Whoadie: Hey my chittlins! I've been a lil busy on my Spring Break, I'm
visiting my dad in Texas...OY! I wish I was back in Ohio where your really
apprecieated. I just gave away my locations....hope you guys don't stalk
me *suspicious eyes* AH HA! LOOP HOLE!! I didn't tell you WHERE!
Dark Sorceress: Well aren't you clever? *rolls eyes*
Whoadie: OH give me a break! *is still recovering from being sick* I have an excuse
Dark Sorceress: No you don't your ALWAYS this *whoadie covers her mouth*
Whoadie: ON WITH THE FIC!!!
Disclaimer: I didn't do this for my other chapters b/c I uh...forgot...^_^;;; well I don't own any of the CCS crew, but I do own Nicholas, Roiben, and the "other" ppl category who will show up n later chapters!
Nicholas: I belong to NOBODY! *shakes fist* NOBODY!!!
Whoadie: *smacks him* NOBODY cares!!
Summary: Well that would ruin the whole point to reading the chapter, now wouldn't it? ^_^ well your going to have to suffer! Read on kids! ^________^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Suffering.
// would be the character speaking to himself
Chapter 3
Rated: PG-13
***Nicholas***
He watched from his tent as the forest imediately caught on fire. "Excellent, everything is going as planned, but where are you Ying Fa?" He scanned the area cursing himself, seeing the flaw in his plan. "Curse those idiots!!"
Captain Li watched the eyrie smoke that began to rise from the forest, it was green instead of black. Years of ancient magic flowing up into the atmosphere to be returned to the land in rural areas. "What a shame...this was one of the last forests with such powerful magic," he threw down the piece of grass he had been chewing, "All wasted for a power greedy elf!"
His troops flinched as Captain Li ground in the blade of grass with the heel of his boot. "Do you think our lord heard that?" Roiben answered. "I don't think Syaroan would care, their almost evenly matched...well combat in strength that is, our lord has the slight upper advantage with his magic and immortality but besides that, their equally matched."
The soldier ignored the informal title Roiben had used on their captain, "Then why doesn't he retaliate, he knows all of this is so very wrong..." The soldier trailed off as he caught Li's icy glare in his direction. "Heh, did I forget his strong sense of hearing? Yea that's another skill he's got matched with our Lord." Roiben laughed, not caring that his captain was heading their way.
~~~SAKURA~~~
She walked outside her home, looking back at it longingly. She had a feeling she would never see it again. "Now to just go and pick up...the book..." (Whoadie: we all know what that is! ^_^ Don't worry all questions will later be revealed in other chapters, so just bare with me here) She wiggled her nose catching the scent of burning magic. "shit...that's not good..."
Her elven eyes searched the sky trying to find the smoke, that would lead her to the source of the burning. Her green orbs widened seeing the green smoke. "What the hell is going on here?" She gripped the hand rail tightly, her knuckles turned a snowy white from the death grip. "I can't go yet..." She turned her head back at the study, cursing herself for not getting the book earlier when she went to go see her father.
She looked at the smoke one last time, estimating she had about 20 minutes before it hit her unprotected village. "May the gods keep me from tripping.." she couldn't afford any mistakes, or the book wouldn't be able to make it out. She took off towards the study, ignoring the sound of danger approaching. "One shot at this..."
She looked back at the rapid wildfire making it's way to her. She wouldn't have time to run across all the bridges with the ground the wildfire was covering in mere seconds. "I should have calculated the forest's dryness into the equation..." That left her with only a few minutes, then her and the book would be engulfed in heated flames.
She smiled as a thought hit her, she didn't have to actual be holding the cards that were contained in the book she could just summon it's power from where she was. "Perfect..." She closed her eyes, reaching out with her aura to the card she wanted. "Dash, release your power confined!" She waited but nothing happened. "WHAT!"
