Disclaimer: I do not own Card Captor Sakura.
Summary: It is the story about a girl called Sakura who falls in love with a boy who saves her life (Syaoran). Unknown to her, Syaoran has a secret! By daylight he is the cold, handsome boy Syaoran, but by nightfall, immersed in the enchantment of moonlight he becomes the mysterious white wolf of the forest. Will Sakura learn of Syaoran's secret before all hope is lost?
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DM:
Hououza:
Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!!! I'm gonna get me a copy of the CCS Second Movie!!!
Julia and Tania:
Wow- that was your favorite chapter? ^_^ lol! "good ol' moon" indeed!
nishikaze:
Thankyou for being such an astute and observant reader and for taking the time to appreciate all of the detail in this story; I shall certainly take your suggestion into consideration! To tell you the truth, it is often difficult to pick up on any disruptions in the flow of a story when you've been writing it chapter by chapter, and for such a long time. It is very interesting to hear the opinion of one who has read it all the way through at once, as I believe you have. Arigato!
Sheryl:
Hey…you called me an arsehole!! LOL!
AnonymousT:
Hmmm, well, earlier in this story you might remember this riddle:
Beyond the Gate of Lehn,
Shalt dream and power rise,
Its sacred threshold if shalt thee pass,
The truth in shadow lies…
The Key Lies in
Seven Precious jewels,
Set upon God's noble crown…
Simply translated, all of the Jewels open a special gateway beyond which a mysterious truth can be found. What truth?? I shall say no more for the time being…^_~
GodsGirl7:
I DO keep saying "Or will their love be doomed forever?" a lot, don't I? LOL!!...It's purely for dramatic effect- Of course their love will survive! What kind of a lame ass writer would I be if I ended it badly for them?!! XD
As for the particulars of how Syaoran came to be immortal, we shall learn this soon… I just figured Sakura had enough to deal with in one chapter; her boyfriend turning into a wolf and all! ^-^
Cherryblossom-crystal:
Nah. I've got a special role for Yue later on in this story. You'll see!
Syaoran- Lover:
I like Meiling too- so I shan't make her too hateable or evil! ^_^…she does genuinely seem to care about (even love??) Syaoran so she really can't be all that bad! Hmm…I've left you with a lot of questions haven't I? LOL! Don't worry, they shall all be resolved in due time. As for how he learned about the prophesy, all I have endeavoured to mention is that he bought a tiny black book with all the clues about the ancient runes from a traveller in the Shadow District. Syaoran's best friend is trivial really, not too significant in this story. He doesn't actually know what Meiling is, but he knows that she is a girl that Syaoran had fallen in love with. I imagine he would have grown up and aged naturally in all the time that Syaoran was an immortal. Does that answer your question?
Everyone:
We've hit 200 reviews!!! YEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Thankyou beautiful people!!!
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With apologies for being so "mean" and leaving a massive cliff hanger in the previous chapter (HAHA Are you kidding me?! I love doing that!*evil laugh*) I present to you…a new chapter.
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Chapter 10:
"N-No…" Sakura whispered; her turquoise green eyes wide with bewilderment.
She slowly shook her head, denying all that she saw before her as though it were merely a strange, feverish dream from which she hoped to wake.
Her lover…
…And the White Wolf…
…were one and the same.
It didn't make any sense.
Syaoran Wolf gazed quietly back at her, his glorious snow white fur shimmering with a kind of godly incandescence in the pale light of the moon.
He padded a few steps forward, moving closer toward Sakura. He stopped in his tracks when she inhaled sharply and took a step backward.
Syaoran's heart clenched as he recognised the expression written across her features.
It was the very one his own family had worn when he had first transformed before them so many years ago…
The look of pure fear.
'Sakura…' Syaoran's mind whispered.
He tried to approach her once more but it seemed the closer he came, the more frightened she grew and she took another step backward, her eyes wide and her hands trembling.
'Sakura…it's me…I won't hurt you!' Syaoran pleaded.
How he longed to speak to her, to have his human voice…how he longed for her to be able to read his thoughts! That way, she'd have nothing to fear.
'God, Sakura, I love you…I would never hurt you."
A torrent of incoherent thoughts and confused emotions threatened to explode through the flood gate of Sakura's mind; shattering her ordered, sensible world into fragments of splintered debris. For one panicked moment, she feared she might drown.
So she ran.
