Alive Once Again
Sakura walked down the streets of Tomoeodo, deep in thought. She just left Syaoran's apartment. Questions swam through her mind. How did Misty know all this? What did she mean when she said that 'we're' watching over you? All she got was blank confusion. Shaking her head to rid her thoughts, she entered King Penguin Park and sat at one of the benches, the warm rays of the sun touching her skin, her eyes closed. Letting out a sigh, she stared at the cloudless sky. Everything was happening so fast! First she gets attacked by Shadow, meets Syaoran, fights K'van, then she finds out her and Syaoran were the two chosen ones in the prophecy! Lying her elbows on her knees, she rested her chin on her hands. She let all her worries, concerns about the future, and confusion leave her and replaced it with calm serenity. A vision swam in her mind, a vision of a certain amber-eyed boy with messy chestnut brown hair. She felt a blush creep her cheeks just thinking about him! She shook her head to rid the picture and the blush, but neither left. She could feel a warm tingly feeling in her that was hard for her to describe. -Why do I feel this way?-
Then, that warm tingly feeling was replaced by fright and pain. Her face turned pale. Her heart felt like it were being torn apart, and as if a part of her was missing. She felt - incomplete. What made her feel like that? At the same time, she found her self reaching for Syaoran's aura, but found it slowly fading away. Her eyes widen in horror, fearing to worst for him. Quickly getting up, she ran with all her speed towards Syaoran's apartment, every second that past, his aura got weaker.
-Onegai! Be okay Syaoran-kun!- she thought franctically.
She ran down the streets, but mentally cursed to herself as she felt a dark power. She came to a halt and concentrated to where it may be coming from, but her head swam from dizziness. It was hard to pin point it, insince it was circling all around her. A dark eerie black, that only the magical eye could see, circled around her, causing her to shiver. She reached out a hand to touch it, but quickly with drew as a static shock, shocked the tips of her fingers. Her eyes stayed on the darkness that started to get closer and closer to her as they spinned. That's when the darkness finally got close enough to her that her skin was completely touching the dark substance. She held herself tightly as she gritted her teeth in pain to keep from crying out. Pain was all she felt, from the tip of her toes, to the top of her head, throbbed with pain she never felt before. It felt like she were being shocked by a thousand bolts, which she probably was being shocked by.
-Where's Yue-san and Kero-chan when you need 'em?- Sakura thought to herself.
It then felt like her skin was being torn from her. Steam sprouted from her. Not being able to control herself anymore, her mouth opened, yet no sound came out. She slowly opened her eyes, only half way and gritted her teeth again as she gathered all the strength she could, and reached for her key. Her arms felt heavy, but she somehow pulled it from around her neck. She said through painful gasps, the chant to transform the key to the staff. A vision of one of her cards popped through her mind. -Windy! Onegai! Help me!-
Hearing her Mistress's thoughts of plea, a pink card flew from her pocket and transformed to its true form, the wind spirit, Windy. It blew the black substance that was shocking its Mistress, and Sakura fell on all fours, gasping for air, eyes wide open. Windy returned back to its card form, and Sakura pushed herself up, her legs shaking under her weight. Shaking her head to rid the pain that rised in her, she looked around for the source of the power, but felt nothing. Choosing to ignore it completely, Sakura once again reached for Syaoran's aura, but felt her heart stop when she couldn't find it. Her breath caught in her throat when she felt tears stinging her eyes. She shook uncontrollabley. Clenching her fists, she somehow moved her legs and broke into a run - towards Syaoran's apartment. She ran by a grove of cherry blossom trees, the petals slowly falling to the side walk. Once she reached the apartments, she stumbled up the stairs and reached for one of the doors that led to the inside of Syaoran's apartment. Twisting the door knob, she tried to open it, but it was locked. She started to bang on the door frantically.
"Syaoran-kun!" she called. No reply. Her tears spilled freely. "Syaoran- kun! Open up! Onegai!" Still no reply. She slowly slid to her knees. "Syaoran-kun. . . . iie. . . "
After a while of helpless minutes, Sakura forced herself to her feet and pulled out a card. "Windy! Blow this door down!"
Windy appeared and blew the door down with its fierce wind, while returning to its card form. Sakura stood at the frame of the door for a while, a wave of coldness and emptiness rushing over her. She took a step in and walked over the door. She heard nothing, but her heavy breathing and her footsteps as she ventured into the living room. She turned a ghostly white and nearly broke down crying when she saw Syaoran lying ontop a puddle of blood - dead. She ran towards him, "Syaoran!" but stopped when she saw a green shield surrounding him. Sakura placed both hands on the shield, and stared at Syaoran, tears sliding from her cheeks and landing on the carpet.
"So, you're the Card Mistress," said a voice.
Sakura turned sharply around in suprise, to see Drake, an evil smirk on his face.
"Who are you?" Sakura asked.
"I'm Drake, servant to Master Zero," he replied.
She glared. "Are you the one that did this to Syaoran-kun?"
"Maybe I did. . . and maybe I didn't. . . " he said, tauntingly. "Why? What are you gonna do about it?"
Sakura felf her blood boil with anger. Her eyes burned with revenge. Her tears disappeared and Sakura gripped her staff until her knuckles turned white. She gritted her teeth, a low growl escaping her throat.
"Aww. . . is the Little Cherry Blossom mad?" Drake mocked.
Her aura flared all around her in anger. The pink aura that usually felt loving, warm, and caring, now was full of hate, revenge, and anger she never felt before. She dug her hands in her pockets, to reveal two Sakura Cards. She flung them both infront of her. "Sword! Dash!" Her staff turned into a sword, and with the speed of Dash in her, she rushed at Drake, who was a bit suprised at first, but regained his composure and narrowly blocked Sakura's attack with his sword.
Sakura swung her sword up, down, left, right, diagonally, horizantally, but Drake somehow managed to block all her attacks. Her anger was what kept Sakura going. Strength she never knew she had rised in her. With every move she made, her attacks, her power, and her speed grew. Drake's eyes widened as he felt Sakura's power rising. -What incredible power!-
Sakura raised her sword, and brought it down on Drake's right shoulder, leaving a deep gash in it as blood rolled down his arm. He gripped his shoulder as he gritted his teeth in pain. Glaring at Sakura, he let out a battle cry and continued to attack with his un-injured arm. She easily blocked his attacks. Their swords collided in thin air, and both gripped their swords as they tried to push the other back. Sakura, getting tired of this, kicked at Drake's stomach, making him stagger back wards, gasping for air. Seeing that Drake was to busy to notice her, she ran at him and punched him in his left jaw, then she twirled around him and hit the back of his neck with the hilt of her sword. He fell to the ground with a thump, breathing heavily, eyes tightly shut.