She tried again, sweat rolled down her face from the heat of the fire. "That means....it's gone...." She slapped herself mentally for being so slow. She slowly began to piece together bits of the puzzle. The picture was still fuzzy but she just jumped right to the conclusion. "So...looks like I'll be getting that fight I wanted..." She glared at the approaching fire, "I'll be seeing you soon, you bastard!" The fire engulfed her body, but not a sound of pain nor scream could be heard.
***Nicholas***
"You fools!!" He threw open the flaps of his tent harshly as he stomped out. "How are we going to draw out our prey now??" Blue eyes probed their very souls as he spoke, "You set fire to the whole front of the forest, you were supposed to surround the forest so the fire would push our prey OUT THE FRONT!!" His elegant features turned twisted with anger, he regained his posture by taking in deep breaths.
"Well good job, you managed to let our prey escape..." He ran a hand through his white locks trying to keep what little patience he had left with these pathetic beings. He closed his eyes trying to debate with himself whether they were really worth keeping around. He turned around to continue to argue with himself without being distracted by the stupid looks the mortals were giving him. //I NEED them, they maybe be pawns but even pawns in chess have some value// He clenched his fists but released them just as quickly as he clenched them. He smirked to himself, a dark expression plaguing his face. //I don't need ALL of them for my plan to work, it would teach the others a lesson too. Maybe they might even gan a brain from this..//
He turned around with a blank expression on his face. "Since this prey of mine can hold a grudge for the longest time, I know she'll come back to us..." He watched his men give out a sigh of relief. "But...that doesn't change the fact that you didn't follow my orders!" He held his palm out to the man he had slapped earlier. "Koron en' Naur!" [Spell: "Fireball"] ((Whoadie: hey wow these ppl REALLY like fire, but then again who doesn't?))
The man gave out a cry of surprise when the red fireball made contact with his flesh. His body burst into flames then disappeared, leaving a pile of ash. The soldiers around the man had dived out of the way and were now shaking. Who wouldn't be? They all looked at their captain who was staring at the pile of ash with regret. "Now then...I have to release SOME anger of mine so your free to run around like the pathetic, worthless cowards you are!" He was tossing another fireball in his right hand as if it were a regular toy, like a baseball. The men took off in all directions, some even ran into the burning forest without looking where they were going.
The scene was chaotic but one stood his ground. ((Whoadie: ^_^ guess who!)) He watched his men crumble to the ground, smouldering. He had already drawn his sword from when the first victum was burned, he made his way towards Nicholas.
He rose his sword, ready to bring his sword down on Nicholas's head. It wouldn't kill him, being what he is, but it would slow him down long enough for Syaoran to get his men out of there. He had stood back long enough, taking orders from Nicholas, but only because he had no choice. He stole a glance at his arm, his armor covered the tattoo on his shoulder. It wasn't an ordinary tattoo, it was a mark symbolizing his rank and who he belonged too. He was made a servant in Nicholas's army.
***FLASHBACK***
"What's going on? Where's mother?" A more gentle Syaoran held his dying sister in his arms. Tears fell from his auburn eyes, onto his pale sister's cheek.
Fuutie smiled weakly, "She's dead..." she coughed up blood, a drop landed on Syaoran's tear stained cheek. She held her hand up to the arrow hole in her chest. Syaoran had pulled it out awhile ago, now he was just trying to keep his sister with him.
Syaoran shook his head, "NO!!! That can't be true, your just tired from losing so much blood, please stay with me...you have to help me find Fanran, Shiefa, and Feimei!!"
Fuutie continued to smile up at him, shaking her head. "Stay kind and gentle Syaoran, promise me..." She took his hand as a reassuring gesture. "Please...the world needs all the good it can get, if your heart turns cold then there's no hope for the rest of us...everything will be just as cold.."
Syaoran didn't know how to react with his sister's words, "Shhh you need rest, we still need to find survivors.." He knew in his heart that his family was dead, everyone in their little village was dead. He rocked back and forth while holding Fuutie like a lost child. "Please..please...don't go..."
Fuutie wiped away a tear from his eyes, her hand fell to the ground with a thump. Her head fell to the side signifying that she was no longer with him.