This time, Syaoran did not follow her. He watched forlornly as she disappeared through the trees, somewhere in the soft din of that moonlit forest and felt, for the second time in his life, the feeling of rejection...
The feeling of his own heart breaking.
Syaoran had shown Sakura the truth, and she in turn had made her choice. A sinister voice, somewhere within the depths of his mind mocked him,
Who can blame her?...who could love what you are?
It was true. What was there to love? He was a monster. A freak.
And it was clear that she wanted nothing more to do with him.
He lowered his regal, wolfish head and mournfully closed his eyes.
Just as a single crystalline tear rolled down his furry white cheek, he gave a surprised yelp. Excruciating pain tore across his senses; a sudden searing force that hammered down at his skull through the temples, blinding him completely. Syaoran Wolf fell to the ground and began to convulse uncontrollably, violently. He howled in pain as his thoughts became white washed, his vision a blur as his small furry body twisted and thrashed on the earthen floor, consumed in the blistering surges of electricity that blasted through his body, like fire spreading rapidly through his very veins.
'W-What's…happening…to…me?'
Syaoran's mind could barely form coherent thoughts for all the giddiness with which he was overcome. One thing was certain, even the pain of transforming couldn't compare to this…this was serious…this was…
Darkness poured across Syaoran's vision and he found himself sinking toward the bottom of it….
The sharp pain had vanished, replaced with a soft, dull aching…but even that seemed to be fading…
As he slid sluggishly deeper into that fathomless darkness, Syaoran wondered whether this was what it felt like to die. Was it true that you had to follow the light on the other side of the darkness to get to heaven?
Heaven would certainly be the better alternative …to a life without Sakura.
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For the second time that day, Sakura found herself running; weaving in and out of the tall rainforest trees that loomed above her; spindly black giants silhouetted in the eerie glow of the moon.
The moon…
With a shudder, she remembered that several surreal moments ago, the moonlight had done something to Syaoran's body…he had transformed into a wolf…
But not just any wolf… A voice in her mind whispered softly… the White Wolf…
Her special creature…the elusive, beautiful white wolf whose amber eyes shone like fire in the gloom, that gentle, majestic creature that had saved her life and Tomoyo's one cold evening…the very creature with whom she had never any reason to fear.
Sakura stopped in her tracks.
She had never realised until now just how similar Syaoran and the White Wolf were. The Syaoran she had first met in the Dark Forest was after all; serious, solitary and brave. Later, as she grew to love him, she would learn that he was loyal, dependable and gentle as well. She had never any reason to fear when he was with her. He was her protector, her lover…her soul mate.
"Oh no…" Sakura whispered, "…what have I done?"
A fleeting vision of Syaoran Wolf's soft amber eyes played across her memory; the expression of hurt and disappointment in them, only moments before she ran away…
Her heart gave a painful lurch. "Oh Syaoran…please forgive me!"
In an instant, Sakura spun around and began to run back in the direction she had come; praying silently that Syaoran was still there…
If he was not, there was a very real chance she would never see him again.
"Syaoran! I'm so sorry!!" Sakura shouted as she drew into familiar surroundings, the cluster of trees beneath which she and her love had been standing just minutes before.
"Syaoran?"
She couldn't see him for all the darkness that had fallen as a cloud passed across the moon. She suddenly panicked. Perhaps he'd already left?
"Syaoran!!" she called, the tears of frustration and guilt already gathering beneath her lashes. He must really hate her now…
Sakura took a step forward and nearly tripped over an object lying in her path. It felt warm and soft against her boot. Her heart stopped.
Syaoran Wolf was sprawled on the forest floor, his soft fur dishevelled and his eyes closed. He lay deathly still.
"Syaoran!!" Sakura cried. She knelt down, gathered his small furry head in her lap and tenderly stroked his cheek. What had happened to him? Was he hurt? ...Had she caused this?
"Wake up! Syaoran…"
Sakura gently shook his shoulders but when he did not stir, cold dread flooded her veins…
No…he couldn't be…he wouldn't..!
Warm tears fell freely from Sakura's eyes as she lay her cheek against his, cradling his limp body in her arms. The racking sobs consumed her body and she began to rock back and forth on her knees, grief threatening on the verge of hysteria. She couldn't understand this…Why had she run away? Why had she been so blinded by her stupid fear and abandoned him?!...She could have told him…before it was too late…
"I love you, Syaoran." She whimpered, clutching his body against her own.