"Fight me," Sakura sneered as she picked him up by the back of his collar, lifting him to his feet. "Or are you a coward?"
Drake turned and faced her, his eyes narrowed. -I don't care what Master Zero said about keeping her alive, I'm going to crush her and make her wish she were never born!-
Picking up his sword that he dropped when Sakura kicked him in the stomach, he pointed it at her. Sakura stared at him calmly. Sakura was suprised she felt no fear, nor scared or frightened. She felt she could take on whatever Drake sent at her - at least she hoped she could. She watched as an eerie silver light glowed at the tip of his sword, just like Shadow's, except a different color. Unexpectedly, it shot at her, like a laser beam, except a bright silver light envoloped her. Sakura ignored the pain she felt, she ignored the brightness of the light as she cept her eyes open, a single thought running through her mind. . . -Syaoran-kun. . . - Her eyes turned white, and memories of the battle with Shadow swam through her mind. She remembered how her staff changed, she remembered the words she chanted, and she remembered how she killed him. She could feel her powers growing, her pink aura slowly being covered by a bright gold one. The silver light was drowned by the golden one, and Drake's eyes widened in horror. Sakura's staff floated infront of her, and a white glow formed just inches from her chest. It flew into the star on the staff, and both became one. The star staff grew longer, it changed from pink to white, the wings grew, the star changed from yellow, to a golden color. Sakura subconsciously raised her staff, pointing it at the cieling. The cieling changed. It now looked like the night time sky, full of bright silver stars, and the moon. Instead of the same words she said when she fought Shadow, different ones flowed from her mouth:
"Stars and moon
Heaven and Light
I call upon you
To shine your might
Powers of the stars
And Heaven and Light
Here me,
The Goddess of Light
Shooting Might!
The stars from above, and the moon, all seemed to twirl around in circles. Then they all glowed a bright white, and flew straight down wards like shooting stars, at a frightened Drake. They all hit him, and Drake was envoloped by the light, his mouth opening, letting out a yell of terror. He slowly evaporated - gone forever. The cieling turned back to normal, and Sakura, still in the same state, walked towards the shield that held Syaoran. She touched it with the tip of her fingers, and it died down. She knelt by Syaoran, lying his head on her lap. The whiteness in her eyes disappeared, and her emerald green returned, but the star staff stayed the same. Sakura placed the staff aside and put one hand over his wound, and the other over his faintly beating heart. She smiled to herself, glad he was still alive, or she wouldn't be able to do this. Both Sakura's hands, and Syaoran, glowed gold as she pulled at it and slowly let her powers into Syaoran's. His heart beat, started to beat at its normal rate, color returned to Syaoran's skin, and his chest rised up and down as he breathed lightly. The wound in Syaoran's side was slowly sealed up and the bleeding stopped.
His amber eyes slowly opened, only to be met by a pair of emerald green. He slowly sat up and stared at a smiling Sakura.
"What happened?" Syaoran asked.
In reply, Sakura threw her arms around his neck, tears of joy streaming down her face. "Syaoran-kun! I'm so glad that you're alive!"
Syaoran was suprised at first at Sakura's action, but his eyes softened as he hugged her back, smiling faintly. "Hai, so am I demo. . . would you mind explaining to me what happened?" No reply. He looked down at her to see she had fallen asleep. Syaoran could feel Sakura's powers, and noticed that she was drained of it. Looking around his apartment, he noticed how messy it was. His couch was over turned, papers and books littered the carpet, the coffee table was upside down, and the windows were shattered. Gently picking up the limp figure of Sakura, he walked into his room and layed her on the bed. -At least my room isn't jacked up- he thought to himself as his amber eyes wandered around the room, then landed on the sleeping beauty on his bed. -She looks so peaceful when she's sleeping- he thought, moving a strand of hair from her face. -She looks like an angel. . . Matte! Did I just think that?- He felt himself blushing. Syaoran's thought's were interrupted as he heard knocking at his window. He walked to it and pulled to curtains apart to reveal Kero. He opened the window, letting the guardian beast fly in.
"I felt a dark power, and another strong power coming from here," Kero said. "I also felt your's demo it was weak. Then I felt the dark power die, and I could feel your powers strengthening as the strong power slowly transported their's to your's." That's when he noticed Sakura. "Sakura must've somehow released her true powers, and transported some to you."
Syaoran also looked at Sakura, suprised.
"Now could you please explain to me what happened?" Kero said.
"I can't remember much but battling this guy named Drake who worked for Zero and Hades. He stabbed me with his sword, and I thought I was dead. The next thing I remember was waking up and seeing Sakura."
A moan escaped Sakura's throat as she stirred in bed, but she didn't wake up. Kero and Syaoran went to her side, to see her face looked troubled.
-Sakura's Dream-
Sakura found herself once again standing on a barren land, the same blurry figure standing yards infront of her, laughing crazily. The only thing that was different about her dream, was Syaoran who stood by her side. Sakura's eyes wandered all around her. Why did this place seem so familiar? Even if it looked barren and deserted, she couldn't help but feel attached to it. Tears streamed down her face. But why was she crying for? Her heart felt empty. Her mouth opened, yet she couldn't hear herself speak. Her mouth widened, this time making it look like she was shouting- except there was no sound. Syaoran embraced her tightly and Sakura seemed to be crying in his shirt. But. . . why? That's when she felt Syaoran's arms being pried away from her. She found her and Syaoran surrounded by darkness. Her hands reached out for Syaoran's as she found him and her being pulled away from each other by an invisible force.
Both their mouths opened and closed as they spoke, but still she heard nothing, but saw everything. Their finger tips brushed, but a strong jirk pulled them back. Her eyes widened as she saw him slowly disappearing into darkness, just as her vision was covered by it- by the darkness.
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Emerald green eyes shot open, and Sakura sat up sharply in bed, panting. She was bathed by the light of the moon that shined through the window, making her face look pale. Regaining her breath, she looked around her to find herself in someone's room. Looking down, she noticed Syaoran fell asleep on a chair by the bed, and Kero slept on his shoulder. Sakura smiled at the two. Pulling the covers off her, she quietly snucked out the bed room and into the living room. She stared at the mess that littered the apartment, then walked to the door and opened it, as she stepped out, meeting the cool breeze of the night. Closing the door behind her, she sat at the steps and put her elbows on her knees, resting her chin on her palms, while looking up at the shinning mooning and the twinkling stars that covered the nighttime sky.
