Unquenchable
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Last Chapter:
"But I'm warning you," she said, her voice low. "Any more shit from your mouth, and I'll personally see to it that that toothpick you call a backbone pins your lying tongue to the very roof of your mouth!"
She looked him squarely in the eye.
"Now if you don't mind, I'd like to get back to sleep."
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Chapter 5: Enlightened
Days passed. Yet Sakura's anger never ebbed, and the hatred between her and the king was at its peak…
Sakura could hardly believe how Syaoran could be so foolish as to believe that stopping her rations would make her speak. After all, hadn't she spent most of her childhood in starvation? Wasn't it common for her to go weeks and weeks at a stretch with nothing to eat?
The king was a fool. To state the obvious.
However, the thrashing was becoming unbearable…day after day, they would come, their eyes glinting with some sort of unspoken vengeance and their whips cracking sickeningly. Every day…she would attempt another storm to try and free herself from the Lis. But how? The palace was too well protected…
Sakura needed time to think properly…how could she escape? There were guards and soldiers at every corner, each armed to the teeth…even if she could grab a weapon, the only way to defeat them would be with the element of surprise…something she didn't have.
Her chances looked low…
And not only that, but, the dreams kept coming back to her. Night after night, Sakura would dream of the strange, empty nothingness calling her to the strange, book-filled room, where she would be led to…well, she didn't know what it was, but whatever it was, she was positive someone knew…someone being Syaoran himself.
Why had he called her to the room? Somehow, she felt that his false lie of "Tomoyo being caught" had nothing to do with it. Why did she get a feeling that her dreams were connected with Syaoran somehow?
She stroked her necklace, remembering how it had lit up that other day. Like her own sun…like her own ray of warmth and hope…
She then looked at her ring, shaped more like a full moon…silver, bright, beautiful…was the ring her moonlight? Her only guide through the darkness of this prison cell?
Many times she had tried to "activate" her necklace by causing it to light up, yet she had no idea how it had started in the first place…maybe because the sun never shone during the night, would she look to the moon for help?
She traced the crest of the Kinomotos on the ring. "Kinomoto…" she murmured, thinking of her great ancestor, who had fallen trying to reach the moon, "may your light shine upon your ever-faithful people, may we look to you for guidance, for strength, for hope…may your moonlight help me, the last of your line…may good fortune still blow over your bones as of now and forever…"
It was then, when Sakura tilted the ring, she saw something inscribed on the back of her ring:
Sakura Kinomoto - last of all Kinomotos, look to your moon and reach for the Sun...
What the heck? Sakura thought nervously. If this had been an age-old ring that had supposedly been in her family for ages, why had nobody noticed this – this weird message on the back of the ring?
Oh well. Sakura squinted at the inscription, trying to figure out what it meant…
Look to your moon and reach for the Sun…
Sakura racked her brains. Her moon? Her sun?
Look to your moon and reach for the Sun…
Wait. The clue gave no mention to her Sun. Would she have to reach for the real Sun?
Look to your moon and reach for the Sun…
Sakura reasoned to herself: The ring is obviously the moon, but what is the Sun? Where would I find the Sun?
Struggling to find an answer, Sakura slipped into another fitful slumber…
Look to your moon and reach for the Sun…
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She was floating around in the empty world of nothingness again. Although at once, Sakura could feel something tingling…it was getting stronger. The force that held the world together was getting stronger…strong enough to become real, more than just a mere dream or illusion…real…solid…firm…
Sakura looked down. This world was empty, save for distant stars that seemed to twinkle with every tinge of power Sakura felt. She frowned to herself. Were they getting closer?
"Sakura…"
Sakura blinked. That voice! It was calling…again!
"Sakura…"
"Where are you?!" Sakura shouted. It echoed off into the infinite space…
Yet again the voice called.
"Sakura…"
"Leave me alone!" Sakura cried.
The world revolved crazily, Sakura clenched her eyes shut and waited for the stormlike swirling to pass. When she opened her eyes, she found herself in the book-filled room again. And this time, recognition hit her over the head.
"It's the castle library!" she cried. So now she knew where to look…to find out once and for all…was this a dream, or reality?
She strode purposefully to where she knew the red object was; she knew where she was going, she didn't need the voices to guide her. She knew this shelf, and that book, all so well…
She neared the shelf where the red object was kept.
It was there!
Sakura reached out a trembling hand and grasped the object and brought it to her eyes, examining it. A bright light filled the room.
It was a book!
A red book, with the word SAKURA on it, and most importantly, there was the Kinomoto crest emblazoned on it…inside a golden Sun…
"The Sun!" Sakura breathed. "This is my Sun!"
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Sakura woke up with a start, breathing heavily, as realization dawned upon her…
That book! The only means of her escape was within this castle…and she knew exactly where it was…
Sakura smiled to herself. Now. To start planning…
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A/N: Wow! Just over 30 reviews! Holy geez, you people are spoiling me. I am soooooooo sorry for the long update gap, but I was so clichéd for inspiration, anyhow, it came back!
I think some of you clever people might figure out where I'm heading with this…
Now, a bit of clarification:
1) Some of you out there might find a striking resemblance between Unquenchable and Evil's Sweet Seduction, by Sweet-Chocolate-Angel. I've noticed it myself, and I found it quite coincidental, but I assure you all, this is not some mere copy, I know where I am going with this story and already, I can see that ESS is going one way, and Unquenchable is going the other.
2) There will no lemons in this story! Some of you out there may have requested them, but I am sorry, there is no room for lemons in this story. This story is going to take a very dramatic twist soon, and you'll see very soon why there can't be any in this story.
Well, that's all for now! Enjoy!
R&R please!