Lchan: I'm so sorry for not updating as fast as I used to...onegai, don't
stop reviewing!! There's school and everything, and...and...and I STILL LUV
YOU, SWEAR!!! I can't find some of my favorite reviewers' names and that
breaks my heart!!! Please, people...please, please, please...
Oh, and BTW, the song I'm gonna use is from Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1st song, Belle, solo Belle)! So...it's mine just as much as CCS is, meaning...it's not.
Okay. For the meamntime, here's chapter 12. I think I'll end at around 14 or 15...come what may.
XI-Victory...Finally
The Song Card had long stopped singing. Only the sharp thuds and pained cries made by the fighters and the weak Twin Card served to peirce the silence.
The glittery white Sleep Card watched in shock at the two amazing fighters who were battling together in perfect synchronization.
Whoa.
The mistress was stronger than it remembered her to be, and the descendant had improved quite a bit (meaning a lot, lot, lot), considering his condition.
Realizing this, the Card's little playful face was suddenly tinged with surprise...
Then, surprisingly...admiration...
Then deep worry...
And then determination...
Undaunted, it watched as Sakura charged towards the weak Twin Card, leaving her battle partner to collapse and use the last of his energy to instruct her on what to do:
"Seal it!!!"
And as Sakura complied, the Sleep Card prepared itself for the bright, power-sucking light that would soon envelop the room, fear filling its whole being...if it had a 'being'.
"Twin Card! Return to your powers confined! TWIN CARD!!!" the mistress' voice rang out, a glimmering card-shape forming beneath the beak of her wand which she'd slammed into the air.
The Twin Card promptly dissolved into it in swirling streaks of bright, almost blinding colors.
Despite that traumatizing scene, the Sleep Card, determined to produce as much havoc as it could while it still can, snapped out of its reverie, flitting from behind the stack of books towards the barely awake Chinese boy.
It zoomed over his chestnut-colored-locks-covered head, dousing him with sleep dust.
Even without that huge dose of Sleep-Card-power, Syaoran still would have slipped into unconsciousness, which he immediately did, despite his desperate attempts to see the end of the fight.
Sakura finished capturing the Clow Card, her heart filling with joy and pride at having succeeded at her task. She whirled around, card clutched to her chest, mouth stretched into a wide, cute smile.
And then, sighting the Sleep Card over the unconscious Syaoran, her emerald green eyes widened, her lips parted into a shocked O. "H...hoe..."
Moments of silence followed, the card and the mistress looking into each other's shocked eyes. Both paralyzed...but for different reasons.
'S-Syaoran-kun...Syaoran-kun...!'
'Th-the mistress...she is SO gonna seal me...'
And then Sakura's heavy concern developed into anger. Her eyes darkened. "You!" she screamed, her fist tightening on her sealing wand while the other holding the newly-captured Twin Card slipped swiftly into her pocket, coming out after a split second empty.
"How could you DO this to us? To him!? To Tomoyo-chan!?! TO ME!?!?" she wailed, both in anger and sorrow. "You are SO gonna pay for this!!"
The card's glittery silver eyes widened in fear.
Sakura walked towards it, confident that it couldn't snap out of its paralysis and escape in time. Surprisingly, she took calm but sure steps, one foot in front of the other...each step taking a full second to execute.
Then she stopped a meter away from the Sleep Card, who was still floating numbly above Syaoran's still, clothed-in-white form.
She held out her wand in front of her, face filled with determination, hurt, fury and even sadness. A second passed, with the head of her wand looming infront of the paralyzed card's eyes.
A tear slid down Sakura's cheek.
She didn't even know why. The confusion, the hurt, the anger, the pain and all those hectic rush of emtions she'd gone through...they must have taken their toll on her.
Another tear slipped down her porcelain cheek.
"Sleep Card..." she whispered, almost pleadingly, her voice edged with sobs. "Return to your powers confined...now... Sleep Card..."
And even without her slamming the wand down into air to formulate the card, the glimmering golden quadrilateral took shape directly beneath the outstretched sealing wand's beak.
And the Sleep Card just watched.
The Song Card's haunting melody one again filled the room, its imitation of Tomoyo's voice ringing clearly through its humming of a familiar, slow song.