It was then that a soft voice spoke and Sakura spun around in alarm.
"It's alright. He's still alive."
Sakura watched as a young girl with long black odangos and glassy red eyes stepped forward from the deep shadow of a tree. She recognised her as the girl she had seen with Syaoran, earlier in the clearing.
"M- Meiling?!" She cried, drawing a breath.
Meiling nodded solemnly and knelt down beside Sakura. She placed a hand just above Syaoran Wolf's small white torso and closed her eyes. It was with some amazement that Sakura watched Meiling's hand glow; pale and luminescent yellow, as though alight with the very pulse of magic.
She withdrew her hand and opened her eyes.
"It's as I thought." She murmured, "He lives…but he will need a place to recover."
"What should I do?" Sakura whispered, I can't take him into the hospital in Aurana,
no one will understand!"
It seemed that all of Sakura's confusion and resentment toward Meiling and been forgotten in the moment. All she could really think about was Syaoran and how she was going to help him.
Meiling thought for a moment. "Is there someone you can trust?" She asked Sakura, "By daybreak, Syaoran will transform into a human again and we can't have anyone freak out over this."
Sakura immediately thought of the one person with whom she could confide in anything, the one person whom she had known since infancy and who had never abandoned her through thick and thin.
"There is someone…" Sakura began, "But she lives in my home town, Jas'mynn- It'll take too long to get there and with Syaoran in this condition…"
"It's alright." Meiling interrupted. "It can be done."
Sakura stared at Meiling, stunned into silence as she wrapped her arms around Sakura's back.
"Hold tightly to him." Meiling warned with a brief glance at the unconscious wolf in Sakura's arms. "This'll only take a second."
Sakura was about to open her mouth in protest when an invisible, gut- wrenching force shook her to her core. She tightened her grip on Syaoran Wolf and watched in awe as their surroundings became a blur. The air rushed violently around them, awash with a whirl of bright colours and incoherent sounds flying past their ears. Meiling had her eyes closed as though in a state of meditation and Sakura remembered Syaoran mentioning something about her being a demon…an immortal like Syaoran.
Sakura had barely the time to think more about the matter before the earth stopped spinning and their surroundings came into focus once more.
Wait…the surroundings…
She stared in wonder at the quaint town just feet away from where they stood. The tiny cottages with thatched rooves covered with snow, the chimneys billowing wafts of curling smoke from glowing fireplaces, the silent chapel, the cider trees…
"H- How…this is Jas'mynn!" Sakura cried in astonishment, gathering Syaoran up into her arms as she stood.
Meiling smirked slightly. "Teleportation. One of the many perks of being me."
She then turned on heel and began to walk away in the direction of the Dark Forest.
"W-Wait! Meiling- where are you going?!" Sakura called.
"Uh…I generally don't like to be around people. You just do what you need to do with Syaoran and I'll see you later!" Meiling called over her shoulder.
Within moments she had climbed the trunk of a wide tree at the edge of the forest and disappeared among its boughs.
Sakura glanced down at the sleeping Syaoran Wolf in her arms and without another moment to lose, headed into the town at a jog toward Tomoyo's house.
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Tomoyo was having a wonderful dream. It was about her very pretty best friend Sakura Kinomoto, who was dancing on a spot lit, cherry blossom filled stage wearing a really awesome costume…it was pink with lots of frills and bows and stuff. ^_^
Tomoyo loved making Sakura new clothes- she was just so kawaii!
Tomoyo vowed to remember what this very frilly, pink, ribbony costume looked like so that when she woke up from this oh- so -pleasant dream she could make it for real. And then she'd take a photo of Sakura wearing it! …or maybe she could make a music video and call it the "Sakura is so Kawaii Music Video"!...That was such a great idea!!...
At that moment, a very loud noise interrupted Tomoyo's dreaming and she sat up irritably in bed. As she was still half asleep, it took her a couple of seconds for her to realise that the noise was actually someone knocking (pounding erratically, is a better term for it) on the front door.
Tomoyo slid out of bed, still rubbing sleep from her eyes and shuffled out of her room in a daze. She reached for the woollen blanket draped over the living room couch and wrapped it around her shoulders. What time was it? It was true that she and her mother liked to sleep early but that was only because they both had to get up so early in the morning for work. And what kind of person went visiting at this time of night anyway?
When Tomoyo unlocked the front door and pushed it open, she nearly fell over in shock.
