New chapter time! However, I apologize for my lack of writing skill. This
is mainly a transfer chapter.
Chapter 19- Yelan's Fan (Note: means it's translated from Chinese)
The water was completely still as Sakura and friends floated gently away on the ocean. Sakura looked up from her nap and asked, "How long has it been since we left shore?" Mia woke up dazed. "I'd estimate. about 18 hours." Syaoran leaned over the side of the boat and sighed. "And HOW long did you say it would take to get to Hong Kong?" "I said it would take about 4 days. That's to reach shore. Then we have about 5 or so day's worth of travel on land. Besides that, it'll take us a few days to locate the target." Tomoyo sighed as well. "At this rate, we might be too late once we arrive. Isn't there anyway to go faster?"
Sakura stood up. "I got it!" The necklace she wore hung down was soon in her hands.
"O, Key that holds the Power of the Stars. Reveal your true form to me! RELEASE! O, card that Clow has made, I command you to lose your form and be born again under your new master, Sakura! WAVE!"
Nothing happened. "Hoe? What's going on?" Sakura was puzzled. Mia scratched her head and said, "Maybe the sea air doesn't agree with your magic. ugh?"
The water around the boat began to rock and stir. "Then again, maybe the spell just needed time!" Mia corrected herself.
Suddenly, the small boat was lifted into the air and moved at a tremendous speed. "What's going on? Why are we flying? I thought you used Watery!" Tomoyo yelled. "It's Watery all right!" Syaoran said as he looked over the side. "We're riding a giant wave!"
The giant wave carried their boat at tremendous speeds forward. Mia laughed in delight. "Hold everything down so no supplies fall out. But even if they fall, we'll reach shore in no time! Maybe in an hour! This is wonderful!"
The boat cruised on the Watery Card's power for an hour or so. Everyone had sat down to avoid getting blown over by the wind. "How fast do you think we're going?" Syaoran asked. "I have no clue," answered Mia, "but we should be there in-"
CRASH!
The boat was smashed into oblivion as it crashed into land. Syaoran, Tomoyo, and Mia lay face down on the sand of the beach. Mia lifted her head. "Ugh. We'll arrive any minute." Tomoyo sat up. "Are you all okay?" Syaoran pushed himself up and nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine. Hey, where's Sakura?" "And Kero?" Mia added.
"Oof! Up here!"
The three of them looked up to see Kero flying down from a tree. "Sakura's up there!" Immediately afterwards, a body fell from the tree, splashed into the water and washed up onshore. "Err. Well, she WAS up there." Syaoran rushed to Sakura and flipped the girl over. "Are you alright?!" Sakura's eyes spiraled around. "Y-yes, I'm. I'm okay, Tomoyo." "Err. I'm Syaoran." Sakura shook her head and got back to her senses. "Oh, I'm sorry. But I have some good news! While stuck in that tree, I saw a giant city up ahead! It could be Hong Kong! I haven't been there since I won that contest." (Author's Note: See the First CCS Movie)
Syaoran picked up a bag of supplies and put it on his back. "Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!" His stomach rumbled. Sweatdrops rolled down everyone's heads. "Umm. maybe we'd better camp out and eat, first. It has been almost 20 hours since our last meal, and it is almost noon." Sakura's stomach growled in agreement. "Good idea."
As Sakura boiled the water to make the meal, Syaoran emerged from the bushes, dressed in his traditional Li clan robes. "Huh? Syaoran, I thought you only wore that when there was a card to be captured or a card to transform," Tomoyo observed. "Normally, yes, but this was my only outfit that wasn't soaked during the shipwreck. "Oh, I see. All of ours were soaked, though, so we have nothing to change into for a while. That's why some nice, hot, soup may warm us up," Sakura noted. Once Tomoyo finished cutting up all the vegetables and putting them into the pot, everyone sat back and relaxed for a while, trying to get over being in a cramped boat for so long. Syaoran sat on a tree branch. Sakura and Tomoyo sat side by side on the beach, barefoot, and let the water of the tide hit their feet. Mia leaned up against another tree and took a nap while Kero-chan napped on top of her soft, blonde hair.
A few minutes later, Tomoyo got up and started to pour the soup into makeshift wooden bowls. Everyone was relieved to finally get something warm in his or her stomach. After they'd devoured all of Tomoyo's cooking, they all gave a sigh of relief and fell backwards onto the sand. "Ah, that was great," Kero exclaimed, "let's just set up the tent and go to sleep." Sakura looked over to the little yellow beast. "But Kero, it's only noon or so." Kero nodded. "Yeah, I know, but I don't think any of us slept well last night. Why don't we-"
CLANG!