In glittery white swirls, the Sleep Card entered its Clow Cage, without a struggle, without pain, without a single drastic action. Just peaceful. Nicely. Quietly.
As the least streaks disappeared, the rectangular figure floated high into the air, only to drop into Sakura's hand. As she held it to her tear-filled emerald green eyes, the last of the golden glimmers faded to reveal the dancing Sleep Card's form across the glossy surface, 'The Sleep' printed clearly on the banner below it.
Sakura raised it to her lips and planted a soft kiss onto the surface before she slowly slipped it into her pocket. "Arigato..."
Tomoyo slowly woke up, Sakura having sealed the Sleep Card and thus removing its sleepy powers from its victims. "U-uhn?" she groaned, raising her head from the cold tiles. "Sa-Sakura...chan?" she called, uncertainly, pushing herself from the ground.
Sakura twisted around, extremely glad to hear her best friend's real voice apart from the Song Card's mimics. "Tomoyo-chan!!" she cried, joyfully, new tears spilling over her cheeks. She flung herself into her best friend, her arms twisting around Tomoyo's neck.
Tomoyo smiled and patted Sakura's back. "I knew you could do it..." she said, softly.
"Arigato, Tomoyo-chan, Arigato..." Sakura cried, softly, into her best friend and cousin's shoulder. "Arigato...arigato...so, so much...arigato..."
"Hey, what are friends for?" Tomoyo answered, sweetly, modestly, although she didn't think that line was proper since she didn't know what Sakura was being so thankful to her about.
The Song Card's humming grew louder, filling the room with the sweet, echoing melody.
But neither girl cared at that moment. Sakura was too busy crying both tears of joy and sorrow. Tomoyo was too busy comforting her.
"It's over now...the worst is over..." she whispered, soothingly. Sakura continued to sob. She closed her amethyst eyes and gave up trying to console her childhood best friend. "Go ahead...it's okay to cry..." she murmured instead.
And that's just what Sakura did, unmindful of the still unsealed Song Card.
Tomoyo leaned her head on Sakura's shoulder, her lips curved into a half- smile. Then she broke into a sweet little song, a song she'd heard and learned to love from a recent cartoon flick she'd watched about a week before--a song whose lyrics didn't match the present, overcast mood...but a beautiful song...a simple...but beautiful song...
First she just hummed...but her lips soon parted to sing the actual lyrics in her mesmerizing sweet voice...
"Little town...it's a quiet village...... Everyday...like the one before...... Little town...full of little people...... Waking up to say...." and she stopped. "Bonjour," she whispered.
She broke away from Sakura to tell her: "It's here now, Sakura-chan..."
For right before her open amethyst eyes, the singing magical lady had taken shape, emerging from nowhere to sing along with her. It looks so peaceful...so serene...just glowing there...
Sakura turned her tear-streaked face from Tomoyo's shoulder to look behind her...to the source of the pink light that filled the room.
Slowly, she stood up, emerald eyes locked onto the Clow girl's sweet close- eyed face.
Tomoyo smiled.
Sakura approached the singing magical lady. She lifted her wand high into the air again, twirling it between her fingers like a baton before grabbing it, abruptly stopping its wild turning to swish it gently into the air that separated her from the Song Card.
"I am your mistress..." she started, softly, but with every syllable ringing clearly. "Please...return to your powers confined..." Her hand tightened on the wand as, for the third time, a golden Clow Card once again took shape. "SONG CARD!!!"
And with a small smile from the magical lady, it dissolved into its card state.
'The Song' floated through the air and into Sakura's outstretched hand...and Sakura pocketed it as the sealing wand shrank into the normal old fancy key.
"At last..." she murmured, almost dazedly. "It's over..."
Tomoyo stood from the floor, one hand reaching out to squeeze Sakura's shoulder. "Yeah...you were great. Omedetto."
Sakura smiled widely. "Arigato, Tomoyo-chan...hoeeee...." and she slid onto the floor, exhausted, face-faulting at the same time, glad that everything's finally over.
Tomyo laughed and got down once more on her knees, her pale arms encircling her best frien'd neck from behind supportively, affectionately.
Moments passed...
And then Tomoyo's purple eyes snapped up in realization. "Where's Li-kun?" she asked, voice coated with curiosity.
