Disclaimer: I do not own any characters of CCS for they belong to Clamp,
however, I do own the plot to the story...-^_^-
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In case you are wondering:
~*~ : change of scene / change of POV / starting of story
' ' : Characters' thought
" " : Characters' speech
* *: Characters writing on whiteboard
Summary: Tomoyo had found out that she like the reincarnation of Clow Read on the day he left for England after Sakura had transform all Clow cards into Sakura cards...However she had also known that there is already someone else in his heart. Devastated, she shut herself off from everyone, including her best friend. What will happen if she turn into a mermaid, will her heart freeze or will her love save her from the cold- hearted beings?
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Chapter 2: Save by a Fish
Tomoyo sighed as she took a tiny bite into the corners of the sandwich that Sakura and her father had made. She had actually intend to not go to the picnic and called her best friend to tell her that she was taken ill, but Sakura seem to know her well enough and had send her an escort to make sure she made it to the beach for the picnic on time.
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Tomoyo was just sitting on the window sit in her room and quietly reading a book, or rather, staring blankly and flipping listlessly through the book when there was a knock on her door.
"Tomoyo-sama? There's someone waiting for you in the living room. He say he is here to bring you to the beach," A muffled voice came through from the other side of the room. Tomoyo stiffened.
'What? I didn't know they would go to such extent to make sure I'm present at the picnic...'
Aloud, she spoke, "I'll be down in a minute..."
Right after she finished saying this, she went to her walk-in wardrobe and picked a random dress and went over to the vanity brush her hair, which was currently slightly tangled up.
When she went down to the living room, Yukito and Touya were sitting on one of the couch and patiently waiting for her while sipping the tea that one of the maids had served. Those two were practically inseparable and Tomoyo had already known that the two of them probably share something more than just friendship.
"Sorry to keep the two of you waiting, Touya-san, Yukito-san," She politely addressed her two guests, promptly slipping her smiling mask back on.
"It's okay, Tomoyo-chan, Kaijuu was worried that you would not be able to make it so she sent the two of us here. It should be us to apologise for bothering you."
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So here she was, at the beach, taking in the salty-scented sea breeze while listening to the rhythmic motion of the waves crashing onto the shore. Currently, though she was sitting together with her friends, something about her had separate her from her group as she stared, enthralled by the vast oceans in front of her.
"Tomoyo-chan, is there something wrong?" A sweet, gentle probing voice had intruded on her thoughts. Tomoyo gave Sakura a smile, a genuine smile for the first time before turning back to the oceans.
"Ne Sakura-chan, the oceans are beautiful and enchanting, isn't it?" She asked, raising one of her arms to point towards the sea. Without waiting for Sakura to reply, she frowned suddenly and exclaimed.
"Wait...I saw something out in the sea!" Indeed, there was someone, or something, out in the depths of the oceans, flailing its arms frantically.
"Oh, Kami-sama, someone is drowning!"
Tomoyo immediately stood up and leaving her sandals behind, she ran towards the wet, sandy shore, where the cooling waves tickled her feet.
"Tomoyo-chan, wait up!" Sakura gasped as Tomoyo muttered something like, "I have to save the person."
With that, she jumped into the sea and swim towards the flailing arms.
"Syaoran-kun, we better be on a lookout, Tomoyo-chan can't swim beyond ten feet...[is it ten feet?]," Sakura murmured worriedly as she saw her friend jumped into the oceans.
Syaoran, instead, sweat dropped as he stared at his girlfriend, an incredulous look on his face as he almost shouted, "What?! Is she trying to kill herself? She should have let anyone of us save that pair of arms which belong to whoever is drowning right now!"
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Tomoyo had barely managed to keep her buoyancy in the water as she fought to keep swimming towards the flailing arms, which had already sunk deep and disappeared into the endless blue sea. She glanced back slightly to find that she had swam much further than she had intended and she wished that Sakura would know that she would not be able to hold on for long...
"Sakura-chan, tasukete!..." She managed to choke out weakly before sinking into the waters herself, bubbles rushing out from both her mouth and nose as it rushes in to cut off her air supply. She just caught a glimpse of something silvery, in which the shape resemble that of a fish tail, and of arms embracing her as darkness swallowed her senses...
