Lchan: Did I write a disclaimer!? No!?!? Well, i don't really NEED to, do
I? Everyone knows CCS doesn't belong to a FANfic writer.
Well...sorry this took so long. Like I said. School and all. Exams are coming the week after next week. I'll be busy. Keep me healthy through inspiring ideas, people, please!! Arigato!
Well...read on!
IX-Multiple Problemos
"Get your hands off him!!" Sakura shrieked, her pink aura flaring around her as her fear developed into anger. Surprisingly, the card let go without any struggle or violence. "Hoe!?"
Syaoran, snapping awake from his paralysis, grabbed his sword with his more able hand, balancing the blade on the floor and using it for support as he pulled himself into a standing position. He grimaced and let go of the sword to massage his throbbing shoulder.
It clanked onto the floor, and he stumbled without its support. He clenched his teeth to remain standing.
"Syaoran!" Sakura gasped.
He raised wild auburn eyes to meet her wide, worried, emerald gaze. "I'm fine, just seal it!" he said, voice touched by a strange panic.
Sakura nodded, flustered, taken aback by the wild jumble of sentiments that coated his words and his voice, as opposed to his standard silence and rare display of emotions.
"H-hai!!" she immediately complied, clearly quite intimidated.
The card giggled like a crazed lunatic. It zipped around the room so fast that not one of the three kids in the room could catch a glimpse of him, er, it--just an occasional blur of colors that rushed past.
"HOE!!!" Sakura cried, getting scared, as her emerald eyes flicked around the room,desperately trying to catch the card.
"Oh my, there's two of them!" Tomoyo exclaimed, watching through the lense what seemed to be two slackening blurs.
Syaoran's amber eyes, Sakura's emerald orbs, and Tomoyo's amethyst gaze widened in shock as the two creatures came to a stop, both wearing identical evil grins.
Twins.
"HOEEEEEEE!!!!" Sakura screamed.
"K'so!" Syaoran grumbled.
"This can't be happening, oh no!!" Tomoyo cried. "We need Meilin-chan!!"
Syaoran's gaze darkened. He fliched and looked away. Memories came rushing back to him. "Sou...Meilin." He lowered his amber eyes. Darn.
Flashback
(Syaoran)
Damn Twin Card! Sakura can't do it, she just can't!! We've gotta kill 'em both at once with the same stuff. We've tried, but it didn't work. Our power levels are WAY to different.
Argh, damn it all!!
Great. Meilin's here.
She's watching our pathetic attempts to fight this damned pair.
She looks like she'd been crying. I'm sorry. She's acting treally weird and I know it's 'coz of me. It's like she's scared of me or something. It's like she hates me. Very much. Or maybe she thinks I hate her...'coz of that stupid, petty fight.
Oh, darn it! Everything's being doubled!!!
Sakura's panicking.
Chotto.
Meilin.
She's perfect!!
We've been through the same training together and we've got the same style. Chinese fighting. Who cares if she doesn't know magic, we've got the same moves.
But she doesn't want to. She's skeptical. She's doubting if I want to do this with her. I think she really does hate me. Darn it. The screaming guy's being doubled now. So's the building he's in.
Oh argh, we're stalling!! Perfectly precious time diminishing into oblivion as I wait and wait and wait for her agreement. We're wasting too much time, dammit!
I finally spoke up.
Sure, she hates me, but this is nothing personal. This is Clow-Card- business and this hasn't got anything to do with dumb marriages and unrequited love!! She's my cousin and I love her but never in a romantic way and even if she were my worst enemy, I'd fight with her side by side just so we could get this over with!
Still skeptical, but at least she's finally in. We crouched into a battle pose.
And suddenly, I find myself smiling. Meilin really rocks sometimes. And I see that she's smiling too. Finally.
Then we kicked some serious butts. I punch, she punches. I kick, she kicks. Sommersaults, hits, moves...it's like we were one person. As if I'm practicing on this freak in front of the mirror, only Meilin's my reflection.
And, hoo boy, did it work.
The Twin Card is now officially ours...er...mine...
Whatever.
End of Flashback
"AHH, you're right!! Where's Meilin!?!?" Sakura wailed.
Syaoran, getting irritated with such impossible hopes, raised his amber eyes in a sudden craving for victory. "Ah, screw Meilin," he said, quietly, darkly.
Tomoyo's camera zoomed in on his face.
"I'll fight with you."
Sakura's eyes widened. "Iie! Dame!!"
Syaoran's amber eyes bore into hers. "Please, Sakura...trust me."