Emerald green orbs opened wide in shock. "HOEEEEEE!!!!!" Sakura screamed, breaking from Tomoyo's hold as she scrambled on both hands and feet to Syaoran's location. She reached out and placed both hands on his shoulder, turning him around so that she could see his face clearly.
'Kawaii...' she immediately thought, before this ridiculous first word dawned into her. 'Hoe? Who am I kidding!?!? What did I just tell myself? But it is true...'
Tomoyo immediately crawled over to her fallen camcorder, her finger pressing over the record button before she realized she hadn't turned it off all the while even though she was asleep!!
She lifted the eyepiece to her right eye and locked the lense onto the kawaii scene before her.
Sakura
It's weird...
It's SO weird...
He looks so cute...even in his condition...he looks SO cute...I bet only he could look this good even though he's suffering and has suffered through so much...
His hair, all messy and tousled up like that...only Syaoran-kun could pull off that look. I highly doubt Eriol-kun or Yamazaki-kun could...
He looks so amazing...
His aura...so cold yet so...so...CHARISMATIC...
Even when he is asleep, he still manages to pull off his habitual old frown. He's the only guy who could look good scowling like he does. I bet no other guy could maintain a cold atmosphere even when asleep. No...not even Eriol-kun, I bet...
And his eyes...so...interesting--millions of shades of brown, tinted with gold and even a bit of red. So weird...so...so...so Syaoran...
Even though they're closed right now...so, so interesting...
Why am I thinking these!? I drove him to this condition and all I can do is moon over his kawaii but right now very pale face!?
He's moving slightly. Hoeee!!!
Well!?!? DO SOMETHING, SAKURA, YOU BAKA!!!! Are you just gonna watch him shiver there!?!?
Huh? Hoe? Eh? O-oh!! I mean, oh. Well, I.... Well. No!!
Argh! Focus, focus!! No, no, no!! Sakura, quit staring! Tomoyo's videotaping you!!!
"Ohohohohohohoho...kawaii!!!!!"
Sweatdrop. See?
"Tomoyo-chan..."
Then Syaoran shifted slightly again, cutting me off. A bead of perspiration trickled down his temple. His brows furrow even more. Once again, he stirred, but never woke.
Still...SO, SO kawaii, kakkoi, cute, cute, cute...amazing...incredibly, incredibly cool...
I find myself lost in my thoughts. I wonder...
He's so much unlike me...so serious...so solitary...handsome...reserved...talented and skilled...smart...MATURE...
But I...I...I'm different. I'm too loud, too bubbly...Tomoyo-chan says I'm cute, but I don't think so... I'm not smart either. I suck at math. I'm haven't been a very good mistress lately...
And worst of all...
I am immature. Childish. I suppose that doesn't really surprise anyone since I AM still a kid...but...I sometimes don't act my age. I feel like he sees me as a toddler. A baby. A babyish kid who's ruining his life.
And I don't like it.
Oh, what am I getting at? Who am I kidding? What am I talking about? Where are these thoughts going?
I know. Actually, honestly, I do know. And now I face it.
And when I did, suddenly, I find myself asking you as I look into your face one more time...
I wonder if you could bring yourself to love me too, just as much as I love you...
? ? ?
Just wondering...
tbc
Lchan: tbc means end of chap, end of Sak POV! Haha!! Sappy, wishy-washy, OOC, mushy mush!! Why? You're asking me WHY!?!?
Sweatdrop.
Because I noticed I was making HUGE mush lapses, I added in HUGE mush portions to make up for the HUGE mush lapses, so that the HUGE lapses can be made ip by the HUGE mush portions because the HUGE mush portions were made to make up for the HUGE mush lapses...
I know. I'm crazy. Hahahahahahaha!! Ahem. Gomen if this chap was boring. I didn't want too much action since all the Sleep Card does is spray dust and all the Song Card does is sing, so that doesn't leave me much ideas for action, 'know...
And, you know, I realize that to have another Tomoyo, the Mirror Card should be the one that got lose...well, it's too late now, isn't it? ;;
Well....people I still need your reviews, you know!! Coz I still like reviews!! Jared, where are you!? And master li!?!? Sailor Jamie!! I...I wanna hear/read from you again!! Onegai, plzzzz!!!
But thanks a whole lot to you reviewing people too! I'll mention all'ya in the last chap, I promise!!
