Chapter 2



Something was making him uneasy... He then stopped and looked around, where he noticed the fading light of a lantern coming up the road behind him. Fear struck his heart as he searched frantically for a place to hide from the stranger. But it was too late, they had already quickened their pace to catch up with him. He soon realized that it was the lady that he had met before.

"You left this behind.." She said as she handed him the lamp. He mumbled thanks and took the lamp. "Now... I want to know your real name child"

"Why" He asked coldly "What does it matter to you?"

"That will be seen soon enough boy. But for now, I want to know your name. And if you don't tell me then you may come to an unfortunate end..." She smirked as she brought a knife from out of her cloak.

"Fine... FINE!" He yelled angrily. "My name is Clow... You happy now?"

"Yes... quite happy actually. And my brother will feel even better to know that you're alive, for now." She said calmly as she turned around and walked off into the darkness. Clow watched her as she went. He felt even more miserable about his life. He just wanted to get away from it all...

He stormed off towards his home, stumbling in the dark. He wished that his mother was here. He wished that his father was still alive. Things always turned out right when his father was there. Something about his old man made people jumpy... They all seemed to be scared of him.

He then stopped running. He had just realized something... The words that the lady had said kept running through his mind.

And my brother will feel even better to know that you're alive, for now...

For now...

For now...

He didn't like the sounds of that... What did these strange people want with him? Why was HE so important? He decided that he despised his weak and pathetic existence. But he also vowed to change that...

The moon was almost above him when he reached his house. All the lights were out, and that meant that his sisters had gone to bed. He silently opened the door and crept in. He then walked into the living room and retrieved his dagger from the mantle piece.

As he walked out of the living room, he realized that he would need more then just a weapon if he planned to leave so that he could train. So he walked up the stairs and into the bedroom that once belonged to his parents when they were still there. He went to the dresser and took a golden key off it. It was shaped like a sun on the top. He put it in his pocket and ran down to the kitchen, there he put food in a pack and slung the pack across his back.

"This will have to be good enough" He thought to himself as he grabbed the oil lamp of the table and lit it. "I can't carry anymore if I hope to be long gone before morning"

Tears came to his eyes as he though about what he was doing. The tears ran down his cheeks and dropped to the ground as he ran. The mud splattered his boots whenever he ran through a puddle in the dark. Just as the sun was coming up clow stopped. He was tired from running. He stumbled over to the side of the road and collapsed in the soft grass. He was breathing heavy as he pulled his canteen out of the pack. The ice cold water sloshed into his mouth. Once he swallowed, he closed his eyes and fell asleep.

He tossed around as he slept. He dreamed about an emerald eyed girl with auburn hair. There were others there too. A boy with chestnut brown hair and fierce eyes, another girl was there as well. She had midnight black hair. They were all laughing and having fun. Clow smiled as he slept, he wanted to have fun too.

The sun was going down again when he awoke. "Have I really slept the whole day?" He thought "I've lost too much time, I must go now" He stood up to leave, but he felt hungry. "Well... there's nothing to do about it now, there's no time to eat" So he went, running once again in the dark, hungry, and wondering about the strange dream. Little did he know that he would soon meet the emerald eyed angel from his dream. Little did he know that a hidden power would awake within him and he would be called upon to save the world from the darkness that corrupts it.

And so begins the quest for the future and the legend of the soon to be sorcerer from the past. In the next chapter the two eras collide and the true battle begins.

Preview of chapter 3

"What is this place?" Clow asked in a shaky voice. His hand clutched the golden key that was his fathers. His eyes closed and he waited for the creature to strike him.

"Don't worry... I won't hurt you. I promise" The golden lion said.

"You... YOU LIE!" Clow yelled as he ran off into the woods. The creature chased after him yelling for him to come back. But Clow did not listen, he was looking at the girl standing a little ways from him. Those emerald eyes... so familiar...