Sakura stood on the doorstep, shivering in the cold and holding a kind of white sleeping animal draped across her arms.
"Sakura?! What's wrong?...and what's th-"
"Tomoyo, I'll explain everything in a minute! Right now I need your help!" Sakura cried, the words tumbling out in a rush.
Tomoyo stared at Sakura with a look of concern. Her clothes were muddy and torn in places, her face smudged with dirt and it even looked like she'd been crying. If there was one thing Tomoyo hated, it was seeing a best friend in distress!
Tomoyo nodded and cupped Sakura's face firmly within her hands. "Of course! Tell me what I can do!"
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For what must have been the twentieth time in the past hour, Sakura drew the blanket up around Syaoran Wolf's sleeping form, restless and concerned in her silent vigil. Syaoran Wolf was lying on a makeshift bed of straw in one of the old stable stalls situated behind the Daidouji house, his small white body quivering slightly in the pale orange glow of a single oil lamp that Tomoyo had placed on the floor.
Sakura sighed and kissed Syaoran Wolf gently between the ears. Her body ached with exhaustion, demanding the sleep that she would not permit. When Tomoyo walked into the stable at that moment and handed her a steaming mug of cocoa, Sakura accepted it with a grateful, weary smile.
And grateful she was. That evening, Sakura had cried and poured her heart out to Tomoyo with all of the pain and hurt and shock that had come of the day's events; her traumatic experience with The Informant in the Shadow District, finding Syaoran together with Meiling in the rainforest sanctuary, Syaoran's strange story of immortality and finally, his transformation into the White Wolf. She had half expected Tomoyo to laugh at the utter ridiculousness of it all, but as usual, her best friend merely gathered her into her arms and smiled unjudging, with the optimism that Sakura needed.
"Everything will be alright", Tomoyo had whispered. And for the moment, it filled Sakura's heart with ease.
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Sakura watched the shadows fade, their forms stretching slowly across the stable walls as the light changed; the moonlight waning, surrendering to the expanding dawn skies.
All through the night, she had stayed by Syaoran's side, watching the steady rise and fall of his small furry chest. Now, as the first tranquil rays of the sun filtered through the sole window of the stall, Sakura waited in anticipation.
Sunlight would see to a gentler transformation to that of the moon; its warm glowing rays illuminating his soft white fur with an unearthly brilliance, so bright that Sakura had to quickly shield her eyes.
She watched in awe as Syaoran's wolfish form began to elongate beneath his blanket; his jaw shortening, his claws and white hairs receding. His pointed, furry ears had retreated to the sides of his head once more and were starting to resemble their usual shape while his paws had lengthened into hands and feet with all fingers and toes slender and intact. Before too long it seemed, Syaoran's handsome, human form had materialised before her and Sakura smiled in adoration. Syaoran's usually furrowed brow was relaxed beneath a familiar mop of chocolate brown hair and his soft lips were slightly parted. She reached out and gently stroked his face.
At her touch, Syaoran stirred awake and his gorgeous amber eyes fluttered open. He smiled benignly as his eyes fell upon Sakura but as he remembered her reaction of the previous night, his lips curved into a frown.
"What are you doing here?" His voice was hurt and laced with an indifference she knew she deserved.
All at once, the sound of his voice broke something within her and she knew she would not be able to control her emotions. Sakura rushed forward, threw her arms around Syaoran's neck and sobbed deeply into his chest front.
"Syaoran... I- I'm so sorry…I- I'm such an idiot…. you must hate me…"
"You are an idiot."
Syaoran's voice was harsh and she winced at the sound of it.
Sakura drew her face away from his chest and bowed her head in shame. She did not dare to look at his face; she did not think she could bear to see the resentment and betrayal beheld there…
Suddenly, Syaoran's hands came gently around Sakura's face and tilted it slowly to meet his. She drew a surprised breath when she met his gentle gaze, his warm expression… devoid of any anger whatsoever.
"As I was saying, you are an idiot…for thinking I could ever hate you." His lips curved into a warm smile. "I really do love you, and I'm afraid that's all there is to it."
Sakura blinked a couple of times and Syaoran had to laugh at the comical expression of pure bafflement on her cute face. As if to expel any doubt within her mind, Syaoran leant forward and placed a chaste, tender kiss on her lips and grinned. Overwhelmed with joy, Sakura giggled and embraced him tightly once more. Syaoran wrapped his strong arms around her.