Oh, and, Kita? I think I'll be using a BIT of that family thing you were talking about...but I'll add some hip twist of my own, of course. Arigato!!
Ja, minna-san!!
Oh, and BTW, the song I'm gonna use is from Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1st song, Belle, solo Belle)! So...it's mine just as much as CCS is, meaning...it's not.
Okay. For the meamntime, here's chapter 12. I think I'll end at around 14 or 15...come what may.
XI-Victory...Finally
The Song Card had long stopped singing. Only the sharp thuds and pained cries made by the fighters and the weak Twin Card served to peirce the silence.
The glittery white Sleep Card watched in shock at the two amazing fighters who were battling together in perfect synchronization.
Whoa.
The mistress was stronger than it remembered her to be, and the descendant had improved quite a bit (meaning a lot, lot, lot), considering his condition.
Realizing this, the Card's little playful face was suddenly tinged with surprise...
Then, surprisingly...admiration...
Then deep worry...
And then determination...
Undaunted, it watched as Sakura charged towards the weak Twin Card, leaving her battle partner to collapse and use the last of his energy to instruct her on what to do:
"Seal it!!!"
And as Sakura complied, the Sleep Card prepared itself for the bright, power-sucking light that would soon envelop the room, fear filling its whole being...if it had a 'being'.
"Twin Card! Return to your powers confined! TWIN CARD!!!" the mistress' voice rang out, a glimmering card-shape forming beneath the beak of her wand which she'd slammed into the air.
The Twin Card promptly dissolved into it in swirling streaks of bright, almost blinding colors.
Despite that traumatizing scene, the Sleep Card, determined to produce as much havoc as it could while it still can, snapped out of its reverie, flitting from behind the stack of books towards the barely awake Chinese boy.
It zoomed over his chestnut-colored-locks-covered head, dousing him with sleep dust.
Even without that huge dose of Sleep-Card-power, Syaoran still would have slipped into unconsciousness, which he immediately did, despite his desperate attempts to see the end of the fight.
Sakura finished capturing the Clow Card, her heart filling with joy and pride at having succeeded at her task. She whirled around, card clutched to her chest, mouth stretched into a wide, cute smile.
And then, sighting the Sleep Card over the unconscious Syaoran, her emerald green eyes widened, her lips parted into a shocked O. "H...hoe..."
Moments of silence followed, the card and the mistress looking into each other's shocked eyes. Both paralyzed...but for different reasons.
'S-Syaoran-kun...Syaoran-kun...!'
'Th-the mistress...she is SO gonna seal me...'
And then Sakura's heavy concern developed into anger. Her eyes darkened. "You!" she screamed, her fist tightening on her sealing wand while the other holding the newly-captured Twin Card slipped swiftly into her pocket, coming out after a split second empty.
"How could you DO this to us? To him!? To Tomoyo-chan!?! TO ME!?!?" she wailed, both in anger and sorrow. "You are SO gonna pay for this!!"
The card's glittery silver eyes widened in fear.
Sakura walked towards it, confident that it couldn't snap out of its paralysis and escape in time. Surprisingly, she took calm but sure steps, one foot in front of the other...each step taking a full second to execute.
Then she stopped a meter away from the Sleep Card, who was still floating numbly above Syaoran's still, clothed-in-white form.
She held out her wand in front of her, face filled with determination, hurt, fury and even sadness. A second passed, with the head of her wand looming infront of the paralyzed card's eyes.
A tear slid down Sakura's cheek.
She didn't even know why. The confusion, the hurt, the anger, the pain and all those hectic rush of emtions she'd gone through...they must have taken their toll on her.
Another tear slipped down her porcelain cheek.
"Sleep Card..." she whispered, almost pleadingly, her voice edged with sobs. "Return to your powers confined...now... Sleep Card..."
And even without her slamming the wand down into air to formulate the card, the glimmering golden quadrilateral took shape directly beneath the outstretched sealing wand's beak.
And the Sleep Card just watched.
The Song Card's haunting melody one again filled the room, its imitation of Tomoyo's voice ringing clearly through its humming of a familiar, slow song.
In glittery white swirls, the Sleep Card entered its Clow Cage, without a struggle, without pain, without a single drastic action. Just peaceful. Nicely. Quietly.