An arrowhead crashed into the ground next to Sakura's head. "HOEEEEEEE!" Everyone scrambled for cover. "Who is attacking us?" Mia asked. "I have no idea! I can't see anyone!" Syaoran replied as he jumped behind a rock on the beach. Then there was silence. Syaoran dared not peek and see what happened until he heard, "Here they are! We've captured them!" Then he heard Sakura pleading. "What are you saying? We don't speak Chinese! We don't know what we've done, but we're sorry!"
Syaoran grabbed the pendant around his neck and summoned his sword. He didn't know who those men were, but they were speaking Chinese. "Leave them alone!" Syaoran screamed back in Chinese. He spotted three men with swords and bows aimed at Sakura, Tomoyo, and Mia, who were trapped at the side of a tree. At once, the guards spotted Syaoran and dropped their gear. "Ah, those clothes. They are of the Li clan, of that I am sure. Tell me, are these friends of yours?" Syaoran nodded. "Yes, they are traveling with me. Why have you captured them?" The three men bowed in respect. "We apologize. For you see, a great wedding is to be held in the family of the Li clan. The daughter of Li Feimei and Li Yokusuka, Aer-ling, is to be married! However, we received an unsettling threat. A note by a man of the name 'Koji' threatened to disrupt the wedding and kill the bride and groom. We thought he or she might have been one of these three. We saw you crash from a distance."
"KOJI!" Sakura exclaimed. "I don't know Chinese, but I heard Koji!" Syaoran turned to her. "He says there is going to be a marriage, but a threat from Koji has come." Syaoran focused on the men again. "My name is Li Xiao Lan. I'm after the very same man you are. My friends and I have been chasing him for a long time. We have reason to believe he's come here to Hong Kong."
The apparent leader of the three men smiled. "Ah, that is wonderful to hear. Come, you and your friends, Li Xiao Lan. You shall be staying at the guesthouse for the wedding. I was unaware of any Li with the name Xiao Lan, but those robes can only be of the Clan, and no Li would fall in battle and leave them intact, so you must be of the blood. This also means you and your friends must be great warriors, so. Ah, never mind. It shall have to wait until we reach the house. It's still quite a long walk. We want to get there before sunset. Come. Let's make haste."
As the party walked up the side of a tall hill towards the city of Hong Kong, Syaoran explained everything to them. ".And they seem to have some kind of deal in store for us if we go to the house." Sakura asked, "Is that wise to accept a deal we don't even know what it is?" Mia shook her head in disagreement. "From what I gather, accepting the offer, no matter how bad, is the only way to get into the house for a long enough time to protect the bride and groom from Koji."
As they reached the top of the hill, the city of Hong Kong appeared. Sakura squealed in delight. "It's so pretty! Look at all those beautiful buildings and statues! I bet it would look even better if we had seen it from the port. We could have come in through there instead of crashing here." Tomoyo got a shot of it with her video camera while the three Chinese men weren't looking. "Yes, it's really a splendid view. But even for a thousand years in the past, it's a giant city."
They moved in closer to the city as the sun began to set. The buildings continued to grow in size as they approached it. When they finally entered the city, it seemed almost ten times the size it had appeared on the hill. "Wow! It's even more beautiful close up!" Sakura exclaimed, "but how are we going to find the house? The city is huge!" Syaoran replied, "Don't worry. It may be a thousand years in the past, but I at least know where my house should be." Mia stared vacantly away from the group. "Mia, what are you looking at?" Sakura asked. "I think. I've found. the house." She pointed straight down the road through the city. Everyone turned to see where she was pointing.
Sakura's eyes shrunk. "HOOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEE! That's larger than the rest of the entire city!" Sakura, Kero, and Mia fell to the ground. Sakura turned to Tomoyo. "That's even bigger than your house!" Tomoyo shook her head. "No, I don't think so. Our houses are about the same size and our estate stretches on for a bit more, but that's not important." A sweat drop rolled down both Syaoran and Mia's head as they listened to Tomoyo.
A minute later, they all reached the gate of the house; one of the guards who had found them ran to them. He spoke to Syaoran in Chinese through the gate. Then he opened it for them. Syaoran seemed in a state of shock.
"What's wrong?" Tomoyo asked. "You seem upset, Li."
Syaoran turned around with a scowl on his face. "Koji was here already! He stole a precious heirloom! Without it, no marriages can be held! And if this marriage doesn't take place, I'm not going to exist! Also, the heirloom. It's my mother's fan!"