Syaoran saw this, pain struck through his heart like the arrow that pierced through his sisters. He felt dead all over, an empty shell. He was so grief stricken that he didn't hear the footsteps behind him, or sense the spell that was put on him he just fell to the ground paralyzed. He did hear the icy voice under the black hood, "I sense strong magic in your blood, you might be of use to me."
The figure turned to one of his guards, "Mark him..." The guard approached with a flame, ink, and a needle.
Syaoran didn't scream out when they gave him the tattoo, he couldn't feel it. Nicholas placed a hand on the bleeding tattoo, his elven characters appeared under the it. "Now your mine." He waved a hand releasing the paralyzing spell. " 'Kshonna wanya" [Spell: "Dispel"] Syaoran felt the heated pain in his shoulder.
He curled up into a ball holding his arm, now he was to serve the enemy that killed everyone he loved. "Ironic isn't it? Your to join the very army that destroyed your life..." Nicholas let out a cold laugh before leaving.
The soldiers swooped in, picking Syaoran up. They threw him in the back of a wagon with many other marked men.
***END OF FLASHBACK***
Syaoran did what he could to survive, swearing one day when he got the chance he'd kill Nicholas. Now he had his chance. He was about to slice down to cut Nicholas into two halves when something flew out of the forest fire. Sound came back to him, he had ignored it this whole time as he recalled his past.
The chaos had ceased because Nicholas had sensed something approaching. He waited, watching the forest intensly, for the thing to emerge. The soldiers had taken that time to flee, their markings would soon draw them back to Nicholas in due time.
Syaoran narrowed his eyes at the black lump on the ground. //What could it be?// His eyes widened seeing the thing rise. //How could it have survived a wildfire like that? Such high temperatures would have surely roasted the thing//
Nicholas called out, "You there!"
The figure raised it's head, a flash of green caught Syaoran's eyes. //It's a woman!//
"Ah Ying Fa...I was wondering when you would be joining us..."
The soldiers were drawn back against their will. They looked up at the woman who just joined them. "She's burning!!"
Sakura was indeed burning, but the fire didn't seem to harm her. In fact, the fire was blue! It surrounded her very body, keeping her at a cool temperature. The fire slowly went out as she made her way towards Nicholas.
"Clever, you used the cold, blue fire to repel the heat from the fire we created..."
Sakura glared at Nicholas, "It's not clever, it's common sense.." She crouched down so that she went to one knee. In that few seconds, she took out a dagger from each boot so that she had one in each hand. She sprung up spinning the daggers in her hands so that they were a blur.
She brought them down in angles, one arm was pulled back to guard her body but was pointing at him, the other was outstretched ready to kill. "GIVE ME BACK THE BOOK!! I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR PITIFUL LIFE, I JUST WANT THE BOOK!"
Nicholas blocked the attack with a sword and a dagger of his own. The dagger was trying to get at her heart, while the other was blocking the dagger she was trying to strike him with. They pressed against their weapons trying to outmatch one another's strength.
"It doesn't belong to you either..." he had been smiling the whole time and she was getting sick of it.
"Technically, it does seeing how it was my father's and was in HIS study." she bit off icily.
"Now why would you need a book full of locked away cards? Hmm? Who are you planning on killing?" His voice was abnormally calm and smooth. You might even say he was charming, but Sakura saw right through the mask. ((Whoadie: confused? good! ^_^ don't worry it'll be cleared up))
"My victim knows who he is, makes the hunt a bit more exciting." She wasn't lying about that, she loved the thrill of hunting down the target. "You know very well why that book was locked away...I need it for those reasons..." She glared hotly at him.
Nicholas slid his leg in between her legs, they were planted to keep his strength back which means he could easily take her off her feet. He swiped his leg inwards so that her locked knee gave out.
She fell backwards but swung her leg up. It made contact with his jaw. He stumbled back a few steps surprised at the unexpected flail.
When she kicked Nicholas she used him to kick-off, so that she did a full backflip. She landed on all fours panting from her earlier use of magic and the earlier match of strength.