That's when she heard it.
The whispers of the stars, the moon, the sky, the wind, the earth, and the trees. She tried to make out what they where saying, but couldn't. Closing her eyes, she concentrated on the whispers.
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Meanwhile, Syaoran still sat on the chair, asleep. Yet he could hear the whispers rining in his ears and in his dreams. His eyes slowly opened, except there were no pupils to see.
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The pupils in Sakura's eyes slowly vanished and her mouth opened as she spoke in a voice that did not belong to her, "The earth may be shadowed in darkness, and hope will slowly vanish. . . "
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". . .but faith will live on," Syaoran said, in a different voice that did not belong to him, "and so will the chosen ones. . . "
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". . .The Goddess of Light, and the God of Earth," the voice continued through Sakura, "will destroy the evil. . ."
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". . . with the powers of their love. . ." said the voice through Syaoran. Kero's eyes slowly opened and he looked at Syaoran, who's pupils in his eyes were gone. He listened carefully to what he was saying. "Only then. . ."
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"Will Light conquer Darkness. . . " the two voices finished. The pupils in Sakura's eyes slowly disappeared as she blinked in confusion. What just happened? She could not remember.
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Syaoran's eyes returned back to normal as he blinked, bewildered. He saw Kero, floating infront of his face, looking at him seriously.
"Tell me. . . do you remember what you just said?" Kero asked intently.
"Huh? What are you talking about?" Syaoran asked.
He shook his head. "Never mind. . . "
Noticing the bed was empty, Syaoran said, "Where's Sakura-chan?"
"Right here."
Both looked up to see Sakura at the door frame.
"You really should rest you know," Syaoran said as he got up and walked up to Sakura, pulling her back towards the bed and pushing her by the shoulders to sit down. "Well, first, Stuffed Animal and I-"
"What did you say gaki?" Kero asked.
"-would like you to explain what happened earlier," Syaoran continued, acting as if he heard nothing.
Sakura explained how she fought Drake, how she defeated him, and how she healed Syaoran.
"Don't you ever do that again!" Syaoran said seriously. "Never, I mean, NEVER transport your powers to me again. Do you hear me?"
"Hai, I hear you, demo why?" Sakura asked meakly.
"Because you could've died from the power drain!" he cried out. "Now promise me."
"I promise," Sakura grumbled.
"What I don't understand is how you were able to release your powers," Kero said, deep in thought, "and how you were able to give him some of your powers when you never learned how to."
"I'm not really sure how I did it," Sakura said. "I just did it."
"Do you think you could do it again?" Kero asked.
She shook her head. "Iie."
Kero sighed, and thought as he looked at the two chosen ones, closely, -If only they knew. . . -
His thoughts were interrupted by the ringing of the phone. Syaoran picked it up. "Moshi, moshi, Li Syaoran speaking."
"Li-san!" someone cried on the other line.
"Daidouji-san?" Syaoran said uncertainly.
"Hai, it's me. I was just wondering if you knew where Sakura-chan was," Tomoyo said. "I called her house demo no one picked up. So I was wondering. . . "
"If I knew where she was? Hai, I do," Syaoran said. "She's over here."
There was no reply at the other end, then Tomoyo said in a teasing voice, "And why is she at your house? Hm?"
"It's a long story," Syaoran mumbled.
"I have time, do explain," Tomoyo said.
"Not now," he said. "Tomorrow at school."
"Fine, fine," Tomoyo said, sighing in defeat. "Well tell Sakura-chan I said hi. Ja ne!"
With that, Tomoyo hung up the phone, and so did Syaoran.
"Who was that?" Sakura asked.
"Daidouji-san," he said simply. "She called wondering where you were and she said hi."
Sakura just nodded just as the door bell rang. Syaoran went to the living room and opened the door, to see Tomoyo and Eriol.
"Daidouji-san? Hirrigazawa?" Syaoran said. "Demo - didn't I just talk to you on the phone?"
"Hai, you did, on my mobile phone," Tomoyo said, waving her pink cell phone.
"And how'd you know where I lived?" Syaoran asked, letting the two in.
"Simple," Eriol replied, "I was with Tomoyo, and with my help, we followed the traces of your's and Sakura-chan's aura."
Syaoran hit himself mentally. -Duh!-
"Tomoyo-chan? Eriol-kun? What are you two doing here?" Sakura asked, once Syaoran, Tomoyo, and Eriol entered the room.
"We just wanted to drop by," Tomoyo said sweetly.
Eriol's face turned serious. "And to know what happened earlier. I felt a dark power here. . . "
Syaoran explained what happened to him when he fought Drake, then Sakura continued after him.
". . . So that's all that happened," Sakura ended with a sigh.
After she was done, Eriol sat, deep in thought. Sakura looked at Eriol.
"I know you know something about all this Eriol-kun." Sakura stated. "I got a visit in one of my dreams by Clow Reed, so I KNOW you KNOW something so spill it."
"You already know that the two of you are the chosen ones," Eriol said, "and you already know about the new evil. What the two of you know. . . is all I know as well, and that's all Clow Reed knew also."
"Demo - do you know why we're the chosen ones?" Sakura asked hopefully.
"Hai, hai I do," Eriol said.
"Then tell us why is it that we're the chosen ones," Syaoran said.
Eriol let out a sigh, "I cannot say."
Tomoyo watched the conversation. She looked at Syaoran, then at Sakura. She smiled as realization dawned on her. "I think I know why. . . "
Eriol looked at her. -Of course- he thought -She could find out the answers with out me even having to tell her.-
Syaoran and Sakura looked at Tomoyo. What does Tomoyo and Eriol know that they don't?
"Tomoyo-chan! Onegai! Tell us!" Sakura pleaded.
Tomoyo smiled secretly. "Gomen, I can't!" Sakura and Syaoran fell anime style.
"Some help the two of you are," Syaoran grumbled.
"I know the reason why," Kero inputted, but added once he saw Syaoran and Sakura look at him, "and iie I can't tell you." Both sighed in defeat.
"Fine," they mumbled in unison.
"Don't worry Sakura-chan, Li-san, you'll soon figure it out on your own," Tomoyo assured, trying to sound comforting.