Love and Peace! -Vash the Stampede
Chapter 19- Yelan's Fan (Note: means it's translated from Chinese)
The water was completely still as Sakura and friends floated gently away on the ocean. Sakura looked up from her nap and asked, "How long has it been since we left shore?" Mia woke up dazed. "I'd estimate. about 18 hours." Syaoran leaned over the side of the boat and sighed. "And HOW long did you say it would take to get to Hong Kong?" "I said it would take about 4 days. That's to reach shore. Then we have about 5 or so day's worth of travel on land. Besides that, it'll take us a few days to locate the target." Tomoyo sighed as well. "At this rate, we might be too late once we arrive. Isn't there anyway to go faster?"
Sakura stood up. "I got it!" The necklace she wore hung down was soon in her hands.
"O, Key that holds the Power of the Stars. Reveal your true form to me! RELEASE! O, card that Clow has made, I command you to lose your form and be born again under your new master, Sakura! WAVE!"
Nothing happened. "Hoe? What's going on?" Sakura was puzzled. Mia scratched her head and said, "Maybe the sea air doesn't agree with your magic. ugh?"
The water around the boat began to rock and stir. "Then again, maybe the spell just needed time!" Mia corrected herself.
Suddenly, the small boat was lifted into the air and moved at a tremendous speed. "What's going on? Why are we flying? I thought you used Watery!" Tomoyo yelled. "It's Watery all right!" Syaoran said as he looked over the side. "We're riding a giant wave!"
The giant wave carried their boat at tremendous speeds forward. Mia laughed in delight. "Hold everything down so no supplies fall out. But even if they fall, we'll reach shore in no time! Maybe in an hour! This is wonderful!"
The boat cruised on the Watery Card's power for an hour or so. Everyone had sat down to avoid getting blown over by the wind. "How fast do you think we're going?" Syaoran asked. "I have no clue," answered Mia, "but we should be there in-"
CRASH!
The boat was smashed into oblivion as it crashed into land. Syaoran, Tomoyo, and Mia lay face down on the sand of the beach. Mia lifted her head. "Ugh. We'll arrive any minute." Tomoyo sat up. "Are you all okay?" Syaoran pushed himself up and nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine. Hey, where's Sakura?" "And Kero?" Mia added.
"Oof! Up here!"
The three of them looked up to see Kero flying down from a tree. "Sakura's up there!" Immediately afterwards, a body fell from the tree, splashed into the water and washed up onshore. "Err. Well, she WAS up there." Syaoran rushed to Sakura and flipped the girl over. "Are you alright?!" Sakura's eyes spiraled around. "Y-yes, I'm. I'm okay, Tomoyo." "Err. I'm Syaoran." Sakura shook her head and got back to her senses. "Oh, I'm sorry. But I have some good news! While stuck in that tree, I saw a giant city up ahead! It could be Hong Kong! I haven't been there since I won that contest." (Author's Note: See the First CCS Movie)
Syaoran picked up a bag of supplies and put it on his back. "Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!" His stomach rumbled. Sweatdrops rolled down everyone's heads. "Umm. maybe we'd better camp out and eat, first. It has been almost 20 hours since our last meal, and it is almost noon." Sakura's stomach growled in agreement. "Good idea."
As Sakura boiled the water to make the meal, Syaoran emerged from the bushes, dressed in his traditional Li clan robes. "Huh? Syaoran, I thought you only wore that when there was a card to be captured or a card to transform," Tomoyo observed. "Normally, yes, but this was my only outfit that wasn't soaked during the shipwreck. "Oh, I see. All of ours were soaked, though, so we have nothing to change into for a while. That's why some nice, hot, soup may warm us up," Sakura noted. Once Tomoyo finished cutting up all the vegetables and putting them into the pot, everyone sat back and relaxed for a while, trying to get over being in a cramped boat for so long. Syaoran sat on a tree branch. Sakura and Tomoyo sat side by side on the beach, barefoot, and let the water of the tide hit their feet. Mia leaned up against another tree and took a nap while Kero-chan napped on top of her soft, blonde hair.
A few minutes later, Tomoyo got up and started to pour the soup into makeshift wooden bowls. Everyone was relieved to finally get something warm in his or her stomach. After they'd devoured all of Tomoyo's cooking, they all gave a sigh of relief and fell backwards onto the sand. "Ah, that was great," Kero exclaimed, "let's just set up the tent and go to sleep." Sakura looked over to the little yellow beast. "But Kero, it's only noon or so." Kero nodded. "Yeah, I know, but I don't think any of us slept well last night. Why don't we-"
CLANG!
