"Witness protection program? How can you put SYAORAN under witness protection??? He is the most sought after guy in the whole world right now. No matter where you hide us, there will be fan girls who know him." Sakura explained as Syaoran laughed.
It was all true, of course. It just sounded funny to hear it said.
"We understand that. We have it all planned out."
"Could you, well, explain it to me?"
"You will leave tonight. We have gathered both of your things from the U.S.A. We plan to hide you in London England. You are to tell no one this. We will disguise you but Syaoran will be left alone. The only person who knows you have any relation to Syaoran is Yaoi himself. Also, only Yoai knows that Syaoran was there. He has no acess to any information or communication to the outside world. Heck he doesn't even have a window."
Sakura and Syaoran stared at each other. England?
"Ano...The FBI is American."
"Yes. Your case is being handed over to MI-5 (AN: Is it 5 or 6?). They also want him on a number of murders. We think that all these murders have a link but there is none! There has to be but we can't find it. No way he'd target 11 different countries. It is very annoying you know."
Sakura got a serious look on her face. A look that clearly started "I know why.".
"Tonight...But I'm not allowed to-"
"Yes we know. You're not allowed to leave your bed. The families we've placed you with are next door nieghbours. Syaoran is to say they are 'friends'. We start you your second day there. Sakura will start when she is ready. Things don't look suspicious that way. We have a special hospital-like airplane flying you there. DO NOT TELL ANYONE WHERE YOU'RE GOING."
There was some background talking. Then Jason, the guy they had been talking to, said
"No way. She can't be dead. She was only under witness protection for a week! Oh uh...Got to go guys."
Click.
"That makes you have full and total confidence." Syaoran said.
Sakura laughed.
Kero, who had left after Syaoran entered, came up quickly.
"Fax for you."
Sakura read it.
"Change of plans. Got information that last time you were in program Yaoi issued orders to pass anyone who looked like you. Ignore anyone with same eye or hair colour. Figured we'd change your apperance. No disguise for Sakura. Just name change."
"By the way Sakura," Syaoran added, "What was the link you discovered?"
"Magic. He's been killing off people with magic and taking thier powers. Thats how he escaped from prision. Thats the real reason he wants me dead. He wants my powers. I guess he figures that with my magic he'll be stronger than any."
"Of course he will. You have enough magic to make two people immortial. Clow Reed was never once close to having the power to make one immortal person. Also, your magic keeps growing. You seem to get a little more every day." Syaoran explained.
"Speaking of magic... I haven't used most of the cards in over a year...Kero, keep everyone away ok?" Sakura asked.
"No need. You can do it yourself now. You do have enough magic to complete the spell. Remember? Eriol used to use it all the time." Kero said. He thought for a second before adding "And the best thing about your magic is, once you've used it all your strength that you've used, comes right back. You will always have plenty of magic, because you never lose any. Unless you died or something."
"Kero, I did die."
"Yes I know. But you also came back to life. Once you did, every speck of magic returned to you."
"The second before I started breathing. I know."
Sakura made two barriers. One to keep people away, and one to seal the cards in her room.
"I call all of my cards..." She began.
Kero and Syaoran exchanged looks of shock. This had never been attempted before.
"...Come out of your card forms. Release!"
Suddenly a magical wind was present in the small bedroom and all 53 cards showed thier visual forms. Sakura could tell they were happy to be released.They all beamed at her.
"Thank you Mistress. We have been worried about you latley." Windy said.
"I'm sorry I haven't tried this sooner. I have just-"
"No need for explanations. We understand very much that you have been going through tough times." Wood stated.
"Besides. We have been wanting to tell you something. We want you to use us for all the little things. We never get to help you anymore and we really want to." Mirror took over.
"We love having you as our Mistress. What we love more is helping you." Little explained.
"I'm glad to hear it. We are going to hide again... Is that okay?"
All the cards nodded. Sakura smiled as they all returned to card form and then to the book. Sakura smiled.
But the smile did not last long. She heard a familier scene downstairs. People coming in; Her father begging them not to take her; pleading and sorrow; a familier yet horrible scene.
~*~*~*~*
Another two months past. Sakura was defenatly hiding somewhere. Somewhere. It had been four months since he tried to kill her... Or rather Syaoran. That loser. If it wasn't for him she would have died there in sorrow for GOOD. The power would have been his. Yaoi sighed. He had never really been caught. Just a double of him he had left for the cops to find. His stupid minions couldn't lead themselves. He had to be the one to issue orders.But there were two minions. Smart, Loyal and cunning. He turned to one of them.