Sakura bit her lip. "But...but I...I..." She lowered her eyes, reconsidered, and then looked up to give him a smile that made his heart melt. "Okay. I trust you."
"Thanks--" And then he stopped short.
A haunting, cold, but beautiful voice started to hum in the background. It hummed a beautiful melody, its voice mesmerizing its audience and listeners. Everything seemed to move in slow motion as the sweet voice filled the room with an enchanting song.
"Tomoyo-chan? Is...is that you...?" Sakura asked, softly.
"Hm-hm," Tomoyo replied, shaking her head. "I'm not singing..."
"It's the Song Card again," Syaoran grumbled. "Two cards to defeat." He sighed. He might not have the strength to take that.
"Hoeee!! B-but, h-how did it get out?" Sakura stammered, ashamed of herself for not being a firm card mistress, fearing that she didn't deserve her role.
"It...just did," Syaoran answered. He thought it was kind of a stupid reply, but at least he responded.
"I'm sorry! I never meant to handle them with such a lose grip!!" Sakura wailed.
"It's okay, Sakura-chan. You can recapture them all anyway, ne?" Tomoyo piped up. "You can do this!" She raised her camera up to her eye, smiling happily. "Ganbatte, Sakura-chan!"
"Arigato, Tomoyo..." Sakura said, half-sweatdropping.
The mesmerizing melody grabbed Syaoran's attention completely. He felt almost hypnotized with its sound. "Daidouji..." he murmured.
Tomoyo blinked. "Hai?"
"Sing."
She nodded, understanding fully what he meant. She'd been through this before, and it wasn't a very hard job. "Wakarimasu."
Tomoyo stepped forward, cautiously. Her amethyst eyes flicked towards the waiting Twin Card twins apprehensively, and then she steeled herself. She opened her mouth to release her sweet-sounding voice:
"Sing to me the song...of the stars...of your galaxy dancing and laughing...and laughing...again...when it...feels like...my...dreams.........so.........far........"
She collapsed onto the floor.
"HOEEEE!!" Sakura shrieked, rushing over. "Tomoyo-chan! Tomoyo-chan!!"
Syaoran looked around, bewildered. "What the--!?!?"
A little white crossover of a fairy and an elf flitted around the room, leaving behind it a sprinkle of white glitters. It caught Syaoran's eye before it ducked behind a stack of books on another dresser across the room.
'Darn. The Sleep Card. What could be worse? Three cards at a time.'
It peeked out at the two remaining awake fighters, naughtily, as if choosing its next victim very very carefully. And then it flew swiftly towards him, flapping its little white wings.
'Whoa. A fan card,' he thought saracstically. He felt the familiar surge of adrenaline flow through him again, supplying him temporary heat and clearing his mind.
His hands dove into his pockets.
'Darn.'
No magical paper.
No wind.
(;; I'm sorry. I really don't know what to call those pieces of card- substitute papers he carries around with him...gomennasai!)
He dove for his sword just in time to miss the dangerous glittery dust. The Sleep Card zoomed above him a little to the left.
"Syaoran-kun!!!" Sakura shrieked. "What's going on!?!?"
Syaoran raised himself from the ground with his sword. "Sleep Card...Twin Card...Song Card...three cards..." he said in soft gasps. "Need...to seal...asap."
"HOEEEEE!!!"
Suddenly, a figure dove for her. An elf-sized creature that was only at least two feet high and three feet max. "Sakura, abunai!" Syaoran shouted, before he was tackled to the floor by the creature-that-attacked-Sakura's replica.
Both of them crashed into the floor with a loud 'hoe' and a venomous 'k'so'.
The Twin Card.
"Aiiiiii!!!!" Sakura shrieked, slapping the little elflike card off her lap in a surge of fright.
"Get the Sword Card!!" Syaoran yelped, detaching himself from his own dilemma with a quick punch across the 'thing's' jaw.
"Hai! Sword Card!!" Sakura yelled. Once again, her wand melted into the same fancy rapier. "I'm ready!!" Then she looked towards Syaoran. "What should I do?!?"
Syaoran's breathing was getting ragged again, but he couldn't care less about that now. The adrenaline was going strong. "Let's cream these two."
Sakura flashed him a determined, admiring, grateful gaze. "Hai!!"
"Slash left, slash right, somersault, land behind, roundhouse kick, hit across the jaw, diagonal slash, seal. Got it?" Syaoran yelled at her. It was a simple exercise he was quite used to, since he usually did that trick when he was sparring with Meilin...with a blunt-tip sword, of course.