"Hmph," was Sakura's reply, not feeling the least bit confident about finding the answer.
-If only they knew. . . - Tomoyo, Eriol, and Kero thought at the same time as they looked at the pouting Sakura and Syaoran who crossed his arms.
"Oh Sakura-chan," Syaoran said suddenly as he remembered something.
"Nani?" Sakura asked.
Syaoran went to his desk and picked up the star staff, which was still white, had the golden star, the white wings were longer, and so was the staff (about a couple of inches taller then Sakura.) "I found this in the living room." He handed it to her.
"It's my star staff," Sakura said, examining it.
"How'd it come to be like that?" Tomoyo asked.
"When I released my power, it changed," Sakura replied.
"Do you know how to change it back?" Eriol asked.
She shook her head. "I could try. . . " Concentrating on the staff, she closed her eyes.
All of a sudden, the staff shrunk, the white turned to pink, the gold turned to yellow, and the wings shrunk, turning back to its original state. After that, Sakura turned it back into the star key, smiling in satisfaction. "There!" Looking at her wrist watch, Sakura let out a yelp. "Oh no! 'tou-san and Onii-chan will be home soon! It's almost ten! I gotta go!"
"We should be going too," Tomoyo said. Looking at Syaoran, she said, "You know you could come and stay at my mansion, at least until you get someone to fix your apartment."
"Arigatou Daidouji-san, demo I prefer to stay here and fix it myself," Syaoran said, letting out a sigh. "I wouldn't want anyone to be asking me questions as to what happened."
Tomoyo nodded and her, Eriol, Kero, and Sakura walked out the room, Syaoran following them.
"Well, ja ne my cute little descendent," Eriol said, with his usual smile as he walked out the front door, Tomoyo closely following behind as she gave Syaoran a slight wave with her hand.
"I'll see you tomorrow Syaoran-kun," Sakura said, walking towards the door, "Ja ne!"
"Ja ne," Syaoran said softly. Once they were all gone, Syaoran closed the door.
Turning on the lights in the living room, he looked around at all the mess. Letting out another sigh, he thought -Guess I better get workin'. . . . This sure is goin' to take a while. . . -
Meanwhile, Sakura walked up to her front door and opened it. "'tou-san, Onii-chan, I'm home!" No reply. Sakura turned on the lights. -I guess they're not home yet from work. . . - Kero flew in behind her.
"They're not home yet?" Kero asked.
"Guess not. . . " Sakura said, her and Kero walking into the living room, but stopped when they saw Fujitaka and Touya standing by the couch, looking at them. "When did you two get home?"
Neither said anything, they just stared at her.
"'tou-san? Onii-chan?" Sakura said uncertainly as she walked closer to them, Kero following.
Kero flew up to Fujitaka's face, but it seemed like he were just staring right through him. Sakura waved her hand infront of Touya's face.
"Hello?" Kero said, flying in circles around Fujitaka's head. Unexpectedly, Fujitaka grabbed Kero, who tried to gasp for air in his tight grip. Fujitaka then threw Kero towards the wall, hard. He hit his back against the wall, and slid to the ground, unconscious.
"Kero-chan!" Sakura called out, about to run to him, but Touya grabbed her wrist. "Hey! Let go of me!" She demanded, but Touya's grip was to tight for her as she struggled to get out of it. He then started to twist her arm.
Sakura gritted her teeth in pain as he brought her arm behind her back, twisting it more painfully. -Onii-chan, 'tou-san. . . . what happened to you?- She watched as Fujitaka prepared to punch her. Sakura ducked. So instead of punching her, Fujitaka punched Touya, making him loose his grip on her wrist. Holding her swollen wrist, Sakura stumbled towards Kero and picked him up, then ran towards the stairs, Fujitaka and Touya running right behind her. Sakura felt a hand wrap around her ankle, making her fall forward on the stairs. She kicked her leg, making Touya let go, as she picked herself up and ran all the way up the stairs and into the room, slamming the door. Sakura opened her window just as the two men bursted through the door. Quickly climbing onto the sill of the window, Sakura was about to jump on the tree when Fujitaka and Touya eached grabbed one of her arms. Sakura gripped onto the sill as they dried to drag her back in. Finally getting out of their grasp, Sakura jumped out the window, and tried to grab the branch of the tree with her swollen arm, but her grip slipped from pain and she landed heavily on the grassy ground, holding Kero close to her chest. Pushing herself up, she limped as fast as she could down the streets of Tomoeodo, both Fujitaka and Touya watching her from her window.
Taking a glance over her shoulder as she limped away, she looked at Touya and Fujitaka straight in the eyes. That's when she noticed that their pupils were missing, and their eyes looked like they were in a hypnotic trance. -Onii-chan. . . 'tou-san. . . - She walked through King Penguin Park and sat at one of the benches. "Now what am I going to do?" Sakura asked to no one in particular as she stared at the still unconscious Kero. "I can't go back home. . . I don't want to worry no one by asking them if I could sleep over. . ." She pushed all her worries away, she didn't really care right now because she wasn't even tired, what she was more worried about was her dad and brother. What happened to them? Who did that to them?Letting out a sigh, Sakura looked down at Kero, who lyed on her lap. Kero let out a moan and opened his tiny black beady eyes, only to meet Sakura's emerald green.
"Sakura-chan? What happened?" Kero asked.
Sakura explained what happened after he blacked out, and how she found out Fujitaka and Touya were hypnotized.
"Kero-chan, what are we going to do?" Sakura cried out after she finished her explanation.
"We're goin' to somehow have to break the spell cast upon them," Kero said in a thinking manner.
"Hai demo - how?" Sakura said, in the same thinking manner.
"First we have to find out WHO put the spell on them," Kero said. Sakura nodded. "We also need to find out where they are."
"And how are we goin' to do that?" Sakura asked.
Kero sweat dropped. "I have no idea." Then he asked, "Did you feel any kind of dark magic around them or somethin'?"
Sakura put her index finger on her cheek in a thinking manner. "Now that I think about it, hai I felt something."
"Do you think you could try to feel for the same dark feeling?" Kero asked.
"Iie, I don't think so," Sakura replied, "because if I do, then I'll just be feeling for the darkness that's in Onii-chan and 'tou-san." She looked up at the moon as she asked again, "Kero-chan, what are we going to do?"
"I wish I knew Sakura. . . " Kero admitted, "I wish I knew."