Syaoran had been working on a spell while they fought. He muttered marks and drew them into the air with his sword and hand, knitting together many complex symbols. He saw Sakura flip back and finished with the master mark. The mark wreathed his hand in golden flames as he drew it in the air. It left his hand easily, the spell hung in the air, a gglowing tracery of linked marks, rather like a belt of shining stars. He took one end gingerly, swung the whole thing round his head, and let it fly at Nicholas.
Sakura felt an increase of someone's aura, her head snapped towards where Syaoran was now taking notice in what he was doing. She rolled out of the way, ducking her head down into her legs. She closed her eyes, holding her hands behind her neck incase the spell was made to explode.
Syaoran turned his head away as the belt wrapped around Nicholas. A blinding golden light flashed in the area, enveloping everyone in the bright light. It was silent, except the sound of Nicholas's scream of surprise. The spell's luminice covered miles and miles of ground.
"Everyone get out! This spell is only a binding spell, it won't hold him forever!!!!" He held an arm over his eyes, trying to shade them. He pulled Sakura to her feet, gripping her arm tightly but not harmfully. "Move!"
Sakura pulled her arm free. "I know how to walk!" She squinted through the light, her ears twitched at Nicholas's scream. "I can't just leave without the book!"
Syaoran tugged her arm again. "You can and you will!" He reached up using the blinding light to his advantage, he used two fingers to poke a pressure point on her neck. He twisted his fingers upward all in one movement, as a result, Sakura passed out falling into his arms.
He picked her up, amazed at first how incredibly light she was but shook his head from the questions popping into his head. He ran with his men into an open field near the forest. He growled, ignoring the burning pain coming from his tattoo. "I just hope you can do something about my problem." He glanced down at the sleeping Sakura, a few locks of honey brown hair fell infront of her eyes. He felt a blush creep up to his cheeks, so he moved his attention to where he was going.
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Whoadie: sorry I have to end it like that! I hate cliffies too, but I can't just keep rambling on! I need to save some stuff for the next chapter ^_~
Please review! Oh yea, Kudos to my current reviewers! I LOVE YOU GUYS! Ciao!
Dark Sorceress: Well aren't you clever? *rolls eyes*
Whoadie: OH give me a break! *is still recovering from being sick* I have an excuse
Dark Sorceress: No you don't your ALWAYS this *whoadie covers her mouth*
Whoadie: ON WITH THE FIC!!!
Disclaimer: I didn't do this for my other chapters b/c I uh...forgot...^_^;;; well I don't own any of the CCS crew, but I do own Nicholas, Roiben, and the "other" ppl category who will show up n later chapters!
Nicholas: I belong to NOBODY! *shakes fist* NOBODY!!!
Whoadie: *smacks him* NOBODY cares!!
Summary: Well that would ruin the whole point to reading the chapter, now wouldn't it? ^_^ well your going to have to suffer! Read on kids! ^________^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Suffering.
// would be the character speaking to himself
Chapter 3
Rated: PG-13
***Nicholas***
He watched from his tent as the forest imediately caught on fire. "Excellent, everything is going as planned, but where are you Ying Fa?" He scanned the area cursing himself, seeing the flaw in his plan. "Curse those idiots!!"
Captain Li watched the eyrie smoke that began to rise from the forest, it was green instead of black. Years of ancient magic flowing up into the atmosphere to be returned to the land in rural areas. "What a shame...this was one of the last forests with such powerful magic," he threw down the piece of grass he had been chewing, "All wasted for a power greedy elf!"
His troops flinched as Captain Li ground in the blade of grass with the heel of his boot. "Do you think our lord heard that?" Roiben answered. "I don't think Syaroan would care, their almost evenly matched...well combat in strength that is, our lord has the slight upper advantage with his magic and immortality but besides that, their equally matched."