"Sorry to get you involved." He said.
"Sorry? Don't feel sorry for me just because I'm a girl. I can handle myself. You know this."
"I do, Rio. You wish to handle finding her wherabouts?"
"It shall be easy. She has too many weaknesses. Not good in a sorceress."
"Yes."
Rio put up her blond hair in pigtails and grinned.
"Don't I just look so cute like this?" She asked with an innocently evil voice.
"You'll fit in fine. However, you do seem a little anxious. Whats with that."
"The Cardmistress and I are not strangers to each other." Rio said with an evil voice very forgien to Yaoi.
~*~*FLASHBACK~*~*
"Daddy!" Rio called as he fell through the sky. This fire monster was a huge one. None like Rio had ever seen. First this wierd girl with wings appears (AN: Emptiness card. ) Then this thing. All the wholes that girl had made were gone. But the monster siezed a bunch of people and threw them in the air.
"MATTE!" A girl with wings and wearing strange pink clothes said as she flew by.
The monster siezed a boy running underneath her, wearing equally strange green clothes.
"Syaoran!" She called.
"Sakura! Iie!"
She summoned her own fire and hit the monster. She then summoned up a card, "hope" and it destroyed the monster. The monster disappeared and everyone he was holding fell. Sakura scrambled to get them all. There were now two people left falling.
Syaoran and Rio's father.
"Save my father!" Rio yelled to Sakura as she nodded.
She quickly put everyone down and grabbed them both. But Rio's fathers hands were too sweaty. She dropped him. Rio watched in horror as he fell to his death.
*~*~END FLASHBACK*~*~
"Rio? You okay?"
"Huh? Yeah. Fine. Just thinking."
"If things get tough let me know and I'll send Ruki to help you."
"Hai."
"You have a plan I presume."
"Of course. You'll see it on the news when its happening."
~*~*~*~*
"Nicola Brown and Syaoran Li please report to the main office." The P.A system said.
"Lets go Sa- Nicola." Syaoran said nearly, again, revealing Sakura's real name.
"Hang on. let me get my stuff."
"Hurry it up."
They walked down the halls together. All the girls stared adoringly at Syaoran while the boys drooled over Sakura. Sakura giggled all the way down about the girls while Syaoran glared at all the guys.
"You two are allowed to go home now. And I mean your England homes."
"Nani?" Sakura said accedentaly speaking Japanese; She did this at least 4 times a day.
"Sakura. Syaoran." The principal started. He was one of the only people knowing Sakura's true name... and he hardly used it. Something was wrong.
"Tomoeda is under attack by some monster. Its attacking a university... A local one."
Sakura's mouth fell open in shock. There was only one university in Tomoeda....Her dad taught there.
*~*~*~*~
Syaoran could only wonder what Sakura was doing in her room. She had shut the curtains 20 minutes ago. Being next door nieghbours, Sakura and Syaoran could easily talk to one another via thier bedroom windows. But Sakura had shut herself in there. he sighed. What could she be doing?
His question was answered when the curtains opened to reveal her wearing the outfit she wore to capture the emptiness. Tomoyo had obviously altered it to fit Sakura's size and given it to her. Syaoran knew where she was going. He had recieved a package from Tomoyo too...He hadn't opened it for fear of what it contained. But now he guessed what it was.
Sakura used fly and was about to take off when-
"Choto matte Sakura!"
Sakura looked at him. He held up his altered costume.
"You were going to leave without me?"
~*~*~*~*
Tomoyo screamed as the monster tried to hit the buliding again. This time it was a sucess and it took off the whole clock tower. She looked out the windows to see reporters everywhere. There was no way Sakura wouldn't have known about this.
"It'll be okay for sure." Tomoyo said as the thought of Sakura popped into her head. "Sakura will save us."
But of course, the one day Tomoyo goes to visit Sakura's father at the university, it gets attacked. Could someone be watching thier movements? Nah.
Tomoyo had to find Sakura's father. What if he wasn't okay?
Tomoyo ran into the first resonable place that he could be; the staff room.
Much to her horror there wasn't much left of the staff room.
~*~*~*~*
Standing on top of the building, well hidden, was Rio.
She stared off into the sunset that was now befalling Japan. Her monster looked even more terrifing in the midst of it all.
In the distance she saw two shadowy figues.
"Showtime."