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"Kami-sama! Daidouji's gone! I can't sense her aura anymore...Sakura-chan..." Syaoran cursed slightly to himself in Cantonese so that the others who were with him at the picnic wouldn't know. Sakura had a look on her face, which somehow say, 'Oh no, this can't be happening!!...'
"Kuso, gaki, don't frighten Kaijuu. She is already shaken as it is," Touya snapped.
"I am no monster, Onii-chan. We should stop wasting our time standing here unless we want to lose Tomoyo-chan to the oceans," Sakura cried indignantly at her older brother before looking back out to the sea, where Tomoyo was.
After making sure that no one was around to witness Sakura summoning her star staff, she invoked her magic and call upon one of the cards.
"Float, release and dispel!" After which Sakura was encased in invisible barrier. She had insisted that she go alone to look for Tomoyo and ran straight into the waters, where it parts slightly when the barrier touches it.
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Tomoyo coughed a few times before her eyes opened to new surroundings, an a very strange one at that. She was in a cave-like place, but surprisingly, it was very spacious and not at all dim. Well, it's dim but Tomoyo could see well enough so it isn't that dim.
'Where am I? This place looks like some kind of a Lagoon...In fact, it look like someone has been living in here...'
"Oh, you are awake. I'm so sorry that I have got you into so much trouble. You see, we were playing truth or dare and I was sent up to the surface to pretend that I'm a victim of the sea to see if anyone would have the heart to save me," A new voice spoke. It has a child-like quality, with a gentle sweetness to it. Tomoyo looked, confused at the voice that had came out of nowhere and she realise that there were some occupants in this cave-like lagoon.
"Who are you? And where am I?" Tomoyo inquired politely. The voice, had belong to this certain girl with long wavy light-brown hair flowing past her shoulders had came into view, wearing what looked like shell-like things strung together to cover her breasts and a piece of tattered and wet, sea-green cloth around her hips, showing off her toned body and bare legs perfectly. She also had a pale complexion, but not of an unhealthy pale, that remind Tomoyo of water nymphs sitting on the rocks in the middle of nowhere in ancient times.
The girl smiled sweetly and apologetically at her, "I'm Chiharu. But I cannot tell you where you are because you are quite far away from the shore and I cannot bring you back to the shore because there just have too many humans around."
Tomoyo's eyes probably were the size of two full moon when the girl mention her kind not as 'people' but as 'humans' but being the calm and collected girl that she was, she recovered quickly.
"So you say you were playing true or dare with your friends? Where are they?" Once again, Tomoyo hoped the girl called Chiharu would not think she is a busybody or something. Chiharu just nodded, seemingly to have read her mind.
"It's okay to ask. My friends have went off in search of food that would have suit your taste. I'm quite rueful to have to tell you that you have to stay here for now."
"What? No I can't stay here...Sakura-chan and the others would be very worried for me and I don't want to cause my friends any worry," Tomoyo protested lightly as she got up from the wooden, damp table that she realised that she was lying on and was standing up to inquire the exit but instead had collapsed onto the slightly slimy, stoned ground with a wet 'plop'.
After regaining her mind, she rolled over onto her back and managed to sit up slightly with the support of both her elbows, she was about to frown at her legs and silently admonishing herself when her eyes widen in surprise and shock.
"Kami-sama! What happened to my legs?!" Tomoyo whispered, a huge sweat drop was seen on her forehead as Chiharu giggled. No doubt Tomoyo was still wearing her cornflower blue dress that reached past her knees over a beige-yellow plain cotton shirt, but Tomoyo saw a silvery, blue-green fishtail where her legs should have been, peeking out from under her dress. Her already fair face had possibly turn paler, a shocking contrast between her complexion and her raven hair, as she looked up at Chiharu.
"What did you do to my legs?..."