"I don't care what the circumstances; wolf, immortal or not…" she whispered, tucking her head beneath his chin. "As long as I can stay by your side forever, none of that matters."
Syaoran smiled contentedly into her hair, his heart swelling with so much joy to hear these words that he thought it might explode. He wondered whether Sakura knew just how deeply they moved him…
At that moment, Sakura pulled away from beneath Syaoran's chin and placed her lips gently against his own. Syaoran's eyes fluttered closed and he felt himself melt at her touch. Ever so slowly, he moved his lips against hers, kissing her deeply with all of the love and longing in his heart. When she felt him gently tugging at her bottom lip, her mouth obligingly parted, allowing him entrance.
And for what must have been several minutes, or perhaps poetically speaking; "blissful eternity" for our two young lovers ^_~, each explored the soft contours and surfaces of the others lips, savouring the taste of each other. Just as one of Syaoran's hands moved to the small of Sakura's back, just beneath the bottom of her shirt, their somewhat steamy interplay was interrupted…as Tomoyo walked into the stable holding a tray of food. (aww… The limitations of a PG13 ^_^)
Tomoyo gave a surprised shriek and shielded her eyes, almost dropping a bowl of porridge as she did so.
"Argh!! I'm so sorry! I came to bring you guys breakfast but I can see you're busy! I'll just go now!"
Blushing furiously, Tomoyo dashed out of the stable at lightning speed, bringing the tray of food with her.
It took a couple of seconds for Sakura and Syaoran to work out what Tomoyo had meant by "busy" before they themselves turned beet red. They realised with embarrassment that they must have looked in a somewhat compromising position; Syaoran nude (well, when he was a wolf he wasn't wearing any clothes), Sakura sitting on his lap with her arms around him, both of them kissing madly…this would be difficult to explain to Tomoyo!
Sakura, still blushing, glanced up at Syaoran and laughed. "I think maybe we should get you some clothes."
"I think that would be a good idea." Syaoran agreed.
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Sakura towelled herself off, grateful for the hot soapy bath that Tomoyo had run for her that morning. After she'd put on some dry, clean clothes, Sakura emerged from the bathroom and wandered into the kitchen where she found Tomoyo and Syaoran (fully clothed in a shirt and trousers that Tomoyo had taken from her Dad's room) sitting around the table having breakfast.
"Where's your mother, Tomoyo?" Sakura asked, as she took a seat at the table and reached for a slice of toast.
"She had to go into the store for an early staff meeting so she just missed us. It's rather a good thing…I'd have had trouble explaining all of this to her!" Tomoyo giggled as she took a sip from her coffee mug.
Tomoyo's mother, Sonomi Daidouji was the successful owner of a very large toy store in Wilhouma City on the other side of the mountain and was nearly always away from home. Her husband, Tomoyo's father had passed away a few months before Tomoyo was born.
Sakura nodded and started to spread marmalade on her toast. Just as she had taken her first bite, the thunderous clamour of breaking glass caused her to choke back in surprise.
A kind of small yellow bird seemed to have smashed through the glass of one of the kitchen windows and landed with an audible splash in Syaoran's bowl of porridge. Everyone stared at it, horrified.
Syaoran reached quickly into the white slush of his porridge with his fingers and scooped the little creature into his hand. He nearly fell off his chair in shock.
"KERO!! What the hell…?!!" He shouted.
"Yo Kid…whattup?..heheh…" Kero muttered with a drunken grin. He looked rather dizzy.
Another voice interrupted at that moment, causing all of them to turn their heads. Meiling's face appeared through the large hole in the broken kitchen window, her ruby red eyes narrowed with irritation at the guardian beast.
"Geez! Sorry 'bout that. I tried to stop him but he went all loopy." Meiling muttered.
"Oi! Who ya callin' loopy, brat!" Kero spat, utterly indignant. "I was trying to get to my human- who ran off without telling me where he was going! And when he supposedly passed out, you teleported him to another town and it took me all night to find him again! Something very bad could have happened!!!"
Syaoran was rather touched by this display of concern from the guardian beast but he still felt bad about Tomoyo's broken window.
"So…you flew through the window?" He asked, frowning slightly.
"Ehh…sorry 'bout that." Kero said, scratching his head uncomfortably. " But I got desperate! I thought maybe you were kidnapped and being held hostage by these two girls."
He pointed at Tomoyo and Sakura who both sweat dropped. Neither of them had any idea what was going on.