~*~*~*~*
I have returned. I was on a comping trip and haven't had electricity for a bit so I decided to post this chapter as soon as I got back. I'll have more out for you next week. Click the magic button!
It was all true, of course. It just sounded funny to hear it said.
"We understand that. We have it all planned out."
"Could you, well, explain it to me?"
"You will leave tonight. We have gathered both of your things from the U.S.A. We plan to hide you in London England. You are to tell no one this. We will disguise you but Syaoran will be left alone. The only person who knows you have any relation to Syaoran is Yaoi himself. Also, only Yoai knows that Syaoran was there. He has no acess to any information or communication to the outside world. Heck he doesn't even have a window."
Sakura and Syaoran stared at each other. England?
"Ano...The FBI is American."
"Yes. Your case is being handed over to MI-5 (AN: Is it 5 or 6?). They also want him on a number of murders. We think that all these murders have a link but there is none! There has to be but we can't find it. No way he'd target 11 different countries. It is very annoying you know."
Sakura got a serious look on her face. A look that clearly started "I know why.".
"Tonight...But I'm not allowed to-"
"Yes we know. You're not allowed to leave your bed. The families we've placed you with are next door nieghbours. Syaoran is to say they are 'friends'. We start you your second day there. Sakura will start when she is ready. Things don't look suspicious that way. We have a special hospital-like airplane flying you there. DO NOT TELL ANYONE WHERE YOU'RE GOING."
There was some background talking. Then Jason, the guy they had been talking to, said
"No way. She can't be dead. She was only under witness protection for a week! Oh uh...Got to go guys."
Click.
"That makes you have full and total confidence." Syaoran said.
Sakura laughed.
Kero, who had left after Syaoran entered, came up quickly.
"Fax for you."
Sakura read it.
"Change of plans. Got information that last time you were in program Yaoi issued orders to pass anyone who looked like you. Ignore anyone with same eye or hair colour. Figured we'd change your apperance. No disguise for Sakura. Just name change."
"By the way Sakura," Syaoran added, "What was the link you discovered?"
"Magic. He's been killing off people with magic and taking thier powers. Thats how he escaped from prision. Thats the real reason he wants me dead. He wants my powers. I guess he figures that with my magic he'll be stronger than any."
"Of course he will. You have enough magic to make two people immortial. Clow Reed was never once close to having the power to make one immortal person. Also, your magic keeps growing. You seem to get a little more every day." Syaoran explained.
"Speaking of magic... I haven't used most of the cards in over a year...Kero, keep everyone away ok?" Sakura asked.
"No need. You can do it yourself now. You do have enough magic to complete the spell. Remember? Eriol used to use it all the time." Kero said. He thought for a second before adding "And the best thing about your magic is, once you've used it all your strength that you've used, comes right back. You will always have plenty of magic, because you never lose any. Unless you died or something."
"Kero, I did die."
"Yes I know. But you also came back to life. Once you did, every speck of magic returned to you."
"The second before I started breathing. I know."
Sakura made two barriers. One to keep people away, and one to seal the cards in her room.
"I call all of my cards..." She began.
Kero and Syaoran exchanged looks of shock. This had never been attempted before.
"...Come out of your card forms. Release!"
Suddenly a magical wind was present in the small bedroom and all 53 cards showed thier visual forms. Sakura could tell they were happy to be released.They all beamed at her.
"Thank you Mistress. We have been worried about you latley." Windy said.
"I'm sorry I haven't tried this sooner. I have just-"
"No need for explanations. We understand very much that you have been going through tough times." Wood stated.
"Besides. We have been wanting to tell you something. We want you to use us for all the little things. We never get to help you anymore and we really want to." Mirror took over.
"We love having you as our Mistress. What we love more is helping you." Little explained.
"I'm glad to hear it. We are going to hide again... Is that okay?"
All the cards nodded. Sakura smiled as they all returned to card form and then to the book. Sakura smiled.
But the smile did not last long. She heard a familier scene downstairs. People coming in; Her father begging them not to take her; pleading and sorrow; a familier yet horrible scene.
~*~*~*~*
Another two months past. Sakura was defenatly hiding somewhere. Somewhere. It had been four months since he tried to kill her... Or rather Syaoran. That loser. If it wasn't for him she would have died there in sorrow for GOOD. The power would have been his. Yaoi sighed. He had never really been caught. Just a double of him he had left for the cops to find. His stupid minions couldn't lead themselves. He had to be the one to issue orders.But there were two minions. Smart, Loyal and cunning. He turned to one of them.