The soldier ignored the informal title Roiben had used on their captain, "Then why doesn't he retaliate, he knows all of this is so very wrong..." The soldier trailed off as he caught Li's icy glare in his direction. "Heh, did I forget his strong sense of hearing? Yea that's another skill he's got matched with our Lord." Roiben laughed, not caring that his captain was heading their way.
~~~SAKURA~~~
She walked outside her home, looking back at it longingly. She had a feeling she would never see it again. "Now to just go and pick up...the book..." (Whoadie: we all know what that is! ^_^ Don't worry all questions will later be revealed in other chapters, so just bare with me here) She wiggled her nose catching the scent of burning magic. "shit...that's not good..."
Her elven eyes searched the sky trying to find the smoke, that would lead her to the source of the burning. Her green orbs widened seeing the green smoke. "What the hell is going on here?" She gripped the hand rail tightly, her knuckles turned a snowy white from the death grip. "I can't go yet..." She turned her head back at the study, cursing herself for not getting the book earlier when she went to go see her father.
She looked at the smoke one last time, estimating she had about 20 minutes before it hit her unprotected village. "May the gods keep me from tripping.." she couldn't afford any mistakes, or the book wouldn't be able to make it out. She took off towards the study, ignoring the sound of danger approaching. "One shot at this..."
She looked back at the rapid wildfire making it's way to her. She wouldn't have time to run across all the bridges with the ground the wildfire was covering in mere seconds. "I should have calculated the forest's dryness into the equation..." That left her with only a few minutes, then her and the book would be engulfed in heated flames.
She smiled as a thought hit her, she didn't have to actual be holding the cards that were contained in the book she could just summon it's power from where she was. "Perfect..." She closed her eyes, reaching out with her aura to the card she wanted. "Dash, release your power confined!" She waited but nothing happened. "WHAT!"
She tried again, sweat rolled down her face from the heat of the fire. "That means....it's gone...." She slapped herself mentally for being so slow. She slowly began to piece together bits of the puzzle. The picture was still fuzzy but she just jumped right to the conclusion. "So...looks like I'll be getting that fight I wanted..." She glared at the approaching fire, "I'll be seeing you soon, you bastard!" The fire engulfed her body, but not a sound of pain nor scream could be heard.
***Nicholas***
"You fools!!" He threw open the flaps of his tent harshly as he stomped out. "How are we going to draw out our prey now??" Blue eyes probed their very souls as he spoke, "You set fire to the whole front of the forest, you were supposed to surround the forest so the fire would push our prey OUT THE FRONT!!" His elegant features turned twisted with anger, he regained his posture by taking in deep breaths.
"Well good job, you managed to let our prey escape..." He ran a hand through his white locks trying to keep what little patience he had left with these pathetic beings. He closed his eyes trying to debate with himself whether they were really worth keeping around. He turned around to continue to argue with himself without being distracted by the stupid looks the mortals were giving him. //I NEED them, they maybe be pawns but even pawns in chess have some value// He clenched his fists but released them just as quickly as he clenched them. He smirked to himself, a dark expression plaguing his face. //I don't need ALL of them for my plan to work, it would teach the others a lesson too. Maybe they might even gan a brain from this..//
He turned around with a blank expression on his face. "Since this prey of mine can hold a grudge for the longest time, I know she'll come back to us..." He watched his men give out a sigh of relief. "But...that doesn't change the fact that you didn't follow my orders!" He held his palm out to the man he had slapped earlier. "Koron en' Naur!" [Spell: "Fireball"] ((Whoadie: hey wow these ppl REALLY like fire, but then again who doesn't?))
The man gave out a cry of surprise when the red fireball made contact with his flesh. His body burst into flames then disappeared, leaving a pile of ash. The soldiers around the man had dived out of the way and were now shaking. Who wouldn't be? They all looked at their captain who was staring at the pile of ash with regret. "Now then...I have to release SOME anger of mine so your free to run around like the pathetic, worthless cowards you are!" He was tossing another fireball in his right hand as if it were a regular toy, like a baseball. The men took off in all directions, some even ran into the burning forest without looking where they were going.