Sakura walked down the streets of Tomoeodo, deep in thought. She just left Syaoran's apartment. Questions swam through her mind. How did Misty know all this? What did she mean when she said that 'we're' watching over you? All she got was blank confusion. Shaking her head to rid her thoughts, she entered King Penguin Park and sat at one of the benches, the warm rays of the sun touching her skin, her eyes closed. Letting out a sigh, she stared at the cloudless sky. Everything was happening so fast! First she gets attacked by Shadow, meets Syaoran, fights K'van, then she finds out her and Syaoran were the two chosen ones in the prophecy! Lying her elbows on her knees, she rested her chin on her hands. She let all her worries, concerns about the future, and confusion leave her and replaced it with calm serenity. A vision swam in her mind, a vision of a certain amber-eyed boy with messy chestnut brown hair. She felt a blush creep her cheeks just thinking about him! She shook her head to rid the picture and the blush, but neither left. She could feel a warm tingly feeling in her that was hard for her to describe. -Why do I feel this way?-
Then, that warm tingly feeling was replaced by fright and pain. Her face turned pale. Her heart felt like it were being torn apart, and as if a part of her was missing. She felt - incomplete. What made her feel like that? At the same time, she found her self reaching for Syaoran's aura, but found it slowly fading away. Her eyes widen in horror, fearing to worst for him. Quickly getting up, she ran with all her speed towards Syaoran's apartment, every second that past, his aura got weaker.
-Onegai! Be okay Syaoran-kun!- she thought franctically.
She ran down the streets, but mentally cursed to herself as she felt a dark power. She came to a halt and concentrated to where it may be coming from, but her head swam from dizziness. It was hard to pin point it, insince it was circling all around her. A dark eerie black, that only the magical eye could see, circled around her, causing her to shiver. She reached out a hand to touch it, but quickly with drew as a static shock, shocked the tips of her fingers. Her eyes stayed on the darkness that started to get closer and closer to her as they spinned. That's when the darkness finally got close enough to her that her skin was completely touching the dark substance. She held herself tightly as she gritted her teeth in pain to keep from crying out. Pain was all she felt, from the tip of her toes, to the top of her head, throbbed with pain she never felt before. It felt like she were being shocked by a thousand bolts, which she probably was being shocked by.
-Where's Yue-san and Kero-chan when you need 'em?- Sakura thought to herself.
It then felt like her skin was being torn from her. Steam sprouted from her. Not being able to control herself anymore, her mouth opened, yet no sound came out. She slowly opened her eyes, only half way and gritted her teeth again as she gathered all the strength she could, and reached for her key. Her arms felt heavy, but she somehow pulled it from around her neck. She said through painful gasps, the chant to transform the key to the staff. A vision of one of her cards popped through her mind. -Windy! Onegai! Help me!-
Hearing her Mistress's thoughts of plea, a pink card flew from her pocket and transformed to its true form, the wind spirit, Windy. It blew the black substance that was shocking its Mistress, and Sakura fell on all fours, gasping for air, eyes wide open. Windy returned back to its card form, and Sakura pushed herself up, her legs shaking under her weight. Shaking her head to rid the pain that rised in her, she looked around for the source of the power, but felt nothing. Choosing to ignore it completely, Sakura once again reached for Syaoran's aura, but felt her heart stop when she couldn't find it. Her breath caught in her throat when she felt tears stinging her eyes. She shook uncontrollabley. Clenching her fists, she somehow moved her legs and broke into a run - towards Syaoran's apartment. She ran by a grove of cherry blossom trees, the petals slowly falling to the side walk. Once she reached the apartments, she stumbled up the stairs and reached for one of the doors that led to the inside of Syaoran's apartment. Twisting the door knob, she tried to open it, but it was locked. She started to bang on the door frantically.
"Syaoran-kun!" she called. No reply. Her tears spilled freely. "Syaoran- kun! Open up! Onegai!" Still no reply. She slowly slid to her knees. "Syaoran-kun. . . . iie. . . "
After a while of helpless minutes, Sakura forced herself to her feet and pulled out a card. "Windy! Blow this door down!"
Windy appeared and blew the door down with its fierce wind, while returning to its card form. Sakura stood at the frame of the door for a while, a wave of coldness and emptiness rushing over her. She took a step in and walked over the door. She heard nothing, but her heavy breathing and her footsteps as she ventured into the living room. She turned a ghostly white and nearly broke down crying when she saw Syaoran lying ontop a puddle of blood - dead. She ran towards him, "Syaoran!" but stopped when she saw a green shield surrounding him. Sakura placed both hands on the shield, and stared at Syaoran, tears sliding from her cheeks and landing on the carpet.
"So, you're the Card Mistress," said a voice.
Sakura turned sharply around in suprise, to see Drake, an evil smirk on his face.
"Who are you?" Sakura asked.
"I'm Drake, servant to Master Zero," he replied.
She glared. "Are you the one that did this to Syaoran-kun?"
"Maybe I did. . . and maybe I didn't. . . " he said, tauntingly. "Why? What are you gonna do about it?"
Sakura felf her blood boil with anger. Her eyes burned with revenge. Her tears disappeared and Sakura gripped her staff until her knuckles turned white. She gritted her teeth, a low growl escaping her throat.
"Aww. . . is the Little Cherry Blossom mad?" Drake mocked.
Her aura flared all around her in anger. The pink aura that usually felt loving, warm, and caring, now was full of hate, revenge, and anger she never felt before. She dug her hands in her pockets, to reveal two Sakura Cards. She flung them both infront of her. "Sword! Dash!" Her staff turned into a sword, and with the speed of Dash in her, she rushed at Drake, who was a bit suprised at first, but regained his composure and narrowly blocked Sakura's attack with his sword.
Sakura swung her sword up, down, left, right, diagonally, horizantally, but Drake somehow managed to block all her attacks. Her anger was what kept Sakura going. Strength she never knew she had rised in her. With every move she made, her attacks, her power, and her speed grew. Drake's eyes widened as he felt Sakura's power rising. -What incredible power!-
Sakura raised her sword, and brought it down on Drake's right shoulder, leaving a deep gash in it as blood rolled down his arm. He gripped his shoulder as he gritted his teeth in pain. Glaring at Sakura, he let out a battle cry and continued to attack with his un-injured arm. She easily blocked his attacks. Their swords collided in thin air, and both gripped their swords as they tried to push the other back. Sakura, getting tired of this, kicked at Drake's stomach, making him stagger back wards, gasping for air. Seeing that Drake was to busy to notice her, she ran at him and punched him in his left jaw, then she twirled around him and hit the back of his neck with the hilt of her sword. He fell to the ground with a thump, breathing heavily, eyes tightly shut.