"Hoe!?" Sakura said, her voice filled with fear. "I...I couldn't catch..."
Syaoran repeated the long list of moves before she could finish, but she still couldn't remember what came after the somersault.
"I...I'm sorry...pardon!?" she squeaked.
Syaoran valiantly told her for the third time the sequence, but still she couldn't get it.
"Go-gomennasai..."
"Slash left, slash right, then somersault, land behind--whoa!!!!" The Sleep Card had flitted towards him, the shower of glimmers trailing after its little form. His amber eyes widened, and he dove quickly towards the side. His shoulder hit the tiles hard, but he recovered quickly, his hand tightening on his sword's heavy handle.
"Ow..." he grumbled, incoherently.
The Song Card's melody filled the room, distracting both fighters with its singing. Syaoran wished it would shut up, but with Tomoyo out, they couldn't seal it just yet.
"Daijobu, Syao--" Sakura started to ask.
"Watch out, Sakura!!" he screamed, sighting the elf-fairy creature zoom straight towards her, carrying its sparkling, dangerous dust.
"Hoeee!!" Sakura shrieked, as the little white creature flew over to her in an attempt to make her fall unconscious. Sakura fell to her knees on the floor, both hands covering her head in fear. Her wand-turned-sword clattered on the tiles beside her.
Syaoran crawled over and nudged her with his fingers. His limbs were getting numb again, but he seemed more awake. The adrenaline was doing well.
Sakura raised her eyes. "Hoe!" she exclaimed. She scrambled for the slim blade. It struck her how pale he looked and how dead tired, but she dismissed the thought of trying to convince him to let her fight on her own. She knew he wouldn't allow her anyway.
"C'mon. Let's fight these cards," Syaoran murmured, softly.
Sakura's head bobbed up and down. Both fighters rose to their feet.
Syaoran raised his sword in front of him, both hands tight on the handle. Sakura imitated him. The twins leered at them wordlessly, but they stayed calm.
"Go," Syaoran muttered.
And he and Sakura dashed off.
tbc
Lchan: How was it!? Sorry it took so long! I was running out of ideas...and then, suddenly, boom, I have my chapter ten! Please don't stop reviewing! I know it's not as graphic as chapter 4, but it's more fast-paced, ne? I luv ya, peeps!
Well...sorry this took so long. Like I said. School and all. Exams are coming the week after next week. I'll be busy. Keep me healthy through inspiring ideas, people, please!! Arigato!
Well...read on!
IX-Multiple Problemos
"Get your hands off him!!" Sakura shrieked, her pink aura flaring around her as her fear developed into anger. Surprisingly, the card let go without any struggle or violence. "Hoe!?"
Syaoran, snapping awake from his paralysis, grabbed his sword with his more able hand, balancing the blade on the floor and using it for support as he pulled himself into a standing position. He grimaced and let go of the sword to massage his throbbing shoulder.
It clanked onto the floor, and he stumbled without its support. He clenched his teeth to remain standing.
"Syaoran!" Sakura gasped.
He raised wild auburn eyes to meet her wide, worried, emerald gaze. "I'm fine, just seal it!" he said, voice touched by a strange panic.
Sakura nodded, flustered, taken aback by the wild jumble of sentiments that coated his words and his voice, as opposed to his standard silence and rare display of emotions.
"H-hai!!" she immediately complied, clearly quite intimidated.
The card giggled like a crazed lunatic. It zipped around the room so fast that not one of the three kids in the room could catch a glimpse of him, er, it--just an occasional blur of colors that rushed past.
"HOE!!!" Sakura cried, getting scared, as her emerald eyes flicked around the room,desperately trying to catch the card.
"Oh my, there's two of them!" Tomoyo exclaimed, watching through the lense what seemed to be two slackening blurs.
Syaoran's amber eyes, Sakura's emerald orbs, and Tomoyo's amethyst gaze widened in shock as the two creatures came to a stop, both wearing identical evil grins.
Twins.
"HOEEEEEEE!!!!" Sakura screamed.
"K'so!" Syaoran grumbled.
"This can't be happening, oh no!!" Tomoyo cried. "We need Meilin-chan!!"
Syaoran's gaze darkened. He fliched and looked away. Memories came rushing back to him. "Sou...Meilin." He lowered his amber eyes. Darn.
Flashback
(Syaoran)
Damn Twin Card! Sakura can't do it, she just can't!! We've gotta kill 'em both at once with the same stuff. We've tried, but it didn't work. Our power levels are WAY to different.
