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A mixture of adventure, romance and comedy, this tells the thrilling story of the lost Kinomoto princess Sakura and her quest to find her true identity. When the shadow of revolution falls across the Kinomoto kingdom, Sakura, the royal family's youngest daughter barely escapes with her life. Years later, she meets a runaway prince-turned conman, Syaoran. As they set of back to Kinomoto kingdom to reclaim her rightful legacy, they find themselves waging a battle against an old enemy.
Chapter 1
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*~*~*~ Tenth year of Kinomoto rule~*~*~*
In the country of Corona, parties and balls were held frequently, almost every month in fact, to celebrate the many victories the Kinomoto army had against their neighbouring countries, causing the Kinomoto kingdom to expand almost each day, all except one country, the Li kingdom, Terrilan.
The Kinomoto army had tried many times to conquer Terrilan, however to no avail each time. Both armies would suffer a great and severe loss of soldiers, ammunitions and foodstuff due to the fact that the war had dragged on for months and sometimes even up to two years.
Both countries then seemed to have an unspoken truce between them as they retreated their armies, an imaginary boundary created and the people of the two lands knew better to step across the line, onto the other country's land.
However, like all humans, who would not be greedy? Both countries of course would want to conquer the other to become the largest and strongest kingdom. This eventually led to the sending of spies, plotting the overthrow of each other's government, and this story will start from here…
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Kinomoto palace
The soft clinking of wine glasses and the murmuring of people could be heard in the ballroom. The gentle swishing of glamorous evening gowns could easily be seen on the dancing floor as the partners slowly swayed with the music.
Suddenly a voice broke through, causing people to stop and look at the little girl now running towards a middle-age lady dressed in a formal gown, sitting on the throne, high up on the raised platform. " Grandmamma, grandmamma, come down here to join me," the sweet voice cried out.
The little girl was wearing a light pink dressed made of a soft and fluffy material decorated with patterns of cherry blossoms. The lady on the throne, Negimi Kinomoto, the dowager, simply smiled and shook her head as the enthusiastic child ran up to the throne and tried to persuade her grandmother to join her.
The child was called Kinomoto Sakura. A beautiful seven-year old girl, her auburn hair and her pair of emerald-coloured eyes are what which make her stand out from the crowd. Being the only daughter of the Kinomoto family, she was the favourite of the whole family as she had the ability to make everybody happy no matter what happens.
She had an overprotective brother, who was always worried about his younger sister's safety. He had taught her every way he knew to protect herself in times of danger. As for her mother, Nadesiko Kinomoto, she had died when Sakura was three, leaving Sakura in the care of her father and her grandmother.
Fujitaka Kinomoto picked up his daughter from the floor and swung her around causing in another outburst of giggles from Sakura. Negimi motioned Sakura to come forward. When Sakura reached the throne, Negimi slowly took a book with a beast with the Sun sign and a chain with a key out from an old box on her lap.
Sakura, being a very curious child asked, " Grandmamma, what is that?" Her grandmother did not answer her, and instead her father answered her, "This is the Clow Book. In it there are 53 cards altogether and soon my child you will learn to control these cards and become the greatest sorceress in the whole world."
"Get out you little beggar!" a servant cried out as he chased a boy who looked about eight years old out of the ballroom back into the servant quarters. The little boy had messy chestnut coloured hair and ember eyes and he was struggling to get down onto the floor as his guardian had picked him up and carried him off while apologising to the royal family for the disturbance caused.
Little did the Kinomoto family knew that the servant was in fact a spy from the Li kingdom to get a glimpse of the Clow Book as it had been rumoured that the book was in Kinomoto lands.
Now that he had accomplished
his job, it was time to report to Queen Yelan about his findings.
Hooray,
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