An arrowhead crashed into the ground next to Sakura's head. "HOEEEEEEE!" Everyone scrambled for cover. "Who is attacking us?" Mia asked. "I have no idea! I can't see anyone!" Syaoran replied as he jumped behind a rock on the beach. Then there was silence. Syaoran dared not peek and see what happened until he heard, "Here they are! We've captured them!" Then he heard Sakura pleading. "What are you saying? We don't speak Chinese! We don't know what we've done, but we're sorry!"
Syaoran grabbed the pendant around his neck and summoned his sword. He didn't know who those men were, but they were speaking Chinese. "Leave them alone!" Syaoran screamed back in Chinese. He spotted three men with swords and bows aimed at Sakura, Tomoyo, and Mia, who were trapped at the side of a tree. At once, the guards spotted Syaoran and dropped their gear. "Ah, those clothes. They are of the Li clan, of that I am sure. Tell me, are these friends of yours?" Syaoran nodded. "Yes, they are traveling with me. Why have you captured them?" The three men bowed in respect. "We apologize. For you see, a great wedding is to be held in the family of the Li clan. The daughter of Li Feimei and Li Yokusuka, Aer-ling, is to be married! However, we received an unsettling threat. A note by a man of the name 'Koji' threatened to disrupt the wedding and kill the bride and groom. We thought he or she might have been one of these three. We saw you crash from a distance."
"KOJI!" Sakura exclaimed. "I don't know Chinese, but I heard Koji!" Syaoran turned to her. "He says there is going to be a marriage, but a threat from Koji has come." Syaoran focused on the men again. "My name is Li Xiao Lan. I'm after the very same man you are. My friends and I have been chasing him for a long time. We have reason to believe he's come here to Hong Kong."
The apparent leader of the three men smiled. "Ah, that is wonderful to hear. Come, you and your friends, Li Xiao Lan. You shall be staying at the guesthouse for the wedding. I was unaware of any Li with the name Xiao Lan, but those robes can only be of the Clan, and no Li would fall in battle and leave them intact, so you must be of the blood. This also means you and your friends must be great warriors, so. Ah, never mind. It shall have to wait until we reach the house. It's still quite a long walk. We want to get there before sunset. Come. Let's make haste."
As the party walked up the side of a tall hill towards the city of Hong Kong, Syaoran explained everything to them. ".And they seem to have some kind of deal in store for us if we go to the house." Sakura asked, "Is that wise to accept a deal we don't even know what it is?" Mia shook her head in disagreement. "From what I gather, accepting the offer, no matter how bad, is the only way to get into the house for a long enough time to protect the bride and groom from Koji."
As they reached the top of the hill, the city of Hong Kong appeared. Sakura squealed in delight. "It's so pretty! Look at all those beautiful buildings and statues! I bet it would look even better if we had seen it from the port. We could have come in through there instead of crashing here." Tomoyo got a shot of it with her video camera while the three Chinese men weren't looking. "Yes, it's really a splendid view. But even for a thousand years in the past, it's a giant city."
They moved in closer to the city as the sun began to set. The buildings continued to grow in size as they approached it. When they finally entered the city, it seemed almost ten times the size it had appeared on the hill. "Wow! It's even more beautiful close up!" Sakura exclaimed, "but how are we going to find the house? The city is huge!" Syaoran replied, "Don't worry. It may be a thousand years in the past, but I at least know where my house should be." Mia stared vacantly away from the group. "Mia, what are you looking at?" Sakura asked. "I think. I've found. the house." She pointed straight down the road through the city. Everyone turned to see where she was pointing.
Sakura's eyes shrunk. "HOOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEE! That's larger than the rest of the entire city!" Sakura, Kero, and Mia fell to the ground. Sakura turned to Tomoyo. "That's even bigger than your house!" Tomoyo shook her head. "No, I don't think so. Our houses are about the same size and our estate stretches on for a bit more, but that's not important." A sweat drop rolled down both Syaoran and Mia's head as they listened to Tomoyo.
A minute later, they all reached the gate of the house; one of the guards who had found them ran to them. He spoke to Syaoran in Chinese through the gate. Then he opened it for them. Syaoran seemed in a state of shock.
"What's wrong?" Tomoyo asked. "You seem upset, Li."
Syaoran turned around with a scowl on his face. "Koji was here already! He stole a precious heirloom! Without it, no marriages can be held! And if this marriage doesn't take place, I'm not going to exist! Also, the heirloom. It's my mother's fan!"
Love and Peace! -Vash the Stampede