The scene was chaotic but one stood his ground. ((Whoadie: ^_^ guess who!)) He watched his men crumble to the ground, smouldering. He had already drawn his sword from when the first victum was burned, he made his way towards Nicholas.
He rose his sword, ready to bring his sword down on Nicholas's head. It wouldn't kill him, being what he is, but it would slow him down long enough for Syaoran to get his men out of there. He had stood back long enough, taking orders from Nicholas, but only because he had no choice. He stole a glance at his arm, his armor covered the tattoo on his shoulder. It wasn't an ordinary tattoo, it was a mark symbolizing his rank and who he belonged too. He was made a servant in Nicholas's army.
***FLASHBACK***
"What's going on? Where's mother?" A more gentle Syaoran held his dying sister in his arms. Tears fell from his auburn eyes, onto his pale sister's cheek.
Fuutie smiled weakly, "She's dead..." she coughed up blood, a drop landed on Syaoran's tear stained cheek. She held her hand up to the arrow hole in her chest. Syaoran had pulled it out awhile ago, now he was just trying to keep his sister with him.
Syaoran shook his head, "NO!!! That can't be true, your just tired from losing so much blood, please stay with me...you have to help me find Fanran, Shiefa, and Feimei!!"
Fuutie continued to smile up at him, shaking her head. "Stay kind and gentle Syaoran, promise me..." She took his hand as a reassuring gesture. "Please...the world needs all the good it can get, if your heart turns cold then there's no hope for the rest of us...everything will be just as cold.."
Syaoran didn't know how to react with his sister's words, "Shhh you need rest, we still need to find survivors.." He knew in his heart that his family was dead, everyone in their little village was dead. He rocked back and forth while holding Fuutie like a lost child. "Please..please...don't go..."
Fuutie wiped away a tear from his eyes, her hand fell to the ground with a thump. Her head fell to the side signifying that she was no longer with him.
Syaoran saw this, pain struck through his heart like the arrow that pierced through his sisters. He felt dead all over, an empty shell. He was so grief stricken that he didn't hear the footsteps behind him, or sense the spell that was put on him he just fell to the ground paralyzed. He did hear the icy voice under the black hood, "I sense strong magic in your blood, you might be of use to me."
The figure turned to one of his guards, "Mark him..." The guard approached with a flame, ink, and a needle.
Syaoran didn't scream out when they gave him the tattoo, he couldn't feel it. Nicholas placed a hand on the bleeding tattoo, his elven characters appeared under the it. "Now your mine." He waved a hand releasing the paralyzing spell. " 'Kshonna wanya" [Spell: "Dispel"] Syaoran felt the heated pain in his shoulder.
He curled up into a ball holding his arm, now he was to serve the enemy that killed everyone he loved. "Ironic isn't it? Your to join the very army that destroyed your life..." Nicholas let out a cold laugh before leaving.
The soldiers swooped in, picking Syaoran up. They threw him in the back of a wagon with many other marked men.
***END OF FLASHBACK***
Syaoran did what he could to survive, swearing one day when he got the chance he'd kill Nicholas. Now he had his chance. He was about to slice down to cut Nicholas into two halves when something flew out of the forest fire. Sound came back to him, he had ignored it this whole time as he recalled his past.
The chaos had ceased because Nicholas had sensed something approaching. He waited, watching the forest intensly, for the thing to emerge. The soldiers had taken that time to flee, their markings would soon draw them back to Nicholas in due time.
Syaoran narrowed his eyes at the black lump on the ground. //What could it be?// His eyes widened seeing the thing rise. //How could it have survived a wildfire like that? Such high temperatures would have surely roasted the thing//
Nicholas called out, "You there!"
The figure raised it's head, a flash of green caught Syaoran's eyes. //It's a woman!//
"Ah Ying Fa...I was wondering when you would be joining us..."
The soldiers were drawn back against their will. They looked up at the woman who just joined them. "She's burning!!"
Sakura was indeed burning, but the fire didn't seem to harm her. In fact, the fire was blue! It surrounded her very body, keeping her at a cool temperature. The fire slowly went out as she made her way towards Nicholas.
