us didn't work."
Suddenly, Sakura stopped laughing as she remembered something, something that had happened last time that they battled.
***FLASHBACK***
The Akai twins stood over the twin daughters of Clow, their eyes glowing madly in the darkness.
"Now you shall be ours, and we shall destroy those two boys who dared to touch what is ours!" Darva crowed.
They laughed as Sakura and Yuri struggled to sit up.
"You won't hurt them." Sakura ground out.
"We won't let you." Yuri added.
The Akai twins laughed even harder as Sakura and Yuri stood before them.
Suddenly, there was a bright light, and the two sisters were engulfed in a pure white light, that combated the darkness surrounding them.
Garthra looked taken back, his eyes now alight with fear. "They've released the Light Magic!"
Sakura and Yuri smirked, as they resumed the battle, their eyes glowing with their new found power.
***END FLASHBACK***
Sakura gasped as she realised that she knew how to release the Light Magic.
Spinning around to face her sister, Sakura had a look of hope on her face.
"I know how to release the Light Magic! And I know where it has been all these years!"
Yuri looked at her sister sharply. "How? Where?"
"The Light Magic has been inside us since our last battle. It's been laying dormant till we needed it." Sakura explained.
Yuri looked confused, but then the look lifted as she sent her senses towards her own aura, towards her own magic. She could sense the Light Magic, the pure white magic that had helped them before. With sudden clarity, she realised how to release it too.
"We shall never let you hurt the ones we love." Yuri cried, bringing her staff out.
"We shall forever protect them and this world from people like you." Sakura exclaimed, her staff out too.
Suddenly, there was a magical wind, and a bright white light appeared from deep within the daughters of Clow. It engulfed them, and when the light cleared, Sakura and Yuri were standing together, wearing the outfits Tomoyo had made for them, looking as they once did.
Their staffs however, were different. They were longer, and they were not the pink they once were. They were now pure white, and the stars were pink, the colour that their auras had been.
Sakura and Yuri's eyes turned white, as they stared at the evil twins.
"We two," They said in unison. "We shall banish you."
Sakura and Yuri dropped into fighting stances, as the battle began once again.