"Sorry to get you involved." He said.
"Sorry? Don't feel sorry for me just because I'm a girl. I can handle myself. You know this."
"I do, Rio. You wish to handle finding her wherabouts?"
"It shall be easy. She has too many weaknesses. Not good in a sorceress."
"Yes."
Rio put up her blond hair in pigtails and grinned.
"Don't I just look so cute like this?" She asked with an innocently evil voice.
"You'll fit in fine. However, you do seem a little anxious. Whats with that."
"The Cardmistress and I are not strangers to each other." Rio said with an evil voice very forgien to Yaoi.
~*~*FLASHBACK~*~*
"Daddy!" Rio called as he fell through the sky. This fire monster was a huge one. None like Rio had ever seen. First this wierd girl with wings appears (AN: Emptiness card. ) Then this thing. All the wholes that girl had made were gone. But the monster siezed a bunch of people and threw them in the air.
"MATTE!" A girl with wings and wearing strange pink clothes said as she flew by.
The monster siezed a boy running underneath her, wearing equally strange green clothes.
"Syaoran!" She called.
"Sakura! Iie!"
She summoned her own fire and hit the monster. She then summoned up a card, "hope" and it destroyed the monster. The monster disappeared and everyone he was holding fell. Sakura scrambled to get them all. There were now two people left falling.
Syaoran and Rio's father.
"Save my father!" Rio yelled to Sakura as she nodded.
She quickly put everyone down and grabbed them both. But Rio's fathers hands were too sweaty. She dropped him. Rio watched in horror as he fell to his death.
*~*~END FLASHBACK*~*~
"Rio? You okay?"
"Huh? Yeah. Fine. Just thinking."
"If things get tough let me know and I'll send Ruki to help you."
"Hai."
"You have a plan I presume."
"Of course. You'll see it on the news when its happening."
~*~*~*~*
"Nicola Brown and Syaoran Li please report to the main office." The P.A system said.
"Lets go Sa- Nicola." Syaoran said nearly, again, revealing Sakura's real name.
"Hang on. let me get my stuff."
"Hurry it up."
They walked down the halls together. All the girls stared adoringly at Syaoran while the boys drooled over Sakura. Sakura giggled all the way down about the girls while Syaoran glared at all the guys.
"You two are allowed to go home now. And I mean your England homes."
"Nani?" Sakura said accedentaly speaking Japanese; She did this at least 4 times a day.
"Sakura. Syaoran." The principal started. He was one of the only people knowing Sakura's true name... and he hardly used it. Something was wrong.
"Tomoeda is under attack by some monster. Its attacking a university... A local one."
Sakura's mouth fell open in shock. There was only one university in Tomoeda....Her dad taught there.
*~*~*~*~
Syaoran could only wonder what Sakura was doing in her room. She had shut the curtains 20 minutes ago. Being next door nieghbours, Sakura and Syaoran could easily talk to one another via thier bedroom windows. But Sakura had shut herself in there. he sighed. What could she be doing?
His question was answered when the curtains opened to reveal her wearing the outfit she wore to capture the emptiness. Tomoyo had obviously altered it to fit Sakura's size and given it to her. Syaoran knew where she was going. He had recieved a package from Tomoyo too...He hadn't opened it for fear of what it contained. But now he guessed what it was.
Sakura used fly and was about to take off when-
"Choto matte Sakura!"
Sakura looked at him. He held up his altered costume.
"You were going to leave without me?"
~*~*~*~*
Tomoyo screamed as the monster tried to hit the buliding again. This time it was a sucess and it took off the whole clock tower. She looked out the windows to see reporters everywhere. There was no way Sakura wouldn't have known about this.
"It'll be okay for sure." Tomoyo said as the thought of Sakura popped into her head. "Sakura will save us."
But of course, the one day Tomoyo goes to visit Sakura's father at the university, it gets attacked. Could someone be watching thier movements? Nah.
Tomoyo had to find Sakura's father. What if he wasn't okay?
Tomoyo ran into the first resonable place that he could be; the staff room.
Much to her horror there wasn't much left of the staff room.
~*~*~*~*
Standing on top of the building, well hidden, was Rio.
She stared off into the sunset that was now befalling Japan. Her monster looked even more terrifing in the midst of it all.
In the distance she saw two shadowy figues.
"Showtime."
~*~*~*~*
I have returned. I was on a comping trip and haven't had electricity for a bit so I decided to post this chapter as soon as I got back. I'll have more out for you next week. Click the magic button!