"Clever, you used the cold, blue fire to repel the heat from the fire we created..."
Sakura glared at Nicholas, "It's not clever, it's common sense.." She crouched down so that she went to one knee. In that few seconds, she took out a dagger from each boot so that she had one in each hand. She sprung up spinning the daggers in her hands so that they were a blur.
She brought them down in angles, one arm was pulled back to guard her body but was pointing at him, the other was outstretched ready to kill. "GIVE ME BACK THE BOOK!! I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR PITIFUL LIFE, I JUST WANT THE BOOK!"
Nicholas blocked the attack with a sword and a dagger of his own. The dagger was trying to get at her heart, while the other was blocking the dagger she was trying to strike him with. They pressed against their weapons trying to outmatch one another's strength.
"It doesn't belong to you either..." he had been smiling the whole time and she was getting sick of it.
"Technically, it does seeing how it was my father's and was in HIS study." she bit off icily.
"Now why would you need a book full of locked away cards? Hmm? Who are you planning on killing?" His voice was abnormally calm and smooth. You might even say he was charming, but Sakura saw right through the mask. ((Whoadie: confused? good! ^_^ don't worry it'll be cleared up))
"My victim knows who he is, makes the hunt a bit more exciting." She wasn't lying about that, she loved the thrill of hunting down the target. "You know very well why that book was locked away...I need it for those reasons..." She glared hotly at him.
Nicholas slid his leg in between her legs, they were planted to keep his strength back which means he could easily take her off her feet. He swiped his leg inwards so that her locked knee gave out.
She fell backwards but swung her leg up. It made contact with his jaw. He stumbled back a few steps surprised at the unexpected flail.
When she kicked Nicholas she used him to kick-off, so that she did a full backflip. She landed on all fours panting from her earlier use of magic and the earlier match of strength.
Syaoran had been working on a spell while they fought. He muttered marks and drew them into the air with his sword and hand, knitting together many complex symbols. He saw Sakura flip back and finished with the master mark. The mark wreathed his hand in golden flames as he drew it in the air. It left his hand easily, the spell hung in the air, a gglowing tracery of linked marks, rather like a belt of shining stars. He took one end gingerly, swung the whole thing round his head, and let it fly at Nicholas.
Sakura felt an increase of someone's aura, her head snapped towards where Syaoran was now taking notice in what he was doing. She rolled out of the way, ducking her head down into her legs. She closed her eyes, holding her hands behind her neck incase the spell was made to explode.
Syaoran turned his head away as the belt wrapped around Nicholas. A blinding golden light flashed in the area, enveloping everyone in the bright light. It was silent, except the sound of Nicholas's scream of surprise. The spell's luminice covered miles and miles of ground.
"Everyone get out! This spell is only a binding spell, it won't hold him forever!!!!" He held an arm over his eyes, trying to shade them. He pulled Sakura to her feet, gripping her arm tightly but not harmfully. "Move!"
Sakura pulled her arm free. "I know how to walk!" She squinted through the light, her ears twitched at Nicholas's scream. "I can't just leave without the book!"
Syaoran tugged her arm again. "You can and you will!" He reached up using the blinding light to his advantage, he used two fingers to poke a pressure point on her neck. He twisted his fingers upward all in one movement, as a result, Sakura passed out falling into his arms.
He picked her up, amazed at first how incredibly light she was but shook his head from the questions popping into his head. He ran with his men into an open field near the forest. He growled, ignoring the burning pain coming from his tattoo. "I just hope you can do something about my problem." He glanced down at the sleeping Sakura, a few locks of honey brown hair fell infront of her eyes. He felt a blush creep up to his cheeks, so he moved his attention to where he was going.
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Whoadie: sorry I have to end it like that! I hate cliffies too, but I can't just keep rambling on! I need to save some stuff for the next chapter ^_~
Please review! Oh yea, Kudos to my current reviewers! I LOVE YOU GUYS! Ciao!