"Fight me," Sakura sneered as she picked him up by the back of his collar, lifting him to his feet. "Or are you a coward?"
Drake turned and faced her, his eyes narrowed. -I don't care what Master Zero said about keeping her alive, I'm going to crush her and make her wish she were never born!-
Picking up his sword that he dropped when Sakura kicked him in the stomach, he pointed it at her. Sakura stared at him calmly. Sakura was suprised she felt no fear, nor scared or frightened. She felt she could take on whatever Drake sent at her - at least she hoped she could. She watched as an eerie silver light glowed at the tip of his sword, just like Shadow's, except a different color. Unexpectedly, it shot at her, like a laser beam, except a bright silver light envoloped her. Sakura ignored the pain she felt, she ignored the brightness of the light as she cept her eyes open, a single thought running through her mind. . . -Syaoran-kun. . . - Her eyes turned white, and memories of the battle with Shadow swam through her mind. She remembered how her staff changed, she remembered the words she chanted, and she remembered how she killed him. She could feel her powers growing, her pink aura slowly being covered by a bright gold one. The silver light was drowned by the golden one, and Drake's eyes widened in horror. Sakura's staff floated infront of her, and a white glow formed just inches from her chest. It flew into the star on the staff, and both became one. The star staff grew longer, it changed from pink to white, the wings grew, the star changed from yellow, to a golden color. Sakura subconsciously raised her staff, pointing it at the cieling. The cieling changed. It now looked like the night time sky, full of bright silver stars, and the moon. Instead of the same words she said when she fought Shadow, different ones flowed from her mouth:
"Stars and moon
Heaven and Light
I call upon you
To shine your might
Powers of the stars
And Heaven and Light
Here me,
The Goddess of Light
Shooting Might!
The stars from above, and the moon, all seemed to twirl around in circles. Then they all glowed a bright white, and flew straight down wards like shooting stars, at a frightened Drake. They all hit him, and Drake was envoloped by the light, his mouth opening, letting out a yell of terror. He slowly evaporated - gone forever. The cieling turned back to normal, and Sakura, still in the same state, walked towards the shield that held Syaoran. She touched it with the tip of her fingers, and it died down. She knelt by Syaoran, lying his head on her lap. The whiteness in her eyes disappeared, and her emerald green returned, but the star staff stayed the same. Sakura placed the staff aside and put one hand over his wound, and the other over his faintly beating heart. She smiled to herself, glad he was still alive, or she wouldn't be able to do this. Both Sakura's hands, and Syaoran, glowed gold as she pulled at it and slowly let her powers into Syaoran's. His heart beat, started to beat at its normal rate, color returned to Syaoran's skin, and his chest rised up and down as he breathed lightly. The wound in Syaoran's side was slowly sealed up and the bleeding stopped.
His amber eyes slowly opened, only to be met by a pair of emerald green. He slowly sat up and stared at a smiling Sakura.
"What happened?" Syaoran asked.
In reply, Sakura threw her arms around his neck, tears of joy streaming down her face. "Syaoran-kun! I'm so glad that you're alive!"
Syaoran was suprised at first at Sakura's action, but his eyes softened as he hugged her back, smiling faintly. "Hai, so am I demo. . . would you mind explaining to me what happened?" No reply. He looked down at her to see she had fallen asleep. Syaoran could feel Sakura's powers, and noticed that she was drained of it. Looking around his apartment, he noticed how messy it was. His couch was over turned, papers and books littered the carpet, the coffee table was upside down, and the windows were shattered. Gently picking up the limp figure of Sakura, he walked into his room and layed her on the bed. -At least my room isn't jacked up- he thought to himself as his amber eyes wandered around the room, then landed on the sleeping beauty on his bed. -She looks so peaceful when she's sleeping- he thought, moving a strand of hair from her face. -She looks like an angel. . . Matte! Did I just think that?- He felt himself blushing. Syaoran's thought's were interrupted as he heard knocking at his window. He walked to it and pulled to curtains apart to reveal Kero. He opened the window, letting the guardian beast fly in.
"I felt a dark power, and another strong power coming from here," Kero said. "I also felt your's demo it was weak. Then I felt the dark power die, and I could feel your powers strengthening as the strong power slowly transported their's to your's." That's when he noticed Sakura. "Sakura must've somehow released her true powers, and transported some to you."
Syaoran also looked at Sakura, suprised.
"Now could you please explain to me what happened?" Kero said.
"I can't remember much but battling this guy named Drake who worked for Zero and Hades. He stabbed me with his sword, and I thought I was dead. The next thing I remember was waking up and seeing Sakura."
A moan escaped Sakura's throat as she stirred in bed, but she didn't wake up. Kero and Syaoran went to her side, to see her face looked troubled.
-Sakura's Dream-
Sakura found herself once again standing on a barren land, the same blurry figure standing yards infront of her, laughing crazily. The only thing that was different about her dream, was Syaoran who stood by her side. Sakura's eyes wandered all around her. Why did this place seem so familiar? Even if it looked barren and deserted, she couldn't help but feel attached to it. Tears streamed down her face. But why was she crying for? Her heart felt empty. Her mouth opened, yet she couldn't hear herself speak. Her mouth widened, this time making it look like she was shouting- except there was no sound. Syaoran embraced her tightly and Sakura seemed to be crying in his shirt. But. . . why? That's when she felt Syaoran's arms being pried away from her. She found her and Syaoran surrounded by darkness. Her hands reached out for Syaoran's as she found him and her being pulled away from each other by an invisible force.
Both their mouths opened and closed as they spoke, but still she heard nothing, but saw everything. Their finger tips brushed, but a strong jirk pulled them back. Her eyes widened as she saw him slowly disappearing into darkness, just as her vision was covered by it- by the darkness.
-
Emerald green eyes shot open, and Sakura sat up sharply in bed, panting. She was bathed by the light of the moon that shined through the window, making her face look pale. Regaining her breath, she looked around her to find herself in someone's room. Looking down, she noticed Syaoran fell asleep on a chair by the bed, and Kero slept on his shoulder. Sakura smiled at the two. Pulling the covers off her, she quietly snucked out the bed room and into the living room. She stared at the mess that littered the apartment, then walked to the door and opened it, as she stepped out, meeting the cool breeze of the night. Closing the door behind her, she sat at the steps and put her elbows on her knees, resting her chin on her palms, while looking up at the shinning mooning and the twinkling stars that covered the nighttime sky.