Tomoyo smiled nervously. She rose from the table, walked over to the kitchen pantry and pulled out another loaf of bread. "Guess we've got more company for breakfast!"
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Five Jewels glimmered on the Daidouji kitchen table;
one pale white, one a golden yellow, one jade green, one azure blue and one a bright ruby red.
As everyone gathered around the table, they listened quietly as Syaoran named each in turn:
The Jewel of the Moon, The Jewel of the Sky, The Jewel of the Land, The Jewel of the Water and The Jewel of the Sun.
Syaoran recalled in full, every one of the guardians and the obstacles he had had to face in order to obtain each Jewel. Kero was especially interested in The Jewels of the Moon and the Sky as he had witnessed neither one of those captures.
"Well, this one," Syaoran explained, holding up the golden yellow Jewel of the Sky, " Was taken from the bird spirit 'Fly' at the Cradle. The Jewel was disguised as one of Fly's majestic feathers".
Sakura nodded. The "Cradle" was the second highest peak atop of Mt. Jhuls and was frequented by mountaineers in the summertime.
"And this one?" Tomoyo asked, running a finger across the icy smooth surface of the shimmering white Moon Jewel.
Syaoran paused for a quiet moment, as if reflecting upon a special moment in the distant past. He took the Jewel carefully from Tomoyo's hand.
"This one came from me." He said softly.
Everyone drew a surprised breath and Meiling stood abruptly from her seat.
"WHAT?!" she exclaimed.
Syaoran nodded solemnly. He glanced at Sakura and smiled slightly when she placed her small warm hand into his.
"On my first night as an immortal, when I discovered that I had turned into a wolf, I looked despairingly up at the sky. I cursed the moon for the magic that had betrayed me and stripped me of my humanity." Syaoran explained. Again he glanced at Sakura and she gave his hand a reassuring squeeze. He continued his story.
"On the same night, I wept out of pity for myself, pity for my foolishness for unwittingly losing my humanity and pity for the lack of hope in my life. Perhaps the universe felt sorry for me…for the last tear that I wept, dropped to the ground and materialised…into this Jewel."
Kero's small black eyes widened with astonishment. "Y- You mean you're the guardian of the Jewel of the Moon?!"
Syaoran nodded slowly. "It would appear so. At first I didn't know what this stone was, but during my quest to find a cure for myself I discovered that this Jewel was one of seven, and that combined, they opened the gates of a magical sub-dimension; the Gates of Lehn…If I can open this gate, I shall meet the one who resides there… Eriol, the most powerful sorcerer in the universe; the one who not only made me immortal but will see to the end of this curse."
Sakura touched her forehead, feeling faint and overwhelmed with all that Syaoran had told them. Syaoran noticed this and drew his arms protectively around her.
"But I don't understand…" Sakura whimpered, "Why did Syaoran feel so much pain last night? Why did he fall unconscious....?"
Everyone fell into silent thought.
It was Meiling who finally spoke and everyone turned to look at her.
"It's because he's running out of time." She murmured.
Sakura's eyes widened as the memory of a certain dream, envisioned the night before last, flashed briefly across her thoughts. That cold sense of dread, that feeling of helplessness she had felt when she had watched him…falling to his death. She remembered having risen with a start, her heart pounding and her clothes soaked in sweat. At the time she had sensed he was in danger…that he might be running out of time…
"What do you mean?" Syaoran asked sharply.
Meiling shrugged indifferently, though she could not hide the expression of concern from her face.
"It's just a feeling I have. I've been dealing with magic for a long time now and I usually have a pretty good knack at guessing its patterns." Meiling explained. "If I were you, I'd hurry up and find the last two Jewels before the next seven or so moon cycles are over."
"What will happen if Syaoran doesn't find them before then?" Tomoyo asked timidly.
Up until now she had remained perfectly silent. At this very moment, her balled knuckles had turned white.
Meiling glanced mournfully at Syaoran before looking quickly down at the table. Her ruby red eyes and the emotion within them were hidden beneath her dark fringe. When she spoke again, her voice was barely above a whisper. Needless to say, her every syllable was heard.
"Then there's a chance that Syaoran will remain a wolf…
…forever."
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DM: Damn! That chapter took some effort! Absolute buggeration!! XD
I hope that answered at least some of your many, MANY questions, and hopefully, from now on I will only have answers for you…unless I think of some other twisted way to complicate this story even further!! Gah!!!
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