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Chapter VI: The Training

"Kinomoto-san!"

Sakura rubbed her eyes and saw her teacher in front of her.

"Hoe! Chie-sensei!"

Her classmates laughed and Sakura blushed. Behind her, Syaoran eyed her with worry.

Professor Chie stared at her for a few minutes before she continued her lecture.

"Are you alright?" Tomoyo whispered.

Sakura nodded and looked out the window, she saw Rhea waving at her from below.

Sakura learned that Rhea had been to several schools but she was discovered to smarter than her teachers. At a young age, she already had several degrees so she didn't have to go to school anymore.

Sakura smiled at her friend and waved back.

"Kinomoto-san! Are you paying attention?"

"Yes, Chie-sensei!" Sakura quickly answered.

"Then what is the answer to this equation?" She pointed at the board.

When Sakura stared at it, all she saw was a sea of numbers and letters.

"2x2 4x 4 = 0."

"2x2 4x 4 = 0?" She repeated.

"Correct!" Professor Chie looked surprised.

Ring!

"Class dismissed." She said.

"Nice work, Sakura-chan." Rika told her.

"You are really improving in math." Naoko smiled.

"Thanks." Sakura blushed.

"We are going to Twin Bells, are you coming?" Chiharu asked.

Sakura shook her head. "Tomoyo-chan, Meiling-chan, Syaoran-kun and I are going somewhere."

"Again?" Chiharu looked disappointed.

"Sorry. Maybe some other time."

"Okay then." Chiharu called Takeshi. "Yamazaki-kun!"

"Bye, Li-kun." Takashi waved goodbye to Syaoran as Chiharu dragged him out the door.

"It's amazing how you got that answer, Kinomoto-san." Meiling told her.

"I can't believe it myself." Sakura placed her school shoes inside her locker.

"What do you mean?" Syaoran waited for them.

"The answer just came into my head." Sakura explained.

"I gave you a telepathic message, silly."

"Hoe! Rhea-chan!"

"You surprised us." Tomoyo smiled at Rhea who jumped from an open window.

"Since I disturbed your lesson, I gave you the answer." Rhea skipped to Sakura.

"Uh… Thanks." Sakura said meekly as Rhea happily skipped away. "Does she always go through open windows?" She whispered to Syaoran.

"Not really." Syaoran replied. "Sometimes, she uses chimneys or walks through walls."

"Rhea-chan walks through walls?!" Sakura was wide-eyed.

Meiling nodded. "Once she appeared out of thin air when I was training in the garden. I was so surprised I fell into the pond. Honestly she's so weird! Even Master Remus finds her unpredictable."

"By the way." Rhea suddenly touched Sakura's shoulder, causing Sakura to jump. "Kaho said that you have to start training in using your magic to mass objects."

Sakura nodded. Ever since she found out about Francis Ducant more than a week ago, she has been training very hard under Eriol and Kaho. Her friends had helped her a lot and her abilities have slowly improved.

"The most important thing is that you learn how to use your magic correctly. Remember that you could change the magic of the cards to do things connected to them, like the time you made the Fly grow wings on your back instead of using your wand." Kaho once told her.

Sakura remembered those words by heart. Somehow, she felt that she must do new things with her powers soon.

The five of them rode on Rhea' s limousine, driven by Touya. He and Syaoran glared at each other first before they left the school.

When they arrived at the Opalake Manor, Tomoyo quickly rushed Sakura into a dressing room and made her wear a burgundy and red costume with long flowing sleeves and a puffy upside-down skirt.

"Are you ready now, Sakura-san?" Kaho asked Sakura as she entered a spacious room with mountains of rocks.

Sakura nodded as she eyed the rocks questioningly.

"Today, we are going to practice how good you are in transforming more than one objects." Kaho explained. "You will use the Sweet in transforming them."

Sakura nodded and took out her wand. "Key that holds the power of the stars, reveal your true form to me. I, Sakura, command you under our contract! Release!"

"So beautiful!" Tomoyo filmed Sakura with dreamy eyes.

"When are you going to grow out of your filming habit, Daidouji?" Nakuru asked her.

Tomoyo didn't hear her and moved to film Sakura at another angle.

"I've been asking her the same question for years." Meiling told Nakuru. "I don't think she'll ever grow out of it."

"Sweet!" The spirit of the Sweet card flew and sprinkled the rocks with colorful light which changed the rocks into various types of sweets."

"Acceptable." Remus entered the room in a business suit. "The objects look perfect on your first try."