That's when she heard it.
The whispers of the stars, the moon, the sky, the wind, the earth, and the trees. She tried to make out what they where saying, but couldn't. Closing her eyes, she concentrated on the whispers.
-
Meanwhile, Syaoran still sat on the chair, asleep. Yet he could hear the whispers rining in his ears and in his dreams. His eyes slowly opened, except there were no pupils to see.
-
The pupils in Sakura's eyes slowly vanished and her mouth opened as she spoke in a voice that did not belong to her, "The earth may be shadowed in darkness, and hope will slowly vanish. . . "
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". . .but faith will live on," Syaoran said, in a different voice that did not belong to him, "and so will the chosen ones. . . "
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". . .The Goddess of Light, and the God of Earth," the voice continued through Sakura, "will destroy the evil. . ."
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". . . with the powers of their love. . ." said the voice through Syaoran. Kero's eyes slowly opened and he looked at Syaoran, who's pupils in his eyes were gone. He listened carefully to what he was saying. "Only then. . ."
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"Will Light conquer Darkness. . . " the two voices finished. The pupils in Sakura's eyes slowly disappeared as she blinked in confusion. What just happened? She could not remember.
-
Syaoran's eyes returned back to normal as he blinked, bewildered. He saw Kero, floating infront of his face, looking at him seriously.
"Tell me. . . do you remember what you just said?" Kero asked intently.
"Huh? What are you talking about?" Syaoran asked.
He shook his head. "Never mind. . . "
Noticing the bed was empty, Syaoran said, "Where's Sakura-chan?"
"Right here."
Both looked up to see Sakura at the door frame.
"You really should rest you know," Syaoran said as he got up and walked up to Sakura, pulling her back towards the bed and pushing her by the shoulders to sit down. "Well, first, Stuffed Animal and I-"
"What did you say gaki?" Kero asked.
"-would like you to explain what happened earlier," Syaoran continued, acting as if he heard nothing.
Sakura explained how she fought Drake, how she defeated him, and how she healed Syaoran.
"Don't you ever do that again!" Syaoran said seriously. "Never, I mean, NEVER transport your powers to me again. Do you hear me?"
"Hai, I hear you, demo why?" Sakura asked meakly.
"Because you could've died from the power drain!" he cried out. "Now promise me."
"I promise," Sakura grumbled.
"What I don't understand is how you were able to release your powers," Kero said, deep in thought, "and how you were able to give him some of your powers when you never learned how to."
"I'm not really sure how I did it," Sakura said. "I just did it."
"Do you think you could do it again?" Kero asked.
She shook her head. "Iie."
Kero sighed, and thought as he looked at the two chosen ones, closely, -If only they knew. . . -
His thoughts were interrupted by the ringing of the phone. Syaoran picked it up. "Moshi, moshi, Li Syaoran speaking."
"Li-san!" someone cried on the other line.
"Daidouji-san?" Syaoran said uncertainly.
"Hai, it's me. I was just wondering if you knew where Sakura-chan was," Tomoyo said. "I called her house demo no one picked up. So I was wondering. . . "
"If I knew where she was? Hai, I do," Syaoran said. "She's over here."
There was no reply at the other end, then Tomoyo said in a teasing voice, "And why is she at your house? Hm?"
"It's a long story," Syaoran mumbled.
"I have time, do explain," Tomoyo said.
"Not now," he said. "Tomorrow at school."
"Fine, fine," Tomoyo said, sighing in defeat. "Well tell Sakura-chan I said hi. Ja ne!"
With that, Tomoyo hung up the phone, and so did Syaoran.
"Who was that?" Sakura asked.
"Daidouji-san," he said simply. "She called wondering where you were and she said hi."
Sakura just nodded just as the door bell rang. Syaoran went to the living room and opened the door, to see Tomoyo and Eriol.
"Daidouji-san? Hirrigazawa?" Syaoran said. "Demo - didn't I just talk to you on the phone?"
"Hai, you did, on my mobile phone," Tomoyo said, waving her pink cell phone.
"And how'd you know where I lived?" Syaoran asked, letting the two in.
"Simple," Eriol replied, "I was with Tomoyo, and with my help, we followed the traces of your's and Sakura-chan's aura."
Syaoran hit himself mentally. -Duh!-
"Tomoyo-chan? Eriol-kun? What are you two doing here?" Sakura asked, once Syaoran, Tomoyo, and Eriol entered the room.
"We just wanted to drop by," Tomoyo said sweetly.
Eriol's face turned serious. "And to know what happened earlier. I felt a dark power here. . . "
Syaoran explained what happened to him when he fought Drake, then Sakura continued after him.
". . . So that's all that happened," Sakura ended with a sigh.
After she was done, Eriol sat, deep in thought. Sakura looked at Eriol.
"I know you know something about all this Eriol-kun." Sakura stated. "I got a visit in one of my dreams by Clow Reed, so I KNOW you KNOW something so spill it."
"You already know that the two of you are the chosen ones," Eriol said, "and you already know about the new evil. What the two of you know. . . is all I know as well, and that's all Clow Reed knew also."
"Demo - do you know why we're the chosen ones?" Sakura asked hopefully.
"Hai, hai I do," Eriol said.
"Then tell us why is it that we're the chosen ones," Syaoran said.
Eriol let out a sigh, "I cannot say."
Tomoyo watched the conversation. She looked at Syaoran, then at Sakura. She smiled as realization dawned on her. "I think I know why. . . "
Eriol looked at her. -Of course- he thought -She could find out the answers with out me even having to tell her.-
Syaoran and Sakura looked at Tomoyo. What does Tomoyo and Eriol know that they don't?
"Tomoyo-chan! Onegai! Tell us!" Sakura pleaded.
Tomoyo smiled secretly. "Gomen, I can't!" Sakura and Syaoran fell anime style.
"Some help the two of you are," Syaoran grumbled.
"I know the reason why," Kero inputted, but added once he saw Syaoran and Sakura look at him, "and iie I can't tell you." Both sighed in defeat.
"Fine," they mumbled in unison.
"Don't worry Sakura-chan, Li-san, you'll soon figure it out on your own," Tomoyo assured, trying to sound comforting.