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WoLfePaws: Well, what do you think? Very sorry if this came late...I am currently putting most of my attention on my 1st fanfic-'Love Only You'... so for those of you who is about to kill me for making you wait [if there is any]..Gomen ne...anyway, go and read 'Love Only You' if you fancy and review please...Thank you
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In case you are wondering:
~*~ : change of scene / change of POV / starting of story
' ' : Characters' thought
" " : Characters' speech
* *: Characters writing on whiteboard
Summary: Tomoyo had found out that she like the reincarnation of Clow Read on the day he left for England after Sakura had transform all Clow cards into Sakura cards...However she had also known that there is already someone else in his heart. Devastated, she shut herself off from everyone, including her best friend. What will happen if she turn into a mermaid, will her heart freeze or will her love save her from the cold- hearted beings?
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Chapter 2: Save by a Fish
Tomoyo sighed as she took a tiny bite into the corners of the sandwich that Sakura and her father had made. She had actually intend to not go to the picnic and called her best friend to tell her that she was taken ill, but Sakura seem to know her well enough and had send her an escort to make sure she made it to the beach for the picnic on time.
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Tomoyo was just sitting on the window sit in her room and quietly reading a book, or rather, staring blankly and flipping listlessly through the book when there was a knock on her door.
"Tomoyo-sama? There's someone waiting for you in the living room. He say he is here to bring you to the beach," A muffled voice came through from the other side of the room. Tomoyo stiffened.
'What? I didn't know they would go to such extent to make sure I'm present at the picnic...'
Aloud, she spoke, "I'll be down in a minute..."
Right after she finished saying this, she went to her walk-in wardrobe and picked a random dress and went over to the vanity brush her hair, which was currently slightly tangled up.
When she went down to the living room, Yukito and Touya were sitting on one of the couch and patiently waiting for her while sipping the tea that one of the maids had served. Those two were practically inseparable and Tomoyo had already known that the two of them probably share something more than just friendship.
"Sorry to keep the two of you waiting, Touya-san, Yukito-san," She politely addressed her two guests, promptly slipping her smiling mask back on.
"It's okay, Tomoyo-chan, Kaijuu was worried that you would not be able to make it so she sent the two of us here. It should be us to apologise for bothering you."
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So here she was, at the beach, taking in the salty-scented sea breeze while listening to the rhythmic motion of the waves crashing onto the shore. Currently, though she was sitting together with her friends, something about her had separate her from her group as she stared, enthralled by the vast oceans in front of her.
"Tomoyo-chan, is there something wrong?" A sweet, gentle probing voice had intruded on her thoughts. Tomoyo gave Sakura a smile, a genuine smile for the first time before turning back to the oceans.
"Ne Sakura-chan, the oceans are beautiful and enchanting, isn't it?" She asked, raising one of her arms to point towards the sea. Without waiting for Sakura to reply, she frowned suddenly and exclaimed.
"Wait...I saw something out in the sea!" Indeed, there was someone, or something, out in the depths of the oceans, flailing its arms frantically.
"Oh, Kami-sama, someone is drowning!"
Tomoyo immediately stood up and leaving her sandals behind, she ran towards the wet, sandy shore, where the cooling waves tickled her feet.
"Tomoyo-chan, wait up!" Sakura gasped as Tomoyo muttered something like, "I have to save the person."
With that, she jumped into the sea and swim towards the flailing arms.
"Syaoran-kun, we better be on a lookout, Tomoyo-chan can't swim beyond ten feet...[is it ten feet?]," Sakura murmured worriedly as she saw her friend jumped into the oceans.
Syaoran, instead, sweat dropped as he stared at his girlfriend, an incredulous look on his face as he almost shouted, "What?! Is she trying to kill herself? She should have let anyone of us save that pair of arms which belong to whoever is drowning right now!"
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Tomoyo had barely managed to keep her buoyancy in the water as she fought to keep swimming towards the flailing arms, which had already sunk deep and disappeared into the endless blue sea. She glanced back slightly to find that she had swam much further than she had intended and she wished that Sakura would know that she would not be able to hold on for long...
"Sakura-chan, tasukete!..." She managed to choke out weakly before sinking into the waters herself, bubbles rushing out from both her mouth and nose as it rushes in to cut off her air supply. She just caught a glimpse of something silvery, in which the shape resemble that of a fish tail, and of arms embracing her as darkness swallowed her senses...