"Welcome home, Master Remus." Eriol greeted.

"How was school today, Remus-sama?" Tomoyo stopped filming and smiled.

Remus passed by Eriol and Tomoyo with no sign of recognition. "I'm so tired. Can anyone give me a chair?"

Tomoyo reached for a chair but Meiling was quicker. "Here, Master Remus."

"Thanks." Remus sat down without looking at Meiling or the frowning Tomoyo.

"Okay." Kaho picked out a cupcake. "Now we'll start testing the taste."

"Are you going to taste them all?" Sakura asked her.

Kaho shook her head.

"Cerberus and Spinel sun are going to do it." Eriol entered the room followed by a wide-eyed Kero and a totally disgusted Suppi.

"They had a little fight this morning." Kaho explained. "They agreed to finish their fight with an eating contest.

"Which you will have no chance of winning, Suppi!" Kero laughed. "Man! I feel like I'm in heaven."

"I'm not going to lose to you, Cerberus!" Suppi retorted. "I'm beating you in everything you do, even on such a irrelevant contest."

"Don't you dare insult food!" Kero yelled.

"Why don't you relax as you watch them for a while?" Eriol told Sakura as she yawned.

Sakura nodded and sat by Syaoran.

"You're working too hard." Syaoran told her.

"It's ok." Sakura smiled. "I'm alright." Sakura smiled as she saw her guardian consuming sweets at an amazing rate. Suppi, however, just looked at the sweets with disgust.

Slowly, Suppi touched a cake and reluctantly placed it in his mouth. Gradually he started speeding up, and he then gave a happy yell as he finished the cake.

"Look's like Spinel Sun's the winner." Eriol smiled.

"But Kero-chan is almost finished." Sakura started but suddenly, Suppi started eating eating at an even faster rate than Kero. "Never mind."

After a minute, Suppi finished his side of the sweets and grabbed the last lollipop Kero was holding.

"It's mine!" Kero yelled.

"No, Mine!"

"I said it's MINE!!!" Kero quickly transformed, and so did Suppi.

They opened their mouths to release their attack, when they stopped and transformed back to their false forms.

"Kero-chan!" Sakura took her guardian in her arms. "Are you alright?"

"My stomach's aching." Kero answered.

"It's because you're so greedy!" Syaoran told him sternly, while Eriol helped Suppi at his side.

"Actually." Kaho held out her hand, which previously held the cupcake. There was a small stone instead. "You must make your spell more long lasting."

"I'm so sorry, Kero-chan. Spinel Sun." Sakura apologized.

"Sakura…"Kero said weakly as he fainted.

"Don't worry, they'll be alright." Nakuru took the two guardians away.

"At least her physical power's at prime level." Kaho told Eriol.

Eriol nodded.

Peering through a window, Rhea looked at the people inside the room without her usual happy expression. Instead, her face was blank.

"When will you take your part, Sakura?" Rhea whispered. "The sand s are flowing swiftly, the time must be soon."

Author's Note's:

1. I'm sorry that the chapter's longer than the previous ones. I wanted to write a few comic moments in the story so it won't be boring.

2. I want to thank Pickaboo for being the first person to write me a review. Thank you very much.

3. I also want to thank Li Kura-chan for her comments and help. I apologize for all the wrong I've done in the previous chapters, and I have corrected all I was able to find and changed a few of the lines to make the story more understandable.

4. About the suffixes, I'm sorry I wasn't able to explain how I planned to use them. One of the factors that attracted me to this Anime is how distinct traits were portrayed by almost every character, which slowly changed as they grow up.

I wanted to adopt that concept when I started writing this fanfic. I made a simple stylebook on how each character should be and one of that is how they address each other.

While I tried my best to keep the original casts' traits, I had to make new ones for both Remus and Rhea. Since they are Western-bred and they travel a lot, they naturally won't have time to adjust their speaking habits to the culture of the country they are presently in so they don't use suffixes.

As I mentioned in the previous chapter, I wrote Remus to call people by their last names and Rhea to call everyone nby their first names. I wanted Remus to show a bossy side and Rhea to show a carefree side.

In the story, Kaho, Nakuru and Eriol are related to the Reed family, so they and the Lis call the Opalakes, who are descended from the line of some of the most talented sorcerers in the family, with respect. I made them to call Remus and Rhea, Master and Miss, because they are referred to at International level.

5. Again I want to thank you, my readers and please give me reviews.