Argh, damn it all!!
Great. Meilin's here.
She's watching our pathetic attempts to fight this damned pair.
She looks like she'd been crying. I'm sorry. She's acting treally weird and I know it's 'coz of me. It's like she's scared of me or something. It's like she hates me. Very much. Or maybe she thinks I hate her...'coz of that stupid, petty fight.
Oh, darn it! Everything's being doubled!!!
Sakura's panicking.
Chotto.
Meilin.
She's perfect!!
We've been through the same training together and we've got the same style. Chinese fighting. Who cares if she doesn't know magic, we've got the same moves.
But she doesn't want to. She's skeptical. She's doubting if I want to do this with her. I think she really does hate me. Darn it. The screaming guy's being doubled now. So's the building he's in.
Oh argh, we're stalling!! Perfectly precious time diminishing into oblivion as I wait and wait and wait for her agreement. We're wasting too much time, dammit!
I finally spoke up.
Sure, she hates me, but this is nothing personal. This is Clow-Card- business and this hasn't got anything to do with dumb marriages and unrequited love!! She's my cousin and I love her but never in a romantic way and even if she were my worst enemy, I'd fight with her side by side just so we could get this over with!
Still skeptical, but at least she's finally in. We crouched into a battle pose.
And suddenly, I find myself smiling. Meilin really rocks sometimes. And I see that she's smiling too. Finally.
Then we kicked some serious butts. I punch, she punches. I kick, she kicks. Sommersaults, hits, moves...it's like we were one person. As if I'm practicing on this freak in front of the mirror, only Meilin's my reflection.
And, hoo boy, did it work.
The Twin Card is now officially ours...er...mine...
Whatever.
End of Flashback
"AHH, you're right!! Where's Meilin!?!?" Sakura wailed.
Syaoran, getting irritated with such impossible hopes, raised his amber eyes in a sudden craving for victory. "Ah, screw Meilin," he said, quietly, darkly.
Tomoyo's camera zoomed in on his face.
"I'll fight with you."
Sakura's eyes widened. "Iie! Dame!!"
Syaoran's amber eyes bore into hers. "Please, Sakura...trust me."
Sakura bit her lip. "But...but I...I..." She lowered her eyes, reconsidered, and then looked up to give him a smile that made his heart melt. "Okay. I trust you."
"Thanks--" And then he stopped short.
A haunting, cold, but beautiful voice started to hum in the background. It hummed a beautiful melody, its voice mesmerizing its audience and listeners. Everything seemed to move in slow motion as the sweet voice filled the room with an enchanting song.
"Tomoyo-chan? Is...is that you...?" Sakura asked, softly.
"Hm-hm," Tomoyo replied, shaking her head. "I'm not singing..."
"It's the Song Card again," Syaoran grumbled. "Two cards to defeat." He sighed. He might not have the strength to take that.
"Hoeee!! B-but, h-how did it get out?" Sakura stammered, ashamed of herself for not being a firm card mistress, fearing that she didn't deserve her role.
"It...just did," Syaoran answered. He thought it was kind of a stupid reply, but at least he responded.
"I'm sorry! I never meant to handle them with such a lose grip!!" Sakura wailed.
"It's okay, Sakura-chan. You can recapture them all anyway, ne?" Tomoyo piped up. "You can do this!" She raised her camera up to her eye, smiling happily. "Ganbatte, Sakura-chan!"
"Arigato, Tomoyo..." Sakura said, half-sweatdropping.
The mesmerizing melody grabbed Syaoran's attention completely. He felt almost hypnotized with its sound. "Daidouji..." he murmured.
Tomoyo blinked. "Hai?"
"Sing."
She nodded, understanding fully what he meant. She'd been through this before, and it wasn't a very hard job. "Wakarimasu."
Tomoyo stepped forward, cautiously. Her amethyst eyes flicked towards the waiting Twin Card twins apprehensively, and then she steeled herself. She opened her mouth to release her sweet-sounding voice:
"Sing to me the song...of the stars...of your galaxy dancing and laughing...and laughing...again...when it...feels like...my...dreams.........so.........far........"
She collapsed onto the floor.
"HOEEEE!!" Sakura shrieked, rushing over. "Tomoyo-chan! Tomoyo-chan!!"
Syaoran looked around, bewildered. "What the--!?!?"
A little white crossover of a fairy and an elf flitted around the room, leaving behind it a sprinkle of white glitters. It caught Syaoran's eye before it ducked behind a stack of books on another dresser across the room.