As the least streaks disappeared, the rectangular figure floated high into the air, only to drop into Sakura's hand. As she held it to her tear-filled emerald green eyes, the last of the golden glimmers faded to reveal the dancing Sleep Card's form across the glossy surface, 'The Sleep' printed clearly on the banner below it.
Sakura raised it to her lips and planted a soft kiss onto the surface before she slowly slipped it into her pocket. "Arigato..."
Tomoyo slowly woke up, Sakura having sealed the Sleep Card and thus removing its sleepy powers from its victims. "U-uhn?" she groaned, raising her head from the cold tiles. "Sa-Sakura...chan?" she called, uncertainly, pushing herself from the ground.
Sakura twisted around, extremely glad to hear her best friend's real voice apart from the Song Card's mimics. "Tomoyo-chan!!" she cried, joyfully, new tears spilling over her cheeks. She flung herself into her best friend, her arms twisting around Tomoyo's neck.
Tomoyo smiled and patted Sakura's back. "I knew you could do it..." she said, softly.
"Arigato, Tomoyo-chan, Arigato..." Sakura cried, softly, into her best friend and cousin's shoulder. "Arigato...arigato...so, so much...arigato..."
"Hey, what are friends for?" Tomoyo answered, sweetly, modestly, although she didn't think that line was proper since she didn't know what Sakura was being so thankful to her about.
The Song Card's humming grew louder, filling the room with the sweet, echoing melody.
But neither girl cared at that moment. Sakura was too busy crying both tears of joy and sorrow. Tomoyo was too busy comforting her.
"It's over now...the worst is over..." she whispered, soothingly. Sakura continued to sob. She closed her amethyst eyes and gave up trying to console her childhood best friend. "Go ahead...it's okay to cry..." she murmured instead.
And that's just what Sakura did, unmindful of the still unsealed Song Card.
Tomoyo leaned her head on Sakura's shoulder, her lips curved into a half- smile. Then she broke into a sweet little song, a song she'd heard and learned to love from a recent cartoon flick she'd watched about a week before--a song whose lyrics didn't match the present, overcast mood...but a beautiful song...a simple...but beautiful song...
First she just hummed...but her lips soon parted to sing the actual lyrics in her mesmerizing sweet voice...
"Little town...it's a quiet village...... Everyday...like the one before...... Little town...full of little people...... Waking up to say...." and she stopped. "Bonjour," she whispered.
She broke away from Sakura to tell her: "It's here now, Sakura-chan..."
For right before her open amethyst eyes, the singing magical lady had taken shape, emerging from nowhere to sing along with her. It looks so peaceful...so serene...just glowing there...
Sakura turned her tear-streaked face from Tomoyo's shoulder to look behind her...to the source of the pink light that filled the room.
Slowly, she stood up, emerald eyes locked onto the Clow girl's sweet close- eyed face.
Tomoyo smiled.
Sakura approached the singing magical lady. She lifted her wand high into the air again, twirling it between her fingers like a baton before grabbing it, abruptly stopping its wild turning to swish it gently into the air that separated her from the Song Card.
"I am your mistress..." she started, softly, but with every syllable ringing clearly. "Please...return to your powers confined..." Her hand tightened on the wand as, for the third time, a golden Clow Card once again took shape. "SONG CARD!!!"
And with a small smile from the magical lady, it dissolved into its card state.
'The Song' floated through the air and into Sakura's outstretched hand...and Sakura pocketed it as the sealing wand shrank into the normal old fancy key.
"At last..." she murmured, almost dazedly. "It's over..."
Tomoyo stood from the floor, one hand reaching out to squeeze Sakura's shoulder. "Yeah...you were great. Omedetto."
Sakura smiled widely. "Arigato, Tomoyo-chan...hoeeee...." and she slid onto the floor, exhausted, face-faulting at the same time, glad that everything's finally over.
Tomyo laughed and got down once more on her knees, her pale arms encircling her best frien'd neck from behind supportively, affectionately.
Moments passed...
And then Tomoyo's purple eyes snapped up in realization. "Where's Li-kun?" she asked, voice coated with curiosity.
Emerald green orbs opened wide in shock. "HOEEEEEE!!!!!" Sakura screamed, breaking from Tomoyo's hold as she scrambled on both hands and feet to Syaoran's location. She reached out and placed both hands on his shoulder, turning him around so that she could see his face clearly.