"Hmph," was Sakura's reply, not feeling the least bit confident about finding the answer.
-If only they knew. . . - Tomoyo, Eriol, and Kero thought at the same time as they looked at the pouting Sakura and Syaoran who crossed his arms.
"Oh Sakura-chan," Syaoran said suddenly as he remembered something.
"Nani?" Sakura asked.
Syaoran went to his desk and picked up the star staff, which was still white, had the golden star, the white wings were longer, and so was the staff (about a couple of inches taller then Sakura.) "I found this in the living room." He handed it to her.
"It's my star staff," Sakura said, examining it.
"How'd it come to be like that?" Tomoyo asked.
"When I released my power, it changed," Sakura replied.
"Do you know how to change it back?" Eriol asked.
She shook her head. "I could try. . . " Concentrating on the staff, she closed her eyes.
All of a sudden, the staff shrunk, the white turned to pink, the gold turned to yellow, and the wings shrunk, turning back to its original state. After that, Sakura turned it back into the star key, smiling in satisfaction. "There!" Looking at her wrist watch, Sakura let out a yelp. "Oh no! 'tou-san and Onii-chan will be home soon! It's almost ten! I gotta go!"
"We should be going too," Tomoyo said. Looking at Syaoran, she said, "You know you could come and stay at my mansion, at least until you get someone to fix your apartment."
"Arigatou Daidouji-san, demo I prefer to stay here and fix it myself," Syaoran said, letting out a sigh. "I wouldn't want anyone to be asking me questions as to what happened."
Tomoyo nodded and her, Eriol, Kero, and Sakura walked out the room, Syaoran following them.
"Well, ja ne my cute little descendent," Eriol said, with his usual smile as he walked out the front door, Tomoyo closely following behind as she gave Syaoran a slight wave with her hand.
"I'll see you tomorrow Syaoran-kun," Sakura said, walking towards the door, "Ja ne!"
"Ja ne," Syaoran said softly. Once they were all gone, Syaoran closed the door.
Turning on the lights in the living room, he looked around at all the mess. Letting out another sigh, he thought -Guess I better get workin'. . . . This sure is goin' to take a while. . . -
Meanwhile, Sakura walked up to her front door and opened it. "'tou-san, Onii-chan, I'm home!" No reply. Sakura turned on the lights. -I guess they're not home yet from work. . . - Kero flew in behind her.
"They're not home yet?" Kero asked.
"Guess not. . . " Sakura said, her and Kero walking into the living room, but stopped when they saw Fujitaka and Touya standing by the couch, looking at them. "When did you two get home?"
Neither said anything, they just stared at her.
"'tou-san? Onii-chan?" Sakura said uncertainly as she walked closer to them, Kero following.
Kero flew up to Fujitaka's face, but it seemed like he were just staring right through him. Sakura waved her hand infront of Touya's face.
"Hello?" Kero said, flying in circles around Fujitaka's head. Unexpectedly, Fujitaka grabbed Kero, who tried to gasp for air in his tight grip. Fujitaka then threw Kero towards the wall, hard. He hit his back against the wall, and slid to the ground, unconscious.
"Kero-chan!" Sakura called out, about to run to him, but Touya grabbed her wrist. "Hey! Let go of me!" She demanded, but Touya's grip was to tight for her as she struggled to get out of it. He then started to twist her arm.
Sakura gritted her teeth in pain as he brought her arm behind her back, twisting it more painfully. -Onii-chan, 'tou-san. . . . what happened to you?- She watched as Fujitaka prepared to punch her. Sakura ducked. So instead of punching her, Fujitaka punched Touya, making him loose his grip on her wrist. Holding her swollen wrist, Sakura stumbled towards Kero and picked him up, then ran towards the stairs, Fujitaka and Touya running right behind her. Sakura felt a hand wrap around her ankle, making her fall forward on the stairs. She kicked her leg, making Touya let go, as she picked herself up and ran all the way up the stairs and into the room, slamming the door. Sakura opened her window just as the two men bursted through the door. Quickly climbing onto the sill of the window, Sakura was about to jump on the tree when Fujitaka and Touya eached grabbed one of her arms. Sakura gripped onto the sill as they dried to drag her back in. Finally getting out of their grasp, Sakura jumped out the window, and tried to grab the branch of the tree with her swollen arm, but her grip slipped from pain and she landed heavily on the grassy ground, holding Kero close to her chest. Pushing herself up, she limped as fast as she could down the streets of Tomoeodo, both Fujitaka and Touya watching her from her window.
Taking a glance over her shoulder as she limped away, she looked at Touya and Fujitaka straight in the eyes. That's when she noticed that their pupils were missing, and their eyes looked like they were in a hypnotic trance. -Onii-chan. . . 'tou-san. . . - She walked through King Penguin Park and sat at one of the benches. "Now what am I going to do?" Sakura asked to no one in particular as she stared at the still unconscious Kero. "I can't go back home. . . I don't want to worry no one by asking them if I could sleep over. . ." She pushed all her worries away, she didn't really care right now because she wasn't even tired, what she was more worried about was her dad and brother. What happened to them? Who did that to them?Letting out a sigh, Sakura looked down at Kero, who lyed on her lap. Kero let out a moan and opened his tiny black beady eyes, only to meet Sakura's emerald green.
"Sakura-chan? What happened?" Kero asked.
Sakura explained what happened after he blacked out, and how she found out Fujitaka and Touya were hypnotized.
"Kero-chan, what are we going to do?" Sakura cried out after she finished her explanation.
"We're goin' to somehow have to break the spell cast upon them," Kero said in a thinking manner.
"Hai demo - how?" Sakura said, in the same thinking manner.
"First we have to find out WHO put the spell on them," Kero said. Sakura nodded. "We also need to find out where they are."
"And how are we goin' to do that?" Sakura asked.
Kero sweat dropped. "I have no idea." Then he asked, "Did you feel any kind of dark magic around them or somethin'?"
Sakura put her index finger on her cheek in a thinking manner. "Now that I think about it, hai I felt something."
"Do you think you could try to feel for the same dark feeling?" Kero asked.
"Iie, I don't think so," Sakura replied, "because if I do, then I'll just be feeling for the darkness that's in Onii-chan and 'tou-san." She looked up at the moon as she asked again, "Kero-chan, what are we going to do?"
"I wish I knew Sakura. . . " Kero admitted, "I wish I knew."