'Darn. The Sleep Card. What could be worse? Three cards at a time.'
It peeked out at the two remaining awake fighters, naughtily, as if choosing its next victim very very carefully. And then it flew swiftly towards him, flapping its little white wings.
'Whoa. A fan card,' he thought saracstically. He felt the familiar surge of adrenaline flow through him again, supplying him temporary heat and clearing his mind.
His hands dove into his pockets.
'Darn.'
No magical paper.
No wind.
(;; I'm sorry. I really don't know what to call those pieces of card- substitute papers he carries around with him...gomennasai!)
He dove for his sword just in time to miss the dangerous glittery dust. The Sleep Card zoomed above him a little to the left.
"Syaoran-kun!!!" Sakura shrieked. "What's going on!?!?"
Syaoran raised himself from the ground with his sword. "Sleep Card...Twin Card...Song Card...three cards..." he said in soft gasps. "Need...to seal...asap."
"HOEEEEE!!!"
Suddenly, a figure dove for her. An elf-sized creature that was only at least two feet high and three feet max. "Sakura, abunai!" Syaoran shouted, before he was tackled to the floor by the creature-that-attacked-Sakura's replica.
Both of them crashed into the floor with a loud 'hoe' and a venomous 'k'so'.
The Twin Card.
"Aiiiiii!!!!" Sakura shrieked, slapping the little elflike card off her lap in a surge of fright.
"Get the Sword Card!!" Syaoran yelped, detaching himself from his own dilemma with a quick punch across the 'thing's' jaw.
"Hai! Sword Card!!" Sakura yelled. Once again, her wand melted into the same fancy rapier. "I'm ready!!" Then she looked towards Syaoran. "What should I do?!?"
Syaoran's breathing was getting ragged again, but he couldn't care less about that now. The adrenaline was going strong. "Let's cream these two."
Sakura flashed him a determined, admiring, grateful gaze. "Hai!!"
"Slash left, slash right, somersault, land behind, roundhouse kick, hit across the jaw, diagonal slash, seal. Got it?" Syaoran yelled at her. It was a simple exercise he was quite used to, since he usually did that trick when he was sparring with Meilin...with a blunt-tip sword, of course.
"Hoe!?" Sakura said, her voice filled with fear. "I...I couldn't catch..."
Syaoran repeated the long list of moves before she could finish, but she still couldn't remember what came after the somersault.
"I...I'm sorry...pardon!?" she squeaked.
Syaoran valiantly told her for the third time the sequence, but still she couldn't get it.
"Go-gomennasai..."
"Slash left, slash right, then somersault, land behind--whoa!!!!" The Sleep Card had flitted towards him, the shower of glimmers trailing after its little form. His amber eyes widened, and he dove quickly towards the side. His shoulder hit the tiles hard, but he recovered quickly, his hand tightening on his sword's heavy handle.
"Ow..." he grumbled, incoherently.
The Song Card's melody filled the room, distracting both fighters with its singing. Syaoran wished it would shut up, but with Tomoyo out, they couldn't seal it just yet.
"Daijobu, Syao--" Sakura started to ask.
"Watch out, Sakura!!" he screamed, sighting the elf-fairy creature zoom straight towards her, carrying its sparkling, dangerous dust.
"Hoeee!!" Sakura shrieked, as the little white creature flew over to her in an attempt to make her fall unconscious. Sakura fell to her knees on the floor, both hands covering her head in fear. Her wand-turned-sword clattered on the tiles beside her.
Syaoran crawled over and nudged her with his fingers. His limbs were getting numb again, but he seemed more awake. The adrenaline was doing well.
Sakura raised her eyes. "Hoe!" she exclaimed. She scrambled for the slim blade. It struck her how pale he looked and how dead tired, but she dismissed the thought of trying to convince him to let her fight on her own. She knew he wouldn't allow her anyway.
"C'mon. Let's fight these cards," Syaoran murmured, softly.
Sakura's head bobbed up and down. Both fighters rose to their feet.
Syaoran raised his sword in front of him, both hands tight on the handle. Sakura imitated him. The twins leered at them wordlessly, but they stayed calm.
"Go," Syaoran muttered.
And he and Sakura dashed off.
tbc
Lchan: How was it!? Sorry it took so long! I was running out of ideas...and then, suddenly, boom, I have my chapter ten! Please don't stop reviewing! I know it's not as graphic as chapter 4, but it's more fast-paced, ne? I luv ya, peeps!