'Kawaii...' she immediately thought, before this ridiculous first word dawned into her. 'Hoe? Who am I kidding!?!? What did I just tell myself? But it is true...'
Tomoyo immediately crawled over to her fallen camcorder, her finger pressing over the record button before she realized she hadn't turned it off all the while even though she was asleep!!
She lifted the eyepiece to her right eye and locked the lense onto the kawaii scene before her.
Sakura
It's weird...
It's SO weird...
He looks so cute...even in his condition...he looks SO cute...I bet only he could look this good even though he's suffering and has suffered through so much...
His hair, all messy and tousled up like that...only Syaoran-kun could pull off that look. I highly doubt Eriol-kun or Yamazaki-kun could...
He looks so amazing...
His aura...so cold yet so...so...CHARISMATIC...
Even when he is asleep, he still manages to pull off his habitual old frown. He's the only guy who could look good scowling like he does. I bet no other guy could maintain a cold atmosphere even when asleep. No...not even Eriol-kun, I bet...
And his eyes...so...interesting--millions of shades of brown, tinted with gold and even a bit of red. So weird...so...so...so Syaoran...
Even though they're closed right now...so, so interesting...
Why am I thinking these!? I drove him to this condition and all I can do is moon over his kawaii but right now very pale face!?
He's moving slightly. Hoeee!!!
Well!?!? DO SOMETHING, SAKURA, YOU BAKA!!!! Are you just gonna watch him shiver there!?!?
Huh? Hoe? Eh? O-oh!! I mean, oh. Well, I.... Well. No!!
Argh! Focus, focus!! No, no, no!! Sakura, quit staring! Tomoyo's videotaping you!!!
"Ohohohohohohoho...kawaii!!!!!"
Sweatdrop. See?
"Tomoyo-chan..."
Then Syaoran shifted slightly again, cutting me off. A bead of perspiration trickled down his temple. His brows furrow even more. Once again, he stirred, but never woke.
Still...SO, SO kawaii, kakkoi, cute, cute, cute...amazing...incredibly, incredibly cool...
I find myself lost in my thoughts. I wonder...
He's so much unlike me...so serious...so solitary...handsome...reserved...talented and skilled...smart...MATURE...
But I...I...I'm different. I'm too loud, too bubbly...Tomoyo-chan says I'm cute, but I don't think so... I'm not smart either. I suck at math. I'm haven't been a very good mistress lately...
And worst of all...
I am immature. Childish. I suppose that doesn't really surprise anyone since I AM still a kid...but...I sometimes don't act my age. I feel like he sees me as a toddler. A baby. A babyish kid who's ruining his life.
And I don't like it.
Oh, what am I getting at? Who am I kidding? What am I talking about? Where are these thoughts going?
I know. Actually, honestly, I do know. And now I face it.
And when I did, suddenly, I find myself asking you as I look into your face one more time...
I wonder if you could bring yourself to love me too, just as much as I love you...
? ? ?
Just wondering...
tbc
Lchan: tbc means end of chap, end of Sak POV! Haha!! Sappy, wishy-washy, OOC, mushy mush!! Why? You're asking me WHY!?!?
Sweatdrop.
Because I noticed I was making HUGE mush lapses, I added in HUGE mush portions to make up for the HUGE mush lapses, so that the HUGE lapses can be made ip by the HUGE mush portions because the HUGE mush portions were made to make up for the HUGE mush lapses...
I know. I'm crazy. Hahahahahahaha!! Ahem. Gomen if this chap was boring. I didn't want too much action since all the Sleep Card does is spray dust and all the Song Card does is sing, so that doesn't leave me much ideas for action, 'know...
And, you know, I realize that to have another Tomoyo, the Mirror Card should be the one that got lose...well, it's too late now, isn't it? ;;
Well....people I still need your reviews, you know!! Coz I still like reviews!! Jared, where are you!? And master li!?!? Sailor Jamie!! I...I wanna hear/read from you again!! Onegai, plzzzz!!!
But thanks a whole lot to you reviewing people too! I'll mention all'ya in the last chap, I promise!!
Oh, and, Kita? I think I'll be using a BIT of that family thing you were talking about...but I'll add some hip twist of my own, of course. Arigato!!
Ja, minna-san!!