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"Kami-sama! Daidouji's gone! I can't sense her aura anymore...Sakura-chan..." Syaoran cursed slightly to himself in Cantonese so that the others who were with him at the picnic wouldn't know. Sakura had a look on her face, which somehow say, 'Oh no, this can't be happening!!...'
"Kuso, gaki, don't frighten Kaijuu. She is already shaken as it is," Touya snapped.
"I am no monster, Onii-chan. We should stop wasting our time standing here unless we want to lose Tomoyo-chan to the oceans," Sakura cried indignantly at her older brother before looking back out to the sea, where Tomoyo was.
After making sure that no one was around to witness Sakura summoning her star staff, she invoked her magic and call upon one of the cards.
"Float, release and dispel!" After which Sakura was encased in invisible barrier. She had insisted that she go alone to look for Tomoyo and ran straight into the waters, where it parts slightly when the barrier touches it.
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Tomoyo coughed a few times before her eyes opened to new surroundings, an a very strange one at that. She was in a cave-like place, but surprisingly, it was very spacious and not at all dim. Well, it's dim but Tomoyo could see well enough so it isn't that dim.
'Where am I? This place looks like some kind of a Lagoon...In fact, it look like someone has been living in here...'
"Oh, you are awake. I'm so sorry that I have got you into so much trouble. You see, we were playing truth or dare and I was sent up to the surface to pretend that I'm a victim of the sea to see if anyone would have the heart to save me," A new voice spoke. It has a child-like quality, with a gentle sweetness to it. Tomoyo looked, confused at the voice that had came out of nowhere and she realise that there were some occupants in this cave-like lagoon.
"Who are you? And where am I?" Tomoyo inquired politely. The voice, had belong to this certain girl with long wavy light-brown hair flowing past her shoulders had came into view, wearing what looked like shell-like things strung together to cover her breasts and a piece of tattered and wet, sea-green cloth around her hips, showing off her toned body and bare legs perfectly. She also had a pale complexion, but not of an unhealthy pale, that remind Tomoyo of water nymphs sitting on the rocks in the middle of nowhere in ancient times.
The girl smiled sweetly and apologetically at her, "I'm Chiharu. But I cannot tell you where you are because you are quite far away from the shore and I cannot bring you back to the shore because there just have too many humans around."
Tomoyo's eyes probably were the size of two full moon when the girl mention her kind not as 'people' but as 'humans' but being the calm and collected girl that she was, she recovered quickly.
"So you say you were playing true or dare with your friends? Where are they?" Once again, Tomoyo hoped the girl called Chiharu would not think she is a busybody or something. Chiharu just nodded, seemingly to have read her mind.
"It's okay to ask. My friends have went off in search of food that would have suit your taste. I'm quite rueful to have to tell you that you have to stay here for now."
"What? No I can't stay here...Sakura-chan and the others would be very worried for me and I don't want to cause my friends any worry," Tomoyo protested lightly as she got up from the wooden, damp table that she realised that she was lying on and was standing up to inquire the exit but instead had collapsed onto the slightly slimy, stoned ground with a wet 'plop'.
After regaining her mind, she rolled over onto her back and managed to sit up slightly with the support of both her elbows, she was about to frown at her legs and silently admonishing herself when her eyes widen in surprise and shock.
"Kami-sama! What happened to my legs?!" Tomoyo whispered, a huge sweat drop was seen on her forehead as Chiharu giggled. No doubt Tomoyo was still wearing her cornflower blue dress that reached past her knees over a beige-yellow plain cotton shirt, but Tomoyo saw a silvery, blue-green fishtail where her legs should have been, peeking out from under her dress. Her already fair face had possibly turn paler, a shocking contrast between her complexion and her raven hair, as she looked up at Chiharu.
"What did you do to my legs?..."
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WoLfePaws: Well, what do you think? Very sorry if this came late...I am currently putting most of my attention on my 1st fanfic-'Love Only You'... so for those of you who is about to kill me for making you wait [if there is any]..Gomen ne...anyway, go and read 'Love Only You' if you fancy and review please...Thank you